A super traveler in a peaceful world

"Is that so? Well, to be honest, I happen to have an entertainment company under my umbrella, and I am also involved in music publishing and artist management, and I happen to be quite idle right now... Do you understand what I mean?"

"In other words, the boss of the company is in front of me? As long as my music can convince you, I can...!"

Masami Iwasawa, who was so close to her dream for the first time, stood up subconsciously and showed uncontrollable excitement.

An Luo, who was free and looking for some entertainment, smiled and nodded: "Although I don't have much hope, if you have confidence in yourself, you can give it a try."

"Yes! Please let me try it!"

After talking about music, Masami Iwasawa, who even forgot her fear, took the guitar handed to her by An Luo and started to prepare.

An Luo on the sofa looked at her with one hand on his chin, but Masami Iwasawa did not have stage fright. Instead, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. After adjusting himself, he picked up the pick and started playing. , and opened his mouth to sing live.

.....To be honest, An Luo doesn't understand music, but it would be easier for him to act like a machine and imitate others. However, judging the quality of music is beyond his ability. The scope, waiting for him, is something close to metaphysics.

A thousand people may have a thousand feelings when listening to a kind of music. Generally speaking, judging whether the music is good or bad is a matter for professional musicians to judge through experience.

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I had nothing to do and listened to Iwasawa Masami singing one song after another with great effort, but An Luo never expressed his opinion. After the third song ended, Iwasawa Masami, who was singing and playing the guitar, finally stopped. He stopped and panted slightly to calm his heartbeat and breathing, while looking at An Luo nervously and expectantly.

"How, how is it?"

"Hmm~" After An Luo thought for a long time, he clapped his hands in the nervous sight of mother and daughter, and said, "Although I don't understand it very well, it should be pretty good, right?"

"That...don't you understand very well? But you...aren't you the boss of an entertainment company?"

"Huh? Who told you that the boss of an entertainment company needs to know music? Then the real estate boss needs to know how to build a house? Does the boss of a technology company have to know chip design? Does the boss of a restaurant have to know how to cook?"

"Eh, this...but you're not..." Iwasawa Masamiwa, who was retorted by An Luo, was at a loss. An Luo also said again at the right time: "I didn't lie, and so did you. There is no need to rush. Although I don’t understand music, I feel that you can sing well. You are lucky to meet me. I can give you a chance to give it a try. Those introduced by me will undoubtedly be hired, packaged and promoted. , training, and album production costs are all borne by the company and you don’t need to pay, but I will tell them that if it doesn’t work, they will kick you out. And if you become famous, in addition to the company’s part, half of the money earned will have to be returned. How do I... do you accept it?"

Anluo, who didn't mind giving young people a chance, chose to give this girl a chance, because through the environment here and what he had seen before, he could basically judge that this girl named Iwasawa Masami should be a The man who is struggling to escape from this tragic family...if he doesn't make a mistake.

Generally, such people have a higher probability of success than ordinary people. Because it was already miserable at the beginning, it should not be worse in the future. Therefore, their ability to withstand blows will be much higher than that of ordinary people, and their will will be stronger. More diligent, it is a good potential stock from an investment perspective.

"——Yes! Please let me cooperate with you!"

Even though there were many additional conditions, the overjoyed girl agreed without even thinking about it.

Although for An Luo, this was just a small-cost venture investment, it was already a turning point in her destiny.

After all... there are so many potential singers in the world, but how many of them actually have the chance to stand on the stage? It's really hard to stand out from the beginning. Horses with a thousand li a day often come up, but Bole doesn't. She still knows this truth.

And from her point of view, An Luo paid the initial expenses, and she didn't need to pay anything. If it failed, An Luo would bear the loss, so it was very reasonable to ask for later returns.

So after the man was brought back and the two parties shared the money, Anluo and Iwasawa Masami agreed to see each other tomorrow, and then took the man away again, planning to take the man directly to the construction site to manage the money owed and not pay it back. A dormitory for workers who are paid for their work.

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After taking her father away from Iwasawa Masami's house, An Luo followed the previously planned route of action and handled official duties in the Extreme North Council for a while. He also saw a report submitted by the cadres responsible for territorial security and labor remuneration. Report on store security rectification.

"Well~ the security situation is good, but there is a high school student in the indoor baseball field. He is distributing drugs to his friends in the club... Is this to make others addicted and easy to sell? Really, in today's high schools With everyone so restless, why don’t you study hard?”

After making a casual comment, An Luo put aside the report he had read, because the cadres had already handled these matters themselves.

This kind of drug trafficking on the territory of anti-drug gangs requires praise for his courage as a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and at the same time, he needs to light an incense in his honor... After all, gangsters are not as easy to talk to as policemen, although they can't. Put people in jail, but now the one who breaks the rules must be in the hospital, because if members of the Extreme North Society break the rules, they will cut off their little fingers, and if outsiders break the rules, they will cut off a hand.

After hastily skipping it, the report should be that it was a boy in the high school baseball club who was specifically doing harm to his own people. He continued to deal with other things and started daily military technical training after these were over.

Time passed slowly like this, just like when training ended in the past, he took a taxi home at 2:30 in the morning.

In the corridor of the apartment, before he opened the door, he unexpectedly discovered that even though it was quite late, the crack in the door was still lit.

Did the two of them forget to turn off the lights before going to bed?

When he opened the door with this confusion, he found that neither of the two girls had returned to the room. Instead, they were lying scattered on the sofa and fell asleep. However, the TV beside them was still on and was still playing late-night programs.

"What are these two little guys doing?"

Although he understood that they definitely wanted to ask him about Yusa, they fell asleep while waiting for him to come home, which was a bit beyond his expectation and even a little funny.

"Won't you have to trouble me to come back in the middle of the night and put you two into bed?... He is really a guy who can cause trouble for others."

..... While complaining, An Luo didn't feel any boredom on his face at all. Instead, he skillfully started with the silver-haired girl, hugged her horizontally, and planned to send her into the room, but... he picked her up. But the other party also woke up.

"Um...Brother An Luo?"

The girl rubbed her sleepy eyes and a small sound escaped from her mouth.

"Good morning."

".....Good morning....."

Bai Yingui responded subconsciously, but Bai Yingui seemed to feel that something was wrong, and he didn't know what he was thinking. He just looked at him blankly, and after a while, he slowly said: "Are you in...my room? "

"No, you are in my hand."

"well.....?"

Bai Yingui was stunned for a moment, and his cheeks began to turn red at an alarming speed.

"It's not like I haven't hugged her before. Why are you still shy now?" An Luo smiled and shook his head, then quickly walked to her bedroom and put her on the bed.

"...It used to be..." Bai Yingui pulled up the quilt, covered his face and exposed his eyes, observing him but not speaking. When he turned around, he was about to take Huihui away. When he got in, he finally asked in a low voice like a mosquito: "Are you dating that blond woman?"

"no."

"Who is the other party?"

"Yusa."

"...It's really a date, right?" After a moment of silence, Bai Yingui asked in a low voice: "It doesn't matter if you tell me, we are brother and sister, right? And you lied to us about being elementary school students."

"Are you really an adolescent girl? You are so interested in this kind of thing... However, saying that you are an elementary school student is indeed a lie. I apologize for this, but that is just for some special reasons. Specifically... ..I can’t be too specific.”

"real?"

"Well, my relationship with her is just to the extent that I help her, so it will be easier to understand."

".....Can I trust you?"

"Of course, have I ever lied to you? That's right, I have lied to you." Under the girl's gaze, An Luo promptly changed his words and confessed that he had lied to her, but then he said sincerely: "But this time I'm not lying. After all, am I the kind of person who dare not tell anyone that I have a girlfriend?"

"...It seems so?"

"That's right, if a cute girl like Yuzuo were my girlfriend, I would definitely take her home to show off!"

When the girl nodded hesitantly, An Luo expressed his little wish in a serious manner, and then...a pillow was thrown over.

"——When are you going to wait till midnight? Get out quickly!"

The girl, who seemed to be in a bad mood all of a sudden, threw away the pillow and resumed her head on the quilt. An Luo, who looked innocent, could only complain: "Don't be so loud in the middle of the night, you will disturb the neighbors, really. ....The personality changes of children in the rebellious period are really difficult to predict.”

Then, he threw the pillow back and returned to the living room to pick up Megumin, who was sleeping like a dead pig. It was obvious that Shirogane Kei had pulled her to stay up late together. He put her on the bed before closing the door again and leaving.

"...unhappy...suddenly unable to sleep..."

Bai Yingui, who was obviously very sleepy before, imagined that because of An Luo's words, when he brought Yu Zuo to the house to show off that she was his girlfriend, she felt a sense of unhappiness and irritation growing in her heart.

Of course, she didn't think there was anything wrong with her, she just felt that An Luo would be very angry and unhappy at that time. Yes, that's what she insisted on, and then... she buried her face in the sleeping Huihui as usual. In my chest, I seek plain and practical peace.

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The next morning, during class time, the rooftop of the teaching building was empty.

"Why is it this time again... You also know that I'm not good at getting up early, right?" An Luo sat on the ground, yawning and complaining.

Opposite him, Hayasaka Ai stared at him with narrowed eyes and said coldly: "Is there anything you are hiding from me?"

"Hiding it from you? I'm sorry...I can't think of anything I need to confess to you."

"...That is to say, you do have a lot of things that you are deliberately hiding from me?!"

"Um."

"--Um?!?"

An Luo nodded calmly, making Hayasaka Ai feel a little stunned, because she did not expect such a strange development at all.

But it didn't take long. She held her forehead with one hand and calmed down for a while, then returned to her previous demeanor. In order to avoid her pace being disrupted by him, she got straight to the point and said, "You are because you have a girlfriend. That’s why you neglected my request!”

"girlfriend?"

"Do you still want to quibble?"

The look in Hayasaka Ai's eyes at this moment was simply creepy, which made Anluo a little surprised that she was so interested in bringing Shinomiya Kaguya and Shirogane Mikayuki together.

So under such circumstances, he could only explain that he and Yuzuo had no special relationship just like last night.

Only then did Hayasaka Ai regain her composure and return to her previous indifferent state. She sat next to him as if nothing had happened before and said calmly: "It's been so long and things are still the same as before. If there’s no progress, can’t you think of a better solution?”

"...Why me? Don't you want to?"

"Because I'm the employer."

"That's right, then... I'm sorry, I have no choice but to act according to the situation."

"Act according to the opportunity?" Hayasaka Ai stared at him suspiciously: "You...don't you want to wait for the two of them to get better on their own, and then reap the benefits?"

"How could it be! Do I look like that kind of person?"

"Isn't that kind of person talking about you?"

Hayasaka Ai's eyes seemed to say, you are still saying such things now? This made An Luo look hurt: "...That's too much, Hayasaka, I always thought we were friends, but I didn't expect that you actually missed me like this..."

"This has nothing to do with being friends, and I'm even more surprised why you still think I think you're a good person after we've known each other for so long?"

"Oh~? You didn't deny that we are friends? This is also an admission..."

"——At best, it can be considered as a loss of friends. It is the kind of careless friendship that is harmful!"

Without waiting for An Luo to tease, Hayasaka Ai first characterized the relationship between the two parties with an unchanging cold tone. An Luo just waved his hands and said with a smile: "You are really not frank. Apart from me, there should be no other real person." In a sense, someone who can be called a friend.”

"Don't be so arrogant, it's impossible."

"real?"

"Of course, in a broad sense...probably."

Hayasaka Ai's words suddenly became ambiguous, because she herself couldn't be sure whether her friends at school were still her friends after knowing her true identity...or whether she herself had turned them into friends. As friends.

"Forget it, whatever, bad friends are friends after all, so you have to trust your friends more."

"No...I think even passers-by are more trustworthy than you."

"This is really too much...although I have nothing to refute."

"How about you retort."

"Do you believe it if I refute it?"

"...I can try to trust you once."

"Then you have to...eh? Wait, what did you just say?"

Halfway through his words, An Luo felt as if he heard something, words that were far from what he had expected.

This made him doubt his ears, and he subconsciously turned to look at the blond girl beside him. But before he could see the girl's face clearly, the girl suddenly shook her head hard, and the blond hair in a side ponytail swept directly across his cheek. , causing him to subconsciously close his eyes.

Before he could open his eyes, Hayasaka Ai had already stood up: "Go back, it's time to go back to class."

"No, you are so clueless..."

"Speaking of which, what's wrong with your hand?"

Hayasaka Ai, who had been paying attention to his hand from the beginning, looked at his right hand as if she saw the gauze accidentally.

"Huh? It was just scratched by the glass accidentally. It's okay."

"You were actually scratched by a goblet...Are you a child?"

"Huh? Did I say it was the goblet?"

"...I'm going back to the classroom, goodbye."

"No, wait! You..."

Before he finished speaking, the preparation bell rang, and Hayasaka Ai left without waiting for him.

"Really...is this a deliberate effort to give me trust and use trust to bring me psychological pressure and make me feel responsible for this matter? And...if you care, just say no." Yes? Normally, if you take the initiative to care about someone, that person will be happy, why don't you understand? Are you still caring about shame and other things, a child? No, just a child."

An Luo, who thought he had basically figured out Hayasaka Ai's thoughts, complained to himself about Hayasaka Ai's behavior and looked up at the sky.

The sky had been continuously sunny before, but now it was covered with low clouds. Judging from the weather forecast I read in the morning, it seemed that a typhoon was coming.