(Two chapters in one)

“...... That's what I was going to do. Iwahashi said.

Hiding his face in the hood, he could not see the change in Yoshida's Miwa expression clearly, and he couldn't find the surprise of Nakamura Masato, who was in the same room, when he heard this sentence from his mouth.

If Shinichi Iwahashi quits the band, not only Miwa Yoshida, but even Masato Nakamura will find it difficult to accept. For a long time, it was Shinichi Iwahashi who was regarded as an opponent by Big Brother Nakamura, not Takahiro Nishikawa, who only came to help once.

......

Shinichi Iwahashi had such an idea, and Masato Nakamura only heard it for the first time today. However, this is not the first time Miwa Yoshida has heard him talk about it, although it is not as direct as it is now.

Before Christmas, Shinichi Iwahashi didn't have time to attend the show, so he proposed that Takahiro Nishikawa take his place at the LIVEHOUSE, and at that time, Miwa Yoshida was vaguely aware that he had such an idea.

So, throughout the New Year, she was preoccupied and wanted to find a good way to solve this problem and leave Iwahashi Shinichi.

She's not the kind of girl with a particularly bright brain—or rather, she lacks the necessary talent for solving problems and sings when she's happy, a personality that is often seen as an optimist, and it's rare to see her bothering about the same thing for too long.

Because of this, when she returned to her hometown in Hokkaido, after seeing her friends, her troubled appearance was a little strange in the eyes of her friends.

"Did Miwa-chan have a boyfriend in Tokyo?" Ryoko Nishino, a friend who has been a classmate and playmate since elementary school, gossiped.

Miwa Yoshida showed a confused expression, "Boyfriend?"

"Don't you understand this?" Ryoko Nishino said, "The only thing that can continue to worry about it for so long is love." ”

Listening to her friend's "high theory", Miwa Yoshida laughed hard, "Is that the case?" However, laughing and laughing, he still corrected seriously, "If it is a dream, it will be dozens of times more troublesome than love." ”

"Dream?" Ryoko Nishino was stunned when she heard this solemn word.

She knew that Miwa Yoshida's dream was to become a singer - in her hometown of Ikeda, even the uncle at the fish shop who often went to buy fish knew that she had given up her education to become a singer and left her hometown for Tokyo.

There was a famous female singer in Hokkaido, Miyuki Nakajima, and Miwa Yoshida's friends also encouraged her to become a singer like Miyuki Nakajima in the future - although her idol was Yumi Matsuya, a good friend of Miyuki Nakajima who fell in love with and killed.

When she was in high school, Miwa Yoshida became Miyuki Nakajima's younger sister and went to the same school as the singer who could represent Hokkaido. When she heard that there was a music teacher at school who had taught Miyuki Nakajima, she was full of joy, and from time to time she used the songs she wrote to "harass" the other party, wanting to get some advice, but she was always devalued as worthless.

It wasn't until the last semester of her sophomore year of high school that she learned that this music teacher had belittled Miyuki Nakajima so much before. Although he has taught Miyuki Nakajima, the music teacher has always felt that Miyuki Nakajima's songs are written in a mess and have no merit.

After knowing this, Miwa Yoshida became more confident, feeling that since Miyuki Nakajima, who was belittled by this music teacher, has become a famous singer, she can also make the teacher angry with herself, and her future is limitless - (Note)

It's such an optimist, even the teacher's derogation can be regarded as a good thing.

As a friend, Ryoko Nishino is clear about Miwa Yoshida's past. Because of this, I was uneasy that after she returned to Hokkaido this year, she said with a heart that "the troubles of dreams are dozens of times more than love".

Could it be that Miwa-chan's dream of being a singer has been shattered?

That's right, by the time her birthday is over in May, Miwa-chan will be twenty-three years old, and if she can't make her debut at this age, she probably won't have a chance to debut, right?

Ryoko Nishino, with the idea of comforting Miwa Yoshida and making her happy, called her, and two other friends who played together to the end, and the four of them went to Asahiyama Zoo to play.

The Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa City is a famous zoo even in the city, and they often come here to play when they were students.

Accompanied by friends, and in the healing zoo again, Miwa Yoshida also had a lot of fun.

Giraffes living in the tropics hid because they could not tolerate the extreme cold of Hokkaido. The girls felt a little pity, so they said okay, wait until the place where they sold the surrounding area, and bring back a giraffe souvenir.

In the place where the merchandise is sold, there are all kinds of dolls, charms hanging on backpacks, and knick-knacks such as keychains, among which the largest and the most stupid-looking is the giraffe hood.

"Who would buy something like that?" Ryoko Nishino said to her friend with a smile, and her friend picked up the hood, "This is cute, isn't it?"

“...... yes, it's cute. "But, this bulky thing is useless, right?

However, while looking at this giraffe hood, Miwa Yoshida had a naïve idea in her heart.

......

"Now, however, I have changed my mind a little. Shin's words began with a remark, interrupting Miwa Yoshida's thoughts. As a result, before the words could be spoken, I asked her, "Can I take this off now?"

Miwa Yoshida responded to him with silence, and it was rare that he didn't immediately follow behind and ask non-stop.

Iwahashi waited for a while, but without waiting for an answer, she assumed that she had tacitly agreed, and took off the giraffe's hood. Stuffed in this, it must not be comfortable, his head was free, and he shook his head like a puppy.

Even so, Shinichi Iwahashi, who has short hair, does not have the "spectacular" situation when Miwa Yoshida shook his hair, but rather that his current hairstyle, which is crushed by a hood and lying listlessly on his scalp, is really like a neglected puppy.

Miwa Yoshida looked at him with such an embarrassed look, obviously still angry with him, but he was amused first. However, after a moment's break, she immediately straightened up her face again.

This picture really looks like a child who pretends to be serious and waits for an adult to give him a step down.

However, Iwahashi Shinichi knew in his heart that even if it was childish and serious, it should be treated seriously.

When Miwa Yoshida gave him the giraffe hood, he probably didn't understand why he had received such a gift.

However, when she seriously straightened his hood for him, and praised it for "great results", and now she showed this expression again, if she didn't understand it, it would be a disappointment to what she had always understood.

For a long time, Miwa Yoshida believed in performing with Shinichi Iwahashi, and then going further afield to achieve more dreams, so he formed the band.

In the process of forming a band, Shinichi Iwahashi found something he could strive for. Not only does he want to push Miwa Yoshida to the top, but he also wants to set off a wave of bands throughout Yoshimoto.

With this grand goal in mind, together with Manyumi Watanabe, he led the production of "Yuji Miyake's Band Heaven", which originally belonged to him and Miwa Yoshida's dream, and was put into this big dream together.

As the show aired, the ratings and buzz continued to rise, and not only amateur bands in Tokyo, but also amateur bands across the country knew about the show, and there is no doubt that it was now half the success.

However, the ambitious goal got off to a good start, and at the cost of a choice between his dreams and that of Miwa Yoshida.

When he felt that he was about to be pushed away, the little fox lying on his back finally came up with such a clumsy solution.

......

"It's fine to wear this thing for a few minutes once in a while, but if it's for a long time, you still need to put an ice pack in it. Iwahashi Shinichi touched the deer on the giraffe's hood and seriously expressed his feelings after wearing.

"This one was given to me, right?" he asked.

Miwa Yoshida stared at his face, his hair crushed by the hood, and he was lying on his scalp stupidly, "If you don't want it, you can give it back to me." She said.

"How can anyone give a gift and ask for it back. Iwahashi smiled at her, "Besides, I like giraffes a lot." ”

"Really?" Miwa Yoshida looked at his smiling face, which had no hint of gloom.

"Hmm. Iwahashi Shinichi touched Shikayuki with his hand, "I just told Masato-sanya, and I'm going to prepare a video tape for registration soon." I originally wanted to ask your fellow countryman Nishikawa-san to come and help, but you gave me an inspiration. ”

He didn't debunk the little abacus in Miwa Yoshida's heart, and asked as if he had thought of it: "Before inviting Nishikawa-san, let me ask first, you two don't mind having a giraffe man playing the keyboard in the band, right?"

"I don't mind—Giraffe-kun. Big Brother Nakamura, who had been gloating from just now, said to him as if he was coaxing.

Or, he was relieved to hear this solution.

Shinichi Iwahashi has Miwa Yoshida on his back, and for Masato Nakamura, the travel companion he meets on the road is also him, not Takahiro Nishikawa, who has only met once.

"It's too quick to change your tune. Iwahashi Shinichi complained about Masato Nakamura, who was only in charge of watching the excitement, and looked at Miwa Yoshida again.

Miwa-chan was still standing there with a straight face, looking at him.

However, this is certainly not mad at him.

"I thought about it for a moment," Iwahashi Shinichi smiled at her, "If Nishikawa-san were to be called in to help, wouldn't it be a battle to surrender?" ...... At least you have to lose a fight for you to give up this position. ”

On the first day of the new year, she called him and said that she had prepared a gift, and that she wanted to see him again and again, and handed him this giraffe hood, this clumsy method.

With such a strong will, Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't throw the little fox lying on his back on someone else's cart.

Referring to the meme that fought for her to show off her skills, Miwa Yoshida was amused by his words and showed her optimistic smile.

"Shen Yijun. Miwa Yoshida finally spoke.

"Hmm. ”

"I'll change what I said before, okay?"

"You've said so many strange things before, which one do you want to change?" asked Iwahashi Shinichi deliberately.

Miwa Yoshida pursed her lips and ignored his deliberate tricks, "That's it, my favorite keyboard player......"

She reached over and landed on top of his head, and Shinichi Iwahashi lowered his head in response. Miwa Yoshida snorted back and forth twice for him, thinking about a little prickly as he finished speaking, "You're the only one." ”

"I thought so too. "Masato Nakamura is like a professional cheerman, cheering for him in the back.

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't know what would happen if he turned into a giraffe, carried the little fox on his back, and Winnie the Pooh, which he met on the way, and the three animals walked forward like this, but now that he had made his decision, he would come up with a solution to all this.

What's more, just like what Manyumi Watanabe said before he came, he can't forget what he looked like when he performed on stage, and Shinichi Iwahashi was able to make such a performance because he loved the stage.

"So," Iwahashi said, as he put the giraffe hood on the table, "let's decide which song to use for the tape." ”

"Yes-" Miwa-chan's carefree voice rang out.

......

Saturday night.

With three minutes left at eleven twenty, Moritomo Ranshi tuned his TV to TV Asahi and waited for the band Heavenly Kingdom to air.

The loser's name is hard to remember, no one will remember, he is the young lead singer of the first band BOLAN to appear when the first episode of the band Kingdom of Heaven aired.

Youthfulness is a good quality at some point, but on stage, players who are so youthful that they retreat are destined to be eliminated and forgotten.

Failing in such an embarrassed manner in the show made him unable to hold his head up and fell into self-doubt. On that day, walking through the streets of Harajuku Walker Heaven, Moritomo Ranshi lost the confidence to continue.

That's when he met the man......

"You didn't stop and kept singing, and I think it's great. ”

That's what the girl named Akamatsu told him.

......

At this time, on the TV, the commercial broadcast ended, and in the picture, the opening of the band's kingdom of heaven was cut.

After being eliminated from the show, on the one hand, I felt lost, on the other hand, I was unwilling, on the other hand, I also wanted to see what this show would look like, so after returning from Tokyo, he didn't fall behind and saw the present.

Then, in the show, he saw the program team's bold display of hole cards, saw one after another bands with their own characteristics, watched the chair in the world win in a row, and was defeated by BEGIN, and watched BGEIN go all the way to the last battle now.

During the New Year, friends met and talked about it, wanting to know if BGEIN would be able to get the first KING.

When he was in the middle of the conversation and joined the discussion, Moritomo Lanshi felt that the influence of this show was slowly increasing.

Because of this, the shadow of failure in the heart will linger.

"Good evening, the new episode of the band Heaven has started again-"

In the TV screen, the host Yuji Miyake appeared, and behind him, the extremely familiar stage with a mechanism that once made Moritomo Lanshi at a loss.