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

Chapter 281 Eight-Character Horse

"Okay, resting for too long won't help. Your muscles will get cold..."

"We must finish the dance before fatigue catches up with us!"

Yuta Hirano poured the water in the bottle on his head, calmed his anxiety, and shouted for everyone to gather.

"Ah, damn, these are the shortest ten minutes of my life..."

"Since you've been eliminated, you have plenty of time to rest. Just grit your teeth and keep practicing."

"No, I was scammed in the red-light district last time and owed the agency a large sum of money. If I'm eliminated here, I might have to take a break forever..."

"What……"

A group of people wailed as they lined up in the practice room and began rehearsing again.

……

Five hours later.

The "Idol Birth Festival" recording studio building was still filled with music, singing, and the noise of shoes rubbing against the floor.

"Very good. Just now, when singing and dancing in this place, don't forget to control your facial expressions..."

Xia Fan's team is still dancing tirelessly.

Compared to a few hours ago, the effect of their performance has changed dramatically.

The formation was neat, the movements were coordinated, and the rhythm was accurate. Apart from the occasional deformation of movements due to fatigue, they had already taken shape as they were ready to perform on stage.

"Hurry up and get out of the way, feel the oxygen bomb!"

"Hurry up and get out of the way, feel the oxygen bomb!"

"I am the most dazzling existence!"

"I am the most dazzling presence on this stage!"

In fact, everyone has already sung along to the strong rhythm and simple repetitive lyrics while dancing together.

"Huh...huh...huh..."

After finishing another round of rehearsal, everyone replayed the rehearsal results on the camera during the break.

"Well, the last two times I watched it, I could barely watch it..."

Looking at the neat wave of people in the picture as if cut by a knife, Yuta Hirano, who is very strict with himself, couldn't help but nod in approval.

The trainees who remained after being eliminated in the first round of survival battles, even Kishiyo Kishi who claimed that he was "not good at dancing", still had some basic dance skills and stage experience compared to his vocal skills.

But to be able to practice such a difficult group dance as "Oxygen Bomb" in just a few hours, it must be said that this is the result of everyone working together and burning their lives to practice.

"Well, why don't we just stop here today?"

Xia Fan suggested softly.

"Oh? You, a physical monster, finally can't hold on any longer?"

Hearing him say this, Hirano Yuta smiled like a winner.

In the following hours, everyone deeply understood the meaning of Martin's words "one fifth of the energy is not consumed."

After rehearsing intensively until now, the others' bodies were shaking when they did freeze-frame movements, and they couldn't help but breathe heavily during their singing...

Although Xia Fan's clothes were completely soaked with sweat, even in the last time, his breathing was still stable and his movements did not deform at all.

The rich emotions in the singing even had the effect of a "war drum halo", inspiring everyone to grit their teeth and endure the pain to complete the rehearsal.

"Well, since you have sincerely asked for it, let's stop here today."

Even if Xia Fan didn't mention it, Hirano Yuta, whose limbs were shaking, was ready to propose ending the rehearsal, just in time to get down the hill.

"I don't mind practicing it a few more times, but..."

"Someone seems to have fallen asleep."

Xia Fan smiled bitterly and pointed at the ground. "This weak guy..."

Only then did Hirano Yuta notice that his childhood friend Kishi Sho had already fallen on the floor and was sleeping more soundly than a corpse while everyone was watching the replay.

"The average dancing ability of the opponent team is much stronger than ours, so there is absolutely no way they can be 'out of sync' when dancing together."

"So, we have only caught up with our opponents in the group dance. If we want to decide the winner, we still have to watch the solo in the climax..."

"Everyone, when you go back to rest, hurry up and think about your individual dance moves."

While trying to kick Kishi Sho awake with his foot, Hirano Yuta reminded everyone.

Today we only practiced the group dance at the beginning, and the climax individual performances at the end were replaced by movement.

However, the original group dance was already at a very high level in terms of choreography and movements, and it was unlikely that either team would make any adaptations.

Even if everyone dances in unison, it can only be considered homogeneous competition, and it is difficult to create a gap in the audience's perception...

The most likely thing to be "cheated" through adaptation, what also creates differences and determines victory or defeat, naturally falls on the dance moves that are like "personal show time" at the climax.

"Xia Fan, especially your finishing moves, don't mess up."

Having said that, Hirano Yuta looked at Xia Fan seriously.

After rehearsals up to now, including Yuta Hirano, no one would doubt that Xia Fan was not capable of the position of "dancer", at least in the group dance part.

But everyone still has concerns about the difficulty of his dance moves and whether he will make mistakes.

"Well, I'll think about the design carefully when I get down."

Xia Fan turned his back, waved at him, and strode out of the practice room.

"I originally thought that this guy had the same vocal skills as Shi Yao, but he also has such strong talents in dancing and physical strength. He is simply abnormal..."

Continuing to trample on the sleeping Kishi Ziyao on the ground with his feet, Hirano Yuta watched Xia Fan's back as he left, a playful smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"With the 'uncontrollable' me and the 'unfathomable' monster Xia Fan, I'm afraid the show's plans won't work so well."

No one knew that when he signed up for the program, the company only promised him a debut spot with "no guaranteed ranking."

The reason why he can achieve such a big gap behind Xia Fan now is entirely due to his fan base during his overseas period, as well as his personal ability and hard work.

Therefore, although he was "sacrificed" to be in the same group with Xia Fan this time, Yuta Hirano had no intention of sitting there and waiting to die. Instead, the spirit of unwillingness to admit defeat in his heart became even stronger.

……

The next day.

"How should I dance the solo part?"

At 8:30 in the morning, Xia Fan came to the empty practice room alone.

According to the plan, during the day today, everyone in the team will practice their own SOLO parts, and then they will come together for a group review in the evening and rehearse from the beginning.

Because half of the trainees were eliminated, the program team had a lot of vacant practice rooms, and no one competed with him for them.

"Why not just refer to the movements in the same position in the original version and get a feel for it?"

He played the original stage performance of "Oxygen Bomb" on his mobile phone and watched it carefully.

The corresponding "dance leader" performed a personal move at the end of the original stage, which was more flexible than that of female dancers. He did a handstand and a split followed by a slow 360-degree rotation...

“No… No… This should be considered a ballet move… I’m going to die… I’m going to die…”

Xia Fan tried it, and he was able to spin upside down easily...

However, the flexibility of the leg ligaments is not enough to support this movement.

If others are called "split-legged horse", Xia Fan's is at most "splayed horse".

After all, [nakedness] gives a strong physique but not flexible ligaments.

(End of this chapter)