The Great Condor returned to her seat and placed the gift bag Saito Asuka gave her at her feet.
Not long after she sat down, the door to the lounge opened again. She knew it was Saito Asuka with her toes. She hurried to Nana Hashimoto's side, sat down on the chair next to her, and stretched out her arms. It was spread out on the table, and when I buried my head in it, it started to make a whining sound.
Hashimoto Nana, who was still watching TV, was stunned by Saito Asuka.
Didn't you go to give gifts? Why are you still crying? This was the first time I saw Hashimoto Nanami crying while giving gifts. She sat up straight, kicked her legs lightly, and moved the chair closer to Saito Asuka.
"Where's the gift?" Hashimoto Nanami still kept watching TV, but asked Saito Asuka in a low voice.
"Sent out..."
Saito Asuka said dully, her voice was indeed a bit quiet, the TV was louder than her. If Hashimoto Nana hadn't had good hearing, she probably wouldn't have been able to hear it.
"Then why are you crying?" Nana Hashimoto ruffled her long hair.
"Taka...she called me Saito-san!"
Saito Asuka revealed his face and talked to Hashimoto Nanami. The light makeup on his face was already crying like a little cat.
After the New Year, there was no difference in the next two days as usual, except that in the usual lounge, if Saito Asuka was there, he would not see the Great Condor, and if the Great Condor was there, he would not see Saito Asuka. The two originally The people who had always been tired of being together were now alone, which made many people wonder whether the two had quarreled.
On January 2nd, after the New Year, Japan also entered a state where the gears continued to turn. Nogizaka Building changed from deserted to deserted. People came in and out of the door of the building, making it very lively.
11:48, Nogizaka Building 8th floor, locker room.
The Great Condor woke up unexpectedly early today, oh no, maybe she didn't fall asleep at all. In the early morning, she grabbed Ayase Haruka and sent a message, and then tossed and turned in bed unable to sleep. It can be said that she was looking at the sky slowly. Slowly brightens. Today is the date for recording the episode, and the time is set at 1 pm. According to Nogizaka’s custom, everyone has basically changed clothes and put on makeup and been waiting in the lounge at around 11 o’clock. The Great Condor is very late today. , because she chatted with Masami Nagasawa who got up early in bed for a long time.
But it's not that late.
There are two large movable hangers in the huge dressing room, with two racks of green uniforms hanging on them, which are the uniforms of Nogizaka46's tenth unit. Everyone has one set and a spare set, but to be honest, This uniform is not popular among members.
According to Erika Ikuta's words, it's like wearing a soft tortoise shell. In fact, they can't remember which of so many singles corresponds to which single. They have their own unique memory method, and most of this memory method is based on something that happened at the corresponding time of the single.
I’ll mention the interesting things about uniforms later when I have the opportunity.
Among the pile of clothes mixed with the smell of various perfumes, I finally found the clothes with the words "Great Condor" written on the collar. Then he found his small black shiny leather shoes on the ground next to him.
Inside the shoes, the names of the members are also posted on the insoles. However, since girls’ foot sizes are not very different, when a group of people come to change clothes, they don’t even look at their names and just put them on and leave.
"Tara."
She threw her shoes on the ground and began to take off her clothes. In order to keep warm, she even wore a small vest under her uniform. Fortunately, the safety pants were thick and warm enough, otherwise she would have to consider wearing an extra layer of underwear.
She stored her clothes in the small closet. Just when she was about to close the closet, she stopped, put her right hand into her trouser pocket, and took out a hairpin.
It is a black matte bangs clip with a simple style, but the surface does have black rose flowers, which is simple and elegant.
She stroked the surface of the hairpin, opened it, looked at a small mirror in the cupboard, and slowly moved it toward her bangs. But when the hairpin touched her hair, she stopped.
The Great Condor sighed and stuffed the hairpin back. Close the cupboard door and walk away. The distance from the locker room to the lounge was not far, and on the way, they passed by the vending machine where the Great Condor purchased something that night, and the jar of hot matcha of the same type inside was still lying there quietly.
"Click."
"!@#￥!@"
As soon as the people in the lounge opened, chaotic voices swarmed in, discussing everything, cosmetics, celebrities, and trivial life matters. She even heard Sakurai Reika talking to Wakazuki Yumi about taking a hot spring bath together. matter.
The Great Condor glanced at the lounge and saw Hashimoto Nanami who had cut her hair back short. Just as he was about to move to sit next to her, he glanced at Saito Asuka who was looking at his phone next to Hashimoto Nanami. She changed her mind instantly.
She just found a seat and sat next to Erika Ikuta. The two had a good relationship, maybe because they were the same age.
"Good afternoon, Eagle." Erika Ikuta greeted her with wide eyes.
"Good afternoon, iku-chan."
"Well, I'm so hungry. I'm hungry." Erika Ikuta slumped down on the chair with big letters.
Just then, the door to the lounge at the entrance was opened, and the staff came in carrying a large box.
"Hey! If you really want to sleep, bring me a pillow."
As if being wound up, Erika Ikuta stood up from her limp body just now and rushed towards the staff.
"Here, ancestor." The staff reluctantly put the box on the table and said to Erika Ikuta, who had asked for bento countless times before.
"Thank you, thank you! What do you want to eat today?" She said this, but it seemed that she turned over the food much faster than the staff reported it.
"Black pepper beef rice bowl, tempura rice bowl, and eel rice bowl..." the staff made a list of their recommendations.
But before she could finish her words, Erika Ikuta took a tempura rice bowl and ran away. Other members also came to get their meals, and when it was time to eat, many of them were already hungry.
The Great Condor was the last to pass, and there was not much rice left, just an eel rice bowl and an oyakodon, which is chicken rice bowl.
The Great Condor took a look, picked up the dark brown eel rice bowl, and returned to his seat. She put the rice bowl listlessly on the table and opened the plastic cover. A strong fragrance wafted in, but the great condor with a keen sense of smell could still smell the fishy smell of eel.
She opened the lunch box, broke open the chopsticks, ground the sawdust, put her hands together and whispered, "I'm starting." As a result, she didn't take off her chopsticks at all.
On the side, Erika Ikuta saw the wilted Great Condor. She, who was optimistic by nature, found it unpleasant to see it. She thought about whether she could make the Great Condor happy.
'There's no one who can't be made happy by me, Erika Ikuta. 'Thinking about this, Erika Ikuta put her chopsticks in her mouth and licked the sauce off the chopsticks.
"Eagle, you don't eat fish, right?" Erika Ikuta stood up, took the lunch box, walked to the big condor, and put her chopsticks into the big condor's lunch, "Let me help you digest it."
Erika Ikuta planned to arouse the great condor's desire to talk to her first, so she put the whole uncut eel into her lunch box.
'Sa, come on, grab it from me. '
Erika Ikuta planned to let the great condor compete with her for food to arouse the great condor's listless mood. Many people in the lounge also noticed Ikuta Erika's move and looked over.
As for the Great Condor, she didn't move, and didn't even look at Erika Ikuta. She lowered her head, inserted the chopsticks in her hands into the lunch box, and slowly pulled the steaming rice in the lunch box into her mouth.
Erika Ikuta was stunned at this. This plot development was wrong. Shouldn't he come to grab food from her and then play and fight?
The big condor didn't pick up the rice very quickly, but he put a ball of rice into his mouth every time. Soon the big condor's apricot face and gills swelled twice, and the two sides of the face were like the two eyes of a goldfish. Several laps.
"Blow..."
At this time, the great condor made a sobbing sound and its body was shaking.
Erika Ikuta realized that something was wrong. She bent down and saw the big condor with its head lowered, its eyes were red, and big tears were pouring out, hiding on the white rice in the lunch box.
"No, don't cry, Eagle, come on, give it back to you." Erika Ikuta quickly put the eel she snatched from the Great Condor back into the Great Condor's lunch box.
The big condor pulled the eel aside and stubbornly ate the rice, crying while eating.
In the lounge, not only Erika Ikuta beside her was dumbfounded, but everyone else also fell silent and looked at the Great Condor. The only sounds left in the rest room were her whirring and sobbing sounds while eating.
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On the other side, in the broker's lounge.
"Ling ring ring~"
"Excuse me."
Shizuka Sato took her mobile phone, apologized to the agents who were chatting heatedly around her, walked out of the lounge, and came to the corridor.
She turned on her phone and saw that it was Ayase Haruka's agent calling.
'What are you calling for now? '
Despite her doubts, she answered the call.
"Hey, Watanabe-san."
"Hello, Sato-san."
He paused for a moment and organized his words.
"It's like this. Yao has some things about the Great Condor that I need to talk to you about in person. It's not convenient to talk about it on the phone."
