"Are the nearest stations 'Uchikocho Station', 'Yurakucho Station', or 'Hibiya Station'?"

A young man with a bulging bag on his back looked at the Tokyo Railway map profusely and muttered to himself.

Since the Imperial Hotel is next to Hibiya Park, I'd better transfer to Hibiya Station!

He ran a red line through his finger and continued to say to himself:

“…… I see...... The Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line runs from west to east through Kasumigaseki Station, and heads north to meet Toei Mita Line at Hibiya Station. ”

Well, that's it.

Massaji Miyone put the railway map in his backpack and stared at the billboard outside the window.

He graduated from a famous liberal arts university in Kansai from the remote Shimane Prefecture all the way east, and his original ambition was to be a TV reporter, perhaps because his appearance was not so eye-catching, and he finally failed to pass a book selection exam in the TV station's application resume, so he had to judge the situation and switch to other media, and finally got a position as an entertainment reporter in the entertainment editorial department of the publishing giant Juxian Society.

It stands to reason that it is time to enter the life of the paparazzi next, who knows that the nature of this line of work is comparable to that of a private detective, the intensity of the work is not inferior to that of the criminal police, the degree of danger is more than that of the undercover gangsters, and the hardship index is close to ......

The oversized backpack on his back contained a "one-eyed vibrating (single-axis reflective)" camera, a hand-held portable video camera, recording equipment, a flash, spare batteries, an interview notebook, and a large pile of miscellaneous reporting equipment. It happened to be such a steamer-like hot summer, and the unit was not equipped with a car, so the pressure he was under was naturally miserable.

He sometimes even wonders why he embarked on such a bumpy career path.

What about celebrity interviews, champagne red carpets, and good conversations?

Is it the wrong way to open it?

He doubted the gap in his life, and couldn't help but dig out the crudely made interview card in his pocket, which was printed with the name of the magazine he worked for - "Cultural Spring and Summer"!

In fact, he can still endure these physical sufferings, after all, he is still young, and he will survive by gritting his teeth.

What made him feel even more headache and exhaustion was that in addition to this regular press conference interview task, not long ago his boss privately handed him a "secret mission" that was not very upright and bright.

That's right, it's the deputy editor-in-chief of the entertainment editorial department named Ryiichiro Imamura, who actually asked me to ......

"Hibiya Station arrived, and the door on the left hand side was about to open. Transfer to Toei Mita Line ......"

Miyane's thoughts were interrupted by the announcement in the car, and he squeezed off the subway with the other passengers.

Walking up the stairs from Exit 2, you will see a quiet urban garden.

Needless to say, this must be "Hibiya Park" not running.

So, isn't that lead-gray building in the opposite direction the Imperial Hotel?

Miyane swallowed a mouthful of spit and walked towards the green traffic light on the opposite side of the sidewalk......

……

The fourth floor of the Imperial Hotel.

In the "Galaxy Hall", it was crowded.

Entertainment reporters from major media, representatives of cinema chains, celebrities in the entertainment industry, TV station broadcasts, advertising agents, and various units and institutions that have received invitation letters, to name a few.

Waiters with shiny hair weave their way through the costumed crowd with a variety of drinks, and near the corner of the stage curtain, two young comedians perform warm-up comedy — a comedy form akin to stand-up comedy. The funny "BOKE" pretended to be stupid, and the provoked "TSUKKOMI" quickly complained, and from time to time slapped the other party's head with his hand to show his indignation, causing bursts of relaxed laughter from the audience from time to time.

The video reporters in charge of camera photography set up long guns and short guns in designated areas, checked the angle of view in the viewfinder, and adjusted the level and focal length to try to get the best shooting position.

Massashi Miyone also shouldered the task of photography and videography on this trip, and naturally he was not to be outdone, the tripod was supported, the cameras were in place, and the luck was not bad, but there were no idle people in the field of vision......

Syllable!

Suddenly it was dark in the viewfinder.

No, the lens cover was already in my trouser pocket.

What's going on?

While Miyone was puzzled, the professional instinct he had trained in the past few months still made him subconsciously press the photography button.

Sure enough, just as the other photographers were busy, a two-dimensional cartoon short film had already begun!

The two comedians just now didn't know where they were, and the originally noisy scene immediately quieted down.

A desert island surrounded by turbulent waves appears in the center of the projection screen, and with a shrill bird's call, the perspective and a seabird advance side by side towards the desert island, directing the eyes of everyone on the scene to the scenery of the island......

Some attentive viewers have already recognized that this painting style and composition idea are completely "The Voice of the Far Star", but for some reason, what the superimposed picture depicts is precisely the live-action version of "Tokyo Girls' Holy War"!

Is it a new collaboration?

Steep cliffs, white lighthouses, quiet homes, silent warehouses, abandoned schools...... There was no unusual ordinary scenery switching one by one, and it was weird and gloomy everywhere.

Just when people's nerves were gradually pulled by the terrifying montage of animation, close to the limit, all kinds of female middle school girls who fell to the ground and did not move appeared in people's field of vision!

"Ahh

Some of the timid participants even screamed, causing a small commotion in the room.

The camera zooms in and nears, past the immobile corpse, all the while focusing on the scattered objects next to the corpse—submachine guns, pistols, crossbows, blades, medicine bottles...... In addition to these recognizable conventional weapons, there are other everyday items that can be found everywhere in life - paper cutters, baseball bats, wire saws, kitchen knives, skipping ropes......

But here, they all have a common name, and that is - "murder weapon"!

In an instant, the scene suddenly flashed back to a huge warehouse that resembled a hypermarket, and people in camouflage uniforms methodically searched for the items on the storage shelves according to the list in their hands.

Then all kinds of items are put onto the conveyor belt of an assembly line and moved to another large workshop. There, other mysterious people in camouflage costumes packed the items on the conveyor belt into large school bags with a uniform appearance.

The zippered bags began to be loaded into container trucks, and under the cover of a group of military armored vehicles, they drove to a place that looked like a cargo terminal.

When the container was opened again, a large number of school bags were pulled to a school-like place. At this time, in a classroom at this school, a group of female middle school students are waking up from a coma......

At this point, there is not a single line or commentary in the short film, but the amount of information contained in the narrative frame by frame is simply not too large!

The photojournalists were already in nervous and excited mode, and many of them began to complain about the organizers' abrupt unfolding and frustrated that they had not pressed the video button in time, with only Massaji Miyane staring at the entire curtain in the camera motionlessly.

His heart is also surging at this time, just like the rough sea at the beginning of the film. He himself knows deeply that the "task" he was assigned to before was also launched in this unusual roadshow press conference venue!