MyGO? The string value monster craves the band girl!

After waving goodbye to the man in black who had brought her all the way from the airport, Aine breathed a sigh of relief and touched her chest.

Are the daily lives of international movie stars also so hectic that they even have to sleep on planes?

Seriously, I thought I would have a psychological trauma about going abroad for a long time after escaping from the UK, but the two days I was abroad passed so happily.

Australia is also a member of the Commonwealth, so I overcame my psychological barriers and challenged myself to travel to England again!

Yuqiu, Class A, Grade 1.

"Aine-san, so you've already started filming a movie so soon?"

"If I hadn't followed your Instagram account, I wouldn't have heard that Aine-san had to go filming on such a tight weekend schedule. You actually hid it so well from everyone!"

"Aine-san, how are you feeling? Is there anything you can tell us? Will you be having a box lunch or a fancy restaurant for lunch?"

“Hehe…” Although she kept saying “I need to keep a low profile”, Aine still held up her face and revealed a smile that she couldn’t hide.

Looking at the traffic light trio in front of her, Aine quickly picked up the bag she had brought from the ground and took out three small gift boxes:

"I'm so sorry I couldn't form a band with you all. I prepared some small gifts for you all before I came back last night. Please accept them!"

“Eh? Why are you being so polite, Aine-san?”

"Eri, you're such a fool! Aine-san is being polite, so why don't you stop being polite!"

"Anyway, I won't be polite!"

Deng, who was sitting in front of Aine, looked at Aine who was surrounded by classmates who were curious about her experience on the set, and made a nervous gurgling sound in his throat.

It was not until the class was about to start that the classmates around Aiyin, who was surrounded by people and became the focus of the class, dispersed.

[Aine, I haven't had much time to rehearse with the band lately. As expected, I'm still...]

Deng turned around with a somewhat gloomy expression, and shifted his gaze away from Aine, who was originally separated from him.

"Little lamp."

Aiyin called out softly, causing the dark clouds in Dengxin's heart to dissipate most of the time.

"Ai...Aine?"

Aine blinked at the light and made a gesture as if whispering something:

"I'll give you your gift after school!"

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Lunch time in Moon Forest.

Nagasaki Suyo pinched the handle of the teacup and took a sip of the black tea in the cup.

[This black tea doesn't taste like that...]

Su Shi looked up at Wakaba Mutsu, who was sitting opposite her and had ordered the same vegetarian set meal as her.

Yes, I know that what I remember most is not the taste of the tea itself, but the feeling of everyone happily doing something together.

Although both of them play musical instruments, for Nagasaki Suyo, the long-term practice experience at Tsukinomori Junior High School was far less impressive than the one-month practice with crychic, which left her with a lifelong regret.

Because she would not do this to the orchestral club... Members are free to come and go, they were playing music and chatting together yesterday, but members they knew well might move to other clubs the next day, giving them a sense of belonging like at home.

In the early days of crychic, every member needed her, and she could devote her heart and soul to caring for every member. The relationship of "needing and being needed" and the resulting sense of belonging and security made her addicted.

What she needs is a close and stable relationship; one that may face many difficulties, but has a definite goal that they work together to achieve, a family-like bond that is constantly cultivated among fixed members, and precious memories... a community of shared destiny.

But crychic can no longer come back, and Xiaoxiang and we have all changed forever.

Nagasaki Suyo picked up a piece of spinach and slowly put it into her mouth.

The crew put together by Genmaki Yui, in just two days, made her seem to recall the beautiful memories when crychic was just formed - although she didn't know where Genmaki Yui found Chihaya Aine from, which made her a little overwhelmed, but the other party gave her a stronger sense of "being needed" than Wakaba Mu could give.

But she couldn't feel the same sense of belonging to the crew as crychic.

Because no matter how unforgettable the memories are when filming together, the crew will disband on the spot after the filming is completed... But the band will not disband after the performance other than the farewell live.

There are bands that have been around for decades, but there are no theater crews that have been around for decades...

After the song ends, everyone goes their separate ways; after the curtain falls, everyone goes their separate ways.

After the film is completed, where will they go and how can they continue their relationship by getting together as frequently as they do now?

[I'm probably... more of a team-building enthusiast who enjoys interacting with others than a lover of music. What a terrible person...]

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RiNG, rehearsal room.

Hachiman Kailing, carrying her bass case, subconsciously glanced at the store manager, whom she had met several times in the store but had never spoken to alone in such a private space.

"Tomorin! Rikki! Umirin! I brought gifts for everyone from Australia!"

"Tou Mo Ling, Li Xi, ah, and Hai Ling-san, everyone is here."

After school, Aiyin went home first, picked up the suitcase containing the gifts, and then came to RiNG to meet her teammates with Xianjuan Yiyi who was waiting there.

"I was undecided about what gift to give Xiao Deng at first, but thanks to Xianjuan-san for introducing me!"

Aiyin crossed her arms, winked at Genmaki Yui, and then looked at her teammates with some pride, as if showing off her taste in choosing gifts.

“Aine…” Deng placed his hand on his chest and looked at Aine who was rummaging through the gifts. His reserved expression was somehow filled with guilt.

Xianjuanwei looked at Xiao Bideng. She hadn't seen her for a while. Xianjuanwei still subconsciously thought that the penguin man was going to say "GuGuGaGa" when she saw her.

“Ding ding!”

Aine took out a gift box tied with a ribbon from the suitcase and handed it to Deng.

"This is……"

"Xiao Deng, come and take it apart and see what it is!"

"Uh-huh!"

Deng placed the gift box on the bench as if holding an important treasure, and methodically removed the ribbon and the heavily dampened lid.

Wrapped in the sponge was another transparent box, inside which was placed a gray pebble-like stone the size of half a little finger.

Deng Huang, who has raised countless stone war pets, has an extraordinary eye. Especially when he saw the mark on the identification certificate at the back, he immediately realized that the small stone in front of him was a meteorite.

"Xiao Deng is so into astronomy and stones. I might not know as much about this as you do, so I'll just tell you what the seller said. Xiao Deng, please help me identify it."

Aine’s face was filled with a smile. After a light cough, she introduced:

"In 1969, there was a meteorite fall near Murchison in Victoria, and about 100 kilograms of meteorite was eventually recovered."

"These meteorites are collectively known as the Murchison meteorites, and they contain over 100 amino acids... well, I don't remember the rest very clearly, but in short, it was only in recent years that scientists were able to determine, by measuring the age of their cosmic ray exposure, that they came from a meteorite grain that is over 70 billion years old."

"70 billion years, half the age of the solar system!"

"So they are also highly sought after by scientists and collectors. I checked Christie's auction records of several Murchison meteorite samples. Most of them were less than 100 grams, and the price was basically in the range of US$300-1000 per gram."

"I was originally worried. Xianjuan's idea of ​​giving Xiaodeng a gift is great, but I don't have that much pocket money, and Xiaodeng might feel pressured after learning the price..."

"but!"

Aine happily patted the shoulder of Yui Genmaki who was sitting next to her.

“Luckily, Xianjuan has a wide network of contacts. He proposed his idea to me in the morning, and in the afternoon he contacted a private collector who happened to be in Australia and came to us!”

"He had several meteorites of different sizes in his hand, so I chose the smallest one to give to Xiao Deng. It weighs only 1.4 grams!"

Xianjuan Wei smiled and nodded - in fact, the lightest sample the seller had was 10g, but considering Aine's financial ability and the lamp's acceptance, he asked the black-clothed man in charge of contacting and buying out the goods to process it into small pieces of 1-5g first, and then quickly make the identification certificate before bringing people to sell it.

Ain originally wanted to give Deng an astronomical telescope, but she was worried that Deng wouldn't be able to accept the price, so the purchase price for Ain should not exceed Deng's telescope.

(Note: The telescope used by the Royal Lights is not the same model in the animation and the game CG. The price ranges from less than 1 to less than 10)

"I can't think of a more suitable gift for Xiao Deng, who loves astronomy and stones. I hope Xiao Deng likes it!"

Chapter 165: Your butterfly exploded again?

"Thank you, Aine!"

Watching Deng hugging the transparent box containing a small piece of meteorite tightly, and standing up to thank Aine incoherently, Xianjuan Wei shifted his gaze to Riki and Hailing.

Although I didn't mean to discredit her, it seemed that Aiyin's taste in gifts wasn't much better than her aesthetic taste in clothes.

"This is for Rikki! I think they're all national treasures, maybe Rikki would like it too!"

"Thank you...thank you."

Riki, who had no shift today and was dressed in casual clothes, took the kangaroo stuffed animal from Aine's hand.

　Although the span is a bit large, it is after all Aine's intention, so...

Li Xi turned the kangaroo over so that it faced him, and after taking a closer look, he asked doubtfully:

"What are these gloves that this kangaroo is wearing?"

"Hehe, I sewed these gloves on myself. This is an entertainment-related product that only a few of them exist in the world. Its future value is immeasurable." Aiyin rested her fingers on her chin, narrowed her eyes slightly, and there was a smug smile in her eyes.

Aine pointed at the kangaroo’s belly again:

"Lixi, look what this is!"

Li Xi carefully examined the elegant handwriting on Kangaroo's bellyband, and said hesitantly and doubtfully:

"MA...MANA?"

Aine snapped her fingers and raised her chin slightly in triumph.

"Bingo! This is MANA-chan...Ms. Junda Mana from Sumimi! It might be very memorable in the future!"

Li Xi nodded seriously and placed the kangaroo doll on a chair beside him.

Hailing, who was wearing a red and black leather suit and looked like she would not feel out of place whether she lost the local girl or was selling graphics cards, paused for two seconds on the string of "MANA".

Is it the autograph of a big idol like sumimi?

"And, Wu Miling!" Aine said, leaning over to search in the suitcase again.

"Here, this is the best I found at the airport!"

"……what?"

Hailing took the two cans of milk powder with English words written on them from Ain's hand. She was a little dazed, still wondering why she would give Ain such a gift.

"Because I see Hailing often mixes protein powder as a substitute for meals, I specially brought her the best high-protein milk powder!"

Facing Aine’s brilliant smile, Hailing looked a little embarrassed, but after a moment she nodded and said:

"Well, thank you very much, Aine-san."

Protein powder has become high-protein milk powder, this...

Should I tell her that the main ingredient of protein powder is actually soy milk?

The difficulty that had just faded from Hailing's face reappeared.

The image of her mother, the plump and thrifty one she had always tried to avoid, resurfaced in her mind.

Because of this real-life case, Hailing, who doesn't know whether she has this kind of genetic gene, has always been extremely restrained in her diet.

When Hailing thought about the large amount of energy and sugar that these two cans of milk powder could provide for the growth of infants and young children, she felt as if she was holding two cans of hot potatoes in her hands.

She has seen a lot of 0-sugar, 0-calorie drinks these days, but she has never heard of 0-sugar, 0-calorie milk powder.

After all, if you think about it, you will know the consequences of using Genki Forest as milk powder for babies...

"Speaking of your band, have you prepared the performance arrangements?" Seeing that Aine had finished distributing the gifts, Xianjuan Wei, who was sitting next to Aine, asked.

The topic returned to the band's comfort zone. Hailing held a can of milk powder in each arm and calmly explained:

"Because Aine-san has to reserve her weekends for filming, she can only attend the live show on weekdays."

"Since we don't have fame or a regular audience, we can't hold a live even if we rely solely on covering other people's songs, so we applied to participate in a joint live next month."

"Hmm..." Xian Juanwei raised his head and thought for a moment, then his eyes swept over the four people one by one.

Lixi, the coffee warrior in the livehouse; Hailing, the bass mercenary wandering among the flowers.

Both of them are extremely familiar with the band and live performances.

But in comparison, the number of live performances that Deng, who is more of a homebody, and Ai Yin, the pink-haired guitarist who likes to try everything, have actually seen is rather questionable...

"So, before you go to the joint live, are you interested in watching a large live first?"

"Eh?"