Chapter Twenty-Four: The Feast of the Hung Gate

"Mai Yang, why did Mayu Yusan ask you to meet through the boy (Rina Ikoma)?

Two beautiful girls walked slowly on the side of the street in Kandacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and they were both dressed and looked like.

"Well, I don't know, you've been with me all day, don't you understand?"

"Warning you, don't go out and hook up with other girls for me!"

"Nanamin, what are you talking about, I don't understand...... By the way, didn't you notice that someone was following us?"

"Where?"

The two girls turned around together, and the young couple who followed the street behind them stepped forward and bowed a little embarrassed:

"Kunichiva, is it Mai Yang and Nanamin, I'm a fan of yours!"

Yes?!

Mai Shiraishi and Nana Hashimoto immediately smiled energetically:

"We just, it's nice to meet you. ”

"Can we take a picture?"

"We're sorry, but the office doesn't allow it. ”

Nanami embarrassedly explained, although she also wanted to give benefits to fans.

But the problem is that Sony Music wants to sell CDs and earn money from handshake coupons, and if you casually take a group photo with someone, it will damage the commercial value of Nogizaka 46.

The second daughter was embarrassed to owe, and the couple still waved goodbye with great joy.

"I didn't expect that we are all so popular now, and no one knows me when I was walking on the street. ”

Mai Shiraishi remembered a project with NOGIBINGO!, which was held just over a year after their debut, in order to test the popularity and recognition of the group.

At that time, she was wearing a pair of sunglasses, and she was walking calmly in the bustling business district, but in fact she was nervous, constantly hoping that someone would recognize her.

Unexpectedly, a year later, Nogizaka 46's tenth single "The Blue Sky of the First Degree" sold 412,000 on the first day, topping the Oricon singles singles chart and the weekly chart, further narrowing the gap with the predecessor AKB48 weekly million. Last month, the third anniversary concert opened at Seibu Dome and attracted 38,000 fans.

The foundation of the neon first-line girl group has been laid.

She remembered that she was extremely confused after graduating from high school, and happened to meet Sony Music and Yasushi Akimoto to select Nogizaka 46 first-term students nationwide, and then she signed up.

Now that I think about it, it should have been the most important and correct decision in her life.

Here, she met the young woman Hashimoto Nanami beside her, who was cold by nature, and felt the warmth of the team and friends for the first time.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but hold Hashimoto's arm and lean my head over.

"Nanamin, shall we be like this for the rest of our lives?"

Her eyes narrowed slightly, and she said in a cute little milk voice.

"Don't, you still use this to deal with others, I don't do Ji. ”

Hashimoto looked disgusted and moved to the side.

Shiraishi clings close.

......

"It should be this shop, right?Nanamin, is this what the boy was talking about?" Mai Shiraishi asked, a little nervous.

Two years have passed, and the boy's face has gradually blurred in her mind, but Ma Youyou's sudden invitation reminds her of a living reality.

Well, come out and mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back.

Why did she make the god agree to that little ghost's confession? Could it be that the boy was too gentle and too kind to her? Or was it just because he was too handsome?

After all, she is the No. 1 school grass in Urawa Limei High School, she plays basketball well, plays the piano well, and forms a band under her name.

But I never found the feeling of a boyfriend, and I felt more and more that he was just a little brother.

I'm a little sorry.,I'm embarrassed to break up with him in person.,I just passed the selection of Nogizaka 46.,So I sent him a text message and left Saitama Prefecture.,Go to Tokyo without any nostalgia.。

......

"Mai sheep, what's wrong with you?"

Nana Hashimoto was not sure that this ramen shop was the address that the teenager told themβ€”β€”β€” DARUMANOME Akihabara store.

A few steps forward, I found Mai Shiraishi standing in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Mai sheep?"

"Huh?"

"What are you thinking? It's this store, let's go in and have a look. ”

The two pushed open the glass door, and the first thing they saw when they walked into the store was that there were two beautiful girls sitting at the square table in the corner of the wall.

They saw each other, and the other discovered them.

The girl in a half-turtleneck off-white sweater, a little refreshing, stood up and waved at them.

"Nanamin, Mai Goat, over here!"

Sure enough, it is worthy of Mayouyou-san, and the appearance of deliberately lowering his voice and calling their names is also very cute.

The slight tension that Nanami Hashimoto had before was soothed by Mayouyou's gentle smile.

She took Mai Shiraishi's hand, only to find that her expression was a little strange.

She seems nervous?

Even though Mai Shiraishi has always faced people with a calm and indifferent attitude, Nana Hashimoto didn't know that her heart was not exactly what she appeared on the outside.

Is it because I met AKB48's seniors, that's why it's like this?

Hashimoto didn't think much about it, and pulled Mai Shiraishi to the front, in addition to Mayu Watanabe, there was also another top Boki Yuki of Shenqi.

"Hello senior!"

The second daughter greeted.

"Sit down and talk. Ma Youyou greeted warmly.

"When I heard Ikoma say that my seniors invited us to dinner, Mai and I were quite surprised. ”

Nana Hashimoto didn't want to know why Mayu Watanabe invited to dinner.

"Although it is officially positioned as a formula opponent, in fact, we AKB and you Nogizaka are in the same spirit, and we should work together, and we are also a family. ”

Mayu Watanabe said flatly, without any seniors, and there was no domineering meaning in his words.

Nana Hashimoto didn't laugh with her, thinking that it was just a meal, and it would be good to get closer to each other, and she didn't take Watanabe's words to heart.

There are also members of Nogizaka 46 who yearn for AKB48 in the group, and there are also aces from local idol groups...... When Nogizaka 46 first debuted, he also gained a lot of fame.

Some people in the outside world have commented that AKB48 and Nogizaka 46 are the two half-children of Yasushi Akimoto, and Sony Music says internally that Nogizaka 46 is an upgraded version of AKB48.

Anyway, the birth of Nogizaka 46 was born with the bloodline of the national girl idol group AKB48, which no one can deny.

But Mai Shiraishi suddenly said with an uncharacteristically cold face:

"AKB is AKB, Nogizaka is Nogizaka. ”

"Mai sheep?"

Nana Hashimoto didn't expect that Mai Shiraishi was so sensitive today?

"Let's eat first!" Seeing that the atmosphere suddenly became tense, Yuki Boki hurriedly stood up to play a round.

Nana Hashimoto held Mai's hand under the table and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Kashiwagi Senpai is right, let's order something to eat first, I'm hungry. ”

Nana Hashimoto didn't pick up.

"Don't call us seniors, it makes us look scary. Yuki Hakugi said with some resentment.

The atmosphere relaxed a little under Yuki Boki's teasing.

It's just that the atmosphere between Mayu Watanabe and Mai Shiraishi is still extremely weird.

"Sorry, order here!"

Nana Hashimoto did not greet the waiter.

But Yuki Bomu said that he had already ordered it, and motioned for the waiter to serve the food.

Because of the cold scene between Mai Shiraishi and Mayu Watanabe, the atmosphere at the scene was very awkward for a while, and Yuki Hakugi and Nana Hashimoto began to find a topic without a match, trying to get through this torturous time.

The two talked about hobbies and makeup skills from their hometowns......

Thankfully, the four bowls of tonkotsu ramen are finally on the table.

Yuki Hakugi uncharacteristically walked past the waiter to serve noodles, first bringing one bowl to Hashimoto, and then placing the four bowls with more soup in front of Mai Shiraishi.

......

"I'm moving, you can eat too!" said Yuki Boki enthusiastically.

Nanami Hashimoto and Mai Shiraishi glanced at each other, and picked up the chopsticks with a complicated expression.

Seeing that the three of them had eaten, Mai Shiraishi looked at the milky white in the bowl with a clear soup, exuding a burst of tempting fragrance, and finally picked up the noodles and ate them.

But the moment the noodles are eaten, the entire taste buds explode directly, and the mouth is stimulated like fire, and the pain is unbearable.

She frowned, and tears flowed down her face.

She said that why did she suddenly invite guests to dinner? Except for Rina Ikoma, who is also AKB, in fact, the members of Nogizaka 46 and AKB48 are very distinct, and there is very little contact between the two sides.