Hori Mina, a name that everyone present did not expect, appeared at the end of the list.
A newcomer who had just joined the group a few months ago and had never participated in even one CW song suddenly became the third generation center of Nogizaka.
This made Shiraishi Mai very aggrieved.
The first-generation center, Ikoma Rina, served as a salesperson for five times before resigning. She only sat in the C position for one time, and the management gave the center away.
The key point is that the person he is giving away is not a first-year student, but a newcomer who has not appeared on a few programs and whose handshake performance is not very outstanding.
So what are you doing with your efforts on this order? Working in vain? More than two years can't compare to two months? Can you rise to the top in one fell swoop just by being attracted by the management?
Not convinced, not convinced at all.
With dissatisfaction and grievances stagnating in her chest, Shiraishi Mai pursed her lips tightly and squinted at the crying girl on the stage.
"Ah!" Shitara said in surprise, "This is really amazing! You are still a graduate student!"
Hori Weiona kept sobbing.
The so-called graduate students are equivalent to interns who have not yet become full-time students. AKB next door has a graduate student system. After the selection of the new members is completed, they become graduate students and can participate in theater performances. After becoming official members, they will be assigned to teams such as teamA, teamK, and teamB. Nogizaka follows the postgraduate system.
Hori Mina became the first person from the second generation to become a full-time student, and it was not an ordinary full-time job, but directly became the center.
It is equivalent to an intern who is still undergoing skills training and is favored by the chairman. The chairman said, I have seen your talent. Let’s do this. Your internship period is over. Stop doing these trivial things. Our board of directors has decided to appoint you as general manager. This company will be handed over to you to lead during this period. .
If you do this, the regular employees of the company will definitely disagree. Why? You have no performance and no hard work. We have been working for so long and it is difficult to even be promoted to section chief. Why do you, an intern, rise to the top in one step?
Ordinary employees may just complain a few words and forget it, but the former general manager who was directly replaced felt the most uncomfortable.
Why! I am not corrupt, nor am I leaking company secrets, nor am I mediocre and incompetent. Under my leadership, the company's performance is still growing, so you should continue to reuse me! You demoted me, you have to give me a reason, right? In order to integrate the interns into the company family as soon as possible, we came up with a method to make the interns the boss.
It's okay if you select a genius with outstanding talents, but if you select a mediocre person, the company's business can continue to develop. If you select a shocking person, wouldn't the company be doomed?
Mai Shiraishi had never been so aggrieved and angry. It seemed that no matter whether she did well or not during the sixth order, the center of the seventh order would have to be replaced, which gave people a feeling that her efforts were in vain.
"Oh~ Qidan's new center, how are you feeling now?" Shitara asked.
Hori Mina was crying like a child who had done something wrong, and said: "I, I just came in."
I sobbed several times every time I said a word.
People on the stage were crying, and Mai Shiraishi was so aggrieved that she wanted to cry.
"I haven't danced as well as everyone else yet."
"Um."
"I'm just a graduate student... I never thought I would be in this position..."
"Yeah," Shitara agreed, "I was shocked. I thought I was here to learn."
Horimina nodded.
"But Qidan's name was called. Come on!" Shitara comforted.
"Hi." Horimina wiped away her tears, "I will do my best."
"Yes. Please come to seat 3."
"Thank you." Horimina bowed and walked to her station.
The atmosphere at the scene was not relaxed.
When Horina stood in the center of the first row, not everyone applauded.
Amamiya Shiori glanced at the people in the row in front of him, and they all clapped their hands dryly. Rina Ikoma next to her was the one who applauded the loudest. People who have succeeded and retired are indeed the most relaxed and comfortable.
Amamiya Sōya symbolically touched each other's fingers with both hands, and thought to herself, let me tell you how the management suddenly allowed so many under members who had not entered the selection to realize their dreams for the first time, and also expanded the selection quota. It turned out that it was not a big mercy. He is a good person, but there is a big medicine behind him, so he should make up for it in the front and pave the way for feelings.
In this way, the members who entered the selection for the first time will still be happy, the members who did not enter the selection will not be so uncomfortable, and the top members who have the opportunity to compete for the center will be a little unhappy.
"I'm really shocked," Shitara said with emotion, looking at the prompt board outside the venue, "Ah, this time the selection was announced, the operating committee also wrote a letter to everyone."
After speaking, he took the letter from the staff.
Shitara glanced at the content of the letter and said, "Then I'll start reading."
"To all members of Nogizaka46:
Everyone may be shocked by this selection. Although they have various emotions, they have nothing now. Hori Mina, the second-term student who serves as the center, asks everyone to work together to train her. Your actions are creating the future of Nogizaka46.
——Nogizaka46 Operating Committee”
"Indeed, for the future of Nogizaka, everyone must support each other." Shitara glanced at it and saw that the front row deliberately turned its head away and did not take a look at Hori Mina's Shiraishi Mai. In the middle, Ikuta Erika was in a state of silence without saying a word. , Mica Eto and Asuka Saito comforting each other in the back row.
The atmosphere didn't seem harmonious.
"Qidan...it's really scary!" He couldn't help complaining: "Why isn't Himura here? It's very scary."
This sentence made the staff outside the venue laugh and lightened the atmosphere a little.
"Okay, it's over~" With the staff's order, the recording of this episode of Nogizaka ended.
Mai Shiraishi, who was still trying to force out a smile, immediately turned frosty.
Next to her, Hori Mina slumped on the steps as if she had lost all her strength, covering her face and continuing to sob.
Although Shiraishi Mai was the closest, she had no intention of stepping forward to comfort him.
She bypassed Hori Mina, bypassed Ikoma, Wakazuki and Akimoto who came to comfort Hori Mina, walked to Amamiya Shiori, grabbed her wrist without saying a word, turned around and pulled her out.
"Ma Yi, what's wrong with you?" Amamiya Shiori asked.
Shiraishi Mai held Amamiya Shiori's wrist tightly and did not answer.
"Where are we going?" Amamiya Shiori followed Shiraishi closely.
"Go home." Shiraishi Mai whispered.
"oh."
Mai Shiraishi wanted to cry, but she couldn't cry here.
There were many people at the scene who wanted to cry and who deserved to cry. After finally entering the under selection, they were suddenly promoted to the new member of the center. They deserved more comfort than she did.
As a person who has lost his position as the center, he should become the back figure for the new king to ascend the throne and go to a dark corner to lick his wounds instead of making a fool of himself in front of everyone.
