Japanese → English transcript

Even I haven’t hit ten million yet, in terms of surgery costs.

Where does that money even come from?

At the beginning, it really was from financial institutions and such, I was borrowing.

So it felt like you were earning from streaming?

Even that “total ten million” thing, my streaming rewards haven’t come in.

Huh…

Is that because the agency is shady?

In the end I stayed there for one year and two months,

and what I actually got was like twenty thousand yen.

They’re taking a huge cut there.

But even so, you managed to pay?

Yeah, sneaking off to work at a cabaret club and also working a daytime job.

You probably have a talent for cabaret clubs.

What are your current sales and how many end-of-month closings do you do each month?

In October and such, my closings were just over twenty.

But the sales amount was around one hundred thirty or so.

Cabaret work is a job where you have to be chosen day after day,

so it really takes energy, like thinking how to keep getting chosen yourself,

and how to set yourself apart, that’s the tough part of cabaret work,

and I find it really fascinating.

Right now, what are you working hardest at, or what can you confidently say makes you different from other people?

I’m a bit nervous now so I’m not talking much, but

I’m basically a goof-around type.

If a customer tells me, “Drink beer as a chaser for champagne,”

I’ll say, “On it!” then chug it and be like, “Please go home,” that kind of really jokey type.

You say nobody can beat you at drinking, so how strong are you?

Tequila—at that time I was drinking thirty or forty shots, with beer as the chaser,

plus two bottles of wine.

Wow.

You’re pretty strong, aren’t you?

You’re damn strong.

So you like all kinds of alcohol in general.

I do.

And even then you don’t get knocked out?

There are days I do get knocked out.

Depends on my condition.

When it comes to alcohol, for both Emily and me,

it might be one kind of weapon,

but personally I feel it is not that huge or important a point.

I mean, acting did not work out for you in the first place, so why did you end up becoming a hostess?

In the end, for me, both show business work and cabaret club work,

I just like spending fun time together with people,

and I think that was the thing they had in common.

Roland, this is really sudden, but if, like, you were to do a kind of pressure interview the other way around…

Yuna, everyone praises you a lot, and I do think you definitely have potential,

but what bothered me was, there is a phrase I personally value a lot,

I really value the phrase “There is no worth in the yes of someone who cannot say no.”