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

Chapter 51 It turns out that Inoue is really the young master

He walked over to the beer cooler and wanted to buy two cans of beer.

While Takeda was moving his things, he went to talk to Moustache about the specific time to go to the district office to complete the transfer procedures.

Generally speaking, this should be done within half a month after moving in. Only after this is done will government information such as the postal address be updated accordingly.

"Why do you want more beer?" Takeda looked at him, puzzled.

"I'll ask the guy with the mustache to help me with the transfer procedures for the rental house." He replied.

"You can't go!" Takeda said angrily, "Any time will do, not today... It won't be too late to find him after summer vacation!"

There is only one week left in the first semester of the spring and summer term, and summer vacation will begin in five days.

"Then buy two cans for yourself and sell them to me?" he asked again.

"Then please show me your ID, sir. I need to confirm whether you are an adult." Takeda's expression changed and he suddenly became serious.

"Dede..." He put down his beer and bought a can of coffee.

"That's fine." Takeda paid for him, watched him pull the tab and drink the whole thing in one gulp. "...Tired? How long have you been working today?"

"Six or seven in the evening," he replied. "Then we had dinner. They drank sake, and I drank milk and juice."

A customer came in and noticed Inoue standing at the door chatting with the clerk. He looked at him for a few more seconds, then walked into the store and went straight to the fast food bento area.

"Hey, Inoue..." Takeda saw this and bent down to find a staff hat from the counter drawer. He said with a smile, "Why don't you wear this too?"

"I'm not a shop assistant and I don't get paid, so why should I wear it?" He wanted to refuse.

"Chatting with customers always makes it seem like I'm not working seriously!" Takeda tiptoed, leaned closer, and reluctantly put the employee hat on his head.

"Not bad!" He commented after looking at it carefully.

The customer picked up a pork cutlet rice bento, a box of sushi, and two cans of beer. Without needing to be reminded, he showed her his motorcycle license to prove he was an adult, paid the bill, and quietly left.

The motorcycle driver's license is new, and maybe I want to show off to others.

"Hey, Inoue...what did you mean by 'congratulations'?" Takeda watched the customer leave, turned around and asked him hesitantly.

"After winning the election, what else could it be?"

"Of course I know!" Takeda leaned back on the front desk, "But what exactly does it mean?"

"How specifically..." He didn't understand.

"Hey, Inoue." Takeda called him seriously, staring at him, "I feel uncomfortable from the bottom of my heart... You and I know each other, and then I participate in an audition, and you are one of the judges. Isn't this very unfair to others?"

"It's unfair," he agreed. "In a sense, your role was already decided before today."

"...Then I'd rather not take this role." Takeda fell silent, not looking at him but at the microwave on the front desk. "Otherwise, even if I do take the role, I'll always feel like my efforts are worthless."

"That won't do." He shook his head and only finished speaking half of the sentence.

"I can win the election even without a pre-selection! Don't you think so?" Takeda got angry.

"If you're not chosen, you'll be eliminated by your two senior voice actors before the audition even begins."

"How could that be!" Takeda was unconvinced.

"Not bringing your script is a deduction. I reminded you of this using the roster. Remember?"

"How can you lose points for not bringing a script?" Takeda straightened up from the table and argued with him, "There are only a few lines in the audition. If you're still looking at the script right before the audition, doesn't that show that you're not talented enough?" "I think so too," he agreed. "But the rules in the industry are exactly the opposite."

"The industry is full of weird and irrational rules... The teachers at the voice actor training center tell me about them every day," Takeda grumbled. The requirement to bring a script to a performance wasn't surprising. "For example, you have to arrive an hour early for the actual dubbing session. New voice actors can't take over the seniors' spots even if the main character is in the dubbing studio. And if you have a conflict with a senior, you have to apologize first, regardless of whether it's your fault or not... It's so troublesome!"

"Then why don't you bring the script?" he asked.

"Didn't I tell you when I introduced myself? I was chosen through a personal audition," Takeda explained. "The training center will have to wait another two weeks for an audition opportunity, and it might not even be my turn... I guess they'll tell me the rules after I get an audition opportunity at the training center."

After saying that, she couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why do we say there are so many rules? There are corresponding rules for when to talk about them!"

"dislike?"

"Who would like this? There are so many rules and regulations, it's so troublesome, and I don't see any point in it." Takeda said, pouring himself a glass of water, "It would be better to overturn them all."

"Do you want to be a voice actor even if you don't like it?"

"I enjoy being a voice actor, so it's not a conflict," Takeda said. "There are useless rules everywhere."

She finished her water and returned to the topic of the internal selection. "Hey, Inoue. I'm a better match than everyone else who auditioned with me. If I wasn't selected, I should be the one, don't you think?"

"You got it reversed." He shook his head. "You were chosen because you're a better match than any of their other options."

"It's not because of you?" Takeda was puzzled.

"The voice actor supervisor makes the final decision on the selection. I'm just an illustrator, acting as a shadow clone for the novel author. My words don't carry any weight."

"...Really?" The vitality in Takeda's expression returned little by little.

"Rather, I originally wanted to give you a triangle—a circle means direct approval, a check mark means rejection, and a triangle requires discussion." He continued, "It was the voice actor supervisor who took the initiative to decide on you when he saw that the two invited voice actor judges were about to give you a check mark."

"Really? Don't lie to me! I'm warning you."

"When you officially start dubbing, you'll have plenty of opportunities to ask Director Suzuki." That's all he said.

As the night deepened, he was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and felt a little cold.

Takeda walked out of the front desk in silence, checked the time, and went to the fast food lunch box area to pick up a lunch box that was 24 hours old.

Only then did he realize that Takeda had to work until 10:30 every night.

On the way to the boarding house, Takeda asked him about his affairs again, asking why he appeared at the audition.

He did not hide anything and showed her his media accounts and found several light novels for which he was responsible for illustrating and showed her the illustrator's signature.

"Could it be that... what you said before wasn't a lie? The so-called idiot Inoue is really 'Master Inoue'?"

"If you really call me that, I don't mind."

"Is the 160,000 yuan business real?" Takeda continued to ask.

"Can I still lie to you?"

"Then you want me to buy you breakfast? You want me to treat you to barbecue?" Takeda was completely furious and couldn't be appeased. "I don't care! You have to give me back what I treated you to before!"

"There's only a late-night restaurant right now." He wasn't actually very hungry. "Teppanyaki or BBQ?"

"...Are you really going to treat me?" Takeda was coaxed.

(End of this chapter)