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

"Other romance dramas are just about 1 man and 2 men, 1 woman and 2 women, and a variety of intertwined love stories..."

When asked this question, Shirakawa Rika stood up angrily, and her twin ponytails flew up to the sky like frizzy hair.

"But it is said that the work "The Broken Chrysanthemum and the Sword" was originally written by Kawasaki Airi for a female GAL game. Later, the game developer failed to make it, so it was adapted into a manga."

"As a result, apart from the secret "bonds" and "fencing" between the male characters, there are six love lines in this drama, including the cold and mature Hijikata line, the domineering and cold Kazama line, the lively and cheerful Todo line, the silent and simple Saito line, the determined but childish Souji line, and the mature, serious and gentle Harada line."

"Fans of the original novel have therefore split into six groups who support the single and one who supports Chaos, a total of seven groups!"

"That is to say, as the heroine, I have to act like a badass time management master while juggling the emotional dramas of six male characters, and all of them are 'potato actors'!"

"If I don't study and analyze these characters thoroughly, then the emotional scenes between me and each one won't be able to be differentiated at all. It will just become a soulless 'soap' produced on an assembly line, and it won't make female audiences feel 'involved' at all!"

Pacing back and forth in the dressing room, she complained incessantly, and it was obvious that she had suppressed a lot of dissatisfaction since joining the crew.

"I see... Ms. Shirakawa is more serious and professional about acting than I thought..."

Xia Fan touched his chin and nodded seriously.

"What a joke! If we talk about the time I entered the industry, my peers in the entire industry would have to call me a senior."

"Unlike you guys who just want to get in the spotlight and become famous overnight, I treat acting as my lifelong career!"

"Wait, why am I telling you, an outsider, so much..."

After speaking angrily, Shirakawa Rika seemed to realize that she had said too much and covered her mouth in shame.

"Even so, Senior Baichuan, there is no need to share the notes with a 'connected person' like me. Just wait and see me make a fool of myself like those 'potatoes' before..."

Xia Fan glanced at the four words "says one thing but means another" in the character label of "Kazama Manye" and laughed sarcastically.

Rika Shirakawa, although she looks a little arrogant and is not very nice with her words, she seems to be surprisingly easy to get along with in essence.

"Senior...you call me senior?"

When Shirakawa Rika heard that Xia Fan actually took the opportunity to call her "senior", she was slightly stunned.

"Isn't that what Hideo Sakamoto called you?"

"Also, I did some searching and found out that the candy commercial that was broadcast on every TV station more than ten years ago was actually shot by you. When I was little in front of the TV, I was jealous of it for many years!"

"After eating it, I realized that in addition to the normal flavors of strawberry, pineapple, and lemon, the candy also had strange flavors of the same color, such as snail, snot, vomit, vomit, rotten eggs, and stink bugs..."

Xia Fan, however, looked as if it was a matter of course.

As a child star in advertising, Rika Shirakawa became famous at a young age and is indeed qualified to be called a senior.

"You still remember that 'Strange Magic Candy' commercial? I must have been only three years old at that time."

Shirakawa Rika's face turned red and she showed a nostalgic expression.

"But, that commercial was the pinnacle of my career..."

Then, her eyes became lonely again and she murmured something in a low voice.

"Ahem, that's right! Sharing my notes with you is a way for senior actors to show their care for their juniors!"

Shirakawa Rika clenched her fist and coughed lightly, emphasizing the pronunciation of the words "senior" and "junior".

"My understanding of the role will directly affect my acting skills. If your performance as my co-star is too bad, it will also affect my performance. This is my first time getting the role of the heroine. Even if the finished product is not as good as expected, I don't want to be known for a bad ending..."

"Anyway, hurry up and watch it. After you finish, rehearse your lines, movements, and positioning first. Don't waste precious practice time!"

Not wanting to continue the conversation on this topic, she returned to her seat, turned her back to Xia Fan and buried her head in the script.

"Okay, Shirakawa-senpai."

Xia Fan began to read the notebook seriously.

"So, is this how we should understand the character of 'Man'e Kazama'?"

"So, this behavior is caused by this childhood experience... The psychological contradiction is between his feelings for the heroine Chiyo and the 'righteousness' he has to shoulder as a 'Rakshasa royal family'?"

"Not only did the stubborn character 'Kazama Manyo' not mention these things in the lines, but they were not mentioned in the script or reference materials of the crew. They were all profiled through actual actions and story details..."

With Rika Shirakawa's notes as a reference, Xia Fan suddenly felt enlightened.

Even though he had not read the entire manga of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", the character of "Manyo Kazama" had become full and three-dimensional in his mind.

[Noh Mask·Man'yo Kazama: 15%…18%…]

He spread out his palms, and saw that the "Noh False Mask", which had been progressing slowly, began to take shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Just as the two were working hard on their homework, two "extras" wearing samurai armor and masks, whose faces could not be seen, walked into the lounge with the sound of "pattering" footsteps.

"Hide Sakamoto, have you finally finished filming? Wearing this full body armor and a mask, it must be very stuffy, hot, and smelly..."

It’s not surprising that after filming, the actors would go to the lounge to unload their props.

But the smell of curry that wafted over made Xia Fan look up at the two of them, and he muttered silently in his heart.

"and many more……"

When his eyes passed over one of the men's arms, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Does anyone among the students have such an exaggerated tattoo?"

Under the haphazardly put on hand armor, there was a rather exaggerated black flower tattoo on the arm, with foreign words that seemed to be written in the shape of earthworms.

After the two men entered the lounge, they didn't seem to intend to take off the suffocating armor immediately. They first glanced at Xia Fan in the lounge and Shirakawa Rika on the other side.

Then, the two looked at each other, nodded, closed the door and walked straight towards Xia Fan.

"Something's not right..."

The two people approached like a hill, with steady steps and arms deliberately behind their backs. These unnatural details made Xia Fan feel a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

"What they are holding are not props...Xia Fan, be careful!!!"

Shirakawa Rika, who was on the other side of the lounge, suddenly screamed...

Because she clearly saw that the two "warriors" who were approaching Xia Fan with their backs to her were holding a shiny dagger behind their backs!

Amid the girl's screams, the two men stabbed Xia Fan's heart and abdomen with the daggers in their hands at the same time!

Xia Fan's pupils suddenly dilated after this sudden attack.

He leaned back as if his body was conditioned to reflexively, sliding between the two men and avoiding the two fierce and deadly thrusts.

After the attack failed, the two men turned around in silence and drew their knives towards Xia Fan again.

But Xia Fan had already stood up and grabbed two prop swords that were thrown on the ground, one on the left and one on the right...

"Their target is me, go out and call for help!"

He roared at Shirakawa Rika, and drew his sword accurately, hitting the wrists of both men with great force, knocking the two deadly daggers to the ground.

The two men were obviously experienced and were not at all panicked by this sudden change. One of them pounced on Xia Fan while the other picked up the dagger on the ground.

Xia Fan dodged sideways nimbly, raised his sword with his backhand, and hit the man's chin mercilessly.

Although the prop sword was not sharpened, the huge force it exerted on a vulnerable part was enough to make the man dizzy, fall to his knees, and retch continuously.

During this time, another man had picked up the dagger.

But he had no intention of attacking Xia Fan. Instead, he rushed towards Shirakawa Rika who had just run to the door and was opening it.

Apparently, he saw that Xia Fan's swordsmanship was too strange, so he decided to use hostages to threaten him.

"what!!!"

Seeing the "samurai" rushing towards her with a sharp blade in hand and with extreme ferocity, Shirakawa Rika was so scared that she staggered and almost fell.

"Don't think about it!"

Amid Xia Fan's roar, the man actually knelt down in front of her and kowtowed loudly.

Then, the panicked Shirakawa Rika felt a pair of warm arms supporting her.

"Senior Shirakawa, are you okay?!"

When she came back to her senses, she found herself being held in the arms of Xia Fan, who looked concerned.

"I... I'm fine... That person didn't touch me... But..."

Shirakawa Rika looked at the man in shock and found that he was struggling on the ground, holding his knees in pain.

Just now, Xia Fan was so anxious that he picked up the short knife on the ground, caught up with the man, and hit the man's knee with the back of the knife...

Judging from the fact that the man was unable to exert the strength to stand up, his knee joint was most likely broken.

"I didn't think of the knife, I just thought of beating him. You are so young, but you are a master of cheap tricks."

The other man, who had just recovered from his concussion, helped his companion up and looked at Xia Fan fiercely.

"Today, let's leave, so that we don't fight with each other and both sides get hurt."

"According to the rules, we will kill the person who made the mistake and not touch anyone related to you. How about that?"

This was the first time he spoke since he entered the house and attacked, and he asked in a rather stiff, curry-flavored District 11 dialect.

As a "professional", how could the man not see by now that this young man was not someone he could easily deal with?

The only two times Xia Fan attacked, he simply and fiercely targeted the chin and knees, two key weaknesses of the human body, easily destroying their fighting power. It was obvious that he was practicing some kind of "killing sword technique" of fighting life and death.

What's more, the two daggers he brought were now in Xia Fan's hands.

"On the street... an order... that is, someone is offering money to buy my life from you."

"Tell me first, who is it?"

Silently savoring the meaning of the other party's words, Xia Fan, holding two daggers, calmly pushed Shirakawa Rika out of the door and blocked the door of the actor's lounge.

"The orders are all given by the middle-class bitches. We are just knives in other people's hands. Everything is in Phuket."

The man shook his head.

"Well, sorry, armed burglary and attempted murder are all illegal. I'm not going to let you go."

Xia Fan took out the phone from his trouser pocket, which was dialing a short number...

110.

His phone number has long been registered with the Metropolitan Police Department, and as long as you dial "110", you will be directly transferred to the emergency contact line managed by Section .

"It looks like things are going to get ugly."

A look of determination flashed in the eyes of the two men. They bent down and knelt, obviously ready to fight to the death and break through the door to escape.

However, Xia Fan took a step back outside the room and made way for the door...

This made the two of them slightly stunned.

"Help, there's a psychopathic murderer!!!"

Then, Xia Fan looked towards the corridor, pointed the dagger at the two people in the room, and shouted loudly.

"Sir Xia Fan, are you okay?!"

"Who are you, you rascal, to dare to hurt people in my academy?"

"All disciples of Jingxin Mingzhi School, come at me!"

"Yes!"

Amid the sound of dense footsteps, three Tanaka teachers, along with more than a dozen students who had not even had time to take off their armor, rushed into the room like a flood, holding wooden swords...

The not-so-spacious temporary lounge for the actors was immediately packed with people including the "three generations of the Kagami Shinmei-ryu school".

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Chapter 90 The Strongest Security Team (Please read and advance)

2024-07-13

Chapter 90 The Strongest Security Team (Please read and advance)

"Boo, wait, don't shake..."

The two men, who had nowhere to stand, had no chance to explain themselves. They could only stare in amazement at the densely packed wooden swords falling towards them...

"Guys... throw shit..."

"I was beaten..."

Even though they were "professionals", they were now severely injured by Xia Fan, unarmed and with nowhere to hide. They could only squat down with their heads in their hands, grit their teeth and accept it.