“That was good,” Maru said to the student who just displayed her act.

“Senior, you keep saying that we were good. Are you sure we really are?” asked a student who finished her act a while ago.

“I can lie very well when it’s really necessary, but when I don’t need to, I usually tell the truth. Right now, there’s nothing for me to gain by lying to you all here, so everything I’m saying is the truth.”

“Really?”

“You said your name was Miss Ijin, right?”

“Yes.”

“Miss Ijin, your acting has a sharp taste to it. It’s splendid that you know your strong points and chose a story that can bring out those strong points. Of course, if I want to find a weak point, then I can do that too. If it was a critique session like before, I would have talked about them, but we’re not doing that now.”

“Rather than my strong suits, I want to improve on my weak points. I think it’ll be really helpful if you can tell me about them.”

“I get what you’re worried about. In terms of tests, you are getting a D in one subject while getting a B in the rest so you want to improve the scores for that subject, right? But I believe that actors should bring out their strong points rather than be moderately good at everything.”

He looked around at the students sitting around him.

“There’s no one in this class who’s doing acting as a hobby, right?”

Yes – the students...