Volume 3 Hello, Eri Chapter 334: The Song Ends, But People Still Remain (Part 2)
Takama-ga-hara was packed with people today. A huge banner was hung high in front of the store with "Goodbye my friend" written in Japanese. Even in the night sky of Shinjuku, there was an airship full of neon lights floating, promoting that today was a special event in Takama-ga-hara.
The Takamagahara Women's Stress Relief Club made a regretful announcement on TV that the new generation stars BasaraKing, Ukyo Tachibana, and Sakura, who were previously invited from abroad to perform in the store, will return to the United States due to the expiration of their contracts. Now BasaraKing and Ukyo Tachibana have left the club, leaving only Sakura. Tonight is the last performance of the group. Not only that, they will also permanently withdraw from the gigolo industry, so this is a real farewell.
All tickets were sold out in advance, and VIPs couldn't buy tickets. The alley outside the door was full of scalpers who came to ask for information. Even if a ticket was sold at 15 times the original price, there were still people willing to buy it, which seriously disrupted the order of the surrounding area. The police had to be dispatched to help take traffic control measures. All vehicles were prohibited from entering and leaving, and everyone had to walk into Kabukicho. Many people couldn't figure out the direction after entering because of the crowds. At this time, a man in a black suit climbed up the ladder on the side of the road and used a loudspeaker to guide everyone in the direction. The hem of his windbreaker fluttered, revealing the emblem of the Eight Houses of Snake.
In fact, a single male escort club would not be so crowded, but among the customers of Takamagahara there is a superstar female singer. When she was on TV, she talked about the tsunami that hit not long ago, and vividly described the story of the male escorts bravely fighting against criminals when the disaster struck.
She was not the only one who had experienced it firsthand. Many innocent civilians in Tokyo were caught up in the Night Food Ground and witnessed the atrocities of the ferocious Deadpool and the Demons. They had also seen it, so these testimonies easily became popular on the Internet. The domineering nobleman, the eternally burning eye magician, the beautiful enchantress at dusk, these top posters and drawings were really put up in the streets and alleys, competing with the most popular stars of the time.
At first, Lu Mingfei was worried that this would expose the truth that she was deceiving the customers, but the customers obviously regarded Lu Mingfei's look as a gender reversal, and they exclaimed that Sakura's female dress was stunning at first sight. No one thought that there would be a real girl working in a gigolo club.
Dealing with so many people who have seen the Night Food Plain is an extremely difficult task, but the Snake Eight Families successfully reached an agreement with the Japanese government. The television news broadcast made a lot of publicity, attributing the arrested demons to a cult group, claiming that the various visions and monsters in the Night Food Plain were caused by the cult group releasing a large amount of hallucinogenic drugs in the water brought by the tsunami, and deliberately concealed the actual number of victims, attributing their cause of death to the tsunami.
According to Japanese law, this cult group that committed such atrocities should be sentenced to death because their average murder rate per person reached more than two people.
However, the Japanese government and the Snake Eight Families secretly transferred all these criminals from the Menggui Clan to the mountains and handed them over to the Snake Eight Families for disposal. The family will treat these past evil spirits and future new evil spirits in a more humane way and for a longer time. This is the lesson learned from the Tokyo incident. If they still simply reject and target these poor people as before, people like Tachibana Masamune or Herzog will be born among them, and they will continue to take revenge on the family and pursue the non-existent road to the underworld.
On this special farewell night, the activities in Takama-ga-hara are also special. Some guests will be randomly selected to come on stage and sing with the gigolos. Every gigolo in the store will take turns to perform, because they protected all the guests in the thrilling disaster three months ago. At that time, many people thought that Tokyo was going to sink into the sea. Now they are still very scared when they think about it. After going on stage, they can't help but feel extremely excited when they see familiar faces around them. Some people started crying while singing, and talked about the past with tears in their eyes.
The audiences in the audience were also witnesses of the incident, and they could totally relate to the incident. Every gigolo also told the story of what happened during those days. During the period, Finger also came on stage. His nickname in Takamagahara was Hercules, and he had become quite famous these days. The singer who was willing to sing with him was actually the queen-level singer. God knows how this guy got such a person. The duet between the queen and Hercules was simply a love affair, and every look was like a top-notch actor.
After all the gigolos in the store had walked across the stage, it was the turn of the most popular figure. Different from her previous super steampunk style, Lu Mingfei appeared today in an eye-catching pink stage costume. The pink and white highlights in her hair and the sequins on her costume made her look like a singer at a concert.
This was a decision she made on her own. Since no one thought that the Beautiful Enchantress of the Dusk was wrong, she might as well show up in her true form. She had spent so much time in Takama-ga-hara, and actually had treated this place as her own career. She had met many friends and had left many memories, both good and bad. She couldn't possibly have to lie with a mask on when she said goodbye, right?
There was no live accompaniment this time, because Caesar and Chu Zihang were not here, so only electronic mixing could be used. The music sounded a bit lonely. The lights fell from the sky and shone on Lu Mingfei.
"Say yes."
The first line of the opening is "goodbye". This word is not used very often in Japanese, because it implies not seeing each other again for a long time, so this is a true farewell. Maybe I will never return to Takama-ga-hara again, but the memories here will become a lifelong treasure, and I will always peek at it again and again in the future.
The only word of goodbye, I can't say it like this
Now I can only look for your figure in my tears
I can no longer feel your fingers, your hair, your voice
I once had a wonderful time with you, but now even the most familiar atmosphere has disappeared
We can only be friends, friends deeply buried in my heart
Even if I stare at you, we can only be friends, so sad
This is Friends by Koji Tamaki, a song with a somewhat sad mood. It is hard to say who this song is for at this time... It could be the audience, or the guests who have visited Takamagahara in the past few months, or the friends I met in Japan, and Caesar and Chu Zihang who are now unknown where they are.
The audience's reaction was very enthusiastic. Many people didn't know who the girl was. They just came to join in the fun, curious about why the last person in the host club was a man dressed as a girl. Most of them were loyal fans who would always patronize Takamagahara. They screamed and cheered, and cried like rain, because they knew they would never see Sakura, BasaraKing, and Ukyo Tachibana again. Many of them will get married in the future, but at this moment, they only have these gigolos in their hearts. People always cling to the people around them when they are the saddest, just like in the past, only Takamagahara could let them release their feelings.
Uesugi Yue squeezed into Takamagahara with a white towel on his head, holding a tightly packed ramen in each hand. This old man came more often recently, and the waiter knew him. He approached him with concern and asked if he could deliver it to him, but Uesugi Yue refused. Tonight was a real farewell, and it was hard to say whether he could eat this last ramen hot, so he had to deliver it himself.
Angers was dancing closely with those girls in miniskirts in a good position in the front row. The girls were curious at first why an old man would come to such an event, but they soon discovered the old man's humor and the suit he wore that looked like the uniform of the store. The old man's charm was immediately released. His wine was aged for hundreds of years, and one sip could intoxicate people. The girls had no resistance to this kind of old wine.
The principal of Kassel Academy experienced four blood explosions in the Tokyo incident and still survived, but the price was a rapid decline in his bloodline. The doctor of the academy said that the principal's dragon blood was no longer enough to support him to go to the battlefield again. Together with the vitality given by the dragon blood, his life would quickly return to the old age that it should be like that of an ordinary old man.
So Angers also came to this kind of activity. His heart is still young, and before he really gets old and dies, he will continue to burn himself. The only difference is that he can only serve as a backup. Kassel Academy is in name only and has become a mobile organization. Not long ago, his family moved to the mountains around Tokyo.
The Japanese branch has since returned to the embrace of the academy. Although both sides have suffered a major blow, their relationship has reached an unprecedented sweet period. The current head of the family, Genji Chisei, has single-handedly promoted bilateral cooperation. The USB flash drive loaded with EVA data personality entered Genji Heavy Industries and exchanged data with the supercomputer Kaguya of the Snake Eight Families. The two supercomputers are now combined into one, and the number of computer rooms has even tripled. The cash flow of the Snake Eight Families will also be shared as the current activity funds of the academy. With the complete elimination of the Oni Clan, all the underworld in Japan has been brought back under the control of the Snake Eight Families. With the economic recovery in the Tokyo area, the restoration of strength is just around the corner.
Gen Chisheng doesn't like such places, but he has to give face to his friends at Kassel Academy, so he still comes with his subordinates. Sakura accompanies him to drink with Gen Chinu in the VIP box. Crow and Yasha have already gone to the dance floor, where there are big white legs, high heels, and perky butts and breasts everywhere. How could these two young gangster wolves not meet their own bunny girl seniors?
Halfway through the song, Takamagahara's routine began again. A waiter holding a golden box staggered among the crowd, and handfuls of flower tickets were thrown to him. Tonight's was specially spiced. When each gigolo came on stage, only the guest with the most votes could go on stage to sing with him. Therefore, the guests tonight were more generous than before, dozens of times more than usual. Desire and money simply piled up a tower that soared into the sky.
In this situation, there was no need for the host to say anything sentimental. Sakura would not stay even if she spent more flower tickets. These flower tickets were just a release of desire. Lu Mingfei stood on the stage with the microphone in her hand, her eyes sweeping across the dance floor. There were too many guests, and she couldn't find the person she was looking for.
There were screams and laughter everywhere. The guests had gone crazy. Only Humpback Whale could calm the place down at this time. He waved the microphone with a voice that could hold the whole audience: "Girls, on this beautiful night with blooming flowers, on this night of parting and reunion, I would like to introduce to you... the boss lady of Takamagahara!"
The lights suddenly went out and then shone on a place not far from the humpback whale. Su Enxi, wearing a plain black long skirt and dress shoes, looked like a host of the Spring Festival Gala. It was the first time that people knew there was a proprietress in Takama-ga-hara.
The waiter brought the box of coupons to the proprietress, and Su Enxi picked them out one by one in front of everyone. On this night, she was as crazy as a humpback whale, and she even called on all the guests to count numbers with her, saying that if they didn't count a number, they would get a free bottle of champagne tonight.
So the screams of the guests once again drowned out the whole audience, and the numbers kept rising, first in the ones, then in the tens, and finally in the hundreds. She casually scattered handfuls of sakura-red ticket money onto the stage and the dance floor, and the number was already so high that it surpassed the highest record in Takamagahara, but her hand did not stop, because the last thing she took out was a check.
The projector immediately projected the enlarged check onto the stage background. It was a check for 100 million yen with a familiar name written on it, Uesugi Erie.
"One hundred and three thousand eight hundred and eighty-two flower tickets, let's give the last chance to go on stage tonight to Miss Uesugi Eriya!" Su Enxi said loudly holding the microphone. This was something she had firmly persuaded Changtui to do, so of course she had to get involved.
The lights went out again, and Lu Mingfei heard footsteps behind her. She turned around, and the light happened to hit Eri. To be honest, this kind of place is not suitable for her now, at least not now. No girl would dress up so fresh and simple when coming to Takama-ga-hara, like someone's first love. But it does suit Eri... The white hemmed long skirt gives a feeling of a bridal bride, and a large bow on the chest replaces the off-shoulder design. Every step she takes is swaying, reminding people of the bride in the auditorium.
The spotlights covered Eri and Lu Mingfei together. Eri held the microphone and spoke hand in hand with Lu Mingfei. This was the time to fulfill their vows to each other. At Sakura's farewell party, Eri would definitely sing with Sakura.
Think about it
Even the memories, I can't bear to think of them
I wake up from the dream, and I forget the person I dreamed about.
Even when I wake up, I can't forget the person in my dream
もうFriend, きれいだよFriend.
We can only be friends, good friends.
このままでFriend, 优しく.
Just keep going gently, my friend.
もうFriend, 心からFriend.
We can only be friends, friends deeply buried in my heart
いつまでもFriend, today's からFriend.
Friends forever, friends from now on
Lu Mingfei switched to Chinese while Eiry used Japanese. Their voices met, their eyes met, and their chorus was perfect, as if they had rehearsed it many times beforehand. There was no disharmony in the bilingual singing, but instead it gave the song a new flavor.
Yuan Zhisheng in the VIP box was stunned. He had never heard Eiry's voice before, and he didn't know when Eiry could speak. He suddenly felt that he had been very derelict in his duty as Eiry's brother... But he was secretly glad that Lu Mingfei was not a boy, otherwise he, Yuan Zhisheng, would have lost his sister at this moment.
In fact, every brother is a sister-con, because your sister is the woman you interact with most besides . Unlike your mother, who is the person you look up to, your sister has grown up little by little from a baby in swaddling clothes to a snotty kid who calls you brother, and then to a weirdo who calls you that person. You have watched her grow up little by little, becoming more and more beautiful. Every brother will feel like an old father that the cabbage belongs to his family, until one day he finds out that the cabbage will become someone else's, and his heart will always be easily filled with a sudden sense of emptiness, as if something is missing.
