Chapter 351
“So, I mean, technically there’s no reason you couldn’t do it, but...”
I hesitated, struggling to find the right words while looking into Claire’s sparkling eyes.
You know how it is. It’s like when a kid proudly announces, “I’m gonna be a celebrity when I grow up!”—it’s hard to be the one to explain just how impossibly brutal that path is.
Of course, if it’s a little kid, you can just smile and go “Oh, really?” and move on. Kids don’t hold on to that stuff for long, and they’ll figure out on their own how difficult it actually is as they grow up. And if they still want to do it, then at least you know they’re serious.
But Claire... strictly speaking, isn’t a kid.
She’s capable. If she wants to do something, she has the drive to follow through, and she’s bold enough to act on it too.
It’s just that she’s still unfamiliar with how this world works.
And Alice, standing next to her, was—
......
Well, either way, in this world or the other, jobs like actor or singer have always been something people idolize. Even if the backstage world of the entertainment industry was notoriously filthy in the 20th century, the surface always looked glamorous.
Streaming’s a bit of a different story, but still.
“There’s no reason you couldn’t do it?”