LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 02 – A New Little Sister
They continued what they were doing after I stopped crying. Ai was still holding me while Ruby was on the arm of the other woman in the room, who was surprisingly a light-haired woman with radiant skin, the wife of Saitou Ichigo, Miyako, who can be said to be a young wife…
"Anyway, as of today, the idol ‘Ai’ shall make her comeback. Let’s discuss what we’re going to do from now on!" Ichigo said as he was banging on the whiteboard where there was writing.
Strawberry Pro Meeting
- Ai Comeback
- Taking care of the kids
"Your first appearance will be tonight’s singing show. It’ll be live, but you can do it, right?" Ichigo told Ai about the plan.
"Of course." Ai confidently replies at Ichigo, who nodded his head and shifted his eyes toward Miyako.
"While Ai’s at work, I’ll have my wife take care of the kids." Ichigo said those words to Miyako, who didn’t hide her displeasure by sighing.
"Can’t I bring my kids to work?" Ai threw the question at Ichigo, who answered immediately.
"What are you saying?!" Of course you can’t!! Drill it into your head! You’re an Idol who’s 16 and has 2 kids!! If you let the world find out about it. Your life as an idol is over…" Ichigo explained the cruel reality of the Idol Industry to Ai.
I, myself, remembered how toxic Japanese-Idol-culture is. Which looks pretty much the same in this world.
Also, they will question my responsibility as your director, and that will be the end for our company. We will be going to hell…" Ichigo said while he gestured his hand chopping his neck to make sure Ai understood how grievous their situation is.
That’s quite the truth, I mean, it’s such a bad reputation if people knew that an idol company let their idol become pregnant and give birth at such a young age. But at least, I give Ichigo a thumbs up to still let Ai become an idol with such a risk involved on her and his responsibility would be huge and he may lose everything.
Well, in the manga, it showed that he looks at Ai as his own daughter. A rebellious one too…
"You can’t go shopping with your kids or handle any documents. If there is an emergency, we will take care of them…" Ichigo told Ai that he and his wife would help her raise the twins, which is a good thing since Ai got a lot of support from the company. In the end, she was still young after all…
"Eh? That’s such a pain… So annoying, right, Ruby?" Ai responded as she talked to me, who leaned at her body.
"No, that’s Aqua… You know… Please, remember your child’s face…" Ichigo said he may feel a bit worried if the child will be okay in her hand, while Ai laughed and said she’ll try her best.
Well, she may look like a terrible mother. But she’s still young after all, so it’s understandable if she's a bit immature. She will become much better later as she learns bit by bit to become a parent for the twins.
Anyway, we don’t have that much time until rehearsal. Let’s get going." Ichigo tells Ai to get ready to leave because the idol group that Ai is in will be performing at a show.
Ai gave me to Miyako’s hand, and I stared back at Ai, who waved her hand at me and Ruby with a brilliant smile on her face. She left with Ichigo, leaving me and Ruby with Miyako.
"I’ve never done anything like babysitting before… Why do I have to do this…" Miyako complained as she had given the two of us milk and changed our diapers. I don’t think the two of us are difficult babies to handle. We ate well, behaved well, and didn’t cry too much. We’re only crying when we feel hungry or our diapers are full of waste.
Even so, it may be too much for Miyako, who has never had a child. I don’t think she ever had experience with a baby, and I’m pretty sure she never had any thought about working around the child.
Miyako maybe felt tired, she just laid down on the carpet near me and slept just like that. Well, to be honest, it would be dangerous to let the child be left alone like this. But since the two of them are not ordinary children, I let this slide.
No, I may prefer this, as I can easily roam around the apartment while Ruby sleeps on a small baby bed. When it's late afternoon, the television in the room is on. I can hear people talking to each other.
Well, it looked like Miyako tried to watch the show that Ai attended. The show is about the B-Komachi group, which is an idol group consisting of 7 girls. At first, it looked like they were asking the question to the group.
"Ah, I forgot. If it’s not, she will be angry…" I remembered something. I moved my way toward Ruby, who slept very well.
"Hey, the show has started..." I said this while shaking Ruby's body. She slowly opened her eyes, and her eyes wandered towards the source of the sound. It wasn’t my voice, but the sound of the television, which is quite echoing in this room, immediately caught her attention.
"Oh~~ N-step has already started!? Thanks for waking me up!!!?" Ruby immediately opened her eyelids and moved her body toward the television.
Yeah, actually, it wasn’t that long for me to see Ruby’s behavior. I finally knew that I was reborn as a baby, and I'm starting to be able to crawl. To find a baby who is fighting a comment war on Ai's smartphone against haters on Twitter.
I think she said a bunch of things that I couldn’t understand. Different from Goro The doctor, or Ruby, who is actually a fan of Ai the Idol, I'm not a fan, and I can even say that I don't really understand much about being a fan of an idol.
I've never followed anything like that. Perhaps, I could be said to follow some V-tubers. It's just that I only watch a few streams and mostly enjoy clips from YouTube.
Or you could say, I'm more into buying manga and light novels, and watching anime.
So even though it sounds crazy compared to a fan and an Idol…
I honestly see Ai as a waifu rather than an Idol. Mainly because I've never seen or watched Ai as an Idol, due to how minimal Ai's performance as an Idol is, and I've never listened to how she sings or dances in the manga. I think I heard and saw her in action in the anime trailer, but I actually died before the anime release.
So yeah, from my perspective, I saw Ai more as a manga character than an idol. Which is different from Goro The doctor and Ruby.
"Kyaa! Whoa! Mom’s soo cute! Everyone watching this should pay a million."
I heard Ruby talking like that when the B-Komachi performance started. As for me, this is maybe my first time seeing Ai’s performance.
Her singing may be far from what I would call an otherworldly performance, but it feels like her love-filled voice reached out to everyone who saw her performance. I don’t know if it’s because of the feeling I had in my previous life and my thought of Ai as my new mother. When I see her performance, she sings and dances.
I feel like I get it… I can’t help but give in… That's why she shone brilliantly and radiantly on that small stage.
I wonder what will happen if she performs on a bigger stage. I feel like my heart moved…
That's why I don't realize when Ruby look at me and laugh a little, as well as say a word like, "Oh, it looks like Mama got another fan." beside me since all of my attention was focused on Ai's performance.
