It started with being hated by the girl in the band

It Starts from Being Hated by the Band Girl Author: Feuerbach No Outline

Summary:

[Male protagonist, harem, light comedy]

Whether we admit it or not, we have to say that being hated by others is a rather unpleasant thing.

Sometimes some people like you, but others may be unhappy with you.

This is inevitable.

In Nakagawa Nobuyuki's opinion, there is no one who is liked by everyone.

To be honest, there is no problem with that. He does have good friends... and bad friends.

And when things changed subtly...

For Nakagawa Nobuyuki, his "friends" seem to have not only forgotten their story, but also become distant from him due to various misunderstandings. What should he do?

And for the girls at this time, the guy in front of them is clearly the one they hate, the one they are unhappy with...but why do they always care about him so much?

Even though I hate him, it's hard to see him with other girls.

Even though I hate him, I feel extremely happy when I see him looking at me from the audience.

Even though it was annoying, his embrace was surprisingly warm.

...Is it annoying?

Or maybe I just care too much about it.

Chapter 1: Working Warrior Nakagawa Nobu

Japan, Tokyo.

Generally speaking, this is where various youth urban dramas take place.

Question: What stories usually happen here?

Things like, a childhood sweetheart, or a younger sister who becomes a cartoonist, or a tsundere blonde sister, or getting into a top high school based on academic ability, or having this or that youthful love story with a chaebol's daughter?

Of course, Nakagawa Nobuyuki couldn't answer this question.

If you don't need to work to support yourself, you may have a more personal experience of this sentence.

In the livehouse "Starry" where he works part-time, Nakagawa Shin was wiping the cups and sighing.

To explain why Nakagawa Nobuyuki, at such a young age, began to lament this kind of office worker style, we have to look at Nakagawa Nobuyuki's experiences from childhood to adulthood.

Ever since he could remember, Nakagawa Nobuyuki had lived in an orphanage on the outskirts of Tokyo. The director was young and strong in the early years, and with some donations from the society, Nakagawa Nobuyuki's life was not rich, but it was not very tight either, at least before he went to junior high school.

However, after graduating from junior high school, the director died of illness and the orphanage closed down, and Nakagawa Nobuya had to make a living on his own.

Therefore, after submitting a leave of absence application to the school affairs department of Yugaoka, Nakagawa Nobuya has already registered for various part-time jobs.

As long as the commute is not too far, you can basically find Zhonghe Xin working there, and he is also a popular working warrior.

However, he had never encountered a situation where he was asked by someone to go through the Steins;Gate to save someone.

At least not yet.

During more than a year of full-time work, Nakagawa Nobuyuki had a hard time just maintaining his living expenses, not to mention tuition fees. Therefore, Nakagawa Nobuyuki had to take a full year off from studying, but he was still able to put on an air of being a senior and teach others a lesson.

Other students probably rarely experience such a life.

At least, there are definitely not many children without parents since I can remember...except for some places like Sting○Cat and Happy○Guest.

Nakagawa Nobuyuki thought with some malice.

Moreover, the reason why Nakagawa Nobuyuki returned to school was actually because he had something to rely on.

Nakagawa Nobuyuki rubbed his fingers, and with a thought, a golden-pink progress bar appeared in front of him.

What is this?

According to the instructions for use that come with the panel, this progress bar can capture the "energy" of human emotions that overflow and radiate from the host. In return, the panel will feed back the by-products of digestion into reality.

As for the principles and origins - it is better to think about them after you become rich.

What is most useful to Zhonghe Xin is various precious metals such as gold and silver.

Before this, Nakagawa Nobuya had already obtained a lot of wealth through this panel. He only needed to pawn small amounts of it at the BRAND SHOP multiple times. Although it would not make him a wealthy man overnight, it would be enough to solve his urgent needs in the next few months.

And now, the reason why Nakagawa Nobuyuki opened the panel was because the progress bar had reached the last stage. According to Nakagawa Nobuyuki's own estimation, as long as he could ensure normal social interaction, this stage would be completed quickly.

Once he gets the things, he can sell them in the big dark room, and add the income from his part-time job to cover his rent for the next few months.

It just so happens that Starry goes to work at 7 o'clock every day, which does not squeeze out my afternoon as a member of the Homecoming Department. In this way, even after entering school, as the person in charge of the Homecoming Department, I don't have to quit my part-time job in the afternoon.

Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who was happily immersed in his own world, had just finished wiping the cup.

"Kita-san, this is our Livehouse."

The energetic voice came from the general direction of the door.

As soon as he saw the dancing golden hair, Nakagawa Nobuyuki knew who the person was.

"Oh, Nakagawa-san is here so early?"

Ijichi Kouka seemed to be in a good mood and greeted Nakagawa Nobuyuki.

"No, it's already seven o'clock, right?" Nakagawa Nobuyuki was a little embarrassed, but still greeted Hongxia.

Following closely behind Hong Xia was a girl with short blue hair and a somewhat cold temperament, carrying a bass on her back.

Starry's counter was in the most conspicuous position as soon as one entered, so Nakagawa Nobuyuki's eyes inevitably collided with the girl's, which seemed to have attracted some of the girl's attention.

"Hongxia, you guys go inside first." After the blue-haired girl said that, she slowly walked towards the counter carrying Bess's box.

Even though they looked away after just a glance, Nakagawa Nobuyuki was 100% sure that this unknown bassist was squinting at him from a distance, and his gaze was probably not very friendly.

Bang bang bang.

The counter was rapped with fingers.

"I'm Yamada."

After saying that, Miss Yamada closed her mouth, her eyes were calm and even a little indifferent, and she just looked at Nakagawa Nobuyuki.

Well, it looks like their behavior won’t be very friendly, Nakagawa added silently.

Although he didn't know how he had offended Miss Yamada, Nakagawa Nobuyuki still gritted his teeth and fulfilled his obligations.

"Welcome, Ms. Yamada. Would you like a drink, a ticket, or to rent a practice room?"

"...and he looks pretty similar."

“I hope you stay like this.”

Miss Yamada threw down these two incoherent words and walked away leisurely. She didn't care about Nakagawa Shin's strange and questioning look, and didn't even look back at Nakagawa Shin.

“What…? What a weird guy…” Nakagawa Shin shook his head and said in a low voice.

"It's no use praising me." Miss Yamada's cold voice floated from afar.

"No, I didn't mean to praise you at all. And how did you hear it from so far away?" Nakagawa Nobuyuki complained.

"That's what Liang is like."

Interrupting Nakagawa Nobuyuki's speech, the real owner of this exhibition hall officially appeared at this moment.

The girl was yawning, stretching, and even holding a box of strawberry milk in her hand. If it weren't for her mature face and temperament, few people would regard her as a real member of society.

"Manager Ijichi, good evening." Nakagawa Nobuyuki adjusted his posture, straightened his body, and greeted Ijichi Hoshige in a formal manner.

"Oh, good morning..." Xingge nodded, responding to Nakagawa Shin, "Ryo is indeed a little different from ordinary people, but he is still a good kid."

No, it's already seven o'clock... Do the people in the Ijichi family have no idea of ​​time?

As the first early bird pushed open the door today, Nakagawa Nobuyuki's work began.

If we talk about Fanxing's job, it is indeed like this, responsible for serving drinks and issuing tickets at the front desk.

Nakagawa Nobuyuki heard that at another larger LiveHouse "RiNG", employees are not only assessed on their musical instrument skills when they are recruited, but also have to be able to make coffee, latte art, tea, etc...

However, correspondingly, the income will be a little higher, and there are quite a few members of relatively well-known bands who work there in order to rent a practice room at a discount.

But unfortunately, this has nothing to do with Nakagawa Shin, whose musical skills are slightly miserable.

Having said that, this job is pretty good, I can watch performances for free.

Much better than when he worked part-time at a customer service company and a coffee shop.

I took out a second-hand Sony phone that I had bought from Mercari, took a few photos as a commemoration of the end of my full-time job for a year, and shared them on my blog.

Speaking of this, Nakagawa Xin had thought about attracting fans by operating his personal account and making money to subsidize himself through this monetization, but in today's Internet... it is unlikely to become popular without activities.

Haven’t you seen how many groups with dozens of people can’t come up with a hot spot to become popular, not to mention that Zhonghe Xin is just a person who has to work every day to pay the rent.

Not long after the post was sent, the motor of this old Sony phone vibrated, indicating that a like message had been pushed.

As Nakagawa Nobuyuki expected, it was indeed the guy with the strange name, "ローヒー·ターギ" (雄英塔吉).

At first, Nakagawa Nobuyuki thought it was a colleague or boss at his place of work who saw his daily work life and followed him. But after he left his job, this account continued to like his tweets steadily, and he was basically the first to like every time.

Moreover, this account doesn't have a single tweet, and only has a few followers, one of whom is Nakagawa Nobuyuki. Of course, Nakagawa Nobuyuki also tried to send a private message, but he never responded...

Nakagawa Nobuyuki still has some self-awareness. He says that he can gain such hardcore fans just by posting some daily things. No matter who believes it, Nakagawa Nobuyuki himself will definitely not believe it.

Anyway, tonight is my last night working full-time!

Chapter 2: The Beginner of Yuqiu

Fanxing's performance did not last until late at night. Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who had to go back to school the next day, left Fanxing after saying goodbye to Xingge.

Speaking of which, one is "Star Song" and the other is "Stars", there is actually some connection between them.

Tokyo at night is filled with all the elements of a cyberpunk city, at least the big screen and the bustling crowds are all there, plus there are sometimes uncles crying and holding their heads in their hands because they went bankrupt playing pachinko, and there are also bad guys appearing on the streets.

Fortunately, Nakagawa Nobuyuki had long been accustomed to Tokyo like this.

I just arrived home while thinking about all sorts of things.

He opened the rusty painted iron door at the entrance of the stairs, ignoring the creaking of the iron door hinges at the end of their life, opened the gray old door of his own house, took out the half-price lunch box left over by others, and finally sat on this gray and faded old sofa. The color and the dry feeling of the sofa reminded Nakagawa Nobuyuki that as a piece of free furniture in a low-rent house, he was already an old man from the Showa era.

Fortunately, Nakagawa Nobuyuki didn't have the chance to eat himself into a 300-pound human-shaped meat mountain, otherwise the old man would definitely have disintegrated in protest.

The only thing that is different from the previous few days is probably the [Emotional Progress Bar].

When Starry saw it, it seemed quite far from being full, but now it is already full... Who provided so much dissipated emotional energy at once?

...If anyone wants to say anything, I guess it's only Ms. Yamada, right? After all, today, I really haven't encountered any other key moments that can explode so much emotional energy.

And I didn't know Yamada Ryo before... In that case, isn't this completely disliked?

What a weird person...

However, after only a brief contact, Nakagawa Nobuya dared to say that Yamada was indeed a complete weirdo. No matter what the reason was for him to hate someone, it was not unreasonable for this guy.

Since the progress bar is full, I might as well exchange the things and pawn them in the big black room in a couple of days. This way, after paying the tuition I owe, I will still have some money in my hand, and I will feel more confident.

Thinking of this, Nakagawa Nobuyuki closed his eyes and focused his attention on his palms. As the [Emotion Progress Bar] rapidly decayed, the originally empty palms slowly gained a sense of reality.

After about ten minutes, a golden ring that looked very valuable appeared in Nakagawa Nobuyuki's hand. The carvings on it looked very delicate from a distance, but when you looked closely, you could see that it was almost like one generated by AI, with a figure that looked like neither human nor ghost.

Fortunately, Zhonghe Xin didn't care much about this. After all, this thing would be pawned someday, so it didn't matter whether it looked good or not. Zhonghe Xin couldn't measure the purity, so he would have to ask the pawn shop to test it. However, there was no precedent of precious metals with very low purity that Zhonghe Xin materialized.

After putting the ring in a proper place, Nakagawa Nobuyuki began to eat while counting the things he needed to bring to school tomorrow, such as his previous leave of absence and return to school certificates, his resident card, an envelope containing tuition fees, and, oh yes, a brand new school uniform that he had never worn.

The old stubborn people in Yugaoka don't recognize the My Number IC card, they only recognize the resident certificate...so Nakagawa Nobuyuki had to spend an extra 300 yen to print a resident certificate. They are really hateful Showa-style old people.

Starting tomorrow, I hope life in school won’t be boring—at least it’ll be more interesting than working a part-time job, right?

With such inexplicable hope, Nakagawa Nobuyuki closed his eyes and slowly fell into a deep sleep.

Silent all night.

The next day, Nakagawa Nobuyuki woke up to the sound of car horns outside the window.

"...What time is it?"

The hazy vision gradually became clear, and the hands were just about to point to eight o'clock, with still a few minutes before the bell rang.