Minamiyama Kumi is a native of Tokyo.

With an ordinary family background, ordinary education, and an ordinary job, it seems that she should get married like her parents and live an ordinary life like copying and pasting.

But this so-called era of renaissance made her life extraordinary. Like most people, she fell into self-doubt and the pursuit of novelty and difference.

Many women born in Tokyo refuse to copy the lifestyle of their elders, but their thinking mode has fallen into another extreme of alienation. Tokyoites themselves have an innate sense of superiority, especially in such a world where sweating and working is not as good as sitting.

In a society that charges interest, there is no reason for Tokyoites not to go crazy.

"Extraordinary" ordinary people like Kumi Minamiyama know deeply that Tokyoites in the new century must resist the loneliness and boredom caused by the old tradition through work or entertainment. In fact, she is heading in this direction.

After quitting the job arranged by her parents and the marriage partner recommended by her elders, Nanshan Kumi started working in Chiyoda and plunged into the hottest computer industry.

Having accomplished so many big things in one go that her elders regarded as "deviant", she began to live a life of being unconventional in everything. I heard from colleagues that Roppongi is the gathering place for all fashionable young people in Tokyo, but any young people who pursue fashion,

I will definitely take three or five friends with me to dance in the disco on Christmas Day.

Nanshan Kumi had this intention, and happened to see Maharaja's Christmas Eve performance published in the newspaper, and couldn't wait to call to book tickets. Fortunately, she didn't hesitate, otherwise she would have had to listen to the performance pitifully outside the ballroom.

Missed the sound.

In fact, she only glanced at the performance list and didn't even know much about the band itself. In short, for her, anything related to trends must involve her own participation.

On Christmas Day, everyone was busy reveling, and the boss was also absent-minded. He wanted to stop by the department store to buy Christmas gifts for the children on the way home, so he announced that he was leaving work early. Nanshan Jiumei made an appointment with a few friends and had a careful meeting in the company bathroom.

After touching up her makeup, she put on the designer dress she just bought with a loan, got in a taxi and headed straight to Roppongi.

The seat she grabbed was very good, right next to the stage. She sat down with her friends, and there were still twenty minutes left until the show started. A quick look at the chaotic and colorful lights revealed that they were all in the dark, fashionable clothes.

of young people, and the seats were packed.

The people at the table opposite looked like financial elites who had just gotten off work. They didn't have time to change out of their suits, but they all took off the ties that should be tied around their necks and tied them loosely on their foreheads. They looked really good.

Casually, based on their appearance, I thought they would be good young people from the middle class, but from this point of view, they look more like extreme elements trying to pretend to be serious people.

As for the position facing the stage, it is still vacant. It must be reserved for some important person.

There were still five minutes to go before the show started, and the late spectators hurried in. Some people paid a lot of money to buy tickets, so they were not willing to miss even a minute. There were people coming and going in the narrow passage. How many people were there?

A very good-looking man and woman came over.

The man wears toad sunglasses and has extremely flamboyant curly hair. Although he wears the bell-bottom pants that most people have in their wardrobe, his aura is extraordinary and very foreign.

Nanshan Kumi took a breath of air, that person turned out to be Tahara Toshihiko.

Following him were Kyoko Koizumi, Akina Nakamori, and Yu Hayami.

"Why is the idol here too?!" Nanshan Jiumei was shocked, and even more grateful for her impulsive booking of tickets.

Watching performances with your idols means you can grasp the pulse of trends, right?

A group of idols took their seats with a smile, took off their disguises, and revealed their true faces. Thinking about it this way, they just came to enjoy the performance as ordinary people. Since everyone is an audience, regardless of their profession or life, everyone is very different.

I can relate to the performance at this moment.

If they met idols in normal times, Nanshan Kumi and others would rush forward without hesitation and ask for a photo. But at this moment, they all remained silent in a tacit understanding. This is not because it is rude to disturb idols rashly.

The rude thing is that they want to maintain a subtle psychology of being equal to their idols.

Even if it is a short-lived and evanescent status equality, this is something they will enjoy talking about in the future.

Look, even idols, like us, have a secular side that pursues trends.

It is precisely based on this that the audience present unanimously maintained such a subtle silence.

At this time, the musicians took the stage, the lights in the venue dimmed, and the performance started on time!

The first one to come on stage was the "Original Sun Band", which became very popular in the underground music circle. Although in Narita Masaru's memory, he didn't know that there was such a band. After assessing the strength of these young people, he felt that they

Qualified for the task of igniting the atmosphere in the opening scene.

Makino is a young man who advocates retro and pioneering new trends, and is full of contradictions. In his first song, Nanshan Kumi can feel that the spirit of the so-called decadent bottom class of the end of the century is hidden in him. He is trying to capture some fresh and unique spirit.

Although his spirit is very immature, it makes people feel that he has a strong body and extraordinary charm.

A character that makes people want to take away but cannot take away. This is why Narita Masaru likes this person.

Just the first band to appear in the performance, the scene was like boiling water exploding. The audience stood up with the strong drumbeats and clapped to the melody of the song, as if they were about to break the enthusiasm that had been dull for a whole year.

Everything was vented. Nanshan Kumi also stood up. She noticed the idols next to her, and they were also involved in the performance.

In short, in such an exciting performance, everyone focused on the center of the stage, and no one had extra energy to pay attention to the idols shining on the TV screen.

The performances of the first few groups of singers can be said to be thrilling. During the intermission, the original singers performed solo on stage, bringing a different flavor to this Christmas performance.

Extracted from the restless atmosphere, Nanshan Jiumei found that the idols had stood up and walked towards the narrow and crowded corridor on the other side. She knew that there was the Maharaja's new karaoke box...

She suddenly thought, would she recommend her friends to sing at the next gathering after this?

There was no time to think more, Nanshan Jiumei's thoughts were swallowed up by a new round of enthusiasm from the audience.

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"So, Kumi-chan and Tahara Toshihiko watched the same show?"

A few days later, Minamiyama Kumi was chatting with her colleagues during the break, and talked enthusiastically about her experience on Christmas night. At first, when she mentioned that she met the popular idol, everyone thought she was bragging, until someone came up with something

After reading the entertainment newspapers of the day, everyone was envious of Nanshan Jiumei.

"It would have been great if I had booked the tickets at that time..." the female colleague said sourly, "How about we go to Roppongi for the Maharaja New Year's Eve on the 31st? Do you all have time?"

"I agree!"

"I didn't have anything to do that day and I didn't want to go back to my hometown. I think it's okay."

"After dancing, it's the first day of the New Year. Isn't it very fashionable to go to the shrine early in the morning for the first dance?"

"What do Kumi-chan think?"

Colleagues discussed it in the tea room. Nanshan Jiumei was encouraged by everyone's enthusiasm and thought it was a good idea. It doesn't matter even if she doesn't go back to her hometown on the 31st. Anyway, her relationship with her parents is lukewarm now.

Dear, it might be more interesting to celebrate the New Year with everyone.

Why do people draw strength from social trends regardless of their own ideas?

This is not just vanity on the surface, but a psychology in which people strive to prove themselves in distress, prove that they can integrate into this society, prove that they are not falling behind, and prove that they are by no means inferior to others.

However, pursuing something in order to prove oneself may not bring real happiness. It is reasonable to think that one is an emerging human being in the new century. Perhaps the end result will be death of thirst due to pursuing the sun, and there will be another kind of happiness.

From a perspective, such a life is ordinary and featureless.

Narita Katsu knew that in such a highly "prosperous" era, discotheques like Dajun fit in perfectly with the fanatical psychology that people have developed. He also knew that such group behavior that put the cart before the horse would eventually become the strongest force to bury this era.
Chapter completed!