Can't You Skip Dating? / Can't You Just Like the Body?

Shi Yu smiled, looked at the chocolate that Hayasaka Ai was hiding in her hand, and shrugged when Hayasaka Ai turned around.

"I took out food here before, and I know of a pretty good family restaurant nearby. Would you like to go there for dinner?"

Hayasaka Ai nodded slightly: "Well... ok."

Shi Yu turned around and walked into the house: "Wait a minute, I'll go get my clothes."

She put on the coat that she hadn't taken off for a long time, put her hand on the schoolbag for a while, and finally picked it up and went downstairs.

In the living room, she noticed an extra box of chocolates on the coffee table, but she didn't look at it or said anything. She just said to Hayasaka Ai, who was also carrying a schoolbag, "Let's go."

Hayasaka Ai left the yard and listened to Shi Yu talking about what happened today.

Akira Ogihara drove all the way to the audition office consulted by the seiyuu office, and was blocked halfway when he was about to arrive.

"Next, No. 29, Green Mountains and Seven Seas."

Hearing the name being called, Nanami took a deep breath, suppressed the anxiety in his eyes, walked into the interview office as usual, and sat in front of several examiners.

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February 2, Valentine's Day, Tokyo dark at 14:16.

Nanami is very fortunate that he met Ogihara Akira, not only because of the better learning and living environment, but also because today, the tram from the school to the audition site had an accident, and he didn't know when it would start.

If there is no job, and there is not enough money in hand to take a taxi, today's Nanami is likely to miss this long-awaited final audition.

She considers herself lucky.

It also feels heavy.

If with such support and such luck, if I still fail...

While waiting outside the audition room, Nanami even thought about giving up for a moment.

Just like I used to be busy all day studying and working, lying on the bed in the dormitory exhausted at night, thinking about the living expenses that must be calculated carefully and the same heavy tomorrow, suddenly I have an emotional breakdown and want to escape from everything.

This situation generally occurs in adults, such as office workers who suddenly burst into tears while eating bread on the subway. It is usually called an adult collapse.

Nanami, who left home and became independent for his dream, was fortunate enough to experience it in advance.

However, this is only an occasional emotional outburst. No matter how strong the emotion is, he will not really give up. Just like the office worker who is crying and will only put bread in his mouth more desperately, Qi Hai hid in the bed. After secretly crying, she will regain her energy the next day and continue to face everything standing in front of her.

But now, that kind of persistence for dreams seems to have become impure.

Nanami doesn't seek to be better than everyone else, but only by Ogihara Akira's side, she wants to be better, at least she doesn't want to be worse than others who are also by Ogihara Akira's side.

For example, compared to Shi Yu, who struggled in the midst of suffering and still managed to do that game well.

Nanami doesn't know if this is vanity or comparison, but he just knows that he really can't stand such a comparison, and he has no face to receive so much help, but still fails to stand beside Ogihara Akira as "useless".

Her perseverance and chasing dreams are no longer pure, adding unbearable conditions, so she is closer to giving up than her hard work.

It is impossible to grasp whether she succeeds or not. She has seen the performances of professional voice actors and opera singers, and she knows how different she is from the professionals. She is not confident that her accumulation can safely cross the threshold.

Then another way to avoid this state of affairs is to not tell anyone that you have taken the test, and make the failure as if it never happened.

Nanami knew that this was just self-deception, but strong fear always made people make choices that were psychologically more bearable, even if it just seemed a little more bearable.

The audition begins with some routine questions and quizzes.

With the composure from this period of hard work and exercise, Qi Hai responded in turn, but she didn't know how her performance was, because before the end, the examiner would not have much emotional feedback unless the candidate performed too well or too bad.

This is not something to be at ease, because seiyuu is a highly competitive industry, and the entry threshold is not "general", but "good".

Even so, a considerable part of the qualified seiyuu still need to find some part-time jobs to subsidize their families in order to survive.

Not optimistic anyway.

After a while, one of the examiners sitting in the middle gestured to Nanami.

This does not mean the end, because there is one more important link.

"Finally a free play, let's get started."

"Yes!"

Nanami leaned down and picked up the bag from the seat.

But what she took out of the bag was not the script as imagined by the examiners, but a pair of white gloves.

"What are you doing?" the examiner in the middle asked strangely.

Qi Hai replied softly: "This question, please allow me to wait and answer."

The examiner was keenly aware that after taking out the pair of gloves, the Nanami in front of him changed in a certain way. Although he still used honorifics, the meaning in his voice was completely different.

The previous request was a real request, but the current request has become a request, a request that she would not care about even if the other party did not agree.

To achieve this effect, of course, not only by the sentence pattern, but also by the effort to calm down that everyone can hear, and the voice line that suddenly really calms down.

Often times, peace is the most powerful force.

The examiners sitting here are all professional, especially keen on pronunciation, more or less aware of the difference, and their expressions moved slightly.

Nanami got up and stood by the seat, put on gloves skillfully, folded his hands in front of him naturally, then closed his eyes, slowly inhaling and exhaling.

A seiyuu is also a performance, and you need to adjust your emotional state before starting. The newcomer needs to stabilize her mentality. In addition to the faint change in her voice just now, and the graceful stance she seems to have specially trained at the moment, several examiners are waiting patiently.

When she reopened her eyes, it was just her calm gaze and expression that made several examiners' impressions of her suddenly collapse.

What comes after the collapse, of course, is a new remodeling.

This is Nanami's trump card for today's audition. Since she is so afraid of failure, she wants to pass with all her might more than ever before. Of course, she has to show her voice that she practices almost every day and show her best side.

"First of all, let me answer the question you just asked." Nanami raised a hand and gestured to the white glove on his hand, "This is a psychological suggestion to get me into a state. Although I can do it without gloves, today's me There is a lot of tension, and there is no other reason to enter the state, so it will inevitably be unstable."

Not only the voice, but also the way of speaking has changed. It has become rational and frank. I just don't care about it, and I express my lack of calmness. It seems that I don't worry about any negative impact on the review.

This is the second indifference, and it is also a full interpretation of the so-called "peaceful power", which even constitutes a vague sense of oppression, standing on the same plane as the supposedly awesome examiner in silence. .

Of course, these are just extra emotions. What the examiners are more concerned about is her calm but not stiff voice.

It doesn't have the slightest sense of "good reading", but it is truly as natural as a daily conversation, and has a uniqueness that is detached from the everyday.

Several examiners glanced at each other again and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

After this brief and vague exchange, the examiner asked, "What do you do? The other reasons for entering the state just mentioned are..."

Qi Hai bowed slightly: "It's just an ordinary high school student. As for the latter question, I don't think it was the content of today's audition, nor the free play I prepared for it. I'm sorry."

"No, no, I'm just curious, I'm being rude, uh..."

The examiner subconsciously apologized, and then he realized that he should be considered a scolding by the examinee.

Even though Nanami's voice was calm, the apology at the end was polite, without the slightest sense of perfunctory, but in an interview where most people were uneasy, it could be regarded as the following crime.

But even if he reacted, the examiner didn't feel that he was offended, and Nanami also didn't feel that he was offended.

The examiner raised his hand a little embarrassedly: "Okay, let's get back to the topic, your voice is very characteristic now, and you have practiced to a relatively mature level, which is very good, um... How about the variability of this voice, for example, Can you soften your voice a little bit?"

Qi Hai opened his mouth to speak, but frowned slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, he said, "Please wait a moment."

She closed her eyes and pondered quietly, but after a while, she opened her eyes slightly troubled: "Sorry, it's okay in normal times, but today, I can't do it for the time being."

In fact, Qi Hai used this soft voice most of the time. The reason she couldn't do it was because the examiners were strangers, not close acquaintances.

To strangers, what a maid should do is to show a noble and graceful peace to the master, not a softness with a sense of intimacy.

Because of that calm power, the examiner didn't lie like Qi Hai, just thought that she still had a lot of tension in her heart, and it was difficult to enter a relaxed atmosphere, nodded and said: "Okay, although there are certain limitations, but the voice actor is this. The industry is not afraid of shortcomings, but lack of expertise. If you can get a dubbing job that matches your personality, you should have an excellent performance."

After a pause, the examiner continued: "However, according to the needs of the work, there will inevitably be various emotional changes in the dubbing, so you must remember to take the variability of this voice as the focus of the next exercise. "

These words of affirmation gradually dispelled the unease that Qihai had suppressed in his heart, and the careful reminder in the second half also filled Qihai with gratitude, and sincerely thanked: "I understand, thank you very much for your advice. "

The examiner next to him coughed twice: "Mr. Ueda, the audition is not over yet."

The chief examiner, who was called Ueda, suddenly realized that the affirmation of his words was too clear, and it was already equivalent to announcing approval. However, according to the normal process, it should be discussed with other examiners after the audition process is completely finished, and finally on February 2th. results will be published.

The examiner fell into a second embarrassment, and once again made a gesture of invitation: "Slip, let's go to your free play first, let's see the performance you prepared."

"Yes."

Qi Hai once again closed his eyes to concentrate, and after reopening his eyes, he made a cold voice that was quite graceful, but kept a certain distance from others, and bowed slightly.

"Good afternoon, all guests. I am Qingshan Qihai. On behalf of the eldest lady, I welcome you all."

After this sentence, the host and guest positions, which had already become not quite right, had once again undergone a not quite right reversal.

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After the result was not announced, Nanami, who walked out of the audition room, was very calm, so calm that she was very surprised.

Of course, this was mainly because several examiners expressed varying degrees of affirmation. Although the results were not announced on the spot, if there were no accidents, she should have successfully crossed that threshold and ended her seiyuu training career.

In fact, no matter what the result is, her training career will end on the 27th, because the seiyuu training is only for two years, after which she will graduate regardless of whether she passes the audition or not.

Not everyone will realize their dreams, and the time spent on this may not be all meaningful. It can be regarded as a kind of gentleness in the name of stopping damage if there is an external force to put an end to it properly.

In various works, the so-called stop loss seems to be a bit unbearable, but in reality, in terms of the number of people, this stop loss may be more correct than insisting.

The consequences of too much persistence are actually mostly going to a more bumpy life, or really going to a dead end.

Such as Nanami who did not get help.

If she didn't have what she had trained as a maid, she didn't have enough food and more time and energy, she didn't think she would have much success rate without special skills and average ability. Once she failed, she graduated, according to her father's agreement. When she agreed to go back to her hometown, she didn't know what the two years she had been struggling to support.

She also wants to play, not when friends go to KTV or go shopping, so that she will not regret it in the future, she will endure not to play and not relax, and she will work part-time.

Part-time work is very tiring, it is hard work that makes people want to give up, not a lot of time.

Those were two years of youth, burnt out with full of blood, but that one failure was enough to deny everything and turn these two years into a complete nightmare.

Fortunately, nothing will happen. Among those who have made efforts and perseverance, she is fortunate to be one of those who have been rewarded.

Just unexpected and not much joy?

There are also happy, very happy, but not as excited as expected.

After letting go of the unease about "comparisons", Nanami was finally able to face himself again with a normal mentality, and face the giving up that he thought about.

Because before going out, the examiner heard her determination of her immaturity and said a sentence

"Being able to face your own immaturity calmly and even joke about it is the only way to truly overcome this immaturity. You have done a good job."