Romantic comedy with all members, why am I single?

Chapter 260: Intrusion?

"Kawaharaki Momoka? A street singer? Could she be——"

Rika Kawahara then introduced another girl to them: "This is my cousin's good friend, An He Subaru, currently studying at Toho Talent School, she is a drummer and advertising model."

"Nice to meet you. My name is Subaru Anhe. I'm from Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. I'm currently studying at Toho Art and Culture School. I'm a drummer and advertising model." Subaru Anhe introduced herself in a very ladylike manner.

As a result, before she was halfway through her words, Momoka Kawaharagi, who couldn't wait, rushed to speak for her: "Before Subaru came to Tokyo alone, she studied at Kitauji High School in Kyoto, and was a member of the school's wind band. She can play the saxophone, trumpet, and euphonium!"

"Forehead"

Jingpu Xiu was stunned for almost two seconds before he finally came to his senses, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

It’s okay for Kawaharaki Momoka and Yasu and Subaru, but what the hell is the Kitauji High School brass band?

Isn't that the school where the main characters in Sound! Euphonium attend?
This and "The Crying Girls Band" are two completely different anime, right?
"No, that's not right. Even if they are two different anime, they are likely to intersect in this anime world. Otherwise, Mashiro, Chihiro Chigoku, and Pochi-chan wouldn't appear in Katagiri High School."

"An He Subaru's hometown is Kobe City, so it makes sense that he would go to a prestigious school in nearby Kyoto to study."

"But if we follow the character settings in the original story, this An and Subaru are not as well-behaved, gentle and amiable as they appear on the surface."

After coming back to his senses, Iura Hide was greeting An and Subaru while thinking secretly in his heart.

At the same time, he now knew why Reika Kawahara brought the two of them here.

I definitely brought An and Subaru here to help record the orchestral accompaniment for "You Are the One". As for Kawahara Ki Momoka?
"Hey, can I take a picture with Iura-san?"

"Uh, okay."

Seeing Momoka Kawahara, who was usually as cheerful as a boy, rubbing her hands in embarrassment at this moment, not only was An and Subaru beside her shocked, but even Iura Hide almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Kakakaka——"

In the next few seconds, Iura Hide was still standing there without moving, but Kawahara Ki Momoka had already created a shadow clone and was surrounding him and taking photos. They took more than a dozen photos.

If Reika Kawahara hadn't been unable to bear it and pushed her aside, she might have kept taking pictures until her phone ran out of battery.

"Jingpu-kun, this is the accompaniment we recorded last night. Please listen to it. Is there anything that needs improvement?"

"Eh? Has it been recorded yet?" Iura Hide raised his eyebrows in surprise and reached out to take the headphones handed to him by Kawahara Rika.

"Well, Sister Xingge asked us in the group last night if anyone knew anyone who could play orchestral music, and I immediately remembered that Subaru could play several types of orchestral music, and then Sister Xingge asked us to record this accompaniment overnight."

"Thank you for your hard work." While thanking you, Iura Hide couldn't help but look at Ijichi Hoshige next to him, and a strange look flashed in his eyes again.

"Sister Xingge? This name is quite unique." Jingpu Xiu couldn't help but mutter to himself, then put on headphones and listened carefully.

After a moment, he took off his headphones again under the nervous and expectant gazes of Reika Kawahara and the other two, and said with a smile: "Well, there is no problem with the recording, and there is no need to improve it."

"Yeah! That's great!"

Before the performer An He Subaru could respond, Kawaharaki Momoka excitedly rushed over and hugged her.

This made An Hesuba, who had been trying hard to maintain his gentle and well-behaved personality, couldn't help but reveal an obvious helpless look on his face, and he was almost rolling his eyes.

Hoshino Ai and others on the side also laughed.

Then Iura Hide took the initiative to ask Ijichi Hoshika next to him about the fees. Before Ijichi Hoshika opened her mouth, Kawahara Rika said, "There's no need to pay. Sister Hoshika has already given us three tickets for tonight's performance."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yamada Ryo, who seemed to have fallen asleep, couldn't help but complain: "The performance video released last time achieved a very good effect on the Internet, so many fans of our band, well, Xiuhe Ai-chan, paid a higher price to buy tickets to the performance in order to watch our performance tonight. The original tickets were 2000 yen each, but now they are 10000 yen each."

"Hi! Ten thousand yen a ticket!?"

Now, not to mention Yamada Ryo, who was already a bit of a money-grubber, even Iura Hide couldn't help but reveal a look of surprise.

Even though Kawaharaki Momoka, who was standing by, had known about this for a long time, she still almost drooled with envy when she heard this.

You know, for a street singer like her, even if she sings all night and sings until her throat is sore, it is difficult to earn 10,000 yen!

So in order to make a living, she had to work in a fast food restaurant during the day, not to mention that she only had six hours of sleep a day.

Apart from the time for bathing, the only time I can take a short break is during meal time.

When will she be able to sell a performance ticket for tens of thousands of yen like Iura Hide!
"Given the popularity of the Iura-san band, they should be able to get at least 400,000 or 500,000 yen in performance fees from this performance, right?"

Kawahara Ki Momoka thought secretly, and the look she gave Iura Hide became extremely complicated.

Although she insists on singing for her dream, the 10,000 yen performance ticket is also very tempting!
Even though the tickets for this performance cost tens of thousands of yen, all the money was earned by scalpers, but with the popularity of Iura Hide and others, if they were to go to a bigger bar or performance hall in Shinjuku, it would be normal for them to earn over a million yen just for three songs.

However, since Fanxing is too small, and Ijichi Hoshika has been busy running around for Iura Hide and the others, and also provided them with free meals and practice venues, the remuneration they get for performing three songs each time is actually similar to other bands, which is only 10 yen.

Therefore, Jingpu Xiu, who is currently on the verge of bankruptcy, couldn't help but feel heartbroken after being surprised.

It would be great if the money could be given directly to him!

After taking a deep breath, Jingpu Xiu turned to look at Yijizhi Xingge and frowned and asked, "Sister Xingge, do you think we should post a message on our social account to urge everyone to be rational and not buy those scalped tickets?"

Iura Shufa 4, he only cares about the wallets of his fans, and is definitely not jealous that scalpers make more money than him!

"Forget it this time. Next time I'll just change the performance tickets I booked online to real-name tickets~" Ijichi Xingge said after thinking for a while.

She didn't want to cause any complications when the performance was so close, so as not to affect the performance of Ijichi Hongxia, Pochi-chan and Hoshino Ai, so she thought it was better to have less trouble than more. "Okay then."

Iura Hide didn't dwell on this topic any more. He added An Hesuba's line, received the accompaniment she sent him, and then went to the side to get busy.

At the same time, Momoka Kawahara secretly got Iura Hide's line number from An and Subaru. Looking at Iura Hide who was surrounded by Hoshino Ai and Sugaya Noha, she became more and more eager.

Although the Wanli Sunshine Band is still performing "underground", it is actually more popular than many popular "above ground" bands.

Compared to street singers like her who are one level lower than underground bands, she is so many levels higher.

So she was determined to come along this time even if she had to take a leave of absence. In addition to meeting her idol and taking photos with him, she also had another little idea, which was to see if she could join Iura Hide's band as a guitarist.

Yes, just as a guitarist.

As for being the lead singer, she didn't even dare to think about it. After all, everyone who follows Iura Hide and Thousand Sunshine Band knows that the reason why Iura Hide formed the Thousand Sunshine Band was to promote his sister Hoshino Ai.

So let alone a street singer like her, even if a first-line singer came, she would not be able to compete with Hoshino Ai for the position of lead singer.

But the guitarist.
Momoka Kawaharaki turned her head and looked at Pochi-chan who was squeezed to the back of the crowd, and her eyes narrowed.

Although she knew very well from watching the video of the last performance that Pochi-chan was very skilled and powerful, she did not think that her guitar skills were much inferior to Pochi-chan's.

And compared to Pochi-chan's timid appearance on stage, she is much more relaxed on stage.

This is undoubtedly her huge advantage.

And even if she can't squeeze out Pochi-chan, it doesn't matter, as long as she can get Iura Hide's recognition. After all, many bands have more than one guitarist.

Even if she only joined Wanli Sunshine as a secondary guitarist, it was equivalent to boarding an express train towards her dream, and at the same time she could quickly achieve financial freedom.

This was too tempting for her.

However, her attention was all on Iura Hide and Pochi-chan. She was thinking about how to get Iura Hide's approval and she didn't notice that Rika Kawahara was looking at her and sighing silently.

As a cousin and someone who has experienced this, she immediately saw through the little tricks behind Kawaharaki Momoka's insistence on following along.

Just as Kawahara Ki Momoka thought, with Iura Hide's amazing talent and Hoshino Ai's superb giftedness, anyone who can join the Thousand Miles Sunshine Band can be led by the two to win easily.

Both fame and income can increase rapidly like riding a rocket.

But precisely because of this, it is not so easy to join the Wanli Sunshine Band.
Not to mention that the songs written by Iura Hide are more ACG music-oriented, and playing them does not require a very high level of technical skills. Even if we really compare the skills, except for the drummer Ijichi Kouka who is a little bit worse, both the bassist Yamada Ryo and the guitarist Pochi-chan are already very good.

Not to mention compared with people of the same age, they are not inferior even to professional bands.

Momoka Kawahara thinks that her skills are no worse than Pochi-chan's, but in the eyes of bystanders, Pochi-chan's skills are at least one level higher than Momoka Kawahara's.

Moreover, Momoka Kawahara is already 20 years old, while Pochi-chan is only 16 years old. There is obviously a big gap in talent.

In addition, she had specifically asked Ijichi Hoshika indirectly last night and found out that both Pochi-chan, Ijichi Kouka and Yamada Ryo were good "friends" of Iura Hide.

With her experience as a person who has been through this, it is not difficult to see that this is the reason why they were able to form a band with Iura Hide.

For example, if someone wants to join her band now, if he is not the big star who can take them to success, but just a guy who comes to gain experience, popularity, and share their money, unless that person is her boyfriend, even if he is a good sister, she will reject him without hesitation.

Therefore, if Momoka Kawaharaki wants to join Thousand Miles Sunshine, she must establish good relationships with Iura Hide and Hoshino Ai.

But she was not optimistic that Momoka Kawahara could succeed. After all, she had seen with her own eyes that Iura Hide was surrounded by many girls whose looks and figures were so good that even she could not compare to them.

Although Momoka Kawahara has a good appearance and figure, she is at most at the level of Yuki Yoshikawa.

Her figure is very similar to Hori Kyoko, both are A-rated, but her looks are obviously a level lower than Hori Kyoko.

No matter how you look at it, it's impossible to break through Kitagawa Umi and the others' heavy defenses and get close enough to Iura Hide to join Thousand Miles of Sunshine.

"If it was Subaru-chan, there might still be a chance."

Reika Kawahara couldn't help but turn her head to look at An and Subaru.

Although An Hesuba still had a gentle, well-behaved and amiable smile on her face at this moment, and stood quietly by like a little lady, she could see from An Hesuba's eyes that she obviously also had her own little thoughts.

"It's a pity that I'm already 26 years old. It would be great if I were 16 this year. I don't know what these high school girls look like nowadays. They are obviously not very old, but they are all very fierce. They really don't give us old guys any chance to survive!"

After looking away, Reika Kawahara couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

After so many years of struggling in the underground band circle, who wouldn’t want to take shortcuts?
Unfortunately, she is very self-aware. Not to mention her looks and figure, her age alone makes her a no-brainer.

As for appearance and figure, when she thought about Kitagawa Umi, Kasumigaoka Utaha, and Inui Shinshou, each one was more ferocious than the other, she couldn't help but feel sad.

While she was sighing there, Kawaharaki Momoka had finally made up her mind. After taking a deep breath, she mustered up the courage and walked towards Iura Hide.

"Ah -"

"Iura-san, I think if a secondary guitar is added to this song, will the melody be richer?"

As Momoka Kawahara opened her mouth, everyone, including Iura Hide who was concentrating on playing the accompaniment, turned their heads to look at her. This made Momoka Kawaharaki, who was already extremely nervous, clench her fists involuntarily, and her heart almost rose to her throat.

(End of this chapter)