(MC POV)
Even though this theatre troupe is owned by Kiyomi and myself, Kiyomi was handling all the problems by herself right now.
It's not that I don't want to help her but it was the person herself insisting that she would do it herself with a fiery determination in her eyes, saying that it would be 'too easy' if I were to involve myself too.
Still, I decided to at least follow along to support her from behind.
"Lexly! Contact the Moruse company and see if their rehearsal rooms are being used, we can rent that space from them to do our rehearsals if they aren't. If that's not available, then try Ulise company and Tetjiu company! Minari! Check if any of the extras are willing to step up to the role. If they are then we'll have an impromptu audition later! If not, let me know and I'll deal with it another way! Where is Clarisse?! Get me Clarisse right now!"
All around there were people rushing back and forth as Kiyomi directed the organised chaos in front of us.
I managed to stay relatively unnoticed because of the numerous crises that had sprung up today, but Kiyomi kept one of her tails wrapped around my arm and squeezing it from time to time to let me know she was still thinking about me despite everything that was happening.
And yet she's still seriously attending to the problems too, she is really competent.
"Clarisse, get the actors together to let them know we would be doing individual rehearsals today, I'll leave it to you and your team to supervise them once we secure another location to conduct the rehearsals."
"Understood! Please leave them to me!"
"Bob! Gather the technicians, we'll have to let them know they need to coordinate with the new location to set up the props as well!"
"You got it boss!"
"Diana! Double check if we lost anything in the fire. I know we pack up everything to avoid something like this from happening but just do a thorough check in case."
"I'll get right on it!"
"Master!"
I turned to her, slightly surprised that she would call out to me suddenly.
Her lips curled upwards slightly, "I love you."
She's so cute.
"I love you too, Kiyomi."
She giggled slightly at my answer before going back to managing her people.
So far, she's handling the situation really well so I had nothing to add. It seems like she has successfully integrated the memories of this World's Kiyomi with her own so she knows what she needs to do and who to contact.
No one around was questioning her orders either so everything was being carried out with full efficiency.
"Umm… Boss?" One of the stage technicians approached her hesitatingly.
Kiyomi looked up from the documents she was perusing and nodded for him to go ahead.
"That is… One of the lead actors seemed to have fallen ill… What do we do?"
Kiyomi clucked her tongue, "Tch… At a time like this huh? This is really annoying… Who is it?"
"It's miss Jennifer… We… We think it's because she's pregnant…"
"And here she claims that she wasn't sleeping with Jack… Tell the two of them that they are off the show."
I raised an eyebrow at her words, she just said that the two actors that were going to play the two main leads of our play were off the show.
The technician baulked at her words, "Wha… What? Does… Does that mean that our show is cancelled?"
"Are you dumb? Of course not. The Empress herself will be coming here to watch us, you know? How can we cancel like that? Just go ahead and deliver the news, I will come up with replacements for them."
"But… But it's less than three days before the performance, where can we get someone to replace them in such a short amount of time?"
"That is up to me to worry about, just go and deliver the news to them!"
The technician scurried off to obey, prompting Kiyomi to turn to me.
"So it's that kind of scenario I see, Master?"
I shrugged, "I actually don't know what would happen to be honest. I merely mixed the Worlds together to create this one so the scenarios would play out by themselves according to the new World's logic."
"I see… In that case, could I trouble Master to play the lead role alongside me for the show? Or shall I have to find someone to replace Jack as the male lead?"
I smirked, "The play this time includes a kissing scene, no? I doubt my dear Kiyomi would accept kissing another man, right? Because I most certainly wouldn't."
"Kukuku~ That is true. In that case, could I trouble Master with this script please?"
She materialised a stack of papers out of thin air and handed it to me, the stack being the script I needed to learn for the play.
I actually don't really need this since I have omniscience to help me with the lines but for appearance sake I'll just take it and play along.
"I gladly accept this role, my sugar~" I chuckled, using the term of endearment the character would use to call Kiyomi's character.
Kiyomi shivered, "Please don't, Master. I am doing my best to hold back from pulling you to the nearest place to make love to you right now. Anymore and my heart will definitely burst."
I feel like I'm repeating this a lot since I've came here but Kiyomi really is cute~
"Well, I guess I should go and do some rehearsals with the rest of the cast shouldn't I?"
Hearing my suggestion, Kiyomi only tightened her grip on my arm with her tail and pulled me a little closer to her.
"Unn… Could I ask that Master wait for a while? I would very much like to start my practice with you first…" She requested with a slight blush on her face, though she tried to hide that by playing with her hair.
"Oh? If that's what my cute Kiyomi wishes for, how could I say no? Let's practise together once you are done managing the others, ok?"
"Kukuku~ Of course Master~ I'm already looking forward to it~"
She then went back to looking through the documents and piles of reports that the others had brought her, sifting through them to check for any more problems that they might have missed.
She really is cute~
Simply just watching her from the side is already quite nice by itself too.
