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

Classical music was playing on the record player of the copper horn, and the air did not have the aroma of a just-finished dinner, but was instead filled with a freshness.

Shizi was wearing a bartender's uniform, standing at the counter, shaking a cocktail shaker in his hand.

PAREO couldn't see her movements, but a moment later, the goblet was filled with a blue-pink layered, bubbling liquid. There was a little crushed ice at the bottom of the goblet, and a slice of lemon was stuck in the rim of the goblet - exactly where CHU? had touched it before.

Shizi pushed the drink towards PAREO: "I heard from Yili that you mixed a drink for her before, so I'll try to mix one for you too."

"When did you learn this?" PAREO took a sip, relying on his self-control to keep his expression from getting out of control, "Good...hiss..."

"I just started learning it a few days ago." Shizi nodded in understanding, "Did you put too much champagne..."

"Please don't use PAREO as a test subject..." PAREO was almost irritated to tears and looked for water everywhere, "Also, we are all minors, why would the Xianjuan family send us something like champagne..."

"Here." Shizi handed over a glass of water. "The Xianjuan family didn't send any. I made the champagne based on my imagination."

PAREO looked a little unhappy: "Is it poisonous?"

"I don't know." Shizi answered honestly.

PAREO pressed his stomach: "It hurts a little..."

"I told you long ago," Shizi acted like a parent, "Don't eat anything you want, but you still don't listen..."

"You gave me this." PAREO rubbed his stomach again.

Whenever he talks to Shiko, he becomes the one making fun of her, and PAREO feels very uncomfortable.

Obviously she shouldn't be this kind of character...

"But," PAREO took a sip of water, "Shizi-san's move just now was quite handsome. Did you show it to Ichiri-san and Kita-san?"

"I did trick Yili," Shizi was proud for a moment, then turned sad, "but Xiduo said it's not fashionable at all."

PAREO looked at Shizi's changing expression and felt a little envious unconsciously.

"...Mr. Shizi, can you give PAREO some advice?" she said.

Shizi leaned on the bar and looked at her: "About CHU?"

"Hmm." PAREO looked at the bubbles in the cup.

Shizi was silent for a while.

"Tomorrow," she said suddenly.

"Huh?" PAREO raised his head.

"Tomorrow is your last chance." Shizi snapped his fingers, and the bar, the wine glasses, the drinks, the classical music, everything disappeared, and PAREO saw himself still standing in his room, holding the empty wine glass and about to put it to his mouth.

Chapter 40 Let Us Meet in the New World

CHU? Angrily kicked over the trash can in the room.

"Why? Why? I can't think of anything—" The garbage in the bucket was scattered on the ground. Chu? squatted down to pick it up, becoming even more annoyed. "I can only write the same songs as before if I follow the writing method I used to do before..."

After straightening the trash can, CHU? still couldn’t vent his frustration. He pounded the table again and again: “I can’t write. I can’t write. I can’t write. I can’t write. I can’t write…”

She threw her headphones around her neck and thrashed around in despair, falling to her knees and banging her head on the soft swivel chair.

Inspiration, which used to be as present as PAREO, is now nowhere to be found. Wherever I look, there is only a terrible nothingness.

After all, that is "change the world", the ultimate goal of RAS...

She never thought of achieving this goal in one go. She should have started step by step, gathering popularity, gaining attention, and making everyone who stepped into the livehouse their captives, and eventually, like those bands that left a lasting mark in the history of rock, she would have established her own legend.

But now, I might die in a month.

She is confident that she can write any kind of songs, and the songs she writes will definitely be the best.

However, when I really started writing, I was never satisfied with it.

Even PAREO is gone! I don’t know where he went!

She had no choice but to find some beef jerky herself, ate a bag of it, and then fell back into the state of agony.

The next time I looked at the clock, it was almost midnight.

"(Let's go to sleep first...)" Although he couldn't even think of the prelude, CHU? still forced himself to put on the blindfold and threw himself on the bed.

When I woke up in the morning, PAREO had already put breakfast on the table. After eating, I started to think hard again.

Another day of forgetting time.

When the phone suddenly rang, CHU? remembered that they had an audition to attend.

"Tsk." She grabbed the phone, "waste time...why not finish it all at once..."

She had changed into a stage girl-style uniform and was standing on the elevator, rising in a dark space.

Her smock is cyan, and her weapon is a Rhongomyniad that has been scaled down to fit her size, though of course, its original power has been temporarily sealed.

“(I won before anyway.)” She waited and slowly calmed down, “(Even if I run into Yukina Minato this time…)”

The elevator shook and arrived at the destination.

“Not everyone has the talent to play,” she took a step forward.

"But I use subversive music,"

"It still conquers your soul."

"RAISE A SUILEN, CHU?,"

The gun barrel turned and hit the ground. All the lights converged here.

"Come on, CHANGE THE WORLD!"

CHU? looked across the stage, waiting for his opponent this time.

The lights on the opposite side came on, and a rising figure flashed by. CHU? saw a green coat that was exactly the same as his own.

"Smash the ideal image that we are tired of,"

"Towards a new life with a new name,"

"RAISE A SUILEN, PAREO,"

"I give you my soul completely."

PAREO held a long staff and faced CHU?. Her staff was inlaid with gems and patterns, and looked cute, but the sharp corners exuded a dangerous aura.

CHU? was a little surprised at first, but then returned to normal.

After all, matching is random, so it is possible that she will run into PAREO.

"CHU? Sir," Pareo didn't seem surprised at all, "Do you need Pareo to admit defeat directly?"

“No.” CHU? was in a bad mood and felt insulted when he heard such words. “I don’t need anyone to make way for me. Even if it’s PAREO, I will still defeat you with all my strength.”

Pareo smiled with satisfaction: "That's right, Master Chu..."

She raised her staff high, and at the edge of the stage, layers of candies, cakes, and dress patterns rose up, surrounding the stage and shrinking inward.

"Before Pareo's willfulness ends," the staff spun in the air and struck the ground, "there is no way to make Master Chu leave!"

In the stands, the giraffe announced loudly:

"Audition day 11, Regret Revue, begins! Dance, sing, and compete with each other!"

On the stage, countless cute patterns were spinning around CHU?. She looked around but couldn't see any trace of PAREO.

"PAREO?" She felt something was strange.

PAREO's voice sounded from nowhere: "Master CHU? Do you know what my regret is?"

On the stage, music started playing.

Without waiting for Chu? to answer, Pareo gave his answer: "I am willing to burn my soul to follow you, Master Chu?, to the end of hell. Don't you know what I mean?"

"Too heavy!" CHU? was a little flustered, blocking the staff that came from a corner, "You suddenly say that, I..."

"Not sudden at all." PAREO's figure fell.

Suddenly, all the lights on the stage went out.

A light enveloped CHU? from above her head, and not far in front of her, behind PAREO, a wooden board was lifted up to form a small stage, which was also covered by the light.

PAREO is not wearing his usual attire, but the school uniform and glasses he wore as an honor student. His hair is not a wig, but black hair.

She sat in front of the keyboard and played the last note honestly.

"PAREO?" CHU was confused and didn't know what she was going to do.

"The future is promising and I am good at being humble"

"The talented lady with the flattering smile won the Best Actress Award?"

"How is it?" PAREO raised his head and looked at CHU? in the audience.

A memory of CHU? suddenly came to mind.

She got it.

So, I went up to the stage and said, "It's really amazing, but I don't need an honors student."

"Are you tired of it too?"

"Hi Hi"

"Tired of life being short?"

"Come on then."

CHU? grabbed PAREO's hand and pulled her off the stage.

"Take the hand of the woman with fatal charm"

There was a light in PAREO's eyes, and in an instant, she was back in her PAREO attire.

"Wakey! GAW! GAW! GAW! GAW!"

"Get up and move, sleepy lion, wake up!"

The two men circled between the wooden signs, clashing with spears and staffs.

"With a savior like you here"

“I can revel in my own identity on stage.”

"Master CHU?, without you, there would be no me!" Pareo shouted joyfully, "I can't leave you! I can't help loving you!"

"I told you, it's too heavy!" Chu?'s expression was cheerful, "At that time, I was scared by you!"

The staff and the spear tip collided for the last time and then separated temporarily.

PAREO stood there, pressing his chest: "But, Master CHU?, what PAREO said is from the heart. You may not understand, but for PAREO, Master CHU? is such an important existence. On this stage, I must make Master CHU? acknowledge the relationship between us, only in this way-"

"——You have no regrets?" Chu? helped her finish her words and sneered, "You have finished talking about your regrets, then do you know my regrets?"

PAREO was stunned for a moment: "Write a song that can 'change the world'?"

"50 points, failing." Chu? curled his lips and tapped the ground with the tip of his gun. "That's only half."

"Not only do we have to write the best song," Chu walked towards PAREO, "but we also have to have it performed in real life! By RAS! In person!"

“This wish can’t be fulfilled in this world!” she shouted, “So I will become a top star on this stage, and then bring everyone back to reality. Only then will my wish truly begin!”

"Break it down, break it down"

"We ain't gonna wait,we ain't gonna bow"

"Pull the trigger and go. It's always been like this."

"So, don't say 'no regrets' without permission! You keep calling me 'CHU? Sir CHU? Sir', but why should you resolve your regrets before me?"

PAREO stood there, listening to CHU?'s words in a daze.

The tip of the gun pressed against the button on PAREO's shoulder.

She didn't struggle.

"So come on, join the ride."

“DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA.”

“DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA.”