NOVEL NEXT Chapter 87 – Aftermath 02
Unlike Shuchi'in Academy's high school uniforms, which are black, the uniforms in the middle school section are all-white with a black tie. The uniform I'm wearing now that I've finally entered middle school and it's been a few months since the Jimina production house takeover incident happened.
After all the administrative matters of the takeover were successful, the project began, and the main focus was Azki, who was eventually compared to an idol group. He became the first solo singer that Strawberry Pro had and has had success so far. Another big thing that happened in Strawberry Pro was the success of the first-generation V-tuber group in both ID and EN.
In addition, B-Komachi also began their tour, which this year seems to focus on tours around Japan, which makes Ai look a little busy. Meanwhile, Ruby still often appears as a child singer and child actor. For myself, I spent more time making cameo appearances in various television shows and commercials while focusing on making songs for Azki and Ai.
Especially with the last tour that B-Komachi was going to do, I wasn't ashamed to use one of the songs that had been trending in my past life and also had a theme that fits with the controversial drama that happened to Ai and Ai herself. I could see Ai's surprise when she saw the song when I gave it to her. No, she became very wild at night, which is something I'll tell you about another time.
The song 'Idol' instantly became popular not only in Japan but also worldwide and entered the charts in a high position for weeks. At the same time, I haven't managed to find a script for a good movie or television show. I'm still busy trying to figure out my supernatural abilities first, after all.
One of the things I learned was that Shiro did not have much fighting ability, as she was easily defeated by the strongest spirit in my house, a samurai spirit who had many arrows in her body. A sight I often see happen to Benkei and the like. Even so, I am very grateful that nothing happened to Shiro even though the samurai spirit defeated her.
It's just that there is one thing that Shiro knows is that her ability to scout and infiltrate is very useful. Not only can I still move her within a 1-kilometre radius, but I can also see what she sees and also make her move and touch objects. Yeah, so I can see people opening safes, know the password to the safe and then open it. You could say that I can do criminal things with this.
Then, the ability that consumes the most spiritual power is that I can make Shiro visible to people and have a facial appearance that can be anyone from the various spirits united into Shiro. Well, in other words, I can use Shiro to search for information and the like. It's just very tiring, so I rarely do this as I haven't found anything good to do yet with this skill.
Then you could say it's been one week since I entered middle school.
"Onii-chan, which club are you interested in joining?" Ruby asked me while she was still holding the form as she hadn't decided which club to join. In the end, unlike elementary school, it seems that students in middle school have to start thinking about joining clubs.
"Hm, I wonder— I think I'll just join a manga or literature club to relax."
"Eh, just like that?"
"There is indeed a club that caught your attention?" I asked Ruby, who then let out a big smile before spinning around and dancing a bit before exaggeratedly answering my question.
"I'm going to create a new club, the Idol Research Club, together with Kobachi—" Ruby replied as she hugged Kobachi, who looked surprised.
"Uh, me too—" Well, Kobachi had a surprised expression. At the same time, from her demeanour and tone of voice, she was neither rejecting nor displeased with Ruby's invitation. Essentially, these two people spend time together because until now, they were both child pop stars who sometimes performed together.
"Of course, it won't be long before we make an idol group together after all. Hehehe, so it's a good idea to create a club where we can watch and learn to be a good idol group. Isn't that a good idea?" Ruby said with a smug face and confidence in her good idea. Well, for me, it was a good idea, especially coming from Ruby's mouth. What surprised me a little was that Kobachi wasn't too resistant to the idea.
I don't know too much about Kobachi from the manga or anime because she's just a side character with little to say about her. What I do know is that she belongs to the impossible girls, which means that she is a quartet of students at Shuchi'in Academy who are famous for their beauty and inability to be approached by men. She was Ino's close friend, then she changed her appearance to that of a nerdy girl type because many of her peers were talking bad about her after the gossip about her mother, who was also a pop star, cheating.
It seems that after that, Kobachi lost faith in human nature, not only from the attitude of her friends but also from her mother.
"You're also interested in idol groups, Kobachi?" I asked Kobachi, who was being hugged by Ruby while saying, 'We are together—'
"Well, a little—" She spoke while looking a little bashful compared to usual. It could be seen from her eyes that she sometimes looked at me and then moved away and back to me again. It made the impression that it had something to do with me. Ruby beside her smiled as she knew the reason why Kobachi was interested in idol groups. Ruby had done various ways to make Kobachi want to become an idol with her in a group, then it seems that she started to succeed.
"Hehehe, I've done various things to get Kobachi interested in becoming an idol with me. I never thought that seeing my mom's concert live would make Kobachi interested." Ruby replied happily, and next to her was, for some reason, Kobachi. Although she looked embarrassed, her eyes glittered like Ruby's.
"Oh, you watch our mom's concert. I'm happy—"
"Well, Ruby took the trouble to prepare the tickets after all, and it was an amazing concert, and it's such an amazing song, too—"
Well, as expected, Kobachi looked up at me with shiny eyes.
"Yeah, it's an amazing performance from Ai, not from how good her singing and dancing is. At that time, I felt like she let through her emotion in that song, it was the best performance I have seen— and the song, too— the song is amazing, too. I immediately wanted to perform and sing like that at that time. I don't mind becoming an idol group if I can sing and perform like that. I like the song you make— Un, I don't mind became an idol group if I can sing your song too—"
I can feel Kobachi's eyes shining and sparkling as if she hopes that I grant her this request or wish. Her eyes looked so innocent that it made me feel a little guilty that I plagiarized a song from my past life.
"Un, as I said— Onii-chan, please make me a song too!" Ruby also hoped that I would make a song for her and move out from Kobachi before she embraced me.
"Ahaha, I think about it."
I answered like that, which made both Kobachi and Ai look happy, even though they couldn't just be happy because they still needed three people to make their club official.
