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

"Focus all the lights on me,"

"Indulge me from every angle,"

"I am most unbridled at this moment,"

"I am the most gorgeous at this moment,"

"We are the eternal stars on the stage!"

"Starlight Starlight"

The word echoed on the stage.

"Aicheng Hualian——!" Xiaoguang shouted.

Love/Light: "Ending of an Old Chapter"

Love/Light: "Let's start over again—"

A button flew up like a shooting star.

The dagger was nailed to the T-shape in the center of the stage: "Position 0!"

"The first day of the Audition is over."

It was as if a curtain had been lowered from the sky, covering everything.

On the stands, Nana withdrew her gaze, but Shizi was still staring at it in fascination.

"That's right, that's right..." Nana heard Shizi muttering to herself, "After the promise, there is another promise. They will never be separated. They are the most shining twin stars on the stage--"

“But you can’t stand on the stage alone just by relying on another person,” Nana said coldly.

Shizi looked over with interest: "So what? We band girls have a common sense - why play in a band if we don't form a band for life? The stage is not completed by one person. As long as there are co-performers, the duet can be performed forever -"

"So, what if we have to separate?" Nana interrupted her, "Fate will never obey you or me."

Shizi sat back in her seat, slumped in the back of the chair, and crossed her arms over her chest: "I am a character who exists to avoid that kind of fate."

Nana was also sitting next to them: "If you can't do it, I will give them another push. So that they can move on to the next stage."

"Of course," Shizi replied nonchalantly, "your Revue and I are not here now, but I think there will be a day when we will be together."

"..."

There was silence between the two for a long time.

"Lunch is cold." Shizi suddenly remembered.

"I prepared an insulated box." Nana said.

Shizi gave a thumbs up: "bananice."

At the dinner table, some are happy while others are sad.

“I don’t accept it, I don’t accept it—” Kasumi dragged Saya’s thigh and cried, “Why did I lose—”

"If you lose, you lose. It's better to learn from the lesson and win again next time." Saya ignored the pendant on her leg and dipped the French fries in ketchup.

"That's right." Yukina's expression was exactly the same as Saya's.

"That's right." Maya said the same thing.

Only Cloro was a little gentler: "Well, after all, it's her first time participating in this kind of stage."

"It's my first time too." Youxina pointed at himself, a little confused.

"But you won, didn't you?" Chloe looked at her in confusion.

Mahiru lay on the table sadly: "Even defeated me..."

"Okay, okay, Mahiru, cheer up. I lost too." Karen poked Mahiru on the back and didn't look sad at all.

Mahiru turned her head away: "I remember you were with..."

She saw Hualian and Xiaoguang holding hands in a secret place.

Mahiru gave a pleased smile.

ps: There’s nothing about self-reconciliation and moving to the next stage. I just want to see them getting heavier and heavier!

Chapter 30 Band

The second day after everyone had just left the camp, in the airship, in the room of Karen, Xiaoguang, and Mahiru.

"We have the lead singer, the guitarist, and the keyboardist...we still need a drummer and a bassist..." Hua Lian was sitting on the bed counting on her fingers.

While cleaning the room, Mahiru asked casually, "Is it okay without a drummer and a bassist? Um... I don't know much about the band, I'm just asking casually."

Soon after Xiaoguang and Karen returned to the 99-gumi family, Karen asked Mahiru to form a band. Although Mahiru didn't pay much attention to rock music, since it was Karen's request, she naturally had no objection. Moreover, she had a basic piano foundation, so it was not difficult for her to switch to the keyboard.

But the remaining two positions are not so easy to find.

"Is it necessary to have a drummer and a bassist?" Hua Lian once asked Shizi this question.

Shizi answered, "There are exceptions, but generally speaking there are exceptions... and, with the drummer and bassist, there are five of us."

"Five people?" Hua Lian was a little curious, "Why does it have to be five people? It seems like you guys are also a five-person band."

"Of course!" Shizi became excited. "If there aren't five of us, we can't enter the game!"

"Huh?" Hua Lian could usually keep up with Shizi's eccentric thoughts, but not this time. "Game? What?"

"Nothing." Shizi became depressed again, "Just think of it as my own persistence..."

"Why do you have to insist on this inexplicable thing..." Hua Lian still complained.

"Well, bass and drums are still necessary anyway," Shizi brought the subject back, "Is there no one interested over there?"

Hua Lian nodded sadly.

Since everyone else has their own band, the only people to recruit for the bassist and drummer are the six remaining members of the Jiujiu group.

Maya and Kuro only want to pursue a higher stage, and are not interested in bands that are not their own field. Junna is also focused on learning. Nana, Futaba, and Kaori are not very interested at the moment.

"After all, they haven't seen your live performances—" Hualian shook Shizi's arm, "Hold a live performance, hold a live performance, hold a live performance~"

Shizi's head shook like the waves: "Oh~oh~oh~it will happen~It hasn't been long since the last live performance, and I haven't had much time recently..."

But now there is time.

Shizi was lying on the bed when he suddenly remembered this incident.

Outside the window, the chaotic colors of the space cracks still surrounded the airship.

It can be said that Shizi is in the most idle time during this period.

She doesn't have to attend Auditions, doesn't have to worry about things outside, and doesn't even have to control the airship. She just eats, sleeps, eats, watches Revue, and has a little fun...

Two days have passed since the first day, the Bondage Revue.

There are new revues to watch every day. I don’t know how many days I can watch them. After all, there are 28 people participating in the competition this time, and I am too lazy to calculate how many days the competition will take.

In terms of results, the best among the other four people who ended the band was Liang, who won three games; the next best were Hongxia and Kita, with two wins and one loss; Ichiri had the worst result, having never won except on the first day.

However, no matter what the results are, you need to relax after striving for the top spot for a long time.

"I suggest that we have a live performance at noon today..." Shizi slapped Hongxia's door.

no one.

Hongxia's room was neat and tidy in a way that Shizi's room would never be. From the pillows and quilts to the supplies on the table and the decorations on the shelves, everything was neat and tidy.

However, Shizi searched under the bed, in the closet, in the bathroom, and in the non-existent secret room behind the bookcase, but he did not find Hongxia's figure, but instead made the room a mess.

She scratched her head and finally simulated Hina's ability to find Hongxia's location, which was in the park, with Xiangzi.

"...What do you think?" She suddenly appeared beside Hongxia.

Xiangzi, who was dancing Japanese dance under the shade of a tree, and Hongxia, who was watching, looked at her at the same time in confusion.

Hong Xia thought about it, and patiently explained to Shizi: "Well, Shizi didn't lay any groundwork, and suddenly just said 'what do you think', I think no one could understand..."

"The previous sentence was 'I propose to hold a live performance tonight,'" said Shizi.

"Then just say it nicely." Hong Xia sighed.

"Live?" Xiangzi interrupted, "The band's live?"

"That's right." Shizi snapped his fingers and winked. "Look forward to it."

"But I haven't agreed yet?" Hong Xia pointed at herself, "Forget it, three or four songs are no problem, then I'll go ask the others."

Hongxia waved to Xiangzi and left.

Xiangzi let go of her hand and said goodbye, and fell into her imagination.

I remember that although I was in the so-called "era of big girl bands", I never went to a livehouse or listened to a live performance of a girl band. After all, I am the heir of the Senka-ryu school, so my hobbies are relatively traditional.

Even after spending so much time with these girls in bands, I've never really heard them play.

What is it like?

At lunch, she saw that the members of the band had finished eating early. The drum set and microphone were ready on the stage, while the other instruments were provided by the performers themselves.

"Ah, ah - hello everyone, we are the Ending Band!" Kita started MC as soon as he came on stage, "Everyone in Shengxiang is listening to our live for the first time. I don't know if you have heard of girl bands before. Um - I don't know what to say, so I'll just convey it through my performance! Please listen to, "Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet"!"

The sound of a guitar rang out.

From this moment on, the five people on the stage seemed to have become different people.

The notes and melodies, with simple and direct emotions, vibrated Xiangzi's eardrums one by one.

The light burned the dust in the air, and the sweat refracted the light.

Xiangzi had never felt that rock music could be so shocking. It had a different beauty from enka, but it was equally breathtaking.

She opened her mouth wide without realizing it, and remained swaying in that world until the end of a few songs.

"Xiangzi-Xiangzi--" Futaba next to her shook her hard to wake her up.

Xiangzi stared into Futaba's eyes blankly: "So amazing..."

"You really like it." Futaba shook her head helplessly, "I've never seen you so obsessed with music."

"I'm sorry for the poor hospitality!" Shizi came down from the stage and was very satisfied when he saw Xiangzi's reaction.

Hong Xia relaxed her arms and said, "Where did you come from to become the protagonist of a food anime? Well, I'm glad I can satisfy you guys."

Not only Xiangzi, but other people in Shengxiang also had shocked expressions.

"Music other than opera is also so infectious..." Maya nodded, "I was short-sighted before."

Chloe looked at her with a sense of superiority: "I knew that before."

Junna smiled a little, "It helps a lot in relieving stress."

"So this is what it feels like..." Mahiru looked at her hands.

Nana just smiled and shook her phone to indicate that she had taken some good photos.

Xiangzi suddenly thought of something, pulled up Shuangye, and looked to the side: "By the way, Hualianqin, aren't you going to form a band? Now I'm very interested!"

Chapter 31 Teacher, Dialect and Bass Joke

"Band, band, band..."

Hualian and Xiangzi stood in the middle of the recording studio, clapping and spinning around, showing their youthful style.

Xiaoguang, Mahiru, Futaba stood behind them, and Shiko stood in front of them. They could only watch their excitement and were not infected by their youthful charm at all.

"So, when does it start?" Shizi interrupted in the gap between "band, band", successfully stopping the gracefully spinning couple dance.

Futaba interrupted again: "Why should I come too? Can't Xiangzi come by herself if she wants to?"

"Ah," Xiangzi looked over curiously, "Hasn't Futaba always been with me?"

"Ha... okay."

"You're showing off without doing anything, fine, fine." Shizi clapped his hands, "So what's the point of me?"

Hua Lian stopped her and said, "I told you, consultant? You see, we don't know anything, so we need a consultant."

"You would consider so much?" Shizi looked at her in surprise.