Shinichi Iwahashi walked over and picked up the receiver, "Hello."
As a result, a somewhat unexpected and long-lost voice came from the other end of the phone, "Hey, Iwahashi. Good evening."
The caller was Takenouchi Akihito.
"Takenouchi-san."
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't expect it to be him. After he introduced himself to dance with Mimi Club, Iwahashi Shinichi never saw him again. Later, he resigned from Odyssey, let alone meeting his former guests again.
"I've been busy with school stuff these days and haven't gone anywhere," Takenouchi Akihito said.
"I went to Odyssey tonight, I thought I could see you. But I heard from the ladies there that you were staying with the girl who sang jazz in the store."
Speaking of this, Takenouchi Akihito smiled evilly and said, "You shouldn't be judged by appearance."
After hearing this, Iwahashi Shin's forehead twitched, "How could such a thing happen?"
As long as gossip is spread, any version can be spread.
"So, it's a lie?"
"Of course it's a lie." Iwahashi Shin explained the ins and outs of the matter in concise words. After hearing this, Takenouchi Akihito shouted several times: "Trouble", and then smiled: "You are really unlucky."
"I think it's okay." It can be said that now that he is on the road of music with great vigor, he feels that leaving Odyssey in the first place may be a good thing.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't stay at Odyssey anymore, he might still be working as a waiter there. Although changing his trajectory does not mean that he will become famous and prosperous, there is no doubt that this incident gave him an opportunity to change.
"So what do you do now?"
"I'm working as a manager and forming a band." Shinichi Iwahashi continued to explain.
"That's not a double-stay, double-dwelling," Takenouchi Akihito blurted out.
Iwahashi Shinichi was speechless, "This is not the same thing."
"Okay." Takenouchi Akihito didn't continue to joke about this. However, he still found it quite incredible, "Just because that girl can sing well, you became her manager and formed a band with her?
"
"It sounds a little outrageous, but that's the truth."
It would indeed be puzzling to jump in for such a reason. Instead of explaining too much, you might as well let him see it. When Iwahashi Shin thought of this, he simply invited him:
"Our band now has regular performances every week. If Takenouchi-san is interested, you might as well come and have a look."
"It's so cool to have a regular performance so soon?" Takenouchi Akihito said, "Please let me go and see it."
So Shinichi Iwahashi told him the location of the livehouse and their performance times.
The next Friday night, Takenouchi Akihito did not say hello in advance, but he brought his friends to support him. However, Iwahashi Shinichi did not know about this until after the performance.
Nowadays, they are an unknown band that has just arrived. Although they have come to perform regularly with the approval of the person in charge, they also need to be recognized by the bands who also perform here in order to successfully establish themselves here.
As colleagues who perform on the same stage, no one will cause trouble for anyone, but the atmosphere in the air can be felt. For a band that has not yet successfully gained recognition, the atmosphere backstage is not that good.
But it's not hostility, it's ignorance.
Regarding this, Shinichi Iwahashi and Miwa Yoshida truly feel and know this. At the same time, they also know clearly that the only way to solve all this is to perform hard.
When this state can be lifted depends on their own abilities.
Therefore, whenever they perform on stage, the two of them have a competitive mentality, perform hard without any reservation of strength, and rely on their own efforts to gain recognition.
After the performance, he returned home. The next morning, he received a call from Takenouchi Akihito and found out that he had gone to the performance last night.
"I was shocked by you." Takenouchi Akihito said on the other end of the phone, "Compared to when I was in Odyssey, I feel like a different person. How should I say, my aura has become different."
"It's such an exaggeration." Iwahashi Shin smiled.
"You were the agent who found the place for the performance?" After seeing the performance, Takenouchi Akihito no longer treated it as a child's play like he did at the beginning, and became much more serious.
Iwahashi Shinichi answered "yes".
Takenouchi Akihito said: "I didn't know you had such ability before. I will be impressed by you in the future."
"I didn't expect this beforehand," said Iwahashi Shinichi.
At first, he casually mentioned that the piano was out of tune, then he helped Miwa Yoshida out of kindness, then he took a gamble and became her manager, and now he actually started a band with her.
The changes these days were so rapid that Iwahashi Shinichi felt that he had not only changed the track, but also basically changed the way of survival, from a tram on land to a boat with an uncertain trajectory in the water.
What will happen in the future and where the ship will go are all unknown.
"This is the so-called opportunity." Takenouchi Akihito said this.
Iwahashi Shinichi also thinks the word "opportunity" is used here very well.
December, as the last month of the year, is a month with a sense of conclusion. Companies have to prepare receptions, stores also have promotions, and singers and entertainers are needed everywhere.
In this way, during the end of the year, the two of them did a lot of work in this area.
Tohojima's blessing, or rather in return for his free help at his call, he introduced this method of making money to Iwahashi Shinichi.
This job is boring enough. It is completely different from performing in a live house. Music is not the protagonist. Singing is just a part of the scenery here. You will not accumulate any fame by doing this, but the advantage is that you can make more money than
Sing more in live houses. In Tokyo, you will really die if you don’t have money.
Quan Dangsan has gone to the countryside.
Friends in the trees, friends in the fields, friends on the tractor, I say hi, you say low~
On Christmas Day, the livehouse arranged an event. The person in charge asked Shinichi Iwahashi if their band would also prepare some records for sale.
Shinichi Iwahashi went to Miwa Yoshida, and the two discussed selecting six of her original songs that had been sorted out before and making a mini album. It was the first time for Miwa Yoshida to participate in such a serious work of selecting songs for an album.
Highly focused and highly excited, as if we are preparing for a debut album.
Although the reality is that only one hundred copies of this mini-album were produced because of fear of not selling.
However, what was unexpected was that after entering the item sales phase that night, the one hundred records were sold out immediately.
The situation was so good that Yoshida Miwa secretly said to him: "If I had known this, I would have printed two hundred copies."
"I will print three hundred copies next time."
"Can three hundred people enter the venue?" Yoshida Miwa expressed doubts.
"Leave some room for the audience to buy one for yourself and bring one to your friends." Shinichi Iwahashi replied seriously.
After listening to his eloquent remarks, Yoshida Miwa laughed hard.
After the show ended, the female fans who came out of the backstage and were waiting outside saw the two of them and shouted, "Shinichi-san! Miwa-chan!" as they came over.
Shinichi Iwahashi looked at Miwa Yoshida, who pouted at him and said, "Please do as you please."
The band had only been playing in the live house for a few months, and there were just a few die-hard fans who would rather wait here to freeze in the cold weather than find boyfriends. Iwahashi Shinichi also showed his service spirit and greeted them: "Merry Christmas
,Thank you for today."
Miwa Yoshida also smiled, "Merry Christmas, thank you for your hard work."
"I bought the record!"
"Please print more next time."
After chatting for a while, the two said goodbye to them and left together.
After walking a little further, Yoshida Miwa teased him again, "Would it be a hindrance to you to team up with me? For example, you would have to hide your true nature or something like that."
"Just spare me on Christmas Eve."
Miwa Yoshida smiled and said, "Don't sound so pitiful."
"Don't worry, you will never get in the way." Iwahashi Shinichi said in a serious manner, "If we are just partners, what I do will definitely have nothing to do with you. Even if you and I have something to do with each other."
He added unhurriedly: "Wouldn't it be more pleasurable if she could take her boyfriend away in front of the rightful owner?"
"How terrible!" Miwa Yoshida shouted, "Shinichi-san actually has such horrible thoughts. From this terrible thought, we can see Shinichi-san's terrible view of love."
"Is that intentional?" Iwahashi Shinichi glanced at her. He thought to himself, it's probably because he teamed up with a girl like her that no one would be able to associate them with a relationship like a couple.
At this time, Yoshida Miwa seemed to have just remembered, and took out a record from her bag and handed it to him, "Christmas gift, Shinichi-san."
Iwahashi Shinichi took it, and it was "Kurasu Matsu·イブ" by Tatsuro Yamashita, with a ribbon tied on it solemnly, although the bow was a little crooked.
"You must have tied it on yourself later." Iwahashi Shin smiled at her, "Just ask the store clerk to help you."
The smile on Yoshida Miwa's face gradually disappeared, and she stretched out her hand, "If you don't want it, I will take it back."
"Yes, why not?" Iwahashi Shinichi dodged her hand and smiled, "Thank you, although I haven't prepared anything for you."
"Then please prepare two gifts for me on Christmas Eve next year."
"How can it be so fussy..." Shinichi Iwahashi joked.
"On Christmas Eve next year, let's finish the performance together and then exchange gifts." She said, "You have to prepare this year's gifts as well."
"...Okay." This time, Iwahashi Shinichi was speechless.
He understood what she meant. What she actually wanted to say was
"In the new year, I will continue to ask for your advice." Shinichi Iwahashi said to her.