A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

So this is actually the end of the band’s fandom…?

"I do not know."

Li Xi lowered his eyes slightly and replied decisively.

"Eh? Well... I thought you guys would definitely know."

The girl sighed softly, an apologetic smile on her face. "Well, I don't have anything to do. Sorry to bother you."

"...I remember they promoted their own livehouse after the performance that day. Didn't you hear it?"

Li Xi sighed heavily, and after a brief hesitation and struggle, he couldn't help but blurt out.

Since she knew the truth, she couldn't hide it because of her personal emotions. Otherwise, wouldn't it mean that she didn't want to end the band and increase the fans?

She wanted to defeat the End Band for the lights, but not in this way. Instead, she wanted to do it in a fair and square way, using her strength to prove that she was stronger.

"Ah~ I left right after the show because I was just passing by..."

The girl smiled a little embarrassedly and looked at Li Xi hopefully.

"I remember it was... in Shimokitazawa, a livehouse called Starry."

Li Xi chose to tell the truth.

98

Chapter 98: The band that cannot participate in the student band music festival.

An Heang, 17 years old, is a student at an arts school.

She is currently a highly favored future actress in the arts school. She has appeared in commercials at a young age. Her grandmother is also a very famous actress and artist. It can be said that she has a promising future and has possibilities that no one can envy.

However, this well-behaved, elegant and polite girl has a secret that she cannot tell her family and friends.

The granddaughter of the popular actor An Hetiantong, a promising new star in the entertainment industry, comes from a wealthy family and is a student actress who is expected to surpass her grandmother in the future. In fact, she is the drummer of a newly formed rock band.

She was not ready to let the people around her know this, and was not ready to expose her true self to everyone.

But in fact, she doesn't like the restrained, formal and strict life. She yearns for a free and unrestrained rock band, and yearns for fierce and wild rock music that dares to criticize the whole world.

The more well-behaved a child is, the more likely she is to develop a rebellious self. Beneath her well-behaved exterior, her heart becomes as agitated and violent as a drumbeat. She wants to gather all her emotions and unhappiness under her feet and on the drumstick, and beat away all her actor baggage and tutoring!

So, at the invitation of an outstanding working guitarist, she joined her current rock band as a drummer and is currently working towards the goal of forming a professional band with everyone.

Yesterday was the weekend, a holiday at the arts school. Before leaving for the recording studio to practice, she had wanted to go to Jizo-dori Shopping Street. After all, it was one of the oldest shopping streets in Sugamo. Plus, there was a large event going on there, and she wanted to pick out a gift for her grandmother, so she rushed over.

So, she successfully caught up with the most exciting part of the Zangtong Music Festival - the performances of the first and second ranked bands that day.

"Are all student bands nowadays so exaggerated?"

An He Subaru sat in front of the drum set, arms folded across his chest. His expression and demeanor were anything but those of a well-bred young lady. He kept sighing, "Especially that Ending Band. The quality of their original music is so high, and yet I heard they only wrote it in a week! That level is definitely that of a top-notch professional band! And they even integrate the violin into the arrangement so perfectly..."

"You're here this early in the morning, praising other bands non-stop. Whose side are you on?"

The band's keyboardist, Satoshi Ebizuka, glared at Subaru with some displeasure.

"That's what I'm saying! Subaru is treason! Treason!"

The petite lead singer, Miss Jingqin Renna, who was practically sitting under the air conditioner, echoed the sentiment dissatisfiedly while enjoying the refreshing cool breeze.

"You guys! Didn't you watch the video I recommended just now?"

Subaru retorted loudly, "Besides, a band grows by constantly absorbing the works of other musicians! I'm doing this for the band's sake~!"

"Well, well, for a band like that to be of such interest to Miss Subaru, I think it must have something unique about it."

Ms. RUPA, the tall and slim bassist with a very unique healthy wheat-colored complexion, clapped her hands gently and played the role of smoothing things over as usual.

Although she was very curious, Nina still stared at Subaru stubbornly, puffing up her cheeks like a hamster, and quickly turned her head to look at the lead guitarist who was staring at her phone. "Ms. Momoka! Don't you want to give me your opinion?"

"Shh... I'm listening."

Kawahara Momoka glanced at her, put her finger to her lips, and whispered, then concentrated on looking at the phone screen again.

The recording studio gradually became quiet, and the sound of music coming from Taoxiang's mobile phone seemed to be faintly heard.

"Ah! I want to listen too! Wait a minute!"

Immediately, accompanied by Nina's anxious complaints, the three people including Xiaozhi and Rupa suddenly gathered around Momoka, surrounded her, and stared at the mobile phone screen curiously.

What was playing on it was the official performance video recorded by the music festival organizers. The five members of the band stood on the stage and played the song "If the Light Could Bloom" with superb stage performance.

No one spoke. For a moment, the entire recording studio was silent. Only the sad music that healed like the midday sun and the lead singer's unique singing voice full of explosiveness and power were left.

"Oh~ one or two of them are really good... And that 'Ikebukuro Student Band' is pretty good too, right? I've already said that my taste can't be wrong, right?"

Subaru glanced at the others with a haughty look on his face, then spoke loudly while sitting there smugly.

The music gradually stopped, but several people seemed to have forgotten to speak. They looked at each other tacitly and chose to remain silent.

After a while, Taoxiang let out a deep sigh, a subtle smile on her face.

"Student bands these days are all monsters... The level of perfection in this song isn't as high as a professional band's. The melody and arrangement aren't even comparable to many professional bands."

She sighed softly, "If you ask me, to be able to write a song like this, you either have many years of music creation experience, or you're a musical genius that even the heavens would envy."

"It's truly amazing. I never thought such a work would appear at a music festival composed of high school students."

RUPA exclaimed with a smile.

"We are both high school students, right?"

Xiaozhi reminded dissatisfiedly.

"Hmm~ So I think everyone else is just as weird."

Rupa said softly, his usual gentle smile full of sincerity. Hearing this, Xiaozhi didn't say anything more, but just looked away awkwardly.

"Ninana~ why aren't you talking? I'd love to hear your opinion!"

Subaru glanced at the silent Nina and asked in confusion.

"……Amazing."

Nina's face no longer had that childish expression, replaced by one of being moved and shocked. She murmured in a low voice, "Are we... the same age? And they've already played a song like this..."

"No, three of them are freshmen in high school this year, and the remaining two are roughly the same age."

Subaru, who had gone to Ikebukuro specifically to inquire about a second-place band and then researched a lot of related information back home, smiled and explained, "As for this song, it was written by a 15-year-old violinist. The bassist only provided her with some help with the arrangement."

The topic of the band ending is still getting hotter. Apart from the personal gossip about Aoi, their playing skills and the song "If You Can Shine" have indeed caused quite a stir in the music circle.

Many people even claimed that if they were not a student band, many agencies would have come to seek opportunities to sign them.

"15 years old...what kind of genius is he?"

Momoka sighed.

"I've done some research on this as well. Reports about the music festival mentioned that Saotome Aoi's father was a director at a top music company. I'm not sure about her mother, but her grandmother was Tsurukawa Orihime, a famous enka singer from the Showa era."

As soon as An and Subaru finished speaking, they noticed that the eyes of two of them were immediately focused on her, as if they had found some common characteristics between the characters.

"It has nothing to do with us, right?"

Xiaozhi frowned. "After all, we can't participate in the student band festival, right? Is anyone here a student?"

An and Subaru silently raised their hands.

"I didn't ask you!"

Xiaozhi glared at him immediately.

"But...it still feels incredible."

Renai's eyes were still fixed on the screen in Momoka's hand, as if she could see the grand performance through the screen and hear the beautiful music with her own ears.

Then, her expression froze, and she stood up suddenly as if she had made up her mind, accidentally knocking Taoxiang's phone down.

"Ah! My phone!"

"I've decided!!!"

Renai completely ignored Momoka's cries and shouted with a serious expression, "We must also achieve this level! Only in this way can we prove that we are not wrong and can perfectly prove our victory!"

99

Chapter 99: Shinkawasaki marches into Shimokitazawa.

The atmosphere may not seem harmonious, but the band that is in this lively and noisy daily life is called 'TOGENASHITOGEARI'. The name of the band is just like their formation, everything is full of unintentional coincidences, but everything is perfectly in line with the arrangement of fate.

The original name was 'New Kawasaki', although it was a tentative name, just like the Ikebukuro Student Band at the music festival, it was just a temporary name because we didn't know what a band name was.

The journey to this day, although not entirely without ups and downs, is filled with various surprises and coincidences, which ultimately brought them together.

Because of a bad experience at school, she left her hometown at the age of 17 and came to Kawasaki. I Serina, the stubborn lead singer who refused to admit defeat, dropped out of school to pursue her dreams and came to this city. Now, Momoka Kawaharaki, the lead guitarist of a professional band, is also unwilling to give up. They work hard in Kawasaki and rely on each other for survival. Ebizka Satoshi and RUPA are also quite popular on the Internet...

And her, the prospective actor, An He Subaru, who was originally supposed to have no chance of joining a rock band.

At least she never thought that they would come together to form a band, and move towards the same dream, preparing to embark on the road of becoming a professional band together.

This period of time is not long, but when you think about it carefully, it is filled with all kinds of things, big and small, filling the entire life of their new band, and the road ahead will probably be even longer.

"After today's practice, raise your hands if you want to have some fun!"

Ever since watching the music festival yesterday, Subaru had been feeling strangely comfortable and relaxed. He looked at his companions who had already started to pack up and leave the recording studio, and shouted loudly, raising his hands as well.

However, this sentence was like a stone sinking into the lake. It only attracted their attention for a short time, causing ripples for a moment, and then sank at the speed of light. Everyone raised their heads to look at her, and then continued with what they were doing.

"Where's our band cohesion?!"

Subaru complained, unable to bear it any longer.

"Sorry, I have a night shift coming up. If I don't work hard, I might not be able to pay the next quota fee..."

Taoxiang carried her guitar on her back, her face full of the excitement and spirit unique to a worker, as if she had been working all night for several nights, her expression tired and unfriendly.

“The band’s cohesion is clearly evident during practice.”

Xiaozhi glanced back at her and said mercilessly, "No one says we have to be together after practice. I'm going back."

"Actually, today is Yoshinoya's night shift~"

Rupa explained with a smile.

“It’s really a busy reality~”

Subaru sighed softly, then silently walked around behind the lead singer who hadn't expressed her opinion yet. He gently pressed her shoulders and said in a deliberately drawn-out voice, "Nin-na-chan~"

"How boring is Subaru..."

Rencai turned around and glared at her angrily, "Then tell me where you want to go first!"

"I want to go to Shimokitazawa in Shidagaya. It seems like you're also interested in the band The End, right? They're playing at a livehouse over there."

Subaru had a sweet smile on his face and winked at Nina with his right eye.

……

at dusk.

Aoi, who had finished training for the day, yawned and returned to Saotome's house. She greeted her mother as usual, put down her schoolbag and piano case, and prepared to start her daily routine at home every night, doing homework, arranging flowers with her mother, and occasionally showing off the results of her music practice.

However, today seems a little different.

When she showed her mother her latest violin achievements and played Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major skillfully and elegantly, she saw her mother nodding to her slowly and asking in the same quiet tone as always.

"I heard that you've been very active in the band recently?"

The confident smile on Aoi's face froze instantly, and she put down the violin in her hand somewhat unnaturally. For a moment, she inexplicably felt like she had been caught doing something bad.

She had told her mother about forming a band, but she hadn't discussed it in detail. She even tried to trick her mother into thinking she was active in the school's wind band, but it seemed to be in vain.

"It's an amateur band I formed with my classmates. It's not very active."

Aoi defended herself with an evasive look.

"Don't be nervous. I won't restrict your hobbies."

Mother smiled and shook her head, saying softly, "Besides, it was your father who asked me to ask."

"Father?"

Aoi was a little surprised. That cheap dad was usually only at home two or three days a week. He was usually very busy and his presence at home was not very high. I didn't expect him to be so concerned about Aoi's band life. "Why is he asking this?"