Chapter 10:

Fake Takashima.

Yui


“Boss was supposed to give a speech this evening” Kimori said, worrying.

“His sentence will be tomorrow so he will not be able to give it” Aku’s brain tried thinking on a solution “Nakata, you are the computer man, you know where the speech is saved?”

“Yes, this is easy” Nakata said lightly “it’s in the Saturday speeches folder inside the speeches folder inside the do not touch folder inside the “Nakata leave my computer” folder inside the Yui folder inside the my computer folder inside the MY computer folder.” Nakata winked and pointed at Aku “got it?”

“The fact that Takashima hates you really bad? I think I got it” Aku smiled evilly “I will find it, who will replace Takashima in the speech?”

The boys waved their hands in disagreement.

“Fine, I will do it myself” Aku’s face was more serious than ever “but that means I’m in charge until Takashima is back.”

“I think we occurred a problem” Minato said, although his strong body he was scared from Aku with that face “we twist Yui’s voice so it will not be easily recognisable, yet the speech pattern stays the same and you’re tone of voice is much softer then Yui’s….”

“How about now?” Aku tried to fake Yui’s voice but it was not close at all, it just felt like Aku trying to do a deeper voice.

“Great” minato smiled and thumbed up hoping Aku will not see how sweaty he was.

“What is the password to Yui’s computer?” Aku asked Nakata.

“I have no idea, Eda always opens it for me” Nakata raised his shoulders.

“It’s “damn Nakata I hate you”” said Eda who sat on the couch eating one of Minato’s yogurts.

“What the hell?” Nakata looked angry.

Aku wrote “damn Nakata I hate you” in the password bar “yep, that's it. Thanks.”

“It was not a joke…” Nakata whispered, he really didn’t knew how to act under this circumstance.

“Saturday evening speech, creation date, two days ago.” Aku opened a file and was surprised by how massive and detailed it was.

Under every line a detailed explanation of how to say the line, important words are colored in red to make sure to say them strongly. everyone gathered near the computer and saw the file, every word, every sentence, they could feel Yui’s hand in the speech.

“Good, now I need to try not to mess it up” Aku said happily “the details will be helpful but will also make it harder. I will practice it a little, you know Takashima longer than I do, please tell me where I can improve.

So happened, the four helped Aku to sound more like Yui. She gave the speech again and again, over time her speech pattern was closer and closer to Yui’s yet every time she had another problem that made her sound less like Yui. They ended the practice about five minutes before the actual speech. Aku sounded closer to Yui from the start but still not very close, it still felt like Aku trying to do a deeper boyish voice.

Nakata sat near his computer and connected Yui’s computer to the screen in the hall while making a bitter face, he knew Yui didn’t liked him a lot yet he felt really hurt about the computer password, they were childhood friends after all.

Minato, Kimori and Eda watched the news and waited to give a sign to start the speech.

“Don’t you think Yui doesn't use our talents enough?” Eda whispered to Minato.

“It’s not the time now” Minato whispered back.

“NOW!” Kimori shouted.

Aku took a big breath and got closer to the microphone. The speech is very short therefore it’s not supposed to take so long. She opened her mouth and did her best:

“Dear citizens, greeting once again.”

Her twisted voice kinda sounded like Yui’s voice.

“I’m here today because of your support, thank you a lot for that.”

Aku’s heart beat was very high.

“I heard some of you didn’t understand my political opinion. I come for piece, I will take care of all the criminals walking between us, all the people who hide their sins, even if I will need to single hand this problem.”

“Pretty ironic, don't you think~” Nakata said quietly.

Aku worked hard to assure she give the speech the way Yui wanted

“We will live in a world where people will behave and act nicely.”

“Getting more ironic every second~” Nakata leaned in his chair.

“This is my quickest speech until now, I just wanted to say my main reason to be a prime minister. If you want to choose me for a better world or not, it’s up to you.”

Aku decided to add a sentence, she said it from all her heart and they were much more emotional than the words she said before.

“Thank you all for being who you are.”

Aku felt relieved, she was done.

“Excuse me sir, may I ask you some questions?”

Wait what? Aku thought to herself, she forgot the questions after the speech, she must stay in character and answer the same thing Yui would.

“Why is your voice different from usual? your tone was much softer, and the last sentence was very ain’t typical, are you a different person?” one of the news reporter asked. Everyone else in the hall gasped, they noticed it too now.

“Wha.. what are you talking about? I’m the white dot, I can’t be replaced by anyone” Aku tried to sound confident as she could but a little of her normal voice came out, she did it, she messed up, the answer didn’t sound like something Yui will say at all.

“Are you sure?” the news reporter raised an eyebrow.

“Yes, I’m sure. Have to go now, bye!” Aku said in rush.

“It was bad” Kimori said in fear “boss will not like it at all…”

“The best thing we can do right now is to hope it will not grab too much attention” said Minato, he tried to be the responsible adult in the story.        

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