Chapter 195 – The Golden Value of Idols

Ahhhhh ……

Aoi Natsuki’s mouth slightly opened in surprise, Sakurajima still couldn’t hold back after all, such behavior was too much like something she would do, obviously she had only just been released from her ban, now she was expected to be closed for another six months.

But.

It’s a relief indeed!

The whole audience hadn’t reacted at this point, even the uproarious cheers were still pattering, Sakurajima Apricot put away her gesture and left from the other side of the curtain like a nobody’s business, she disappeared from the stage for three or four seconds before the auditorium followed with all kinds of shocked and angry voices, there wasn’t much space inside the small theater house, and with all the noise everyone made, Aoi Natsuki felt like her eardrums were going to deafen her, and the auditorium Close to the stage, the angry fans swarmed up close to the stage, and the security of the venue immediately came forward to arrive.

It’s a mess. It’s all a mess.

Aoi Natsuki covered Rina’s ears and led her away from the theater, the world felt quiet the moment he was out the door, he picked up Rina and was ready to go home first as well, today’s events were definitely heading towards a more grim state of affairs, and even Sakurajima had gotten himself into it with no thought at all about the consequences of the situation.

“Ai.” Aoi Natsuki let out a long sigh, at this time the temperature outside was dropping, the sky was falling with a gentle rain, he didn’t watch the weather forecast when he went out, he didn’t even bring an umbrella with him, he looked back at the convenience store inside the theater, it seemed that he could only buy an umbrella, then he walked back into the door.

He hadn’t taken two steps when his cell phone rang.

When I opened it, it was a message from Sakurajima.

“Come to the back door.”

This back door had been visited by him and Hayakawa before, and from there it led straight to the Akb members’ dressing room, and at that time he was still sitting on the bench outside while Hayakawa had a long chat with Hetty inside.

Aoi Natsuki bought on the umbrella first, then with one hand holding it open and the other holding Lina, he walked out the front door and circled most of the way around the entire small theater to the familiar back door, and when he saw that it was open, he bought on the steps as well and stepped inside, closing the door with his backhand as he did so.

He remembered the route to Hetty’s dressing-room well, and, placing his umbrella against the corner, he went straight on at a brisk pace and rounded a corner; he stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door, and a “Come in” came from within the room.

He twisted the handle and opened the door to enter, a group of people in the dressing room were all gathered in the same area, and he could faintly hear a sob in his ear.

Aoi Natsuki’s entrance made many of the girls in the room startled, so startled that they took two steps backward. It had been a long time since Aoi Natsuki had faced so many girls at one time, and seeing the distaste that flowed out from the bottom of their eyes made him feel very twisted inside.

“I’m the one who called him, if you don’t want to stay here, you can all get out!” Sakurajima’s cold voice rang out from the center of the encirclement, and it was clear that she was truly angry.

Aoi Natsuki stepped aside and stood in front of the rows and rows of changing racks next to him, while those more than ten girls considered it again and again, only two or three girls turned around and left the dressing room, most of them still stayed, Aoi Natsuki gazed at them and realized that this one girl’s favoritism towards him was no more than -7, while the low one could go as low as -51, but even so, they were willing to stay here, it seems that they all stayed here because of Hetty’s It seems that it’s all because of Hetty’s relationship.

He put down Lina, and then patted Lina’s arm, the two of them understood, and then Lina took his place and walked towards the crowd, which dispersed its position, and through that gap, Aoi Natsuki also took a look at Hetty, who was lying on her back on the dressing table and burying her head in her hands and crying, her body trembling along with her sobbing, and her aggravation could be imagined.

A seventeen year old girl’s heart can be so strong that she doesn’t care in the face of insults, how can this be possible, the perfect performance on the stage is her responsibility and quality as an idol, and off the stage, behind the curtain without the audience to see it, her helplessness and who can understand it, Aoi Natsuki recalled back to the stage just now, Hetty suffocated red cheeks, in fact, at that time, she had already almost reached the peak, right? But she still insisted on acting until the end, she really deserves the name of perfect idol.

Just ……

Aoi Natsuki can’t stand to look at it, move away from the line of sight, inwardly shaken, today’s matter is just the beginning, maybe the future days will be even worse, Hetty before the perfect idol Watanabe senpai, he also have Google check, read her idol career, is indeed very legendary, but Hetty is not the same as her, that Watanabe senpai is a pure otaku girl, after work is to buy snacks nested in the house, also don’t go out. Going out, there was once a private reporter who followed and investigated her private life daily, but a few weeks passed and found out that her real life was really boring, so she finally gave up, work and private life were very separated, while Hetty’s social circle was very wide, so in order to become an idol of such a degree as the other party, she really had to endure more naysayers.

Hetty is only seventeen years old now, and she has a long future ahead of her.

Lina burrowed into the crowd and stood in front of Hetty’s sister, listening to her cry and also looking distressed, reaching out her small hand and gently placing it in her hair and stroking it, Hetty stopped her emotions slightly and turned her head sideways, seeing that it was Lina, she froze, and then something occurred to her, had Aoi come as well?

For a moment the inner aggression surged up again, and not caring about anything else, her body leaned forward and hugged Lina’s body as she burst into tears.

“Awwwwwww.” Leigh’s tender hands wrapped around Hetty’s sister’s head, closing her eyes and comforting, although she didn’t know what she was saying, but Hetty felt warmth in this hug, seeing this scene, the other members around who cared about Hetty had smiles, Sakurajima Apricot’s gaze looked at Aoi behind her, the two of them looked at each other, Aoi Natsuki at this time also finally knew the reason why she had called her here, he didn’t expect her to be able to think of so much, the The small theater thing in his place, is not at all associated with this point.

“That ……”

An unfamiliar male voice suddenly appeared in the doorway.

A portion of the crowd slowly turned back over their heads and were shocked when they saw that it was a guy wearing an exclusive AKB headband, this guy was obviously a fan, how the hell did he get in here?

“Sorry, this is backstage, unrelated people are not allowed to come in oh.” A member rushed forward and said.

“That, I’m sorry, I, I was just standing there by the back door and saw it was open, so I was curious to come in and take a look.” The boy pushed up his glasses and said in a panic.

Backdoor ……

Aoi Natsuki sort of knew what was going on, the crowd was initially a bit scared when they saw this strange boy, afraid that he would be an overzealous fan, nowadays there is a portion of fans in the idol circle who are so fanatical that they are no different from private fans, and this type of person even seriously affects the daily life of every idol, but after listening to him speak a couple of words, and he was quite courteous, the face of the girl group members who had originally gone up to stop him looked a lot better.

Aoi Natsuki looked over to his station, having just asked the question consistently standing outside the door without taking a single step into the dressing room.

“Thank you for your support, but you can’t really come in backstage, can you please get out?”

“Uh, well! That’s for sure, but, but I still want to personally add to Minami Jam’s performance just now, you were really great! Totally played the details of the character to perfection! Please don’t take those other guys’ words to heart, we ‘Pumpkins’ will always, always, always cheer you on in support!” The boy was so nervous that he lowered his head and clenched his hands into fists as he shouted out his thoughts towards the dressing room.

These sincere words instantly infected all the group members present, and the words of encouragement at this time were just too heartwarming!

These words were likewise heard in their entirety by Hetty, who was inwardly struck dumb, and her weeping expression came to an abrupt and mute end, before she drew two tissues on the dressing table, quickly wiped away her tears, tilted her head to recover for a couple of seconds, and stood up to walk slowly out of the crowd’s enclosure.

And the headband man in the doorway slowly raised his head, when his afterglow saw that his idol Nanjou was walking towards him step by step, he was directly shocked to the point of scalp numbness, as an otaku he was able to be so close to Nanjou for the first time, his heartbeat speed was almost bursting, and he was cupping a bunch of bouquets of flowers in his hand, and his sight didn’t even know where he should be looking at.

Hetty walked up to him, saw the bouquet of flowers in his hand, and smiled, “This, is it for me?”

The headband man nodded vigorously and presented the bouquet in his hands with both hands.

“Thanks.” Hetty’s eyes were red and swollen from the orbital study, but her mouth was full of laughter.

“No, it’s me who should be thanking you, thank you!” To be able to see an idol smiling at you, that was simply blissful!

“In the future, please keep up the good work as well!” The headband man summoned his strength and spoke again.

Hetty looked at him, that nervous to the point of closing her eyes in anticipation, and she then responded, “Well, I’ll keep up the good work, and I’ll ask for your continued support in the future.”

“Aye! Absolutely!”

The next second, Hetty extended her right hand toward him and smiled, “So, want to shake hands?”

When the headband man heard this, his scalp directly tingled, and after considering it, he shook his head repeatedly, “No, no, no, no, I haven’t bought the handshake coupon in my hand yet, anyway, when I buy the coupon, I will formally shake hands with you, Nanjiao, anyway, that’s it, I, I’ll go first!”

The headband man bowed deeply at Hetty, and then, red-faced, ran wildly in the direction of the back door, the sound of a crash against a wall being heard in his path.

Inside the dressing room, everyone was shocked by this unexpected scene, Hetty’s eyes were equally wide open for a while, her line of sight shifted downward and landed on the bouquet in her hand, the original aggrieved emotion was also swept away because of this matter, while in turn a more determined determination rapidly grew within her.

Seeing this scene Aoi Natsuki heart also deeply touched, and vaguely also some can appreciate Hetty why the incident also still want to play the role of good behavior so hard, she just want to tell those fans who like their own, she will not because of the negative news and will not be defeated, she will always insist on going on.

Aoi Natsuki let out a long breath from his mouth as he figured it out, reacting to the fact that Sakurajima was already standing beside him, gently elbowing down on his arm.

Natsuki Aoi put a light smile on her face and didn’t say anything, and after that the atmosphere in the dressing room improved significantly, and after Hetty cuddled and played with Rina for a little while while intentionally chatting with Aoi, the few of them discussed going home.

“Sakurajima, I’ll have my agent take you home.” Hetty said looking up.

“No, I have a car.” Sakurajima Apricot refused.

Aoi Natsuko who heard this immediately associated it with that one Kawasaki motorcycle in Sakurajima, she couldn’t have come here on a motorcycle, could she?

“Well, that’s fine then.” Hetty thought she was coming on her bike, so she didn’t say much.

Aoi Natsuki at this time ready to take Rina home, just walked to the back door entrance, just stooped down to pick up his own umbrella from the corner when Sakurajima apricot appeared beside him again out of nowhere, hissing …… no footsteps at all, startling him.

“Aoi~ Take me home~” said Sakurajima Apricot with her hands behind her back in a light tone.

“I thought you said you had a car?” Natsuki Aoi narrowed her eyes.

“Just because you have a car doesn’t mean I have a car.” Sakurajima apricot arrogantly said.

“What kind of sense is that, and how can I fit three people in my little electric car?”

“I can sit, I can sit,” Sakurajima unashamedly wrapped her arms around him, realizing that this was backstage, and that there would be staff passing by, so it wouldn’t be a good idea to be seen.

Aoi Natsuki tried hard not to let her wrap her arms around her, while Sakurajima Apricot was inclined to wrap her arms around her, and the two of them ended up wriggling out the back door, the good news being that it wasn’t raining outside anymore, and the bad news being that Aoi’s umbrella counted as a wasted purchase.

Aoi Natsuki was pulling Rina with his left hand, and his right hand was wrapped around Sakurajima’s arm, and to prevent him from being recognized by the fans who hadn’t left yet, he begged for a while before Sakurajima dutifully put on his mask and went all the way to the garage, where he stood in front of his own little motorized car, silent for half a day, and ultimately had to let Rina stand in the front on a small pedal, and Sakurajima sit in the back, and the three of them squeezed in together as they drove away from the garage at a slow pace.

“If a traffic cop sees this ……”

“It’s okay, it’s okay.” Sakurajima behind her kept reassuring.

Driving on the road, Aoi Natsuki was on edge the entire time, but Sakurajima Apricot looked exceptionally happy.

Maybe Hetty’s good mood affected her as well, and she should have been pissed off inside at that point when she was actively giving the middle finger on stage towards her fans.

“Is this really okay? With behavior like that, it might be more than just another six months of banning, and your film and television work will be affected as well.”

“Just suffer, it doesn’t matter.” Sakurajima Apricot replied lightly, as expected, she still didn’t care about anything, herself entering the idol circle and movie circle was just a passing interest, her beliefs were completely different from Hetty’s.

Vehicle driving a distance, then the sky is raining again, this time the umbrella is considered to come in handy, the back seat of the Sakurajima open the umbrella, but due to the length of a car, never cover the three, finally Sakurajima apricot simply put her body on Aoi’s back, the left arm around, the right hand to hold up the umbrella: “Now all three can be held up to it ～”

Natsuki Arai could feel that stretch of weakness in her back, and swallowed dryly, trying not to fumble with her thoughts, her heart beating slightly faster as she continued to drive smoothly.

“Sakurajima, I have another question in mind to ask you.”

“Just ask.” Sakurajima Apricot said playfully.

“I don’t suppose that boy in the headband was the actor you hired just now?”

Sakurajima let out a puzzled “hmm”, then frowned and smiled as she pinched Aoi’s waist with her left hand, “Of course not! What’s going on in your head, really.”

“Well, it’s good that it’s not.” Natsuki Aoi nodded lightly.

“Bad Aoi~ I’m that scheming in your mind.”

“I was just asking, ah! Don’t put the umbrella so low! It’s blocking my view! It’s dangerous!”

Natsuki Arai nearly crashed into a stone pier, and after getting his balance right, he resumed his journey, turning left and right to drive slowly in the direction of Sakurajima’s house.