Japanese Entertainment: A Comeback Beginning from Bankrupt President

Why would you do something bad to a good person?

As a detective, Kurosaki Takuya is doing illegal things. If the parties involved find out and report it to the police, he will definitely go to jail for a period of time and have to pay a large sum of money to the parties involved for emotional distress.

If judged by good and bad people, Kurosaki Takuya is a bad person now.

But he also wanted to do something good.

But after thinking it over and over, he still didn't know what he could do.

If you were to simply show up at my door and tell him that you are a detective employed by Watanabe Entertainment, that you have been watching my every move 24 hours a day for the past two weeks, and that you have installed hidden cameras and listening devices in my cubicle, you would definitely be taken to the police station.

Moreover, he's earning a weekly salary of 30, and if he lets his employer down like this, he probably won't be hired for even small things like finding a cat anymore.

"well…"

In the bread truck late at night, Kurosaki Takuya looked at the sleeping Sawashiro Kazuya in the screen and sighed.

...

August 13th, the fourth day since the single's release.

"Gunjo" has already topped the charts and sparked heated discussions among the younger generation and online. However, on television and radio, music-related programs have consistently failed to mention the song's name, with news about Watanabe Entertainment dominating the airwaves. The contrast is like two completely different worlds.

You can't hear Amano Aki's name, you can't see her, and no one in the industry comes to contact her... there's only a figure constantly moving in the dark corners.

Kazuya Sawashiro is gathering substantial evidence against exile, Yamada is looking for the right opportunity, and Takuya Kurosaki is still hiding in that van where the interior is hidden. Although they are doing different things, they are all doing things that cannot be brought to light.

Illegal evidence collection, framing, and wiretapping—it's all for their own benefit.

Kazuya Sawashiro did this because two pieces of bad news came his way.

The first piece of bad news is that the organizers of the summer music festival have announced a last-minute change to the selection criteria for this year's special guests. The original method of submitting articles and receiving public votes has been changed to submitting articles and collecting votes through questionnaires.

Simply put, it's opaque.

Because the entity operating this system became the manipulated survey company.

The thing about questionnaires is that as long as the person submitting the questionnaire wants a certain result, the questionnaire company can "fairly" give them the result they want.

Everyone knew why the rule was changed, but no one objected because by excluding Amano Aki, the original beneficiary, they became the beneficiaries.

To protect their own interests, no one would interfere at a time like this.

Therefore, Kazuya Sawashiro is trying to find a weapon that can pierce this exile balloon by secretly monitoring his fan club.

If substantial evidence such as recordings and documents can be found to prove that Watanabe Entertainment employees are using their influence to affect television media and businesses in order to obstruct Aki Amano's business, then he can apply for an investigation on the grounds of unfair transactions.

However, this is not so easy to do; they are not foolish enough to record such improper behavior.

Ze Cheng was essentially gambling that one of his employees wouldn't be so tight-lipped and would admit to doing it in front of others, so that he could file a formal complaint with the Fair Trade Commission.

The second piece of bad news is that the song's popularity hasn't increased as significantly.

Even if it doesn't affect the operation of internet companies, there are always ways to make those trending topics disappear. In the past few days, videos have been reported and taken down one after another, and previously highly praised tweets have also been reported and deleted.

The saying "money can buy anything" perfectly illustrates this point.

If he can't maintain this momentum, then Aki's debut this time might become a laughing stock and become his last debut.

While Kazuya Sawashiro is trying to find a way out of the predicament, he is also waiting for the right person to come to him, the right person he has been eyeing from the beginning. Only he can break through the encirclement with this song without being bound by Watanabe Entertainment.

One day, two days... when the MV finally surpassed one million views, an email arrived in Kazuya Sawashiro's work inbox.

The sender was Apple Japan.

The email was simple, inviting Aki Amano to the headquarters in Roppongi to discuss cooperation and promotion.

The reason why Kazuya Sawashiro insisted on using a mobile phone to shoot the music video was to attract the attention of Apple Japan after the video was released, because Apple has a support program for original creators who use its own devices to shoot excellent works.

This includes streaming the video across multiple platforms to reach a wider audience, which is precisely the dilemma we are currently facing.

I finally waited for him; thankfully, it wasn't too late.

Without pausing, Kazuya Sawashiro brought Aki Amano to Apple Japan's headquarters in Roppongi at the agreed time to have a conversation with the head of the marketing department in charge of this matter...

Kurosaki Takuya followed behind him, and after they had both walked far away, a young man wearing a hoodie slipped into the dimly lit internet cafe, found Sawashiro Kazuya's cubicle, and went inside.

He thought his actions were discreet and that no one had noticed him.

What he didn't know was that the moment he entered, two cameras set up in the cubicle started up simultaneously, recording his entire process of searching for and hiding things, and even filming his face without a mask.

After the man finished, he recreated the scene briefly and went to the station to meet up with his accomplices.

He wasn't fighting alone; his partner was in charge of another location, doing the same job as him—simply placing some bags of things in hidden places in the room to easily earn a reward of 100,000 yen.

If someone gets 100,000, who wouldn't do it?

After meeting up, they report to the middleman that the task is complete, easily take their payment and go have some fun. The middleman then relays the message back to the employer, who takes all the payment for this job.

As for the employer, who else could it be but Yamada?

He specifically sought out middlemen who introduced people to illegal jobs and arranged for two men with prior drug trafficking convictions to pose as drug deliverymen and hide marijuana in the room of Kazuya Sawashiro and Aki Amano.

What he needs to do next is to find a suitable time, go to a place where all sorts of people mingle, and sell the "drug delivery" business.

Some people will take risks to fight illegal jobs, while others will sell information everywhere to earn pocket money. These people don't care whether the source of the information is correct, because the person who receives the information will naturally verify it.

That's what he thought.

However, that very night, this suspicious news reached the ears of police officers in the Metropolitan Police Department's Narcotics Control Division.

Upon hearing that the report concerned a celebrity's possession of drugs, the staff in the countermeasures office immediately began investigating the source of the information to ensure its accuracy, in order to avoid any errors that could damage the Metropolitan Police Department's image. This is the normal procedure after receiving a report.

Arresting people just because you receive a report? That's not a report about a transaction in progress. What about human rights laws?

check!

While the countermeasures office was working overtime to investigate activity patterns and financial transactions, a phone call came to the head of the countermeasures office.

"Nani!"

"You mean that person turned themselves in?!"