Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 12 Full Score
"What? This song, sung live, is so infectious..."

In the waiting corridor of the stage, Sakamoto Hide stood there blankly, listening to the last words of the girl outside the venue, which sounded like crying.

"Xiu, do you really have to go abroad to study music? Isn't it better to continue being an actor like you are now?"

"Sorry, I don't want to be a popular actor who wins with his appearance. Music is my lifelong pursuit."

"Then, will we meet again?"

"Of course, the next time we meet, I should already be a singer."

Before going abroad, the conversation he had with a woman under the cherry tree quietly came to his mind.

"Humph, I was inferior in this live performance. However, I didn't lose to Hoshina Hanami, but to that brat..."

"Go down to earth, right? I'll remember this name."

Hide Sakamoto looked unwillingly across the aisle at a "fanatical fan" who was waving a giant glow stick with an expressionless face.

"Hello, it's me... Yes, I'm back home. I've been in seclusion preparing for the competition for a while, so I didn't contact you."

"Now, let's meet."

Shaking his head, he dialed a number and walked into the exit passage.

On the stage, Hoshina Hanami finished singing, bowed deeply, and stood to the side of the stage.

Xia Fan, who was in the audience, also silently turned off his glow stick, put his coat back on, and slipped away.

It took several seconds for the audience to react and gave thunderous applause.

"Thank you, Hoshina Hanami, for your heartfelt and touching performance! Now, it's time for the judges to give their scores..."

"What, so fast, it's already been prepared? Wait, am I seeing right?"

"All five judges gave 10 points, so doesn't that mean... the total score is 50 points?!"

"Dear audience, just now, we witnessed history with our own eyes!"

Amid the host's surprised exclamation, the live singing session of the "Tokyo Newcomer Music Awards", which is known for its strictness, produced a record-breaking perfect score in history.

……

At ten o'clock in the evening, Shinjuku's izakaya street is crowded with people and the atmosphere is bustling.

“Good luck with the show!”

"cheers!"

In the tatami box of the izakaya, Yoshihide Higashino and Ryoko Tachibana raised their hero glasses filled with beer and clinked them together.

"Huh...ha..."

"Hey, Brother Xia Fan, you are the hero behind this time. Don't just drink watermelon juice, wheat juice is also juice!"

After drinking a whole glass of cold beer heroically, Tachibana Ryoko "shyly" bumped the young man next to her with her shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I'm not in good health and I'm still one year away from the legal drinking age, so I can't touch alcohol."

Xia Fan took a sip of the watermelon juice with a straw, picked up the beef from the grill without hesitation, stuffed it into his mouth, and squinted his eyes.

[Faith value +1...Faith value +1...Current accumulated faith value 352]

Since the end of the live performance, his stagnant faith value has begun to rise slowly again.

"If there is still one year left, then Xia Jun is the same age as me, right?"

Across the table, Hoshina Hanami glanced at Xia Fan through the huge juice cup in her hand. "By the way, Xia Fan, you kid, you didn't even tell me in advance and went to the backstage to support WOTA. You scared me, the president!"

"Look, people are posting your WOTA on Tiktok, and there are a lot of likes!"

Dongye looked slightly tipsy and showed his phone to everyone with a smile.

In the video titled "Sakura Samurai? Crazy fan cheering for WOTA", it was Xia Fan who was dancing with pink glow sticks in the dark.

"It's me. I asked Xia Jun to cheer me up..."

Across the table, Hoshina Hanami, with a glass of juice in front of her, tried to explain for Xia Fan in a weak voice.

I just said "Come on", but I didn't expect Xia Fan to be such a "fanatic fan". Could it be that he was...

"No, it's impossible... Besides, she's just a newly debuted idol, it's too early now, and the company won't allow it..."

Her eyes fell on the "Hanami Honmei" T-shirt inside Xia Fan's coat. Hoshina Hanami didn't know what she was thinking of. She suddenly raised her head and drank the juice in her hand. Her little face turned red as if she was drunk.

"Oh? It's pitch black, I can't take a clear picture. It's too dark to see clearly, will it be considered finished..."

Xia Fan watched several related videos and found that the most eye-catching thing was the dancing light of the fluorescent stick, while only a blurry figure of himself was left.

[You have fulfilled the oracle: Perform the "Izumo Sword Dance" in front of a thousand people, making them bow their heads in praise. The gods have granted you the festival song "Red Lotus Flower".]

It was only at this time that the news of the completion of the oracle finally arrived.

"'Red Lotus'? Another song from Earth. Could it be that this evil god restored it from my memories of my previous life?"

"Gurenge" is one of the theme songs of the popular Earth anime "Pillar Slayer: Yaiba".

Within two weeks of the anime airing, the song topped the charts of 38 stores, was ranked among the top five downloaded songs at the Gold Disc Awards that year, was the first anime single to top the weekly chart in Oricon history, and won the JASRAC Gold Award for two consecutive years.

"Gurenge" first became known due to the high popularity of the animation. With the unique rock style of the song and the core of "never give up", it was named "the most exciting divine song".

After that, the popularity of this song skyrocketed and even boosted the ratings of the animation for a second time. The original singer LISA even sang this song on the highest level stage "Red and White Songs Contest", which is a model of the mutual achievement of the song, animation, and singer.

"It's not easy to publish anime songs. I need to study them carefully..."

However, Xia Fan was not happy about having a new hit song. Instead, he frowned.

Anime songs and pop music are separate tracks with different audience segments and song release processes. In the absence of anime content support, it is difficult for the songs themselves to arouse emotional resonance.

If "Gurenhua" was released as a single song like "Sakura", without the blessing of the storyline, the effect would be much worse, and it might even bury a good song.

"I almost forgot...hiccup...please sign this authorization agreement, and the share of the network payment will be deposited into your card every month."

Before he could study it carefully, Higashino Yoshihide took out a crumpled piece of paper and handed it to him.

"Oh, okay."

Xia Fan didn't ask any questions, just picked up the pen and signed his name at the end.

"Hey, wait... For the song 'Sakura', the competition has already started, and you haven't received the official licensing agreement until now?"

"And Brother Xia Fan, you signed without even asking about the scope of authorized use and the profit-sharing ratio?"

This scene of "illegal operation" left Tachibana Ryoko dumbfounded.

The song copyright management in District 11 is very strict. Every time a song is used, whether it is a paid download from the Internet or a karaoke request, the corresponding fee must be paid to the copyright owner.

The copyright company under Bethesda claims to own the copyrights of more than 8000 songs. Even if it does nothing every year, the royalties alone can generate a considerable profit.

These two people in front of me don’t care about any of this?

(End of this chapter)