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"She did the best and God did the rest"
-- Unknown
..... Aqua got the role of stalker for the live action Today Will Be Sweet, a good start and thanks to Director Masaya Kaburagi and especially Kana Arima.He got the script and read it over, ton of times while acting like a stalker usually was.
"Just give up already! You'll never understand!! Wait, this lines, it should be like you're underestimating someone and think they are lower than you, isn't it, Ruby?" Both twins were in Ruby's room. Actually, it's good for Ruby, she had time to take breaks from studying how body works, it really exploded her head into bits and it's chance to watch his brother's acting skill. Isseki Nichou*, she thought."It sure be like that," Ruby stated.
"Thanks, Ruby, but I think I need to repeat this again. I kinda messed that..." God, Ruby almost felt angry right now. She acted like a good audience member, sometimes hold her wrist with her other hand to hold her urge to snatch Aqua's script from his hand and torn it into pieces.
'Goddamn, O Lord Amaterasu, or maybe Ame-No-Uzume, please give me power to hold this urge. I'm not 12 anymore. Actually, I'm sure I'm 20 or more mentally. Aaakhh!!! But I want to rip that paper and throw it so my brother doesn't need to act again and he'll be safe. But that means I don't have way to got information about Ai. Oh life is so cruel..!!!' Ripping that script out of her brother's hand would be considered immature, she noted that.Sometimes, Ruby's focus divided and she stared at the word on the cover of the script book.
Directed by : Masaya Kaburagi
Masaya Kaburagi. She could pull information from him. He must knew something about Ai. His name was in Ai's contact. ..
Some years ago, Ruby did some investigation and found some crucial information. Ai had three phones. One for work, one for her personal use--like tweeting, selfies, and so on, and an old phone that she used before being recruited.
It seemed that Ai's old phone was some generations away, it's even an a flip phone in the era where people used touch screen phone right now. And that one really caught her interest.
But, problems ensued. First, the battery was died out long time ago, maybe before Ruby born. Actually it could be solved by changing the battery and recharged it again, if not that easy. Luckily, Ruby's knowledge after spending her life fought people--trollers and haters online, had usage, she knew a thing or two. But it's super hard to found that battery that she took it a while to search that and suprisingly, she found it from someone and voila. She had some determination to pull her through.
Second, was the password that locked Ai's phone. With no information about how long and it had 30-second-break each incorrect password was typed, she turned a bit frustated.
"I didn't know about that password," was word that Ichigo stated to Ruby when she asked about the flip phone. She didn't want to involve anymore people to be dragged in this problem, so the only way was to solve it by herself.
First, she put something important around, Ai's birthday.
Password incorrect.
Okay, maybe her and Aqua's birthday. She adored her kids so much.
Password incorrect.
She felt her nerves wrecked, but okay, she must stay patient, maybe... The time where the performance at Tokyo Dome was put? Ai supposed to reach her popularity peak if she hadn't been murdered at the first place.
Password incorrect.
For the one who was short-tempered like Ruby, this is a damn frustating event that if this not for Ai's revenge, she'd crush those phone and threw it into fire.
As her patience turned thinner, she did what something people thought crazy. She spammed the number over Ai's phone. She thought that her brother was more determined and had more patience for doing this, but like that she stated before, she didn't want to involve anyone more, so she started spammed the numbers, maybe some trick were help.
But none of them succeed.
This time, Ruby's patience was on its peak. If this fails again, maybe she should just crush the phone with the hammer and burned it. Many ways to Rome*, people said. She had to search another alternative to found information about Ai.
She began to type some random numbers, hoping God above would gave her luck this time.
4 - 5 - 5 - 1 - 0 . And press OK button.
Surprisingly, this time, it worked. Ruby exhaled harshly, you're lucky, phone. I don't need to smash you and throw you into fire, she minded.
The phone showed a picture of B-Komachi members and Ai as the center. When she searched through Ai's contact that almost filled with people with entertainment industry, she found something that interested her.
鏑木 勝也*
The name of Masaya Kaburagi.
.. She thought by allowing Aqua to take role, she could took any information about Ai, how do you meet? How Ai's life. How about Ai's romance life ? How, how, and how??? "--by. Hey, Ruby? You alright there? You kinda passed there. Do you need rest? Or maybe my performance is that bad?" Aqua asked worryingly.Ruby, awaken from her own mind, turned a bit shocked, "Huh? N-No. I mean, it's good. Yeah, it's good, but I think you can improvise more, like think about a real situation and do it like, you're a real stalker like that..."
'Please don't let him kow that I just daydreaming and not watching his practice...' "Ah... Improvisation. Got it! Thanks for the suggesstion. I'll try more," Aqua replied. Oh, God, he doesn't find that out, Ruby exhaled. . So the cycle continued. Aqua practiced in Ruby's room. Ruby commenting and explaining from the manga. Trial and errors. It never stopped until D-1 airing. A week before the filming of the episode he came in on, the final episode, Aqua was practicing the script in Ruby's room. When he was done, she clapped like normal, but this time, she asked, "When you film tomorrow, can I come with you?""Why? Don't you have some studying to do?" He smiled at the stack of medical-related books on her desk.
"I can take a break! Besides, I wanna see exactly what my brother is a part of!" "I don't know if you'll be allowed."
"Please? Ask that director guy! Or that one girl!""Kana?"
"Her!" "I don't think she can approve or deny stuff like that."
"Please?"Aqua sighed. "I'll ask..."
Ruby grinned. "Thank you, Aqua!" Masaya better say yes.