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

Assistant Director Souta gave him a helpless look.

In order to ensure the authenticity and statistical accuracy of on-site voting, each voting machine has a fixed signal frequency that cannot be modified.

However, the special "voting machine" in his hand has the authority to adjust the frequency and overwrite the original voting results.

However, Takahashi Yu already had three instructor votes, and it would be too obvious to modify Yayoi Tsuki's vote now, so assistant director Souta could only use his 30-year-old single hand speed limit to painstakingly and conscientiously modify the audience votes one by one...

"How can it be so fast? What kind of car is he driving? Even my thirty years of hard work can't catch up with him..."

But the next second, he discovered in despair that the speed at which he changed his votes was obviously slower than the speed at which Xia Fan's votes increased.

"Souta, why are you so slow? We've almost finished voting..."

Seeing that there were less than 300 votes left to be cast, Akimoto Manjiro was obviously getting anxious.

"Useless guy, let me do it..."

He secretly snatched the voting machine from Cao Tai's hand and quickly pressed it on the inside of his lapel...

However, although he was used to being served for many years, his operating speed was obviously not as fast as that of Assistant Director Sota.

"Damn it, the number of votes is still so far off? If we move a little faster, we can still make it in time..."

"What, it's over?!"

Director Akimoto only tampered with less than a dozen voting data, and all 1400 live votes had already been cast.

"Don't press it, Director General. The notary office is sealing the data."

Assistant Director Souta grabbed Akimoto Manjiro's wrist and shook his head silently.

Once the on-site voting begins, people from the notary office will always be standing by to supervise the counting of votes.

Even if a few companies have connections, they can at most turn a blind eye to the "fluctuations" in the voting process...

But if there are "abnormal fluctuations" after the total number of votes reaches 1400, they will not be able to ignore it in any way.

"I know."

Akimoto Manjiro's eyes dimmed and he was petrified on the spot.

He naturally understood these principles, and he just got a little carried away because of his unwillingness...

"Ahem... the on-site voting time has ended, and our staff are counting the votes..."

On the stage, Goro Kimura, holding the microphone, looked at Manjiro Akimoto on the sidelines with some trepidation.

But the other party had no intention of making eye contact with him.

"Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

"It's been so many years... I haven't felt this out of control for a long time..."

"I have always underestimated you...Xia Fan..."

"The audition hasn't ended yet, and the outcome is still unknown... This time, I'm betting on my dignity as an 'idol creator'..."

Staring at Xia Fan on the stage, a ferocious smile appeared on Akimoto Manjiro's lips.

"I'll leave the rest of the recording to you, Souta."

"Wait, chief director?!"

After whispering something to Assistant Director Souta, he turned and left with an expressionless face.

……

"Dear audience, thank you for your patience. The voting results for the second round of performances, the song "Oxygen Bomb", have been announced..."

After a while, Goro Kimura on the stage received a prompt from the program crew in his headphones and turned to look at the big screen.

Just like the last performance, numbers started to appear behind the names of the red and white teams on the big screen...

As everyone watched in a tense manner, the Red Team's votes were fixed at 826...

The White Team, on the other hand, only had 574 votes.

"Then... let us congratulate the Red Team for this victory!!!"

"They will share 15 million bonus tickets!"

With a slightly stiff smile on his face, Goro Kimura announced the score, which was not a small difference, in a trembling voice.

"Won!!!"

"is that a lie?!"

"this is okay too?!"

The people in Xia Fan's team immediately burst into huge cheers.

"Now, let's see who dares to look down on my silky little combo?!"

An Ziyao proudly performed his "universal dance combo" again as a celebratory move.

"Xia Fan... won again?"

Oda slumped back dejectedly, his old body slumped into the chair.

As insiders, they had heard to some extent about the fact that several companies had come to pressure the program production team, demanding that Xia Fan be suppressed as much as possible and be knocked off the top of the popularity list.

Kishi Sho and Takahashi Yu, two five-star trainees selected by J Company and S Company respectively, were defeated by Xia Fan. Such a result was obviously not in line with the will of the capital behind the program.

"We lost?!"

"How can it be……"

"Why?"

Of course, the trainees in Takahashi Yu's team also could not accept this result.

"Asshole, didn't you just add an elbow spin at the end..."

"With those weak moves above, how can they be qualified to defeat us?!"

Takahashi Yu clenched his back teeth and pointed with trembling fingers at the other side of the stage, where the trainees were repeating "Silky Little Combo 1.0-4.0" next to Xia Fan to celebrate.

"Yes, overall, it's obviously us who dance better!"

"We demand a review of the votes and a recount of the scores!"

His teammates also began to protest to the executive director on the sidelines.

Chapter 294 Where was it placed?

2024-07-13

"The votes for these trainees were jointly confirmed by the notary and the production team."

"The show is still being recorded, please don't make any noise."

"Otherwise, according to the program regulations and the competition contract, the production team has the right to ask you to withdraw from the recording."

But today, Assistant Director Souta, who was usually gentle, responded to them with an exceptionally stern expression and tone.

"These ungrateful bastards are causing more trouble at this time..."

Only when he saw those trainees shut their mouths dejectedly did Assistant Director Souta secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

If I hadn't taken such a huge risk and worked so hard to tamper with the votes, the vote gap would have been even bigger...

If the votes are really reviewed and the notary office discovers those "abnormal repeated signal records", not only is it possible to restore the original vote count with a larger gap, but the program team will also get into big trouble.

"From the reaction during the performance, we know that such a big difference in votes is to be expected..."

"No matter how much the production team planned, they couldn't have expected that Xia Fan, who was singing high notes in the last show as 'Chrysanthemum in the Wind', would turn into a beast with elbows in this show, right?"

Staring at the extremely mocking vote gap on the screen, Yayoi Tsuki's plump lips curled up slightly, and the smile at the corners of her mouth was harder to suppress than AK.

"Then let's take a look at the individual votes for the winning trainees!"

Kimura Goro raised his hand slightly, and only the list of Xia Fan's team remained on the big screen, and the individual vote rankings of the trainees were also announced...

Just as Akimoto Manjiro saw backstage, Xia Fan ranked first with an exaggerated number of 514 votes.

Except for Yuta Hirano who came in second and Martin who came in third, who both received around 100 votes, the rest of the teammates only received a few dozen votes.

"Then let us congratulate this team of trainees. The winners will be given 15 million popularity votes as a reward according to the proportion of the votes they received!"

As he read out the results with a steady tone and a natural expression, Goro Kimura suddenly realized that he seemed to have become numb to the situation where Xia Fan had a crushing victory in the vote count.

He suddenly felt fortunate that when he debuted as an idol, he did not meet a classmate like Xia Fan, who was so good-looking, good-looking, and had the best singing and dancing skills.

"It goes well with the rice, it goes well with the rice, the song and the dance, three more bowls please!"

"The devil comes to earth, and everything is just food!"

As soon as the result came out, many female audience members in the audience raised their thin white fluorescent sticks and shouted slogans in unison...

As if they had rehearsed it countless times in advance, through clever standing and holding postures, the glow sticks in their hands just formed the two huge words "Xia Fan"!

"Hey, security, what's going on with these cheering sticks..."

"Impossible! We checked everything carefully. Where did they put these long and thin glow sticks?!"

At this moment, the security teams surrounding the studio were all dumbfounded.

"Don't worry about it for now, go and confiscate it, otherwise your performance will be deducted!"

"Audience member, you are not allowed to hold up light sticks during the event. Please put them away!"

"Don't run..."

The panicked security guards could only rush into the auditorium in a vain attempt to maintain order...

"Hey, Jinguji, did you see that? My Xia Fan won again!!!"

"That amazing belly...dancing move just now definitely deserves such votes!"

"If I get the reward ticket, Xia Fan will still be the most popular person after this round of performances!"

In the staff area, Misa Oda excitedly pulled Aoi Jinguji and jumped on the spot like a rabbit.

It was not until Oda, who was sitting in the tutor's seat, heard the noise and looked over suspiciously that she sat back properly.

"Mr. Xia Fan is still number one? Should I congratulate him or what a pity..."

Aoi Jinguji sighed silently.

No matter how happy or sad some are, the last song competition is over and the second round of performance recording has also come to an end.

The trainees retreated backstage and the audience began to leave in an orderly manner.

"Go quickly. I've told the production team that you're delivering the materials on behalf of Company B."

Yayoi Tsuki walked over from the instructor's seat and pointed to the backstage.

"Thanks."

Taking out a folder from her bag, Aoi Jinguji quickly walked into the backstage passage.

……

"Hmph, Xia Fan, the second round of performances is over, which means our relationship as 'temporary teammates' has come to an end..."

"It was my fault for looking down on you before. In the following performances, I will treat you as a stronger opponent than myself and give it my all."

As soon as they returned to the backstage area, Yuta Hirano, who was walking in front, turned around, raised his chin, and looked at Xia Fan provocatively.

"The first place is temporarily with you. Don't let anyone else take it away before I take it..."

After saying this, he pulled An Ziyao away.

"What is this guy doing? He suddenly said a bunch of lines from a hot-blooded manga. It scared me..."

Xia Fan was left standing there with a confused look on his face.

"Don't be fooled by Hirano Yuta's arrogant appearance. He is actually very smart. He labels himself as 'Xia Fan's enemy' in order to take advantage of your attention..."

"However, for someone as proud as him, he doesn't compete with you in terms of talent, but uses 'business tactics' instead. Does that fit in with what he meant by 'giving it his all'?"

Martin pointed to the camera at the backcourt entrance and explained to Xia Fan.

No matter what idols do, the ultimate goal is to gain the "love" of the audience.

Therefore, in addition to showing off one's talents, there are naturally various ways to divide popularity from others.