[After the band became famous.]
[STARRY, located in Shimokitazawa, turned into a pilgrimage site for fans. Fans from all over the country, and even from around the world, listed your "starter village" as the first stop of their holy tour.]
[Toru began to consider whether it was time to move.]
[For convenience, you, your older sister, and Toru had been living on the second floor of the live house. The space was not small.]
[Aside from the large crowds and the noise, there were not many downsides.]
[But when people become famous, trouble follows. Continuing to live there would cause serious problems.]
[Left with no choice, you began looking for a new place to live.]
[During this time, the band received an invitation from a TV station to appear as guest interviewees.]
[On an Asahi TV program, you talked about the hardships along the way and expressed gratitude for Toru's efforts as your manager. Without him, the band's growth would not have gone so smoothly.]
[After the broadcast, online discussions about Toru naturally increased.]
[Fans were very curious. Who exactly was the manager you kept mentioning? Because of Toru's low profile over the years, there had been no information about him at all. Some uninformed casual fans even believed that Kessoku Band was an independent band without a manager.]
[Out of curiosity.]
[Fans searched through a large amount of video material and discovered that wherever you were active, there was always a man appearing in the background.]
[Some fans could not accept the fact that your manager was a same age man, and even a handsome one.]
…We are musicians, not idols.
In the eyes of ordinary people, shouldn't the private lives of rock musicians being messy be normal?
One word, chaotic.
Two words, decadent.
Throwing parties, taking drugs, fooling around with women.
Aren't those the usual stereotypes?
[After the manager was exposed, online discussions about a "harem band" increased, forming a major trend.]
[For a time, information digging became even more excessive.]
[Your relationships were gradually exposed by people with ulterior motives…]
[Toru is your distant relative.]
[Hitori and Kita are his high school classmates.]
[Ryo is his ex girlfriend… fake, no one knows where that rumor came from.]
[A few more days passed.]
[They dug up even more information about Toru. Entrepreneur, graduate of the University of Tokyo medical department, child actor during middle school…]
[The more they dug, the stranger these fans' expressions became.]
[Toru was clean to the point of being like a living saint. No scandals at all. Young, accomplished, handsome. The only things that could be used to smear him were probably his private life, and that entrepreneur identity.]
[Hating the rich is human nature.]
[But with even a little investigation, they would discover—]
[Toru has an excellent reputation within the industry.]
[He does not act like an entrepreneur, but more like someone doing charity.]
[The companies run by Toru are all ethical businesses, opening up vast blue ocean markets and accumulating massive wealth without exploiting employees.]
[After achieving financial freedom.]
[Toru might further increase his social influence.]
[Within three years, win the Nobel Prize in Medicine and solve cancer and leukemia.]
[Within five years, develop super AI.]
[Within eight years, manufacture quantum computers.]
[Within fifteen years, research controllable nuclear fusion, mine helium 3 from the moon, and increase social productivity.]
[Within twenty years, create life extending medicine and greatly increase human lifespan.]
[Within fifty years, lead human society into a utopia.]
[Within sixty years, achieve free exploration within the solar system.]
Pfft…
They say it like it is real.
This is killing me.
[Theoretically speaking, Toru can absolutely achieve all of this.]
[In fact, his talents are being wasted.]
Huh?
Wasn't that a joke?
[Reminder: Toru's talent is "Unity of Heaven and Man", already reaching the limits of humanity.]
Wait, Unity of Heaven and Man?
Isn't the highest talent level supposed to be Shaking the Past and Present?
[Would you like the simulator to list the talent tiers?]
Nijika felt like it was padding content.
Like some novel authors who have nothing to write and start listing data to inflate word count and fool readers.
[Talent tiers, from lowest to highest: Useless, Very Common, One-in-a-hundred, Once in a Thousand Years, Admired by All, Prodigy, Peerless, Shaking the Past and Present, Transcendent, Returning to Simplicity, Unity of Heaven and Man.]
"One, two, three, four…"
Nijika counted for quite a while.
Wait…
The eleventh tier?
She was not seeing things, right?
You have to know, with the help of support cards, Nijika's talent had only just reached the seventh tier.
And even then, there were still four tiers in between.
If not for Shio, she might be even further behind.
The gap was that huge.
Was the world in Toru's eyes really the same as hers?
[Master does not need to think too much.]
[With the functions of the Ultimate Mom Simulator, Master can fully keep up with Toru's pace.]
[As long as Master is willing to have more children.]
Tsk tsk.
After going around in such a big circle, it turned out to just be a scheme to encourage childbirth?
Unfortunately, Nijika had no intention of having a second child.
One child, Shio, was enough.
Anyway, when the simulator draws talent rewards, it only selects one baby. Having more children might actually dilute the prize pool.
"Speaking of which, during the first simulation, Toru-kun's talent did not seem this high, right?"
Nijika noticed something was wrong.
Her memory was quite good.
Combined with the simulator repeatedly mentioning "main unit" and "sub unit", and Toru's abnormal behavior during the simulations…
Could it be that Toru also had a simulator?
Let me guess…
A career simulator?
Nijika's suspicion was not unfounded.
Because in every simulation, Toru would change professions, and never repeat the same one.
Eight simulations already.
Some things, once patterns emerge, Nijika could guess most of it.
The current situation was very simple.
The enemy is in the open, I am in the dark.
"My advantage seems pretty big," Nijika muttered to herself.
Compared to the other girls in Kessoku Band who did not have a simulator, she could use the simulator to gain a large amount of favorability from Toru.
With this kind of advantage, Nijika truly did not know how she could lose.
"No wonder the simulator can reward favorability."
So she had been playing an online co op game with someone all along.
What was this supposed to be?
Online dating and then meeting in real life?
[The storm came quickly and left just as fast.]
[Fans did not cling to this bit of dirt, since it was not a big deal.]
[A harem is a harem, after all you are a rock band—]
[wooo!! That is so rock!!]
[rock and roll!! Long live rock!!]
Hey, hey, hey.
Isn't rock way too powerful as an all purpose immunity card?
No wonder Ryo uses it as an excuse every day.
As the designated straight man, Nijika was truly left speechless.