Oda City's New Year's itinerary is no different from that of ordinary people. After returning to his hometown in Nagoya in the morning of December 31, he stayed at home and read a book. In the afternoon, he went to his grandparents' house to have New Year's Eve dinner with his father. For those who debuted as idols,
Oda's elders didn't have much objection to the matter. They believed that as long as Oda could do what he wanted to do, it would be fine.
Of course, Oda also met his cousin Oda Nobunari: as soon as he saw Oda, he started to cover his mouth and suppress a smile. He must have thought of Oda's three-step jump tumbling in the last sports test. Oda was not angry either.
She looked blank at him, and then, under the pressure of her father, she forced a smile on her face to thank her cousin for his help and support in all aspects.
Of course, this year, the Oda family’s after-dinner daily routine added one more item: watching a variety show that Oda City participated in, and the one I watched was the episode where Oda Nobunari helped Oda City do the long jump dubbing. I could hear his cousin’s exaggerated commentary.
, before her eyes was the scene of her forward roll being repeated many times in a row, Oda City had begun to doubt life. Looking around, the raised corners of the mouths on the faces of the elders doubled her inner shame, especially her cousin.
I was laughing so hard that I couldn't even stand upright.
By the way, even the dad with the iceberg face all year round has an expression that wants to laugh but is holding back. Especially from his slightly shaking shoulders, you can clearly see his inner fluctuations.
After watching the variety show, the Red and White Song Contest has almost begun. In fact, when we were chatting about Christmas that day and talking about our vision for the future, Shiraishi mentioned the extremely challenging goal of the Red and White Song Contest. It took AKB 2 years that year.
Having achieved this goal, although Mr. Yasushi Akimoto once said that Nogizaka would catch up with AKB within 5 months, Oda still felt that this was an almost impossible condition.
"Our little city is much prettier than them." During the AKB48 performance, grandma pointed to the singing and dancing "competitors" on the screen and said to others, "The little city can also play violin and ballet. Compared with
They are much more powerful."
Others also nodded after hearing what grandma said. After all, Oda City has been a versatile, top-looking, and excellent "child of other people" for the past 14 years. Even if he becomes an idol, he will be top-notch.
"Xiaoichi, can grandma see you performing up there next year?" Grandma patted Oda on the back.
"...I'll do my best." Oda didn't admit it, nor did he deny it, so he could only use words to explain it away.
But Oda himself also longs for being on the Kohaku Utakai Festival. Being able to sing and dance on what can be said to be the largest stage in Japan is probably the dream of all performers.
After the countdown ended, Oda said Happy New Year to the elders around him and sent out the messages he had compiled. After a few seconds, New Year congratulatory messages from several members were also sent. Especially Ikuta, who also recorded
A song came over, and the high-pitched voice startled Oda who had just put on the headphones.
The next morning, Oda and Wu Geng made an appointment to go to the New Year shrine together. Wu Geng was dressed in black as usual and was waiting in front of the square in front of the shrine with one hand playing with his mobile phone and the other on his waist.
"Senior!" Before Oda could react, a figure jumped on his back, "Long wait!"
"You have the nerve to say you've been waiting for a long time." Oda pulled Wu Geng off his back angrily and showed her the time on his phone, "Obviously it was you who invited me to come to worship in the New Year, but you are still late.
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"Don't worry about details like this." Wu Geng didn't pay attention to Oda's words, and immediately grabbed Oda's arm and dragged her towards the shrine, "Let's go, let's go!"
Oda let Wu Geng pull him towards the shrine. In the more than a year they had been together, she had long been accustomed to Wu Geng's enthusiastic and reckless personality, and the previous dislike was not really disgusting.
Since the two of them arrived at the shrine relatively late, there was already a long queue in front of them. While waiting in line, Wu Geng began to pester Oda and ask him various questions about Nogizaka46, and he also made insinuations to Oda.
Tian asked about Xiye.
"What's wrong?" Oda took advantage of the five-minute pause to take a breath and quickly interrupted him, "Are you Na-chan's push?"
"..." Wu Geng, who is usually careless, became inexplicably shy at this time, "I just think she is cute."
Normally, Oda had never seen this side of Wu Geng, and he wanted to tease her more and more: "Huh? Does that mean he doesn't like Na-chan?"
"No," Wu Geng's face turned red at Oda's question, "Okay, okay, is it okay if I push Nana Sai?"
"Okay, okay." It was rare for Oda to see Wu Geng's shameful look, and the little unhappiness left by being released was instantly wiped away, "After that, you come to Tokyo to attend the handshake meeting, and I will help you and Na-chan.
Say."
"How is your relationship? I feel like you don't have much interaction on the show." Wu Geng cast a suspicious look. It seemed that he must have finished every episode of the variety show.
"Na-chan's house is rented across from mine."
"From now on, I will stay at your house when I come to Tokyo, senior!"
"What did you call me?"
"Boss!"
After the fight, it was the two's turn to pray. After washing their hands with the spoons placed by the torii gate, they gently rang the bell, threw the sesame oil money into the box and clapped their hands twice.
"I hope I can become a better idol in the new year." Oda clasped his hands together, closed his eyes and lowered his head, praying silently, "I also hope Nogizaka can continue to move up."
After visiting the shrine, she took a special photo of the shrine and sent it to a few close friends. Before long, her phone had a collection of photos of shrines from all over Japan and their selfies.
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In the afternoon of that day, Oda took the Shinkansen back to Tokyo, opened a convenience store, and lived a life of two o'clock and one line at home. In fact, Oda himself longed for such a life: sleeping in in the morning, getting up and having breakfast and lunch directly, and then
She read a book all afternoon, went to a convenience store to have a lunch, practiced the violin for a while and then went to bed early - such a leisurely day was rare and happy for her.
But Oda's plan was interrupted by a phone call from Saito Asuka.
"Koichi! Are you back in Tokyo?" Early one morning, Oda received a call from Koichi while he was half asleep.
"Um, what's wrong?"
"Nanamin has been so lonely these days! Xiaoshi, please go and accompany Nanamin on my behalf. I have already made an arrangement with her!"
Oda's consciousness after being woken up was still a little blurry, so he vaguely agreed to Xiao Asuka's request.
So at noon that day, two embarrassed people met in a cafe.