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

The giraffe stood at the top of the hall: "The fifteenth day of the Audition, the Revue of Grudges, begins! Dance, sing, and compete with each other!"

Chapter 47: Wayward Highway

"Han~"

The music changed again.

On the high platform outside the main hall, three trucks were parked on each side. The lights on both sides lit up at the same time, revealing Futaba and Xiangzi in front of the trucks.

The two of them changed into their stage girl uniforms again and stood facing each other.

On Xiangzi's side, the cherry blossom-shaped decorative lights on the truck lit up one by one, beating the beat of the music:

Flower: "I'm tired of it"

Flower: "Take the Highway of Breaking Off Relations"

Ye: “Highway Night”

Flower: "You have become something unfamiliar to me"

Ye: “Maybe.”

Xiangzi danced her naginata and struck it down in an instant:

Hua: "Then"

Ye: “All the way to the end”

Flower: "All the way to the end"

Flower/Leaf: "Tonight!"

The only lights on the truck were the headlights.

"Let's end it all right now." She maintained her posture and said these words with a resolute expression.

The lights went out completely.

Ye: "Loneliness is like not seeing you for a long time"

Ye: "Thanks to you, I noticed it."

Xiangzi walked to the back of the car without looking back.

"I do not want."

However, she stopped dead in her tracks at Futaba's words.

Ye: "I used to be satisfied just by having the same dream as you"

Behind Futaba, the headlights came on.

"Why, why, why..." Futaba suppressed her emotions and tried her best to catch the figure opposite her, "Why don't you understand me!"

Hua: "You finally came to see me"

Flower: "Cross this highway"

The truck engine roared, and Futaba shouted with tears in her eyes: "Don't I coax you to sleep every day, help you eat the onions you don't want to eat, and play in the band with you!"

"Cunning, cunning, so cunning!"

Tears finally blossomed from the corners of my eyes.

Flower/Leaf: "We passed each other at 100km/h, one hundred"

Behind Futaba, all the lights on the trucks lit up, echoing the melody. Her small body seemed so insignificant and lonely in front of the three trucks.

Flower/Leaf: "Let me speak it out"

Ye: "In this first and last place"

Ye: "Willful Highway"

Flower: "highway night"

Xiangzi's truck also turned on its lights and roared its engine.

Flower/Leaf: "I don't plan to wait any longer"

Flower: "What a bad heart"

Ye: “So let me leave”

Flower: "Let me go"

Flower/Leaf: "Tonight!"

The halberd hit the wooden floor with a dull thud.

"We can't be together anymore!" Futaba made her final declaration.

Xiangzi and Futaba stood on the front of the car, the wheels neighing, and rushed towards each other.

Flower/Leaf: "We are like a shooting star"

Flowers/Leaves: "Sparkling"

Flowers/Leaves: "Dazzling"

The cars are about to collide head-on.

Xiangzi raised her naginata: "Futaba——"

Futaba also raised the halberd: "Xiangzi——"

"The two of us are really boring." Xiangzi suddenly sighed.

"Eh?"

Futaba just watched as Xiangzi's truck turned around, crashed through the guardrail, and fell from a high altitude.

At the broken edge of the guardrail, Futaba was hanging on the edge of the cliff, holding the wooden bar with one hand and Xiangzi's hand with the other.

In the sky, the lights twinkle like stars.

Xiangzi turned her face away awkwardly: "It's a clean break. I've already said it."

Futaba just smiled back, "Cunning. Xiangzi always monopolizes me all by herself. How cunning."

The wooden strip broke, and the two of them fell to the ground together, landing in a pile of cherry petals.

The petals fluttered, forming a brief rain of flowers.

Xiangzi lay among the petals, and for a moment she was dazed, as if she had returned to the riverside where she and Futaba had visited in her childhood.

At that time, the falling cherry blossoms were also flying like this.

Futaba stood up straight and pressed on Futaba: "This time it's my turn to be willful. I want..."

"'I want you to wait for me.'" Xiangzi added, "Of course I understand this kind of thing."

Ye: “I can’t understand it.”

Flower: "To you like this"

Ye: “Is that really the case?”

Flower: "If I really want to say something"

Ye: I won’t leave you.

Hua: "So, before coming back"

Flower/Leaf: "Please wait for me"

"It's so boring for the two of us." Xiangzi murmured.

"Yeah," Futaba nodded, "It's really boring for us."

There happened to be a piece of broken wood at hand, so Futaba took it and hooked it on the rope on Xiangzi's coat.

Xiangzi watched but did not resist:

"I really can't defeat the willfulness of a child."

After the Revue, Hikari and Mahiru gathered in the recording studio again.

"I lost again..." Karen pushed through the door with a sad face, "Hikari-chan, Mahiru-chan, what about you guys?"

"Lost." Xiaoguang looked unconcerned.

Mahiru looked happy, but held up a finger: "Keep it a secret."

"Hey——" Hua Lian was about to hug him, "Why why why——"

"It's alright, it's alright." Mahiru rubbed Karen's head to comfort her, "I wonder how Kaoru-chan and Futaba-chan are doing."

Hua Lian was also a little worried: "It seems like they had a quarrel before."

"Squeak-"

The door was pushed open again. The three looked over and found Xiangzi standing at the door.

"Xiao Xiangzi?" Mahiru looked at the other person and saw that his expression seemed a little strange. "What's wrong?"

"Mahiru..." Xiangzi raised her eyes, and the next moment, she hung on Mahiru crying like Karen, "Help me, I will stay in your room from now on!"

"Eh——?" both Karen and Mahiru shouted.

It was several minutes before they realized what had happened.

"So, Kaori-chan is too embarrassed to meet Futaba-chan?" Mahiru concluded, "because what she said before was too embarrassing?"

Xiangzi sat on the ground and nodded weakly.

I said a lot of things just because of the atmosphere, but when I came to my senses, I realized that I still have to live with Futaba for at least an unknown amount of time! Let’s not talk about the one year or so after returning to reality, I only have one month left here!

"(Let's break up once and for all...we can't be together anymore...I can't resist the willfulness of a child...)" She thought back to what the two of them had said before, her face flushed with embarrassment.

"Could it be that they really have to live here with us..." Xiao Guang estimated the size of the room, "Four people..."

However, Mahiru was still a little embarrassed: "Is this really okay?"

"Anyway, I'm going to live with you guys, so live there, live there, live there—" Xiangzi is almost regressing back to the age of three.

"Clap."

The door was pushed open again.

The four looked over and found it was Futaba. She swept her eyes across the room, saw Xiangzi, and strode over: "Xiangzi, what's wrong with you? You ran away as soon as it was over..."

Xiangzi turned her face away: "I was... I was still practicing, it's normal to come back!"

The other three people stepped back sensibly and acted as light bulbs silently.

"You——" Gemini stood in front of Xiangzi with his hands on his hips, and was about to continue lecturing, but suddenly he couldn't hold back his laughter, "Ha...hahaha..."

"What's wrong?" Xiangzi turned away shyly, "What are you laughing at?"

Futaba covered her mouth and stopped laughing.

"Nothing... It's just that, Xiangzi, we don't have much time left to be together," she stretched out her hand, "Let's spend this time well."

Xiangzi's face turned red again. After twisting her hands for a long time, she finally held Futaba's hands gently.

ps: I really tried to copy down the revue of "Grudge", and then I found that the revue song and the lines are really well matched, especially when Xiangzi was being arrogant, the lyrics were like "You finally came to see me", so sweet

Chapter 48: Own Language

The giraffe stood on the high platform, staring at the gap made by Xiangzi in the railing.

"Revue of Grudge," it said, "is completed ahead of schedule."

"In advance?" Nana stood behind it, "Could it be that you have already planned such a scenario?"

The giraffe turned around and said, "No, no, no, I never write scripts. It is you who complete them all. It is precisely because of the unpredictability that they shine so brightly."

Nana sighed and ignored it.

"I'm here to apply for something." Nana came closer, "I want to participate in the Audition, just once."

"And Chunchun?" Shizi walked out from the shadow of the eaves.