Joker's Band Game Story

Despite not having rehearsed, Hailin immediately caught up with the rhythm using her familiar experience and tacit understanding with Amamiya. However, it was also the first time she had heard the full version of the piece. She hadn't felt much from just looking at the bass sheet music before, but now she felt a little sad inside.

Not just Hailin, everyone could hear the sadness in the song. The audience listened silently, watching Rina on stage, holding the microphone with both hands, singing the song with emotion.

'Beautiful world, I will gaze at you without hesitation.'

'Beautiful boy, you don't know how beautiful you are yet, do you? It's Olay's love.'

This is just love, a short note is enough to make everyone feel sad. Beautiful world, beautiful boy, a song with a female perspective, the singing here makes people feel sad from the bottom of their hearts.

Warm, gentle, and affectionate, the only flaw in this live performance was that Nina was still too young to fully capture the essence of the song; she was too young.

But no one at the scene cared about this flaw; they were all immersed in the song, quietly listening to this lyrical ballad.

Actually, Nina isn't used to singing slow songs; she's more suited to fast-paced, mouth-burning songs. But singing these slow songs brings her a sense of tranquility because she can also feel the emotions Amamiya conveys in the song.

'Until my world disappears, if we cannot meet again.'

'I want to sleep beside you, wherever it may be.'

Ai Yin wiped her eyes; she felt like crying.

Perhaps it was because people knew that Amamiya's band would end after this live performance that they felt a gentle sadness.

The lamp beside her was tightly clutching the notebook in her arms; at that moment, she finally heard the cry in Amamiya's heart.

Although he didn't sing it himself, it did touch her.

Sōse lowered her head and listened to the music in silence. At this moment, she also sensed that Amamiya was not as strong as she seemed.

His life was so similar to mine; he, too, was trying to become an adult as early as I could.

Does he feel a sense of emptiness inside? Is this emptiness hidden within him?

Sosei couldn't help but empathize with Amamiya. Listening to Nina's singing, she sensed the sadness he seemed to feel about the band's end.

Try to comfort him afterwards...

'Beautiful world, days spent in dreams.'

'Beautiful boy, always feeling helpless.'

Ruoye Mutsu stood in the corner, watching the performance on stage, her expression unchanged and unresponsive.

But her fists clenched involuntarily.

In her mind, someone kept talking to her, but she didn't respond at all because she was no longer in the mood to listen to what that person was saying.

She was simply feeling the sadness, feeling the sadness in the song that seemed to convey a lack of strong desire for life.

The world is so beautiful, so why am I always thinking about falling asleep?

(P.S.: Beautiful World, one of the classic songs from EVA. Since two songs will be played on stage, I bet some of you have already guessed which one the other song is, right?)

Chapter Twenty: One Last Kiss

After the song ended, the audience below the stage were all stunned.

They hadn't expected the song to be so...sad. Although there wasn't any obvious sadness in the whole song, it still gave people a faint sense of melancholy.

Actually, this song should have been able to convey a tragic feeling, but Rina was too young. She couldn't sing it with a grand and majestic feel, but it was precisely because of her youth that the song gained a completely new color.

It's more like the youthful spirit of unrequited love, carrying a unique kind of sadness.

At the end of the song, Amamiya picked up the microphone again.

He didn't say much this time, but simply introduced the situation of the three people in New Tokyo.

The vocalist is Nina Izare, the guitarist is Momoka Kawahara, the bassist is Urin Hachiman, and the drummer is Subaru.

That's right, Amamiya didn't reveal Subaru's full name. Before going on stage, Subaru had told him that she didn't want the public to know her surname.

I do know a bit about the surname Anwa Subaru. Her grandmother, Anwa Tendo, was a big name in the Japanese film and television industry. She appeared on screen as a child star from a young age, so she probably had her own concerns about not wanting her full name to be revealed.

Looking at An and Subaru, Amamiya couldn't help but think of another person—Wakaba Mutsumi. Mutsumi's family situation was very similar to Subaru's, and the two must have many similar circumstances.

"So, the second and final song, One Last Kiss, is dedicated to everyone."

After saying that, Amamiya pressed the keyboard again.

As the keyboard began to play, the other instruments did not join in, but waited for the beat.

The others didn't join in until Nina sang the first line of the lyrics.

'My first visit to the Louvre didn't leave much of an impression.'

'Because I have already met my own Mona Lisa.'

It's still a love song, but it's more explicit than the previous one.

Is this Mona Lisa truly unique to me?

Xiao Mu listened to the song quietly, her gaze involuntarily drifting to Xiangzi beside her.

What was Xiangzi thinking?

Xiao Mu was very curious about what Xiangzi was thinking, because she found herself increasingly unable to understand him.

After her mother passed away, Xiao Mu understood this even less.

Xiao Xiang is almost broken now...

The day I first met you, the gears began to turn.

'I can't stop the premonition that I'm going to lose something.'

Bochi watched Nina singing in the distance from the audience, and her body involuntarily leaned against Nijika next to her.

These words touched her heart. On the day she first met Hongxia, her fate did indeed take a new turn.

She made new friends, she had her own band, and she found happiness all of her own.

But amidst this happiness, she was always somewhat worried, and she was in a state of anxiety about the status quo.

She was afraid that her personality and temper would upset Hongxia and that they would leave her, so she couldn't help but lean against Hongxia.

Hongxia didn't know what was troubling Boqi, she just smiled and stroked Boqi's head.

But her gaze involuntarily drifted to Liang beside her. For some reason, she sensed that Liang seemed a little unhappy.

She was touching her chest, seemingly quite affected by the song.

After all, she knew one thing: this was Amamiya's band's last performance. Was this song another kind of confession to the bassist?

'Even though we've already kissed so many times, let's have one more kiss.'

'Could you give me one last kiss? Something I don't want to forget.'

How romantic, how tragically beautiful the romance.

In the audience, Ayaka Sakai watched the performance with her eyes closed. She didn't know which band was playing the song; she had come to the music festival to listen to music.

Her band broke up, but out of her love for music, she continues to play guitar in Shibuya.

Although she doesn't have the courage to sing yet, she has always longed for a new band.

"Ah, sorry."

Ayaka, who was listening with her eyes closed, was suddenly bumped. She opened her eyes and saw a girl with two short braids apologizing to her.

The other person seemed to be trying to push forward a little more, so they accidentally bumped into me.

"It's ok."

Ayaka answered, not minding the other person's unintentional action.

While she was looking at the other person, her gaze involuntarily drifted to another red-haired girl beside her.

The two couldn't help but meet each other's eyes.

What Ayaka was thinking at that moment remains unknown.

My love for you is beyond your imagination.

On stage, Nina was singing with all her might. This song was more intense than the previous one, which made her sing it with even greater focus.

She didn't have a deep understanding of the song because she had never been in a relationship and didn't know what it felt like.

But for some reason, she couldn't help but think of Momoka.

She tried her best to incorporate her feelings for Momoka into the song.

Although she knew that this feeling was not quite the same as the feeling in the song, she could only sing it this way. She was just a clumsy girl who sang about liking someone as if it were love.

No one noticed that her emotional outburst was a bit off, but that didn't matter, because everyone was immersed in the song. Everyone has their own Mona Lisa in their heart, the only difference being that some people's Mona Lisa is right beside them, while others don't know where their Mona Lisa is.

'I'm not good at taking photos, but that kind of thing is actually irrelevant.'

Your image is etched in the projector of my heart.

Like the previous song, it still has a somewhat melancholic melody. However, the lyrics make this song sound a bit more upbeat.

Although the music wasn't heavy, everyone felt a sense of sadness.

Perhaps it's because this is Say Sad's last live performance? Perhaps it's against this backdrop that the song highlights so much sadness, but within this sadness lies a deep and passionate love for a lover, a love that will ultimately end in separation.

The oh oh oh melody in the chorus, in particular, evokes a sense of loss.

The audience was completely absorbed in the music, each lost in their own thoughts. Some were thinking about their ideal love, while others were holding the hand of the person they loved beside them.

Without a doubt, the performance was a complete success, and the audience...

'We all pretend we're not alone, alas, that's just how we are.'

'If either of us goes to see the other, it will only cause more pain.'

In the audience, Amamiya's high school classmates watched the performance on stage in silence, and Ann Takamaki unconsciously pursed her lips.

She heard Amamiya's sadness in this song. Why was she so sad?

This seemed to have caused her some inner pain as well.

Pretending not to be lonely will only cause more hurt to whoever seeks out the other person...