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Chapter 38 Violent Injury
"Mr. Akikawa, your acting just now was amazing, wasn't it?"

"You may have been in a theater troupe before, but why haven't I heard of your name?"

"Wow, I just noticed that Mr. Akikawa is so handsome. He looks like two different people during performances than he does on weekdays!"

As soon as Akikawa Sosuke stepped off the stage after finishing the fifth act, he was surrounded by many artists.

Many people were amazed by Akikawa Sosuke's performance just now.
Therefore, I became extremely curious about him.

aside.

The assistant director looked at Akikawa Sosuke, who was surrounded by many entertainers with shining eyes and was being asked questions non-stop.
He said to the director Takemura Mine beside him:
"Mr. Takemura, why do I feel like Akikawa is using too much force?"

"Although Mr. Kudo described Sae Kodani as a very popular high school student in the book, it shouldn't be to this extent, right?"

"He's just an ordinary high school student, but Akikawa made him look like a celebrity. Isn't that inconsistent with his character?"

"No, I think it's OK."

Director Takemura Mine laughed.

"The medium of a stage play itself cannot be performed completely in the same way as a movie."

"After all, we want to make the audience far away feel the charm of the character, so the more exaggerated performance will deepen the audience's impression of the character."

"Besides, the character Sae Kotani will not be on the same stage with Quinn (the heroine) until she dies, so there is no need to worry about the supporting characters overdoing it and stealing the heroine's limelight."

“Before Kotani Sae died, he was the protagonist of the fifth act, so I think Akikawa played it very well.”

"Because Akikawa's performance was so good, it made Kotani Sae's death more shocking."

"I seem to understand why Mr. Takemura chose him instead of Nishihara." The assistant director nodded.

"Nishihara's acting skills are good, but that is limited to film and television works. As an actor in stage plays, his expressiveness is much worse than Akikawa's."

Takemura Mine commented.

Off stage.

The impatient Itakura Misaki finally waited until Akigawa Sousuke finished greeting the other artists.

After Akikawa Sosuke came back, he put his hands on both sides of Akikawa Sosuke's shoulders with a "bang".

He lowered his voice, his tone full of excitement:
"Mr. Qiuqiuqiuqiuqiuchuan!! What happened just now?!"

"Mr. Akikawa just now is like a completely different person! What the hell is going on!"

"Is Mr. Akikawa's acting really that good?!"

"You can actually hone your acting skills by imitating DVDs at home?!"

"If Mr. Akikawa keeps up his character, he will definitely become a huge hit!!"

Itakura Misaki found that even though she had been with Akikawa Sousuke for half a month.

But he still knew basically nothing about Akikawa Sousuke.

"Could it be that Mr. Akikawa is really a genius?! A genius like Ms. Yukiko!"

It took the excited agent more than ten minutes to calm down.

After she once again realized the unique talents of Akikawa Sosuke, she became more confident that Akikawa Sosuke would become very popular in the future.

"I'm so lucky to have Mr. Akikawa assigned to me as my role!"

"It seems that it is not impossible to work with Miss Yoko frequently in the future!"

Thinking of Okino Yoko, Itakura Misaki quickly turned her head and looked over.

Then we saw Yoko Okino leaving the audience with an expressionless face.

And shortly after Yoko Okino left.

Itakura Misaki saw Koichi Nishihara, an artist from the same company, and started chasing after him.
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"How could he possibly have that kind of acting skills?!"

"He's obviously someone who didn't even finish elementary school."

Akikawa Sosuke's acting skills made Nishihara Koichi feel ashamed.

"But Ms. Yoko didn't seem to be impressed by Akikawa's acting."

"Combined with what I heard before, Ms. Yoko wanted Akikawa to leave the company, it can be judged that Ms. Yoko must also hate Akikawa."

Koichi Nishihara jogged a few steps and caught up with Yoko Okino who was walking quickly in front of him.

"Miss Yoko!" "Mr. Nishihara?"

Upon hearing this, Yoko Okino stopped, turned around, and gave Koichi Nishihara a kind smile.

"It's my turn to perform soon. I wonder what Mr. Nishihara wants to do?"

"Ms. Yoko actually knows Akikawa-kun, right?"

When Yoko Okino heard this, the smile on her face did not change and she nodded slightly.

"We know each other, I guess. How did Mr. Nishihara know about this?"

"Because I just noticed that you, Ms. Yoko, seemed very shaken when you saw Akikawa-kun's performance."

"Ms. Yoko, you probably don't like that Akikawa either, right?"

Koichi Nishihara stared at Yoko Okino's face and said with a smile.

He was quite sure that Yoko Okino, like himself, disliked the acting skills displayed by Sosuke Akikawa.

Therefore, Koichi Nishihara wanted to use the fact that he and Yoko Okino had the same ideas to bring them closer.

He thought that when Yoko Okino heard what he said, she would look frightened or shocked.

After all, in everyone's eyes, Yoko Okino rarely shows negative emotions.

But now she saw it herself, and she showed a look of dissatisfaction towards the younger artist who had just signed the contract.

Unexpectedly, Yoko Okino still maintained that kind smile.

No, it's even more touching than at the beginning.

"As expected, Mr. Nishihara eavesdropped on my conversation with Sister Sae."

Yoko Okino's unexpected reply directly shocked Koichi Nishihara.

That was half a month ago.

I didn't expect that Yoko Okino would guess it at this time just because of my two sentences?
"Is this a woman's sixth sense?"

Nishihara Koichi thought to himself and quickly waved his hand to explain:
"No, no, I just happened to see Miss Yoko's expression so I guessed."

"And by chance you signed up for the same audition as Akikawa-kun?"

“That’s because I wanted to be a part of this work.”

Koichi Nishihara was very surprised that Yoko Okino even knew about such a thing.

Doesn't that mean that Yoko Okino also knows that he was outshined by Sosuke Akikawa?
"That's it..."

Okino Yoko did not continue to ask questions, but smiled and said to Nishihara Hirokazu:
"Mr. Nishihara, you should not contact Akikawa-kun again."

"My affairs with Akikawa-kun have nothing to do with you."

"Sorry, I have to go on stage."

Okino Yoko bowed slightly towards Nishihara Koichi.

Then he left Nishihara Koichi with an embarrassed look on his face and walked backstage.
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at the same time.

Itakura Misaki looked at Nishihara Koichi who came back from the backstage with an ugly face, and remembered the reminder that Okino Yoko gave her during the first rehearsal -

"Ms. Itakura, please limit Akikawa-kun's contact with Mr. Nishihara in the future."

"Nishihara, a child star who was once very popular in Japan, has lost popularity as he grew up, but it's not because his acting skills have deteriorated."

Itakura Misaki was a little curious about what specific moral problems Koichi Nishihara had.

So she took out her cell phone and searched for keywords such as "Nishihara Koichi", "child star", and "misconduct".

After spending more than ten minutes, she finally found several reports from more than ten years ago.

"Oh my god... How can such a person still stay in the Japanese entertainment industry?!"

Itakura Misaki widened her eyes and was very surprised.

The contents of the reports that came out of the search were very similar.

These were two violent assaults committed by Koichi Nishihara when he was in junior high school and high school.

(End of this chapter)