Joker's Band Game Story

This seemingly cold and handsome guy has a really soft heart~ My heart is fluttering!

Thinking about it this way, she felt motivated again~ She decided! Tonight during her live stream, she'll say she found a handsome drum teacher and then try to attract some viewers!

She hugged her drumsticks with a happy smile, her face beaming with an incredibly bright and sunny smile.

After all... these are all I have, meow.

Chapter Twenty: Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!

"Brother Lian! Save me!"

When Ren Amamiya arrived at the Starry Sky, he was immediately entangled by Nijika.

Hongxia clung to Ren Amamiya's leg, looking at him pitifully: "Please help me, I'm about to die, waaaaah..."

"What's wrong with her?"

Ren Amamiya looked to the side in confusion, asking Ryo, who was watching the commotion, about the child.

Before he could finish speaking, he noticed Liang Ye silently walking over, squatting down, and hugging his leg: "Thank you for your help."

"Can't you be a little more sincere?!"

You're just here to join the fun, aren't you?

These two are done for, so Ren Amamiya had no choice but to turn his gaze to Saeko, who was genuinely watching the show from the sidelines.

Ryo and Nijika are in a band, so if one of them has an episode, the whole band is likely to have one too. But Saeko is just a sound engineer, so she can definitely tell herself more objectively what exactly happened.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that we have a performance on Tuesday, and Hongxia isn't prepared at all."

Saeko's smile never faded; she knew that Nijika hadn't been driven to the brink yet, so she naturally planned to keep up the act.

She couldn't understand why her sister suddenly wanted their band to go on stage. After all, given Xingge's personality, she would probably just say something like, "Since this spot just happened to be empty that day, I might as well give it to you guys. Anyway, you're a band now, so you should start thinking about performing," to provoke her.

"Two songs, I really don't know what to do, sob sob sob... Please help me, Brother Lian..."

Xiaolongyiqi ⒋V?镹|卅罒)镹爸虹夏 was just like a child who wanted a toy, crying and making a fuss there.

Under normal circumstances, Ren Amamiya might have actually agreed, since a song isn't a big deal.

But this time, Da Mei, he also instigated Hong Xia to go on stage, so of course he couldn't give Hong Xia the song.

"As for the song, a cover is fine. It's not that strict for your first time on stage. But compared to the song, have you found a guitarist yet?"

Hongxia shuddered at the mention of guitarists.

She looked at Ren Amamiya pitifully: "Ren-nii, about the guitarist... wow!"

She seemed to be crying even harder. Liang stood beside her, hugging her knees and watching Hongxia cry. In the midst of her wailing, which was like a waterfall, she seemed to see a rainbow.

At that moment, Kita, who had been like a vengeful ghost not far away, also floated out listlessly, carrying a guitar in her hand: "Don't worry, Ren-nii-san, I'm almost done practicing, almost..."

Her sleep-deprived appearance was clearly the result of practicing guitar all night, but obviously, practicing all night would hardly make her level go from novice to ordinary guitarist immediately.

If such methods truly existed, would musicians need to train themselves day in and day out for ten years?

Looking at Kita, who was ruining himself, and then at Nijika, who was still wailing on the floor and almost flooding the shop, Ren Amamiya couldn't help but remark, "Is this place haunted...?"

He slapped his forehead, truly convinced of the situation. He looked at Saeko again, strongly suspecting that the three of them were up to something with her.

Saeko, however, simply covered her mouth with her sleeve and chuckled secretly, appearing unwilling to say anything.

It's obvious that there's a ghost.

"Alright, let go of each other first. It's not proper for you to continue like this here."

"But Brother Lian, we really don't know what to do, waaaaah..."

"Alright, alright, I'll help you with the plan, okay?"

"Okay!"

Hearing Ren Amamiya's words, Kita stopped pretending to be a ghost, and Nijika stopped crying. Their attitudes clearly showed that they were waiting for Ren Amamiya to say those words.

Chinese people tend to be moderate; even Ren Amamiya, who was Chinese in her past life, is like that. If you directly ask him to help them make plans, he definitely won't agree. But if you're both sacrificing yourself and want him to write songs, then he'll be willing to propose plans.

After all, a plan only needs to be written once, and they can follow the template to complete it later.

"Let's make this clear first, I'll only help you this once. Next time, don't even think about crying or threatening to hang yourself, I won't help you."

Clearly, the "one cry, two tantrums, three suicide attempts" trope that Ren Amamiya was talking about was completely foreign to them. Seeing question marks above their heads, and Ryo adding an exclamation mark next to the question marks, Amamiya decided not to continue talking to them about these things.

"Alright, let's talk about the plan first. I'll only teach you once, so please memorize it first."

Ren Amamiya, like Doraemon, pulled out paper and pen from somewhere and began writing down their team's plans.

"First of all, what's the name of your band?"

"Name? End of Band."

Hongxia directly stated the team's name.

Of course, "end" doesn't mean "game over," but rather "knot" or "bundle," implying that everyone in the band is united as one. Plus, the homonym also represents rope and wristbands, making it a rather interesting band name.

However, Ren Amamiya thought it sounded like a randomly chosen name, and it was also a bit funny, so his assessment was...

"This name... it's so-so, okay, let's just write it like this for now."

"Eh~"

When she proudly announced the team's name, Nijika's ahoge (cowlick) swayed back and forth as if on vibrate, seemingly quite pleased with herself. However, she immediately deflated after hearing Ren Amamiya's cold reply.

Ren Amamiya didn't say much about the name; he simply wrote "short-term plan to end the band" at the beginning of the paper.

"Our primary goal is to complete Tuesday's performance, so we need to write down our objective first. Then, we need to outline the conditions that prevent us from achieving our objective."

As Ren Amamiya spoke, he wrote, and the three people stood around him, watching him intently as he wrote the plan.

"Brother Lian's handwriting is so beautiful!"

"Don't interrupt, watch carefully."

Watching Ren Amamiya write down the problems that needed to be solved in his neat handwriting on the paper—

1. We are missing a guitarist.

2. No two pieces of music were found that were suitable for performance.

After writing these two points, Ren Amamiya thought for a moment and added two more:

3. The guitarist's guitar skills are not up to standard.

4. The band lacks cohesion.

"Hey! Why are you suddenly mentioning me?!"

Kita was shocked to find herself in a role, and looked at Ren Amamiya in disbelief. Ren tapped Kita on the head with his pen: "That's the plan. We'll write it for both the short and long term. You can say you won't be holding a guitar this time, but what about next time? Unless you say you'll only be the lead singer and not play the guitar."

"No, no, it's so uncomfortable to stand on stage like that, I won't do it!"

Kita immediately put his hands on his chest and struck a pose like a tamei.

She absolutely, absolutely, absolutely did not want to stand alone on the stage!

Although the lead singer doesn't actually stand still on stage, and can sway and twist during the interlude and even interact with the audience, since Kita said so, he naturally wouldn't force his own ideas on Kita.

And isn't it great that she's willing to learn guitar?

"Firstly, objectives one and two are primary objectives, while objectives three and four are secondary objectives. In the game's terms, objectives one and two are tasks that must be completed, while objectives three and four are tasks that should be completed as much as possible. Therefore, after we have learned about the current shortcomings, we need to find solutions, and for this purpose, we should list at least four methods."

Ren Amamiya drew a line and continued writing—

1. Find a guitarist who can participate in the performance on Monday, and after rehearsing on Monday, you can go on stage smoothly on Tuesday.

2. Find two songs suitable for performance on Sunday. If you can't create original songs, then focus on covers first.

These two points undoubtedly contain the specific details. Since time is running out, it is necessary to clearly explain the specific operating procedures here.

Then Ren Amamiya started writing down three or four long-term plans.

3. Lead guitarist and vocalist Kita needs to intensify his guitar training, practicing for half an hour every day.

4. Improve teamwork by playing instruments together at least two days a week.

"Very good, that's about right."

After capping the pen, Ren Amamiya handed this simple plan to Nijika.

"Eh? Is this all right?"

"Otherwise what? What do you think we should do?"

"Shouldn't it be about writing a super detailed plan, then marking it up with all sorts of annotations in different colored pens?"

"What kind of kindergarten drawing board is this...?"

Ren Amamiya stared at Nijika, a two-headed chibi character, standing next to the blackboard with one hand on her hip, pointing at the blackboard with a pointer. He felt that the other girl's style had changed a bit because she had gone astray.

So he transformed into a two-headed figure, went to Hongxia's side, snatched the pointer, and began explaining on the blackboard how to write a plan.

"What on earth is going on over there...?"

"I don't know, they seem to be having a lot of fun."

Xingge looked at the few chibi-style characters idling in the corner, and she had a lot of complaints she wanted to vent.

Saeko, on the other hand, seemed quite pleased. She smiled, her eyes narrowed, and looked at Toyokawa Shoko, who had just entered the Starry Night area: "Shoko, you're here! Good luck today too~"

"Hi!"

Although Xiangzi looked a little tired, she still nodded earnestly in agreement.

As she spoke, her gaze fell upon a group of people who were playing and laughing not far away. Although she didn't say anything, the envy in her eyes was so obvious.

Hoshika and Saeko glanced at each other, then looked at Toyokawa Shoko together.

"If you want to hang out together, how about you talk to them? They'll definitely welcome it."

Saeko squinted as she made the suggestion, but Shoko shook her head: "No, I'm not interested in music right now."

As she spoke, she went to the changing room to change her clothes and get ready to start working.

Not interested? That's probably a lie; they probably just don't have the time.