9:20 p.m., 4th basement floor, Midtown, Minato-ku, Tokyo,

The underground LIVEHOUSE "ALL RISE", which has gradually become a popular spot in Tokyo, has been filled with restless drums and cheers for 90 minutes.

THE AIR IN THE LIVEHOUSE WAS SCORCHING, RUBBING SHOULDERS. The performance of the Dead Samurai attracted more than 1,800 spectators. A huge number of spectators were crammed into a venue of less than 1,200 square meters, but they did not have the slightest impatience, but enjoyed it.

You know, most of the underground bands currently perform with audiences of no more than 200 people. And the performance of more than 500 people is already at the level of popular bands.

Obviously, the promotion of magazines such as "ROCKIN'ON JAPAN" and "Zipper", as well as the live performance of the cruise ship planned by the owner Nakaoka, brought the popularity of the Dead Samurai Band one step closer.

But for those in the music press, the Dead Samurai Band's more dazzling results today are due to their new album released today.

Not counting the previously released EP albums, today's "W! The album is the first album of the band of Dead Samurai in the true sense of the word. THE 12 SONGS IN THE ALBUM WITH A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLOSION OF SONGS, LYRICS, AND ARRANGEMENT, AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL PERFORMANCE OF THE BAND TONIGHT, LET THESE MEDIA PEOPLE WHO STAYED UP LATE TO WATCH LIVEHOUSE COME BACK TO THEIR SOULS IN A SECOND, AND THEY ALL THOUGHT OF THE TITLE OF TONIGHT'S OVERTIME-

"The Birth of Tokyo Rock Dragon!" 》

Rock 'n' Roll Doesn't Die! The mythical king of Tokyo's underground! 》

Monster Impact! The soul of rock from Shinjuku! 》

《WONDERFUL！ MADE IN W！ 》

The sales results are a true portrayal of the quality of the album.

The signing will take longer than expected. The 6,000 CDs priced at 3,000 yen were sold out, and the 200 vinyl sheets of the commemorative edition were sold out at the speed of light. In today's era when digital albums are becoming more and more popular, it is a miracle that the traditional record of an underground band has won this achievement.

But media people still feel that the distribution company is conservative.

At least at the average level of buying 5 tickets per person today, they should have prepared 10,000 tickets.

Tomorrow the digital album will be available for download, and the price of 1,000 yen will be like dropping a bomb in a fish pond in their eyes.

This "W!" will definitely create a new milestone in the rock circle.

Plus streaming... It was as if they had seen a steady stream of Yuji being downloaded into the pockets of the dead samurai.

The owner of the LIVEHOUSE who signed the Dead Samurai Band has a good vision, and many music media people even have the dream of "whether they can hatch a second Dead Samurai Band themselves".

Signed, thanked, signed, thanks.

The four members of the Dead Samurai Band mechanically repeated these two movements more than 6,000 times.

With the four leaving their names on the final album, the 2-hour autograph practice finally came to an end.

Immortal River, Shiina, Koyanagi, and Okubo returned to the lounge from the album signing area, and Okubo, a keyboardist who rarely writes, shook his sore hand, saying that he didn't know what he was writing until the end.

Eimi Shiina took a sip of the mojito, chewed on mint slices, and complained indignantly about the inhuman arrangement of her boss Nakaoka.

Koyanagi, a tattooed bald drummer, picked up the small album that Immortal Chuan created for the album this time and flipped through it.

"Although our albums are not selling cheaply, this booklet alone has already made everyone return to their original books. If you want me to say, one illustration of Rishi-chan is worth 10,000 yen. ”

Eimi Shiina waved her hand and said,

"Nakaoka offered to sell it for 5,000 yen last week, but was opposed by Riyo. The booklet costs almost 700 yen, and our album doesn't look like it's going to make money at all, it's like doing a charity concert. ”

Fans know that the lead singer of the Dead Samurai is also an artist, and in addition to the music, they also love some of the warm and funny hand-drawn stories created by the lead singer. The booklet that Immortal Chuan painted for each song on the album is much more noble in their hearts than those handshake tickets.

Shiina kept swiping his phone, and actually saw several scalpers tweeting related to the Dead Samurai Band - their album was sold online for 6,000 yen in a blink of an eye, and the brochure alone was also marked for 1,000 yen.

Feeling even more uneven, she looked at the immortal Rie Kawa who was lying on the sofa, only the back of his head was exposed.

"Rishi-chan, it looks like you're in a bad mood today~ The performance and release were successful, aren't you happy?"

Immortal River did not answer.

The exhaustion of the energetic girl does not lie in the singing that lasts for 1 and a half hours, nor in the signing of the book that lasts for more than 2 hours.

What Asama said to her today, she had suppressed all night, and at this moment it was like a tide-

"Immortal Chuan-san, I don't think I'm qualified to be your master."

"I think it's noble to rebel and influence people through the art of music and painting, but I can't help much."

"Your kindness and enthusiasm should be invested in people who need it more."

"If you just want to eat snacks for free, you can consider quitting now, you know, there are no snacks. And dating counseling will be very busy later, and it's not worth wasting your time on it. Well, you can also ignore the affairs of the four palaces, I'll just come by myself. ”

"If you think you can get a good mood by teasing me, you can do it normally, and there is no need to add some superfluous things."

If his perfunctory attitude in the past was cold, the look in his eyes when he said these words can be described as cold.

It was an emotionless scrutiny like a god, and she felt a repulsion.

Immortal Rie Kawa, was rejected again by someone who wanted to hold his hand?

Dad, what should I do?

She lowered her head and said what she had wanted to say a long time ago,

"I want to be like you, to be able to treat everyone equally, to make the weak gain the belief to go on, and to pay people who are eager to move forward in the mud with strength!"

For the first time, I couldn't look at him.

He is not strong at all, he is just a person who pins his hopes on others, he must be very disappointed.

A gentle voice that had never been heard before came from front of him.

"Aren't you doing a good job right now? What's not going on with the status quo? ”

Immortal Chuan shook his head,

“… These. It's all an illusion that doesn't last long..."

The other party was silent for a few seconds and asked,

"Meaning, you've reached a creative bottleneck, or is there something that you need to interrupt what you're doing in the future?"

He always grasped the key to the matter quickly, but Immortal Chuan himself did not believe that he could give her an answer to this question.

She finally raised her head, looked at the double warm eyes, and smiled at him,

"I'm a child of the Immortal Chuan family."

Asama knocked on the table and watched as the Genki girl finally put away her disguise. But he didn't have the satisfaction of revealing the truth, he only regretted it. In his eyes, Immortal Oriyo, who was as good as the Imperial Academy Saint, or even several times better, should not show such a fragile expression.

To be able to maintain the character of a vitality idol for so long on top of this sense of brokenness, how strong should she be?

Immortal Rishi, she is the nobleman of the nobility in his mind.

Since it's not a love entanglement, Asama is willing to help her.

"The responsibility of the nobility... Inheriting the family business? Or is it a marriage? ”

"Marriage."

"The Kujo family?"

"I don't know, but it's pretty much the same. The future will not be allowed to do these things. ”

"How to put it, instead of hoping to marry a nobleman who is more enlightened, it is better to think about how not to marry out."

Immortal Chuan smiled stiffly,

“… My 3 years of freedom in high school were exchanged for [marrying]. ”

"If you are optimistic, you will use the empty check of [marrying] to exchange for 3 years of preparation time to get out of the cage. The proposition of "satisfying the needs of the family" is not the only answer to "marrying". What is the main business of your Immortal Chuan family? ”

"Real estate, mining, hotels, security, lending, and — the underworld."

To be honest, the guards are more like Miss Sopranos than you and Pochi.

"From the perspective of the industry, the guards and you are opponents."

"Our family is actually one of the vassals of the Konoe family..."

“… So, the marriage partner is the Konoe family? ”

Asama thought about it, maybe the marriage partner of the immortal river was a rival of the Chiyo Konoe, so the immortal river would be hostile to the emiya.

"Not anymore, but I had a marriage contract with Konoe Isamu of the Konoe family before. Now my grandfather didn't say it explicitly, but the whole of the Immortal Chuan family is complaining that I have ruined the possibility of further relations with the Konoe family..."

“…”

The words of the old man Konoe suddenly appeared - "It's not impossible to give Yong's fiancée to you." ”

No way? In other words, did the head of the Konoe family really tell the head of the Immortal River family about this?

Immortal River, you are the protagonist of the divorce stream!?

Let the hand of the Konoe family not grow so that the girl of other people's family will marry whoever she says!

Naturally, Asama wouldn't tell Immortal Kawa about this kind of thing.

"Let's be honest with your grandfather and see if the marriage can be postponed. It is not without aristocrats who give birth to stars or artists, and now in this world, money is what they care about the most, if you can become the spokesperson of the family industry, not to mention anything else, it is no problem to pull the hotel industry through your influence in the future. ”

"Robert-kun, maybe you're thinking too simply."

Looking at the strong smile on the corner of Immortal Chuan's mouth, it also disappeared, so I'll smile for her

Asama stood up, facing the immortal river, two fingers of his left hand against the corners of his mouth, and a smile was concave,

"Immortal Chuan-san, I hope this is the last time you violate the character design. The smile of a Genki idol, even if it is fake, can bring strength to people. What I just said is not a simple and complex logic, but the logic of daring to do or not daring to do. In addition, the secret to success is to keep complex things simple. ”

"Puff~~~"

"That's the right expression."

"Terrible Robert Tyrant, we humans are not silicon-based creatures like you, and we are free to regulate our emotions."

"So, poor Immortal Chuan Sang, can you tell me more about you and your family?"

"Lishi, why is the snack that I have been looking forward to for a day today? Last time, I said that the cruise line could get it, but it didn't work out. It's not like you. Yes!!! My hands are no longer sore! No need for a massage! - Let it go!! Am I wrong!! ”

Immortal River let Okubo go, returned to the sofa, and said,

"There will be no such dim sum to eat in the future, the boss is tired and will not do it when the door is closed."

"Hey, it's a pity, I've been hearing recently that some old shops have no heirs, and the boss will close when he is too old to do it."

Okubo suddenly came to the spirit,

"I can go to be an apprentice, pay the tuition fee, and after I finish my studies, maybe I can earn the tuition back in one day!"

Eimi Shiina sneered,

"You can also be a boss lady and earn more tuition."

Immortal Kawa also looked at Okubo with the eyes of a fool.

But in my heart, I was thinking, perhaps, I really didn't want a master.

…

…

…

Asama strolls through the streets of Akasaka, Minato-ku, and Daiki continues to talk on the phone hehe,

"I said, Daiki, what are you thinking about?"

"Everything will be arranged according to what you said, big teacher."

"Well, you can discuss more related matters with me."

"Also, Sensei, I'm sorry they caused you trouble. On the question of restraining their actions, it is true that I have not thought it through. ”

Asama avoided a group of drunks, and looked at the bad teenagers squatting together and chatting in the distance on the street corner, and replied,

"It's okay, you just said it, and you canceled the previous rules and regulations. There are not many people at this age who can accept preaching, and forcing them to do good deeds or something will cause a backlash. They listen to you because you're strong, ruthless, and cool enough. Then, guiding them to spend their energy on chasing the road to strength is not a bad thing for them, for their families, or for society. After all, I think there are still so many naïve secondary school boys in this society, and it's a pity to give them up. ”

"The [Infinite Fighting Festival] you mentioned is that you have to go through the selection round, group stage and knockout round every month, is it really so complicated?"

"This framework is built around your organization's monthly honors. The competition system is inflexible and newcomers can't participate, which is not conducive to the expansion of your organization. The first week of qualifiers will be held at the unrestricted kickboxing clubs in their respective schools, and the four strongest teams will be selected in the group stage for two weeks, and the final week will be held. Those who were not selected and eliminated during this period were forced to concentrate on volunteering and labor reform through this reason, so as to reduce the number of people wandering in the streets.

"In addition, it is not possible to run a competition without funds for operation and rewards. According to the specifications of your unlimited society, you have to raise at least 1 million bonuses every month - 800,000 prizes to the finals team, and the remaining 200,000 yuan will be used as your organization's poverty alleviation fund, and you will do the poverty alleviation yourself. I gave you the prize money for the first three months, you should think about the future way of raising money, whether it is to attract sponsorship and advertising, or to do food and drink operations at the competition site, and give it a try. ”

"No, great teacher. It's already a lot of trouble for you to worry about these things, and the matter of Toyosu Park, I, Li, and Ryohei haven't had a chance to thank you yet. How can you break the bank. Everyone in Yinghe Unlimited Club has some savings and pocket money, and it's no problem to make up 1 million. ”

"Stupid! It's your business to pay out of pocket now, but what about the future? If the organization doesn't find a way to run a business, what will happen to those from poor families who take over the baton? Where will those guys go when they grow up? ”

“…”

"Fighting, competing, winning national and even world honors, is your first path, and this road is a money-burning road. Running a martial arts hall and gym, if you are not a duck, is also a way to burn money, and there are not many people who can place it. Therefore, the road of exhibition economy is the future, do a good job in the IP of [Infinite Fighting Festival], sponsor it, and Zhongke can be a brand to create Internet celebrity stars, bring your products, and you have 2 families in the Infinite Club that make sports equipment, right? It's not difficult to let a bad boy open a takoyaki, dorayaki, and yakisoba stall, right? ”

“… Big teacher, it's me who is short-sighted. ”

"So, talk to your old man about what you think. Rely on a reliable person as early as possible and register the company first. It's up to the adults to get the people in Tokyo out. Tell your old man that you have already pulled 10 million sponsorships, and the first 3 million has arrived. ”

Daiki's mobile phone soon received a transfer prompt... Although it was not the highest sum of money he had ever received, his eyes were red.

In the past few months, he has never thought about the future path of these brothers and friends who trust him. He even thought about cutting with this murky river so that he could concentrate on the path of martial arts. They put their hopes in themselves, but they take the time to fall in love

Sure enough, is he too stupid and selfish?

If there is no benevolence, how can it be called martial arts.

“… I'm sorry, big teacher. ”

"You didn't feel sorry for anyone. The trust of others in you does not constitute a burden on you, but if you want to achieve greatness, if you want to reach the ultimate in martial arts, you must bear it and carry all the unbearable, inferior, and confused of all people. In this way, they have the right to choose what is good and not be harmed! ”

After comforting Daiki and helping him strengthen his determination to conquer Tokyo, Asama hung up the phone.

It's also a whim.

I learned from Daiki that there are almost 1,000 members of [Infinite], covering all high schools in the six districts of the city, and there are some teenagers who have dropped out of school in the city of the city.

It's not just that he wants to improve the security situation in Tokyo, but seeing that Daiki doesn't have the energy to control this black dragon, it's better to help him tame it.

Perhaps Daiki will become the first force to embark on his path to the power of the shadow.

In the future, when it is not open, [JOKER Asama Still Water] and [SHADOW Asama Still Water] will not be used.

It's better to put another layer of identity on [Great Teacher Shallow Still Water].

There is still a residual stimulation in my mind from [Rou Yi Ben Dao], go back and ask Po Qi for advice, learn some judo skills, cooperate with juggling, and pretend to be more like [Big Teacher].

Carrying red wine and black tuna, Asama finally arrives home.

"Ah Shui!! You liar! Unexpectedly, he is not willing to come back until now! ”

Pochi heard the sound and took the initiative to open the door for Asama.

Looking at Pochi's puffed appearance, Asama smiled,

"Comrade Pochi, can you be my master?"

(End of chapter)