Chapter 13

A startled Rin look over to the woman as she is walking in the door. 

“Sorry to bother you guys. I just was down stairs charging myself.” as the woman lays down a long 8ft cable and an adapter the size of a large stone. 

Rin is shocked and proceeds to ask Shishijima “I didn’t know you were living with a roommate.”

Shishijima jumps up from his seat on the couch to introduce the lady. 

“Rin; I would like you to meet my friend Rub-E or Shanchira-san. She’s my EV-Idol!” says Shishijima with a confident smile. 

“Wow! Why didn’t you tell me you had an EV-Idol living with you ?” said Rin. 

“Well, I am a dolseller. So it’s pretty common to have the EV-Idol that you’re currently selling live with you.”  said Shishijima with a beaming smile. 

Rin glanced back at the Shanshira putting up her charging equipment and was shocked by hour beautifully exotic she was. 

I mean living in Nova Raton you see many different people from many different backgrounds but this EV-Idol has such a unique look. She reminded Rin of the woman from the 2040’s. The one’s she read about during the protests of that time who dawned very dark makeup to symbolize grief over the one’s lost in the proxy wars of the 2030’s. 

She was also taken a back by the EV-Idols height. 

“She has to be at least 5’9 or 5’10 easily. I mean she is very tall but her proportions are still very curvy.” thought Rin to herself. 

However, what shocked Rin the most was the EV-Idol’s voice. 

“She sounds so familiar but yet so foreign. I just can’t put my finger on it.” thought Rin. 

“Also Shanchira, I would like to introduce you to my new client Rin.”  Shishijima said as he gestures to Rin. 

“Pleased to finally meet you Rin. Shishijima has talked a lot about you over these last couple of days. Glad, to finally make you acquaintance.”  Shanchira says as she reaches out to give Rin a handshake. 

As Rin reaches and grabs her hand she looks into Shanchira’s eyes and can’t help but fell some type of emptiness inside.

So she quickly lets go and looks away for a second. Leaving Shanchira somewhat confused. 

“So now that we’ve gotten introductions out the way. Let’s go ahead and hear you sing.” says Shishijima. 

“Again?” winged Rin. 

“Well you stopped mid song. We need to see what you working with in order to gage you aptitude as a performer and how to market you as an artist.” said Shishijima with a stern voice. 

“Ugh. Ok.” said Rin. 

She then sings the whole song to both Shishijima and Shanchira.

“Well,Well,Well. I must say I’m presently surprised.” said Shishijima. 

Rin looking hopeful after sing her heart out in front of the two. 

“It was worse than your audition at the contest.” said Shishijima with a straight face. 

“WHAT!” said Rin with a shocked expression. 

“Yeah! See what drew me to your performance was your Tone. It’s pleasing to the ear but not in a generic way. It’s distinct but yet inviting enough to where people still get drawn in.” explains Shishijima.

“Well, what’s the problem?” asked Rin.

“Well your tone doesn’t make up for your lack of stamina and musicality. Remember these must all be integrated into your performance in order for you to thrive in this new industry. Before when humans were the majority of performers; I’m sure anybody would’ve took you as is. However, with the music scene being predominately full of EV-Idols. You have to make an even more concentrated effort so you can keep up.” said Shishijima.

“What’s wrong with my stamina?” asked Rin.

“Well without the backtrack from the audition I can see that you have trouble holding notes for a long time. Which in theory isn’t that big of a deal but because many of the songs now are so upbeat and require a lot of moving around. You would instantly be out of breath thus making the performance suffer as a result.” explained Shishijima.

Rin looks defeated as she was so sure she had been doing a great job.

“Don’t get too down! I mean you need some work and are a little rough around the edges but that’s why we have artist development. Which is apart of my job as a manager.” exclaimed Shishijima.

He looks and begins to smile at Rin. So Rin begins to smile begrudgingly as a sign of good faith.

Shishijima even laughs before his face turns serious. Rin unknowingly looks shocked and confused at the sudden change of expression. 

“Well I guess it’s time we started.” said Shishijima.

“Um—Wha—?” said Rin before she was interrupted.

“DROP AND GIVE FIFTY!!!” ordered Shishijima.

“Huhhhhh” Rin muttered bewildered. 

“You heard me! DROP AND GIVE ME FIFTY PUSHUPS RIGHT NOW!” said Shishijima loudly. 

“Wait come on. You can’t be serious?” Rin says jokingly. 

“Do I look like I’m Joking? We need to get you breathing and endurance up. One of the ways we do it is through breathing excercises which are most effective after a good work out. NOW DROP AND GIVE ME FIFTY!!” Shishijima orders. 

“Ok. Whatever, I’ll do it.” laments Rin. 

Rin gets down on the floor into a plank-line stance. She is able to get herself off the floor but has trouble keeping body from hitting the floor.

“THERE YOU GO! I JUST NEED forty more just like that!” screams Shishijima whilst blowing on the a metal whistle. 

“WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET A WHISTLE FROM!” screams Rin. 

Shanchira goes to back bedroom and lays down on her cot case in the corner of the bedroom. A faint blue light under her skin seems to be lightly flickering. 

She sighs as she hears the loud screams of Shishijima in the background.