"By the way, Mai-senpai, didn't you want to be a nursery schooler?" Amamiya Sori tilted her head. More and more girls gathered, many of whom they knew during several selection processes, and they were congratulating each other in twos and threes.
"Maybe I want to be the person who appears on the TV." Mai Shiraishi said seriously. She often boasted this sentence to her mother when she was a child, but she never thought it was a joke. The flashlight behind her flashed a few times, and the clicking sound really made her feel a bit like the people on TV.
"What about you, Xiaozhi? Why did you suddenly..." Shiraishi Mai paused. The implication is that you, a person who is unwilling to perform at the school festival, why did you suddenly change your temper?
"Well, people always have to learn to be flexible. They provide room and board, and the treatment is pretty good. I can't refuse this." Amamiya Shiori waved his hand.
The deepest impression of the profession of idol in her mind is that of Lovelive and lesbians. They will be very popular when they are popular, but the time of popularity is very short-lived. Although it may be embarrassing to sing, dance, and look cute on stage, it’s not impossible to do it. Make money, not shabby.
"That's great." Shiraishi Mai suddenly said this.
"How to say?"
"I mean, Xiaozhi not only remembers me, but also remains the same as before. It's great."
Amamiya Souri nodded, maybe because he passed his puberty decades ago.
"Actually, I was afraid that I had mistakenly admitted the wrong person, or that Xiaozhi wouldn't remember me." Mai Shiraishi bit her lower lip, "After all, we haven't seen each other for four years."
"Don't worry, my memory is pretty good." Especially good-looking girls. Amamiya Shiori thought silently in his heart.
"Hmm..." Mai Shiraishi fell silent, because it brought back bad memories, and those memories, because of Amamiya Shiori's presence, didn't seem so painful.
The two chatted for a while about their respective experiences over the years. Not long after, a fat middle-aged man with glasses wearing a black suit walked up to the stage with a microphone. The chattering girls in the audience suddenly fell silent.
Everyone has already seen this person during the selection process. He is a legend in the industry. He created the first generation of large-scale girl groups more than 20 years ago, and is also the current national idol group AKB48 and its sisters. The group’s producer Yasushi Akimoto.
Before coming to the audition, Amamiya Sugaru used her second-hand laptop to get over the wall and return to China. She played a lot of AKB's subtitles at Station A, and she had some understanding of this man.
At the beginning of the press conference, Yasushi Akimoto came up and first congratulated the girls in the audience, and then announced that the first thing after the establishment of Nogizaka was the tentative list of selected members.
Amamiya Sugawara knew the meaning of the selection. They were the dozen or twenty members who sang the title song when the single was released. However, this tentative selection felt that it didn't mean that much.
The members whose names were called walked onto the stepped stage one by one and faced the media. Those whose names were not called stood in the last row. Amamiya Shiori is in the lower seat in the tentative selection, and Shiraishi Mai is in the second row. It seems that the two of them are relatively favored. Amamiya Shiori felt a little proud.
"Unlike AKB, Nogizaka is an idol group that does not have its own theater."
“In the future, activities will be centered around concert halls, auditoriums, and dance studios.”
"The tentative format of the event is divided into two parts. After the first half of the performance, a vote will be held during the break between the first and second parts to determine the performance positions for the second half."
"AKB48 will rely on a general election once a year to decide the position of the next unit. Nogizaka will tentatively adopt a similar voting method to determine the position of each unit."
Akimoto Yasushi talked about some plans for Nogizaka activities, but also emphasized that these are tentative and the operations will be appropriately modified at that time.
"In addition, a regular terrestrial group will be arranged. It is expected that the group will make a CD debut early next year."
Fortunately, Akimoto Yasushi is not the kind of leader who likes to talk at length during meetings, and Amamiya Sori has not been a smiling wooden person for too long. After delivering the key information, Akimoto Yasushi stepped down.
The clicking sound of photography is endless. The flashlights were so dazzling that the girls had to keep smiling and squinting their eyes. Make various greeting gestures.
Finally, a man named Yoshio Konno who looked like Nogizaka's management announced that today's press conference was officially over, and the selection process that started at 8 a.m. finally came to an end at 4 p.m.
Although he ate the sumptuous takeaway provided by Sony at noon, Amamiya Sori felt a little hungry. Now she can't wait to go to the convenience store to buy a rice ball. She still has to work in the evening, and there is still outsourcing code to write at night. The time of working as a worker is very precious.
"Where do you live now?" After exchanging contact information, Shiraishi Mai and Amamiya Shiori were walking on the way to Nogizaka Station.
"A small apartment near Kasai Rinkai Park. Want to come and play? But first of all, the place I live in is a bit crowded."
"No, I have to rush back to Saitama. I'll go there next time I have a chance."
"Saitama? Doesn't Mai-senpai live in Gunma anymore?"
"I moved to Saitama when I was in high school, with my mother. It's just that she didn't come today because she had something to do."
"Although the training camp won't start for another two weeks, I have a lot of things to do and can't spare time. Please help me say hello to my aunt."
As the summer dusk approaches, the sunset is as bright as fire, making the faces of those it shines turn red.
Mai Shiraishi took a few steps forward, then turned back. "Hey, Xiaozhi, we really passed the selection today, right?"
"Yes!"
"We can meet again in two weeks!"
"of course!"
"It's like a dream." Mai Shiraishi hugged Amamiya Shiori's arm again, "You know, I went to a nursing school in high school. If I hadn't formed a small band, no teacher would have recommended me. If I come to participate in the selection, I won’t know about it.”
"The same goes for me. If the convenience store owner who worked part-time hadn't noticed that I looked cute, she wouldn't have mentioned this to me. I would have missed such a good opportunity to eat and die." Amamiya Sugawara said boldly. boasting.
"What does it mean to eat and wait to die?" Even though I knew from the past that this school girl is an out-and-out realist, eating and waiting to die is too unambitious to apply here.
"Don't worry about it. Anyway, what I mean is that although it seems to be a coincidence, in fact it has already happened. It is an inevitable event. There is no need to consider whether it will happen."
"Maybe you're right." Shiraishi Mai nodded thoughtfully.
"Hey~ lovely lady, do you want to go play together?" "Yes, yes, brothers will take you to have fun." "Shibuya, Ikebukuro, wherever you want to go, we are familiar with each other. Very~"
The voice of a hooligan with an inappropriate vibrato came from not far away.
Amamiya Souri and Shiraishi Mai followed the sound and saw several gangsters dressed like cowherds and with mixed hair, who were chatting with a girl with brown hair maliciously.
The girl hugged her bag tightly and her legs trembled. It seemed that she had never encountered such a scene. Helpless eyes glanced around, asking for help from pedestrians. But most of the pedestrians passing by silently lowered their heads and took a detour, as if they had no intention of lending a helping hand.
