Gravity Girl Shining

"Hehe, I studied oil painting back then, and my artistic attainments are quite good. I'd like you to appreciate my works when I have the chance."

After receiving the praise, Chihaya Aine started to get carried away again. Uehara Hibiki knew it very well. Her so-called oil painting level... was probably just the C chord level. After all, it was just one of Aine's many hobbies that she gave up halfway.

Then, Chihaya Aine, feeling flattered by the praise, quickly began her own cheesy manipulation, photoshopping everyone's profile pictures directly onto the design drawing...

Shiina Riki leaned over to take a look and frowned.

"Although you didn't take the center position this time...but it feels like your style is different from ours?"

“This is called artistic expression!”

Chihaya Aine argued unconvincedly, tapping the screen with her fingers, zooming in and out.

"And it's not just me, there's Xiang too. Look at this angle..."

"It looks like Hibiki and Aine are a pair, and we are just the supporting characters."

Nagasaki Suyo, for once, was sarcastic. She glanced at the exaggerated graffiti and saw that Aine had even photoshopped angel wings onto herself. She felt it was pointless to even criticize her. How could she argue with Aine over something like this? It was too childish.

“I think it’s better to keep it simple.”

"Eh!"

Chihaya Aine drawled out her tone, like a kitten whose snacks were taken away.

"You're too conservative! This is our first solo performance! Tomorin, what do you think?"

"I……"

Seeing Deng's bewildered look, Uehara Hibiki decisively interrupted Aine's plan to use Deng as a shield.

"Forget it, Aine. Let's not put our heads on the first poster. Just the band name will be enough. We can find professionals to take photos later if needed. This poster is for promotion at the Livehouse, after all, so it doesn't need anything too fancy. How about this: a solid color for the background, and you can add some small elements to the corners if you want."

"Since it's Xiang's request, let's do it."

Chihaya Aine regretfully swiped the screen and began her own operation. Just over ten minutes later, a concept art appeared. Against the original gradient blue background, the background was dotted with tiny silver stars, like the Milky Way.

The corners of the poster are dotted with stars in everyone's representative colors, and in the middle is the bold artistic font of MyGo. The six members of the band are all shining stars.

Shiina Tatsuki moved closer to the screen and this time gave a sincere compliment.

"It feels pretty good."

"Right, right!"

Chihaya Aine regained her energy.

"Actually, I've come up with a promotional plan! We can shoot a short video, starting with a rainy night scene—"

"Stop."

Shiina Riki held her shoulders.

"Leave this part to the professionals. We'll complete it later when we sign the contract with the firm. Don't worry about it now."

Chihaya Aine's talent must be restrained in order to produce some brilliant results, otherwise it will easily go astray.

Soon, Aine's work was unanimously recognized by everyone. When Tatsuki Shiina sent these to senior Rinrinko, Chihaya Aine also released the concept drawings through the band account.

After these days of fermentation, the number of MyGo's fans has reached more than 2,000, which can be said to be a great start. If this trend continues, it may be possible to achieve the achievement of 3,000 fans before the summer vacation.

Seeing the increasing number of comments on the post, Chihaya Aine was eager to express herself. She wanted to personally go out and have a good chat with the fans. But Uehara Hibiki forbad her from doing so. After all, it was the first time for everyone to meet so many fans.

Do more and make more mistakes, do less and make fewer mistakes.

Before you get used to it, it’s better not to interact with fans too intensively and to be a little more cautious.

However, after reading the comments, Chihaya Aine also came up with a new idea.

"By the way, regarding the special segment of the Live, I have a bold idea."

Nagasaki Suyo looked at her and couldn't help sighing.

"What do you want to do again?"

"hey-hey."

Chihaya Aine's eyes sparkled, as if she was imagining a future scene.

“We can add interactive elements to the new songs and let the audience use their phone flashlights to join in!”

"Too dangerous!"

Shiina Riki immediately objected.

"If someone uses a flash to take photos, it will affect the performance."

"actually……"

Uehara Hibiki interjected softly.

"That's a good idea, as long as the rules are explained in advance. But flashlights are still inappropriate. You could use fluorescent bracelets instead. I still have all the fluorescent materials from last time."

"Xiang, this is..."

Looking at the excited Su Shi, Uehara Hibiki nodded.

"In that case, it would be equivalent to the first batch of merchandise for our band."

This was also a preview before becoming a professional band.

"Then I'll contact someone to buy the bracelet. The fluorescent material is at home, so it's no problem to make it myself. But... are you selling it? Or giving it away as a gift?"

"Of course we have to sell it, Sushi, you should have some confidence in our popularity. Holding a special LIVE is like being semi-professional. This time, even RING will pay us a share of the ticket sales, after all, the MyGo name is used as a promotional sign. Of course, the percentage won't be very high, basically losing money to gain publicity, but add in the profit from the sale of merchandise, this is our band's first income."

After investing for such a long time, I can finally see my money return.

Uehara Hibiki was very pleased.

Chapter 137: The cat girl wants to find love.

"Is it making money?"

Around the table, the girls had different expressions.

To be honest, although everyone has long known that Hibiki Uehara has set his goal to become a professional band, except for Hibiki Uehara, the word "making money" is still far away from everyone's life.

Not to mention Chihaya Aine and Nagasaki Motoyo, these two are real rich ladies. Even Takamatsu Deng, who comes from an ordinary family, has never thought about making money. After all, the pocket money from her parents is enough to cover most of their expenses in life.

Even for Tatsuki Shiina, who works hard at RING every day, her initial goal was just to take advantage of her proximity to music and improve her musical skills, with making money being secondary.

As for Lenai? Now that she was free from her grandmother's pocket money restrictions, she could eat and drink freely with the band members every day, and drink matcha to her heart's content. Naturally, she didn't think about anything else.

So, regarding making money...

"Xiang! Are we going to get rich? How much can we earn? We have over 2000, close to 3000 fans now. So, can we make 300,000 per LIVE?"

Looking at Chihaya Aine with light in her eyes, Uehara Hibiki closed her eyes helplessly, looking as if she couldn't bear to look at it.

"Aine, you're so naive. Did you just multiply the number of fans?"

Nagasaki Suyo followed her mother and was exposed to some economic issues.

"Besides, these fans are all online, so the number of people who will actually buy tickets at RING is definitely much smaller."

"Besides, live shows in livehouses aren't street performances where the audience pays directly for tips. RING provides the venue, equipment wear and tear, and publicity costs. Even though it's our exclusive live show, the ticket revenue actually belongs to RING, and we only get a small share."

Shiina Riki also added some common sense as an employee.

Despite saying this, Chihaya Aine's enthusiasm remained undiminished. After all, she wasn't short of money, so of course she wouldn't get excited about how much she earned. Chihaya Aine simply enjoyed the fact that she was "making money."

"That's true. It's really not that easy for a band to make money in the early stages. I've been operating an account recently, and although I've enabled advertising revenue, the money I make is still pitifully small."

"Correct."

Hibiki Uehara nodded.

"It seems everyone has realized that our three current revenue streams correspond to a professional band's record/streaming revenue, touring revenue, and merchandise revenue. In fact... compared to the high costs of producing songs and holding LIVEs, the profit margin from merchandise sales is much higher. Fans love to buy T-shirts, posters, keychains, and other items printed with the band's logo or design. This not only increases our revenue but also strengthens fans' sense of belonging."

Obviously, for a complete novice like Chihaya Aine who doesn't care about the operation of the band, this can be said to be an astonishing fact.

However, Chihaya Aine pondered for a moment and quickly understood this fact from another perspective.

"I always thought the band's main source of income came from live performances, but I didn't expect there were so many other ways. It's true, though. Sumimi's songs are great, but the albums and live performance tickets are really not as expensive as the merchandise."

Although Uehara Hibiki really wants to say that idols and bands are not on the same track, the principles are indeed the same.

After all, the surrounding areas are really profitable.

"I didn't explain in detail the band's income sources after becoming a professional band before, but now that the band's development is gradually becoming more formal, I want everyone to have a clear understanding of this aspect. After all, we are no longer a small group that just does things for fun."

But it is obvious that Chihaya Aine, as a wealthy woman, does not care about these things.

"Anyway, in my opinion, standing on the stage and shining brightly is the romance of a band! Those troublesome financial accounts... just let you decide, Hibiki. After all, you're our captain."

"No, no, no, the captain can't have the final say. After all, this is a matter of money."

Uehara Hibiki is very clear-headed about this. Although everyone has a good relationship, when it comes to money, it is safest to be clear about the accounts.

"Indeed, it would be better if we all discussed it together..."

In response to Nagasaki Suyo's attempt to smooth things over, the cat girl looked up from her third matcha parfait of the day and said nonchalantly.

"I don't mind. As long as I can have the live show, the money doesn't matter."

Hearing her words, Takamatsu Deng nodded slightly, seeming to agree with Kaname's idea, but Deng didn't say anything, just listened quietly. After all, on the other hand, Takamatsu Deng and Aine had the same idea, and they would leave all the things they didn't understand to Uehara Hibiki.

Shiina Riki took a sip of coffee. To be honest, she hadn't thought about this issue. After all...

"I'm not in the band for the money. As long as I can continue to stand on stage with Deng... and everyone else, that's all I want. But Xiang is right. If we want to be professional, we have to follow professional rules."

"Rikki you just blushed!"

"no!"

"Really? We're obviously discussing something serious. Why don't you two stop fighting and be serious?"

Although Nagasaki Suyo was trying to reconcile, her gaze shifted slightly under the table—Uehara Hibiki's left hand was interlocked with the light, while her right hand was still held by hers. This absurd yet sweet feeling of infidelity made her heart beat slightly faster. After all, after the public announcement of the harem, there was no longer any serious atmosphere within MyGo.

Uehara Hibiki looked at everyone's reactions and felt a wave of emotion. He had anticipated this situation long ago, and this mentality was one of the obstacles to professionalism. So he cleared his throat and continued.

"Let's discuss this. We have a practical problem right now—how to share the revenue. We need to come up with a plan that everyone feels is fair."

In response, Takamatsu Deng was the first to raise his hand to answer.

"I think it would be best if everyone shared it equally."

"no!"

As the band's top fan, Shiina Tatsuki immediately interrupted.

"Deng, in addition to being the lead singer, you are also responsible for writing lyrics. According to the rules of the industry, the creator should take at least half."

Hearing this, before Takamatsu Deng could react, Chihaya Aine slammed the table.

"Doesn't that mean that Xiang and Li Xi, who are in charge of composing the music, will also get more!"

Chihaya Aine didn't care how much she took, but she took less than Riki... crying.

"Aine, after all, those who are capable should do more work. It's only right that Hibiki and Rikido take it."

Faced with Nagasaki Suyo's comfort, Chihaya Aine immediately stopped pretending to cry.

"If the creator took more than half..."

"No, more than half is too much. After all, rules are dead, but people are alive..."

"Don't be so modest!"

……

Soon, with everyone discussing it, Chihaya Aine wrote and drew on her tablet and came up with the first version of the plan.

Takamatsu Touma 30% (lead vocals + lyrics), Uehara Hibiki 20% (keyboards + first composer), Shiina Tatsuki 20% (drums + second composer), and the remaining 30% is divided equally between Aine Sosei Rakuna, 10% each.

Shiina Riki's expression suddenly became complicated.

"No, my composing ability is far inferior to Xiang's. I'm just helping out. The real core of the composition is Xiang. I don't think it's appropriate to give him the same proportion..."

"Lixi..."

"ring!"

Hearing Shiina Riki's stubborn answer, Uehara Hibiki couldn't help but sigh. He knew that if he insisted any longer, Shiina Riki's inferiority complex would flare up again, so he could only compromise.