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Chapter 311 There Are Not Many Relationships Left for Nanaya
🕑 Added 2025-04-26 15:24:46 +0000 UTCThere are not many awards at the Hochi Film Awards.
In addition to the four acting awards for Best Actor, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Actress, there are also awards for Best Film and Best Director.
Fate won three awards in this preliminary battle: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (Junichi Ishida) and Best Picture.
"San Chome", which was the rival of Fate, won two acting awards, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
The Best Director award was won by Kenji Uchida, the director of the movie "The Unlucky One".
Although "The Unlucky Man" does have the potential to win an award, this is not a reason for him to win the award.
The reason why Kenji Uchida won the award was that it was really difficult to tell who was the better director of the two films, "San Chome" and "Fate", so it would be problematic to give the award to anyone, so he might as well just give it to someone else.
The 30th Hochi Film Awards ceremony ended with applause as Nanaya went on stage to receive the Best Picture trophy.
But anyone with a discerning eye knows that this award ceremony is just the beginning of a war, and the truly fierce war has just begun.
As for Nanaya, who won the Best Picture award, he was unable to celebrate properly with Rin that night.
Because Nanaya was closely watched by Illya the whole time, there was no chance for him to meet Rin privately.
Until Rin was called back by Shion, Nanaya was unable to escape Illya's surveillance.
Of course, Illya's actions attracted the attention of the paparazzi.
When Nanaya and Illya left the Prince Hotel together, reporters surrounded them and asked them questions.
"Director Kiryu, are you announcing your relationship with Ms. Ryutani?"
"Director Kiryu, may I ask if your love affair with Ms. Ryutani means that you and Lin Bao will start a new collaboration?"
"Director Kiryu, are you and Ms. Ryutani engaged?"
Faced with these problems, which were almost the same as when she had the scandal with Ryan, Nanaya was much calmer than last time.
“Ms. Ryutani and I have known each other for a long time, and we have always had a good relationship.
"Although Lin Bao and I have some disagreements on business cooperation, this does not affect our relationship."
Nanaya answered with a serious look, and he just gave a light explanation to the question that the reporters were most concerned about.
"So far, the relationship between Ms. Ryutani and I is just a simple brother and sister. That's all."
After saying this, Nanaya took Illya and disappeared from the sight of the reporters.
This formulaic answer certainly would not satisfy the reporters, especially the implicit meaning of Nanaya's words, which sounded like he was trying to cover up something.
What does “so far” mean?
Are you planning to wait until the right time comes and take action directly?
Also, what is a "pure brother-sister relationship"?
When the scandal between you and Ryougi Ori first came out, you said it was a "pure relationship between senior and junior brothers and sisters."
When you and Miss Wettin from England were having an affair, you said it was a "pure friendship".
Now, Miss Ryutani, you have a "pure brother-sister relationship"...
You are really amazing, Nanaya Kiryu.
Why do you get to say everything?
So the next day, the headline of Weekly Shinso's article about Nanaya's scandal was "Master! Friends! Brothers and sisters! ... There aren't many pure relationships left for Kiryu Nanaya."
"Hahaha! This is really funny!"
At the breakfast table, Shion slammed the table and pointed at the article in Weekly Shinto and laughed uncontrollably.
"So you and Rin just have a 'pure director and actor relationship'? Hahaha!"
Nanaya silently drank the milk in his cup, ignoring Shion's overly exaggerated expression.
Shion held her chin with one hand, her legs swinging constantly.
"So how about this? You and Sakura are in a 'pure ex-boyfriend/girlfriend relationship'?"
Nanaya still ignored her. He lowered his head and finished the sandwich that Shion brought back from Lawson convenience store last night.
Just like what Shion said when she moved in, after living with Shion, Nanaya really never worried about his three meals a day.
However, most of the food prepared by Shion was taken out, and more than half of it was bought from the Lawson convenience store under the Washimine Building.
Even if it wasn't ready-made food, Shion prepared simple meals like chicken breast salad (the chicken breast was cut by Nanaya himself).
However, this young lady is a typical person who never does housework, and asking her to cook for herself would simply be putting things in her way.
Even if Shion herself is willing, Nanaya is not willing.
If he got hospitalized due to food poisoning, wouldn't the fact that he and Shion were living together be exposed? !
Of course, Shion really had no idea about this problem. She had already started reading recipes during this period, preparing to give Nanaya a surprise.
Well, before that, Shion planned to keep it a secret, at least until she could distinguish between salt and sugar before showing it off to Nanaya.
"How about this, the relationship between you and me is a 'pure boss-employee relationship'? Hey, I'm talking to you!"
Seeing that Nanaya kept his head down, Shion became a little angry.
Nanaya felt something strange on his cheek.
He looked up to see his female boss smiling at him and poking his cheeks with her fingers.
"Hey, I think about the mortgage I gave you..."
Shion raised her eyes and said in a threatening tone.
【Empress Dowager, I was wrong.】
"I think it would be better for us to use the term 'pure cohabitation relationship'."
There was a hint of submission in Nanaya's tone.
"Well, this is good."
Shion was very satisfied, she let Nanaya go and started eating her sandwich.
"Um……"
Feeling that the atmosphere at the table was a little subtle, Nanaya asked quietly, "How are the preparations for the awards season going?"
"Don't worry, I'm mobilizing my connections. I'm preparing to launch a full-scale attack on 'San Chome' during the award season. If Emiya Kiritsugu wants to have it all to himself, he can just dream on!"
Shion laughed, she seemed to have thought of something very interesting.
In fact, at the beginning, Shion did not focus on Japan during this year's awards season. Like Nanaya, her goal was to target the North American awards season.
Even if the academic community doesn't like commercial fantasy movies, the fact that Fate has won some minor technical awards shows that it has the potential to do so.
It’s just that Kiritsugu’s actions were a little bit… well, too much.
Since its inception, Washimine Entertainment's goal has been to focus on the North American market and the Japanese market as a supplement.
It’s just that Washimine’s capital is too strong, or it can be said that Washimine is too rich.
This means that even though Japan is not the main business area of Washimine Entertainment, it still shows amazing explosive power.
Of course, another reason is that Lin Bao’s eating habits were indeed a bit ugly before.
Just like in the last century, when Washimine dominated the world during the Famicom era, he adopted the evil royalty system.
When Washimine was in power, of course no one dared to say anything, but everyone was holding a grudge.
So after Sony launched the PS, countless game manufacturers defected, causing Washimine's game empire system to collapse directly.
Although in the Japanese film industry, Lin Bao's eating habits are not as excessive as Washimine's back then, they are almost the same.
In fact, when a company has a monopoly in an industry, it is inevitable that it will engage in ugly behavior.
For example, the high commission rate on the Steam platform.
When the empire was at its most glorious, people within the system certainly would not have any objections, nor did they dare to have any objections.
But when a challenger appears, this system will quickly collapse. Even if the original boss is not dethroned, a situation of many heroes vying for supremacy will emerge.
Because Washimine had suffered such a loss, they knew very well how dissatisfied the small film studios and independent producers were with Lin Bao.
Therefore, under the dual circumstances of Washimine's financial offensive and Lin Bao's bullying, countless filmmakers and small companies that once depended on Lin Bao began to defect.
Although Washimine Entertainment's Japanese branch was established less than two years ago, it has already surpassed second-ranked Toei and become second only to Lin Bao.
And began to attack Lin Bao's position.
The most amazing thing about Washimine's company has never been how many games they have made, nor their feat of saving the world's gaming industry.
Rather, they have one thing that most companies don’t have: time.
You know, it’s been more than a hundred years since the establishment of Washimine Company.
The title of a century-old store is no joke.
During these 100 years, Washimine has experienced ups and downs, and they have gone through almost every situation that a company might have experienced.
These experiences are the most precious things for Washimine, because they can help Washimine avoid many detours when moving forward, because they have already gone through them a long time ago.
Similarly, this also allows Washimine to accurately find his position when facing various opponents, and then formulate the most effective counterattack plan.
Therefore, when Washimine entered the Japanese film industry, he targeted Lin Bao's weakest point from the very beginning.
Lin Bao, who had been resting on his laurels for a long time, had lost his ability to react and was caught off guard by Washimine.
Lin Bao's film empire is at a very critical moment. Although it is not a critical moment of life and death, if he does not find a solution, it will only be a matter of time before he is defeated by Washimine.
Faced with such a situation, Lin Bao must of course fight back.
But Washimine's Fate was so powerful that it earned 19.7 billion yen at the box office in Japan.
Regardless of whether Fate is counted as a local film or an imported film, Fate is the annual box office champion in Japan.
Although Lin Bao is already planning to bring his "Kara no Kyoukai" series back, the project has been shelved because they have not yet found a suitable director to take over from Nanaya.
Under such circumstances, in order to show the Japanese film industry that he is still the real boss, Lin Bao plans to take the lead over Washimine in all aspects during the awards season.
So Kiritsugu strongly promoted the movie "San-Chome" and publicly stated on countless occasions that this movie would become the champion of the award season.
"Although this movie may not be a box office champion like some other movies, it will definitely be the best movie of the year and it will be recognized by all awards."
Although Kiritsugu did not specify which movie it was, is there any need to guess about such things?
And your big sister Shion is not the kind of person who won’t fight back when someone hits her on the face—unless the person who hits her on the face is some unscrupulous director.
So, just as Nanaya expected, this year's Japanese awards season will be a bloody battle.
