Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

"Why didn't you tell us?" She turned to look at the simply dressed woman behind her.

"Eh? I don't think it's necessary. Anyway, I will try my best to provide whatever you need. It doesn't matter whether you tell me or not. Telling me will make you overly dependent on my abilities..."

"...Besides, you don't want to know that I can monitor you 24 hours a day, do you?"

Marina looked very embarrassed: "So just like I didn't tell anyone that you run out every night, you should also keep it a secret for me, ok?"

Shizi's expression suddenly became strange.

"...Is it not possible?" Marina thought that Shizi disagreed.

"No, just... by the door..." Shizi pointed to the door of the secret room. Miss Xinmu was looking at this side with her arms folded and a smile on her face.

It's a pity to see you appear like this every time. Shizi felt a little disgusted in her heart, and left while Araki was saying something like "Marina, you are still so gentle."

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Chapter 23: The Inspiration of the Yin Angle

No one went out that day. CiRCLE's energy was already full, and Ms. Marina gave everyone a day off.

However, CiRCLE is going through an unprecedented crisis! It is no longer the time to go on vacation!

Marina, Shiko, Araki, and all the members of the band except Ichiri - were sighing beside the long table in the conference room.

"I made a big mistake." In the solemn atmosphere, Hong Xia stood up with her head down, "I am willing to bear all the costs..."

Xiduo quickly stood up and held her back: "Don't say that, we have the same responsibilities."

"Yeah, now is not the time to talk about this. We should first think of a way to make amends." Marina and Araki are seniors after all, so they calmed down a little.

"Can it be saved... It's already... like this..." Hong Xia slammed the table and buried her face deeply in her arms. She was usually so gentle, but at this moment, everyone realized that she was just an ordinary girl.

"It's all Pochi's own problem. I didn't do well either. I'm not as extreme as her." There was only one person in the meeting room who was indifferent.

"Shut up." Everyone responded with icy eyes.

"Of course, of course you can!" Marina caressed Hongxia's back lovingly and turned to Shiko, "Shiko-san, how is Goto-san?"

The entire conference room fell silent, waiting for the final verdict.

“……”Shizi clenched his fists tightly and his whole face was trembling.

"...Speak now, we are all prepared."

"……laugh."

Shiko suddenly exploded, pounding her hands on the table and laughing wildly, even mixing her native dialect into her Japanese.

“Haha ...! How can it be so funny! How can it be so funny! She, she, you really should see her! I really—”

The entire conference room couldn't hold back. Liang, Kita, and Hongxia were all moved one after another. Although some of them still had a conscience and knew that they shouldn't laugh in this situation, their mouths couldn't help but grin.

On this day, CiRCLE's average moral bottom line reached its lowest point.

"Hehehehehe...you have a pretty bad personality...hehehe..." Liang laughed and pointed at Shizi.

"Come! Let me imitate her previous state." Shizi suddenly stopped laughing and stood in the open space.

Everyone was looking at her. She took a deep breath and suddenly sat down on the ground, staring blankly at the ceiling with saliva dripping from the corners of her mouth.

For the next half minute, Shizi maintained this posture, with only her arms twitching constantly. Suddenly, she jumped up and paced around the room as if no one was around. Her feet became more and more enchanting, and she even danced a ghost dance! However, she stood up again, facing the east and made a gesture of embracing the sun, then immediately turned back to the right position, put her hands together, and chanted "Namo Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva"!

Shizi's vivid performance caused another round of laughter. However, Hongxia, the kindest among them, immediately stopped everyone and ordered everyone to return to their seats to discuss the plan of "restoring little Pochi to normal."

"Since we started working on the new song, it has been a long time..."

"The peach tree behind CiRCLE has bloomed and fallen seven times, and I have eaten the peaches seven times." Shizi interrupted. Her mind was still in an excited state.

Hong Xia ignored her and continued to summarize the current situation: "In short, because she has been unable to compose lyrics for a long time, Xiao Boqi's mental state is completely wrong! She hasn't gone out for the past two days, and her behavior patterns are becoming more and more..." She couldn't find the right adjective.

"Interesting." Liang covered his mouth.

"..." Hong Xia paused and clapped her hands, "Anyway! Please help me think of a way to get Little Pochi back to normal!"

"If you want her to recover, you have to help her write lyrics normally, right?" Marina said.

"Can't we just write the lyrics directly? If we don't have any inspiration this time, can't we just try harder next time?" As the lead singer, Kita naturally wanted to write the lyrics himself.

"No." Shizi firmly objected, "If we help her write the lyrics, she will definitely think, 'Oh, I'm so useless', 'I don't have the right to stay in this band when I need others to write the lyrics' and so on, and go even crazier..."

Hong Xia blushed: "Hearing you say that, it seems like a picture has come to mind..."

So everyone decided on the direction of the discussion.

"Inspiration...inspiration...I need to help little Bochi find inspiration..." Hong Xia pondered.

"How about thinking about how she wrote lyrics in the past?" Marina reminded, she had experienced similar things before.

Everyone recalled the last time Yili wrote lyrics.

"Well--"

Little dark room.

Seven days and seven nights.

It seems to have no reference value.

"Well... although I don't know much about your last situation," Araki couldn't help but interrupt, "but I heard that the one who spent the most time with Goto-san was Shiko-san, right? What do you think?"

"Me?" Shizi didn't expect that he would be mentioned. "I know where her inspiration comes from."

"What?" Everyone's eyes surrounded her.

"It's that kind of... it's not very good to put it this way, but all of her lyrics come from the dark experiences in her life. Maybe she has been living with us happily during this period of time, so she has less inspiration like this?" Compared with the past, Shizi did see more smiles on Yili's face.

"Dark experience?" This kind of thing is a bit abstract to the two big Yangjiao present. "What is it specifically?"

Shizi lay on the table and recalled: "For example... I have a friend."

No one here knew the joke and was waiting for her to continue.

"She didn't prepare a lunch box that day because of something else, so she had to go to the school cafeteria to eat alone at noon."

"(Why do you want to go alone?)" Kita was a little confused, but did not interrupt out of politeness.

"When she was queuing, there were groups of noisy young people in front of her. Moreover, halfway through the line, someone cut in front of her as if nothing had happened, and started talking and laughing with others without even looking at her." There was a heavy resentment in Shizi's words.

"What kind of person is this? Think about others!" Hong Xia muttered softly. However, she always felt that this was something one of her good friends would do.

Kita broke out in a cold sweat, and she began to recall whether she had ever made such a mistake. "(I should always ask for the consent of the person behind me, right? Is this kind of thing so uncomfortable?)"

"And when she finally bought the meal, there were almost no empty seats in the cafeteria. After much difficulty, she found an empty table in a corner."

"She sat down quickly and hadn't even taken two bites." Shizi paused here.

"Then what?" Hong Xia became nervous.

"Two people sat next to her!" Shizi seemed to be recalling some horrible past. "Those two people also sat down by themselves and brought other people with them. I was the only one sitting at the table, but it was suddenly filled with people. They were all laughing and joking. I was the only one who didn't know them at all!"

Unconsciously, her pronoun has changed.

"Ah?" Hong Xia realized something, slowly stood up from the chair, and tried to stop it in a panic.

But it was over. Shizi was completely immersed in painful memories: "Not to mention, I was sitting in the innermost seat at the time. I hurried to finish my meal, but if I wanted to leave, I had to say 'Excuse me, please let me go' when they were chatting happily!!!"

Shizi couldn't hold on any longer. Since her last life, this kind of desperate experience has almost become her daily life. Just thinking about it almost turned her into a witch. Hongxia didn't know what was going on. She took Shizi's hand compassionately and said, "It's all over, it's all over..."

Liang was scared when he heard such things. Fortunately, Hongxia would never forget her lunch box.

"I'm sorry..." Kita thought more and more that something was wrong. Had he ever done something like this? It seemed so natural at the time...

"No, Kita, I believe you are different from those damn punks!" The more tolerant Shizi was, the more guilty Kita felt, even though she had never done such a thing before.

Seeing that the topic was about to deviate in an unpredictable direction, Marina corrected it in time: "But, will this help Goto-san find inspiration?"

But everyone was still at a loss. This tragic experience would be hard to reproduce in CiRCLE.

"How about we isolate her?" Shi Zi recovered at the speed of light and quickly turned to the evil party!

Hong Xia returned to her seat and said, "Okay, Xiao Shizi is forbidden to make any more comments."

"Huh? Why?"

"I have an idea..." Kita raised his hand.

……

When the meeting ended, it was almost noon. In order to take care of everyone's stomach, Hong Xia announced that dinner was served.

Just like last time, Ichiri locked herself in a small dark room, so she was not seen at the dinner table. After dinner, Marina prepared a special meal for her and packed a lunch box for Shizi to deliver to her. Shizi was not in a hurry, she put the lunch box in the insulated box first and went into the underground warehouse. After a while, she brought up a stack of CDs.

Carrying her lunch box and CDs, she knocked on the backstage door.

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Chapter 24: Each Shows His Magical Power (Happy Children's Day, Happy Birthday Miao Meng~)

"That Band" can be said to be Ryo's character song.

The lyrics of "That Band" basically talk about the denial of stereotyped popular culture and the emphasis on self. This is completely consistent with Liang's personality traits: pursuing individuality and not sticking to one pattern. Shizi doesn't know how the lyrics of this song were originally created, but she can try to provide such conditions.

"Yili, dinner." Shizi stood at the door and knocked on it with his elbow.

The door opened a crack, Shizi pushed it open and squeezed in.

Standing in front of her was Goto Ichiri, who had a mental breakdown due to not being able to write lyrics for a long time. Seeing her squeeze in, Ichiri had no reaction and just stared at the rice in her hand. Seeing her expression, Shizi put down her things on the table and looked around. Compared to the last time Ichiri pulled her in, the place was obviously much messier. Shizi wisely ignored it.

"I came here this time to help you find inspiration." While eating in Yili, Shizi got straight to the point.

Yili was silent, eating the rice in her hand. Shizi couldn't stand it anymore and started to teach her how to use chopsticks.

Regardless of whether she could understand or not, Shizi continued speaking.

"Inspiration. You think your life has been so good lately that you don't have any complaints and can't write any lyrics at all?"

Yili raised his head slightly, tears glistening in his eyes.

"Since you are not dissatisfied, I will help you create dissatisfaction." Then Shizi added kindly, "Of course, I will not isolate you."

?

A mile of confusion.

After Yili finished eating, Shizi pulled Yili to the computer desk, forced her to sit down, and took out a hemp rope to tie her up in circles.

"Please... what exactly do you want to do?" Yili finally came to his senses and tried to struggle tremblingly, but Shizi was prepared and had handcuffed him already. Soon, Yili was unable to move in his seat, at the mercy of Shizi.

Shizi licked his lips and took off his coat.

"Eh—I, I'm not that kind of person..." Yili was about to explode.

Shizi ignored her objection and turned back to pick up a CD.

"Eh?"

"Come on, let's have a youth song marathon!" Shizi announced cheerfully, "Yiri, your lyrics are based on your dissatisfaction with the world, and one of the most representative is your dissatisfaction with youth songs! From CiRCLE's warehouse, I can find all kinds of live recordings, and the clips I selected are all youth songs! They will definitely make you dissatisfied for the whole day!"

Youth-themed songs? Youth-themed!

No, no, no, this is absolutely not possible... Even if it's for inspiration... Yili's face just began to twist when Shizi hit her head with the CD case. She smiled weirdly: "Please, this is all for your own good. If you still can't write the lyrics, we will..."

"I'll just help you finish it! And after that..."

"I won't bother you anymore!"

Ichiri believed that she saw the devil himself.

Seeing Yili nodding weakly, Shizi turned on the computer with satisfaction. It didn't take her long to find these videos. There was little entertainment in CiRCLE, and her biggest hobby was watching these live videos. Liang was also a loyal audience of these CDs, and they once competed for the first right to watch Roselia's new song release live. The songs she found now were all evaluated by Liang as "purely following the trend", and they were also pure youth songs, combining the thunder points of the two people. Shizi believed that they would definitely allow Yili to write "That Band" in her memory!

Of course, she definitely didn't want to see Yili go crazy. Absolutely not.

The CD had been stuffed in, and Yili swallowed as he watched the scene.

"Are you ready? Then, let's start the first song." Shizi grinned and pressed the mouse.

A lively prelude sounded. To be honest, from Shiko's point of view, although the performance of this band was not enough to give her the feeling of kirakiradokidoki, it was enough in the concept of "youth". So, for Ichiri, what kind of impact can such music bring?

“Waaaaaaaa——” Yili screamed as if she was being tortured. Her face was as pale as snow, as if her whole body was hit hard. If Shizi hadn’t probed with her hand and confirmed that there were no lethal sound waves, she would have thought that Liang was hiding here to have fun.

"Don't - don't - please - ahh ...

The song was over. Yili had passed out. Seeing Yili like this, Shizi's remaining conscience began to ache a little. She began to hesitate: how to wake her up? Should she throw a bucket of water on her like a bully, or do something fairy-tale-like but couldn't write...