CH 12.2

I left from the reception office to another room, and “Bure☆Puri” entered the room with me. The room was eight tatami (1) with a low table, a sofa, and a locker that was left behind. Momiji-san and the others’ unit uses this room for various purposes.

Sitting on the sofa and holding her knees, the girl there was in a hesitating mood. That girl is Kotori-san.

She was crying with her eyes a bright red, and the skin around her eyes were swelling. In tears and with her nose sniffling, she looked at the TV with vacant eyes. The TV was playing part two of “My Name.”

“Kotorin, come to Nana-chan~”

Momiji-san said that as she relaxed on the floor. Our eyes met, and Kotori-san’s panic level started to rise.

“Sorry, I can’t do it… Umm, I’ll ask to leave the movie. An idol too…”

“Kotori!! What about the promise to am to be a top idol together?”

“It’s already impossible… Again, again, again, I have to retake, the director keeps getting angry. It’s my fault that everyone’s troubled.”

Isumi-san rushed over and tried to convince Kotori-san, “Kotorin, don’t try to escape, won’t you be even more of an inconvenience that way?”

“That is…”

“You took great pains to get Nana-chan to come here, let’s accept her teachings, okay?”

“B-but, my acting skills… Nonexistent……”

As Kotori-san said that, the TV played the last “Himari” scene, the one where she disappears.

“See you again, papa.”

“…Again?”

“If papa and mama get married, we can meet again.”

“…That… No. See you again.”

“Kuu… Himari… Himariiiiii!!”

Himari disappeared, and the protagonist’s lamentation resounded in the twilight. After that, the scene switched to a room in a mansion where he was using the face of a keyboard to hit a PC. There weren’t staff rolls or ending songs yet as this wasn’t the full version. If this was the full version, there would be a Himari scene flashback and a monologue from the protagonist, but it hasn’t been edited in yet.

“This… With me, impossible… Really…”

Kotori-san voiced her thoughts and looked down, hanging her head in shame. Probably, it’s from the fact that I disappeared, I think. I learned it from shindou-sensei, but I don’t think that she’s a person that can learn it, but it’s not necessary to learn it as an actor anyways.

“Ummm, as an actor, it’s not necessary to know how to disappear?”

“Eh?”

“Normally they use CG, so it’s unreasonable and not necessary to learn how to do it.”

“Eh? This isn’t CG?”

This is the rough version, CG isn’t expected to be there… Thinking that, I used the remote to rewind to the frame in the  disappearing scene where I leave. Yep, no CG. My figure was being projected slipping into the twilight and out of the screen, thereby disappearing.

“As of now, it doesn’t look like there’s CG, doesn’t it?”

“I, such a thing, that’s absolutely imposibleeeeee!!”

Somehow, I was distracted with the words, “Being aidoru wanna quit desu!” (2) spoken in a strange dialect by the crying Kotori-san. Isumi-san and Momiji-san were desperate to calm down Kotori-san.

(1)3.64 m × 3.64 m

(2)No, it doesn’t actually say that. But, yes, it’s a strange dialect.