Zepp Sapporo Concert Hall.
"Let me tell you the general process."
As the chief planner of this tour, Nishise Hatami is responsible for the entire LIVE scene scheduling and timeline sequencing. She was also responsible for the previous Nogizaka anniversary concerts, so she is already quite experienced.
"Twenty songs during the daytime show, the opening, then "Around the Curtain", "Your Name is Hope", "HOUSE!"..."
In the closed concert hall, everyone in Nogizaka stood on the stage and listened quietly to Nishise Hatami's arrangement, but it was just like a passing scene. They just listened to it. If they really remembered it, no one might remember it. Then everyone was given a piece of paper with a timeline of the entire Sapporo LIVE. It simply stated the opening time and the singing order of 20 songs each for the white show and night show.
As for dance rehearsals, specialized dance teachers will come to teach them.
"Well, Shiraishi-san, Hashimoto-san, come here. Others get ready, the teacher will be here soon."
After Nishise Udaimi finished her explanation, Yoshio Konno, who had been waiting for a long time, came over and called the two of them away. Others were chatting where they were.
"Wow, are we going to have a concert here?!" Kitano Rinako took a deep breath, as if she wanted to memorize the atmosphere of the entire stage.
"Yeah, but don't think about having a camera." The Great Condor said with a yawn.
"Why?"
"Think about it with your smart little head. What else can we do if we are born in the first period? If we can play a few games, we will be very happy." In the second half of the sentence, the Great Condor lowered his voice.
"Eagle, please stop saying such depressing words." Shinuchi Mai took over the topic, "Think of something good." She did not deny what the Great Condor said.
"Oh, by the way!" The Great Condor seemed to have thought of something, and punched the palm of his left hand with his right hand, "Is there any performance fee for this performance?"
"No." Shinuchi Mayi responded.
"No, how did you know?"
"Maimai told me."
"Maimai...? Fukawa Mai-san?"
"Um."
"Okay, Mai and Mai have all been called. It's going pretty fast." The Great Condor elbowed Shinuchi's arm.
Not long after, the dance teacher came. The moment they saw the teacher, four of the second-generation students trembled. The teacher was Saikyoji Ryoko, the dance teacher who was responsible for the training of the second-generation students.
Over the past few days, they have been rehearsing dance positions and correcting small flaws. However, the stage of Zepp Sapporo is not big, so there are not many positions to remember, and most of them are first-year students who have more moves. , the second-generation students spend most of their time standing on the steps behind the first-generation students, acting as quiet backup dancers.
Kitano Rinako, who was enthusiastic at first, was also worn down a little.
So relatively speaking, the second-year students are relatively leisurely. These days, they get up in the morning and start rehearsing, return to the hotel to take a shower in the evening, and fall asleep quickly after the fatigue of the day.
"Huh, I'm exhausted, huh~"
In the evening, after Nana Hashimoto and the Great Condor returned to the room, Nana Hashimoto stretched out on the bed and let out a long sigh.
"Ookami-san, why don't you take a shower first?" Hashimoto Nanami said.
"Hmm..." The Great Condor hesitated. After a day of rehearsal, she was soaked all over, sticky and uncomfortable. But in the past few days, she had also noticed that Hashimoto Nanami seemed to have a little mysophobia. She was debating whether to let Hashimoto Nana wash it first. After all, it didn't matter that she didn't have mysophobia.
"Ring ring ring~" At this time, the big condor's cell phone rang.
"Senior, you go take a shower first, I'll take a call." After saying this, the Great Condor walked towards the door.
"Well, okay." Nana Hashimoto didn't fall down and was not pretentious. She took out the toiletries from her luggage and walked into the bathroom.
The Great Condor walked out of the door with his cell phone in hand and glanced at the caller ID.
'Mother'
"Hello, Mom." Although the Great Condor was a little confused and had just reported his work to Ye Xin not long ago. Logically speaking, he shouldn't call back in a short time, but he still answered the phone.
"Eagle? Can you hear me clearly?" Ye Xin's voice was noisy.
"Okay, what's wrong?"
"What are you doing?"
"I just finished rehearsing and I'm back at the hotel."
"Oh, that's it. How's it going? Do you have enough clothes over there?"
"Stop, stop, Mom, you've asked this question before. Everything is fine with me. What's the matter with you?"
"Mom, I just received a call. What's the name of that person today?" Ye Xin seemed to turn around and ask the person next to her a question mid-sentence. "Konano Yoshio-san, yes, he invited us to Sapporo to watch your performance!"
"ah?"
A big question mark appeared on the head of the great condor. She didn't want her family to come over to watch the tour. It was fine to show her dancing and singing to people she didn't know, but if her family members were to see her image, it would be hard to take photos of her, especially the two little ones at home.
"Mom, why are you coming here in Asahikawa?"
"It's okay, you drive to Uncle Ben, and we'll go together."
"Uncle Ben? Come to Benren too?"
The Great Condor was even more desperate now. She didn't want her childhood sweetheart to see her dancing on it in fancy clothes.
"yes."
"But you don't have tickets either. Are all the tickets sold out now?" The Great Condor could only hope that all the tickets were sold out.
"It's okay, Konno Yoshio-san gave us seven tickets. It seems to be something else, a family and friends seat."
OK, done.
Afterwards, Ye Xin dragged the big condor and chatted for more than 20 minutes. During this period, she didn't know what they talked about. The big condor just dealt with it with hums.
After ending the call, the Great Condor returned to the room in despair, and saw Nana Hashimoto having changed into pajamas and lying on the bed, her hair still a little wet.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Nana Hashimoto asked, noting that the Great Condor looked a little unhappy.
"Oh, mother said she wanted to come see the tour in Sapporo..." the Great Condor said weakly. "The whole family is together..." Then, the great condor buried his head in the pillow and added another sentence.
"Ah..." Hashimoto Nana sighed with the same feeling. "That's indeed a bit...my brother is coming too." She gave a rare irritated tone.
People always have this habit. It doesn't matter if they show their talents or unknown side to strangers, but if they let their relatives and friends see it, they will be extremely shy and reluctant. It's okay if you really like to be an idol, but people like them don't intend to be idols. This is equivalent to a public execution.
"Ookami-san, why did you join Nogizaka?"
There was silence between the two for a while, and Hashimoto Nana was the first to break the silence.
"Well... because of the money." The Great Condor turned over, lay on the bed, and looked at the ceiling.
"Pfft...it's true." Nana Hashimoto laughed out loud. "I'm sorry, I still remember when you said on the show that you joined Nogizaka because you admired me."
"Ah, I didn't lie to you. I really admire Hashimoto-senpai." The Great Condor suddenly sat up and waved his hand.
"Then, when is my birthday?" Hashimoto Nanami looked at the Great Condor with a playful expression.
"Um...August 10th?" The Great Condor was stuck. The birthdays of the members she remembered were all second-generation students, and the first-generation students hadn't even been recognized yet.
After saying that, she realized something was wrong. She was talking about Saito Asuka's birthday.
"That's wrong. Well, it doesn't matter. At least from this point of view, the two of us do not have a somewhat embarrassing relationship of 'admiration'." Hashimoto Nanami said. "Oh, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I came to Nogizaka for money. However, Asahikawa's economy is so backward now."
Both of them are natives of Asahikawa, and their circumstances are similar. I don't know if this is fate.
"Speaking of which, Asuka told me on her birthday that she made friends with you at school. She originally wanted to call you, but considering that the people present are all first-year students and you don't know them, you go It would be embarrassing, so I didn’t scream.”
The Great Condor nodded, and she didn't know if it was Hashimoto Nana's excuse for Saito Asuka, but she didn't mind it that much.
"Asuka, this kid, may still be a little wary of new friends. Her experience as a child was not very good."
"Is it because of the mixed race?"
"Well, when I first met her, she was really a gloomy little girl. By the way, Ookami-san is also a mixed race, right?"
"Hi, I'm mixed Chinese and Japanese, but I've never been bullied in school. At most... I just haven't made any friends."
Bullying is very common in Japanese campuses, especially for mixed-race students like Saito Asuka and Ogogori. If they are discovered by other students, it may be out of curiosity, or it may become bullying. I don’t know if the Great Condor is lucky. All her classmates knew that she was of mixed race since she was a child, but no one approached her. This resulted in her only having a friend like Xiang Bunren, and it was because of her father’s generation. The two just met and became childhood sweethearts. Maybe it was also thanks to her cold face that made people stay away from her.
The two of them were chatting, and somehow they got to talking about Saito Asuka, and from Saito Asuka to when the first generation was first established, they talked a lot in one night, and the two of them were from the same hometown, so their relationship was worse than at the beginning. It’s much better to not know what to say when we meet.
