The car drove onto the main road, and Big Ben asked Akina Nakamori, "Will I send you home now?"

Akina Nakamori said "um", "Please." ”

Big Ben was confirmed, didn't speak again, and concentrated on driving.

Even if she was a little nosy, she was able to decline Kondo's invitation just now, and Omoto still felt quite relieved in her heart. At least it shows that she is no longer led by the nose by Kondo Masahiko like before.

Since a few years ago, Omoto has followed Akina Nakamori as an agent, and once tried to help her avoid reporters and fans to meet with Kondo Masahiko. Such a big book, for Kondo Masahiko to blackface in public at the big prize, it was as if he had been betrayed.

It's just that just as he wouldn't say his contempt for Kondo, he wouldn't say these thoughts either.

A smart agent will only do his own thing, of course, whether he will reveal his attitude in subtle places is another matter.

For example, tonight, when Akina Nakamori lied that he had a job, he immediately cooperated. This is the basic part of the agent's division with his own artist's head, but saying "amazing" to Akina Nakamori is a reflection of his own attitude.

The car drove smoothly on the way back.

Akina Nakamori turned her face sideways, and the street scene that she was used to passing outside the car window was her.

In order to refuse Kondo Masahiko, she subconsciously lied and used her work as an excuse. In hindsight, it is not sad that this relationship has reached such a point.

However, she is more resistant to dancing happily with Masahiko Kondo than lying.

Kondo Masahiko felt that Akina Nakamori was not determined and assertive, but Omoto thought she was too assertive. These two people have completely different views on Akina Nakamori, but they actually come from different standpoints.

Akina Nakamori has her own opinions, and even because she is too assertive, she has gone further and further on the road of chasing this ideal life after identifying an ideal life.

The lack of assertiveness in the matter of Kondo Masahiko is not so much because she discovered the non-idealization of the path she is taking, and the collision between what she has always believed in and the reality she has to face. It's like finding a place where a puzzle piece looks redundant when it's a puzzle, and it's constantly being adjusted.

When it comes to puzzles, if they don't fit, they must be because they are misplaced, so they have to try piece by piece.

But now, she suddenly realized that the reason why the puzzle couldn't be put together well was not because she mistakenly put the puzzle pieces that should have been placed in one place in another, but because there were corners and corners of the puzzle that didn't belong to the puzzle at all.

After realizing this, she no longer adjusts in order to justify herself, and naturally she is no longer "undetermined and assertive".

Tonight, Kondo Masahiko seems to be in his heart, but his practice of blindly pushing the responsibility to the firm and fans makes this "true confession" not only move her, but also show his insincerity and lack of responsibility from it.

The seed planted in my heart took root and sprouted, and as the sapling grew, the shadow grew larger.

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As if flashed by the neon lights outside the car window, Akina Nakamori blinked and withdrew her gaze.

I turned my head and saw the package that was placed aside. It was the record that Shinichi Iwahashi sent her, "17 Years Old" by Chisato Moritaka.

"I'm a kid from the shopping street. ”

Akina Nakamori remembered that she had promised Shinichi Iwahashi that she was going to be a "taster" in Haikou, and she thought it was funny to be like that. However, despite saying such stupid things, Iwahashi Shinichi didn't feel that she was out of tune at all, but cooperated with her nonsensical assurance, and also enjoyed it.

Akina Nakamori reached over and picked up the thin package. You don't need to take it apart, and according to the size and feel, you can guess that it is an LP.

She suddenly thought a little nonsensically in her heart, if she opened it, she wondered if it would come with a card like "Collect Tasting Impressions".

Big Ben drove the car into the apartment's underground parking lot. Akina Nakamori got out of the car, said goodbye to Daimoto, and walked to the elevator alone.

She lives alone, the house is not very big.

When I got home, I went to put the bath water first. There was a waterproof radio in the bathroom, and she took a comfortable bath while listening to the TOKYOFM announcement.

When you take a bath, you have to listen to the radio, which is full of fun for middle-aged uncles and housewives.

After taking a shower, change into loose-fitting loungewear. Akina Nakamori went to the kitchen to find scissors and cut open the package sent by Shinichi Iwahashi. When she took the contents out, she burst out laughing when she saw the attached piece of paper.

Shinichi Iwahashi really included a card with a "tasting impression" in the package.

When a record is released, in order to gather the thoughts of listeners so that they can adjust the singer's future course, the record company sometimes includes a questionnaire with the record.

However, the one that came with Shinichi Iwahashi was obviously specially prepared by him for her, the "tasting specialist".

It looks like a parody of a record label, and it says, "This questionnaire will be used as an important reference material for future production and promotion, and I would like to ask for your help."

In addition to the list of survey questions, even the address for sending the letter has been prepared.

It's not the location of Warner Pioneer Records, which she is familiar with, but GENZO, a music production company based in Kawasaki.

The nonsensical thoughts in her heart were unexpectedly answered by Shinichi Iwahashi.

Akina Nakamori took this questionnaire and read it one by one, and couldn't help but laugh.

She lives in the house, and she doesn't have to care about other people's eyes. So she sat alone on the couch and laughed at the questionnaire for a long time. While laughing, in my heart

After laughing, she put the questionnaire aside and picked up the record.

Chisato Moritaka on the cover is almost the same as the poster seen in Warner Pioneer during the day, exuding youthful energy.

The title song is "17 Years Old", and the B-side song is "19 Years Old".

Watching the record commentary, nineteen years old is the current age of Chisato Moritaka.

Since she boasted about Haikou, Akina Nakamori really started with the most basic confirmation of the packaging and instructions like a qualified shopping street taster.

After the inspection, she went to open the dust cap of the record player and put the food she was going to try on a plate.

The record player is running, and the prelude sounds, although I know that it is a cover of "17 Years Old", but this prelude is like two completely different songs from the "17 Years Old" in my memory.

The rhythmic and layered electronic instruments made Akina Nakamori immediately understand that this classic song of Nanshaori has been rearranged in a popular style.

This rearranged song doesn't feel at all that this is a song from 17 years ago, and it is so natural to be in tune with this era.

It's the time when the disco craze is sweeping the country and European dance music is all the rage.

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