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Chapter 54 (Aug'2004)
To help Kyouko decide if to take the role or not, her manager gives her the original novel. He character is the little sister of the usual mean bothersome girl who tries to get between the male lead (Ren) and the female lead. But before she can read anything, she hears someone crying in the hallway. When she looks, she finds a man with a white suit... a ghost? She then sees Yashiro-san bring something to drink to the unknown man. She stays to overhear a bit, and is surprised to hear comments about LME president canceling Ren's appearance in the drama! The white suited men--the drama's director, Ogata--laments that without Ren in the drama there is no point in doing it because he won't be able to do a better job than what was done 20 years before. Suddenly in front of them, Kyouko appears, kneels on the floor on her best "decided" posture telling him not to say things like that without trying (?). She says that although she just overheard them, their conversation does affect her. Yashiro starts to ask why, but Ogata recognizes her name. Meanwhile, Ren talks with LME President, who knows everything about the girls Ren went out with (who always dumped him for being too cold in one way or another). LME President asks why he never had a problem in letting them go, and Ren says that if they found someone they liked that wasn't him, wasn't it better for them? LME President says that the girls didn't break up for them but for his sake. He tells Ren that real passion means that one loves the girls so much that one feels like killing the other guy. Ren leaves the room with permission to act in the drama. Ren is determined he will be able to master an original way to portray his character no matter what. And as he walks sure of himself... he is pushed against a wall by someone's scream! Ren knows this voice... sure enough, Kyouko's! Kyouko is crying in deep pain because as it turns out, her wonderful "rich girl" part is actually... a girl with an elder sister complex who suffered an accident with glass when she was little that left a scar on her face. Now, at age 16, her older sister complex has grown... Kyouko can't stop crying. She had looked so forward to playing this part! And it turns out to be such a dark character! Ogata gets very upset when Kyouko wants to quit and says that it's a very difficult role and that only she can play it. Ren interrupts the conversation when he realizes Kyouko will take part in the drama. Ogata explains that when he saw Shou's promotion video, he thought that if it was Kyouko, then they would be all right because she would do a great dark sister (Mio) part. If such a "wicked more than evil," "darker than darkness" aura projecting girl could play the part... Kyouko wants to run away in shame!! Ogata begs her to stay because after Ren canceled if she too doesn't appear what would he do! Ren surprises everybody by saying he will appear in the drama after all. Ogata is in heaven. Ren looks over at Kyouko and holds out his hand. Kyouko is spell bound and goes to him... Ogata places his hand over them and asks to try their best at making together a wonderful new original version of the story!
Chapter 55 (Sep'2004)
(beta version) Ogata seems awfully gloomy. The whole cast is waiting for the press conference announcing the new drama to start and everybody wonders what's wrong with Ogata. Some of the senior stuff wonder if it's "that." Kyouko tries to cheer him up but it doesn't seem to work. She then notices Ren is very thoughtful too. Kyouko wonders if he's nervous but then retracts her words at his expression. He later says that he might be nervous after all, since trying to do an original version is a big thing. Ren then asks her how she plans on portraying her character, which leaves her worried about it. The conference starts and it progresses smoothly. Even Ogata seems back to his normal self and Kyouko thinks she worried for nothing. But then just at the end, a reporter has a last question... apparently the director of the original adaptation was Ogata's father, but Ogata changed his name for this production, why? This shocks the producer and everybody else, and sends Ogata into unconsciousness. He wakes up in the hospital after remembering people's comments about him being a copy of his father. Kyouko and the producer are there. After a strained dinner, Kyouko decides to give her very best and starts to read her dialogue.

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