Chapter 691: What is Naoki doing?!

With a blink of the eyes, it's already September~

Summer mornings arrive early; just past six o'clock, light with a hint of blue already filtered through the bedroom window.

Perhaps because he had exercised for the first time in a long while yesterday, Naoki Nagayama, who had been sleeping exceptionally well, actually woke up quite early, though his girlfriend in his arms was still fast asleep.

Naoki Nagayama had been awake for a while, the light outside the window growing brighter. He tilted his head to look at Akina:

Her rounded shoulders were exposed, her delicate skin smoother than the silk quilt covering her. Above her slender neck was an exquisite cheek, her long eyelashes slightly curled, but why were her fine moth-like brows furrowed again...

"Should I wake Akina up?"

Naoki Nagayama was a bit conflicted; the main issue was that the arm pinned underneath her had gone completely numb!

He hadn't felt it while asleep, but upon waking, it was a series of tingling sensations that were quite uncomfortable. However, after taking another look at his girlfriend's profile, Naoki Nagayama decided to endure it:

"Little Right! I'll have to wrong you for a while longer!"

But Naoki Nagayama didn't hold out for long. Soon, a thumping sound came over, and then Naoki Nagayama saw the bedroom door handle turn downward, and a white, fluffy thing opened the door and walked in.

The dog's recovery ability seemed much more exaggerated than a human's. Eitaro was full of energy at this moment, running in full of life. Seeing Naoki Nagayama with his eyes open, he wagged his tail even faster, leaning in as if wanting to climb onto the bed~

"!"

Naoki Nagayama reached out, using his eyes to stop the dog's presumptuous behavior, but he still couldn't block the dog's barking:

"Woof woof! (Get up and have fun!)"

"......."

Before Naoki Nagayama could continue speaking, Akina Nakamori's eyelashes in his arms trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes.

From groggy to clear-headed, she looked up and met Naoki Nagayama's gaze, then revealed a smile:

"Naoki-san, ohayou~"

In the dining room of Shanying Yuan, a washed and groomed Naoki Nagayama and Akina Nakamori were sitting on opposite sides of the dining table, eating breakfast in a leisurely manner.

"So, you're going to attend a music festival awards ceremony?"

Naoki Nagayama asked vaguely while biting into a slice of bread.

"Mm, the 'Nippon Television Music Festival', it's a very famous major award!" Akina Nakamori said, her face full of confidence, "This time, there's a chance to win the Grand Prize!"

Although she would be very humble during actual competitions, in private, Akina was quite confident in herself; she was currently the top tier of the idol world.

After all, she had the hard strength, and such high sales combined with the support of Burning Production, the possibility of winning was very high.

"So impressive~"

Naoki Nagayama praised, but in his heart, he actually felt that these music festivals and such were mostly competitions to earn traffic. In this era, the truly weighty music awards were quite clear: one was the Japan Record Awards, as well as the Japan Cable Awards and the All Japan Cable Broadcasting Awards.

As for the JASRAC Awards presented by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, which only started last year, and the Japan Gold Disc Award, which didn't even have a shadow yet, those were reputations that would only come later.

However, so far, Akina had only won the Best Newcomer Award at the Japan Cable Awards.

Akina ate the lettuce into her mouth like a little hamster, then continued: "And after that, it's the All Japan All-Star Selection Grand Sports Meet, which will last for three or four days."

These two things were the most important in the first half of September. The second half of the month was mainly for the recording of new songs and the album cover and such. As for other things like the recording of programs like "The Best Ten", as well as various announcements, offline activities... they were too numerous to count, so there was no need to list them all.

"What about Naoki-san? It's September, do you have any important work?"

Naoki Nagayama thought for a moment:

"Me? Mainly just finishing the editing of 'Kikujiro's Summer' and preparing for its release."

As for the rest, he could choose to do none of it!

"How leisurely~" Akina felt a bit envious.

"By the way, Akina, the day after tomorrow... no, the day after that, are you free on the 3rd?" Naoki Nagayama asked.

"The 3rd?" She thought about it in her little head, "I think I have to go record 'DOUP'."

Naoki Nagayama turned it over in his mind; it turned out to be the music program on TV Asahi before "Music Station": "That program? Hasn't it been canceled yet?"

"..... Of course not! Although 'Music Station' has high ratings, it has only been on for two months or so." Akina said with a smile, "Does Naoki-san have any plans for the 3rd?"

"Didn't I say before that I wanted to give Akina a car? You can pick up the car on the 3rd~" Naoki Nagayama laughed, "How about I pick you up from work then? You can drive when we go back at night!"

"Eh? Can I get the car already?" Akina was naturally more than willing in her heart, "Then I have to brush up on my driving skills!"

"Hahaha~"

After finishing breakfast, the two of them lingered in Shanying Yuan for a while before hearing the car horn of Norinori Fangze; he had come to pick Akina up for work.

As the sun gradually rose, the temperature climbed step by step, and the clouds in the sky thickened, like layers of thin gauze covering the face, making it somewhat difficult to breathe.

Naoki Nagayama sat cross-legged on the floorboards of the eaves, feeling a bit of coolness.

Eitaro was running happily back and forth by the courtyard wall, seemingly chasing a grasshopper or a katydid, or perhaps he had just seen an ant.

Holding a cat teaser in one hand, he waved it in front of Miaotaro, who was squatting nearby, but it didn't get any reaction from this experienced orange cat.

Occasionally, when the feathers touched Miaotaro's whiskers, he would even give him a look of disdain~

"Heh... Miaotaro, I'm doing this to get you to move more, look how fat you've gotten!" Naoki Nagayama poked the big orange's chubby belly with the cat teaser.

The big orange reached out and pressed down on the cat teaser, letting out a heavy meow:

"Meow~~ (Two-legged beast, don't be too presumptuous!)"

"Yo ho... not moved at all?" Naoki Nagayama was annoyed, immediately went to the storage room to get some catnip powder and smeared it on the cat teaser...

So, after a while, Naoki Nagayama was sitting on the edge of the eaves, reading a novel with one hand, while the other hand used a small fishing rod to sway the cat teaser left and right. In the courtyard below was an excited Miaotaro, constantly chasing the cat teaser and making unintelligible sounds...

An hour later, Naoki Nagayama's arm was a bit sore, and he looked at the panting fat cat and said:

"Let's stop here for today... continue tomorrow, I don't believe I can't train you, Miaotaro, into a muscle cat!"

After putting away the toys, Naoki Nagayama didn't continue to stay at home. Although today was Saturday, he still drove to the studio.

It was the weekend, and most people were on holiday, but there were still some people on duty at the studio... The entertainment industry never rests.

"Naoki-san?!"

The receptionist on duty today was Xingxia Suzuki, who was somewhat surprised to see the big boss of the company.

"Xingxia-chan~ Have you gotten used to being at the company for so long?" Naoki Nagayama asked with a smile.

"Ah... used to it, used to it! Everyone in the company is very friendly!"

Xingxia Suzuki was both surprised and happy. The handsome and rich big boss is actually caring about me! Does he have any intentions toward me?!

"That's good~" Naoki Nagayama nodded, then asked, "The editing room door is locked, right? Give me the key."

"No."

"?" Naoki Nagayama was puzzled.

"Ah, it's not locked!... There's someone in the editing room right now!" Xingxia Suzuki said hurriedly.

"Oh?" Naoki Nagayama was puzzled. Who would be using the editing room at this time? "Who is inside?"

"It's..." Xingxia Suzuki just wanted to say, but couldn't remember who it was. "Ah, who was it? I only remember there was someone inside, but I can't remember who! Did I remember wrong?"

Saying this, Naoki Nagayama understood: "So it's him... I know, I'll go over directly!"

"Uh... Hai!"

Watching Naoki Nagayama's retreating back, Xingxia Suzuki regretted not saying a few more words to him, while also wondering, who was in the editing room? She vaguely remembered a figure wearing a gold watch. Was it haunted?

Naoki Nagayama opened the door to the editing room. The small editing room was very dim at this time. At first glance, there was no one there. The screen was playing the footage of "Kikujiro's Summer"... It was like a horror movie scene.

"Kijima-kun?"

"Ah, Naoki-san?!"

Kijima Xu's voice came from beside the table piled with film boxes, and then he saw him stand up.

"Why did Naoki-san come over today?"

"Didn't Kijima-kun also come over today?" Naoki Nagayama laughed, "Why not take a holiday?"

"Anyway, there's nothing to do at home, so I came over to organize the footage and mark the film..." Kijima Xu was even a bit embarrassed, "This way, it will be faster when editing!"

Looking at the sincere Kijima Xu, Naoki Nagayama was moved:

"Kijima-kun is a model employee!"

He walked over and patted him on the shoulder, but didn't mention anything about a raise or a year-end bonus!

The two of them started to organize the previous footage more systematically in the editing room.

"Naoki-san?" Kijima Xu asked suddenly.

"What?"

"Are we going to find an editing assistant this time?" Kijima Xu thought of the junior that Yin Tangxiu had brought over the day before yesterday. "Previously, Xiu-san brought a few students who had just graduated to visit, and when editing 'Love Like the Falling Rain', there were also newcomers who participated, all of whom have some experience."

"Ah~ that~" Naoki Nagayama waved his hand, "With me here, it's not needed!"

Comparing it with the memory in his mind, most of it was just copying work. Whenever Naoki Nagayama was the main editor of a movie, the efficiency had always been very high.

In Setagaya Ward, in a residence that was not large but very warm.

Genta Nakai was playing with his son who was almost one year old. He shook the small red leather ball in his hand in front of Shota Nakai's eyes, and after the little guy's attention was completely attracted, he gently tossed it into the corner of the room.

The small red leather ball bounced and hit the corner of the wall, then bounced to the side.

Genta Nakai pointed at the small ball and said to his son:

"Shota... go... pick that ball up!"

Lingmei Nakai, who was organizing clothes in the bedroom, saw this scene through the open door and was almost laughed to anger:

"Yuantai! What do you think Shota is! A puppy?!"

"What does it matter!" Genta Nakai looked at his son who was wobbling to pick up the ball and said stubbornly, "Isn't Shota very happy~"

Seeing his son really happily go to pick up the ball, and then smiling and handing it to his unscrupulous father wanting to do it again... Lingmei Nakai was speechless.

But she immediately thought of a good comeback:

"Yuantai, if Shota is a puppy, then as his father, what are you..."

"......."

Genta Nakai didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Just at this time, the home phone suddenly rang, and Genta Nakai hurried to answer it:

"Moxi Moxi, this is the Nakai family."

"Is that Yuantai-san? I'm Saka Koumichi." The company's trader Saka Koumichi called.

"Oh? Zhen-san, what's wrong? Actually calling me on a Saturday..." Generally speaking, unless it was something particularly urgent, Japanese companies wouldn't call during rest time, especially since the stock market was closed on weekends.

"I heard some news while eating with peers today." Saka Koumichi said somewhat nervously, "People from Fujitsu are secretly investigating the people who have been constantly buying General Air Conditioning stocks during this period."

"Fujitsu?"

"Hai!" Saka Koumichi said, "They must have also noticed something unusual."

Genta Nakai puzzled: "We have dispersed so many accounts, it shouldn't have attracted their attention. Is it because our purchasing speed is too fast?"

"No, but we have purchased nearly 8% of General Air Conditioning's shares in total, enough to attract their attention." Saka Koumichi said.

Indeed, when an acquisition is imminent, it would be a problem if the management didn't care about the company's shares.

Genta Nakai thought for a moment: "There are still 2 billion in funds in the account, right?"

"Hai!"

Borrowed 5 billion, prepared a total of 10 billion yen for such an acquisition, and currently there are about 2 billion in funds... This can be said that their previous acquisitions were very smooth.

"The account holding of Shuyou Capital should be 3% of the total shares, right?"

"Then..." Genta Nakai said, "Use Shuyou Capital's account to strengthen the acquisition, and then carry out a public announcement after reaching 5%!"

"This... Yuantai-san, isn't this telling the other party that we are acquiring?" Saka Koumichi was surprised. They had been secretly acquiring for more than half a year!

"Mm, anyway, in the end, Shuyou Capital will definitely be exposed." Genta Nakai said, "According to the plan with Naoki-san before, at this stage, it is almost time to wrap up."

Announcing at this time, making the management of General Air Conditioning and Fujitsu alert, just gave them a reason to dilute the shares. After the merger of General Air Conditioning, it will definitely issue additional shares.

"Hai, I understand~"

Genta Nakai hung up the phone and stared blankly for a while. The layout of more than half a year is about to be harvested. Is Naoki Nagayama still not in a hurry at this time?!

He hasn't been to Shuyou Capital to see it for more than a month! What on earth is this guy doing?!

In short, on the opening day next Monday, he must come to Shuyou Capital! ===== CHAPTER 692 =====