"Welcome."

"Do you have a loyalty card?"

"Yes, I'll charge you 2,000 yen."

"It's change."

"Thank you for your patronage and welcome to your next visit."

“……”

"Welcome."

Until the sun goes down and night falls, she ends her part-time job at a convenience store, and there is good news today, today is the day when the convenience store pays her salary.

Recently, I've been eating fried bean sprouts, and I've finally been able to change the taste a little.

"This is last month's salary."

"Yes, thank you very much, manager."

"Well, do you have time for the next day? Do you want to come with me......"

"Ah, I still have a part-time job at an izakaya, I'm really sorry, I went first, it was rude."

"Uh...... Good. ”

When I left the convenience store, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

The August summer breeze blows on her cheeks, and she always feels uncomfortable with dust sticking to her skin, and she really wants to go home and take a shower.

When she took the train, she almost fell asleep in the carriage, thinking that if only the train had been slower, she could sleep more on the road.

When you come to Shinjuku's Golden Street, there are more than 200 small restaurants and bars, and you can easily walk into an izakaya.

Inside the izakaya, it was already full of people, the guests were drinking beer and eating fried skewers, the atmosphere was hot, and the TV in the store was playing a football match, which she didn't understand.

She hurriedly walked into the changing room, neatly changed into the dark blue uniform in the izakaya, and tied her headscarf.

I took a picture in front of the mirror in the closet, took a deep breath and patted my cheek gently, then squeezed out a business-style smile and left the changing room.

"Welcome, two guests? Please go this way. ”

……

……

At half past one in the morning, most of the customers in the store had left, and only a few scattered tables remained.

The great thing about working at an izakaya is that the staff meals here are very generous, and she can even order them, which is the time she looks forward to the most every day.

"I'm moving."

Sitting in the corner of the store, even though I was tired and wanted to go home and go to bed quickly, it was also healing to be able to eat hot food.

"Babble~~ Miho-chan has become completely popular."

The female senior, who is also working in the store, sat down in front of her with a pork cutlet and kept looking at the news on her mobile phone.

"Who are you talking about?"

"Huh? Don't you know, look, I used to work here, but now I've held concerts. She flipped the screen of her phone and shook it in front of Hoshino Mori.

"Huh!! Is that Miss Okamatsu? ”

"yes."

"What a surprise."

"Hmph~ There are even more powerful Oh, the people who often come to the store to drink are the young male customers who often sit in the corner, they are very handsome, remember?"

"Hmm...... There is an impression. ”

"I've heard they're all super well-known voice actors."

"Really? Those uncles are? ”

"What uncles, they're only in their thirties."

"Thirty years old is not an uncle? I'm only 19 years old. ”

"Don't show off your youthful beauty here, damn it! I'm so angry. ”

“…… I'm sorry. ”

"Really, Hoshino-chan obviously wants to be a voice actor, but she doesn't know anything about many voice actors."

"I don't know much about male voice actors, but I can name female voice actors, and I can say fifty people in one breath without panting."

"It's really in line with my imagination of the dolphin.

"Speaking of which, Hoshino-chan has been scheduling more shifts lately, can your body be able to eat? Don't have classes during the day? ”

"Well, all the courses at the institute have been completed, and many admissions interviews have been arranged."

"Hey~~ That Hoshino-chan is leaving after becoming a voice actor, it's a little lonely."

"Even if you can become a voice actor, there is no guarantee that you will get a job, and you also have to work many jobs to support yourself, and the competition for female voice actors is much fiercer than that of male voice actors, and the peak of their careers is even shorter."

The female seniors in front of her, holding her chin with one hand, kept stuffing pork cutlets into her mouth, looking at the shining eyes of the migrant juniors in front of her.

"But, Hoshino-chan still wants to be a voice actor, right?"

"Well, because it's a dream."

She replied without the slightest hesitation, even if she was wearing an inconspicuous izakaya uniform, even if her hair was stained with kitchen fireworks, even if she was wearing no makeup.

People who chase their dreams are not sparkling all the time.

"Well, if only I could join the firm."

"Well, thank you."

At two o'clock in the morning, the work at the izakaya was over, and she walked back to her lodgings.

Downstairs to take out the payment notice, step by step up the rusty exterior staircase, the tenant living in the first room around the corner is a young couple, always do not like to close the window, the sound of singing every night is undisguised along the window.

She had long been accustomed to this, and she blushed slightly and sped through, returning to her rental house.

The first thing you do when you get home is to take a bath, the bathtub is very narrow, you can't straighten your legs, you need to hug your knees to take a bath, the advantage is to save water.

Only this kind of time will she miss her home in Roppongi.

The bathtub is larger than the entrance of the rental house, so you can stretch your legs and arms.

After bathing, blow dry your hair and soak your changed clothes in a basin of water poured with washing liquid.

Working part-time at an izakaya for a long time inevitably leads to the smell of grease on your body and clothes.

This life has been maintained for nearly two years, and she has nothing to complain about, but she also can't say such high-sounding words as "enjoy it".

Separated from her parents, life is always difficult for a person, and she persevered all the way not because she enjoyed the pain brought by reality, but because she had faith in her heart.

……

……

Hoshino Mori Hoshino, 19 years old, female.

"At the age of 17, he joined the Broadcasting and Acting Research Institute, and graduated from the Broadcasting and Acting Institute this spring, specializing in playing the piano.

"Hmm...... Miss Hoshino Mori Seino. ”

"Yes!"

"Based on your voice samples at the institute, can you perform a few of the voices that you are good at live?"

"No, no problem."

The venue is a recording studio near Shinjuku, and Hoshino Morino is here today to attend an interview at the voice actor agency.

Each studio will first look at a sample of her voice from her time in graduate school, and then decide whether she can pass the first round of auditions based on her live performance.

If you want to become a professional voice actor, you first have to study at a vocational school or an training center affiliated with each office, and this period of time is about 1-2 years.

Of course, there are also actors and stars who have already become famous, and they work as voice actors across borders, which is generally to use the popularity of the actors to increase the exposure of their works.

Or some animation directors who specialize in animated films, like to use the layman's untrained youthful voice, known as "the voice without a sense of interpretation", or even with a little sticky reading, in order to enhance the sense of realism.

Excluding special circumstances, most voice actors will need to undergo about 2 years of professional training, and then an interview will be conducted to join the firm.

However, that doesn't mean that passing an interview at a voice actor agency will give you peace of mind.

Almost all voice actor studios in Tokyo have titles such as "quasi-affiliation" and "positive affiliation".

If you join a training center of a certain firm, the period before graduation is called "pre-affiliation".

In a situation like Hoshino Mori Hoshino, when you join any voice actor agency, you will only sign a one-year contract and become a "quasi-member" voice actor of that agency.

After passing the company's internal assessment for this year, and passing the comprehensive evaluation, you will have the opportunity to become a "positive belonging", and if you do not pass, you will continue to be a "quasi-belonging".

There are countless young voice actors who join the voice actor agency every year, and there are countless voice actors who have no way to become "right belonging", and finally have to change careers.

Even if they become a positive member, voice actors often have to go through a year or two of precipitation before they have the opportunity to receive a supporting role with a name.

Some people can soar with a certain role, but more often than not, they will always play passers-by without a name.

After the interview, Hoshino Mori Hoshino was told to go back and wait for news, and passed by a man and a woman who came on, Hoshino Mori Hoshino stood in front of the elevator, pressed the button, walked into the elevator, and lowered his head to recall his performance just now.

The elevator doors closed slowly.

"Hey~Hey! Crumbs! See? That sister just now looks so cute!

"Goohehe~~ It's a face I've never seen.,I don't know which rookie voice actor it's from.,I'll ask later.,And the boobs are also very big.,Slip~"

"Really? It's not as big as you. ”

"Iron baa! Sue you for sexual harassment! Five-strand bastard! ”

……

……

After coming out of the recording studio, Hoshino Mori looked at the busy street scene in front of him, and suddenly felt a sense of confusion that he had nowhere to go.

This is the fifth office she has interviewed, because the recruitment period of voice actor offices is different, and most of the time she can only work part-time while waiting for recruitment interviews from various offices.

Of the four firms interviewed before, three failed to pass.

Buzz~Buzz~

The phone in his pocket vibrated slightly.

[Dear Ms. Hoshino Mori, I am very sorry that I have not been able to reach a further cooperation with you for the time being, and you did not pass the third round of interviews at I'm core voice actor agency, we sincerely wish you ......]

Again, it didn't pass.

I've already passed the first two rounds, but I still can't do it?

What is it that doesn't work?

Obviously, I have worked so hard, I have put in a thousand times and hundreds of times the effort, but I still can't do it?

Or is effort a useless thing?

After becoming an adult, sighs like this will erode her heart from time to time.

Hoshino Mori Hoshino when she was a student should be a more confident and radiant girl.

Standing at the top of the school, he exudes elegant confidence.

But now Hoshino Mori Hoshino seems to have lost that self-confidence and has become an embarrassed ordinary person.

No, Hoshino Mori understands that she has been an ordinary person since the beginning.

After seeing Jingu Teraetsuki and Yomiya Yao, she had already accepted this matter.

Everything she has gained so far has been earned through hard work.

This practice may be useful when you are a student, because you will not betray yourself when you study, and as long as you study hard, your grades will definitely improve.

But after entering society, Hoshino Mori Hoshino deeply understood that this world is not just about hard work.

At the convenience store where you work, if you please the store manager a little and accompany him out for a meal, you may be able to sit in the lounge and get paid for nothing without doing anything.

The golden sister of Shinjuku, there are many shops around her who pay high prices to invite her to work, but she is still only willing to shrink in the greasy izakaya and wipe the table.

Compared with a thousand times the effort, she can improve her current life by paying that little bit of self-esteem and shame.

Let out a faint sigh, discouragement will not help, life is still going on, you have to be busy to work.

She needed more money.

Rubbing his face, he forced himself to pull himself together, smiled a little stiffly, and walked towards the subway station.

……

……

During this time, Jingu Temple Moon stayed with Sakura Koji Sakura all day long, and now that they are adults, they stick together like when they were children, and as childhood sweethearts, it is really a little inappropriate.

Therefore, his mother also secretly asked Jingu Terakitsuki if he had already dated Sakura Koji Sakura.

Jingu Siyue admitted it calmly, and her mother finally showed an expression of "stinky boy has finally done a human thing".

When both parents went out to work, the lovers, who had been reunited for a long time, stayed in the bedroom, saying what they wanted to say and doing what they wanted to do.

Ten days of vacation are fleeting.

On the last day of the holiday, Jingu Teratsuki and Sakura Koji Sakura left the Freedom Hill early and spent the night at a love hotel.

After this separation, I don't know when we will be able to meet.

Coming to the station, Jingu Terakitsuki returned the suitcase in her hand to Sakura Koji Sakura, she was reluctantly pursing her lips, tugging at Jingu Teraki's sleeve, and her beautiful amber eyes seemed to be about to shed tears at any time.

"Don't forget me~"

"How could you forget."

"You can't secretly hook up with other girls while I'm not there."

"No, it won't."

"It's too simple to promise! So suspicious! ”

"Uh...... Well, I'll try my best. ”

"Too hesitant! Acting so reluctantly, do you really want to hook up with other girls!? ”

"Please please tell me the correct answer."

"Of course, it was to hug me tightly without saying a word, and then have a romantic kiss goodbye."

"This is the station, what the hell are you thinking about?"

"Humph! Of course I know, just kidding!

"The tram has come in, so I'm really leaving."

"Be careful on the road, tell me when you get to the base."

"Well, I'll be home for the Chinese New Year this year."

"Okay, wait until you get back."

"Hug."

Looking at her outstretched hands, the man smiled helplessly and hugged her into his arms.

It's broken, and now it's back to the old business

(End of chapter)