After dropping out of school, I chose to join a girls' band.

After dropping out of school, I chose to join a girls' band.

Author: Tentacle Monster A-Ge

Introduction:

Satsuki Hina, a member of the 102nd generation of Seisho, was defeated in the audition.

After leaving Shengxiang, I thought I could stay away from the stage.

To be able to live a normal life as a female high school student

Little did they know that they had stepped onto an unexpected new stage.

…………

Hinasaki, who had returned to the stage, roared...

"Pierce me with your brilliance!"

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Newbie author mygo, Ju Shaoge

Before the stage opens: The prologue fails, so he drops out of school.

"thorn"

The sound of metal scraping against fibers rang in Hinasaki's ears.

The blade sliced ​​across the ropes that held her cloak in place.

The cloak and buttons fell to the ground, and Hinasaki collapsed to her knees, utterly exhausted.

Her opponent, Momoko Kurosawa, the top student of the 102nd generation of Seisho, did not come to the center of the stage to announce position zero, but instead extended her hand to her.

"Are you alright, Yue-chan?"

The moon looked up at the other person, the stage lights focused on them, but the other person shone even brighter than those lights.

"Hondang にまぶしい (really shining)"

Yue grasped the outstretched hand, stood up from the stage, and forced a smile onto her face.

"Congratulations, Momo-chan, you really... shine."

"Moon, you are shining brightly too."

After confirming that Yue was alright, Momo slowly walked to the position zero marker and planted her longsword.

"Position zero!"

"Congratulations, Momoko Kurosawa! Congratulations on your victory in the audition. What kind of stage would you like to see?"

The giraffe appeared on the stage and asked Peach a question.

"I want... everyone to shine together! To glow together! To achieve a Holy Flying Festival that surpasses our predecessors!"

As the wish was made, the light shining from Momoko Kurosawa transformed into a sharp sword that pierced through Hinasaki Tsuki.

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Wow!

Hinasaki woke up with a start. The morning sunlight streamed into the room through the half-open curtains. She looked at her phone, which showed the time as 8:00 AM.

"If you're still at Shengxiang High School, getting up at this time will likely get you chased and scolded by the dorm supervisor and class monitor, and you'll have to write a long, scathing self-criticism."

Thinking to herself, Yue slowly got out of bed, carefully found her headband among the pile of review materials on her desk, tied her chest-length hair into a ponytail, put on a tracksuit, and began her physical exercise for the day.

Ever since that audition, she has developed a fear of the stage, and even feels afraid to stand on it.

Unable to stand on the stage, she had no choice but to leave Shengxiang. Of course, the reason given to the public was that she wanted to focus on her studies, so she chose to transfer to Yuqiu.

However, due to her long-term dedication to the performing arts, her grades in subjects other than Chinese, history, and politics did not meet Yuqiu's admission standards.

Fortunately, the principal was understanding and gave Yue a year to review, processed her leave of absence, and allowed her to take the entrance exam next year. Her fate would be decided based on the exam results.

The half-hour physical exercise ended quickly, and after a quick clean-up, I began my morning review.

However, only a short while later, Yue dropped her pen, covered her head with her hands, and cried out.

"Ugh! Reading is so boring!"

She glanced at her phone; almost two hours had passed since she started studying.

"It's been two hours already! That's enough for today's review! It's time to go out and have some fun. It's also very useful to learn about the daily interests and activities of ordinary high school students."

With this in mind, Yue used the trending information collected on her phone to find the most popular activity among high school students—forming a girl band.

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Wearing a mask and a baseball cap, Yue stood in front of the live house circle, watching the female high school students coming and going after school, and sighed inwardly.

"Weren't high school idol groups all the rage a few years ago? How did they turn into girl bands so quickly? That's probably one of the reasons 'Sweet Pleas' disbanded."

"cry...crychic? Spring Shadow?"

Yue glanced at the posters by the door; most of the bands were covering songs by other bands.

Only this band, Crychic, has its own original songs.

Yue silently made a note of the band. During a break in the show, she opened her phone and searched for "crychic" as the keyword to find the girl band. She quickly found the band's homepage.

With curiosity in mind, Yue put on her headphones and clicked on a rehearsal video on the homepage.

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The chestnut-haired girl on stage exchanged a few words with her companions before returning to their seats.

A girl with short, grayish-purple hair, resembling that of a small animal, picked up the microphone and said in an extremely soft voice, "Hello everyone, we are Crychic, and the piece we will be playing is 'Spring Shadow'."

Yue stood below the stage watching the five radiant girls on stage, even though she had already heard their rehearsal version.

But now, the girl named Deng's soft-spoken manner during her self-introduction made her nervous.

As soon as the blue-haired keyboardist pressed the first note, the entire band sprang into action, like a finely wound clockwork mechanism being started.

The sounds of drums, guitar, and bass followed closely behind the keyboard, and the girl called "Light" slowly picked up the microphone, her beautiful singing voice reaching everyone.

"悴んだ心ふるえる灶目色し (The heart is full of haggard and the eyes are trembling)"

"The world's servants (I'm alone in this world)"

……

"The world where the sun shines"

As the song reached its climax, the entire performance hall crumbled before Yue's eyes, and the world was reconstructed into the familiar underground theater she knew.

She was no longer wearing her usual casual clothes, but rather her revue attire. The only difference was that she was no longer wearing the buttoned cape.

The clear, melodious singing echoed throughout the underground theater. Yue looked in the direction of the sound and saw the five members of Crychic standing on the other side of the stage.

Yue stood frozen in place, watching the five people shining brightly as they gave it their all.

"It's so bright (it's really shining)"

The five members of Crychic shone like sharp blades, piercing Hinasaki once again.

In the moments before she lost consciousness, she heard that familiar giraffe ask her...

Does it sparkle?

Yue was brought back to her senses by the applause and cheers of the people around her. She looked around and saw that she was still in the Circle performance hall. The Crychic group on stage had finished their performance and were packing up their instruments while receiving cheers from the audience.

There was no underground theater, no giraffe figure, and no sword piercing her; all that remained was the tears that had unknowingly streamed from the corners of her eyes.

"They...are really dazzling."

—Annotation dividing line—

Sweet Pleas, from Revue Starlight, is a large idol group of 110 members. Among them are Kazue Otonashi from Rinmeikan and Akiko Umi from Siegfried Middle School (Little Fei-ge).

Before the stage opens: Chapter One - Entering Yuqiu

April temperatures are like Schrödinger's cat; until the breeze touches your body, you never know whether it's a biting cold wind or a gentle spring breeze.

Cherry blossoms quietly bloom during this time of alternating warmth and cold, and the start of the school year often coincides with the blooming of cherry blossoms. When people see the blooming cherry blossoms, they realize that it is time for new students to enroll again.

After a year of arduous and rigorous review, in this spring when cherry blossoms are in full bloom, Yue finally fulfilled her wish and entered Haneoka's campus.

Today she wore a light gray suit-style top, a green plaid skirt paired with dark green knee-high socks, and round-toed leather shoes. Her waist-length hair cascaded down her back, all of which exuded youthful vitality.

But all her good mood vanished when she learned that although she had passed the exam, she still had to start from the first grade.

The school's official explanation was that if I took a year off, I could only start from the first year, but in reality, wasn't that just repeating a grade?

Unable to resist, Miss Yue had no choice but to accept the fact that she had to repeat a grade, and she searched for her name on the class assignment list.

"Let me see... Class 1-A? Class A again? Do we have to go to the auditorium for the opening ceremony first?"

After finding her class's seat in the auditorium as arranged by the school, Yue sat alone in the last row, closed her eyes, and prepared to listen to the sleep-inducing speeches given by the principal and various student representatives.

"Um...is this seat taken? May I sit here?"

A familiar and adorable voice, like that of a small animal, woke Yue. She opened her eyes and saw short, purplish-gray hair and red eyes filled with a hint of fear reflected in her azure gaze.

"So cute!"

Yue stared blankly at the somewhat familiar girl in front of her for a moment, then shook her head. "No one's here. You can sit here, Light."

"Huh?" Deng paused for a moment, then carefully sat down next to Yue. "Do we know each other?"

"crychic, Spring Shadow is a great song, I'm a fan of yours."

With a smile, Yue said something that was terrifying to the lamp.

Upon hearing "crychic" and "Haruhi Kage," Takamatsu Akari visibly became gloomy and melancholic. "Th... thank you for liking 'crychic.'"

"So something really happened?"

Yue noticed that Deng's condition seemed abnormal, and all the questions she was about to ask were left unsaid.

"Let me introduce myself. I am Hinasaki Tsuki. Like you, I am in Class A of the first year. Please take care of me in the future."