A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

Thanks to your efforts, crychic has resumed its activities. Lixi has taken over Xiangzi's work and is responsible for composing music, while you have replaced Xiangzi and become the new light, keeping them standing here and accompanying you in playing music.

Summer vacation is approaching, and after a period of inactivity due to entrance exams, you all quickly reunite. That spring has completely ended, and Xiangzi still has no hope of returning, but crychic is still there, and crychic is still moving forward with determination...

Seeing this trend, Aoi was actually a little excited.

After encountering setbacks many times in a row and the incident of Zhejian Yutian leaving the group, she even questioned whether the simulator might have no subsequent plot at all.

However, it is gratifying that she finally got out of that rainy day. Although Xiangzi still left the group, crychic's survival of that heavy rain was already a great victory.

Not long after, all the members of the band ended their middle school career and entered high school. After Li Xi learned that Deng was going to apply to Yuqiu, she also chose to go directly to Yuqiu Girls' School. Su Shihemu naturally went directly to Yuezhisen. Xiangzi seemed to have transferred from Yuezhisen and there was no news of him.

During this period, the simulator deduced a new song - the famous V-family song "Deep Sea Girl", which is more famous than "If You Can Shine", and with the help of "Shiori" written by Takamatsu Deng herself, the band's fame reached a new level and soon became a hot topic in the girl band circle.

However, before opening the champagne, Aoi discovered a rather serious problem.

That is, as the band's popularity continues to rise, its existence time gets longer and longer, and its ratings get higher and higher, but the band's cohesion decreases little by little with the passage of time.

Although it's not much, it's like having a semi-permanent debuff on your body, slowly reducing your HP, just like a frog in boiling water.

For this reason, Aoi even sought out other people to talk to, and the problem he finally found was the same as expected - Toyokawa Shoko was not there.

After all, crychic was built with Xiangzi as the core. If this band is a single star system, then Xiangzi is the star that shines steadily, and everyone else is like a planet that revolves around her in an orderly manner.

Now Xiangzi is gone, although Aoi also wants to be the new shining star, it is obvious that these sensitive girls will never forget Xiangzi. They will think: crychic is becoming more and more shining, and the band is becoming more and more famous, but Xiangzi is not around. Are we really going to abandon Xiangzi and soar into the sky with crychic?

Faced with this situation, Aoi must do something to save the situation, so she still needs Toyokawa Shoko...

In order to invite Xiangzi back as promised, you repeatedly asked Xiaomu to convey your message and ask Xiangzi to attend the next crychic performance. Xiaomu nodded in agreement and then told you clearly: Xiangzi agreed to come to the performance.

Deng and Su Shi were both very excited and anxious. After you calmed them down, you explained your ideas and plans to them. After hearing the details, Su Shi seemed a little worried, but she still chose to believe you.

It was a rainy day in early autumn, with misty drizzles gently falling on the already bleak earth. As a popular girl band crychic, you easily got a performance at RING. After a tense wait, you walked onto the stage facing the gazes of the almost crowded audience below.

After playing the first song, you noticed a familiar blue figure appear in your sight out of the corner of your eye. While Su Shi was still in charge of the intermission warm-up, he took the initiative to pull the bow, and the piano sound replaced the keyboard to construct the prelude music part.

When the other members noticed it, they immediately focused their attention on the instruments, while looking at the familiar figure under the stage, and played the music that truly belonged to them with all their strength.

"Shadow of Spring"——】

This song is truly crychic, a 'confession poem' written by Deng to all the members of the band, accompanying everyone from strangers to familiarity, from indifference to warmth. Just like its title, it is a unique memory from that spring day.

Therefore, this song must have a very important place in Xiangzi's heart. Although he didn't know why he quit at the beginning, now when he sees that everyone still hasn't given up on the band, hasn't given up on you, and is working hard to play the song that belongs to you all on the stage... his mood must be immediately felt!

This is a song that belongs only to the six members of crychic. Now you are not on the stage, aren’t you anxious?

So this time I can definitely...

[After the first chorus ended, you all stopped playing in tacit understanding, and you jumped down from the stage, squeezed a path through the audience, and grabbed the hand of Xiangzi, who was still stunned there.

"We've been waiting for you... After all, without Xiangzi, the Haruhi Shadow is incomplete. Can you come back to us?"

Your words are so sincere. Although Xiangzi's expression is still as gloomy as the day she announced her withdrawal from the team, her eyes have already turned red, and tears are about to burst out.

But even under the audience's moved gaze, she did not agree to your invitation at all, but shook your hand away forcefully.

"I've already quit... I've been out of the band for a long time, and you guys still made it a long way and played a lot of great music, didn't you?!"

Xiangzi seemed a little excited, even suppressing all the whispers around him. "Even without me, isn't this song of Spring Shadow played perfectly? I founded crychic, but you guys are not scattered sand that can't go on without me, right? Don't take it for granted that other people's lives are tied to the band!!"

She verbally rejected your invitation and left the livehouse without looking back, leaving you standing on a small isolated island in the sea of ​​people.

Eh?

Eh? ?

Aoi didn't react for a moment, as if she was facing a work that was about to be completed with a sure win, but the next second she found that the software reported an error, and her mind went blank.

She did not actually experience the scene in the simulator, nor did she really stand in the open space in the crowd, enduring everyone's whispers and gazes, watching Xiangzi turn around and leave.

She didn't know what she was thinking in the simulator, but after she put herself into the scene for a little while and reviewed her efforts in the past few days to successfully simulate crychic, she found it difficult to remain calm.

She did not investigate Xiangzi's inner story, nor did she pay enough attention to Xiangzi in this round, but after so many simulations, she really hopes that crychic will move forward smoothly.

Aoi's breathing became so heavy that it was a little uncomfortable for a moment. It felt like there was an unknown blockage in her chest, pressing heavily on her heart, and her enthusiasm for continuing the simulation suddenly dropped.

This simulator...is there really any solution to a happy ending?

This performance obviously didn't go well. Back in the lounge, your moods have all plummeted. It's raining outside, and everything feels like it's been back to that rainy day when Xiangzi announced he was leaving the group.

You had some arguments about whether to sing Kasuga Shadow this time, but soon, Xiao Mu's speech broke up the argument and the lounge returned to silence.

She just wiped the guitar and said softly in the same tone as always, "Xiangzi, you won't come back."

These words were so penetrating, they pierced through your skin, your mind, your soul, and continued to echo in your world. You realized that the promises you made to them had all become lies, and you couldn't bring Xiangzi back, just as Xiao Mu had said.

Xiangzi will never come back.

A special event has occurred, and the band's cohesion has dropped by 10%, currently at 63%. Due to special circumstances, your mood value has dropped too low, entering an 'out-of-control state', and the character's actions will be automatically deduced by your personality...

17: Isn’t the MyGo animation about crychic?

[After this failed performance, you have an almost intuitive premonition that crychic will never be able to return to the progress you promised everyone.

After Xiangzi left, this team that had always been connected by Xiangzi's dazzling brilliance should have collapsed, but you replaced that pure light with your own light and illuminated crychic.

You saved the band, and you made the super popular girl band famous, but the facts proved that you still couldn't win back Toyokawa Shoko, and it seems that you are not as important as Shoko.

After the argument that day, you fell into confusion about the future and were trapped in the quagmire of self-blame and grievance. In order to prevent yourself from becoming the person who "tries to replace Xiangzi as the leader of crychic", you no longer went to the band for training and blocked the messages from your former friends on your phone.

The dream of leading crychic to soaring heights has been left behind by you, and due to your absence, the band that was once reunited because of your presence has reached the brink of collapse. From now on, the cohesion of the simulation will be significantly reduced every day...

This file is scrapped.

At least Aoi couldn't see a way out of the current situation, which had completely thwarted her original plan. It seemed that Toyokawa Shoko was destined to be an inseparable member of crychic, yet in every simulation, Shoko would inevitably leave the band without any negotiation or explanation, as if it were a foregone conclusion.

The band cannot do without Xiangzi, but Xiangzi is bound to withdraw. How can this situation be resolved?

Anyway, Aoi couldn't think of any solution and didn't want to think about it. She was only thinking about Crychic being able to go on intact, but Crychic was still thinking about Xiangzi.

As expected, the ending of the simulator was that Deng tacitly withdrew from the band due to lack of cohesion and low mood. Then it was Lixi, and then Mu.

During this process, Suyo came to Saotome's house many times, hoping to meet and talk with Aoi, but was rejected by Aoi in the automatic mode deduced by the system.

Therefore, this week came to an end very quickly.

[This simulation ends here, and the simulation settlement is in progress...

In this simulation, you and your band crychic publicly performed a total of eight songs and composed four original songs, earning a popularity score of 2.4, a final cohesion score of 0, and a band member relationship score of 5.3.

You undoubtedly valued the band deeply. Crychic became a "second family" that you had to protect, even after Xiangzi, the band's founder who personally invited you to join, left. So when everyone was bewildered by Xiangzi's departure, you stepped up, soothed everyone, and reunited Crychic, which had been on the verge of falling apart.

However, the plan to use Kasuga Shadow to bring Xiangzi back eventually fell through, and you fell into despair because Xiangzi could never return to the band. The fact that the original crychic would never come back hit you hard, so you came to the conclusion: what your friends need is the original crychic, not the current crychic formed with you as the core.

In the end, you followed in Xiangzi's footsteps. You were unable to stand up again after this blow and forced yourself to give up the crychic without Xiangzi. Even though Su Shi was still stubbornly working hard to form the 'original crychic' and came to you for it, you never responded.

Around the first half of your freshman year in high school, you asked your parents to transfer from Tsukinomori to Shimokitazawa High School, cutting off contact with your old friends and gradually forming a new social circle. You gave up the band and joined the school's wind band instead, using club activities as a substitute until the end of your high school life, and gradually forgot your previous campus band experience.

Only when your friends marvel at the combination of classical instruments and rock bands can you fondly recall that past event that no longer carries any psychological burden, as if you were simply pointing to an old, white scar on your hand and telling a story that no longer hurts, telling your friends, "I used to be a rock band violinist in a campus band."

"That's amazing! What happens next?"

“Then we disbanded.”

Unlocks the ending: "You Failed to Become That Light." Bonus: Slight increase in Violin and Lyrics skills.

Since you have reached a high favorability value among all the members this time (favorability at the time of settlement: Toyokawa Shoko 60 (friend), Shiina Tatsuki 65 (friend), Takamatsu Touma 77 (close friend), Wakaba Mutsu 78 (close friend), Nagasaki Motoyo 80 (favorite)), you gain the special trait "Starlight Can Also Illuminate the Night", which has the effect of increasing the favorability growth rate and multiplier of the band members at the start of the next round.

Because he led the band to achieve a high popularity score and created many high-scoring songs, he gained the passive characteristic: "Notes written for you", the effect of which is: raising the composition ability to level 3.

At the same time, since Nagasaki Suze's favorability has reached over 80, you will receive a favorability bonus. Starting from next week, you will be able to inherit Nagasaki Suze's favorability from this week.

Looking at the settlement in front of her, Aoi felt very complicated.

On the one hand, at the end of this week, the rewards she received were quite generous. If she continued to work hard and study, she might get closer to a successful simulation.

But on the other hand, she was really troubled by the crychic band's strategy. It was like encountering a difficult boss in a game. After fighting for hours without any progress, even if the game was fun, she would fall into fatigue and depression.

It's already gotten to this point, and the simulator system actually says that characters with high favorability can inherit favorability? Why didn't they say that earlier!

And the one who inherited it was actually Su Shi... Although she was very reliable in the band and could often act as a neutralizer to stabilize other members, it was not difficult to increase her favorability, and it was not the reason for the disbandment of crychic.

In other words, even if Su Shi has a high favorability, it seems to be of no use.

[Improvement: The new band chapter "It's Mygo!!!!!" has been unlocked. Next week, you can choose the band "MyGO!!!!!" to perform a new simulation.]

Ok?

Only then did Aoi notice that there was another band option on the main interface, so he subconsciously clicked on it and checked the basic introduction.

It is said that the band's name is homophonic with the Japanese word "迷子", which means "lost band". It is a girl band composed of a group of high school girls who are more or less confused in life and lost on the road of life.

Since the simulation hadn't started yet, she only saw the band name and the silhouettes of the band members. Although they looked a little familiar, she didn't realize anything for a while until she remembered something important.

In her previous life, she listened to netizens saying "mygo" all day long. Isn't it this "mygo"?

Huh? Isn't the band in the anime called MyGo Crychic? Isn't MyGo the title of the anime?

Miss Saotome Aoi has never hated myself so much for not actively watching anime...

PS: I read a thread and saw that you all are craving for rivers of blood. Your bloodlust is too high! I am so exhausted after writing my outline!

But if I really want to see this kind of twisted plot... maybe I can write a few extra ifs to satisfy my curiosity later, but I definitely can't do such a big thing in the main story for now!

18: Does she really not exist?

When he woke up in the morning, Su Shi touched the slightly wet pillow.

She sat up and dragged herself to the dressing mirror like a zombie, but saw her haggard face through the mirror.

She is crying.

After waking up from the dream, tears flowed from her eyes like a valve opened, running down her pale cheeks and dripping onto her thin pajamas.

"what?"

Su Shi couldn't help but make a puzzled sound, as if pretending that she was just crying because of exhaustion, and wiped away the tears that kept flowing with a calm expression.

“…Ah—ow…”

Her slender arms wiped her moist eyes in vain, but she was unable to stop the tears from flowing more and more.

As she wiped, her originally calm and composed expression became like a piece of shattered glass. Her beautiful nose twitched slightly, and the corners of her mouth trembled, and she could no longer suppress the cry of grief that surged from the depths of her heart.

Gradually, sadness completely overwhelmed Su Shi, who was trying to pretend to be calm. Even her breath seemed to be filled with the smell of tears. She covered her eyes with her hands out of control, curled up in front of the dressing table, suppressing her intermittent sobs, and trembling like a child facing thunder alone.

She let her tears flow freely, trying to suppress the sadness surging in her heart. After an unknown amount of time, she finally stopped crying and just wiped her slightly red and swollen eyes with a tissue, her eyes looking empty.

What am I doing...

It was just a dream wasn't it?

Why should I cry for that dream?

Thinking of this, everything in the dream reappeared in Su Shi's mind. It was only one night, but it felt as long as many days and nights of dreams, and those pictures were so clear that they seemed like real memories engraved in his mind.

Just a dream.

But is it really a dream?

Why are dreams so real... Why are dreams so sad? Why do dreams repeatedly freeze on the past that she misses the most and wants to protect the most?

Why does the same person keep appearing in her dreams, giving her hope again and again, but ultimately ruthlessly destroying it all?

Did she subconsciously create a nonexistent person out of her longing for Crychic? Did she hope to create someone as gentle as Xiangzi to numb herself?

But if that's the case, why give her such a cruel ending?

She missed Crychic who brought her warmth so much, and didn't Xiaokui's existence protect Crychic who should have collapsed?

But why did Xiaokui leave in the end? Just like Xiangzi did before, she completely disappeared from her world without a trace.

Why, I still can't hold her hand?

"You're kidding me... You're kidding me! If this is a dream, why can't I do anything?!"

The valve of emotions finally lost control again at this moment. Su Shi's voice echoed in the empty house, piercing the silent air in the room, but only affected her own eardrums.

After the shouting, there was a long silence.

She panted slightly, trying to calm her breathing. Through the mirror in front of her, she saw herself with messy hair, a dazed and broken expression, and as unreasonable as a street shrew.

Soon, Su Shi calmed down again, curled up into a ball, buried his head between his knees, and stared at the clear sky outside the window with dead eyes.

If she could control herself in her dream...she would never let go of Xiaokui's hand no matter what.