Before the concert started, people were coming and going backstage, but amid the chaos, there was a subtle sense of order.
The hired temporary workers wore black T-shirts with the concert's logo and theme slogan printed on the chest, and hung their passes around their necks. The staff who followed Akina Nakamori wore suits and put their passes in their pockets.
In the breast pocket.
As the staff entered the backstage from the related channel, Miho Koyama followed closely the young man who looked about the same age as herself.
She suppressed her curiosity, but still couldn't help but look around quietly. When she realized that the people passing by her with passes hanging around their necks were all staff, she suddenly felt that the pass hanging around her neck was a bit conspicuous, and she couldn't help but
Blushing for it.
If I had known earlier, I would have worn a T-shirt from Akina-san's concert today.
However, although Miho Koyama was secretly upset in her heart, no one noticed her presence in the busy backstage.
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The venue can accommodate more than 3,000 people. During the concert, 300 staff members need to be temporarily hired.
The daily salary is 10,000 yen, but the working hours last from morning to night, and you have to walk around the venue constantly. It is not a good part-time job.
But if it's a big star's concert, then it's a different story.
Although concert organizers have the awareness to avoid hiring fans when looking for temporary staff, it is of course impossible to really avoid this kind of thing, especially with a daily salary of only 10,000 yen.
When it is too easy to recruit temporary workers.
Akiko Kashiwagi doesn’t know if she is a fan of Akina Nakamori.
When she was still in junior high school, if someone asked her to work part-time at a celebrity concert, she would definitely refuse. It was tiring and troublesome, and she had to stand for a whole day. How could such a job compare to being asked to be a golf girl, and it would be a relaxing day?
You can earn 50,000 yen easily.
The world has changed. Just a few years ago, golf girls were still a popular part-time job for young female students. But now, if you want to make some quick money, you may have to work as a waitress.
And even if you are a companion, it is impossible to reproduce the abnormal market situation of 50,000 yen a day.
It's not until you leave that kind of life and look back at the past that you realize that it was actually abnormal. Being obsessed with "abnormality" and one day returning to "normal", what awaits you there will naturally be collapse.
Whenever there is a recession, the quality of young women working in bars is surprisingly high. A senior comedian on TV openly said, "Although the economic downturn is bad, there will be many more beautiful waitresses and customs."
Women are also a good thing."
The customers who went to the store, after having a few glasses of wine, also joked like this to the new unfamiliar faces in the store——
"Kyoko-chan is able to work here. In times like this, there is something to be grateful for!"
...Anyway, these idle and indolent girls know that they will end up in the situation of being waitresses and fashion girls, and they are all to blame for themselves!
Kashiwagi Akiko has long been used to such words.
The office workers who are exhausted from their work, took on huge loans when house prices were at their peak, and then watch house prices fall, and lose everything no matter how hard they work, have long been dissatisfied with the fact that they can live an easy life just by showing off their cuteness.
A girl who can boss men around. She often has drunk customers and insults the hostess.
Are you greedy for vanity because you are indolent and indolent? Maybe that's right. Maybe just doing what you can and being a simple person is the real way to live.
However, in Kashiwagi Akiko's heart, when life reached this point, it was not without doubts.
Why did this happen? Is it all my fault?
Akiko Kashiwagi has made a mess of her life. Now everything she says seems to be trying to justify herself, so she can only remain silent.
…
Working part-time at Akina Nakamori's concert for three days can earn 30,000 yen.
Kashiwagi Akiko will never forget that at the beginning, she just wanted to borrow 30,000 yen to tide over the difficulties, but after walking into the small loan company, the people there gave her 300,000 yen, which was kind and kind.
Tell her politely not to worry.
After that, 300,000 turned into 1.76 million, and 1.76 million turned into 2.28 million.
The debt collector wants to call the company where Kashiwagi Akiko works. The company will not leave a person who has caused a debt dispute and may be collected for debt at any time. Kashiwagi Akiko herself has no shame in staying here. She has no choice but to leave.
, there is no second way to choose from.
No, actually at that time, there was another optional path in front of me.
At that time, the debt collectors came up with a way to postpone the collection and asked Kashiwagi Akiko to borrow three million from another loan company introduced by them to pay off the debt here first. Before the new debt matured, he could have some money.
Time to raise money to pay off debts.
That seemed to be a life-saving straw delivered to me.
Akiko Kashiwagi walked into a loan company because she was short of 30,000 yen for an emergency. Faced with the idea that came to her, she subconsciously wanted to agree.
...Don’t think about anything, just solve the problem at hand first.
It seemed that Kashiwagi Akiko had been living with this idea all along. But that time, she hesitated. Afterwards, a debt collection call came to the company, and Kashiwagi Akiko ran away.
In the days that followed, Akiko Kashiwagi felt very lucky that she did not listen to the debt collector and go to another company for a loan.
If she had really done that at that time, just like the initial thirty thousand yen would have turned into twenty-two million two hundred and eighty thousand, three million yen would be enough to drag her into hell. Although in the days that followed,
Kashiwagi Akiko's life has nothing to do with the word "peace", but she still feels that she has not fallen into a real hell after all.
It's Miho Koyama.
At that time, Kashiwagi Akiko, who had no master, was hesitant for a period of time because of Miho's efforts to stop her. It was because of her hesitation that the loan company chose to give her some advice - and called her where she was employed.
company.
On the day when she met Miho Koyama for the last time, when Akiko Kashiwagi returned to her apartment, what was waiting for her was the landlord with a serious look on her face who proposed to terminate her contract.
Akiko had to borrow 30,000 yen to tide over the difficulties in order to maintain her glamorous life. But in the end, she resigned from the company, and the news of her debt spread among her colleagues, which made her feel that she had finally lived the life she wanted.
She was also kicked out of the beautiful apartment where she wanted to live.
The fake glamor will always be exposed one day. Things with a time limit will expire sooner or later. The treasure that seems to be delivered to you actually has an unaffordable high price marked on the back.
But at that time, Kashiwagi Akiko didn't understand all of this.
After moving out of that beautiful apartment, Kashiwagi Akiko cut off contact with everyone, including Miho Koyama. She fled Tokyo in a hurry at first, with a thought flashing in her mind: If she just escaped far away, she could start over.
However, unless Akiko Kashiwagi disappears from the world, not only will she not be able to start over, the unpaid debt will snowball. As she escapes for a day, the snowball will grow bigger, eventually killing her.
Crushed to death under snowballs.
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The backstage before the concert started was busy, and everyone was in a hurry. However, they were all ordered to attend the concert-related work, and although people came and went, it was always orderly.
Wearing the black T-shirt provided for the staff, Akiko Kashiwagi ran from the backstage to the auditorium, and then from the fire escape to the backstage. The air-conditioning in the venue was strong, but despite this, she was still covered in sweat.
When I was a student, someone once recruited people to work part-time at concerts and targeted college students. When persuading the students, I told them that if they took part-time jobs, they would have the opportunity to meet the stars themselves.
At that time, some kind of music festival seemed to be held. Akiko Kashiwagi could not remember it clearly. But the reason why it left an impression was because it was rare for concerts to recruit part-time workers and the idea was given to current students.
I remember that I was participating in a social gathering with boys from Toyo University. When the boys across from me talked about it, a female classmate who was traveling with me said something stupid, "Which star will participate? Shibu Persimmon team or youth team?"
Only for women? Then will Kyoko-chan and Akina-chan go?...What’s the point of such a part-time job?”
That sorority party was turned into a cold spot because of the girl's question.
Akiko Kashiwagi still can’t remember the name of the music festival and has no interest in it.
However, today, it is true that I came to the backstage of Akina-san's concert and confirmed that wanting to meet celebrities while working part-time at the concert venue was purely a wishful thinking.
With such a huge venue and various winding passages backstage, most of the time, part-time staff either run around the venue or get lost in the winding passages backstage. There is almost no chance of getting close to the star himself.
As for the echo from the audio equipment after the performance started, all the staff could hear was noise.
Among the 300 temporary and part-time workers employed, except for a few socially active people, most of them live alone except at work.
Akiko Kashiwagi was one of the majority. But there was a boy named Sato who took the initiative to talk to her during the lunch break.
Sato was flirtatious and talkative, so he secretly showed off to Akiko Kashiwagi because it was Akina-san's concert and there were fans who wanted to sneak into the backstage under the pretense of part-time work.
"I heard that this temporary worker's pass can be sold to the fans in the front." Zuo Teng winked. Anyway, the backstage was in chaos, and no one would pay special attention to whether a temporary worker's face had changed.
It turns out that not only the people who hire part-time workers use the opportunity to meet celebrities in person to win over people, but the employed part-time workers also secretly do this.
Seeing that Kashiwagi Akiko was indifferent, Sato tried again, "Could Kashiwagi-san be a fan of Akina-san?"
Kashiwagi Akiko didn't want to pay attention to him, stood up and walked away. But after that, this question popped up in her mind involuntarily. Is she a fan of Akina-san?
When she was a middle school student, Akina-san became famous, and the girls in the class imitated her, and the boys spontaneously formed Akina-san's personal bodyguards. But at that time, Akiko Kashiwagi lived in a hell of being bullied every day, and she didn't even dare to look more Idols with bright eyes.
Later, after Akiko Kashiwagi became a beauty, she learned Akina-san's makeup when she appeared in fashion magazines, but she couldn't be said to be a fan.
After all, it was that day when she casually responded to Miho Koyama's words in panic and embarrassment that she really started to pay attention to Akina Nakamori.
Counting the fact that Miho Koyama told everyone frankly that she wanted to go back to watch the TV series starring Akina-san - that time, Miho Koyama helped Akiko Kashiwagi twice.
But that time, it was not just Miho Koyama who helped Akiko Kashiwagi, but also Akina Nakamori.
Although a big star like Akina-san would not know that someone had received help from her, nor would she know that there were two girls who formed a friendship because of her.
Not to mention that one of the girls was running backstage at her concert right now.
Why did you sign up for a part-time job at Akina-san’s concert?
Is it because you want to earn the part-time salary of 30,000 yen, or is it because you have the mentality of a fan?
Akiko Kashiwagi feels that she is also a fan of Akina Nakamori, but her fan is different from the fans gathered in front of the venue now.
...But maybe she is not the only fan who has been rescued by Akina-san in this way.
And she and Miho Koyama are definitely not the only friends or lovers who became friends because of Akina-san.
Although at that time, she left without saying goodbye and never contacted her again. Perhaps Xiaoshan Miho would blame herself in her heart...
However, in the past year and a half, even though Akiko Kashiwagi imagined several times in her mind that Miho Koyama was angry because she left without saying goodbye. But when she thought of Miho Koyama, she still firmly believed in her heart that there was still a precious friendship between them. .
Maybe this idea is selfish, but Akiko Kashiwagi firmly believes in it.
When, in order to pay off her debts, she chose to jump into the big dye vat of society and move towards a life that she had once rejected, and became a bartender in a bar, when she gritted her teeth and drank wine at night and worked part-time during the day to support her life, when She faces every moment when she either collapses or falls into hell. In her life, the only friendship has supported Kashiwagi Akiko over the years.
Precisely because he lived such a bad life, and precisely because he regarded the friendship with Miho Koyama as the support for his survival, Akiko Kashiwagi could never contact Miho Koyama.
In her heart, she has been dreaming of a new life. When she pays off her debts and can finally start over, she will meet Miho again.
...However, no matter how hard she tried, there was always a reason for that high-interest snowball to grow a little bigger again when she relaxed a little after shrinking a little.
