Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

"Speaking of which, can I sell that old keyboard you left in the exhibition hall secondhand? Nobody uses it anyway."

"So this is your real purpose? I see, you've been keeping an eye on me." Just as Yuzhen thought, Ryo definitely wouldn't call him for no reason. "I don't plan to sell it, I want to keep it for myself. Stop with your bad intentions."

He's used that old keyboard in the rehearsal room for years; he's attached to these things, so how could he possibly sell it?

What will become of our daughter?!

The Kita couple, who were hiding nearby, were already in despair after hearing Yuma's words. These delinquents were actually discussing how to deal with Yudai in such a place. It seemed that they had no scruples at all.

Even Kita Minoru had to believe it now; he couldn't imagine what his daughter would face in the future. No way!

"Honey, do you think this man is Goto, Yamada, or Iji Tomo?"

"That's not important. What's important is that we can't let him take Kita away."

The couple discussed it in hushed tones.

"Brother Kenzaki, let's go back."

Kita's voice came from outside; she had already left and was going down the stairs.

"That's settled then. She's gone downstairs, I'll take her back right away."

After hearing Kita's voice, Yuma spoke to Ryo on the other end of the phone.

"Absolutely not!"

"I won't let you take Yudai away!"

Yuma was startled by the two people who suddenly appeared, and she almost dropped her phone.

"Mom and Dad? What are you doing?" As soon as Kita came downstairs, he saw his parents pointing at Yuuma with a spatula and green onions.

"Yu Dai, why are you back? Weren't you rehearsing with the band? And what's that in your hand?"

Kita looked at his daughter. He remembered that Ikuyo hadn't worn this dress when she left home that morning, so why did she go to the trouble of coming home to change? And was that a dress in her hand?

"Because my skirt was torn, Kenzaki-nii brought me back to change." Kita unfolded the maid outfit in her hand. "This is what I have here; the shopkeeper gave it to me."

"Your skirt is torn?"

"And they were forced to wear maid outfits!"

"Wait, Mom and Dad, what are you saying?"

Looking at the family in front of her, and then at her leather jacket that she had taken off and placed on the ground, and the motorcycle parked outside the stairwell, Yuzhen could roughly tell that they had misunderstood something.

Chapter 76 Encouraging Learning

Do I really look like a delinquent?

Inside the performance hall, Yuzhen held a small mirror to himself. Looking at his reflection, he began to doubt himself.

He clearly thought he looked very innocent. He had already dyed his hair back to black, and his complexion was much better than before. He was only wearing two earrings, and he was much more restrained than before.

You can't just ban earrings altogether, can you? How are they supposed to cover their pierced ears if they don't wear earrings?

Yuma glanced at PA next to her and confirmed that he really was a good young man.

"Boss Kenzaki, the way you're looking at me makes me feel like you're being very impolite." PA noticed the way Yuuma was looking at her and felt that Yuuma must be thinking about something bad again.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to."

Although being labeled a delinquent hurt Yuuma a little, on the other hand, didn't it also mean he looked very young? He began to somewhat agree with Kita's parents' judgment.

More than half an hour ago, Kita explained what had happened to her parents downstairs at her house, but it seemed that her mother didn't want her to continue playing in the band, so the two of them started arguing.

Kita Minoru watched from the sidelines, unable to get a word in edgewise. Yuuma didn't know how to speak either; every time he tried to persuade Kita Ikuyo to calm down, he was deterred by Kita Ikuyo's cold gaze.

Kita Minori and Yuuma sat on the steps at the entrance of the apartment building. After a conversation, Kita Minori realized that she had misunderstood the young man. He just looked like a scumbag and dressed in a somewhat refined manner. In reality, he didn't have many bad habits.

"Speaking of which, your motorcycle is really cool. It looks quite new. Did you just buy it recently?"

The two had already started talking while standing next to the car.

“This is the car my dad just bought.” Yuzhen thought the uncle in front of her had good taste. “He took my mom to Okinawa this morning and lent me his car.”

"To be honest, I also wanted to own my own motorcycle when I was young." Kita Minoru began to recall his childhood dream, "but unfortunately, I didn't have enough money."

"That's just reality."

The two continued talking until the argument on the other side ended, at which point Kita Ikuyo ran out and hid behind her father and Yuuma.

In the end, Kita Ikuyo insisted that Yuuma take her away first. As Yuuma started the car, he felt as if Kita Ikuyo's gaze could really kill him.

……

Kita Ikuyo had a falling out with her mother and told everyone that she had decided to run away from home.

Yuma felt responsible for how things turned out, so he tried to persuade Kita, but she wouldn't listen. In the end, he could only temporarily give Kita the key to his house, since he was staying at Ijichi's house and it was just sitting empty anyway.

Meanwhile, as evening fell, Kiyotaka realized her daughter hadn't come home yet. She was in the kitchen chopping vegetables, muttering to herself:

"Honestly, I just want her to have a peaceful life. Now she's out all day and comes home so late every day, how can I not worry..."

Kita sat on the sofa. From their conversation today, he could tell that Yuuma wasn't a bad person; he was a very nice young man, just twenty-nine, which was a bit too old. However, Yuuma had said that he had no feelings for Yudai, as Yudai already had a girlfriend, so Kita wasn't worried about Yudai's safety.

However, the thought of Kuryuyo making those spicy dishes that Yudai liked made him break out in a cold sweat, as he couldn't handle spicy food very well.

'Yu Dai, please come back quickly.'

Meanwhile, on the other side...

"Then you can stay at my house for now." Yuma led Kita to her house, which was next to Ijichi's house. "Just don't damage my collection."

"I understand, thank you, Kenzaki-nii."

Hongxia also brought some clothes for Kita. They were about the same size, so the clothes fit them quite well. She said she would be staying at Yuuma's house with Kita for the next couple of days.

A few days passed like this, and one evening Yuma suddenly received a call from Kita Minoru. Yes, they had only chatted for a short while that day before exchanging contact information.

"Brother Kenzaki, could you help me persuade Ikuyo to come home?"

Kita Minoru's voice was a little soft on the other end of the phone, and Yuuma could hear some "bang bang bang" sounds in the background, which he thought sounded like someone chopping ribs.

"I tried to persuade her, but I didn't expect her to be so stubborn." Yuzhen was also helpless. "Well, let me think of another way."

"Okay, please. My stomach is starting to feel uncomfortable from eating spicy food these past two days."

Kita Minoru is almost sick of spicy food these past few days; it's spicy on both ends! He desperately hopes that Kita Ikuyo can come home quickly and save him from this predicament.

"Whose call was that?" Xingge asked.

Yuuma is sitting on the sofa, with Hoshika nestled in his arms watching TV with him. Kita and Nijika are both in Yuuma's house, probably doing their homework.

Why do I suddenly have this feeling of living with two kids after marriage?

Yuma shook her head, trying to banish these thoughts for the time being.

“It was Kita’s dad calling. He asked me to try to persuade Kita to come home.” Yuma showed the phone number’s name to Hoshika. “But I’ve tried to persuade her many times already, so please help me out, senpai.”

……

“My mom wants me to go to university and then take the civil service exam. But I want to dedicate myself to the band.”

Kita and Nijika put away the magical girl transformation device they found in Yuuma's room, and then everyone sat together in the living room to listen to Kita speak.

Yuuma felt he could understand Kita; his father had also wanted him to study law and get a bar exam. However, Yuuma didn't want to study, so he didn't listen to his father, and the two had a falling out.

“These two things don’t conflict at all.” Xingge sat cross-legged on the sofa. She used to play in a band and get into university at the same time. Although Yuzhen was exhausted from tutoring her, she did get in.

Is it really true that some people neglect their studies and fail to get into university after playing in a band?

“Kita, it would be great to go to university.” Yuma felt that Kita was so much like Hoshika before. “You can learn a lot of useful things there, and you might make a lot of new friends.”

"If you're worried about your grades, you can come to me for tutoring. I have some knowledge. Don't be shy with me; I've long considered the four of you my younger sisters."

Seeing that Kita seemed to have been persuaded, Yuma quickly followed up, telling her to call home to let them know she was safe.

"You should apologize to your parents right away. Your dad has been eating too much spicy food these past few days and he can't take it anymore."

Kita actually felt that what she had said to her mother before was too much. Now that everyone had said so, she was no longer stubborn. She took out her phone and called her mother to apologize, saying that she would go home tomorrow.

"Huh? Take the band members back? Do you want to see them?" Kita asked, glancing at the three people beside him with a questioning look when she heard her mother's request.

Kenzaki Yuuma and Iji Tomoka definitely won't go. Her mother wants to meet her bandmates, so the two of them won't interfere.

Hongxia has a meeting after school tomorrow. It seems like all the class officers in her grade have to go too, so she won't have time.

Yuma also called Ryo to ask, but Ryo said she had to attend her beloved dog Bess's funeral again tomorrow and couldn't go to the Xijia family together.

There was no other way, so Yuzhen could only contact Boqi. It seemed that Boqi was free, since she didn't have many friends.

Pochi was playing guitar in her closet when she suddenly felt her phone vibrate beside her. She picked it up and saw a message from Kenzaki Yuuma: "Why don't you and Kita go to her house tomorrow? Her mother wants to meet you."

"Eh!? Ah!!!!"

"What is my sister calling out for?"

When the Goto family entered Pochi's bedroom, all they saw was Pochi sauce leaking from the closet.

Chapter 77 You just gave yourself to her too.

Kita took Pochi home with him.

Hongxia and Liang also had their own things to do and were not in the performance hall.

Yuma pushed open the door and entered, finding it quite quiet inside. PA was asleep, slumped over the speaker; she'd probably stayed up late again. On the other side, Hoshika sat at the bar, working on her computer.

He walked to the table, sat down, took out a tube of ointment from his pocket and threw it on the table, then slumped into the chair.

"What is this?" Xingge heard the sound, temporarily put down the files on the computer, and sat down next to Youzhen.

She noticed the medicine that Yuuma had just left on the table, picked it up and glanced at it.

"Athlete's foot medicine? Why did you buy this stuff? Do you have athlete's foot?"

"I didn't buy it; I found it while cleaning the room just now."

After Kita left this morning, Yuma wanted to clean the room she had been staying in for the past few days, and then she found this tube of ointment on the bedside table of that guest room.

Does Kita have athlete's foot?

Yuma was initially a little incredulous, but then she thought about it and realized that Kita was always full of energy and running around everywhere, and she had heard that Kita had joined their school's basketball team, so it didn't seem so strange.