Chapter 113 Cultural Festival (2)
Beck Coffee Shop, 2nd floor.
In the corner, there was a group of college students playing "Monster Hunter" online with Switch; in a seat surrounded by green plants, a couple was talking in a low voice.
The store plays Miyuki Nakajima's "Riding on the Back of a Silver Dragon".
At the counter seat by the window, a beautiful girl who looked even more outstanding than an idol was holding her forehead with her hand, as if she had a headache, with a slightly frown on her face.
The handsome young man next to him was drinking coffee awkwardly.
There was a mobile phone placed between the two of them, and on the screen was the curtain call of a movie.
【Performance】
【Asahina Mikuru: Asahina Mikuru】
【Ancient Spring Tree: Ancient Spring Tree】
[Nagato Yuki: Nagato Yuki]
…
In addition to the cast, the ending song was replaced by a statement from Haruhi Suzumiya, who was in charge of {producer, director, original work, and costumes}.
"Ah? Say that again?"
"This work is purely fictional. It has nothing to do with any real people or groups... Kyon, why do you have to say this? Isn't this a matter of course?"
After the movie ended, Toru Watanabe put away his phone.
"How is it?" he asked.
With his eyes closed and his hand on his forehead, Qingye Rin uttered a murderous sneer that showed his despair for the world.
"Don't be discouraged." Watanabe Toru comforted her, "Although we don't have the ability to make people's eyes emit lasers, wild cats speak, gray pigeons turn white, and cherry blossoms bloom in autumn, but as long as the special effects are good enough, there will be no problem surpassing "The Adventure of Asahina Mikuru"!"
"Ah, yes. As long as you have normal human thinking, there will be no problem surpassing "The Adventure of Asahina Mikuru"."
Watanabe Toru picked up the coffee cup and avoided Kiyono Rin's cold gaze.
After easing his discomfort, he said, "Don't underestimate this movie. It is much more famous than some serious movies. Can you guarantee that the movie you make can have such fame?"
"Yes."
Kiyono Rin's tone made Watanabe Toru feel a strong sense of uneasiness about the future.
Coming out of the coffee shop, the two walked towards the electronics street.
"I remember that our school has a film research department. Can't we just borrow their equipment under the pretext of co-producing with them?" Watanabe Toru asked in confusion on the way.
During the free time of the wind band practice, girls from all grades and classes gossiped a lot.
Including Ooji Mochizo from the Film Research Club and Kitashirakawa Tamako from the Dance Stick Club, who are in a relationship.
Through this, Toru Watanabe learned about the existence of the Film Research Club and the Dance Club.
"If we collaborate with the Film Research Department, others will just think that the Film Research Department is powerful and treat our Human Observation Department as a vassal." Qingye Rin compared the map on her phone and kept looking for electrical appliance stores on both sides of the street.
"Have you already taken the premise that 'the movie you make will definitely be excellent'?"
"Of course. Who do you think I am?"
"…You are the God of the New World."
Maybe, this seemingly normal girl, Kiyono Rin, is actually just like Suzumiya Haruhi, and does not have normal thinking.
I don’t know if I will get a more powerful system because of this?
"If possible, please give me a system where I can fly out of the Earth just by signing in every day! Please, Master Kiyono!"
"What are you thinking about standing there? Hurry up and follow me." Qingye Rin put away her phone and walked into a store specializing in video equipment.
"Yes, yes, I am coming."
This is a trendy shop with a photography-inspired décor, and there are so many equipment inside that it feels like a wholesale warehouse.
Although the display seems messy, it gives people the feeling that you can buy any related equipment you want - considering this, maybe it is arranged like this on purpose, and then the goods are sold at a premium, taking advantage of the fact that customers come directly to this store no matter what they buy in order to save trouble.
Fake businessman!
It's just as abominable as using red fresh light when selling pork, which makes it impossible to tell the freshness of the meat!
Although he thought so in his mind, once he entered the store, Watanabe Toru could not suppress his male instinct of interest in photographic equipment. He looked left and right with an excited look.
Stop from time to time and study the merchandise on display.
Compared to him, Qingye Rin went straight to the store clerk, told him what kind of movie he wanted to make, and asked him to help recommend equipment.
Camera, tripod, stabilizer, boom microphone for recording sound, small slide rail with tracking, pushing and pulling lens, lifting and lowering shooting functions, etc.
Calculating the total amount in his mind, Qingye Rin put his hand on his chin and muttered to himself, "It's more expensive than I thought. The bonus is totally not enough."
"Bonus? What bonus?" Toru Watanabe put away the boom microphone that he used as a selfie stick.
"We won the gold medal in the Kanto competition. The school gave it to two clubs."
"Then my..."
"Don't even think about it." Qingye Rin interrupted him rudely.
"Can we be reasonable? As the oboe soloist, I have no credit but I have worked hard."
Qing Ye Lin sneered at him and said, "You want to make the movie, right?"
"That's right, I want to shoot it, but what about the share for the Wind Orchestra? You wouldn't secretly embezzle the bonus from the Wind Orchestra to make a movie for the Human Observation Department, would you?"
"certainly."
"Hey, that's someone else's money." Watanabe Toru quickly reminded.
"Don't worry." Qing Ye Lin smiled confidently, "As long as the movie is profitable, we can earn back the money from the students and the people who come to visit the school festival."
"...Seino-san, you are now like a criminal who secretly embezzled company assets and tried to make money through gambling."
Kiyono Rin glared at Watanabe Toru and then coughed lightly, meaning 'You, a guy who can't talk, should stop now.'
Watanabe Tetsu was always good at reading the air and admitting defeat, so he changed the subject as if nothing had happened: "Wouldn't it be enough even if I used all the bonus money?"
"Um."
"As a producer, can't you just pay some of the money yourself?" suggested Toru Watanabe.
As the end of the month approached, Kujo Miki had almost spent the one million yen that she gave him this month.
Although he had more than 100 million yen in his card, it was very troublesome to explain why he suddenly took out so much money when he was asked about it by Kujo Miki afterwards.
"If Haruhi Suzumiya can get sponsorship, why can't I?" Kiyono Rin glanced at Toru Watanabe, then found the clerk and started a conversation.
Why compare with the two-dimensional heroine?
Toru Watanabe thought about how Haruhi Suzumiya got the equipment for "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina": the heroine Mikuru Asahina wore a bunny girl costume and was "tricked" into shooting a commercial.
Could it be that...
Is Kiyono Rin planning to cosplay as a bunny girl?
It's incredible, incredible. With such good benefits, the movies they make can be released not only in Shinjuku District, but also in the entire island country without any problems.
It’s only a matter of time before it surpasses “The Adventure of Mikuru Asahina”!
When Toru Watanabe was daydreaming, he found that Kiyono Rin, who was talking to the clerk, was pointing at him.
"Huh?"
And so on and so forth.
"I won't wear a bunny costume!" Watanabe Toru hurried over.
"You're just in time." After saying this to Watanabe Toru, Kiyono Rin turned to look at the clerk: "This is the male lead of the movie."
The clerk looked at Watanabe Toru out of politeness and said to Kiyono Rin, "Sir, the male lead of the movie is very handsome, but I'm sorry, I really can't make a decision on the sponsorship."
"Watanabe-san, please smile a little." said Kiyono Rin.
"Others have said that he has no right to make the decision, so don't make things difficult for him." Although Watanabe Toru did not smile at girls other than Kujo Miki and Kiyono Rin, he would not smile at a male clerk either.
"He's lying." Qingye Rin whispered.
"It's not a question of whether to lie or not. The key is that if others don't want to, you shouldn't force them to do something."
"What do you mean by forcing someone to do something? Isn't soliciting sponsorship the sponsored party using all its advantages to try its best to persuade the originally unwilling sponsor? He is unwilling now only because he still doesn't believe in our value."
"Well, Kiyono-san," Watanabe Toru said in embarrassment, "When I say forcing someone to do something, I mean you forced me to laugh."
Qing Ye Lin took a deep breath and said as if he had lost to him: "It was you who suggested making a movie, right?"
"It's me..."
Before he could finish his words, Qingye Rin gave him a captivating look, forcing him to smile quickly.
Watanabe Toru had no choice but to surrender.
He smiled wryly at the male clerk and said, "Please reconsider it. We promise that many people will see this movie."
The male clerk was stunned and looked at him stupidly.
Watanabe Toru felt a chill down his spine.
As expected of the unscrupulous businessman who uses red fresh food lights, even his heart is broken!
Kiyono Rin on the side nodded with satisfaction.
"You, you, who are you?" the clerk asked stutteringly.
Under the gaze of Kiyono Rin, Watanabe Toru had to try his best to maintain a smile and prepare to introduce himself.
But the clerk suddenly bowed, which scared the two of them.
"Master Watanabe!" the clerk called respectfully.
Watanabe Toru recalls his father who was either drinking or working. Was he an abandoned child of a wealthy family? And he looked exactly like his grandfather?
"Wait," he reacted and pointed at his feet: "Is this the property of the Kujo family?"
"yes!"
"That's easy." Watanabe Toru turned to Kiyono Rin and said, "How about I call Miki and ask her to sponsor us?"
Miki Kujo would probably be happy to become their investor, and then give orders to Rin Kiyono, showing the ugly face of capitalism to the fullest.
“No, no!” The clerk waved his hands repeatedly. “Master Watanabe said that these equipment can be discounted to the maximum. The money is more than enough!”
Toru Watanabe looked at Rin Kiyono and let her make the decision.
Kiyono Rin said to the clerk, "Thank you. We will help promote your store in the movie."
After paying the bill, Kiyono Rin and Watanabe Toru walked out of the store with various equipment.
Facing the sunset, two boys and girls wearing Kamikawa High School uniforms walked on the streets of Shinjuku.
"Why don't you let the store clerk take it to school?" Toru Watanabe held the tripod in his right hand and the boom microphone in his left hand.
"Because I need to start familiarizing myself with the equipment now." Carrying two school bags, Qingye Rin aimed her SLR at the overpass in the distance at the setting sun.
"Can't we deliver it to your house?"
"This is your punishment for tricking me with "The Adventure of Asahina Mikuru."
“……” Watanabe Toru, who was in the wrong, had no choice but to act as a porter.
The temperature at six o'clock in the afternoon in late August is not to be underestimated.
After walking onto the overpass, Watanabe Toru, who was exhausted, suggested taking a break. Kiyono Rin nodded slightly, a thin layer of sweat already covering her snow-white skin.
The two of them were in the middle of the overpass, putting their things at their feet, enjoying the light evening breeze that could only be felt when one calmed down.
Kiyono Rin had already figured out how to operate the SLR and took pictures of the train rumbling past under the overpass for a while.
After looking at the results, I clicked Save, thinking that this lens might come in handy.
Then she turned her gaze to Toru Watanabe who was wearing a school uniform beside her.
The sunset glowed on his handsome face, adding a faint blush to it, making him look radiant and extremely dazzling.
Qingye Rin had to admit that this guy who talked nonsense was indeed very handsome.
She raised her SLR camera and recorded Watanabe Toru staring at the railroad tracks in a daze.
Hearing the sound of the machine, Watanabe Toru came back to his senses from his daze, and without caring why they were filming him right now, he asked, "What are you going to write in the script?"
"Didn't I say it? People from another world came to this world and became Toru Watanabe." Looking at the saved video, Kiyono Rin nodded secretly.
This paragraph can also come in handy.
"And then? Don't tell me that you were a hero saving a beautiful girl. The location was Ochanomizu, and the girl who was rescued was actually a demon."
"A hero saves a beautiful girl... Ochanomizu... The devil..."
Seeing that Kiyono Rin had already started to think of the plot with these three key words, Watanabe Toru quickly stood up and said, "I'm just talking nonsense, don't take it seriously! A hero saving a beautiful girl is too cliché!"
Qing Ye Lin ignored him and said to herself: "You came to this world with the ability to save girls and get rewards."
“…”
"The enemy is a demon who wants to take the soul of a girl. Each one is stronger than the other. As long as you save the girl, you will gain stronger abilities as a card. In the end, you were killed by a cunning demon who transformed into a girl in Ochanomizu."
Watanabe Toru was sweating profusely, and a chill ran down his spine.
"Sir, please stop talking!"
"Is this script not good?" Qingye Rin frowned slightly.
"It's not that it won't work, but how should I put it? I don't think it will be popular."
"So what script do you think will be a hit?"
Where is the script for Toru Watanabe?
But anyway, he couldn't be killed by the cunning demon who transformed into a girl at Ochanomizu.
"How about this," Watanabe Toru looked at Kiyono Rin in front of him, "I am a staff member of a company in another world. My purpose is to take the heroine from this world and replace the body of a rich man to extend his life. But this girl has the ability to see through lies for some reason. She can tell at a glance that the handsome hero is actually a bad guy."
"..." Kiyono Rin paused fiddling with the SLR camera.
"But the girl did not run away. Instead, she took the initiative to tell the hero that she would go with him as long as he fulfilled her last three wishes."
"What's your wish?" Kiyono Rin raised his eyes and looked at Watanabe Toru.
"A love affair?"
Qing Ye Lin opened her cherry-colored mouth slightly in surprise and looked at Watanabe Toru in disbelief: "Are you sure you want to fall in love with the heroine?"
"No way?" Toru Watanabe looked at Kiyono Rin in confusion, whose expression was a little cute.
"Where's Kujo Miki?"
"Hiss——" Toru Watanabe took a breath of cold air. In order to avoid being killed by the script, he was almost killed by reality.
He quickly changed his words: "Then don't let love be a factor. Play baseball, work part-time, or just participate in music competitions to spread your music. Anything is fine."
"Go on." Qingye Rin looked as if this plot was boring.
"The male protagonist is moved unconsciously. During the body replacement surgery, he helps to kill the rich man so that the girl can live as the rich man. How about that?"
"Hmm..." Qing Ye Lin thought for a while, "Then the ending is: after the heroine has power and wealth, in order to avoid exposing herself, she kills the hero."
"Why must I die? This is so weird!"
Passing by the overpass, a boy who was pushing a bicycle with difficulty looked at Watanabe Toru with angry eyes as he was talking loudly to the beautiful girl.
"What does the death of the male protagonist have to do with you?" Qingye Rin looked at him strangely.
"...In short, the hero cannot die."
"A reversal would be more interesting. But I will decide the specific script myself, so yours can be used as a reference." Qingye Rin was thinking about the script in his mind and looking into the distance.
The evening breeze was blowing and more people were walking on the road.
She suddenly remembered something and turned around to look at Toru Watanabe who was still protesting that the male protagonist must not die.
"Tomorrow night, there will be the largest fireworks display in Tokyo at Meiji Jingu Gaien. It's such a great material, I want to film it in a movie."
"But now the budget is all gone, the actors haven't been decided, there's no script. I don't want to die."
"I'll be working on writing a scene around the fireworks display tonight, then choosing the actors and locations during the day."
"Well, come on, but don't stay up late. I don't want to die."
"Let's talk about it later." Qingye Rin picked up his schoolbag and said, "Let's go back."
Watanabe Toru put the equipment on his shoulders in one breath and walked towards the stairs of the overpass, muttering: "Remember, I don't want to die, I want to live."
"I'll think about it."
"real?"
"I hope your death won't be too tragic."
"Hey! I'm your friend!"
"You're so noisy, could you be a little quieter?"
After finally arriving at Kiyono Rin's luxury apartment, Watanabe Toru was already sweating profusely.
"What would you like to drink?" Qingye Rin asked as he opened the refrigerator door.
"Barley tea, with ice."
"Give."
"Thank you." Watanabe Toru took a big sip.
Looking at the satisfied Watanabe Toru, Kiyono Rin couldn't help but laugh.
"What are you laughing at? Did you put aphrodisiac in the tea?" Toru Watanabe looked at her warily.
"Drink it quickly."
"Did you really put a love drug in there? What's going on? Do you have any thoughts about my body that I keep exercising? Sorry, your purpose is too strong and your methods are too dishonorable. It's impossible for us to be together."
"Let's drink and leave." Qingye Rin picked up the notebook and began to think about the script.
“…”
