What he said was nothing more ordinary.

But because the tone and expression of his speech are so natural, it seems to hide a subtext: I don't know what style we are, it's because your knowledge is too shallow.

Masashi Amaya's laughter awakens his teammates who are young people who have nothing to do with themselves and do not join or stop the conversation.

Everyone just met by chance, even if they were not used to seeing it in some places, and they would not really go too far. An older man hurriedly made a round and ended the awkward conversation.

"That's interesting! Iwahashi-san. ”

After walking a little farther, Matoshi Amaya stopped and said to him with a smile.

Hearing her say this, Iwahashi Shinichi was a little confused, "Did I say something funny?" and then, can you stop talking about it interesting? Being told by her all day made him feel as if he was deliberately playing tricks.

"Nope. She shook her head slightly, "I think it's great that you say that." ”

The other party is not polite enough, but he can remain polite and answer questions head-on without being humble or arrogant. Maori Amaya didn't expect Shinichi Iwahashi to respond like this, and felt that he was very personable like this.

At this time, she had the opportunity to tell Iwahashi Shin the meaning behind the word "idol".

"Is that so?" Iwahashi Shinichi didn't quite understand this prejudice.

After all, he didn't grow up in such a cultural environment after all, and even if he looked through the memories left by this body, he would never look for anything related to it.

Even if you look for it, you won't be prejudiced against idols because of this.

"Recently, Fuji TV made a show called "Meow Meow at Dusk", and selected some female high school students who can't sing or dance well and don't know anything to be idols. These days, I often hear people mock people with 'it's better to be an idol'. ”

When Matoshi Amaya talked about this, he also felt helpless, "...... Obviously, when I was a child, being an idol was still a very glorious ideal. ”

But when she grew up, she joined an underground band.

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't know what to say.

The air fell silent for a moment. After a while, Matoshi Amaya asked him, "Do you have any plans for Iwahashi-san in the future?"

"Intended?"

Iwahashi Shinichi digested the sentence and didn't quite understand what she meant. After a pause, he said, "Just go back to live your own life as usual...... That's it. Besides, I just came to help. ”

"That's right. Amatani nodded slightly, and invited, "Although we can't work together anymore, if you have time, please come back to our rehearsals and performances." Not social rhetoric, of course, but truth. ”

"Okay. Shinichi Iwahashi agreed. Learning from her, she said half-jokingly, "It's not social rhetoric, it's truth." ”

Maori Amaya made him laugh again.

She thought to herself, when she got along with this person, it was really easy and comfortable.

——

After three days of rehearsals, along with tonight's performance, Shinichi Iwahashi received 12,000 yen from Mimi Club. With this money, even if it is a simple part-time job, it is already a good salary.

Still, what surprised Shinichi Iwahashi was the band's remuneration for participating in the show. After the performance, the eight of them actually received less than 20,000 yen in total from their agents.

In other words, the salary paid to Shinichi Iwahashi was completely out of the pocket of the people of Mimi CLUB.

The income from the performances of underground bands is different from a one-time appearance fee and a box office share.

In this performance, the bands who participated in the show received an appearance fee, and the price of Mimi CLUB was 50,000 yen. After deducting income tax, Fengdao who contacted the job will take 50%, and finally remove the bus rental money and fuel costs, and in the hands of the band, there is only that pitiful reward.

It's all about making music with money.

If you just live by performing in bands, you have to live a life of grazing.

However, for most underground bands, the opportunity to show their faces is more important than the remuneration for their performances.

No matter what the purpose is, if you want to make a name for yourself, it is good to get closer to the mainstream, and after your fame and sales increase, you can participate in the box office share and increase your income.

There are people who are willing to stay underground, and there are people who want to make their music mainstream and heard by more people. Either way, people who are serious about making music deserve respect.

After explaining about the sharing with the band and sharing a little about the band's agent, Mineshima was probably in a good mood, or out of tolerance for the layman, he said something that was particularly interesting to Shinichi Iwahashi.

He said, "I've met a lot of great people in the underground world. Well, naturally, I am not as good as them, and I don't have their talents. That's why I sell excellence, and then become the person these excellent people can't live without. ”

Sales are excellent.

Iwahashi Shinichi was convinced by Minejima's statement and his way of life.

——

At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, Shinichi Iwahashi went to the pizza chain "Losack" where he worked on time to report. Today, in addition to him, there is also a female clerk named Yumiko who is on duty in the back kitchen.

Hiromiko is eighteen years old, and after taking off her sanitary hat and mask, she shows her short red hair like a tomboy and a cold face like a tantrum cat, and the relationship between the two is quite bad.

Fortunately, the pizza shop's career manual does not include the clause "You must get along with your partner's colleagues".

And the same work is like a train that sets a trajectory and repeats it on the track with the same rhythm. Such two people, even if they occasionally talk to each other, are no different from honking a whistle.

If you are used to doing the work, you will not go wrong. But while the machine was completing its own process, Iwahashi Shinichi still echoed everything in his mind from last night.

The chains of everyday life are interrupted by the enthusiasm and energy of this world that is so greedy for novelty. The life that used to be taken for granted suddenly cracked.

He could no longer continue to live like this, even if it was the so-called "normal life".

For the whole day, Shinichi Iwahashi was absent-minded.

He was tired of this purposeless life, but he didn't know how to say goodbye to it. He felt that he had become unrealistic, and his mind was no longer just thinking about "life", but about "ideals".

But the ideal is the ideal, and the ideal cannot cure hunger. You have to bake pizza when you bake pizza, you have to bake towels when you have towel. The next day is Thursday, the busiest day of the week.

A tour group from Xiangjiang was brought into the store by the tour guide and stayed for a while. After this wave of customers left, the store seemed to be evacuated for a while, and it became deserted.

A young lady named Mitsuko came to ask Iwahashi to dance, and he politely refused, "I'm afraid I won't be able to dance today." ”

"Can't jump?" Mitsuko thought it was strangely fresh, "Can you jump with other people, but can't you jump with me?"

"That's not it...... Not in good shape today. He said.

Mitsuko disagreed, "Dancing requires a special state." "The barmaid in the shop, occasionally at the waiter's place, displays a strange arrogance—arrogance, or perhaps a different kind of kindness.

"Okay. Iwahashi Shinichi was a little helpless.

He didn't mean to reject Mitsuko. At the beginning of tonight's performance, he could hear that the keys of the piano were inaccurate. Because of absent-mindedness, the more attention is paid to this point when the mind wanders. The more he tried not to care, the more the feeling of disharmony upset him.

This upset was also carried into the dance steps, which made his performance very poor.

Finally, Mitsuko stopped suddenly, "Is dancing with me so annoying?" ”