Chapter 125: Advanced Elf
"Let's make a contract."
Top Chat: It’s starting
Top Chat: Said something important right out of the gate
Top Chat: ※The announcement was three minutes ago
Top Chat: More importantly, where is this?
"2.5D office."
Near the station stood an old, worn-out building. I was in the reception room on the second floor.
Top Chat: Eh
Top Chat: Wait, that kind of contract!?
Top Chat: Hold up, new info, my brain can’t keep up
Top Chat: Does that mean Elf-san is becoming a V!?
"I'm not."
Top Chat: Huh?
Top Chat: Not?
"I'm an elf, right?"
Top Chat: Yes
Top Chat: True enough
"I can’t sign a contract."
Top Chat: Why?????
Top Chat: Stop with the compressed speech lol
Top Chat: Please explain more
"I thought signing a contract sounded fun after that direct message, but right now, I don’t even have a family register. Hard to prove I’m me."
Top Chat: Ah, that’s true
Top Chat: Completely forgot about the mess with Kyoka-chan at the beginning
Top Chat: Wouldn’t do if they drafted the contract under a Japanese male name lol
Top Chat: So what happened then?
"Kyoka contacted 2.5D, and it got settled as me appearing in one of her projects."
Top Chat: I see
Top Chat: An elf starting work by posing as a talent’s family member
Top Chat: From the outside, that sounds super sketchy
Top Chat: An unknown underage foreigner doing work, money funneled into Kyoka-chan’s account
Top Chat: Huh? Elf-san’s looking less shady than Kyoka-chan now?
"Let me state clearly—I have no intention whatsoever of entering into any dubious contract."
I aimed the camera across the glass table, showing a slender young man in a well-tailored suit.
Top Chat: Who’s this?
Top Chat: Who?
Top Chat: That’s the president of 2.5D
Top Chat: He’s young, like twenties?
Top Chat: Oh, he’s a man
Top Chat: If it’s not a shady contract, then what kind of contract is it?
"Though it goes through Isaribi Seire, in this matter our company will claim no share."
Top Chat: Oh, really
Top Chat: Sorry, I thought "Wow, Kyoka-chan pulled a fast one"
Top Chat: Lending the name for free!
"I don’t mind paying, you know?"
"I consider it this company’s role to arrange a good environment for our talents. To skim profit off a project obtained independently by someone not even affiliated—that is not our company’s job."
Top Chat: Hooh
Top Chat: That’s a solid stance
Top Chat: Thanks to that, 2.5D’s V lineup is really unique
Top Chat: True
Top Chat: Heard they even maintain Entaro’s arcade cabinet
Top Chat: Siren, who barely spoke and was suspected of being just a voice synth, couldn’t have been a V elsewhere
"Please continue taking care of Kyoka."
"I’ll do what I can to help her be active."
Top Chat: Oh, Elf-san’s acknowledged 2.5D
Top Chat: Glad it didn’t turn into Elf-san getting angry and Kyoka-chan quitting
Top Chat: Stop with the scary stories, it’s summer lol
"I wasn’t worried about that."
Top Chat: Really?
Top Chat: Surprising, coming from overprotective Elf-san
"Because, I’m Elf-Confident Onii-chan, right?"
Top Chat: Hm?
Top Chat: Huh?
Top Chat: Eh?
Top Chat: Hmmmmmmmmmm?
Top Chat: Wait, who’s Elf-Confident Onii-chan?
"The president."
Top Chat: ?
Top Chat: ……?
Top Chat: Wait wait, what?
"The president is the person behind Elf-Confident Onii-chan."
Top Chat: What do you mean?
Top Chat: Wait, I’m too shocked to even understand
Top Chat: Seriously?
Top Chat: Are you even allowed to say that?
"Even if it’s not a V, the person behind isn’t supposed to be revealed?"
Top Chat: That’s not the issue lol
Top Chat: Um, Mr. President? Seriously?
"It is true… but how did you figure out I was the one called Elf-Confident Onii-chan?"
"Your way of speaking."
"…I see."
"Yeah."
Somehow, the president started holding his forehead. A headache?
Top Chat: Give us more detective elements to work with!
Top Chat: Don’t think you can just handwave everything as "because Elf-san."
"The president trusted me. He says his job is to value talents and arrange their environment, but to so easily trust some shady elf hanging around Kyoka—that wouldn’t make sense, right?"
Top Chat: Well, yeah
Top Chat: We were just saying earlier that an unknown elf is suspicious
Top Chat: So there was already a basis for trusting Elf-san
"Also, he was staring at my elf ears a lot."
"Ugh!"
"You can touch them, if you like?"
"Ughhh!"
Top Chat: Yep, that’s Elf-Confident Onii-chan alright
Top Chat: No doubt
Top Chat: So he really does love elves!
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