I teach kendo in Tokyo

That night, it was already past eleven when Kazuma came out of the KTV.

After getting in the car, Kazuma said to Honami, "I feel like I'm almost sober. How about I drive?"

"Drunk driving is prohibited!" Honami patted Kazuma and said, "Sit next to me."

Kazuma can only move to the co-pilot position.

He was still worried: "This car requires such a long pole to shift gears. This pole is also very heavy. Can you do it?"

"What are you talking about? After all, I have practiced kendo with you for so long. I can handle any pole of any length and weight."

As she spoke, she closed the door, started the engine, and then shifted gears smoothly.

Kazuma looked at her like this and suddenly smiled: "Did you know that in China across the sea, there are female bus drivers, and you look like that."

Honami glanced at Kazuma: "Why do I feel like you are so familiar with Chinese things?"

——Nonsense, my home!

But Kazuma couldn't tell the truth and could only say: "I am interested in Chinese culture, so I learned more about it."

Honami drove the car out of the parking lot, and as soon as she turned a corner, she said, "This car is so heavy. I turned the steering wheel all the way, but the turning radius is still so wide."

"Look at the size of this car! It's weird that the radius is so small. Can you do it? Otherwise, I'll do it."

"No! Drunk driving is prohibited! Just sit back and watch me perform."

Kazuma shrugged, opened his window, and let the wind lift his hair.

Seeing this, Honami reached out to turn off the air conditioner, but she mistakenly turned the switch on the crepe cart's player.

The sound of the crepe jingle rang through the night sky.

Fortunately, she immediately flipped the switch back.

"You, if you had told me about buying a car, I would have gotten you a retired car from a company affiliated with the Nanjo Consortium."

"Can you buy a retired car for 50,000 yen? Okay, I'll buy it all."

Kazuma slapped his arm on the open window, looked at the street scene that kept retreating, and continued: "This car also has advantages. It has a large tonnage. In case of any emergency, you can drive this car as a bumper car. Except Nothing but a heavy truck can hit it."

Honami sighed: "Personally, I still don't want such a big scene. I think a big scene like Raiders of the Lost Ark is enough."

"Wait a minute, are you saying that the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark is small? It's not small, okay!" Kazuma complained, "The scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark is already a big scene that the Japanese film industry cannot produce."

"Can't it be filmed? Isn't it a big scene when I watch "Ran"?"

"That's Akira Kurosawa, okay? Only Akira Kurosawa has the talent to mobilize the resources of the entire Japanese film industry to make such a film... Wait a minute, have you seen it?"

"My grandfather has investments, so he was invited to the preview, and I went with him." Honami glanced at Kazuma, "But you, why do you feel like you've seen it too?"

——Because I have indeed seen it, but it was just in a previous life.

Kazuma explained: "I saw the advance special in a movie magazine, so I knew it would be a big scene."

"That's it."

Kazuma wiped his sweat, but fortunately Honami didn't like to get to the bottom of things.

"Ran" in this time and space will be released later, so now ordinary people have nowhere to watch it.

In my previous life, I remember it was released in June 1985.

Silence fell. Kazuma was sober, so he didn't speak. Honami also drove quietly.

After a while, Honami suddenly smiled: "I suddenly felt that this was not bad."

Kazuma didn't catch her train of thought and asked, "How is it?"

"That's it, I'm driving the car and you sit in the passenger seat and enjoy the wind, just watching the lights outside and running backwards. Don't you think it feels good?"

Kazuma glanced out the window and felt it: "Well, it seems pretty good."

"How about we take a long detour." Honami said in a rescuing tone, "It's already so late anyway, it won't matter if it's a little later."

"Okay." Kazuma agreed without thinking.

Honami turned the steering wheel, left the original route, and turned into another road.

"Don't go too far, I have to go to work tomorrow." Kazuma warned.

"Don't worry, I'm measured."

Honami drove onto a small road with few cars, and it felt like the distance between the street lights had become wider.

After driving on the path for a while, she smiled again: "I can't believe that I suddenly have time to be alone. I thought I would never have such an opportunity."

"How could it be? It's not like life and death are separated."

"I'm talking about the opportunity to be alone. Although it's nice to have fun together, but..."

Honami did not continue.

Kazuma: "Only that monkey was so lively when he came back from England."

"Aren't there a lot of kids who come to learn kendo on Sunday? I think it's quite lively."

"That's true." Kazuma curled his lips, "It's a pity that those children are not so much here to learn kendo, but because their parents want to have fun on Sunday, so they leave their children in our care."

Honami also smiled: "Indeed. It would have been impossible to learn kendo well if you only practiced two days a week. Didn't you tell those parents that you also send your children here on a regular basis? Xiaoqian should also be happy to come back from school every day to earn some extra money, right? "

"She's always wanted to do this, but not many parents responded."

"That's it."

Honami was silent for a few seconds, and then suddenly said: "It would be great if the days could go by like this. There would be no welfare technology secretly expanding its power, and there would be no Aikawa Horon."

"Unfortunately, they are right there, and they are still advancing their plans step by step."

"Yes. Speaking of which, I inquired about the situation of Uesugi Soichiro who was sent to the hospital by you. He was completely paralyzed on the bed. Theoretically, he should not pose a threat, but it seems that Welfare Technology is planning to do something. Looks like."

Kazuma was speechless: "Of course they plan to do something. Uesugi Soichiro has sword master level strength and is a rare material for welfare technology."

"You said that welfare technology has developed so many things. What do you want to do? Rule the world? The United States and the Soviet Union cannot allow this to happen, right? Those two countries have so many nuclear bombs that they can destroy the earth several times. Rule the world. This kind of thing can’t happen in reality, right?”

Kazuma: "Maybe they want to live forever. Immortality is very attractive to the top leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union."

Honami sighed: "The immortal monsters deliberately want to become humans, but the short-lived humans long for immortality."

"People in the besieged city want to come out, and people outside the besieged city want to go in." Kazuma said softly.

"Ah, I know this. It's the Chinese writer Qian Zhongshu, right?" Honami said, "I have read a lot of Chinese works in my four years of college."

"Just because I like China?"

"Stop being arrogant, it's Chinese culture that's attractive." Honai gave Kazuma a white look.

Kazuma smiled and said: "Then tell me what you have read? Four years have passed and I haven't heard you say this."

"First of all, I have read all Lu Xun's works. Before, I read Oe Kenzaburo or someone who said that if I had the chance to write the true story of Q, I would rather give up all my current works for this opportunity. I also think he is It’s an exaggeration, but after actually watching it, I found it really amazing.”

Kazuma nodded: "The tragedy of Lu Xun is that his essays are still valid today, which shows that mankind has not made any progress."

Honami nodded: "Yes."

Kazuma continued to ask: "Is there anyone else besides Lu Xun?"

"Qian Zhongshu. And Schopenhauer." Honami said a few more names that had no impression of Ma, "The last one is Romance of the Three Kingdoms."

In Japan, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is directly called "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Chen Shou's "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is often confused with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

He Ma: "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I stopped watching it after seeing Zhuge Liang die. For me, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms ended when the dead Zhuge scared away the living Sima Yi."

"From the perspective of a commercial novel, it is unreasonable that Liu, Guan, Zhang and Zhuge Liang, who were portrayed as protagonists, died one after another." Honami commented, "But it is not a commercial work."

Kazuma smiled and said: "In his time, it was probably a commercial work. Just like The Grudge of Monte Cristo, it was also published as a popular novel at that time.

“At the time when The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written, there must have been many popular novels with other themes, but only the most artistic ones among them have been handed down, and they have become famous works and classics.

"Time is like a sieve. Only things that can withstand the test of time will remain. I think there are some popular novels that will still be read a hundred years later. That is, they are masterpieces and literature. .”

Honami responded thoughtfully: "You mean, there may be future classics in those commercial novels now? Well... I have read a few swordsman novels and so on just to pass the time. I really don't think they are It will become literature.”

Kazuma: "Those literary critics back then also viewed The Legend of Monte Cristo in the same way."

Honami was silent for a few seconds and then said: "Then do you think that the Legend of the Galactic Heroes that you bought every copy will become literature in the future?"

Kazuma: "No, I buy every copy to pass the time."

In fact, it is to realize the dream.

Issei Kazuma once wanted to buy a first edition of Legend of the Galaxy Heroes, but found that they were priced out of stock.

In a few years, Kazuma will buy Records of Rhodes Island, which is something he missed in his previous life.

When Kazuma was still a junior high school student, Deedlit, the heroine of Rhodes Island War, established his beautiful fantasy about elves.

By the way, because the impression of Deedlit was too strong, when Kazuma saw Legolas for the first time, he thought he was a girl before Legolas opened his mouth. He also thought that Deedlit was very expressive.

Honami glanced at Kazuma: "Is it really to kill time? But every June 1st, you would pretend to be dead in the corridor of your house and say, 'I'm sorry Frederica.' This is a line in the book, right? ?Why do I think you have a deep feeling for Legend of the Galactic Heroes?"

Kazuma: "Every time I reach 226, I still sing Miluo Yuanshui and beat the waves. It's just for fun."

In fact, they are all habits left over from my previous life. In my previous life, I used to hang out with Ma in military forums and military circles. Every year when the time comes, a group of people will get along with each other. In fact, they are just playing tricks.

The same goes for chanting "Barney doesn't have to fight anymore" every Christmas, which has become an annual carnival for a small group of people.

And Kazuma, who is reincarnated into this world, carries out these actions every year when the time comes, which has an added meaning of maintaining the connection between himself and his previous life.

Honami glanced at Kazuma and changed the subject: "Did Anno Akito and the others come to visit you a few days ago?"

"Hmm. How did you know?"

"I've been on the phone with Xiao Qian a lot recently. The phone company has launched a new service, which provides free call time every month. You know Xiao Qian's character. She feels that she will lose money if she doesn't use up the call time. ”

Kazuma smiled: "Indeed. So you control my daily movements through Chiyoko..."

"I'm not okay! Don't make me sound like a stalker!" Honami's voice rose a lot.

Kazuma: "Okay, okay, you didn't. Anno Akito did come over, and they have been having a hard time paying off their debts recently. Their movie a few years ago caused a huge loss to the sponsor's father. In the next ten years, they may have to live to pay off their debts." ”

In fact, Kazuma thought about directly taking Anno Akito to shoot Evangelion, but the popularity of Evangelion was not only due to its excellent quality, but also due to the times.

If Evangelion is released now, it may not necessarily become a hit.

It’s now 1985, at the tail end of the first golden age of Japanese animation.

Works such as Macross and Armored Cavalry plus the famous Gundam are the mainstream of this era.

The works of this era echo the psychology of the Japanese people who are heading towards the bubble era, and are full of positive vitality. At this time, if an animation with an awkward teenager full of negative thoughts as the protagonist is not dying quickly enough?

Honami asked curiously: "What works are Anno and the others filming now?"

"It seems like a story about a giant robot and a beautiful girl."

Although Evangelion is also a story about a giant robot and a beautiful girl, Kazuma is talking about "To the Top" here.

Honami blinked: "Are they planning to follow the trend? Just because the movie version of Macross is selling well, are they just going to follow the trend?"

"No, their robot is driven by two female drivers." Kazuma said.

"Eh? A female pilot? That's quite novel."

"It's right in your strike zone, right?" Kazuma laughed.

As an independent new woman, Honami naturally has a favorable impression of this kind of work in which women take the leading role.

Honami added: "But... this setting will make those who are used to traditional robot works unhappy? After all, in traditional robot works, women are vases, and Macross is just a singing vase."

"They also struggled with their thoughts for a long time, but they are die-hard fans of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and finally decided to create a work with an all-female protagonist array like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind."

Honami showed a regretful expression: "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was also well received but not popular at the box office. The box office was dismal."

Ghipli is also currently in debt. Because of his debt, Hayao Miyazaki made Castle in the Sky, a work with a more traditional male and female protagonist setting.

However, Castle in the Sky didn't sell many movie tickets, forcing Hayao Miyazaki to start using commercial voice actors in his next film.

Hayao Miyazaki famously said that "voice actors are the masters of voices". His works are usually dubbed by professional actors, and even people from Takarazuka are invited to do the dubbing.

In order to live, even the old man has to lower his head.