Chapter 194

"Oh, so everyone has a round?"

Love Live entered the semi-finals, and the members of Chaldea got together again. After discussing the situation of the game with each other, they successfully received teasing from Da Vinci, who was in charge of guaranteeing supplies on the scene.

"Unfortunately, we all ran into absolutely powerful teams in the first round." Fujimaru Ritsuka took a bottle of mineral water from the cart beside Da Vinci. "It's not that the others are not strong enough, but these teams would not have more than a 50% chance of winning even if other professionals were to play."

"A combination of a starlight queen and a legendary school idol?" Kirshtalia stood behind Da Vinci and came up with the answer the moment she heard Fujimaru Ritsuka's description. "That's not surprising - but I heard that a starlight queen seemed to have been eliminated by someone from a colleague's office in the preliminary round."

"Her opponent was a team led by Top Idol, but they never won the Starlight Queen competition." Lansermelo, who was standing half a step behind Morgan, blinked his grey eyes, which soon turned back to their original blue color. "The opponent of Top Idol in the Starlight Queen Cup was the opponent of Morgan and I in the first preliminary match."

"Fairy Kingdom Camelot?" Fujimaru Ritsuka tilted his head, his eyes falling on the red-haired fairy princess standing farther away, "What's the result of GOF?"

"It doesn't look that good, so don't ask." The female half-dream demon gently interrupted the conversation, ending the time for the Lord to ask questions, "But, should we find a competition venue to watch the semi-finals?"

"I think we should just wait for the final results." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head and spread his hands to express his thoughts. "Also, considering the finals, I think we need to ask for help from those mysterious guys. In addition, we may also need to ask for help from the musicians."

"Let's tell a story of our own."

"You guys have already gone back early." After the Love Live competition ended, the producer who was updating the results on the central stage called Fujimaru Ritsuka, "The final advancing group here is Soleil, and μ's lost by a narrow margin - the schedule for the Mangekyou Awards tomorrow is not so tight, if you have time, I hope you can stay and participate in the impromptu meeting."

"After all, the way the Kaleidoscope is calculated is very complicated - the most complicated of all the competitions."

"Understood." Fujimaru Ritsuka held her phone between her head and shoulder while talking on the other end. At the same time, she handed some heavy books to the members who were asked to work overtime. "I will be in the backstage during the Mangeka Awards. Although we have also submitted corresponding works, we are more inexperienced than others...so it is likely that we will just go through the motions like today's competition."

"Goodbye then."

The 100 Flowers Award is the highest award in the theatre industry.

In this competition schedule, in order to ensure that not every contestant only receives one award - because there are too many contestants - Fujimaru Ritsuka, based on the adults' conclusion, changed the Mangekyou Awards to a multiple award ceremony divided into three judging periods based on the release date of the works in the previous meeting.

"Don't think about the awards for best actor and best actress," Fujimaru Ritsuka said to everyone in the large meeting room in Chaldea, "but I think we can probably look forward to the award for the best score - well, although it's not from Pan-Human History or our own records... but I think Mr. Salieri's performance still deserves an award?"

"Then we only have the soundtrack to show for it." Kirshtalia, who also became the protagonist of a certain work, summed up their current situation pertinently and helplessly, "Because these are all real experiences, we are not acting, and we don't have a script, and we don't have special effects or editing - only the soundtrack can win an award, and do you have the courage to go up and accept the award?"

"Anyway, let's wait until tomorrow to decide. Anyway, I think we have secured our place in the ISB group."

The next morning, the logo on the central stage screen changed to the words "Kaleidoscope Awards" on time.

Similar to yesterday's Love Live, the Kaleidoscope Awards competition was also divided into different venues - each crew of the stage play had to perform live directly on four separate stages according to their scripts; the central stage was reserved for staff and other idols who did not need to participate in live performances and other work, as well as contestants who did not need to go on stage temporarily, to serve as judges to classify and nominate films and TV dramas and give preliminary scores.

"...How about these works from Animusfia Agency being included in the nominations for the Best Score Award?" Kiriya Aoi, sitting in the middle of the judges' table, sought other people's opinions. "But there is one work that I recommend to be nominated twice - "Permafrost Empire", which has two soundtracks. They are all too good, so I can't discard any of them."

"Let me see." With a grim expression, Kamisaka Reni took over the task of verifying the nomination qualifications and pulled Tachibana Yukio over, "Tachibana, come and listen to the soundtrack."

"…Is this Mozart's Requiem?" Tachibana Yukio confirmed with the people around him when he heard the first few notes. "I remember that we performed this in the performance with the symphony orchestra as the theme, right?"

"Ah, the performance of the New Spring Group is a quartet." Kamisaka Reni nodded, "and there is one more song - I think if they are all of this level, it is not impossible to nominate them at the same time. After all, their acting and script are very poor, and the only thing that can be seen is probably the theme of the story - just like you always say that you want all the actors to bloom on the stage in their own unique way."

"hehe."

"What are you laughing at!"

"Shining Agency has produced so many works." While filling out his nomination decision and the score of each work in the form, Fujimaru Ritsuka discussed these works with everyone in Chaldea, "Did you see any works here that you personally tend to like?"

"There's one episode in their colorful short series that I really like." Kirshtalia smiled and continued to rate and nominate. "Well, that's just my personal preference. After all, I'm the head of the astronomy department, Animusphia, so I can't resist this kind of observatory theme."

"Understood." Fujimaru Ritsuka crossed out the filled-in part while discussing the performance outside. "However, I am more curious about the "Faust" they mentioned in "5 Centimeters Away" - whether it is the song or the stage performance, by the way, I think they will also be nominated for the Best Original Score Award."

"Why?"

"Because of Mr. Salieri's evaluation... no, according to Mr. Salieri's evaluation, the composers here are actually just ordinary geniuses - after all, in his eyes, no one can compare to Mr. Amadeus." Fujimaru Ritsuka quickly finished the form in his hand and handed it in at the same speed as writing a report. "I've already written it, so I'm going to go outside to watch their performance first."

"Then take the scoring form and nomination form for the stage play." After receiving the electronic form from Fujimaru Ritsuka, Kiriya Aoi quickly raised the writing board at hand and gestured to Fujimaru Ritsuka, "Go and take a look at all four stages - here is the performance catalog for the first day, which is the range of nominations for the awards that need to be announced before the end of today..."

"I understand." Fujimaru Ritsuka ran back and took the writing board and pen from Kiriya Aoi, and said to the producer lady sitting in the middle with a smile, "But I want to go see Mankai Romance first - I haven't seen their Romance performance yet."

That is what I said.

In the end, Fujimaru Ritsuka went to the separate stage where the Xia Group, which he had almost no contact with, was located.

The first audience member to enter an empty venue always attracts the performers' attention - so when Fujimaru Ritsuka walked to the first row of seats with a writing pad and sat down, the atmosphere on the stage changed.

The actors on the stage improvised jokes so fast that they looked like professional comedians, but they stuck to the plot in the script and kept pushing the performance forward - Ali Baba and Aladdin ran around the stage holding the magic lamp while screaming, and the genie appeared in the smoke and somersaulted on the stage with laughter...

——Go check out other stages.

——There is too much improvisation here. Although it is an excellent comedy with excellent actors, it is quite disadvantageous for the scriptwriter...

——However, the screenwriter of Mankai Theater belongs to the Spring Group and is responsible for all their scripts, so they have a lot of works that can be nominated.

Fujimaru Ritsuka left the audience seats silently and walked towards his next destination.

Before seeing the performance of the Aki Group, Fujimaru Ritsuka had never thought of what kind of play could perfectly fit with the combination mentioned in Emiya Shirou's retelling - delinquents, delinquents, former delinquents, gangsters, Taoists, gangsters, Taoist masters and ordinary people.

"Thinking about it this way, maybe from the perspective of showing screenwriting ability, "What a Great Villain" is suitable for a nomination for the Screenwriting Award..." Fujimaru Ritsuka muttered to herself while taking notes on the writing board. This time she did not sit down and quickly left through the side door and moved to a new venue. "Next, let's take a look at the Spring Group - the Winter Group will be put last."

And in the audience seats of the Spring Group, Fujimaru Ritsuka met the second person.

"Have you finished filling out the form inside?" Fujimaru Ritsuka sat down next to the man and took the initiative to start a conversation.

"Of course I have finished it," the world-famous playwright assured his master, "I haven't even seen their Roman adaptation yet!"

"I haven't read it either." Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at Shakespeare, "But I noticed that you must have read it from the beginning--"

The playwright, who likes to wait until the deadline to start work like the fairy tale writer, continued to watch the performance on the stage with a thick face, facing the Lord's gaze. And Fujimaru Ritsuka never made things difficult for her companions. So even if this matter was directly exposed, Shakespeare's unfinished work was transferred to other members through the Chaldea chat room to copy their own answers.

At this point, the plot on the stage had already progressed to the part about the fake death drug.