Chapter 155

"Alice, suppose there is a golden treasure that all your classmates can see except you - well, guess what it is?"

"Professor, theoretically, there is no such thing in reality. So the answer is a dream. Please don't ask boring questions."

The audience seats in the Mankai Theater were all filled with members from other agencies. The members of GOD Zuo even had their own seats in the small theater. However, apart from GOD Zuo, who were on the road of drama with the Mankai Theater, the rest of the audience were absorbing what components they could adapt from the re-enactment of the play.

The man with short red hair sitting in the front row was busy drawing something; the people sitting in the middle were watching the performance on the stage, tapping their pens from time to time, as if they were thinking about something; the members of Chaldea were scattered around the auditorium holding the free tickets given away by the theater troupe, and they were a rare sight of pure audience members.

"I'm curious about your previous lives." After successfully finding a stack of tickets from the nightclub, Fujimaru Ritsuka and his teammates from the new A team sat at the end of the audience. After hearing the answer from the young Alice on the stage to the professor, he turned his attention to Kirshtalia, "'Please don't ask boring questions'... Did you really say something like this before?"

"In fact, we thought Kirshtalia was the one who would say that - but it's clear that in your eyes, most of the members of the original A team are like that." Ophelia lowered her voice and answered Fujimaru Ritsuka, "However, although we won't say that, we will think so... After all, the waste of time is real."

"Only now that we have enough time, we don't mind wasting time."

"So what do the seniors and Mashu think is the answer to this question?"

"I think it has something to do with time, Senior."

The dream of young Alice on the stage began with a cup of black tea - her professor called the tea a medicine that could relax her and make her mind more flexible; although young Alice knew that the professor was exaggerating, she decided that she could not leave without drinking the tea because of what the professor had done before.

——And so the dream began.

"As expected, the rabbit hole is an indispensable part of all Alice stories - just like the stories of servants and lords always start with the existence of the Command Spell." Mashu smiled and looked at the stage where the plot had already entered the next scene. "When I saw the flyer, I was thinking about how the male college student Alice would chase the white rabbit and jump into the rabbit hole, but I didn't expect it to be designed like this."

While arguing with the White Rabbit, Young Alice fell into a hole under a tree and came to Wonderland through the hole - and the White Rabbit was forced to take responsibility and lead Young Alice all the way forward; the White Rabbit and Young Alice met the Cheshire Cat who was preparing to take a nap, and got the advice to go to the Mad Hat.

"Go find Mad Hatter. If you join that guy's tea party, you'll definitely wake up."

"Drinking tea again... Why are there so many people who like to relax everywhere?"

However, Young Alice got lost afterwards and wandered around until she ran into a tea party being held by the Mad Hatter in the forest - the number of members of the Mankai troupe was increased to six after the fourth performance of each group, but this did not allow them to modify the scripts of previous performances to add roles; just as in the revival of Young Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter's tea party still only had one person.

"You asked if drinking my tea would wake you up? I've never heard of such a thing, right?"

The man in the mad hat who had the same face as the professor turned around with a teacup in his hand and asked his companions who were invisible to anyone - according to the story of Alice in Wonderland, it should be the March Hare and the Dormouse - and then agreed with his companions as if he had received a positive answer.

"Yeah, yes, yes. I think so too."

"Ah, so that's how it is. This part of the plot is the highlight." With the entire Throne of Heroes as his teacher, Fujimaru Ritsuka instantly understood the cleverness of this scene. "Although this arrangement may be a stopgap measure due to insufficient manpower, the screenwriter has obviously cleverly made the arrangement of this part of the plot echo the theme of the whole story--"

"Well, I can tell at a glance... But, not only what you can see is real, right?"

——Not only what you can see is real... There is also the initial question...

"I think I know the answer." Fujimaru Ritsuka chewed over the dialogues of the characters on the stage, looking for the key clues that connect the whole story bit by bit. "It's like the riddle of the Sphinx - it's extremely simple, but the answer is something that no one would normally think of."

"In other words, it is commonplace for most people, but ignored by a few people - that's why it is a golden treasure that a young man named Alice cannot see, but all his classmates can see."

The story on the stage finally came to an end - young Alice woke up from her dream and found herself still sitting under the tree, and the professor was standing in front of her with a smile.

"So, what's the answer?"

"What you don't see is this leisure time which is as precious as gold. Life in an ivory tower will never come back again, and I think you should enjoy it."

"I will take this as a lesson."

"Oh, that's quite frank."

"I don't want to drink black tea anymore."

"I have some detailed ideas for the new project." After the stage curtain fell and the audience left the theater one after another, Fujimaru Ritsuka walked at the front of the new A group to organize his thoughts, "'Free time is as precious as gold'... Separate from the cooking variety show project I mentioned before, let's do a vacation project."

"…Vacation plan? This unique feature is only this small."

This proposal of Fujimaru Ritsuka was first carefully questioned at an internal meeting of Chaldea.

"Strictly speaking, it is a copy of some of the past experiences in the summer special point - that is, the limited seaside training plan." Fujimaru Ritsuka cleared his throat seriously and pointed to the seaside training ground on the special point map. "Although there will be requirements to complete tasks and get rewards to promote the development of the program... but it is mainly for vacation. To be precise, I want to go out and have fun - don't you want to take a look at the other plan!?"

"Compared to Fujimaru's new project... we have more urgent matters right now—" Lansemello, who was sitting in his seat, looked at Lenis and Olgamari subtly, "You all know that although only idols and people closely related to them have entered the singularity in these merged worlds... but the programs in their respective worlds are still running stably in this singularity."

"so……?"

"It's a show in the world of Starlight Academy and Dream Academy - 'Idol Lady'." After Fujimaru Ritsuka left the stage, Marines Billy changed the image on the screen to the relevant information of this show, "Lenise and Olgamari were invited by them. But - because everyone now lives and works in the special point, the shooting range of the show has changed from the idols' homes to the office."

"What we need to consider now is how to transform Chaldea into an idol agency that can pass itself off as such."

"…Why don't we first calculate whether the idol elements we have earned can allow us to squeeze in and rent a floor to set up an office."

"Give up. It's definitely not enough."

"Then there is only one way." Fujimaru Ritsuka raised his hands in great sorrow, "When will this program be filmed?"

"One month later." El-Melloi II, who was in charge of contacting the "Idol Lady" program team, answered Fujimaru Ritsuka's question, "They have also invited idols from other worlds before - there are four people ahead of Lenis and the others. What can you do, Ritsuka?"

"Then we have no choice but to work hard." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed deeply, looking at the project plan in his hand, "Fortunately, the producer meeting is also held once a week. I will try to see if I can get all the projects that haven't started yet to enter the preparation stage at the meeting next week - then Andersen and his team can start their radio station first, tonight!"

"Also, I want to make another world observation disc—with Mr. El-Melloi II as the protagonist!"

At the second week's producer meeting, Kiriya Aoi, as the general manager of the meeting, finally announced that the two previous projects were officially named and entered the preparation stage. All the staff were also confirmed. The improvisational performance project was named "The show must go on", and the "Mystery Program Joint Festival" was finally renamed "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"."

"…The inspiration for the name of the mystery variety show came from Ms. Fujimaru's proposal at the last meeting, and the prototype of the detective Tokiya Locke in Shining's "The Thief Otonaru-kun" series was Sherlock Holmes." Kiriya Aoi pinched the microphone on the podium and winked at Fujimaru Ritsuka, "And the "Non-Nostalgic Holmes" produced by Animusphia is also a derivative work based on "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."

——Oh, that’s me.

Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed helplessly in his heart, waiting for Kiriya Aoi to announce the official opening time of the two projects.

"After discussing with Mankai Theater and GOD-za, 'The show must go on' will open after the re-performance of 'Young Alice in Wonderland' ends - the opening performance will be handled by the members of the original Mankai Theater." Saesakusa Kii, who was standing next to Kiriya Aoi, took the microphone, "The script, costumes, props and scenery will be handed over to the members of the two theaters."

"After the opening performance, the planning team will randomly invite performers to perform - but other than the performers, the other staff will be the same as the opening performance. The performance venue for this project is a new theater rented by all the agencies."

"Regarding 'This is just basic reasoning 'Elementary', I had a new idea after the last meeting." Kiriya Aoi projected the newly added part of the plan onto the screen, "Because the original proposal was to link up the various programs, I want to add a pre-production warm-up section."

"A warm-up segment that can be used to link various programs."