They all pushed me!

But under the threat of Hamlet holding the poisoned sword, none of the ministers and guards in the hall dared to step forward.

So Claudius could only be pinned to the ground by Hamlet in front of everyone, kneeling there in a twisted posture, struggling in pain and whimpering.

Hamlet is seeking revenge against the man who murdered his father.

Although it is a story that people look forward to, in which good people defeat bad people and justice defeats evil, "Hamlet" is still defined as a tragedy.

Hamlet on the stage forced the king to drink the poisoned wine. His eyes flashed with a chilling light of resentment, which made the audience forget the elegant prince before. At this moment, he was just a simple avenger:

"Go, you incestuous, murderous, cruel and ruthless King of Denmark!"

There was no quality that could be praised in that look; it was simply the look of a savage beast.

"Drink your draught. See, your pearl is still there."

"Follow my mother!"

Kitagawa Ryo's acting skills engulfed all the audience, attracting their emotions and gazes.

In the background, Kindaichi Toshiro lit a cigarette and smiled bitterly:

"It was truly a... 'Prince's Revenge'."

"Liang, that's weird."

As a substitute actor, Hoshino Ai also stayed backstage. She frowned and looked at Kitagawa Ryo on the stage, and expressed her opinion hesitantly.

"He's just a kid after all."

Kindaichi Toshiro put out his cigarette butt in the ashtray:

"And even if you're not a child, you can't always have a poker face."

"You were recruited by Liang himself, right?"

Glancing at Hoshino Ai, Kindaichi Toshiro asked with interest:

"At first I thought it was just a casual thing, but I didn't expect he would take it so seriously."

"I remember that he has already taught you the 'experiential' acting skills, right?"

"Yes."

Hoshino Ai answered honestly.

Toshiro Kindaichi looked at Ryo Kitagawa on the stage with some sadness.

Since the birth of Kitagawa Rumi, Kitagawa Ryo seemed to have become a redundant existence in the Kitagawa family, only needing to keep taking on acting roles, advertisements and endorsements.

It's like a perfect cash cow.

That's why he summoned Kitagawa Ryo back to the troupe and started a tour, which was also to allow him to temporarily leave the Kitagawa family for a while.

"You have been rehearsing for the role of Ophelia recently, right? Now is a great opportunity to experience it. If you seize this opportunity, you may have the opportunity to truly become the actor of this role."

Kindaichi Toshiro murmured to himself:

"Because [Hamlet] does look like a madman now."

Hoshino Ai suddenly clenched the script in her hand. She followed Kindaichi Toshiro's gaze and looked at Kitagawa Ryo. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer.

The revival of Hamlet was a great success.

In the practice room that night, Hoshino Ai was the last one to leave.

She looked at the mirror, met her own gaze, stroked her chest with her right hand, and then exhaled deeply.

Hoshino Ai doesn't like experiential acting.

But in my mind, I always see Kitagawa Ryo curled up alone in the corner of the practice room, and on the stage with his eyes as deep as the ocean, swallowed by the desire for revenge.

How would it feel to see someone you care about suffering in front of your eyes and become a madman in the eyes of others?

Hoshino Ai pressed her forehead against the mirror. The lines that originally seemed obscure and long were now being clearly spoken out by her, word by word:

"Ah, what a noble heart has fallen like this! The eyes of a courtier, the tongue of a scholar, the sword of a soldier, a flower that the country looks to; the mirror of the times, the model of human relations, the center of the world's attention, has fallen so irrevocably!"

"I am the most sad and unfortunate of all women, who once sucked the sweet honey from his musical vows, and now I see his noble and supreme reason, like a string of beautiful silver bells that have lost their harmonious notes and withered in madness!"

The sound echoed in the empty practice room.

“It’s a good performance.”

What surprised Hoshino Ai was that Kitagawa Ryo walked in from outside the door.

"I didn't expect Ai to be so hardworking now, practicing alone until so late. Oh, I left something here."

Beichuan Ryo nodded and walked to the corner of the room where his bag was.

Hoshino Ai followed him closely, holding the script in her hand, without saying a word.

Taking out his personal mobile phone from his bag, Kitagawa Ryo turned on the phone and saw the content of a message sent to him by his adoptive mother Kitagawa Tomiko.

"Well... I don't want to go back home tonight. Since Ai is trying so hard, I'll stay here and rehearse with you twice more."

Putting the phone back into his pocket as if nothing had happened, Kitagawa Ryo turned and looked at Hoshino Ai:

"The scene you just practiced is the scene between Ophelia and Hamlet. Let me think... the beginning of that scene is -"

But Beichuan Ryo didn't finish his words.

Because the warm body temperature has completely surrounded him.

The soft touch, the soft fragrance, it took a long time for Kitagawa Ryo to realize that he was held in the arms of Hoshino Ai. Her long hair blocked his vision, but he could smell the fragrance of green oranges at the tip of his nose.

Hoshino Ai imagined the scenes of comforting children that she had seen on TV, and imitated the vague image of her mother that she had imagined in her dreams in the past.

But she still lied subconsciously:

“It’s… part of the experience.”

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Want to see Ryo.

Although she was reincarnated into the Kitagawa family, in the past three months, Kitagawa Rumi saw Kitagawa Ryo less often than when she was in the ward.

As if she was afraid that Kitagawa Ryo would do something dangerous, Kitagawa Tomiko always forbade the two of them to stay in the same space.

Trying to get attention.

In an urgent mood, Kitagawa Rumi opened her mouth, but in order to avoid being too shocking, she imagined the way a baby speaks and uttered a few individual words indistinctly:

"Mom - Brother -"

Then, Kitagawa Tomiko lifted her up high.

She ignored the last two words and just shouted excitedly:

"Ruby, you really are your mother's girl. You're a genius!"

Generally speaking, babies can only clearly speak single words with clear meanings between six to ten months after birth.

But her baby daughter, Kitagawa Rumi, learned to speak when she was less than three months old.

Her biological daughter is a better child than that adopted son!

Absolute genius!

After realizing this, as if to show off or to take revenge, Kitagawa Tomiko immediately sent a message to her adopted son who had not returned home for a long time.

Kitagawa Rumi could only see what message her mother sent to Ryo.

Although the content cannot be seen.

She blinked her ruby ​​eyes.

but……

We should let Liang go home quickly.

Want to see him.

Want to be held in his arms.

Chapter 13: Youth Taboo Game

A few months passed as quickly as a few days. This summer did not leave a deep impression on people. Although there was still some heat in the air, it seemed that in the blink of an eye, we had to put on coats again.

Tokyo.

Beichuan Liang was boredly stirring the glass of orange-flavored sparkling water in front of him with a straw, as if he was listening to the slight collision sound between the ice cubes at the bottom of the glass and the wall of the glass.

"This is my first time in a place like this."

In front of Hoshino Ai there was also a cup of fruit tea specially prepared for minors, but like Kitagawa Ryo, she had no intention of drinking it and just looked around curiously.

“Because it’s a membership-based store.”

Beichuan Liang raised his head and looked at the two men who were drinking and toasting not far away. They were a little drunk under the encouragement and cheers of several waitresses.

"Sure enough, when we talk about things, it turns out like this."

"If I had known, I wouldn't have followed you."

After mumbling a few words, Kitagawa Ryo took out his phone and sent a message to Mr. Izaki while asking Hoshino Ai:

"I think Ai should have the contact number of your president's home, right? We can notify them now. It's highly likely that the two of them can't expect to return home safely tonight."

"Oh, I have Mrs. Saito's phone number, but if she finds out, I think President Saito will be scolded again when he returns home."

Hoshino Ai nodded and replied. She sighed a little sadly, but immediately became energetic again:

"From today on, I can also perform on the stage of the LALALAI Theater!"

"It's gratifying, it's gratifying."

Beichuan Liang congratulated him perfunctorily. He bit the straw and took a sip of water, then curled his lips at the waitresses in the store:

"Otherwise, maybe Ai will come here to work one day... No, I remember they don't recruit child laborers here."

"I don't think Liang has any reason to say that I'm a child laborer. You are the youngest one in the store right now."

Hoshino Ai complained somewhat dissatisfiedly. It has been almost a year since she was discovered by Saito Ichigo to become an idol last year.

Girls aged twelve or thirteen are in the period of fastest development, and she is no exception. Her height seems to change every day. If you really compare them, the height difference between her and Beichuan Liang should have shown a trend of increasing compared to half a year ago.

However, since Kitagawa Ryo mentioned this topic, Hoshino Ai also looked around the waiters in the store with interest, leaned forward and asked in a low voice:

"Come to think of it...it seems like there are quite a few idols working part-time here."

"Because apart from a small number of the most advanced idols, basically no one can make much money in the idol industry, and the contracts are still with the agency. If they want to go out and do some part-time work, it will be considered a breach of contract. So they usually work part-time in these membership bars in the circle without telling the agency."

As Kitagawa Ryo said this, he glanced at Hoshino Ai:

"Originally, I called the director of your firm here today to change the contract, but who would have thought that we would end up drinking together."

"President Saito drinks when he's happy."

Hoshino Ai stuck out her tongue a little embarrassedly. Ever since the tour of "Hamlet", she slowly began to no longer resist experiential acting. After more than half a year of acting training, she finally got the recognition of Kitagawa Ryo and Kindaichi Toshiro.

In other words, now Hoshino Ai is qualified to perform on stage as a formal actor.

But she is an artist under Berry Pro after all. For example, she could use the pretext of receiving acting training to cover it up before, but if she really wants to go on stage, she will inevitably need the consent of Berry Pro agency because it is already considered a commercial activity.

This is also the reason why Toshiro Kindaichi asked Saito Ichito, the president of Berry Pro Agency, to meet him tonight. However, what concerned Kitagawa Ryo was that the other party readily agreed that Hoshino Ai could act in dramas in addition to the agency's idol activities, but at the same time he also made some other requirements.

For example, I hope to perform on the same stage with Kitagawa Ryo at least once every season.

This kind of somewhat bundled minimum guarantee requirement is not uncommon in the industry's contracts. It is similar to how an artist will write in the contract a minimum number of minutes of footage they will get before appearing on a variety show, or how e-sports players will ask the club to guarantee a minimum number of games per season when signing a contract... The essence of this is to protect the rights and interests of the artists as much as possible.

However, mentioning it is one thing, and whether the other party agrees or not is another.

Although Kindaichi Toshiro agreed very readily this time, otherwise the two of them wouldn't be standing there like brothers, toasting each other.

In Kitagawa Ryo's eyes, Saito Ichigo is not a particularly standard businessman. Although the popularity of the idol group B Komachi is now in a stable growth period, to be honest, they are only slightly famous. Even if you randomly pick a waitress from this bar now, she can easily surpass them in popularity.

But even so, facing an industry giant like the LALALAI Theater, Saito Ichigo did not choose to sell Hoshino Ai's contract directly for a good price. He acted as if he was attracted by the fame that Hoshino Ai would gain after joining, but also wanted her to continue to stay in B Komachi.

Even judging from the requests he put forward, Saito Ichigo was planning to divert people from the LALALAI Theater Company.

It was as if he firmly believed that B Komachi...or Hoshino Ai, would definitely become popular in this idol industry.

"Come to think of it, President Saito informed me a few days ago that a new member will be joining B Komachi... What will it be like?"

Hoshino Ai showed a somewhat expectant look while talking about the new topic.

"Are you going to add new people so soon?"