I am a voice actor, not your emotional support

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"Well, hello everyone, it's time for the weekly segment where Sakura Ayane wants to talk."

"Oh, even though this is only the second episode, I'm already starting to feel tired. How about supervising me? If you think the situation is going to change, just cut the show short."

"Oh, is that not possible?~" (Lolita cute voice)

"Okay, okay, then following our dear Lady Coriander last week, this episode welcomes our second official guest!"

"Then let's welcome him with warm applause! Pajipaji..." The emotions of Sakura Ayane while speaking were like a roller coaster, the main theme being casual and letting herself go.

On the other hand, Toru Uehara looked at the empty script with a confused look on his face.

No, there really isn't a single word?

What happened to the promise of spending money to get things done?

"Hey, hey, the person sitting over there, don't be in a daze. Introduce yourself, introduce yourself~" Sakura Ayane winked at him and said with a smile.

"…Hello everyone, my name is Uehara Toru."

"..."

"Gone?"

"Gone."

"Card!"

"Uehara-san, please read the script!"

Toru Uehara picked up the script and showed it to the director and writer behind the glass.

Empty.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, Uehara-san, maybe I made a mistake just now. I'll get you a new one right away."

Sakura watched them quickly hand over the script. Although she was still smiling, her eyes gradually turned cold.

After getting the script again, Toru Uehara nodded and began to restart the broadcast according to the process in the script.

"Hello everyone, my name is Uehara Toru, and I'm a voice actor at CIM Agency."

"This year marks our fifth year since our debut, and our masterpiece is..."

"Please give me your guidance."

The only time Sakura Ayane was stunned was when she heard "five years since debut".

But she quickly adjusted herself and continued recording.

In a blink of an eye, an hour passed.

The radio recording was completed, and the whole process could be said to be uneventful. The program effect depended entirely on Sakura alone.

It was only in the middle that Toru Uehara showed his voice acting skills, but the rest of the time...

The supervisor and the script writer looked at each other and shook their heads slightly.

And when Toru Uehara felt that the work was done and he could leave.

Sakura Ayane suddenly said, "Supervisor, should we re-record it later?"

"Take a break now?"

"Uehara...senpai, how about we come out and talk?"

Volume 1: Chapter 16 Fortunately, I don’t have bad breath

Sakura Ayane and Uehara Toru walked out of the recording studio together and stopped near the vending machine outside.

She bought herself a bottle of soda and began to drink it in a rough manner.

Inevitably, some water stains splashed onto her clothes.

Coupled with the sweat from being out in the sun for a while, Sakura, who had been very low-key, suddenly showed her true colors.

She is a woman with a very broad mind.

literal meaning.

"what--"

"It's great."

Toru Uehara leaned in the shadows and looked at her quietly.

"Uehara-senpai, you don't want to drink the milk tea just now?"

Toru Uehara wanted to say it tasted bad, but he swallowed his words back.

"Ah."

"To be honest, I really didn't expect you to be a senior who has debuted for five years... I called you Toru-kun before, sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful."

"……It doesn't matter."

Sakura Ayane looked at his lukewarm reaction, frowned slightly, and took a step closer.

"Uehara-senpai, how long have you and Inori known each other?"

"one day."

"Really just one day?" Sakura Ayane frowned even more tightly.

"I thought you guys had been secretly dating for months, so why are you trying to learn her way of doing things since it's only been a day?"

"You don't think that her way of doing things is 100% correct, do you?"

Uehara Toru: “I don’t think so, but… I think I need to make a change.”

"Then don't learn from her. Besides, you haven't learned it well enough."

Sakura Ayane said a little unhappily.

"Uehara-senpai, forgive me for being blunt, but if you are half-baked, it's better not to learn. And if you learn from her, it means you will lose your original personality in front of everyone."

"People, if they lose their individuality, it's the same as being dead."

“It’s the same when being a voice actor.”

Sakura Ayane threw the bottle into the trash can next to the vending machine, looked at Uehara Toru seriously and said, "To be honest with you, judging from your recording just now, you are 100% unable to be my regular guest."

"You answered all the questions in a conventional way, and it was obvious that you had a lot to say but were reluctant to say it."

“It makes me a little irritated.”

"Senior Uehara, didn't you just throw Qi and I away last time?"

"That's the real you, right?"

"You have to be yourself on my radio. If you like pretending, we won't be able to have a good chat."

Sakura Ayane said a lot at once, but all the words were summed up in one sentence.

"Also, don't learn from Qi. Her constant acting is really disgusting."

After Sakura Ayane finished speaking, she quickly walked back to the recording studio.

Standing in place, Toru Uehara lowered his head slightly.

"At least show some respect to your seniors... one or two of you."

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When Toru Uehara returned to the recording studio, he directly covered the script.

He doesn't plan to look at the script for the next re-recording.

Be yourself… I’ve been doing this for five years, and I changed it because it didn’t work.

It's not your turn as a little girl to teach me a lesson.

Toru Uehara is an extremely arrogant person. He has been suppressing his own thoughts during this period of time and turning to learn from others, which is an extremely frustrating thing for him.

Now you want him to release himself?

Ah……

It was Sakura's classic opening line again, but unlike before, there was no complaining scene.

Obviously Sakura's mood has changed at this time, and she doesn't seem to deliberately hide herself in such a public occasion.

In this regard, she is completely different from Mizuno Inori.

"Okay, now it's time for the guests to introduce themselves."

"let's start."

Uehara Toru narrowed his eyes: "I am your senior after all, how can you push the program forward so lazily?"

"……Um?"

Sakura looked at Uehara Toru looking at her coldly, and was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Ah, sorry, senior, please start introducing yourself~"

"My name is Uehara Toru, a voice actor who debuted in CIM for five years."

"Hmm, so what's your masterpiece...?"

"I don't have any representative works. All my previous voice acting roles were minor roles and passers-by."

"Oh, so he's a professional extra!"

"...Ms. Sakura, do you think you're humorous?"

"Ahaha, just kidding. Senior, you have to be able to take a joke, otherwise you won't be popular, okay?"

Listening to the bickering interaction between the two, the script writer and the supervisor were both enlightened.

This is much more interesting than what happened just now.

After all, it's a radio broadcast, so it can be carried on in a unique style.

"I don't need to accept jokes to be popular. Come on, stop talking nonsense and get started."

"Tsk tsk, Uehara-senpai, it's really scary when you reveal your true face."

"Shut up."

"Look everyone! This is the workplace 80! Hey, it's so hard for us young voice actors who have just debuted..."

"I gave you milk tea just now but you didn't want to drink it. If this is called 80, then I don't mind being bullied by you."

"Hey, you can bully your senior just for a cup of milk tea? That's something you can consider...ah, I'm off topic. You can't blame me for this. It was Uehara-senpai who started it first."

"Then next is Sakura's worry discussion session. This session will collect the various small troubles encountered by the audience in life, and then Miss Sakura will enlighten everyone..."

"Hey, hey, hey, senior, please wait for me for a moment, this is my line!"

Uehara Toru: "If you keep wasting time like this, you won't be able to finish reading the letter."

"You're so impatient..." Sakura smiled, and at the same time she noticed that Uehara Toru didn't read the script at all at this moment.

and many more……

Could it be that he had just memorized the entire contents of the script?

"Well, then, let me see, the name of the letter (I once used my underwear as a head cover), what is this strange name?"

"I've been in a bit of trouble recently. To put it simply, I've fallen in love with a female colleague from the same company, but that female colleague has many suitors. I want to invite her out for dinner, but I don't know how to do it. Can the great Ayane give me some advice?"

"Well, why not ask Uehara-senpai?"

"Uehara-senpai, do you have any tips on inviting women out to dinner?"

"No."

"Usually people come to me and I say no."

"…Although I think you are arrogant, I have to admit that it does not feel out of place when you say this."

"But if others want to give advice, there should be some substance, right?"

"For example, I am the most popular girl in the company, and you, Uehara-san, are a rookie in the company. You want to invite me out for dinner. What should I do?"

"Action!" (The director starts playing romantic BGM, with saxophone and piano playing alternately)