Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

"Did you taste it?"

“You…” Xingge blushed, turned her head away, and wiped her mouth.

Only after they separated did they hear the sound of a phone taking pictures, and then they remembered that there seemed to be more than just the two of them in the living room of the house.

"Hongxia, delete the photos right now!"

"What? I've already sent it to my dad."

"What!?"

Yuma was initially smiling as he looked at the Ijichi sisters, but then he heard Nijika say, "It's okay, sister, I sent it to Aunt Kenzaki too."

"Hongxia! Retreat immediately!"

Hongxia was grabbed by Xingge and pressed onto the sofa. Youzhen took her phone, but all the messages she sent showed as read.

Xingge was doing well; her father didn't say anything, only asking where they were playing. However, Youzhen's mother had started bombarding him with messages, so he had to put his phone on silent.

"I want to go to the beach again! I want to take more pictures to send to my friends. Goto-kun, want to come with me?"

Kita pulled Pochi back to the room to change into their swimsuits.

"I'll go too, so as not to disturb the shop manager and Mr. Kenzaki."

"I'm going to take a nap. Call me when it's time for dinner."

"Wait, I want to go play on the beach too."

Hongxia broke free from Xingge's restraints, retrieved her phone from Youzhen's hand, and caught up with Kita.

Only Yuzhen and Xingge remained sitting on the sofa.

Yuma stretched her arms and felt her strength return, then tidied up the living room.

Are you still going out to play?

Chapter 23 Barbecue and Test of Courage

Nijika and Pochi buried Kita's body in the sand, leaving only his head sticking out.

"It's so refreshing! Goto-san, do you want to try it?" Kita sat up abruptly, brushing the sand off her body.

"Then let's bury Pochi-chan too."

However, after Nijika and Kita piled sand on Pochi's body, they noticed something different. Even though they used a thick layer of sand, the sand on Pochi's chest kept inexplicably bulging out.

"Then let's make Goto's chest flat."

"Agreed, it must be piled up flat."

With their eyes devoid of light, Kita and Nijika shoveled sand over and over onto Pochi. Pochi, seeing the resentment around them almost materializing, was too frightened to move.

"Alright, alright, stop bullying Pochi."

Xingge, who had been watching from the sidelines, chased the two women away after they finally flattened the sand on Boqi's body, and then dug Boqi out of the thick sand pile.

Yuma had just inflated a shark-shaped swimming ring when PA took it away. A little while later, Nijika and Kita, who were swimming in the sea, frantically swam ashore and grabbed Yuma's arm, saying there was a shark in the water. But Yuma only saw the shark-shaped swimming ring on the surface of the sea and PA, who had just emerged from the water holding the ring, with a smug smile.

Everyone played until evening before returning to the villa. Hongxia woke Liang, who was still sleeping, and then everyone took the prepared ingredients to the front yard and placed them on the table in the yard. Hongxia then led everyone to sit at the table and skewer the meat.

Yuzhen had already set up the barbecue grill and lit the fire inside the pizza oven. Then he went back inside and put various toppings on the pizza dough he had made, and pushed it into the pizza oven when the temperature was high enough.

You said you wanted to add pineapple?

Yuzhen held the third pizza that hadn't been put into the pizza oven yet. Looking at the can of pineapple in her hand, she thought for a moment and felt that there shouldn't be any problem, so she let her put the pineapple in before putting it into the pizza oven to bake.

The team worked together very efficiently. The meat skewers were almost finished. Kita took some photos and posted them on the band's official account. PA and Hoshika lit the charcoal, and then Nijika started grilling the meat.

Liang and Boqi put some vegetable skewers on the grill as well, but Hongxia couldn't keep up and some of them got burnt. The two of them started eating the burnt vegetables, talking about things like "barbecue contribution points".

Yuzhen saw this scene just as he returned with the baked pizza. He put the pizza on the table, cut it, and then put two slices on a plate and handed them to Hongxia.

"What is this 'barbecue contribution' that the two of them are talking about?" Yuzhen took over the grill from Hongxia so that Hongxia could eat something first.

"It seems to be their contribution to the barbecue. My brother and I did the most work, so we could eat as much as we wanted. My sister, PA, and Kita did the work of starting the fire and preparing drinks, so they could eat most of the food. However, they contributed the least, so they could only eat the burnt vegetables. That's about it."

"What's this? Just eat whatever you want." Yuzhen couldn't understand these two's thought process at all. "Oi, Pochi, Liang, the meat is cooked, come and eat."

Boqi and Liang received two large plates of meat from Yuzhen and Hongxia, their eyes filled with tears.

"Don't worry about the barbecue contribution points, just eat whatever you want and fill your stomachs first. And Hongxia, go and eat something, I'll take over the grill."

As soon as Yuzhen finished speaking, a warm piece of grilled meat was placed to his mouth, and he opened his mouth and ate it.

"Take a rest. You just baked a pizza, don't overwork yourself." Xingge said, picking up a piece of meat from her plate and feeding it to him.

Yuma flipped the meat on the grill, swallowed the meat in her mouth, and then looked at Hoshika and asked, "I'm okay, how's the pizza?"

"It's delicious, would you like some? I'll get you some." She said and then left.

Yuzhen looked down and picked up a skewer of grilled potato slices, eating it while putting the grilled meat skewers into the plate next to her.

"My sister just said she was going to get some pizza for my brother, and I said I'd just come and switch shifts with him." After a while, Hongxia came to Youzhen's side again and took the tools from his hands. "I'm already full, brother, go eat too."

"And you? Are you full?"

"I'm already full. I don't eat much. Brother, go eat now."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Yuzhen walked to the table, sat down, picked up a slice of chilled pizza with pineapple, and took a bite. Mmm, sweet and sour, it's quite delicious.

Kita ate while taking photos and uploading them, and even came over to take a group photo with Yuma and uploaded it to the band's social media account.

"Wait, if you upload this, won't we be criticized for putting pineapple on pizza?"

"It's okay, I didn't take a picture of that pizza."

"That's good."

Yuzhen put the remaining meat patties and vegetables in the refrigerator since he hadn't finished the food he had prepared. He planned to fry the meat patties for lunch tomorrow and make a vegetable salad with the vegetables.

After tidying up, everyone sat in the courtyard. The night breeze was cool and refreshing, and they chatted casually about things that interested them.

Yuma suddenly noticed that Kita and Ryo were no longer there.

"Where did Kita and Ryo go?"

"Of course, it's to prepare for the important nighttime event unique to the training camp!" Kita suddenly appeared behind Yuuma. She held up her phone, wearing a thin white dress, dressed as a ghost. "Then, let's begin the nighttime test of courage at the suburban villa!"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't treat other people's houses like haunted houses." Yuuma looked helplessly at Kita, who was holding his shoulder. "It's supposed to be a test of courage, but what's so scary about my villa?"

"Senior Liang and I have already made the arrangements."

"Don't decorate other people's houses like that," Yuzhen sighed. "Don't do it again. You two remember to clean it up afterward."

Yuzhen was willing to join in their antics, so she didn't say much.

"Why are you holding up your phone?" Hoshika noticed Kita's strange behavior.

"I'm going to start a live stream." Kita waved his phone, the screen still showing "not yet started." "If I stream using the official account of the End Band, I'm sure I'll get a lot of viewers. Can I start the stream?"

No one seemed to have any objection to the idea of ​​doing a live stream; even Boqi didn't object.

Kita started her live stream, but no one had entered the room yet. However, she accidentally clicked a small button on the edge of the screen, and it then showed that it was connecting to other streamers.

"What did you order?" Yuzhen and Xingge were confused by this.

"This is a random live stream connection; you'll be randomly matched with a streamer," PA explained, glancing at the screen.

"I see." Yuuma looked like he suddenly understood. "But how do you know so much?"

"I... just happened to have studied it."

They successfully connected via voice chat while they were still talking, and to everyone's surprise, the streamer they connected with was Hiroi.

In the picture, Hiroi is sitting in her room with a can of beer in her hand.

"Senior, what a coincidence. Ah, is everyone here? Why are you all together so late?" Hiroi looked puzzled, then noticed something amiss with the background behind them. "Did you guys go out to play?"

“Yes, we’re at the beach,” Yuma replied.

"That's so unfair! Why didn't you take me with you?"

"If you can drive, I might consider it next time."

"Of course I can."

Yuma was clearly incredulous when she heard Hiroi say that.

"It's a manual transmission, you know how to drive it?"

"Of course we can, Shima and I both drive."

Yuma felt discouraged and decided that he would start practicing as soon as he got back.

"When did you start live streaming?" Xingge ignored Yuzhen, who was discouraged by Hiroi, and was curious about why Hiroi was live streaming.

"It was Xiaoyin who said that live streaming could help our band build popularity. Shima and Eliza are both very busy, so I'm doing the live streaming myself." Hiroi said, taking another sip of beer. "I usually just drink and chat with everyone in the live stream, and it's been quite effective."

"I told you live streaming would work!" Kita said, starting to feel smug after hearing that his method had been effective.

"Speaking of which, what are you guys going to broadcast, seniors?"

"It was a test of courage organized by Kita, who thought he would broadcast it to help the band Jieju gain popularity."

Just as Yuma finished answering Hiroi's question, she saw what looked like a dark shadow flash past behind Hiroi.

What was behind you just now?

"What? What did you say, senior?"

Hiroi looked back but saw nothing, but the viewers in her live stream did see something that looked like a ghost, and the chat started scrolling.

What are you all talking about?

As Hiroi turned to check her phone, the strange black shadow darted out, and she immediately hid. Then her livestream went black, the reason given being that she was suspected of fabricating paranormal content to gain views.

Yuzhen and the others broke out in a cold sweat when they saw the video call with Hiroi disconnect on their phones.

"That was a forgery, wasn't it?"

"Probably."

The others sounded uncertain. Yuma took out her phone and called Shima to explain what had happened, and then everyone prepared to begin the test of courage.