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

"It's the hope of standing tall."

Su Shi smiled and explained Li hope's name to Ai Yin.

"Cough cough cough..." Li hope coughed up the mouthful of water she had just drunk. Her gaze was fixed on Su Shi, but Su Shi just smiled and did not show any guilt or apology.

"Isn't it just rikki?" Aine said with a smile after hearing how Riki's name was written.

"Huh?" Li hope frowned when she heard the nickname Ai Yin had given her. "What kind of name is that?"

Ai-yin ignored Riki's displeasure and continued talking to herself.

"It sounds like ukki, but using ukki as a band name doesn't seem like a good idea."

Finally, Riki couldn't stand Aine's attitude any longer. She suddenly stood up from the table and said, "This guy's attitude is really annoying."

"You can't say that about people," Su Shi tried to mediate.

But Yue always felt that Su Shi's words clearly had a inflammatory tone, but upon closer examination, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with them.

"This band is definitely doomed..."

Watching Aine and Riki's conversation, Peach felt incredibly worried about the band's future.

"You're meddling in too many things."

Despite saying that, Lixi still sat back down on the stool, looking at Aine with dissatisfaction.

Seeing the tense atmosphere on the table gradually escalating and sensing the growing conflict, Yue had no choice but to speak up and suggest, "How about we discuss this issue another time?"

Seeing that everyone was not satisfied with her suggestion, Ai Yin decided to throw the problem to everyone, "But the band name is very important, right? Everyone, please give us some suggestions."

"Well... I don't have any good ideas at the moment."

Su Shi, who was eager to revive Crychic, couldn't directly say that he would name the band Crychic, so he could only make excuses that he hadn't thought of a good name.

"Does Natsuki-chan have any good suggestions? Of course, if Peach-chan has any suggestions, please feel free to suggest them as well."

“Starlight?” When Yue’s name was mentioned, the first thing that came to mind was Seisho’s classic plays.

"Huh? This name feels a bit too ordinary, and it doesn't really sound like a band's name. It sounds more like the name of a live house."

"Well, I don't have any better ideas. What about you, Peach?"

Peach shook her head. Her mind was filled with all sorts of ideas, but they were all about adapting the band's story into a stage play.

As for naming the band, she did have some good ideas, but she felt it would be more interesting to let this unknown band continue to develop.

At this point, Peach gradually realized the joy that the giraffe usually enjoyed watching them perform on stage, and that no one would interfere with their development on such a stage.

Seeing that neither Su Shi nor Yue offered any suggestions, Aine turned her gaze to Riki, "Then... what about Riki? Do you have any good ideas?"

"Huh? Who's Riki?" Lixi was very unhappy with the nickname Aine gave her.

“rikki is just rikki!” Aine explained.

"What nonsense is that..." Li hope was furious.

"Moon, Su Shi, why don't you two talk about Riki too?" Aine tried to pull the two onlookers into the argument.

Caught in the crossfire, Yue laughed and said, "I think the name Riki is really cute, don't you think, Riki-chan~"

"Moon, don't side with Aine!" Riki seemed a little flustered when Moon called out to him like that.

“I also think Riki is pretty good~” Su Shi also took the opportunity to kick him while he was down.

Watching the band members bickering with each other, Gao Songdeng, who had been silent until now, smiled slightly. This atmosphere of friends arguing and bickering together was exactly what she had been looking forward to.

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"Let's keep in touch next time~" Ai Yin waved goodbye to Yue, Li hope and the others. She and the Su family went in a different direction from the others.

"We haven't come to anything today," Li hope said, looking at the stars already twinkling in the sky.

"Not entirely, at least we came up with a nickname for you, Riki~" Yue teased Riki while chewing on a matcha candy she had just bought from the convenience store.

"I told you not to call me by that name! It's all that guy's fault for giving me that nickname." Li hope was clearly still not quite accepting of the nickname Ai Yin had given her.

Deng's smiles were practically nonstop tonight; there haven't been any group activities like this since Crychic disbanded.

The last time we went on a trip together, it was more about having fun, and the atmosphere wasn't like it is today.

"Everyone's back to how they used to be," said the lamp. "If only things could stay that way."

Lixi shifted her gaze from the lamp to the bustling crowd on the street. She stopped her outstretched hand and withdrew it with a hint of hesitation. Perhaps she felt that she shouldn't speak her mind in this place.

"Lamp, let's go," Lixi said to Lamp.

"Okay, see you tomorrow." Lamp waved goodbye to Moon and Peach.

Because Yue needs to return Peach first, she needs to travel in the opposite direction for a while, so she can't travel with Deng and the others.

Seeing that all the band members had left, Yue said helplessly to Momo, "Just say what you have to say. It'll be hard to keep it bottled up like this."

"Huh?" Momo looked at Yue in confusion. "I really don't have anything to say."

Yue looked at Taozi suspiciously, and found that the other party really didn't seem to have anything to say. "I thought that after you saw what happened today, you would have a lot to say, after all, this band is in such a bad state right now."

Peach shook her head. "I think this band is pretty good, except that right now everyone has their own agenda... they don't have a clear goal... and their positions haven't been finalized..."

As Peach spoke, her voice grew softer and softer. Now, upon closer examination, she realized that her nameless band had quite a few shortcomings.

"In short, my opinion differs from Yue's. Judging from tonight's performance, the atmosphere within the band is quite good. I believe that as long as we work together more, things will only get better."

"Then I can only hope that your kind words will come true."

As the two walked along, they passed a parking lot. A rustling sound came from the grass in the roadside green belt, like the sound of wind blowing through the treetops, faint but continuous.

Yue stopped and turned her head to scan around, looking for the source of the sound. The parking lot next to her and the Space sign on the building behind it looked a bit worn, as if no one had taken care of it for a while.

Finally, they discovered some movement in the grass of the green belt, as if something was moving back and forth among it.

If this were a supernatural movie set, then the next plot would either involve the two being haunted by ghosts or dying because they were curious enough to look at an unknown creature in the bushes.

But this was a band's anime filming location. Suddenly, a white cat jumped out of the bushes, shook its body, and the leaves on its body scattered. The white cat turned its head, and its heterochromatic eyes, one yellow and one blue, scanned the two of them with a wary look.

Just as the white cat was about to jump away again, a rustling sound came from the bushes again, and a girl came out of the bushes and easily picked up the white cat on the ground.

The girl, like a white cat, had heterochromatic eyes; one eye was a deep yellow, while the other shone with a bright blue light. Her unkempt white jellyfish-like hair hung down her neck, and her slightly loose clothes covered her slender body, revealing her smooth right shoulder.

Peach looked at the cat being held in the other person's arms, then at the girl, and said blankly, "Moon...don't you think they look alike?"

Yue nodded and called out to the other person.

"Lena?"

Yue seemed to recognize the girl in front of her.

"You know her?" Peach asked curiously.

Yue nodded and said, "I have fed them."

"Feeding?" Peach heard a word that seemed inappropriate to be used to describe a person.

"Yeah, Lena is a celebrity in Ring. Just order her a matcha parfait and you can pet her as much as you want." Yue reached out and touched the air, as if recalling the feel of her hand.

"Why did you suddenly think of feeding her?" Peach asked.

"This is a long story. Do you remember when I went to the Siegfried Conservatory of Music once before?"

Peach thought back for a moment and remembered that there had indeed been such a thing before.

"I remember, wasn't that time because of the festival? How come this Renai-chan is connected to Siegfried?"

"Peach, you've never been to Siegfried, so you probably only know the names of the noble emperors there, but you've never heard their voices."

"Yes, you were the one who went on the international exchanges before. After you left, it was Sister Kui who went. I have never participated in any off-campus exchanges. The teacher said that if I went, people might have a bad impression of Shengxiang."

Peach was completely oblivious to her own shortcomings and showed no remorse whatsoever when she said those words.

"I'll tell you about what happened in Siegfried later when I have time. In short, Momo, all you need to know is that Rana's voice sounds a lot like Stella Takachiho, one of the noble rulers of Siegfried."

Peach nodded, and without asking any further questions, turned her gaze back to Lena.

The more carefully Taozi observed, the more she felt that Lena in front of her was actually the incarnation of that white cat. She had read Chinese online novels before, which mentioned that animals could transform into human form through cultivation.

Because of the existence of a talking giraffe, Peach firmly believed in this theory and thought that as long as the giraffe continued to cultivate, it would eventually be able to transform into human form.

"What's going on? Is this guy even more powerful than a giraffe?" Peach wondered to herself.

Yue was unaware that Momoko, standing nearby, had already identified Rakuna as a cat demon who had transformed into a human.

She looked at the cat in the girl's arms and asked, "Rakuna-chan, are you here to feed the cats today?"

"I wanted to come back and visit Grandma's shop," Lena said, stroking the cat she was holding.

Yue turned her head to look at the slightly dilapidated building. She had heard from Ms. Rinrinko that this used to be a famous live house, and the era of the Big Girls band could be said to have started here.

When the Stage Opens: Chapter Thirteen - Li hope's Team Spirit Cultivation Plan

“Space?” Yue read out the name on the sign.

Lena nodded, and said in a low voice, "Yeah, Space, Grandma's shop, I thought it would always be there."

Are all girls this heavy these days? Even though I've already seen Takamatsu Akari's promise to the band for life, when I hear Rakuna talking about Space, I still feel like she's a bit out of touch with the average high school student.

Fortunately, compared to Takamatsu, Lena's personality is more like a cat.

For a cat, worries probably don't linger in its heart. Rakuna stretched out her hand to Yue, "Matcha! I want some."

Peach looked at Lena in surprise and exclaimed, "This child's sense of smell is too sensitive! She can smell the matcha candy on Yue from so far away."

Yue took out the matcha candy she had just bought from her pocket. Lena couldn't wait to run over with her cat in her arms, opening her mouth in anticipation of the matcha candy's taste.

"Here you go~" Yue smiled and put the matcha candy into Lena's mouth. Watching her enjoy the taste of the candy, Yue's mood also became pleasant.

Lena waved and flashed a bright smile. "Interesting woman! Goodbye!" She hugged the cat and left gracefully, leaving Yue and Momoko on the street.

"She's as free as a cat," Yue sighed, watching Renai run away.

Peach, watching Lena walk away, said, "You're lucky she's not a member of your band, otherwise I think your band would have disbanded even faster."

Yue asked Taozi very sincerely, "Is there any way to salvage this? I have no experience in organizing or leading."

Momoko asked, "Tsuki-chan, do you really like this band that much?"