Chapter 184

Day 5 of the recording schedule for "Apron boy＆Spoon Girl" and "5 Centimeters Away from You".

Starting at eight in the morning, the guests left the villa one after another to complete other work schedules.

"The curtain has not yet fallen."

"My friend, let me dedicate one last song to you..."

"Okay, the Winter Troupe will take a break for now - the Spring Troupe will be next." The man sitting in the center of the first row of the packed theater turned over a page in his notebook and directed the troupe members to switch seats. "The Spring Troupe's fifth performance is "Knights of Round IV" - based on the characteristics of this area, there is no need to consider copyright issues for the time being."

"This is what Mr. Kamizaka of GOD said, but the director did not refute it, so the rehearsal scope includes this performance. Mr. Shi, Mr. Chikage, I'll leave it to the two of you from now on."

The six members of the Spring Group put down their scripts, jumped onto the stage one by one and began rehearsing - the members of the remaining three groups discussed the previous rehearsals of the Winter Group and future performance venues in between paying attention to the Spring Group.

“I heard that the performance venue will be bigger than the GOD Theater.”

"To be precise, it should be bigger than the Mangeki Theater." The acting instructor of the Mankai Theater sat in the second row and watched the Spring Troupe's performance, while replying to the discussion of others, "Sachio has already visited the venue - although the venue has another concert scheduled before the joint concert, basically all the part-time directors and producers have visited it."

"After Yukio came back, he was so excited that he danced with joy—"

"And then he was beaten by Reni." Having gotten a break from "This is just basic reasoning "Elementary"" to watch the rehearsal of the freshman Mankai troupe, Kasumi Hinamori bluntly told what happened in the first generation Mankai troupe, while poking the people around her, "By the way, everyone in the freshman group is improving in their acting skills, who knows, one day they might be able to surpass us--"

"The days when you can lecture them with a clear conscience are numbered, Yuuzo."

"It's still a long way to go before they surpass us - although they are certainly making progress," said Kashima Yuzo with a smile.

"It would be strange if we didn't make any progress," said Gao Yuancheng, who had just opened the script of "Death by the Sword". "We have gradually returned to the operation mode of the first generation - performing all year round and traveling to other places. With such an intense performance schedule, even a piece of wood should be able to act."

“Hahaha…” Tsukioka Tsukioka smiled helplessly, her eyes falling on the other lead actor of the next play of the Winter Troupe. “The difference in acting skills can only be felt after your own acting skills reach a certain level. However, the acting skills of the other three groups have indeed improved by leaps and bounds—at least that’s the case since they entered the troupe.”

"Of course, since we have zero experience, there is a lot of room for improvement." Gao Yuancheng looked at the Xia and Qiu groups standing below and smiled, "Before the group rehearsal began, the director was dragged away by the supervisor to make up lessons - so the task left for us was to watch the performance video and review it ourselves... You don't know what those people in the Xia group felt after watching it."

"What happened to them?"

"I'm embarrassed." Gao Yuancheng simply answered, "Because the video we watched was recorded by the manager - it was the first day of the first performance, and it wasn't even the first performance of Qian Shu Le."

"This is a good thing for us." Tsukioka Tsumugi recalled what happened in the first winter when she joined the Mankai Theater Company and shook her head at Takatomo Cheng. "That kind of substandard acting, no matter what, I don't want to watch it a second time myself - the original script was clearly full of delicate, serene, solemn and serious atmosphere, but I completely messed it up by myself."

"But Qianqiu Le was able to win back the money to pay off our debts thanks to Tsumugi - isn't it good that we don't have to disband the troupe?" The young man with long silver hair smiled and looked at their captain, "Besides, Tsumugi won more than just this time. Mix7 was also won by Tsumugi in the acting duel."

"Everyone worked hard on both performances. It's not good to take all the credit from me, Mr. Azuma." Tsukioka Tsumugi held up the script to hide her helpless smile, "But the roles in these two performances are very interesting - the first one was an angel, and the second one was a devil. Although it's a GOD-za topic, it's easy to connect the topics together."

"Ahem, Tsumugi-kun - your acting skills have always been among the best in our freshman group." The burgundy-haired man cleared his throat and was about to speak -

"The Spring Group is still rehearsing, Mr. Yu." Photographer Tsuzumari, who was sitting in the first row and was responsible for supervising the troupe, turned around and gritted his teeth to remind the free-spirited poets in the Winter Group in the back row.

"I will take care of them, Marie-kun." Tsukioka Tsumugi pushed the backs of the members of the Winter Group and drove them out of the audience. "Come back to us when the Autumn Group rehearses. I'll trouble Tenma-kun to come to us."

"Okay, I got it." Huang Tianma waved the script in his hand to Tsukioka Tsumugi, "Mr. Tsumugi, don't worry."

"That's all a useless actor can do."

"Huh? Liu Lichuan!"

"If you make any more noise, you'll be kicked out like the Winter Team." Shejin Wanli glanced at the two people from the Summer Team, then subtly turned her gaze to her own team members, "Even Hyoto didn't argue with me today..."

"I have a bad feeling about this."

"well……"

"Shoot."

"You two—" Before the quarrel between the Aki Group officially broke out, the blond-haired adult male took the lead in suppressing the two of them, "If you don't want to go on stage with your hands handcuffed together, shut up now."

"...Yes, Mr. Sakyo."

On the other side, in the practice room rented by Shining Agency from the training building.

1. Up-Down-Up!

"The dance moves are like this for now - is there anything that Ai and Fan would like to add?" Ichijuki Otona sat between Mikaze Ai and Kiryuin Fan and asked the two after the choreography video ended. "After all, this is not the final performance version. The president and teachers said that it can still be adjusted..."

"How about adding a move?" Mifuze Lan looked at the two juniors and suggested, "Princess hug - since it's a song about love, how about adding a move that can bring a sense of romance? I heard that other groups have prepared a lot of props and special scenes to set the mood - wouldn't it be too backward for our group to not add anything?"

"…Then who will do it?"

"You two."

"Hey Senior Blue/Little Blue!!!"

"Okay, this is the schedule I made last night." Mifuze Lan took out a large folded schedule from her bag and unfolded it in front of the two of them. "You should know that it's the same schedule that Xiang and Nazuki got during the intensive course - it's a schedule accurate to the minute. After all, our schedules are very tight, so this is a necessary schedule in order to achieve the best stage effect within a limited time."

"No violation—do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand."

"Then let's start rehearsing - I hope you won't be delayed by any mistakes and miss the group rehearsal."

"We will rehearse seriously..."

2. Feather in the hand

"Next door... sounds quite lively." The light chestnut-haired man said this while leaning against the mirror in the practice room, looking at the lyrics book in his hand.

"After all, Arine is here too - he can liven up the atmosphere all the time." Shinto Seikawa was stretching himself, and asked the only senior in the practice room for advice with a smile, "Senior Camus, when do we start practicing? Eiji seems to be a little jealous of the atmosphere next door."

"The atmosphere of our piece itself is different from the dynamic music of Mikaze." Camus closed his eyes and looked back at Feng Eiji and Shengchuan Zhendou, "If they are in the passionate love period... Feng, you should still remember what we said when we got the song, about your impression of this song, right?"

"Yes! Our song is a very refreshing piece of music—" Feng Ying raised her head and looked at Camus, and answered nervously, "For this reason, we also requested the use of a large number of fountains and water columns on the stage as a background to match the performance... That, and that is..."

"Senior Camus, you scared Eiji." Shinto Shokawa reminded Camus with a smile, while continuing to supplement their impressions of this song, "In addition, there is also a sad atmosphere - in short, this is a song that requires delicate expression of subtle emotions."

"You guys at Raging are much freer than most of the other members." Camus casually put his phone aside and turned to walk towards the two juniors. "I don't think Shengchuan watched it, but Feng should have had time to watch it, right? It was a performance by a theater troupe. As for the atmosphere, the one that is closest to our song is the first performance of the Winter Group."

"The feeling of sadness filled with love, of sadness bringing hope, of clarity and transparency is the same - after all, the theme is the same, about giving up something for the one you love."

"Yes... this is the same."

Don't cry

See guard it

たたそれたけてよかった

I live on the side

I will

I'm so lucky

"Ah...Kimi

Good

I'm leaving

——This is exactly the tragic song of love that is born out of loving someone deeply.

——Even if we never meet again, even if we have to leave each other.

——As long as you are happy.

——Apart from that, I have no other request.

At the same time, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was watching Colles and his team editing the program in Chaldea, received a call from someone.

"I'm going to go out for a moment."

After saying hello to Coles, Fujimaru Ritsuka left the small meeting room that was temporarily used as an editing room and went back to his room.

"Have you found anything?" Fujimaru Ritsuka answered the call, sat cross-legged on the bed, and asked the person opposite him.

"The flow of magic has changed. Fujimaru - a huge vortex of magic has appeared under the central stage. If we have time, let Kirche go and take a look... I suspect that the world that originally entrusted us with this task did not explain the situation of the anomaly clearly. There are no cranes here, not even one, and I haven't even found any trace of the Holy Grail yet."

"That is to say—"

"Ah, that joint concert was recognized by some as a ceremony equivalent to the Holy Grail War."