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

Chapter 337 The Tide Recedes

"Don't worry, Director. I have confirmed this three times with the team behind the scenes. There will be no mistakes."

"Also, the company's 'special fund' has been officially activated, and now we are starting to target Xia Fan's votes..."

Assistant Director Souta trembled and patted his chest to assure.

The content and emotional impact of Xia Fan's rap were so strong that his hands are still shaking.

"What a pity, Xia Fan..."

"You are still too short-sighted. You have wasted this innate idol holy body that only appears once in four thousand years..."

Seeing that everything was about to be settled, Manjiro Akimoto couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

From the perspective of this "idol master", Xia Fan has top-notch talent in terms of appearance, figure, singing, dancing and rap.

Even if he didn't get one of the nine spots to debut in a group this time, with his current popularity, debuting as a solo is already a very high starting point.

As long as he settles down for a few years and polishes out some representative works, it is not impossible to become a top artist on the same level as Yayoi Tsuki.

But perhaps because of his anger over the "software ticket" issue, Xia Fan behaved in a way that was tantamount to "ruining the place". There is no doubt that he will be put on the blacklist of S, J, and A, and his future cooperation resources will be ruined, and his development space will be greatly limited.

Akimoto Manjiro seemed to see a rising star begin to fall...

"Then, when the voting time is up, all votes that have not been cast will be considered abstentions."

"Everyone, please wait a moment. Our notary is checking and confirming the number of votes..."

A few minutes later, Goro Kimura loudly announced the end of voting.

"Director, do you want to confirm the number of votes in advance?"

"Everything has been arranged. If there's nothing to confirm, just announce it directly. I'll leave the recording to you. I'm going to take a break first. Call me back for the review meeting."

After saying a few words to Souta, Akimoto Manjiro turned and walked towards the backcourt passage...

"Thank you for your patience. Now, please ask the notary public to announce the results of the on-site voting..."

After getting confirmation from the staff through the headset, Goro Kimura looked solemn, stood straight, and looked at the big screen with an attitude of waiting.

The trainees bowed their heads in prayer, hugged each other, and looked up at the sky, all with a mixture of real and fake nervous expressions.

The screen switched, and the names of the thirty trainees were arranged according to their performance groups...

"After all, who will be the audience's favorite?"

Amid the tense background music that made people hold their breath, numbers started to scroll wildly behind the trainees' names...

"..."

When the votes were counted, the entire studio fell silent...

"what?!"

"impossible!!!"

"This, this number of votes..."

"Is there a bug in the vote counting system?!"

Immediately, the trainees on the stage, the mentors in the mentor seats, and the staff on the sidelines all screamed in disbelief at the same time.

"What's the big fuss? Xia Fan only has a single-digit number of votes. What's the big deal..."

Hearing such a loud commotion, Akimoto Manjiro walked to the entrance of the passage and looked back with a sneer...

"…weird…eh?!"

When he saw the number of votes on the big screen, he let out an unbearable roar like a drake.

Because, in the data released by the notary, only Hirano Yuta, Takahashi Yu and Nagayori Kaito received 100 votes each...

Almost all the trainees outside of this group received 0 votes...

Among a long string of embarrassing “0 votes”, what is particularly eye-catching is the “1000 votes” behind Xia Fan’s name!
"Xia Fan, got 1000 votes alone?!"

"I don't have any votes?" "No, it must be because I'm overworked and my eyes are blurry. Do some eye exercises first and then look again..."

Looking at the exaggerated number of votes behind Xia Fan's name, the trainees on the scene were in an uproar, and the expressions on their faces were completely out of control.

"The voting machine is broken, right?"

"One thousand votes... Even if Xia Fan performed well, he wouldn't get this many votes..."

The instructors and staff were completely unable to react and could only stare in amazement and mutter to themselves.

"I……"

Xia Fan himself had originally taken off his [Noh Mask] and was still immersed in the embarrassment of "Chikage Kazama's personality is so bold", but was completely confused by the exaggerated voting results.

"you……"

He looked at Yayoi Tsuki from a distance, but only saw the same confusion in her eyes.

"Everyone, pause the recording!"

"There must be something wrong with the voting equipment or system. There's no way this number of votes could appear!"

Assistant Director Souta had completely lost his composure and rushed towards the vote counting device in a hurried tone.

"But we have checked it repeatedly. Judging from the signal records of the voting machines on site, this is indeed the real voting result..."

The notary office staff standing guard there also looked puzzled.

“What are the actual voting results?”

Akimoto Manjiro turned back at some point and appeared behind them.

"You mean, all 1000 audience members voted for Xia Fan. Is that possible?"

He pointed to a quiet audience and asked in a deep voice with a dark face.

"That's right. These professional viewers... Ugh, audiences with professional artistic aesthetics... would never vote like this..."

Unable to mention the fact that he had invited "professional audiences", Assistant Director Cao Tai was hesitant to speak and was so anxious that he was jumping up and down.

Analyzing the votes currently released, the 1000 votes Xia Fan received is exactly the total number of votes cast by all live audiences.

The three people including Yuta Hirano who received 100 votes each should have received the three mentor votes from Goro Kimura, Shota Hirai and Masaru Oda.

Although the program stipulates that they cannot vote for the trainees in their own group, it does not prevent the three of them from "triangle power" and voting for the trainees in each other's group...

However, this kind of private mutual voting is exposed nakedly through data, which gives people a sense of beauty that when the tide recedes, someone is left swimming naked.

"So, Chief Director...what should we do now?"

At this moment, including Assistant Director Souta, everyone on and off the stage focused their attention on Akimoto Manjiro...

"Now……"

"We can only trouble the audience to vote again."

The program recording cannot be paused forever, so Akimoto Manjiro pondered for a moment and made a decision.

"Okay, I'll do it right away..."

"Dear audience, because the voting system just malfunctioned, please pick up your voting devices and prepare to vote again!"

Assistant Director Cao Tai and several executive directors hurriedly ran towards the audience seats...

"What? It turned out to be a malfunction. We were shocked..."

"Hahaha, I was saying, even if a god were to participate in the selection, it's impossible for him to monopolize all the one thousand votes, right?"

The trainees on the stage looked a little relieved when they saw the production team reorganize the voting.

Just now, when the vote count was announced on the big screen, for them it could be called the number one "horror movie" they had ever seen in their lives.

(End of this chapter)