Girls' Wishing Tree

Chapter 176 Harvest, Band and BangDream: 24, Wild Hammer Snake Sulphur Cold Kesi Grilled Shredded Mushrooms and Inspiration Mushrooms

Moonlight streamed through the window, illuminating a silkworm-like creature—Yili, curled up under the covers in the guest room, clutching her guitar. The guitar in her arms hurt her ribs, and the rustling of wind chimes in the hallway made her pull the covers up to her nose.

Whether it is the sound of wind blowing the leaves, the roar of motorcycles on the streets late at night, or the soft sound of wind chimes in the courtyard, they all seem to be amplified at night.

Yili seemed to hear the sudden cry of crows, which scared her so much that she sat up suddenly. The bark she used as a pick popped out of her sportswear pocket, making a crisp bouncing sound on the wooden floor.

She patted her chest, but still couldn't confirm whether the crow's cry came from a dream or reality.

Yili took a few breaths, her bangs-hidden eyes scanning the dim room. Her social anxiety had improved since meeting Ying, but that didn't mean she could just stay at a friend's house.

Although it was late, fear still overwhelmed sleepiness. Yili didn't know when he fell asleep, maybe it was eleven o'clock last night, maybe it was twelve o'clock, but it was definitely not time to get up yet.

I should have taken a taxi back earlier. It's just a month's pocket money. Now that I'm working with Ying, I've saved up a bit, so I can afford it...

Yili thought belatedly and picked up his phone - it was 2:10 in the morning.

At this time, getting a taxi is a luxury in more remote shrines.

Mom, Dad, Erli, and Lingmeng (Part 1) Yifin Four Vs will die if they die, and Dad Jimmy Henry... Yili is trapped in a shrine with monsters, and it feels like he is going to be eaten by the monsters!

Yili was thinking about all sorts of things. He huddled in a corner with his head in one hand and his cell phone in the other, and began to count down the time until tomorrow morning.

"Four hours... two hundred and forty minutes... one thousand four hundred seconds... no, it's fourteen thousand seconds--" Yili muttered in despair, holding the guitar, covering his head with the quilt, and mustered up the courage to walk to the door.

She reached out a trembling hand and placed it on the doorknob, but she didn't make up her mind to turn it.

She knew that Lenai and Sakura slept in the same room, so if Lenai could sleep there, then it should be okay for her to sleep next to Sakura, right?

Sakura is the shrine maiden who has been protecting herself from the monsters!

Yili mustered up his courage, unlocked the door with a click, and gently pushed it open with even more caution than opening a door on the road side of a car.

The second floor is almost entirely made up of bedrooms, and all the doors can be seen from the corridor.

I lifted the quilt in front of me and found myself in a quiet corridor. I didn't see any moving objects. There was only one room with a cold light coming through the crack of the door, which looked like a night light.

She didn't know which room Sakura slept in, but if there was a light, that should be where Sakura slept, right?

Ichiri moved closer and opened the door tremblingly, but what he saw was not the sleeping Sakura and Rakuna, but another shrine maiden, Ogiwara Sayu.

But walking into the wrong door was not the scariest thing. What was even scarier was that there was a translucent human-shaped ball of light floating above the sleeping Sayu - it was a ghost girl in a school uniform, with star-like fragments dripping from the ends of her hair.

"Help...!" Her scream caught in her throat. She dropped the blanket and ran, guitar in hand. The wooden corridor twisted into a maze in the moonlight. She wanted to run down the stairs and out the door, but she saw another path leading to the shrine. The niche where the sacred mirror should have been was empty, and the three shimenaka ropes fluttered without wind.

Yili suddenly ran away in another direction, stumbling through several intersections before she found the stairs. She ran like a prisoner escaping from prison, and ran under the cherry tree without even wearing shoes.

There are monsters under the cherry trees, but they are not as scary as the ghosts in the small building!

Ichiri glanced around and noticed a mushroom growing on the roots of the cherry tree.

She bent down to pick the mushroom off, holding it in her hand and observing it carefully - this mushroom looked no different from edible fungi, and it also exuded a faint cherry blossom fragrance.

Goto Ichiri licked the mushroom gently, and her tongue didn't feel any stinging or numbness. For some unknown reason, she stuffed the mushroom into her mouth, trying to calm herself by chewing it.

Mushrooms have a unique aroma that is unique to fungi, and they are very delicious even without being cooked.

Just as she finished eating the mushrooms, the cherry blossoms blossomed, unseasonably, in her eyes. In a matter of seconds, clusters of flowers sprouted among the green leaves. And the copper bell hanging from the eaves began to chime.

As the bells rang rhythmically, Yili knelt amidst the swirling petals, strumming frantically. The guitar's overtones resonated strangely with the bells' rhythm. Those supposedly invisible sound waves materialized into pale golden ripples in the moonlight, as if they could keep ghosts out of some kind of barrier.

Of course, she didn't think that this was the hallucinogenic effect of the inspiration mushroom, but only thought that it was the "Monster Lord" who was helping her fight the ghost.

As the first rays of sunlight pierced the mist in the early morning, Ying, who had slept soundly all night, emerged from the small building and found Ik-ri, still mechanically plucking the strings, beneath the cherry tree. Her bangs were plastered to her forehead with sweat, her panda eyes stood out against her porcelain-white skin, and her fingertips moved with a mechanical, numbness.

"A ghost... in Sayu's room..." Ichiri suddenly stopped playing, and the sound was like rusty strings.

Sakura walked over to Ichiri, grabbed her wrist and took a look.

The fingers of my left hand were swollen even though they had calluses.

She patted Yili's back gently: "It's okay, maybe you are too tired, just go back and rest for a while - I'll let Taoxiang accompany you back, you live not far away."

Ichiri suddenly stood up straight, then bowed to Sakura while holding his guitar: "Thank you, Master Youkai, for me! If Master Youkai hadn't bloomed the cherry blossoms to help me fight the ghost, I would have been doomed!"

Sakura's brow furrowed.

My own body is a cherry tree, so how can there be a tree full of cherry blossoms?

"Um...ah!" Seeing Sayu walking out of the small building, Ichiri shuddered and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

The morning mist flowed over the stone steps like melting silk. Yili huddled under the cherry tree, shivering. Her dew-soaked socks left dark marks on the moss. She stared at the morning light that passed under Sayu's miko uniform, as if it were a gnat of phosphorescent light.

"Ichiri, it's okay." Sakura then noticed that Ichiri hadn't even had time to put on his shoes when he ran out. She turned around and said to Sayu, "Go back to the small building for now and come out later today."

Although Sayu didn't know why Sakura gave her such an order, she still chose to obey.

Ichiri watched Sayu return to the small building and breathed a sigh of relief: "Um... Sakura, can you help me get my belongings over? My phone, my guitar bag—"

Ying nodded, walked into the small building, and woke up Taoxiang by the way.

Taoxiang staggered out of the entrance. Her blond hair was a mess from the hangover and she could only comb it with her fingers. "Do you want to escort the Nozuchi snake back to its nest?"

"You are all guitarists, you can chat on the way to avoid being bored on the way back. Yili had a nightmare yesterday, so please pay attention to her safety on the way. By the way, in addition to the guitar bag, also bring Yili's shoes at the door to her." Ying did not mention anything about ghosts.

After the shrine returned to silence, Sakura knocked on Sayu's door. Sayu was adjusting the gauze curtains with her hands. The curtains, with a slight hint of light blue, were exactly the same color as the hair of the ghost girl I saw yesterday.

"Did you know that Yili came to your room yesterday?" Ying asked casually while sitting on a chair in the room.

"Yes, she told me." Sha Youdian nodded.

"she?"

"It's Yuko." Sayu looked at Sakura: "Yuko wanted to say hello to her, but she ran away quickly."

Ying channeled her demonic energy into her eyes, watching the flickering light and shadow in the dressing mirror. Where two figures should have been reflected, a third, blurry silhouette flickered instead.

Judging from what we got from Guo Yu, it is very likely that the thing hidden in Sayu's body is not a ghost.

This creates a vicious circle - the thing in Sayu's body is a ghost, but it is unlikely that the thing in Sayu's body is a ghost.

Sayu continued, "Yuko won't affect my work at the shrine, nor will she harm others. I've already communicated with her, and from now on I will take her to see more of the beauty of the world."

"Hmm..." Sakura lowered her head and thought for a moment before saying, "Perhaps you could find something to do besides being a miko? Like... that cram school I mentioned before...?"

When Sakura first mentioned the cram school to Sayu, Sayu reacted very strongly. Sakura brought it up again just to see if Sayu had really changed.

"I... will think about it and get back to you later." Sayu answered after a slight hesitation, without any displeasure on her face.

Chapter 177 Harvest, Band and BangDream: 25, I can't play any of them

Taoxiang yawned as she got off the bus, startling the sparrows under the eaves of the bus stop. The sound of their flapping wings made Yili shrink back again.

"Have you sent a message to Yingli?" Momoka looked at Ichiri's phone: "Your phone screen seems to be cracked."

Yili's phone was intact yesterday. Now that I think about it, I must have dropped it in a hurry when I was leaving the room.

Yili hurriedly checked his phone, his bangs sweeping across his eyes, which still had dark circles under them. "I fell last week..."

As she spoke, she sent a message to Ying to let her know she was safe.

Fortunately, the touch screen did not malfunction.

Sakura, who received news from Momoka and Ichiri, simply cleaned the path to the shrine before returning to the small building to find Sayu.

Sayu is... a little too honest.

I told her not to come out for the time being, and she really didn't come out of the building for more than an hour.

Sakura didn't call Sayu, but walked into the small building and found the room where Sayu was staying temporarily.

Sayu was not planning to move into the small building. She slept in the new house yesterday just because everyone was resting there.

Sakura was somewhat surprised to find Sayu's room empty. Her quilt was neatly folded on the tatami, but she had left. In fact, all the bedrooms were empty—Momoka and Ichiri had left together, and Rakuna had gone to school early.

Ying immediately realized that she should be going to the training room. The training room in the small building was fully equipped, and she might go there to practice drums.

But as she rushed to the training room, Sakura's fingers paused on the doorknob. Through the double-glazed glass, she saw Sayu gesturing at the air, her noise-canceling headphones dangling sideways, her hair swaying as she shook her head vigorously. The light cast her shadow on the sound-absorbing cotton wall, moving with her intense movements.

It looked like Sayu was talking to the air—no, arguing with it.

When Sakura concentrated her demonic power in her pupils, she finally saw the spirit floating in front of Sayu - the girl in school uniform was arguing with Sayu, scattering tiny traces of light, which disappeared in a flash, but the spirit itself was relatively stable.

Ying didn't push the door, but made a video call to Guo Yu.

Today, Guo Yu was collecting dew on the mountain, with two mineral water bottles hanging around his waist, and he also looked tired.

"Guo Yu, Sayu's spirit has come out. Can you help me take a look?" Sakura stated her request directly.

Guo Yu glanced at the front camera of his phone and said, "No, even a master can't accurately judge through the lens - unless you completely don't restrain your demonic power like you did before."

"Sayu is arguing with the ghost that possessed her." Ying let Guo Yu see Sayu's current state: "I used my demonic power to see, and I could see a girl in a school uniform."

"No way... The conditions for ghosts to exist are very harsh. This..." Guo Yu scratched his Taoist bun, which was a little messy after getting up early. "I'll get back to you after I finish looking through a few scrolls of Song Dynasty silk books."

The call was disconnected, and the tone echoed through the training room. After a moment's thought, Sakura pushed the door open. The moment she opened the door, she finally heard what the two were saying.

"I'm taking cram school so I can take you on trips! I'll study foreign languages ​​diligently, master a few more, and see the world with you!"

"Have you forgotten how your classmates treated you back then? The cold words and insults you received in Hokkaido won't be repeated in Tokyo?"

"How can there be a better tomorrow if we don't get out of the old haze?"

……

Sayu was arguing with the spirit, but all the words came from Sayu's mouth. This one-man show in which she played two roles was a bit creepy.

"Let me sign you up for that cram school class for Nina." Sakura pretended not to notice Sayu's trembling fingertips scratching crescent-shaped white marks on the soft-padded instrument stand, and walked over to interrupt the strange quarrel.

Sayu turned her head and stared at Sakura, and the spirits around her did the same in sync.

Then the spirit dissipated instantly, as if it had never appeared in the first place.

Sakura was still a little dazed because her spirit had dissipated, but Sayu had returned to her familiar state.

"Xiaoying, okay, thank you so much. The tuition fee is free and I will deduct it from my salary--"

Sakura interrupted Sayu, "I'm not asking you to go to remedial classes to open up your scars. You've been interacting with many people at the shrine, but you've been doing it as a miko. Perhaps going to remedial classes will help you feel better."

Sayu didn't say anything, but just straightened her shrine maiden costume which was messed up by the quarrel with the air.

Sakura looked at Sayu, reached out to help her fix her sideburns, and decided to change the subject: "Also, why hasn't your band found that person yet? If they don't, I can't ask Yamada Ryo out."

"...I couldn't find her after she ran away." Sayu said speechlessly, "If the God is willing, perhaps he can send her back to me? As for Shinhiro, we've been in touch."

Sakura has always been very proactive - since Sayu agreed, Sakura took her directly to sign up for the cram school class. She just asked Chi Shang, who was watching the shop at the foot of the mountain, to help look after the shrine when leaving.

The two of them walked out of the tram stop and headed towards the cram school. As they walked along the street, Sakura's eyes flickered to the shops. The fake cakes and patches lined up in a dessert shop were truly eye-catching. In the video store window, there were several posters for a girl band, standing out among the promotional ads and internationally renowned bands.

Sayu followed Sakura on the sidewalk, and found that Sakura suddenly stopped and almost bumped into her.

"Kita?" Sakura shouted out when she saw Kita's iconic red hair and familiar figure flash past from behind the window.

Sakura couldn't be 100% sure that it was Kita based on the fleeting figure, but with the dialog box above her head, it was definitely there.

Kita glanced at Sakura and Sayu, his eyes widened instantly, and he quickly ran out of the video store and ran away.

"Wait!" Sayu started running, attracting the attention of many passers-by.

Before Kita could run a few steps, as Sakura made a stealthy move, a tree root suddenly emerged from the cracks in the sidewalk bricks. The panicked Kita didn't notice it at all and kicked it.

"Ouch!" Kita staggered and almost fell to the ground with her hands, but when she looked for what had tripped her, the tree root disappeared without a trace, leaving only two overturned bricks.

Kita looked up and saw Sayu and Sakura had gathered around them. "Ahahaha... I don't know how the municipal administration works. They actually have overturned bricks—"

When Sayu's shadow loomed over him, Kita didn't stand up immediately. Instead, he subconsciously hugged his head and suddenly changed his tone: "I'm sorry! Actually, I can't even play the ukulele! I learned guitar, but I can't play it well! I just admired Ryo-senpai! So I wanted to form a band and get her in! I'm sorry! You should find a new guitarist!"

Sakura reached out and pulled Kita up, and took a look at her hands, and found that there were indeed no calluses like a guitarist.

"If you can't, then don't!" Sakura patted Kita's skirt. "Just explain it clearly. What's the point of running away like this? The lead singer of my band can't play an instrument. If you're really good at singing, you can be the lead singer. Besides, Sayu and Shin don't have long to study, so you still have time to learn now."

Kita, who thought he would be scolded, widened his eyes and said, "Um... is this really possible?"

"I have a friend who's been teaching people how to play guitar lately." Sakura turned her phone towards Kita. In the video, Aine was doing basic guitar training under Ichiri's guidance. "If you're starting from scratch, maybe I can help you make an appointment with Yamada Ryo in a few months?"

Kita's pupils suddenly dilated when she heard Yamada Ryo's name. She reached for the crumpled livehouse flyer in her handbag. The poster with Ryo's profile printed on it had been folded and smoothed out so many times that it felt a little soft.

Sayu also helped Sakura speak up: "The first time I played with Mahiro, the drumstick accidentally slipped out of my hand and almost hit Mahiro's nose."

"...Yeah." Kita bowed deeply to the two of them: "Sorry! I've caused you both trouble!"

The system prompt sounded at the right time: "There is a task for this person. Do you want to publish it?"

Sakura nodded.

[Under your guidance, the girl embarked on the path of learning an instrument and joining a band. Please select the specific direction of guidance:]

[A. The girl will become a guitarist, and completing the game will reward guitar proficiency and random skills.]