For Arima Kana and Kurokawa Akane, the days ahead were busy.
With "Now Sweet" becoming a huge success, they each took on quite a few engagements and spent every day rushing from one job to another. Even Ruby, MEM, and Toyohama Waka devoted most of their time to training after forming the idol group B Komachi. When they weren't training, they livestreamed online to build up their popularity.
Everyone was busy and fulfilled.
Everyone except Duanmu Huai.
"Just looking at you like this makes me so angry!"
After returning to the agency, Arima Kana, exhausted as a dog, felt terrible when she saw Duanmu Huai lying on the sofa and leisurely swiping through his tablet.
"Club President, is this really okay?! Someone's just lazing around doing nothing!"
"What's the problem? I've already finished everything I'm supposed to do."
Duanmu Huai yawned and glanced at the furious Arima Kana.
"You're the ones who decided to be this busy, aren't you? When you joined the agency, didn't you all say you'd plan your schedules sensibly? If your workload was too heavy, you could turn down some jobs. After all, work would never end. Your health was the most important thing."
"You're only fifteen, aren't you? Why do you sound like you're fifty?"
Arima Kana put her hands on her hips and looked at Duanmu Huai speechlessly.
"Am I wrong? I've been doing exactly this for over a decade, and I turned out fine, didn't I?"
"No, this is a terrible example..."
Hearing Duanmu Huai's shameless reply, Arima Kana pressed a hand to her forehead in exasperation. Beside her, Kurokawa Akane could only smile wryly. Normally, now that the drama had become a huge hit, everyone should have been working harder and riding that momentum to reach even greater heights. Yet Duanmu Huai,