"Thank you for your hard work." Omoto said as he stood in front of Akina Nakamori.
Akina Nakamori looked at Omoto, said "hmm", then moved her eyes away, over Omoto's shoulder, and landed on Iwahashi Shinichi.
Iwahashi Shinichi stood a little further away, also looking at her.
The two of them exchanged glances across the desk.
When their eyes met, Iwahashi Shinichi smiled at her. He waited until Omoto finished talking to Nakamori Akina, then walked up to her and greeted her, "Nakamori-san."
"Hello."
Nakamori Akina's eyes followed Iwahashi Shinichi, watching him approach. But when he approached and greeted him, her eyes left him again.
Omoto and Nakamori Akina explained: "Iwahashi-san was sightseeing in Karuizawa and met the filming team of the show. I happened to see him, so I grabbed him and chatted until now."
At the same time, he also apologized to Shinichi Iwahashi, "...for disrupting your sightseeing plan."
The deliberate addition of such a sentence was a bit unexpected by Iwahashi Shinichi. However, the special addition of such a sentence allowed the pace of the chat to be controlled by Omoto.
Iwahashi Shinichi didn't expect Omoto to do this, but he calmly replied politely, "I didn't have any sightseeing plans at first. I was just walking around casually. I didn't expect to meet the program crew who came to shoot."
When talking to Omoto, he had a businesslike tone. Akina Nakamori was listening in and felt that Shinichi Iwahashi was a little different from usual.
However, while I am amused by this difference, I am also a little anxious.
After meeting Shinichi Iwahashi unexpectedly outside Tokyo, the things Nakamori Akina had been thinking about in the past two days, and she wanted to get answers or confirmations, suddenly had an outlet, and she wanted to turn to them.
he.
She couldn't help but have the idea of saying something to Shinichi Iwahashi.
However, it hindered Omoto from being here. The three of them stood together, and for some reason, it suddenly became a situation where Omoto kept talking to Shinichi Iwahashi.
…
When Omoto was chatting with Shinichi Iwahashi just now, he suspected that this was not an ordinary encounter. Now, seeing the way the two people met and greeted each other, it didn't look like they had made an appointment in advance.
However, whether he came here on purpose or met him unexpectedly, Daben felt that something was wrong in his heart.
Because of this, Da Ben firmly grasped the topic in his own hands and controlled the rhythm of the chat.
On the other side, the staff packed up their equipment and prepared to go to the next shooting location. The next shooting was at six o'clock in the evening. The host and guests could rest for a while and prepare to return to their hotel.
"Everyone seems to be going back." Akina Nakamori suddenly interrupted, interrupting Omoto.
After hearing what she said, Ben looked towards the filming team.
The person who answered the call was Shinichi Iwahashi, "You two are getting ready to go, right?"
"We haven't started yet, the next show is at six o'clock in the evening." The person who answered him was Akina Nakamori. She had been listening just now, and suddenly she snatched the rhythm of the topic from Ben.
Da Ben could only play a supporting role first, and echoed: "I have to film a bbq conference tonight."
"I see." Iwahashi Shinichi expressed his understanding. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch to confirm the time.
When Nakamori Akina saw him raising his wrist, he asked him again, "Iwahashi-san, when will you go back?"
Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a while and told her, "We will leave from Karuizawa and return to Tokyo before three-thirty." He explained to her, "I also have a party to attend at six o'clock in the evening."
It's the kind of dinner party with industry insiders, where you go with your emotional driver.
"It's also six o'clock?" Akina Nakamori seemed to be laughing at this coincidence.
However, he suddenly invited, "Iwahashi-san, before you return to Tokyo, I will be your tour guide and walk a short distance, okay?"
Daben was listening on the side and his expression froze.
Iwahashi Shinichi caught her direct hit and looked at her. Nakamori Akina still had a smile on her face and a childish mischief in her eyes, as if she suddenly wanted to play a role-playing game.
However, such naughtiness is like a cover-up, to cover up the uneasiness in my heart.
It takes courage to hit a straight shot. To be able to show such courage, there must be something in her heart that supports her to do so.
"Okay." Iwahashi Shin thought of this and agreed with a smile.
…
Da Ben stood aside and stopped talking.
Nakamori Akina ignored Omoto's attitude and even arranged a task for him, "Omoto-san, I'll go back later and ask for your help over there."
In order to facilitate unified movement when going on location, the host and the guests came in a car. Now that she was leaving the team to work as a tour guide for Shinichi Iwahashi, she naturally had to tell them to let them go first.
Whether inviting Shinichi Iwahashi in front of Omoto or giving such an order to Omoto, in a sense, these are all reflections of the straightforward side of Nakamori Akina's personality.
However, Ben, who was assigned such a task, was a little troubled. In front of everyone, Akina Nakamori ran away with a person who suddenly appeared near the filming location. How could he explain it to the people there more normally?
However, the mission was dispatched, and it was impossible to expect Akina Nakamori to change her mind.
Besides, an agent's job includes such a thing, so he can only bite the bullet and do it.
Before Omoto passed by, he looked at Akina Nakamori.
"Then please, Omoto-san." Akina Nakamori said with a smile.
In this way, there was no way that she gave Omotopa such a task in return for the fact that he just pulled Shinichi Iwahashi to talk non-stop and kept the topic firmly in his hands.
Omoto agreed, and when he walked away, he bowed to Shinichi Iwahashi again.
As soon as he walked away, the atmosphere changed. There were only two people, Shinichi Iwahashi and Akina Nakamori, and both of them felt much more comfortable. They looked at each other and smiled at each other.
"Let's go, tour guide-san." Iwahashi Shinichi said.
When he shouted, Nakamori Akina narrowed her eyes in joy. She turned forward and straightened her waist, "Let's go then."
The two of them left behind the notebooks that they had to explain to the staff and walked toward the exit of the old street. However, from the back, they kept a polite distance, like friends walking together by chance.
Yuki Saito in the distance looked thoughtfully at Omoto who was walking this way, and at the backs of Akina Nakamori and Shinichi Iwahashi who were walking in the opposite direction to Omoto.
…
"I didn't expect to see you here." Akina Nakamori said.
He said he wanted to be a tour guide, but he only maintained his authority for a while. After leaving the old street, Akina Nakamori decided which way to go, and then the two of them walked onto the tree-lined road with larch trees planted on both sides of the street.
"However, chance is inevitable, right?" She turned her face and looked at Iwahashi Shinichi.
"Yes, chance is inevitable."
Shinichi Iwahashi smiled as he recalled his thoughts while sightseeing.
Nakamori Akina couldn't guess that he was sightseeing in Karuizawa with the idea of meeting her, so she only said what she knew, "The band from your record company is staying in Karuizawa."
"Moreover, they not only argued about arranging music in the villa, but also did not miss the scenery of the resort."
Iwahashi Shin jokingly told her about the band's sightseeing these days, and laughed at himself, "...So, if I don't go sightseeing like this, I will be the only one who really misses the scenery of the resort."
"I've been to Karuizawa two or three times." Nakamori Akina looked at the road under her feet again, "It's all for outdoor shooting. However, I have never come here specifically for sightseeing and vacation."
…
The two of them chatted while walking.
Iwahashi Shinichi told her about the band, and Nakamori Akina talked about the recording. It seemed like they were just chatting for no reason, but the topic seemed to be peripheral.
After a topic ended, silence fell suddenly. Shinichi Iwahashi looked at her, and Akina Nakamori just turned to look at him. Their eyes met and they both stopped.
"What?"
"Speak first." Shinichi Iwahashi told her.
At this point, Akina Nakamori hesitated. After a pause, she said: "I have been learning how to fold paper recently."
"Really?" Shinichi Iwahashi heard her say that and remembered the origami kitten he had given him.
As a result, Nakamori Akina added: "However, my hands are not skillful enough. I want to learn how to fold a kitten but I can't."
She asked Shinichi Iwahashi, "Can you tell me what I should do?"
"Of course it's no problem." Shinichi Iwahashi promised her.
The two walked forward for a while and stopped in front of a bench. After sitting down, Shinichi Iwahashi took out the tourist map of Karuizawa, folded it, and tore it into two pieces suitable for origami.
"Is it okay?" Nakamori Akina took the torn tourist map.
Iwahashi Shinichi joked with her, "It doesn't matter. Anyway, there is a reliable tour guide named Sanzheng sitting next to me. He will definitely take me back to where I came from."
Akina Nakamori couldn't help but laugh, and complained first: "It would be terrible if I can't take it back."
When Iwahashi Shin heard what she said, he just smiled and waved the paper in his hand, "Are you ready? Can we start?"
Two open hands, with an origami kitten in each palm.
The one on the left looks majestic, but the one on the right is a bit limp. Although the spirits are slightly different, it can be seen that both of them are cats. There is still no cat missing arms, legs and tail.
"It looks pretty decent." Iwahashi Shinichi looked at the kitten in Nakamori Akina's hand and praised it.
Akina Nakamori looked at the origami kitten in her hand. Although she made some mistakes and was corrected by Shinichi Iwahashi several times, she still finished it successfully. Looking at the kitten she made, she felt a sense of accomplishment.
While admiring his work, he said to Shinichi Iwahashi, "Iwahashi-san, you are very good at teaching people."
"Yeah?"
Akina Nakamori nodded, "You are patient, and your words are logical. If you want to be a teacher, you must be the kind of teacher who is very popular among students and is liked by everyone."
"Let's forget it." Iwahashi Shinichi smiled, but he didn't think he had the talent to be a teacher.
Nakamori Akina held the folded kitten in her hand and suddenly asked: "By the way, what did you want to say from time to time just now?"
Iwahashi Shinichi was startled for a moment, and then realized that she had always been keenly aware of other people's emotions.
"I have a question for you." He said.
When I met Akina Nakamori in Karuizawa, Iwahashi Shinichi saw her, and that question naturally came to mind. The only way to answer a question that cannot be answered is to ask it yourself.
"Before, you said that you refused something that you would never have thought of refusing in the past."
Suddenly hearing this sentence, Nakamori Akina opened her eyes wide. However, her eyes did not leave the kitten in her hand, and she said "hmm".
"What is it that you refuse?"
Iwahashi Shinichi asked this question and looked at her subconsciously.
In his heart, he felt that it was not polite to bring up old scores now, but he was also really curious about what happened. When he first saw what she wrote in the letter, he didn't have such curiosity, but now, he wants to know the problem.
What is the answer.
"Why?"
Akina Nakamori seemed a little unable to react, and thought for a moment, "You wrote in your letter at that time that saying 'no' requires more courage than saying 'yes'."
It's amazing to have the courage to say "no".
"I'm sorry." Iwahashi Shinichi apologized to her, "If it's something inconvenient to say..."
"that matter……"
Akina Nakamori thought about where to start, "It was Kondo-san who told me that he wanted to buy a house with me. However, I rejected him."
She told Shinichi Iwahashi the whole story.
Iwahashi Shinichi frowned slightly and did not answer.
If he refuses to buy a house and combines what happened before and after, he can probably guess something.
However, listening to Nakamori Akina's description, I always felt that something was not quite right.
The timing and motivation of Kondo Masahiko proposing this idea sounds strange. I can understand why he did it, but it seems that a key part is missing, which prevents the machine from functioning properly.
However, since Nakamori Akina didn't agree, then this matter can be regarded as a reversal. To Iwahashi Shinichi, Kondo Masahiko is just a stranger whom he has never met before and does not need to be taken seriously, so he is too lazy to speculate about him.
motivation.
Instead of speculating on Kondo Masahiko's motives, after knowing the answer to that question, Iwahashi Shinichi's reaction should be to go see Nakamori Akina.
He never replaced Kondo Masahiko in front of Nakamori Akina, and Nakamori Akina almost never mentioned this person. As a result, when curiosity aroused, the answer he asked was this.
However, before he felt sorry, Iwahashi Shinichi knew in his heart that when he saw the letter, he had already vaguely guessed who the courage to say "no" was for.
But even so, he still asked this question.
"Iwahashi-san."
Nakamori Akina knew that Iwahashi Shinichi was looking at him, and suddenly asked him: "What is a breakup?"
This time, Shinichi Iwahashi didn't expect what kind of questions she would ask. However, he had an intuition that Akina Nakamori had something to say, so he didn't answer the question and waited for her next step.
