Another string reel from Bandoli

"Sha Ling, why are you back so early? Go out and play with your friends. You're not busy at the store."

Yamabuki Saya quickly put on her apron and got ready to work.

"Dad, isn't Mom back yet?"

"Well, she went out to a girls' party with a friend she met at the parents' meeting. She said she would give me a surprise when she comes back."

The thin father Yamabuki was still unaware of his tragic fate tonight. After noticing Toyama Kasumi and Ichigaya Arisaki, he invited them to have some bread together.

……

Only Ichigaya Yusaki and Toyama Kasumi are left.

As dusk approached, under the street lights that had come on early, Kasumi Toyama could hear the clicking sound of her school uniform leather shoes on the concrete floor.

Something seemed to be shining on the side of Kasumi Toyama's face.

Yusaki Ichigaya has remained silent in the family restaurant until now.

She looked at Toyama Kasumi.

"How do you feel about this livehouse performance?"

“Everyone is shining.”

“…Is that so…sparkling…” Ichigaya Yusaki repeated.

She seemed stunned.

"Kasumi... do you know why I've never met you before?"

"Ok?"

"I hate you, and from the bottom of my heart... I hate Xian Juangan..."

No matter how hard Yusaki Ichigaya tried to sort out the pile of junk, it would eventually pile up again.

With some difficulty, she moved out the large projector, which seemed out of place in the surroundings.

These words were still echoing in Kasumi Toyama's mind. She followed Ichigaya Yusaki in a trance as she returned to Ryuseido and once again returned to the old warehouse.

She wanted to help, but Ichigaya Yusaki insisted on doing it herself.

Ichigaya Yusaki took off her shoes at the entrance, climbed up the steep ladder steps, and called Toyama Kasumi to go up to the second floor.

A decorative painting hung on the inner wall of the room, seemingly dominating this incredible space. Inscribed in the antique frame was the word "dream."

That was the place where Ichigaya Arisaki had been hiding when they first met.

And here... it's empty.

"...This is a piece of tech I asked him to help me build... It doesn't have any Doraemon elements, it's just an astronomical memory projection."

Ichigaya Yusaki explained a little.

She placed the device in the center.

As she turned on the switch.

It was as if time went back, and the entire warehouse returned to that day.

Looking at the slightly newer warehouse, there was a very well-behaved little blonde girl who looked like a well-educated lady. She was listening to her thin father playing the guitar for her in the warehouse. The familiar red star-shaped guitar was so suitable for the middle-aged man.

As a middle-aged man who lives with his wife's family, he only does so in front of his daughter.

His still lingering musical dream can still be fully displayed.

The guitar stopped.

"Excuse me, my mother-in-law asked me to come here. Is there anything you need repaired?"

The first thing that caught Toyama Kasumi's eye was a hand wearing a golden watch.

In Toyama Kasumi's memory, this was an old model device that he had uninstalled long ago, but was replaced by a dark green watch with white stripes that mysteriously appeared again two years later.

As the warehouse door was pushed open.

He was a blond boy who was even thinner than Kasumi Toyama's impression, and was wearing an ill-fitting coat.

His temperament was even colder, making it difficult for people to approach him.

The dull golden pupils looked like a wild cat.

The middle-aged man seemed to have been looking forward to this day for a long time.

"Want to play guitar?"

On the second-floor stairs, the middle-aged man who was looking down from above just squatted down.

Greeted him kindly.

The middle-aged man's eyes held a fire that had once been extinguished, and he felt that he had found his musical dream.

The now-adult Arisaki Ichigaya just stood in front of her father's projection, lowered her head and unable to watch what happened next.

……

Even Toyama Kasumi knows what will happen next...

Because of his grandmother's care for him, the young Xian Juangan reluctantly carried the red star guitar on his back.

His thin body looked so funny with the red guitar that was almost half the size of him.

He put on the RandomStar, connected the Marshall to the guitar, adjusted the volume, and pressed the overdrive pedal at his feet.

At a moment when the middle-aged man was completely defenseless and had no psychological preparation at all.

There is no concept of mercy, no ability to retain strength, and the completely released string liver, in the form of memory projection, at the "advanced age" of only 7 years old

He fully unleashed his true musical talent.

The talent he displayed, or rather...

The strength he already possessed, despite the man's already fragile state, still entangled him like spider silk, and eventually took him, mentally and physically exhausted, away into a nightmare in another timeline.

It turned into another brand new nightmare...

As such, he felt that the time he spent on playing would be better spent deciphering the genetic code in the field of alien genetics.

Add a whole new alien species to his alien conversion device, which he calls the Antitrix.

Chapter 88 Chapter 88 The Real PoppinParty

The middle-aged man has changed, the once popular band guitarist

His temperament changes dramatically the moment he picks up the guitar.

He completely gave up the dream of music that still lingered in his mind and became a good husband and pawnshop owner.

He had been frail, but after overcoming his mental problems, and thanks to the help of technology, his aging body gradually began to improve. He took over his mother's job and worked tirelessly to support his family.

In the eyes of others, he has become a better person. He gave up the musical dream that he still had a lingering hope for and devoted himself completely to the daily life of making a living.

He had even dealt with the Red Star guitar and those musical instruments, and sold off what needed to be sold.

A man named Utsunomiya, who was one of Japan's top guitarists in the legendary band "RAZES" in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has passed away.

The only one left was a pawnshop owner named Ichigayamiya.

As virtual projection enters its final stage.

Ichigaya Yusaki silently closed the holographic image extracted from his memory.

"I know there's nothing wrong with the liver..."

She murmured to herself.

"Dad wanted to cultivate Gan and make him the next generation heir to his dream, but he greatly overestimated his own ability to endure and underestimated Gan's talent..."

"Inheriting the guitar talent of deceased masters... Possessing superb guitar skills that allow him to tour on alien planets... At the time... it sounded like the nonsense of a child's fairy tale... But years later, after my father no longer cared, it was confirmed to be true..."

There was a deep sadness in Arisaki Ichigaya's eyes, and that expression made people unconsciously feel her heartache.

"But I just can't help but wonder... if he had stuck with the guitar instead of giving it up after just one day... what would Dad be like now..."

"But the longer I spend with him... the more I realize how foolish my narrow-minded and dark thoughts are."

"Arisaki-san..."

Faced with this heavy topic, Kasumi Toyama could only whisper her name.

"Heart... He's evolving too fast..."

"As someone who's closer to him, Kasumi, you understand better, right? Every time we meet, he displays so much technology... If we're not careful... If we're not paying attention... He's already grown to the point where he's become a nuisance to us. Last year, he was already able to travel to Pluto and back in a single day for a friend's birthday... If he's like this for a few more years... What right do we have to stay by his side?"

Yusaki Ichigaya tightly grasped the collar of his shirt, as if trying his best to suppress his despair. His sad eyes were deep and helpless.

"That time in the second year of junior high, he took the guitar and I thought he'd finally gotten into music. But it turned out to be a prop for a troublesome delinquent girl to pretend she couldn't play the guitar!"

"He's trying to get me to play keyboards again during the summer vacation! Just to get a little kid to play house band again! What does he think of music?"

"I just can't help but feel angry! That arrogant guy! He doesn't seem to be from the same dimension as us."

"Even if it's just once, I want to see that dishonest face of his being trampled under my feet! Admit that we are important!"

"It doesn't matter how he takes revenge on me afterwards! It doesn't matter if I'm teased or played with! I just want to convey my feelings to him!"

Because of that accident, she was so angry at the cat-eared kid that she sold the keyboard.

Ichigaya Arisaki's vicious attitude changed quickly, and her originally sad expression immediately turned into hatred.

A tattered, faded notebook was handed to Toyama Kasumi.

Saki paused as he flipped through the pages. On that page was a sheet of five-line music with a melody written on it.

Above the music score, where the title is written, it says "BanGDream! (Break through the dream!)"

This is the music score left behind by Ichigaya Arisaki's father before he gave up music. It is the song they did not finish.

Ichigaya Arisaki's posture was somewhat aggressive.

"So, Kasumi, think carefully! What is it that you really like, that can break through the barrier of his heart that is as thick and closed as the Demon King's Castle!"

After finishing this long string of conversations that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time, Ichigaya Yusaki began to breathe heavily unconsciously.

She shed sweat that felt like tears. Even so, she faced this empty music facility, its equipment already pawned.

Facing Toyama Kasumi's invitation, facing that girl, he was surprisingly full of energy. That overflowing passion burst out, resonating with the deep red star-shaped guitar that Dad had left behind.

She couldn't help but rekindle the urge to calm down her anger.

The setting sun cast a dim yellow light through the second-floor warehouse window, darkening the uniform of Toyama Kasumi as she stood before Ichigaya Yusaki. Her bangs hid her deep purple eyes.

"kirakira?dokidoki?"

It feels like being struck by lightning all over the body.

She raised her head and looked at Ichigaya Yusaki.

The wet eyes are like a lake under the moonlight.

She said it so seriously.

"Arisaki! Let's form a band!"

Meaningless words came out of Toyama Kasumi's mouth again.

"Huh? Didn't we already form a band?" Yusaki Ichigaya was stunned by this statement.

"Not this band! Let's form a real band! A band that can convey emotions to everyone, sparkle, and make everyone smile!"

Toyama Kasumi said excitedly.

"First of all! We need a base! Instead of the rooftop, a training gathering place exclusively for our PoppinParty!"

"PoppinParty?" Ichigaya Yusaki was stuck at the sudden appearance of the term.

"Hmm! 'Kulaixieku' is still too bitter and full of hatred! We have to name our band something that will move people's hearts! Something that will make people laugh!" Kasumi Toyama was inspired.

But she soon began to worry about the location.

She could no longer ask Xian Juangan for such a purpose.

"Training base? Kasumi, don't underestimate me."

Ichigaya Yusaki went down to the second floor again in one go and stood in the middle of the warehouse.

She opened the secret door in the floor...