Chapter 684: You dirty-minded guy, ptooey!!

The roaring engine sound came from afar, making the few people at the front desk look up.

While Naoki Nagayama was drinking iced atomic soda and chatting with Wuchun Kawahara and Xin Xiaoyansi, Takao Ozaki finally brought Shizuka Kudo back.

Shizuka Kudo, who took off her helmet, had a face full of excited flush on her fair skin. Her small nostrils were flapping rapidly in her rapid breathing, and her airport-like chest was heaving, as if one could hear the thumping heartbeat.

"Naoki-san!"

Naoki Nagayama handed over a bottle of soda: "How is it, are you very happy now?"

"Yes!" Shizuka Kudo's tone was full of joy. "Arigato!"

"No problem, no problem, just sing well later~" Naoki Nagayama nodded. "Go to the lounge upstairs and adjust, we'll go record the record in a while."

"Yes!"

Watching the young girl walk up with happy steps, Naoki Nagayama also felt that there shouldn't be any problem with this record recording, so he notified Xin Xiaoyansi to prepare as well.

Just as he wanted to go up too, a strong arm suddenly reached out from the side, giving him a "strong man locks man" hold, and then Takao Ozaki's voice came from the side:

"Naoki... don't you think you should explain something~~"

Naoki Nagayama said helplessly: "Takao... let go quickly... you are too short, it's pressing my shoulders so heavily..."

"..." One sentence made Takao Ozaki break his defense, and he instantly increased the strength of his arm. "Baka, my net height is 178, okay! Rounding up is 1.8 meters! Where am I short!"

To be honest, this height is considered very good in Neon~

"Yes yes, not short, not short..." Naoki Nagayama patted his arm to indicate surrender. "Let go first, let's talk properly!"

"Hmph!"

Takao Ozaki let go angrily, then sat on the stool at the front desk, and even grabbed a bottle of atomic soda and drank it as if to vent.

"You guy, you were clearly tricking me before! That little girl... Shizuka Kudo, right, she is clearly healthy as can be!"

"Ha, you found out~" Naoki Nagayama smiled. "Chatted on the way?"

"Of course we talked! When I asked her what speed she wanted to reach for her dying wish, the look she gave me was like looking at a fool!" Takao Ozaki was indignant. "So what on earth did you want me to take her speeding for?!"

"Actually, when Shizuka-chan was recording the song, she couldn't get into the state, and I knew she especially liked speeding... So let her receive a bit more stimulation, get her emotions excited, and her body excited, so it would be convenient for what follows."

"..."

After this sentence was finished, the other two people at the front desk looked at Naoki Nagayama with strange eyes.

Takao Ozaki swallowed the soda in his mouth, his tone a bit strange: "Naoki, if you hadn't mentioned recording a song earlier, others would think you were going to do strange things to the little girl!"

"???"

Naoki Nagayama turned his head and glanced at Wuchun Kawahara, finding that he also showed a look of agreement, so his eyes narrowed slightly:

"Clearly such normal words, and you can actually think crookedly!!

You two dirty-minded guys! I look down on you!

Ptooey~~~"

So Naoki Nagayama was naturally chased by Takao Ozaki to the second floor.

After pacifying this irritable brother again, Naoki Nagayama introduced him: "Shizuka-chan is a new artist of Tree Friend, currently recording her debut song... ah, no, her first solo record. Strictly speaking, Shizuka-chan has already debuted."

"Wait a minute!" Takao Ozaki seemed to suddenly remember something. "Shizuka Kudo, Shizuka Kudo... seems to be a member of some group."

"Ah, Onyanko Club, 'Evening Meow Meow'. Does Takao-kun watch it too?" In fact, the program "Evening Meow Meow" was mainly aimed at teenagers, and Takao Ozaki was clearly no longer young.

"I watched it twice when I first returned to Tokyo." Takao Ozaki clearly didn't remember the 15-year-old Shizuka Kudo. "Just saying why she looked a bit familiar."

"Hmm, I dug her over~" Naoki Nagayama said.

"I see..." Takao Ozaki clearly thought that Naoki Nagayama attached special importance to this newcomer. "You value the first song, so you specially called me over to help, right."

"No... I just thought you should be relatively free..."

"..."

The irritable brother almost wanted to take action again~

In fact, Naoki Nagayama didn't care at all about joking with this guy, knowing that he wouldn't care at all. The two were friends who hit it off at first sight abroad, and after arriving in Neon, there was no strong interest relationship, it was a quite pure friendship.

Naoki Nagayama had many friends, but very few of the same age, and even fewer of similar levels.

Although he was also good friends with Genta Nakai, Genta Nakai was working under him after all. Drinking, chatting, and reminiscing were all fine, but Genta Nakai wouldn't "take action" against him... The subtlety of this was inevitable after the change of identity...

Shizuka Kudo's entry broke the lively atmosphere, and even Takao Ozaki restrained himself a bit in front of the little girl.

"Naoki-san, I'm ready!"

Naoki Nagayama nodded: "Alright, then let's try one more time!"

The singer walked into the recording room, and with the sound of simple accompaniment, the light and clear voice also rang out:

"

Happy day Summer day

Sunshine Girl

I like it, Happy day Summer day

Sunshines for you

"

This singing voice was significantly more cheerful than before, just like a summer elf walking in front of you while jumping and bouncing.

The few people outside the recording studio nodded along with the rhythm, among whom Takao Ozaki was even more very happy, and even clapped his hands...

Soon the song ended, and he said excitedly:

"Naoki, this song is a new song, it's very cheerful!"

"Yes, it's very suitable for listening in the summer." Naoki Nagayama laughed. "Takao, you can be considered the first outsider to hear it! Hahaha, just take it as today's reward~"

"Really stingy!" Takao Ozaki rolled his eyes. "But it doesn't matter, it's not bad to hear Shizuka-chan sing... I'll forgive you with mercy!"

"..."

Takao Ozaki was watching the recording of a record for the first time, and looked at the various buttons outside the recording studio with curiosity: "Is this considered recorded?"

"Not yet... The singing just now was very good, but there are still places that need adjustment."

"Actually still need adjustment?"

"Of course..."

Naoki Nagayama said and began to give more specific guidance to Shizuka Kudo in the recording room. There were a few sentences that needed to be re-recorded, and the English in a few sentences also needed to be adjusted slightly...

Even with the template in his memory as a reference, the actual record production still took Naoki Nagayama quite a bit of time.

After the recording ended in the afternoon, Takao Ozaki asked:

"Go for a drink tonight?"

"Shouldn't have much time, I have to go home... After that, I have to rush to Kanagawa overnight to continue filming the movie." Naoki Nagayama belonged to the type who slipped out halfway, and there was a whole film crew waiting there.

"Actually hasn't finished filming yet?" Takao Ozaki knew that Naoki Nagayama was filming a movie.

"Almost, it has to be finished by late August, and then released in mid-September." Naoki Nagayama patted Takao Ozaki's shoulder. "I'll invite you to the premiere then!"

"Oh? Then I have to look forward to it~"

After the two chatted for a while longer, Takao Ozaki left on his cool Kawasaki.

And Naoki Nagayama here took Wuchun Kawahara's car back to Shanying Garden.

The short bamboo outside the wall was still lush, with bamboo leaves intertwined, making it impossible to see the specific appearance inside the courtyard. Only a lush cherry tree could be seen, and behind the cherry tree was a grayish-brown two-story Western-style building.

After opening the door, the empty courtyard added a bit of vitality. He hadn't been back for more than a month, and thanks to the regular cleaning by the housekeeping company, Shanying Garden didn't seem to have changed at all.

The mats on the eaves and the thick reinforced concrete blocked the summer heat, making the living room even seem a bit cool. The dark brown floor and the solid wood furniture made of black walnut were spotless. The medals and trophies in the display cabinet were shining brightly, sitting quietly with other ornaments, as if waiting for the owner's inspection.

Naoki Nagayama, who returned home, felt a bit more relaxed, but he wasn't in the mood to look at the room, but instead turned and walked towards the study on the second floor.

The study was not allowed to be cleaned by housekeeping staff. After opening the door of the study, a smell of paper and ink came to his face. The tightly closed windows made the air not circulate well, appearing a bit stuffy.

Naoki Nagayama immediately opened the windows, and fresh air with heat rushed in, blowing up fine dust, dancing non-stop in the sunlight shining in obliquely, bright and crystal-like, like diamond powder.

The desk and piano inevitably had some dust on them, and even the short sword named 'Red Snow Left Text' on the sword rack on the offering table had a layer of dust on the scabbard inlaid with gems, losing its bright color.

Yes, grandfather still gave that "family heirloom treasure sword" to Naoki Nagayama... making him a bit dumbfounded, and finally had to put it in the study...

Putting the "Squid Game" script in the file bag into the desk drawer, Naoki Nagayama looked at the environment of the study, but couldn't help but clean it up a little, until all the surfaces in the study were clean enough to reflect light.

"This is about right..."

After putting away the rag, Naoki Nagayama went to the bedroom, took a shower, and then returned to the study, starting to quickly write down the clues of other memories he recalled before...

" 'Battle Royale', also starring Takeshi Kitano... high unemployment rate, the government promulgated a law, randomly selecting students..."

"Life is like a game..." "Have you ever killed your friend?"

He wrote down all the memory fragments about "Battle Royale", and then continued to write "Liar Game", "Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor", "Alice in Borderland", etc.

He had watched these movies more or less. Although he didn't recall these movies when he recalled them before, there were some memory fragments about them, but it wasn't convenient to write them down when he was on the set.

At that time, Yuko Tanaka was very concerned about Naoki Nagayama's mental state. When he was writing the "Battle Royale" script, she stayed by his side every day to watch, under the guise of:

"I am concerned about Naoki-san! Being addicted to such violent things every day will affect your spirit! So I must watch Naoki-san well!"

If it weren't for the fact that she was eating snacks while watching the newly written script and urging for updates, Naoki Nagayama might have believed it.

When almost all the clues were written, Naoki Nagayama looked at the manuscript paper in his hand and couldn't help but think:

"These movies seem to be adapted from novels... It seems I can reverse-engineer the novels!"

After several years of novel copying and constant reading, Naoki Nagayama felt that he might not have any problems writing novels according to the outline.

"However... I seem to have written romance novels before..."

Except for the first one, "Garden of Summer", the others, "Love Letter", "Koizora", "My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday", were all romance novels. People in the literary circle and fans had already regarded him as a writer specializing in romance literature, and even because of the pure and beautiful youth tragedy elements that made people love and hurt, he had the title of "Representative of Youth Pain Literature".

"If I suddenly come up with such a 'Battle Royale', or other similar novels, would it be a bit abrupt... would the character setting collapse..."

After thinking wildly for a while, Naoki Nagayama shook his head.

"Forget it, I'll write it out when I have time later... At worst, I'll change my vest, not call it Ting Shu~"

After organizing the manuscript paper, he put the things related to the novel into another drawer, and Naoki Nagayama stretched.

He turned his head to look out the window, and the warm yellow sunset just fell to a low place.

An evening breeze blew, and it was already a bit cool~

The sky was like a dim curtain about to fall, but in the middle was a gradient silk ribbon of blue and yellow, and the horizon at the bottom was jagged black. One high-rise building after another turned into square gray blocks, occasionally with bright spots...

That was the light lit up early by the working people~

Naoki Nagayama, who closed the windows, returned to the bedroom to pack two sets of clothes to change, and then hurriedly went out to call a taxi.

He had to rush to Kanagawa.

Akina Nakamori, who came out of Kamakura, didn't have time to see the Great Buddha of Kamakura at all. Her next destination was Saitama, and she was currently moving fast on the national highway.

"Akina-chan, we will pass through Kiyose City, do you want to go over and take a look?" Mingxing Fangze asked.

This distance wasn't too far, there was no need to rush on the road, and it would be the same to have dinner in Kiyose in the evening and then get on the road.

"Kiyose..."

Speaking of this, Akina Nakamori thought of her mother. It was evening at this time, maybe her family was just eating together... Father, Ming Sui were all there...

Looking at the street trees and houses passing by quickly outside the window, and the fatigue of performing today... I don't know what happened, but Akina suddenly lost the urge to go home.

Just like an adult working person, after a tiring day, sometimes what they think of is just watching a few episodes of soap operas that don't need to use their brains, listening to music that makes people relax, eating some unhealthy but delicious junk food... They just want to rest quietly by themselves, instead of wanting to face the nagging of their parents.

Although she knew that her parents loved her, it was too tiring to spend energy to face their care at this time.

If she acted like a spoiled child to her mother and complained, it would make her worry, and maybe her father would reach out for money, and Ming Sui would be a bit sarcastic...

"Let's not go back today." Akina Nakamori hesitated for a while and said, "Let's go to Saitama and stay first, I'm a bit tired..."

"Yes!"

Mingxing Fangze responded and didn't continue to say anything.

After thinking wildly for a while, Akina Nakamori thought of her boyfriend again.

If it were Naoki-san, it would be perfectly fine to complain to him... No matter what she said, she could say it with peace of mind, without worrying about anything else at all.

Even when she was very tired, just leaning on Naoki-san, she could sleep very relaxedly~

And she didn't have to worry about money, interpersonal relationships, etc. Naoki-san would definitely handle these well!

Thinking of so much, Akina missed her boyfriend more and more~

She took out the Walkman that Naoki Nagayama gave her a long time ago, put on the headphones, and then opened the small box containing the tapes to look for the songs she wanted to listen to today.

Generally speaking, Akina Nakamori liked listening to Japanese songs. After all, she was a poor student, and English songs were a bit difficult...

Suddenly, a tape that wasn't Japanese attracted her interest. It was given to her by Naoki Nagayama, saying it was the most popular rock song in the United States, and it was also a female singer... letting Akina listen occasionally to understand the pop trends abroad more...

Akina took out the tape, put it into the Walkman, and pressed the play button.

With a rustling sound, the title song "When Doves Cry" from the album called "Purple Rain" rang out.

In the strong rhythm of traditional electronic musical instruments and electronic music, Akina Nakamori seemed to hear the singer's reflection and confusion about love and family... just like Akina Nakamori's mood at this time.

"Where is Naoki-san today?"

Such a thought suddenly popped up in her heart.

"Still in Kanagawa?" "What is Naoki-san doing today?" "How is the movie filming?" "When will he go back?"

A series of questions suddenly popped up...

Akina Nakamori suddenly wanted to arrive at the hotel in Saitama immediately, and then properly ask about Naoki-san's recent experiences.

"Fangze-san, how long until we reach Saitama?"

"Uh... it is expected to take about two hours." Mingxing Fangze estimated the distance and said.

"Can it be shortened to one hour?"

"?!"

What kind of tiger-wolf words are these?!

Akina Nakamori continued: "Drive faster?"

"... Akina-chan, my current speed is over 90..." Mingxing Fangze resisted the urge to complain. "If I want to shorten it to one hour, I need to reach nearly 200 kilometers per hour... That's the speed of the Shinkansen!"

"??? So?" Akina Nakamori asked. "Can it be done?"

"..."

At this moment, Mingxing Fangze thought of a lot, including popularizing high-speed speed limits, traffic laws, etc., but in the end, only his mouth was slightly open:

"Sumimasen, I really can't do it!"

"..."