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

"You mean... after today's contact, we'll all go back to school and stay together again?"

Yue began to consider the feasibility of Xiaodeng's suggestion. From her perspective, it did provide an environment where she could chat with Su Shi. The swimming club also had showers available. The only things to worry about were whether others would agree and the issue of school security.

Besides, tomorrow is Saturday, and school is on holiday, so they don't need to worry about going to school. They can just go directly from Haneoka to Ring.

Upon hearing Xiaodeng's suggestion, Ai Yin immediately showed excitement, her eyes sparkling with anticipation. She readily agreed to participate: "Great! I've never had a nighttime dorm at school before. It feels so atmospheric, and we can all tell ghost stories and look at the stars together." Her tone was full of enthusiasm and anticipation, indicating that she was very interested in the suggestion.

Her eyes sparkled with curiosity and excitement, filled with anticipation for the evening's school camp activities.

Looking at the somewhat silly smile on Ai Yin's face, it seemed she could already imagine the joyful atmosphere and fun activities that evening.

What Aine didn't know was that they had already told the ghost story segment, and it included the legend of the Seven Mysteries of Haneoka.

"Since Aine has already agreed, Riki will probably be fine as long as there's a lamp. Let's go buy some matcha-flavored candy to keep her entertained. The only remaining problem is still Suze, right?"

After Yue counted the number of people, she found that the final problem still fell on Su Shi.

Anyway, let's send a message and ask first.

Thinking about it here isn't going to solve anything, so Yue decided to take out her phone and send the message about Xiaodeng wanting everyone to come to Haneoka for a training camp to her band's group chat, asking for everyone's opinions.

Li hope replied with a message not long after.

"Since it was brought by Deng, I have no objection."

Yue wasn't surprised that Li hope replied to the message, but the second person's reply was somewhat unexpected. Lena-chan actually sent an "OK" very quickly.

She had already thought of several ways to lure Lena to come, but before she could even use matcha snacks to tempt her, Lena actually agreed to what she asked for.

Seeing that everyone had finally agreed, Yue stared at the screen, waiting for the last person's reply.

Not long after, the familiar flower avatar appeared on the screen, and the message read: "Since everyone is going, I'll go too."

Seeing that Su Shi had accepted the proposal, Yue breathed a sigh of relief. Although nothing had been accomplished yet, it was good that some progress had been made.

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The holiday is over QAQ

When the stage begins: Chapter 77 The training camp under Popipa's tutelage

Subtitle: A Tribute to the Legendary Band Popipa

Although everyone has agreed to come to the school for a dormitory stay late at night, there is still a lot of preparatory work to be done in order to achieve this goal.

For example, Yue is currently researching the security guard's off-duty time.

After all, theoretically speaking, students shouldn't be allowed to stay here at night. If a club wants to stay together, they need to submit an application in advance. A stay together proposal like theirs, made on a whim, will definitely not be allowed by the school.

Therefore, she had to outwit the security guards. As for the student council? She had already spoken with senior Kozue, who promised not to stop them and even gave them the key to the rooftop.

In some ways, this seems to be a consistent free school spirit that started with Hina Hikawa, and it's hard to know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

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Evening arrived quickly. After the security guard finished cleaning the area and found nothing wrong, he left the teaching building.

Meanwhile, the band members, who had been hiding in the astronomy department with the lights off, secretly checked through the window and confirmed that the security guard had left the teaching building. They all breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, they quickly drew the curtains to block the outside view, making the classroom more secluded, before turning on the desk lamps to illuminate the room.

After confirming that the surroundings were safe, Yue said to everyone, "Alright, there shouldn't be any problems now."

"Shall we begin the 'dark hot pot' segment?"

Ai Yin held up an induction cooker and an iron pot that she had pulled out from somewhere and said to everyone.

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This afternoon, Aiyin suddenly asked everyone in the group if they wanted to bring some of their favorite ingredients for a "dark hot pot" session.

Yue originally wanted to stop the other person, since staying overnight at school was already serious enough, and adding the unauthorized use of electrical appliances would be even worse.

As a result, Xiaodeng and Lenai directly said in the group that they thought this was very interesting, and Lixi agreed. Su Shi also said that she would bring some ingredients.

Seeing that everyone had agreed to Aine's idea of ​​a "dark hot pot" (a type of hot pot restaurant), she thought of using equipment as a way to discourage Aine from doing so.

She asked Aine where she could get cooking utensils, since they were too big to carry in her schoolbag.

Yue still remembers the smug look on Aine's face when she said those words to her: "Leave all of this to me."

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Back to the present, looking at the induction cooker and matching pot that Ai Yin had borrowed from somewhere, she clearly remembered that Ai Yin had never even left the school.

At the time, she was puzzled as to why Aine hadn't prepared any ingredients when she suggested making a "dark hot pot," and why Aine hadn't asked her to bring anything back when she went out to buy things.

She had initially thought that Aine wanted to add some snacks that had been kept in the Astronomy Club, but now it seemed that Aine had probably already prepared for this.

Tsuki asked Aine with a puzzled look, "Aine-chan...where did you get all these things?"

“I borrowed them from the cooking club. They have a lot of ingredients, and I borrowed all my ingredients from them,” Ai-yin replied, her tone relaxed and confident.

Next, Aine pulled a thermal box from under the table. It was easy to guess that it contained the ingredients Aine had prepared.

Aiyin plugged in the induction cooker, filled the small iron pot with water, and after everything was ready, asked everyone:

"Did everyone prepare their favorite foods?"

"Okay! Ready."

Lena also pulled out a plastic bag from behind her, and judging from the sound, it seemed that there was another layer of packaging inside.

"At least it should still be food sold in supermarkets..."

Yue breathed a sigh of relief, secretly rejoicing. She was just afraid that Lenai would want to add some kind of matcha parfait, which would truly be a "dark" hot pot.

She hadn't eaten anything that night, and if she really added matcha parfait to it, she felt she'd probably be starving until tomorrow morning.

"Let's consider this as preparing some things for Lingmeng Yiling Yingqi Wu Jiu Shi Jiu Ba."

Lixi took a plastic bag out of her schoolbag and placed it on the table. Judging from the outline of the plastic bag, it had a very obvious square shape, probably from ingredients bought from the supermarket.

"Lixi seems to be quite reliable, so I can be pretty confident about tonight's cooking."

The fun of a "dark hot pot" lies in the fact that everyone only knows the ingredients they brought and not the ingredients of others. In this case, the hot pot meal is either cooked with normal ingredients and tastes pretty good.

Or perhaps everyone brought food they liked, but when they cooked it together in the hot pot, some strange reactions occurred, making the taste indescribable.

But now that Lena isn't messing around, Lixi and Sushi probably won't put any weird food in it, right? At least she hopes so.

"Yes, I'm ready too."

Xiaodeng held up the ingredients she and Yue had bought together after leaving school that afternoon. Due to the unspoken rules of the dark hot pot, Yue didn't look at what Xiaodeng had bought, but Xiaodeng's favorite foods weren't anything particularly strange, so she wasn't worried.

"I'm ready." Su Shi then took out the ingredients she had prepared.

After confirming that everyone had prepared the ingredients, Yue turned off the desk lamp, plunging the entire room into darkness, with only the sound of boiling water in the pot in front of her.

"Alright, everyone, let's get started! Although it's called a 'dark pot' hot pot, please don't add anything too strange."

The sound of ingredients being continuously added to the water echoed in the darkness, and everyone waited anxiously for the ingredients to cook.

"Glug glug... glug glug."

After about five or six minutes, estimating that the ingredients should be almost cooked, Yue said, "They should be almost done, right? Did anyone put anything in that was particularly hard to cook?"

No. x5

The others present responded in turn.

"Let's start fishing!"

As Yue finished speaking, everyone reached into the pot with their chopsticks, searching for ingredients like they were opening a blind box.

In the darkness, chopsticks danced in the pot, making a crisp sound. Everyone eagerly awaited what "delicious" food their chopsticks would "scoop up."

After everyone had retrieved their food, Xiaodeng reached out and turned on the table lamp. The gentle orange light illuminated the room again, allowing everyone to see the contents of their bowls.

"Waaah..."

Aiyin looked at the almond tofu in the bowl with a somewhat troubled expression.

It wasn't that she disliked almond tofu, but rather that she couldn't retrieve the salmon she had put in. This was a specialty salmon she had discovered when she went to the cooking club to rent equipment, and she had paid a hefty price to get it from the club president.

"This is... a cucumber? Why is it so big?"

Li Xi stared at the cucumber chunks, about two fingers wide, in the bowl, her head spinning. Shouldn't cucumbers for hot pot usually be sliced? How could such a large piece possibly cook through?

"Anyway, you can eat it raw."

Su Shi looked at the salmon slices in the bowl, clearly in a good mood, and even had time to tease Li hope.

Although it's highly likely that Su Shi put the cucumber there, Yue happened to see Su Shi cutting the cucumber when she came in just now. She thought Su Shi was preparing a side dish, but she didn't expect that she actually put the cucumber in there.

"Who put this beef in? Do you want some?"

Xiaodeng had just scooped up a large piece of beef, but she seemed to want to return it to the provider.

"Little Lamp, you can't. The point of a dark hot pot is that the things you fish out are unknown, that's what makes it interesting."

Yue stopped Xiaodeng in time and said that although she also wanted to eat the beef she had put in, she had to accept her loss. Since she hadn't gotten any, there was nothing she could do.

Rakuna, on the other hand, kept her head down and ate the buckwheat noodles in her bowl. It seemed that only Rakuna-chan had found what she wanted to eat.

"It seems everyone is quite restrained... no one put any weird ingredients in the hot pot, at least I haven't tasted any peaches yet."

Thinking of this, Yue recalled the first day of school at Shengxiang, when everyone gathered together and she found peaches in the soup made by Taozi.

At the time, she couldn't believe it until she checked it again and again. It looked like a peach and tasted like a peach. No matter how you looked at it, it should be a peach.

Finally, she grabbed Taozi and questioned her, and Taozi confessed that it was the result of their "dark hot pot" game in the kitchen.

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After a satisfying meal and cleaning up,

Ai Yin then enthusiastically prepared to begin the ghost story segment: "Hey, let's all tell ghost stories together!"

"No, we've already said that before, it's pointless to say it again."

Yue shook her head and rejected Ai Yin's suggestion, except for the fact that they had already told ghost stories when they went on their previous trip.

She also had another reason: Afterglow's predecessors had encountered some strange things at school, and it wouldn't be good to tell ghost stories here and attract something.

"We finally have a chance to stay together for a training camp, so we should do something together. We can't just sit here like this, it's so boring."