The Danmaku Says I’m Not Even Here to Perform

Tokyo idol group bottom-rank idol Hechuan Yotsuba sings as a backup vocalist and backup dancer. The tactful way to put it is that she has plenty of room to grow; the blunt way to put it is that she is a highly skilled backup dancer. Her popularity is low, she is so poor she cannot even afford food, and even her enemies think she will not survive the spring. Just as she is warned by her agency for letting her part-time job interfere with training and is wondering how to survive, she sees a bunch of colorful bullet comments floating in the air:

[The place where a dream begins!]

[This work is also known as: “Aren’t We Just Doing CP Promotion? Why Are You Looking at Me Like That?” / “Kaguya-sama Wants to Treat Me to Dinner” / “Hechikawa-Senpai Loves to Eat” / “Admiring Becoming a CP Promotion Master”]

[Those who rely on mooching to make a comeback, stand on the left. Those who rely on real ability to realize their dream, stand on the right. What do you mean you’re mooching with real ability? Yotsuba-sama, hurry and sit on top!]

[I heard Yotsuba-sama won this year’s popularity award. Was it the cutie award or the “endurance” award? What do you mean you won the big eater award?]

[Yotsuba: CP promotion is not supposed to be like this! Why are you all coming to block me?!]

Even though she does not fully understand it, Yotsuba immediately launches a desperate charge down the CP promotion route after reading part of the information. And so she goes farther and farther down the road of “promotion,” until her teammates come knocking one by one: you made the promise in front of the camera back then, so you have to take responsibility.

Take responsibility? Responsibility for what? Aren’t we just doing CP promotion?