Lui: J-job? Me?
Daiji: Well yeah, I mean I do everything myself,from getting the content ideas, editing, sound effects, etc. Everything by myself, and as you well know, I get tired. Well, as you know, I spend only 15 minutes on all of them, but it really puts me down a lot sometimes.
Lui (thinking): 15 minutes?! I can't handle it anymore. I think I will punch him out of jealousy, which I have never even felt this much in my life. And with him being in front of me, I could easily beat the hell out of him. But what am I saying?! He is a prodigy. The simple fact is that I just can't take it that he does a better job than me without even trying much.
And still, he offered me a job. Can I even do this job? I mean, all this time I wanted a job to earn money so badly, yet now that a job is mentioned, I froze up like this. What am I? Why am I like this? Is this fear? No, then what is this uneasy feeling that I have? Why do I fear saying yes to him?! And why do I feel at ease by thinking of no as a reply?! WHY?!!!!
Daiji: So about my offer… do you wanna work with me?
Lui (thinking): Say it! Say it! Say it! Just say yes!! Just say yes! Don't turn away! Fight! Fight! We need money! Fight, fight, fight! Don't turn away, don't turn away, please please!
speaks up
Lui: I will think about it!!
Daiji: Uh, I get it. I guess I rushed you a bit.
Lui (thinking): What did you do?! You scum! Human garbage! Why did you say that?! Why did you run away from the very opportunity you had?! You are a fool. You think that you will have a better opportunity than this?! Idiot! All you do is eat, you pig! Why do you have such a high ego?! Why?! What do you think of jobs? You think you will earn a job of high status?! What do you think is going to happen to you? Huh?! You think you gonna get famous or shit?! Bullshit! Stop living in your goddamn small world! Stop it! Stop it! I want to earn money! I want to help my parents! I want to suffer!
starts sobbing, a tear leaves his eye
Daiji: Huh?! Lui, are you okay?! What are you?! Why are you cr...
Lui: Shut up! Shut up! I-I am not crying, I just have my eyes dehydrated.
Daiji: B-but you…
Lui: That's all it is. As I said, that's all it is. I want to go home now. I will think about your offer.
Daiji: Well, sure… hope you get better.
leaves Daiji's house and is at the door of Daiji's house
Lui (thinking): I am so embarrassed!! How could i let that tear fall from my eye?! Stupid! I feel hot inside my chest! I don't think I can hold this much. It feels like I am just a domino piece waiting to fall over! Shut up! Hold it, hold it, hold it! No matter what you have to do, hold it until you get home. Then do whatever you want, just hold it. Don't crash out here in this moment. Don't leave me like this, body.
meanwhile inside Daiji's house
Daiji: Did I rush him a lot? No, I mean I just asked him normally. I never did anything to pressure him to accept. Well, he doesn't work, so I just gave him a job… or did I step into a conflict area for him? He was even crying! I can't believe I let him go out alone like that. I really should follow him, I gotta help him.
rushes to help but stops
No, if I do that he will think I am looking down on him. I gotta help, but I can't. Ah! I shouldn't have told him anything about the job!!?? Thinking about it, he was really looking forward to my strategies. He was looking with all that admiration and trying to analyze everything that I did, so of course he would end up like that. Who knows how he has been in MeTube. He even tried to ask me for help. Tsk, I really want to help him out. After all, I can't just stand around here right now.
meanwhile outside Lui
Lui: Great, so now there are a lot of people out here! Huh?! It is in times like this as always. I don't know what I can call it or not, but now I don't even give a damn about all those people. I could even stare at all of them. It's just that something inside me twists in times of crisis, or like pressure building up inside of me. Well, I still feel like crying, but seeing them all makes me want to go so high above everyone else.
what Lui sees
That office man going to his job, that driver waiting, that woman thinking their kid is best, or that old man there waiting for time to pass since he doesn't have anything to do at all.
grins
Lui (thinking): As if I am any better than all of them! I can't get not even a single j-job to be so afraid of it. I guess after all I gotta be an alien. It's just not normal. I am not a human.
a white car passes by and the driver in it is...
Lui: Huh? Where have I seen that face? He looks familiar? No, it's not familiar, it gives these vibes of a sticky person. Tsk, I am reading too much on this. I better get home.
Lui gets closer while watching the car slowly passing
Lui: Tsk! Why?! Now!!!
Lui runs back to Daiji's house and knocks as hard as he can while screaming:
Lui: Open the dooor!!!!
Daiji: He came back!! Did he come to accept the job?! Lui!!
Daiji opens the door
Lui: Daiji, close the door now!!!!
Daiji: Huh?! Why?! What happened!!
Lui: Close it now!!!