Homura Wants to be the Male Lead

The Minamiya Family is a large financial conglomerate, so they have a group of people under their employ to handle matters that they cannot attend to in person. This is completely normal!

In fact, neither Sagiri nor Mashiro knew about this, so Homura had a headache trying to explain.

"Security company," Megumi said quietly.

"!!!"

Well, even though Homura was not sure, he guessed that the Minamiya Family must have a security company!

This explanation was completely OK and definitely true.

"Security company! No wonder!" Nanami exclaimed in realization.

As they watched Megumi playing with Haru; Utaha and Eriri suddenly felt like they had lost a round.

They had never imagined that when Homura was feeling troubled, it would be Megumi who quietly stepped forward to help him.

'Now Megumi's favorability rating in his heart must have increased significantly,' Eriri and Utaha both thought to themselves.

"Oh right, Nanami, how is the voice acting school?" Homura asked Nanami about her studies at the voice acting school.

"How?" Nanami thought for a moment. "It's just practicing lines over and over again!"

Homura pondered for a moment, then turned to Utaha. "Utaha-senpai, can you prepare a copy of Mitsuha's lines for Nanami?"

"Good idea!" Utaha nodded, handing the manuscript in her hands back to Homura. "I'll go do that now. Nanami really needs some time to practice."

"Thank you, Homura-kun. I'll work hard!" Nanami felt a surge of excitement in her heart. Was this going to be her first voice-acting job?

She had to give it her all! She couldn't mess this up! Otherwise, how could she face Homura?

"Hehe, no need to thank me." Homura chuckled. "Just make sure you give it your all and don't get too nervous."

As he spoke, he suddenly thought of something. Wasn't the voice acting part still having problems?

Nanami was here to voice Mitsuha, but what about the others?

Homura tried his best to think of talent in this field.

'Are there any other options besides Nanami? Can Utaha-senpai do it? But she might not agree... Speaking of which, Utaha-senpai and Mashiro's voices are very similar. It's almost like they're the same person if they spoke in the same tone! It's just that Mashiro has always been the silent type, so I haven't paid much attention to her.' {TN: They had the same Japanese VA in the anime which was Kayano Ai}

'What about Eriri? Forget it. I'll ask her if we have a tsundere character in the future.'

'As for Megumi... let's skip her for now. Unless she practices a lot, she probably can't complete this task at all.'

'Then there's Sagiri? Voicing Yotsuha? It feels a little strange.'

'Lastly, there's me... Wait? I should be able to do it! I have the System to help me!'

Homura was deep in thought when he slapped his thigh, attracting some sideways glances.

'If I have time, let's learn a voice acting skill and do the other characters!' Homura said inwardly then said to others, "Except for the main male and female characters, we can only outsource the other roles,"

"I thought you were thinking about something important. Is this what you were thinking about?" Eriri exclaimed, then said in a positive tone, "Yeah, voice actors are indeed a problem. There's only one Nanami, so there's nothing we can do but outsource it!"

"Homura, Nanami is the female lead. Who's the male lead?" Mashiro noticed the information in Homura's words.

"It's me!" Homura patted his chest.

"Haha!" Eriri chuckled. "You? Don't be ridiculous!"

"Why not? Don't believe me? When Nanami is ready, we can rehearse and see if I'm up to the task!" Homura suggested.

It was not possible for him to join immediately, as he didn't have the skill yet. If he came now, he would only lose face.

Eriri looked incredulous and said to Nanami, "Nanami, you should get familiar with the lines. I want to see if certain people can handle it!"

'I and Homura-kun will play the leading roles of female lead and male lead... I and Homura-kun will play the leading roles of female lead and male lead...' At this point, Nanami was in her own world and was about to faint, since this sentence kept repeating in her mind again and again.

Eriri was speechless. "When will Nanami overcome this shyness of hers?"

Utaha returned with the printed script and looked at Nanami with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong with Nanami? Did Mashiro do something again?"

Suddenly, As if struck by lightning; Mashiro realized that she had been accused, so she quickly said, "It's not me, it's Homura who wants to be her leading man."

Everyone except Nanami was speechless.

"My leading man?! Kyaaa!" She couldn't contain her excitement. Nanami finally fainted and fell onto the sofa, fully proving that the blame was not wrongly placed on Mashiro!

Everyone looked at Mashiro incredulously.

"Why did Nanami go to sleep so early?" Mashiro looked at her with a puzzled expression.

You're really dark, Mashiro! Are you sure you're not Makuro?!

Homura was about to wake Nanami up, but Megumi stopped him.

Seeing Homura's perplexed expression, Megumi explained, "Homura-kun, if you go wake up Nanami-chan, will she really not faint again?"

Homura: "..."

He felt embarrassed, it seemed that it was really possible!

"Should I hide for a while?"

"Well, Homura-kun, you go to the activity room first, leave the rest to us, and we'll continue working." Utaha assigned the work.

Homura shrugged and walked to his place, unfolding his work and adding the background to the game.

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Several girls, apart from Nanami, came to the activity room, and Sagiri also joined in to see what her brother and his friends were up to.

Eriri had already completed most of her work, so she seemed somewhat relaxed as she watched Homura use the programming script software he had optimized to quickly set up the necessary backgrounds and character expressions for the current plot.

"Homura, wait a minute!" Eriri suddenly stopped him. "Are you sure it's a good idea to use a smile in this scene?"

The screen on Homura's computer displayed the mental activity of Mitsuha, imagining a date of Taki and Okudera. Originally, Mitsuha unconsciously shed tears, but Homura's arrangement showed her with a closed-eyed smile.

Hearing Eriri's question, Homura smiled and asked, "Do you think this expression is inappropriate, Eriri?"

"How could it be appropriate! In this timeline, Mitsuha has already unknowingly fallen in love with Taki, right?" Eriri pointed out the problem. "Shouldn't a sad expression be used?"

"I'm also a bit conflicted about which one to use. Let's ask everyone's opinion since everyone is here."

Homura turned to Utaha and asked, "What do you think, Utaha-senpai? Is this expression appropriate?"

"Where? Oh, here!" Utaha glanced over and said, "Is there a problem? If it doesn't work with her eyes open, then closing them should be fine."

Eriri seemed a little surprised. Did this woman think that way?

"What do you think, Mashiro?"

"It's all good," Mashiro tilted her head.

All good? Mashiro is just neutral.

Finally, Homura asked Megumi, "Do you think this expression is okay?"

"It's okay, isn't it?" she replied. Then she added, "Or rather, it's probably the best to use this expression. Of course, that's just my personal opinion."

Sagiri was skipped since she didn't quite understand this work, so Homura didn't ask her.

Homura smiled and looked at Eriri, "So, what do you think?"