Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

She pushed up her glasses. “So… is the stage girl related to this weird incident?”

"Come and be my partner! Chunchun!" Shizi raised his hand excitedly and shouted to the last person.

"Jun-Jun?" Ichiri and Kita's eyes widened slightly at the same time. Mahiru looked at them with a look that said "Wow, I'm going to die right now."

Jun's hand holding his glasses was shaking: "This... can't be avoided, right?"

The dust near the deep pit had not yet completely dissipated. The melted gravel solidified at the bottom of the pit in the form of transparent crystals, but a faint red light was still visible everywhere, and the smell of sulfur was very choking.

Heavy rain came, clearing away the dust. The sandy ground after the rain was not muddy, as water quickly seeped through the cracks in the sand. However, the bottom of the pit, which was covered with transparent crystals, gathered rainwater and formed a puddle.

Under the puddle, in everyone's eyes, it seemed as if something was hidden.

No, there really is something.

They all felt the vibration coming from deep underground.

They waited for a while, and the vibration gradually subsided.

"Oh, she can't wait!" Kasumi rubbed her hands excitedly and looked around, "Shall we start first?"

"It's better not to wait." Arisaki sighed, "Let's discuss what to do first?"

"Wait--" Nana suggested, "In order to save time, how about we send one person from each team?"

"Okay~" Everyone had no objection.

The five of them gathered together and chatted.

"Arisaki said she didn't want to, but she seemed to enjoy it." Shizi smiled and glanced over there, then turned back to look at the band's group, "Then let's discuss this too?"

"Um, is there really something down there..." Kita stepped on the ground, a little worried.

Shizi waved his hand: "Don't worry, Nana and I will be here if anything happens."

The 99 Group, Roselia and RAS also went to discuss their own things.

Chapter 23: Roll cake baked with exactly the same technique as its origin in Germany

"Who among us will come?" Shizi asked the other four people excitedly.

"At least I'm not going to do it," Ryo shook his head, "It's too embarrassing."

Hong Xia glanced at Shi Zi and said, "It's rare for me to agree with Liang... Since it was you who proposed it, go ahead. I want to see what you are going to do."

"I won't go." Shizi shook his head, "It's too embarrassing."

"You know it yourself!" Kita and Nijixia shouted at the same time. They looked at each other and gave each other a thumbs-up.

Shizi dubbed on the keyboard beside him: "Beep-beep, beep-beep, beep, beep-beep, beep, beep-beep-achievement achieved!"

"This is the sound effect of Hikata opening," Liang corrected, "and this is reality, not a game."

Yili, who had been silent the whole time, raised his hand carefully: "How about... I do it..."

"Oh!" Shizi's eyes lit up, "Go ahead, it's decided to be you!"

"What an old joke..." Kita curled his lips.

"Are you very old?" Liang glanced at her, and then there was an inexplicable sense of superiority in his aura.

Yili was patted on the back by Shizi, and seemed to gain courage. She slowly walked out and stood in front of the deep pit. Everyone saw her action, stopped discussing, and focused their attention on her. With the focus of attention, Yili's mouth, which was about to open, trembled again.

"Ahem, Contestant Goto, what is your motive?" Kita could see that Ichiri was a little nervous, so he pretended to pick up the microphone and helped her in a low voice.

"Is this a variety show or a criminal investigation show..." Hong Xia opened her cat eyes.

However, Yili did relax a little. She exhaled:

"Because I'm very good at talking to my imaginary friends..."

Everyone seemed to see something black pressing down from the sky.

"How pitiful..." Mahiru looked at her worriedly.

"So pitiful..." Nana looked at her sadly.

"How pitiful..." Maya sighed and looked at her.

"Are they all repeaters?" Xiangzi complained, "But they are indeed very pitiful..."

"CUT! STOP!" Hong Xia immediately interrupted the process, "Okay, little Pochi, come back soon."

Xiao Yili was taken away to Hongxia's mother for comfort.

Rinko whispered to herself: "Actually... before I met Xiaoyazi... I also had an imaginary friend..."

"Oh?" Ayako said with some pride, "What happens next? With Ayako around, Rinlin won't need to fantasize about friends anymore, right? No, that would be too pitiful for her..."

Rinko's face turned red: "After that... my imaginary friend became Xiaoyako's image..."

"Hey." Blood rushed from Ayako's body to her face, and soon the heat turned into steam and came out from between her Roman curly hair. "This... is it like this..."

"Yeah, yeah." Shizi and Hina both had an expression of "I understand exactly" on their faces.

“Ahahaha…” Saya and Lisa looked away.

No one knew what Youxina was thinking, and her expression was totally unrecognizable.

Or maybe no thinking at all.

"At that time, Udagawa-san was still an elementary school student..." Saya whispered to herself.

Linzi was so anxious that her eyes were as red as mosquito coils: "Even so... I... I am not a lolicon!"

“…I’ve told you everything…” Arisaki and Saaya looked at each other.

Sha Ling smiled awkwardly: "Yes..."

"Think about it carefully, are we the same age as Xiao Yazi..." Kita poked Shizi.

"I'm honored." Shizi's face was full of pride.

Xiduo's eyes turned dark: "Not burned enough?"

Hua Lian tried to make amends: "Well... even if they are both girls, the relationship may not necessarily be all about love!"

"I don't even know where to start complaining about this!" Arisaki and Kaori shouted together.

"That's right!" Shizi was indignant. "You are the only one who has no right to say that. First, take off the collar on your neck... oh, I've already taken it off. Sorry, I forgot."

"...You did it on purpose." Even Xiaoguang almost couldn't control his expression.

"Collar... Collar..." Mahiru's eyes widened, "Hikaru, Karen-chan, did I hear wrong?"

"Yeah! I must have heard it wrong!" Hua Lian smiled brightly.

"Yeah! Turns out I heard it wrong!" Mahiru and her Hammer both smiled warmly.

Ako trembled as she held Rinko's hand: "Even if Rinko is a lolicon... Ako will always be Rinko's partner!"

There was silence.

Then, there was thunderous applause.

After enough of the excitement, Shizi looked around and asked, "Anyone else wants to try?"

"Me, me, me!" Kasumi raised her hands high.

"Oh, have you heard the call of the stars?" Shizi's eyes lit up, "The only chance to win!"

"No~" Kasumi maintained her posture, "I think that in order to make Miss Alice come out, I must use something she likes!"

"Ms. Alice is..." Shizi didn't follow her train of thought.

"That's the name I just gave the entrance!" Kasumi winked.

Shizi followed with a wink: "Please tell me before naming next time."

"Ok!"

Nana's face was full of regret: "I tore down Miss Alice..."

"Don't take it seriously." Junna pushed up her glasses.

"What does Miss Alice like?" Hua Lian took it seriously at once.

"Hmm..." Kasumi's eyes stayed blank for a long time, "I don't know!"

“I don’t know why you said that…” The corners of Yusaki’s mouth twitched.

Sha Ling suggested: "How about we take out the things we each like and let her choose?"

"Then let's disband first and gather together later." Shizi clapped his hands and made the decision.

Soon after.

Various foods were placed next to the deep pit.

"Fried chicken, Western desserts with long names, weeds, rice, chocolate snails, hamburger meat, chili pasta, boiled eggs, French fries, French fries, cookies, Chikuzen-ni, potato chips, hot milk, hot milk, cabbage, beef jerky, ramen, ramen, ramen, Sanuki udon, bananas, potatoes, a youth version of the Shizi brand roll cake made by a skilled chef in a certain coffee shop with the same technique as the original in Germany, potato stew, sashimi, various Japanese desserts..."

Arisaki was doing statistics.

Shizi added: "And then mix them all in a big iron bucket... This is generally called..."

"Swill bucket..." The two of them said this term together.

“Ahhh——” Kita knelt on the ground in despair, holding his head, “My super popular and fashionable dessert actually lost to the cake roll in terms of name length…”

"Is there any point in comparing this?" Yousaki glanced at her.

Kita looked angrily at the provider of "a youth version of the Shizi brand cake roll baked by a skilled chef in a certain coffee shop with the same technique as the original German cake roll", the person standing there with a serious face, looking at the iron bucket - Tenma Maya! The majesty of the 99th class of the Seihō Music Academy emanated from her, so terrifying!

Maya said confidently: "That's from that coffee shop..."

"Okay, stop it. No need to repeat it." Shizi stopped her from writing too many words.

Hong Xia held her forehead with her hand: "Um... isn't this a bit of a waste of food?"

"Everything inside was changed by me, so it's okay." Shizi comforted her, "Everyone step back and see if there are any changes."

Everyone retreated as instructed.

As everyone distanced themselves from the泔水桶, they began to hear movement underground.

Everyone stared at the pit expectantly.

With a loud bang and burst of dust, a huge monster's mouth emerged from the ground, swallowed the swill bucket in one gulp, and then retracted into the ground.

Nana walked forward expressionlessly, looked at the gap left by the monster, and chopped it down with a knife. A roar echoed from the underground, reflected by the tunnel, and then everything returned to silence.

Nana retracted the knife: "bananice."

"The thing below is not the entrance, but a monster..." Shizi blinked and suddenly realized, "Could it be that the entrance is not actually here?!"

Arisaki twitched his eyelids: "Is it possible..."

"From the very beginning..." Hong Xia sighed.

"We..." Lisa looked away.

"It should be..." CHU? covered his chest.

"Think about this possibility?" Jun Na once again pushed up his glasses which had slipped down a little due to the ground shaking.

Chapter 24 We are already on the stage

Early morning hours.

The dazzling sunlight shone through the porthole into the spotless command room. Shizi stood in front of the window. Although the sunlight was like golden needles, she didn't need to squint at all.

"Nana," Shizi pressed the microphone, "a little louder."

The airship was now hovering in the air. Not far away, Nana stood on a barrier in the void, holding two swords, and gradually expanded the space crack around her. Nana walked back and forth in the air, constantly expanding the boundaries of the crack, until Shizi estimated that it was almost enough for the entire airship to pass through, and then she made a gesture to let her come back.

This is how they find the entrance to the ruins.

Although the original entrance disappeared for unknown reasons, Nana believed that the new entrance should be nearby, so they kept performing random space transfers, hoping to encounter it.

Since yesterday, Shizi opened a crack, and Nana expanded it. This process has been repeated six times.

This is the seventh time.

Nana didn't even bother looking for the exit. She just took the shortest path, cut a hole in the wall and came in.