Nanaya didn't know what to say. The picture was so perfect and the band playing the music was very skilled.
but!
but!
but!
Nanaya feels that he needs to emphasize many times that the current BGM song is "Happy Birthday to You"
This song can be said to have completely drained away the entire scene's atmosphere like diarrhea.
It's just like when Iron Man snapped his fingers at Thanos at the end of "Endgame", and the movie reached its most heroic moment, the BGM suddenly sang "Twinkle, twinkle little star, the sky is full of little stars."
This sense of disharmony made everyone in the audience feel like laughing but not daring to.
There are only a few exceptions.
One is the host, Butler Clouzot, who seems to have no feeling for live music. Nanaya feels that even if "Kamen Rider" suddenly starts playing at the banquet hall, the old man probably won't show any expression.
The other was Lily, the mastermind behind the scenes, who was smiling smugly.
The last one is today's protagonist, Ryan, who is currently standing in the middle of the stairs.
Her smile disappeared when the music started, and she never took another step down the stairs.
Ryan lowered his head and held the stair railing tightly with one hand.
Looking at her trembling, Nanaya felt that she would not continue to walk down unless Ryan crushed the escalator.
The song "Happy Birthday to You" is not long, and the band finished playing it quickly.
However, after a brief pause, the band started playing the piece a second time.
It seems that either Lily said in advance that she wanted to play the song on repeat, or Lily forgot to order the second song.
But no matter which one it is, the current situation is that if Ryan doesn't walk up to the podium, it is estimated that the song "Happy Birthday to You" will continue to play.
Nanaya felt that if Ryan continued like this, he might really go berserk and kill someone today.
This would be too horrible. The protagonist of the birthday party strangled his own sister to death during the party. This kind of thing would definitely become the front-page headline of tomorrow's newspaper.
More importantly, who will play Artoria after Lily's death?
So in order to save his own fate series, Nanaya had to start singing when everyone else shut up.
"Happy birthday to you~"
Nanaya began to clap his hands to the beat of the music while singing hard.
With everyone remaining silent, Nanaya's singing stood out.
But soon, under Nanaya's lead, Ori and Lily also began to sing along with Nanaya.
"Happy birthday to you~Happy birthday to you~"
Then all the guests began to imitate Nanaya, clapping and singing, sending their blessings to today's protagonist.
Although the orchestral music serving as BGM still sounded very awkward, at least the atmosphere on the scene was no longer as awkward as before.
"call--"
Ryan finally breathed a sigh of relief. She put on a smile again and walked slowly to the center of the platform.
The music that made people want to complain wildly finally stopped. As if they were afraid that the music would start again, the guests sent their blessings to the protagonist one after another.
"Happy birthday, Miss Ryan!"
"Happy birthday!"
Even Lily cheered hard to the stage.
"Happy birthday, sister!"
…
After the protagonist appears, the next program is to present gifts to the protagonist Ryan.
"Hey, now it's more like offering tribute to the king!"
Looking at the long line, one by one they walked up to Ryan and handed over their gifts.
At this moment, Nanaya's heart was filled with endless desire to complain.
"Who on earth came up with this show?"
"It should be my father."
Lily, who was standing with Nana, was also speechless: "Maybe they did it to satisfy their competitive mentality. They treated me like a gorilla in a zoo. How tasteless."
[You, who played the birthday song when my sister appeared, have no right to say such things, right? ]
Nanaya suddenly felt a little sympathetic towards Ryan, perhaps because everyone around him was unreliable?
[Is that why Miss Ryan is so smart and capable?
Living in such a family, anyone who is a little naive (stupid) would probably be killed by the trap. ]
However, the competitive mentality mentioned by Lily does exist, because the gifts given to Ryan before can be said to be varied.
There were everything from small LV bags to large purebred horses. Nanaya even saw a rich man giving away a small oil field.
However, when Nanaya saw the Arab headscarf wrapped around the other person's head, he felt nothing out of place. After all, these oil guys were so poor that they only had oil left.
"That guy...has been trying to get my father to speak for him lately." Lily looked at him with disdain. "That's why he was so generous. I guess the oil field was originally intended to be given to my father. This time he's just offering it to me."
"What's wrong?"
"These Middle Eastern guys want to buy a Premier League team to expand their influence. As you know, our family can have a say with the royal family..."
At this point, Lily curled her lips in disdain: "Don't think about your own identity. How could a Premier League team open its doors to terrorists?"
Nanaya roughly understood what was going on.
Ever since a certain bearded uncle ordered a plane to crash into a building, the reputation of bearded Arabs has plummeted in European and American society.
This situation makes the moderates led by the UAE very dissatisfied and angry. Of course, they are not angry with Europe and the United States, but with the bearded men.
These rich guys don't care about holy war at all, with the exception of Tokyo CM.
They don't care about the 72 virgins in heaven, because they can have 144 of them on earth.
The favorite thing for these wealthy oil guys to do is to show the world how rich they are, so they care very much about their reputation in Western society.
After all, without a good reputation, no one will do business with you, so how can you show off your wealth to the world?
So in order to alleviate the negative international impression of themselves, these oil guys try their best to make themselves accepted by Western society.
Entering the football circle should be one of their plans. After all, football is a very popular sport in Europe and the United States.
It was obvious that they were not making good progress, otherwise they would not have tried to save the country by taking a roundabout way from the Wettin family.
But in Nanaya's memory, the Middle Eastern people were indeed successful, so Lily's expectations would probably be dashed.
[I can only say that if you have money you can really do whatever you want. ]
Watching the nobles around him discussing the wealth of Middle Eastern people, Nanaya couldn't help but sigh once again how great it was to be rich.
Because Nanaya and his friends were sitting relatively close to the front of the queue, it was their turn soon.
Although Lily asked Nanaya to line up a little further back more than once, because the later the gift was delivered, the more impressive it would be for Ryan.
However, Nanaya felt that if he ranked at the back, it would also leave a deep impression on others.
Although he doesn't feel inferior about the gifts he gives out, he still doesn't want to attract too much attention if possible.
"Happy birthday, sister!"
Lily greeted Ryan before Nanaya.
"Thank you so much for your blessing~Lily~"
Ryan's smile was tinged with darkness. It was obvious that she still remembered being tricked by Lily when she entered the venue just now.
"Ha ha."
Lily smiled awkwardly, and she quickly pulled out Nanaya to use as a shield.
"Father, Mother. This is Director Nanaya Kiryu~"
The Wettin couple looked no different from an ordinary aristocratic couple.
If I have to say anything, it's probably that they all look very good, at least much better than the family in the long standby period.
"Um, hello Uncle and Aunt Wettin."
After thinking for a long time, Nanaya finally gave this title to the Wettin couple.
"Is that you? The guy who led my little daughter astray."
Mr. Wettin frowned and glared at Nanaya: "You actually let my daughter make that kind of movie, you..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Didn't you buy a special edition high-definition poster of Lily and put it in your bedroom?"
Mrs. Wettin interrupted her husband's complaints about Nanaya and greeted him with a smile.
"Kiryu, don't pay attention to this arrogant guy. Our whole family likes your movies very much."
"Thank you, ma'am."
Nanaya and Ori each handed over the bags in their hands.
"This is a birthday present from us and others to you."
"Thank you."
Ryan put the bag away with a smile. She knew that Nanaya and others would not give her very expensive gifts.
But Ryan doesn't care. To her, it doesn't matter what her friends give her, as long as the thought is there.
"Thank you so much for what you did just now, Kiryu." Ryan said to Lily, "I almost wanted to kill Lily."
"Ha ha..."
Nanaya laughed awkwardly. He didn't expect Ryan to actually have such an idea.
However, Lily had no intention of letting Nanaya go. You know, she specifically told Nanaya to prepare a gift in advance just to give her sister a surprise at this time.
so--
"Sister, hurry up and open it and take a look. This is specially selected for you by Director Nanaya~" Lily urged.
Ori glanced at Lily expressionlessly.
"Is that so?"
Ryan tilted his head and looked at Nanaya.
"Ah, yes..."
Nanaya touched his nose. The style of the game console was indeed specially selected by him, so it was not wrong to say so.
"Is this it? There's a label on it."
Ryan pulled a blue box out of the bag.
[Is this box too big?! ]
After seeing the box, Lily realized something was wrong.
Unless Nanaya gave you an African-style neck collar, the box is way too big.
"Can I open it?"
Ryan was also a little curious. She also wanted to know what gift Nanaya had given, because the size of the box was very different from the jewelry or bags she remembered.
"Sure, no problem."
Nanaya said indifferently.
"Wait..."
Lily, who realized something was wrong, wanted to speak out to stop them, but Ryan had already carefully unwrapped the wrapping paper bit by bit.
"Game console..."
Looking at the revealed gift, Lily's mouth twitched.
[I told him to prepare the jewelry! Nanaya, you bastard!]
Lily was feeling extremely nervous. Although her sister wouldn't turn against her, it would be terrible if Nanaya's status in her sister's heart declined.
"This is... Lily's special edition game console, right?"
Unlike Lily, Ryan immediately showed a happy expression on his face after seeing the game console.
"I didn't get it last time I ordered it, thank you so much. I was thinking about buying a regular blue one and putting Lily's picture on it...
Ryan realized that now was not the time to say this, and she quickly covered her mouth.
"Anyway, I will cherish it."
Ryan put away the game console, which he was very satisfied with.
"As long as you like it."
Nanaya felt that Ryan's smiling face alone was worth his trip all the way from North America.
[No, no. I can't let Rin down. Namo——]
Nanaya immediately recited the Purifying Mantra to free himself from the enchantment of the golden-haired female fairy.
Seeing this smiling face on the other side, Lily could finally feel at ease.
[Could it be that their relationship is so good that it doesn't matter what Director Nanaya gives me? What? I'm really worrying about nothing.]
[But when did their relationship become so good? ]
[But, what does my sister mean by posting photos? ]
Lily found that it was better not to delve into some issues too deeply.