Halfway through December, the weather is getting colder.

The light rain that started in the afternoon turned into snow particles by the evening. After the work, I went to dinner with the singers and program producers who participated in the same recording, and when I got home, it was already past nine o'clock.

However, at the end of the busy year, this time is considered early.

When I come back from outside in winter, I especially want to take a hot bath.

Akina Nakamori puts the water in place, and before entering the bath, it is customary to turn on the waterproof radio in the bathroom. She likes to listen to the radio when she takes a shower, and this habit of her middle-aged and elderly style has lasted for many years.

However, since I recovered from a cold, I have been very busy for a while, and sometimes I can only wash hastily when I come back too late. Today, I took a bath while listening to the radio, which was a long-lost rest.

On the radio, the speed and tone of the host's speech are just right. Listening to a high-quality radio host is also a pleasure for those who are physically and mentally exhausted after a long day of work.

Akina Nakamori cleared her mind and listened to the radio while thinking about the end of the year.

Another week is Christmas, and Christmas is followed by Chinese New Year's Eve.

According to the agent of Omoto, due to the impact of the self-purification order, all activities such as the lighting ceremony and store promotions at Christmas have been cancelled, and this year's Christmas Eve is estimated to be much more deserted.

Not only the private sector, but also the TV station has reduced the size of the stage.

On-stage activities were curtailed, and the year-end gatherings of various manufacturers and industry partners also subsided a little. Akina Nakamori, as a popular star, must go to several such parties with her agent at the end of the year, thank them for taking care of them for a year.

December is a month of wrap-up......

The year is coming to an end, and in the course of the year, many, many things have happened. Not only that, but in the past year, I have done a lot of things that I would not have done before.

This year's self seems to be different from before. Such a strange thought suddenly popped into his mind, and Akina Nakamori couldn't help laughing.

However, I can't tell if I am laughing at myself for thinking too much, or if I am laughing at something else.

On the radio, the host's chat came to an end and the song was played. Akina Nakamori was a little surprised and felt that the time for the host to speak was a bit short.

Although I didn't listen carefully to the host, I felt that it was true.

And after a moment of surprise, the prelude to the song sounded.

"It's the third spring since I graduated"

The female singer sang the first sentence, and Akina Nakamori said "huh". This sound so familiar? It seems to be ...... She listened carefully a few more times, and the familiarity intensified.

It's Yoshida-san from DREAMSCOMETRUE, right?

With such an impression in her heart, Akina Nakamori had new doubts: she had never heard this song before.

Shinichi Iwahashi will send her the records that DREAMSCOMETRUE has released since her debut, and then attach a "tasting impression". As a result, she has listened to every song the band has ever released.

But now, the song is so unfamiliar.

DID DREAMSCOMETRUE RELEASE A NEW SONG? However, if a new song is released, Shin Yijun will definitely send it to her, but she hasn't received it now.

Akina Nakamori thinks she can't mistake the singer's voice.

Originally, I was a singer myself, and the voices of the singers I heard were far more effective than ordinary listeners. In addition, Miwa Yoshida's singing skills are amazing, and ordinary listeners may not have that kind of profound experience, but professional singers know her "terrible" when they hear it.

On the radio, the song is still going on.

Confirming that this was Miwa Yoshida, Akina Nakamori couldn't help but focus.

Although there were no tasting products or tasting cards, she listened carefully to the new song that she thought it was DREAMSCOMETRUE.

If you listen carefully, in the chorus part, you can still hear the harmony of Shinichi Iwahashi.

Yoshida-san sings amazingly, but her two teammates are very average in singing.

However, as the song progressed, Akina Nakamori also understood why she felt that the radio host had a shorter time to speak just now, because she had to set aside time to play the song.

The song is really long.

However, there is no need to be impatient.

On the contrary, there is a strange magic - the magic of wanting to listen to it, the magic of thinking that it can be longer, as if in the corresponding lyrics "no matter how many years have passed".

Is this also Yoshida-san's lyrics? Akina Nakamori remembered the song information attached to the band's record that she had seen earlier.

She loved the song.

At the end of the song, there is Yoshida-san's improvisation.

THIS PASSAGE IS IMPROVISED, AND IT IS EVEN MORE CERTAIN THAT THIS IS A DREAMSCOMETRUE SONG. Because, unless it's a monster like Yoshida-san, ordinary singers can't hold it up.

"Whew~"

After listening to this long riff, the song ends and begins to enter the commercial. Akina Nakamori sighed.

Then, I felt a little dizzy.

Listening to the song intently, the time to soak in the bath is a little too much......

Akina Nakamori put away her thoughts about the song in her heart, and all in all, she came out of the bathroom first.

......

After resting for a while, the symptoms of dizziness eased, and Akina Nakamori sat down at her desk.

There was a peacock on the table that had already taken shape, and before it was a little finished, the new origami was completed again. Compared to the previous origami giraffe, this peacock is even more troublesome.

Akina Nakamori practiced when she was free, and she broke a lot of paper before she learned this new trick.

The year-end schedule was too tight, and there weren't many opportunities to sit at a desk like this and learn to fold peacocks, almost in a moving car, and in the lounge waiting for the show to start.

is so focused, and it is true that Daben's agent said "where to go and where to fold". Big Ben was surprised by this, and he couldn't have imagined that Akina Nakamori's hobby of origami would last so long.

Akina Nakamori picked up the unfinished origami peacock, and instead of flipping through the origami book, she continued to complete the remaining steps by herself with memories and feels.

Once this peacock is folded, you can write a reply letter to Shinichi Iwahashi, and by the way, launch a new teaching challenge - folding the peacock.

But......

Akina Nakamori finished the final steps and remembered the new song she had just heard.

She put the folded peacock on the table and pulled open the drawer to get the letterhead.

In addition to the origami peacock on the desk, there is also a beautiful kitten full of spirit that he exchanged from Shinichi Iwahashi when he was in Karuizawa, and the giraffe who taught him to fold with ordinary skills.

On his birthday, the kitten given by Shinichi Iwahashi was still on the dresser.

Akina Nakamori looked at the origami and suddenly had an idea.

On Shen Yijun's side, there is also an ugly kitten and two beautiful giraffes.

In the future, if we continue to fold like this.

She has been teaching Shin'ichi Iwahashi origami all the time, and then if the two of them exchange, then, on her side, she will receive a lot of origami that beginners have ordinary skills, and Shin'ichi Iwahashi will receive beautiful origami folded by skilled hands.

And among the origami papers she has here, there is a beautiful kitten. Conversely, at Shinichi Iwahashi's place, among the beautiful origami, there will be an ugly kitten.

Pretty kittens and ugly kittens are so special.

When Akina Nakamori thought of this, she suddenly had an expectation for the "future" in her heart.

Looking forward to the day when all kinds of origami are filled with all kinds of origami on the table.

And before that, Akina Nakamori closed the drawer and looked at the clock on the table, it was not too late.

Akina Nakamori gave up writing the letter and got up to get the phone. Before dialing, I thought about it, but I was still worried about waking up the person who had fallen asleep, so I didn't call directly, but called Shinichi Iwahashi on page.

She's a little more direct than before. When I picked up the handset and dialed the number, I became more proficient and decisive.

It took a while for the call to come back.

"Good evening, Akina-san. ”

"Good evening. ”

Shin'ichi Iwahashi's voice on the phone sounded lazy, and Akina Nakamori asked him, "Has Shinich-kun already slept?"

......

At the end of the year, even if there is a self-suppression order, it can't stop all kinds of gatherings in the industry. If you don't go to the hotel, there are all kinds of private mansions, as long as you want to, the self-supremacy order will immediately become a dead letter.

ZARD is about to make its debut in January, and the record company plays its first card, which is waiting for the follow-up of contacts and relationships, and no one can let go of any close opportunity.

He is also good, and Watanabe Manyumi is also good, each bringing his own driver with feelings and drivers without feelings to participate in one party after another.

Most of the time, two people act alone, and two people go together on solemn occasions. There were occasions when it was inconvenient for Watanabe to attend alone, and it didn't hurt for him to accompany him, and he also attended with him.

In addition to the parties to be attended, there are also parties hosted in the name of record labels.

At the end of the year, we will invite people from companies with which we have a relationship and TV stations with which we have a relationship to "thank you for taking care of you for a year".

The industry is counting on TV stations to eat, and as long as there is a little partnership, they will climb up the pole at the end of the year. Dinner first, and after the meal, the prepared New Year's gifts will be given, and a set of processes will be indispensable.

AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, DREAMS COMETRUE WILL BE BROADCAST ON TBS AFTER THE YEAR, AND TBS TV PEOPLE WILL BE INVITED TO THE PARTY AGAIN.

Because the TV station controls the entertainment industry, it has to be like this in order to fight for opportunities.

Running a record company and a studio adds up to a lot of money in a year's hospitality.

And on Watanabe's side, because the office also has an actor business, in addition to the TV station, he also has to have dinner with the people from the film company to have a good relationship.

Manyumi Watanabe, the film company's entertainment, brought the manager of the office to participate, and a female boss like her, who has to deal with the men behind the scenes who are mostly men, is unlikely to "go to the meeting alone" like Shinichi Iwahashi.

Cooperation with the film company is the business of the studio, and in principle, Shinichi Iwahashi will not get involved in the affairs of her office, so he will not accompany her.

It's related to the TV station, and the two must be present at the same time.

One of him and one Watanabe Manyumi, the two of them dealt with the people of the TV station together, but it was also easy.

Tonight's gathering is a little special.

This is a special party with a bit of "internal entertainment", the organizer is the record company's partner Takeda Printing Company, and the attendees are all people from the companies in which Takeda Printing Company participates.

On this occasion, it is natural that Shinichi Iwahashi and Manyumi Watanabe attended together.

The Takeda Printing Company has a wide range of activities, and people from all walks of life have such gatherings.

Of course, for Shinichi Iwahashi, what is more noteworthy is the people from Yumoto Animation who attended the party.

I decided to contact and cooperate with Takeda Printing Co., Ltd. because I took a fancy to the inextricable relationship between them and the animation industry.

After the establishment of the company, I usually did not have the opportunity to contact the company, but at the end of this year, I finally met with the directors of the company.

Iwahashi Shinichi didn't miss the opportunity, took the initiative to exchange business cards with the other party, found topics, and had a lot of fun socializing all night. When it was time to say goodbye, I had already said goodbye to the person opposite, and then I had the opportunity to meet and visit again.

It was almost ten o'clock in the evening, Shinichi Iwahashi and Manyumi Watanabe came together, discussed it, and prepared to leave.

Shinichi Iwahashi was promoted to the president of the record company, and after having a driver with feelings, he said goodbye to the daily routine of rubbing the domineering president's car. At this moment, after saying goodbye, the two left in their own cars.

Before leaving, at the exit, the cadres in charge of sending off the guests at the Takeda Printing Company handed over the prepared gifts to the two of them.

That's how it is at the end of the year, there are in and out.

Leaving the venue, Shinichi Iwahashi habitually went to check the pager and saw that there was a message. It is the number of Akina Nakamori.

Sitting in the car, he was not in a hurry to return, and called back first.

The phone picked up fast enough.

......

"Good evening, Akina-san. He said.

"Good evening. Akina Nakamori replied and asked him, "Has Shin Yijun already slept?"

"No, I'm going to go home. Shinichi Iwahashi told her.

On the other end of the phone, Akina Nakamori said "hey", "Listening to the voice, I thought it woke you up." ”

Iwahashi thought about it for a while, guessed that it was probably because he had drunk a lot of alcohol, and listened lazy, and explained, "Tonight, I attended a reception held by the investor, and I just finished preparing to go back. ”

"I see. Akina Nakamori's reaction was like a sigh of relief.

Iwahashi Shinichi looked for a topic, "At the end of the year, Akina-san will also attend a lot of receptions, right?"

"It's okay...... Compared to Shen Yijun, it should be much less. As soon as she finished speaking, she laughed first, "It seems to be talking nonsense." ”

Iwahashi Shinichi also smiled, "Akina-san doesn't say, I don't know." ”

"By the way," he changed the subject, "is there something wrong with Akina-san?"

"There's something I want to say to Shen Yijun. ”

Akina Nakamori finally didn't forget her original intention to call.

"What?" Iwahashi Shinichi was intrigued.

"I was listening to the radio today when I heard a song. Akina Nakamori's words began, and Shinichi Iwahashi guessed what she was going to say.

"And then?" he pretended not to know, and asked her to continue.