They all pushed me!

"Hey, hey, don't come over here suddenly."

"Ryo has also reacted, okay?"

Hoshino Ai curled her lips and had no intention of letting go. Instead, she pressed forward more aggressively, her right hand slowly moving to his waist and then continuing to move down.

Ying, who was lying on the windowsill, turned over as if it was commonplace and continued to sleep.

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After convincing Samejima Abiko to debut as an idol with her, Kitagawa Rumi happily prepared to go home.

The weather in May was already getting a little hot, so Kitagawa Rumi walked into a nearby convenience store and found her favorite "Orange Bear" in the ice cream cabinet.

Although Morinaga launched the third and fourth generation flavors in the following years, and the product spokesperson has always been Ryo Kitagawa, for Kitagawa Rumi, [Orange Bear] is indeed the one that best suits her preferences.

"Thank you."

Kitagawa Rumi took the change from the salesperson and spoke politely.

She tore off the wrapping paper of the Orange Bear and licked it slowly in the sun.

In her previous life, because of illness, Kitagawa Rumi had basically no contact with ice cream.

Therefore, after reincarnation in this life, because of the influence of her brother, Kitagawa Rumi also got used to the method of licking the popsicles, and can be considered a supporter of the popsicle licking faction.

Ok……

Kitagawa Rumi put the popsicle in her mouth.

I remember that Hoshino Ai seemed to eat it in the same way.

I feel like I have indeed been infected again. I feel unwell all over and my mind is confused. I can’t write anything at all. I’m very sorry.

Let me clarify, the person who sent me the leave application a few days ago was a very good friend of mine. I’m not a woman. I’m called Nannan because the last character of my name has the same pronunciation as this name.

I hope I will feel better tomorrow. I wish you all good health and all the best. Good night.

Chapter 3: Ruby's Bizarre Adventure

Tokyo, LALALAI Theater, in the second floor practice room.

"Hmm...it still feels too small."

Kitagawa Rumi pinched her chin and said a little dejectedly.

"Hmm? What's too small?"

Akane Kurokawa, who had just finished her daily training, walked over and heard Kitagawa Rumi's muttering. She tilted her head in confusion.

"It's Akane - how come she's only nine years old?"

Kitagawa Rumi pouted, and reached out her hand quite intimately, rubbing Kurokawa Akane's head:

"She looks smarter than those kids in my class who are in Grade One."

"I think Ruby would like to read more books - but dancing is also very important. After all, Ruby is about to debut as an idol, and it's great to be able to realize her wish."

Kurokawa Akane changed her tone quite quickly, looking up and congratulating.

"So Qian is still too young. It would be better if she was three or four years older."

Kitagawa Rumi poked Kurokawa Akane's face and sighed in frustration:

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have only found Abizi as my teammate until now."

"As for this, Ruby shouldn't worry. Based on my understanding of Senior Liang, he will definitely make proper arrangements for you."

Kurokawa Akane nodded seriously, then shook her head:

"And even if I were the same age as Ruby, I wouldn't be an idol. I want to be an actress. Ryo-senpai said that I would be the best actress."

Without leaving a trace, she erased the "one of" in Kitagawa Ryohara's words, and held the script in her hand and spoke proudly:

"I am now a full-fledged actor who can perform on stage."

"Actor... I remember my brother had an actor junior who was about the same age as Akane at the agency. I remember her name was - Arimaka Kana?"

Kitagawa Rumi supported her head, squatted in the corner of the practice room, and tried hard to recall.

"But she seems to be in TV shows and movies, unlike Akane who only acts in dramas."

"Because I want to hone my acting skills through the theater stage first, just like Senior Liang."

"I see."

Kitagawa Rumi nodded thoughtfully. If she didn't know that in the past two years, Kurokawa Akane and Arima Kana had always auditioned for the same role, but ended up losing miserably every time, she would have believed it.

However, Kitagawa Rumi had no intention of exposing the truth. After all, she and Akane were good friends, and she thought there was nothing wrong with what Kurokawa Akane did. To put it in the terms she had learned from surfing the Internet for many years, this should be called:

"We have identified our own differentiated track, found our own vertical field of expertise through unique levers, and developed a set of focused strategies that are combined with reality."

She is indeed a talented child star, but if she were to come to the LALALAI Theater to perform a play with Akane Kurokawa, I'm afraid she would have a hard time handling it.

At least in the eyes of Kitagawa Rumi, Kurokawa Akane's talent in drama performance is second only to her brother Kitagawa Ryo, and she is definitely the rising star of the LALALAI troupe.

"Actually, I've always wanted to ask Ruby, why do you have to be an idol?"

Just when Kitagawa Rumi was lost in thought, Kurokawa Akane suddenly took the initiative to ask, counting on her fingers with an expression of incomprehension on her face:

"Whether you want to be a drama speaker like me, or a film and television actor like Kana, it seems like both are better choices, and you also have a brother like Ryo-senpai."

Just like what was said in "Tokyo Tower", which she read because of the recommendation of Kitagawa Ryo, people in the city look down on the miners in the mines, the miners look down on the laborers who use ships to transport the coal they dig, and the laborers look down on the craftsmen who weave the straw sandals they wear on their feet.

In the entertainment industry, idols and comedians should be considered at the very bottom.

Akane Kurokawa's parents could readily send their daughter to a drama troupe to train her as a drama actress, but if they asked her to become an idol, they would probably be hesitant.

Therefore, Akane Kurokawa has never been able to understand Kitagawa Rumi's obsession with her idol. On the eve of her debut, she couldn't help but ask her this question.

After all, even an idol like Hoshino Ai, who performed at the Tokyo Dome, has chosen to graduate and is now active in the industry as an actress, right?

"…Because I had an important appointment with an important person."

Kitagawa Rumi evaded the topic vaguely, as she couldn't directly tell Kurokawa Akane that she was actually a reincarnation and had some kind of bond with her brother from her previous life.

But come to think of it, why didn't I confess this to Liang in the first place?

At the beginning, he was worried that once his reincarnation was exposed, it would affect Liang's revenge against the Kitagawa family, so he could leave that family without distraction.

Then, he was adopted by Liang.

Although she was the biological daughter of her adoptive parents, who could be called her enemy, they still chose to take her in and live under the same roof as their brother.

When I was one or two years old, in order to make it easier to take care of him, I took a bath and slept together with Liang. Unconsciously, I was immersed in that peaceful atmosphere, and I acted unscrupulously as a child. As a result, when I grew up a little bit, I couldn't say it at all.

Kitagawa Rumi sighed slightly, as if trying to divert her attention, and turned her gaze to the script in Kurokawa Akane's hand:

"What play is Qian rehearsing recently?"

“Antigone.”

Akane Kurokawa answered quickly, then immediately turned to the first page of the script, pointed at her own name, and said very seriously with a tense face:

"And it's not Akane, it's Akane, the actress Kurokawa Akane."

"It's pronounced the same way, Akane."

"But the posters for the official performances all have my stage name filled in, and this stage name was given to me by Senior Liang."

"Oh."

Kitagawa Rumi tilted her head. Since the other party mentioned her brother, she asked another question:

"Will my brother be in this drama? I don't think I've heard of it before."

"will not."

Akane Kurokawa shook her head and immediately explained to Rumi Kitagawa:

"This is a play that will be performed together with several other children's theater groups. The actors will all be children, and the adult actors will not participate."

Kitagawa Rumi twitched the corner of her mouth when she heard this. She clearly remembered that when she was this age, the stories she read were about princes and princesses and so on. Have children nowadays started to study ancient Greek dramas that she had never heard of?

As if she saw Kitagawa Rumi's confusion, Kurokawa Akane took the initiative to speak, pointing to the name of the script "Antigone" and explaining to her:

"Actually, Ruby should be very familiar with it. This is the second part of the Theban trilogy written by Sophocles, the sequel to Oedipus Rex, although it was written earlier than Oedipus Rex."

After hearing the familiar name "Oedipus Rex", Kitagawa Rumi nodded in understanding:

"I remember it now. It's the one I acted in with my brother, the one where my sister committed suicide."

However, Akane Kurokawa shook her head seriously and denied Kitagawa Rumi's statement:

"This summary is inaccurate. In the plays that Hoshino-senpai and Ryo-senpai co-starred in: In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, played by her, committed suicide; in Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, played by her, also committed suicide; in Hamlet, Ophelia, played by her, also committed suicide..."

"Hang on, hang on, hang on—have they actually done so many plays together in the last few years?"

Kitagawa Rumi raised her left index finger, placed her right palm on it, made a 'stop' gesture, and then immediately pouted her lips in dissatisfaction and complained:

"And why are all of them couples or married couples?"

"Because Mr. Kindaichi found that the dramas in which they played a couple were particularly popular."

Akane Kurokawa gave a fairly convincing explanation.

"Then let's continue talking about Antigone."

Kitagawa Rumi, who couldn't find any rebuttal words for a moment, was like a deflated balloon, and had to droop and change the subject again.

"Yes, the storyline of Antigone is after Oedipus Rex. After King Oedipus exiled himself, the position of king of Thebes became vacant. His two sons, Polynices and Eteocles, fought for the throne. Polynices even colluded with foreign troops to attack Thebes. In the end, both of them died in the struggle. Creon finally succeeded him as the king of Thebes."

"Oh, yes, Creon is the previous queen Jocasta, the younger brother of the character played by Hoshino-senpai. He also appeared in Oedipus Rex."

Perhaps she learned it from Kitagawa Ryo, but Kurokawa Akane is quite serious and methodical when teaching.

"After Creon became king, he ordered that no one was allowed to collect and bury the body of the traitor Polynices, and anyone who violated the order would be sentenced to death. However, his sister Antigone chose to openly violate this ban and buried her brother. She was then convicted and finally committed suicide in the stone cave where she was imprisoned."

"In the psychology books I read, Freud named the so-called 'Oedipus complex' after Oedipus, who killed his father and married his mother. So many people followed suit and named the so-called 'Oedipus complex' after Antigone."

Akane Kurokawa, who was already in the mood, was like a teacher teaching a class, and even took the initiative to ask Kitagawa Rumi:

"What do you think Ruby?"

"Just listening to the story outline, I don't think it's a brother complex."

"Yes, so most of the discussion around the play Antigone is still focused on the level of legal history, but I don't understand natural law, moral law, etc."

Kurokawa Akane stuck out her tongue somewhat embarrassedly:

"But in the psychology book I read, there is an explanation of the Antigone complex that I like very much. It believes that this is a pure subconscious psychology that is for blood family, does not contain sex, and is willing to sacrifice one's life for love."

"Why does it have to be blood family?"

Kitagawa Rumi frowned, looking as if she didn't understand.

"Because Antigone herself said in her lines that fathers, brothers and sisters are more important than spouses, children, etc., because the former are already arranged at birth, so they are more sacred, while the latter can be chosen by humans."

"What a strange idea. I think, as described in Shoplifters, the family members you choose yourself are better than the ones you are born with."

"Ancient Greek drama really isn't for me. I feel a little dizzy."

Kitagawa Rumi stood up and shook her head as if to clear her mind:

"Xia is working too hard. I can't stand watching this kind of thing."

"It's actually fine. Ruby, do you want to come and see me then?"

"Okay, since Qian is the lead actor, I will definitely come to watch it."

"Yeah, then Ruby, let's go directly to Mr. Kindaichi. He should have tickets."

Kitagawa Rumi made an OK gesture to Kurokawa Akane:

"I see. I'll go to Uncle Min's office first."

"Okay, I've rested enough, so I'll go practice my lines."

The two girls waved goodbye to each other, and Kitagawa Rumi also walked out of the practice room and headed upstairs to the office where Kindaichi Toshiro was.

Is the Antigone complex a brother complex?

On the way, Kitagawa Rumi thought again of the question that Kurokawa Akane had just asked her.

certainly not.

Even after hearing just the outline of the story, Kitagawa Rumi was able to refute it clearly.