Night. One room in the Luciferin Dust headquarters building.
Four people who appeared on the discussion show two weeks ago to turn to the anti-backstreet side for a discussion and even expressed their support for Luciferin Dust - Grimmpenis chairman Cornelis Van Dam, U.S. ambassador to Japan Sarah Demon, political scientist Sajiro Ozuki, and critic Uenohara Uenosuke.
The four of them were viewing all of Van Damme's interview videos, which were given online earlier. Van Dam's call brought us together to see and share our thoughts.
It's not just how you feel about the video, it's how you feel about that reaction. Individual itan views of Mika and Van Dam, whether on the back streets or on the front streets, are the subject of discussion. It was also decided shortly on television that it would be shown, and the confirmation came from the TV station to Van Damme as well. Van Damme of course acknowledges this instantly.
"Inside...... that's a sharp cut. There are also many painful ear areas......"
I said it with the intention of choosing the most unobstructed words possible, with Big Moon laughing bitterly.
"I would have said that Mr. Van Damme is unique to himself... There should be self-criticism."
Ueno shifts his gaze in the direction of the day after tomorrow and makes a loving laugh.
I find it hard to complain face to face with this man, who was a big man more overwhelmingly than himself, who was a big moon and Ueno, who I find sincerely abhorrent about Vandam's criticism of the show. They are, in fact, weak in authority and power.
"You seem to have grown more fond of Mr. Van Damme himself around the prestigious criticism of the organization"
"It's hard to lose my reputation by eating tissue entanglements. This is a natural measure."
Van Damme answers arrogantly to Sarah's words, which can also be taken as seemingly ironic, spoken without fear.
"Some people are spokesmen because of this, and our claims should be properly disseminated."
We see the Great Moon and the Ueno plains, respectively, Vandam tells us.
"Did you calculate that much in a moment?
"Of course it is. It would be more convenient with you."
Van Damme answers lightly on the New Year's Eve, which asks in a modest tone.
"You're also a good seller of information. Van Damme seems to like this informer, and he even pushes it back."
"Hmm. He saw it as promising in the future."
Vandamm nods in agreement to Sarah's praise.
(I don't care. I checked with this informer and he was originally a reporter in the morning shitty newspaper.)
That's what I thought Ueno, but I still don't put it in my mouth. More than New Year's Eve, he was a bearer of a nature that could not resist the strong.
Eventually, Big Moon and Ueno left the room, and later Vandam and Sarah remained.
"I'll take care of them."
"Don't you trust me? Mr. Van Damme, I said you'd be my spokesman."
The moment she was gone, Sarah was stunned by Van Damme, who exposed her disdain as if she had changed panthers.
"That's just a social dictionary. I don't trust people who have a bad New Year's Eve in particular, but who are only interested in their own desires and ambitions and have no morality. Standing above people - or more so if you're in a responsible position."
"I don't think that type from anyone, not just Mr. Van Damme, deserves to believe. Did they look that type?
"I didn't care how you looked at it. I can see that. I'm ashamed, because I used to, too. I've changed my mind since I married my current wife."
Van Damme smiling lightly.
"Big Moon and Ueno, those two look like opposite poles at first glance, but the roots are the same. I'm just in ideological business for my status and my earnings. Luciferin Dust also uses it for this purpose. Sure, I've tried them now, and I think it's a good idea to use them as spokesmen, but at the same time, I'm skeptical of those guys. I don't mind being greedy. But... I take care of sheep as a shepherd, but sometimes those people in those hands treat livestock badly"
Sarah is increasingly shy of Van Damme's unsolicited logic.
"I don't know about you comparing people to livestock. And in terms of doing business with ideas, you're the same person, right?
"That's why it's inbred hatred. That's why I can't trust those two people who don't protect the area I'm protecting. It's only because I was once oh that I can understand. I repeat, those who live only for their own greed or decency are not worthy to believe."
"At the point of purposefully saying that, I do know very well that Mr. Van Damme once did, too. Only that part is very convincing."
To Sarah's words, smiling and mouthing, Vandam smiled bitterly, letting her shoulders shrug.
Mika had a reluctant look after watching Van Dam's interview footage at the Snow Oka Institute.
"You said you hated me too! But I'm sure he's a big man too!
Referring to what was touched on about why it had been two weeks, Mika says.
"I guess Mr. Van Damme's suspicion of Luciferin Dust was more than just a pose, huh? I wonder if he meant it. Neither does criticism of the show seem to be just a statement to protect public opinion. Of course, calculations based on my impressions are not included."
And with his hand on his chin and his imaginary face, Junko said.
"The reaction on the internet is also well received. Some writings say it's like a one-horse hit between Van Dam and Sister Mika...... Van Damme doesn't seem like a rider, and thankfully, it doesn't seem to happen."
"What are you thankful for!?
Mika responds to Midori's words.
"That's the way it is. Kaiqiyama's Van Dam is the opponent, Mika's sister will have a heavy load of opponents."
"Gu......!
Without hesitation, Mika's face is distorted.
(Midori's right. Honestly, you'd be lucky to avoid a confrontation with Van Damme. That's who Junko deserves)
I sneak around for a long time.
At that time, an e-mail enters Shizuku's cell phone. I was surprised to see the sender's name. It says Luciferin Dust. I did give my business card to Luciferin Dust's building receptionist. I didn't expect to hear from you so soon.
The content of the email was a request to have each and every one of them interviewed by their supporters as they were. It even says that when something happens, he wants the neutral position to be maintained so that he can also take on the mediator with the back street side.
I intended to do so even if I didn't get a request from Luciferin Dust in the first place, but it is significant that he was nominated by the other side to cover me and approved. That gives me even more attention.
"Oh! You did it!
Mika cheered when Yoshiku showed the email to the three girls.
"The request to be in a neutral position is important. I'm going to complain about this with dignity because it's nothing more than a prospect of taking a word for it."
Junko gives the nail.
"Are you saying that whether you give a clear answer to this or not will change developments dramatically in the future?
"That's not likely. If you don't react, or refuse to respond, you will appeal to the perception that Yoshiku, the interviewer, is on the back street side, and if you state that you are neutral, that will make it easier. It's hard to say neutral, actually. Come on."
That being the case, Yoshiku laughed bitterly. I'm trying to interview them in a nuance that explores Luciferin Dust because of a request from Backstreet Central. If they show a gap, they're supposed to report it to the center, too. It can't be neutral.
"I don't know what's wrong with them, even the sweet ones, that just make sense with promises."
"In the first place, it's a request received by Luciferin Dust, but you're not just going to do it in the form of interviews, are you?"
Midori poked at her troubled brother-in-law.
"It's not an interview equals investigation. The purpose of the interview is only to get close to them. The initial purpose is to have contact with them in the form of interviews and to get close. If they admit it, I think they've accomplished a great deal. I need to interview each and every one of you and think about what's going to happen."
What the centre wants most is the weakening of Luciferin Dust. If we can find a gap to put something in, that would be the best achievement. Ideally, Yoshiku or Mika will cut the power of Luciferin Dust directly.
"Use me!
Mika gets up and points at herself with her thumb and appeals.
"I told you in an interview, let someone of them talk to me! In the meantime I took a lag with multiple leads, but not this time!
"Mika... the other day I argued with Mika, they're all the kind of people who came first from their mouths, aren't they? Even if it's one-on-one, it's Mika's extra hand, right?
"To ease Luciferin Dust's hostility to the rigged back streets! To show its legitimacy! To show the significance of existence! I'll try as much as I can! I've said this and this before!
Junko tells me clearly, but Mika didn't pull it off.
"Heh heh... Even though Sister Mika sees it as worthy of the back street itself, the residents of the front street don't think that at all, do they? Even the residents of the back street, many of whom are getting sloppy and masochistic, can't accept Mika's style of complaining grandly about the existence of the back street?
"In fact, the reaction from the residents on the back street to Mika, who was on the other discussion show, is also dichotomous. There are many negative opinions."
Midori and Yoshiku continued to say, but Mika didn't seem to flinch.
"Still, I'll try as much as I can! You can't just pull in like this! What are you gonna do when you get masochistic because you're a stickler in society anyway, even though it might be important to get involved in the survival of the back street in the first place! What do those who can only live in the back streets do without defending their place for themselves!
I think that's right, while Yoshiku reminds me of Vandam's words.
"But that's why I don't know about a backstreet informant."
It would be a great lie to say that where I live now is really right for me or that I am not lost for a long time. Van Damme has spotted it and poked it precisely.
"Public debate is not just a bad word or reason to beat someone. It's important to attract those who are watching. A lot of Japanese arbiters don't even know that. Mika, I don't know who you want to talk to, but you better be aware of third parties, not who you're talking to."
Yoshiku sends advice to Mika along with a sense of driving her mind away somewhere.
"Answer! Remember the liver!
Mika shouts her fist out toward Shizuku and screams with an invincible grin.
"If Mika's words were convincing and resounding in many people's minds, that wouldn't be the only powerful contradiction and contradiction in the back street. What we need now is public opinion."
"Heh, I wonder why Jun wants to solve it violently while she knows it."
When I heard Junko's words, Midori poked.
"Well, Mika's public conversation battle is still ahead of us, even if we do. Now I'm going to keep interviewing the tunnel. In the process, there may be some changes."
There are three candidates for interviews at the moment. Those who once went on a discussion show with Mika and then expressed themselves in supporters.
"In the meantime, I'll get back to Luciferin Dust. I can't ignore it..."
Yoshiku decided that he was not neutral at the moment and did not intend to be neutral in the future, but that there was only one way to go, which was to tell him that he would be neutral in time.