[ Ai laughs. Facing away from him as she still is, there's no way of reading her face but... it sure sounds like a real laugh.
Or close enough, anyway. ]
Got it in one! Idols are pretty different from an ordinary person. Or rather, you have to be pretty different from an ordinary person to make it as an idol.
[ Saitou himself had said it when he'd recruited her, after all: "It's not a job normal folks are suited for in the first place."
It'd hurt a little bit to hear someone else say it – to confirm that she was in fact abnormal or lacking in some way. But at the same time... there'd been something strangely hopeful about knowing that there was somewhere a person like her could belong even so.
Whether she'd actually found it was up for debate. But the hope had been enough to keep her going. ]
But compared to some of the other people here... I mean, we've got princesses and scientists and people from way, way in the future! I'm a little less exciting in comparison. I'm just an idol, after all.
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Or close enough, anyway. ]
Got it in one! Idols are pretty different from an ordinary person. Or rather, you have to be pretty different from an ordinary person to make it as an idol.
[ Saitou himself had said it when he'd recruited her, after all: "It's not a job normal folks are suited for in the first place."
It'd hurt a little bit to hear someone else say it – to confirm that she was in fact abnormal or lacking in some way. But at the same time... there'd been something strangely hopeful about knowing that there was somewhere a person like her could belong even so.
Whether she'd actually found it was up for debate. But the hope had been enough to keep her going. ]
But compared to some of the other people here... I mean, we've got princesses and scientists and people from way, way in the future! I'm a little less exciting in comparison. I'm just an idol, after all.