Chapter 477: I Will Return Like Lightning

For Junko, she now belongs to the standard "returning home in brocade clothes."

When she left Tokyo, she was just a nameless person chasing the girl group dream. In more than a year, she turned into a member of the most popular girl group in Asia, and possessed quite explosive popularity in Japan.

However, Penguin's overseas development strategy is focused on South Korea, and the energy invested in Japan is not particularly large.

After all, although Japan also has girl group idols, the one they have is a bit different from the Hallyu idols. Japan likes the cultivation system. Like this kind of formed girl group, it is estimated that the public is not particularly interested

Regardless, Girls' Generation still had popularity in Japan, especially Junko, whose popularity was far higher than the other members besides the leader.

Of course, compared to Miss Luo Quan's fame in Japan, it seemed like a drop in the bucket.

Although she hadn't returned to Japan for any activities in a long time, whenever news with her name appeared, the comment section would always be filled with a massive number of netizens using Japanese nicknames.

Throughout the first half of the year, Japanese netizens were looking forward to Miss Luo Quan finishing her year of exchange studies and returning to Japan as soon as possible.

Everyone had been excited for a long time after she graduated from Shangyi, thinking she was finally coming back, but in the blink of an eye, she ran off to the UK for a vacation, staying there for over a month.

And just when netizens thought Miss Luo Quan would keep drifting abroad until the new semester started before returning to Japan, surprising news suddenly appeared.

"Luggage packed, destination—Tokyo!"

This was the caption of a new photo posted on Miss Luo Quan's Bilibili feed. In the photo, she and Junko were sitting on chairs in the airport lounge, looking ready to board.

After the photo came out, Bilibili fans didn't have a particularly huge reaction; they all knew Miss Luo Quan would return to Japan sooner or later after graduation, it was just a matter of time.

But for Japanese fans, it was simply the best news ever!

After the update was reposted to foreign sites, Twitter in Japan went straight into a frenzy.

"Miss Luo Quan will be taking the 10 o'clock flight back to Japan!"

This news instantly hit number one on Twitter's search trends, and every time the page was refreshed, hundreds more tweets would appear.

Miss Luo Quan hadn't even left the country yet, and this news had already accumulated tens of thousands of comments.

And for Japanese fandom fans who have always liked to take action, just expressing their joy online was far from enough.

After domestic fans get a celebrity's itinerary, they organize a large group of people to pick them up at the airport; the more grand the procession, the more it reflects how famous the celebrity they support is.

Japanese fans are only more fanatical than domestic ones.

Generally speaking, out of consideration for public order, Miss Luo Quan never releases her flight itinerary, but the reason she broke the rule this time was mainly to see how much of her popularity in Japan remained.

She had quite high confidence in her fan stickiness, but she wasn't particularly clear about other passersby, and this test was mainly for passersby.

After all, when she left, she at least had the title of National Goddess, and everyone from passersby to fans loved her to death.

But in this fickle era, this kind of love that everyone has is the cheapest.

People's herd mentality means they naturally like a celebrity because everyone around them does, but such liking is irrational in most cases, and they don't even know why they like the celebrity.

And such liking, when encountering a negative trend, will immediately follow the crowd and start bashing.

The only good news is that Miss Luo Quan is currently quite protective of her reputation; she doesn't do anything that would attract hate, doesn't say a word that could be twisted, and doesn't take on shows or dramas that would be criticized.

Therefore, her image remains perfect to this day.

And this leak of her itinerary counts as a small act of willfulness; one can imagine that many fans will definitely come to pick her up, but what she really wants to see is the passersby's opinion of her.

Facts proved that Miss Luo Quan had seriously underestimated her influence in Japan.

After the news of her returning to Japan spread, it first caused a massive wave on Twitter; over ninety percent of young Japanese people using Twitter gathered, expressing their heartfelt ecstasy with words and pictures.

Soon, Japanese media also participated.

All along, any news related to Miss Luo Quan and traffic wealth codes have been synonymous.

But interestingly, the first Japanese media to participate was actually TV Tokyo.

Today is Sunday, the weekend, and whether it's students or most office workers, they are all holed up at home enjoying their pleasant weekend time.

TV Tokyo, which was originally broadcasting "Naruto," suddenly cut to the studio, where the host in a suit and tie sat upright with a very solemn expression.

Middle school students watching anime thought there was another earthquake somewhere, and seeing this formation, it was at least a magnitude 8, otherwise TV Tokyo wouldn't have stopped the anime to interrupt with news.

The only thing they didn't understand was that if it were a major earthquake, Japan is so small that there should be a strong shock everywhere.

Before they could figure it out, the host spoke:

"Breaking news: according to the latest information on Twitter, Izumi will return to Tokyo, Japan today, and at the moment of this broadcast, she should have already boarded the plane!"

"Is that all?" The middle school student scratched his head, just about to complain about stopping the anime during the exciting part for such a small thing, but suddenly, his eyes widened: "Wait! Izumi is back? Yatta (Great)!"

The middle school student instantly jumped up from the tatami on the second floor, making a loud bang when he landed.

"What are you doing, Taro?" His father and mother ran up from downstairs, showing a suspicious and uncertain expression when they saw their son dancing with excitement.

"Father, Mother, Izumi is finally back!" Taro pointed to the news being rebroadcast on TV and said joyfully.

"Oh, Izumi is actually coming back." Taro's father also smiled; this was his favorite female singer, and he had purchased every one of her physical albums!

"She should have come back long ago; she won't leave again this time, right?" Taro's mother, like her husband and son, was also smiling happily.

Without a doubt, this family of three were all Miss Luo Quan fans.

"Can't wait, I'm going to Narita Airport to pick her up!" Taro didn't even have time to change his clothes, ran quickly to the entrance on the first floor, stepped into his slippers, and ran out to the street.

Similar scenes were happening in households across Tokyo and even all over Japan.

Of course, the public in Tokyo mainly learned the news of Miss Luo Quan's return through TV Tokyo, but TV Tokyo was the only one in all of Japan to broadcast it in the form of an interruption; other TV stations were just scrolling news at the bottom of the screen.

Although the latter was not as eye-catching as TV Tokyo, this kind of national announcement was definitely a unique treatment that few artists have enjoyed so far.

And at this time, Miss Luo Quan on the plane hadn't landed yet, but she was already a bit overwhelmed.

She posted the update shortly after entering the lounge, about twenty minutes before boarding, and this time was enough for most foreign tourists playing on their phones to know her itinerary.

Most of the passengers on this flight to Tokyo were Japanese; among a crowd of black-haired Asians, Miss Luo Quan with her bright rice-gold hair was even more conspicuous than a street lamp in the dark night.

Among these Japanese tourists, there was almost no one who didn't know Miss Luo Quan's name.

Soon someone saw the news that Miss Luo Quan was about to return to Japan, and connecting it to the 10 o'clock flight, they guessed where she was most likely to be after a little thought.

Consequently, whether boys or girls in the lounge raised their heads and started looking around.

In addition to young people from Japan, many Chinese boys traveling to Japan also joined the search.

For Japan, Miss Luo Quan is a symbol of the new era, the new diva of the Japanese music scene, and the goddess who inspired society to revive the stock market; her status is unmatched in the current Japanese entertainment industry.

And for China, how could her fame and status be any lower?

What's more, she had spent most of her time in the country for over a year; the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and the Bilibili Spring Festival Gala were almost all in the most important positions, and there were at least eighty or a hundred hot searches, big and small.

Such popularity is the top of the top, and she is the focus of the crowd wherever she goes.

And this focus was now right beside them; how could this keep the young people calm?

And under so much searching, Miss Luo Quan, who hadn't deliberately disguised herself, was quickly picked out; after all, she posted photos and text, and following the clothes in the photo, it was hard not to find her!

"Izumi, is it really you, Izumi?" Several Japanese young people had already surrounded her, both boys and girls, each one with the youth on their faces shining with excitement.

"You recognized me just like that?" Miss Luo Quan was stunned; she was clearly wearing sunglasses and a mask.

She was originally thinking about what kind of pickup treatment she would encounter at the airport after getting off the plane, but she never expected to be recognized before even boarding.

"You're the only blonde in the whole lounge, who else could it be?" The boy shook his phone, and on the screen, the selfie of Miss Luo Quan and Junko was smiling brightly.

Miss Luo Quan admitted that she was stupid this time and underestimated her national popularity.

But it didn't matter if she was recognized; it just moved the pickup scene up a bit.

"Since I've been found out, I won't pretend anymore." Miss Luo Quan chose to show her hand and took off her mask and sunglasses.

"Can... can you give me an autograph? I've listened to every song you've released." The boy was so excited he was incoherent, his two hands trembling as he took a notebook out of his bag.

"No problem." Miss Luo Quan took a marker from her bag and wrote her name on the notebook in a regular script font that looked like it was typed on a computer.

Celebrities usually design very flamboyant signature fonts, but after seeing them, Miss Luo Quan felt that many were like the slips given by hospital doctors, circle after circle, and you couldn't tell what they were at all.

For something like a name, it's better to write it clearly and plainly, so Miss Luo Quan's signature has been so meticulous to this day.

But precisely because she was so serious, she probably hadn't even finished writing one by the time others signed three.

And precisely because it was so troublesome, she rarely released signed albums anymore.

She certainly wouldn't admit that this was because of her laziness, but at least now that fans were in front of her, she definitely wouldn't refuse.

She originally thought these fans were all there were on this flight, but she didn't expect that as her identity was exposed, more and more people surrounded her.

Some wanted to see their idol, while others were just there to watch the excitement and take a photo.

Miss Luo Quan saw so many people lining up here, and her spot seemed to have become a boarding gate.

Feeling that this wasn't right, after signing a few, she used the excuse of a sore hand and asked the fans to wait a while before coming back, which finally dispersed them temporarily.

She originally thought that after boarding, no one would come to her seat to line up for autographs, but after sitting down, with her seat as the center, one notebook after another came from all directions.

The fans sitting around her even volunteered to act as a transfer station, not afraid of hardship or fatigue, simply like imitation fans.

Miss Luo Quan never dreamed that she would encounter 163 fans on one flight; she couldn't even remember when she last signed so much.

After signing, Miss Luo Quan was shaking her hand in her seat, while Junko beside her couldn't help but giggle: "I was quite envious of Quan-chan having so many fans just now, but now I'm not envious at all. Sometimes with so many fans, just signing an autograph can cause quite a bit of trouble."

Miss Luo Quan, who was shaking her hand, heard this and laughed: "Are you sure you're not envious? Some things shouldn't be said too early, you know."

Although signing so much was a bit tiring, it could be considered as revealing the answer Miss Luo Quan wanted to test in advance.

Most of the Japanese people who asked for her autograph just now were there, and they were of all ages; there were even three or four elderly people in their sixties or seventies!

What does this mean? It means her fame in Japan still kills across all age groups! The year-long escape didn't affect her popularity in Japan too much.

Although the sample size of one flight was too small, by looking at the leopard, one could basically determine it.

Junko nodded without hesitation: "Of course, if I were recognized every time I went out and then had to sign so much, that would be too uncomfortable."

Miss Luo Quan listened, smiled, and didn't speak.

And Junko soon knew why Miss Luo Quan laughed.

During a nap, the plane had arrived at Narita Airport in Japan, and amidst the rumbling sound of the plane landing like thunder, Miss Luo Quan stepped on the land of Tokyo once again.

The plane drove forward slowly and gradually reached outside the tunnel.

And above the tunnel, a huge banner twenty meters long was hanging:

"Welcome Izumi back to Japan!"