Side Profiles and Irises ~Yes, No, or Maybe Half: Spinoff~: Volume 3: Block It Out by Ichiho Michi

Author:Ichiho Michi [Ichiho Michi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: daydrop

Shitara Sousuke had finished his nearly 10-year temporary transfer around the country and would be back at the Tokyo headquarters. Plus he had been assigned as showrunner and executive producer for The News, the network’s nightly news program that would be re-premiering with a brand-new overhaul of the show—they had thrown all their bets on him to revive it from the brink of death. The topic had received a lot of attention even inside the network where rumors ran rampant only to be forgotten just as quickly.

“So is this a case of sleeping on firewood and tasting gall?”1

“More like the old man and the horse, you never know what the future has in store. A lot of things have happened, and the executives who hated Shitara back in the day basically retired or lost their jobs.”

“But if he flops here, he’ll really be done for this time. It seems more like harassment to me. If I were him, I’d stick around the local stations and take it easy out there.”

He didn’t even have to seek it out, and the warblings would reach his ears anyway. But there was no need for Sakae to do anything about it or even think anything about it. He had received no contact from Shitara as he moved around from place to place, and Sakae didn’t reach out to him either. Maybe he had found a new “favorite” he wanted to foster out there. They worked for the same corporation; it was easy enough to get in touch if he wanted to, but Shitara had chosen to go silent, and Sakae was Sakae, he regretted that they had slept together that one time on an impulse—to be blunt about it, he wanted to forget that it even happened. Even with the news that Shitara would be back at the headquarters after all this time, his only reaction was to click his tongue.

But still, they worked in different departments and on different floors, as long as he didn’t create any points of contact between them, there was nothing to worry about. And if he was unlucky enough to come across him in the building, Sakae could just ignore him. That was what he thought. But then that day came—and they promptly ran into each other at the elevator hall.

“Oh, Sakae.”

He should have ignored him completely, but Sakae found himself frozen in his tracks—because Shitara’s appearance was that stupid and that ridiculous. Even more than two years later, Sakae hated himself for reacting to it. Shitara was wearing a pastel-colored cardigan tied around his shoulders over a dress shirt in the so-called “producer style.” It was so damn cliched that it would only be found in a sketch comedy skit. Was he passed around the local stations so much that it had screwed up his clothing sense? Sakae was horribly shaken for a moment, but when Shitara said “It’s been a while. How have you been?” to strike up a conversation, Sakae came to his senses and made a U-turn right then and there.

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