Oshi no Ko X Tensura

Chapter 1 - The Siblings

"Rimuru, were you a guy in your previous life?" 

"Pfft—"

The sudden question almost made me drop the bottle I was holding. Ruby was incredibly nonchalant with her questions ever since she found out I could talk. 

"W-what made you ask that?" Incredibly flustered, I replied with a half-hearted smile. 

"Because you keep on avoiding drinking from mom's boobies directly. You're just like Aqua."

This girl was ruthless. Why did she have to bring that up?! And here I was being a gentleman and keeping to myself. I swear, kids these days are so upfront that, old men like me get heart attacks from time to time. 

"I'm interested too. Ruby and I talked about this before you decided to speak up before. I was a guy in my previous life, Ruby was a girl. All that's left is you."

Have any of you heard of privacy? Hello?!

"Well, I was a guy in my previous life." There was no point in hiding the truth.

Aqua immediately looked sympathetic to me. He reached out his tiny limbs toward me and pat me on the back saying, "It's gonna be hard pal, between you and me, I was a Doctor, so I know how difficult women have it."

He whispered those few parts in my ear making sure Ruby couldn't hear us. 

"...I'll take that into consideration."

Aqua's words made me realize how different it was living as a girl from now on. I hate to say this, but I'm probably gonna be a weird girl when I grow up. I still like women!

But that matters not. I'm happy enough to be reborn, even as a girl. I'll focus on living a happy life with my current family. My mother being the Idol she is, my siblings are most likely gonna follow in her footsteps in the entertainment industry. 

Maybe I will also go down that path...

***

While crawling along pretending to be a baby, I overheard a few conversations in the living room. It seems like Ai's monthly income was lower than she thought it'd be.  

"Hey, this agency's so stingy with pay. The single we put out reached No. 3 on Orichon didn't it? Aren't these middlemen taking too big of a cut?"

I see the problem. I've known that this agency isn't that big, and I did speculate that more often than not Strawberry Productions had been using middlemen to produce their performances, distribute the merch, and even advertise them. 

It's not surprising to hear that the profits of the agency take huge dips even when Ai's popularity carried the overall sales. 

"I've come to realize that the world revolves around money."

"That's quite a depressing realization." 

Tell me about it. I learned that the hard way myself.

Ai picked up Ruby and started to speak in a serious tone, "Being an idol is fun, and it's okay if I go on like this by myself. But you know something? I want these kids to go to good schools, take lessons that benefit them in the long run, and so on. If I don't do something about this, I won't be able to make any of those happen."

Ai put Ruby down and gestured for me to come to her. I crawled my way over to her making sure she doesn't find out I could walk. It's difficult to Mimic a baby's movements.

"Like Rimuru here, I can see myself in her. You know how she always tries to be alone in a corner somewhere, it's like how I was back then. Her eyes give the same light as mine, and I think she can even surpass me if she decides to become an Idol or even an Actor."