Chapter 580: Actually treated me as a spare tire?!

When he came to Musashino University again, Naoki Nagayama was still very happy. The cherry blossoms on campus had bloomed one after another, and the light pink dotted the campus, making the whole school filled with a romantic atmosphere, like a scene in an anime.

"Masataka-kun, are the extras all here today?" In a borrowed classroom, there were more than a dozen young faces. Naoki Nagayama asked Komori Masataka, who contacted the extras, directly. "Have you told them the content of the performance?"

"Hai, Naoki-san, in fact, these people are members of the drama club." Komori Masataka explained. "So they have a certain understanding of performance."

"Well... then let's try it~"

Naoki Nagayama didn't have much confidence in how much effect the drama club's experience could have in the movie. But it doesn't matter, the main actors are fine.

"Momoko-chan." Naoki Nagayama looked at Momoko Kikuchi wearing a thin sweater.

"Hai!" The little girl's face was tight, and she seemed to have some psychological pressure.

"Actually, it's just like the improvisation performance when I went to your school before..." Naoki Nagayama comforted. "Your appearance now is actually very consistent with the mentality of a new college student. When you first enter school, you are nervous but have to maintain a mature adult appearance... Just try to talk less... The character is originally very introverted..."

"Eh?" Momoko Kikuchi was stunned, looking at Naoki Nagayama blankly with a pair of black and white eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's it." Who knew Naoki Nagayama nodded repeatedly. "This clear stupidity in the eyes is exactly the same! Very in place!"

"..."

Ito Shuichi Ido, who was fiddling with the camera, almost laughed out loud.

The scene in the classroom is a mutual introduction of new college students. The extras from the drama club were naturally keen to show themselves at the beginning. After Naoki Nagayama said it several times, they finally restrained a lot.

"April Story" is a very introverted and reserved movie, so it naturally doesn't need to be too enthusiastic.

During the filming process in the morning, besides the classroom, some shot fragments were filmed in the cafeteria and the school gate, as silhouettes of going to school. And it wasn't until the afternoon that they officially went to film the scene in the bookstore.

During the lunch break, Komori Masataka walked over: "Naoki-san, what do you think of this person?"

He brought the actor who was going to play the senior the female lead had a crush on. Naoki Nagayama looked at him, and he was indeed a handsome young man, but this point shouldn't depend on himself...

"Momoko-chan, come and see..." Naoki Nagayama called the little heroine over and pointed to the new actor. "Will you be moved when you see such a boy for the first time?"

"Eh?!!"

Momoko Kikuchi didn't know how many times she had been shocked. Since she started filming the movie, she felt that Naoki Nagayama, the director, was completely different from the directors she had learned from before.

Under his guidance, filming a scene, sometimes she didn't understand what was going on, and the shot was already filmed... And sometimes, there would be small requirements that made people embarrassed.

How can you ask a girl if she will be moved by someone!

"Momoko-chan, be bolder! Raise your head and look carefully!" Naoki Nagayama encouraged. "It's not easy to have a handsome one, it's a loss if you don't look!"

"..."

There were many strange ideas in her heart, but Momoko Kikuchi still looked at the male actor who was a bit embarrassed opposite. She seemed to have seen him in some movie, but... not her type!

Looking at the little girl lowering her head and not speaking, Naoki Nagayama knew that this guy was out of play...

"Well, it seems it doesn't work!" Naoki Nagayama had a headache after telling Komori Masataka. "If Momoko-chan doesn't like it, then the subsequent filming may not have that feeling of heartbeat..."

The bookstore is the reunion of the female lead and the boy she has had a crush on for a long time. She worked hard to get into Musashino University for that boy. The suppressed impulse and shyness in her heart can be said to be the most sensitive and difficult shot in the whole movie.

"What kind of boy does Momoko-chan like?" Naoki Nagayama asked.

"..." Momoko Kikuchi felt that the crew was getting more and more wrong... This is harassment!

Ito Shuichi Ido complained on the side: "Naoki-san, you are really completely unaware!"

"???"

Naoki Nagayama looked at Ito Shuichi Ido in surprise, and then looked at Momoko Kikuchi next to him. Sure enough, red clouds began to climb up the little girl's face slowly.

"So my ideal type is actually this kind of person?!" Naoki Nagayama confirmed.

Ito Shuichi Ido shook his head: "With Naoki-san standing in front of her, which girl wouldn't be moved..."

Yes, handsome, rich, and talented... Everyone else in the crew was nodding silently.

"This is also something that can't be helped..." Naoki Nagayama said helplessly. "But I can't participate in the filming... It will be out of character!"

Since "Love Letter," Naoki Nagayama's image has been a bit fixed. If he played other roles, it might not be anything, but if it was another youth love movie, it would be easy to bring it into "Love Letter" again.

"This... what should we do?"

Naoki Nagayama looked at the current situation and was a bit helpless... But after thinking about it, he prepared to get it done from other aspects!

"Momoko-chan, girls of your age should have idols they like, right?"

"Ah? Hai!"

"Male idol or female idol?"

"Both..." Momoko Kikuchi said, "If it's a female idol, I like Seiko-chan."

Sure enough, girls of this age can't escape those few female idols!

"Then what about male idols?"

"If it's a male idol... Toshihiko Tahara, Yutaka Ozaki..." The little girl said several names at once... Sure enough, she is a face fan!

Naoki Nagayama secretly clicked his tongue, but immediately found Komori Masataka: "Masataka-kun, call these people and ask... see who has time, can you come to guest star this afternoon..."

With Naoki Nagayama's current status, if he wants a guest star, most artists will not refuse!

"Eh?!!" Momoko Kikuchi's eyes opened wide again. Is this a wish come true?!

Yutaka Ozaki, who was eating lunch listlessly, rubbed his sore eyes looking at the bright sky outside.

As a suddenly popular male singer, this year, besides being busy, he was busy. And on a rare day off, he would naturally go to have a good time!

Like a young man who suddenly got rich, going to bars, disco, drinking, promiscuity... these are all ways to vent pressure. He had been having a good time until the early morning last night... Today he still has a headache from a hangover...

Suddenly, Akira Sudo's phone called:

"Ozaki... Naoki-san's crew called, hoping you can go and help guest star... How are you doing now?"

"Guest star?" Yutaka Ozaki was stunned when he heard it, and then reacted. "Naoki-san's 'April Story'?"

"Well, I heard you are one of the female lead's idols, so come and guest star as her crush." Akira Sudo briefly described it. "It's just a college student working part-time in a bookstore."

Helping to guest star is nothing to say. Even if he didn't have time, he would squeeze it out. That is Naoki Nagayama, his boss!

But...

"One of the idols..."

Yutaka Ozaki muttered, feeling a bit downgraded. If he said that, did he call others too? He was actually just a spare tire?!

Akira Sudo in the receiver asked: "How is it, can you go?"

"Hai, daijobu!" Yutaka Ozaki agreed.

This time I have to take a good look at what kind of heroine actually treated me as a spare tire!

The campus of Musashino University was very restless today, especially near a bookstore called Musashino-do around the school, where there were always some girls poking their heads... and boys.

I don't know where the gossip came from. Naoki Nagayama will come to this bookstore to film a movie this afternoon!

I heard that if you buy the new book "My Tomorrow and Yesterday's You" in the bookstore, you can get a 10-minute chat with Naoki Nagayama! You can even show your face in his new movie!

So it spread and spread, and some curious students took it seriously and started to pass by this originally remote bookstore inadvertently... The store manager was very happy today!

"Ozaki-san, just show your face simply, no other performance." Naoki Nagayama communicated with Yutaka Ozaki, who had changed into an apron, about the content of the guest star today. "Just pretend you are an ordinary part-time college student... You don't need to perform anything else, just treat the female lead as an ordinary passerby."

"... Er... Hai~" Just a pure NPC background board!

Then Naoki Nagayama started to guide Momoko Kikuchi.

"Momoko-chan, the excitement of seeing Yutaka Ozaki for the first time should have disappeared, right?" Naoki Nagayama asked the little girl whose expression had calmed down. "Is your heart still beating?"

"No way!" Momoko Kikuchi's face turned red...

"Good! That's the state! Keep it!" Naoki Nagayama was very happy looking at the blushing cheeks. "Remember, you are not here to buy books, but to peek at Ozaki-kun!"

"..." The two actors were a bit confused.

"Ito Shuichi-san, Masataka-kun, the camera is set up, right?!" Naoki Nagayama asked the two.

"Hai! It's already fixed, and it's covered with books! It won't appear in other shots!" Ito Shuichi Ido answered very firmly.

"Good, then everyone listen to my command: Action!"

The female lead Uzuki Unino was still wearing that blue floral dress. After walking into the bookstore, she pretended to look for books in the slightly dim store, but was actually looking for the boy she had had a crush on for many years, Yamazaki...

In one shot, the sunlight cast through the window, stopping on Momoko Kikuchi's beautiful face. The youthful girl surrounded by the scholarly atmosphere, shy... as if the character in the book, shone into reality...

Seeing this scene, Ito Shuichi Ido muttered to himself: "The girl in love in 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' now has a realistic appearance!"

It sounds short, but it takes a long time to actually film.

The several interactions of the female lead Uzuki Unino, the adjusted angles, and the changes after Yutaka Ozaki came, all had to be considered clearly by Naoki Nagayama as the director.

There are many scenes in this small bookstore, and of course, it is impossible to finish filming in one afternoon.

When the light began to dim, Naoki Nagayama had to announce that today's filming was coming to an end.

"Ozaki-san, do you have time tomorrow?" Naoki Nagayama asked.

"Of course!" Even if he didn't, he would definitely squeeze it out!

"That's good, we will come to film again tomorrow, and then your scenes will be almost finished." Naoki Nagayama smiled. "Thank you very much for suddenly calling you to help this time."

"Not at all! I should thank Naoki-san for giving me a chance to participate in the movie!"

Who says rebellious teenagers don't understand the world? After mixing in the entertainment industry for a year, polite words are also spoken, but the opportunity to participate in Naoki Nagayama's movie is indeed very rare.

When the crew finished work, they found that the bookstore was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, all of whom were people who rushed over after hearing the news.

So Naoki Nagayama and Yutaka Ozaki, who were present, could only move away quickly under the cover of the crowd...

"Sigh... I have to come to film tomorrow!" Naoki Nagayama sighed in the car. "I don't know if there will be so many people."

Ito Shuichi Ido smiled: "Naoki-san, you should be glad that this is Musashino... If it were in places like Shibuya or Shinjuku, it would definitely cause a gathering accident!"

"But... I don't appear on TV often, and I just filmed a movie that showed my face, how can there be so many people coming to see me?" Naoki Nagayama was puzzled. He didn't even pay much attention to fans.

"Yes... don't appear on TV often, and every time you appear, you do big things!"

Ito Shuichi Ido complained. Best-selling movies, gossip headlines, awards ceremonies, which one is not impressive. Other artists still need to consider exposure, but Naoki Nagayama, you appear as a spotlight...

"In this way, Naoki-san's image in people's hearts will become clearer and clearer!"

"Yeah, classmate, you should join us in protesting against this black-hearted store manager too!" The student who had been shouting the whole time felt he had met a kindred spirit in this younger student. He turned his head and patted Naoki Nagayama on the shoulder, "We are here to protect others from being deceived by this black-hearted store manager!"

The person who said the above words was slapped in the face at night!

After processing today's materials in the studio, Naoki Nagayama, who returned to Lishan at night, had just finished a steak dinner and was watching TV on the sofa while stroking Meitaro.

He found that Fuji TV started to cause trouble!

During the prime time of the evening, the first episode of the "New Words and Buzzwords Awards" program was officially launched!!

Because it had been "promoted" several times on other programs before, and a buzzword collection activity had been held, the audience already had a preliminary understanding of this program.

However, the first episode of the program still gave them a small surprise!

What is "Justice from Heaven"! The report letter from the sky directly saved the kidnapped Shiromaru-kun, but the letter was actually sent from Chiyoda, Tokyo!

What is "No one can defeat me in my BGM"! Watching the bad guys in uniforms, walking to the drumbeat of "Into the Battlefield," the audience wanted to beat them up!

What is "Next, it's commercial time"! Why did it really start playing shampoo commercials! Laundry detergent commercials don't work either! Call the police! This program plays language memes!

A program with legendary nature, entertainment, and hot gimmicks instantly caught the eyes of TV audiences.

Buzzwords are generated from events that people pay attention to. The wider the buzzwords spread, the greater the influence and popularity of the event.

In addition to the hot events known to all of Japan, there are naturally different hot events in various cities.

This program, which reviews the buzzwords of last month, is also equivalent to reviewing the most famous hot spots of last month, and it also connects different hot spots in various places, allowing people to intuitively feel the people and things happening in other parts of Japan in this still closed era.

So as soon as it was broadcast, it instantly grabbed the eyes of TV audiences.

"Naoki-san! According to preliminary statistics, the ratings should be between 25-30%!" Haruta Kamiya called Naoki Nagayama an hour after the program ended. "But unlike other programs, it's been almost an hour, and the phone calls received by the TV station are still many, and there is a continuous trend."

"It shows that the influence of this program should be long-lasting!"

Naoki Nagayama nodded absent-mindedly: "Yes, it was said when the program was first planned that this is a long-lived program."

"Naoki-san, we will publish this buzzword in the newspaper later, and then collect the next buzzwords for a long time!" Haruta Kamiya definitely couldn't sleep tonight, and his tone was so excited that it was about to break through the phone line. "In addition, we have to draw the lucky audience who got Naoki-san's new book!"

"Hey, hey, hey! Isn't he here now!" the store manager shouted hurriedly, "Isn't Naoki Nagayama right outside!"

"Don't try to divert our attention! Are you trying to run away, Manager?" "Don't even think about running!"...

A group of people who are worked up will not listen to anything unrelated to them; these hot-blooded students completely refused to believe the store manager's words.

Takamatsu Ren, who was at the very front, had a flushed face and looked even more disdainful: "I am the one at the very front! There's no one else here! Just my newly acquainted junior! Right... Junior Nagayama...?"

Takamatsu Ren stopped halfway through his sentence, as if he had jammed, and slowly turned his head: "Junior Nagayama... what was your name again?"

Naoki Nagayama was still craning his neck to look at the commotion inside. Hearing this, he stopped and said to his newly acquainted "senior":

"I am Naoki Nagayama, Senior Takamatsu."

"..."

Only then did Takamatsu Ren notice that at some point, a crowd had gathered on the outermost perimeter, with several handsome men and beautiful women in the middle, and some people carrying camera equipment on the side...

Looking at Naoki Nagayama in front of him, Takamatsu Ren finally realized that this newly acquainted junior was actually so handsome. Then he looked at the other handsome man not far away... that looked like Yutaka Ozaki!

He continued to look at the girl next to him... so cute! She was practically like a star!

Takamatsu Ren felt his breathing start to quicken and barely managed to steady himself: "... So, Naoki Nagayama is indeed coming to this bookstore to film a movie, right?"

"Ah... yes, I told the manager yesterday that I wanted to borrow the store," Naoki Nagayama replied.

"Then... the autographs and interaction are also true?"

Naoki Nagayama shook his head: "I never said anything about autographs and interaction... but the new books in the store were indeed written by me... since we've run into each other, signing a few is fine."

Takamatsu Ren felt a wave of dizziness in his brain and forced himself to endure it; he absolutely could not collapse at this moment!

This is my final pride as a student council member! I must vindicate the black-hearted store manager; he was not wrong! We were the ones who were wrong! We wronged him!

He let out a loud shout!

"Classmates! Listen to me for a second!!!"

The attention of the people in the bookstore was instantly drawn over, looking at Takamatsu Ren. It seemed like at the beginning, it was this guy who said he wanted to organize the protest!

For a moment, everyone's eyes were on Takamatsu Ren. The "trust" and "expectation" in their gazes made his breathing heavy, and he seemed unable to catch his breath... the whole person seemed as if they were suffering from oxygen deprivation...

"I (we)..." Takamatsu Ren couldn't catch his breath, "... wronged (the manager)... ah..."

A rush of blood surged to his head, and Takamatsu Ren felt as if his whole body were flying, feeling light and airy... he only heard a noisy sound around him. If he listened closely, he could still hear things like:

"Classmate, what's wrong with you?" "He said he wronged him!"

"He collapsed!" "I didn't push him!"

"Ambulance! Who called an ambulance!"...

Ah... Takamatsu Ren remembered, he had asthma...