Although, just tell me if it’s rock and roll enough!

Hai Mingli looked very serious, "You have to know that my next big performance is only 14 days away... oh no, days."

"In thirteen days, I will be performing at the Summer Ceiling with the name of the popular band Second Hand Rose. Miss Xiangzi, you can imagine how stressful this is."

The pressure is simply terrible.

And... Miss Xiangzi, you don't know, I have a social phobia, and it's very serious. I can hardly sing these days. I'm on the verge of collapse.

You want to hang out with me, is that true?

After listening to Hai Mingli's words, Xiangzi was silent for a long time. Finally, after hesitating for a long time, he asked tentatively:

"...You agree?"

Hai Mingli was also silent for a while, then he touched his head and asked, "Did I say no?"

"I just said that it's very stressful to be with me. After all, you see, just..."

"It's okay! I'll hang out with you!"

The girl spoke in a firm tone. Now that the opportunity was in her hands, she just wanted to grab it!

Just like that rainy night, when my father was hit by a car and fell to the side of the road while chasing me.

If I had seized the opportunity and looked back while running, maybe I wouldn't have so many regrets...

……

Hai Mingli lay on the bed in her rental house, thinking again and again, and finally called Suzumiya Ryunosuke.

"So, you agree?" the girl's voice came over the phone.

"of course."

"Congratulations! You've got a child like this. Your 'Music Pokémon School' is on the rise."

"Who told you something about... a music Pokémon school?"

"Seeing you were collecting students like a Pokémon, I just made it up myself."

Hai Mingli was quite helpless. What the hell was going on? How could this be related to Pokémon?

"What should we do next? We only have you and Miss Xiangzi to support Second Hand Rose. What about the other positions? Should we call in a few people temporarily?"

...A long time ago, Hai Mingli invited mmk to play guitar.

"No, no thanks," Abstract Youth said on the phone, "I've already hired a guitarist."

"When the performance comes, I will play the suona and be the lead singer, Ms. Xiangzi will play the keyboard, and Ms. Kawaharaki Momoka will play the guitar. The three of us will be enough to hold the stage, and we can find the rest later."

"Kawahara Momoka?"

There was obvious confusion in the girl's voice. Hai Mingli scratched his head. Could it be that these two people had never met before?

"Kawahara Momoka, the former lead singer of Diamond Stardust, her current personal influence..."

"Stop, I know what you said. What I'm wondering is...will she agree to be a guitarist?"

Now it was Hai Mingli's turn to be confused, "What's wrong? Is it strange?"

"...You know, our band's style is very strange. How should I put it... You need to practice more with her."

"..."

Hai Mingli was helpless, but he had this intention.

"What are you going to do tomorrow? Is it just training with mmk and the others?"

"That's not... and..."

and also……

He also guides Pochi-chan and the others in practice so that they can prepare for the upcoming summer festival performance.

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Volume 1 Wow! : Chapter 153: Match-fixing and lip-synching

[12 days before the summer festival performance, morning]

The summer festival is held in the middle of summer, when it is most likely to rain. After a heavy rain at night, Tokyo was covered in fog the next morning.

The summer festival performance is getting closer.

In a park outside Tokyo, workers rolled up their sleeves and got to work. Special equipment was spread throughout the park, and as the machines started to make sounds, facilities for the summer festival began to be built.

People on the streets of Tokyo can no longer hear the rumbling sound of machines. They hold up umbrellas, walk in the drizzling city, and breathe the humid air.

In a corner of the street, a pink-haired girl wearing a pink sweatshirt, a black plaid skirt and sweatpants curled up and walked quietly towards an underground entrance.

He behaves so carefully, like a cat that has been wandering in the human world for many years.

The weather was gloomy, but at least it didn't rain. I don't know what the girl was thinking, she wrapped the guitar case with white plastic cloth. From a distance, it looked like she was carrying a white door panel on her back.

There was a [STARRY] billboard hanging on the door. The girl reached out and knocked on the door, then leaned against the wall to catch her breath.

"It's not business hours yet, who's outside?"

The voice of a mature older sister came from behind the door. When the door opened, a head of yellow hair came into the girl's sight.

It’s the store manager Xingge.

"Pochi-chan, what are you doing..."

Before the yellow-haired sister could finish her words, Pochi-chan shrank down and suddenly fell to the ground.

Xingge:?

what's the situation!

She stretched out her hand to the store manager with difficulty, just like a dying soldier on the battlefield: "I... I am dying..."

"Help me... help me take care of this guitar..."

[Pochi-chan, dead]

[Cause of death: Walking alone on the street, so scary!]

……

"Ah, I'm saved..."

The girl was slumped down on the booth, holding a cup of hot tea.

"..."

The store manager Xingge looked at the guitar wrapped in plastic and couldn't help but feel a little confused. Her sister Hongxia was standing next to the guitar and poked it curiously, her hands getting wet.

Hong Xia asked curiously: "What is this?"

"Guitar. This contains my guitar."

"I know it's a guitar! But..."

The blonde tugged at the plastic. "This is for…"

"Prevent the guitar from getting wet and damaged!" Pochi-chan held the water in his hand, his forehead full of black lines caused by fear, "Because of this thing, a group of people are looking at me... I..."

Recalling the scene of being surrounded by passers-by and staring at her in a strange way, Pochi felt that her social health was decreasing and was about to return to zero again.

So that's how it is, Hongxia nodded.

"Are you okay?"

Seeing that there was nothing for him to do, the store manager Xingge left and walked to the backstage of [STARRY] alone.

Hong Xia blinked in confusion, hesitated for a moment, and said:

"...Actually, the guitar case itself is moisture-proof...The layer of plastic you wrapped it in...is totally unnecessary."

"Eh, really?!"

Pochi-chan almost cried. Eh hey hey, did she do all this in vain?

Then who can make up for the health points I lost due to being watched along the way?

"Okay, back to the topic," the blonde girl said playfully.

Mr. Hai said that if the band members were free after the performance, they could come to his place to practice.

More than a day has passed, and the girls in the team are thinking - why not go to the City of Music Bar today?

"I just contacted Liang Senior and Kita Ikuyo, they said they have already left for Mr. Hai's bar, and asked when the two of us will leave?"

"When...will we set off?"

The pink-haired girl shuddered, looking like she had received an electric shock. "Are we going now?"

"If Pochi-chan agrees, we can set off now."

"What...don't...don't!"

The girl collapsed on the spot.

It’s just a joke, Hong Xia added, wait until your social health is replenished before you tell me.

After dozens of minutes, Pochi felt that she had finally recovered her strength. She put her guitar on her back and shouted:

"Let's go, charge for our cause!"

Hong Xia (sneer): ...Heh...

How come this guy suddenly became so awesome?

A drum set is not like a guitar. The little girl can't just take it away if she wants to. Mr. Hai runs a bar, so he should have these equipment.

Hong Xia picked up an umbrella from the corner with her bare hands and then held it in her hand.

Pochi-chan was the first to walk to the door at the staircase. She pushed the door open and walked out timidly.

The girl didn't say hello to her sister. She stood at the door, ready to step out of the bar.

"Private flowers, saki, and buds." (I want to bloom ~ I want to sprout ~)

"The spring breeze and the rain are the same as the private ones." (I want this heavy rain to fall)

Hong Xia, who was about to go out, paused.

She turned around and saw her sister turning on the bar equipment and playing the music of Second Hand Rose.

An inexplicable pressure surged in the girl's chest, like a huge rock, pressing on her chest, making her almost unable to breathe.

The girl opened her mouth, perhaps wanting to say something, but after hesitating for a while, she shook her head and resolutely stepped out of the store.

——Sister, I won’t let you down.

Perhaps it was a coincidence, heavy rain came to the city, and the girl quickly opened the umbrella in her hand and let Pochi-chan in.

"Hey hey hey... why... it's raining!"

When the pink-haired girl's timid voice came, Hong Xia was stunned for a moment, then looked at the girl next to her.

……

"Are you here? Are you here? I'm just waiting for you?!"

In the City of Music bar, the blue-haired girl was adjusting the music equipment on the stage. Hai Mingli was standing in the audience, shouting on the phone at the top of his voice: "Xiangzi and I have been here for a long time."

"Why are you yelling so loudly?"

Mmk's disdainful voice came from the other end of the line, "I'm waiting for the bus! And there's still an hour before the contact time!"

"It would be fatal if you came earlier! What's wrong with practicing more?"

"Hey, hey, hey, I just got away from your students and now I'm rushing to you non-stop. How can I catch up with you?"

"Disgusted, don't you know to come earlier?"

Hai Mingli's words seemed to arouse the girl's anger, and mmk shouted, "Huh, morning? Why didn't you ask Rencai to come earlier?"

"Ten o'clock! You didn't get up until ten o'clock! You couldn't do it after just one hour of rehearsal, you just fell asleep on top of me!"

"Come on, it's inhumane to train the lead singer for only one hour. How can this band develop? Do they still want to perform?"

"This one……"

Hai Mingli scratched his head, "Okay, I'll take care of this guy from now on... Come quickly!"

"I'll come quickly?"