Chapter 142: What are you?

Seeing that this older man has made no move, Sakurajima Apricot’s gaze turns back and she steps up to the stage with Takahashi Mito and enters the contestant’s seat.

Just sitting down, instead, Takahashi Mito suddenly had a jolt and remembered who the male director was just now.

“Takeshi Fujimoto? Not recognizable at all.”

Sakurajima Apricot said faintly, then turned around, her eyes looking out into the vast audience.

She didn’t care about the director or not, famous or not, even though Takahashi Mito repeatedly introduced his masterpieces, Sakurajima Apricot still gave a soft “hmmm” under her breath and continued to look for something in the audience.

Until ……

Her eyes fell on Natsuki Aoi, who was also looking in her direction.

A look of surprise appeared in her pupils.

It was then that a charming smile spread across the corners of his mouth.

Many of the students who paid attention felt the smile refreshing at once.

Sakurajima Apricot slowly stretched up her right hand, wiggling her slender fingers like a piano, and greeted Aoi.

Aoi Natsuki’s heart stuttered steeply at the sight, coughing to try to demonstrate the strange emotions of the moment, and then also waved ** she nodded.

“See, Aoi isn’t right there.” Sakurajima Apricot said under her breath.

On the side of the Takahashi Mito was startled, followed by turning around, the sight of a search, but also quickly found the figure of Aoi, he even sat in such a forefront seat?

There were quite a number of students in the back who were casting attentive gazes towards the two of them, at this time Takahashi, on the contrary, didn’t dare to raise his hand to greet them, it felt like his two arms were very heavy, as if they were filled with lead water.

“What, no hello to Aoi?”

“It’s, it’s all so familiar, still, what’s the point of saying hello ……” Takahashi Midu frowned when she finished speaking.

Sakurajima Apricot glanced sideways at her face, her eyes flowing as she said, “A lot of things are won or lost by details, and it’s the accumulation of daily routines that leads to subsequent outbursts.”

Takahashi Mito’s gaze trembled as he turned his head to look at Sakurajima.

Four or five seconds passed like that, and more hard colors passed over her face.

In fact, what she just said was just an excuse, in reality, she was just a little embarrassed to do something special in front of so many people, if she was in private, she would have taken the initiative to greet Aoi herself! Uhm! That’s it!

Originally such a firm conviction, she instantly became routed after coming into contact with those eyes of Sakurajima, who clearly saw through her, while vaguely remembering in her mind snippets of memories from the past Will hesitation defeat ……

Takahashi Midu bit her lower lip, and eventually, guided by Sakurajima, slowly raised her right hand and said hello to Aoi as well, before turning away, her entire face reddening with the shyness in her heart.

Sakurajima, who was sitting beside him, had rarely seen Takahashi with this face, and followed casually with his left foot pressed against his right foot, his left elbow gently resting on his knee, his palm propped up on the side of his face, and watched Takahashi’s expression at the moment with interest, with his small hand clenched in a small fist, which is quite cute, to say nothing of it.

As for Aoi Natsuki’s end, she was unaware of what was happening between the two, and took it as a simple greeting, quietly waiting for the match to begin.

Five minutes later.

A tall male student walked onto the stage in a tuxedo as the host for the reading of this competition event, and immediately introduced the first contestant as well since it was really a waste of time in front of him.

“Please welcome the fifteenth ranked contestant in this popularity ranking, from the sophomore class, Saotome Set, performing the ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’.”

As soon as the moderator’s words were out of his mouth, the room erupted in deafening cheers as the first contestant entered the arena.

Aoi Natsuki looked at the webcast again at this point, and the number of viewers had surpassed 8,000 people online.

It’s only just begun.

Meanwhile, focusing on the popularity vote count, the top three ranked votes are directly riding away from each other, and Takahashi, who is in third place alone, has more than tripled the number of votes for fourth place, and the gap is still widening.

“So beautiful.” Hayakawa interlocked her hands with her fingers and looked at the performances of the contestants on the stage, her expression revealing that she was mesmerized, with a small person like her, she had actually always been envious of these girls who had such a good body proportion and danced exceptionally well, although she was good at sports, she had no talent at all when it came to dancing.

Aoi Natsuki’s attention was pulled back to reality by her words, looking back to the stage, that girl did dance brilliantly, like she had professionally had dancing lessons, turning his head to look at Hayakawa again, for a moment he actually felt a little stupid.

Because of being affected by the cheating behavior of swiping votes, the heart has been consciously or unconsciously thinking about this, but forgetting that these contestants on the stage are meeting this competition with full enthusiasm, they aspire to such an opportunity, so they chose to work hard to fight, and the audience offstage, just like Hayakawa, as a commoner’s point of view, can likewise feel the hard work she has put in for this, and this kind of performance only has more This makes the performance more meaningful.

Natsuki Arai let out a long breath through the tip of her nose, then put down her cell phone and began to blend into the general environment as well, enjoying the performance that the contestants on stage were bringing to the table.

That’s the biggest inspiration for her.

End of song.

The audience is greeted with loud applause, as Natsuki Arai and Hayakawa do the same.

In this competition, it is ultimately the number of votes in the popularity poll that counts, and the judges’ evaluations do not count as votes, but some of the people in the contestants’ seats know in their hearts that votes don’t count for anything, and ultimately they all hope that their performances will be seen by the director, and that they can subsequently succeed in stepping into the acting world and appearing in a movie.

Aoi Natsuki felt that the performance was quite good, but looked at director Fujimoto Takeshi’s expression, but a face of indifference, apparently he for such a performance has long been a breeze, really worthy of a professional director, but there is one thing, Aoi still quite admire him, the other party after the end of each contestant will be clapping and encouragement, will also briefly talk about the direction of the direction of the improvement, which is really rare for such a big director in terms of him.

The show continued in an organized fashion.

After all, it is a school’s school flower selection ranking, face value will not be very high, some look quite good, but on camera but always feel where the strange, the audience at this time also fell into the visual fatigue, in addition to the seventh place that funny female out to the social death of the way to tell a long series of paragraphs, has waited until the third contestant came out, the audience only regained the original enthusiasm, the game finally pushed forward ** part of it!

The third contestant was a pretty big call and was the start of a cliffhanger vote count for this school beauty contest.

Senior class, Exploratory Club member, Midu Takahashi, currently has 10,411 votes.

It was also one of the few contestants who came on stage wearing only their school uniforms.

There was a commotion at the contestant’s table as Takahashi seemed to be saying something to Sakurajima, followed closely by her getting up to her feet and walking slowly up to the stage, one step at a time.

Come to the center.

The whole room was looking forward to her performance.

But after waiting for half a quarter of an hour, many of the students’ faces stiffened with anticipation, and there was no background music ringing in their ears.

Strange ……

What’s she standing there for?

Aoi Natsuki and Hayakawa are considered to be more familiar with Takahashi’s people, look at her nervously holding the microphone, her head slightly lowered appearance, it would not …… be she forgot the words, right?

When the host just read out the program, he said it was a no-object performance, and I was expecting a long-prepared bit of acting, but it didn’t seem like it.

The lack of movement for so long soon caught the attention of director Takeshi Fujimoto at the judges’ table, and with his mouth close to the microphone, he asked, “May I ask if the performance has already begun!”

Suddenly being asked such a question, this acoustic sound resounding from all directions startled Takahashi Midu, and instantly her body trembled, and instantly dissatisfaction pervaded from the bottom of her heart, and she instinctively lifted her head, frowned, and rushed at him, “You’re so noisy!”

The room was silent after that one sentence.

Even Aoi Natsuki, who was sitting at the forefront, looked at it with a look of surprise, and then helplessly covered her eyes, So what exactly is the reason you were tricked by Sakurajima into participating in this program ah!

Takeshi Fujimoto’s two small eyes under his sunglasses were very surprised, and when everyone thought he was about to lose his temper, he actually came up to the microphone once again and picked up, “So it’s Pride.”

The perfect hitch, and instantly the whole room burst into laughter.

It’s hard to believe that the long silence just now was all to pave the way for this stunt? Obviously it was a bad stunt, but coming from the mouth of this beautiful girl on the stage, it was an unexpected fit, and the expression aspect was even better!

Aoi Natsuki similarly listened with tears and laughter, and in his heart he couldn’t help but secretly praise director Fujimoto Takeshi’s ability to control the scene.

Fujimoto Takeshi for this girl heart full of curiosity, has always been his various types of girls have seen, in recent years to create a persona of the idol or star event after event, so that he for the so-called beauty of the girl has become a little bit numb, compared to those who have a “formulaic” cute beauty of the girl, this kind of pure natural diamond instead more let him! The first thing that caught his eye was the fact that she was a natural diamond in the rough.

Arrogant? …… The era of Nail Palace Sanmei has been over for ten years, damn it, I really miss it.

Takeshi Fujimoto then chatted with Midu Takahashi in one sentence or another.

Everyday casual conversation, but because of the girl’s arrogant character, it sounds particularly cute, watching her ponder, watching her tighten her brow, watching her arrogantly skimming her head and not answering, watching her straighten her back, interlocking her arms in front of her chest, and so on and so forth all of which seems extra special in the eyes of the viewer.

Now on the network live broadcast, the screen is full of brush hhh three characters, I believe many people have long opened the recording, this video of a famous director flirting with an arrogant beautiful girl is definitely going to be a sensation on the network!

“Alright, you answered great, go back to your player’s seat.” Takeshi Fujimoto terminated the conversation, but the smile on his face remained unabated.

Takahashi Mito reddened, and upon hearing that, he turned around, lowered his head and walked down quickly, returning to his position next to Sakurajima Apricot.

She was actually prepared to perform, she just suddenly forgot the words, so it caused a commotion just before she went on stage, luckily there was a judge who relieved her, but, but ……

It’s still so humiliating!

Not only shy, the heart also flung a ball of fire, look at Sakurajima, pupils are all bubbling with fire, Sakurajima apricot but not the slightest fear, hastily on the hand, hands on her stiff shoulders, rubbed: “Well done, Aoi will certainly change your opinion of you, and in the future to continue to maintain oh.”

Sakurajima Apricot had a great time watching it, covering her mouth and laughing the entire time.

Takahashi Midu was the only one with a cloud of worry, for the first time she had thrown her head in front of so many people, not only did she now feel four cold chills, even her stomach began to involuntarily twitch, it was all the protective mechanism of a body that had been strained to the point of extreme nervousness.

Followed closely by second place.

By the time she arrived, it was only obvious that the female assistant director at the judges’ table was leaning close to director Takeshi Fujimoto’s ear to say something, a scene that Natsuki Aoi was looking at.

At this point open the popularity poll rankings again.

The magic finally happened.

Apricot Sakurajima is already in second place with 13,745 votes, while the first place finisher, Erika Yamauchi, has 13,911 votes.

The difference in votes isn’t much, but it’s like a link designed to create an atmosphere of urgency in the race; if the first is too obvious, no one will watch, and you need the votes to be close to each other to get that sense of tension and excitement.

The moderator reads the name of the second place finisher.

She was sort of the most dressed and particular of the bunch.

Because she was wearing a particularly well-made costume and a very familiar cool akb girl group style red, white, and black dance outfit, it turned out to be obvious that Hetty’s managers were here, and that it was more of a girl group initiation ceremony than a competition.

After all, it’s a result that has been internalized for a long time.

Erika Yamauchi’s appearance didn’t cause too many students to cheer, and even some of them didn’t understand why the second place would be her.

“Holy shit, this Yamauchi vote is number one! It hasn’t even started the show yet say!”

“Seriously, a few hundred votes over my Sakurajima Goddess? I can’t accept that.”

“Is it hard to make a ticket?”

A student timidly asked the key question.

“A few months ago started the school flower selection, the two or three or two will be the etiquette club to take over, this Yamauchi’s popularity has not fallen off the second place, the publicity column photography department is also the most photos of her photos, it is hard not to let people think of the reason ……”

There slowly began to be a wide range of chatter in the audience, all of them expressing great skepticism that this girl could be ranked ahead of Takahashi.

As the scene gradually got out of control, the female assistant director at the judges’ table hurriedly winked toward the staff, and a familiar and pleasant melody rang out.

It’s the very classic akb sing-along dance track, “Summer in Full Bloom”.

The single released in 2012 was a song that many otaku listened to over and over again back then, and it was because it was a classic song that the chatter in the audience underneath faded.

Not because of the people, but just because hearing the song brought back some of their figures, O tears of the times.

But even the stronger emotional delivery of the song could not withstand her very formulaic dance moves and iconic smile, it was unfortunate that they had just seen a purely natural arrogant beauty girl, and now they were seeing such a like-for-like beauty girl, boredom surged to the forefront of their minds, and before the song had stopped, the sound of a lot of students whispering was coming from the auditorium, ignoring the song altogether, and chatting to each other.

Seeing this, the female assistant director’s face became ironic, and Erika Yamauchi on the stage made frequent mistakes.

Finally, the song ended.

Sporadic applause rings out, and it’s time for another evaluation from Takeshi Fujimoto, only this time, he doesn’t say much and lets Yamauchi get off the stage for a break first.

Finally it was Sakurajima Apricot’s turn on stage.

Natsuki Aoi, who was located in the back, narrowed his eyes, he didn’t think for a second that Sakurajima would be preparing any kind of show, she preferred disordered diversity over ordered events, and she was definitely going to make a big scene again.

Sakurajima Apricot stood up from the contestant’s seat, slowly stepped up the steps and walked to the center of the stage, the moment the spotlight shone on her, the sound of a breath being sucked in could be clearly heard throughout the entire room, the entire auditorium did not have the slightest sound anymore, everyone could not help but hold their breaths when they saw her under the spotlight.

That amazing as if porcelain doll-like carefully carved face, eyes reveal mystery, upward corner of the mouth hooked, flatly eyeing the front, it feels like the whole person is her a glance through.

There was an aristocratic aura about her that no one could match, and that aura was both beautiful and deadly, and while the heart was tingling for it, it locked its eyes deeply onto hers for any reason that would not allow them to avert their eyes.

At that moment, a blast of music filled the entire auditorium.

This music is low and hyper-long, each quivering chord point making the eyes of the suddenly reminiscent audience widen.

This prelude ……!

Director Takeshi Fujimoto’s mouth opened slightly as he similarly heard which track this intro was, surprisingly ……

Apricot Sakurajima steps forward, gets close to the mic and starts singing this one.

“Just forget about the affair, more or less.

I just have to keep crying.

Maybe I’ll meet a different kind of love than the one I’m looking at.

You’re just saying that to show that you’re a tough guy.

Just to forget about you.

I was terrified. I was like the broken pieces of the

Shipwrecked in Love ……”

“Yes, it’s Nakamori Akane’s ‘Hard to Break the Boat’!” A male student said in a daze.

Not only inside the auditorium, but even on the webcast a furor was raised.

It was as if everything in this match was just to accentuate her appearance, and …… shockingly, this stunningly beautiful looking girl sang so special, just like Nakamori Akane herself! The range of voice is very wide!

Aoi Natsuki’s entire body was dumbfounded, and after a long time, a bitter and sour smile appeared on his face as he muttered under his breath, “Is this the pentatonic sound you speak of! You guy!”

Forgot that this guy is the best liar of them all!

Lies just come out of her mouth! How could one believe her so easily!

The song ended quickly, with all the audience still enamored of the silence at the end of the song, followed by explosive applause and cheers.

Natsuki Arai applauded equally enthusiastically.

Takahashi Mito and Hayakawa look directly dumbfounded, but quickly clap along anyway.

Sakurajima Apricot let out a long breath, then looked at Aoi in the audience, a very special glance that seemed to contain many hidden emotions.

Director Fujimoto Takeshi’s entire face was suffocatingly red, he felt honored that he was able to meet such an outstanding girl, and was about to boast something, when the female assistant director on the side hastily pulled him back, and basically without much talking, it was time to move on to the final judging session, where all the girls came on stage one after another.

Sakurajima Apricot stood right where she was, but without realizing it, she was squeezed to the far edge of the camera, but she didn’t care in the slightest, instead continuing to greet a few of her friends.

The moderator begins to read out the current popularity vote rankings as of the cutoff, starting with fifteen.

“It’s almost over, let’s wait for Sakurajima to come along.” Aoi Natsuki read Sakurajima’s meaning and turned her head to Hayakawa, neither of them cared about the rankings anyway, let others say whether it was good or bad.

“Huh? It’s really you, Natsuki Aoi!”

Aoi Natsuki turned his head and immediately saw the girl who had taken a seat in the back row, recognizing him as the leading girl who had surrounded him outside the school in the first place, what a narrow escape!

He didn’t really want to bother with her, but the other party seemed to feel unusually resistant to meeting him here, and after yelling twice, a portion of the girls around him immediately noticed Aoi Natsuki’s presence.

When Aoi Natsuki’s name came out, it caused a lot of fluctuations at once, how could it not be that almost all of the people in the forefront were girls, so the repercussions caused were extremely large.

Seeing this, the girl in the lead snorted coldly, “To hide here, you’re really disgusting, Aoi Natsuki.”

“Get outta here!”

“Yeah, yeah! You’re not welcome here!”

Her two followers next to her immediately chimed in.

The girls in the entire back two rows of seats all had frozen expressions when they heard the name Aoi.

More and more disgruntled voices rang out.

“Just who among the three will win first place?” The host checked his hand card and said perkily, “The one who will win first place is Erika Yamauchi of the second senior class!”

Eh!

When the results were announced, there was a big shock in the room.

The webcast also went wild with “?” and “vote” pop-ups five seconds later. and “vote swipe” pop-ups.

No one could have believed it would be number one in Yamauchi!

“Is it really just a ticket? What am I sitting here for? Being a clown?”

“No wonder so many people from the entertainment industry come and do live streaming, the deeper meaning I get at once.”

“The Bureau! It’s a big game!”

Months of popularity accumulation, I thought it was the popularity of the crowd, Yamauchi Erika won the first place, never thought that halfway killed a Sakurajima apricot, at once broke the original plan, until now, there has been a kind of broken feeling.

Sakurajima Apricot eyed ahead as if she saw something, and regardless of the voices around her, she hurriedly walked off the stage.

Fujimoto Takeshi thought that the other party was dissatisfied with this result, but out of his appreciation for her talent, he hastily stood up and said, “Sakurajima-san, you shouldn’t be discouraged, between your outstanding performance, I sincerely invite you to be the female number two in my next movie, this is just a competition, don’t …… “

Sakurajima Apricot walked right past him as if she hadn’t heard him.

At this time, the female assistant director’s face showed displeasure, and hurriedly walked forward, such an arrogant girl, really into the circle still have to go, long is good-looking, but such a temper sooner or later to be finished.

“This student! You’re being rude eh, can’t you hear that Director Fujimoto is still talking?”

The female assistant director stopped her way with her hand and said in a serious tone.

Sakurajima Apricot stood still and slowly raised her head, a cold aura already revealed in her gaze, “What are you?”

As soon as the words left her mouth, she rudely pushed away the hand of the female assistant director who was filled with a shocked look.

She is walking in a straight line to the audience.

It kept coming to a stop in front of a boy.

“My Aoi is also for you guys to tell me what to do!” Sakurajima Apricot’s entire face was enraged, looking at the group of girls in front of her, her eyes were glowing with blood, then she pulled Aoi’s arm over and said, “It’s over, let’s go back.”

Aoi Natsuki is still a bit frozen, she, is she getting mad for herself? It’s the first time I’ve seen Sakurajima lose her temper, not to mention, it’s quite scary.

“Oh, oh ……” Aoi also ignored the strange gazes of the people around her, being held by Sakurajima’s arm, the two of them walked together towards the entrance of the auditorium, Hayakawa was the one who reacted afterwards and immediately followed, and then behind her was Takahashi Midu, taking advantage of the fact that everyone wasn’t paying any attention to her, and also immediately She immediately ran after them.

Up to this point, they all had no idea what had happened in the auditorium again, and Aoi Natsuki’s mind was now filled with the right arm that was being held tightly by Sakurajima Apricot, as well as Sakurajima’s angry words just now.

This, this is too valiant!