The weather was indeed very cold, and after getting off the train, Tsukasa Higashino rubbed his hands and headed to the Tokyo Animation Production Company - the act of rubbing his hands was actually useless, so it just gave Tsukasa Higashino a little psychological comfort.

The Tokyo Animation Production Company is not far from the train stop, and Tsukasa Higashino got out of the taxi and arrived at the door of the Tokyo Animation Production Company.

I have to say that this Dujing animation production company is okay, quite an animation production spirit, and there is a snowman not far from the gate.

Tsukasa Higashino glanced at it, and just walked in around the snowman-

"That's... Sorry, you stepped on my sign. ”

Well?

Tsukasa Higashino had an incredulous expression, he tilted his head sideways, looked around, and realized that it was the 'snowman' who spoke.

No... It doesn't look like a snowman.

Tsukasa Higashino just took a cursory look at it and didn't see it clearly.

This is clearly a girl in front of her, a college student in her twenties, who looks a little innocent and cute.

She wore a white fur hat, earmuffs, and a very bloated dress, judging from the small snowdrift on her shoulder, the other party must have been standing here for a long time, and her face was red from the cold.

At this time, the other party was pointing to the feet of Higashino Division, and Higashino Tsukasa saw that he had indeed stepped on the wooden sign of this snowman girl.

He gathered his feet and went back.

"Thank you!" The bloated girl bowed respectfully and politely to Tsukasa Higashino.

Her voice is very crisp, but at the same time she is very powerful, giving people a sense of being straightforward and serious.

“... You are welcome. Higashino Tsukasa waved his hand, and then took the opportunity to glance at himself written on the wooden sign.

I saw that the wooden sign was written with a marker pen and a thick pen - 'I am Riko Hasegawa!' I beg you to give me a chance to audition! ’

Belch...

Higashino Tsukasa was stunned, and then glanced at the snowman girl with a pure face in front of him.

Is this here to apply for a job?

Or did you come to the job with a wooden sign? Or a voice actor? And this kind of wild way? And this word is too ugly to write, right? It looks like the writing of an elementary school student of several years old.

Tsukasa Higashino thought it was strange.

After all, generally speaking, voice actors... That is, voice actors, who are usually brought to various places by the producers of their own voice actor studios to get auditions.

In other words, it is to use the human resources of the voice actor agency in the industry to promote this voice actor.

Whether you can get a good role depends on the voice actor's own ability.

However, there are actually a lot of voice actors in Japan, but most of them are equipped with some background characters such as Dragon Set A and Classmate B.

There are only a handful of people who can get a good role.

But like this Riko Hasegawa so... Standing next to the animation production company yourself, you ask for the opportunity to audition for a voice-over ... It's just too rare.

At least Tsukasa Higashino has never seen it.

Of course, Tsukasa Higashino didn't continue to pay attention, he apologized to the snowman girl, and then pulled up his scarf and walked towards the Tokyo animation production company.

Behind him, the Snowman Girl was silent again, she just carefully took the sign out of the snow and carefully wiped the stains on it with her frozen red palms.

The snow continued to fall.

Occasionally, a low cough could be heard coming from her.

This is an inconsequential episode.

However, the appearance of the snowman girl standing in the snow and waiting still made Higashino Tsukasa somewhat impressed, and wrote down the name of Riko Hasegawa.

He quickly moved from the main building to the annex building, and then went up three floors in one breath to the studio of the production team of "Midnight Bell".

It's already quite warm when you get to this place.

I have to say that the indoor insulation measures here of Dujing Animation Production Company are quite good.

Tsukasa Higashino tidied up his clothes, patted the falling snow on his shoulder, and walked in.

"Brother Higashino! You're finally here! ”

Originally, Honhashi was still discussing the issue of the camera with the rest of the creative team, but when he saw Tsukasa Higashino coming, he finally smiled and walked towards him.

"See you again, Brother Motohashi." He shook the hand of Motohashi Daohiro and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

The content of the greeting is mainly to introduce the names of these original artists.

After the greetings, Higashino Tsukasa drank another cup of hot tea before getting to the point.

"Look, Brother Higashino, it's this shot... No matter how our original artist paints it, it doesn't feel like you at all... Can you show me what to do? ”

Honhashi Daohong is in a hurry, and it seems that this problem has really tormented him for a long time.

"Hmm... Don't worry, I'll draw it for you first. Tsukasa Higashino glanced up and saw that Kuronomiya Akira was indeed there.

Kuronomiya Akisa was holding a sketchbook and looking at Tsukasa Higashino over here.

To see her come over, Higashino Tsukasa also nodded, then sighed again, and activated his fingers, and then the work started under the noses of Honhashi Daohiro and their group of original artists-

He doesn't draw fast, it's just at a constant speed, after all, he has to show it to the original artists of Honhashi Daohiro and their group, although Higashino Tsukasa doesn't think they can learn it.

And just as the pencil in Higashino's hand swiped, a picture of Sadako crawling out of the TV was displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

Sadako, who was disheveled, stretched out her hand to the real world, her vicious eyes staring at everyone from between her hair.

This gaze is like a living thing, making Hotohashi Daohiro and the others feel like they have entered the world of "Midnight Bell"... They seemed to be in that small Japanese-style room.

In front of them were cold, snowflake televisions.

And right on TV... The unspeakable opened its eyes and stretched out its hand to the world...

"Hmm-"

It took a long time for Honbashi to react, and he looked at Sadako, who had already taken shape under Tsukasa Higashino's hands, and he really felt in his heart, 'Will you really crawl out of the painting?' 'Feelings.

Kuronomiya Mingsha next to her opened her mouth even more.

She never thought that a horror comic could be drawn like this... Can you still draw so horrible...

She subconsciously gestured with her hands, drawing in the air, feeling as if she had caught something, but she didn't catch anything.

"That's about it... What do you think? ”

Higashino Tsukasa picked up the hot tea that was still spreading the temperature next to him with both hands, took a sip to warm up his body and asked.

What do you think...?

Several of the original artists who studied the original painting looked at each other, and then they were a little speechless.

Because just looking at the new work drawn by Tsukasa Higashino, it is actually not much different from what they painted.

But what they drew just didn't have the sight of Tsukasa Higashino... No, it's the feeling of being able to catch people in the terrifying world of "Midnight Bell".

Seeing that no one was talking, the director of the Motohashi next to him said: "Since this is the case, then Brother Higashino will be in charge of the main original painting in the future, and the teachers will help to help... That should be fine, right? ”

His move is undoubtedly to move the cake of these original artists, after all, the position of the main original painting is very tempting, and these original artists don't want to give way...

But these original artists also know what kind of character Takehiro Motohashi is.

Although this person usually looks smiling and happy, he will never be ambiguous when he should make a big move, and he is the animation supervisor of the standard tofu mouth knife heart.

If you don't meet his standards, it's normal to just let you get out of the production team.

When the animation is supervised, how many good tempers can there be?

Many new employees are scolded for 'quitting and leaving if they can't do it'.

In addition, Higashino Division does have the ability, and he is not the kind of person who wastes his reputation, so under his position, these original artists are still acceptable.

So naturally, everyone nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll respect everyone's decision." Hotohashi Daohiro coughed, and said that we are a public election, it is fair and open, and there is no black-box operation, and he also puffed up: "This is a rare big production, we must make good results!" ”

And Higashino Tsukasa, who was on the side, saw that all this was arranged by Tohiro Motohashi, and naturally he didn't say anything.

After all, "Midnight Bell" is an animated film of his own work, and it is natural for him, the original author, to be the main person in charge of the original painting.

After taking over this job, Tsukasa Higashino will naturally put his heart and soul into doing it well.

After Honbashi Daohiro had instructed these necessary things, Higashino Tsukasa approached him and whispered, "Brother Motohashi, about Mr. Kuronomiya... Can you help me put a place with her? ”

Only in this way, if Kuronomiya Mingsha wants to ask him any questions, he will answer immediately.

"I know." It was obvious that Honbashi was mistaken, and he glanced at Tsukasa Higashino with a smile that all men understand, and arranged Tsukasa Higashino's desk with Akira Kuronomiya's desk.

After all, Kuronomiya Mingsha is really beautiful, and she is a demure person, and she is a good woman.

In addition, he is also in the same publishing house as Tsukasa Higashino, so there is no pressure at all to put together a pair of CP combinations... Naturally, the bridge was crooked.

But it's crooked, and it's crooked, and Honbashi Daohiro also remembers that Tsukasa Higashino seems to have said in the newspaper that he already has a girlfriend... Why does Tsukasa Higashino still want to eat the cabbage of Kuronomiya Akira when he has a girlfriend?

Honhashi Daohiro shook his head and pretended to sigh 'people's hearts are not ancient'.

Higashino Tsukasa was also speechless for a while when he saw him like this - this thing must be crooked, and he felt that he wanted to pick up a girl to ask for this.

But forget it, Tsukasa Higashino didn't bother to explain this issue.

He sat next to Kuronomiya Mingsha, and glanced at the sub-shot that Takehiro Motohashi had brought over and needed him to draw, and was just about to start writing-

"I thought you forgot."

Kuronomiya Mingsha's calm voice sounded in his ears.

This sentence also happened to poke at the sore spot of Tsukasa Higashino.

However, Higashino's response was also very simple, he smiled and waved his hand, and replied without panic: "I haven't forgotten, it's just that there have been a lot of things recently." ”

Kuronomiya Masa stopped talking, just looked at Tsukasa Higashino calmly.

Her gaze was steady, and she didn't have any other emotions, as if she was just observing Tsukasa Higashino.

But it's this kind of girl who is the hardest to deal with.

They don't seem to be reacting, they don't really know what they're thinking... It's completely different from the type where all the feelings are written on the face of Ryoka Konoe.

After a long while, Higashino felt the gaze that had stopped on his face move away, and at the same time there was a slight 'um' voice from Kuronomiya Akisa.

It's a fool's errand.

Higashino exhaled with satisfaction, turned around and seriously prepared to draw the storyboard.

It's just that he hadn't finished drawing two pictures before he heard a few people next to him discussing in whispers.

"Have you heard? That Riko Hasegawa is here again, and she's been standing at the door of our company all the time. ”

“... Are you sure? With such a heavy snowfall, does she still have to stand in that place all the time? Nothing will happen, right? You're about to become a snow girl, right? ”

"Who knows? But she can be considered self-inflicted. Didn't she say that she unilaterally terminated the contract with the firm..."

"Huh? Is this really the case? ”

"That's what I heard... Going to Kabukicho tonight? There's a nice izakaya over there..."

"If you're going, let's call Yamanaka-kun by the way?"

"Hey, he can't do it, the mountains are very afraid of his wife, tsk... That's a real tiger. ”

The content of this discussion attracted Tsukasa Higashino, don't you say, Riko Hasegawa's innocent appearance really feels like a snow girl.

This made Higashino Tsukasa put down the pen in his hand with some curiosity, pulled the bench and came to a few people.

And he, the person in charge of the main script and original painting, came over all of a sudden, and immediately shut up these people, they look at me, I look at you, and they are a little worried about whether Tsukasa Higashino is a little angry with them chatting at work.

After all, Tsukasa Higashino is their boss, and the people in their production team are just working for the creative team and making their finished products.

If the other party is not satisfied, you have to call back and redo... So Tsukasa Higashino can really suggest to Honhashi Mentori to kick them out of this production team.

"What's the matter with you? Higashino-sensei? ”

One of them hesitated for a moment, but still asked Higashino Tsukasa.

"Ahh There's something I want to ask you. Tsukasa Higashino pondered and asked, "That Snow Girl... Belch... Riko Hasegawa's matter seems to be clear to everyone? ”

"Huh? Oh... Do you mean Miss Hasegawa? One of the animators spoke.

This artist is a little unsure of the relationship between Tsukasa Higashino and Riko Hasegawa, so he uses an honorific: "Miss Riko Hasegawa was quite famous as a voice actor before, and she should have the strength." I remember the work as the heroine of "Ultramarine Philosophy" and "The Murder of Jintian"..."

"Really? Then I just heard about the unilateral termination of the contract of the firm...? "Tsukasa Higashino is somewhat interested.

The firm issued a document, saying that she was not satisfied with the role that the firm gave her, and asked for more good roles, and then the other party unilaterally terminated the contract with the firm... It's in a period of complete decline. ”

The other party's language is very particular, and it took Higashino Tsukasa to understand the situation of this Hasegawa Riko after listening for a while.

Isn't this the state where everyone shouts and fights?

Offending the firm is a big deal, and it is certainly excluded from the industry.

No wonder the other party didn't bring his agent to the Tokyo Animation Production Company to audition...

There's no chance at all.