She did not call Shinichi Iwahashi, but Shinichi Iwahashi's phone came unexpectedly.

Akina Nakamori left the living room and stood in front of the phone. When she pressed the number, she couldn't tell what it felt like.

I was both happy for calling him, but I was bothered by calling him back.

A new possibility unfolded in front of her. However, while realizing this new possibility, she was confused, but she also realized another thing again.

When she discovered some new possibility, it was difficult to maintain the same mood as before. But she herself, now she doesn't know what mood she should contact him.

The phone number was dialed out, and after three times, it was picked up.

"Happy New Year, Akira Sang." Shinichi Iwahashi said.

Akina Nakamori held the microphone, followed his rhythm and replied, "Happy New Year."

"I just went downstairs to get a postcard for New Year's greetings." Shinichi Iwahashi told her, "I read what you sent me. So, I want to call you for a New Year's greeting."

On the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi's voice was kind and cheerful, and it was no different from every meeting and every call in the past. But Akina Nakamori heard this tone without a trace of gloom, and the feeling that she was only worried about was clearer.

Shinichi Iwahashi knew nothing, and he might not have a similar mood to her...

When Akina Nakamori felt uncomfortable when she thought of this, she didn't know what to do.

"I think the postcards I sent you for New Year's greetings will probably arrive in your mailbox at about the same time." Shinichi Iwahashi said this, and then changed his mind and asked, "Has Akana Sang returned to his hometown?"

Akina Nakamori said "Yes", "I'm still in my hometown."

She regretted this stiff tone again and asked, "Where is Shen Yijun? Haven't you returned to your hometown this year?"

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't care. "I've booked five days to go to Osaka this year and I want to talk to Kansai TV station about business. When I return from Osaka, I can go to Shizuoka in the middle."

Akina Nakamori listened silently.

On the other end of the phone, Shinichi Iwahashi also realized that she was not in high spirits and asked, "Is there something wrong?" After saying that, he smiled first, "Sorry, I asked this kind of question on the first day of the New Year."

After all, it is the "New Year's Day", so there are enough people who can't speak.

When Akina Nakamori heard what he said, she realized that she was too listless and quickly cheered up, "That's not the case."

On the phone, the absent-minded Akina Nakamori who Shinichi Iwahashi just felt was gone, and replaced by a vibrant and joking Akina Nakamori who was full of energy and joked.

The atmosphere became lively, but the phone became less and less wrong. Even Akina Nakamori herself, although she was talking frantically, felt that she was too deliberate.

It’s not a good time to call a phone call.

Shinichi Iwahashi couldn't bear to listen to her force herself, so he changed the topic and told her about the peacock origami. "Just now, I was helpless in the peacock, just now, and I was waiting for you to teach me how to fold it."

He guessed that maybe it was something unhappy when Akina Nakamori returned to her hometown. She taught origami and met. She could listen to her as much as she wanted to say anything at that time.

Just like origami teaching is not convenient to be conducted on the phone, some words are not convenient to be spoken on the phone.

But Akina Nakamori was vague and didn't give a certain time, "When Shinchijun comes back from Osaka..."

The two of them made a decision on the phone and then made another appointment. Shin Iwahashi half-joking and half-serious, and said, "I might be stumped by you this time."

He said this, which reminded Akina Nakamori of the feeling of trying to stump him when she was studying origami.

Why did that feeling of trying to stump him?

After hanging up the phone, Akina Nakamori stood in front of the phone, thinking about the conversation with Shinichi Iwahashi just now, and regretted and felt uncomfortable. She looked like she was trying to push Shinichi Iwahashi away from a distance.

However, although he was doing something to push him away, he was thinking in his heart that he was so far away from him... he knew nothing.

He said he was pushing him away and used his strength. In fact, he didn't even touch the corner of his clothes, but he was just waving his fists and feet at the air. However, he was clearly pushing him hard, but every time he pushed him, she really regretted it.

What the hell is she doing?

Shinichi Iwahashi was unaware of it, but she felt jealous and unhappy on one hand. Now, because of his ignorance, she wanted to push him away, but she regretted it.

I was attracted by him, so I wanted to get close to him. I was afraid of being hurt, so I wanted to push him away. I was worried that I would lose my current state once I said it out, so I wanted to maintain the status quo.

When one party is unaware of the matter, the other party has to take on the responsibility of making a choice.

Should I take a step back and gradually stay away from him? Or should I bury this possibility and maintain the status quo with him.

Or, even if she only discovered this possibility unilaterally, she chose to take a step forward to him. Even if it was in vain, she would really reach out to him.

The question that didn't know the answer made Akina Nakamori at a loss, and she didn't know how to face Shinichi Iwahashi. She even felt a little timid because she had to make a choice.

At this time, I heard the sound of the entrance hall. Akina Nakamori looked up and saw her sister Akiho standing there. I don’t know when she came back.

She subconsciously said "ah".

Akiho Nakamori looked at her sister, but did not respond to her surprise, and said, "I'm back." He walked around her and walked inside.

Then, Akina Nakamori heard Akiho talking to her mother.

After having supper at home, Akina Nakamori said goodbye to her family and returned to her apartment.

Before getting off the bus, Iwahashi Shinichi said on the phone that he had received the postcard she sent. Akina Nakamori also went to check the mailbox and took out a thin stack of postcards from it.

All New Year’s greeting postcards from people who had been in business were sent to the office, and not many people exchanged New Year’s greeting postcards with her privately. In previous years, there were only thirty or forty pictures throughout the first month of the year.

It will be sent in one day, only a dozen.

After entering the elevator, Akina Nakamori looked through the postcard in her hand and found the one Iwahashi Shinichi's. The familiar handwriting was exactly the same as the wording habits in the letter.

Akina Nakamori looked at the postcard and remembered that there was a letter he sent in the drawer that he had not replied to, and a new origami study with half the progress.

I want to stump Shinichi Iwahashi... I haven't seen him in a dilemma yet.

He said on the phone that he might be stumped this time.

Next time we meet... But when will we be next time? Can we make a choice before coming next time? She still can't make up her mind.

This time, no one told her which one was the best choice, and no one encouraged her to do it. She even knew nothing about Shinichi Iwahashi.

Shinichi Iwahashi, who knew nothing about these things, is there now and has not changed at all.

Now, whether to approach him or push him away depends on herself, and she must make her own choices.

Akina Nakamori felt that she seemed to have obtained a wonderful freedom.

Freedom that has never been...but it is also a responsibility that has never been before.

...

On the afternoon of the second day, Kanda and Yoko walked out of the apartment and headed to Shibuya. The small record store may not be open normally. If you want to buy records, you still have to go to a large record store in the center.

In the first month of each year, it is an important battlefield for the ratings battles of various TV stations.

During the New Year, various special programs took turns to take place, even if there was a self-sacrifice hanging overhead. However, the TV station, which had the highest ratings, still tried every means to make the program broadcast normally.

The battle for viewership in the first month of the TV station actually started on New Year's Eve of the previous year.

In addition to NHK's Red and White Song Club, each TV station has prepared their New Year's Eve programs and New Year's Eve programs. The reason why the Red and White Song Club is so hard for viewership and topicality is simply because the competitors are also eyeing each other.

On New Year's Eve, after watching the Red and White Songs, Kanda and Yoko began to exercise their audience's rights and switch to TBS TV. In the middle of the program, they began to enter the advertisement.

Kanda picked up the remote control and was about to change the channel, but he heard it with all his ears that the background music of this advertisement was "Future Prediction Picture ii" that he had heard not long ago at the Red and White Song Festival.

I liked this song, but I just heard it not long ago, and I feel particularly friendly.

What kind of advertisement is this? He paused when he pressed the remote control button.

The protagonist of the advertisement is a couple in love, about the same age as Kanda and Yoko. In the background music of "Future Prediction Picture Ii", the elements of "five downs" are always throughout.

And this background music seems to be annotating the small movements they are constantly repeating about the "five strokes".

Until the hero drove the heroine home and watched her go to the corner, flashing five brake lights, the whole advertisement lasted for about twenty seconds.

Kanda doesn't know what foreign TV commercials look like, but in Japan, super long advertisements and series advertisements are common.

However, Kanda couldn't guess what product this was from beginning to end.

Until the five-down brake lights flashed, an album cover appeared on the TV screen.

It is a new album of Dreams e true, called "love goes on...", and it also comes with a release date, which was December 26 last year.

On December 26 last year? Kanda didn't pay any attention.

Before "Future Prediction Picture Ii", he had no interest in this band. After he fell in love with this song, he wanted a single that included this song.

As a result, looking at this advertisement, is this song an album song?

Kanda looked at the advertisement of instant miso that was switched to the TV screen, and realized that this long advertisement was a promotional advertisement for the band.

"Love goes on...", isn't the name of this album very good?"

At this time, I heard Yoko say this.

On the third day, Kanda wanted to take Yoko back to her hometown. So on the afternoon of the second day, the two of them came to the record store together and prepared to buy an album and listen to it while driving.
Chapter completed!