Japanese Entertainment: A Comeback Beginning from Bankrupt President

"How should I send out this photo?" Kurosaki Takuya spread out the photos he had painstakingly taken and handed them to Sawashiro Kazuya for him to handle.

The moment the content here is exposed, it will instantly shatter the innocent image that Yuko Yoshioka has worked so hard to cultivate, impacting her current and future work and sending her back to where she was when she first entered the industry.

Don't underestimate the impact of a ruined public image on a female celebrity. Even if she announces a career change at this time and becomes a more assertive female celebrity, any work related to that image will be wiped out.

If she can hold on, then the companies that hire her as a spokesperson and the TV stations that produce dramas won't be able to either. The lack of support and boycotts from the audience will force them to reluctantly give her up, and then impose the breach of contract penalties that are unbearable for ordinary people on Yoshioka Yuko.

It's no exaggeration to say that these photos are Yoshioka Yuko's Achilles' heel, and now they are in the possession of Sawashiro Kazuya.

"How should we send it... Amano, what do you think?" Kazuya Sawashiro knew what to do, but still threw the question to Aki Amano.

Think about what Amano Aki will do.

"Me?" Amano Aki scratched his head, looking quite embarrassed. "Why are you asking me such a difficult question? Couldn't you just send it to Bunshun?"

Does she seem intelligent? Why make her think about these things? It's obvious she can't handle these kinds of photos. The only suitable solution is to hand them over to Bunshun.

Bunshun started out making a name for itself by spreading political dirt, so he won't budge from pressure from Watanabe Entertainment or even the cabinet.

Conversely, they also hope these people put pressure on them so they don't have to worry about making headlines the next day.

Oppression from superiors is news that could absolutely ignite a national frenzy.

Therefore, as long as you have dirt on someone, whether it's to earn money from leaks or to make them disappear from society, you can hand it over to Bunshun.

"Then let's hand it over to Bunshun," Kazuya Sawashiro decided, but put the photo away. "However, not now. The new year is coming soon, and many companies will probably contact her for endorsements. Let's wait until after the New Year to hand it over to Bunshun."

"Hiss..." Kurosaki Takuya gasped. "It would be best to wait until the company issues an announcement. By then, the contract has already been signed, and if there's a problem, we'll have to pay a huge penalty. How awful."

Only Takuya Kurosaki would say you're a bad person while using the tone of "you're a good person."

Like Amano Aki, her behavior is very direct.

The raised eyebrows conveyed a clear sense of disdain, and the tone was quite cold. "How wicked. This is a test of the agency's attitude towards her. Protecting her to the death will come at a great cost, but not protecting her will make it difficult to give up all the previous efforts."

So Ze Chenghe is a bad person. He actually did something like this, putting people directly on a barbecue grill so they could be roasted no matter how they were turned over.

Now we just need to wait for more and more side dishes (contracts) to appear next to the main course (Yoshioka Yuko) before this fire will be lit and burn even brighter.

"Is it bad? A little bit... Hahaha," Kazuya Sawashiro scratched his head, mimicking Aki Amano's goofy laugh, and accepted the two's praise with a clear conscience. "After all, I'm not exactly a good person either, so it's normal for me to do whatever I want."

"Why do you look so smug?" Amano Aki asked Kurosaki Takuya, referring to Sawashiro Kazuya's smug face.

He looked really smug, just like himself.

We can't just copy ourselves, can we?

"sigh!"

The sudden burst of dialect only bothered Ze Cheng and Ye Ye. His hand brushed against Amano Aki's eyebrows, answering her and Kurosaki Takuya's questions: "What are you surprised about? I'm just imitating you, you know, like a parrot?"

Upon hearing this, Kurosaki Takuya suddenly realized, "Ah... that explains it. He's imitating Amano-san."

But then again.

There are three people in the firm. One of them is a parrot. Is the other one also a parrot?

Kurosaki Takuya's attention fell on Amano Aki, and after thinking for a moment, he confirmed his guess: "Amano-san is also imitating Sawashiro-san, right? Because you used to not make these kinds of sarcastic expressions, Sawashiro-san was the one who did these things."

Putting everything else aside, Kurosaki Takuya had been observing the two of them from inside the bread truck for a month and a half.

Instead of any sensational content between the manager and the artist, Kurosaki Takuya witnessed a lot of casual conversation and playful banter, which gave him insight into some of their habits.

Amano Aki isn't the type to like making sarcastic remarks, while Sawashiro Kazuya does. But right now, the two are completely reversed; Amano Aki has become the one making sarcastic remarks, and he does it quite naturally.

Amano Akira couldn't resist the urge to argue, while Sawashiro Kazuya couldn't resist the urge to sing, and so the two bumped into each other here.

"I absolutely did not imitate him!"

"I am a parrot, you are a parrot, everyone here is a parrot."

The song was directed at Kurosaki Takuya, because Sawashiro Kazuya believed that sooner or later, Kurosaki Takuya would also be assimilated into a parrot by the two of them, so Sawashiro Kazuya was sending a positive signal.

Come on, let's become parrots together.

Before that, Parrot #2 Amano Aki appeared, abandoning her own well-executed critique: "So corny, so corny I don't know what to say. And the melody is plagiarized from some nursery rhyme, isn't it? Are you trying to pretend you're a creative genius?"

"Disguise?" Parrot Number Three, who hadn't yet become a parrot, pricked up its ears and leaned closer. "Is Zecheng-san some kind of creative genius?"

"You didn't know? He created... um!" Before Amano Aki could reveal her secret, Sawashiro Kazuya preemptively locked her in, finishing his lines, "It's that one, the winner of the 23rd Shiba High School Little Yellow Song Contest, that's me, Sawashiro Kazuya."

"..."

As expected of an agent who lies as easily as drinking water, she casually utters lies that leave people speechless, and is full of details.

The 23rd Little Yellow Song Contest—what kind of bored person would organize such a grand event?

Neither of them spoke, but Kazuya Sawashiro pressed his advantage, teasing them: "What? Do you want me to recreate the grand occasion? Or do you want to hear the piece I won the award for?"

"No!" The remaining two parrots reached a consensus and refused Kazuya Sawashiro's offer to make a lewd joke.

There's a 99% chance he's bluffing, but they can't gamble on the remaining 1%, which is actually quite high.

Ultimately, who wants to listen to dirty jokes at this time?

"Please don't do that. Amano-san is a public figure. She'll learn to talk like you." Kurosaki Takuya's face darkened, and he pretended to be very troubled.

On the surface, he is Aki Amano's partner.

The naive Amano Aki was of course unaware of the hidden meaning in those words. She simply adopted her celebrity persona at that moment: "Yes, I am a public figure. Please do not try to instill such inappropriate content in me."

"Hmm... I'll sing it for Kurosaki after you go to sleep."

"Yay!"