Chapter 167
After the rooms were assigned, considering the nature of the show and the current time - after throwing their luggage into their own rooms, the six of them went to check the refrigerator and freezer, as well as the situation in the kitchen.
"One good news and one bad news—" Shouling Er, as the representative of the group that went to check the refrigerator and freezer, stuck his head into the refrigerator and asked the three people who went to the kitchen, "Which one do you want to hear first?"
"What's the good news?" Tachibana Izumi, who was checking the kitchen utensils with Hoshimiya Strawberry and Fushimi Omi, asked Shourenji.
"The production team is quite conscientious." Shoulinger paused and considered his words, "They prepared the ingredients for us."
"What's the bad news?" Fushimi Omi turned off the stove that he had lit to check the gas situation, went to the kitchen door and asked Shouren who had just closed the refrigerator door in the restaurant.
"It's just enough for us to have a quick meal." Shoulingji answered very straightforwardly, and then began to lead everyone through the process, "In order to solve our next problem of food and shelter, I think it would be better for us to go back to the living room and ask the program crew about the program rules - they can't really let us use such a small amount of food to do all kinds of things and persist until the end of the filming, right?"
"There is a task card on the coffee table." As a former member of the archery club, Shirou Emiya, who has good eyesight, was the first to notice the extra paper on the coffee table. He trotted to the living room before everyone else and picked up the task card. "Each meal has a designated theme and designated ingredients. Most of the time, it's the same. After completing each task theme, you can find out the next theme, designated ingredients, and a certain amount of funds--"
"Ingredients other than the designated ingredients and various seasonings need to be obtained through the funds we receive and the program team in exchange. In addition, the seasonings and kitchen utensils brought by the members will not be taken away - but if there are ingredients brought privately, they will all be confiscated."
"What's the theme this time?" the five people asked Shirou Emiya.
Shirou Emiya turned the card over and faced them. The mission card left by the program team had the theme of this event printed on it - "Home".
"It's getting late. Considering the time to prepare dinner, we'd better make simple and quick home-cooked meals--" Yi Ranran shook his fingers one by one and turned his head to look at the refrigerator, "but the ingredients we have now are only vegetables and rice, not even eggs or any meat..."
"Then let's eat curry." Tachibana Izumi tapped his palms and announced to everyone, "It's just right, I brought some spices."
"Spices?"
"...The ominous premonition is getting stronger and stronger." Fujimaru Ritsuka watched Tachibana Izumi disappear from the camera of the living room, and the expression on his face gradually became serious. "Although they have limited themes for each meal, I still feel that the next development may be very bad-"
Fujimaru Ritsuka's premonition came true when Tachibana Izumi brought the curry to the table.
It all started when everyone was eating and commenting on Tachibana Izumi's curry, and Shirou Emiya said, "Most people now use curry cubes or curry powder, and few people use spices like Ms. Tachibana does."
——It was these words that turned on Tachibana Izumi’s curry alien switch.
"Curry powder? Curry cubes? The kind sold outside?" Tachibana Izumi, who had already finished eating, even dragged a whiteboard from somewhere and explained to everyone in a very solemn tone, "That is heresy, it is neglectful - it is a blasphemy to curry! First of all, when it comes to spices, the use of them is very particular!!!"
"I am full, thank you for the treat."
“The supervisor’s craftsmanship is always very good.”
"Take a picture for Otona~"
"Thanks to Ms. Tachibana, I think the first mission is complete."
"I said, I'm still saying..."
“This is the first time I’ve eaten such delicious curry.”
"Really?" Tachibana Izumi smiled at Hoshimiya Strawberry who gave such an evaluation, "I can do it every day for 365 days."
“…Let’s just forget about eating it every day!!!”
“I now understand why Mr. Rurikawa nicknamed their supervisor “Curry Alien.” Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the developments on the screen and could only sigh helplessly, handing the work here to Roman. “Then I’ll go to the other side to meet up with Senior Kirshtalia—bye.”
Another project that Fujimaru Ritsuka was working on simultaneously was a training camp variety show in which all the agencies would participate. However, a simple training camp always seemed to be missing something, as there was already "Apron boy & Spoon Girl" that used cooking as a selling point. So at the producers' meeting, this project was decided to be a love variety show that used the love lives of young men and women as a selling point.
It was named "Five Centimeters Away" - in short, it's a very romance-themed name.
However, the filming of a general love variety show always takes a long time - but considering the timing of the concert, all current variety show projects have been ordered to be completed within half a month, including the two new projects under Fujimaru Ritsuka. As a result, the pressure was finally transferred from Fujimaru Ritsuka to the participants.
——The reason is simple. All the scriptwriters were taken away by "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"". There is no way to get a scriptwriter for a mere romance variety show, so the idols can only give full play to their talents.
Apart from the time, most of the arrangements in the project can actually be said to be relaxed - there is no requirement for the participants to confess their feelings at a fixed time; there is no official pairing, and the participants are not required to be faithful to one person; there is no regular dating plan; and there is no requirement for the participants to form opposite-sex pairs.
However, although it was filmed at the same time as "Apron boy & Spoon Girl", the speed at which the members of "5 Centimeters Away from You" gathered was much slower than here - the individual self-introductions were filmed in the studio next to "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" just like "Apron boy & Spoon Girl", but the pilot plot here has not been filmed yet.
Earlier, Kirschtalia sent a message to Fujimaru Ritsuka to inform her that "5 Centimeters Away from You" was going to pick up the cast members after get off work and to shoot the pre-scene - although the villas on both sides were in the same area, they were not very close, not to mention that more than half of the members had not arrived yet; so Fujimaru Ritsuka asked Kirschtalia for the work address of a certain member and went directly to join the team to pick people up.
"The two people with the most empty schedules have already arrived." Kirshtalia synchronized the situation with Fujimaru Ritsuka who was transitioning, "If nothing unexpected happens, the last one to arrive should be Artoria - their round table, now it should be said that the GOA team has an interview tonight, and during the day the boys and girls will practice separately at Shining Office and Starlight Academy."
"I see." Fujimaru Ritsuka smiled and replied to Kirschtalia, and accurately found the staff member assigned by her own project to wait for her at the entrance of the idol arena, "I have already arrived at the LLAS concert. Today happens to be Day 2, so I can leave directly after the encore is over. The rest can be discussed after we meet, Kirschtalia-senpai."
The time when Fujimaru Ritsuka arrived was not too early for the staff, but not too late for the concert either - when she followed the staff to take a seat in the friends and family seats, the concert just happened to start.
『これは夢かな
梦ってステキな言葉』
There are a lot of school idols in total, but there are only three groups that appear most often in front of other members of the special point - each group of school idols has a stage area of their own, and even the Fairy Garden, which was only arranged by Fujimaru Ritsuka to train with them, also got a stage area and is dancing with them.
"Not all of them are on stage... ah, that's right, all of them are Avalon Le Fay."
Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't go straight to the concert of Fairy Garden to watch. After all, she came today to pick up the performers of her own project - but the members of Fairy Garden were already quite eye-catching, not to mention that they made adjustments to match the stage effects - it was quite rare for them to perform in the side of the savior Ash/lake fairy Vivian instead of Queen Morgan.
Before the concert officially started, the playlist had already been handed over to the producers - so Fujimaru Ritsuka knew that, apart from the opening song and encore song, the other songs for the two days would be completely different; compared to Day 1, there would be more groups on Day 2, and although the performance time was not long, each group was basically arranged to play one or two songs.
However, because there were no audiences, their arrangement for the Fairy Garden was to allocate a stage area for performances by any group whose style was suitable for them - after all, this was not the Holy Grail Concert, or the large-scale formal concert proposed by Bi Guan He Huan that involved all agencies.
"Can I do I take it, baby!"
"Can I do I make it, baby!"
As the music of the next song sounded, Fujimaru Ritsuka saw the figures of the Fairy Knights on the second stage area without any surprise - Bagster, Ba Vanchie and Melyucina had obviously adapted well to idol performances after these days of practice, and there was even a faint shape of a team that started from the Fairy Garden and then branched out.
However, in view of the fact that there was still a long time before the end of the concert, Fujimaru Ritsuka was quite relaxed and immersed in watching the live performance - the school idols and members of the Fairy Garden on the stage were changing with the changes in the songs, and among the Paradise Fairies, only Morgan and Custer were regular appearances, while Avalon Le Fay and Lancermello took turns to appear in conjunction with the songs.
Just as before Lily White performed with Caster, Bagster, and Ba Vanshi, it was Printemps and Morgan, Caster, and Avalon Le Fay - and now the members performing with BiBi have become Morgan, Caster, and Lancermello. However, because Chaldea did not prepare any costumes, the paradise fairies are using their own paradise dresses as performance costumes.
"The sound of footsteps near me
I'm so cute
Violate
Violate
I know
"Hmm... After we have some free time, we'll experiment with various stage effects." Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at the prop snowflakes falling on the stage and the snowflake special effects displayed on the big screen behind the stage, adding more to his busy schedule. "We need to be familiar with these things before the joint performance of the entire agency begins... We may not be professionals, but we can't just give up."