Chapter 199 – Hospitality
The result was obvious.
Because my suggestion can dispel even the trauma that has been with you for a lifetime in an instant.
It’s easy enough to make you forget about the slump for a while.
Standing on stage, Shirai was breathless and nervous like a mouse in front of a cat.
However, the moment our gaze met with me looking at him with a real smile, the trembling disappeared neatly.
Since I made him angry by scratching his temper, of course, the thought of me will not leave his head.
The only thing left is the will to show proper acting even if it comes.
And she started her acting.
The scene Shirai showed her was a scene in her daily life where she realized that she was in love, practicing her confession or dancing while she couldn’t control her excitement.
It’s a scene more suited to a musical than a movie.
It’s an era where chivalry is important, so I’m not sure why it’s a modern background.
But Shirai’s acting was great enough to make me not care about that.
Until she took her first big breath, she seemed to have a little bit of nervousness and anxiety left, but as soon as she started acting, she became a different person.
I was quite surprised when her impression of Shirai, who looked both frightened and cold, quickly changed to that of a slovenly, pure, and honest rookie female knight.
To the extent that her potential was highly appreciated. No matter how she was, she thought she was just a rookie actress, but it was true.
I’m blind to the professional technique and evaluation standards of acting, but I’ve seen quite a few movies as an audience.
When I saw it with my own eyes, an ordinary spectator, Shirai had her talent.
Her ability to convey vivid emotions as if touching her audience’s skin directly.
However, the person who was most surprised would be Shirai himself.
When she stands in front of the camera, her limbs become stiff and her voice trembles.
The slump lasted for several years, and he must have received many expectations and disappointments.
She must have thought that she would not be able to excel as an actress anymore because she was severely depressed mentally.
But what about Shirai now?
She was literally full of her life force as she blushed and sang of her love, and showed off her performance of spinning and practicing cooking.
Just like the moment she first went on stage, as if she went back to the time when she was nervous but not sure what to do with her performance.
It was a performance full of passion and joy, as if asking what a slump is.
“Haha…”
Shirai’s scene was only about 10 minutes long, but she left a great impression.
When she finished her performance in a sweat, she clung to May so much that even Viscount Barrier, who was like a cicada on her telephone pole, quietly applauded her.
“This one is great. I couldn’t take my eyes off it.”
I agreed with Viscount Barrier today for the first time.
Shirai’s expression as she came down from the stage, running her towel over her face, was as if she had seen a ghost.
Her expression is clearly visible, bewildered but unable to conceal her joy.
Yuri hugs her like that.
“You’ve overcome. Since when? Bad girl. If you did, you shouldn’t have to say that.”
“No… I don’t know the whole language…”
Shirai cuts her off and looks at me with her body trembling.
Squeezing the palm of her hand that I pinched to focus.
Even after Shirai sat down bewildered next to me, her drinking continued.
She even penalized her undressing with a simple drinking game.
Except for Liliana, of course, the women were in their underwear to begin with, so they were naked almost immediately.
When the atmosphere had matured to some extent, Mei rose from her seat.
“The main dish is over, so how about dessert?”
As if Viscount Barrier had been waiting for her, she wrapped her arms around her waist and stood up.
A drunken red face and this unique sticky atmosphere.
What would be a dessert?
“You can use the private room upstairs. Simple drinks and food are prepared in the private room, but if you want anything, please ring the bell.”
And after Viscount Barrier and May greeted me politely, they too disappeared out the door.
Liliana, of course, sent her back and came to my side, as if she had no intention of going to her aife and her private room.
As if expecting her reaction, Aife left her greeting and left.
Only me, Yuri, Shirai, and Liliana sat at the drinking table.
The atmosphere was not friendly.
Liliana was sipping her glass with a cold expression on her face, saddened by her name, Magical Love Girl.
In the first place, it would be her uncomfortable position for her, so I fully understand.
Even Yuri, who seemed accustomed to a place like this, seemed hard to gauge her distance since she had never heard of her guest named Liliana in the first place.
I spoke to Shirai, who was feeling restless for some reason.
“The performance for me by a professional actor was also quite good.”
“That’s good… That’s it.”
“The acting was good. Sometimes it’s comfortable to let go of heavy thoughts and leave your body to the powder, right?”
“Eww…”
Is that expression of guilt?
Even before the stage started, his expression was a bit easier to understand.
It was contempt at the time.
Shirai looked at me with contempt for the group of humans who hosted such an event and were invited to enjoy decadent pleasures.
That’s why they couldn’t easily accept my offer of favor and reacted negatively.
I understand that feeling and it is thrilling and enjoyable to receive such attention.
But aside from that, I hadn’t stretched out a finger to Shirai or even Yuri until now.
She just ate together, joking around like a drunkard at the same table.
Even after dessert time, the first thing I said was praise for her acting.
“I… I’m sure you’ll be rude. Can I ask you a question though?”
“I see.”
“Why don’t you touch me or Yuri?”
So, you’re asking such a stupid question.
I answered naturally.
“You don’t like that. She’s just used to Yuri, but I don’t think she’ll like it.”
“…Ah.”
“Are you surprised that you kept the line surprisingly well?”
“No, nothing like that…”
Whispering softly so that only she could hear her, Shirai jumped up on her shoulder.
He reflexively denied my words, then let out a small sigh.
“…Actually it was.”
“I knew from the start.”
“I’m so sorry. I judged you arbitrarily on a subject I didn’t deserve. I was the one who was narrow-minded.”
“But you’re angry? You’ve been able to solve something you couldn’t overcome no matter how hard you tried for years, with just one word from me? Don’t you feel like you’ve lost to me?”
“…”
When teased, Shirai opened her mouth like a sparrow hit by a slingshot.
That’s a funny expression
She giggled and sipped her drink using that face as a snack.
“Eith.”
She raised the glass in front of her and drank the strong drink.
Thud! Putting her glass down, Shirai glares at me.
“You must be mistaken about something, but I wasn’t acting specifically for you.
“I guess so.”
“It’s real…!”
In fact, technically, she hasn’t completely overcome her slump.
Only when acting for me now. Because the conditions were set so that suggestion would work only now.
After all, a slump is meaningless unless you overcome it on your own.
However, this experience of recalling her passion for acting and the sense of her prime would be a decisive guide for her acting rehabilitation treatment, and Shirai herself would have realized it best.
She raises her eyes and blushes as if she is angry, but her sense of distance is decidedly different from before.
Shirai put her glass down, and now she was so close to mine that her sides were touching.
It wasn’t that I pulled it, it came to me like this myself.
In addition, her tone of voice, which was so cold that I could feel it, melted in a gentle way, and I felt a sense of familiarity.
She doesn’t seem to be aware of her feelings even herself, but her inner score seems to be very different.
“And this is the first time for Yuri.”
“Yes? What is it?”
“You’re coming to a reception. So don’t say openly that you’re used to this kind of place. You’re a soft kid, so you’ll get hurt behind the scenes.”
This time she was quite genuinely surprised.
Sounds like a lie
Judging from her ability to sway men’s hearts and the boldness of her words and actions, she must have been a skilled teaching assistant.
When I showed disbelief, Shirai started to explain further.
“Yuri has been like that since before. She is a mother who has never been in a relationship, but she is very interested in her, so she would tell me the knowledge she had studied hard. I often go.”
“Her.”
Is it because she learned everything over her shoulder and copied what she had learned?
So what did she do earlier?
It seems that she was trying to act boldly because she thought the real self was unattractive.
Well, really, that kind of atmosphere, when it was time for ‘dessert’, the boldness from earlier had disappeared somewhere, and seeing that he was standing on his feet, there was credibility.
By the way, he said he was a friend, but he secretly fell in love with him.
“But why did such a person come to this place now?”
“Because there was a situation that had no choice but to do that.”
Shirai says bitterly.
Aside from the fact that her own circumstances are too difficult.
Yuri is like that, and Shirai is like this too.
Maybe she’s a close friend enough to put others before herself.
The friendship between the two is so beautiful.
By the way, after all, they are both virgins.
There are many elements, so my heart was moved for the first time when I entered this building.
“Hey…”
She let out a shrill scream as I wrapped her left arm around her glass’s waist and pulled it this way.
Her face is blushing like her young virgin.
It seems to be true that the appearance so far was a bluff.
And Shirai on her right arm.
As if the second generation of a chaebol were playing in a swimming pool, they were holding two women at the same time and rubbing their sides.
Shirai closed her eyes tightly and exhaled.
“I…He said he didn’t intend to do something like that…”
“You don’t hate me now.”
“Ugh…”
Shirai couldn’t answer and just lowered her head.
The glass hardened on her, almost to her crotch.
The time when I was about to move in earnest with a grin.
– Clink.
An expensive goblet melted in Liliana’s grasp and shattered.
