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"Toast?! What do you mean?!" the short girl with suntanned skin cried out, "Those guys up there can't actually expect us to draw a crowd of hundreds of people!" Mana grabbed the sides of her neck-length hair in panic.
The tall girl with her black hair tied in a low ponytail sighed and closed the book she was reading. "Don't be ridiculous, they certainly don't expect a feat like that out of us," she said, to which Mana sighed in relief. "They more-so expect us to draw in a crowd of thousands, if not more."
That made Mana's eyes widen even more, "But that's impossible!!!" she bemoaned. Fukada Mana, being a girl from the countryside, was never able to fathom how so many people can be in one place. She recalled how her eyes nearly bulged out of her sockets when Ms. Tanaka showed her a video of another idol group's performance and told her that every pink glowstick in the dark was being held by a person.
Tseng Li-Hua brushed her bangs aside and buried her nose back in her book to distract herself. She maintained a calm expression, but she still tugged on her high-neck in nervousness.
Tomoko wasn't faring well in the other room, shakily writing down ideas on her whiteboard, and thoroughly thinking them through before erasing them. And whenever she did come up with something that could work, she searched it up to see if that gimmick was already taken- which they were. "Come on... something to stand out... something to stand out..." she muttered to herself.
She looked around her office. It was a complete mess, littered with envelopes from banks, loan companies, and whatever other people she owes money to. She looked to the stack of mime-idol posters and sighed, picking them up and placing them in the shredder. As the shredder whirred, she peeked out her window into the room with the girls lounging about. She looked to her desk again, picking up a picture frame. It was a framed photo of the group at a restaurant after their first performance. They didn't get a good crowd, but they had all performed great, which was certainly something to celebrate. She sighed, thinking to herself that she had completely failed those girls. She supposed that once the higher-ups boot them out, she should first help them with any financial issues or finding somewhere else to work before helping herself. She would sacrifice a limb for these girls, it was her duty after all, to take care of them after taking them in. Tomoko chuckled lightly, in that sense, these girls are almost like her babies.
"Like my... babies..." she muttered to herself after thinking it. Then Tomoko slowly looked up, her eyes widening by the second, an errant idea striking her head.
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