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

Lisa glanced at Shizi. Hongxia had already found a chance to tell them about her condition and discussed how to cure her.

"We tried to explain the current situation to her, but as soon as she heard the name 'Marina', her personality would immediately switch." Hongxia was also distressed at the time. "Although this can wake her up when needed, I really don't know how to cure her."

Shizi felt Lisa's gaze, glanced at her secretly, and then immediately looked away.

Seeing this, Lisa picked up a plate of cookies and placed it in front of her: "Try it, I made it myself."

"Ah, thank you." Shizi picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. It tasted similar to CiRCLE, but Shizi didn't feel sad because a stream of heat flowed from his mouth to his limbs, dispelling all the negative emotions.

Seeing Shizi's surprise, Lisa smiled and said, "This is my ability." She raised her hand and brushed across an empty plate, which was once again filled with cookies.

"My ability is called [Goddess's Furnace], which can create cookies with various effects. Right now, I can make healing original cookies, relaxing matcha cookies, and buff cookies with cat heads, rabbit heads, dog heads, and fox heads. The one I'm giving you is the second kind."

Kita picked up a kitten-shaped piece, took a bite, felt something, and clicked on the panel: "【Flesh】points increased by 1 point!"

"Ah, that one is a buff type. It can buff all your attributes except [Shine]. The maximum increase is 20 points. Of course, it has a time limit."

Starting with Lisa, others also showed their abilities.

Youshina's ability is called [Wildly Blooming Purple Flame Roses], which allows blue-purple roses and vines as hard as steel to wrap around his body. It mainly improves [physical], followed by [reaction] and [intelligence]. He is the only melee fighter among the ten.

Saya conjured up a guitar, and as she played, it began to rain in the venue, but of course, it didn't soak the people or the food. "【Autumn Rain Umbrella Layers】." She simply announced the name of her ability. Seeing this, Ichiri and Ryo also showed off their guitars and basses.

"Your guitarist and bassist can both conjure up musical instruments..." Lisa felt a little disappointed. They were all string instruments, but it seemed like she was the only one who couldn't.

"Actually, I don't have one either." Kita comforted.

Then it was Rinko's turn. She stood up and stepped back, leaving a large space. A pipe organ rose from behind her. She bowed gracefully, sat on the chair, and began to play a solemn hymn. Following the melody, she opened her mouth and sang a nervous but strong voice. It seemed to be in Latin. As the song sang, everyone saw that the attributes they had focused on strengthening on their own panels had been increased. The sound of the organ changed and became majestic, and Shizi felt a pressure on her shoulders.

"【Ringing Bloom】... After I... gained this ability... somehow... I learned to play the organ..." Her voice was not as solemn as the sound of the organ, but rather very shy.

"Ayako knows black magic." Ayako became a little more alert, but did not say any introduction like "Great Magic Princess Ayako". She covered her left eye, and the light around her was immediately swallowed up, leaving only darkness.

Azi put down her hand, and the surroundings returned to light. She grabbed another fruit, crushed it in her hand, and threw it into the air. The rainwater drawn by Sayo immediately exuded a fruity fragrance. She looked at the End Band proudly: "Azi's [Original Abyss Curse] is far more than this, and it still requires a lot of research. The guys in the End Band, just stay behind me!"

That night, after getting familiar with each other's abilities, Hongxia and Youshina shared information with each other, and the other Shiko occasionally appeared, which everyone in Roselia was still a little uncomfortable with. Later, everyone dispersed at the same time, and they still needed some time to digest their emotions.

The next day, just after dawn, Yukina came out and saw Shiko doing a final check on the equipment.

Chapter 4: Crisis that Explodes Early

"Mr. Wu? Are you here alone?" You Xina walked towards Shizi. She remembered that Shizi had to be accompanied by someone.

Shiko shook her head and pointed to the side. Lisa came out from the corner. She was scheduled to be in charge of the last section of the night watch. Before her, the night watchmen were all members of the closing band - even Ryo was on duty for a short while.

"Good morning, Yukina, how did you sleep last night?" Lisa was yawning.

"Not really. How's the situation?"

"Just in the last moment, a few monsters approached, and I wanted to call for help. Fortunately, Shizi appeared in time, and it was all taken care of in a few swipes." Lisa smiled at Shizi.

Student Wu got up so early? You Xi looked at Shi Zi who was still checking the equipment. That was no longer the original hot air balloon. The hot air balloon made by Shi Zi lacked safety guarantees. Before, there were only five people and luggage on the hot air balloon, so it was okay, but Shi Zi was not sure whether the hot air balloon could bear the weight of ten people. And now there is a big river, they can choose to take the water route instead. As for the dangers in the water, there is always a monitor.

However, Shizi had no experience in building boats, so she imitated the iron chains and nailed several simple canoes together. It was more like a large raft than a boat.

"Thank you for your hard work." Youkina saw the design drawings that Shizi was scribbling on and could imagine the hardships she had gone through in her many experiments.

"Um... um. Thank you." Shizi glanced at the two of them, his face nervous, stuffed the drawings in his hand into his pocket, and walked away as if fleeing.

Lisa looked at the direction she left in surprise: "Yukina, are you a little too fierce for her?"

“……”Youxi just stared at Shizi’s back silently without saying anything.

Last night, Shizi prepared clothes for Roselia, all of which were the same as those of the band, in black, white and gray. Today's breakfast was also prepared by Shizi. She took care of everyone's preferences, making the people in Roselia wonder why she knew them so well. There was still some food that needed to be cooked. Before Ako started, Kita prepared the bonfire, and then Hongxia cooked. As a result, before all the members of Roselia got up, everyone in the band had already prepared everything - although some of them didn't get up.

"It's delicious, Hongxia." Lisa, who was originally in charge of the cooking, also praised Hongxia's work.

"That's good, thank you for the compliment." Hong Xia wiped her sweat and picked up her bowl. It was not Roselia's homemade wooden bowl, but Shizi's.

After the meal, Lisa was about to clean up the dishes and deal with the leftovers, but Kita had already burned all the food residues. Shizi snapped his fingers, and the dishes that had just appeared disappeared. Cleaning up was done.

"Ending the band really helped a lot." Roselia sighed as her work became much easier.

"Just as we agreed before, we will sail for a day, stop to explore the surroundings, and then continue sailing, and repeat this cycle." Yukina naturally became the center of the new team. She led everyone to the dock. When Saya saw Shiko's boat, she frowned: "Can this really work?"

"I've tested it, and it's fine." Shizi replied. However, Saya still conducted a test herself before finally letting everyone get on board one by one.

In the canoe, Yukina sat at the front as the navigator, followed by Nijiga, Ryo sat alone in the back corner, Ichiri, Shiko, and Kita sat at the end of the row, and the others sat in the middle, with Lisa closer to the ending band, followed by Sayo, Rinko was surrounded by a few people, and Ako was next to her.

As Ichiri played, waves rolled up on the river surface, pushing the raft forward. Occasionally, monsters would approach the river, but they would be frozen at the bottom of the river before they could show their heads. After that day, Ichiri's ability changed, and he could control freezing like controlling the flow of water.

"Goto-san's guitar skills are very good." Saya turned around.

"Oh, so that's it, hehe..." Yili couldn't help but praise.

"She practices about six hours every day." Kita said proudly as if she was bragging about herself.

"Hmm? That's really hard work." Saya always felt that this guitar sound was familiar. Thinking back carefully, she remembered something, "Goto-san, are you the guitar hero?"

"Guitar Hero?" Yazi felt that the title was a bit awkward.

"He has a large number of fans on video sites and often plays covers of popular songs with professional-level skills," Saya explained. "If you think about it carefully, the guitar is indeed the same."

"It's really impressive to be praised by Sayo-san." Ako looked behind her.

"Hey Hey……"

"?" Yazi always felt that there was an inexplicable tension in Ichiri's piano playing.

She felt that Ichiri did give people a very similar feeling to Rinko, which was completely opposite to Kita next to him.

Kita is chatting with Shizi.

"I thought you would get along well with them quickly." Shizi was a little confused as to why Kita didn't sit where there were more people.

"Ahaha... I find this weird too..." Kita said awkwardly, "Whenever I talk to someone from Roselia, my chest tightens and I can't speak clearly... What is this? Social pressure? Do you feel the same way, Wu?"

Seeing Kita's dry laugh, Shizi fell silent. It's hard to imagine that Kita would have social pressure or something. If it were another me, I would probably shout "This is ooc".

However, she could understand it.

The sacrifice of Ms. Marina and Ms. Araki was ultimately due to the lack of strength to end the band. It can be said that they died because of the end of the band. Facing Roselia, who was also very close to them, even a sunny girl like Kita would feel guilty, right?

This is especially true for Shiko, who is very familiar with Roselia and Marina.

Does anyone else have this thought? Of course they do. Since the morning, most of the work has been done by the band.

Then, what should we do? Shiko looked at the Roselia people who were talking, Ryo who was sitting in the corner looking at the scenery, Hongxia and Youshina who were discussing something at the front of the line, and Ichiri who was concentrating on playing the guitar and Kita who was curled up unconsciously.

This idea may be fine at first, but what will happen if it continues to develop?

She could even imagine a day when she would end the band and become Roselia's vassal mentally, to the point where she would have to wait for her to start eating first.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and stood up.

"Student Wu?" Xiduo raised her head, not knowing what she was going to do.

Shizi stepped over the rows of iron bars and sat down next to Roselia.

"Hey, are you here to show me?" Yili looked over.

I was so nervous. Four people were looking at me. My chest was tight and my tongue was stiff. I didn't know where to put my hands and feet.

But I have already escaped once, and that escape made me a madman.

So this time, in order to avoid future pain, let me detonate the crisis in advance.

Shizi asked the four bewildered people a serious question: "Um... may I ask, what does Roselia think of us?"

"Huh?" The question was too sudden.

The sound of Ichiri's guitar also stopped for a moment. All that was left was the sound of the wind, the sound of waves hitting the raft, and the sound of the monster moving in the distance.

"Even if you ask us what we think about ending the band...we haven't listened to your live performances..." Lisa felt something was wrong.

Sayo agreed, "That's right. I can't judge you as a band without seeing you live in person."

Rinko instinctively felt the heavy breath, tightened her neck, said nothing, and pulled Yako to signal her.

"No, I'm not talking about music." Shizi asked stubbornly, "I mean, what do you think of us who escaped from CiRCLE?"

The air was silent for a moment.

This question is too dangerous and too direct. No one knows how to answer it.

"Escape?" Youxina came over here without knowing when.

"Do you think so too?" She crossed her arms over her chest and looked sternly at Hongxia who didn't look back, at Liang who seemed to be looking at the scenery, and at Ichiri and Kita who were silently paying attention to the place behind her.

Finally, she looked at Shizi, who was looking up at her. Shizi's mouth was slightly open.

Her expression remained unchanged, cold as ice.

"It's a pity that you can't even be called a band."

Chapter 5 Become a star!

Yuki's ruthless words shocked everyone.

"Yukina?!" Lisa stood up suddenly.

"Minato-san, I don't think that kind of talk is appropriate," Saya frowned.

"Yuukina-san..." Ako looked at her blankly.

"Really?" A cold answer came from the side.

Yukina turned around and saw Ryo who had been sitting in the corner. She had stood up and was looking at Yukina without avoiding him.

"You mean we're not even a band?" There was no trace of her previous heartlessness on her face. Her face was cold and her eyes were filled with fire.

"It's up to you how you interpret it." Yukina refused to give in. Lisa pulled her sleeve, but she ignored it.

"End the band," a bass appeared in Ryo's hands, "It's not for you to judge, Yukina Minato."

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, an iron axe hit the iron bar, making a clanging sound and sparking a burst of sparks. Everyone looked over and saw Shizi holding the axe handle, saying in a hoarse voice: "Stop arguing... calm down."

Taking this opportunity, both sides quickly separated Ryo and Yukina. Roselia sat at the front of the row and returned to the back after the band ended.

The raft had already stopped in the middle of the river and was now swaying up and down with the waves.

"The Ending Band is not a band... What do you mean?" Kita covered her chest in depression. In her opinion, the Ending Band completely met all her expectations of the band, so why was it denied like this?

"Of course it's the band that's going to end the band." Liang Yu was still furious.

"Okay, calm down, Ryo, senior Youxi probably doesn't mean that." Hongxia winked and asked Shizi for help.

"..." Shizi calmed down, "Although Youxina is not good at speaking, he won't..." She was speechless for a moment and couldn't find any words to excuse Youxina.

"Saya-san is here." At this time, Ichiri reminded them.

Hongxia and Shizi hurried over to meet them.

Saya still had the same icy expression as Yuukina.

"First of all, I want to apologize for what Minato said." She said very straightforwardly, "Her remarks were a bit reckless. If they hurt you, we can make it up to you."

"Secondly, let me convey what classmate Minato said: the current Ending Band still lacks the necessary qualities to be a band, but this quality cannot be given by Roselia, it must be found by you yourselves."

"That's it. I hope we can get along well." Saya went back.

She remembered what Youxi had just said: "Ending the band is devaluing themselves. What they lack is "confidence"."

Everyone heard what Saya said.

"...Everyone, be happy. At least senior Youxi doesn't look down on us for ending the band." After a period of silence, Hongxia took the lead in smoothing things over.

"What is missing to end the band?" Kita pondered, "Technique? I don't really have it...but they haven't heard me play..."

Yili lowered her head and plucked the strings of the guitar, but no sound came out, and the river water did not move. She was just in a daze.

Shizi walked over to Liang, who was stirring the river water on the edge of the raft.

"I didn't expect you to be so angry." Shizi said. This was the first time in her two lives that she saw Liang really angry: "No matter what, I don't want to end the band and fall out with Roselia."

Liang stood up: "I've always been like this." However, her tone sounded much calmer.

Shiko said, "Actually, I can guess what Yukina meant by 'what's missing to end the band'."

Liang looked at her, expressionless: "I can probably guess that. I admit, she is right."

"Is that so?" Shizi smiled, "That's good."

"So," Ryo squatted down again, "what should we do?"