Ginza, Kabukiza.

This Kabuki theater has a history of more than 100 years and can be called the throne of Kabuki theaters.

It has been burned down several times and rebuilt several times. Purple cloth is hung in front of the building. The overall style is obviously luxurious and unrestrained and gorgeous in the Momoyama period.

Countless national treasure-level kabuki actors have performed here, and it is considered the highest honor for a newcomer to perform here. Today, a newcomer takes the stage.

Originally, the attendance rate for the newcomers would not be too high, but the tickets were sold out early, and a "Thanksgiving" banner was hung in front of the ticket window.

Most of the people who came to buy tickets were young women, dressed in fashionable and hot clothes. They did not look like traditional Kabuki audiences at all. They were packed in front of the ticket window.

The theater manager has not seen such an unprecedented grand occasion in more than ten years, and he excitedly thanked God, feeling that the vitality of this ancient art has not been cut off.

But in fact, they certainly didn’t come here for any traditional art. Some of them didn’t even know what a kabuki performance was. They just came to see the stunning man.

The newcomer on stage is named Kazama Ruri, and the play is "New Kojiki".

The curtains were lowered on the stage and it was pitch black.

The guests whispered. They were all regulars in the nightclub. They usually drank and exchanged glasses and laughed loudly. But at this time, no one was making any noise. They were even wearing elegant kimonos or ankle-length evening gowns, as reserved as ladies.

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Of course, in addition to the young women, there were also many male spectators. They wore white cloth belts with the words "Kazama Ming" on their foreheads and telescopes hung on their chests, looking like ardent fans.

"This world has finally become Yan Gou's world."

In the private room on the second floor, the big golden retriever shook his white paper folding fan and sighed with emotion.

Gu Chen drank tea silently.

Except for him, Lu Mingfei and the other three are all wearing pure black "colorless" (single color without pattern) haori. They have invitations from Kazama Ruri. They are VIPs among VIPs. There will be waiters to change their clothes when they enter.

, and then introduce the box with the best location.

But he felt that the kimono was too long, so he still wore the casual suit.

"Have you ever seen a kabuki performance? Do you understand it?" Chu Zihang asked the golden retriever who may have appreciated such a high-level art during the performance.

"I saw one in New York. It was a reception performance for the Japanese Consulate." Caesar said reservedly: "The faces of the actors were as white as dead people."

"...You only remember this?" Lu Mingfei's mouth twitched.

"And the girl who accompanied me to the show that day. She wore a nude evening dress, her waist was studded with rhinestones, and her waist was very dazzling when she walked." Caesar suddenly thought of something, and looked at Gu Gu with a serious expression.

The prophecy said: "You can't tell Nono this."

"Can you still contact her now?" Gu Chen asked.

Caesar was silent for a while, then sighed, "If she wants to hide, no one in this world can find her unless she takes the initiative to contact you."

He was euphemistically stating that he couldn't contact Nono either.

Lu Mingfei held his chin to prevent others from seeing his inner disappointment.

Chu Zihang brought the topic back to the present, "In other words, you can't understand Kabuki performances, right?"

"Just look at the translation screen on the stage." Caesar shrugged, "Just now the waiter said that this was specially requested by Master Kazama Ruri. The audience is all Japanese, and we are the only ones who can't understand the lyrics. That thing is

Installed for us.”

"It seems that he really wants us to understand his performance." Chu Zihang said thoughtfully.

"Then we'll keep an eye on it." Caesar gently shook his folding fan and smiled lightly, "As a ghost who lives and dies, who knows if this will be his last performance?"

It's not that he doesn't like Kabuki or the actors who perform Kabuki, but he simply doesn't like this ghost. He always feels that there is something frightening and weird hidden under that seemingly innocent face.

At this time, the lights suddenly went dark, and someone knocked on Sakuragi's snare drum.

The drummer beats the drum head again and again, and the drum sound is hoarse and low, like a ghost whispering in distant ancient times.

The curtain opened, and a plain white woman stood quietly in the center of the stage, with long black hair hanging loose.

"All the happiness in the world is an epiphyllum that appears in the moonlight; only loneliness and pain are always accompanied in the depths of the underworld." She sang slowly a cappella, her face was pale, and only the corners of her eyes were sad and blood-red.

Even though her appearance is so enchanting, her figure is graceful and charming, like a peerless beauty wrapped in tulle, which makes people feel a little swaying.

"Kazema Ruri?" Caesar was surprised.

That turned out to be Ruri Kazama in women’s clothing!

Ruri Kazama is as pretty as a girl, so he wouldn't be too surprised to play a female role, but seeing the sexiness of a woman in a man gave him a creepy feeling.

At the same time, he quietly looked at the people around him, lest they discover his abnormality.

And sure enough, Gu Zhen and the others stopped drinking tea and were looking at him silently.

"..."Caesar.

"Um..." He coughed lightly, feeling the need to explain that he was shocked by the charm of Kazama Ruri.

It felt like a stunning female ghost possessed Fengjian Liuli, singing and dancing with his body.

But Gu Chen and the other two people obviously didn't listen to his explanation. They all turned their heads to look at the stage, turning a blind eye to his eager eyes.

On the stage, Feng Jian Liuli sang and danced, her white sleeves unfolded like the wings of a white bird, and ancient words were written on them with ink.

The left sleeve symbolizes the rising of the sun, the growth of all things and the dreamlike world; the right sleeve symbolizes the rising of the moon, the dry bones and cold sand and the eternal underworld.

As he danced, he took off his white robe, revealing his brilliantly painted clothes.

At this moment, all the spectators had a creepy feeling - that colorful shirt was more like the funeral clothes of the dead than the clothes of the living. Skulls were embroidered on the clothes.

And the pattern of maggots!

Amid the rising whispers, the translation screen above the stage promptly displayed the background information of the play - Ruri Kazama plays the Japanese mother goddess Izanami, and this new mythological play is about her father.

The divine marriage and subsequent antagonism between the god Izanagi and the mother goddess Izanami.

After a while, warm golden light enveloped the stage, which symbolized the stage switching from the dark underworld to the human world.

'Izanagi' in a golden robe appeared on the stage. He wore a wooden mask and walked on the dance floor in a perfect circle by walking on the 'Origashi' (a special walking method in which the soles of the feet are close to the floor and the ankles are not raised).

, while singing hymns and praising his three children, namely Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susanoo.

He danced happily with the children at the front desk, while Izanami cried and sang behind the black gauze curtain. The plain white human figure folded repeatedly, showing how sharp the pain of abandonment was.

"The resentment was so deep later only because the initial encounter was so beautiful." Chu Zihang commented softly.

Gu Chen and Lu Mingfei looked at each other, they were cold-blooded people who understood art.
Chapter completed!