Act 64 – Oh, No! I'm Late?

At 12:30 Kyoko stood in a fighting position in front of her mirror. She would have to go into full battle mode in order to deal with Shotaro today. She could do it though. She would have to make sure he didn't know who she was but she could use him for a stepping stone. His precious PV would be the next day and he would regret that he ever let her on that stage. She would steal from him something most precious, his fame and attention, there was nothing he held more dear.

If she wanted to make an impression, the Love Me uniform would be the best thing to wear. It was something that you couldn't easily look away from. The hot pink color made it so that you lost sense of yourself until you were surrounded by hot pink everywhere. More than that, the color made anyone within a short range feel that they were losing in popularity. It might bring down his image were someone to see them together.

If she had been the old version of Kyoko then she would have thought that a school uniform would be more appropriate but this was a battle and this was her battle armor provided for her by the better agency, the LME agency. She would take this chance and win. She would be able to be just as manipulative as Shotaro in order to get her goal. She had to think about her tactical advantages if she was going to win this battle, if she was going to win this war.

Even if he laughed at her, she would continue to wear it and show him that even taunts and chuckles weren't enough to make her back down. This was a cursed uniform that would place a curse on his video as well. He wouldn't dare to call her an uncharismatic, ordinary girl wearing this. He wouldn't even be able to try it. She was going to win. This was just the first victory in a long line of them that she would grab onto.

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As Kyoko entered Queen Records, she could see everyone look at her stunned including the girls at the front desk. She was already aware that this was the kind of reaction that she would get and she couldn't blame them for it. If she had seen someone wearing these types of clothes then her reaction would be the same. Still, she knew she was winning even this early on.

"Good morning," Kyoko said with her face showing her cold evil demon-nature, there appeared to be fire and flames around her and she would have been granted the lead in a horror movie without an audition necessary by her appearance alone. "I'm here from LME. I came to film a PV with Fuwa. My name is Kyoko," she said and the girls looked at her stunned. "Is Miruki-san there?" she said with a cold and calculated smile.

The girls looked between themselves and nodded slowly. One of them got up and led Kyoko to another room but on her face it looked as if she was scared of being eaten up and dragged down into hell. She had never seen anyone appear as terrifying as Kyoko did.

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Kyoko banged her fist on the table angrily as she sat inside of the waiting room. The girl had led her down here over an hour ago and they were supposed to have met half an hour ago. Kyoko knew that she wasn't the most powerful or the most popular person in showbusiness but common courtesy usually existed anywhere. She was now being left for such a long time.

"How long are they going to make me wait!? She said as she looked around the room, her anger rising. She hadn't wanted to do this in the first place and then it had seemed like a good idea and a way of using manipulation to haunt Shotaro. Now it was as if they were making fun of her. "We arranged to meet at 10:30 so I came at 10 o'clock,' she said as she saw that it was 11:00.

Somehow it was Shotaro's fault, he had done this to make fun of her or maybe he just couldn't be bothered to arrive on time. No. He must have overslept, even when he was a child she had been tasked with waking him up so that he could get to school on time. She had once felt fulfilled by that task but now it just seemed ridiculous to her. She shouldn't have to do something so demeaning.

"What is his manager doing!?" Kyoko raged as she could imagine the scene in her head of how he had cast her off, making her nothing more than a joke and destroying her life. Shoko, that was her name, right? So close to Sho. Well, she was lousy as well if she couldn't get him out of bed. She should have dragged him to the room.

Kyoko felt her rage increase, the fire burning within her, "I can't take it anymore!" she declared, "I must find someone in charge so I can vent out my anger on someone!" she announced as she heard her stomps towards the door and then she paused. Someone was turning the knob. It was a good thing that the room was soundproof or else her plan might have been revealed.

Her eyes widened and she felt her body freeze as Shotaro stood before her. She wasn't in a stupid bird costume this time, she was herself – well, her new self and suddenly she realized that she didn't want for him to know that she was the same person. She had to come up with some way of disguising her behavior so that he wouldn't catch on, he wasn't smart enough to catch on anyway.

He looked down on her as if he were extremely superior to her and Kyoko wondered if he could already see through her. He didn't pay her any attention in the past, why would he bother to pay her attention now. She looked at him stunned as the possibilities of how to act in this situation ran through her head, one option following another.

The demons floated around her as she stood there but they were holding back, she could pretend that her rage wasn't there. She needed to be crafty and not try to tear his head off. She couldn't invest in her anger. She couldn't risk him learning the truth and she had to do something now whilst she could still take him by surprise.

She smiled in a 'cute' way, acting like many of the over-the-top shojo anime characters would. She had always been praised for her intelligence by Sho's mother, she would act like an airhead here. She wouldn't show her anger, she would overwhelm him with a positive attitude. She would become the opposite of the Kyoko she felt like on the inside.

"Oh you," she laughed as she slapped him playfully, "How annoying," she said in a girlish squeal, "How annoying! I can't believe that you're standing right outside my door! That gave me a shock," she told him as she laughed playfully. Sho took a couple of steps back and away from her as she acted in this unexpected manner. "I've always wanted to work in this profession. I'm really nervous but I will work hard and won't be left in the dust by you!" she said with a determined smile on her face and Sho blinked. This wasn't what he had thought that he would find, not in this room anyway, not by her.

Kyoko held out a hand and Sho stared at it in shock, not sure how to interpret this motion. "Pleased to meet you," Kyoko smiled and noticed how hesitant Sho was. So he was on guard already, she hadn't been able to trick him yet. She paused as she lowered her back to him and he watched her. Kyoko could tell that he was trying to read her and he didn't think that what she was offering was anywhere near as simple as a quick shake of the hands.

"Huh?" Kyoko asked as she looked at him confused, "What's wrong? Could it be that you don't like to shake hands?" she pouted before tilting her head to the side, "Are you a clean freak?" she asked him and Sho stared at her as if she was an alien who had just disembarked on the planet.

"No…" he said as if worried that she would snag him into a trap like an animal that she was hunting, "That's not it."

"Then shake hands with me!" Kyoko almost demanded using an airheaded expression and pout to try to make her character seem more realistic. "Hand," she said as she stood up straight and Sho slowly gave her his hand. He was acting as if this was a trick but nothing ominous happened when their hands touched. There was no dark magic at play here and that made Sho even more worried.

"Oh," Kyoko laughed as she shook Sho's hand with great passion, "Let me introduce myself," she said as she closed her eyes, her heart seeming to break as she did so, she felt disgusted on the inside and she didn't want to show that on the outside as well otherwise her plan wouldn't work. "My name is Kyoko. Pleased to meet you,."

Sho stared at her and Kyoko could notice a few sweat drops running down his forehead as he watched her without being sure of who she was. Kyoko realized that he had originally thought that she would be waiting behind the doors but now he thought that she was somebody else. Her plan was working. If he thought that she was somebody else then her sneak attacks would work much better. She laughed as she half listened to what Shotaro was telling her.

"Eh!? So the attendant took me to the wrong room?" she asked, "You mean, I'm the only one who's late?" she asked and internally panicked but then had to get a grip on herself. This wasn't about her being considered a good actress, this job she had taken to get revenge not to further her own career. She wanted for him to feel humiliated today on this day and on this set. She had to keep up the charade.

"Yeah," Sho said in a mumble, "We've waited over thirty minutes too," he said and raised an eyebrow as he waited for her reaction.

"Really!?" Kyoko gasped, "How frustrating," she laughed though, "Although I came at ten o'clock, not too late…"

Sho stared at her and then saw her face turn a bright red as her eyes widened and started to sparkle as if she had been indoctrinated into the cult of sparkle magic girls. "And so you came to find me?" she asked and Sho coughed.

"Umm, I guess you could say that," he replied. Kyoko laughed happily and then shoved him, pushing him onto the floor before rushing off as if she had just eaten a handful of Pixie sticks.

"Liar! I'm so happy!" she grinned before dashing down the hallway and looking for which way to go. She knew she had successfully confused him. Because she had acted like his fangirls he didn't know who she was. She could get her revenge much easier if he didn't know who she was.

End of Act 64

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