How Muranishi Met Kaoru Kuroki at His Struggling Film Company

Hm, yeah… you know what, forget it. No, that’s not true, right? Our chemistry is really great. What am I even saying… ugh. Me…

I was just telling the truth. I’m the one embarrassed from watching this.

Why? I mean, maybe Satoko was just acting, right?

No way that’s true. Huh? Well… do girls really act at times like that?

Oh, you can never understand girls.

Hey, Satoko. Hmm?

I guess it depends on the person. What the hell, Satoko, so that’s how it is?

What? What about?

Nothing. After angering the industry big shot Ikezawa, Muranishi was completely blacklisted from the business, and the number of actresses applying was zero.

All his sales routes were cut off, and Sapphire Eizo, the company he had founded, was on the verge of bankruptcy. Then one day…

A beautiful woman came to the company for an interview. At first, Muranishi thought she was applying to work as lighting, sound, or maybe makeup staff.

But what came out of her mouth was unexpected. “I want to become an actress.” In those days, the women who appeared in these kinds of films

were mostly those who had family problems or a rough past. Yet the woman in front of him clearly seemed well-bred,

wrapped in an air of someone who had never known hardship. Her name was Emi Sahara. However, she would later call herself Kuroki Kaoru.

And she would go on to become one of the most important partners in Muranishi’s career. Back when Muranishi was still just selling magazines,

Kuroki Kaoru was still a student. One day after school, on her way home with friends, she saw a group of male students by the roadside looking at an “attic-style” magazine.

Curious, she went closer, and when the boys noticed a girl had come, they panicked and ran off, leaving the magazine behind.

Kuroki Kaoru felt a strong attraction to that magazine. The models on its pages were covered by mosaic, but she imagined what lay beyond it.