The Trickster's Ninth Episode

"Huh? Oh! Okay, I get it." Akai Xin was suddenly called out and was taken aback for a moment, then reacted, responded very energetically, and then took a page of paper from his schoolbag and handed it to Yu In front of Gong Lian.

"This is the article we usually use for line practice, senpai." Akai Xin said with a very cheerful smile.

"...Senior?" Ren Amamiya was about to take the paper in Akai Xin's hand, and he paused after receiving Akai Xin's address to him.

Ren Amamiya subconsciously looked at Shin Akai's chest. The full breasts propped up Mitsusaka's school uniform so high that the pattern of the school badge was severely deformed.

But no matter how deformed it is, the color of the school badge is also red, which symbolizes the second grade.

So Ren Amamiya remembers correctly, Shin Akai is a second grader just like him.

So what happened to the phrase "senior"?

"Ah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I messed up again, that, subconsciously..." At this time, Akai Xin also realized his mistake in addressing, and was a little nervous and at a loss.

"How can someone who uses honorifics apologize instead?" Ren Amamiya laughed, and took the paper in Akai Shin's hand peacefully.

"Anyway, thank you, Akai-san." Amamiya Ren didn't intend to mention the matter of address, and simply revealed it.

"Okay, that... I, uh... I'd better go over there."

Although Ren Amamiya didn't let the topic stay in an embarrassing place, Akai Shin still looked very shy, not knowing how to face this boy of the same age who he accidentally called a senior in front of him.

In the end, he could only scream, and ran back to his original position with a blushing face.

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(Friendly reminder that this chapter is suitable for reading with the listening function.)

"A square cup, put biscuits and ginger on it, a pot of beans, a pot of rice, a pot of yam, freshly picked Polygonum, new beans, and new peppers. Write on the mountain to write monks. Empty chewing rice noodles, empty chewing rice noodles, empty chewing millet flour. Suzi .

Yu Gonglian looked at the paper in her hand, read the words on it softly, and frowned while reading.

These words do not fit together, have nothing to do with context, illogical and somewhat awkward.Presumably it should be purely for practicing pronunciation and lines.

Although it is a mouthful, it is not as embarrassing as the tongue twister. If you read it carefully and slow down, you can still read it all.

But I also want to know that this article cannot be slowed down. At the end of the practice, it must be read at a very fast speed.

Ren Amamiya's reading speed is not very slow, but it can't be called fast, and there will be inconspicuous pauses in some places that are particularly awkward.

After reading a paragraph casually, Amamiya Ren didn't finish reading, then raised her head and asked Luo Bozi: "It seems to be quite difficult. How much practice do you need to practice for an article like this?"

"Hmph ~ if this is the case, let me demonstrate it to you, Amamiya-san." Shirokami Fubuki stood up with a bit of a thief smile, and made a big arc with his right hand, gently resting on his chest, Mao Sui recommended himself.

"Will Fuxue demonstrate? That's good, Fuxue is the one with the best lines in our club!" Luo Bozi said to Yu Gonglian.

"Ahem, I can't remember the words completely. Please pass the article to me, Amamiya-san." Baishang Fuixue stretched out her hand to Amameiyalian.

"Then it's time to work." Umiya Ren handed over the paper with the lines practice article.

Baishang Fuuxue took the paper, glanced at the words on it, and then... Baishang Fuuxue took a deep breath.

"...The old crack on the old chestnut tree is Yuhe Hagoromo or Banga Hagoromo, and your leggings are also leather leggings. The leather hakama has a big hole and three stitches to sew it up and put it on. Go out and run around Heyuan Nadekono Dianthus Nora Tathagata Nora Tathagata Nora Tathagata Sanye Tathagata Nora Tathagata Nora Tathagata Nora Tathagata Sanye Tathagata Six wild Buddha statues beside the path You don’t want to kick the loach in the small ditch Twist ah twist The fresh cod in Kyoto The fresh pomfret in Nara just come five or six times You go make tea, make tea Hurry up to make tea, hurry up to make tea, take the green bamboo tea whisk, hurry up to make tea..."

Then Fubuki Baishang showed Umiya Ren that she didn't listen carefully and might not even be able to recognize what she said. A long practice article, in addition to the necessary breath in Baishang Fuuxue's mouth, There was almost no pause outside, and I read it from beginning to end very fast, and it took less than 3 minutes.

Shirashang Fubuxue finished reading the article, then stopped and removed the paper in front of her, looking at ease, looked at Amemiya Ren with a smile, and handed the article back to him.

Yugong Lian looked knowledgeable, took the paper and laughed a little, it was laughing at the suffering he was about to face, he looked at the article in his hand again and said: "Do you want to practice to this extent?"

"No, no, in fact, as long as you can read it fluently at a faster speed, it's fine. Fuxue-chan is using too much force." Luo Bozi immediately explained after hearing this, lest Yu Gonglian might misunderstand and think it was too difficult.After the explanation, he looked at Shirasaka Fubuki with a bit of reproach.

"Well! After all, I'm used to reading like this as a basic skill! Let me tell you, when you read an article and read it very familiarly, in fact, sometimes you just read it smoothly, just like the kind that doesn't even react to the brain, and then it comes naturally. I've read it." Baishang Fuixue sneered and said some gossip to change the subject.

"In short, the line practice is probably like this. This article is a practice article specially written by the previous instructor of the drama department a long time ago. It is simpler than the tongue twister~ The difficulty is mainly in the length, especially suitable for newcomers to practice." Carrot said so.

"Everyone will practice some tongue twisters in the future. It's a tongue twister that everyone reads in turn. It's very simple. But this article is for everyone to read together, because it is relatively long~ It can save time if you read it together. Classmate Yugong said Please read this article with us first."

Luo Bozi seems to like the kind of toothy smile with slightly parted lips, which is similar to the business smile of the service industry, but it is a bit deeper, and with her soft and lazy appearance all the time, it doesn't look like a business smile So formulaic, but it seems very natural - she is a girl who can make people feel like a spring breeze.

So in the following time, the activity room of the drama department was occupied by fairly neat reading aloud, including Shirashang Fubuki, she thought that she could read normally, but the quick talk just now was indeed intentional.

"...Whoever wants to come, whoever wants to come, is the young monk of Mount Koya. A hundred raccoons, a hundred chopsticks, a hundred pairs of tea bowls, a hundred sticks, and eight hundred sticks. Weapons and horses, three weapons and horses, and a total of weapons and horses Six weapons and harnesses. Chrysanthemum chestnut chrysanthemum chestnut three chrysanthemum chestnuts, total chrysanthemum chestnut six chrysanthemum chestnuts. Wheat mustard three wheat mustards, total wheat mustard six wheat mustards. Whose long naginata is that? Naginata, on the other side..."

Ren Amamiya read this exercise article and read half a chapter by herself, and listened to Fubuki Shirakami read it again. Although I couldn't keep up with many places in the reading, it was considered to have passed the content in my mind once. The last group reading was the third time.After three times, Amamiya Ren has been able to roughly keep up with the reading speed of the Drama Department, but it is inevitable that some particularly unfamiliar sounds will swallow words, but even so, he can still catch up immediately after a short pause.

Although this time I didn't read as fast as Fubuki Baishang before, but I read it quickly, and the whole article only took about 4 minutes to read.

"It feels good, Amamiya-san~"

"Huh? Really? I feel like I swallowed a lot of words."

"It was normal at the beginning. The important thing is that when you swallowed the words, Amamiya-san, you didn't have the habit of going back and repeating them. Instead, you can read along if you make a mistake!" Luo Bozi said with a smile. "For theatrical performances, such a habit is better."

"This is because there is no NG in theater performances. You have to make no mistakes before going on stage, but if you really have no choice but to read the wrong lines on stage, you can either adapt to the situation and deal with it on the spot, or it's best to pretend that you didn't read the wrong lines. Continue to act. Think about it~ If you read a wrong line on stage, then pause and re-read that line, it will be a special show, right? It’s like reminding others [I read it wrong here].”

"I see."

"From now on, just continue to practice like today." Luo Bozi beckoned the other people to come over and stand in a circle.

"Then let's start the tongue twister."

☆Appendix☆

PS. This line practice article comes from the beginning of the 21st episode of "CLANNAD". It was written by Toshio Yukimura, the instructor of the drama club at the time. When I first watched the episode, I found this passage very interesting and left a deep impression on me.

So when writing this chapter, I deliberately spent about an hour to fast-forward CL episode by episode, and dug it out.

After all, it took me a few 10 minutes. Even if you think it is watery, I will put the whole article up.

I think it's very conscientious for me to split it into three sections and post them separately, instead of copying and pasting the full text three times every time someone reads it.

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"As for the tongue twister, Amamiya-san can practice with us if you want to try it, but if you want to get used to the practice article just now, you can also watch from the sidelines." Radish slightly turned his head and said to Amamiya Ren.

"Let me take a look first." Since Luo Bozi said so, Yu Gonglian was also happy to watch, after all, he has zero foundation.

However, it is said that the lines and pronunciation exercises of tongue twisters, in fact, the scene is very similar to a group of girls simply playing, after all, such things as taking turns to say tongue twisters are really not very serious.

Then Amamiya Ren listened to the tongue twisters that the girls had been reading for a while. The difficulty ranged from low to high. The first ones seemed to be playing around, and the latter ones were those who could finish the tongue twisters in their entirety [ It can make people admire] this level of performance.

Among them, Ren Amamiya heard a hell-level tongue twister that is particularly famous in Japan-[The director of the Tokyo Licensing Bureau hastily approved it today]. (とうきょうとっきょきょかきょくきょくちょうきょうきゅうきょきょかきゃっか）

The status of this tongue twister in Japan is similar to that of China's "black gray chemical fertilizer ash will volatilize and gray black taboo will become black gray flowers will fly, gray black chemical fertilizer black will volatilize black ash and become taboo flying flowers will turn into ash".

Among the people present today, there are only two people who can finish the difficult tongue twister fluently, one is Shirasakami Fubuki, and the other is Natsuko Festival.

"After all, Matsuri will become a voice actor in the future!" Natsuko Matsuri said with a complacent smile while puffing out her chest.

Natsuko Matsuri is a girl who dreams of being a voice actor, and plans to sign up for professional voice actor training after graduating from high school.By the way, my favorite voice actor is Yuki Aoki.

"How do you feel, Amamiya-san? Does this kind of practice feel boring?" After the tongue twister practice, Shirakami Fubuki came over and said to Amamiya Ren.

"Well... To be honest, this kind of practice itself is quite boring, but if you are with everyone in the club, because you can see others biting their tongues, so it is not boring." Amamiya Ren pondered for a while , and then told the truth in a very free and easy manner.

"Ah~ What a wicked way to say it~" Baishang Fuuxue also laughed. "But in fact, everyone thinks the same way. Usually, practicing alone would be boring, but it will become more interesting when everyone is together."

"About this...huh?" Ren Amamiya was about to say something, but his keen intuition made him subconsciously look in one direction.

In that direction, Xia Seji was looking at him with very tangled eyes.

Seeing Ren Yugong turning her head suddenly, Xia Seji looked a little surprised and turned her head away immediately.

This action was naturally noticed by Fubuki Shirakami, she followed Amamiya Ren's line of sight, and saw Natsukoji who was about to chat with others to avoid Amamiya Ren's sight.

Natsukoji has a prejudice against Ren Amamiya. It is obvious that Fubuki Baikami agrees with Ren Amamiya to join the drama club because of comprehensive considerations... plus a little personal If it's biased, then Natsuko Festival would agree to Umiya Ren's joining the drama club out of kindness.

Although she doesn't have any bad feelings or good feelings towards Ren Amamiya, Natsuko Matsuri doesn't like the addition of a strange man to the drama department which was originally full of girls.It's just that at that time yesterday, the topic had risen to the level of [may be expelled from school] and [nowhere to go after dropping out], so she voted for it out of compassion.

Although Baishang Fuxue didn't know exactly what Natsukoji was dissatisfied with Umiya Ren, but she could still see the subtlety of her attitude.Seeing this, she took the initiative to walk over, smiled and held Xia Seji back, and said, "Ji Jiang, the two of us have the best lines here, as seniors, let's help the new students adapt to the environment."

"Eh? What did you say?" Xia Seji looked at Fubuxue Baishang in surprise and asked her to teach that boy. Is there a mistake?

But Baishang Fuxue seemed to be unable to see Xia Seji's reluctance. Under her request, Xia Seji had no choice but to follow her obediently, and reluctantly came to Amameiya Ren together.

"Hello, Xia Seji." Umiya Ren also pretended not to see that Xia Seji didn't want to face him, and greeted him with a friendly smile.

"...Tongue twisters or something, what is there to teach... It all depends on the proficiency..." Reaching out without hitting the smiling face, Natsuko looked at Ren Amamiya Smiling, I just felt that all the emotions in my heart were blocked by the atmosphere and couldn't show it, so I could only whisper awkwardly.

"Just share your experience." Baishang Fuuxue answered and eased the atmosphere.

"Well... Anyway, let's start with the most basic." Natsu Seki was helpless under the pressure of the atmosphere, and could only raise his head and face Amamery Ren and said. "[Raw catfish, raw eggs, raw sea cucumber] (なまなまずなまなまこなまなめこ) should be of this level, right?"

After that, Ren Amamiya practiced tongue twisters for a while under the guidance of Fubuki Shirakami and Natsuko Matsuri, and Mio and Shinobu Akai also joined in. Their lines skills are not very good. Since everyone is discussing, Just practice together.

"Then today's line practice is over, thank you~" After a while, Luo Bozi announced.

The lines were practiced for about an hour. After all, today is not a formal club activity.In fact, an hour is long, mainly because there is a pure newcomer, Ren Amamiya, here today.

"Senior Radish, although today's social activities are over, can I stay in the activity room?" Amamiya Ren asked, he was going to draw a fan picture here.

"It's ok~ as long as you don't disturb others, and if you are the last one to leave, remember to close the door." Luo Bozi smiled and asked. "I'll go home first, see Amamiya-san tomorrow~"

"Then let's go too." Xia Seji said to the rest of the girls when the event was over and Luo Bozi also left.

"Eh? But Ji-chan, didn't you say that everyone was doing homework together in the activity room this afternoon?" Bai Shang Fuxue looked at Xia Seji suspiciously.

"Hmm..." Xia Seji groaned, she just wanted to leave this uncomfortable atmosphere quickly, and forgot about saying that she wanted to do homework together.

But what happened there has nothing to do with Ren Yugong, he was pressed for time, after getting permission from Luo Bozi, Ren Yugong found a way to take out the computer and digital tablet, and started working.

The composition of Lai Qixiao X Hollow Knight was already thought up last night.

The C position is naturally Lai Qixiao and the little knight. Lai Qixiao's strange thief outfit is a windbreaker, short knife, mask, and pistol, and the little knight's moth-wing windbreaker, bone nails, containers, and spells. There are actually many common elements between the two.

Ren Amamiya intends to replace Lai Qixiao's commonly used dagger and pistol with bone nails and soul spells respectively, and mix and match the two styles of Kaitou and Hollow.

The location of the picture is in the Fool's Arena in the game.The composition design is that Lai Qixiao is standing on the left side, covered by a mask, only showing a wanton smile on the corner of his mouth, holding a bone nail the size of a long sword, and the other hand is surrounded by the white liquid of soul spells.

And the little knight, who is about as tall as Qi Xiao's knees, is standing on the right side of the Fool's Arena, dusty, with the moth-wing cloak fluttering, and the corners of the cloak have been stained with ink-like black liquid, which is about to launch the shadow cloak sprint. screen design. .

The scene design is that the bone nail in Lai Qixiao's hand and the bone nail of the little knight point their swords at each other and fight each other.The background is the dead master of the Fool's Arena, and cheering fools and insects can be vaguely seen in every corner.

In fact, Ren Amamiya also wanted to add some enemy wrecks scattered around Lai Qixiao and the little knight, but in order to keep his first sight as much as possible, he didn't know too much about the game, and he didn't know what kind of enemies there were, so he couldn't draw them. .

Even the screenshot of the map of Fool's Arena was recommended to him by blank.

That is to say, he didn't ask, if Amamiya Ren told Blank about his thoughts, Blank would probably recommend Amamiya Ren to draw a defeated Zote next to Lai Qixiao and the little knight.

Ren Amamiya loves this kind of feeling of constructing the scene in her heart, and she draws smoothly and deeply.

And then...he was surrounded again.