Chapter 7: Chapter 7 - Doing a Photo Shoot
At this time, Jake saw 5 girls come up to him. The 5 girls are each extremely beautiful and looked the same with pearl pink hair, but with a few different characteristics.
"Hello, we were just wondering, if you are lost?" The girl in the middle asked cheerfully. The girl in the middle has a bunny eared shaped ribbon on her head.
"No, it's just that when I go to the register to buy clothes, the people at the register are too scared to operate the register," Jake replied puzzled at why they came up to him.
"Why though, you don't look scary at all?" The one on the far left asked Jake, as he was sitting down, making his frame much smaller. The one on the far left speaks a bit more charmingly.
"It's because of my big frame, see," Jake responded as he stood up, as he understood why they were not scared of him.
"Wow, how did you get your muscles to be this big, you look like a warrior!" Exclaimed the last girl on the left, as all 5 of the girls saw how large Jake's frame is. This girl wears wireless headphones around her neck and looks more shy.
"I trained really hard to get these muscles, and I don't most people think I look like a warrior, most people think I look like a gangster," Jake said helplessly, as he wondered what they were going to use as an excuse to leave.
"If you know that people are scared of your size, why don't you stop training, why do you keep whining about it," Scoffed the girl on the far right at Jake. The girl has twin butterfly shaped hair accessories on each side of her head.
"It's so that I am stronger, so when I fight, it is easier to protect people," Jake said firmly, slightly angry at the girl for making it sound like his strength is useless.
"What do you need to protect, it's not like it is in the ancient times where there were no guns, like seriously, do you think your muscles can help you protect people from bullets, I think you should just stop trying to act tough. No matter how strong you are, can you block a bullet," The girl continued, as outside the mall, on the top of a very tall building, a sniper is aiming at her.
"Mission target found, waiting for confirmation of target," The sniper said into his headset.
"I won't bother with you, you have obviously never been beaten by society, as you have never thought that if you anger me, I could easily kill you and your sisters, and it doesn't matter if I can't stop a bullet, because they will need time to react before they can fire, which I will kill you in that time, and you would be dead, even if I die as well, you are already dead," Jake said angrily while releasing a hint of killing intent, before he noticed that there was killing intent of someone else aimed at the girls.
"Confirmed target, firing in 3… 2… 1… fire," The sniper heard in his headset. As he heard that the sniper fired the sniper rifle, before quickly moving to another location.
As the bullet was zooming aimed at the girls head, Jake quickly slapped out his hand, grabbing the bullet, but startling the girls to scream.
"Ahh, what do you think you are doing!" The girl with butterfly hair accessories screamed, as the other girls also quickly fell to the ground, very scared.
"Ah, it's been a long time since I've caught a bullet, I was careless. do you know anyone that wants you or your sisters dead?" Jake said to himself, as he opened his palm before he asked the girls.
"What do you mean someone wants us dead?" The girl with butterfly accessories asked Jake, before seeing the bullet that dropped from Jake's palm and seeing blood fall from it.
During his daily life, Jake wears the Supression Amulet, so that if he wants to play something or just in his daily life, it won't be so boring.
"Are you alright, do you need me to call an ambulance?" The girl asked Jake anxiously after she realised that he protected her.
"No, it will heal very shortly, it only barely penetrated my skin," Jake replied, not fussed about the injury, as the bleeding began to stop, before continuing, "Are you girls okay, if so I am going to catch that sniper?"
"Yes, we are okay, but it is dangerous to find the sniper, you should call security, it will be safer," The girl said with her voice still trembling from the fright.
"No, it will only take a minute or two," Jake responded before disappearing from view, only to come back a minute later holding a person and a sniper in the other hand. He gave the person and the sniper to security before going to the girls and asking if they are okay.
"We are okay, thank you for saving us, my name is Nino Nakano," The girl with the butterfly hair accessories introduced herself.
"My name is Yotsuba Nakano," The cheerful girl with the bunny eared shaped ribbon introduced.
"My name is Ichika Nakano," the girl with the charming voice introduced herself.
"My name is Miku Nakano," the shy girl with wireless headphones introduced herself.
"My name is Itsuki Nakano," the last girl introduced herself. She wears two star shaped hairpins.
"My name is Jake, I've got to go, if we see each other again, you can say hi," Jake replied to them, before beginning to walk away.
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At the same time, at a photo shoot.
"You can't be serious, your his manager, and you can't even get him to show up!" A fit pink haired man berated a very ordinary looking brown haired man wearing a suit and glasses.
"And this isn't the first time he has been late either. Lately your little no called no show has been slacking!" The pink haired man continued.
"I'm so sorry," The brown haired man said, uncomfortable with how close the pink haired man is getting.
"I absolutely despise men who don't take their work seriously!" The pink haired man finished before looking to the side, completely annoyed.
"I'm so very sorry," The brown haired man said as his phone began to ring. He picked up the call and said to the pink haired man, "One sec."
After a few seconds the brown haired man said to the pink haired man, "Okay, so apparently, he hasn't read my text, but he's on his way very soon."
"You didn't even speak to him directly!" The pink haired man completely snapped, trying to go over to the brown haired man to have a fight.
At this time, a green haired man held the pink haired man back, struggling while saying, "We've still got an hour, Hikaru."
After a very short while, Hikaru had slightly calmed down, as he said annoyed, "Oh yeah, that's fine, I mean the theme for the shoot is only called 'My hot boyfriend and me, a sweet week of heart pounding shopping in a fashionable district'!"
"It's not like we really need a boyfriend at all, huh?" Hikaru asked a rhetorical question.
"He will be here soon," The brown haired man said back to Hikaru.
"Look at her, she's been sitting here since this morning," Hikaru said while looking at a very beautiful girl, with
"Oh me, there's nothing to worry about," The girl said as she lifted her head off her phone to reply to Hikaru.
"Miu, don't spoil him like that," Hikaru replied before thinking aloud, "Still, we are in a pickle, everyone here has other things booked after this!"
"Yes, I am so sorry, the thing is, it hasn't started yet," A girl with brown hair in a ponytail said to her phone, as she was calling someone.
After hearing this, the brown haired man tried to smile at Hikaru, which ticked Hikaru off, so he glared at the man angrily.
"Ah, I have got one last resort," Hikaru sighed before saying to himself.
"And what's that?" The green haired man asked Hikaru.
"Since I have been forced into this position, I have no other option!" Hikaru said with purpose.
"We don't have any other choice, we will have to find someone photogenic here," He continued.
"You know it won't be easy finding someone photogenic here," The green haired man said to Hikaru.
"You're right, it won't," Hikaru replied back before continuing, "I can't do street courter snapshots of amateurs again, do you here me!"
Hikaru began to press the green haired man back against the wall before finishing saying, "Don't make me smack your bottom, I will!"
"No, anything but that!" The green haired man exclaimed with fear in his voice.
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After some time has passed, Jake is now going down an escalator, deciding to try again another day.
"Mmm, this white noise is intolerable," Hikaru said as he and the green haired man where going up the same escalator, when he caught sight of Jake.
With his eyes shining, he said, "That's our guy!" As he began to follow Jake.
After about 3 minutes, Hikaru caught up with Jake, tapping him on the shoulder. Jake looked back annoyed, to see who was following him since the escalator.
"Hmm, hello, would you like to be in a photo shoot?" Hikaru asked Jake, before continuing to explain, "You see, we were meant to use a stuck-up brat in this shoot, but he hasn't shown up, so can you please help us!"
"Okay, I can give it a shot," Jake replied.
At the photo shoot, Jake has been having photos taken for a little while.
At this time, Hikaru has been praising him and Miu, while continuing to direct the shoot.
"Beautiful, wonderful, the camera loves you!"
"Give me a smile, Jake, bigger and more natural!"
"Now a spicy sideways glance,"
"Hmm, now crank up the sexiness"
"For the next shot, move over to the stairs," Hikaru directed.
"Okay, Jake, this way," Miu replied before showing Jake where the next shot will be.
"Next up, I want you two to be linking arms," Hikaru continued, as Miu did as he asked.
"For the next shot, Miu, try linking your arms around his neck," Hikaru continued.
After the shot, the green haired man said to Hikaru, "Looks like we will finish, right on time."
"Right, the kid's a natural," Hikaru replied amazed.
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At this time, in the other world. In a castle, by a window, there is the girl Jake saved from the goblin general. She is wearing a green dress and is laying in a bed.
She asked to herself, "Who was he?"
She got out of bed, and began to walk in the direction to go outside the castle. While she was walking to the outside of the castle, she went through a place where there appeared what seemed to be knights.
One of the knights noticed her and asked, "Your highness, where are you going?"
To which she replied firmly, "Isn't it obvious, back to him!"
"What?" The knight asked to make sure.
"The one who saved me at the darkest regions," The girl replied, as she began to continue to walk.
"What, are you still going on about that?" The knight asked puzzled, before continuing, "How many times do I have to tell you, the forest isn't a place where humans can live!"
The girl then replied with, "That's why I have to find him. As a member of the royal family, I must express my gratitude to the person who saved my life!"
"You were just exposed to terrible danger there, and now you are talking about going back," The knight said to the girl.
"Don't you worry, you'll be coming along with me!" The girl stated firmly to the knight, while still walking.
"Aargh, honestly, what side of your family did you inherit this madness from?" The knight asked the girl.
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Some time has passed and the shoot has now been going on for a while, and it has finally finished.
"Good work today, here you go," A lady with glasses at the shoot praised to Jake while giving him a cup of coffee.
"Thank you, I could take a coffee right now," Jake thanked the lady while receiving the coffee.
"I apologise, for getting you wrapped up in all of this," Miu apologised to Jake, before continuing, "Are you tired?"
"Not really, but I think that it was fun doing the photo shoot, so don't apologise," Jake replied to Miu.
Jake and Miu began to talk to each other, both of them having big smiles on their faces, as Hikaru took photos of them while saying, "Now that's what I call a shot!"
"Sup, you guys ready for me," A boy with blonde hair, green eyes, and looking like a douche said to the staff of the shoot.
After this he went up to Miu and began harassing her, pushing her up against a wall.
Jake went up to him, and said, "You had better let Miu go, she doesn't like you, and to be honest, I can't see why anyone would even like you, you are such a douche!"
"What did you say!" The douche boy snarled at Jake while turning his head, before throwing a punch.
Jake easily caught the punch before slamming the boy into the ground, saying while shaking his head, "I didn't expect that someone's punch could be see weak and out of form."
Almost immediately after the boy was slammed into the ground, all the viewers immediately cheered for Jake.
The boy began to crawl up off the ground saying in disbelief, "That's impossible, I do boxing, so how could you beat me!"
Hikaru went next to him and squatted down, saying, "Just so you know, we recorded the whole thing."
"What, delete it now!" The boy exclaimed while glaring at Hikaru.
"First of all, apologise to the sport of boxing, and never insult my work, princess," Hikaru belittled the boy, which embarrassed him. The boy got up and ran away shouting, "Screw you all!"
"Jake, thank you for what you did back there," Miu thanked Jake for preventing the douche from harassing her, bowing down.
"It's okay, the douche was extremely weak," Jake replied.
"What a clown, you aren't hurt?" Hikaru asked the two. To which they both responded that they weren't.
"His career is finished, that kids behaviour has always been insufferable, now no one will give him work," Hikaru continued to say.
"I feel kind of relieved, lately he's been low key stalking me, but I think that's through," Miu said with relief.
"Hmm, I'm sorry I didn't pay closer attention, let's tell the director and have him officially dealt with," Hikaru apologised to Miu and offered a solution, to which she agreed.
"Jake, since we are doing that, how would you feel about doing more modelling work in the future, you have a brightness to you, in this world that is a rarity," Hikaru told Jake.
"Sign an exclusive contract with us, we will be happy to have you, and I will make sure you will never be unhappy with the income," He finished talking.
"I appreciate the offer, but I would like to refuse, but if you are ever in a pinch like this time again, if I am free, I could fill in," Jake replied, while offering to do it again as he enjoyed it.
"Very well, it's done, I will respect your feelings, youth is a time to challenge yourself in different ways," Hikaru replied to Jake, before giving him a bunch of bags full with clothes.
"Here, please, have them," Hikaru told Jake.
"Okay, I thank you for them, and if you ever need help, I will give you my phone number, this goes for Miu as well, if you have anyone stalking you or you feel like you are in a dangerous situation, you can call me," Jake thanked Hikaru for the gift before giving him and Miu his phone number.
After they talked for a while, Jake decided to go home, so he said goodbye to the crew, and went home.
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Near nighttime, in a car are Hikaru and Miu, Hikaru sighed while saying, "It really is a shame, if he said yes I am sure he could rise to instant stardom."
"Agreed," Miu replied.
"It's sad, he felt like he has bound himself with responsibilities at his age, you could tell from his eyes that he would like to at least try out the entertainment industry," Hikaru continued to say, "But forcing people into things is borish."
"It is. I can't put my finger on it, but he was different to most people, I would love to work with him again," Miu replied to Hikaru.
"Oh my, oh my my my, do my eyes deceive me, our little Miu is blushing!" Hikaru exclaimed.
"What, no, she isn't!" Miu replied, flustered.
"Are you sure?" Hikaru teasingly asked rhetorically.
"Stop teasing me Hikaru!" Miu retorted.
"Oh honestly, I see those apple cheeks," Hikaru continued to tease.
"There's nothing going on with my cheeks," Miu continued to retort.
"Girl, maybe go tell that to your face," Hikaru said.
"I said stop!" Miu whined.