novelraw Chapter 101☆ ACT.93 One sentence I want to say the most
Chapter 101☆ ACT.93 One sentence I want to say the most
Sixteen contestants lined up on the stage, and the lights spun back and forth above their heads. Dry ice covered the stage like a mist in an instant, and shuttled between the legs of the crowd, as if there were invisible hands climbing along the heels. Walking along leisurely, the girls couldn't help but get nervous.
After a few seconds of anxious waiting, the spotlight fell on the head of one of the girls.
"The first one to play is Ms. Arai Saki!"
Arai forced a smile and took a step forward, while the other girls returned to the rotating seats behind them and turned their backs.
The last round of the first round of auditions.
【Silent Drama Morning
The so-called Silent Theater is the title of the final stage of the audition. What is tested is still acting skills, but this round of performance cannot rely on words, and only through demeanor and body movements to perform the content to be expressed.In short, it is the most primitive form of performance, mime.
And the most critical factor in winning or losing this game is that you must convey your performance to "that person".
"That person" is not on this stage, but should be on the stage.
"There are many special effects shots in the movie that are not performed by real people, but simulated by computer special effects. This part is a test of everyone's imagination. You will face a stage that does not respond, but you must perform the most realistic acting skills. Let all the audience judges be convinced. The judges of this round are the five directors, producers and every audience here. They will use their voting rights to decide today's contestants. If I don’t want to leave with regrets, so please do your best!” This is Yui Asakawa’s rule explanation at the beginning of this scene.
Of the five judges on the field, Kyoko knew two of them—Kurosaki Ushio and Chiba Takaya, but this doesn’t mean they would let go, and even judging from their serious attitude towards the work, they would be more stringent than others.
The proposition of the performance will appear on the LED board above the auditorium, and the performance time must be within 5 minutes, that is, you can’t just do a few simple actions to end, you must make your performance a story that people can understand, It is even more important for people to accept your expressed intentions by reading and understanding this story.
Kyoko couldn't see what was happening on the stage since sitting on her back, which had to make people concerned.There will be 1 minute of thinking time before the performance starts, and the background sound effect at this time is the sound of the heartbeat during 1 minute of thinking. This kind of sound effect is not conducive to thinking at all, but will stimulate people's sense of tension and cause the brain to go blank , Kyoko sympathized and admired Ms. Arai, after all, she was the first performer among them to take the stage.
Soon, 1 minute is up.The arena became silent as the sound effects disappeared.
The hypothetical mime is a test of the performance skills of the actors, not only because you can't express your emotions in words, but also because no one can respond to your performance, and you have to think about the existence in the opposite air at the same time as you perform. What kind of acting skills will your partner use to play against you, the brain must prepare for the next moment and the next moment of action at this moment of action, and also give this action real emotion, which is comparable to CPU multi-core processing The way, if you are not careful, you may jump out of the frame and be smashed.
The long wait allowed Kyoko to paint countless scenes in her mind. She once relied on her acting skills to lead the character's lines to reverse in "The Power of Angels", improvised with props at the KYURARA advertisement selection meeting, and used the opposite in "Dark Moon". Performing the same emotions with the same emotions, she played two roles in Buposhang's song, and imitated the same lines of different actors to perform different stories in "Fraud Artist"... This does not mean that she is comfortable with all challenges, but she You know, it means she won't admit defeat.
I didn't do it before, and I won't do it this time. I have to work hard and make more efforts.
There was a burst of applause behind him, followed by a pleasant BGM, which meant that Arai's performance was over.
The moment the swivel chair faced the stage again, some dazzling stage lights dazzled Kyoko's eyes, and Kyoko couldn't help but reach out to cover her eyes.
When did it start, starting to stand more where the light accumulates.
Arai has not received professional training as an actor, so her acting skills in this round are not satisfactory. It is worth mentioning that, for a protagonist in a story who plays a secret love, confession, rejection, and still does not give up her feelings, and finally achieves a positive result, she embodies The youthful gesture of secret love is naturally revealed, which is remarkable.
Looking back on Ms. Arai's performance on the screen, Kyoko couldn't help thinking.
The second performer is Qianhe Sayin. For her, Lian once commented: She is not without strength, but she is too eager for success. She focuses all her energy on becoming famous, which makes her performance with The strong utilitarianism is more for the completion of a task, and she cannot get fun and nostalgia from her performance. Kyoko deeply agrees with the professional evaluation made from the perspective of Senior Tsuruga.But she did act impeccably. In terms of skills alone, Chizuru Saine is not inferior to anyone.
What she interpreted was a sad story. A soldier who went out to fight for many years returned to his hometown, only to find that his hometown had already been affected by the flames of war, and everything seemed to be different from others. However, his sons and daughters swung knives at him as an enemy, unable to erase their hatred. It is intended that the children refuse to accept their father, and in the end the warrior can only choose to leave this homeland.
From the way of walking slightly limp at the beginning, dragged and heavy steps, to the trembling of the sword, Chizuru Saine obviously thought about what kind of weather-beaten warrior she is. Her expression is sometimes tired, sometimes sad and sometimes desperate, which makes people unable to help After thinking about the direction of the story, at the moment when she bid farewell to her hometown again with tears, the applause burst out suddenly.
Qianhe Sayin walked past Kyoko proudly, and the moment she passed by, she gave Kyoko a provocative glance.
Kyoko never hesitates to praise enemies who compete with her own strength, but it's a pity that Qianzuru doesn't know this.
Kyoko already had a premonition when Da Deng was cruising over the heads of the crowd for the third time.
Sure enough, where the spotlight last stayed, it illuminated the area where she was.
"There is our No.3 contestant--Miss Kyoko from LME!"
Before leaving, Kyoko looked left and right subconsciously... It was just an inadvertent move, but she saw a thumbs up.
Hitomi Ozawa didn't change his face, it was such a simple action that Kyoko let out the most beautiful smile in relief.
This is not the first time Jingzi has stepped on the stage to perform. Last time, on the stage of "Fraud Artist", the sentence "Shen Wujun" is still in my ears. scene.
She didn't let herself look at anyone in the jury, but stared at the LED screen diagonally above.
Thump, thump.
After a long while, the LED screen was like a lazy and lazy kid, spitting out prompt texts little by little.
——[You are a ghost who cannot ascend to heaven. 】
When this line of words appeared on the LED screen, Jingzi's eyes widened.
——[But you don't know that you are dead until you meet the most important person in your life. 】
——[This person brought back your fragmented memories, and you once again remembered the reason why you couldn't ascend to heaven. 】
……
……
Wait, wait a minute!Is this gone? !
What is going on with this narrative mode that is still unfinished and will be broken down in the next chapter?Didn't say anything clearly at all?Why did he die, and what happened when he met that person?What is the reason for not being able to ascend to heaven?Just three short sentences, it's completely different from the complete story of Ms. Arai and Saine Chizuru!At least their stories have a succession!
The heartbeat background sound of thinking for 1 minute began to sound in his ears. Standing in this position—the center of the stage, Jingzi could better understand the huge impact of this background sound effect, and even his own heartbeat could hardly help being synchronized with it. .
Don't get confused, calm down and think about it.
The first is the characters, what should a ghost who doesn't know that he is a ghost be like?
If I'm dead... no, I don't know I'm dead.
——Then I will still be me!
Doing what I would normally do, getting on with my life as a "person"...still not right!If it's just like this, it does mean that I don't know the concept that I'm dead, but, in this case... the audience will never know that I am a ghost, and this is a mime performance, which can only be explained using expressions and movements In the story, what the audience sees me is just an ordinary me!
Ghosts who don't know they're dead are often the reason for not being reborn.
What kind of role will the most important person in life play... If I can see this person and know the reason why I can't ascend to heaven, then he or she must be the beginning of all this, or the key point of everything——
Her lowered eyes flashed suddenly.
There are a few words that make her very concerned, why is it "again"?Why did this ghost who could not ascend to heaven "again" meet the most important person in his life? Remember "again" the reason why you can't ascend to heaven?
Since this person is the key point of everything, allowing her to remember the reason why she cannot ascend to heaven, why is she still a ghost who "does not know that she is dead" after knowing the reason why she cannot ascend to heaven many times?If you think about the bad, is it because this person killed you?It seems that this is the only explanation that works, right?
But, in that case... In that case, this person should not be the most important person to her definition...
She kept her head down, thinking in a world of one person, all the sounds around her were abandoned outside Jingzi's domain, and all the light was silent, except for the dots of light sticks on the scene, and A band of dark blue light around the edge of the stage.
Only using movements and facial expressions... To make people see that he is a ghost, a ghost that he doesn't even know he is dead.
She has seen her most important person after death more than once... She may know the truth of her death because of seeing that person... However, she still cannot die...
Ghosts...the most important person...the obsession with not being able to die...
—Yes, this is...
The stage lights came on and the heartbeat stopped.
Raise your eyes slowly...
--The essential!
The sudden silence caused people to hold their breath.This is a silent battlefield. In the center of the battlefield, stands the only soldier in this battle. She slowly raised her head and looked forward with a look of bewilderment and confusion. Achilles heel.
The five directors in the judges' seat kept silent and stared at the people on the stage, but in the audience behind them, some audience members began to whisper.
"Does she not know how to act?"
That's right, her eyes don't have the confidence of the previous two contestants. Arai Saki and Chizuru Saine are both randomly selected performance test questions, and they also have 1 minute of thinking time, but none of them is like her. , I couldn't find a sense of challenge all over her body. Instead, she raised her head and looked around at a loss after the sound effect disappeared, which made people worry about her performance.
She looked around with slow movements, still panicking.
"Tsk, she just doesn't know what to do—"
"Hush, Ryumi! Be quiet and watch, even if they don't know how to play you, you can't...can't..." The voice of the girl who stopped her stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, because Kyoko on the stage changed.
She, who seemed to be in a state of confusion about everything, suddenly opened her eyes wide.Like a drop splashed on calm water, a chain reaction began to unfold layer by layer.The moment her eyes widened, she opened her mouth suddenly, as if a voice was about to come out of her throat, but was choked in her throat and swallowed in an instant.
As if she saw something, she forced herself not to pay attention, and then put aside the awkward expression, which made people wonder why she did this.
Just as she left it, she glanced over from the corner of her eye.
So far, Jingzi has not moved a single step, and all the performances are only based on the changes in facial expressions. Without the close-up of the camera and the big screen, the audience would not even know that she has started the performance.
The sweeping gaze, combined with the slightly pursed lips, made her, who was originally delicate and elegant, look extremely childish.
A little wronged, the child's eyes are telling a deeper level of emotion.
——At this moment, she turned her head away more and more awkwardly, and even stretched out her hands to cover her ears.
"Strange." Ushio Kurosaki finally couldn't help but frowned. He is the one who knows Kyoko's potential best. After all, he has worked with KYURARA's commercials, and he witnessed the selection of her and Kotonan Soue step by step. It is undeniable that Kyoko at this stage has changed a lot compared to the past. In terms of acting skills alone, I don’t know how many steps she has improved, not to mention the stunning outfit. So for Kyoko’s current performance, He felt incredible.
The title was the envelope he drew, and when he took out the plot and handed it to the master of ceremonies, he faintly saw the word "ghost".
But what does her current performance have to do with ghosts?Not a ghost, nor like a ghost...
Who did she see that made her want to call out, but refused to face it?
Ushio Kurosaki's ten fingers intertwined in front of his eyes, his expression was more serious than ever before.
Chiba Guiya obviously noticed it too, but he didn't say anything.
——What is your plan?Miss Kyoko.
The girl who covered her ears turned around after a brief silence, and then hurriedly hid her figure as if she was being approached by something.
"She's not moving again..."
"Where, look at her eyes—"
Kyoko squatted on the ground, and there seemed to be a bush or a cover for her to cling to with her hands. Her pupils were the only place where she moved for a while, looking from left to right, as if someone was not far from her. pass by.
When I saw that person, I wanted to call that person, but I avoided it—I forced myself not to look at or even listen to that person, and I wanted to know what that person was doing no matter what.Flustered, awkward, and childish, this is obviously a girl who quarrels with others and loses her temper.From her unspoken call at the beginning, to turning her head away and covering her ears, to her body hiding, even if she didn't say a word, anyone with a discerning eye can guess that that person is looking for her, and getting closer and closer to her. Just walked past her.
In the short 1-minute thinking time, with Kyoko's meticulous way of thinking, she has not yet considered the most important person, who should be for the ghost she plays.Therefore, the imaginary shadow in the field of vision has a blurred face.It has no appearance, and does not even know male or female.But for everyone, the most important person who can never be wrong should be...
That face gradually took shape, a slightly stern female face.
mom.
She had a fight with her mother.
[Why not [-]%!What's the point of showing me a test paper that's not [-]%! ]
What was reflected in the pupils was the examination paper that the woman handed to her, tearing it up and falling down.
[Mogami Kyoko, you can obviously work harder, why can't you do such a little thing! ]
The small figure curled up in a corner, only weeping hastily.
It's not a quarrel...because that weak me...has no strength to resist at all.
The only resistance was to escape from the house and hide in the forest.
For her at that time, at least there were goblins and ghosts in the dark forest, which was not scary compared to the tall mother in the cold mansion who destroyed her spirit at any time.
She thought that the one who came to save her would be a golden forest elf, but in the end... the voice she heard was...
[Kyoko...Kyoko...where are you...]
is the mother.
It was the mother who scolded her, hated her, and wished she would disappear.
The entire stage was blurred, dimmed into a black curtain in the forest.
Her mother was standing not far from her, calling her name over and over again.
She would never have the chance to wait for this figure to call her like this again, never.
[Leave, Minecraft. ]
The distance is getting farther and farther...
The two people who are separated may never see each other again for the rest of their lives.
Let's go, let's leave like this, she is no longer the Kyoko who was at the mercy of others.
He lowered his head, clenched his teeth, and let out a slight tremor.
There was a real hallucination in my ear, the sound from childhood, Kyoko...
Why do you remember it so clearly?Why is it that after so many years, that voice still seems to be in her ears?
Kyoko, who had been avoiding all this time, suddenly froze there.
why?
——That's because, at that time, my mother...
crying.
I don't know when, the tears have soaked the knee skirt.
She stood up abruptly and ran in the direction where the figure was leaving.
Running with no image at all, the huge stage was rushed to the edge in the blink of an eye, and the slide rails of the camera could not keep up with her speed.
That person didn't know her existence at all, and was still walking along the edge, but she could only follow her footsteps, following step by step--that figure was just a short distance away from her, as long as you stretched out your hand to hold her, as long as you stretched out Shot——
Then she reached out...and found nothing.
——[You are a ghost who cannot ascend to heaven. 】
The pupils dilated instantly.
Who is the phantom is no longer important, what is important is that they cannot touch each other.
As if to confirm that it was not an illusion, she stretched out her hand to hold it again... The slender palm drew an arc in the air, and returned to her face—at that moment, the last hope in her chest collapsed inch by inch.She looked at her palm, from her fingers to her wrist, and began to tremble uncontrollably.
Mother……
Shaking her head unwilling to admit defeat, she stretched out her hand again and again, failed again and again, disappointed again and again, despaired again and again, tears flowed all over her cheeks like water breaking a bank.
Mom, mom, mom.
——[But you don't know that you are dead until you meet the most important person in your life. 】
Everyone on the field fell silent, no matter how stupid they were, they would still be touched by her persistence and emotions if they didn't understand what she was doing.
……
Just this is not enough, Ms. Kyoko.Qianye Guiya secretly sighed in her heart.
He admitted that Jingzi's previous performance was wonderful, but in the test questions, there were still some key points that she didn't show.
When he saw the scene where Kyoko kept holding the air, he guessed the test questions Kyoko was performing.The topic was set by him with his own pen, especially this one, which even he himself thought was the most difficult to deduce, but he did not expect that Kyoko’s luck is so "special". It is the difficulty brought about by this question itself. How many people can really achieve the expressiveness required by this question among this group of newcomers?
——A ghost who doesn't know he's dead is usually the reason why he can't die.
But now she clearly knows that she is no longer alive, so why can't she die?
And how can everyone know that she is a - unable to ascend - ghost?
The next moment should have been the moment of passing away...
She suddenly looked at her hands in panic, waving and stroking each other, as if to confirm their existence, but she became more and more panicked and frightened. In front of all the audience, Jingzi's hands seemed to be It is turning into stars and dissipating, and she...
She took the last step, approaching the distance that could never be approached—the distance so close to the horizon.
Walking in front of her mother, the outstretched palm traced and caressed gently along the contours of her face.
Opening his hands gently, like the warmest wings, from the void, he took the mother in front of him into the cold embrace.
However, she is a ghost.
With opened eyes, I watched my mother walk away from my body, and my mother's footsteps never stopped for this dead self.
——[This person brought back your fragmented memories, and you understood the reason why you couldn't ascend to heaven. 】
The reason for not being able to die is also because of...the obsession with the living.
She covered her ears and refused to accept all of this, and the greed in her eyes was truly reflected in the hearts of all the audience.Until she slowly lost strength and fell on the stage, the stage lights dimmed again, and the scene was still completely silent.
Obsessive... Kurosaki Ushio seemed to understand Kyoko's emotion, and a smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.
"How do you realize that you are still the ghost who can't ascend to heaven?" He heard Chiba Guiya beside him mutter.
When the stage lights come on again...
——Kyoko raised her head slowly, looking forward with a look of bewilderment and confusion.She looked around with slow movements, still panicking.
——She, who seemed to be in a state of confusion to everything, suddenly opened her eyes wide, and then she opened her mouth suddenly, as if a voice was about to come out of her throat, but was swallowed by it in an instant .
——Reincarnation starts again.
If a soul cannot die, it will reincarnate endlessly in the last circumstances of its life.
After a moment of silence, there was a sudden thunderous applause.
☆☆☆
The night ended with another big victory for Kyoko Mogami.
Kyoko doesn’t quite agree with this statement, because her performance is not irrefutably excellent, so there is no such thing as a “complete victory”. If it is Tsuruga Ren, it is obvious that this can be done better, even if it is The same goes for Zuo Jiang.But a competition is a competition, and she is not competing against Tsuruga, nor Qinnan. In terms of acting skills and enthusiasm for acting, she is indeed confident that she will surpass other contestants in this competition.
She still has a bit of regret that she finally relied on her somatosensory experience and substituted her feelings for her mother into the performance.
When she can completely fabricate an emotion, but can confuse it with the real one, she will really be a teacher.
Thinking of the word mother, her eyes sank.
Shaking her head and not thinking too much, Jingzi opened the door of the tumbler shop with "Closed" on it, and said with lowered eyes, "I'm back—"
When she looked up again, she was completely stunned.
"—Hi, can you take me in?"
Lazily leaning against the wall and sitting opposite the proprietress, the handsome man said immediately.
"Tsuga Ren—"
She didn't forget that it was this man who drove his girlfriend away from an unknown woman this afternoon. She didn't think there was anything wrong with this statement.
Kyoko closed the door and challenged Ren who walked in first without any politeness.
That's all in the afternoon, and in the evening, pretending nothing happened, the tumbler cheated on food and drink, and said "Can you take me in" in front of the proprietress? There is nothing to make people think about it - she didn't admit that she was wrong, anyway, in short, she really couldn't understand this man!
Tonight, he was only wearing a simple blue-gray stand-up collar cardigan. The front of the chest was pulled up to the position of the zipper where the muscles could be seen. Kyoko couldn't help but wonder if he was living in the same season as herself. Such a simple outfit, although still Armani's special design for the Spring Festival this year, but it is also obviously the result of a temporary rush to go out.
Mogami Kyoko narrowed her eyes and looked at him coldly.
But Lian sat down like a rascal, and winked at her.
"Hi." Kyoko reminded.
"Huh?" Someone was innocent.
"Should you explain what happened next afternoon?"
Tsuruga Lian's eyes dimmed, but he calmed down again in an instant, and he said lightly: "I'm sorry about the afternoon." Then he didn't know whether he was talking about him from left to right, or if he really thought of it suddenly, he said again: "Your game tonight was really good."
Jingzi stood there, leaning on her shoulders stubbornly, frowning: "I don't accept bribes."
Lian snorted, and stretched out her big palm towards her. "Come."
Such a calm attitude really made Ms. Jingzi very upset. She stood her ground and even put her arms around her chest instead.
He was still the hand stretched out to her reluctantly, but his gaze slowed down a bit, and it was so gentle that one could almost fall into it with just one gaze. If the resistance was weaker, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it would be impossible to recover. .
"Come." Stars were shining at the corner of his raised mouth.
——Please don’t turn on the Emperor of the Night mode casually, this is a foul!
When Jingzi brought this sentence out of his mind completely, he had already fallen into his hands at some point.
"Are you here to escape?" Jingzi sat beside him, with his hand still in his palm, so anxious that he didn't know what to do. He even forgot the question at the beginning, so he could only utter a word hastily.Really, we have been together for so long, why is she still easily defeated by "Mr. Tsuruga"? The two confront each other and whoever wins is a matter of immediate results, so she doesn't want to be eaten to death all the time Yes, although so far, she can't think of anyone who can't be eaten to death by him.
"Almost." Lian returned lightly: "Although I also wanted to go to the office, but if that is the case, I can be found easily. As for the office... I really don't want to spend time with him again."
I have a home and can't go back, so... is that woman living in the Tsuruga mansion now?The complete answer in her mind made Jingzi even more depressed, and she simply muttered angrily: "So you have to be so wronged that you ignore the quarrel with me, and hide from the tumbler..."
The voice of these words was not too loud, and it happened to fall into Lian's ears. He tilted his head: "Are we arguing?"
"..." The most tragic thing in the world is not that you can't defeat the enemy, but that your enemy doesn't regard you as an opponent at all.
"The phone call that day..." He obviously said very seriously, and she also hurt him very rudely, almost disturbing her to the point of affecting her game.
"I'm just stating the facts."
"..."
"Besides, let's take a step back, even if we are quarreling, we will be accepted by her when we come to the house of someone who admires us."
"..."
——Please don’t block me with what I said in the game, please!
"Kyoko." While she was still slandering inwardly, Lian suddenly called out in a low voice, and then she found herself trapped in someone's arms. He had no intention of continuing, but just asked : "If one day, we might be separated for some reason, what would you do?"
She straightened up abruptly, looking into his eyes face to face.
He was definitely not joking, he was asking seriously.Kyoko suddenly felt that her heartbeat was irregular, it was just a problem, she never expected such a reaction from herself.The only thing to blame is that Tsuruga Lian is too beautiful... so good that she doesn't even want to assume the loss.
"What will I do...?" Jingzi raised her voice at the end: "I want to know the reason, the reason for the separation."
"Maybe it's...to pay off the debt." He held her hand tightly, obviously he made a hypothesis, but he seemed to be afraid that she would let go: "I just said if."
"Do you have to sell your body in order to pay off the debt?" She faintly revealed a dark smile.
"Kyoko."
Two people are sitting on tatami mats leaning against the wall by the window, the street lamp across the street sprinkles a piece of warm yellow on the window lattice, and several shops along the street are about to close, it is the time when everything goes to sleep, a quiet space.
"Unless it really happens, I don't accept such an if." Kyoko still locked his eyes, the beautiful eyes embedded in the stars are like a whirlpool, which makes people unable to extricate themselves: "Mr. Tsuruga, if one day you give If I don't want what I want, I will leave by myself, and I won't cause you any trouble, and you don't have to make such a temptation."
"how come……"
"Really? What if what I want...is a lifetime?"