Weekly Short-Short Note: Unique Round

"Is there really this much lag these days?"
Cheap wireless earbuds are no good.

A lag of just under a second.
I'll just use them for music.
It's not a problem if it's not for video.

That's when I came up with a business idea.
Let's have influencers promote these laggy earbuds and sell them.

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Two influencers stand side-by-side, one wearing normal earbuds and the other wearing the laggy ones, singing and dancing.

The music is off-beat in an exquisitely uncomfortable way, canceling each other out and echoing to create a sound never heard before.
The two of them sing and dance in sync with that, while being out of sync.
A unique round.
A trance state. It's like a Kecak dance.

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The orders started coming in.

I sell the earbuds I bought up in advance for a 10,000 yen markup.
It's a killing.

Having gained some traction,
I decided to team up with a company president I had met.

Short hair, glasses.
A houndstooth jacket, a light pink dress shirt, and tight white chinos.
A beer belly is proof of social standing.
The perfect company president!

The president works furiously, and the profits keep rolling in.

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One day, the president disappeared.
He must have gotten tired and quit.
However, the sales keep coming in every day.

...It seems I've started to lag.

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