A comic book, but a librarian

"Meet your son?"

"Ah! Acheng, what's wrong?"

Yotsuya Miko wiped the sweat from her forehead. She seemed to have just woken up from a dream.

"Are you okay? Did you have fun today?"

Yotsuya Miko took out her cell phone. It was obvious that the time had come to part. She came to her senses and realized that the happy trip she had planned seemed to have been completed. However, for further emotional exchange and confirmation of the relationship, Yotsuya Miko could only shake her head regretfully and try to find a suitable day in the coming days for her to break that layer of window paper.

"I'm really happy today. Thank you, Uesugi-san, for taking the time to come and accompany me..."

Yotsuya Miko felt a little amused when the name of this movie was mentioned. Not only because of Yurikawa Hana who gave the movie ticket by mistake, but also because she had vaguely guessed the ending of the story but was still unwilling to give up.

"To be honest, I haven't been out with friends like this for a long time, and you even watched a movie with me, even though that movie..."

"It's okay. As for that movie, I quite like the protagonist's look and the last shot of the plot. Let's watch it together next time if we have a chance?"

Uesugi Sumiko's eyes lit up at what she heard. She nodded and suddenly looked a lot happier. After all, ever since she had the ability to see ghosts and ghosts, her happy outings with friends would become more or less annoyed by the gazes of evil spirits on the road or various things that shouldn't appear in her field of vision.

I went out to play with Uesugi Sumire today, and I felt like relaxing for a while after escaping death. I also made this choice because I thought the evil spirits would gradually move away from Uesugi Sumire.

"Have fun, and I'll see you next time, then."

Uesugi Sumire looked at Yotsuya Miko, who had become much more sober, and thought that at least his soul essence was not used in vain. He then took a car and prepared to go straight home to study his great technique carefully. After all, [Sight and Perception] had now reached a watershed stage. He continued to devote double his energy to improving the great technique he was currently learning and using, not only to increase his own strength, but also to resolve a little obsession in his heart.

[Sight and Perception Lv.7]: To mix the rarest colors, one must be inhumane and detached. (8 Dome 7 Winter)

This skill of his can be regarded as unrivalled even in the waking world. Some immortals who love art cannot compare with him in painting and color mixing.

So, before spring break of his sophomore year of high school, he wanted to complete his largest work to date, one so large that he needed to arrange time and place to create it.

Therefore, he opened a new book, hoping to be well prepared before starting and leave no regrets.

"The Seven Faces of Icarus": In the early 16s, the last abbot of St. Brendan's Abbey, Richard the Roaring, recorded a conversation between him and a local illiterate sorcerer, William the Red. (Reading to gain teachings: Furs and Feathers) (Reading required: 30 domes)

[Fur and Feathers Lv.1]: Beasts, birds, livestock, harvest. (2 domes, 1 scale)

Uesugi Cheng immediately put this skill into the first of the nine paths of the jungle learning of the Night Watchman Tree, in exchange for a new soul essence: [Health], and also obtained some information about Mansu Sichen.

[The Well in the Forest]: In the forest before the darkness, when the first hunters were hungry, they found a deep scarlet well. They drowned the beasts of the land in it, so that the beasts would be reborn three times, and the hunters could feast on their flesh. Thus, the Red Cup was born, and because of this, she has fed us and devoured us since then. This is what the female leaders of the Sisterhood of the Knot taught us.

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179

Chapter 179: The Severn Bed and the Bond Band.

"My body has become much stronger. Can health directly affect the strength of the body?"

Uesugi Cheng touched his arm. Although it didn't look obvious, it was obvious that his strength was much stronger than before. Not only his strength, but also his overall physical quality and even his ability to withstand blows had become a little stronger. Combined with the preservation techniques he had learned, if nothing else, at least minor illnesses would not appear in this body.

Uesugi Cheng was lying in the room. He had to admit one thing, that is, the row of bedrooms on the third floor of Silent Bookstore with different decoration styles were particularly suitable for living, especially the room called Severn River Bedroom provided by the De Wolf family for its heirs to live in.

Severn Bedroom: In De Wolfe's time, this bedroom was prepared for the heir to the house - although it was originally furnished for Haflen, a woman of "doubtful descent" who became the mother of Baron Walter and passed on her rare pale eyes and hair to Walter and his descendants.

There was a big soft bed in the luxurious room, but Uesugi Cheng did not come here just for the bed. During this leisurely weekend, no one came back to disturb him, so he decided to make good use of the wax cylinder phonograph placed here and listen to the last record he had in his hand.

【Tilza's Gramophone】:Tilza Blake once invited an unknown friend to stay at the Silence House to recover from an illness. Tilza was uncharacteristically secretive about the whole thing, perhaps embarrassed by her own caring behavior. She cooked for her guest herself; read to her in the afternoons; and bought this gramophone so that her guest could listen to the Viennese opera.

This Tilza is the most eccentric one among the thirteen managers of Silent Bookstore. According to legend, he even made a "great move" of using the final ink that could attract the attention of the Lord to fill in shopping orders.

However, Uesugi Sumika did not care about the past events. After all, they were all in the past. What he cared more about was the wonderful phonograph in front of him. After he put the record into the phonograph, the phonograph slowly started to make sounds, while Uesugi Sumika lay on the soft big bed and gradually narrowed his eyes.

"The Invisible Opera (Unfinished Version)": In 1911, someone attempted to perform "Wings within Wings" (also known as the Invisible Opera), and this is a recording of that performance. (Read to gain teachings: Strings and Songs) (Reading required: 12 Domes)

Uesugi Cheng was not familiar with the Invisible Opera, but when it came to "Wings in the Wings", he was very familiar with it. Whenever someone wanted to re-enact this drama on stage, a certain Si Chen named "Magpie" Frizerif would appear.

This piece of music is called "the piece that no one can play" because He is the one who is making trouble behind the scenes, making it impossible for others to play it on the stage, and He never gets tired of doing it.

"I never expected that in 1911, there were still people trying to play this piece of music."

Uesugi Cheng was of course cautious and pessimistic about this kind of thing. How could a group of small fry who didn't even have the basic ability to protect themselves be the opponent of a named person?

As expected, the singers successfully completed the "Piebald Aria", "Under Our Skin", and "Rose of Mia", but the Invisible Opera was dedicated to "Magpie" Frizerev, who favored unexpected interruptions.

Then the soft, beautiful music gradually turned into screams of fear, the scraping of metal, the gentle hum of brass, and finally into silence.

But even if the actors did not finish singing, their interpretation of "Wings of the Wings" and the arrangements they made for the attempted performance also benefited Uesugi Cheng a lot, and it can even be said that it made it possible for the great art of "string music and songs" that he mastered to be further improved.

"Sir, sir...someone is looking for you."

Just as Uesugi Cheng jumped off the bed, picked up the record and was about to play it again from the beginning while thinking about how to make further progress, his beloved puppet assistant suddenly knocked on the door and said that there was a guest looking for him.

The customers here are certainly not the kind of customers at the door of Silent Bookstore, but in another world, Japan, where someone just happened to be looking for Uesugi Sumika, so Uesugi Sumika was happy to take a break, put away the record carefully, and returned to the real world.

Sure enough, in the real world, Uesugi Sumiko's phone was displaying the name of the caller, who was his old friend, the drummer from the band Bond, Ichichi Nikka.

"Um, Uesugi-san, are you free this afternoon?"

Ijichi Kouka looked a little excited. Uesugi Cheng flipped through his schedule and saw "sleep" written on the afternoon column, so he nodded decisively.

"Yes, are you going to invite me to the performance?"

"Ah... maybe you still need to pay for the ticket. After all, our band is just starting out and we still have to work... but we will definitely invite you to listen to a performance! A formal one."

Hongxia looked a little embarrassed and hurriedly expressed her ambition, but Uesugi Sumiya only said this in a joking manner, so he asked next.

"What's matter?"

"Ah, that's it... Actually, it's not really a commission. I just hope you can come and listen to our rehearsal this time. After all, it was you, Uesugi-san, who provided us with the music clips to restore together. Also, my sister seems to have some decoration business and I hope you can help her."

Uesugi Cheng thought about it and suddenly realized that the last time he and several members of the Bond Band were busy restoring the music in his mind seemed to have been half a month ago. So many things happened during this period that he was a little dazzled and almost forgot about it.

"Okay, I'll be there this afternoon, don't worry."

Uesugi Cheng said bluntly that since the timing was so convenient, he had no reason not to participate.

"In that case, let's buy some more things on the way..."

Uesugi Cheng was thinking that it was time for him to get his own musical instrument. It was not a big deal to borrow or use his brother's old instrument from the practice room every time he needed it. Besides, most of the commissions handed over by Fanxing required him to do graffiti or painting, which could be used as a practice session.

He left as soon as he said he would. After first briefly reminding Himegami Sakura who stayed at home about some matters, Uesugi Sakura picked up his shoulder bag and put it on his body. Then he walked out of his house under the autumn sun which had not yet completely died down.

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180

Chapter 180: Chatting at work, Fanxing’s commission, and rehearsal.

The scorching heat from the sun that burned everyone equally did not affect Uesugi Sumiko who was sitting in the air-conditioned carriage, and because it was not rush hour, the train to Shimokitazawa was running at a leisurely pace, just like his mentality.

"Is it okay? To be honest, I thought you were going to send me to deal with the vixen in the Killing Stone."

Uesugi Sumiko put on headphones, looked at the scenery outside the window with a blank look, and was talking to someone on the phone.

"The seal is fairly solid. I buried another scripture as a safety measure. At least there won't be any problems this month."

Inudo Ranko looks so vicissitudes of life, just like a social animal who comes home after working overtime for more than ten hours to find that the water is suddenly cut off and there is no time to take a shower.

"I thought you were really going to drag me to that vixen when you said that to me..."

Uesugi Cheng yawned. He didn't believe that these people were so kind.

"Hey, just trust me this once. The Metropolitan Police Department is useless, but not to this extent. We have difficulties too, don't we? And that's not just any ordinary vixen, it's..."

"What is the Jade-faced, Golden-haired Nine-tailed Fox? I saw this story when I was flipping through a book a few days ago. It was sealed away in that era. Can it still jump around now?"

What Uesugi Cheng thought of was not the story in the Japanese history book, but the nine-tailed fox with the image of a two-dimensional beautiful girl in the comics.

"So why did you call me to tell me about this? The Metropolitan Police Department and I are just partners, right? Why are you throwing this matter to me?"

Uesugi Sumiko was speechless. He was just going out normally, but he received a call as soon as he went out. Inudo Ranko chatted with him all the way. It seemed like she was talking to him about some irrelevant topics while she was busy. He even wondered if the people in the Metropolitan Police Department had a problem with their brains.

"Just think of it as a safety measure. After all, if something really goes wrong, you can pass the information on immediately. It also adds a little fun to my boring work time so that I don't make mistakes due to irritability."

Inu Tong Ranzi put out her cigarette, took two steps back and brushed off the dust on her body. A bouquet of flowers had been placed under the Killing Stone at some point, and it looked like a memorial for someone. Out of caution, Inu Tong Ranzi took the flowers away and buried scriptures nearby. The phone call was of course a safety measure. In case something unexpected happened to her during the process, at least someone would know about it immediately, and there would not be a situation like in Area S where she disappeared in an instant without a trace and no clues could be found.

"Transfer the money to me later as compensation for wasting my time."

Uesugi Cheng hung up the phone, but he didn't care much. After all, if there was something important, he could just block the irrelevant number. It was only when he was free that he would continue to chat on the phone for fun. After all, there was no point in looking at the scenery on the train for too long.

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Xiabei Ze, stars.

There was a sign on the door of Fanxing that said it was closed today. It looked like it wasn't because it wasn't open yet, but that they were just planning to take a day off. Uesugi Cheng knocked on the door and went in to see a drunken woman with purple hair chatting with the store manager.

"No, and please return the money to Little Lonely!"

It can be seen that the store manager was very determined to give the drunk lady a just punishment, and took her to Goto Ichiri to ask her to pay back the money.

"Good afternoon everyone, looks like I've arrived at the right time?"

Uesugi Cheng knocked on the door again to attract everyone's attention and smiled.

"Ah, it's just in time. I have something I want to entrust to you. Hong Xia also wants us to see the new song you gave her. And according to the score and lyrics you gave me, a male lead singer is the best choice."

Ijichi Kouka nodded, waved her hand, and asked Uesugi Sumire to follow her. After reaching the backstage, she handed a stack of papers to Uesugi Sumire.

"I'm planning to add some more decorations here, so I hope you can give me some advice. I'll pay you and I won't waste your time asking you to paint it yourself."

There are all kinds of decorative paintings on these papers, with different styles and colors. The only similarity is that they are probably not suitable as Livehouse decorative paintings.

"They're all equally bad, so it's a bit hard to choose. After all, the style of the stars doesn't really match these paintings."

After hearing this, Ijichi Hoshige glanced at Uesugi Cheng and shrugged.

"I'm used to having the same mouth as your brother, so leave it alone for now, Hongxia and the others are waiting for you. I'll take a look."

"Big sister, if it doesn't work, just spend some money, spend more to hire me. Wasn't the effect of my last graffiti bad?"

Uesugi Cheng was speechless.

"That cost too much money. I'm not used to taking advantage of others. I should have given you more money last time."

Ijichi Xingge searched the shopping website. She really couldn't take advantage of others. If she had to spend the equivalent money to ask Uesugi Cheng to help her draw and arrange the decoration of Fanxing, Fanxing would not have much money left.

"That's fine. If you really need it, it doesn't matter if I owe you money. I'm going to go out and rehearse with Hong Xia and the others first."

Uesugi Cheng nodded and walked out. Both parties ended the topic tacitly and didn't want to continue talking.

“Master…Master!!”

The one who came out was Goto Ichiri, holding the guitar in both hands as if she was offering something. This was something that Uesugi Sumika had really not expected. Looking at Goto Ichiri who was stuttering but trying hard to say something, Uesugi Sumika just patted her on the shoulder in the end.

"I'll help you check it out later."

“Eh…oh…ehhhhhh!?”

Goto Ichiri was losing her color and fell gently to the ground like a piece of paper. The weight of this word alone was still a little too terrifying for a socially phobic person like her.

"By the way, how's Kita-san's guitar practice going?"

Although he is a student like them, Uesugi Sumire always sounds like a teacher when he speaks. Kita Ikuyo gives a sweet yet awkward smile.

"This one……"

Uesugi Cheng didn't care much about it. Guitar is something that can't make rapid progress in a day or two, except for people like him who use great techniques to cheat and improve.

"In that case, let's practice the first piece we put together last time, shall we?"

Uesugi Cheng nodded. With the help of his memory and the Bond Band, they basically completed the adaptation of the first song. After all, memories are always incomplete and the effects will always be different, so Uesugi Cheng only sought to restore it as much as possible.

"Then please witness Number One."

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181

Chapter 181 New Clothes.

"So, you guys actually want to make a set of performance clothes as well, right?"

Uesugi Cheng looked at Ijichi Kouka who seemed a little embarrassed and confirmed their needs again and again.

"Yes... yes, because I remember that Uesugi-san said that he could ask you to customize the relevant clothes, so..."

"By the way, I want a rock style, preferably something more trendy."

Yamada Ryo said this, but it was obvious that Goto Ichiri next to him seemed to have remembered something and began to shake his head.

Uesugi Cheng took a look and found that the uniforms of the Bond Band were indeed simpler, just a shirt with the band's name and logo printed on it. However, the band was not an idol group, so no one would have any objection to the simpler performance uniforms, but...