The next day.
A prestigious school in Tokyo had been temporarily rented by the film crew for shooting.
At this moment, Tendou was engaged in his first scene of filming.
The handsome guy had the female lead pinned against the wall in a kabedon pose, then delivered lines like "Woman, you've successfully caught my attention" and such.
Akashi and the others received the news and accompanied Aida Kagetora to invite Tendou.
They had just stepped down from Akashi's family's luxury Lincoln and walked into the film set when they heard these cringeworthy lines.
Deep black lines involuntarily appeared on their foreheads.
What made them feel incredibly frustrated was that the female students from the school who were watching were all screaming frantically with lovestruck expressions.
"Does Tendou only film this type of TV drama?"
Just hearing those lines made Aomine's fists unconsciously clench.
Momoi watched with great interest, nodding: "Mm-hmm, Tendou only acts in idol dramas."
"According to his agent, your biggest selling point is that bewitching face of yours. So let's be direct—don't think about winning acting awards, just be handsome and that's it."
This was also Tendou's agency's positioning for him.
He filmed nothing but melodramatic youth romance dramas, and his roles were all very similar. Relying on an irreproducible noble aura, every character Tendou played was a wealthy young master.
Yeah, if this were set in China during this period, it would basically be the pretty boy character type.
Playing roles like Demon Emperor, Immortal Venerable, Hidden Dragon King, and such characters.
Aomine declared he would absolutely never watch such brain-dead dramas, but female viewers loved them.
And female viewers were currently the market's biggest consumers.
After finishing the first segment, Tendou got a chance to rest.
The moment he sat down, assistants immediately swarmed over to serve him.
Some fanned him, some massaged his feet, some brought him tea and water... living the high life.
Even the director had to say "good work" when he finished a scene.
No choice—although this guy had no talent or virtue, his popularity was genuinely high, making him the biggest star on the crew.
Last night the female lead had wanted to discuss the script with him, hoping to leech off his popularity.
With the director's permission, Aida Kagetora led his group over.
"Tendou..."
"Oh, it's you guys. Why did you all come?"
Tendou put on his sunglasses, lay back in his chair, holding a glass of watermelon juice.
"Why did we come? Such a big incident happened—don't you know anything about it?"
"I know. The useless uncle wants to commit seppuku, right?" Tendou clicked his tongue in wonder, then said to Aida Kagetora: "Although you're a useless uncle abandoned by your wife, yesterday's performance was quite cool."
Enough already!
Calling him useless and worthless—he admitted he wasn't great with women, was somewhat slovenly in middle age, and it was true his wife had run off, but he definitely wasn't useless!
Aida Kagetora roared internally.
On the surface, he could only suppress his urge to beat up Tendou and extend the invitation.
"Tendou, you should understand what we need you for this time."
"I formally invite you to join our Dragon Slayer Sword team!"
"What Dragon Slayer Sword team?"
"The holy sword that slays evil dragons—I just came up with the name. Cool, right?"
Hearing this, Tendou looked at the father-daughter pair with a mocking expression.
This father-daughter duo's naming ability was definitely on the same level—absolutely terrible.
"Hey, what do you mean? Why are you looking at me and dad like that?" Aida Riko felt offended.
"Nothing." Tendou waved his hand. "I accept your invitation. I'm also very interested in Jabberwock's Nash, and joining your team is no problem, but..."
"But what?"
"I just joined the film crew and I'm the male lead of this production. If I don't film, the crew's daily losses would be quite substantial. You understand what I mean?"
Tendou was afraid he wouldn't understand and deliberately emphasized his point.
Aida Kagetora looked troubled and said seriously: "Regarding this matter, I'll plead with the director. This is a major issue concerning Japanese basketball's dignity—I believe he'll understand."
"No, you still don't get it." Tendou gave him a look and said with a straight face: "Even if the director agrees to your request and lets me go play basketball with you, the crew will still have their filming schedule halted due to my absence."
The father-daughter pair had an ominous premonition. "So?"
"Which means the crew will ultimately still stop filming because of me. This wouldn't be good for my image—quite bad actually. I'm a professional actor."
Damn!
This time Aida Kagetora understood—this little bastard was asking for money! Whether the crew stopped filming or not, he didn't care at all.
But he was the one asking for a favor, having boldly declared yesterday that he'd commit seppuku if they lost.
When he said it at the time, he indeed felt refreshed and received countless fans' praise, but afterward, thinking about having to die if they lost, he inevitably regretted his impulsiveness.
After all, the bet was his own life!
He really wanted to turn around and leave, letting the Generation of Miracles and Black-Fire duo figure it out themselves.
But thinking of Tendou's god-killing performance in the national tournament, he couldn't move his feet.
"So how much money do you want?"
"Money? How can you talk about money? That's vulgar, isn't it? This is compensation for damage to my image."
Tendou quickly corrected him, then said righteously: "If I hadn't signed a contract, I'd rather give up this TV drama to fight this revenge match with you for free. Unfortunately, I've already signed the contract."
"Once I've signed a contract, I have to be responsible to the production company. This isn't just about me alone. You understand?"
Understood—wasn't this just wanting to be a prostitute while building a memorial arch?
"So how much image damage compensation do you want?"
"From now until the revenge match starts, there are about 6 days left. These 6 days I'll definitely fully cooperate with team training."
"As for me, my current fee is 3 million per episode. But since we're acquaintances and this is for Japanese basketball's dignity, I'll give you a discount—1 million per day, 6 days total is 6 million. OK?"
I O your damn K!
3 million per episode—do you think you're a first-tier actor?
Besides, even if your fee is 3 million per episode, you can't film one episode per day, right?
Aida Kagetora felt Tendou was asking for an outrageous amount.
However, Tendou wasn't lying this time.
His current fee was indeed 3 million per episode, in Japanese yen.
And this type of youth romance drama really wasn't difficult to film. The originally planned 12-episode TV drama content could be completed in a month, which worked out to about 1.5 million per day. Tendou's offer of 1 million per day was actually a friendship price.
After hearing the details from his agent and learning that Tendou really wasn't lying, Aida Kagetora instantly felt like the sky was falling.
Looking at Tendou's face again.
This was unreasonable—how old was this kid, yet he was worth 1.5 million per day?
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