Flying over the bubble era

"What's your favorite song, Maiko-chan?"

Two children of similar age gathered together to exchange little secrets about their interests and hobbies.

On the way to visit the record company with her mother, Maiko Haruyama imagined what kind of person Iwahashi-san was. But I didn't expect that there would be a child about his own age receiving them together with Iwahashi-san.

In a strange and novel situation, in a situation full of adults, the appearance of Utada Hikaru, a nonchalant peer, made Maiko Haruyama quickly relax. Utada Hikaru followed Iwahashi Shinichi to work, but it was a mistake.

However, the reason why this simple child had a natural affinity for Utada Hikari was not only the closeness in age. Also because Utada Hikaru was a foster child with Shinichi Iwahashi.

This child's parents are not with her now.

Maiko Haruyama herself received very little, but she never hesitated to care for others. Junko Qingshan's innocent and innocent personality made her suffer a lot. However, a mother-daughter family with no shortage of love enabled her to raise a child like gold.

"Favorite song?" Maiko Haruyama showed a confused expression.

Iwahashi Shinichi asked Utada Hikaru to secretly inquire about the animals that Maiko Haruyama likes. However, by the time Utada Hikari executed this instruction, it had automatically transformed into "Utada Hikaru is interested in Maiko-chan's favorite things."

It's not good to lie to Xiaoguang...

Maiko Haruyama was a little shaken in her heart. She leaned closer and whispered, "I like Doricum's songs the most."...It's not good to lie to herself or Kirin-san of DREAMS COME TRUE.

Utada Hikaru said "Oh", "I see." It's normal that his favorite singer is not a singer from the record company he is visiting.

"It's the band with the giant giraffe..." Hikaru Utada seemed to be confirming with Maiko Haruyama.

Maiko Haruyama couldn't keep up, "Huge?" She was embarrassed by Utada Hikari's description, and she always felt that it should not be used to describe people.

Utada Hikaru is very reasonable, "In terms of the ratio of head to body..."

The two children leaned against each other and laughed together.

The adults heard the laughter and turned their heads, only to find that the two children had fallen behind them unknowingly. Shinichi Iwahashi greeted: "Hikaru, Maiko-chan."

Junko Qingshan couldn't speak, so she only looked at Maiko.

The two children approached with a smile.

"What are you talking about? You look very happy." Iwahashi Shinichi looked at Utada Hikaru. Utada Hikaru is more like a child when he gets along with Maiko Haruyama.

Utada Hikaru and Haruyama Maiko exchanged glances and answered him: "I'm talking about giraffes."

"Giraffe?" Iwahashi Shinichi was confused.

Maiko Haruyama was a little embarrassed and struggled with how to explain. Utada Hikaru was quite confident. He gestured to his new friend, highlighting a face-to-face conspiracy, and then replied: "Giraffes are animals too, Iwahashi-san."

Iwahashi Shinichi responded and nodded. Junko Haruyama and the people accompanying her were all confused about this conversation. Only Shinichi Iwahashi seemed to have a secret code with Hikari Utada.

If Maiko Haruyama likes giraffes, it would be very simple for him. So, after the two children, who got along well with each other when they first met, talked and laughed and visited the company, and before the mother and daughter were about to say goodbye, Shinichi Iwahashi pulled out an origami giraffe from his suit pocket like a magic trick.

"This is a gift for Maiko-chan."

Maiko Haruyama stared at the origami giraffe in Shinichi Iwahashi's hand with her eyes wide open. Junko Qingshan, who was on the side, thought of something and couldn't help but hold her breath and suppress her inner surprise.

Besides KIRIN-san of DREAMS COME TRUE, will there be another person who will give her an origami giraffe?

Utada Hikaru was making some disastrous comments on the side, "Iwahashi-san knows how to fold many animals."

Iwahashi Shinichi smiled and did not respond to this sentence, but said to Haruyama Maiko: "I also like giraffes, so I am very happy that Maiko-chan said this."

The two men actually said completely different things.

Shinichi Iwahashi was talking about the animal giraffe, and Maiko Haruyama was talking about Kirin-san of the band. This should be the case, but children intuitively feel that it is not the case.

If Kirin-san of the band knew that she liked Kirin-san the most because of her letter, so he gave her giraffe origami, then I heard that she liked giraffes, so I quietly prepared giraffe origami for her Iwahashi-san, two Giraffe origami conveys the same idea.

Maiko Haruyama is not yet able to sort out this feeling clearly, but she has understood it intuitively and instinctively.

The giraffe origami she took over looked so familiar. Maiko Haruyama took another giraffe and mustered up her courage, "Iwahashi-san knows how to fold giraffes..."

"Yes." Iwahashi Shinichi encouraged her with his eyes.

Maiko Haruyama asked him: "Can you tell me how to fold a giraffe?" Her eyes sparkled, "Maiko wants to know, she has always wanted to know."

Iwahashi Shinichi was stunned for this request, then smiled, "Of course you can. Do you want to learn it now, Maiko-chan?"

He expressed the meaning of "see you next time". However, only children can understand this meaning. For adults, they subconsciously feel that this is a social rhetoric of evasion.

But Junko Qingshan did not stop her daughter, but looked at Maiko who mustered up the courage to talk to Shinichi Iwahashi. This was the moment when the two stars that Maiko treasured, shining with the same light, met. Probably never again.

"Please teach me, please Iwahashi-san!" Maiko Haruyama said without thinking.

Iwahashi Shinichi felt the heavy momentum coming towards him, and for a moment he couldn't understand why Maiko Haruyama's learning to fold origami giraffes carried such weight. But he agreed, "Let's start teaching now."

……

Maiko Haruyama once went to the library and read reference books related to origami, but the identical origami giraffe was created by Iwahashi-san.

She looked at Iwahashi Shinichi's fingers seriously, following his movements step by step. A giraffe gradually took shape in her hands. Ever since she received the origami giraffe from the band's Kirin-san, the question that has been lingering in her mind - the secret of how to make an origami giraffe - is now being peeled off and unraveled bit by bit.

Utada Hikaru sat next to him. She came with him, but when Shinichi Iwahashi asked her if she wanted to give her a piece of origami, she refused without hesitation and had no interest in deciphering the secret of the giraffe.

At this moment, she looked at Maiko Haruyama's focused face and suddenly showed a trace of sympathy.