Teraoin Hane reached out and fumbled in the lottery box with the word “Scene” written on it. This time she hoped for a slightly more normal combination.
Thinking this, she took out a small ball.
“Ah, drew… A room while it’s raining heavily outside?”
Hearing this scene, the smile on Kazakami Ritsu’s face instantly collapsed.
‘What is this? This kind of private scene is hard to handle.’
Thinking this, Kazakami Ritsu exchanged glances with Teraoin Hane beside her.
“Then Teraoin-san… do you choose the female president or the girl?”
“I-I’m fine with either. If you don’t want to play the female president, Kazakami-san, I can play it.”
After meeting eyes with her partner, Teraoin Hane spoke firmly.
‘Truly worthy of being Teraoin-san! Gentle enough to make me want to cry.’
‘In that case, let me bear these sins!’
How could Kazakami Ritsu bear to hand over such a difficult-to-handle role to her partner? She looked at the camera nonchalantly.
“You are wrong, Teraoin-san. We need to listen to the audience’s opinions. Look, they all want me to play the female president.”
After turning sideways slightly to look at the content of the bullet comments, a confident smile appeared on Kazakami Ritsu’s face.
‘Doesn’t matter. Isn’t it just a female president who lost her life goal? What’s difficult about this kind of role?’
Seeing her partner so confident, Teraoin Hane had no choice but to cooperate with her.
“Okay… then is this an improvisation or?”
Kazakami Ritsu pondered for a moment and decided it was better to do a performance without a script.
It just so happened she also wanted to see how her partner would perform in such a situation without a set plot.
“Hmm… Teraoin, you start. We’ll improvise everything.”
After speaking, Kazakami Ritsu propped her chin with both hands, revealing a deep expression.
Teraoin Hane nodded somewhat blankly, thinking about what kind of scene to use as the opening for this story.
“Uwah, I’m back. The rain outside is so heavy.”
Teraoin, having finished a day of classes, walked into the room and immediately saw the figure lying on the table holding a beer.
Teraoin sighed lightly, walked to the side of that figure, reached out, and threw all the packaging bags on the table into the trash can next to it.
After cleaning all this up, she reached out and nudged the thin figure on the table.
“Hey… why did you drink so much alcohol again? Can’t you treat yourself a little better?”
Although complaining verbally, Teraoin still picked up the teacup on the table and poured a glass of water for the woman who sat up rubbing her eyes.
‘Really, didn’t you promise to take care of yourself when I went to school?’
The woman rubbed her head, somewhat dizzy from the hangover, and shook her head apologetically.
She took the water glass from Teraoin’s hand, then lowered her head and apologized to Teraoin like a child who made a mistake.
“Sorry… because there were still some matters from the previous project that weren’t finished, I worked overtime until early morning. When dawn came, I couldn’t sleep, so I drank a little…”
Listening to the woman’s explanation, Teraoin felt both helpless and heartbroken.
Even though they had been living together for half a year, it always felt like both sides were still living their own lives.
Whenever she realized this, Teraoin felt waves of stinging pain in her heart.
“Ritsu-nee… I don’t want you to work so hard.”
Teraoin’s sudden words made Ritsu, who was looking up drinking water, suddenly freeze.
Ritsu put down the water glass, a bitter smile on her face.
‘No choice… If I don’t work, how can we realize our ideal future?’
“It doesn’t matter. As long as I can stay with you forever, Teraoin, all of this…”
“I don’t want it. I don’t want to continue like this anymore.”
“Eh? Teraoin…”
A sense of crisis rose in Ritsu’s heart for no reason, as if something was about to leave her.
Teraoin lowered her head, her facial expression unclear.
But judging from her constantly trembling body, her emotions were quite intense at this moment.
“I don’t want to be your burden anymore, Ritsu-nee. You became like this now… all because of me.”
“If I hadn’t pestered to be with you, Ritsu-nee, if I could help you…”
When the voice laced with sobbing rang out, Ritsu’s hand, which had originally reached out toward the girl, trembled.
“It’s not like that! Teraoin is not my burden. Rather… now you are my hope, Teraoin…”
Ritsu spoke with a trembling voice, but Teraoin seemed to have made up her mind.
She took a deep breath and bowed solemnly to Ritsu.
“Thank you for taking care of me during this time, Ritsu-nee. Let’s not contact each other anymore in the future.”
“Wait! Please wait!”
Without waiting for Ritsu to react, Teraoin had already covered her face and ran out of the room crying.
Accompanying a loud bang from the entrance, Ritsu, alone in the dark room, reached out and covered her face.
After a long silence, Ritsu let out a long sigh and fell backward.
Her last hope, her last ideal, had also left her.
Is there really any need for the current her to continue living?
“Okay! Let’s stop here. It would be rude to continue further.”
After reading the final monologue in a lowered voice, Kazakami Ritsu looked at her partner beside her who was already shedding tears due to immersion in the plot.
She reached out and patted Teraoin’s shoulder.
After Teraoin looked at her, she silently opened her arms.
“Want a hug? Teraoin-san performed very well. I also successfully got into character because of Teraoin-san’s wonderful performance.”
Looking at Kazakami Ritsu opening her hands to her, Teraoin Hane hesitated for a moment, then directly chose to accept this invitation for a hug.
At this moment, the audience watching the two hugging on the screen began to complain one after another.
[I have to say, Prime Minister Kazakami’s acting is indeed… but why this kind of plot?]
[Oh! The girl passionately in love broke up with the female president, and then the female president lost her ideal, right?]
[Damn it, was this also within Prime Minister Kazakami’s expectations? Truly terrifying.]
[This woman of heavy sins! This is completely different from the female president x girl in my heart!]
After finally comforting Teraoin Hane, Kazakami Ritsu collapsed onto her seat with a face full of exhaustion.
‘Why are there so many unexpected situations in this promotional live broadcast?’
‘Producer Kurau! Do you intend for me to work for you with my life?’
Thinking this, Kazakami Ritsu looked up and saw the sign held high in Producer Kurau’s hand.
[Continue to the next performance, make this one heartwarming!]
‘Heartwarming… Have I ever been heartwarming since my debut?!’
Seeing the instruction issued by the producer, Kazakami Ritsu twitched her mouth and picked up the microphone.
“Then the first impromptu performance officially ends here. I wonder if all the viewers are satisfied?”
She spoke while pulling the lottery box to her hand again.
“Next, we are going to draw the identities and scene for the second impromptu performance. Teraoin-san, I’m counting on you.”
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