SPOTLIGHT EVENT STORY TRANSLATION： Side Elite Salarymen - CHAPTER 1

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“SPOTLIGHT EV: Side Elite Salarymen - CHAPTER 1"


Itaru: Now then….. Today’s the long-awaited start of my oshi’s event. Let’s go, PICK-UP GACHA….!
R, R, SR, SR, R…..
… All dupes, GG. I expected as much.
This is fine. This is fine... Too soon to start sweating…
R, SR, R, R….
SR, R, SR, R, R……..
ALL DUPES AGAIN! GG! Fuck this piece of crap! There must be some sort of correction mechanic going on behind the scenes here.
???: Would you like me to check it for you, then?
Itaru: … (sighs) There you go with that again…
Chikage: If you’re going to spend money anyway, you might as well use it in a convincing way, no?
Itaru: If you don’t mind me asking first… how exactly are you going to check it?
Chikage: Just with 2 or 3 inputs into the code.
Itaru: Ok, I’m gonna have to stop you there.
I’m a model player who has common sense, so I’ll just have to keep rolling and rolling to get what I want. That said, back to the gacha I go—
Chikage: And I am going to have to stop you there. Aren’t you going to at least ask why I came here?
Itaru: Oops, right. So what’s wrong?
Chikage: (sighs) ... Office chat.
Itaru: Ahh… It’s lunch break, so I didn’t even check. Let’s see… Kitamori from HR?
Kitamori (TEXT): “Thank you for today’s work. I apologize for the abrupt notice, but I’d like to call for a meeting… Can I request your attendance just after lunch break starts?”
Chikage: Forwarded to the two of us specifically.
I figured you wouldn’t have seen it if you’ve occupied yourself with your gacha during lunch break, so, here I am.
Itaru: Right on the money. Thank you for your service. I’m surprised you didn’t try to leave me behind like you usually do.
Chikage: Because I’ve got a bad feeling about this—all thanks to an event flag you triggered.
Itaru: …Haha, no way it could be.

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Kitamori: Thank you for taking your time to attend this meeting, you two. I apologize for disturbing your busy schedule.
The topic of this meeting is in relevance to our office’s founding anniversary party…
Itaru: Oh, it’s already getting close, isn’t it?
Kitamori: This year is a critical turning point for the company, so our board of officers are plenty enthusiastic about things right now.
We want to increase attendance numbers as much as possible, for internal and external office staff both…
As for the members who shall be executing the program, we were interested in having both of you be part of the committee.
Itaru: (Ohhhhh boy, this is even more of a pain of the ass than I was expecting…)
Chikage: … May we ask why?
Kitamori: Both of you are already well-favored as both company employees and actors, and because of that, we believe you’ll catch more attention as well.
Not to mention, the employee introduction page that Chigasaki-san lent a hand with several days ago has also earned some great appeal!
Itaru: (Urk……)
(So it really WAS an event flag I triggered…)
Chikage: I see… What shall we do then, Chigasaki?
Itaru: (Passing the baton to me, huh. Yessir, no need to tell me twice.)
By the way, what kind of work are we supposed to do?
Kitamori: Since we assume that your regular office duties and theatre work will already leave you with a busy schedule, we only ask you to be the contact persons in charge of roll call, as well as attending the event party itself…!
Itaru: (I see. So TLDR; they want to use our names as bait for the crowd, huh?)
(I did the same sort of moves in the past anyway, so I get the gist of what to do. Surely there won’t be anything even more troublesome to do other than that…)
If that’s all there is to do… It should be fine, right?
Chikage: … Yes. Our function may be limited, but we will do as much as we can.
Kitamori: Thank goodness…! I’m pleased to hear that!
Itaru: (SIGH) Thank goodness, indeed…
Kitamori: Eh? For you as well, Chigasaki-san?
Itaru: Ah, oh no please, don’t mind me.


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Itaru: I already know what you’re going to say. That event flag is my fault and I am very sorry about that.
Chikage: I haven’t said a word?
Itaru: Your eyes say it all.
Fine fine, I’ll treat you to a pizza bun and your first afternoon coffee for the trouble.
Chikage: I’ll take the coffee, but the pizza bun is what you want to have for yourself, isn’t it?
Itaru: Oh you found me out? I didn’t have much time to enjoy my lunch after all. I’ll just take a quick trip to buy…
—Hm?
Chikage: What’s wrong?
Itaru: … Dammit, I misplaced my office ID somewhere. Today’s just my lucky day, ain’t it.
Chikage: Took you long enough to notice. Here. You left it at the emergency exit staircase.
Itaru: Senpai, are you a god?
Or maybe not, if you kept it hidden from me for this long.
Chikage: You were going to figure it out sooner or later.
Here you go, Chigasaki-kun.
Itaru: Yes yes, thank you——
… Actually. I feel like something like this happened before.
Chikage: Ah… Now that you mention it. It was around the same time of the year too.

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