I live my life in Tokyo

Iida Kei lay down at the table, and the cool air from the air conditioner made him squint his eyes comfortably.

There has been a lot of bad news recently. The only good news is that Sakakibara Kaede met with Chizuru Ichinose and successfully conveyed the information about the agency and his own expectations.

A few days had passed since their mock date, and Iida Kei still appeared to be as relaxed and elegant as Jiang Taigong. He was not even angry when he hadn't seen Sakakibara Kaede in the office these days.

But in fact, he was panicking, and was struggling with whether to take the initiative to contact Chizuru Ichinose. However, he felt that his action would lower the value of the agency if he took the initiative to contact her. Moreover, he had promised to respect Chizuru Ichinose's decision and would never interfere or urge her. . . Contacting her would be like slapping himself in the face.

"Ah--" Iida Kei groaned miserably. The idol passing by his office door was familiar with his devilish laughter, but it was the first time for him to hear his howls. His hands trembled again and poured water on his black stockings.

Just when Kei Iida was considering whether he should secretly go to Nerima District to hide his identity and observe Chizuru Ichinose's daily life, he received a call.

"Hello, this is Kei Iida from STARS Agency."

"Um... Hello, Mr. Iida. I'm Chizuru Ichinose."

Hearing the young voice, Iida Kei's mouth curled up to his ears, and his eyes opened wide, as if Malik was possessed.

Ah, such a respectful tone, I have never heard from brother Sakakibara before. Hearing this voice, Iida Kei felt like he was floating in the air, and even his voice became much gentler.

"So it's Ichinose-san. You contacted me on your own initiative. Have you made up your mind?"

Chizuru Ichinose sat at the desk, blowing the electric fan, looking at the warm sunshine outside the window, and nodded seriously, "Yes."

“I want to be an actor.”

Iida Kei moved the phone away from his face and covered his mouth with his hands to hold back his laughter.

But he still couldn't control the upward curve of his mouth.

Ah, I don’t know when, but the tears couldn’t stop flowing down. Is this what it means to cry and laugh at the same time?

"Arnold, Mr. Iida?" Chizuru Ichinose couldn't hear a reply and thought that her signal was bad, so she stood barefoot on the bed and tiptoed to ask.

"Ahem." Iida Kei came back to his senses and took a breath. "Ichinose-san, you can just call me Iida-san from now on. How about this, if you are free this afternoon, why not come to the STARS office and I will handle the enrollment procedures for the new employee training class for you."

"Ah! Okay!"

Upon hearing this, Chizuru Ichinose immediately jumped off the bed, switched the call to speakerphone mode, and walked to the closet to look around, "Iida-san, do I need to prepare anything?"

"Prepare for the upcoming mock test. If you want to enroll in the new employee training class, the teacher in the class will ask you to give an impromptu performance. Only if you pass it can you enroll. I believe this will not be a problem for Ichinose-san."

"Yes."

Chizuru Ichinose nodded. She had a similar experience. The exam type was also like this when she took the exam to enter the Rising Star Training Class.

She also asked senior Sakakibara a few questions last night and got a general understanding of the importance and difficulty of the audition. To be honest, Chizuru Ichinose was both excited and scared.

The mood is quite complicated.

"Will I run into Sakakibara-senpai when I go to the office today?"

Chizuru Ichinose was humming a song in a good mood. She looked in the mirror, saw her face with a natural smile, and clenched her fists slightly to cheer herself up.

In order not to disappoint Senior Sakakibara, I must pass today's new employee training class exam!

Iida Kei hung up the phone and laughed wildly for five minutes until he was about to die.

He picked up the phone and quickly dialed another number.

"Hello? Iida-san, what can I do for you?"

The boy's voice came from the other end, and he seemed to be in the cafeteria because of the noisy background noise.

"That Ichinose-san accepted my invitation and will arrive at the STARS office this afternoon. After completing her paperwork, she will need to take an exam. Do you have time to come to the office this afternoon to cheer for the juniors?"

"Ah? I have something to do this afternoon, so I can't come."

"..."

Kei Iida frowned. After finishing the film, the boy was like Lu Fengxian with the Red Hare, and he was even more wild and happy.

This is still the second male lead. He doesn't even dare to imagine the scene when he gets the first male lead.

"Well, that's it, 886."

Iida Kei gritted his teeth and smashed the phone. He pulled his few hairs and said, "Wait until the winter season. Just wait and see, little brother. I have been accumulating anger for a quarter."

He picked up the phone again, but this time he contacted Qingshan Yang, the head teacher of the new actor training class.

"Hmm... Is there another job at the office?" Doma Ohira looked at the boy eating the food in his lunch box in big mouthfuls. It would be a lie to say he was not envious.

But he had just tasted a meat ball and a thick omelette, and instead he and Sakakibara Kaede exchanged the fried shrimp and tempura in his bowl.

Well, it is ripe, but a little sweet.

Sakakibara Kaede waved her hand nonchalantly, "I have no work recently. I plan to take a complete break in the fall season. It's a good time to have summer vacation, right? Don't you think that summer vacation should be enjoyed instead of working?"

"Well... I personally find it hard to imagine what working is like." As a freshman, Doma Ohira still has three years, so he is not in much of a hurry, and he cannot imagine what being a corporate slave is like.

He took the key from the boy and looked at him curiously.

"Sakakibara-san, do you have anything to do this afternoon?"

"Go visit a company and learn from it."

"come on."

The conversation between the two was brief but full of concern between friends. Doma Ohira did not continue to ask questions because Sakakibara Kaede rarely hid things from him.

Kaede Sakakibara saw off Daihei Doma who was heading to the club to shine, and left the University of Tokyo early with her bag on her back.

Taking the subway, we soon arrived at the familiar Ginza.

This was not his first time in Ginza. The commerce and modernization here always made him feel deeply impressed. The top companies in the entire Tokyo were gathered in this small area of ​​Ginza.

"RECT..."

Following the instructions on the map on his phone, the boy groped his way forward and soon stopped in front of a tall building.

After entering the building, the boy's attention was attracted by a girl sitting in the lounge area with a schoolbag on her back.

"Eh? Isn't this Yuuki-kun?"

Yuuki Asuna was wearing the school uniform of Shuchiin Academy and carrying a school bag on her shoulders. She was not too surprised to see Sakakibara Kaede. She stood up and bowed politely, "Sakakibara-senpai, good afternoon."

"Is school over so early, Yuuki-san?"

"I guess I'm going back to the home club." Yuuki Asuna smiled. Her smile did not contain too many subjective emotions. Just her smile made people who chatted with her feel like they were in spring breeze.

It's a matter of temperament.

"I'm here to urge my brother to go home today." Seeing that Sakakibara Kaede was puzzled, Yuuki Asuna explained softly, "My brother stays at the company every day and sleeps in a rental house at night. He hasn't been home for a long time. Mom thinks he is too devoted to work and doesn't even reply to messages, so she sent me directly to the company."

Forehead. . .

Sakakibara Kaede wiped his sweat. He could easily imagine what Yuuki Asuna said.

"Why is Senior Sakakibara here?" asked Asuna Yuuki, covering her mouth with her hands and laughing.

Sakakibara nodded and said, "Senior Yuuki invited me to come to RECT for a visit and to start working there. To be honest, I am personally somewhat interested in RECT. This opportunity is right in front of me, so I will naturally reach out for it."

"Eh..."

Yuuki Asuna draws out her voice. Talking to her will not cause any unpleasantness or any negative emotions. This is Yuuki Asuna's personality. She is sunny and lively, and her every move is full of personal charm.

"If Senior Sakakibara is willing, you can stay in RECT forever." Yuuki Asuna said with a smile.

Fine.

Sakakibara Kaede nodded. How come these brother and sister are so domineering in their words? Yesterday, senior Yuki casually gave him the position of chief planner, and today sister Yuki guaranteed that he could stay in RECT without worrying about being fired.

Is this a wealthy family?

The boy couldn't imagine what kind of education these two siblings had received. They spoke so arrogantly, as if this company was run by his family.

The two chatted while eating snacks on the table in the lounge area. After Sakakibara waited for ten minutes, Yuuki Koichiro appeared in the company's lobby.

"Hey, Asuna, why are you here?" Yuuki Koichiro was dressed quite formally in a suit and tie. The first thing he saw was naturally his sister who was talking and laughing, and then he saw the man who was talking and laughing with his sister.

His face turned dark at first, then he was happy when he saw it was Sakakibara Kaede, then he became suspicious when he found out the man chatting with his sister was actually a boy, then he became angry again when he heard the content of their cheerful conversation.

Sakakibara Kaede watched Yuki Koichiro's face-changing show with twitching mouth and coughed lightly.

"Ah, Sakakibara-san, you're here. Welcome, welcome. A warm welcome."

Chapter 8 A Man as Fast as the Wind

Kaede Sakakibara was warmly welcomed by Koichiro Yuki.

“Take this place as your home.”

Hearing these words, the boy suddenly felt that he had taken a huge step towards becoming a corporate slave. Well, if he treats the company as his home, then the next step is to make the company his home, right?

Leaders are reborn parents, colleagues are brothers and sisters, the company's office chair is a haven for rest, and customers' orders are rich spiritual food.

Okay, okay, the visual is already there.

After conveying the message, Yuuki Asuna left gracefully. It seemed that she had an appointment with her classmates to go out and play this afternoon.

Even when she went out to play, she completed the tasks assigned by her mother very well.

The two took the elevator directly to the 40th floor. The downstairs on this floor was RECT's hardware development area, and the upstairs was RECT's newly opened software game area.

This is a step towards innovation for RECT. The opening of a new business means more jobs, but it also adds a lot of competitors for RECT.

There are many more mature game companies on the market, and RECT's experience in this area is like that of a toddler. Even if it recruits experienced employees, the gap between the two is like day and night.

However, Koichiro Yuki is very confident that there is no mature, modern large-scale multiplayer online game on the market. The software combined with mature hardware will definitely be able to make a name for itself in the market.

Ideals are full of hope, but reality is a bit skinny.

"Hey, this is our Sword Art Online development department."

Through the glass, Koichiro Yuki pointed to the employees working in the transparent glass room, and it could be seen that they were designing the details of the maps and levels.

"To be honest, we are still a little short of people." Yuki Koichiro tapped his head and said distressedly, "The planning team is short of people, and the art team is also short of people."

"About the art group..."

Sakakibara Kaede patted the shoulder bag he was carrying and said, "I have already built the modeling that Senior Yuki gave me yesterday, but they are all source files, and I don't have time to render them."

"Fuck, what kind of quick shooter are you?"

Koichiro Yuki was shocked, but he was also a little moved. He didn't expect that his junior Sakakibara's work efficiency was so high. He must have stayed up late a lot.

The two looked around, and Yuki Koichiro introduced, "There is no problem with the script for now. We have recruited several famous light novel writers to write for us. We are going to use electronic production for the music, but we lack a talent who can integrate it."

"You're not talking about me, right?" Sakakibara Kaede's mouth twitched.

"a ha ha ha."

Yuki Koichiro didn't answer the question for the time being. He took the boy into an office... Wait, office?

Sakakibara Kaede looked at the office's configuration and interior. The windows were bright and clean, and there were leather sofas. Was this the treatment for interns?

"Yuuki-senpai...did you threaten the chairman of RECT?" The boy said in a low voice, scanning the room with his eyes.

Koichiro Yuki was amused. He smiled and shook his head, then handed the boy a contract.

The content of the contract was very simple. The boy looked it over carefully. After signing the contract, he would become a member of the art team, but just an external staff member and a cooperative relationship.

Formal, but not too formal, as if it were the rules and regulations for interns, but the wages and salaries offered were far higher than those for interns.

This salary... can only be earned by working in the same company for several years.

In Japan, where the corporate system is strong, the boy frowned slightly. To be honest, he was not worried about whether he was qualified for such a salary, but was worried about Yuuki Koichiro's superior. If he was paid this salary... his superior's superior would definitely be dissatisfied.

Koichiro Yuki did not urge him, but leaned on the sofa in a somewhat ungraceful manner, took off his glasses and rubbed his temples, not treating Sakakibara Kaede as an outsider at all.

He knew that it would take some time to review the contract, and Yuki Koichiro didn't want to create a rift with his friend Sakakibara Kaede because of the contract or company matters. This was something he absolutely didn't want to see.

Kaede Sakakibara read it up and down twice before picking up the pen and writing down his name. From today on, he was considered an official outsourced employee of the RECT art team.

Koichiro Yuki stood up with a smile and handed the boy a tag and the company access card.

"Deputy Head of the Art Group?" The boy looked at the tag on his chest speechlessly. He opened his mouth and swallowed the silent sigh. Since Koichiro Yuki trusted him so much, he would not let him down.

"Who is the lead artist in the art team?"

"I."

"..."

Sakakibara Kaede did not ask again why Senior Yuki, an intern, was able to become the chief art team leader of the art group. He felt that it was useless to ask, so he handed over the hard drive on his body and connected it to the computer. The two of them dragged over two chairs and sat down in front of the computer as if they were in the programming department.