"Professor Takahashi of the Waseda Faculty of Letters."

"Ah," Toru Shimizu finally reacted, "Yes, I'm studying with Mr. Takahashi right now, and I've asked him for his opinion on the script." ”

Kirihara nodded, and said no wonder. I pinched the footer and looked back and forth a few times before I looked at Toru Kamizu again and smiled a little, but it made the wrinkles on my face a little more obvious.

"If I'm not mistaken, I should be qualified to let you shout senior."

The guess in his heart was confirmed, and while Qing Shui Toru breathed a sigh of relief, he did not forget to bow down.

"Back to the script," Kirihara turned back to the topic, and the whole person returned to a state of frowning, and his words were full of the producer's fierce momentum, "Overall, there are a lot of problems. The storyboard is not good, the transition between lenses is not smooth enough, the cost of some lenses is too high, and the shooting angle is difficult to control..."

Qing Shui Toru couldn't help but hold his breath, feeling that the mood he had just relaxed was hanging in the air again.

“… The overall framework is good, though, and the story looks like that. As for those problems, go back and change them, there is still half a year to leave filming, and you must come up with a decent script when the time comes. ”

The first half of the sentence made Toru Shimizu ready to lose, but the back didn't sound like that. In order to confirm, I can only ask another question tentatively. After all, this is related to two months' rent, and there is no room for sloppiness.

"Kirihara-san, what do you mean?"

"That's right, congratulations on your selection."

Perhaps the most critical work has been solved, and in Qing Mizu's eyes, his momentum as a producer gradually spreads, and his expression softened.

"Don't worry too much, these are common problems for novices, just go back and revise them seriously. You can ask Mr. Takahashi more. ”

Feeling the force of his slap on his shoulder, Qing Shui Toru nodded slightly, and then remembered something, "By the way, about the reward..."

"I said 200,000 yen, right? Another day, when you come to sign the contract, you can get half of it first, and settle the rest after the shooting. Anything else? ”

Silently jotting down his statement, Toru Shimizu brought up another thought that had been circling in his heart before he came.

"Kirihara-san, I wonder if you can let me meet the main actor? If you have an intuitive impression, the changed script can be more or less more suitable for her. ”

"That's fine, she's right here, I'll ask about the situation first."

After Kirihara readily agreed, he got up and dialed the phone, communicated a few words, sat back on the sofa, and said, "Wait a while, the agent will bring her over immediately." ”

"I'm sorry."

With the relationship between alumni and juniors, the waiting time flies by in small talk.

After the teacup bottomed out several times, there was another knock on the door of the reception room.

"Sorry to interrupt."

A subtle sound beckoned Qing Shui Toru to look towards the door. There was a slender and thin figure there, with a delicate little face tense under the boyish short hair, but it did not hide the potential to grow into a beauty.

"I'm an artist of Toho Entertainment, Minami Hamabe..."

The nervous trembling voice stopped abruptly here, and she looked at the two people in the reception room, her face was a little dazed, and then she looked at the female agent next to her as if asking for help.

The agent looked to be about forty years old and had a mild face. After reading the agent's prompt lip shape, she turned around and stammered hello.

"Kirihara-san."

Noticing that her gaze moved to herself, Toru Shimizu was ready to return the salute, and found that her expression was confused again.

Fortunately, no one present had any intention of embarrassing a child, and Kirihara took the initiative to speak.

"This is screenwriter Shimizu-san, and he's in charge of the script for your part of the movie. Just have a casual chat with you, don't be too nervous, just sit down first. ”

She nodded slightly, looked at the agent again, and then slowly moved to the empty sofa, carefully sitting on the edge, tapping her toes barely touching the ground. With a trembling expression and a cute face, she looks like a squirrel who doesn't know whether to step into the territory of two carnivores.

Don't be so nervous, right? Since participating in the Toho Cinderella audition, she has been an artist for several months. On the contrary, she has only been a screenwriter for less than an hour, and she is a newbie who is newer than her.

What's more, his affinity shouldn't be so bad. Qing Shui Toru complained in his heart, and Kirihara over there continued to introduce.

"Shimizu-san will revise the script according to the situation of the conversation and your own image, just treat it as an ordinary chat."

Before the words fell, Toru Shimizu noticed that Minami Hamabe's originally straight back was tense again.

Glancing at the old ring on his left hand.

Kirihara-san, it's difficult to communicate with your children at home, right?

didn't dare to really ask, Toru Shimizu just turned to Minami Hamabe and bowed slightly.

"I'm Toru Shimizu, please advise."

"Please advise."

The subtle voice, coupled with the stiff movements of a robot, the tremor in her heart was about to condense in the air.

Faced with this situation, Qing Shui Toru could only raise his hand and cough lightly, and forcibly started the topic.

"I still want to congratulate Hamabe-san for winning the New Generation Award in this 'Toho Cinderella' audition."

“... Thank you. ”

"Speaking of which, why did Hamabe-san think of signing up for this audition?"

Minami Hamabe didn't answer the question directly, but tilted her little head in confusion, and her eyes full of timidity flashed with questions.

"I'm sorry, I only recently learned about the audition, and I didn't pay attention to it at the time." Toru Shimizu added, which can be regarded as solving her doubts.

“... It was my mom who signed me up. ”

"That's right. It's been three months since the audition ended, what have you been doing lately? ”

“... Classes with Kamishiraishi-san. ”

"It's hard, isn't it?"

Minami Hamabe nodded reflexively, came back to her senses, and then cautiously glanced at Kirihara and the agent's gaze, pinched a little distance on the tip of her index finger with the thumb of her right hand, and lowered her eyes to geastic.

“… Only a little bit..."

Toru Shimizu couldn't hold back a smile, but he pretended to have just thought of something, slapped his palm, took out the notebook he had wanted to take out from his inner pocket, and didn't forget to look at Shinji Kirihara.

"Is that okay?"

There was no objection to this, and the agent agreed.

The rest of the conversation continued the rhythm of the previous one, with Shimizu racking his brains to come up with various questions, and Minami Hamabe responding with the briefest words possible. It's just that when Toru Shimizu holds the tip of the pen and writes and draws on the paper, she always seems to glance at it, intentionally or unintentionally.

Finally, when she unconsciously leaned her neck and wanted to see the contents of the paper more clearly, Qing Shui suddenly asked, "This, do you want to see it?" ”

"Huh?"

Compared to the previous dull reaction, this surprise made her whole person look alive.

"It's fine."

I can't help but say that Toru Shimizu has pushed the notepad to the past.

“… Thank you. ”

She hesitated for a few seconds, but still picked up the notepad and held it in her hand, turning the pages from back to front, her eyes attracted by the contents on it.

"I forgot to mention that my main business... I'm a novelist, although I've only published one book. This is a notebook I use to record writing materials, and whenever I encounter interesting people or things, I will write them down. ”

"That is to say..."

The plain-sized notepad obscured her expression and subtle words. Toru Shimizu didn't notice anything, just continued.

"By the way, do you have anyone in your school who wants to be a novelist?"

"No," she said softly, hiding herself behind the page, shaking her head slightly, thinking for a moment, and continuing softly, "Most people want to be idols and baseball players... and so on..."

One has the AKB bonus that has been in full swing recently, and the other has Koshien, which can be called a dream for the number of people. Compared to these two, Toru Shimizu himself felt that the profession of a novelist, which sounded old-fashioned and boring, was really unattractive.

The conversation was smoother after that, at least Minami Hamabe stopped trying to respond in the shortest of words, and even timidly asked questions about the parts of the notepad that interested him.

“… This person, I met at the barbecue restaurant," Shimizu said as he said, noticing Kirihara raising his wrist to look at the time, and also took the opportunity to say, "As for the details, I'll tell you next time." That's all for now. ”

Minami Hamabe puffed out slightly, and the disappointment came to the air, but she silently put the notepad on the table and returned it.

Toru Shimizu put it away and stood up and saluted first, "I'm really troublesome for you today." ”

"Where, it's us who troubles Shimizu-san."

After many years of living in such a society, superficial politeness is about to become a habit.

"Minami and I also said goodbye first," the agent bowed slightly.

Looking at Minami Hamabe, who jumped off the sofa and returned to a dull state, Toru Shimizu suddenly thought of something.

"Please wait a minute."

As he spoke, he took out another copy of the script from his bag.

"I brought an extra one when I came today, so I might as well give it to Hamabe-san. As the lead actor, she can come up with some ideas, or she can be more familiar with the story, which will also help the filmmaking. ”

The last sentence was addressed to Kirihara and his agent.

It's another trivial matter that has no value in refusing, and after Kirihara nodded, the agent gently patted Minami Hamabe's back and asked her to step forward.

Toru Shimizu held the script in both hands and handed it to her.

"Hamabe-san is the first time to play a role, and I'm also the first time I've been a screenwriter. We're all new, but if possible, let's work together. ”

Minami Hamabe looked up at the tall figure in front of her, pinching the corners of the script with her two small hands, and her eyes gradually fell on the black font sprayed by graphite on the surface of the script.

"Hmm..."

Toru Shimizu's hand loosened. Minami Hamabe held the script in her arms, and slowly lowered her gaze along the lines of the floor, but her voice was completely lost from the naturalness of the conversation just now, but she became nervous as if she had met for the first time, and her body shook slightly, like a trembling bird feather.

“… If Shimizu-san is willing... Just call me Minami..."