Chapter 0: Pro

“….Are you serious?”

A middle-aged man’s panicked voice was heard.

There was a nameplate on the desk where the man was sitting, and his name was engraved on it.

UFO Entertainment President, Kobayashi Hiro.

“Yes, President.”

I opened my mouth, calming my trembling heart.

I had already prepared myself for this.

Yes, how much longer am I going to roll around in this dirty place?

I made up my mind and spoke in front of him.

“I will leave the group.”

Sakamiya Ren, the leader of the idol group ‘Cornelia’.

Today, she declared her withdrawal from the group in front of the president of her agency.

The beginning was ordinary as always.

I did not participate in a strange survey, did not suddenly have a light burst out from the game screen, and did not send a 5,000-character protest email to the story writer.

One day, while I was living an ordinary life, I opened my eyes and found that I, who had been a man, had become a girl.

While I was bewildered by this sudden turn of events, something strange appeared before my eyes.

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[Quest: Become famous!]

[Become a famous celebrity and become famous to others!]

[Success Reward: Survival]

[Failure: Bad luck]

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Of course, the real status window was written in more detail than this, but that’s all I can remember roughly.

Anyway, because of that, my dream of living quietly was completely shattered.

Becoming a celebrity was definitely possible.

Objectively speaking, this newly born body was incredibly beautiful.

However, there was one problem: the character.

I was Sakamiya Ren.

‘Are you trying to fool me?’

Sakamiya Ren.

The final boss who interferes with the protagonists in every route in the game, and the leader of the idol group ‘Cornelia’.

Her nickname in the game was ‘Ice Princess’, a nickname given to her because of her extremely cold personality.

As a male protagonist in a non-relationship game, the producer gets involved with many celebrities.

Except for Ren.

The cold-natured Ren, despite her popularity, had no personal route and played the role of the final boss who harassed the heroines in all routes.

Eventually, she ended up in prison or socially ostracized, which was her ending as an idol.

At first, I didn’t have much feelings for her.

However, I could see it when I was born as Ren myself.

As a child, Ren was severely abused by her parents.

In the end, she was left alone in an empty house.

“Are you okay?”

And the one who raised me was my grandmother, who I contacted through the police.

In her warm hands.

I was able to feel the happiness of an ordinary daily life for a moment.

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[Quest content did not progress]

[A penalty is given]

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Of course, that daily life didn’t last long.

“Grandma…?”

The next day, my grandmother, who had gone to the market to buy groceries, came back cold.

On that day of all days.

They say that a robber suddenly broke into the bank and opened fire.

That’s how I lost my last bastion and was thrown alone into this damn world.

In the end, I had no choice but to cry and challenge myself to become an idol at the age of 14.

There was no other famous profession that would accept me at such a young age.

If I refused the quest again, that system window might kill me this time.

“This is…”

“Yeah, it’s still a little small. It’s UFO Entertainment.”

My childhood friend and the male protagonist of the game.

It was a place I had come to upon Sion’s introduction.

At the time of the game, it was one of the largest entertainment companies in Japan.

But at the time, it was a new entertainment company with no money or connections.

So when I said I wanted to join, the president welcomed me with open arms.

“Then, let’s practice here.”

The president let me use the practice room.

There, I practiced desperately with a few of my classmates.

One time, a classmate who was practicing with me said, “How can you work so hard? Is someone threatening you with a knife?”

Honestly, that damn system window floating in the air looked like someone was threatening me with a knife.

Did my desperate efforts to survive pay off?

I was the only one of my five classmates to officially join UFO Entertainment.

That’s how I officially debuted as an entertainer at the age of 18.

Sion also officially joined the company and became the exclusive producer of the group I would create.

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“Should we just do a mixed group?”

“…will that work out?”

I just threw it out there.

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Honestly, he’s handsome.

As expected from a game about a young boy, Sion had an outstanding appearance.

It was to the point where I wondered why they didn’t take someone like him to a male idol group.

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“Then what about this team name?”

“Well. Rather than that, this looks better.”

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The two of us were practically best friends.

My mind was at ease because my debut was confirmed and I didn’t have to worry about dying.

It was probably because of his age, which was the same age as me in my previous life.

Cornelia, which started with just me, gradually began to fill up with members.

Idol life was much harder than I thought.

Many members left the underground idol life for personal reasons.

That’s why I worked even harder.

I appeared on numerous entertainment programs to promote Cornelia.

I even uploaded cover songs of famous idols from Korea and abroad on my personal channel.

Three years later, Cornelia succeeded in becoming a new group that people overseas would have heard of at least once.

And then, not long after they had grown into one of Japan’s representative idol groups, an unexpected incident occurred.