I'm a weird expert in Japan

The man sitting at the piano over there stood up.

It's a boy.

"It's him?" Shiyu was surprised.

The people around...especially the girls started to get agitated.

Whispering because of the boy's appearance.

The only exception is Shiyu.

She knew the other person's background.

At the age of twelve, he participated in the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy, and won, becoming the youngest winner in history.

Utsunomiya Ren, a talented young violinist who won applause from the audience at his first performance.

He released a dozen CDs in four or five years and is a popular young talent both in Japan and around the world.

Of course, Shiyu knew the other party because of another reason.

Last year, when her "Love Metronome" was on the verge of being cut short after the first volume due to sales, a topic "Utsunomiya Ren and "Love Metronome"" was popular on Twitter for a while.

Her book even made it into the top ten trends on Twitter, and was once in the top three.

As a result, the number of bookstore reservations for the second volume increased several times, making the editorial department feel a happy worry.

Although Shiwa couldn't tell which of the topics, Aki Tomoya's fan website and Utsunomiya Ren's, had a greater impact, which one...she would touch upon her own work first.

"You may or may not know him, Shijo Ren." Shizhu said with a smile, "You may be more familiar with his stage name Utsunomiya Ren. He has officially transferred to our school from today and will study here until he graduates from high school."

Chapter 29 Interlude: Destiny (2)

The onlookers began to become noisy, seemingly surprised and excited by this unknown news.

There is no reason why a celebrity transferring to a school would not attract attention.

Shiyu leaned against the wall, silently watching the boy who was smiling at everyone.

Lian looked neither fat nor thin, but well-proportioned and upright, like a smooth branch wrapped around the statue of Venus, with a somewhat aloof temperament.

Obviously smiling.

But then again... the piano duel.

Shiyu had only seen the scene between 1900 and the black jazz musician in "The Legend of 1900".

But what you see in movies is always different from reality.

This is a good opportunity to collect materials, maybe it will be useful in the future, Shiyu thought.

"The rules of this piano competition are very simple. There will be three rounds in total, and each time, Senior Touma will play the set content first." Shizhu made a gesture of invitation, then retreated to Eriri's side and listened to the performance with her.

There is no need for an emcee for a piano duel.

It seems to be different from the movie. The rule is not to play the same kind of piano music separately, but to play with Sha, and then Lian will repeat the same passage.

We are all listeners and referees. We will applaud based on our own feelings and decide who is the winner.

But Lian is famous, so maybe people will misjudge him or be biased towards him?

Although the famous violinist plays the piano, it is a concession in a sense.

Anyway, I heard from Ms. Machida, who tries hard to keep up with the trends, that Utsunomiya Ren has only played the violin in public.

Hesa impatiently pressed the same piano key several times in a row, and all the onlookers quickly cooperated and quieted down.

When almost no other sound could be heard, Touma Kazusa began to play the first song.

Shiyu doesn't know how to play the piano, but she thinks this piece of music is very light and airy.

“It’s Tango.”

Shinomiya Shizhu was talking to Eriri in a low voice, and Shiyu, who was standing only one step away from them, could barely hear their conversation.

"Tango? Is it the dance tango?"

"Yes, one of Erik Satie's twenty-one piano pieces."

"I've never heard of him..." Eriri muttered softly, "Is that person very powerful?"

“To use an analogy, he’s the Picasso of music.”

"Oh oh..." Eriri understood immediately, "Is Shijo okay?"

"That's right. Anyway, the most special thing about this piece of music is that there is a continuation mark at the end of the score, but there is no end mark, which means it will be repeated endlessly."

"Eh……"

"So Lian has to repeat as many times as the senior repeats it. If she fails once, she will lose." Shizhu added seriously.

"So horrible..." Eriri couldn't help but be surprised.

There were also a few students nearby who were listening to their conversation like Shiyu, so the two of them didn't care at all about being heard by people nearby.

Or maybe he intended to explain it to people who didn't understand it well.

It's just right for Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Even though she didn't know much about music, there was no doubt that Touma Kazusa played the music very well, especially before the end, when the tempo suddenly quickened, as if the dancers were finishing their dance steps very quickly.

"Five times." Shizhu raised his hand slightly and signaled to Ying Lili beside him, "I deliberately blurred the boundaries when repeating the last two times."

"Wow, that guy is okay, right..." Eriri was amazed.

"Just wait and see." Shizhu said firmly.

Then it was Utsunomiya Ren...or rather, the four Rens' turn to play.

It was clearly the same piece of music, but it suddenly gave people the illusion that he was playing a completely new piece of music.

In other words, he was not playing, but sliding.

It was like a piece of silk sliding across the girl's flawless back, and the notes made the silk dance.

If Touma Kazusa's performance was subtly powerful, Ren's performance was smoother, like a dancer freely moving on the dance floor.

It passed by you, but it was like the wind that could not be caught.

"See, I told you there's no problem." Shizhu said to Yinglili again.

"Oh, I thought he played a new song." Eriri smiled strangely at Shizhu.

"Don't do that, Lian will cry." Shizhu held his forehead with his hand.

It was obvious that Lian's performance was beyond Touma and Sa's expectations.

Maybe she didn't know Lian, or maybe she didn't expect the violinist was also very good at playing the piano.

You can even compete with people who specialize in piano.

In short, there was silence for a full half minute before Touma and Sa began to play the second song.

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major.

Shizhu said that this is the least popular piece among Beethoven's five piano concertos and is rarely seen in concerts.

Famous but unpopular.

There is no doubt that Touma and Sa were trying to use the oddity of this piece of music to force Ren to be unable to play.

However, her idea failed.

Shiyu could even see the surprise on Touma and Sa's profile.

If Sansho Kazusa still fails to make the opponent make mistakes in two consecutive songs, then the piano duel will be lost.

then--

"Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6?" Shi Zhu said in surprise, "No wonder the school attaches so much importance to her..."

"is it hard?"

"It's a world-famous difficult piece, especially the one that gave birth to the 'Liszt Octave' which is still quite difficult even now." Shizhu continued to explain with ease, "That's the part that Touma-senpai chose."

"Then won't the four lose?"

"You can't lose, because 'Liszt Octave' comes from Paganini's violin concerto." Shizhu snickered, "In other words, Senior has run into Lian's trap."

This is indeed the case. Kazusa Touma, who has neglected her piano skills despite daily practice due to her personality, even felt a little tired after playing this piece, with her shoulders heaving.

When it was Lian's turn, a rhapsody more energetic than hers sounded, so fast that it seemed to be played with four hands. It lasted less than two minutes and ended with a fierce chord chord.

The ranks are completely different.

Although she was not an expert, Shiyu could still feel the difference in their abilities from their performances.

Lian's fame as a teenager was not just due to his face.

After the performance, the onlookers held their breath, greedily devoured the notes, stared in amazement, and even forgot to applaud, like a group of fools.

When Shiyu later recalled this incident, she realized that she had actually become one of the fools.

Until Touma Kazusa stood up, took something out of her pocket, angrily slammed it on the piano on Lian's side, then broke through the crowd and left the third music room.

Everyone woke up from the magic of silence and burst into screams and applause.

Shiyu took a look at the things Lian had taken away.

A bunch of keys.

The key to the second music room.

Touma and Sa are reluctant but do admit that they lost.

Before the third music room fell into complete chaos, Shiyu quietly left.

Although he really wanted to thank Lian, not only for the performance, but also for the attention he had given him in the first place - even if it was a trivial matter to him.

After all, we are from two different worlds. Shiyu is very clear about this.

Until, half a year later, on the last day of spring break, four waves that turned into bats crashed into her room, where she was at a loss as to what to do about the mischief caused by the "feather crab".

Chapter 30 Chapter 1: Kasumigaoka Utaha's Joys and Sorrows ()

"One, two, three, woooooooh..."

The next day at noon, Si Tiao Lian carried a plastic bag of lunch and jumped up the stairs like a child from the corner platform along the empty stairs.

Then, I thought I could jump to the top, but I almost missed a step and fell backwards.

It doesn’t matter if the person falls, but if the things in the bag are broken, he will have to go to the canteen to buy his lunch.

After gaining his footing, Lian stood at the top of the stairs and looked back. For some reason, he felt that his body was particularly heavy today, as if he had been run over by a steamroller.

But even if he was run over by a steamroller and turned from a three-dimensional creature into a two-dimensional creature, it would not hinder his regeneration.

Now his body felt heavy and all his joints ached.

Muscle pain?

Lian found it unbelievable, even though so many things had happened in the past two days.

First, he came back from eating barbecue and was turned into a bat by an unknown curse. Then he ran into the house of a bathing girl. With their help, he found Li and Shinobu to help him restore his human form. Then he discovered the strange aura on the girl, and finally lured out the crab and had a big fight with it.

That was Lian's first direct confrontation with a "monster" being. If he hadn't deliberately faked his death to make the "Feather Crab" careless, it would have been difficult to deal with.

——The premise is that Shinobu Oshino really does not intend to take action.

Even though she knew she wasn't an outdoorsy type, Lian's body wasn't stiff enough to become fatigued by a battle.

The regenerative ability bestowed upon him by his mother's bloodline would never be so bad.

But there was no doubt that his body felt slightly heavy.

It couldn't be that I lent my coat to Kasumigaoka to keep warm last night, but ended up catching a cold?

Thanks to his bloodline, he has never been sick.