August 1st, Saturday, sunny, high temperature of 34 degrees.

From eight o'clock in the morning, the air is filled with unbearable stuffiness.

Ai Nakano is holding a comb in her left hand and scissors in her right hand, and she is giving Yu Murakami a haircut.

"That's how July passed." "We haven't been to any shrine festivals, and we haven't seen any fireworks. ”

"Murakami-kun, do you like festivals and fireworks?"

"yes."

"I thought you didn't have any hobbies other than reading. Submit. ”

Ai Nakano pressed her fingers against the back of his head, and there seemed to be a burst of warmth.

Yu Murakami bowed her head slightly, making it easier for her to trim the back.

"If you want to stay in this world, you have to like something." He said.

"There should also be festivals and fireworks displays in August, so you can check them out later."

"Hmm."

That's the end of the conversation between the two.

After the haircut, Yu Murakami was nothing, and Ai Nakano was a little panting hot.

Back in the air-conditioned living room, [Xingxing] occupied the closest place to the air-conditioner, and [Luotang Chicken] squatted in the cage and took a nap.

The cat curls up in the cozy cat bed, occasionally opening its eyes and looking at [Xingxing] with the eyes of a fool.

You Mubi, who got up early, was holding the script that Murakami had put in the cabinet, practicing reading the lines according to the method taught by the teacher at the cultivation center.

Seeing the two of them coming in, You Mubi lay down in the arms of the panda doll, covered her face with the tablebook, and sighed "sigh~" from time to time.

Nakano Ai took the [Xingxing] blowing into the air conditioner into her arms, and looked at You Mubi with a smile on her face, who was crushed by life at a young age.

"What's wrong, Concave-chan?" She asked.

"It's so difficult, Sister Aiyi. During the class last night, the teacher who teaches dance told us that there are 300,000 people who want to become voice actors this year, but the acceptance rate is only 0.1%.

And even if they are admitted, many of them will be unknown for a lifetime. Even if you excel in school, you may not even get a supporting role after entering the office. The number of popular voice actors is only about 300. ”

"Are there so many people who want to become voice actors?" Ai Nakano was also taken aback.

You Mubi said "um" weakly.

"Are you ready to give up? If you want to become a voice actor just because you're just having fun, why don't you study hard? Waseda graduated and came out to earn a lot more money than most voice actors. ”

"Don't!"

You Mubi's voice startled the sleeping [Soup Chicken] and almost fell off the cage.

You Mubi took down the script covering her face, sat up cross-legged, and looked at Ai Nakano.

"Sister Aiyi, do you know what the senior sisters in the school told me?"

"Huh? How so? Ai Nakano asked with a smile.

"{Youmu Xuemei,}" Youmubi used her voice acting skills that she had just learned for a few days, trying her best to imitate the tone of her senior sister, "{There is a saying in our early college that first-class people drop out of school halfway, second-rate repeaters, and third-rate only graduate.} }”

"What are these words?" Ai Nakano couldn't cry or laugh.

"I'm dropping out!" You Mubi stood up on the panda doll and became the tallest person in the living room for a while - Yu Murakami lay on the tatami mat and read a book.

"Why did you drop out of school all of a sudden?" Miss Sakura walked in short-sleeved shorts with a cat pattern, "Is someone bullying you at school?" Tell me and I'll bring someone to clean him up for you! ”

"No, Sister Suzune. That's right, I plan to try to become a very famous voice actor who can make a lot of money while I am studying, so I will drop out of school! Become a top-notch student! ”

When did the first-class students in early college become tied to voice actors?

Miss Sakura was confused, and her little feet were placed on Murakami's waist and pushed.

"Is there a problem with the ABC training center you introduced? Taught my concave sauce badly. ”

"What does it have to do with ABC? That's a {tradition} that their school doesn't know where it came from. ”

Yu Murakami used the first volume of "OVERLORD" in her hand to knock off the toes of her toes that she was trying to tickle.

Before Miss Sakura left, she put the soles of her feet on Murakami's ass and pushed it gently, and then asked You Mubi with a smile:

"{Tradition}? What's going on? ”

"Concave sauce said that the first-class students in their school dropped out halfway, the second-rate repeated, and the third-rate ones graduated well." Ai Nakano explained.

"Hmm," Miss Sakura pondered, "If you can really become a popular voice actor, you can drop out of school." ”

"Sister Lingyin, I love you so much!"

Ai Nakano said: "That concave sauce has to work hard, and it's not easy to become a popular voice actor." ”

"Ah~" Seeing that someone supported her, You Mubi, who was happy in her heart, sighed again.

"I watched Brother Yu succeed in the interview after studying for a month, and he became a popular voice actor in less than a year, so I thought it was very simple. Brother You, is there any special secret? ”

The other two also looked at it - they, including Higashiyama, studied intermittently for more than two years, and spent about 2.5 million yen in tuition.

On the other hand, Yu Murakami, who said that he had studied for a month, actually took three classes, and the tuition fees were all refunded, and now he has left them far away and has become the voice actor who is most popular in the industry and the audience.

"How many last trains have you made? Have you ever seen the Meguro River, where the cherry blossoms are in full bloom late at night, but no one stays? ”

"Brother You, do you mean to work hard?"

"Don't listen to Murakami-kun's nonsense, concave sauce." Ai Nakano is an insider of {honesty is not a merit of Yu Murakami}.

Yu Murakami looked at the book with his eyes and pointed to his mobile phone on the table: "The first photo." Meguro River. ”

Miss Sakura opened it and flipped through it: "It's true, but there's obviously an office worker drinking beer below." ”

Miss Sakura, who was scheming, put down her mobile phone, and suddenly said in a nasal voice: "What is the reason, say it quickly~"

【... It's just that ordinary flying squirrels are far from being able to do it...]

Yu Murakami looked at this line of text in "OVERLORD" and said:

"Let two people, take the same class, do the same homework, use the same amount of time, all external conditions are the same, even if there is no difference in the degree of concentration of the mind, but the results of the two cannot be the same."

"What do you mean?" Miss Sakura asked.

"Why are the results not the same, when the outside is consistent?" Yu Murakami asked rhetorically.

"Is it because of talent?" You Mubi said.

"He is worthy of being a student of Waseda." Murakami lay on his side with his left hand supporting his head, so he slapped his right hand twice on the right side of his thigh and applauded.

"Spare a big circle, you're just saying you're smarter than us, Murakami-kun?" Ai Nakano said with an angry smile.

"Worthy of the Showa women's ......"

Yu Murakami hasn't finished perfunctory yet, and he has been kicked by Miss Sakura on the ass again.

"Smack~"

With a crisp sound, the air conditioning fan slowly closed, and I don't know if it was a power outage or a trip.

You Mubi ran to take a look.

"Tripped. It may be that the capacitance is smaller. ”

Island countries can choose the electricity capacity according to the specific situation of their own family, and the size is 20A, 30A, 40A, and 50A.

Sakuraso now has an air conditioner in every room, and the capacitance has not been changed since, so it stands to reason that tripping is not an uncommon thing.

"Last night, everyone turned on the air conditioner, and it didn't jump; Why is it that now only the living room is opened, and there is also a room for the coffin, why did it jump? Sakura asked.

"I don't know much about electrical appliances." Ai Nakano replied.

"Smack~"

The air conditioner just turned on and tripped again.

Yu Mubi was about to open the gate again, but Ai Nakano called out to her.

"Forget it, Concave sauce, let's go change the capacitance. You happen to be using TEPCO right now, right? My mom said there was a one called SoftBank that was cheaper. ”

Although Sakura Village is comfortable, clean and hygienic, and the environment is good, it is an old building after all, and the wires and other facilities in it have been used for many years, so she is a little worried.

"Okay. So what now? Yu Mubi noticed the cat who got up from the hot cat nest and lay down on the cooler tatami mat.

"Do you want to go out for a walk together? It just so happened that yesterday Aiyi won the barbecue coupon of Xuxuyuan. Miss Sakura suggested.

"Eat barbecue? Now that they're all out of the house, why don't you go swimming after eating?! "You Mubi originally felt that it was very troublesome to go out on a hot day, but now she suddenly came to power.

"Swimming?"

"Yes! There's a citizen pool nearby! ”

"No, no, no!" Miss Sakura firmly refused, "The public pool is too dirty!" And don't you think that such a thing as a swimsuit is pure self-deception? It's completely no different from underwear, so how embarrassed to wear it out. ”

"Sister Lingyin," You Mubi touched her little chin with her little hand, "You are actually an unexpectedly a ......"

"Good - hot ——!!!" Dongshan walked into the living room sweating profusely, "The air conditioner is broken, and it heats me to death." ”

"Sister Qi, there is a power outage at home, we are going to go out to eat barbecue and swim!"

"Swimming?" Dongshan stopped at his little hand fanning the wind, and his eyes rolled: "Okay, I'll ask them if they can go!" ”

"Do you really want to go swimming? Forget it. Miss Sakura was very reluctant.

"Seed sauce agreed! And she said that the hotel run by her brother has a room with a large swimming pool, and there are no guests who have reservations today, and she is thinking about whether to go there. What a coincidence. ”

"Sister Suzune? Sister Aiyi? You Mubi looked at the two excitedly.

"In that case...... I'll just go. But I don't have a swimsuit. ”

"Neither do I." Ai Nakano said.

"Let's go buy it together, and I just happen to buy a new one." You Mubi said.

Dongshan Tsubi's fingers "crackled" on the keyboard:

"Xiaoqi and Onishi also went, and Chiqi's boyfriend went on a business trip to Sapporo, and she also came. Do we buy swimsuits to lose Shibuya? Shinjuku? Or Ikebukuro? ”

"Shibuya!"

"Good!" Higashiyama "crackled" and pressed the keyboard.

Yu Murakami woke up from the book, raised his head and asked Ai Nakano:

"What kind of work does Chi Qi's boyfriend do?"

On my last business trip, I went to Kagoshima, the southernmost part of the island nation, and now Sapporo in the north, and the distance between the two is 3,000 kilometers, spanning almost the entire island country.

"Looks like a photographer, right?" Ai Nakano's tone was not quite sure.

"It's not easy."

"Listening to Chi Qi, he himself seems to like to run around."

"That's pretty good." Yu Murakami continued to read.

"Brother You, what are you doing? Sister Lingyin and Ji Ji have gone to change their clothes, you should go too! ”

"Why should I change my clothes, I'm not going."

"The power is out, what can you do at home?" Ai Nakano asked.

"Didn't it trip, how could it be a power outage? Later, I turned on the switch, turned on the air conditioner in my bedroom, and brought in [Xingxing] and [Luotang Chicken] by the way. ”

"They do need to be taken care of." Ai Nakano nodded.

You Mubi's little head was very flexible, and she thought of a way in a blink of an eye: "It's good to store it in the pet store, just right for manicures." ”

"[Xingxing] It's time to cut her nails." Ai Nakano nodded again, this time making up her mind: "Just put the little ones in the pet store, how about it, Murakami-kun?" ”

"Anything, I don't want to go out today anyway." Yu Murakami doesn't believe Higashiyama is a good person.

The owner of the second-hand bookstore at Sasazuka Station gave him "The Lonely Firefly", which only said how to turn around between four people, and he couldn't help more than four people.

He suddenly remembered that on March 1, the day of the opening banquet of "April", what would happen if he didn't go? Maybe everything will be very different now.

Will he be easier in that timeline?

But this speculation was immediately overturned by himself.

It's either a banquet or a dubbing scene, and the two will always meet, and then he—I don't know if he'll write a letter or not—will definitely persuade her to come back.

This is an inevitable result, even if time starts all over again, there will be no second route for him to choose - he can't let go of Sakura anymore.

But the more difficult it is to make a choice, the more Murakami doesn't want to have any dealings with other women outside of work.

The future described by Higashiyama is very beautiful and depraved, but it is impossible, or only extremely remote.

Let's not talk about Nakano, just Sakura, when she faces this matter, what will she think and do, who can predict?

Is the dilemma of not knowing what to do next, the reason for your own fall? Yuu Murakami.

"In that case," Ai Nakano said with a smile, "then I'll trouble Murakami-kun to take care of your house." ”

"Okay." Murakami paused and said, "Leave the nail clipping to me, you can go play." ”

You Mubi no longer persuades.

After a while, Miss Sakura and Higashiyama changed their clothes and returned to the living room.

"Murakami-kun, why haven't you changed your clothes yet?" Higashiyama blinked his big eyes.

"Murakami-kun won't go." Ai Nakano explained, "Let's have a girls' meeting this time. ”

"What if he doesn't go!" Miss Sakura said suddenly.

"Why not?" You Mubi hoped that Murakami would go, but she didn't think why she didn't go.

"That..."

If he doesn't go, who will show his figure and long legs? I want to take advantage of this opportunity to make Murakami's leg control completely obsessed with me.

"Huh?" You Mubi tilted her head to look at her suspiciously.

“... That, I don't worry about him staying home alone! Yes, that's right! After thinking of the reason, Miss Sakura replied simply: "He can say that he is a pervert with leg control in a public place, and it is summer, so he can't be left alone at home!" ”

"Huh?" Yu Murakami.

"yes, yes." Higashiyama nodded, looking like a victim: "When I was filming the album MV, Murakami-kun secretly said to me, {Higashiyama, I was looking at your legs just now} and this kind of thing." He was left at home alone, what if he used our stockings, or other clothes, to do something disgusting? ”

Miss Sakura gives her a "good fit!" Looks.

Yu Murakami, who was lying down, suddenly turned sideways and looked at Higashiyama.

Higashiyama bent down slightly, grabbed the hem of the skirt up to the knees, turned his face sideways, and said shyly:

"Village, Murakami-kun, don't look at it."

"Oh~~~" You Mubi let out a disgusted sound.

Yu Murakami looks at Ai Nakano for his last hope.

Ai Nakano's face turned towards Sakura, and her eyes moved to the far right of her eye socket, and she stared at Yu Murakami lifelessly.

Murakami has nothing to say.

What can be said? Aren't Sakura and Higashiyama telling the truth?

He lay on the tatami mat, speechless, and let the air conditioner sprayed by Nakano Ai Yi brand air conditioner that only worked for him.

"Murakami, do you want to go?" Miss Sakura asked.

"Go."

Higashiyama patted the skirt that was not wrinkled to make it even more flatter.