Hosts Come and Go, but Water Time Is Forever

The worst part is that the person who said that was his father, and he couldn't come up with many rebuttals.

Besides...

The "college student" joke is so cheesy and annoying!

"Haha! Uncle Inoue is so funny!"

Haruno couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Inoue Hikoo tilted his head and casually replied, "Are you being sarcastic or sarcastic towards your mother?"

He didn't actually mean to criticize anyone.

He had practically watched Haruno grow up, so he didn't treat her like an outsider and spoke to her rather bluntly.

"Hehehe."

Haruno could only manage a docile smile.

She knew very well that she couldn't argue with a big critic like Inoue Hikoo, so she was very obedient.

Hyakka was wise; she kept quiet early on and didn't offer any opinions.

Inoue Hikoo didn't seem to care about her at all, and Shuya said, "Just focus on the promotion, you can handle the rest. Well, it's the first episode, after all, the audience won't be too demanding... right?"

"?"

Shuya was still completely confused. How did this blame end up on me?

"That's settled then. You can discuss the rest with the scholar-officials."

Then Inoue Hikoo and Hanazawa Sakura disappeared.

Hyakka shrugged. "So what do we do now?"

Shuya: "What can we do? Or copy... I mean, borrow from other broadcasts?"

Haruno patted his chest and said, "Luckily I didn't take this job back then, hahaha, I'm so smart!"

She was thoroughly gloating.

Shuya complained, "You weren't so talkative just now, but you're all high and mighty after my dad left."

Haruno feigned a pitiful expression. "How dare I argue with Uncle!"

"If you keep doing that, I'm going to throw up."

Shuya trembled.

"Anyway... go and talk to the official in charge."

Hyakka made such a suggestion, Shuya naturally wouldn't object.

Seeing Haruno things were getting boring, Yang happily ran away.

She didn't have work tonight, so she wanted to take advantage of the free time to go back and work on her university report. In short, she had a fulfilling day.

After she left, Shuya and Hyakka asked around and quickly found the person in charge.

It was the clerk who directed the live broadcast yesterday.

Shuya felt that this should not be a coincidence. He remembered that this scholar was the person in charge of this area at Inoue Hikoo's company.

His name is Takahashi something...

Shuya had never paid attention to the man's name; he only knew it was Takahashi from other scholars.

After he and Hyakka found him, they explained the situation to him.

Takahashi gave him a knowing look. "I knew it! I was wondering why the boss was so slow in explaining the process to me."

He wasn't surprised, because this kind of thing happens quite often.

"So the boss is handing over the naming rights to Shu-chan and your team? That's fine, we can spend more time discussing it then."

Takahashi spoke about the water time very readily, not seeing anything wrong with it.

He added, "The boss wants you to read letters? We haven't collected any letters, what can we read? Never mind, I'll write a few for you to read later."

"Then I'll leave it to you."

Shuya and Hyakka weren't surprised; it was just standard procedure for them.

"Then, well, let me think..."

Takahashi thought for a few seconds and said, "In the story of IS, everyone in the school except the male protagonist is a girl, which makes you think of romance, so... you guys can answer the audience's questions about romance!"

"Ugh, this looks like a lot of trouble."

"No trouble at all, just answer anything. Consider this Oogiri."

After Takahashi finished answering, it was Hyakka's turn to ask a question:

"I've never been in a relationship, so what's the answer?"

"Relationship questions are usually answered by single people, isn't that perfect?"

Takahashi chuckled.

Hyakka was furious. "What do you mean?!"

"No, no, no, he didn't mean any harm."

Shuya held down Hyakka.

Takahashi was startled and had to apologize repeatedly to calm her down.

Shuya asked, "And then? Just one step?"

"For the first episode, this should be enough time for reading letters and promotion. If it's less than an hour, you can chat a bit. The audience loves watching these kinds of things; they're all long-time fans of the couple."

After finishing his sentence, Takahashi looked at Hyakka and said, "Although I belong to the Inoue Mai faction, I don't reject the Inoue Hyakka faction either, so don't worry."

Who cares which faction you're on?!

Hyakka suddenly felt annoyed. What was wrong with this person? He always made her angry!

All she could say was that, as expected of Inoue Hikoo's employee, she was just as infuriating as him.

Shuya was taken aback. "Wow, so you only became a director yesterday to ship the couple?"

He didn't expect to be proven wrong this time.

But that might not be the case... Never mind, he had no intention of delving into this trivial matter.

Takahashi gave an awkward laugh and said, "Well, I'll go prepare the script anyway. You guys can go and rest for a while."

He slipped away.

Hyakka yelled in frustration, "Chirp! What's wrong with this guy?!"

Shuya chuckled and said, "Your reaction is too exaggerated. I didn't hear anything else in his tone."

"Huh? What? Is this the leisurely life of a 'normie'?"

Hyakka glared at Shuya.

Seeing that things were getting out of hand, Shuya thought for a moment and then put on his usual handsome smile to coax her, "Don't be like that, someone as cute as you shouldn't be angry, smile instead?"

He reached out and pinched her cheek.

Instead of being moved, Hyakka glared at him angrily, her eyes wide. "You... ah---! Idiot, I'm wearing makeup!"

Hyakka stomped on his foot hard, then went to the restroom to touch up her makeup, extremely unhappy.

Shuya seemed to be deep in thought, "The 'handsome man' strategy failed? Hmm... it must be because she's gotten used to my handsome face and is immune to it?"

... I need to pay attention to this next time.

Section 574, Chapter 534: A constant stream of hosts, but the same old timetable.

It took Hyakka quite a while to finish touching up her makeup before she came out.

Shuya offered a lollipop he had found nearby, trying to appease him. "Here, have some candy to calm your temper."

"I'm not angry, I'm just very annoyed."

Hyakka said as she took the lollipop.

... Huh? Isn't this what people commonly call being angry?

Shuya posed this simple question in his heart.

Perhaps it's different for girls; that's the only explanation he could offer.

Hyakka popped a lollipop into her mouth and mumbled, "What should we do during this break?"

The live release starts at 8 o'clock, so there are still a few hours to enjoy ourselves.

"I don't know."

Shuya honestly said that he had never thought about this question at all.

"You're really something... When you're with a beautiful girl like me, as a guy, how can you not think about what to do?"

"What's wrong with guys? Do guys have to worry about schedules? It's infuriating! When will we guys ever stand up for ourselves?"

"Alright, alright, stop saying things I don't understand."

Hyakka was extremely impatient. "Are you angry and cold-blooded? Are you a devil among men? I've heard you say that so many times, aren't you tired of it?!"

"There's nothing we can do; it's already etched into the DNA."

"Don't copy everything into DNA!"

"All right."

Shuya nodded, then unwrapped a lollipop and put it in his mouth.

"Come on, since that's the case, come shopping with me."

Seeing that he had no idea, Hyakka made the decision herself.

"Whatever."

Shuya nodded, seemingly unconcerned.

The two then left the company.

At Hyakka's behest, Shuya took her to Shinjuku to go shopping.

They shopped at department stores, drugstores, clothing stores, and other places that girls love to visit.

Shuya accompanied her, utterly bored, but whenever they passed a clothing store, he would concentrate on watching to see if the woman selling women's clothing would appear.

This time, I didn't run into anything like it; I was lucky.

He thought absentmindedly that it was quite unusual for him to go shopping with Hyakka lately.

He and Hyakka went to the same middle school, and they did go shopping together back then, but they were both busy with their own things, so they didn't have many opportunities to hang out together.

Thinking back to middle school, Shuya realized that Hyakka's figure hasn't changed much since then... Legal loli is truly amazing!

Hyakka shivered. "What kind of look is that? It feels really rude."

"No, I just think you're so cute that I looked at you a few more times."

Shuya planned to gloss over the situation.

But Hyakka frowned immediately upon hearing him say that, "You really are thinking bad things."

Shuya was helpless; this is what happens when you're too familiar with someone—everything gets seen through.

Fortunately, Hyakka didn't hold it against him.

She continued shopping.

As revenge, Shuya gradually carried more and more bags, all of which she bought with her own money. Shuya was simply used as her porter.

Time slowly passed.