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

Chapter 168 Idol Cradle
"Then I'll leave the investigation to Section 9 and the Psychic Association..."

"Leave it to us. Please be careful during this period. If the 'Hyaku Monogatari' comes looking for you again, feel free to notify Section 9 using the backup contact method."

"Well, that's all for today. I have practice classes tomorrow morning..."

The discussion was almost over, Xia Fan glanced at the calendar on his phone and yawned.

Tomorrow is the first dance and vocal training class arranged for him by Higashino Yoshihide.

"It's already so late. Good night."

"Good night."

After saying good night to each other, the call ended.

……

"Being targeted by that strange existence, Xia Jun, is it really okay..."

"What am I worried about? Even that kind of wild god can't do anything to him. If I have to talk about threats, it can only be..."

Inside the Tokyo Grand Shrine, Aoi Jinguji stared at the black screen of her mobile phone. She first laughed at herself, then suddenly became dazed again.

"At this time, it should be morning over there, right?"

"Hello, it's me...I asked you to ask the overseas consulate to contact the medical institution for consultation. Is there any new progress on the case?"

After a while, she sighed and dialed a number on the other side of the ocean.

"Surgery is not very likely, so targeted drugs are recommended. Isn't that no different from what the experts in District 11 said?"

"But he has already taken the third-generation drugs, and there is not much time left for the fourth-generation drugs to enter clinical trials..."

"No, we must mobilize all our resources and look for a few top sanatoriums and private hospitals to find the world's best treatment plan..."

……

The next day, Nakano Ward, Tokyo.

The wide playground is surrounded by gray and white teaching buildings, and the words "Horikoshi Gakuen" are printed on the sign on the roof.

"Is this the legendary Horikoshi Academy?"

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, but Xia Fan was already standing at the school gate, looking at the surroundings curiously.

Horikoshi Gakuen, whose full name is Horikoshi High School, is a private high school that has been established for 100 years and is famous for its performing arts major.

Among the many performing arts training schools in Tokyo, Horikoshi Gakuen is one of the few comprehensive schools that adopts a unit-based curriculum, which includes regular academic advancement routes, comprehensive sports routes, and artist routes.

The full-time graduates of Horikoshi Gakuen range from the first generation of male and female idols to top singers and movie actors, and almost include most of the artists that ordinary people can name in the decades since the booming entertainment industry. Therefore, Horikoshi Gakuen is also known as the "idol cradle" and "star-making factory" of District 11.

It was the morning rush hour, and although the students entering and leaving the school were wearing ordinary high school uniforms, their appearance, dress, figure and temperament were several levels higher than those of passers-by outside...

"It's worthy of being a school that specializes in cultivating artists. The students coming in and out have great temperament and appearance."

Xia Fan sighed silently.

Compared with the ordinary high school he attended before, the style of painting is like a world of difference between "hard-core hot-blooded comics" and "youth campus comics".

"Who is this guy? He's so handsome!"

"He is quite handsome, but he looks unfamiliar. He may not be from school, right?"

"This must be a young idol that some company sent here for training. There are quite a lot of them these days."

But what Xia Fan didn't realize was that he had already caused whispers among the students passing by as he stood in a daze in front of the school gate with an even more dazzling appearance and temperament.

"Hello, where is the registration for the 'Arts Class'?"

Recalling his purpose of coming, Xia Fan asked a pretty female teacher who was guarding the door.

In order to continuously supply talents to the fiercely inward-looking entertainment industry, the teaching and management of Horikoshi Gakuen are very strict, almost to the point of semi-militarization.

Because there are many artists who use their free time to "give extracurricular lessons", and many artists who have not graduated are already well-known, outsiders are naturally not allowed to enter the campus at will. "Arts class...?"

The female teacher, who had a serious face and was checking whether the students' attire complied with school rules, turned around and met Xia Fan's bright eyes, and her expression and tone suddenly softened.

"The entrance to the arts class is over there. A staff member will check your information and take you to the corresponding classroom."

"However, you are a little early. You may have to wait outside for a while."

She stared at Xia Fan's face with burning eyes and pointed to a separate small door on the other side of the school gate.

In addition to full-time students who are committed to becoming artists, many artists use their spare time to enroll in the "Entertainment Course" set up by Horikoshi Gakuen for artists, and the teachers are naturally not surprised.

Because many top artists also take classes here, independent entry and exit routes are set up to protect the privacy of the artists and avoid contact with ordinary students.

"It's okay. I came early just to get familiar with the environment. Thank you very much."

After thanking the other party, Xia Fan walked towards the small door and found that there were already quite a few people queuing there.

Among them, there are young men and women with good looks, as well as middle-aged people with calm temperament.

Xia Fan even recognized one of the middle-aged women with a dignified temperament. He seemed to have seen her on a weather forecast program.

"Xia Fan?!"

"How will you be here?"

The tall, handsome blond young man in the front of the line suddenly turned around and called out his name.

"Senior Chai Dao?"

Xia Fan also recognized the other person.

"It's Shibata!"

It was his old rival in the campus singing competition, the sophomore "school hunk" in the performing arts department and a well-known campus trainee, Makoto Shibata.

"Boy, did you come here specifically to 'make up lessons' for the campus singing competition finals?"

Shibata Makoto walked up to Xia Fan, squinted at him, and asked in an unhappy tone.

"Well, I am indeed here for dance and vocal lessons. But it's not for the campus competition. After all, the tuition here seems to be quite expensive."

"Shibata-senpai, what class did you sign up for here?"

After Xia Fan answered politely, he asked curiously.

"What class did I sign up for...hahahaha...well, I'm different from you..."

"Because I'm a contracted trainee, I often come here for training. I've taken all kinds of classes over the years..."

Shibata Makoto chuckled a few times, put on an expert look, and pretended to be nonchalant as he put his hands in his trouser pockets, but his fists were already clenched with veins bulging.

Because he came here specifically to attend the class in order to prepare for the finals of the campus singing competition.

The tuition at Horikoshi Gakuen is not cheap. The tuition and miscellaneous fees for ordinary classes are about one million yen a year, and the fees for the artist class are even higher.

Although Shibata Makoto has been practicing for two and a half years, S Company would naturally not be generous enough to send him to such a place for training. He usually practices in the company's studio and small theater.

After the second round of the campus singing competition some time ago, the number of views of the stage video of "Broken Wings Descending to Earth" directly crushed the stage video of "Cheng Band", causing his "accidental internet fame and debut plan" to be far less effective than expected.

Shibata Makoto certainly would not think that this was because he was not as skilled as others, but rather attributed it to the fact that he "came to earth with broken wings" and borrowed the popularity of Hoshina Hanami.

Therefore, he pestered his family and paid for extracurricular lessons at Horikoshi Gakuen, the top school for entertainers, hoping to make a strong debut on the finals and get his debut plan back on track.

Shibata Makoto never expected that today he would meet Xia Fan, the biggest stumbling block to his debut plan and one of his "rivals" in the campus singing competition...

After all, if both he and his opponents have invested heavily in "after-school teaching", doesn't that mean that it is ineffective and both sides are standing still, and only Horikoshi Gakuen will be the winner?

(End of this chapter)