Hua, sitting beside her, wore a wolf cut and remained somewhat quiet. Having only just moved from a small city, she looked shy no matter how one looked at her, like a handsome young man.
Even she herself did not know how she had ended up sitting at the same table as the most famous Young Lady in the school.
While they were eating,
she could feel so many people looking at her with envy, jealousy, and resentment. It troubled her somewhat.
But speaking of which, it was also thanks to Carole.
Carole was friends with Hua, and she was also friends with Kiana.
Naturally, Hua and Kiana became acquainted as well.
Kiana remembered that before awakening her past life, she had instinctively felt that Carole was rather familiar.
I've seen this little sister before...
And so, over time,
she had no airs about her and was easy to get along with.
It was just that
having no airs was relative.
Kiana had little interest in other people.
Especially now that she was wholly focused on her career, she had even less desire to bother with all those complications.
She yawned and ate elegantly, an instinct ingrained in her body, before answering, "Yesterday, because of something... um, I didn't sleep until four o'clock..."
"No wonder! How about taking a nap in the infirmary later?" Carole blinked and looked at Kiana with concern.
Kiana shook her head slightly. "I slept during class this morning, so I'm much better now. There's swimming class this afternoon, right? Weren't you going to teach me how to swim?"
"It's okay~"
Carole waved her hand.
She laughed carelessly.
"It's fine to teach you swimming next time! If you're not feeling well, there's no need to force yourself. If you get distracted while swimming, you might choke on water."
She suddenly paused, as if she had realized something. Her eyes sparkled brightly, and she even stopped eating as she looked at Kiana.
"Every time our Young Lady Kiana attends PE class, she attracts so many looks. She has such a great figure, gets such good grades, her family is rich, and she's so gentle too."
"But if Young Lady choked on water, started coughing, turned bright red, and looked all flustered..."
"Just imagining it is pretty interesting!"
"..."
"I want to see it!" Carole looked at Kiana expectantly.
"Now that you put it that way, I don't want to go swimming instead. I'll go rest in the infirmary afterward." Kiana laughed helplessly.
"Mhm, mhm! I'll come get you... when school ends!" Carole was not disappointed at all and smiled brightly.
PS1: Here's the first update. There's one more coming, keep it up~~
Yuzu Fan, Emerging =v=
Although Kiana did head toward the infirmary after lunch,
she had no intention of actually lying down and getting a proper rest.
In the infirmary,
there was usually a teacher on duty.
If someone was truly sick and needed to see the school doctor, they would generally go somewhere like the medical office rather than here.
Kiana told the teacher that she was feeling a little unwell.
The teacher told Kiana to find a bed and lie down.
She chose a spot by the window and pulled the curtain closed.
That way, people outside could not see what she was doing inside.
Kiana rubbed her little hands together and opened the system panel.
"System."
I am here.
"Let's continue."
She said it happily.
Actually,
Kiana did not need to do this.
It was not a bad thing to let go of her idol burden when nobody was around. But that little expression of hers always carried a furtive feeling.
It was cute, admittedly.
But it also left one at a loss for words.
Besides,
her communication with the system now took place entirely in her mind.
Even when she saw the system's translucent panel, including all kinds of operations such as editing and narration, even if she muttered a great deal...
no one in reality would learn even the slightest thing about it.
But!
Perhaps this was what sense of ritual was?
Anyway,
if anyone could actually hear her narrating while editing videos, Kiana really would die of embarrassment.
As long as there were people nearby, forget doing that—even talking to herself while watching a show felt unbearably embarrassing.
Sure enough!
Work like deceiving the entire world
had to be kept secret.
Even if she was not really deceiving the entire world.
But!
Instinctively, when she and the system captured the future and prepared exposure videos, she would still be a little careful.
Secretly.
Maybe that made the atmosphere better? It was not impossible, right~
Kiana shook her head slightly and looked at the sky outside.
She should finish the first video as soon as possible.
She had already sorted out the general idea while dozing off that morning.
As for the rest,
there was no need to worry. She could take it slowly...
No matter how one looked at her, she resembled a little girl who had gotten a new toy, brimming with excitement and eager to try it.
When others were around, she was the Young Lady.
When nobody was around, she could be as willful as she wanted. This was who she truly was!
"Ahem..."
She cleared her throat softly in her mind.
Kiana lay on the bed, her hands folded over her little stomach, staring at the screen as she lay on her back.
"Ciallo~"
"Good morning, good noon, good afternoon, and good evening, dear viewers."
"This is Yuzu."
"..."
It was not exactly a split personality.
The main thing was!
Kiana understood clearly
that she first had to separate herself from it. She had to create an image specifically for making videos, writing commentary, and using the system.
That way,
no matter what the sky curtain exposed,
she could at least act like an outsider. Why are you looking at me? I'm shocked too!
Then she would not be so easily suspected.
Even her narration style had changed, and her voice sounded noticeably different from her current one.
However, because these were words conceived in her mind,
things like vocal tone needed the system to adjust them in post-production.
Even the edited videos, extracted material, and even what Kiana was currently thinking
were merely rough drafts.
The system would still need to polish them afterward.
The system asked,
"Once the final product is complete, would you like to review it?"
At that time,
Kiana answered with complete confidence.
"It's fine! I trust you!"
More importantly, she genuinely wanted to view the exposed video as an audience member.
Like opening a blind box, it came with a little surprise.
That was what made life fun, wasn't it?
If she handled everything herself and had already seen it all, then when it played on the sky curtain, it would not be interesting anymore.
If she truly were an uploader,
then naturally... reading comments and watching bullet chats would be her enjoyment.
But this sky curtain was up in the heavens. Where would there be bullet chats for her to read? Even comments would have to wait until afterward.
She did not want that.
Since that was the case,
the system had nothing more to say.
It listened to her.
But then again,
she still had to separate the role making the videos from her present self.
A new persona was extremely necessary.
Drawing on those uploaders she had watched on P Station before, Kiana tried a few times and more or less found the feeling.
Just like now,
she had established that these projected videos would be updates created in the distant future by a historical commentary uploader named "Yuzu."
They had merely been projected into this world for unknown reasons.
Before you continue