The Girl Nextdoor

Chapter 3: Monster

Days turned to weeks and weeks turned into months. Time went by like a flash. In those months, I've had several companies scouting me to also advertise their products after my stepfather's huge success and has now climbed into the rank of CEO from Regional Manager in just several months.

And during the days in those months, Shiro mysteriously began acting cold to everyone, especially to Suou Yuki for a reason I'm still not certain.

But needless to say, my father had exploited the fact that he's the producer of the idol group Noctchill and also made them advertise his company's products. This course of action not only made Ai and the others more famous but also attracted tons of customers into buying the items they were advertising.

This brilliant idea made him into the new CEO of the company in the first place.

And today marks the beginning of our shooting for an advertisement-like video that lasts for at least twenty minutes featuring my stepfather's company's clothes. My stepfather basically made Ai and I a love team here. If Ai and I act too closely, suspicions will surely arise about our relationship. Worst case scenario, some of Ai's fans might barge into her condo.

And right now, we were acting like it's the first time we are meeting.

After we finished making the video, I made sure to leave ten minutes after Ai left. Even though we didn't talk about what to do once the shooting of the video is finished, we seem to understand we were thinking quite well.

Upon arriving, I took a bath to freshen myself up and then sat next to Ai in the couch, watching the video at the TV that was just uploaded about a couple of hours ago. As told by the Director, Saitou-san, the upload time was at 7:00 o'clock in the evening at YouTube.

The editing sure was fast.

Anyway, it's currently 9:00 o'clock in the evening but the views were already at several tens of thousands of views. Looks like both of our fandoms were heavily anticipating this crossover.

[A/N: Ahem!]

Using my phone, I read through the comments. And much to my surprise, about 71% of the comments I've read were positive. It's as if it looked like they liked our chemistry even though I thought it was a bit awkward.

Comments such as,

<<Finally!>>

<<They look good together NGL>>

<<Ai Supremacy!✨⭐️🌟🛐>>

<<Kiyotaka Supremacy!🗿🗿🗿🛐>>

Why is mine a moai instead of a star emoji?

"Pft—!" Ai snorted.

Overnight, the video had reached a milestone of a couple of hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Until it eventually reached a couple of million of views. A success.

After that, Ai and I were invited to several shows to appear, whether it was drama, comedy shows and etc. Even though our screen time was just small, it still helped to produce even the slightest progress to my plan.

Until eventually we appeared in a local TV for an interview. For quite awhile now, I got accustomed being in the spotlight. Although that doesn't automatically mean I don't get uneasy being amongst the crowd whenever I head out.