"Mai, Madam Sakurajima, could you explain what exactly these selected clips are?" Setting aside the question of who in the Doma Family was supposed to be Nii-san, Sogo Doma stared at the USB drive's files playing on the computer with a face full of black lines.
"Is there a problem?" Mother and daughter spoke up at once, since it concerned them—or rather, her daughter.
"You even selected this image of a girl dressed in rags who looks like she's just been abused at home..." Sogo Doma said, pointing at the video on the screen.
"Of course! That was the peak of Mai's acting back then. She even won the Best XX Award for that role!" Madam Sakurajima declared proudly.
Sogo Doma desperately wanted to cover his face. He had planned to position Mai Sakurajima as the nation's goddess, not an award-winning actress! Why would a pretty-face role need acting skills?
Of course, it wasn't as though an award-winning-actress persona couldn't achieve the goal of making people observe Mai Sakurajima again. But as one of the money-making tools Sogo Doma had high hopes for, he had naturally looked into Mai's abilities. Miss Bunny Girl's acting was, at most, fairly good for an idol. But establishing an award-winning-actress persona was clearly beyond her current reach...
If people were given the preconceived notion that Mai Sakurajima was an award-winning actress, then her future acting career would be scrutinized under a magnifying glass. The moment her acting failed to meet expectations, there would be a risk of her persona collapsing. To Sogo Doma, that was equivalent to losing a sustainable money-making tool. Rounded up, it was the same as losing an entire Tokyo!
That was why, from the very beginning, he had positioned Mai Sakurajima as the nation's goddess: a pretty face valued purely