Author: Both

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Chapter 4

'No.'

'No.'

'No.'

That 2-letter word kept ringing in Saotome's mind.

No one had ever declined on his offers, NO ONE. And he sure will prove it.

In A-Rise Entertainment…(About 1 in the afternoon)

"That was so AWESOME!" Yuki exclaimed, still remembering the scene at the conference room. "Lovely-san! You are now counted in my list of the top most coolest people I have ever met! Well, right next to Satsuki, of course."

"Hmmm. Well, yeah. Consider it as my… Ai~" Lovely-san replied, her tone back to normal. She then ran unusually fast towards her office.

'This is the second time she's oddly out of character,' they all thought, but shrugged it off anyways, assuming it was nothing important.

Silence fell into the room but Seika had a sudden realization.

"Girls…"

All four heads turned to Seika.

"Lately, we haven't been acting at all."

"I think so too," Yuki agreed. "We haven't been doing anything to drive their heads off."

Mitzi, after that statement, pondered. She was making a very serious face, and as she dubbed it, her 'thinking face'.

"Oh, Mitzi. So you've finally decided to join the dark side," Seika smirked evilly along with Yuki. "I'll give you the promised cookies."

"No. No. I was just wondering… How can we drive their heads off if we still don't have our license?" Mitzi voiced out. It was the thing she's been deeply bothered and seriously thinking about for the past few minutes.

Several face-palms were heard.

"But I would like the cookies, though!" she exclaimed. "You shall not not have some!" the pink-haired chibi reprimanded, "Well, that is, unless you join us," Seika continued, flipping her pink hair to the side. She then tried to tempt Mitzi while waving the cookies in her face. Mitzi followed the bag of cookies as it waved back and forth.

"So…?"

Mitzi licked her upper lip. "Cookies… Nice cooked chocolate cookies… Come to mama…"she muttered while slowly reaching for the bag of cookies.

Not a second later, Mitzi lunged for it but Seika is faster. She dodged at the last moment making Mitzi hit her head on the table behind where Seika recently stood. She smirked. She took a somehow bullfighter position and waved the bag of so-called 'heaven' like it was a red handkerchief. "Toro… Toro…"

Mitzi lunged again and Seika twirled. "Aaah!" Mitzi screamed as she hit the wall. She rubbed her head. "It hurts!"

Seika bowed formally to the audience. "And that, my amigos, is how you do bullfighting."

Her friends, the audience, clapped.

Yuki has an amused expression on, Tenshi was fighting her giggles, while Ichigo has a huge smile on her face and fake cheered, "Woo!"

Seika blew kisses and waved her hands. "Thank you, thank you."

Mitzi crept up behind Seika and tried to tackle her. "Sei-chan!"

Without turning around, Seika crouched down, making Mitzi barrel towards the shocked and unexpected audience.

CRASH!

The audience evaded quickly, leaving Mitzi to earn another bump on the head. Buuuuut… Mitzi made sure to grab Seika's hand and pulled her to suffer the bump with herself. "Well, as the saying goes, If you can't beat them, join them! But, I made an alteration: If you can't beat them, make them join you!" she giggled.

"PILE UP!" Yuki shouted, then dived for Seika's back. Not a second later, Ichigo and Tenshi joined the fun.

Seika wheezed and breathed for air. "Sto-stop, y-you're killing me!"

Fits of laughter burst out and when it slowly died down, they heard a knock on the door.

Sanjo-san entered the room.

"What are you doing?" she asked in shock, as she stared at the girls sprawled on the floor. "Nothing," Yuki replied, and they scrambled to stand as if nothing happened.

The manager nodded and immediately changed her expression into a troubled one. "It seems that Lovely-san has gone a little bipolar," she explained and glanced at their faces. "You'regoingtostayatamansionwithSTARISHforawholemo nth."

She said that all in one breath.

"What did you say?" Tenshi asked in a polite manner.

"You'regoingto stayatamansion togetherwithSTARISH forawholemonth," she repeated.

Mitzi looked confused as hell. "…We're going… to pay… a million for a starfish… and a moth? WUUUUT!?"

Though it may seem funny, no one laughed. They just shared confused faces while staring at their flustered manager.

"Y-you're," she began. But the girls stared at her more intently, if that's even possible, and their heads leaned forward a bit, gesturing for her to continue. She sighed and bowed her head down in defeat. "Fine. You are going to stay at a mansion together with STARISH for a whole month."

She tilted her head up to see the supposed violent reactions of LUNAR FANTASIA.

Sanjo-san expected screams and complaints but unusually, she got smiles. Different kinds of smiles, to be specific.

Seika and Yuki's were similar to that of a smirk and both were emitting an aura ready to kill.

Ichigo remained emotionless but showed fair interest to the idea.

'And Tenshi and Mitzi looked like morons,' quoted from Yuki. They were wearing grins reaching their ears.

Sanjo-san excused herself and told them to get ready; they were leaving at eight tonight.

"Ah… wait! Sanjo-san!" Yuki shouted, trying to catch up with her manager's pace.

Sanjo-san stopped at her tracks, "What is it, Kamiyama-san?"

Yuki hesitated for a bit, because it felt like she was sticking her nose up at other people's business. Then, she reminded herself that he's not just a person and that he's important to her. And so, she regained her confidence.

"By any chance, is Hayate also coming?"

"Yeah," Sanjo-san replied while checking her data on her phone. "The whole LUNAR FANTASIA was invited."

"Okay," Yuki replied. For a moment, she considered saying 'Thank you,' but just shrugged and turned around. She's not the kind of person who often says 'Thanks' to favors or questions. She walked for a bit then noticed that she was already outside of their room. She glanced at her watch. 'It's currently 5 P.M. Might as well go pay him a visit,' she thought, and headed towards Hayate's room.

Shining Agency… (1 in the afternoon)

The noisy chattering of the idols was silenced by the loud slam done by the hand of Saotome. Half flinched in plain sight. "When someone speaks, you listen," he growled, obviously still ticked off, and dare I say it, because someone had denied him FOR. THE. FIRST. TIME. EVAAA.

The atmosphere changed when Ringo-san suddenly peeked/sprouted from Saotome's back. Still, though, Shining didn't move from his position.

"Konnichiwa! Minna-chaaaan~" he greeted as he gave a brightly lit smile. It was so dazzling that flowers of moe started growing behind him, he was even giggling to himself.

The idols thought to themselves, 'What could it be this time?' Some were amazed by this and some just didn't care. They probably thought it was just another debut or single.

Saotome stared intently at the idols, one by one. It's as if he could look inside their souls under his black shades.

The boys knew that under those glasses of Saotome, something big was going to happen. It was obvious, the smile says it all. It was full of pride, determination, and triumph.

Saotome, already done with his stare-off, decided to kill the suspense.

"Boys… we're going outside to experience our 'new world'."

STARISH immediately felt sick.

A brave soul asked, "We're going camping?" horror written all over his face.

"No, Misssssterrrr Aijima," Saotome replied with a bit disappointment. He didn't realize how slow these idols could pick up the atmosphere.

Instantly, a few sighs or relief were heard here and there. Someone even muttered, "That was a close one."

Saotome made a small frown, but, his face was still smiling… if that's even possible. "We're moving out of this hell-hole and into an even bigger mansion."

No one could see it but there was a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Loud cheers erupted in the room. The boys were obviously happy to hear this, it has been a long time since they've been outside and experiencing 'a new world'. Ringo-san joined in the boys' cheering with a troubling thought in his mind.

'So he decided not to tell them, huh?'

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