Fireworks are a reserved item in summer in Japan, but winter fireworks also have a unique flavor.
Or for Shinichi Iwahashi, the fireworks seen in winter are more appropriate because the Rabbit Country has the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Fireworks continued to rise and bloom, lighting up Wangan Plaza and pushing the atmosphere that they thought they had reached to a higher level.
Between the sound of fireworks exploding and the cheers coming from the audience area, Miwa Yoshida moved closer to Shinichi Iwahashi and talked to him in his ear:
"Shinichi-kun, with today's performance, I feel as if my dream has come true."
Shinichi Iwahashi knew that her dream was to have her music heard by more people and to sing on a broad stage.
However, the realization of the dream that Miwa Yoshida said was not simply due to standing on a big stage with 15,000 people. It came from the fact that he conquered the audience.
This gave her a sense of expectation, as if the vast stage she had always dreamed of had come true.
"It's a good idea to get the name DreamseTrue." Miwa Yoshida seemed to express her feelings, but also seemed to be saying childish words.
The look on her face showed both the emptiness she felt after the performance and the satisfaction after her wish came true.
Iwahashi Shinichi responded to her with a smile, "Now you know my talent in naming, right?"
"How dare you say that." Miwa Yoshida laughed at his narcissism.
"But, seriously, let's set more goals." Iwahashi Shinichi is confident, "Because we are 'dreams come true,' so the wishes we make will definitely come true."
He formed a band for Yoshida Miwa who couldn't sell it, picked up the unknown little idol Matsumoto Akiko, and planned this music festival that was originally not expected. After he started to get involved in this field, everything Shinichi Iwahashi did was change and progress.
Doing challenging tasks one after another also gave him such confidence and confidence.
"Then, I hope our band can do an outdoor performance by itself in the future." Miwa Yoshida had no intention of questioning his words, and naturally thought about her future wishes with him.
"If you want to have a show, let's have a nationwide outdoor tour." He was half joking in this atmosphere, and half serious.
Yoshida Miwa snickered, half seriously, half in response to his joke, "...Then we will also set off fireworks at the end of the concert."
"OK."
"However, outdoor tours are better in the summer... I prefer outdoor performances in the summer."
"This can be considered."
Another round of fireworks exploded in the sky, and the girls from the Rabbit Country next to them clapped their hands excitedly. Masato Nakamura looked at the fireworks with a smile, while the two guys next to him were biting their ears in unrealistic reverie.
"After that……"
"Is there any more?" Shinichi Iwahashi surrendered, "We are running out of funds."
Because he has personally participated in the preliminary preparations for outdoor performances, he knows the market situation of holding concerts very clearly. Even if he is just talking, this kind of thing will make people tremble.
Miwa Yoshida smiled heartily, "Don't worry."
"Then, thank you, Shen Yijun." She said the last words.
…
After the music festival ended, Dai Heimoji followed the flow of people and evacuated from Wangan Plaza under the guidance of the staff. The car back to the hotel was full of people who had attended the music festival.
They were surrounded by "similar people" who had watched the same performance not long ago. The passengers naturally continued their free and unrestrained attitude at the music festival here and discussed the performance enthusiastically.
Amid this torrent of enthusiasm, Daikoku Moki felt like he was still in a dream. The music, cheers, and the sound of fireworks in his head had not dissipated yet.
Coming all the way from Hokkaido to Tokyo to watch this show may have been a bit crazy for a seventeen-year-old girl. What she said after going back would be surprising. But she didn't regret it at all.
Not only do I not regret it, I am also sincerely glad that I came. It would be a pity to miss it.
She firmly grasped the ring above her head and looked around at the passengers. When she saw the enthusiastic exchanges between acquaintances, she felt a little envious. She also felt a fire in her heart and wanted to share what she saw today.
At this time, the unknown girl next to her noticed her hand holding the hanging ring and the music festival bracelet exposed on her wrist, and took the initiative to strike up a conversation: "Are you from the music festival too?"
"Hey, yes!" Dai Hei Moji was startled and smiled.
The girl also smiled and said, "It's really exciting, isn't it." It was just a few words of conversation, and the girl quickly turned around and went to chat with her companions.
But in Dai Heimoji's heart, because of these few words, the excitement that had nowhere to express was slightly relieved.
After suppressing her mood and returning to the hotel, she couldn't wait to call her friend in Sapporo, "I'm back from going to the music festival!"
"Really? How is it?"
“Excellent beyond imagination, I really don’t regret coming.”
After hearing this, my friend joked: "Hearing what you said, I really regret not coming."
"It's quite a pity."
Daikuro Maki said to a friend, "After I graduate from high school next year, I must come to Tokyo."
My friend didn't know what happened, so he joked: "Although you didn't talk about going to Beijing for the first time, this time it sounds like you are more determined than every time in the past... Well, I know your determination best.
Come on."
Daikuro Moki only said half of what she said, so to a friend who knew nothing about it, it seemed a bit confusing. In her heart, the other unspoken part was that she hoped to see Iwa after coming to Tokyo.
Hashi Shinichi.
It would be great if I could meet this man and work under him.
In addition, she also wondered in her mind whether there was any connection between Shinichi Iwahashi who performed on stage and Shinichi Iwahashi who was very famous in Tokyo's underground music circle.
This question that could not be answered for a while made it difficult for her to let go.
…
As she gets older, Misa Watanabe goes to bed early and wakes up early, waking up at a little after four o'clock every day.
After Yoshida Miki got married, she moved to Azabu, and now there are only her, Watanabe Wan Yumi, and two live-in servants at home. The older one's name is Yongko, and the younger one's name is Tokie.
In order not to disturb others, after Watanabe Misa woke up, she would quietly go outside the hall to get a newspaper and sit in the dining room to read it. When the newspaper was almost finished, the family members would wake up one after another.
After getting the newspaper back, Misa Watanabe did not start reading from the first page as usual, but quickly flipped through it a few times and reached the entertainment page.
Yesterday's music festival took up a large space.
Next to the silhouette of Joan Jett and the portraits of Nokko, Show-ya and others to a lesser extent, the headline reads: "Big success! naon yaon! Unprecedented music festival with female protagonists".
Misa Watanabe patiently read the report word for word. When she saw the paragraph about Watanabe Productions in the report, the text praised Watanabe Productions for organizing this event, which made Misa Watanabe feel a little complicated.
This is the credit of Wan Yumi. Misa Watanabe knows this very well.
In addition, there is the manager named Iwahashi Shinichi... When thinking of him, Watanabe Misa also thinks of the dispute between his two daughters because of him.
Watanabe Misa also knew in her heart that Shinichi Iwahashi should not be blamed for the differences between Miki and Wan Yumi. She admired Wan Yumi's courage, but at the same time she had to express her understanding of Miki's situation.
too difficult.
"Mother? Good morning." A voice that was still awake sounded.
In this family, the only one who can call her that is Watanabe Wan Yumi.
Watanabe Mayumi, who rarely gets up early, is still wearing pajamas. Looking at her like this, the aura of a working woman has faded away, revealing the lightness and cuteness of a young girl.
"Good morning...you got up so early?" Misa Watanabe thought it was strange.
Watanabe Wanyumi opened the refrigerator door, took out water, and poured it into a cup. She glanced at the newspaper still open on the table and said, "What a coincidence, my mother and I were thinking about the same thing."
She took a glass of water and turned on the TV. She tuned it casually and found a TV station that was broadcasting relevant news. Like the newspapers, the TV station also set aside a short gap to report on the music festival.
Wanyumi Watanabe got up early just to read the morning news reports.
"This is a perfect ending." Watanabe Manyumi looked at the TV and breathed a sigh of relief.
Misa Watanabe narrowed her eyes and smiled, "You have done a great job."
"I want to dedicate this contribution to Iwahashi-san." Watanabe Mayumi said generously, "Mom, I also went to the music festival yesterday."
"Iwahashi-san came on stage yesterday as the band's keyboardist," she said.
Misa Watanabe looked at her, "Really?"
I thought to myself, it’s Shinichi Iwahashi again!
"It was my idea." Watanabe Manyumi was very calm, "Sekimura-san told me that Iwahashi-san was a good young man who stayed behind the scenes and worked in black, but I always felt that seeing is believing, so I decided to give him a chance.
Let him put on a show."
"so?"
"Mother," Watanabe Manyumi said, "Iwahashi-san has shown considerable talent even as a band musician, which is by no means inferior to his talent as a manager."
"You think too highly of Iwahashi," Misa Watanabe reminded her daughter, "I also think he has talent, but looking too high on a person will affect your own judgment."
"This is the 'fact' I feel." Watanabe Manyumi corrected.
"..."
Misa Watanabe didn't know how to answer her daughter for a moment. She paused and then said: "So, are you going to make a choice among the 'facts' you feel? Do you want him to be your manager, or do you want him to return to the band?"
"It's not a bad idea to have both." Mayumi Watanabe seemed to think without thinking, but Misa Watanabe felt that this might be the result of her daughter thinking about it all night after watching the show.
"Wanyumi, don't be too greedy." Misa Watanabe reminded her.
Watanabe Wan Yumi's mind was racing, and when she heard her mother's tone becoming serious, she softened her tone and said jokingly: "Maybe I can really catch two rabbits at once."
This is in response to Misa Watanabe's unspoken sentence "Chasing two rabbits will lead to one rabbit".
The servant Tokie came over to arrange breakfast at this time. He saw that Misa Watanabe and Manyumi Watanabe had both woken up and were talking in the dining room. He was a little surprised and called out: "Madam, Miss Manyumi."
"Good morning, Tokie." Watanabe Manyumi greeted her with a smile.
The mother and daughter came out of the dining room. Before Watanabe Wan Yumi went upstairs to dress, she finally couldn't hold it in anymore and said to Watanabe Misa, "Mom, Iwahashi-san behaves a lot like father...don't you think?"
This is not the first time she has thought this way, nor is it the first time she has said this to Misa Watanabe. However, in the early days of Watanabe Productions, it was indeed Watanabe who was both president and band member.
Misa Watanabe was shocked.
…
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't order the newspaper himself. Last night, after the music festival, the staff was busy until almost twelve o'clock, and there was no time to catch up on sleep, let alone get up early to watch TV.
When he was going out, he passed by a newsstand and casually flipped through it and saw it.
He could clearly feel how good the atmosphere was when he was at the scene. Reading the newspaper at this time could only serve as a confirmation. But even so, after receiving the actual results, he still felt indescribably happy.
He had a feeling that he would spend the entire day today under everyone's congratulations. However, rather than receiving congratulations, he still wanted to have someone to celebrate with.
Even a high five.
The 13th has passed, and today is February 14th, a day that exudes the sour smell of love.
The evil capitalists made Valentine's Day so grand... ugh.
Single Wang Yanqiao Shenyi gave a lemon-flavored look with disdain, thinking to himself that this was just right, lest he have to lose weight again because of his newly gained weight.
Today is not a working day. When I was walking on the streets of Shibuya, I felt that the streets were all pink and bubbling, as if men and women in love were holding back and choosing this day to come out.
Iwahashi Shinichi went to meet the four girls from Rabbit Country. After the performance, they set off back this afternoon. In the past few days of the Tokyo trip, he has been responsible for receiving them, but since the music festival is over, he will not be there today.
It’s okay to go.
He was going to give them something, a few cassette tapes of representative foreign bands that are currently mainstream.
That day, I took Wang Xiaofang and Xiao Nan to a record store. The two girls had a great time, but unfortunately they had no money in their pockets. Iwahashi Shinichi saw it, remembered it in his heart, and gave them these boxes of tapes as a parting gift.
What they saw and heard in the past few days gave these four girls a great shock and touch. In any case, their horizons have been broadened as never before. Even without these tapes, Iwahashi Shinichi felt that what he expected
The "fire" has also been included in the bags of these four girls, especially Wang Xiaofang and Xiao Nan.
"Mr. Iwahashi, thank you for your trouble these past few days!"
"I want to bring back the music I heard in Tokyo and continue to work hard." It was Wang Xiaofang who said this. After performing at the music festival, she said it was an exaggeration to say that she had been reborn, but her spirit was completely different.
"Okay." Iwahashi Shinichi said, "I wish you success."
The other two girls were much more down-to-earth. Xu thanked him for taking care of them and even invited them hospitably, "Mr. Iwahashi, you are welcome to visit Rabbit Country in the future."
"Okay." Iwahashi Shinichi agreed to this invitation.
