The problem of Ranmu-sama's awareness is too high
5 am.
Before the alarm went off, I was awake dan lifting my upper body.
Next to me, Yuuka still sleeping with an innocent face while moving her mouth in a cat-like chewing motion.
If she fell asleep like this, she probably wouldn't wake up for a while.
Alright, this is a perfect situation.
“......”
Walking out of the bedroom without making a sound, I headed to the computer in the living room.
After quickly opening the site I wanted to visit, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
——Slowly, I clicked on the sound folder on the net radio.
“Hello Alice. [Love Idol Dream! Alice Radio☆], is about to start, are you guys ready?”
Alice Stage’s net radio, known as [Alice Radio], has been on the air and popular since last year.
This program didn't have a fixed MC, so in each episode, two Alice Idols will be called as their personalities to run the program.
The first half of the program consists of a talk as the voiced character, and the second half consists of a free talk by the voice actress herself, which is nothing but a sacred program for fans.
Currently, [Alice Radio] was in the middle of an event commemorating the announcement of [Eight Alice].
Unlike previous episodes, this time, one of [Eight Alice] and two Alice Idols who would be supporting her were invited into the program.
And this time... the three invited people is...
“In order to become a top idol, I don’t mind throwing anything away, I’ll fly an keep flying, until I reach the highest place——I’m Shinomiya Ranmu, Ranmu’s voice actress.”
A girl who was chosen as one of the [Eight Alice], the Sixth Alice, Ranmu-chan.
She is a 16 year old high school student.
She attended musical school from young age and continues to work steadfastly to reach the top of the idol world.
When it come to idol, Ranmu-chan is a cool character who is hard on herself as well as others. But in her personal life... she is unexpectedly a clumsy person.
The gap between her cool and clumsy impression is what makes her become popular.
“I want to be a lubricant for everyone. As long as you smile in peace, I’ll smile too——I'm Hotta Deru, Deru’s voice actress.”
18th rank Alice, Deru-chan.
She is a 19 year old girl who was born from a rich family that leads the oil industry.
Even though she has a luxurious life, but because to her “A smile can’t be bought with money”, that’s why she continues to work as Alice Idol.
Her gentle but has strong opinion that is the charm of her.
“Why are you look so cheerless? Geez... Look at me! Come on, if you smile with me, you’ll definitely feel happy——I’m Izumi Yuuna, Yuuna’s voice actress.”
39th rank Alice, Yuuna-chan.
She is a 14 year old middle school student who was invited by her younger sister, Nanami-chan, to become an Alice Idol.
No matter what situation she is in, she’ll always smile, and before you know it, she’ll also make people around her smile too. It is her purity and innocence that is the charm of her.
However, because she is a girl who is sensitive to being called childish, so she often acts like an adult by teasing you like a little devil. However, because she was basically an innocent person, so she often failed when she tried to do that.
She’s pure like an angel, innocent like a fairy, and in essence, she’s really cute.
In the previous rankings, her name would quickly be found in the lower ranks, but this time she made a big leap by entering the top 40.
Well, to be honest, to me a rank like that is completely meaningless.
Because for me, Yuna-chan is number 1... and even though the heavens and the earth change places, my thoughts will not be shaken.
"......Phew."
I immediately took a deep breath when I realized that somehow I had been holding my breath for a while.
Then, sitting up straight on the chair, I focused all my attention on [Alice Radio].
Like the previous event, the MC this time was Rammu-chan who was one of [Eight Alice]. On the other hand, Yuuna-chan and Deru-chan, because they were in the same office with her and involved in the event, they were invited as supporters in this program.
...I'm sure most of Alice Radio's listeners are joining this program because they're looking forward to Ranmu-chan.
That’s cant’t be helped, cause Ranmu-chan is very popular after all.
But it doesn’t matter.
No matter how many thousands of people are Ranmu-chan's fans, I alone will send a cheer to Yuuna-chan that surpasses all of them.
After all, I’ve always been Yuuna-chan’s [Grim Reaper in Love].
And then, now the program is nearing the middle stage.
When the talk as a voiced characters is over, it’s time for the free talk section.
“Hello Alice, I’m Shinomiya Ranmu.”
“Hello Alice, I’m Hotta Deu!”
“Hello Alice-kyuu! ...Eh, sorry, I bit my tongue... I’m Izumi Yuuna...”
“Don’t be so nervous, Yuuna-chan. It’s too early to accidentally bite your tongue like that...”
Haah~, she who accidentally bit her tongue is really cute!
Just from a scene like that alone, I feel like I could finish a hundred bowls of rice!
In my mind, I kept waving a psyllium at her and cheering her on.
"Haa... Everyone will definitely think that I'm a kid who looks like Yuuna when I accidentally bit my tongue earlier, right?"
"Eh? You just realized that now? From the beginning, the listeners thought that the two Yuuna-chan were clumsy girls. At least, everyone in our office thinks so.”
“Eh?! You’re just kidding right, Hotta-san?!”
"I’m not kidding. If you don't believe me, just ask Ranmu."
“Ranmu-senpai! Hotta-san just exaggerating about that, right?”
Teaming up with Hotta Deru, Izumi Yuuna—my fiance, Yuuka—made the atmosphere of the conversation livelier.
Really, her hard work and growth is amazing.
Feeling a little weep, I shook my head and went back to concentrating on the net radio.
“—Who knows? I'm not interested in that kind of thing.”
......Oooooh.
As expected from Shinomiya Ranmu, her cool beauty is really amazing.
I'm sure, this must be the secret of her popularity... But well, even so my heart still remains for Yuuna-chan.
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After that, Izumi Yuuna and Hotta Deru continued to liven up the conversation, and Shinomiya Ranmu continued to quietly interrupt them.
“Hotta-san, why do you call me using honorific ‘chan’, while you don't call Ranmu-senpai using honorifics?”
“Well, I did that subconsciously, but maybe it's just because of my habit. After all, it was Ranmu who started her career in this field earlier than me.”
“At first, you also call me as ‘Ranmu-chan’, right?”
“Yeah, but now that I think about it, honorific ‘chan’ doesn't suit to Ranmu, right? So before I knew it, I'm starting to didn’t use the honorific."
“Eh? Isn’t that like special treatment? You’re unfair, Hotta-san!”
“You saying that, but you used ‘senpai’ only to calling Ranmu. Or putting that side, in this field there aren’t many people who would call someone using honorific ‘senpai’, right?”
“Is that so?”
“Using ‘senpai's’ honorific make this like just a sports club. Even at the Alice Stage, even though Rui-san has been performing longer than me, I didn't called her as ‘Rui-senpai.”
“Speaking of Rui-san, have you two watched the anime where the heroine is voiced by her? I was so touched when the main character and the heroine managed to overcome the deadly disease that will be experienced when falling in love——”
“Yuuna-chan, you can't talk about other works here!!”
The anime they were talking about was the one Yuuka and I watched recently.
And back then, in Yuuka's appearance on Alice Radio earlier, in the episode that was broadcast nationally, she hid my identity by referring to me as her [younger brother].
Since right now she brought up the topic of the anime we watched together, please don't make the same mistake again, okay?
After all, it was a truly serious broadcast accident.
“Speaking of which, could it be you watched that anime with your brother?”
"Yes! I like that anime, but I like my brother even more!!”
Why the hell you even bringing that up, Hotta Deru?
Suddenly, I immediately threw myself on the keyboard.
“Ranmu, you didn’t know, right? Yuuna-chan has a very unusual love for her younger brother.”
“Is that so, Yuuna?”
"Yes! After moving to Tokyo, I started living with my brother! My brother is so cute! His cuteness is so overwhelming that it can be said to be spilling out of him.”
“What kind of tension... Hey, Yuuna, do you know that doing a weird things to your brother is illegal?”
You brought up this topic by yourself, but now you're even starting to dig deeper, Hotta Deru? You've already set off the bomb, so please handle this properly!
“Yuuna——how much do you love your brother?”
"I love him more than anything in the universe."
Againts Shinomiya Ranmu's fatal question, Yuuka answered spontaneously.
Heck... what the hell with the situation where my fiance confessed her love for me under the [brother] label which was broadcast nationally.
Not only is this very embarrassing, but if things are revealed, I can only see a future where there will be a bloodbath from the fans.
“Sleeping or going to school together with your brother is really dangerous, so please, please don't cause any incidents, okay, Yuuna-chan?”
“What do you mean by incident!? Geez, Hotta-san, your thought as usual always leads to the perverted things—”
“…I love my job as an [idol] more than anything in this universe.”
Interrupting the conversation between the two of them, Shinomiya Ranmu said that in a strong tone.
“To become a top idol, I’m ready to throw everything away. I’ve decided that I’ll only pour out the emotion called ‘love’ to my fans. That's why——I'm not interested in anything romantic."
“…Erm, Rammu-senpai? Currently I was talking about my brother..."
“Sorry, it's just that earlier you looked like a girl in love. Even though you and your brother is family... I think if you're that paranoid, it might be an obstacle for you to reach the heights of an idol. Well, it's just my personal opinion. But if you personally want it that way, then that's up to you.”
“As expected from Ranmu! You’re the most stoic of the Alice Idols!”
Perhaps, Hotta Deru did say something like that on purpose. Thanks to what she said, the mood of their conversation softened a bit.
The blend of the Shinomiya Ranmu’s stoic and Izumi Yuuna's innocence... If there is even one mistake in the blend, it could cause a huge explosion.
My intuition as a [Grim Reaper in Love] whispered that to me.
“…In my case, I love my brother, and of course I love my fans too. Besides that, I also love the Alice Idols that I work hard together with. After all, I'm the type of person who thinks to always do my best with a smile on my face and abundant love in my heart!”
"If you pour your abundant love into many things, then I pour all my love only to my work as an idol. It is only by pouring out my love for idol only——then I’ll be at the pinnacle of Alice idol, I’ll be the Top Alice.”
“—A-As for me, I'll pour all my love into oil! Love and oil, its can save the world, you know?”
Between the two of them who were speaking from their own point of view, Hotta Deru interrupted them using the point of view of the character she voiced.
Then, whether they noticed the signal from their senior voice actress, the two of them immediately spoke using the point of view of the character they voiced.
“W-What is happiest to me is when everyone smiles! That's why… from now on and in the future, I’ll continue to do my best as an idol!”
“I’ll definitely become Top Alice. You all can look forward to the day when it comes… Don't look away, and just keep following me.”
“Wow, each character has their own way of thinking. Plus, there are plenty of other characters with their own unique thoughts! That's why, please continue to support [Love Idol Dream! Alice Stage☆]”
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“Gyaaaaaa!?”
“Whoaaa!?”
As Hotta Deru cleaned up the mess and the program switched to commercials, behind me, a scream echoed throughout the room.
When I turned back hastily, there I saw Yuuka who was still in the appearance of having just woken up.
“I already told you! Don't listen to that while I'm sleeping!”
"Let me ask you back? What makes you think that I won't listen to the sacred episode of Yuuna-chan's personality?”
"Shut up, I told you not to listen to that anymore!"
Rubbing her eyes, Yuuka then approached me and thumped my chest.
“…I didn't like that episode. I mean, I had said piercing words to Ranmu-senpai…”
“I don't think those are piercing words… Or don't you want me to hear your attitude?”
"...It is not like that."
Yuuka buried her face in my chest, and then muttered quietly.
"Even though I attended that episode to support Ranmu-senpai, but I made Ranmu-senpai feel uncomfortable... That's why, I didn't like that episode."
When I heard what she said, for some reason, I felt a warm feeling.
Shinomiya Ranmu who is stoic, and Izumi Yuuna who is innocent.
Even though they have different points of view, but as I thought, Yuuka is a really good person from the bottom of her heart.
That's why, here I have nothing to say to her, but I decided to gently pat her head.
For my fiance who has a kind heart... Even if it's just a little bit, I want to repay her kindness by giving her a smile.
By the way.
After Yuuka went to sleep again, I continued listening to the rest of the Alice Radio program.
I understand how Yuuka feels.
But still, as a [Grim Reaper in Love], I can't help but watch the program that Yuuna-chan is attending.
Adorable. Both of them. Thanks for the chapter.
ReplyDeleteI love how they just break character haha
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