In front, Riko happily smiled. While everyone including the
teacher looked at her, Riko opened her mouth and happily sang. Narration: “At
that time, I knew that ‘this girl is a natural female singer’, a girl who can
sing throughout her life.” While walking home, Yuu suggested that they form a
band together. Sou exclaimed that’s great and Riko would definitely be the lead
singer. Riko said that she really wanted to be a guitarist and something like
Crude Play. End flashback. Narration: “Sing, Riko. Make them realize your true
strength.” With her band behind her, Riko holds the microphone. Soichiro
watches in anticipation at the broadcast room. Riko breaks out a happy smile
and opens her mouth to sing. Everyone looks on in surprise. In the broadcast
room, someone mutters that it is a very astonishing voice. Kiyo snaps out of it
and asks if the microphone is connected. The staff member says that it is.
Soichiro thinks, “MST’s average viewing rate is 13%. The people currently
watching this scene can be estimated to be 13 million people. Among these
people, how many would notice that there is that power from that chibi [small
girl]? The voice is perfect and rhythm[/tempo] is correct. But, talented people
who only having those [qualities], can be found everywhere. What’s amazing
about this girl is her guts[/boldness]. Possessing a strong heart[/spirit] that
she can happily laugh and smile at this place. The first time I’ve met her, I
heard her sing at the street with a high volume singing voice that comes out
from her diaphragm [/abdominal cavity]. I thought that this girl could definitely
stand at a large-scale stage and sing. The bigger the stage, the more sparkling
her radiance will be. Riko, do you know? Those kinds of people are called
STAR.” Soichiro watches on as Riko happily sings with Shinya accompanying her
with a guitar [<- which is suppose to be Riko’s] In the Twitterverse,
everyone is saying that it isn’t lip-sync and that voice is amazingly big and
strong. Someone asks if there was a broadcasting problem. The others are raving
over Shinya and there are those who are interested in buying the CD. At home,
Reiko is really flustered over this development.
Back at MST, Sou proudly watches. He holds up his hand and
starts clapping. And, the audience joins
in. Shibaken is also clapping. Holding her hands tight, Mari doesn’t want to.
Then, a cameraman focuses the camera on her. She bites her lip. She puts on a
smile and starts clapping with the others. And, at the end of the song, Riko
jumps up and kicks off her shoes. The host thanks Mush&Co for the splendid
performance. Then, it is an advertisement for Docomo by Crude Play. Watching
the television, Riko’s father is also clapping. Then, he finds himself
teary-eyed. He wipes his tear and says that Riko is really amazing. Sou’s
father exclaims that it is such an amazing performance. Back at MST again, Riko
watches the audience who are happily clapping and some are even teary-eyed. MST
staff are also clapping and saying ‘good work’. Shibaken snaps out of it and
goes into shock since that girl unexpectedly attracted more attention than him
but she’s just a Mushroom. An onstage MST staff tells Mari to get ready. Mari
says okay. Just as she is walking down to the stage, she notices that her legs
are trembling. At the lounge, Miwako is crying from Riko’s performance. Also
trembling, she quickly unlocks her smart phone and mutters, “What to do, what
to do.” The people behind her are amazed over that newbie. On the phone, Miwako
orders someone to quickly increase the CD production and bring out all of the
CD stocks. “Please mobilize the clerks to participate in the CD’s marketing. It
will sell big!” Then, Miwako recalls what Soichiro told her that because she
doesn’t dare do unplanned things, that is why she is still a virgin at 25. After
she hangs up, she is surprised that Aki is looking at her. Aki glumly says, “In
the end, it will sell big, huh? Mush&Co. That really makes it.. difficult
for me. With this, I don’t have a reason to seize her away from Shinya’s hand.”
Sitting in front of the piano, Mari glumly thinks, a girl much younger than
her, everyone should go die. Someone shouts that [broadcast will resume] 20
seconds after the CM[/adverstisment] will end. Mari looks at the piano sheets
with Aki’s name on it as composer. She touches the piano sheets and thinks, “I
know that there’s no need to be afraid. I’m really sorry for I’ll be uneasily performing
this. No matter how that child sing with her utmost might, *a staff starts to
countdown to 5 seconds* the victor has already been distinguished earlier on.
*Mari starts to sing and play the piano* The song you’ve made is much better
than their song. I only need to make everyone see this point, and that is
enough.”
Comment: And
Riko’s LIVE performance is a hit. She proves to everyone what she can do. It
also helps that Shinya can also play LIVE as music accompaniment to Riko’s
singing. Given Sou and Soichiro’s narration, it does seem that Riko can make
singing her life’s occupation. Based on Aki’s reaction, it does seem that he
cannot be happy for Riko’s success while she is under Shinya’s wing. That is
the difficulty if they are ‘rivals’ in a certain field and Aki wanting to be
the one to compose songs for Riko. But because of the deal between Aki and
Soichiro regarding Mari, I think Shinya will still end up holding the shorter
end of the stick or nothing at all. From this
chapter, it does seem that an excellent performance can boost the sales of a
mediocre song. Hm..now that I think of it, in their CD, it should have been
evident how powerful Riko’s voice is and yet, a lot of people seem unaware of
it. It makes me wonder if the sales had indeed been harmed by Reiko’s rumors
about the lip-synching. So, next would be, will a mediocre performance boost
the sales of an excellent song? Regarding these two, I think having an
excellent song will win in the long term since other singers would sing that
song later on in the future and they can make it a hit. Scans by 红莲 & all★wink汉化组
Quote of the day:
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ~ Ella
Fitzgerald