NOVEL NEXT Chapter 17 – Miyako and Aqua Prologue
Miyako Perspective
Miyako's life changed forever when she met twin babies. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, no one knows. Miyako herself doesn't even know.
However, Miyako always remembers the day the twins told her that they were like messengers from god, saying that she should keep Ai's secret and also take care of the twins.
Since that day, her relationship with the twins has been smooth. In fact, Miyako found that taking care of them became easier when they started talking like mature children. Whatever the twins wanted something from her, they just told her without crying like they used to. In the past, she had to guess what they needed.
Then, after a few days with them, Miyako realized some important things about the twins. Aqua, the boy and also the oldest, was arguably smarter than his younger sister. Meanwhile, Ruby, who was previously the most terrifying of the two in Miyako's eyes because of how well she played the role of messenger from the sun god, She actually acted more like a child, she was more spoiled, and even though she sometimes talked like an adult, she didn't act like a mature child at all.
Sometimes Ruby always said something complicated that Miyako saw from those Ai’s fans. Which means Miyako realized that these twins were very obsessed with Ai. Sometimes she even thought that the past lives of the twins were very likely those of Ai fans.
Aqua, on the other hand, who had previously appeared ordinary in comparison to Ruby in her mind, gradually began to change in Miyako's eyes. Between the two, Aqua was particularly terrifying.
One day, Aqua borrowed her smartphone and was seen looking for something on the web. Before, he told Miyako to buy a coin called betcoin. It was a stupid-sounding online coin that Miyako could not possibly think of buying. However, when she saw how serious and terrifying Aqua's face was. Miyako still imagined that these twins were the children of a god or something. In the end, she bought the coin and spent almost all of her savings on it.
Sometimes Miyako wants to cry when she remembers that, but when she sees the price of the coin increase day by day until it can be sold fifteen times over, she wants to laugh when she sees that. Miyako began to believe that these twins were the real deal. No, forget the innocent and sometimes stupid little sister. Aqua was the real deal.
However, Aqua always emphasized to Miyako not to spend the money she earned from buying and selling the coins and told her to keep some of it as a safety deposit. Then sell half and use the money for other things.
Ah, Miyako got all the savings she used to buy the coins, and Aqua said she was free to use the money. However, when Miyako found out that Aqua was the real deal. Of course, she asked Aqua to continue doing what he was doing, and he had all of her support.
What was surprising for Miyako was how Aqua said that Miyako should rather seek her fortune by focusing on managing internet talent. Miyako was a little confused at first, but she slowly felt that the job suited her in the future, or maybe in the next four years…
Aqua especially told her that Miyako should invest in technology that can capture and create virtual avatar characters like Hayatsune Miku. Or what he often says isVtuber, or virtual Youtuber, where Youtubers use virtual avatars in the form of anime-like avatars to stream.
At that time, Miyako caught on that Aqua wanted her to make a Hatsune Miku that acted like a YouTuber, such as singing cover songs, or playing games. It was a concept that sounded abstract to Miyako, but with everything Aqua has done so far, it has always made a lot of money. Miyako could only obey Aqua.
"Ah, if there was a visual novel called Fate/Stay Night and you could invest in or buy the rights to make a mobile game out of it. That would be an amazingly good thing..." Aqua will say those words to her someday.
"Really?"
"Yeah, in the future, mobile games will be massive and it will be so easy to make money from them. If you can’t make a deal with those Fate/Stay Night to make a mobile game… Next, you just need to make a mobile game with an open world that looks like Zelda but is full of cute girls and handsome guys... and just call it Genshin Impact or something..."
"I can’t believe I heard those words from a one year old baby…"
Miyako said those words, but she still saved what Aqua said on her laptop as a reminder to her. If they had the money to invest in or buy those things. They would have bought them immediately. However, once again, their lives changed not long after that as the twins went viral due to an otaku dance that was recorded when they watched a concert performed by Ai.
Miyako still remembers when Aqua told her that he wanted to capitalize on the hype of the viral video and enter showbiz as a child actor. She even remembered Aqua’s words to her at that time.
"I know, but I think this is a chance for our great destinies and a time to nurture this child."
When Miyako heard that, it felt like her heart stopped for a moment. She had always used Aqua to make money, but she had forgotten about it. Then, in two days, Miyako and Aqua devise a plan to convince Ai and Ichigo to let the twins become child actors. Things turn out to be a lot easier the other way around than Miyako imagined.
After that, Miyako started her life as the manager of the twins. Thanks to the success of the first commercial the twins did, they were both famous for being easy babies to work with on set. They were getting quite a lot of work, and Miyako herself was quite worried.
Miyako began to become one of the backbones of Strawberry Production. In addition to being the manager of the twins, she sometimes filled in for Ichigo as Ai's manager when Ichigo was busy with other members.
Then, when the twins turned three in 2013. Many things happened in her life that year. One of them was when Aqua appeared for the first time in a movie directed by Gotanda Taishi.
The second was Ai's explosion in popularity after she managed to become the center of attention for her role in the same movie that Aqua was cast in. It was such an explosion that Ai got a lot of work, and people started calling her the new rising idol. As such, Strawberry Production started to get busy, and with Ai's rising fame, it helped boost the overall popularity of B-Komachi.
But that year, one thing happened that changed Miyako's life and her relationship with Aqua. It was on December 1, 2013, that the price jump of the internet coin that Aqua said to invest in reached almost $1000.
After that, Aqua gradually began to change. Miyako had always thought the twins she was babysitting were cute. Even though they are sometimes very strange, saying many things that are hard to believe coming out of children their age.They remain cute in her eyes.
But Aqua gradually changed after that; he didn't always appear like that. He always acted casually when he was with Ruby and Ai. It's just that Aqua was different when she spent time alone with Miyako, especially when they talked about the things they had to do to be successful.
Yeah, since then, Aqua has slowly changed. Although Miyako could see that Aqua was still as confident as ever. Sometimes Miyako could see the darkness in his facial expression.
Miyako didn't know what to say, but she could see an expression of desperation on his face. Miyako was pretty sure Aqua could see into the future or at least read what would happen in the future. Then Miyako began to wonder what Aqua saw or predicted for the future that would make him make such a desperate face.
If she knew that… She swore that she would help him sincerely.
In the end, Miyako loves the twins after all, as if they were her own children.
