It started with being hated by the girl in the band

Like a real kitten, Kaname stretched his lower back gently in a daze, then stood up unsteadily, as if searching for something.

She blinked, her eyes suddenly lit up, and Kaname Rakuten immediately wagged her non-existent tail and walked in small steps between Shiina Riki and Nakagawa Nobuyuki.

"Rikki, you're late."

Pulling Shiina Riki's sleeve, Kaname Rakuna spoke softly.

"What exactly is Rikki's name? I'm wondering..."

Shiina Tachikawa made a casual remark.

"Zhonghe, we need to eat."

After poking Nakagawa Shin who was unloading Aine's guitar bag, Kaname opened her big, shining eyes of different colors and stretched out her hand expectantly.

...What ogre? Don't use such misleading words.

Of course, there was no way that Nakagawa Nobuyuki had any matcha candy in his pocket, so Nakagawa Nobuyuki could only cast his helpless gaze at Nagasaki Motoyo and Yawata Kairin on the side.

After exchanging glances with Nakagawa Nobuyuki, Hachiman Kailing, who usually had an extremely tacit understanding with him, just shrugged her shoulders, looking helpless.

But come to think of it, this cool sister doesn't seem like the type who always has sweets with her.

"Shigaraki, do you have any candy?"

Nakagawa Nobuyuki gritted his teeth and ignored the increasingly intense cat-like gazes around him, cleared his throat, and looked at Nagasaki Suyo who looked like he was watching a show.

"...Well, if I were to ask, I do have one, but it's at Nakagawa-san's house."

Nagasaki Suyo pondered for a few moments, still with that gentle smile on her face. She gently spread out her white hands and looked over with an innocent look.

Miss Su Shi was indeed not lying. She actually bought a few boxes of candy and put them in the bag. Now they are probably still lying peacefully in Nakagawa Nobuyuki's house.

Listening to Nagasaki Motoyo's voice becoming sweet again, Nakagawa Nobuyuki couldn't help but shudder. He found it increasingly difficult to adapt to this kind of Nagasaki Motoyo.

But before Nakagawa Nobuyuki could say anything, the anxious Shiina Riki had already planned to drag everyone to practice first.

"Um... Yamabuki-senpai, just help us register a practice room. I'll leave my work to this guy."

"Hey! Rikki, stop pulling me!"

"..."

Not long after, after Shiina Riki reluctantly agreed to the matcha parfait, the reluctant Yagura Na followed him into the practice room, wagging her non-existent cat tail, and today's practice began.

Miss Yamabuki was still registering the practice rooms in use at this time, but when she caught a glimpse of Nakagawa Nobuyuki flipping through the order book with familiarity, she paused her pen slightly, stood up and spoke to him with some curiosity.

"Is he a friend of Li Xi's?"

"Well... should I say so?"

148

Chapter 148: Miss Hailing may be the first person to start a team.

At the RiNG front desk, the rich and warm aroma of latte was quite noticeable. Nakagawa Nobumasa frowned slightly, concentrating on pinching the handle of the latte art cup and slowly outlining it.

"Oh~ Nakagawa-san's latte art skills are amazing."

Yamabuki Saya leaned lightly on the counter in front of her, helping Nakagawa Nobuyuki to gently press down the open composition book with her hand, and looked with interest at the tulip-shaped milky white pattern that Nakagawa Nobuyuki had casually drawn in front of her.

"…After all, I have a lot of part-time jobs. Thank you for your compliment, Yamabuki-senpai."

Nakagawa Nobuyuki looked at the perfect pattern in the cup, breathed a sigh of relief, gently placed the latte cup with the pattern on the tray, and was about to take it out.

However, Yamabuki Saya smiled slightly, gently stretched out her hand to stop Nakagawa Nobuyuki, and gently placed a small receipt on the notebook full of notes, then took the latte from Nakagawa Nobuyuki with a look of admiration.

Of course she could see that Nakagawa Nobuyuki's serious look was obviously not a joke.

"Nakagawa-san, I can take it. Since we are learning to compose music, it would be bad to be interrupted, right?"

While asking the question softly, Yamabuki Saya, who was like a sister to her, did not wait for Nakagawa Nobuyuki to reply. She just checked the table number on the receipt and walked away leisurely.

Nakagawa Shinnosuke felt inexplicably embarrassed, but since Yamabuki Saya had already said this, he simply sat back in his seat, gently raised his head, and continued to read the composition book in his hand.

Speaking of this, we are all staff members working for RiNG, but why does Shiina look so fierce every day?

...If you really want to say Shiina, she's actually a nice person.

However, compared to the inexplicably familiar-looking Yamabuki-senpai in front of him, there is still a little distance between him and him (fingertip universe).

Looking at Senior Yamabuki who was slowly walking back in front of him, Nakagawa Nobuyuki sighed slightly, silently lamenting the gap between people.

"I'm sorry, but I'm sorry to bother you, Yamabuki-senpai."

Nakagawa Nobuyuki bowed slightly and thanked Miss Yamabuki politely.

"No need to be so formal."

After gently waving her hand, Yamabuki Saya walked back to the counter from one side with a smile on her face.

"By the way, how did Nakagawa-san and Riki form a band?"

Leaning back to her original position, Yamabuki Saya fiddled with the Newton's cradle on the front desk and asked curiously.

"In fact, it's not considered joining yet..."

Nakagawa Nobuyuki touched his chin slightly, frowned uncertainly, and spoke slowly.

Although he always came with Xiao Deng and Aine when they came to practice, he really didn't join the band. He was just a self-proclaimed "lifelong fan".

Speaking of this, Nakagawa Nobuyuki recalled some stereotypes that super-pure idol otakus would hold weddings with the standees or paintings of the idols they support.

...If you think about it this way, it seems that being a fan is also a very heavy title.

Thinking of this, Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who had a very developed imagination, unconsciously had a picture of himself and Aine getting married on a signboard...

With a sudden chill, Nakagawa Nobuyuki immediately threw this strange imagination out of the sky.

No matter what, I will never marry a plaque...

Nakagawa Nobuyuki quickly came to his senses and cleared his throat slightly before casually recounting how he and Shiina Riki met.

However, when Nakagawa Nobuyuki was talking about how he met Kodama and Aine when he entered school in Yugaoka, he was suddenly interrupted by Yamabuki Saya with a very subtle expression on her face.

"...Wait, Nakagawa-san, speaking of this, you're only a freshman this year?"

Yamabuki Saya blinked and looked at the maturity emanating from Nakagawa Nobuyuki, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.

It is obvious that Nakagawa is a boy. If he went to Haneigaoka, he must have enrolled this year or last year. After all, Haneigaoka was just changed to a co-educational school last year.

In fact, when Nakagawa Nobuyuki introduced himself not long ago, Yamabuki Saya was a little concerned about Nakagawa Nobuyuki's age... To be honest, he didn't look like a high school student at all, but rather like a college student.

I thought he called me senior because of Li Xi... I didn't expect he really wanted to call me senior.

However, because she didn't find any good opportunity, and it would be rude to ask this question rashly, Yamabuki Saya could only suppress this question for the time being and waited until now to ask it.

"Ah... If I look old, it's because I took a year off from school."

Nakagawa Nobuyuki spread his hands out of habit, as if he had experience in answering this question, but he did not intend to explain why he took a year off from school.

The main thing is that if I say that I'm living alone outside, the atmosphere will always become awkward, and the person who asks this question will usually just apologize to me...

Although he didn't think there was anything wrong with this, Nakagawa Nobuyuki couldn't stand that kind of awkward atmosphere.

"Oh, I see."

Yamabuki Saya's expression was still somewhat subtle.

…I don’t know why Nakagawa-san took a year off from school, but I feel like it would be awkward if I asked him.

While drawing on his notebook, Nakagawa Nobuyuki continued with the previous topic.

……

As the last burst of music ended, the practice room slowly calmed down, leaving only the humming sound of the central air conditioner.

"Satisfied."

Yao Lena stretched her body gently, a little lazily, and slowly swayed and sat directly on the wooden floor of the practice room.

"Little Lenai, you can't sit on the floor."

Nagasaki Suyo raised the bass in her hand slightly towards her side, her voice slightly more serious, and gently touched the little white head of Kaname that was swaying.

"… on the ground. It's very comfortable."

A soft complaining sound came out of her mouth, but even though she said that, she was very surprised to hear Nagasaki Suyo's words, and finally she staggered and picked herself up from the ground.

"Light, there is water here."

Shiina Riki raised his eyes slightly, holding a cup of warm water, and walked lightly to Takamatsu Deng who was frowning slightly and clearing his throat.

"...Ahem, Lixi, thank you."

Xiaodeng frowned her cute slender eyebrows, took the cup of water with both hands, and drank it gently through the straw.

Although the band hasn't practiced together many times, everyone's coordination is visibly getting better and better...

Gao Songdeng slightly raised the corner of his mouth and subconsciously looked at everyone who was taking a break during the intermission.

Aine, although still a little unfamiliar, but if it was Kasuga Shadow, she would be much more familiar.

Lenai, now I can cooperate with everyone a little bit.

The world is still the same as before.

Li Xi...it would be nice if I could have a better relationship with Xin.

As expected... As long as we are together, any problem can be solved...

"Cough cough."

Suddenly, some discordant voices interrupted at this moment.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your happy time."

Hachiman Kailing stood up gently and looked around calmly at everyone who seemed satisfied with the practice just now.

"Is this song called 'Spring Shadow'? It's really good."

After giving a few compliments in a neutral tone, Hachiman Kailing continued speaking in a nonchalant tone.

“But if you only know this one song and you want to call yourself a band, isn’t that a bit arrogant?”

Spreading her hands casually, Hachiman Kailing pointed out this fact with a rather indifferent look.

Indeed, what Hachiman Kailing said is right.

Because the previous version of the music score is still being remade by Shiina Tatsuki, the only song that everyone is practicing together now is Kasuga Kage's song.

For a band that only has one song to perform, wanting to hold a live show... isn't that just playing house?

When Shiina Riki heard this, his brows furrowed and he subconsciously wanted to refute... However, after opening his mouth slightly, he found that he could not refute such words.

Therefore, everyone could only look at each other in silence. For a moment, the atmosphere in the practice room became inexplicably strange.

149

Chapter 149 Let me say some unpleasant words.

...Why is there no sound? Is this door really soundproof?

Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who was holding a few cups of warm water, blinked in confusion, but didn't take it to heart. He just gently pressed the door handle with his arm.

I don't know how everyone's practice is going, so I just came to take a look.

Click.

"Okay, okay, how's everyone's practice going——"

In an instant, Nakagawa Nobuyuki felt that everyone's eyes in the practice room were rapidly directed at him, and he could clearly feel that everyone's expressions were complicated and somewhat exaggerated.

There is calmness, relief, anticipation... and the most prominent gaze among them comes from Shiina Tatsuki's resentment and slight annoyance.

Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who was still in shock, wanted to ask what was going on, but was interrupted by Shiina Riki's excited voice.

"Nakagawa, compose music with me when the time comes! The two of us are more than capable of doing it!"

Not understanding the situation, Nakagawa Nobuyuki froze in place and pointed at himself in confusion.

Time goes back to a while ago.

After Hachiman Kailing said those words calmly, the atmosphere couldn't help but become a little stagnant.