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

Chapter 320: The Bad Fortune

"Well, let's start drawing lots to form groups now..."

As soon as Kimura Goro finished speaking, the names of the trainees began to scroll below the four mentors' collaborative songs...

"God bless me, as long as I'm not a villain, anything is fine..."

"No Yayoi moon, no Yayoi moon, no Yayoi moon..."

"You must be kidding me! That's OG Kato's rap. He spent days rehearsing before going on stage. If he gets tongue-tied, he'll be screwed!"

The trainees in the field didn't dare to look at the screen, but bowed their heads and prayed nervously.

Among these four collaborative songs, the one they were most reluctant to draw was naturally Yayoi Tsuki's "Villain".

Since her debut, Yayoi Tsuki has been known as the "Queen of Poisonous Tongue" for her direct, bold, harsh and picky words. When rehearsing with her, you will probably encounter all kinds of criticisms in front of the camera, and be recorded in the "Poisonous Tongue Collection" by the camera, with all your shortcomings magnified in front of the audience.

In addition, in order to ensure Yayoi Tsuki's performance, the program team chose the song with the lowest singing difficulty and the most monotonous content for her, but ignored that the cooperating trainees were responsible for OG Kato's difficult rap...

Due to various factors, "The Villain" became a "bad luck song" that did not get any "golden song bonus", was criticized by all kinds of venomous tongues, and had to bear the heavy burden of rap.

"Okay, stop!"

"For the final round of performances, the groupings for the collaborative repertoire have officially been formed!"

After Goro Kimura called a halt, the names on the screen stopped scrolling.

"Hey, hey, hey, is this true or not..."

"This... the result of the team formation is too unbalanced, isn't it?"

This newly generated "performance group list" left all the trainees stunned.

Three five-star trainees, Yuta Hirano, Yu Takahashi, and Jack, as well as several four-star trainees, drew "Across the Ocean" by Goro Kimura.

Hirano Yuta was naturally filled with joy when he met Kimura Goro, whom he had always admired, and the other people were also very confident about this singing and dancing golden song.

Kishi Sho and Basong, along with several other trainees, drew the song "Sudden One-Night Stand" by Masaru Oda.

Most of them are trainees who are good at vocal music, so they are naturally very satisfied.

Takahashi Yu, Nagase Kaito, and several others including Martin were assigned to Hirai Shota's "Fall".

They are all professionals in street dance and rap, so it is natural that they have a high degree of compatibility with Shota Hirai's new song.

Judging from the draw results of the first three groups alone, the mentors and trainees are quite satisfied with each other.

Of course, this does not include Xia Fan and several trainees with lower popularity rankings...

Because they were "unlucky" enough to draw the "very unlucky sign" Yayoizuki "Villain".

Perhaps it was a coincidence, or perhaps it was because they did not forget to demonstrate the original intention of "internationalization" in the finals. The few international trainees who remained were relatively evenly distributed into the four programs.

"In the finals, we're actually working with Yayoi?"

Unlike the other trainees in the same group who had gloomy faces, Xia Fan simply raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Then, after three days of rehearsal, we will have our final performance..."

"Just like the previous two rounds, one thousand audience members and four mentors will vote on the spot to determine the performance rankings of the four songs."

"Based on the performance rankings, trainees from different groups will share 30 million, 20 million, and 10 million popularity points in turn. The group ranked last will not receive any popularity points reward..."

"Of course, for the sake of fairness, mentors cannot vote for the shows they participate in."

After Goro Kimura read out the rules of the finals, the recording of this round's "Survival Battle Ranking Announcement" was completed.

"So, they took great pains to assign Xia Fan to my group. Besides thinking that my singing ability has declined and that he is not good at rapping, they also wanted to invalidate my 'mentor ticket'..."

"You look down on me in every sense of the word. If I were to let you have your wish, I wouldn't be named Yayoi." Yayoi Tsuki silently glanced at Akimoto Manjiro on the sidelines and pursed her thin lips in defiance.

"It seems that we won't be able to fight on the same stage this time..."

"Everyone, come on, perform well, and don't embarrass the international trainees."

"I finally made it to the finals. I won't go easy on you just because you're my opponent!"

After the recording in the studio was finished, Xia Fan and his roommates encouraged each other, split up, and immediately started the rehearsal session.

……

Rehearsal room for "Villain".

"Hey, what should I do? Looking at the arrangement, Teacher Yayoi will definitely be responsible for singing the chorus, but I'm not very good at rapping..."

"There's still dancing, why don't you be the dance leader?"

"Can I apply to sing the chorus?"

"The chorus is sung by a female singer. Why don't you go to Thailand first?"

Several trainees who had changed into their sportswear first were already sitting on the wooden floor, watching the original stage version of "Villain" that was about to be rehearsed.

"Oh, everyone is so quick."

Xia Fan, who had also changed clothes and removed her makeup, walked in with a relaxed look.

"..."

"Xia Jun..."

"Looks like you're in a good mood."

When their eyes fell on Xia Fan, their expressions became somewhat complicated, as if they wanted to say something but hesitated.

"What's wrong? Although rehearsing for the show is difficult, you still have to maintain a good attitude."

Xia Fan sat down casually and started watching with them.

"It's not about rehearsal..."

“If it were us, and we suddenly had four million fewer votes, it would be ridiculous.”

Those people were silent for a while, but still couldn't help but complain.

All of them are ranked outside the top 20, so their chances of debuting as a group are very slim, but they don't have such a strong sense of competition.

Although they belong to different companies from Xia Fan, after several recording sessions, most people know that Xia Fan is easy to get along with. They are all young people of similar age, so naturally there is no need to be so shy when talking to each other in private.

"Xia Jun, didn't you check your phone?"

"The production team just released an announcement, updating the 'corrected' vote rankings, and now the internet is in an uproar."

One of the trainees, with his back to the camera, whispered a reminder.

After the program team issued a notice to invalidate the "software tickets", Xia Fan's ranking suddenly dropped out of the top three.

This drastic change in rankings caused a huge heated discussion among the audience of the "Idol Birth Festival".

Led by some people with ulterior motives, fans of the top-ranked trainees collectively began to attack Xia Fan for "rigging votes" and even demanded that the program production team cancel Xia Fan's qualification for the audition.

Almost at the same time, Xia Fan’s core support station "Midsummer Shrine" issued an apology statement, stating that the software's participation in the support activities was a spontaneous act of fans and had nothing to do with Xia Fan himself. It also expressed support for the program team's operation of invalidating votes, and would stop the server operation of the "one-click support software", and called on fans to manually vote for Xia Fan.

(End of this chapter)