Extra in the Student Council
26. It's a deal!
In front of Izakaya's shop, two girls stood talking their hearts out to each other.
"Say... Bocchi-chan, you're Guitar hero, right?" Nijika asked with a knowing look.
"Eh? Heh!? Um… I, it's not." Bocchi instantly became distraught.
"I know it after seeing your play before," Nijika added.
"Etto, you're right. I, it's not that I kept quiet about it on purpose. I, I wanted to tell others after I fixed my personality, especially Nijika-chan" Bocchi, let out her heartfelt feelings.
"Do you remember when I said my real dream lies elsewhere?"
"Y, yeah" Bocchi nodded, remembering that time.
"You know my real dream is... to pick up where my sister left off to take care of me and become a successful band!" Nijika said as she watched the night sky and stars, imagining it was her dream above there. "To make Starry more popular than ever"
"We had a time when we lost confidence in today's performance, and it was Bocchi-chan who broke the bad situation and pulled us with you."
"That man was right; I'm nothing compared to you," Nijika continued.
"N, No" Bocchi quickly denied.
"It's fine, I knew that well. but it doesn't mean I will stay in this situation forever. I'll become the one you can depend on! and that's why Bocchi-chan, Watch me from the first seat beside us. I'm going to vote to accept the offer from that man." Nijika reached out her hand to the sky as if her dream was already in her clutch.
"Ah! I'm sorry for talking about myself all this time. By the way, I never heard your reason for being in the band." Nijika said.
"I…" Bocchi took a moment to shape her courage. "As a guitarist, I want to make Kessoku Band the greatest band!" Her statement made Nijika dumbstruck. "S, so I'm going to vote to accept his offer and become famous. F, famous enough that I drop out of school."
"Hahaha," Nijika snapped out of her daze, laughing. "That's heavy. But now I know it. Let's make our dream come true!" Nijika reached out her hand. "That's why you should keep showing us your rock, Bocchi the rock!" She said it with a huge grin.
"I will!" Bocchi replied with a spirit unlike ever before, took her hand, and they re-entered the izakaya.
***
"I really wanted to hit the past me in the head for thinking this might be a good idea!!" Shuu muttered and sighed very deeply.
Shuu was once again in the Cafe Stella, a pastry cafe, where he and Ai listened to Chizuru's troubles.
But this time he had another company.
He looked at one of the girls he came here with. She wore a pink tracksuit from top to bottom, and along with her long pink hair, she had already become a pink monster. Luckily, she had aqua-colored eyes and wore a hair accessory with a blue and yellow cube on the right side of her head. Hitori Gotoh, the Kessoku Band's guitarist
Then Shuu looked at the other girl who had accompanied him today. She exudes a soft and gentle appearance with reddish-pink hair that is braided on the right side and reddish-pink eyes. Sakurasawa Sumi, the friend of his co-worker Ichinose Chizuru.
This happened because of an event two weeks ago.
***
"So you want me to go on a date with your junior?" Shuu asked with an absurd expression on his face that matched the absurd request Chizuru had made.
After their usual record on the weekend, Chizuru suddenly came to Shuu with a request. Summer vacation has started, and other than the plan to watch the fireworks with the student council member, Shuu didn't have any other plans in his schedule. He wanted to finish his movie before this summer ended. That's why he focused his attention here and declined the Fujiwara invitation to tour the world. On the other hand, Ai was also busy, and her schedule was packed, so they didn't plan any dates this summer.
Thinking that taking care of the mentality of his lead actress was also a job, Shuu agreed to hear her request….
"Sigh…" Shuu sighed "Out of all people, why me?"
"Well," Chizuru's eyes were swimming around, and she was also quite embarrassed. "I don't have many male friends. and the only ones who knew about my part-time job were you and the client I told you about before. Remember that talk from before? After that, I decided to cut ties with him and tell her grandmother the truth. So, I can't ask for his help either," she explained.
"Hee…" Shuu replied with a smile, but the corners of his smile twitched a few times. "So, what you want to say is… Since It's me who suggested cutting ties with that client, you want me to take responsibility and help you this time, huh? How surprising~"
Chizuru quickly evades his gaze. "Your reaction just confirmed my words," Shuu stated.
Chizuru immediately turned her gaze back and turned on her gear to act with her usual beautiful and sweet smile.
"I know when you're acting," Shuu said, quite speechless. "Well, I don't mind, though," Shuu answered.
"Eh? You don't mind?" Chizuru was shocked.
"I'm not done yet…" Shuu added, "Tell me what I can get from helping you and the reason why I should help you."
Chizuru thought for a moment, but she couldn't come up with anything. After all, he is her boss and her superior, what could she possibly give him?
Watching Chizuru still unable to say anything after a while, he said, "Then how about doing anything I say?" Shuu suggested with a sinister smile as he gazed and scanned her body.
"What!?" Chizuru reacted in an instant. Her experience as a rental girlfriend was also not shallow; she was sensitive to that kind of gaze. At the same time, Chizuru also realized it was an act. The time she spent working with Shuu was enough to know that.
"Stop it," Chizuru said. "It feels uncomfortable." She lied. She didn't know how Shuu did it, but the way he gazed was the same, and yet she didn't feel the same revolting feeling she felt from others.
After Chizuru reacted, Shuu stopped immediately and put his hands up, like when a policeman came to you. He also smirked at her. "That is your punishment for trying to guilt-trip me," Shuu said.
"Ugh!" Chizuru groaned. "Don't you have a girlfriend? What will she think about this?" Chizuru remembered the young woman he was with at that time. She never saw her again ever since, yet her instinct as a woman easily guessed their relationships. She didn't want to back down, but it was a mistake on her part to confront Shuu.
"Says the one who asked a man, fully knowing he had a girlfriend, to go on a date with another girl," Shuu replied, which was another direct hit to Chizuru. "Maybe I should buy you a mirror so you can see yourself clearly." Shuu added.
"Ghh," Chizuru groaned again, there's nothing she could refute in that sentence. "Then how about I owe you one?" Chizuru asked if the best next thing to do was to change the topic as fast as possible.
Shuu didn't bother with her anymore, so he followed her lead "Well, I guess I don't mind with that."
"Then it's a deal!" Chizuru sighed in relief and let out a genuine smile. "Her name is Sakurasawa Sumi, I'll brief you on her details."