A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

Xiao Mu was just talking nonsense. It's not impossible for Xiangzi to come back... Even if he failed that time, it doesn't matter. It was such a good opportunity, such a wonderful crychic...

But it shattered in front of her again.

When I return to reality, what I see when I wake up is an even darker world.

She wanted crychic to come back, but she couldn't save crychic like Xiaokui did, and now she couldn't even contact anyone except Xiaomu.

What was truly terrifying was not the hope that was shattered again in the dream, but that she was equally helpless and could do nothing, whether in the dream or in reality.

Xiaokui's appearance appeared in her mind again, her lovely smile, her beautiful voice, and she even seemed to feel the warmth of Xiaokui's tightly clasped hands again.

"...Xiao Kui..."

Tears welled up in her eyes again, and Su Shi couldn't help but feel as if an invisible giant had sunk into her heart, pressing her so hard that she could hardly breathe and making it difficult for her to regain her composure.

She can't do anything in reality for the time being...then at least let her do something in her dreams.

The band disbanded, Xiangzi left the group, since these things cannot be stopped, then at least I can... hold Xiaokui's hand tightly, at least I can keep that last bit of light, so that I don't have to face the cold loneliness alone...

Why, it's just a dream——

Su Shi's eyes gradually widened, and his blue eyes slowly shrank, as if he was recalling something very important, and he almost stopped breathing.

She clearly...remembered an address in her dream, an address she had never known before - Saotome's house in the Sotokanda area of ​​Chiyoda Ward.

How could I know an unfamiliar address in a dream? Even if it was fabricated, why would it be so detailed?

What if all this is not a dream?

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The sun was shining brightly today, and the water drops from the kettle seemed to draw a gorgeous rainbow in the sky, dripping down on the petals and leaves of the gorgeous flowers and plants.

However, Kui had no intention of appreciating the little rainbow that belonged to her in the kettle. She just watered the flowers, yawned, and was also careful to see if her mother was staring at her sternly from behind.

Last night, she was caught red-handed by her mother after she opened the door and did a severe reprimand. She was also asked to personally supervise Aoi's recent schoolwork.

Of course, some of the housework was transferred from her mother and the maid to her. For example, watering the flowers now was a form of punishment.

In my mother's own words, if I did more housework and studied more, I wouldn't have the energy to stay up late at night.

This is probably the price of being a young lady.

However, her mother was very kind most of the time. For example, Aoi had previously disliked the private aristocratic girls' school she attended. After all, it was a boarding school and the location was not in Tokyo, which was too inconvenient. So her mother agreed that she no longer had to attend those strict schools for young ladies, but instead let her choose a high school that was not bad.

That was Shimokitazawa High School, where she would probably be attending soon. It was a coeducational, prestigious high school with a very high admission rate. Most importantly...

Although Aoi had never seen MyGo, she had seen Lonely Rock! So when she was looking through the brochure about high schools in Tokyo, she immediately saw the school with the same name as the high school that Niji and Ryo attended in the original work, as well as Shuka High School where Pochi and Kita attended.

This is why she believes that her simulator is just a game. After all, a school with the same name as Lonely Rock has appeared, so she must have traveled to the world of Lonely Rock!

This simulator is only for improving her actual band level, so as to help her reach the top together with the ending band!

Although the progress of the simulator is still slow...

Thinking of this, Aoi yawned again, and couldn't help shivering as a gust of cold air inexplicably hit him.

It seems like the weather is getting colder...

PS: Let me clarify here that the junior high school that Aoi attends in real life is not Tsuki no Mori. If I had to say a specific name, I would probably choose Wax Plum Girls' Academy? Just kidding.

19: The speed of falling cherry blossoms

"The light? How's the uniform? Does it fit you well?"

"Yeah, very suitable."

"That's good. You should get some rest recently. You'll be reporting to high school tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah, got it, Mom."

After the sound of the door closing and her mother's footsteps left the room, Deng sat down at her desk again and looked at the notebook on the table.

It was the end of the holiday, and she was about to transform from a 'quasi-high school student' into a real female high school student, and continue her high school studies at Yugaoka Academy.

But it was obvious that this matter did not cause Deng to care. She was still immersed in her own little world, focusing on collecting little things that she would like.

Notebooks of the same design but with different patterns, a variety of sparkling pebbles, penguin-patterned Band-Aids, and colored paper with different constellations printed on it...

It seemed as if these round, shiny, cute things could fill her lack of interpersonal relationships, and as if the bright constellations in the sky could make her feel the warmth of the stars in the dark night.

Recently, she has gradually changed the direction of her desire to collect. She no longer collects things that can be seen and touched, but instead collects ideas.

To be more precise, it is a collection of dreams.

This little notebook, which originally recorded all her fantastic ideas and doodles, changed into another form during this period. It became like a writer pouring out her pen to express an inspiration, or like a painter turning the bizarre dreams into reality. She completely imprisoned herself in front of the desk, writing and drawing in the notebook whenever she had free time.

It all started with a string of names.

The name 'Saotome Aoi' was written on it with an extremely careful hand, stroke by stroke. Then, in a writing style that only Deng could understand, she described her dream in a lively way. From time to time, a few meaningless graffiti would float on the side.

At first, it was just more specific things like the triangular hair accessory that Aoi likes to wear on her forehead, and the sunflower pendants that she particularly likes on her mobile phone and handbag, but then it gradually turned into many paintings with unclear meanings, such as sunflowers with smiling faces, the sun with emerald green eyes, etc.

Deng's spiritual world and fantasy world are very vast. Due to the lack of social energy, she is able to throw herself into the fantasy world at will, and spares no effort to describe what she sees and hears in her dreams, and she doesn't even think that it is all just a dream.

But recently, all her narration has been reduced to a few words.

[I didn’t dream about it last night either.]

Deng picked up the pen, blinked his shining eyes, and stared at the last line of words he had written on his notebook. He added a sentence below, "Last night, I dreamed that I and Aoi took the Galaxy Train."

The pen tip rustled on the paper, but soon stopped, as if paused for a full few seconds, then slipped from Deng's hand and lay between the notebooks.

Deng looked at the paper with a blank expression, but he no longer had the desire to pick up the pen to continue writing or drawing.

Just as she wrote in her notebook, she never dreamed of Xiaokui again. Even if she did, it was a bizarre dream with no coherence, just like all her unreal dreams.

Xiaokui's dream was different. It was clear and real. Even the temperature seemed to remain on her fingertips, making her never forget everything she heard from that girl.

Deng knew that she was very weak. During crychic, she must have sang too hard, which caused Xiangzi to leave. She was the culprit who ruined crychic.

After Xiangzi announced his withdrawal from the team, she began to run away, unable to face the past. The only way to cheer herself up again was to get courage from others.

Gain strength from Aoi.

That is the hero that belongs only to Deng, the most shining constellation that only she knows. That girl will hold Deng's hand tightly when she needs it most, and promise to accompany Deng until the end of her life.

Even though the band fell apart in the last dream and Xiaokui failed to fulfill the remaining promises, Deng still remembered the agreement.

If she has the same dream again, Xiaokui will definitely fulfill her promise.

However, that dream abandoned her.

Xiaokui abandoned her.

Deng's expression gradually changed from confusion to loss. After a long silence, he gently closed the notebook, stood up and walked out of the room.

After reporting to her mother, she left home alone. Contrary to her usual practice, she walked under the dazzling sunlight, but her eyes were always fixed on the road beneath her feet, as confused as a lost traveler.

She didn't know why she was going out or where she was going.

It was just a series of dreams, but the experience it gave her was like losing the band and all her friends again. Now even the chance to dream was gone. Perhaps she wanted to trace the traces of that dream again, or perhaps she was attracted by some unknown force, she got on the tram aimlessly.

The direction is also very simple - Chiyoda District.

She had only been to Xiaokui's home once in her dream and didn't know its exact location, but she still wanted to walk around the place that appeared in her dream and look for a familiar smell.

No matter what, she wants Xiaokui to come back.

But that's impossible... After all, the scenes in the dream can't possibly correspond to reality, and you can't have such a clear dream just by walking around or thinking about it, right?

Deng walked aimlessly in an unfamiliar neighborhood, a few pink cherry shadows vaguely passing through her sight. She turned her head and saw a slanted green wall built on the higher ground on one side of the road, with a row of neatly planted cherry trees on it.

The cherry blossoms have not yet fully bloomed this season, and are mixed with the leaves that are sprouting new buds. The cherry color alternates with the new green. A wisp of petals falls from it, blown away by the breeze, and flies into the distance.

The light followed the petals, drifting forward, towards the tram tracks that were laid out on the road in front of it.

The indicator light indicating that a train was passing was beeping, and the automatic barrier for pedestrians had already fallen, but her eyes followed the petals to a familiar beige figure on the other side of the track.

On the street lined with cherry trees, the girl's beige hair fluttered in the breeze to her waist, her back was graceful and slender, bathed in the bright and warm sunshine, almost sparkling.

Deng's amber pupils slowly contracted, and her lips subconsciously let out a short exclamation before her brain could react, as if she instinctively gave the figure the answer that she took for granted.

"sunflower..."

Rumbling--

The next second, a heavy tram roared past, like a moving wall, instantly blocking her sight, leaving only the shadow-like color of the tram passing through her vision.

She just stood there, staring motionlessly in that direction, until the long tram completely passed the rails, carrying up one or two delicate petals.

At this moment, in the street within the sight of the lights, only these two petals were fluttering, and the original place was already empty, as if everything was just her illusion.

The lamp stood still, staring blankly into the distance, without any aim or direction, lost in this one-way street.

"lamp?"

Until a call came from behind, pulling her back from this lost path and returning to the real world.

She turned around in confusion and saw a familiar figure.

20: The meeting of Sudeng!

"What a surprise... I actually met Deng in a place like this."

Su Shi gently lifted the hair from her cheek, stepped out from the shade of the tree into the bright sunshine, and gave her usual gentle smile to the animal-like girl in front of her.

"It's been a long time."

Takamatsu Deng, the lead singer of crychic, is a girl who is part of her beautiful memories.

Looking at Deng, who had the same surprised expression, Su Shi narrowed his eyes slightly, buried his inner emotions deep under his smile, and swallowed his original doubts.

It is not surprising that the lights appear anywhere. Toshima is not far from Chiyoda, and even the possibility of going to Akihabara is far greater than Su Shi's previous subconscious guess.

Deng couldn't see her dream, nor did he hear her talk about this unbelievably real dream, so how could she have come here to find Xiaokui?

There should be no other person in this world who is like her, who comes here specifically to find the people and places that appeared in the dream.

Thinking of this, Su Shi couldn't help but smile bitterly at himself.

After she dreamed of Xiao Kui for the last time a few days ago, she never had that real dream again, nor did she see Xiao Kui in her dreams again.

She had long suppressed the absurd thought of "going to Xiaokui's house to take a look", but because she hadn't dreamed of Xiaokui for several nights, her rationality was once again eroded by extreme emotions, and she ran here almost on impulse.

In the last dream, Xiaokui was devastated and left. She was unable to hold Kui's hand, nor was she able to keep Kui, just like Xiangzi before.

It was as if she had really been abandoned by the person who only appeared in her dreams. Panic spread throughout her body and mind. It was not until she really stood on this street and saw the light stopped in front of her that she finally regained her sanity.

If anyone knew, she'd definitely be laughed at. Nagasaki Suyo, was she so utterly terrified of being abandoned by a dream? She was actually afraid her dream was just a dream...

"...Su Shi, why are you here...?"

The sound of the light brought her back to reality. The little animal-like girl stared at her blankly with her amber eyes and asked questions in a timid voice.

But Sushi simply smiled again and replied simply, "Me~? I want to go to Ochanomizu and take a look. The wind band club at Tsukinomori High School seems to be very strict~ So I want to replace my cello bow."

After saying that, she looked back at the lamp that was dodging her gaze, narrowing her eyes slightly.

"And the lamp?"

This sentence did not receive any response. Deng just lowered his head even more, with his hands slightly clenching the corners of his clothes, looking like a child who had done something wrong.

Su Shi smiled and shook his head. He was not surprised by Deng's silence, but continued to ask,

"If you don't have anything urgent to do, could you please go shopping with me at Ochanomizu~?"

"Um..."

Deng turned his head slightly to glance at the railway behind him, then nodded to Su Shi.

After getting her consent, Su Shi smiled and walked beside Deng, heading towards the street across the railway tracks in front of her with her.

The street scene slowly changed, and Su Shi also started to talk thoughtfully.

"What do you do during the Lantern Festival?"

"At home... collecting new celestial postcards, and... writing in a diary."

"That sounds interesting. I'd like to see it someday. Oh, you mean the postcards?"

"Well...next time, bring it to Sushi."

"I'm really looking forward to it~"