Fool's Love

In the dark, I feel that I am pursuing something that I will never get.

"How is it?" Like a student waiting for a teacher's evaluation, I waited expectantly for Masumi's evaluation.

I saw Masumi lowering his head and showing a thoughtful expression, and my heart rose to my throat.The atmosphere of silence lasted for nearly a minute, and I became more anxious as I waited: "Masumi? Is there anything you don't understand about the story just now?"

"No, I completely understand." Masumi shook his head and said, "It's about a secret love story——Haruta Hikaru has a crush on Takami Shoko. Because she was entangled by her ex-boyfriend, she shot and killed him. From the perspective of the story alone, It's not a complicated story."

I swallowed. "Don't you find it strange?"

"Strange? I don't think so. Although the protagonist's character is a bit paranoid, the way he does things is surprisingly refreshing.

The only thing I don't quite understand is why you chose the name of the story as "Haruta Hikaru's Passionate Love Experience" - it would be more appropriate to call it "secret love", right? "

"I think, compared to the successful confession and continuous sweet love, secret love is closer to the word "passionate love". "

Masumi tilted her head, showing a confused look.

"If you compare the emotion of being in love to a cistern, the love between the two is a steady state with one end in and one out, and a secret love is a pool that only enters water but does not open the outlet.

There is no way to tell, and there is no time for emptiness.There is no way to talk about it, no way to resolve it, but the emotions are accumulating more and more.In the end, only strong paranoia is left - isn't this "passionate love"? "

"What you said makes sense."

Masumi thought about it.

"However, it was clearly a love story, but at the end, the painting style changed suddenly and turned into a horror story-I always feel that this will scare the readers."

"The more unexpected, the better. Speaking of which, I seem to have a preference for works with a huge difference in style before and after. Does Masumi not like such works?"

"It's not whether you like it or not, but whether you should compromise. In terms of serialization, many popular works are suitable for all ages, and it can't be said that they have no characteristics.

It's just that the features themselves screen readers.No one hates a good ending, but there are countless people who don't read it when they hear it's a bad ending;

Relying on emotion to construct the plot, there must be some people who focus on logic and deny the whole work-in this way, it is safer to take the moderate path that everyone likes. "

Masumi's words were surprisingly sensible.

"Ah, but that's not to say that it's good to give up the characteristics. I like the cartoons with swords and swords, and they are the ones that I remember deeply. In contrast, the excellent but well-regulated ones, to put it meanly-I don't think there is any What does that mean."

"What would happen if Masumi were to make up the story?"

Hearing my lowered head and low voice, Masumi let out a "Huh?"

"That is to say, um... I have seen Masumi's storyboard before, and I think the story is very interesting. If Masumi were to think about the same theme, what kind of story would he come up with? I am very curious about it."

"Huh? That is to say—proposition composition?"

Masumi leaned her upper body sideways, resting her elbows on the railing, and supported her face with her palms, with an expression of interest.

"You can say that."

"What about the subject? What is the subject?"

""Idol".How about it, will it be difficult for others?Imagine a story about an idol. "

"Well, let me think about it..."

Masumi looked into the distance again.

In retrospect, that was probably the first time I realized he had an "alien" side.

If the things Masumi usually draws are just a sign of his habit of using his imagination, his next line is too eye-popping.

"Sure enough, it's still breeding."

"what?"

This is the conclusion Masumi came up with after thinking about it for about a minute.To be honest, I don't get it at all.Or maybe it's because he omitted the middle link in his narration.

"Can you be more specific?"

"Okay. Maybe I should start at the beginning. Yamagishi, what do you think of when you think of idols?"

"A career that leads to dreams?"

"That's one aspect too, but if it were me, I would think of canned food."

"can?"

"All kinds of cans packed in iron boxes."

Masumi stood there.He was motionless, like a young tree.

"It's a commodity. If you say it's not as nutritious as fresh food, the taste is also lackluster. It's the same. The only advantage is that it's cheap. Hmm... I can think of a name for the work. "Canned Idol" - this sounds how?"

"Well, that sounds completely incomprehensible—what does it have to do with breeding?"

"I conceived a scenario in which in the future, a biological product company circumvents ethical issues by modifying the genes of monkeys to obtain a species that is very close to humans.

They were later called "idols".Idols were sold in cans and were a huge success.

Soon after, the company's production of idols was stopped by international organizations.

They have already won their first pot of gold and moved to the TV industry.Due to the low cost of idol appearances, high average quality, and no risk of becoming popular in over-the-top tricky shows, they soon replaced human entertainers.

"As for the production of idols, the production has obviously been stopped, why are all kinds of idols still appearing? Of course, it is because of folk activities.

Although it is illegal to directly produce idols, the species of idols has been artificially continued through folk breeding.

Through breeding, you can also get idols who sing and dance better.This is the relationship between "idol" and "breeding". "

He paused here for five seconds.

"As you can see, I just want to think about the setting, and the plot will take longer to conceive. Yamagishi, what do you think?"

I thought about it seriously.

Hmm, I don't understand, it's really weird.I gave up completely: "What the hell! (なんでやねん!)"

"Isn't this fun?"

"Totally inexplicable!" I blurted out.Compared with Masumi, what a normal story I told!

However, I regretted it as soon as I said it-would it be too harsh to say it?I don't want to make Masumi sad.

Masumi didn't seem to think so, he laughed out loud when he saw that my mind was confused by his story.

"That's good! Yamagishi, it's funny how you say "I don't understand" seriously! "

I can never figure out his character, every time I try to figure out his thoughts, it's like playing the lottery.

What a tragedy.How cunning.I looked helplessly at Masumi, who was still smiling.

We stayed on the mountain for a while, and went down the mountain together after seeing enough scenery.When going down the mountain, I was walking behind Masumi as well.

I looked at his back.He walked forward with nimble steps, half walking and half jumping, which reminded me of the descriptions about space that I had seen before: the mass of the moon is one-sixth that of the earth, and it is easy for people to jump up when walking on it.Probably, Masumi is the man who came down from the moon.

His figure moves through the lush woods in late spring.In the dark, I feel that I am pursuing something that I will never get.