My girlfriend is actually myself.

Chapter 70 It's decided, it's you!

After changing costumes, there's makeup. Stage makeup is very heavy to adapt to the stage lights and allow the audience at the back to see the actors' faces clearly.

There are only two people in the audience now, so there's no need to go to all that trouble; light makeup will suffice.

Before long, the gorgeously dressed actors escorted Yukimiya Natsune onto the stage. They stood in a row and bowed to Tsukimiya Miyoko and Shiraishi Saku below.

"It's even more beautiful now," the old lady exclaimed.

She was indeed more beautiful. The Baroque-style classic long dress hugged Yukimiya Natsumi's body, adding to her purity and nobility. The light makeup failed to enhance the girl's face—her skin was already perfect enough, but the crimson lip gloss made it hard to look away.

Shiraishi Saku had already seen his own reflection in the dressing room mirror through the eyes of a young girl, and now, observing it through the eyes of a boy, he was still amazed.

It truly is a masterpiece created over three nights.

After the costume and makeup demonstration, Nanase Akane took the young girl's hands and had her try out the opening scene of "Elizabeth." It depicted Princess Sissi's teenage years, a rebellious girl hiding from her tutor and playing around the mansion.

Whether it's a TV series or a stage play, the most important thing is immersion. Both the audience and the actors need to feel immersed.

Only by immersing themselves in the story can actors deliver excellent performances, and only excellent performances can draw the audience into the story.

Actors are the medium through which the audience enters the story, but if actors want to enter the story, there is no convenient medium. For actors, the best medium is fantasy.

Unfortunately, Shiraishi Saku lacked the aptitude for fantasy, and as his 'daughter,' the young girl also lacked this ability.

"Miss Yukimiya, you're taking this too seriously," Nanase Akane commented. "Please relax a bit."

It's okay to relax, but that's for teasing your sister, not for performing.

Shiraishi Saku rested his chin on his hand, looking at the girl's face, and always felt that her lips, which were painted with lip gloss, would taste even better.

However, this is just a visual illusion. If you kiss it, you will taste the lip gloss. Shiraishi Saku prefers the natural taste of a young girl's body.

On stage, the girl's acting showed no progress. It wasn't that she couldn't perform, but rather that her movements were too polished and lacked a natural quality. Nanase Akane and the others scratched their heads in frustration, while Tsukimiya Miyoko watched with amusement.

The girl repeatedly sought help from the boy, requesting to switch from an omniscient perspective to a first-person perspective so that the boy could have complete control. Shiraishi Saku cruelly refused.

"Miss Yukimiya, can you recall what it felt like to have a dream?" Nanase Akane tried to teach her. "It's that feeling of just waking up, when the dream is still in your head, and you're completely confused."

Shiraishi Saku thought about what happened in the car again.

"Please try your best to recall that feeling, and then leave the rest to us!" Nanase Akane said confidently.

The feeling of just waking up is a feeling of cognitive dissonance, a feeling of forgetting who you are.

Akane Nanase and her companions surround the girl's body, using words, actions, and scene simulations to instill relevant settings into the girl's body, guiding her to immerse herself in the role and scene.

They became the medium for the girl's body, and with their superb acting skills and constantly repeated prompts, delusions slowly grew and enveloped the girl's mind.

Shiraishi Saku's fingers, which were supporting his cheek, dug into his skin, and he felt as if he were being hypnotized.

The moment the thought arose, it was simultaneously present in the girl's mind. The newly formed delusion evaporated quickly, like water vapor exposed to sunlight, and vanished completely.

Despite having caused trouble, Shiraishi Shuo remained calm. As long as he didn't say anything, no one would know what he had done.

"Huh, why did it go back! I could feel it just now!" Nanase Akane clutched her head.

"Yes, why?" Shiraishi Saku frowned, puzzled.

The actors on stage worked hard again, and with the help of the young girls, water vapor was generated again, and the whole world was shrouded in mist. In the mist, the ancient time and space where Princess Sissi lived could be seen and seen.

Close sisters, strict teachers, loving family, and lush green countryside.

"The teacher is coming! Hide!" Nanase Akane began to advance the plot.

"Wait for me." The girl lifted her skirt and chased after her.

Nanase Akane didn't follow the script. The script's pace was too fast, making it difficult for beginners to immerse themselves in it. She improvised scenes, and her companions cooperated seamlessly, weaving a grand fantasy.

Shiraishi Saku lowered the arm that had been supporting his cheek and looked at the girl's body on the stage. The fog of delusion shielded him from the heat of reason, allowing him to pause briefly.

At this moment, the girl is not him, but Yukimiya Natsune, who is playing the role of someone else.

When self-awareness becomes lax, the girl detaches from the "whole" and becomes an "individual." Although this individual is still partly entangled in the whole, and although this separation is merely a barrier of mist, this small crack, this slight alienation, is enough for the growth of fantasy.

Looking at the girl on the stage, Shiraishi Saku recalled the feelings he had inside the car. Although the girl's body was not completely detached from its state of slumber, it already possessed about one-tenth of the feelings it had back then.

He looked at her not as if he were looking at himself, but as if he were looking at a girl who was his ideal type in every way, which made his heart beat faster.

Nanase Akane designed Yukimiya Natsune's character as a quiet yet lively girl. The quietness fits Yukimiya Natsune's temperament, while the liveliness is an artistic interpretation.

"Young people should be like this," Miyoko Tsukimiya said, looking at the stage. "Be lively and talkative, how can you be like an old person?"

The old lady really liked her granddaughter's persona on stage. When they were at the nursing home, she said that Yukimiya Natsune's current personality was exactly the kind of personality Ruri admired, and that was true.

But there's one thing she didn't say: although in terms of their main personalities, the self-centered Yukimiya Natsune is the opposite of Ruri, who cares about other people's opinions, they are both taciturn in their outward appearance.

She hoped that Liuli would talk more and express herself more, instead of silently enduring everything.

"How was it?" She looked at Shiraishi Saku beside her. "The stage play was amazing, wasn't it?"

Shiraishi Saku nodded; such a girl's body was indeed quite peculiar.

"Hearing that you chose the drama club, I think it's perfect." Tsukimiya Miyoko glanced at the stage and sighed, "Young people should always be a little more adaptable."

This statement wasn't referring to Shiraishi Saku and Yukimiya Natsume, but to their granddaughter, Ruri.

Thinking about it carefully, the reason why the old lady chose "Elizabeth" and the story of Princess Sissi, who longed for freedom but could not obtain it, may be because of the Moon Palace Glass.

However, the old lady's longing for her granddaughter gave Saku Shiraishi and the "girl body" a new direction.

"I heard that the drama club at Mori no Oka has disbanded?" the old lady said. "If you need anything, go find Chihaya. If Chihaya can't help, send me a message and I'll ask Aoi to help."

This was to allow Shiraishi Saku and Yukimiya to finalize the drama club, with the goal of producing a perfect stage play.

Looking at the girl on the stage, Shiraishi Saku agreed.