At dusk, Minato-ku, Tokyo, in front of the Tokyo Broadcasting TEB Headquarters.

A middle-aged security guard raised his head and looked at the sky in the distance - in the gap between the high-rise buildings, the sky was red, and the overlapping clouds were faintly dark, and the secret purple was quite gorgeous.

But the clouds are dark red like this, so it probably will rain at night, right?

However, for a security guard, rain is a good thing, and on rainy days, there are fewer people and fewer things. He glanced at it a few times, paced back to the security room in front of the gate, took a sip of hot tea from his cup, and felt slightly comfortable - although he was only a small security guard, he was still very satisfied with his work.

At a time like this, having a stable and formal job is a good thing that no number of people can ask for.

Almost three years ago, at the beginning of '92, the bubble economy — a term he still thinks from the newspapers — suddenly burst, land and houses are worthless, many companies have closed down for some reason, even banks have closed down several times, there are queues to jump off rooftops overnight, and parks are crowded with homeless people with sluggish expressions.

Now, although the number of homeless people has begun to decrease, the economy is still sluggish, and layoffs have become the norm, and it has become the so-called Great Depression, and it is very difficult to find a decent job.

The good times are in the past.

Before the bubble economy burst, there was a shortage of people everywhere at that time, and there were several companies rushing to find a job, and I even heard that some graduates of prestigious schools had just submitted their resumes, and they were deceived by large companies to live in hot spring hotels, where they could eat and drink, and coaxed into signing lifelong employment contracts, for fear of being abducted by other companies......

As for those regular employees in big trading companies and big banks, it is more comfortable to hear that even if they are just ordinary employees, they can live a life of spending all day drinking, going in and out of the PR club every night, drinking champagne to their heart's content, eating steak until they vomit, or even not doing so:

Have you spent all your hospitality money this month, and have you been in good contact with customers?

Are you self-motivated?

What? It doesn't cost much to invite customers to drink sake and eat Japanese food? Are you keeping up with the trend of the times? Are you insulting customers or insulting the company?!

Get out of here and ask for a new one, and come out with the courage of a first-class company in the world's largest economic power!

Damn, now these newcomers really don't have the spirit of forging ahead at all, so how can they buy the United States?

……

This is a fixed joke in the newspaper, although it is a bit exaggerated, but at that time, when you drank too much at night and needed to take a taxi, you had to stand on the side of the road with a large bill of ten thousand yen between your fingers and shake it desperately, otherwise the taxi driver would not bother to pay attention to you at all - some people paid high prices, and the general price could no longer satisfy them.

It's a crazy dream-like era, and after almost three years, it's hard to find a job, as if everything that happened before was fake, and Imoto is suddenly teetering on the brink of destruction.

It's really like a firework, it suddenly explodes with dazzling brilliance, and then with a "wow" sound, only ashes remain......

The potential of this book should not be exhausted in that national carnival, right?

No, no, it's only temporary. The newspaper said that this situation will continue until the beginning of next year at most, but now that it is the end of the year, I don't feel how to get better, what's going on?

The security guard remembered the past, sighed in his heart, and couldn't figure it out - he was in his forties, and he had completely experienced the golden age of economic development and the happy era of expanding personal assets, although he had not gone to college, his knowledge was limited, and he didn't understand why the good economy suddenly collapsed, but this did not prevent him from feeling sorry for what he had lost and feeling confused about the future.

Of course, that is, the collapse of the bubble economy basically did not affect the TV station, and he is still in a state where there is more than enough to be above and more than the bottom, so he has the leisure to sigh, probably out of the sadness of the rabbit and the fox, and the empathy of the hurt - many of his old friends have been very bad recently, and many of them have been unable to hold on, leaving Tokyo and going back to the countryside directly.

He sat in the security room at the gate and was distracted, his eyes instinctively paid attention to the badges of the vehicles entering and leaving, and suddenly saw a person who was not wearing a badge walking towards the door, and quickly lifted his spirit - now in this Great Depression environment that I don't know how long it will last, I can't afford to lose my job, my family has to eat, and my children have to go to school, and I must not make mistakes.

But as soon as he stood up, he recognized the person who came, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and greeted him directly from the window with a smile: "Chihara-san, are you here again?"

He has known this person for a short time, his name is Chihara Rinto, he wanted to sneak into the TV station four or five days ago, but he happened to be stopped by him on duty, but this person is very interesting, that is, he is not embarrassed or angry, but talks to him.

Originally, he didn't want to deal with this young man, but this person felt very special.

He is twenty-two or three years old, his short hair is slightly messy, his skin is fair, his appearance is delicate, his eyes are bright, his eyes are soft, his expression is calm, and he looks like he has a good personality, but when he doesn't smile or speak, it inexplicably makes people think that he has a hidden edge and cannot be insulted, so it's better not to yell at him.

This is probably a natural temperament, and the security guard can't say for sure, but he really didn't get angry and drove him away at the time.

In the next four or five days, this Chihara Sang came and went every day, basically mixed with the security guards on duty in front of the door, and even invited guests twice in the izakaya and drank two small drinks, everyone felt that he was a very good person - he was educated, very kind, and willing to talk about some trivial things in the security work, especially the gossip inside the TV station.

It's just that people can't let him in, Tokyo Broadcasting TEB is one of the four major commercial TV stations in this book, there are two major program production bases, one of which is in the headquarters, there are about 478 studios, many of which are live broadcasts, in case someone breaks in, it is a broadcast accident, and no one can afford to bear the responsibility.

After the security guard finished saying hello, he saw that Rin Chihara came over, and hurriedly said the ugly words in front, but he couldn't put on a vicious face, so he could only smile and say, "I still can't let you in today, Chihara-san, don't be surprised." ”

He suspected that Rin Chihara was chasing stars, this kind of person was not uncommon, but Rin Chihara talked and behaved very calmly, not quite like the kind of person who would have a hot brain and chase stars like crazy.

It's a bit confusing.

Chihara Rin was stopped again, and he was not annoyed, nodded and said hello to several other security guards, and then smiled: "I won't embarrass you, Maekawa-san, I just want to wait for someone here...... Did Miss Murakami get off work?"

"Miss Murakami? No, her show doesn't end until seven o'clock, and she usually doesn't come out until a quarter past seven. It's not a secret, and the security guard Kenichiro Maekawa didn't hide it, and asked enthusiastically, "Are you looking for her?"

He hasn't been able to figure out what Chihara Rin is always running to do, and he can't figure out why he always likes to inquire about some gossip inside the TV station, but now he's a little eyebrow-raising, and it's not bad to read others, obviously a cultural person but he doesn't look down on these little security guards, and he plans to help if he can.

But Chihara Rin knows very well in his heart, he has found out the information from the mouths of these security guards, made a plan, prepared properly, and it is time to find the right master to ask for someone - it is he who asks for someone and not people who ask for him, so it is better not to disturb the normal work of others, in case the phone is rejected by a mouthful, it is not beautiful.

He smiled and said, "No, Maekawa-san, I'll just wait at the door." ”

After confirming that the person he was looking for had not left, he was relieved, and after a few more gossip with Maekawa, he stood on the side of the gate and waited, and began to think about the rhetoric in his heart for a while.

Let's hope everything goes well......

It's really unlucky, traveling to such an era when it's hard to even find a job, no wonder so many otaku gnaw at the old people, it turns out that the roots are here!