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Chapter 57: Crisis

  "?? Music, what was the charm that hooked me into???"

  "?But listening feels so good?"

  "?Because it doesn't require any effort?"

  "?After all, the preface and setting aren't needed?"

  "?Maybe, the hole in my heart could be filled if the song could become mine?"

  ???~

  "So, I decided to steal it?~"

  ???~

  "???~But everything isn't enough. Perhaps, it will never be enough?"

  "? I want to learn everything. I want to learn more about love and something??"

  "It's so beautiful and unique that quench my heart's thirst??"

  ???~

  "One day, everywhere I go, the songs echoing in many buildings are my own. After all, I made them by stealing the masterpieces?"

  "No wonder it was so popur???~"

  ???~

  "Ah~This guy is an idiot, and that guy is also an idiot. Those who praise my piece are all idiots?~"

  "??Everyone beled them with praise is an idiot as well ?~"

  "?The true value is decided by the crowd?"

  "?Like a flock of crows?"

  "..."

  "But I guess I'm the same as them??"

  ???~

  "Ah, something is missing!!! I stole too much to realize why I stole them in the first pce ???~"

  "I just want to learn something~ Learn about love"

  "It's so beautiful and unique that it extinguishes the fire of my jealousy"

  ???~

  "?? Music, what was the charm that hooked me into???"

  "I remember that it wasn't greed?"

  "It must've been something beautiful?"

  "But I'd forgotten it already?"

  "The mask I put on will come off in one day?"

  "Despite all, that day will come?"

  "I look at the bottom of my heart to see what I'll see?"

  "Ah Lost everything. Status, power, and Love. Everything's gone?"

  "I think of the day I lost everything. It must be very?"

  "Very ? Very? Beautiful?"

  "That's why I stole?"

  "Everything wasn't enough"

  "I want to write more?"

  "?Those superficial words no longer satisfy me?"

  "?I am no longer satisfied with this kind of song?"

  "?Everything isn't enough?"

  "?I want to learn about something and love?"

  "?Everything isn't still enough?"

  "?Everything isn't still enough?"

  "I don't know what's always missing"

  "Everything isn't still enough"

  "I still want to learn about the day so beautiful and unique that it melts my heart away?~"

  "..."

  "As expected of this girl..."

  "It's crazy~"

  Natasha listened to her daughter's song in the company of her sister-in-w. The song, 'Pgiarism,' was indeed peak. The comfortable but aggressive melody illustrated the frustration of a thief. The harmony between the aggressive electric guitar and the gentle piano created a catchy symphony so non-rock listeners could enjoy it.

  "In terms of sarcasm, I would like to call my daughter the strongest"

  Natasha's eyes flickered excitedly. Her proud expression was always on her face when it came to her daughter, Suiri.

  "Yeah, yeah, yeah, according to you, this song should be written to say goodbye to another world's artist, right, Onee-chan?"

  Mei asked.

  "Um...I said that since she was afraid of the term 'Pgiarism', I'd asked her to write and vent. Letting her live a good life as Hoshiyuki Suiri, I don't want her to live under the shadow of that artist"

  Natasha expined. Mei nodded in understanding.

  "No wonder that child doesn't need a musical mentor, her foundation in music is too solid and perverted"

  "At that time, you bragged to me how genius she is"

  "I didn't expect that girl was cheating"

  "I'm so jealous!"

  Mei said in a joking tone but Natasha's face was a little unnatural.

  "I'm a failure mother, aren't I?"

  Natasha sighed.

  Since the true talk between children and parents st week, she still tried to digest the information of her daughter having an identical disorder. When learning the second personality disappeared, she should've sighed a long sigh of relief. However, her mother's instinct prevented her from having such a thought.

  Suiri's second personality didn't do anything out of common sense. She didn't harm her daughter but was overprotective. She deduced that it was the second personality born from the trauma of another world's artist according to her daughter's talk. That girl also called her 'Okaa-sama'...Looking back, she had unknowingly accepted that girl as her daughter. They lived under the same body...

  "Nope...Onee-chan, you just did your best in your parents' position"

  "No one dares to imagine...Their child's been haunted by memories of the deceased from another world"

  Mei shrugged her shoulder.

  "And bear another personality...Anyway, every talented person in the art field has met these problems. Unfortunately, your child couldn't get out of this curse"

  Mei mented the curse of the art world. Many famous painters, sculptors, musicians, and literature writers, every profession reted to the art field have been cursed by 'emotion'. The worst was the painters from the mental hospital such as Vincent Van Gogh.

  Mei had been in charge of the entertainment industry for so long to know this curse. She had seen countless talents rising and falling. If it weren't for her being Suiri's aunt and her company holding high powers, she would be afraid of the day Suiri would part the world early. Yes, it was true for the game's original plot but Hoshiyuki Mei didn't know.

  Her family monopolizing the test technology had been an eyesore for many greedy people. Suiri's tragedy was just an excuse to bring down the Hoshiyuki family. The heroine Suiri was just an extra gift for destroying the company. Unfortunately, Sakura didn't know the culprit behind it because the game didn't mention it.

  "That's the point I'm worried about, Mei-chan..."

  Natasha looked at her daughter's profile on the screen of her phone. Her expression was a little complicated.

  "The second personality for some reason disappeared. What if she would come back? What if she knew we had acquired her existence? What if she forcefully controlled Suiri's body? I don't know anymore, Mei-chan..."

  Mei listened to her sister-in-w's talking. Pondering for a moment, Mei finally raised her voice.

  "It seemed that you didn't know whether you would accept that death girl's second personality as your daughter as well. You don't believe that second personality either, right?"

  Natasha was silent because it hit her confused feelings.

  "Oh please, you're the mother of the three children already. What're you still confused about?"

  Mei spun her office chair and said.

  "My sister's fine with that existence because she's also her daughter. Moreover, that girl didn't seem to harm anything. And she'd disappeared. But it's a good thing, isn't it? Your daughter finally opened her heart to you"

  Natasha stared bnkly as she fell into contemption.

  "You're right..."

  Natasha replied.

  "You know...The secret of another world's memory is so outrageous that if I were in the same shoes, I wouldn't dare to reveal it to anyone"

  "That death girl confessed it. Meaning that she finally believed in this family"

  "Perhaps, she was too lonely that she bet on us instead of the second personality"

  "If she didn't disappear, you wouldn't know such a shocking secret only existing in Isekai anime"

  Mei deduced Suiri's scumbag thoughts, exposing her naked in front of her mother.

  "..."

  Natasha turned away, looking at the bnk dark sky outside the president's office.

  "If only she were as normal as Rei and Maria..."

  Natasha let out a deep sigh.

  "Sister, you always keep a cold head. When it comes to that death girl, you aren't you at all"

  Mei supported her chin and commented.

  "By the way, even though I haven't married yet and had children, I can give you advice from the outsider's perspective...Um, I meant outside your private family. Anyway, you should accept who she is, after all. She is your child. Isn't it good to have another daughter"

  "If that second personality comes back, spread your hands, hug her, and say I love you"

  "You should take time to accept it. After all, I am not you in the first pce"

  "I can't imagine if my children meet the same problem as yours"

  Mei gave a cool statement from the third party's point of view.

  "I will. But about her marriage,..."

  Natasha knew her daughter too well. A traumatic person opened her heart to fall in love with someone...

  "Ah, about that. You don't need to worry. That death girl had already fallen for the half-French girl but Suiri hasn't realized it yet"

  Mei was speechless about this girl. So scumbag...But who could be bmed? She hadn't known the definition of love so Mei could only scold in her heart.

  After all, an outsider had a clear mind until it came to their situation.

  "But dragging the Otonashi girl...I don't know what to say"

  Natasha shook her head.

  "You also know right, Nat-nee-chan?"

  Mei asked.

  "Yeah, that girl had no feelings toward Suiri but was very superficial. I don't know what her purpose is"

  Natasha commented. That was her deduction after contacting the f*tanari girl. When you look at Shinonawa Charlotte's naked sincere feelings, you would feel the Otonashi girl's feelings are quite superficial compared to a lover's feelings.

  "She thought she could act well in front of us. However, we're adults, witnessing countless faces of people from society"

  Natasha growled.

  "Yeah, how could a mere girl's acting surpass your vicious vision of the thousand masks witch?"

  Mei grinned.

  "..."

  "Let's watch over the Otonashi girl for sure. Do you remember that Maria girl?

  "She didn't dare to confess her inferior complex to you guys but came to me for advice...I ughed to death...Hahaha~"

  Mei ughed out loud when remembering the scene.

  "But you sold her out for a second..."

  Natasha retorted.

  "Who could be bmed? Who told that girl that I was the same as her!!"

  "'Mei-Obaa-san, I knew you suffered the inferior complex toward my Shiori-Okaa-sama', damn it!!"

  Mei mimicked Maria's childish tone, cursing at the end.

  "I knew your alpha wife is awesome and smart but why did your child have my image like that?!"

  "I admitted that I'm jealous but...that damn girl kept pouring salt into my wound~..."

  The more Mei spoke, the angrier she became.

  "The most hirious point is her comparing to a cheater"

  "Hahaha~"

  Mei burst out ughing.

  "fufufu~"

  Natasha covered her mouth to hold back the smile.

  "After everything happened, you indeed saved my family's backbone during a hard time, Mei-chan. I believe you will be the qualifier parent than us..."

  Natasha smiled unknowingly, causing Mei to shudder.

  "Don't urge me for marriage! I will decide my life!!"

  Mei clenched her fist and yelled in determination.

  "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I will pick up Rei and have dinner. Do you want to have a pce?"

  Natasha asked.

  "I'm in"

  Mei's face changed instantly. The frustrated Mei no longer had the energy to compin anymore.

  --Sakura's POV--

  "Woa~ woa~, even though Pgiarism...Why Suiri's version is more 'art', and full of sarcasm..."

  I listened to the song on the music channel. This song was free on the official Metube so I didn't need to pay to listen to this song. Compared to the beast of 'pgiarism' in my previous life, the protagonist of this song was well-written. It has more 'brain', and purposes.

  We couldn't deny the fact that the songs in the current era were all about love. The protagonist in this song fell in love with the 'Love' written by another musician so she stole...Of course, it was quite reasonable because Suiri also didn't know what love was. She stole more and more with no path of return; eventually, she forgot why she stole it in the first pce. The original purpose of the protagonist was to learn about love but she never got it. It was quite sad but another sarcastic perspective, as long as you wrote love as the love song, you will succeed if the crowd decides it for you.

  It also reflected the current problem in many areas such as manga, and anime. Isekai had become an instant noodle genre. Of course, Suiri couldn't write it out because she was originally a musician.

  It could be said that this song was wild.

  'Everything isn't enough'

  The protagonist wanted to write her love but she stole. Therefore, she couldn't write it on her own but stole it from other. However...

  'Those superficial words no longer satisfy me

  I am no longer satisfied with this kind of song'

  It also meant that in the market, every song was almost the same and she had nothing to steal at all...The best sarcasm I've ever heard.

  The bass, electric guitar, piano, acoustic guitar, drum, and some sound effects illustrated the frustration of a thief. Damn...

  Suiri, you were the badass.

  Not long after the release of the song, the whole internet was on fire.

  Some Suishi commented jokingly on the Internet like [Sorry Sui-chan, my love song didn't have anything for you to steal]

  [Sui-chan decided to become a criminal? If you want to learn about love, why steal? *Icon pointing at himself*]

  [All of us have failed you...]

  I didn't expect the emotionless girl could write such a piece. I felt happy for her but felt a bit empty.

  According to the situation, Charlotte and Suiri will come together soon.

  I should've been happy for them.

  Morning has come, the sun urged my body to move on its own.

  Preparing myself, as usual, no need to be fancy here because I couldn't date Suiri in public. Therefore, the two decided to have a meeting in a so-called secret pce at the Hoshiyuki mansion. The looking-like abandoned building in the garden...

  When I walked down the stairs, I had already seen Suiri sitting and waiting for my arrival. I felt touched...and excited when looking at the frustrated look from Charlotte...Did I tend to become a third party to NTR others?

  Did I read that genre so much that I had this kind of feeling?

  Anyway...

  In our agreement, we couldn't interfere with each other's date. Just like I didn't do anything when Charlotte hugged Suiri st night. Letting Suiri develop her feeling on her own, we couldn't forcefully change the outcome. However, I knew that I had no chance at the beginning. Even the original Sakura had taken almost 3 years to achieve a happy ending.

  "Let's go"

  I said and winked at Suiri.

  "Um"

  As expected...Emotionless as ever. Killing a conversation was her special move. Fortunately, this world was only a game...

  10 minutes ter.

  I and the heroine in the golf car drove to the secret mansion of Hoshiyuki Suiri. I had been curious about this pce when I first set foot in the Hoshiyuki mansion.

  "Fuehue..."

  I unconsciously let out a sound, unable to hide my surprise because this pce was like a coffee shop with musical instruments. Inside, I caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.

  "Mitsugu-san, what're you doing here?"

  Obviously, I just saw her saying goodbye to me at 'home'. Why was she there?

  "Oujo-sama, Otonashi-sama, welcome~"

  She let out a smile, completely ignoring my question. She treated it as nothing special.

  "Why..."

  "Welcome, Otonashi-san~"

  "..."

  Mitsugu-san repeated the sentence, smiling while closing her eyes. She was very scary!!!

  "Mitsugu-nee, like usual"

  Hey, Don't act as if it was normal!!! You didn't get curious how she could teleport between two pces. Did she use the Flying Thunder Kami Technique? Or did she have a teleport point in the map that I haven't unlocked yet?!

  Soon, no one was able to answer my question. I and Suiri took a seat respectively. Of course, I couldn't sit next to her...

  "Otonashi-san, coffee as usual?"

  Mitsugu-san asked, I could only nod in return. She had helped me with coffee in the morning. I liked her craftsmanship the most.

  "A cup of cappuccino and coffee, please enjoy"

  "Thank you"

  "Thank you"

  We sent a thank you at the same time. Mitsugu-san knew the etiquette so she withdrew first, leaving us alone in this luxurious building. Because I was unable to accustomed to this pce, my eyes had to take off Suiri's figure to observe the surroundings.

  So comfy~...

  No wonder the gardener said that this pce was used to find inspiration...Many musical instruments were pced there as well. This building was like a base camp outside. The structure was quite simple and I didn't have any words to describe it because it followed minimalist styles.

  *Slurp*

  "..."

  We took a sip and looked at each other without speaking much. Damn...You should say something. Our date wasn't supposed to drink coffee and look at each other face...

  "..."

  "Anou..."

  "Anou..."

  The two of us spoke at the same time, increasing the already awkward atmosphere.

  "You speak first"

  "You speak first"

  The two of us were quite scumbag, weren't we?

  "..."

  Suiri was quite awkward because I noticed her ear turning Red from embarrassment. For the pyer, it was the only feature to guess the mood of the heroine.

  "Sui-chan, can I call you that?"

  I asked but she nodded her head quickly. Perhaps, she was used to being called that nickname because it was her artist's nickname.

  "Then, do you know what love is, Sui-chan? I saw you quite comfortable in Charlotte's arms yesterday"

  I teased, causing her head unable to lift up.

  "You saw..."

  Suiri suddenly stuttered like a stuck-up radio.

  "Actually, Sui-chan, I mean from the beginning I have had no chance to get you because of your retionship with Charlotte"

  I confessed honestly. Suiri's eyes were widened. From st night, I had thought about this problem and my role in this world as much as possible. However, I couldn't figure out why I had a second chance in this world.

  Hiding and lying weren't my professional field because I obviously spoke straight and was honest with my speech.

  "Then, why?"

  She asked.

  "Oh, you asked why? Why do I know that but still giving myself in this mess?"

  She nodded repeatedly, expecting my answer.

  "It can't deny the fact that you're my Oshii. Fulfilling Oshi's wish is also my wish"

  "But hey, if I can't get you, I can change target to Shinonawa Charlotte, from love rival to lover. what do you think?"

  I began to tease again. Her eyes almost lost their original life color when looking at me. Damn girl. You obviously loved Charlotte but you didn't know that. After all, Suiri's route wasn't different from an NTR story with the victim as Shinonawa Charlotte.

  "No..."

  She murmured, only increasing my newfound pleasure.

  "Charlotte is beautiful and a cool Alpha. Her blond hair..."

  "No!"

  Suiri suddenly increased her voice volume, making me startle. Hehe girl, when it came to NTR, I was the best. Kohum...I meant I was the captain of this ship. Because Charlotte didn't let Suiri taste the feeling of crisis, Suiri didn't realize her love at all.

  If there were no crisis, I would be the Biggest Crisis.

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