Do I really have a thing for female voice actors?

However, Tazaki Toru still did not react, his breathing even, and he rested his head comfortably on her lap.

This time, it seems she really fell asleep.

The girl smiled softly, lowered her head, and leaned close to his ear.

"Thank you, Toru-kun."

"Good night."

……

……

When Toru Tazaki slowly woke up, the lights in the living room were still on.

He slowly sat up and realized that he had fallen asleep with Mika Takagi's lap pillow as his head.

Mika Takagi, sitting next to her, was also leaning against the sofa, dozing off, with a cotton swab for cleaning her ears between her fingers.

Startled by Tazaki Toru's getting up, Takagi Mika also woke up. She shook her head groggily, and when she met Tazaki Toru's gaze, she completely froze.

That expression was practically saying, "Why is Toru in my house?"

It took a good five or six seconds for her memory to gradually return, and she remembered what had happened.

Immediately afterwards, she reached out and rubbed her thigh, which was terribly numb.

"Tou-kun, what time is it now?"

Tazaki Toru glanced at the wall clock: "Just past midnight."

"Oh no, there are no more trams running at this time!" Mika Takagi exclaimed.

"I suppose so." Tazaki Toru, on the other hand, was much calmer than her, not making a fuss about it.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

"It's alright, in fact, thanks to this, I slept very well."

"Eh?"

"I haven't slept this well in a long time. Thank you so much for Mika's lap pillow."

"Hmm... if that's what you say, Toru-kun, hehe~"

She smiled sweetly and said, "Then let's stay here for the night."

"Ah."

For Tazaki Toru, staying overnight at Takagi Mika's house was already second nature.

Especially when lying in that familiar little bathtub, smelling the nice Nivea shower gel, and feeling the ticklish plastic bottle, it almost transported Tazaki Toru's senses back to that night two months ago.

The next day.

Tazaki Toru got up early and went to the station with Takagi Mika. After saying goodbye halfway, Tazaki Toru went to Tsukishima.

I arrived at Tsukishima at 8:30. If I go back now, I might run into those two when they get up.

With this thought in mind, Tazaki Toru pushed open the door and stepped into the entryway, immediately feeling a sharp gaze upon him.

The owner of that gaze was not far in front of him.

It was like driving through the Australian desert, experiencing a tire blowout, an oil leak, and a breakdown, when a kangaroo hopped over, knocked on the driver's side window, and gave a cool snort through its nose.

Then, in kangaroo language with a heavy Australian accent, he said:

"Ha, not coming home at night."

54. Next-generation girl band project: MyGO!!!!!

Tazaki Toru believed that the term "not returning home at night" only applied to people who lived with their families, were not yet adults, and were going through some important period in their lives.

Firstly, Tazaki Toru did not have a family who cared for him.

Secondly, he is already a 20-year-old adult.

From both a moral and logical standpoint, the landlord should not accuse them of not returning home at night.

No, that might not be an accusation, but simply a question or something similar.

However, Tachibana Rin is always straightforward in her speech, so it's not surprising.

"Yeah, I accidentally drank too much and missed the final call, so I slept at a friend's house for the night."

"You actually have friends you drink with?"

Although these words sound slightly harsh, in a way, they also reflect the image of Tazaki Toru in other people's minds.

However, Tazaki Toru, though seemingly silent, is actually quite interesting to talk to once you get to know him.

Rin Tachibana might not feel it, but Hina Aoki certainly does.

"Rin-chan, you talk too much."

Hina Aoki sat in front of the entrance putting on her shoes, forcefully shoving her little feet into platform shoes that were seven or eight centimeters high.

"But it's strange, isn't it? Someone who always comes home on time is suddenly staying out all night and only coming home at this hour. It seems suspicious no matter how you look at it."

"Even so, Tazaki-kun must have his own private matters, which are not for us to interfere with."

"Well……"

Aoki Hina's reaction was so standardly polite that Tachibana Rin had to deflate her arrogance.

She put on her platform shoes and stomped her feet in place.

"Then we're heading out," Ms. Aoki said with her back to her.

He never looked at Toru Tazaki from beginning to end.

"Well, be careful on the road."

……

……

A week has passed since the incident of staying out all night.

During this period, Tazaki Toru's life did not change much.

Besides his unchanging songwriting and part-time jobs, he still takes turns giving composition lessons to Hina Aoki and playing video games with Rin Tachibana.

He would occasionally be subjected to a very strange scrutinizing gaze from Tachibana Rin, who would lean over the door frame and look him over from head to toe several times with an almost "scanning" look.

It seemed they wouldn't be satisfied until they found some suspicious clues about him.

Tazaki Toru could only sigh and had no other solution.

In contrast, Aoki Hina remained the same, and she got along very well with her.

At least that's what Toru Tazaki thinks.

One day at noon, Tazaki Toru was writing a song in the music room on the second floor when he received a call from Yoshimura, who was there to relay the follow-up to what happened last time.

Given a series of adult-related reasons, and considering that Tazaki Toru had already produced sufficiently outstanding songs to showcase his skills, after internal discussions and decisions, the other company officially extended an invitation to Tazaki Toru to serve as the series composer.

In other words, starting today, Toru Tazaki can officially shed the title of "part-time worker".

Despite not being affiliated with a talent agency or studio, Toru Tazaki was able to join the other party's projects under his own name.

In the afternoon, Tazaki Toru went out to Nakano.

As Yoshimura was not involved in this matter, it was not appropriate for him to speak up; everything should be handled by Tazaki Toru himself.

After officially signing the contract, Toru Tazaki finally received the detailed information about the project, and he finally knew the name of the project for which he would be composing music.

[BanG Dream! Next-Generation Girl Band Project, MyGO!!!!! x Ave Mujica]

Simply put, this is a project consisting of two all-female bands, with a total of ten members.

According to screenwriter Ayana, there seems to be an unofficial member among them, but that's not important.

What Toru Tazaki had to do was compose and arrange music for both bands.

"Not one band, but two?"

"Yes."

When he asked, Mr. Kakimoto, whom he had met once before, replied with such certainty.

In the early stages, the focus can be placed on "MyGO!!!!!", and "Haruhi Kage", which received high praise within the project, seems to have been prepared for this band.

Therefore, it is said that screenwriter Ayana revised some lines in the script overnight in order to make the song more in line with the story.

The only thing that Toru Tazaki regrets is that there is no keyboardist in this band.

The keyboard is clearly the soul of this piece.

When Toru Tazaki asked him the question he cared about most, what kind of girl the lead singer was,

The answer was that it was not yet certain.

The project, which is scheduled to hold its first concert in the second half of this year, has yet to gather all the members.

Tazaki Toru seriously suspected that he had been dragged onto a pirate ship.

But now that things have come to this, there's no time for him to back out.

This project requires a high degree of confidentiality, and at least at this stage, Toru Tazaki is not given the authority to leak information.

What Toru Tazaki had to do was to write songs that met the project's requirements as much as possible.

Therefore, the members who play the piece are extremely important.

Therefore, once the band members are confirmed, Tazaki Toru, as the composer, may have to learn about the characteristics of each band member.

To be honest, Toru Tazaki isn't really good at this.

But now that he's in this industry, Toru Tazaki certainly won't slack off; he'll give it his all.

The project is progressing very quickly. Today is the first day that Tazaki Toru has signed the contract, and he has been forced to spend a full five hours in the meeting room with Mr. Kakimoto and Ms. Ayana, listening to them explain from beginning to end what kind of story it is, when to add what kind of music, and what kind of emotion the music is supposed to express.

During the discussion, when it got heated, Ms. Ayana almost stabbed Mr. Kakimoto in the neck with a small cake fork.

Fortunately, it was a soft plastic fork.