At noon the next day, Momoko Kikuchi and Kayomi Iwasaki met again in her aunt's restaurant.

There are almost five months left until the end of September. Five months is not a short time, but when it comes to terminating the contract and independence, it seems a bit urgent.

Kikuchi Momoko didn't say anything for a long time, and Iwasaki Kayomi didn't know the bottom of her heart. If you don't get this crucial card, it will be difficult for a new firm to start from scratch and make a name for itself in the industry.

Kikuchi Momoko has been slow to express her position and refuses to renew her contract with her current firm, this vacillating posture makes Iwasaki Kayomi feel a sense of threat, for fear that when she persuades her, Kikuchi Momoko has actually secretly contacted other firms.

But for Momoko Kikuchi, she is disappointed with her current firm's career plan, but if she cancels the contract, it will take more courage to fight from scratch with Iwasaki Kayomi.

Those who are anxious have reasons to be anxious, and those who hesitate also have reasons to hesitate.

"I'm in the early stages of preparing the firm. Having said that, from scratch, I have been exposed to all kinds of things that I couldn't touch before, and there are many interesting things in them......

Iwasaki Kayomi stopped, stopped persuading, and turned the conversation, "Do you want to hear it?" ”

"I want to hear it. Kikuchi Momoko also cooperated.

After lunch, Iwasaki Kayomi said goodbye and left, Kikuchi Momoko had work in the afternoon, she went to borrow the phone in the restaurant, called the agent, and asked him to come here to pick her up later.

The contract has not yet been decided, and at this juncture, it is somewhat sensitive to contact forces outside the firm. The society has developed to this day, although the industry will no longer be like in the early years, once the artist terminated the contract, he sent the extreme way to send a disfigurement knife, but if the termination of the contract was unpleasant, the old office sent a messy press release is always ready-made.

There is a tacit understanding between the artist and the firm, and because of this, the firm also has many unknown secrets of the artist.

Although the tacit understanding between Kikuchi Momoko and the current office has gradually lost its tacit understanding at work, the relationship has remained good. Even though she has not yet decided whether to go or stay, the firm has only routinely reduced her work.

But even so, if you want to terminate the treaty peacefully, at least you can't put the fact that you are in contact with someone from other forces on the table that will be known to the current office.

It's a tacit etiquette between the firm and the artist.

Because of this, Iwasaki Kayomi's persuasion will be carried out quietly, and Kikuchi Momoko will not let the office know.

......

The representative of Fujifilm saw that it was not a big deal, and introduced Kikuchi Momoko to Shinichi Iwahashi.

Previously, one of the two helped to publicize, and the other reciprocated the peach-style recommendation, which was somewhat related, but that time in Yokohama was just the first time they met.

Not long after the meeting, Momoko Kikuchi called Shinichi Iwahashi to ask for tickets for the concert, which in retrospect seems a bit presumptuous.

However, despite the hesitation before making a call, Momoko Kikuchi finally made the call.

After being in the industry for so long, she couldn't get tickets for the week of the show, and she couldn't have known about this kind of common sense. Knowing that he was going to fight presumptuously, Kikuchi Momoko was not simply because she was a fan of ZARD.

Moreover, if you really want to talk about it, people in the industry want tickets for related parties, and if they are not familiar with it, most of them will contact the staff of the other company through their own companies, and they will not even let the singers who are asked for tickets know about it.

Momoko Kikuchi would find the business card she got from Shinichi Iwahashi on the day of Yokohama and call him directly, thinking something else in mind.

......

In the afternoon, when her agent came to pick up Momoko Kikuchi, he brought the hospitality tickets sent to the office and the band's new album for her. In addition to the album, there is also a thank you card that comes with it, as well as the signatures of all the band members.

Looking at the handwriting of the signature, the content of the card is written by the lead singer Kamaike-san.

Previously, after calling Shinichi Iwahashi and hearing him talk about the release of the band's new album, Momoko Kikuchi did not buy the record herself, but waited to listen to it after receiving the album and tickets.

She opened the album and pulled out the accompanying national tour of the new album. From north to south, almost all of the larger cities have to go once, and depending on the name of the venue, it is basically a venue with about 1,000 people.

"That ZARD frontman San also seems to be working as a model. The agent chatted with Kikuchi Momoko.

Momoko Kikuchi is flipping through the album's lyric book, and there is a picture of the band on the inside page. She looked at Sachiko Kamaike, who was dressed in fresh clothes and had long hands and feet in the photo, and she had a good impression of her neat and neat temperament. Hearing the agent's words, I subconsciously said "Hey?"

The agent mistakenly thought Kikuchi Momoko's reaction was surprise, and said with a smile: "You also think it's interesting to listen to it, right? The lead singer of a rock band went to shoot a fashion magazine for women in their twenties, and was interviewed by the magazine. ”

The female lead singer of a fashion magazine with great fanfare sounds a bit bluffing. However, Kikuchi Momoko looked at Sachiko Kamaike's face on the inside page of the album and subtly felt that Sachiko Kamaike's effect on fashion magazines would be good.

I don't know why, but whatever doesn't make sense, Momoko Kikuchi thinks it's Shinichi Iwahashi's idea.

Or rather, when she heard ZARD's song for the first time and admired the vision of Shinichi Iwahashi's lead singer, Momoko Kikuchi planted a seed in her heart that "that Iwahashi-san can see deeper and farther things".

"The lead singer of the band goes to be a model, and the idol who goes to be the lead singer of the band is nothing compared to you. The agent didn't care what Kikuchi Momoko was thinking, what he thought of himself, so he casually joked with her.

Momoko Kikuchi has never complained about her failed transformation, nor has she deliberately avoided talking about it, but it is not something that makes you feel "fond of memories" when you think about it.

The agent compares her going into a band to Sachiko Kamaike's role as a fashion magazine model, and Momoko Kikuchi doesn't know how to react.

But I always feel that it's not a joke that can be laughed at after listening to it.

However, what the broker said is not false. The idol tide is declining, and the market can't accommodate so many idols, but the bands are huge, and the little idols who have not improved, and the old idols who are outdated will either give up singing to become actors, or form bands, or transform into talking and funny artists.

This scene of going their separate ways is quite a bit of an idol twilight.

Momoko Kikuchi didn't answer again, and the agent was amused. There was a moment of silence in the car. Momoko Kikuchi cleared her mind while casually flipping through the lyrics of the album.

I haven't listened to the song yet, but I read the lyrics first. After reading the lyrics, she put the inside page back on the album, picked up the thank you card that came with it, and wanted to put it in the box together.

Receiving such a thank you card, Kikuchi Momoko realized the tenderness and intimacy of the album giver from this.

......

"You can't go to that kind of place, Moki-chan!"

In the evening, the three friends got together for a drink, and the yellow soup was eaten a few times, Kamiya said.

It's been a few days since Nagato Daiyuki belittled Daikoku Daikoku that day, but Kamiya is still as angry when he mentions it as when he first came out of the building where BEING was.

Looking at his indignant look, Daikoku Moji felt a little funny at first, and gradually became bored.

He was the one who strongly encouraged her to meet Nagato Daiyuki at the beginning, and now he is the one who is trying to persuade her to never consider being a backing artist.

But Kamiya's feelings are really complicated, and this kind of lingering is not only a grievance for Daikoku Moji, but also a kind of resentment that he has been humiliated. Not only is Nagato Daiyuki that kind of person pretending to be good or bad, but even Ryoko is also-

"It's because you're good at asserting that Moji-chan is so sarcastic. Ryoko, who already knew the ins and outs of the matter, hit Kamiya mercilessly.

Ryoko is also unhappy with Kamiya's secret of going to meet Nagato Daiyuki with Daikoku. Kamiya cowhide brags too much, and Ryoko has always bragged when he says it, but this time he really brought Daikoku Moki to the head of the production company. This caused Ryoko's self-esteem to be slightly damaged.

But this opportunity to introduce Daikoku Moki and Nagato Daiyuki to meet, and finally ended with Daikoku Moki being ridiculed and derogatory, and Ryoko was indignant for Daikoku Moki, and on the other hand, there was a subtle feeling of "I know that Kamiya is unreliable!", and the sense of self-esteem was restored.

In order to restore his self-esteem, he must resolutely support Daikoku Maki and crusade against Kamiya, who is arrogant. But doing so is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for Kamiya, making him hate Nagato Daiyuki even more.

It's all the fault of that self-righteous Ojisan!

Kamiya and Ryoko have their own ideas, but they are unprecedentedly unified only on this point. The reason why this is so is probably because hating Nagato Daiyuki together is the best solution for these two to have a step down and get back together.

The human heart is complex, and this sentence is appropriate whenever and wherever it is used.

The two friends were indignant about what happened to her, but Daikoku Moki felt angry and unreasonable at the time, and when he remembered the spicy and merciless evaluation later, he didn't have such a strong feeling of unhappiness.

Of course, it's certainly not about feeling good.

It is said that with her pride, being so belittled and ridiculed should have put the company BEING on the blacklist a long time ago, and avoided it from now on.

However, on the one hand, Nagato Daiyuki's aura of being a production team for LOUDNESS and BOOWY is so dazzling that even his arrogance seems to be justified.

On the other hand, there is also the reason for Ikeda's persuasion.

Since that unpleasant meeting, the relationship between Daikoku Maki and Ikeda has suddenly become much closer. Ikeda admired Daikokumo from the bottom of his heart and hoped to lead her on the right path, so he encouraged her and said good things for Nagato Daiyuki.

A far-sighted person like President Nagato must have criticized you so mercilessly because he saw the potential of Daikoku-san that was far more than that, and he was worried that Daikoku-san would be complacent.

If it weren't for the fact that he was optimistic about you, why bother so much with a character like him?

Ikeda's persuasion sounded plausible.

Is that really the case?

"If you want me to say, I should have generously recommended myself to Iwahashi-san that time. Ryoko recalls the old words.

But in this case of fighting Kamiya, it's not surprising that Shinichi Iwahashi will be mentioned. If you really want to talk about it, the two rivals, unknowingly, stood up between Nagato Daiyuki and Iwahashi Shinichi respectively.

Now, Kamiya has lost a lot, and it is the time for Ryoko to muster up her strength and push the people she supports to the front.

"That being said, there is no such right opportunity now. ”

Kamiya muttered, "Besides, that Iwahashi-san may not be a great character." ”

Hearing him say this, Ryoko's eyes narrowed, and this appearance was not much different from when Kamiya was resolutely standing on Nagato Daiyuki's side.

Dahei Moji looked at these two friends and couldn't help but think in his heart:

Hopefully, the two of them will get married one day.

Daikoku Moki decided not to discuss music with these two friends after that. In the same way, I won't tell them that I sent an audition to Iwahashi Shinichi's company.

However, after the audition tape was sent, there was no response to it.

Could it be that Iwahashi-san also thinks that her music is not worth mentioning?

The moment Daikoku Moji came up with this idea, he couldn't help but shudder, and took a big sip of his wine glass. I have always been so confident, but I have become timid and hesitant.

It seems that after being ridiculed by Nagato Daiyuki, the mood has changed subtly.

After all, she is just an ordinary girl who is not yet 20 years old and has not been in Tokyo for a long time.

......

"It's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong!"

Shin Iwahashi's movements were not right, and Akina Nakamori bared her teeth like a kitten whose tail had been grabbed. This bluffing, unforgiving appearance is a lifelike paper tiger.

Iwahashi sighed, "Got it, got it." ”

Nakamori, Paper Tiger, and Akina were aggressive, "'Got it', just answer once." ”

So what is it that you just said three times in a row?

Iwahashi Shin'ichi glanced at her, and the paper tiger's face was full of her swagger today.

At this time, if you point out her unreasonableness, 300% of them will be knocked down by this paper tiger. But there is no way, when this paper tiger opens its teeth and claws, it can only bluff one person.

He was being pressed under the paws of a paper tiger - guiding the steps of origami.

Iwahashi Shinichi was honest under the paws of the paper tiger, but Akina Nakamori did not give up, stretched out his claws to guide his origami technique, stared at him, and then crusaded, "...... It can really hold garlic. ”

"......" Iwahashi was speechless.

At this point, it would be strange if it couldn't be seen that it was deliberate.

This awkward look, she just has a bad mood in her heart, and she is looking for trouble in a different way.