I Became the Manager of the First Galactical Idols novel Chapter 8

The weekend arrived. Sanae, Risa, and I were nervous and excited to see the girls. Soon, the first one arrived: Celeste. She knocked on the front door and I received her. We walked into Sanae's and Risa's room—which was about to turn into a dance studio.

"Thank you for coming," I said.

"Thank you for choosing me! I don't have the words to thank you enough," she bowed.

"It's fine, you don't need to."

Sanae and Risa approached us, but someone knocked on the front door again. Akane and Adachi stood together outside. I thought Adachi was going to be late.

"Please come in," I said.

"Thank you, gentleman," Akane replied as she stepped inside.

"You thought I was going to be late, didn't you?" Adachi said.

She knows.

We walked into the room. They and Celeste stood together next to the door, whilst Sanae, Risa, and I stood in front of them at the other side of the room.

"Thank you for giving me this opportunity," Akane bowed.

"I guess I should thank you too," Adachi said. "I really need the money. You're going to pay us, right?"

"Yes, but let's introduce ourselves to each other before talking business," I answered. "I'm Kaito Miyahara, fourth-year Business Administration student at Saitama University. I'll be the manager of the group."

"I-I'm Sanae," she smirked with her hand on her hip trying to look confident, but she was obviously nervous.

"And I'm Risa," she smiled.

"They will be your group mates," I said. "Just like you, they want to become idols because…"

Wait, I haven't asked them.

"Because…"

"Because we grew up watching them," Risa continued.

Sanae added, "We didn't watch anything else as kids. We've always wanted to be like them; it's practically been our life."

"Oh!" Celeste and Akane uttered in amazement.

Interesting.

I continued, "Now that we all know each other, I'll briefly explain what this is about. You already know we will be an idol group. Our goal is to make people happy and show them that idols make society better."

And because I needed a final project, but I don't need to mention that.

"Humas can't replace living beings. Their method is rigid and selfish, whilst we'll work together to prove that only living beings can emotionally understand living beings. Humas fulfill desire, but idols fulfill happiness."

Everyone clapped.

"If you agree with our goal, then there's only one step left."

With my glasses, I sent a permission request to theirs. Akane was already wearing hers, whilst Celeste and Adachi took theirs out of their pockets. They accepted the request and I sent the contract document.

"The contract is the same for the three of you, except for the personal details, obviously. Please take your time to read it and don't hesitate to ask me anything. You can sit on the chairs over there."

They walked past us and sat down. Sanae, Risa, and I stood beside the door.

"What did you think of my speech?" I asked.

"It was great!" Risa answered.

"Not bad," Sanae responded. "It could've been better, but I must admit it was encouraging."

"Great," I replied. "By the way, about your reasons to be idols, did you really not watch anything else?"

Sanae shook her head. "Since Gorō took care of us after he found us, he needed to work a lot to earn enough money. As typical, he gave us and showed us stuff for kids, but we hated everything. He struggled to find something we liked until he showed us a video of idols giving a show. We immediately fell in love, so Gorō played along."

Risa continued, "We wouldn't stop watching videos of idols, but Gorō realized we were alone in this building, so he took us to the café we went to the other day so we could meet people and watch all the videos we wanted."

"We met Kiku there. She would take care of us all the time, so Gorō would take us to the café whilst he worked during the day. You could say it was like daycare for us," Sanae giggled.

"So she's like an aunt to you," I said.

Or a grandma.

"You could say so," Sanae replied.

"And you? You haven't told us much about yourself," Risa wondered.

"Me? I'm boring. My life is boring. Study here, study there."

"Didn't you say you had a bad experience with a business before?" Sanae asked.

"I did. To summarize, I was so enthusiastic about it that I stopped being realistic. The business quickly burned and I was treated as a reject for years."

"Even by your family?" Risa worried.

"Not at all. My parents are the sweetest people you'll ever meet and My little brother was too young to understand it. My elder sister was disappointed but didn't treat me differently."

"You have siblings?" Risa smiled. "Will we ever meet them?"

"I don't know, maybe."

"Have you told them about all of this?" Sanae wondered.

"No, I'm waiting until it's certain we are doing it, which is close."

"Hey," Adachi called.

Does she really have no manners at all?

"What is it?" I responded.

"What do we need Interplanetary Passports for?"

Oops, I forgot to tell them.

"The group will travel to many planets; it will be galactical. That's why the name of the agency is Galactical Idols."

"You didn't tell us about that."

"That's my bad, I'm sorry. Do any of you have problems with that?"

"Nope," Celeste answered.

"As long as we come back to Earth often," Akane replied.

"I guess that makes it more interesting," Adachi said.

"Good. That reminded me of telling you that we don't have a theme nor a name for the group yet; we'll choose them together. If you accept the contract, that is."