Valkyrie Girl's Infinity Game

Chapter 42-42- "Miss Doll's Moonlight Dinner"

"What's wrong?" Ruxian Mizuki asked in a low voice after noticing the strange color on Mitsuko's face.

"Ah no, I'm just a little surprised. I didn't expect the Star Dance Troupe to choose this dance."

"What happened to the dance?"

"Well, how should I put it, the difficulty is very high."

"Very tall? How tall is it? Even for an expert like you, is it difficult?" Ruxian Mizuki looked surprised.

"It's difficult. Even for me, it's a very challenging piece, and it's even more incredible for beginners." Mei Duzi explained in a low voice.

Then she turned her eyes to the stage, and the scene of her making a major mistake on the most important stage in middle school suddenly flashed before her eyes, which finally implicated the entire team in horror.

This kind of thing must never happen... She clasped her hands together and prayed nervously.

……

"Xianjiang, it's our turn..."

"Let's go."

"Ah."

When the host called out the Star Dance Troupe's performance on the stage, the two people in black suits and gothic skirts immediately walked out from the backstage in the rest area. In the sight of the chairman, he walked steadily to the center of the stage.

"Hi everyone~ We are Star Dance Troupe!"

"I'm Kuga Hanon from the second grade~~!"

"I'm a first-year student, Tao Xiaoxian."

"The dance we are going to perform is "Miss Puppet's Moonlight Dinner Party"! I hope you like it!"

Perhaps it was because she had never really been on stage before, when standing on the stage and looking directly at the countless audiences, Kuga Kanon's body trembled slightly.

But soon, Tao Xiaoxian noticed her abnormality.She reached out her hand quietly, held her hand, and then encouraged her silently: "Come on."

Looking directly at Tao Xiaoxian's calm eyes as always, feeling the cold and soft touch from the palm, Jiuga Huayin's mood suddenly calmed down a lot.

She nodded lightly, and then stood up with Tao Xiaoxian at their respective starting positions.

In the next second, the musical prelude of "Miss Puppet's Moonlight Dinner" resounded throughout the atrium.

This is a pipe organ sound with a weird style, which is exactly the same as the melody in horror movies.

Immediately afterwards, the show began.

As if kicking off the prelude to a stage play, Kuga Hanon, who was a puppeteer, lifted the white cloth aside, and a beautiful doll girl squatting on the ground with her knees hugged appeared in front of everyone.

She got up as if waking up from a big dream, and then backed away in panic, her movements were coherent and smooth, but when the puppeteer raised her hands high and made rhythmic swings, the puppet girl lost control of her body in an instant , She walked forward step by step like a real machine, and finally stopped beside the puppeteer.

"It turned out to be this pas de deux. I said why the prelude is so familiar."

In the auditorium, a middle-aged woman sitting closer to the middle of the front row seemed to think of something, and said to the chairman of Sakurazaka Academy next to her.

"Segawa-san, are you familiar with this dance? It sounds like a very special style." Although he is almost 50 years old, the director, who is no different from a 35-year-old woman, asked curiously.

The woman next to her is Segawa Eri, who is the one with the highest social status among all the people invited to the Founder's Festival to participate in the alumni symposium today, and has become the boss of a well-known idol agency.

It was precisely because of this that when they were seated, the other people tacitly vacated the seat next to the chairman and gave it to this career woman who had quite a status in the idol circle.

"This pas de deux is very difficult. I once watched the young idols in my office practice this piece, but they gave up after practicing for a few days, and then changed to a piece with a lower difficulty."

Eri Segawa smiled, "How dare you choose this dance, it seems that Sakura Gakuzaka is still very strong in terms of school idols."

Strong strength... The director's expression suddenly became a little embarrassed.

In fact, many years ago, Sakura Gakuzaka’s school idols were still very strong. They had passed the preliminary round of the idol super election for several consecutive years, and entered the stage of the county-level and even Kyushu general elections.

But from the past few years, the Idol Department did not know why it was not accepted, and its strength suddenly collapsed. Since then, it has become an unknown person in the super election.

However, Eri Segawa has graduated more than ten years ago, and his office is also located in Tokyo. It is normal that he does not know the situation of his alma mater in Kumamoto City.

Come on, Star Dance Troupe... At this time, the only thing the chairman can do is to silently cheer for the two on the stage in his heart.

……

When the simple conversation between the chairman and Eri Segawa ended, the performance on the field also entered the second stage.

At the end of the prelude, the piano sounded, creating a cold and mysterious atmosphere together with the organ, followed by the female voice in the verse—this is the monologue of a puppet girl, obviously expressing her painful experience, but the melody is extraordinarily frivolous and frivolous. There is a strong contrast.

On the stage, the puppeteer's slender fingers fluttered up and down, as if entangled with invisible transparent silk threads, controlling every move of the puppet lady.

Immediately, the puppeteer spun and jumped on the spot, walking lightly like a deer in the forest, and the puppet lady immediately followed suit.

But unlike the smooth movements of the puppeteer, the twisting of the puppet lady is stiff and rigid.

There was a continuous exclamation from the auditorium. Contrary to everyone's expectations, Miss Doll's dance turned out to be a mechanical dance!

Relying on the ultimate control of every inch of muscle, as the performer, Tao Xiaoxian seems to have really become a puppet made up of delicate gear structures.Her expression was numb, there was no gleam in her empty eyes, and there were obvious pauses between movements, like a stop-motion animation that was framed, or a mechanical toy that was wound up.

The audience in the audience watched intently. Even though they knew it was a performance, many audiences still felt creepy.

This is amazing too!

The verse continued to advance, the weird organ sound disappeared, and the intense electronic sound appeared in the harmony, superimposed on the piano sound, interwoven with the human voice, and entered the chorus.

The pas de deux between the puppeteer and the puppet lady also entered the climax of the performance.

They change their positions back and forth on the stage, with their skirts fluttering, their clothes fluttering, and their steps are dazzling. Sometimes they raise their arms, and sometimes they bend their waists. Their movements are progressive and coordinated, but there is a strong contrast. It's like two film characters with the same content but different frame rates are forced into the same shot.

Afterwards, this period of counterpoint cooperation, which seemed to exist deliberately for comparison and show off, ended, and the movements of the puppeteer and the puppet lady produced subtle differences, marking that the third act of the pas de deux was slowly opening.

Suddenly, the disappearing organ sound reappeared, full and clear, but with a gloomy tone, gradually dissolving into the main theme.

The puppeteer performed by Kuga Kanon suddenly became messy.She was like a wild cat locked in a cage, desperately struggling to escape, but unable to stop her wild dance.The puppet lady's movements are smooth and orderly, even faster than the puppeteer's. It seems that she is the real lead dancer, guiding the puppeteer to do the following movements.

"Is this... against the client?" Aside from experts like Eri Segawa, among the vast majority of people who have never seen this dance, the director is the first to understand the plot.

Under her amazed gaze, Miss Doll's movements are no longer stiff and dull, but gradually become as natural and smooth as a human being.

Then she stopped, looked blankly at the puppeteer beside her, suddenly raised her hands without any warning, and moved her fingers nimbly.

In this performance as if playing an air piano, the joyful sound of the piano appeared and resonated with the cheerful female lead singer.

The puppeteer's movements became sluggish, and the mechanical dance appeared again, but this time the person in charge of performing the mechanical dance was Kuga Hanon who played the role of the puppeteer.

After a series of dances that seemed to be performed to perform the painful struggle of the puppeteer, but were actually too flawed due to insufficient level, the Star Dance Troupe's debut performance finally entered the fourth stage, which is the final curtain.

At this point, the second half of the chorus is over.

In the coda below the climax, only the soothing sound of the piano and the mocking sound of the organ remain.

On the stage, the puppeteer moved slowly, and walked step by step to the place where the puppet lady was at the beginning of the performance, then squatted down, hugged her knees, and closed her eyes.

In the end, when the sound of the music completely disappeared, all the audience saw was the scene of the puppet lady walking over and covering the puppet master with a white cloth.

(End of this chapter)