Once you become the one who has expectations, you will seem naive to a certain extent.
Iwahashi Shinichi was a little unwilling and a little eager. Akina Nakamori listened to it and found it particularly interesting. Such a contrast was like seeing the tears shed by a person who has always been strong, and a seemingly fierce person turning a small child on his head.
The cat is held tenderly in my arms...
Knowing in her heart that his sense of stability that was different from his daily routine came from herself, Akina Nakamori felt a little proud, but she couldn't help but feel her heart beat faster because of his unwillingness and eagerness.
Especially since just now the two of them talked about a lot of things that they should and should not think about.
She felt itchy in her heart, as if she was holding a soft, naughty kitten.
But for a moment, she seemed to feel that she was the kitten being held and caressed tenderly by Shinichi Iwahashi, and his tears were dripping on her face.
Of course, this is just a momentary association.
Back to reality, it was Shinichi Iwahashi on the other end of the phone waiting for her answer.
"There is a job." Nakamori Akina said.
She didn't mean to sway Iwabashi Shinichi's appetite. After quietly recalling his reluctance and eagerness, she still revealed the answer and told him, "I'm going to Nagoya tomorrow night."
"Nagoya?"
Akina Nakamori responded with "Yeah, yeah", "There is a program to be recorded for cooperation between Tokai TV and Fuji TV."
Shinichi Iwahashi said "Oh" and said, "There's nothing we can do about it." Just as he was about to say something, Akina Nakamori on the other end of the phone started talking and began to report on her itinerary incessantly, "And...
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"I'm going to Osaka on Monday, and then I'm going to Los Angeles for filming..." She reported her itinerary one after another.
These days, big companies always have enough funds. If they want to go abroad, they can go abroad with as much fanfare as they want.
She was the one who said she was lonely just now, and now it was she who looked as if only Shinichi Iwahashi was thinking about something else in his mind, while she acted as if nothing had happened.
Sometimes, once a person gains the upper hand, it is like taking on the baggage of an idol, putting on some airs.
Iwahashi Shinichi sighed and swallowed his words to ask her about her next arrangements, "This schedule is really tight."
"That's not necessarily the case." Akina Nakamori told him, "The schedule in Los Angeles is very relaxed, and almost half of the time can be spent sightseeing."
"I have something to say back to you." Iwahashi Shinichi teased her, "'Run to Los Angeles and go sightseeing as if nothing happened.'"
"I haven't gone yet. It's too early to return that sentence to me now." She corrected in a pretended manner.
"Then I'll tell you again when you come back and talk to me about the details of the sightseeing." Iwahashi Shinichi cooperated seriously.
Akina Nakamori laughed loudly and told him, "...I will bring you a gift."
Taopusida, who goes abroad on business from time to time throughout the year, has to bring gifts back again.
This bowl of rice is really soft and fragrant.
However, when she mentioned the gift, Shinichi Iwahashi thought of the gift he bought on a whim but never had the chance to meet and give out.
Akina Nakamori, who just said "I feel lonely" and pretended to bite him on the phone, and Akina Nakamori, who is now relaxed and cheerful, said she wanted to bring him a gift.
She was so thoughtful about him that Iwahashi Shinichi felt the emotion coming from her. He seemed to feel the warmth coming from her as a person across the phone line.
It was precisely because he was aware of her thoughtfulness that Iwahashi Shinichi could not remain indifferent.
While thinking about it in his mind, he casually joked with Akina Nakamori, "If you bring me a gift, I will keep it for myself."
"My attitude changes so quickly!" Nakamori Akina complained about him with a smile. After saying this, she paused and said, "But when I come back, I will have a vacation...and then I will come to your place, how about it?"
"How about it?"
Iwahashi Shinichi felt incredible about her statement and said to her with a smile, "It goes without saying that I can't say anything else except 'welcome'."
Nakamori Akina continued to laugh at him, "Shinichi-kun must be thinking of something strange again."
How could you not want to?
Iwahashi Shinichi sighed, "...If you keep talking like this, I won't be able to sleep after the phone call."
Hearing what he said, Nakamori Akina was even happier.
She thought it was interesting to give Shinichi Iwahashi a little trouble, as if she was playing a prank on him.
"..." Iwahashi Shinichi was helpless.
It can be determined that this Taopusida did it on purpose. However, this Taopusida's face was not thick-skinned and his heart was not that hard-hearted, so it was enough and he did not continue to torment him.
The two of them exchanged a few words, said goodbye to each other, and hung up the phone.
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Putting down the receiver, Nakamori Akina stared at the wall for a while, lost in thought.
When she talked enthusiastically to Shinichi Iwahashi about her busy schedule on the phone, she didn't feel anything bad. When she deliberately teased him, she didn't feel anything either. As a result, she hung up the phone and started to feel lonely again.
The opportunity to put on airs in front of Shinichi Iwahashi, to appease him, and even to tease him may have come from the calmness of knowing that he would not be able to see him for a while.
And in a sense, not being able to see each other, but feeling like you have the upper hand, is a manifestation of loneliness.
Between lovers, being unable to see each other for a while is not something that requires feeling uneasy, but the loneliness caused by a lively phone call is like walking on the street late at night and accidentally kicking a ball in the air.
Cans.
Once the kick hits, it's hard to avoid it. You can only listen to the sound of it reverberating in your body until it calms down again——
Suddenly the phone rang again.
She was startled and stared at the phone for a while, then slowly picked up the phone just before the ringing stopped.
"I haven't answered the call. I thought I went to take a shower." On the other end of the phone was Iwahashi Shinichi's relaxed tone.
Nakamori Akina didn't expect him to call back again, "What happened?"
"Tomorrow," Shinichi Iwahashi asked her, "when will you arrive in Nagoya?"
"Arrive around seven o'clock in the evening, go to Tokai TV, and record the program for about two or three hours..." Akina Nakamori roughly estimated the itinerary, "Then, stay one night in Nagoya, and go to Osaka early the next morning."
"Oh." Iwahashi Shinichi agreed.
Just to ask this? His reaction was so bland that Akina Nakamori didn’t know what to say and fell into silence for a moment.
However, after hanging up the phone, I called back again and asked her about her schedule in such detail for no apparent reason. It was not like Iwahashi Shinichi would do anything.
If I were in Tokyo, I could find a way to see her, but out of town... Shinichi Iwahashi continued, "How about I page you when I get to Nagoya?"
He deliberately imitated Nakamori Akina's tone just now.
Nakamori Akina said "Hey", but she was too surprised to even realize his intention. However, she couldn't help but feel incredible about Iwahashi Shinichi's statement, "'How is it?'"
Although the two people felt incredible for completely different reasons. Shinichi Iwahashi thought she knew what she was asking, but Akina Nakamori thought it was unexpected.
He's going to Nagoya to meet her?
"Aren't I going back to Tokyo from Kobe tomorrow?" Shinichi Iwahashi discussed with her, "If I stop in Nagoya first and then return to Tokyo...can you come out and meet me?"
After hearing what he said, Nakamori Akina suddenly laughed, "It's not like what Shinichi-kun would do."
"Really?" Iwahashi Shinichi imagined what image he looked like in her mind.
She said it, thought about it, and then tried to undermine herself, "But...it seems like something Shen Yi-kun can do."
"..."
Now she has no idea what image she has in her mind.
If it were his former self, he wouldn't have been able to do such a thing anyway. It can only be said that in the process of feeling the heat of her whole body rushing towards him, he also became "unrealistic".
It can be said to be "unrealistic". What supports his irrational impulse is that when he realizes her sincerity and purity that she is willing to do anything for him, he also wants to do something for her without thinking.
Before she came back from a business trip and gave him another bowl of soft and fragrant rice, Shinichi Iwahashi wanted to give her his own gift first. After hanging up the phone just now, he went to check tomorrow's itinerary and calculated the time.
How to arrange it.
"It's going to be very late." Akina Nakamori told him, "After work is over, I have to go back again, and it will be late at night by then."
Shinichi Iwahashi listened obediently and knew that she was not opposed to this proposal, so he simply accompanied her to make a plan, "Besides, if you want to come out to see me, you have to avoid the accompanying staff."
"I also need to make another disguise." She followed Shinichi Iwahashi's words and continued.
As he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh, "And Shen Yi-kun. Please wait for me outside."
"And you have to wait next to the phone booth." Shinichi Iwahashi replied.
Akina Nakamori agreed with "Yeah, yeah", "And when I called back, she said to me, 'This is a public phone'."
"This is a code." She said with a smile.
Iwahashi Shinichi heard her happily, and he felt at ease. He made the right decision to go to Nagoya to see her.
"However, it's a bit exaggerated to go all the way to Nagoya to meet and only stay for a short time," Akina Nakamori muttered into the phone. Shinichi Iwahashi was about to say something, but she stopped him, "Let me say it first.
"
"Yeah." Iwahashi Shinichi shut up and listened.
"Although it's an exaggeration, I won't tell you, 'Don't do this'." She said to him seriously, as if giving orders, "So, come see me quickly."
Iwahashi Shinichi subtly understood what she meant when she said this. He agreed, "Well, see you tomorrow night?"
The two agreed on the phone about the time and place to meet tomorrow. Nakamori Akina told him everything she wanted to do about tomorrow's itinerary, where she wanted to stay.
As I talked, I felt my heart surge and I was full of expectations for "tomorrow".
It's not rare to meet once, and we can meet again in less than a week.
But even so, it did not prevent Nakamori Akina from wanting to open her mind and accept everything from him after she felt the heat coming towards her from the always calm and restrained Shinichi Iwahashi.
Meeting is important, but more importantly, he is not afraid of trouble and wants to see her sincerely.
She was happy, looking forward to "tomorrow", and feeling the fact that she was liked by Shinichi Iwahashi.
After hanging up the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi went to get the phone book again and made a call to Tokyo.
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The next day during the day, Iwahashi Shinichi was busy socializing.
Japanese office workers love golf to an unbelievable degree. Especially in this era of massive construction projects and golf courses being built across the country, it is impossible to socialize without playing golf.
The people accompanying me were the heads of Takeda Printing Company and Nippon Animation Company, who were considered to be in the same camp. In addition, among the people who came, there were also two cadres from the editorial department of "RIBON".
With such a lineup, I could have guessed the topic of the conversation before going there, and it would probably revolve around the movie "Chibi Maruko-chan."
The manga has been decided to be animated. Shinichi Iwahashi is a brother company to Japan Animation Company, so the work of soundtrack and theme song obviously does not go to outsiders.
On this point, the director of Takeda Printing Company, who worked with Shinichi Iwahashi, thought this way before. Now, the animation production committee has begun to form a team, and GenZo will not be excluded and another record company will be found to cooperate.
In itself, work such as animation soundtracks and theme songs are not popular resources worth fighting for - if it were the theme song of a prime-time TV series, it would be worthy of this.
What's more, it is a cartoon that is broadcast in the evening, about daily family life, and has nothing to do with fashion.
The Japanese animation company wanted to show its brotherhood with the new brothers. Takeda Printing Company could not give away the opportunity that came to hand, so the animation production committee also gave away favors.
Even though the animation production has not yet started, and Iwahashi Shinichi has not received a production commission, these are already tacitly understood. Because of this, today, several people gathered together to play golf happily.
Among the cadres from the editorial department of "RIBON", the one named Sato is quite talkative, even a bit like a loudspeaker.
Not long after, after getting acquainted with each other and chatting, Sato mentioned something, "The day before yesterday, the author of the manga, Sakurako-san, called here and asked about the theme song of the animation."
"Yeah?"
No one present took this to heart. Anyway, manga authors have very little say in the matter of animation. Even if Sakurako has any ideas, she can say it, but the production committee will not listen.
Either way.
The director of Takeda Printing Company who came with us said in a relaxed tone, "We have Mr. Iwahashi who is a famous producer. Even the animation theme song can be picked easily."
Being praised like this, Iwahashi Shinichi showed an implicit and humble smile.
"Of course, Iwahashi-san's name is known even to people like me who are far away from the music industry..." The cadre named Sato complimented.
"So, when Sakurako-san said that the person in charge of a production company came to her with a song to recommend, I also told her that the client for the theme song had already been decided."