Cyberpunk: Nirvana of Shoko Toyokawa

Well, Aine admitted that she was a little inflated at that time.

City of joy.

It's nice, but it's a mess there!

There are also band gangs and so on...

Even if you get into the best school, won't you still work in Lezhi City in the future?

It sounds dangerous to work in such a messy place.

Although everywhere is dangerous these days, you can't go into non-dangerous places...

But I am so outstanding, how could I not be able to enter a non-dangerous place?

Moreover, many students from the same school also want to apply to high school in Lezhicheng.

Although the one I went to was the best, the difference was only a little bit——

Not eye-catching enough!

"I will get into a better school!" Aine said to everyone.

“A better school?”

"That's right!"

Aine said this and took out an enrollment brochure of [London, Moon City, Royal Academy of Drama].

London, the city of the moon.

This is one of the most prosperous cities in the world that has completed a high level of cyberization.

Unlike the chaotic City of Music, the City of Moon is highly centrally managed and has established an urban cluster with "theater" as its core.

The Moon City is safe.

Because it has "technology".

The long-distance link [Euro Theater] controlled by the Internet surveillance and the European Community EEC was destroyed during the AI ​​riot. But not all of it.

A portion of the long-distance links were preserved by the Federation and, after modification, became a surveillance technology called European Theater.

This technology now looms over the Moon City.

[European Theatre] is able to lock down each individual at a genetic level and will not be interfered with by any fake identity technology.

It can confirm the whereabouts, status and what the citizens are doing within 0.1 seconds.

Even, it is possible to know what you are thinking.

It is a blessing for those who follow the law and a nightmare for those who follow the chaos.

It turned the Moon City into the safest place in the world.

Of course, some people also say that this kind of "big silence" management method deprives people of their human rights, privacy rights and free will...

But this was not what Aine was concerned about.

After all, she certainly considered herself a law-abiding citizen!

What she was interested in was the other side of the Moon City.

Like the City of Music, which is famous for its bands, the City of the Moon also holds the leading stick of the entertainment industry in this era where entertainment is paramount.

That is [drama].

The Moon City is a fanatical advocate of drama as an art form.

Its Royal Academy of Drama is currently the best drama school in the world.

Only a few hundred people are recruited worldwide every year, and every one of them will become a hot and well-known "star" after graduation.

"(star!)"

Of course Aine would choose this!

Aiyin's family is good, and her father is a shareholder of a large factory in Satellite City. After paying a not-so-cheap fee, Aiyin sent her resume to the Royal Academy of Drama.

The response "passed" was received.

When this news came out, Aiyin's junior high school was in an uproar.

It wasn't even going to Yugaoka in the City of Music, but to the [Royal Academy of Drama] in the City of Moon! ?

That’s a place that no one even dares to dream of!

“As expected of Aine!”

Everyone admired Ain even more. Ain could hear such words every day.

"(As expected of me.)"

Aiyin said modestly, “No, no,” but she was feeling smug inside.

But at that time, she had no idea what she would face.

Nor did I pay attention to the Royal Academy of Drama's graduation rate of nearly 100:1.

【Royal School of Dramatic Art】.

After arriving there, Aine realized one thing.

In the cyber age, everyone is desperate and uneasy because of class stratification, and their hearts are filled with resentment that has nowhere to vent.

Even in the Moon City imprisoned by the [European Theater], these emotions will not disappear.

They just become something else.

It gushes out from the gap called "entertainment".

The people of Moon City are fanatically devoted to drama.

This "fanaticism" is even greater than the feelings that the people of Music City have towards the band.

It didn’t take long for Aiyin to understand after arriving here.

That's not acting.

That's "beast fighting".

Students who have yet to grow into [stars] compete and fight with each other on the stage.

In the City of Joy, drugs and Black Super Dream, which are at least banned on the surface, are completely legal here.

Everyone uses them endlessly—torturing their own nerves with these things and then projecting them through their brain-computer external output ports—

Crazy, exaggerated, illogical, and fanciful.

Everyone wants to be a star.

To do this, they burst their humanity from their chests and won applause from the whole room.

These are just students.

Professional performance, more exaggerated.

Aiyin only stayed there for a few days and couldn't stay any longer.

She wanted to attract attention, but this way...

She couldn't bear it.

"(Just be ordinary and eye-catching!)"

Now, she can say it out loud.

But at that time, Aine was unable to keep up with her classmates and was completely defeated.

Why can't I do it?

My mind is filled with shame for my own "lack of awareness".

Didn’t you think about it before coming?

It would be so embarrassing to go back like this.

but--

She couldn't hold on any longer.

Aiyin didn't tell anyone, secretly bought a plane ticket, and returned to Tokyo in despair.

She stayed in a hotel in the City of Joy for a few days.

During those days, she was always entangled in gloomy and regretful emotions.

But finally, she said to herself:

“(Let’s do it again.)”

This can't go on forever.

It was just that I accidentally jumped onto a step that was too high.

This time, I want to start over.

Aine turned on her brain machine.

She applied for transfer to [Hegaoka Girls' Academy].

Chapter 1000: The Face ( monthly tickets plus more)

"(Luckily, I'm good at talking, and Yuqiu accepted me... If he hadn't, I don't know what I would have done!)"

"(Although there were things like this and that that happened later...)"

“(But, in the end, we got to play in a band!)”

"(The result is OK, everything is OK!)"

Aine adjusted her clothes backstage and came out of her memories.

Just then I saw Su Shi holding out his cell phone to me with an unhappy look on his face and handing it back to me.

Aiyin took the phone and smiled at Su Shi.

For some reason, Su Shi became even more unhappy and turned away.

"(Soyorin is also nervous in her own way~)"

Aiyin thought about it and slid the screen of her phone open.

The phone is still stuck on the YouTube interface I saw earlier.

However, the anchor who has reached the top of the popularity list is no longer the Xiao Ai who was talking in a mysterious way before.

This time it was another ghost hunting anchor.

He moved quickly and had already gone to the place that Xiao Ai said was haunted.

Aine only glanced at it.

On the screen, the anchor entered the villa and shouted in surprise.

In front of him, on the blood-stained carpet in the middle of the house, there was a display cabinet - this was something Xiao Ai hadn't mentioned -

Aiyin saw that inside the display cabinet was a wooden box and a black envelope.

Aine was a little curious, but she didn't continue reading.

The performance is about to begin.

Aine really likes to browse her phone - but of course she knows what's important and what's not.

Perform with important band members in front of important audiences.

It has to be done well.

Aiyin closed the YouTube interface, switched her phone to [Airplane Mode], put it in the package storage room backstage, and went on stage with her guitar on her back.

The stage is huge.

When viewed from below, it always seems very narrow.