NOVEL NEXT Chapter 09 – First Advertisement 01
"You two really are doing it." Ichigo said after he heard Miyako and Ai's explanation. Even though he said those words, he couldn’t hide his amusement.
"Well, it’s a good proposal after all." Miyako replied instantly.
"Yeah, I don’t know if this is our luck or something. But I think I just heard gossip about that one small bottle of powdered milk. It will be good if we do something first…" Ichigo mumbled to himself as if he were in his own world.
"Ah… He just went to his own world." Miyako said those words, while Ai laughed while the twins sat in her lap.
Just like I thought, it was easy to persuade Ichigo as long as Ai agreed with us. He had already thought about the plan, and to be honest, he was reliable as someone who will help Ai be able to perform on the dome.
"Hm… We need something to show for them. We don’t have anything other than those otaku dances. Huh… Which means we need something." Ichigo talked like that while staring at the two of us.
"Ah, how about we show them how smart they are?" Miyako replied to Ichigo. "Especially to show how easy it is for any director to work with the twins. I mean, they can dance like that, because they really like watching Ai's performance and seeing people dancing like that. We can conclude that they can mimic things that catch their attention. Then I'm also pretty sure they're smart enough to understand what we mean." Miyako explained further, while Ichigo nodded his head.
"Is that really true?" Ichigo still couldn’t believe it, but he himself saw the twins dance and already spoke quite well and many words for someone just about 1 year old.
"Yeah, how about we try it? Ai can you do it? Show them a simple hand dance?"
"Well, of course… Ruby, can you follow, mom?" Ai said this to Ruby, and she did the hand roll dance, which is a children's dance.
Shake your hands three times, before you wave your hands upwards, and then repeat once. After that, roll your hands down and shake your hands up. Not forgetting clapping and also various dances that are easy for young children to imitate.
"Wait, it's not that it's too difficult." Ichigo said those words, while Ai, who realized that, just put her tongue out and said, "Ups…"
"Geez… How…" Ichigo wanted to tell Ai to make it easier, but what he saw was how Ruby was repeating all of Ai's dances perfectly, even though it was a bit difficult because of her baby body.
"This is… What about Aqua?" Ichigo couldn’t believe it and he turned away from Aqua, who, to his surprise, was already dancing after Ai’s and Ruby’s dance.
"Ahaha… I call them immediately… We can’t let this chance go?" Ichigo said it with such a pleased expression.
"Ah, wait. Ichigo… If you are talking about powdered milk. Can we use this proposal?" Miyako stopped Ichigo and gave him a paper that contained Miyako and my plan combined together.
Ichigo looked at the paper and smiled before giving it back to Miyako. "I think it’s much better if you’re the one who talks about this… I will arrange the meeting." Ichigo said as he left the room and talked to someone.
Which is a good signal that we may get something immediately.
"Ufufu… So my child will be an actor, huh…" Ai hugged me and Ruby in her arms with her cheerful grin. It was actually a slender arm that feels really big when you’re just a baby. But there was no fear or anything except a sense of security and warmth.
"I always thought you two were really smart… but I never expected to be this smart." Ai’s cheerful grin changed into a gentle smile. "Both of you two are not only adorable, but smart too… I wonder if you two will become much bigger than me in the future…" She simply smiled and calmly lifted the two of us. It felt like we were staring at each other, and I could easily see how blooming her expression was.
"I can’t wait to see that…" She looked happy, and of course Ruby and I were happy and showed it by laughing and giggling together.
And then, two weeks later, our first shooting started…
"Are those two ready?" A man with a deep voice asked the question to Miyako, who stood next to the crib that carried the two of us.
"Yeah, I think they’re fine." Miyako bowed to the man who would be the director of our first shooting.
To be honest, I don’t really remember any Japanese directors, and the only one I knew was the director who helped Aqua in the manga.
"Good. I hope… They’re really doing a good job, like we saw weeks ago." The director said those things, because, just like he said, we actually had a meeting several days after Ichigo called them.
It was a meeting with Miyako and a simple audition. To be honest, I don’t think that's enough to be called an audition. Miyako just showed how the two of us could understand what was being asked of us.
Ah, those companies also like our proposal and only changed a little bit of the plan that was made by me and Miyako.
They walked into the living room as it was being built from the ground up.It was similar to the living room in any Japanese home, but it had a rather warmer and cozier atmosphere. At the same time, there were a lot of cameras in many places in the room.
"Just like our plan. We will create two segments of twins separately before creating one segment where they dance together after drinking the milk. So do any of you want to go first? Or shall we start at the same time…" The director said those words and stopped when he saw me, who had already raised my own hand.
"Oh, there seems to be someone who is very excited." The director smiled when he saw my reaction.
"Babuuu." I responded to his words.
"Ahahaha… this kid is really good. So how about we go with him first."
As the director said, this was my first time shooting ever in my life.
