Murakami walked out of the station and strolled back to Sakuraso.

Halfway through April, there have been no sunny days, and today is cloudy as well.

Most of the pedestrians walking on the road, those in their forties and above, still wore wool cardigans, the old lady even wore a scarf, and the old man wore a hat.

Three women in their thirties walking side by side walked in front of them, and it seemed that they were girlfriends who went out shopping together on the weekend.

When Yu Murakami passed by them, there was a strong smell of perfume wafting in the air.

The taste is artificial, but it doesn't have the legendary pungent taste, and it's even sweet.

Yu Murakami doesn't hate the smell, and he has no problem smelling it all the time.

But compared to the girls and young women in Sakura-so, the smell is unpleasant and cheap.

Because of this fragrance, Yu Murakami suddenly thought of "Dream of Red Mansions" - Jia Baoyu thought that the girl was married, and it was made of mud, which was not unreasonable.

Who doesn't love a girl? Women like it too.

Walking into the alley, the people immediately thinned out, leaving the outside festivals, singing and dancing, and beer, and the only thing in this alley was the poor vending machine with a small variety of drinks.

The gate of the outer courtyard of Sakuraso is still the same as when Murakami left in the morning.

When he opened the door, he noticed that the name tag hanging on the door had been stripped of paint, and the wooden box painted red — the homemade mailbox — was crumbling.

After the gate opened, the name tag and the mailbox were taken down, and the process was very easy.

If he hadn't found out today, they might not have survived this spring.

When I entered the house, everyone was there.

The panda doll was moved to the TV, and the upper half of Dongshan and You Mubi lay on it, and the lower half of their bodies shrunk into the unpowered kotatsu to play games. Looking at the screen, it seems to be Mario Kart.

Suzune Sakura is applying pink nail polish to Ai Nakano.

Ai Nakano heard the voice and raised her head: "I'm back, Murakami-kun, what are you holding in your hand?" ”

"Name tags and mailboxes." Yu Murakami showed her, "It's about to fall, I'm going to fix it." ”

"Wouldn't it be nice to go buy a new one?" Suzune Sakura lowered her head and concentrated on applying nail polish and said.

These two things are from Grandpa Youmubi's generation, and they were painted when her father was there. It's not the famous brands and mailboxes that many people have at home now, which are all industrial products bought from supermarkets.

"Dongshan, lend me your computer."

"Go get it yourself, it's still on the table." Higashiyama {handle does not move body} playing racing games, without looking back.

Yu Murakami remembered what happened last time, but the same mistake, the other party shouldn't have made it twice.

When he walked into Dongshan's room, the chaos was still as chaotic as before.

On the back of the chair on the computer desk, a pair of black stockings that I don't know if I wore them or not, and the notebook was spread out casually on the table.

Yu Murakami took the computer out.

Go to YouTube and Nico and pick up tutorial videos on craft.

While watching, he pulled out the Pizza Hut advertising flyer and "Community Report" in the mailbox and threw them in the trash.

[Craft Lv 1: 1/100]

[Craft Lv 1: 2/100]

......

After Yuu Murakami's skills reach the full level, the speed of acquiring knowledge has greatly increased, and in less than an hour, [Craft] will reach lv2.

The video continued to play, and he began to get started.

With the combination of practice and theory, the increase in experience value has increased instead of decreasing, and by the time he finished tossing Sakura Suzune's express packaging cardboard, he had reached LV3 that had entered the top level of mankind.

[Physical Transformation] In the case of just watching and not practicing, it took Yu Murakami almost two months to reach lv4, and since then he has never gained experience watching videos.

After feeling enough, he didn't bother to run and exercise to gain experience, and it was still level 4 and 1 experience point.

"This horse is just as good as the real thing, it's amazing."

"Mmmmmmmmmmmm

As soon as Murakami entered the living room with a large amount of cardboard, the four girls kept staring at him, consciously or unconsciously.

From the ridicule of the four dislikes at the beginning, to the current amazement and admiration, that is, from two o'clock in the afternoon to four o'clock.

"Shall we color them?" Suzune Sakura proposed, "Horses are painted brown, spiders are painted black, and dolphins are painted blue." ”

"Yes, yes."

"I'm going to get paint and a pen!"

Each of them took a handicraft and began to color, at first in earnest, then into a frolic - if you drew well, she painted your spider in green, and then she painted your dolphin in red.

Yu Murakami felt that it was almost there, took the brazier, water, and some wood, and began to open the mailbox.

Soak the wood, put it on a fire and roast it, then slowly knead the wood into the shape you want with just the right amount of force.

Punching, cutting, splicing, and a wooden pigeon that seems to be ready to fly high is complete.

It is larger than the mailbox, and the splicing of the neck and body can be opened.

"What is this?" You Mubi held a pigeon bigger than her face, looked left and right, and looked curious.

"Mailbox."

"Mailbox? Do you want to paint red? ”

"Probably."

"Let me come!" Higashiyama snatched the pigeon.

"No! This is my mailbox! ”

"You are still young, and you can't paint, what should you do if this pigeon is so good and the color is not good? Let me do it. Miss Sakura was coaxing the child with a thoughtful tone.

"That's right~, let someone who is good at drawing paint it better." Ai Nakano, who is good at drawing, said.

Finally, the dove was painted in various other colors with a red base.

Yu Murakami was worried that the postman would not know that this was a mailbox, so he simply wrote the name tag and wrote the two Chinese characters {mailbox} in printed font on the pigeon's eyeballs.

"It's ugly, if you do it like this." You Mubi was very disgusted.

"Yes, yes! How beautiful we painted! Draw a snake then put legs on it! Dongshan said in agreement.

"Murakami, your level of painting is the same as that of Mizurai, right?" Suzune Sakura said so.

Yu Murakami wasn't happy anymore.

Regardless of the fact that he only wrote two words, the ugliness of the pigeon is the reason why they spend their flowers, and it is really a great insult to compare his painting level with that of Shui Laiqi.

His [painting skills] also have 9 experience points, and the kind of person who has 1 experience point because the experience point bottom line is only 1 point, the gap is quite big, right?

There was only the last glimmer of light left, and when Tokyo Tower was lit up in the distance, Yu Murakami bound up a brand new name tag and a letterbox with an unknown bird.

With the faint light of the street lamps in the distance, Murakami looked at the nameplate and mailbox that could be used for decades, and then thought that this was the result of an afternoon, and his heart was filled with pride and confidence that {everything you want to do, you can get the desired results}.

In the next few days, after eating and before taking a shower, he took the time to make himself a wardrobe and desk.

A week later, on Sunday, April 26, it was a rare sunny day with a maximum temperature of 20°.

Yu Mubi asked him to fix the old bicycle in the storage room. She wanted to ride her bike to school, and it was too uncomfortable to get the tram crowded every day.

It's an old women's bike, the chains, the tires, and everything else is broken except for the solid overall frame.

"Can this car still be repaired?" Suzune Sakura was skeptical.

"I don't know." You Mubi looked at Yu Murakami who was looking at the bicycle, he was wearing a dirty old clothes, still showing his demeanor and handsomeness: "Brother You, can you still fix it?" ”

"Yes." Yu Murakami nodded.

Bikes, as long as you are patient, but anyone who has ridden them, buy some materials, and spend some time to clean them up - except for those who think they can't do it from the bottom of their hearts, but they are too lazy to fix it.

Yu Murakami began to repair it.

Remove all the parts and pump them into the tires.

The rear wheels are fine, the front wheels are leaking.

"Bring me a basin of water."

"Okay!"

You Mubi quickly brought the water.

Yu Murakami put the front wheel in the water, and there were two bubbles, which were still in the range of repair.

After repairing the tire, I checked the chain and it was broken, so I had to buy it again.

After the overall inspection, Yu Murakami did not change his clothes, and went directly to a nearby store in his dirty clothes to buy all the things he needed.

When I came back, I didn't rush to install it, but first derusted and painted the frame.

Seeing that there was another place to paint, the four girls couldn't bear it.

However, considering that You Mubi was going to ride outside and go to school, she finally didn't scribble anymore.

After the overall frame of the car was painted aqua blue, Suzune Sakura said:

"Let's draw our own cartoon characters, shall we?"

"That's a good idea." Yu Murakami said, "But you guys can draw better." ”

"Don't worry."

You Mubi herself has no opinion.

Suzune Sakura rolled up her sleeves and was the first to do it, drawing herself in a yukata and a red bud hat.

Ai Nakano also drew herself in a yukata and a white beret.

Higashiyama is a sun hat.

"Huh?" You Mubi said in surprise, "Do you want to draw so complicated?" ”

Then she drew herself in a purple beret, the most beautiful of the four.

You Mubi's [painting skills] are actually the highest in Sakura Village.

"Murakami, it's your turn." Suzune Sakura said to Yu Murakami, who was sitting in the corridor of the atrium, basking in the sun and reading a book.

"Okay."

Yu Murakami casually put the book on the ground and walked over to take a look.

"So good at drawing?"

"The bicycle is not easy to draw, what level is this. Fuss~! ”

After listening to Miss Sakura's words, Yu Murakami thought of his [painting skills] that were a little stronger than Mizurai, and said hesitantly:

"I'll forget it. At my level, if I paint it, it's too ugly and it doesn't look good when I ride it out. ”

"Then I'll draw it for you." Nakano and Sakura said at the same time.

The sun in the sky penetrated into the clouds, and the whole of Tokyo was overcast.

The level 4 wind from the south blew on the leaves of the ancient cherry blossoms in the garden that had just grown this week.

"Eh~, Murakami-kun, what are you shy, this is the heart. If you really want to look good, why not go out and buy one? Feel free to draw boldly. Higashiyama complained to Yu Murakami and said.

"Okay."

Under the gaze of the four, Yu Murakami finished drawing himself in two seconds, a stickman.

"It's ugly!" Miss Sakura commented cleanly.

"It's kind of easy." Ai Nakano also said.

Ignoring what they said, Yu Murakami began to install tires, pedals, brakes, chains, and other parts, but no matter what, the stickman kept dangling in his sight.

As the bike was gradually installed, the self-confidence that he had accumulated for a week began to crumble.

[Craft lv 4: 3/100]

Originally, Yu Murakami wanted to spend another week to see if "the male loser cut the bamboo and wood to think that he was a magpie, and he flew into it, and it didn't take three days." The legend is true or false, and now it seems that everything is in vain.

Yu Murakami threw all the knowledge about [craft] in his mind in the corner where Marxism was placed.

After a month of tossing in white, Yu Murakami ushered in an uneventful May.

Approaching July, the month of summer broadcasts, May is destined to be dominated by various auditions.

On Monday, May 4th, Yu Murakami had just come out of an anime audition called "Jewel Country" when Akira Ishida called.

"Murakami, is the audition over?"

Akira Ishida should have predicted the right time to call.

"Just over."

"How's it going? "Gem Country" is a pretty good anime, and the production team is very confident. Originally, it was designated to voice {King Kong sensei}. ”

Yu Murakami was on the set of the audition, and indeed only saw an old voice actor about sixty years old

"Ishida-san, it won't be the opportunity you took the initiative to get me to audition, right?"

The set of "Gem Country" is terrible, it is really a male and N female series, and there is not even a passerby male character.

The key Ai Nakano and Suzune Sakura have all been confirmed to star.

In vain April, everything was in vain, Yu Murakami sighed silently.

"How can I have such a big face," Akira Ishida's voice came from across the phone, interrupting Yu Murakami's thoughts, "Besides, it's too offensive to do this, it's the production company's side." There's also an inside story. ”

After the animation plan for "Jewel Country" was confirmed, the production team initially locked the voice actor of the role of {diamond} on the older generation of male voice actors.

The first thing that comes to mind is the Hasamizu Award, his deep bass, and {King Kong Sensei}'s pampered juniors (all kinds of unknown genders, but all of them are jewel girls with female appearances), and the image of a monk who is incredibly powerful.

But the Hayami Award took over the second season of "Rabbit", and there were various activities, and he was also old and didn't want to be too tired, so he refused.

And then there's the voice that often confuses the sound with the Hayami prize.

Nakata also confirmed that there was no problem, but two things happened in April that changed the decision.

One is the big sale of the CD of "Onishi in Okinawa that I want to do with Sakura", and the other is the big sale of the "Seven Magicians" event CD.

The industry suddenly found that fans seem to like to watch Yu Murakami interact with female fans?

That's just right.

"Jewel Country" is full of female voice actors.,Although I'm very confident in animation.,But with a Murakami Yu.,If animation doesn't work.,It's good to hold a few events and sell event CDs.。

"Just because of this? Didn't the production team talk to Ryoji Nakata? Yu Murakami asked.

"The capitalists in the production team don't care if you are old or not, they only care about whether you can make money. Murakami, if you can make money for them, they will like you. There are people who make more money than you, and they will abandon you immediately. ”

"Aren't all people like that? No one is an exception. ”

Akira Ishida laughed on the phone:

"That's right. Even if we were at YM Office, didn't we still want to ban you before? Now all the resources revolve around you. ”

That's right.

The last time I went to Okinawa to find Miss Sakura, I also negotiated with the 811 mall at the office, and changed the event plan temporarily.

The end result – a CD hit – left both parties satisfied.

The 811 mall seems to be looking for sponsors again, and when there are enough sponsors, they are ready to plan another location CD.

This time, the other party directly told the office that he must vacate the activities of Yu Murakami at that time.

"Ishida-san called, is it just for the audition of "Jewel Country"?"

"That's in passing." Akira Ishida said, "There's also an audition here, "The Spirit of the Halberd, and it's this Friday. ”

"Okay."

"There is an inside ......"

"Ishida-san knows a lot of inside information." Murakami praised teasingly.

"Of course. An agent with no inside information is like a female voice actor with no background, how can she mix in the industry. ”

"Is that what you say?"

"Suzune Sakura's background, you know Murakami."

"Hmm."

"Saori Hayami of our club, it's hard to say what exactly does at home, but you know that there are servants in her family."

Yu Murakami remembers the gentle demeanor outside Saori Hayami's dubbing room, and it's hard to imagine that this is a famous lady who is even more powerful than YM Studio.

"Most of the female voice actors who are famous now started out as Tokyo natives."

"Hmm."

Yu Murakami, who has no real estate and works three jobs in the whole world, has nothing to say.

"Don't talk about that." Akira Ishida said, "On the side of "Spirit of the Halberd", I heard that the contract signed between the copyright owner and the production company was to complete the animation. ”

"How?"

"This means that at least three starts, four, five are possible, Murakami! Do you understand? It's a long-term job! ”

"That's it."

"So, "Spirit of the Halberd", please be sure to take it!"

"All I can say is that I will do my best."

"I believe in you! Murakami-kun, you are a person who will never disappoint! ”

"Okay, okay." Yu Murakami hung up the phone perfunctorily.