Tokyo: Who would still fall in love after being spoiled?

Chapter 105: A dinner with senior voice actors after Takeda became a voice actor.

"So, how many points did Takeda score?"

Hearing that they were going to have barbecue, Natsume followed them very "consciously", said goodbye to the other agents and the male voice actor who were interviewing with him, and walked out of the agency with him and Takeda.

He asked Natsume on the way to the barbecue restaurant.

"Thirty-seven points." Although it was clearly Takeda's score, Natsume said to him in a boastful tone.

"When I asked her, she didn't tell me, so I thought she would be rejected."

"How could that be!" Natsume looked at him in disbelief. "This is the highest score in this interview."

She immediately sowed discord between him and Takeda, "Listen! Your boyfriend doesn't even understand your dubbing skills and doesn't believe in your abilities. What good is that?"

"Care too much and you will be confused." This was said by Takeda.

He suddenly looked at this person differently.

I didn't expect to hear such words from Takeda.

"Tsk tsk... I think Qi-chan, you are terminally ill..." Natsume felt regretful again.

He just felt that this person had ulterior motives.

"where……"

While laughing, Natsume told him what happened in the dubbing studio during the interview.

The performance topic that Takeda drew was a scene where she broke down emotionally after an argument with her boyfriend. She performed it so vividly that it was as if she had experienced it herself.

"It has nothing to do with me." He clarified solemnly.

"It would be best if nothing happened forever." Natsume was speaking for Takeda on the surface, but actually, no one knew what he was thinking.

But Takeda was obviously bewitched by her and looked at him with a warning look.

"Of course it's so...why do I have to ask?" He reacted by trying to figure out the mental state a boyfriend should have at that moment.

Suddenly I felt that my performance was quite vivid, at least no one had discovered it yet.

"That sounds nice." Natsume snorted.

This Ms. Natsume... there is no grudge between them, so why is she targeting her like this?

"I believe in Achu." Takeda was very satisfied and took the initiative to speak for him.

"Listen! You call him Ah Chu, but he only calls you Takeda..." Natsume continued to fan the flames and sow discord, "Maybe somewhere else you don't know, he keeps calling you 'Nana-chan', 'Danko-chan', or 'Kiku-chan'..."

"Senior..." It can be heard that Takeda is a little angry.

But because he was her senior who would guide her after she joined the firm, she did not lose her temper like she did when they first got along.

He suddenly realized that he didn't know Takeda as well as he thought.

He recalled being blocked at a boarding house by someone demanding a debt, and then being retaliated against after deleting them as a friend; he recalled how when they went to an old residential area together to look for cheap rentals, it was Takeda who almost always dominated the conversation; he recalled how at the audition for "The Wasteful Hero," Takeda didn't bring his script into the dubbing studio and casually fiddled with his phone...

In the end, he didn't do anything to Takeda. At most, he asked her to treat him to a barbecue, and he even gave her a painting. After moving into the old residential area, the neighbors all remembered Takeda and urged him to get her back when she left. He also passed the audition smoothly because of his strong skills...

She has long understood how to get along with different people and how to behave in different environments.

She wants to be willful, but in reality she restrains herself in everything, sometimes for herself, sometimes to accommodate others.

perhaps……

Even if he really became Takeda's boyfriend now, he would still have to wait for quite some time before he could comfort her and get angry.

They arrived at the barbecue restaurant and sat down at a booth by the window. Natsume asked Takeda if it was his first time eating in this area of Shinjuku, and started a new round of instigation -

"If you don't know the area, you won't be able to find this yakiniku restaurant... Qi-chan's Chu might have been shopping with many other beautiful women in Shinjuku."

This barbecue restaurant is not located in the most prosperous commercial streets. There is a university nearby, and its neighbors are a barber shop and a bookstore.

"The company I work for is in Shinjuku." He felt that there was nothing to hide, and it could also add some credibility to the dating rumors.

"Work? Aren't you only sixteen? You should still be in high school." Natsume was puzzled. He stared at his face for a few seconds, and he didn't have the confidence to continue to slander him to Takeda. "Don't be fooled by these scumbags who look a little rich and powerful... A beautiful girl like you, after entering university, you won't be afraid of not having more handsome guys pursuing you. The age difference won't be that big..."

Well, I was regarded as an uncle who was supporting an innocent high school girl.

"Achu is in high school like me." Takeda interrupted her.

"Then why do you still believe his company's lies in Shinjuku..."

"My family owns a multinational company with its headquarters in Shinjuku." He wanted to end these meaningless discussions.

Takeda had been looking at him and couldn't help laughing when he heard him say that.

"So it's 'Master Inoue'?"

"I'd be happy to be the prime minister." He looked at the waiters busying around in the store, wondering when someone would be able to serve them the food and light the fire.

Takeda was happy enough, exchanged glances with him, and after seeing him nod, he told Natsume about how "the company he worked for was in Shinjuku".

……

"I see." Natsume finally stopped pestering and smiled, "Then, Inoue-kun, can you please persuade those authors to write more tsundere girls..." "..."

Well, I wonder what those otakus who are in love with the tsundere pretty girls in anime would think if they knew that the voice actor of their favorite character is a woman in her thirties.

I will probably become more and more determined to uphold the fundamentalism that "characters are characters, and voice actors are voice actors."

The stove has been lit by the waiter and the barbecued meat slices have been brought to the table.

He picked up a piece of fatty Wagyu beef and spread it on the grill.

"Light novel authors all have their own preferences. It's not up to me to decide what characters to write about." The Wagyu slices were cooked quickly. He picked up the beef, coated it with the dipping sauce, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"If they don't write, I won't draw illustrations for them," Natsume joked.

"I have to make money." He paused for a moment and thought, "Only when I have money can I live in a more beautiful house with Takeda."

Natsume stopped asking.

Takeda looked at his face, examining it carefully. "Do you really think so?"

"I really think so." But the current rental house is more than enough for daily living. There is enough space, the environment is good, nothing looks too old, and there is no risk of the roof leaking...

At most, there is no floor heating, but now we have air conditioning, so we can just buy a kotatsu table in winter.

"Then let's work together." Takeda said with a half-serious smile.

"Ah..." Natsume finally sighed as if resigned to his fate, "I know you two really love each other... Let's start eating barbecue."

After the meal, Natsume was about to pay her share as usual, but when she saw him pay for Takeda's as well, she jokingly asked if he could pay for her as well...

"Senior Xia, do you also want to be my girlfriend? Sorry, the age gap between us is too big." He refused decisively.

"Listen!" Natsume was furious. "The reason he used to reject me was the age difference, not 'I already have Qi-chan'. What's so good about a guy like that..."

"If the age gap is too big, there really won't be much in common..." After eating a barbecue, their relationship became closer, and Takeda said this with a hint of consideration for her.

"Ugh...Senior, I'm so heartbroken...so sad..."

In the end, Natsume paid for it herself, and said with a smile that if Inoue treated her to the barbecue, she would get Takeda an audition opportunity for the leading role in a popular anime.

As a result, Takeda said that he already had a main role to play and had no time, so he was chosen for the role by Inoue's author friend who was adapting a light novel into an animation.

Hearing this, Natsume felt heartbroken again.

"Look, he found you a role with lots of lines but few episodes, which is a thankless job... In the future, I can help you find a slacking role with only seven or eight lines per episode but appearing in every episode..." Natsume unknowingly stood in the position of "Takeda's boyfriend's rival".

"Senior Xia, would you really be willing to give this kind of role to Takeda?" he provoked.

"Of course!" A senior voice actor in his thirties challenged him.

It seems that this voice actor is more famous than he thought, and has already left the stage where he needs to rely on animation dubbing to maintain his fame. Even the lucrative job of dubbing a small number of lines and getting the same or even more pay as the main role can be given to the younger generation.

While waiting for the interview in the morning, he searched for information about SS Agency on his phone to see what kind of tasks its voice actors were more likely to be exposed to.

In addition to the conventional voice actor economy, that is, dubbing for anime, games, text-based products, bonus CDs, film and television dramas, etc.

Many voice actors also take on jobs like narrators and announcers, and they often appear in variety shows like the one I saw on TV last night.

Some voice actors are also singers or virtual anchors...

For voice actors who are famous enough, animation dubbing, which is tiring and pays little, has gradually become a last resort in recent years.

For animation companies, the appearance fees of famous voice actors will increase with their fame, and they are also more willing to use newcomers.

This creates a pyramid-like class structure.

Natsume was higher up the pyramid than he had expected.

"No need..." Takeda remained polite and distant when talking to Natsume, which was quite different from the relationship between him and Takeda.

"It's just an audition opportunity. You still have to fight for it yourself. I don't have that much power to directly appoint a candidate for the animation team." While getting closer to Takeda, the old woman did not forget to mention him in a sarcastic tone.

It seems that this grudge cannot be resolved.

But how did they become enemies... He was completely confused.

Natsume said that he had to go back to the office to prepare Takeda's signing contract and registration, and said goodbye to him and Takeda on the street and walked back the way he came.

Takeda didn't turn around or move, so he followed Takeda and watched Natsume disappear at the end of his sight.

"Senior Natsume is a good person." Takeda said suddenly.

"Not bad." He thought about it and nodded.

Suddenly, Takeda couldn't help laughing. He couldn't stop laughing. He covered his mouth and bent over with laughter.

"Achu..." She called him with a smile, panting.

“…” He didn’t know whether he should respond.

"Idiot Inoue." Takeda laughed enough and kicked him in the calf from behind.

(End of this chapter)