Girls' Wishing Tree

Sakura suddenly came to a conclusion that surprised her - the ones who could be "optimized" in Crychic were actually the three people from Tsuki no Mori.

Xiangzi's attitude is problematic, and Muhe Sushi's personalities are problematic. If they find Lenai or Yili, and then hire a bassist, Crychic might be able to "revitalize".

Sakura patted her chest twice and suppressed the thought in her heart, while Lenai had already started practicing the piano with her head shaking.

Chapter 147 Spring, Sakura and Crychic:49, Interesting Vocalist

Music festival site, parking lot.

Rupa stepped on the brakes, and Hongxia, Zhi and Renai, who were sitting in the back seat, were squeezed together due to inertia.

"Ouch! My butt's about to break!" Renai opened the car door, quickly jumped out, and swung her legs twice. "Momoka, where did you borrow such a shabby car?"

"It's good that someone is willing to lend it to us. At least after Ying helped us prepare it, we ran it for hundreds of kilometers without any problems." Taoxiang got out of the passenger seat: "I'm going to register the band, you guys go check the hotel reservation."

"Momoka, let me go with you." Rencai walked to Momoka's side.

"Tomorrow morning... we're going to have a rehearsal." Momoka and Nina chatted, "Are you ready?"

"That's it." Renai followed Momoka and walked slowly behind her: "Sister came to see me once."

"Your family came to Tokyo from Kumamoto?"

"...Yeah." Nina murmured, "My sister said my grades at the cram school were terrible, and the cram school sent my dad two emails... That's terrible."

"So, you decided to reduce the band's activities?" Taoxiang's eyes lit up.

"No, I've decided to drop out of school after I get back this time." Renai's eyebrows were practically touching. "It's impossible to succeed in a band while studying like this. I can't... let everyone down."

Momoka's eyes dimmed again. "Quitting school to pursue music is a very difficult path. I'm a failure. Eventually, I'll leave Tokyo and return to my hometown to work. Maybe... I'll get married there."

"Huh? Aren't we in a professional band together?" Rencai looked surprised.

"I'm sorry, I can't meet your expectations. I can no longer attempt to form a professional band." Taoxiang clenched her fists. "Tomorrow, before the performance, I will explain everything to everyone in the band."

Renai took a step forward and grabbed the corner of Momoka's clothes, her voice trembling, perhaps because of fear, or perhaps because of anger.

Momoka turned her face away, not daring to meet Renai's gaze. Perhaps because the people attending the music festival were more "rock-oriented", their situation did not attract too much attention.

Indeed, compared with the man in a leather jacket doing somersaults with fireworks in his mouth, the old man dancing Russian folk dance with a cane, and the people calling on each other with glow sticks on the lawn, the two girls standing on the roadside were not an eye-catching action at all.

Nina suddenly spoke up, her tone revealing suppressed emotion. "Then what about me, who dropped out of school? What about Rupa and Chi, who've been waiting for you to become professional musicians? What about Hongxia, who took a leave of absence to come with us? What about Sakura, who helped us promote our business and even fixed our car before coming here?"

Momoka didn't know how to answer, so she just continued walking forward, not even noticing that the coat tied around her waist was pulled off by Rencai.

Renai stood there in a daze, holding Momoka's coat.

Meanwhile in Tokyo, Sakura saw a message pop up in Crychic's group.

[Nagasaki Suyo: After class tomorrow, we'll rehearse at LiveHouseRing, including "Spring Shadow" and a new song that Xiangzi has completed the arrangement of.]

[Toyokawa Shoko: I'm sorry for not coming to rehearsal earlier. I'll definitely come tomorrow. Here's the sheet music for the new song.]

Immediately afterwards, Li Xi, Mu and Deng all responded, and Ying also popped up in the group.

Sakura really didn't expect that Su Shi could organize Crychic's rehearsals and even asked Xiangzi to compose music for a new song. When Su Shi's draw results were not good, Sakura had already prepared for Crychic to disband and even had an "optimization plan" in mind. She didn't expect that Su Shi could "change fate" and save the band under such circumstances.

However, even if rehearsals are organized, they should only be...temporary.

The atmosphere within Crychic's team has begun to become unbalanced, and this is not something that can be solved by just getting together for training twice.

At this point, Ying suddenly felt a little melancholy. She actually quite liked the band Crychic. Not counting the bands she had formed temporarily, this was the first band she had ever joined.

But in terms of duration...

It seems that there is not much difference between them and a temporary band?

Sakura put her phone aside, picked up the guitar and played some fast-paced music.

Lenai, who was also in the training room, looked over and said, "Sakura, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just suddenly thought of some things in the group chat. Lenai, aren't you going back to sleep tonight?"

"I'll sleep at the shrine. Sakura's place... is more comfortable." Le Na stretched. "And if I want to go to school, Sakura's place is also very convenient."

"Didn't your parents come back from abroad?"

"They don't stay long." Lenai shook his head. "They come back once or twice a year, but then they leave again."

"You have a bad relationship with them?"

"No." Lenai continued to shake his head: "I'm just not familiar with them."

Ying's lips curled up, and she looked at Lenai with a playful look: "Lenai said she wanted to form a band with me. What about the rest of the team? Do you have any ideas? It's impossible for just the two of us to form a band, right?"

"Drummer, bassist, lead singer, and us." Lenai counted on his fingers.

"Hmm? Lenai doesn't want me to be the bassist?"

"I do." Le Nai looked at Ying seriously: "But Ying can play many instruments. We can choose the appropriate instruments according to the needs of the music, so that the band will be more interesting. We can find a bassist, and then if Sakura plays guitar, we can play double guitar. If Sakura plays pipa or violin, the band will have more characteristics." Le Nai rarely said a lot of words.

For Sakura, who has multiple musical skills, this is indeed a very tempting position. Compared to simply serving as a violinist in the band, this will make her much more comfortable and more motivated to create for the band.

"Then you still haven't told me the other candidates for the members in your mind, Lenai." Sakura supported her cheek with one hand and continued to look at the cat-like Lenai.

"That's the woman I saw this afternoon. Interesting."

Sakura thought for half a minute before confirming who Lenai was referring to as the "interesting woman".

It's Takamatsu Tomori.

"That's the lead singer of Crychic. What? Do you want to take two members away from Crychic at once?" Ying said jokingly.

"Since we've already taken two, let's take the bassist and drummer as well!" Lenai raised a hand. "That way, our band will be complete!"

Sakura glared at Lenai, "You can't just tear up other people's bands!"

"Hehehe..." Lenai laughed while hugging her old guitar: "Ying, just keep looking, you will definitely find it."

"It's really not easy to find a good drummer and bassist." Ying thought for a while and said, "Forget it, there's no rush for this kind of thing."

Chapter 148 Spring, Sakura and Crychic:50, I wish you a good performance tonight

Sayu and Lenae would sometimes sleep in the same room with Sakura, but the training sessions between Sakura and the other two were very different.

Most of the time when Sakura and Sayu were training together, she would just take a short nap and then withdraw her consciousness into the cherry tree to start quality alone time, practicing musical instruments or meditating as a tree; and Lenae would always get close to Sakura and be able to see where her consciousness was.

As long as Sakura transfers her consciousness to the cherry tree, Lenae will spend a relatively bad night in boredom and anxiety. On the contrary, if Sakura really sleeps with Lenae like a real human being for a night, Lenae will sleep soundly and sometimes even knead milk like a real cat.

However, Sakura did not dislike Lena's "intimacy" - this intimacy did not make Sakura feel uncomfortable, but instead made her feel more like "home" at the shrine.

She had to admit that Lenai could indeed provide her with high-quality companionship.

But when it comes to explaining what kind of companionship it is, Sakura is a bit at a loss. They aren't related by blood, so it's probably not family; Lenai is still a child, so it's probably not love; Sakura hasn't revealed her identity as a tree demon, and Lenai doesn't understand the cat demon part of her, so it's probably not a relationship between monsters either...

But this is not something that needs to be figured out right away. As long as you continue to get along with each other, some things will eventually come to light.

Sakura pushed away the hand on her chest, tucked the quilt around Lenai's collar, and sat up in bed.

There were quite a few unread messages on the phone next to the pillow. What surprised Ying was that most of these messages were sent by Hongxia.

Wasn't Hongxia out at the music festival with Taoxiang? Why is she sending me so many messages so late at night?

Ying opened the communication interface and found that most of the messages were sent after 10 o'clock in the evening.

[Xiaoying, we're at the music festival. The accommodations here are a bit poor, and it's very noisy at night. We'll be rehearsing tomorrow morning and performing tonight.]

[I saw several musicians I've seen on TV. They seem so amazing. Can I perform with them?]

[It seems Momoka and Nina had a fight. Momoka said she wanted to quit the band. I don’t quite understand what happened…]

[Nina didn't want to sleep in the same room with Momoka. She slept with Rupa and Satoshi, so I came over and slept with Momoka. Momoka refused to talk about herself and asked me a lot about school.]

……

The timestamp at this time is already late at night.

According to Hongxia, Momoka apologized to Hongxia and said that she still couldn't pursue a professional career, so she decided to quit. She hoped that Hongxia could follow others and recommended Goto Ichiri, who did not have a band at the moment, to Hongxia.

Goto Ichiri is indeed an excellent guitarist, and he doesn't have a band yet. However, this band has a strong personal imprint of Momoka.

Taoxiang knew this, but she still chose to avoid it. The good-tempered Hongxia listened to her all night and encouraged her all night, but her final conclusion could only be "do a good job at the music festival first."

After reading the message, Ying wanted to call Taoxiang, but after finding Taoxiang in the address book, she still didn't call.

Her persuasion may not be more effective than others. What is more important is to let Taoxiang make her own decision.

Now, all they could do was wait and see what happened after the festival. If Momoka insisted on leaving, Sakura felt Goto Ichiri would be the most suitable replacement. However, if that were the case, they would still have to work on convincing lead singer Nina.

Ying rubbed her temples and decided to live stream for a while in the morning.

Communicating with the audience in the live broadcast room is also a way to relax your mind.

The content of her live broadcast today is... copying.

After acquiring calligraphy skills, she also experienced the joy of writing with a soft brush. Carefully copying calligraphy can easily help her enter a more relaxed state.

The broadcast started early in the morning and there were not many people in the live broadcast room. Ying did not communicate too much with the barrage of comments, but was silently copying in front of the camera.

She wrote seriously for two hours before shaking her sore wrists.

Most comments said that although they didn't understand it, they felt it was amazing. Because of the homogeneity of the comments, Ying responded less and less, basically saying something like "writing requires concentration."

The few who could understand it were explaining it to other viewers, saying that it can be seen from Ying's imitations that she has a solid foundation in calligraphy, and even when imitating, she has her own style.

"Oh, my handwriting is just barely passable." Ying said to the camera, "Next time I have the chance, I'll write something original for everyone. Maybe it will show my strength better... I've only been practicing casually for a dozen years. If you persist, you might be able to write better than me..."

"Ah? The comment asked me to copy 'Hemorrhoid Patch'? You guys are really enough. Someone wrote to a friend saying they had hemorrhoids, and you dug out the private letter and copied it, not only that, you even copied the two strokes that depicted the hemorrhoids. Needless to say, I won't copy it..."

After pretending for a while, Ying turned off the live broadcast with a refreshed mood - take a break in the afternoon, and then go to participate in Crychic's rehearsal. Even if Crychic does the same thing as Momoka, she can still leave some emotional space to accept the impact.

Sakura looked around the construction site, had lunch with Sayu, and played the violin under a tree until...

It's time for the girls to get out of school.

According to the news in the group, Crychic should be able to gather all members again this evening.

Sakura left the shrine carrying her violin case and holding an umbrella.

Crychic is now a bit "crumbling". If Shoko Toyokawa can explain things clearly, Crychic can still hold on for a while longer.

If that doesn't work...

I'm afraid I won't even be able to make it to the next Live.

Sakura unconsciously thought of Lenna's words.

If Crychic was doing well, she certainly wouldn't try to poach its members. But if Crychic really failed, she and Lenai could bring in Tomo, Sushi, and Riki, and maybe they could form a new band right away.

Thinking of this, Ying shook her head, threw away these strange thoughts in her mind, and quickened her pace towards LiveHouseRing.

Poaching and the like was just a joke, but it was indeed necessary to have a talk with Xiangzi.

The band was formed by Xiangzi, and now Xiangzi has reduced his investment in the band - just like Taoxiang wanting to quit the band she led, which is likely to directly damage the foundation of the band.

Normally, a band will have a certain "tone" of its founder. If the founder fades out, the band will definitely go through a process of turbulence and reorganization, and some bands may even disband directly.

Ying looked up and found herself at the Ring entrance. She took out her phone, glanced at the messages in the Crychic group, and sent another message to Momoka: "Good luck with the performance tonight."

Chapter 149 Spring, Sakura and Crychic:51, I don’t want to play anymore

Sakura stood in the hallway of the LiveHouse practice room, observing the order in which the Crychic members arrived. The first member to arrive was Suyo, who had appeared at Ring early, followed by Deng and Riki, who had probably arrived together after class.

Mu arrived a few minutes later, looking a little tired with her guitar on her back.

Several people gathered in the corridor and waited for Xiangzi for ten more minutes, but Xiangzi still did not show up.

It was Li Xi who suggested, "It's not good for five of us to keep waiting for one. Why don't we practice first?"

"Wait, I'll send another message to Xiangzi." Su Shi took out his mobile phone and tapped on the screen quickly.

Mu was the first to move. He walked straight into the training room and started tuning the guitar. Deng and Lixi followed him in.

Ying tugged at Su Shi's sleeve and said, "Your string instruments need to be tuned first. You can play them once Xiangzi's keyboard arrives. We'll tune the instruments first, and you can wait for Xiangzi to arrive for training."

Su Shi then slowly moved into the training room, raised her head and said to Mu, "Xiao Mu, I'm still very worried about Xiao Xiang. You and her knew each other before, and you were in the same class. Shouldn't you know something?"

Mu paused for a moment. "...I don't know."

The situation in the room was a little "depressing".

Ying adjusted her skirt buttons, squatted down, took out the violin from the case, took out the rosin and started doing basic maintenance.

"Hua-hua--" Raindrops hit the window of the training room, making a "crackling" sound. Mu and Ying were maintaining their instruments, Li Xi was sitting on the drum stool playing with his mobile phone, but Su Shi did not take out her bass. Instead, she stood by the window, watching the transformer outside getting wet in the rain.

There are people watching me wash carpets, sweep toilets, open cans, repair donkey hooves, and fry dog ​​bowls. Standing and watching the rain wash over the power supply facilities outside the window is not a strange hobby.

But Su Shi's expression was written all over her face; her sadness and worry seemed to outweigh her anticipation for the next rehearsal.