Zongman: There are a few beautiful girls who like me

It might be a bit of an exaggeration to talk about Prince Charming or love at first sight, but if Kitagawa Yuu is compared to an upright and brave knight, she thinks it's okay.

Although it was not her that was saved by Kitagawa Yu, after witnessing the whole process and hearing what Kitagawa Yu said with her own ears, she was indeed full of good feelings towards Kitagawa Yu.

After realizing that Kitagawa You only glanced at her and then looked away in a "gentlemanly" and "polite" manner, she was happy that she had not made a mistake in seeing him, but she also suddenly felt a little depressed.

"Although I didn't put on makeup today because I had to go to school, and I'm wearing just an ordinary school uniform, but... it shouldn't be much worse than my casual clothes, right?"

Cheng Hai Shengnai muttered quietly in his heart, and almost couldn't help but take out a small mirror from his schoolbag to see if there was anything wrong with his hairstyle and outfit.

Fortunately, compared to the question of "Has my charm decreased today?", she was more concerned about another question at this moment.

"Today, whether it was during cleaning or during recess, he didn't ask me for an autograph like the other boys in the class did. Instead, he was with another boy and two girls."

"Have they formed their own little circle so quickly?"

"Then how do I greet him...?"

It may be hard to believe, but as the No. 1 popular cover model of the new generation, who has held several fan meetings and handshake meetings and is about to enter the idol world, Cheng Hai Shengna is actually quite introverted and shy at heart.

In fact, if it weren't for this reason, with such excellent conditions, she would not have chosen to become a print model, but would have directly become an idol.

Now, after a year of "growth training", her agency thinks she has trained enough, but in fact...

"Hello, Kitagawa-san, I'm Narumi Seina, who's in the same class with you... No, no, that sounds too formal, and it seems a bit weird."

"Hi! Kitagawa-san, I'm Seina Narumi from your class. I didn't expect to see you here... No, no, this is too deliberate. Besides... it's too rude to pretend to 'suddenly notice' after we've been on the bus for so long."

"Huh? Kitagawa-san? Are you going to attend a talent class... No, he's acting too familiar, and I shouldn't have known he was going to attend a talent class..."

Chapter 15 A wonderful fate

Until the train arrived at its destination, Takadanobaba Station, and the two got off the train one after another, Cheng Hai Shengna still couldn't figure out how to greet Kitagawa Yu.

However, when she thought about how she and Kitagawa Yu happened to board the same train at the same platform, and got off at the same platform, she couldn't help but feel a sense of wonderful fate.

Looking at the figure of Kitagawa Yu who was gradually walking in front of him because of his faster pace, a faint smile unconsciously appeared at the corner of his mouth.

On the other hand, although Kitagawa Yuu noticed that Cheng Hai Sheng Na got off the train at Takadanobaba Station like himself, he did not feel strange.

After all, in addition to many universities represented by Waseda University, Fuji University, Tokyo University of Music, and Neon Women's University, Takadanobaba also has more than two-thirds of the various specialized schools in Tokyo.

He can come to a specialized school here to learn arranging and keyboard arrangement.

Since Seina Narumi is about to enter the idol world, it is natural that she might come here to learn vocal music and dancing, right?

In fact, his guess was correct. Cheng Haisheng came to Takadanobaba to take vocal and dance lessons in preparation for entering the idol industry.

However, Cheng Hai Shengna did not attend a specialized school, but a training course taught by teachers hired by her artist agency.

Yes, it may be because there are many specialized schools nearby, making it more convenient to hire teachers for training.

In addition, it is very close to Shinjuku, Shibuya and Shimokitazawa, which have the most bars and live houses, and the rent is relatively cheap. Many powerful artist agencies, including HoneyWorks, where Seina Narumi works, have also opened offices in Takadanobaba.

However, compared to the talent class that Kitagawa Yuu attends, the training class that Cheng Hai Sheng Nai attends is much more difficult.

Take the few days before school started for example. Kitagawa Yuu didn't go out until 8:30 every morning to take the tram to attend the talent class.

From 9:10 in the morning to 3: in the afternoon.

However, Cheng Hai Shengnai had to take the tram to the office at 6:30 in the morning during the entire spring break, and then work from 7 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon.

Even though the class time will be reduced after school starts, she still has to study until nine o'clock in the evening.

So becoming an idol is not as easy as Kitagawa Yuu imagined. Maybe he doesn't have the talent and ability like a singer or an actor, but at least he has put in effort and sweat.

However, compared with the talent class that Kitagawa Yuu attends, the training class that Cheng Hai Sheng Na takes is not without any advantages.

At least when Cheng Haishengna was in class, there were two girls from the same group, Yuuki Yuu and Nakamura Chizuru, to accompany her.

As for Kitagawa Yuu...

To be honest, Kitagawa Yu was completely confused when he went to class for the first time.

The entire class, including him, had a total of twelve students, and the teacher was all male!

You know, this is the world of anime!

And except for him, the youngest high school student, who looks relatively normal in dress, the youngest ones, including the teachers, all look to be in their twenties, and their dress... can only be described as really rock and roll!

Their hair was so greasy, it looked like they hadn't washed it for months.

Obviously, many keyboard players in anime are beautiful and cute girls!

For example, Toyokawa Shoko in "BanG Dream" and Kotobuki in "K-ON!".

In addition, those who like to write their own songs or make music by themselves will usually learn some arrangement and arrangement keyboard.

For example, Tsukimi Eiko and Kuon Nanami in "Party Guy Kongming", Yamanouchi Kanon and Takanashi Mei in "Night Jellyfish", and Yamada Ryo and Hiroi Kikuri in "Lonely Rock".

These are all beautiful girls with outstanding looks...well...cross out the drunkard Hiroi Kikuri.

In short, Beichuan You didn't know whether it was the world that was wrong, or he was just unlucky and there was something wrong with the training class he chose.

Fortunately, Beichuan You came here to learn knowledge.

Now that there was no beautiful girl to affect the speed of his sword drawing, he felt like he had turned on an external G accelerator that doubled the explosion rate, and his learning efficiency was improved.

However, what he didn't know was that this situation was not caused by his bad luck, nor was it the world's fault, but was entirely due to the course he chose.

The course he chose focuses on arrangement theory and techniques, supplemented by arrangement keyboard performance, and also includes advanced arrangement courses such as mixing and recording teaching. It is said to be developing in the direction of arranger, but in fact it can be regarded as half of an "independent music producer" course.

Ordinary band keyboardists, independent musicians and online singers, especially young high school students with dreams, do not understand how important arrangement is in actual music production. They think that as long as they can write a good melody, they can make a good song.

Therefore, most of them sign up for courses that focus on live performance of the arranged keyboard, with introductory courses on basic arrangement techniques, that is, "keyboardist courses".

There is a big difference between the two.

However, is it easy to write a nice melody?

Composing music requires the most creative talent, and with the development of the times, there will be fewer and fewer good melodies, and it will become increasingly difficult to write good melodies.

Therefore, with the development of the times, in today's J-POP world, the ability to use skills to improve the lower limit of songs and make ordinary melodies become beautiful arrangements is becoming more and more important in music production.

To put it simply, the relationship between composition and arrangement is like that between ingredients and chef.

Good ingredients are important, but a chef who can cook ordinary, even garbage ingredients into delicious food is even more important.

For example, in "Party Guy Kongming", Tsukimi Eiko wrote so many songs herself, but none of them became popular.

But when Kong Ming helped her find a top arranger who charged 3000 million yen per song.

The arranger simply picked a song from those she had written and re-arranged it for her. The song immediately changed its popularity and helped her attract 100,000 fans in just half an hour.

Unfortunately, the importance of arrangement is usually only known by those "old guys" who have taken many detours, have rich experience of failure, know that they do not have the composing talent beyond ordinary people, but still plan to continue in this industry.

Usually only people like them would come to take such advanced courses.

Those young and inexperienced high school students would not take this kind of class.

As for why they were dressed like this, and everyone looked like they hadn't showered for months...

First of all, they are rockers. The way they dress, the hairstyle, the beard and the dark circles under their eyes are in line with their identity as rockers.

Furthermore...do you know that as a poor arranger, you often have to lock yourself in a recording studio or a small room and rack your brains for days to save a bad melody?

So, arrangers are just like editors and programmers. It’s not their fault that they end up in this image. It’s all due to the pressure of life.

Although Kitagawa You has the memories of his past life, he only needs to master basic arranging techniques to restore most of the songs in his memory.

However, knowing the importance of composing music, he decided to take this advanced course after repeated considerations to improve his actual technical level.

Otherwise, if someone asks him why he arranged a certain song in a certain way and how he came up with the idea, and he knows nothing about it, how embarrassing it would be!

Wouldn't it be terrible if someone 'misunderstood' him as plagiarizing?

So even when it comes to relatively boring arrangement theories and routines, he listens much more seriously than he does in normal classes.

"Today we will talk about what BPM is, and how to use BPM changes in a song to better mobilize the audience's emotions, as well as the common BPM change routines in current J-POP and J-ROCK that make people feel very advanced..."

Chapter 16 Oh my!

I have to say that the advanced class is an advanced class.

The teacher, who had dirty burgundy hair and dark eye bags that looked like smoky makeup even without makeup, looked like she was about to die, even though she was only in her thirties. However, her lectures were full of useful information.

As for the fact that he was lecturing while drinking cans of beer and occasionally taking out bags of potato chips and squid to stuff into his mouth...

Well, according to him, an arranger is free and should not be bound by rules and regulations. This is the ultimate realm of an arranger.

To be honest, although these words are a bit childish, Kitagawa You still thinks they make sense after listening to them.

After all...didn't Kaori Miyazono tell Kousei Arima in "Four Lies" that music is free?

When studying seriously, time is always happy and short.

"Well, let's stop here for today's class. If there is anything I didn't understand before... please don't disturb me during my free time. I will set aside half a class tomorrow for you to ask questions. Of course, if you have a pretty and cute female friend who you can introduce to me, I can give you extra guidance for free..."

The four classes passed quickly as the teacher kept chattering while pinching his ears with his fingers.

Except for Kitagawa You who remained calm and ignored his words, everyone else in the class rolled their eyes.

What a joke, if they really know that kind of pretty and cute female friend, how could they possibly push her to someone else?

The arranger works behind the scenes, and the keyboard player is usually the least noticeable one in the band, so except for Kitagawa Yu, everyone else present is single.

"Kitagawa-kun, do you want to go drink together?"

"Sorry, I'm still in high school and can't drink yet~"

After packing up his things, Kitagawa You smiled and shrugged, politely declining the offer from a keyboardist from an unknown underground band whom he had just met not long ago.

Just kidding, you don't need to guess, this guy invited him to drink, definitely with the idea of using him to meet a pretty high school girl~

"Oh, really, I wanted to introduce you to our permanent performance hall while we were drinking~"

"hehe."

Upon hearing this, Beichuan You chuckled and said nothing.

Introduce the exhibition hall to him? Do you really think he doesn't know that colleagues are enemies?

After quickly leaving the 11-story building where the talent class was located, which was more than 30 years old, Kitagawa You went straight to the nearby OK Store.

After a week of inspection and comparison, he has confirmed that among all the supermarkets and convenience stores in Saginomiya and Takadanobaba, OK Store still has the richest variety of discounted bento, the best taste, and the highest cost-effectiveness.

One piece weighs about 220 grams, and is topped with deep-fried pork chop with sauce, about 80 grams of stir-fried seasonal vegetables, and three thick pieces of tamagoyaki. The rice is also sprinkled with white sesame seeds and seaweed crumbs. The total weight is about 600 grams.

Such a generous bento costs only 291 yen, which is really cheap.

You know, the fried pork cutlet rice bowl he had for lunch today was only about two-thirds of the size of this bento, but it cost 620 yen!

So Kitagawa You directly bought two bento boxes, one with teriyaki chicken nuggets and fried shrimps, which he would use as dinner for tonight, and the other with fried pork chop and tamagoyaki, which he would save for tomorrow as lunch at noon.

As for the label "Best before 12 hours" on the lunch box... who would care?

In addition, because it was too troublesome to carry change, in addition to the two bento boxes, he bought two more, namely, the instant kelp and tofu miso soup dumplings with simple seasoning, similar to the instant seaweed and egg drop soup dumplings in his previous life. Then he left the supermarket contentedly, went to the subway station, and took the train home.

Got on the bus at 8:40 and got home at 9:.

By the time Cheng Hai Sheng Na, who was hungry and sweating, had just finished his last dance class and had no time to leave the classroom, Beichuan You had already taken out the key and was opening the door.

Then......

"Tadayi~"

Beichuan You closed the door and said habitually to the 'empty' apartment.

But the next second, a sudden sound of "Oh, snap!" almost scared him to death.

"Have you moved here already?"

Looking at Tsukimi Eiko, who was wearing a faded sweatshirt and sweatpants, walking towards him quickly like a little wife, wanting to take the schoolbag and shopping bags from him.

Beichuan You, who was still frightened, was stunned for about two seconds before finally relaxing.

"Well... I've already told my teacher that I'm staying in Tokyo and not going back to school."

"Then didn't your teacher ask you why you didn't go back to school and what your plans are for staying in Tokyo?" Kitagawa Yu asked casually while changing into slippers, without asking her to help with her schoolbag and shopping bags.

"I didn't ask...but when I asked for leave last time, I told the teacher that I was going to see Oudou-san..." Tsukimi Eiko couldn't help blushing and lowered her head.

This made Beichuan You speechless.

"Although it is a common phenomenon for high school students in Japan, especially female high school students, to drop out of school, it is too irresponsible for a class teacher to not even ask a question."