Love? Please allow me to simulate it first!

Looking at Otsuki Yuyuko who pursed her lips and said nothing, Nakamura Mine's eyes rolled and his expression returned to normal. He pinched his chin and guessed:

"Yuan Guizi, you weren't...actually planning to say something considerate later?"

Nakamura Mine was indeed a little angry when he heard Otsuki Yuyuko say that there was no need for Kita Ikuyo to be the lead singer of the band. But now he thought that Otsuki Yuyuko was the kind of person who could not express her thoughts frankly, and seeing her embarrassed and aggrieved look, Nakamura Mine could roughly guess that he seemed to have misunderstood her.

"I, I just..." Otsuki Yuyuko, who was completely hit by the words, turned her face away awkwardly and didn't look at Nakamura Mine.

"It's okay! Ms. Otsuki's advice is very valuable! I will definitely work harder to become a lead singer worthy of ending the band!"

"Well...come on..."

Nakamura Mine and his friends stayed in the karaoke for three hours before coming out. After coming out, Nakamura Mine and the three members of the light music club walked together and slowed down their pace tacitly, leaving the space in front to Kita Ikuyo and Otsuki Yuyuko who were communicating.

"Ms. Otsuki, thank you very much for today!"

"nothing......"

Looking at the enthusiastic Kita Ikuyo, Otsuki Yuyuko prepared herself mentally before continuing to speak, saying what she had been interrupted by Nakamura Mine.

"Ah - I've always been bad at socializing, and I was isolated by my classmates in middle school... So when I started writing songs, I wrote all the anxiety in my heart at that time into the lyrics."

Chapter 230 Solution

"That's why, whenever I sing songs like that, I can sing every syllable with emotion."

"The same goes for you. Not only in terms of singing technique, if you have time, why not study the connotation of the songs you created in detail?"

Otsuki Yuyuko's words made Kita Ikuyo feel suddenly enlightened, as if the problem that had been bothering her had finally found a solution.

"Ms. Otsuki is so gentle..." Kita Ikuyo said with shining eyes. She already knew very well that although Otsuki Yuyuko looked like a difficult person to get along with, she was actually very considerate of others.

"It's just that I can't stand your behavior anymore, so! That's why I'm giving you some advice! Don't think too much about it! Humph! I have to leave first."

It was the first time that Yuyuko Otsuki was praised for her gentleness, and she became extremely flustered. She made her classic tsundere remarks and quickly fled the scene.

"Feng, do you think it's possible for us to get Senior Yuuko into the light music club? She shouldn't be joining any clubs, right?" Tian Zhongri, who overheard the conversation between the two people in front, asked in a low voice to Nakamura Feng beside him.

"Hmm? Well..." Nakamura Mine had never thought of bringing Otsuki Yuyuko into the light music club, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the other party might really agree. After all, Otsuki Yuyuko seemed to have few friends at school, let alone people she could talk to. However...

(If she comes in, wouldn’t my pleasant and relaxing afternoon tea time be ruined?...)

Nakamura Mine feels that with Yuyuko Otsuki's personality of wanting to be the first in everything, their good days may be over after they join the light music club.

(Come on! The light music club is not a place to practice music!)

The more he thought about it, the more troubled and embarrassed Nakamura Mine's expression became.

(But even if we want to, Yuyuko Otsuki might not want to come. After all, as the leader of the band, she must be very busy, right?)

"Then...I'll go ask at school the day after tomorrow."

"Okay! I'll leave it to you. If the club has six members, we can apply for more funds!"

"This is your purpose!"

"This is also for the Light Music Club!!"

After saying goodbye to the three members of the light music club, in front of the station, Nakamura Mine looked at the incoming train and prepared to say goodbye to Kita Ikuyo.

"I'm leaving first. See you next week." After saying that, Nakamura Mine got on the tram and found a seat to sit down. However, what he didn't expect was that someone else immediately sat down next to him, and it was Kita Ikuyo, whom he had just said goodbye to.

"Um, Miss Kita, you got on the wrong train?"

"......I think that for future band activities, as the lead singer, I need to deepen my understanding of songs." Kita Ikuyo spoke slowly.

"Hmm? So what you mean is...?" Nakamura Mine suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

"That is to say, if Nakamura-san and Goto-san, the lyricists, could explain the lyrics to me word by word, my problem might be solved!" Kita Ikuyo showed an expectant and happy expression.

"So let me stay at your house this weekend!"

"What!!??"

"Well! I'll ask you all kinds of questions!"

On the tram, two people with completely different styles were sitting together. One of them had an anticipation of visiting a friend's house, while the other looked solemn as if facing a great enemy.

"Um... Miss Kita, are you sure you won't consider it again?"

"Huh? What?"

"That is to say...well, you see, why don't you go live with Ichiri? It would be more convenient for you guys since you are all girls, right?" There was no other way. In order to protect himself, Nakamura Mine decided to betray Goto Ichiri.

"But Goto-san's family is at her house, so it would be more convenient to stay at Nakamura's place, right? And I've already sent a message to Goto-san, so we'll all stay over at Nakamura's house tonight! Anyway, let's go buy some snacks first!" As she spoke, Kita Ikuyo took out her cell phone and shook the message she had sent to Goto Ichiri.

On the other side, Goto Ichiri was sitting on the sofa in the living room, looking at his mobile phone with trembling hands, his mouth opening and closing like a goldfish, obviously frightened by the sudden news.

[Goto-san, I'm on the train with Nakamura-san, so let's spend the night at Nakamura-san's house tonight! I have a lot of questions for you guys! I'll bring a lot of snacks with me!]

(Eh?! Eh!? Wha, what’s going on!? Hmm? Ah!? Staying over at Feng’s house!? And with Kita-san?!)

Goto Ichiri was in a state of confusion.

"Mom! My sister is broken again!" Goto Jiri looked at his sister who had lost her facial features and hurried to report the situation to his mother.

Goto Ichiri, who finally came to her senses, told her mother with trepidation that Kita had invited her to spend the night at Nakamura Mine's house. However, to her surprise, her mother agreed without saying a word and said something meaningless to her with shining eyes.

"Ichiri! You can't lose!"

(Wh, what do you mean?)

Walking out of the supermarket, Nakamura Mine walked in front with a big bag in one hand, and Kita Ikuyo, who was following behind him, also had her hands full.

“Did you buy too much?”

"Hmm? Really? But I always buy this much every time I hang out at a friend's house. If there are three of us, we'll finish it quickly."

"Is that so... By the way, I have to be a piano tutor tomorrow."

"Don't worry, Goto-san and I will take good care of the house!"

“Yes, yes…”

At the door of the apartment, Nakamura Mine nervously took out the key to open the door. Although he knew that Kita Ikuyo had no other intentions, this was the first time in his two lifetimes that he had brought girls home to spend the night, not to mention that he brought two girls at once. It was impossible for him not to think about it at all.

(But to be honest, I slept with nearly ten girls during the training camp, so it doesn’t seem to be a big deal if I think about it this way…)

"Please come in." After returning to his room, Nakamura Mine couldn't help feeling lazy and had an urge to fall down.

Although it was not the first time that Kita came to Nakamura Mine's house, he couldn't help but look at him again out of curiosity.

Chapter 231 Meaning

But before Kita Ikuyo could take a closer look, she saw Goto Ichiri sitting upright on the chair, with the white neck standing on her head and the squirrels standing on her shoulders on both sides.

"Goto-san!?"

"Good evening..." Goto Ichiri seemed not to feel the weight on his head and shoulders at all and greeted him as if nothing had happened.

"You three, come down quickly. Really? Why do you like to bully Ichiri so much?" Nakamura Mine was also speechless. It wasn't just White Neck, Xiaozuo and Xiaoyou. As long as it was an animal that was slightly aggressive, there was no one who didn't like to bully Goto Ichiri.

"Maybe they can sense that Goto-san is the kind of person who is very easy to bully?" Kita Ikuyo also expressed her own guess.

"Yes, that makes sense..."

After hearing Kita's guess, Nakamura Mine had no way to refute it. The three little ones in his family would bully Goto Ichiri every time she came over. Even though she had taught them a lesson several times, they just wouldn't change. Fortunately, they were still restrained in their actions and didn't really hurt Goto Ichiri.

In order to prevent them from causing trouble again, Nakamura Mine quickly let the three of them out of the window. Normally, the windows of his room would not be closed tightly to allow them to come in and out freely.

"Every time I see Nakamura-san interacting with animals, I feel incredible. It's as if you can understand each other's words." Kita Ikuyo said with emotion, and Goto Ichiri immediately nodded in agreement.

"Well, if you spend a long time with them, you will understand some of their human nature. Let's not talk about this for now. Kita, are you here to ask me and Ichiri about the lyrics?" Kita Ikuyo and Goto Ichiri naturally would not have thought that Nakamura Minoru could really understand the language of animals, but this matter was really hard to explain, so Nakamura Minoru made a casual remark and immediately changed the subject.

"Well, Ms. Otsuki told me to think about the meaning of the song. I think she was talking about the lyrics. Come to think of it, I haven't really thought about it carefully." After expressing her thoughts, Kita Ikuyo looked at Nakamura Minoru and Goto Ichiri with anticipation.

“So I really want to hear what kind of meaning you all give to your lyrics.”

"Ah... that kind of thing requires the audience to understand it freely..." Facing Kita Ikuyo's shining gaze, Goto Ichiri quickly averted her gaze, and what she said was right. As a creator, she really hoped that others could have various interesting understandings of it.

"Eh~! But I really want to know the meaning Goto-san gave it! Also, there are a lot of abstract metaphors in Goto-san's lyrics, which are really hard for me to understand."

"Tell me—!"

Faced with Kita Ikuyo's relentlessness, Goto Ichiri chose to surrender and confess. She spoke quickly and told all the facts.

"In fact, I just used abstract lyrics to express my dissatisfaction, such as the fact that my classmates have exchanged my last name with me and the slightly disappointed expression on the face of my new neighbor when I changed seats. I just expressed it in a cool way!!"

"S-sorry for asking about Goto-san's pain." Kita Ikuyo showed an apologetic expression. Although Goto Ichiri honestly expressed her thoughts, since these were all things that had nothing to do with Kita Ikuyo, she still found it difficult to empathize with him.

"Then...what about Nakamura-san?" Kita Ikuyo turned the topic to Nakamura Mine again.

"Me? Well, let me think..." Nakamura Mine sorted out his words before speaking again:

"For example..."

"Yeah!" Kita Ikuyo nodded expectantly, waiting for Nakamura Mine's explanation.

“For example, a person shouldn’t have existed in this era, but due to coincidence, he replaced someone else and existed here. You know very well what the original person’s ending was, but no matter how hard you try to change, it always seems that you are still following that person’s path…”

Nakamura Mine tried hard to explain it in a more understandable way. The song "Irreversible Substitution" was originally based on an animation he watched in his previous life called "Nobunaga Concerto". It tells the story of a high school student who traveled through time to the ancient Warring States period in Japan and met Oda Nobunaga, the man who almost unified Japan in history. As a result, because he looked exactly like Oda Nobunaga, he became his substitute and gradually replaced the other person.

Nakamura Mine felt that this song was somewhat similar to his own situation, so he modified the song slightly and used it as his first song after ending the band.

However, although he explained it very seriously, Kita Ikuyo still looked confused and had only half the idea.

“It’s hard to understand…”

"Then from now on, please pretend that I don't exist and act like you normally do!" Realizing that it would be difficult for her to understand the meaning of the lyrics just by listening to the two people's explanation, Kita Ikuyo chose to observe in a different way.

"Eh...it's quite ordinary..."

After Goto Ichiri took out her guitar and plugged in headphones, she began the boring practice day after day. It must be said that her current technical skills are largely due to her hard work. Unlike the diligent Goto Ichiri, Nakamura Mine felt that he had done a great job today because he solved Akiyama Mio's problem at the karaoke bar, and all he had to do was spend the rest leisurely.

Under Kita Ikuyo's observation, Nakamura Mine lay on the tatami in the bedroom in a big cross-legged position, and then stared at a black spot on the ceiling, staring, staring, staring, staring...

Ten minutes later, Nakamura Mine fell asleep.

"He actually fell asleep? It's not even eight o'clock now? And he was lying on the ground..." Kita Ikuyo, who saw the whole process of Nakamura Mine falling asleep, couldn't help but complain, and Goto Ichiri also took off his headphones, with no expression of surprise on his face.

"Afeng has always loved sleeping, but usually he would practice a musical instrument or read some books before going to bed. He must be tired today..." Goto Ichiri explained as he stood up and skillfully took a thin blanket from the cabinet and covered Nakamura Feng with it.

After doing all this, Goto Ichiri returned to his seat and started practicing guitar again, but this time the force with which he plucked the strings became much gentler.

After seeing Goto Ichiri's skilled movements, Kita Ikuyo always felt that the two people in front of her were more like family than friends, or maybe something else...

Chapter 232 New Song

Although Kita Ikuyo really wanted to ask Goto Ichiri about the problems between her and Nakamura Mine, she still remembered the purpose of her coming here, so she suppressed the urge and continued to observe Goto Ichiri. It was just that in the first half hour, Kita Ikuyo was still able to watch Goto Ichiri practice guitar with great interest, but after that, Goto Ichiri did not change at all and just practiced hard there.

A few hours later...

There was another sleeping figure on the tatami.

(As expected, my daily life is quite boring in the eyes of others...)

Goto Ichiri got up helplessly and brought another quilt.

Not long after Kita Ikuyo fell asleep, Nakamura Mine got up yawning. He looked at the girl sleeping next to him with sleepy eyes, rubbed his messy hair, and looked at Goto Ichiri who was about to finish his practice.

"When did she fall asleep?"

"Just now..."

"Oh, you are quite patient then. By the way, how long has it been since you updated your Guitar Hero video?"

"It seems like it's been almost a month..." Since joining the band End, the time interval between Goto Ichiri updating her videos has become longer and longer. Although this means that she has reduced her dependence on the Internet, the speed at which she is gaining followers has indeed slowed down.

"A month is already quite long. Maybe some people have already started to consider quitting being a fan?"

"I, I'll go record the video right now!" Goto Ichiri was obviously stimulated by the words "unfollow" and she hurriedly wanted to go home to record it, but was stopped by Nakamura Mine.

"I have a new song. Do you want to record it together?" Nakamura Mine said after standing up and stretching his sore neck.

"New music? No, it doesn't have to be in the band?"

Since Goto Ichiri doesn't want people to know that the guitarist of the Ending Band is the Guitar Hero, because she wants to help Hongxia and the others to fulfill her dreams as a member of the Ending Band rather than as a guitar hero, so if Nakamura Mine gives his new song to her to record a video, it cannot be used as the original song of the Ending Band for the time being.

"Well, I have another song from the band, so I'll keep it for use at your cultural festival. But this song isn't suitable for the band to perform right now, so it's okay."

"Really?" Goto Ichiri knew Nakamura's creative ability very well, so if the new original song was used on the Guitar Hero account, it might really attract a lot of new fans. After all, the songs she played in her previous videos were basically some famous pop songs, of course, they were all types that had nothing to do with youth themes...

"What? Guitar Hero, are you afraid that my new song is not worthy of you?" Nakamura Mine teased with a smile.