In music anime, band girls won't be alone.

However, the store manager's words caught the attention of Yamada Ryo, who was standing not far away. She immediately looked up at the store employee beside her.

"Excuse me, may I test play this bass?"

The shop assistant nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

Yamada Ryo took a deep breath, got into position, pinched the pick, and began to pluck the strings.

As the song ended, the store manager and the staff applauded in amazement.

"It's really amazing!"

"I feel that this bass can only truly shine in your hands!"

Hearing the praise from the store manager and staff, Yamada Ryo gave a smug "humph," but said that it was just a simple, casual strum.

Seeing Yamada Ryo's somewhat smug look, Shirakawa Sawa suddenly had some ideas.

He clapped as he walked up to Yamada Ryo, his gaze falling on the bass guitar in the other's arms.

"It's really amazing."

"And this bass is pretty good too."

Yamada Ryo looked up at Shirakawa Sawa without saying a word, but his eyes conveyed, "You really know your stuff."

Shirakawa Sawa then shifted his gaze to the other person's face, asking with a mixture of curiosity and innocence in his eyes,

"So, do you want to buy this bass?"

Yamada Ryo suddenly paused.

She wants to buy it.

She really wanted to buy it.

However, I was unfortunately short of money.

The store manager and staff members standing to the side also looked at Yamada Ryo with expectant eyes.

In their opinion, Ryo Yamada is absolutely worthy of this flagship bass.

For the shop owner, who loves musical instruments, she hopes to see these instruments, especially high-quality ones, demonstrate their value in skilled musicians.

Under the watchful eyes of the three, Yamada Ryo's smug expression faded, but he still appeared quite calm.

She handed the bass guitar she was holding to the shop assistant next to her, then stood up.

"Excuse me, I think I'm being summoned by the beef tenderloin rice bowl. Goodbye."

After saying that, Yamada Ryo turned and walked downstairs, leaving the store manager and employees dumbfounded.

Shirakawa looked at the store manager, raising his voice slightly.

"Then I'll buy this bass."

Upon hearing this, Yamada Ryo paused, but did not turn around, and continued walking downstairs the next second.

The store manager looked at Shirakawa Sawa with some surprise, at the boy who was still wearing the Xiuhua High School uniform.

"Um... I'm so glad you like this bass."

"But this bass guitar, without any accessories, costs nearly 300,000 yen..."

This amount was easily within Shirakawa's grasp, so he readily agreed and went to the first floor to pay.

The store manager rarely sees customers as straightforward as Shirakawa Ze, but since the business has improved significantly, she naturally doesn't say anything and even gives him some accessories as a bonus.

After paying, a system notification sounded in Shirakawa Ze's mind.

"Congratulations to the host for completing the mission!"

"The 5 points and 10 yen reward for the task have been credited to your account. The cash reward will be automatically deposited into your bank card!"

Carrying a guitar bag in one hand and a bass bag in the other, Shirakawa Sawa left the music store amidst the farewells of the store manager and staff.

He had only taken a couple of steps when he saw Yamada Ryo standing in the middle of the road staring at him.

Just as I expected.

Shirakawa Sawa walked up to Yamada Ryo, his eyes innocent and clear.

"How can I help you?"

Yamada Ryo expressionlessly pulled out two bass guitars and placed them on the bench next to him; his voice was also devoid of any emotion.

"These two basses cost 15 yen each when I bought them, and 17 yen when I bought them. Can I trade them for the one you have?"

Shirakawa placed his bass guitar on the bench, but then pressed it down with his hand. He couldn't let his guard down in front of the woman.

"I can give you this bass, but I have one condition."

A burning light immediately flashed in Yamada Ryo's eyes.

"Please give your orders, Your Majesty."

Volume 1: Chapter 4 Yamada Ryo said he would pay back the money.

Shirakawa Sawa sat down on the bench and looked at Yamada Ryo.

"My condition is simple: for the next two weeks, teach me guitar for an hour every afternoon after school."

Although the other person was a bassist, their guitar skills were quite good, and they were more than capable of teaching a complete novice like me.

The reason for making this request, besides wanting to get to know Yamada Ryo, was that Shirakawa Sawa wanted to try developing his musical skills.

After all, in this world, music reigns supreme.

For example, when he became a plagiarist, the memories of his past life that he relied on were actually a non-renewable resource; once they were used up, they were gone.

What should he do then?

Before acquiring the system, Shirakawa Sawa didn't have many ideas about music.

However, now that we have this music-related system, we definitely need to have a good understanding of the music industry in order to fully realize the potential of this system.

So when he met Yamada Ryo just now, Shirakawa Sawa felt that this was an opportunity.

Faced with Shirakawa Sawa's request, Yamada Ryo nodded without hesitation and reached for the bag containing the new bass.

Shirakawa continued to hold onto the bass bag, preventing her from taking it.

"I'm in Class A of Grade 1 at Xiuhua High School. Starting tomorrow, I'll be waiting for you in the classroom every afternoon after school."

"Then we went to the public music room."

"Let's exchange contact information, so we can stay in touch if anything comes up."

Yamada Ryo loosened his grip on the bass bag, took out his phone, and exchanged phone numbers with Shirakawa Sawa.

While exchanging contact information, Yamada Ryo saw the promotional posters on the restaurant entrance diagonally opposite through the reflective glass in front of him.

The sign reads: "[New Set Meal! Deep-sea Shrimp Tempura + Curry Omelette Rice!]"

Yamada Ryo's eyes flickered slightly, then he put away his phone and looked at Shirakawa Sawa.

Let's begin today.

Shirakawa Ze had completed his system task, and there was nothing else urgent to do. He nodded in agreement and stood up.

"Sure, let's go to school now."

Yamada Ryo immediately grabbed three bass guitars and slung them over his shoulder, then turned to look at the restaurant diagonally opposite.

"It's better to eat before practicing so you'll have more energy."

Shirakawa glanced at the time; it was just past 4:30.

He felt no hunger at all, and judging from the other person's expression, they probably wanted to get something for free. So he sat back down on the bench, looking at Yamada Ryo with clear eyes.

"If you're hungry, you can go eat first. I'll wait for you here."

Yamada Ryo looked at Shirakawa Sawa.

Aren't you coming with me?

Shirakawa Ze shook his head.

I'm not hungry right now.

Yamada Ryo stopped talking and just kept looking at Shirakawa Sawa.

After a moment of silent staring at each other, Yamada Ryo's expression suddenly turned pitiful, his eyes innocent and pure.

Shirakawa never expected his opponent to pull such a move. He was careless and failed to dodge, and his newly built psychological defenses crumbled instantly.

Years later, Shirakawa still thinks about that afternoon.

On a sunny day with a gentle breeze and occasional cherry blossom petals falling, he was ambushed on a bench in a pedestrian street by Yamada Ryo, who was 163cm tall, weighed 50kg, and was wearing a white shirt, a blue long skirt, and thick black pantyhose.

Then, taking advantage of his kindness, the other party got two free deep-sea shrimp tempura + curry omelet rice set meals, plus two cups of cola.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Yamada Ryo patted the victim, Shirakawa Sawa, on the shoulder with a serious expression.

"Don't worry, Xiaoze, I'll pay you back later."

Shirakawa looked at the other person's expression, which was like a bandit promising happiness to a kidnapped woman after the fact, and simply ignored his words. Then he took Yamada Ryo to the public music classroom of Shuka High School.

The public music classrooms are located on the fourth floor of the club activity classroom building. There are a total of eight music classrooms on the floor, four of which are open to all students free of charge, but there are time restrictions; they cannot be used after 7 p.m.

Two of the four public music classrooms are equipped with pianos, and students are playing them there at the moment.

The other two classrooms, which do not have pianos, are currently vacant.

After randomly entering an empty classroom, Yamada Ryo began teaching Shirakawa Sawa guitar.

Since Shirakawa Sawa had never studied this before, Yamada Ryo needed to start teaching him from the very basics.

To Shirakawa's surprise, Yamada Ryo showed no impatience whatsoever in the face of a complete novice like him.

An hour later, Yamada Ryo glanced at his phone, then picked up three bass guitars and...