Two days after Karuizawa met, the gift Nakamori Akina mentioned was sent.
As he said when they met before, Iwahashi Shinichi knew she bought a gift early on. He was curious and wanted to know what Akina Nakamori would choose.
When I got the package, it was in two boxes, one large and one small.
The small box contains a handmade pen insert. There are many craftsmen in the Karuizawa area. Although it is an inconspicuous little thing, it looks very high-quality after being polished by the craftsmen individually.
Neither expensive nor cheap, practical but not fancy.
When you receive such a gift, you can appreciate the care that the giver put into selecting the gift.
Put the small box aside, and then look at the big box. It is a large, square gift box. It looks even bigger when lined with small boxes.
You don’t need to open the box, you can tell what it is just by looking at the cover: a snack special to Karuizawa.
The last gift made him feel thoughtful, but this one made Shinichi Iwahashi smile.
There was also a card attached to the gift box. Taopusida wrote on it that this was a top-notch snack from an old store that he had tasted during the show, and he wanted to invite him to try it.
The gifts and snacks were bought at the resort. The Sunset Red tour group went to Karuizawa for three days and two nights to see the flowers and bring souvenirs to the neighbors.
However, after all, it was able to be selected by the TV station to appear in the program, and it was even stamped as "top-notch taste" by dim sum expert Akina Nakamori. The taste is definitely worthy of praise.
When Shinichi Iwahashi wiped out the box of snacks given by Akina Nakamori, he had a somewhat nonsensical thought in his mind that if the audience watched the TV show and followed Akina Nakamori's Amway to queue up, they would not be surprised.
As for the evidence, in addition to this one, there is also the one she gave to Akina Nakamori on his birthday last time.
It is said that the TV station went to buy snacks from a store that she often patronizes. This shows that this Taopusida is quite trustworthy when it comes to which store is more delicious.
…
Having said that, the package this time was so thin, it couldn't be a snack no matter how you thought about it.
Shinichi Iwahashi went upstairs with the package, recalling the snacks Akina Nakamori had given him, and thought in a rather bored tone. After entering the door, he found scissors and cut the seal. It turned out to be a record.
Akina Nakamori's new single "missedtheshock" has just been released.
Akina Nakamori, a shopping street kid, and Shinichi Iwahashi, a small shopping street boss, have played such roles in their letters since Chisato Moritaka's "17" and enjoyed it.
Shinichi Iwahashi would send Dreamsetrue's new single to her, and when her new single was released, he would also send a copy to Shinichi Iwahashi. After that, the two of them exchanged their "tasting impressions" in the letters.
This month, Nakamori Akina's new single was released. According to the previous tacit understanding, she sent another one to Iwahashi Shinichi.
"missedtheshock..."
Iwahashi Shinichi read out the name of the single, put it aside, and went to get the letter that was sent with the record as usual. He opened the envelope and poured it out. As a result, in addition to the letter paper, a small thing was poured out.
It's origami.
Shinichi Iwahashi picked it up, examined it in his hand, and recognized it to be an origami giraffe.
Did Akina Nakamori fold it?
Origami enthusiast Shinichi Iwahashi was a little surprised. He took the giraffe in his hand and read it again and again. Then he remembered that there was a letter that he had not read yet. He put the origami giraffe aside and read the letter.
When Karuizawa met, Nakamori Akina suggested calling him by his first name in private, so she changed the card she put in the package last time and the beginning of this letter to "Shinichi-kun".
Nakamori Akina wrote about the newly released single in the letter and told him that she had chosen to perform this song at this year's Red and White Song Festival, so it would take quite a while from the release of the single to the time before the Red and White Song Festival.
Intensive publicity period.
"Because it is a new song that the audience is not familiar with, it needs to be promoted in advance."
Seeing this section, Shinichi Iwahashi couldn't help but think of the band's "Future Vision II". Now that we have to make a re-arranged version, we have to follow the previous approach of focusing our promotion on the Kohaku Song Festival.
Make appropriate adjustments.
The publicity after the new year cannot be lost, and the publicity before the year must also keep up.
Before Watanabe Manyumi went to negotiate with the Kohaku Utakai, she mentioned that "removing any lyrics from this song will make it lose its color" and also mentioned, "If it is a familiar song, that is another matter."
In this case, after deciding to re-arrange the music to welcome Kohaku, Shinichi Iwahashi planned to adjust his strategy and divide this promotion period into two parts. It should be promoted before the year and after the year.
However, the publicity strategy before and after the year must be different, and it cannot be a simple advertising bombing.
"However," Akina Nakamori in the letter changed her subject.
She mentioned the promotion years ago and had another reason, "However, now I feel that my throat is itchy, which seems to be a sign of a cold. If you catch a cold during the promotion period at the end of the year, it will be bad when you go to sing."
It's really troublesome to think about having a hoarse voice on stage and not being able to sing well, and maybe having to endure a cough and runny nose.
Iwahashi Shinichi then looked down.
Akina Nakamori wrote some more trivial matters about herself, and also mentioned that her sister Akiho has recently made her debut in the entertainment industry. However, such a simple sentence, mixed in a bunch of random gossip, seemed uninteresting.
People pay attention.
Thousands of people make their debut in the entertainment industry every year. Even if they are known as Nakamori Akina's sister, they are not worthy of attention, at least not by people in the industry, until their works appear.
When Iwahashi Shinichi saw such a simple sentence, he didn't know whether Nakamori Akiho started out as a singer or an actor. But from the way she mentioned something in the letter without going into details, he realized that this older sister probably had a lot of influence on her younger sister's career in the arts.
I don’t really agree with things in the world.
However, since Nakamori Akina didn't write in detail, he didn't go into details. He glanced at it and then read down. At the end of the letter, Nakamori Akina mentioned the origami giraffe attached to the letter.
"I made it by following the tutorial in the origami reference book. After the kitten you taught me learned it last time, I wanted to learn something new again. Then, I flipped through the origami reference book and saw how to fold a giraffe in it."
"Now, when I see a giraffe, I think of the giraffe man in the band (laughs)." Seeing this sentence, Iwahashi Shinichi felt quite subtle.
After struggling with the identity of the giraffe man, he continued to read the letter.
Nakamori Akina wrote in the letter, "Although it is a bit difficult for me, a novice, to fold the giraffe, but as far as handwork is concerned, it is more interesting to do what I am interested in than to do what I can do.
interesting."
"...After studying hard, this one is my most successful one." Nakamori Akina's handwriting was free and easy. When she wrote this sentence, she looked particularly chic.
"Where is Shinichi-kun? Can you also make an origami giraffe?" she asked in the letter.
After Iwahashi Shinichi read the letter, he took the origami giraffe in his hand and looked at it.
The most successful origami giraffe by origami novice Nakamori Akina, after she wrote this, looking at this decent-looking giraffe, it seems that she can still see all kinds of waste and defective products that she broke.
He didn't know how to make an origami giraffe.
Just by holding origami in your hand and looking at it, you will definitely not be able to grasp the trick. If you want to learn how to fold, the easiest way is to take it apart and take a look.
but……
Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a moment, then went to get his address book and found Nakamori Akina's paging number. Although they had exchanged contact information, this number had hardly been used.
He looked at the address book and played out this string of numbers with some unfamiliarity.
…
Akina Nakamori dried her hair with a hair dryer and walked out of the bathroom.
At the end of the year, she was about to travel to major TV stations and attend various large and small music events. However, at this juncture, she was struck down by a cold.
However, they had to participate in the scheduled shows, and they couldn't miss the promotion of the new single. There was no other way, so the agency had to cancel the variety shows that could be canceled first, and try not to participate in small music shows.
I still go to those few music programs that I usually go to.
Even so, because of this cold, this end of the year, which should have been very busy, felt a little leisurely for a long time. Tonight, she finished work early and went home.
Although I had no appetite, based on what my mother taught me, eating more food will help you recover faster, so I still made soup by myself and ate seriously.
After dinner, take a hot bath and then go to bed early. I hope to wake up tomorrow better than today.
Nakamori Akina thought so, and before lying down early, she found a message on her pager.
She picked it up and looked at it. It was an unfamiliar number. She thought about it, went to the phone, and called back. The phone rang for a while, but no one answered.
She put down the receiver, and after a while, the call came back.
"Hello."
"Good evening." A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.
Nakamori Akina immediately recognized the owner of the voice, and then felt a little surprised. She didn't expect Iwahashi Shinichi to call later.
The two of them seemed to rely more on letters than talking on the phone.
"Good evening, Mr. Shen Yi," she said.
On the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi told her, "I received the letter today."
"Yeah?"
Did you call me specifically for the letter? Akina Nakamori thought back to what she had written in that letter... and the origami giraffe.
She was thinking a lot.
At this time, Shinichi Iwahashi on the other end of the phone spoke again, "Listening to the voice, Akina-san's cold seems to be a bit serious."
…
Although the sound came through the receiver, you can still hear some signs of a cold. It is the same even when making phone calls. If you go to participate in a program recording, the situation will probably be even worse.
"I thought it would be fine soon..." Akina Nakamori's slightly changed voice came from the phone.
Iwahashi Shinichi was a little worried for her when he heard the voice. As a result, Nakamori Akina said first, "The current voice sounds bad, doesn't it?"
"It's a bit hoarse, but it doesn't have anything to do with 'bad'." Iwahashi Shinichi corrected her.
Half of these words were meant to comfort her, but half of them were true. Akina Nakamori, whose voice was a little low, now had a slightly hoarse voice, which sounded different.
Of course, it’s better not to say something like praising someone else’s cold voice.
This is especially true for Akina Nakamori's perfectionism during performances. If she is asked to endure various minor problems caused by the cold, and if she is also praised for her hoarse voice, it will probably only have the opposite effect of comforting her.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought of her worries about the performance of the stage performance in her words, so it was enough to just say this.
"But thank you for calling me specifically." On the phone, Nakamori Akina seemed very happy.
Iwahashi Shinichi's tone was as usual, and he did not dwell on the topic of colds for too long, "I received the letter today. First I saw the origami giraffe. I wanted to say that your hands are really skillful and the folding looks very similar. I don't know how to fold a giraffe.
So, after seeing a giraffe, it’s probably the same as what you thought when you saw an origami kitten, right?”
"Eh~"
When Akina Nakamori said this, she couldn't help but recall her feelings when she received the origami kitten. However, Iwahashi Shinichi said that he couldn't fold a giraffe. When she heard this, she didn't know why, but she felt a little happy.
Fortunately, he was on the phone, otherwise, if he smiled so suddenly, he would probably be regarded as thinking about something strange.
"Shinichi-kun should be able to learn it soon," Akina Nakamori said.
Iwahashi Shinichi said a little seriously, "Before that, I may have to ask you to tell me how to fold it."
"Do you want me to be a teacher?" Akina Nakamori seemed a little amused by this matter.
However, this is so funny, it would be better to say that I am happy about it.
"Is that okay?" Iwahashi Shinichi asked her.
Nakamori Akina gave it a try and said, "Then please wait for me for a moment." Then he asked, "Okay?"
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help laughing, "Of course it's no problem."
Nakamori Akina put down the receiver, and after a while, she left and came back. She was holding her own origami reference book in her hand, and turned to the page explaining how to fold a giraffe. It seemed that she was going to sell it now.
Iwahashi Shinichi originally thought he was asking her to recommend a reference book or include the steps when writing a letter next time, but he did not expect that she would be teaching on the spot.
Some people are good at teaching, and some people are not very good at being teachers. Akina Nakamori thinks Iwahashi Shinichi is a person who is good at teaching others, but she herself clearly lacks this teaching talent.
On the phone, she faced Shinichi Iwahashi and described the methods in the origami reference book, and occasionally added a few words about her own actual operations.
Although the steps on how to make an origami giraffe are clear in her mind after failing so many times, describing it in words is really a big challenge for her.
In the end, after she talked for a long time, all Iwahashi Shinichi heard was "this, that, and so and so, and then it succeeded." It was such a confusing thing.
While talking, Akina Nakamori coughed twice.
Then, I heard her sigh and say: "Sorry, it seems that the more I talk about it, the more confusing it becomes."
"It's my turn to say sorry." Iwahashi Shinichi felt a little embarrassed.
It was really not appropriate to talk to Taopusida who was suffering from a cold... although she was the one who took the initiative to talk.
