Tokyo Reborn: Dark Superstar

Chapter 51 The Prodigal Son Turns Back?

"Mingna! I've been waiting for you for a long time, come on! These gratin potatoes are delicious."

Kanda Keiko saw Nakamori Akina arriving belatedly and greeted her warmly.

"Hello..."

Nakamori Akina said hello to Takakura Bunta and Tony Futaki, and sat next to Kanda Keiko.
  "How is your physical condition?"

Kanda Keiko looked at Akina Nakamori, who looked very bad, and asked worriedly.

"The doctor said I have recovered. I did something stupid that day, thanks to Keiko..."

Akina Nakamori pulled the cuffs of her clothes to cover the scars on her wrists.

"Fortunately Mr. Takakura called me that day. It was really scary."

Kanda Keiko divided a piece of butter-baked potato into two halves with a fork, picked up half and put it in Nakamori Akina's bowl, and pointed to Takakura Bunta on the side.

"Mr. Gao Cang..."

Nakamori Akina saw Takakura Bunta. She had seen Takakura Bunta in music magazines and TV stations.

This rising star in the music scene has topped the Oricon chart for two consecutive weeks with "Kill That Tokyo Man" and is currently very popular.

The real person looks more powerful than the photos in magazines or TV pictures.

In front of Mr. Takakura, I was like a little rabbit standing in front of a Tyrannosaurus rex from the Jurassic era.

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"Arigato..."

Nakamori Akina filled the cup with beer, stood up and gave Takakura Bunta a toast.

Takakura Bunta drank it down happily.

Kanda Keiko frowned and said, "Akina! You should quit smoking and drinking as soon as possible, it's your throat!"

Nakamori Akina said: "Hehe... Koizumi Kyoko has always said this about me..."

"Okay, Keiko-chan, don't be angry, today is the last drink."

Nakamori Akina, who had been hurt by love before, was addicted to tobacco and alcohol, which caused great damage to her throat.

Friends such as Koizumi Kyoko and Kanda Keiko have advised this matter many times.

However, every time she was hurt by Kondo Masahiko, she would get drunk.

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"Did you break up with that scumbag?" Kanda Keiko asked.

Takakura Bunta and Tony Futaki both silently worked on the roasted butter potatoes, while listening with their ears pricked up.

"Hey...is this Fukagawa rice?"

"It looks delicious!"

Akina Nakamori looked at the bowl of Fukagawa rice that had just been served and exclaimed, then picked up her chopsticks and was about to start eating.

She gently picked up a small piece of clam meat with chopsticks and put it into her mouth. The clam meat was tender and delicious.

Next, Nakamori Akina gently stirred the Fukagawa rice with chopsticks, allowing the rice's special soy sauce to be fully mixed into the rice and clams.

The entire Fukagawa rice is fuller and richer, exuding an alluring aroma.

Seeing Akina Nakamori happily eating Fukagawa rice and roasted butter potatoes.

Kanda Keiko sighed and said, "Can't you just cut it off with that scumbag? Didn't he hurt you enough?"

Akina Nakamori took a big mouthful of rice and said:
  "Kondo-kun's single "Yuyaki no Uta" fell out of the top three of the Oricon chart. In the past two days, it has fallen out of the top five, and it continues to fall..."

"He knew his time had passed."

"Kondo-kun, you recently participated in TV Asahi's "House Renovation King" and completely redecorated our apartment."

"He said that his previous behavior was too irresponsible and he wanted to start over and decorate the wedding room properly."

"Now, he comes to the hospital to visit his mother every day. My mother's condition has stabilized and everything is getting better..."

Takakura Bunta and Tony Futaki looked at each other.

This is a master.

This plot is a typical "prodigal son returns with no money in return".

Keiko Kanda did not continue to persuade her, but poured herself a glass of Sapporo beer.

Mother Chieko is Nakamori Akina’s weakness.     …………………………………………

Akina Nakamori was born in a poor family in RB.

My father only opened a pork shop, but he had to support 6 children. The family was too poor to open the pot.

The family eats boiled cabbage for breakfast, cabbage dipped in salt for lunch, and cabbage with soy sauce for dinner...

My father kept complaining at home every day that the family had no money and raising children cost a lot of money.

When he was in a bad mood, he would drink and go crazy, beating Chieko and the children violently.

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When her mother, Chieko, was busy with housework, she would often hum a tune and talk to her daughter about her favorite star, the singer Hibari Misora.

She said her dream was to be a singer, but unfortunately, she shook her head: "Now she is just a housewife worrying about rice."

In fact, Akina Nakamori did not have any grand dreams at that time.

She likes children and thinks it would be great to be a kindergarten teacher or even a nanny when she grows up.

However, after listening to her mother's story, Nakamori Akina decided to become a singer because that was her mother's wish.

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Her mother was very supportive of Akina's idea. Even though her family was not wealthy, she still insisted on pawning her dowry and sending her to practice ballet.

She has been studying ballet at the "Yokoyama Akiko Modern Ballet Studio" since she was 4 years old, laying a solid foundation for her future performances.

Akina, who finally got her mother's attention, worked harder and harder.

From 1978 to 1981, Akina Nakamori participated in "A Star Is Born!" three times in a row, and scored a record-high 392 points since the show began, making her official debut.

The beginning of a generation of legendary singers.

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Akina Nakamori was so skinny and small, but she had a very good appetite. She ate two and a half portions of butter potatoes and a whole bowl of Fukagawa rice by herself.

Seeing that Kanda Keiko was still in a bad mood, Nakamori Akina took the initiative and said: "My personal office Milky House, according to your suggestion last time, hired a professional manager to manage it."

"Oh...your vampire father and brother, have you solved the food safety case?"

Keiko Kanda took a sip of beer and said angrily.

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Nakamori Akina's father first borrowed a large amount of money from Yanyin Office in the name of Nakamori Akina to expand the operation of the pork shop and opened 26 chain stores in succession.

The next year, they all closed down due to poor management.

Later, Akina Nakamori left the Kenin Office and established a personal agency, Milky House, with her father as the vice president and her brother as the executive director.

In the second month after the establishment of the new office, the two people advanced 10 years' salary and opened a Chinese restaurant.

A few months later, due to poor management, food safety issues occurred. Customers ate rat heads in the sauced duck heads they sold, and they faced a large amount of compensation.

Nakamori Akina's father and brother have always been called "the curse of the original family" and "two shameless vampires" by Kanda Keiko...

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"Kondo-kun gave my father and brother a sum of money and asked them to resign from the firm."

"In addition, he also helped to invite Mr. Riuzo Kosugi, a senior executive at Johnny's, to entrust a team of professional managers to conduct the daily management of the firm."

“Now I’m working on new songs.”

After hearing Nakamori Akina's answer, Kanda Keiko's tone softened slightly.

Takakura Bunta and Tony Futaki would not ask for trouble and did not ask any further questions.

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After the four of them finished eating, they exchanged contact information, and Akina Nakamori had to go to the recording studio to prepare a new song.

"The prodigal son turned back?"

Takakura Bunta drank beer and watched Nakamori Akina leave.

The super-sense of the strongest creature in the sea, land and air triggers an effect similar to Spider-Man's "Peter a Clever".

ton ton ton...

This is a very ominous premonition.

(End of this chapter)