Nanami Aoyama's family was far from well-off; calling them bottom-tier would not have been an exaggeration. Her parents were busy farming, struggling to make ends meet—precisely because they had already hit rock bottom, they did not want their daughter to end up like them. Whether it was a stable job or getting married, anything would do, but becoming a voice actress...
That was a profession one needed a part-time job to sustain, unless they climbed to the very top. Otherwise, voice acting was a job with no "money" prospects whatsoever. How could the already struggling Aoyama Family allow their daughter to do that?
So, they refused to provide Nanami Aoyama with any support. They would not even pay her tuition, hoping to force their daughter to change her aspirations...
Unfortunately, Nanami Aoyama was absolutely ruthless toward herself!
If her family would not pay her tuition, she worked part-time to earn it herself. Even if no one understood her, she kept moving straight ahead, step by step, toward her goal on her own. Even if it left her malnourished, even if it...
Compared to Nanami Aoyama, Tomoya Aki, who claimed to have worked several part-time jobs, could only be met with a derisive "heh."
However, it was precisely because of Nanami Aoyama's strength that she caught Shizuka Hiratsuka's attention. The two, who should never have crossed paths, became connected through someone else...
Nanami Aoyama was a diligent, serious girl, and a high schooler at that. When she first began helping Shizuka Hiratsuka clean, the hot-blooded female teacher had felt deeply ashamed, even socially dead. She, Shizuka Hiratsuka, was nearly thirty, yet she was worse at housework than a high school girl!?
Although Nanami Aoyama was not her student, whenever Shizuka Hiratsuka thought about the girl's age and occupation, she could only