| Itaru | Now then….. Today’s the long-awaited start of my oshi’s event. Let’s go, PICK-UP GACHA….! |
| R, R, SR, SR, R….. |
| … All dupes, GG. I expected as much. |
| This is fine. This is fine... Too soon to start sweating… |
| R, SR, R, R…. |
| SR, R, SR, R, R…….. |
| ALL DUPES! AGAIN! GG! Fuck this piece of crap! There must be some sort of correction mechanic going on behind the scenes here. |
| ??? | Would you like me to check it for you, then? |
| Itaru | … (sighs) There you go with that again… |
| Chikage | If you’re going to spend money anyway, you might as well use it in a convincing way, no? |
| Itaru | If you don’t mind me asking first… how exactly are you going to check it? |
| Chikage | Just with 2 or 3 inputs into the code. |
| Itaru | Okay, I’m gonna have to stop you there. |
| I’m a model player with common sense, so I’ll just have to keep rolling and rolling to get what I want. That said, back to the gacha I go— |
| Chikage | And I am going to have to stop you there. Aren’t you going to at least ask why I came here? |
| Itaru | Oops, right. So what’s wrong? |
| Chikage | (sighs) ... Office chat. |
| Itaru | Ahh… It’s lunch break, so I didn’t even check. Let’s see… Kitamori from HR? |
| Kitamori (TEXT) | “Thank you for today’s work. I apologize for the abrupt notice, but I’d like to call for a meeting… Can I request your attendance just after lunch break starts?” |
| Chikage | Forwarded to the two of us specifically. |
| I figured you wouldn’t have seen it if you’ve occupied yourself with your gacha during lunch break, so, here I am. |
| Itaru | Right on the money. Thank you for your service. I’m surprised you didn’t try to leave me behind like you usually do. |
| Chikage | Because I’ve got a bad feeling about this—all thanks to an event flag you triggered. |
| Itaru | …Haha, no way it could be. |
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| Kitamori | Thank you for taking your time to attend this meeting, you two. I apologize for disturbing your busy schedule. |
| The topic of this meeting is in relevance to our office’s founding anniversary party… |
| Itaru | Oh, it’s already getting close, isn’t it? |
| Kitamori | This year is a critical turning point for the company, so our board of officers are plenty enthusiastic about things right now. |
| We want to increase attendance numbers as much as possible, for internal and external office staff both… |
| As for the members who shall be executing the program, we were interested in having both of you be part of the committee. |
| Itaru | (Ohhhhh boy, this is even more of a pain of the ass than I was expecting…) |
| Chikage | … May we ask why? |
| Kitamori | Both of you are already well-favored as both company employees and actors, and because of that, we believe you’ll catch more attention as well. |
| Not to mention, the employee introduction page that Chigasaki-san lent a hand with several days ago has also earned some great appeal! |
| Itaru | (Urk……) |
| (So it really WAS an event flag I triggered…) |
| Chikage | I see… What shall we do then, Chigasaki? |
| Itaru | (Passing the baton to me, huh. Yessir, no need to tell me twice.) |
| By the way, what kind of work are we supposed to do? |
| Kitamori | Since we assume that your regular office duties and theatre work will already leave you with a busy schedule, we only ask you to be the contact persons in charge of roll call, as well as attending the event party itself…! |
| Itaru | (I see. So TLDR; they want to use our names as bait for the crowd, huh?) |
| (I did the same sort of moves in the past anyway, so I get the gist of what to do. Surely there won’t be anything even more troublesome to do other than that…) |
| If that’s all there is to do… It should be fine, right? |
| Chikage | … Yes. Our function may be limited, but we will do as much as we can. |
| Kitamori | Thank goodness…! I’m pleased to hear that! |
| Itaru | (deep sigh) Thank goodness, indeed… |
| Kitamori | Eh? For you as well, Chigasaki-san? |
| Itaru | Ah, oh no please, don’t mind me. |
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| Itaru | I already know what you’re going to say. That event flag is my fault and I very- sincerely-truly-honestly apologize for it. |
| Chikage | I haven’t said a word? |
| Itaru | Your eyes say it all. |
| Fine fine, I’ll treat you to a pizza bun and your first afternoon coffee for the trouble. |
| Chikage | I’ll take the coffee, but the pizza bun is what you want to have for yourself, isn’t it? |
| Itaru | Oh you found me out? I didn’t have much time to enjoy my lunch after all. I’ll just take a quick trip to buy… |
| —Hm? |
| Chikage | What’s wrong? |
| Itaru | … Dammit, I misplaced my office ID somewhere. Today’s just my lucky day, ain’t it. |
| Chikage | Took you long enough to notice. Here. You left it at the emergency exit staircase. |
| Itaru | Senpai, are you a god? |
| Or maybe not, if you kept it hidden from me for this long. |
| Chikage | You were going to figure it out sooner or later. |
| Here you go, Chigasaki-kun. |
| Itaru | Yes yes, thank you—— |
| … Actually. I feel like something like this happened before. |
| Chikage | Ah… Now that you mention it. It was around the same time of the year too. |
