Service Club? Just like you guys, you want to step into the whirlpool of the band?

She was just helping to prepare a bottle of water, so what was there to say? After all, she treated everyone in PoppinParty the same way on weekdays.

"Yeah!" Hikigaya Komachi nodded excitedly after hearing this, and then changed the subject, "Speaking of which... Sister Yamabuki, are you a student at Seaside Comprehensive High School?"

"Seaside Comprehensive High School?" Hearing this unfamiliar school name, Yamabuki Saya tilted her head in confusion. A school she had never heard of? This should be a local school in Chiba, right? "No..."

However, just as she was about to respond to this question by saying no, Ichinose Asaba beside her suddenly knocked on the table, interrupting her and looking at her, "Sit down first and talk later."

"Oh, then Qianyu, please move the stool a little."

Yamabuki Saya didn't refuse. In fact, she had wanted to sit down and rest for a long time.

"Remember to lift it up... ah! Be careful not to scratch the floor, I haven't put the foot pads on the chair yet!"

However, when Ichinose Asaba really started to move the chair, the harsh sound coming from underneath made her feel distressed, so she immediately chose to help him lift the back of the chair.

"I understand. I'll be more careful... How can I move if you're holding me like this? Let me go and let me do it myself."

It would be fine if one person was lifting it, but with the addition of Yamabuki Saya, it became a complete mess because he had to hold on to the table to maintain his balance while using his right hand to steady the chair to prevent it from falling.

After all, in this space, it is completely impossible for him to stand up.

"Really, Qianyu, please be careful. If you scratch the floor, I won't forgive you."

Only after getting Asaba Ichinose's assurance did Yamabuki Saya slowly let go of her hand, put her hands on her hips and gave him a pretended angry look.

"Okay, okay, sit down quickly."

Asaba Ichinose ignored the harmless threat, and after moving the chair, he moved another one from behind him and placed it behind Saya Yamabuki.

Is it an illusion? Why does it feel like Yamabuki Saya has become much more difficult to deal with now? Or did he not notice this before?

"Ah...it feels so good to sit down."

Before he had time to observe for a while, Yamabuki Saya had already sat down and leaned against the back of the chair.

She made a sound of enjoyment, as if all the fatigue of the day had disappeared at that moment.

"You haven't been busy all day, have you?"

After seeing her expression, Ichinose Asaba couldn't help but ask.

Yamabuki Saya still had her eyes closed, the look of enjoyment still lingering on her face. She waved her hand and said, "Not a whole day, but at least eight hours, from day to now."

"You asked for leave a day in advance?"

Yamabuki Saya nodded.

"Aunt Yamabuki should be feeling better now."

I don't know why, but after meeting an acquaintance, he started talking more unconsciously, and the tone of his voice also changed.

"Of course, otherwise we wouldn't have the energy to open a branch."

Yamabuki Saya slowly opened her eyes and spoke in a slightly lazy tone.

Ichinose Asaba glanced at her and found that the girl indeed looked much more relaxed than she did a year ago.

"What about the other people in the store? We can't just hire one."

He then asked again, as if he had forgotten that there were two people across the table.

Ah, these two are starting over again~

"Hey, Onii-chan, don't you think the two of us are a bit redundant?"

On the opposite side, after seeing the situation of the two, Hikigaya Komachi simply lay down on the table, stealing glances at her brother while unable to help but complain.

"If you know, don't say it." Hearing this, Hikigaya Hachiman carefully lay down and looked at her. "In this situation, the best thing to do is to remain silent."

"That's why Komachi speaks so quietly. You're not the only one who knows about this kind of thing, Onii-chan. I have common sense too, okay!"

"Then you should have kept silent from the beginning."

For a moment, the two of them stared at each other, and no one dared to speak louder.

At this moment, Asaba Ichinose, who was still talking with Saya Yamabuki, seemed to have forgotten that she still had to work.

"I sent the rest of the people out to buy fruit and flour. They won't be back for a while." Yamabuki Saya took out her phone to check the time, then sighed and said, "Ah... If I had known earlier, I should have come back on the weekend and asked Kasumi and the others to come along as well."

In that case, it should be easy... No, if it is really the weekend, then

Suddenly realizing something, Yamabuki Saya slowly looked at Ichinose Asaba, a smile curling up her lips. "But... if that's the case, it seems like I won't be able to run into someone who's been missing for over a year, right Asaba?"

"I"

Asaba Ichinose knew he was in the wrong, so he just frowned and looked away without making any rebuttal.

He was even mentally prepared to be questioned and planned to pull Yamabuki Saya out of the store to tell her when she started talking about this matter.

however

"Come to think of it, we've strayed quite a bit from the topic." Yamabuki Saya spoke, but she didn't choose to ask why Ichinose Asaba suddenly disappeared. Instead, she returned to the previous topic and looked a little embarrassedly at Hikigaya Komachi, who was hunched over the table in a daze. "I'm sorry for taking so long. Actually, my school is not at Seaside Comprehensive High School... If I remember correctly, that's the name, right?"

Yamabuki Saya recalled for a moment, then continued after confirming that she had said it correctly, "Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy, this is my high school, but Komachi... I should be able to call you that, right? I believe you haven't heard of it before."

"Of course, but Hanasakigawa... Girls' Academy?"

The name didn't matter to her, but to be honest, she had never heard of Hanasakigawa Girls' College.

"Onii-chan, is there such a school in Chiba?"

So she turned directly to Hikigaya Hachiman for help.

"Do I look like an encyclopedia? I'm right here."

But after hearing this, Hikigaya Hachiman was also confused, and it was useless even if he searched in his mind.

"Hanasakigawa...is not in Chiba."

In the end, it was Asaba Ichinose who answered for Yamabuki Saya, and after she finished speaking, she looked at her with a complicated expression.

Really, not curious at all?

"Ok?"

However, Yamabuki Saya returned his gaze.

She pretended so well that Asaba Ichinose didn't notice anything unusual.

Ikebukuro, Haigaoka Girls' College.

"Eh... Just like everyone said, there's no light music club in Haneda."

Next to the bulletin board of Hanegaoka Girls' High School, a girl with long pink hair named Chihaya Aine was worried about what she would see on it.

The girl held her chin with her hand, feeling somewhat confused. She had no idea where to find people to form a band in this academy.

After all, she transferred here from a school in the UK halfway through her studies and was not admitted to Yuqiu from the beginning. So in terms of interpersonal communication, although she has the ability and confidence to quickly get along with everyone, it has to be said that she has fallen behind a lot.

Therefore, if she wants to make up for this and quickly become famous among the crowd, she must consider the most popular girl band among the student group. After all, only after joining or forming a band can she have more topics to talk about with the people around her.

Being in a girl band is a stage where she can showcase her abilities. So, in order to quickly fit in with everyone, and also to get noticed and satisfy her vanity, her main goal now is to join or form a band as a lead singer, or a lead singer and guitarist.

But...ideas come easily, but when it comes to actually implementing them, they become fraught with difficulties.

"Takamatsu-san hasn't responded to my request to form a band yet...why not try your luck with the wind band club?"

Because some time ago she had thought about finding someone to form a band, like her desk mate, who looked very cute, like a little animal... Although it was a bit presumptuous to describe it this way, the other person was indeed very cute and was also the class pet.

She thought that if she could form a band with the other party, she would quickly become the focus of everyone's attention, but... in fact, from the moment she invited the other party to form a band, Takamatsu Deng, who was considered a little weak by others and was sitting in front of her, reacted violently and shouted "No", then ran out of the classroom crying.

Afterwards, she had to search for him for a long time. She chased him from the classroom to the astronomy department, and then from the astronomy department all the way out of the school gate. Finally, she finally coaxed him into submission.

Although it was just coaxing, Gao Songdeng also apologized to her for his behavior that day.

After this incident, she originally thought that when she returned to the classroom the next day, she might... face strange looks from other classmates. To be honest, she had prepared for the worst. But what she didn't expect was that the moment she walked into the classroom, someone took the initiative to come forward and explain Takamatsu Deng's situation to her.

She learned from other people that someone had wanted to invite Takamatsu Deng to form a band like she did, but they all failed without exception.

Normally, Takamatsu Deng's personality is just like a little animal, a little silly and completely harmless, but as soon as the band is mentioned... she becomes like a different person and becomes extremely sensitive.

So over time, no one dared to invite her to form a band.

It's just that she just transferred here and didn't know this, so she stepped into a minefield and encountered this kind of thing on the first day.

So until today, she has not been able to find the first member of her band.

There was no other way. She didn't want to give up, so she had to try her luck at the bulletin board to see if there was any information about band recruitment.

At this moment, melodious music suddenly came from the teaching building where the wind band was located, attracting her attention.

"Ah...the sound of the piano."

She turned around and took a look at the fifth floor of the teaching building next door. The window of the classroom at the very edge was still open, and the sound came from inside.

For a moment, Chihaya Aine's mind began to become active.

Although she didn't know what song it was, since there was someone in the band, she might as well go and take a look. What if the other party also wanted to play in a band? She could then extend an invitation... Then she would have a keyboard player in the band!

"Okay! It's decided!"

After making up her mind, Chihaya Aine immediately ran towards the teaching building where the music came from.

"Huh... finally it's the 23rd V (7th) day."

After climbing five floors in one breath, she felt a little tired even though she was in good physical condition.

Looking at the closed door of the brass band club in front of her, Chihaya Aine did not rush in, but leaned against the wall to recover her strength.

After about a minute, she slowly walked forward and put her ear to the door to confirm that the sound was indeed coming from inside.

Click.. Qiqun Temple IX onwards three masters.

Then she gently turned the handle, pushed the door open carefully and walked in.

The melodious voice became clear the moment she pushed the door open and walked in.

【The girl with flaxen hair】

This piano piece is one of the works composed by Debussy in his later years. The whole piece is short and lyrical, fresh, quiet, elegant and full of vitality, and it is very pleasant to listen to.

Although Chihaya Aine didn't understand these, after listening for a while, she was drawn into the world of music and couldn't extricate herself for a long time.

It wasn't until the girl with blue twintails sitting in front of the piano stopped playing that she slowly came back to her senses.

“You play so well!”

A burst of applause suddenly broke out in the quiet classroom. Chihaya Aine did not hesitate to praise them and she walked up quickly.

"Are you a member of the wind band?"

At this moment, the girl with blue twin tails in Chihaya Aine's eyes, or rather, Toyokawa Shoko, had just stopped playing and immediately looked over with some curiosity when she heard the movement in front of her.

Since she had only borrowed the piano of the wind band club temporarily during the lunch break, she actually didn't know much about the composition of the band's personnel. So when Chihaya Aine appeared, she mistakenly thought that someone from the band wanted to urge her to leave the classroom, so she simply stood up and was about to close the piano lid.

"No, I just came here to listen to you play the piano."

However, Chihaya Aine's explanation surprised her a little.

""

Shoko Toyokawa was stunned for a moment, but did not sit back in her seat.

Because her lunch break was almost over, she had originally planned to leave after playing this song, so to be honest, the appearance of Chihaya Aine was not the decisive factor for her to leave here.

So she continued to reach towards the piano cover, and after touching it, she carefully dragged it down with both hands.

On the side, when Chihaya Aine saw that Toyokawa Shoko hadn't responded and even showed signs of wanting to leave, she took a step forward eagerly and said with anticipation, "Excuse me, would you like to play in a band with us?"

""

The piano lid that was about to close suddenly stopped in mid-air. When Shoko Toyokawa suddenly heard the word "band", she thought she was hallucinating. The expression on her face instantly became complicated, and she slowly looked in the direction of Chihaya Aine.

"I'm sorry for inviting you so suddenly... Um, I'm Chihaya from the first-year A group."

Although it was a straight ball, fortunately it attracted the opponent's attention. When Chihaya Aine saw Toyokawa Shoko looking at her, she began to explain nervously.

After all, according to her ideal development, she originally planned to talk about something that the other party was interested in first, and then delve into the topic of the band, but things happened suddenly, and she had no choice but to take it one step at a time.

"Chihaya-san?"

As soon as she heard the word "band", the painful memories from before were about to flood back into her mind. In order not to lose her composure in front of outsiders, Toyokawa Shoko could only suppress her inner feelings and looked at the girl in front of her curiously.

She was sure she had never even heard of the other person or met him before.

And it was this strange girl who invited her to form a band at this moment.

"Call me Aine. I'm currently looking for band members. I'm the lead guitarist. Would you like to be the keyboardist?"