Yashiro wonders why it became about being insistent on Kyouko’s need to put emoticons in mail. He assumes that Ren is still furious about Kyouko sending an emoticon to Kijima yet Ren won’t directly say ‘send me one every time’ and he would resort to this petty trick.
Even if he is stubborn but Kyouko can only agree to Ren. Yashiro wonders if he is once again taken advantage of for Ren’s goal. A strategy of pretending to be a good person. Ren says that it’s great that the situation isn’t like how he misunderstood it to be.
After a pause, Kyouko says that sure enough, he has seen through her. She is feeling gloomy because of her mother so he specially came to see her, right? Ren says, yes, it is more or less that.
At that time when she acted as his manager, seeing her like that when she is studying for the entrance exam, it gave him a deep impression that her parents are very strict towards her. Kyouko says that she doesn’t have ‘parents’, she doesn’t have a father and the one who is strict with her is her mother.
When she was a child, she couldn’t have a harmonious relationship with her. On top of that, after a long time, they have no communication. Yesterday, she got a [psychological] shock so on that night, she cried loudly and caused him trouble. Ren says that her mood is better now so could it be that something happened that caused their relationship to ease up.
Kyouko recalls putting her head on Saena’s shoulder. She looks at Ren and happily says, “Yes.” Kyouko informs him about joining the second audition for a period drama. She also tells him that Kanae will also be there to play the female lead of a samurai ojousama.
Having a ninja pose, Kyouko says that she will play a female ninja protecting that ojousama, Momiji. The two guys look surprised. Ren says that actually, he would think that she would want to play the ojousama compared to the ninja. Kyouko exclaims no for Chidori has to be played by Kanae.
She starts raving about Kanae being an ojousama whom she’ll bet her life on to protect. Yashiro asks if it is ‘Lotus in the Mud’. She says that it is. Yashiro says as expected for he felt that he heard the names of those roles before. Kyouko asks if he already read the original novel [/work].
Yashiro says that he had more or less seen it when it was given to him as material to be skimmed through. It was asked whether or not Ren can play that ronin [wandering masterless samurai] role. This surprises both Ren and Kyouko.
Kyouko mentally doesn’t want that to happen for Ren doesn’t suit playing a ronin. Yashiro says that was a long time ago. At that time, Ren has decided to play crazy actor X. The schedule is earlier and Ren won’t have the energy to accept it anymore.
That is because the schedule is compact and there will be an overseas shooting. Imagining a Japanese style Cain as the ronin, Kyouko scowls that preferred image totally crashes [/matches?]. Yashiro thinks that it is still in audition stage, in other words, the shooting has not yet started, right.
Kyouko thinks that’s right, perhaps, they can still barely able to catch up and persuade [/mention it]. “Why did you have to refuse in place of Ren, Yashiro-san!! Aren’t you a capable manager who has good taste?”