Wearing a hood, laughing is also a white smile.

No one can see it anyway.

Today is a make-up rehearsal, and Akina Nakamori has already changed into the costume for the performance. At this year's Red and White Song Club, she chose the newly released single "I MISSED THE SHOCK" not long ago to sing.

On stage, Akina Nakamori is not so much "singing" as "singing".

One of her major styles when performing is to sing while brewing emotions that are in harmony with the lyrics, and designing small movements that match the style of the music, just like a stage actress who is fully engaged.

Since he is an actor, the "costume" is by no means sloppy.

Although he doesn't prepare performance costumes that overwhelm the audience every year like the big boss Sachiko Kobayashi, he always carefully designs each outfit and participates in the whole process.

If Miwa-chan's aesthetic in terms of clothing can be half that of Akina Nakamori, Shinichi Iwahashi and the staff of the office will toss her as much as she wants, so as not to worry about her so much.

Of course, Akina Nakamori is, after all, the fashion queen of the media in this era.

Comparing her to her, the degree of vexatiousness is comparable to that of a parent who wants to make a child a master after buying a copy of "Harvard Girl".

Iwahashi took a look at Akina Nakamori's outfit, who was dressed as a queen on stage this year, wearing a glittering crown on her head.

Although the giraffe hood can't compare to the crown, both of them are wearing something today.

"Good work. ”

Through the hood, Akina Nakamori couldn't see his smile and greeted him.

People come and go in the background.

However, there were no staff members around him, no one urged him, and the two naturally stopped to chat.

"Yesterday backstage, Giraffe-kun seemed to be a big hit. She said.

At the mention of this, Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help but smile bitterly - although he laughed in vain, he laughed at himself, "It feels more like a mascot for the attraction than it is popular." ”

The backstage of the Red and White Song Festival is a scenic spot, so how do you prove that you have been here? Of course, you have to take a photo with the mascot that appears in the attraction as proof that you have been there. ...... That's how it feels.

Hearing him say this, Akina Nakamori seemed to have heard some kind of joke.

"What's wrong?" Iwahashi Shinichi wondered.

Akina Nakamori was about to answer, but when the words came to her mouth, she deliberately turned a corner, shook her head slightly, and replied with a smile: "It's nothing." ”

“......”

Iwahashi Shinichi was helpless, "Akina-san, there's something I want to test you." ”

"What is it?"

"I want you to guess how I look at my face right now. ”

Akina Nakamori narrowed her eyes with a smile, didn't answer his question, and told him, "Actually, yesterday, Kyoko-chan Koizumi said something similar. ”

"Attraction mascot?" said Iwahashi Shinichi, "Wouldn't it be nice to say it in the morning?"

However, Koizumi's words are sharp enough.

Akina Nakamori still laughs,...... Never tell him, it's a deliberate sale.

While laughing, he looked at Shinichi Iwahashi's giraffe hood, and suddenly pointed to the crown on his head, "I also wore something today." ”

Looks like they thought of going together.

"However, the giraffe hood and the crown give people a completely different feeling. ”

Akina Nakamori replied to him, "But I think these two things are already put together." ”

"What do you say?" Iwahashi Shinichi was intrigued by her.

"There won't be a queen in the world who wears such a crown, right?"

Akina Nakamori touched the crown on her head, her eyes wandered back and forth between Shinichi Iwahashi's shoulder and the giraffe's hood, and said a little childish with a smile, "If there is such a kingdom, it is a kingdom with giraffe men." ”

She went around in a big circle, as if she was confused, but she didn't feel embarrassed at all, and looked at Iwahashi Shinichi generously.

Iwahashi Shinichi understood.

There will be no queen in the world who will wear such a crown, and there will be no giraffe man.

And now, the dressed queen and the giraffe man are talking happily here, and this kind of scene is, in a sense, extremely "dreamy".

It seems to be in a magical world, not the real world. A dream world where a queen dresses up, sings and dances, and can live well with her giraffe boyfriend.

That's what Akina Nakamori wants to convey.

Iwahashi Shinichi was intrigued by her perspective on things, and replied, "If such a kingdom exists, it must be here." ”

Akina Nakamori nodded, in a relaxed mood, "Hmm." ”

This reaction made Iwahashi Shinichi realize that she had thought from the beginning that he could understand what she was saying.

The topic ended, and neither of them spoke again.

For a moment, there was silence.

Backstage staff are in a hurry. Akina Nakamori looked at Shinichi Iwahashi, and although she couldn't see his face, she knew in her heart that he was looking at herself like this.

After thinking about it, he suddenly spoke: "Let me guess your expression now?"

"What?" Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her with interest, "Then please guess." ”

Wearing a hood and not seeing her face, it made her come up with such an idea.

Akina Nakamori looked at him with a smile, confident, "I'm smiling, right?"

It wasn't so much that he was laughing at the beginning, but that he was amused by her words and expression. Seeing her staring at herself with such a smile, she couldn't help but smile.

"You guessed it. Shinichi Iwahashi's voice was tinged with laughter.

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Although Akina Nakamori couldn't see the giraffe man's expression, she couldn't receive his gaze. However, the tacit understanding allows everything that is wanted to be conveyed to the past.

"So, see you next time?"

The first to speak was Shinichi Iwahashi.

"See you next time...... Akina Nakamori smiled, "It's tomorrow." ”

Tomorrow.

......

Thirty-one days.

The two rehearsals made the entire NHK HALL clear, and the process of the performance was completed. After arriving today, confirm the position of the appearance, and the rest is to standby, waiting for the opening appearance.

The backstage of this day was a little more relaxed than the previous two days, although the atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense.

The nervous staff in charge of scheduling and the new singers in the Red and White Song Festival are all rehearsing in the TBS studio at this moment, waiting for the big awards to start.

The three of them came to NHK HALL in the afternoon, and because they were newcomers, they were naturally not qualified to enjoy a separate lounge.

In the past, I squeezed with the singers of the red group during rehearsals, but today, I was assigned to share the same lounge with the white group's TM NETWORK and the three bands of the slump.

NHK probably thinks it's quite intimate, because before the official performance, the band has to tune their instruments and practice fingering. Put together singers with similar styles, so that one side is practicing and the other side is annoying.

There was no intersection during the rehearsal, but now it is "under the same roof".

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