Honami Nanjo came onto the stage holding a microphone: "Hi everyone, I am Honami Nanjo from Class B of the third year."
She changed her outfit again, this time she looked like a female artist out for a show, and she wore a soft felt hat, which is now fashionable among artists.
To what extent is this soft hat popular among artists in this era? If you look at the old comics of Tezuka Osamu and Fujiko Fujio, anyone who wears this hat must be a painter or manga artist, and it has become a kind of identity label. level of expression.
Nanjo looks very good in this outfit, and Kazuma always feels that she is trying not to take the sex route.
She was determined to show distinction with the president.
Rinan Licai was also pitiful, showing his most powerful weapon, and then the two main opponents did not take the move head-on.
Here one plays the taiko drum and the other plays the piano, both of which are real talents. Although Nanjo may be required by her family to practice and not really like piano, but her level is said to be at the level of participating in regional competitions.
Without the blessing of talent, she must have put a lot of energy and effort into practicing to this point.
While admiring Nanjo's "new skin", Kazuma continued: "If you just play the piano, it may be a bit too high, so I decided to cooperate with Mikako Fujii, and I will play and sing with her."
Kazuma stared suspiciously at Mikako who was on stage.
Mikako also changed to a "new skin", this time in an orthodox Showa idol dress, which is what Matsuko Seiko was wearing when she sang Ao no Coral Reef.
Kazuma suddenly noticed something, no way...
Honami Nanjo: "Next, please listen to the song "Blue Coral Reef."
Sure enough, it was the song "Blue Coral Reef" that Nichinan Licai had just sung.
Mikako Fujii held the microphone: "I'm not as good as Nichinan-san, only at the level of karaoke, but Honami said it's okay... So I'm making a fool of myself, you just listen to her piano, just listen to the piano!"
Nanjo just smiled, pressed the microphone on the microphone stand next to the piano, sat down gracefully, pressed a few keys to test the sound, and then turned his head to indicate to Mikako that it was time to start.
Kazuma heard Chiyoko muttering: "Is this really good? Although Nichinan's singing is average, Mikako's singing is really super ordinary."
"Don't tell me, they ran to participate in the beauty pageant. I didn't participate in the whole process, and your participation rate was higher than mine. At least you were still in the curtain of Nanjo's house just now. Didn't you listen to what they said?"
"No, I just heard Mikako complaining that she doesn't know what to do in the talent show. If it doesn't work, she can only dance swords."
He Ma looked at the stage: "Then what's going on now?"
Chiyoko shrugged: "I don't know. When I left, I heard Mikako diverting her thoughts, saying that she would wear a puppet costume and dance swords."
Kazuma didn't know how to evaluate Mikako's whimsy.
"Maybe Nanjo saw that she might make a fool of herself, so give her a hand?" He said the most reliable guess in his mind.
Chiyoko immediately agreed, "It's possible. I suddenly feel pitiful for Mikako-senpai. Let's order her favorite refreshments tonight."
At this time, Nanjo began to play the piano.
The original song accompaniment of Blue Coral Reef does not have a piano, Nanjo changed it to a version with piano solo accompaniment.
Even people who don't understand music can tell that this piano is extremely difficult to play. In the music game, it's the difficulty of octopus monsters, okay
Amid Nanjo's piano sound, Mikako sang.
Then Kazuma understood the reason why Nanjo did this. With her piano performance at this level, the audience's attention was drawn away by the piano, and they would ignore Mikako's level.
Mikako just needs to stand there beautifully and sway gently from side to side like Seiko Matsu sings about Blue Coral Reef.
Of course, the song can't be too bad, but to be honest, Mikako's song is considered to be of a level among amateurs with two voices. At least for Kazuma who has learned the harmonica for 100 days, it is in tune.
In this way, with a singing voice that is not bad by ordinary people's standards, coupled with a piano accompaniment that is so strong that it is foul by ordinary people's standards, what you get on average is a super powerful performance effect.
Kazuma noticed that the people around him had started to sway gently to the melody.
Chiyoko muttered in a low voice: "This... the effect is really unexpected. It's just a pull on Mikako-senpai. But in this way, Mikako-senpai can't hold her head up in front of Miss Nanjo, right? The maid in Okada-san's script."
When He Ma heard it, he found that it was really interesting. Mikako will always be Nanjo's foil in the future? When will the childhood sweetheart stand up
At the end of the song, Mikako held the microphone in one hand and raised the other hand: "Does it sound good? Do you want to listen to another song?"
The people who just swayed to the music responded unevenly: "Think!"
"Then the second song, "Thinking of Autumn"! Honami, music!"
He was stunned, this is indeed the song that Nichinan sang just now.
Chiyoko: "This second song, it looks like Mikako-senpai's impromptu idea."
Kazuma nodded: "You can tell by listening to Nanjo's piano. This time, there is no complicated arrangement, but the main theme of the song is played with the piano, and then repeated rhythmic phrases are added."
This time, the expressiveness of Nanjo's piano has weakened, but Mikako may have picked up the game and played significantly better than last time.
Kazuma felt that it was a good time for him to go to Nichinan now. She was rubbed against the ground by two powerful enemies with far more resources than her, and finally she was given a knife by Mikako, who was born similarly to her.
"I... leave for a while." He Ma said.
"Are you going to find Nichinan-senpai?" Chiyoko said to the point, "I have no objection, as long as it can increase the income of the dojo, I don't care, but, brother, you should also think about how it will end in the end. Japan is a monogamous country!
"But brother, you may be in politics in the future, so just pretend I didn't say so."
There are two types of people in Japan, even if they are found to have lovers, there will be no accidents. One is a writer, look at Osamu Dazai's glorious resume; the other is a politician.
Moreover, this politician covers a wide range, including not only politicians, but also soldiers and policemen—of course, Japan theoretically has no soldiers after the war, and the Self-Defense Forces are all civil servants.
Yamamoto Fifty-Six had a lover, and when he was fighting with the aviation faction and the cannon giant ship faction, he once exposed each other's shortcomings in raising a lover, and in the end he was not dealt with by any military law.
Things like politicians raising lovers are really not even black material in Japan. The big deal is to bow and apologize and retreat behind the scenes, and then come out after the limelight. But public sexual harassment is black material, and it is very strange.
In contrast, the Japanese stars are much more miserable, and if their cheating is exposed, they will definitely die.
He Ma ignored his sister's complaints and left the venue directly.
It's not that he has any thoughts about Nichinan, he is eager to add her to a luxurious lunch or something, there is no such thing.
He just felt that if his apprentice changed Nichinan's life trajectory, then he had the responsibility to bring this girl back.
She still looks like a pretty good girl, so she can't just let her fall into the quagmire of the entertainment industry. If you fall into it, if you become famous after the results, then that's fine, but most of the people in the entertainment industry just follow their lives.
As soon as He Ma came to the backstage separated by the curtain, he saw that Nichinan Licai had finished changing, and was standing under the awning built by the student union, looking at the stage with his hands folded.
There is no one from the executive department of the student union around her, and they may all be sent to work.
Hema walked towards her, and before he could speak, the girl spoke first: "Come to appease me, the defeated general?"
"It's cleaning up the chicken feathers left by my apprentice's reckless actions." He Ma joked.
"Apprentice?" Rinan Rina looked at Kazuma in surprise, "Uh... you mean the three seniors?"
"Otherwise? You don't really think that we are in the relationship of Fang Chunli in the weekly magazine, do you? Don't be stupid, you are also a girl, will you let yourself be part of the deformed relationship described by Fang Chun in the weekly magazine? Me and them are very different. A healthy master-student relationship, of course I don't deny that they have the idea of changing the master-student relationship into other relationships."
"Knowing this, you still maintain the master-student relationship?" Rinan Rina frowned, "It's really, really bad. Although I can't bear to be part of the relationship written in the weekly magazine Fang Chun, I also Equally intolerant of being part of the real situation."
Shrugging with the horse: "This is your freedom. I just came... I just thought you might need to talk to someone. I'm pretty good at giving people directions."
After all and the horse pointed out a knight of the law.
Nichinan Licai was silent, as if he didn't intend to speak.
So He Ma continued: "Although the result of the vote is not yet certain, after all, there are quite a lot of people who think with their lower body. They may vote for you in order to praise the gravity. But..."
Rinan Licai smiled: "Praise gravity? This statement is really interesting. Senior, are you actually an interesting person?"
"There is nothing wrong with this statement, isn't it? Gravity is really amazing." When He Ma said this, he took a special look at Nichinan's chest.
Before, he restrained himself not to look below the girl's neck.
Rinan Licai laughed even more happily: "Gravity hehehe..."
"That's not the point. What I want to say is that although you may not necessarily lose now, you have already surrendered, right?"
"That's right." Nichinan Rina closed his smile and looked at the stage, "I have already brought out my best thing, even if I do this, I can't win. This world is really unfair."
"Yeah, some people are born with a golden spoon in their mouths, and some people have talents bestowed by God. Although some people have been emphasizing that people who are born with talents must be useful, but even so, there is inequality between talents and talents. of."
"Senior, are you here to tell me these things I already know?" Rinan Rina asked back.
"Of course not." He Ma organized his words a little bit, "Before I preach, let me ask, what is your reason for wanting to win?"
"Does this still need a reason? Whether it's a game or life, isn't it natural to want to win?"
"Then your definition of success in life is to release a hit single, act in a popular national drama, and finally go to the Red and White Song Concert and become a national-level star?"
"I didn't think about it that much, but... it should be?" Rinan Ricai replied uncertainly.
"Why do you have to take the road of showbiz?"
"Because... I look good, don't I? This is one of the few talents I have."
He Ma looked at Ri Nanli Cai's face again, and it was true that the girl looked good.
When they met their gazes, Rinan Ricai added another sentence: "I don't wear much makeup, because it's hot and I'm busy with work, it's troublesome to wear thick makeup, and it will be messed up by sweat."
"Naturally beautiful." He Ma was stunned, "It's true that you have such an idea. But don't you think the chances of debuting in the showbiz and becoming a big star are a bit too low?"
"Before I became a reader model, I was full of confidence and thought that I could kill the world just by my looks. It turned out that the reader models in the same period were all beautiful." Rinan Ricai showed a self-deprecating smile.
"My agent is in charge of many reader models at the same time. All of them are school girls in their own schools, and the boys' lovers. I am naive."
He Ma: "There is an old saying in China that the strong are more powerful than the strong. I was the same in the world of kendo. I thought I was already very strong. When I left school, I found strong people like me everywhere."
"But you have already taken the Kuixing flag, at least you are the number one high school swordsman in Japan, aren't you?"
That's because I'm open... and Ma of course can't say the same.
"No, because there is a Jade Dragon Banner Tournament in West Japan. I can say that I am the strongest swordsman in high school when I get the Jade Dragon Banner. But time is running out, because when the next Jade Dragon Banner Tournament is held, I will already be a college student.
"Besides, there is nothing to brag about being the strongest in high school, and there are many other strong people.
"I know at least two ultimate powerhouses who hold the title of Juggernaut are still alive."
Nichinan Licai looked at Kazuma suspiciously: "So, you want to persuade me not to be discouraged, and continue to struggle in the entertainment industry like you struggled in the field of kendo?"
"No, it's not. What I want to say is that someone like me who inherited the dojo and should continue to make great strides in the world of martial arts, but chooses to enter the University of Tokyo. Do you know why?"
Nichinan Licai looked at Kazuma: "Why? I thought about it before, but I didn't want to understand it. I just wanted to ask my brother when I had the chance."
"Because you don't need other people's appreciation, connections or opportunities to get into university. As long as you review more thoroughly and perform better than other candidates, you can get in. So if you fail in the university entrance exam, you can only It means that you can't do it, and the other candidates in the same examination room are stronger than you. It's hard to even find an excuse to excuse yourself."
In fact, there are other reasons, such as someone cheating in the same examination room, or someone impersonating you, but He Ma ignored these "small probability events" at this time.
He stretched out his index finger and pointed at Ri Nanli Cai: "I think you should go to college more than the entertainment industry. You are able to be the student council president, which means that your grades are good. I think this is the right way."
Rinan Rina shook her head: "Senior, you are a boy, so it's okay for you to think so. I am a girl, and even if I am admitted to university, I will only become a reserve for a rich wife. I can't be in politics or..."
"Why not?" Kazuma interrupted Nichinan Rina, "Japan learned from Britain during the Meiji Restoration. What should the Prime Minister be called now?"
Rinan Rina hesitated for a moment. She hadn't entered the stage of preparing for the university exam, and the second year of ordinary high school would not take the current international politics exam.
And Nichinan Ricai is a girl, so it's normal for her not to care about international politics.
"Ye... don't know, Churchill?"
"It's Mrs Thatcher."
"Is it a woman?"
"Of course, people call them Madam. Japan is always slow in this regard, but in the foreseeable future, Japan will definitely have more jobs open to women. Women can become police officers, producers, diplomats, and even The prime minister's time will surely come."
Until crossing with horses, there was no female prime minister in Japan in the previous life, but there will definitely be one in the future. In Japanese sci-fi movies and anime, there have been many images of female prime ministers.
For example, in the first season of the new TV version of Ghost in the Shell, there is a female prime minister in the style of an iron lady.
Rinan Licai was shocked by Kazuma's statement.
"Is it going to be like this... No way? Japan is a very traditional country..."
"No! Yes! Think about it, in Niijima Yae's time, girls couldn't even go to school. After the Meiji Restoration, girls also had the right to go to school.
"Before the war, ordinary full-time universities in Japan didn't even accept girls. Girls could only go to women's universities if they wanted to go to university. Now the former imperial university, Dongda, doesn't open its doors to girls?"
Nichinan Ricai opened his mouth halfway, obviously wanting to say something to refute, but couldn't.
At this time, He Ma felt that he had regained the feeling when the sales representative fooled foreigners into buying products.
But just like in his previous life, he can sell the product only if the product is of really high quality. And this time, what he said to Ninan Licai seemed to make sense mainly because it was really reasonable.
Hema just used expressions that would make it look more reasonable based on reasonable facts.
"So?" Rinan Rina gave up rebutting Kazuma and directly advanced the topic.
"So, if you don't want to be a big star to go to the red and white song, but just want to realize your own life value, then you don't have to go to the entertainment circle at all. You can go to university. It won't waste your natural beauty. There is nothing better to eat.
"Correspondingly, whether you can achieve your goals depends only on whether you can work harder and perform better than other competitors. This is much better than being in the entertainment industry. At least your destiny will be in your own hands , you can’t blame others if you lose. More importantly, you don’t have to sell your looks when you get into college.”
Nichinan Licai nodded thoughtfully: "Senior, what you said... well, it seems to make sense. I will seriously consider the senior's words."
Hema moved his eyes to the top of Rinan Licai's head, and found that there was no entry.
Sure enough, it is not so easy to generate an entry. This operation does not even have a time-limited entry.
At this time, Ninan Licai suddenly smiled: "I always feel that the senior is particularly concerned about whether I will sell my appearance to start a pillow business?"
"Forget it, I don't want to see my lovely younger generation cry all day long because the pillow business didn't achieve the expected results." He Ma responded in a teasing tone.
"Ah, is it just like that? Don't seniors want me to be your apprentice too?"
Facing the sudden straight ball, He Ma smiled: "It's not that I don't have this idea. After all, I'm short of money now. It's always good to have an extra tuition fee."
Rinan Licai looked at Kazuma in surprise: "Are you...do you care about the tuition?"
"Otherwise? My sister has been urging me to pull you into the dojo so that I can collect your tuition."
Nichinan Licai was silent for a second before pointing to his chest: "Senior, are you not interested in this at all?"
He Ma hesitated, saying that he is not interested, it must be a lie, but admitting that he is interested, it is too straightforward, what should...
"What?" Nichinan Licai breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm still interested. I thought you'd become immune after watching too much, senior."
"Is it important whether meat is interested?" He Ma asked, "You don't like me."
"I don't like it, I don't like it now, but if I go to learn kendo from you, senior, maybe I will like it."
Kazuma heard her thoughts, so he asked directly: "But you don't want to come to me to learn kendo, do you?"
"If I stop being a reader model, I will go. At this stage, I still want to try to see how far I can go. When I can't go on without selling my hue, I will come back and prepare for the university entrance exam with peace of mind. Learn the way of swords over there. When the time comes, senior, please accept me, who is physically and mentally broken."
"Quit before the body and mind are broken! Cherish yourself, okay?"
"Hahaha, it's a rhetorical trick. I was about to be persuaded by my agent, thinking that I was selling my appearance when I took swimsuit photos in magazines, and it would not be impossible to sell more. But today, I suddenly realized that even if Selling lust, I may not win, and then you come running over, senior."
Nichinan Licai stood up and gave a big lazy waist: "I figured it out, and I will explain to my manager later that I will never engage in any pillow business. After talking about it, the work should be reduced sharply. After all, I am just a reader. Model, and there is no official contract."
He Ma was about to say something when Ninan Licai suddenly bowed to him: "Thank you, senior."
It's not a senior, but a senior.
After she straightened her back, she was the heroic student council president Rina Nichinan again.
He Ma reconfirmed the top of her head, but did not see the entry.
However, this time, I should be able to turn Ninan Licai's life back on the normal track
As for when she would come to the dojo to learn kendo, Hema decided not to think about such things, maybe one day in the future she would come directly if she wanted to learn.
Nichinan Licai smiled and said: "I have the flyer for the kendo gym, senior, and I will pass it when I want to learn it. Please work hard for the exam review, senior. If you don't pass the entrance exam to Dongda University, what did you say to me just now?" The power of persuasion will drop sharply, and then I may go to the showbiz to realize the value of life.
"It's time to vote, I'm going to the stage."
After talking about Rinan Ricai, he walked to the stage with light steps.
He and the horse watched her off in situ.
**
In the final result, Nichinan Licai lost to Nanjo Honami with a slight disadvantage, and finished second.
She specially ran over to Kazuma and said, "Senior, look, at least I won the Taiko!"
Before she could reply to Ma, she was called away by a member of the Executive Department of the Student Union in the distance.
Chiyoko next to Hema looked sideways at his brother: "Brother, she has been teased like this by you, why doesn't she come to learn kendo? Are you serious about soliciting customers?"
"I have! Besides, what is meant by 'teasing up like this', isn't it normal for her?"
"She has changed your address!"
"Senior is not much different from senior?"
"But the sudden name change is definitely suspicious! No, I have to report it to the seniors!"
"No, wait for me! I didn't do anything, why should I be said to be like a scumbag who was arrested?"
"I don't care, I'm going to file a complaint, now, immediately! Ah, the eggs are right there!"