6 Main Heroines Who Absolutely Want to Monopolize Me - V1 Chapter 2.6

6 Main Heroines Who Absolutely Want to Monopolize Me – Leona Kanda

Fifth candidate: Leona Kanda.

“Hello, I’m Leona Kanda, 17 years old, a high school senior.”

With a resolute attitude, she bowed her head, and behind her beautiful smile, there is a mysterious sense of dignity that made it difficult to read her mind.

That name and face… she’s a celebrity I know too.

Leona Kanda is a renowned child actress who has been the number one celebrity ‘I’d like to have as my daughter’ for almost a decade now.

“… aren’t you going on a hiatus to study abroad?”

“It’s not wrong, is it? This is also a study abroad program.”

Her smile exudes a mysterious charm.

“By the way, are you curious about my hiatus?”

“…I overheard my friend talking about it in the classroom.”

“Hmm, classmates, huh?”

She casually corrected me…

Well, I did exaggerate by calling them friends, but how did she figure it out?

Was it written in my profile used for the audition that I was a loner?

“Anyway, if you know about me, you could be a bit more surprised. Your reaction seems a bit dull.”

“That might be true…”

“Ahaha, well, this is also fine.”

Having encountered a former idol and a step-sister, I seem to have grown somewhat numb to these things.

Nevertheless, Kanda-san smiles generously.

“Now, why did Kanda-san decide to participate in this study abroad?”

“Before that, you can simply call me Kanda. We are actually the same age now, so it’s okay to use casual language.”

I hesitate to use casual language with a senior, but if she prefers it, I don’t need to stick to formal language.

“Sure…then Kanda, why did you choose this study abroad?”

“Hmm, to be honest, I’m just planning to use and take advantage of Hirakawa.”

“Use? How?”

She raises two fingers.

“For ‘male repellent’ and ‘name recognition.’. Because I want to be an actress for life, until death separates me from acting.”

“For life… So, you need ‘male repellent’ and ‘name recognition’ for that?”

“Yes, exactly. I’ll explain it properly.”

Kanda nodded with a small smile.

“It started around when I became a high school student. Being an active actress as a high school girl seems to have become a strange brand. I’ve had actors, male idols, young producers, and occasionally even directors try to hit on me… It was getting tiresome. So, I thought if I got married early to someone whom nobody would dare approach, it would solve the problem.”

“And that someone is me?”

“Yeah, that’s the idea.”

“…I’m just a struggling student, though.”

She maintained her smile.

Despite my rebuttal, I understood what she meant.

It wasn’t about me being an overwhelmingly charismatic person that no one can rival.

It was about nobody daring to woo the fiancé of Shinnosuke Hirakawa’s son——It’s a bold move that no one would dare attempt.

Especially if you are an adult.

“You’re working hard as a struggling student to uphold your principles, right? That’s not something just anyone can do. I think you’re plenty attractive.”

“Is it? thank you…”

I felt a little happy being praised out of the blue.

Let’s do a 2-second meditation.

“Ahaha, are you trying to play it cool?”

She looks at me with a mischievous smile as if she can see right through me.

“Cough… So, I understand the ‘male repellent’ part. What about the ‘name recognition’?”

“Well, it means eventually becoming the lifetime partner of Japan’s top businessman.”

Eventually… I see.

Although no one knows what will happen in reality, let’s set that aside for now.

“What does this have to do with your acting career?”

“Completely unrelated, in essence.”

“Unrelated in essence but related in some other way?”

“Yeah, something like that.”

She tilted her head, and then she pointed her finger.

“It’s about branding. There are many people in the world who try to measure a person’s worth based on whether they’re popular rather than if they’re genuinely exceptional. People who rely on public opinion to judge aesthetic value.”

“That’s true.”

I have experienced firsthand that many people judge others not by who they are as individuals but by the labels and titles they carry.

“If I want to be an actress for a lifetime, I have to keep getting work. So, I have to be conscious of this branding aspect as well.”

“It’s a tough world…”

Well, I guess there’s no such thing as an easy world in the professional sphere.

“Because of that, I want to marry you for my own sake. But I don’t think it’s a bad deal for Hirakawa either.”

“Why is that?”

“For the same reason, you can become ‘the man who won Japan’s top actress.’ In a different sense, people around you will start to admire you. Besides…”

There was a mysterious charm in her smile.

“I have the confidence to live(act) my life as the person you want me to be.”