Love? Please allow me to simulate it first!

"Little Pochi, I don't know. She just arrived and went straight in. So what happened? Come to think of it, she came much later than usual today." Ijichi Hongxia said thoughtfully, tilting her head.

"Could it be that he was bullied, school bullying?" Yamada Ryo also interrupted and speculated.

"Don't say such scary things. How...how...? Hmm..." Although she wanted to refute directly, considering Goto Ichiri's extremely easy-to-bully personality, Ijichi Nijika's tone became hesitant and unconfident.

Chapter 222 Goto Ichiri's Hesitation

"So, what exactly happened? It couldn't be that he was really bullied, right?" Just guessing would not lead to any results, so Nakamura Mine walked directly to the trash can, squatted down and asked.

"Mumble...mumble..." Goto Ichiri stretched his head a little and leaned close to Nakamura Mine's ear to tell him what happened.

"Yeah, I see, I see, that's how it is, isn't that good?"

"Huh? What's going on? Tell me quickly." Ijichi Hongxia and Yamada Ryo also came over and asked, and Ijichi Xingge and the PA lady also pricked up their ears and paid attention.

"Actually, it's Ichiri who wants our band to perform at their school's cultural festival so that she can shine in front of all the classmates... Um——!" Nakamura Mine was about to speak out what was in his heart when Goto Ichiri covered his mouth anxiously. However, because he stood up directly from the trash can, he didn't pay attention and both of them fell to the ground.

"Afeng! Pochi! Are you two okay..." Seeing this, Ijichi Hongxia hurried forward to help the two up, and Yamada Ryo also helped a little.

"It's okay, it's okay. Where's Ichiri?" Nakamura Mine asked after standing up and brushing off the dust on his body.

"I, I'm fine too."

"Really? That's great. But, Pochi-chan, is what Afeng just said true? Do you want the Ending Band to perform at your school's cultural festival?" After seeing that the two were fine, Ijichi Hongxia immediately turned back to the original topic.

"Ah, that's right...but..." Goto Ichiri murmured in confusion and hesitation.

"That's great, let's join in." Ijichi Hongxia seemed to be looking forward to it as well.

"Since you have this idea, you'd better participate. After all, it's a youth stage that only comes once in a lifetime." Ijichi Hoshika, who had been listening with her ears perked up, also gave her advice as an adult. However, having said that, she didn't really go to high school well, so she didn't have any special feelings about it. As for the other adult present, she dropped out of high school directly. Well, they all set a good example.

"Manager, although it may be inappropriate to say this, high school actually lasts for three years." Nakamura Mine couldn't help but say.

"Shut up!"

"understand!"

"Come to think of it, Feng, your school also has a school festival, right? And it's held at about the same time as Pochi's school." Yamada Ryo remembered the school festival live that Akiyama Mio always mentioned during the training camp.

"Well, our class opened a fried noodle shop."

Actually, the original plan was to open a haunted house, but since Nakamura Mine tried his best to stop it and other classes had already done it, they changed it to opening a fried noodle shop.

"It's great, a high school festival." Ijichi Kouka said with some envy. After all, the school she and Ryo went to was a high school with a very high deviation value, so even activities like the school festival were just small-scale and not fun at all.

"Isn't there a school festival at Hongxia's school?" asked Goto Ichiri.

"Well, it's the same whether you have it or not. After all, our school is very strict. But I know that performing on the school stage is completely different from performing in a 'live house'. It has a different flavor."

"Hong, Hongxia, have you ever performed in school?" Goto Ichiri asked curiously.

"Yeah, I played it in junior high school."

"I've acted in it, too." Yamada Ryo nodded with her arms folded, then she raised a thumbs up with a proud look on her face.

"I played a super unpopular song, and the venue was as cold as a wake."

"No, why are you so proud?" Ichichi Hongxia complained, and then said meaningfully:

"Ryo and I have never performed together at school. I really want to participate in the cultural festival."

"Yeah, I also want to perform our original songs in other places." Yamada Ryoya nodded in response.

Hearing everyone say this, Goto Ichiri's heart became more and more shaken. In fact, she heard her classmates talking about how she might fall in love with someone in their class if they performed on stage. So, as she had always hoped to become a heartthrob, she couldn't help but want to drag everyone to participate in the performance at the cultural festival.

(But now that I calm down and think about it carefully...)

Goto Ichiri started to imagine.

"Now please invite the ending band to come on stage. Let me introduce you. The drummer is the captain of the band, Ichichi Hinikaka from Shimokitazawa High School!"

"Hi, everyone!"

“Wow!”

"so cute!!"

“Look here!!”

"The bassist is Ryo Yamada, who goes to the same school as her!"

"Um......"

“Wow! So beautiful!”

“Ah! Ah!”

"And the keyboard player is the only male member of the band, Mine Nakamura from Sakuragaoka High School!"

"Ah! Handsome guy!!"

"Can you give me a contact number please?!"

"I want it too! I want it too!"

"The next one is the lead guitarist. Hmm... let me see... it seems to be from Class 2... oh, right! It's Goto Ichiri-san."

"Um, okay, um... everything is fine..."

"Who?"

"From our class? There's such a person?"

"I don't know, maybe he's a transfer student."

"Finally! The lead singer and guitarist is from Class 5..."

“Ah——! Wahhhhhh——!! Kita-chan——!!!”

"Great little Kita!!!"

"We will always love you Kita-chan!!!"

After returning to reality, Goto Ichiri covered his chest tightly.

(The difference is obvious at a glance!)

"Haha, what did you imagine?" Nakamura Mine looked at Goto Ichiri with amusement, who suddenly looked shocked.

"Actually, this is also a good opportunity to promote the band."

"Well, but in this case, we have to perform a youth-themed song, or we'll be expelled from school."

"How could there be such a rule... But speaking of songs with youth themes, take a look at this." Nakamura Mine took out his cell phone and opened the lyrics written by Akiyama Mio that he had taken a photo of.

"What is this?" Seeing that it was the lyrics, Yamada Ryo seemed to become interested.

"These are the new lyrics you wrote, Feng... No, that shouldn't be possible..." When Ijichi Hongxia saw the lyrics, her first reaction was that Nakamura Feng had a new idea, but after reading two lines of the lyrics, she was sure that these were definitely not lyrics that Nakamura Feng could write.

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Chapter 223 Decision

"Ugh!!!" After taking two glances, Goto Ichiri suddenly died, with his hands on his chest, and passed away very peacefully.

"Could it be written by Mio?" Yamada Ryo guessed.

"Huh? How did you know?" Nakamura Mine really didn't expect that Yamada Ryo could tell at a glance that the person who wrote this song was Akiyama Mio.

“Yeah, it feels like lyrics she would write.”

"Ah, I didn't expect you to be so good at judging people. Yes, this is the song Mio wrote for the school festival live."

"You really have a girlish feel, Mio. But coming to that, Feng, can you still come to the performance at Pochi's school?" Ijichi Hongxia was the first to discover the blind spot.

"It's hard to say, it's best if there is no conflict." Although he said this, Nakamura Mine knew very well that the two performances would really clash, but if he moved faster, he would not necessarily miss it.

"Is that so..." Goto Ichiri lowered her head in disappointment. It can be seen that she really wanted the Ending Band to perform at their cultural festival, especially with Nakamura Mine.

In the end, Goto Ichiri was still undecided about whether or not to perform at the cultural festival. However, the next day, everyone learned that someone had made the decision for Goto Ichiri.

"So, you handed in the application form that Ichiri threw into the trash can because you thought it was thrown away by mistake?" Nakamura Mine looked at Kita Ikuyo with a meaningful look. Looking at the other party's evasive eyes, he was sure that Kita Ikuyo definitely did not really think that the application form was thrown away by mistake. She definitely knew that it was thrown away by Ichiri but still handed it in without permission.

Now, Goto Ichiri, who learned the news, was lying in the coffin with a look of determination to die, while Kita Ikuyo was squatting beside the coffin with a sign that said "I am a sinner" hung around her neck.

"It's not too late to apply to cancel the performance now, right?" Yamada Ryo reminded while observing Goto Ichiri in the coffin.

"The committee said that once it's submitted, it cannot be cancelled. However, I'll go and ask again tomorrow..." Kita Ikuyo said in embarrassment.

"Well, the committee is probably short of performers, so it's understandable that they don't want to let go of the free labor they finally got." Nakamura Mine said with an experienced look, and then he immediately brought the topic back and said:

"But since you've already submitted it, let's just go and perform. Ichiri actually wanted to go anyway, but just didn't have the courage to submit it."

"Um, yes..." Goto Ichiri, who was lying in the coffin, was unable to utter any words to refute. After all, what Nakamura Mine said was absolutely right. In fact, she was thinking about it very well last night and was determined to reapply, but she immediately became scared when she arrived at school today. Then she learned about Kita Ikuyo and the application she had submitted on her behalf.

"I'm sorry..." Kita Ikuyo lowered her head and apologized again.

"Since it's an apology, there should be some compensation, right? So there's one thing..." Nakamura Mine, who had been planning for a long time, showed a sly smile, but before Kita Ikuyo could speak, Ijichi Kouka could no longer sit still.

"Even if compensation is needed, it should be Little Pochi who asks for it, right?"

"Ah, I, I don't, need any compensation, it's better to say..." Hearing the topic coming to himself, Goto Ichiri quickly sat up from the coffin and said hurriedly.

"No! Please accept my compensation! I will do anything!" Kita Ikuyo said very sincerely.

"Oh~ You can do everything? Don't say that casually - hiss!" When Nakamura Mine heard Kita Ikuyo say that he could do anything, he couldn't help but reveal a somewhat evil smile on his face. Of course, he certainly didn't really think of any evil ideas, he just wanted to make a little joke. But before he finished speaking, he felt unbearable pain on both sides of his waist. The difference was that one side was still relatively sensible, but the other side was too much.

"Wrong, wrong, wrong!"

Nakamura Mine quickly raised the white flag to surrender, mainly because he also felt a murderous aura that made his neck feel cold, which was the most deadly.

"Well! That...Afeng, do you have something you want to ask Kita-san?" Goto Ichiri felt that the atmosphere seemed a little wrong, so he quickly mentioned Nakamura Feng to change the subject.

"Ah, yes, it's about Mio actually."

After escaping from the clutches of the devil, Nakamura Mine quickly expressed his thoughts. Actually, he wanted to ask Kita Ikuyo to enlighten Akiyama Mio who was unwilling to be the lead singer. Although it has been temporarily decided that Hirasawa Yui will be the lead singer, let's not talk about whether Hirasawa Yui will have her voice hoarse from being trained by teacher Sawako like in the simulation. Although he specifically reminded teacher Sawako not to overdo it, even if everything goes well, Nakamura Mine still believes that Akiyama Mio will always have to take the step of being the lead singer.

It's not that Hirasawa Yui can't be the lead singer, but from Nakamura Mine's personal feeling, the types of songs that Hirasawa Yui's voice is suitable for are very limited. To put it bluntly, Hirasawa Yui's voice is too soft and too cute. If she is singing a song like "Light and Floating Time" just written by Akiyama Mio, it may be very suitable, but if it is the kind of song that needs to be sung with momentum, it is not suitable. On the other hand, Akiyama Mio's vocal range and timbre can handle a much wider range of songs.

"That's right, but I'm not a very experienced lead singer. But if Akiyama-san doesn't mind, I will do my best to help!" Kita Ikuyo said enthusiastically.

"Well, the idea is good, but has Xiao Mio agreed?" Ijichi Hongxia asked, grasping the key point.

"About this..." Nakamura Mine felt a headache when he mentioned this. He turned on his mobile phone and clicked on a voice message sent to him by Akiyama Mio.

[No! No! No! I told you I can’t do this! And we’ve already decided to let Wei be the lead singer!]

"Hmm...it seems like you're really resisting..." Ijichi Kouka showed an expression that said, "As expected."

"Since she is so unwilling, then why don't you force her? After all, everyone has their own ideas." Yamada Ryo advised. She was a person who valued individuality, so she thought that since Akiyama Mio didn't want to be the lead singer, then she shouldn't force her. This idea was naturally correct, but Nakamura Mine, who had conducted a simulation, knew very well that Akiyama Mio didn't dislike being the lead singer, but was just too shy because she thought it would attract attention.

Chapter 224: Date?

"That's true, but when I went to the club room at noon one day, I saw Mio secretly practicing singing in there, so I guess her situation is similar to Ichiri's. She should also want to sing on the stage." What Nakamura Mine said was actually very untrue. He did see Akiyama Mio singing something in the club room alone, but before he could figure out the situation, the door of the club room was pushed open by Hirasawa Yui who went with him. But he felt that his guess was almost right.

"In that case, how about we meet at a karaoke bar? I think Akiyama-san won't refuse if we just want to go out for fun." Kita Ikuyo made a suggestion.

"Karaoke... Okay, I'll ask tomorrow." Nakamura Mine thought about it and felt that it shouldn't be a big problem. Since everyone was so familiar with each other, it was normal to invite someone to sing a song. Besides, Akiyama Mio was not a very stubborn person.

So, when the light music club was about to disband the next day, Nakamura Mine approached Akiyama Mio.

"Mio, are you free to go to karaoke with me on Saturday?" Nakamura Mine asked without any further ado.

"Hmm? I don't have anything else to do. What about Ritsu and Tsumugi?" Akiyama Mio said without much hesitation, but her eyes were on Tainaka Ritsu and Kotobuki Tsumugi. She subconsciously thought that Nakamura Minoru must have invited all the members of the light music club. As for Hirasawa Yui, she was still receiving secret special training from teacher Sawako.

"No, Mio, it's enough for you to come." After saying that, Nakamura Mine left with his schoolbag, leaving the three girls looking at each other in bewilderment.

But in the end, both Tainaka Ritsu and Kotobuki Tsumugi's eyes were on Akiyama Mio's face.

"Only Mio was invited. Is this the legendary date..." Tian Zhongli looked up and down at her friend who she had grown up with. Although she knew that Akiyama Mio had some admiration for Nakamura Minoru, she did not think too deeply about it. But today, Nakamura Minoru actually invited Akiyama Mio to karaoke alone. There must be something going on!

"Blind! What nonsense are you talking about!" As the incident happened suddenly, Akiyama Mio was completely confused. Even her punch to Tianzhong Ritsu missed. From her bloodshot cheeks, it was not difficult to guess that she had obviously thought of something.

(What, what should I do? This is too sudden...)

For a moment, Akiyama Mio felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest. She wanted to send a message to ask Nakamura Minato what was going on, but unfortunately she didn't have the courage to do so.

"This is... a date..." Kotobuki Tsumugi began to think seriously. She had only seen this term on TV, in books and in comics.

(I really want to see what a real date is like...)