Back To the Beginning
Meet Evelyn
Noland and I reached the bottom floor.
We walked down the audience seats and headed towards the side of the stage.
There looks like an entrance to the room of the artists and actors.
The door was of course guarded by someone, a kind of bodyguard.
We approached her, trying to ask her permission to enter.
"Sorry, what are you doing here? if it's not there, you can't go any further" the bodyguard told us.
"Ah yes..introduce me, I am Arthur Gunther. I am one of the members of the merchant association, I would like to meet with Miss Evelyn, to offer a cooperation, ", I said, showing a member card of my trade association.
At first the bodyguard was a little hesitant about what I said, probably because I still looked like a child. But when he saw the card I showed him, his attitude changed drastically.
"Oh so, well. I will inform Miss Evelyn, please wait a moment" said the bodyguard as I entered the room I wanted to go to.
Noland watched from behind my back.
"It seems his attitude had changed, yes" said Noland realized that.
"Ah yes, that's true. It's all because of something in my membership card" I said, showing my member card to Noland.
"There's the inscription 'cooperate with Mr.Meinhard' right? maybe that's what changed his attitude" I explained.
"It's worth it." said Noland after knowing the reason.
"It's a good thing that we met Mr. Meinhard and cooperated with him, that greatly simplified our plans. It's all because of you Noland!" I said I commended Noland.
"It's nice if I can help!" Noland.
A few moments after chatting with Noland, the bodyguard who had also raised apparently back.
"Miss Evelyn agreed to meet inside, let me drop you off." said the bodyguard as he began to point out the place in question.
"Okay, thank you."
Knowing that Noland was walking into the room, the bodyguards stopped him.
"I'm sorry, but Miss Evelyn only accepted one person" the bodyguard said, stopping Noland.
"Ah what a pity..sorry Noland, you can return to the inn first if you want," I apologized to Noland.
"Well, that's okay" replied Noland.
After all, Noland's face was like the one that was about to faint, he made that face from the moment I told the bodyguard that we wanted to meet Evelyn, one of his idols.
I followed the bodyguard, leaving Noland behind me.
I walked through this room with the bodyguard in front of me.
This is the first time I've been in the backstage.
As I continued walking, I looked around. There were several artists resting on his bench, as well as several actors conversing with each other, and there were some who were doing treatment.
They look different on stage.
Perhaps if Noland were here at this moment, he would have fainted completely, since many of his artists and idols were here.
I kept following the bodyguards in front of me, and it seemed like we had arrived at the place in question.
"Here is the room, please.Miss Evelyn is waiting inside," said the bodyguard, pointing at the room in front of us.
"Well, thank you for the guidance" I said thank you.
The bodyguard nodded lightly and left me, he returned to his working position.
"Huh.. let's do it," I said as I took a breath to calm down.
"Let's try there's Noland here. huh.." I thought, holding the doorknob, trying to open it.
The door slowly opened wide, giving me a way into it.
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I entered the room slowly.
After entering a bit, I tried to pay attention to the contents of this room.
Here I saw some empty chairs, as well as a table on which were splattered with beauty tools and cosmetics.
On one of those empty seats, there was a little girl sitting on it.
He's about the same age as me.
He placed both of his hands on his lap, his posture perfectly upright.
She wears a dress with a combination of white and blue, as well as with an extra blue ribbon over her head.
His long straight hair perfected his appearance.
He sits so elegantly.
Beside him was a woman accompanying him, it seemed like he was some kind of manager.
They both noticed my presence, and started to look at me.
"With Arthur Gunther?" ask the manager.
"Yes with me alone" I replied, bowing my head slightly to humble myself.
Embossed faces of disbelief on the faces of the two of them.
Suspicion is perfectly reasonable in my case.
I gave my card to the manager.
He watched it, and gave it back to me.
"I'm sorry, I didn't believe this. Please sit down, "sorry manager and let me sit down.
Oh, so his name is Ariadna.
"Please forgive me," Ariadna looked down apologizing.
I walked towards one of the nearby chairs, and sat on it. A wooden chair with all the chairs in the room.
"So just go ahead, what kind of cooperation do you want to offer?" ariadna asked him the main topic.
Woah without further ado.
"Ah yes... I am Arthur Gunther, I recently signed a contract with Mr. Meinhard to develop a product, the product will be tested soon. For marketing, I look forward to working with Miss Evelyn. I'm sure this cooperation will yield benefits for both sides."
I explained everything in a concise and concise manner.
"Well... if you can know, what products will be developed?" ask Ariadna.
"Perfume," I answered briefly.
"Perfumes?" ask the two in front of me.
The term perfume is still not familiar in the present era.
"Em.. perfumes," said I explained more.
"Fragrance? can it be sold in the market?" ariadna asked doubtfully.
"I therefore need cooperation with Miss Evelyn" I replied.
"Why should Evelyn? aren't there many other artists?" ask Ariadna.
"In addition to her rising popularity, I chose to work with Miss Evelyn because of her greatness to influence so many people" I replied.
Ariadna, his manager, seemed to understand what I meant. While Evelyn was confused not to understand there.
Next I talked about the funds I offered in this cooperation.
"I don't expect much of an answer right now. But if I'm interested, I'll show you how the product will work" I said.
"..." - ".Ariadna and Evelyn looked at each other.
Evelyn nodded lightly.
"... well, we're interested. When can you see the product?" ask Ariadna.
"What if tomorrow? is there any free time?" I recommend a suitable day.
"Tomorrow at noon, we happen to have an empty time," Ariadna replied after seeing the note in her hand.
Ariadna and I decided on the time and place to meet with us later.
And reach an agreement.
I shook the hands of Ariadna and Evelyn.
"Okay, we've reached an agreement. Allow me to say goodbye, thank you for the opportunity," I pleaded with him to resign.
"Yes please, we are also happy with the discussion today" said Ariadna allowing me to resign.
"Fuck Arthur! hope we can work together!" evelyn said as she waved with a sweet smile on her face.
I returned Evelyn's hand and began to rise from my seat.
I walked towards the door, and bowed once more to the two of them.
And I came out of that room.
What about Noland? maybe he's back at the inn.
I was recalling the path to exit the backstage, while looking around me.
The condition is already a bit quiet, some artists and actors have gone home.
Huh. I did not expect that it would be finished as well.
The last time I did a similar activity like that, which was in my past life, I was somehow able to speak quickly and precisely. I do it every day.
Maybe because I haven't done it in a long time, I've forgotten how.
"Huh..." I took a deep breath.
Up ahead there was my previous entrance, I headed in that direction to immediately go out.
......................
The atmosphere changed, in front of me there were now many spectator seats.
In one of the chairs...
"Arthur!" yell someone, that person is Noland.
"Noland? why are you still here?" my many.
"Let's go, I want to see more of that big stage" Noland said.
"What about the cooperation?" ask Noland.
"Silence.everything is as planned" I said, showing my thumbs to Noland.
"It's good that we go back to the inn" said Noland.
"OK come! I'm a little hungry too." I replied.
"Ah yes eat! while walking, let's find some food" Noland said as he turned towards the exit.
"Agreed!" I answered while following Noland behind him.
I have to enjoy my days now, because tomorrow might be a busy day.