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

Because of the departure of Kagura Hikaru, we lost our goal and the shining Karen.

What happened? Shizi believed that only by figuring this out could she help Hualian reproduce and complete the resurrection process.

But Karen was just a stranger to them who had just met for a few hours, and it was hard to say whether she had memorized the names of the fifteen people. It was too difficult to quickly pry open the wall of her heart. At least Shizi felt that she couldn't do it. Hongxia and Lisa might be able to do it, but the hope was not great. After all, Karen's current gloom was different from Ichiri and Rinko.

She opened the door of her own room. The room had not been decorated yet. It was the same as Hualian's room, just a little smaller and with a French window. She turned on the light, lay on the bed, opened the map in her mind, and just stared at the eight dots of light. The light of the map reflected in her pupils.

Still no response from the giraffe.

Outside the door, I could hear Yazi talking to herself. She was decorating the interior and enjoying herself.

That night, the others also stayed in the airship. I wanted to give Cherubim a room, but she refused with the reason that "we don't need to rest." It was the same when we had dinner before.

The next day, the first rays of sunrise shone through the open curtains. Shizi turned over and woke up.

When Shizi left the room, her face was still covered with water drops. Kita was just leaving the room, and when he saw her, he said hello: "Good morning."

"Good morning."

"Can you tell me more about Aijo-san?" Kita said. "You seem to care about her a lot."

Shizi showed a teasing expression: "Are you jealous?"

"Eat you!" Kita blushed and made a friendly gesture to Shizi.

"Oh..." Shizi opened his eyes wide, "Xiduo, you also understand the essence of rock ​​​​..."

Kita seemed to have just realized what he had gestured, and hurriedly took his hand back and hid it behind his back: "Just... just asking, she is one of the stage girls you mentioned before, right?"

"Yeah." Shizi nodded. "She probably hasn't woken up yet. I'm going to go see her later. Do you want to come with me?"

The two of them went to try out the brand new recording studio. On the way, everything was decorated in an Asian style, but under sufficient lighting, these decorations were not so scary. When the time for others to get up was expected, the two of them arrived at Hualian's door, only to find that someone had already been waiting there.

It was PAREO. She was holding a paper bag and just waiting at the door without knocking. When she saw the two people coming, she nodded slightly.

"PAREO-san?" Kita greeted, "Are you here to see Aishiro-san as well?"

"That's right." PAREO lowered his voice, "As a keyboard maid, it is my duty to guide Hua Lian to familiarize herself with the environment. Unfortunately, Hua Lian seems to have not woken up yet."

"Hua Lian is like this..." Shizi's face was gentle, "If you want to wake her up, you have to do it this way..."

She leaned over the door, opened it a little, and changed to Tsuzaki Mahiru's voice: "Karako Ren, get up quickly - today is not a day you can be late, right? Karko Ren -"

There seemed to be some noise coming from inside. Shizi smiled, closed the door, and waited quietly with the others.

PAREO looked at Shizi strangely. Shizi seemed to have too many secrets.

After a while, there was the sound of hurried, barefoot footsteps running on the ground. The door opened a little. Hua Lian's hair was still disheveled, her mouth was half open, and her face was half asleep and half awake.

"I seemed to hear a familiar voice..." she said.

"Good morning." Shizi smiled with narrowed eyes and greeted as if nothing had happened.

PAREO raised the paper bag in his hand: "This is breakfast."

In the air-conditioned room, four people sat around a small table eating pastries.

"From today on, we should start helping Hualian reproduce." Shizi said while eating, "Hualian, do you remember anything about your death?"

Hua Lian ate the banana cake in small bites: "Still no. I tried."

"How about trying to find something related to Karen's memories?" PAREO suggested, "Maybe we need some hints."

"A hint...?" Hua Lian didn't know what he was thinking.

"Well, there's no rush anyway, why don't you come and watch our live show?" Kita suggested.

"Live?" Hua Lian blinked, "Ah, you all seem to be band girls."

"That's right!" Kita patted his chest, "Let me introduce myself again, I'm the lead guitarist of the band Ending!"

"We are keyboard players~" Shizi raised his hand beside him.

"It's so hard to get a non-performer audience member here. Lord CHU is also looking forward to it." Pareo responded.

"Oh right." Kita suddenly remembered, "Sei Sho Music Academy...Does the Aijo alumni club have musical instruments?"

"Hey..." Hua Lian was surrounded by three band girls and felt a little nervous. "I only learned vocal music, not musical instruments."

Shizi remembered that in the collaboration between the Bang Bang mobile game and the Singer mobile game, Karen learned guitar from Kasumi. It seems that in the current timeline, the two groups have not yet met.

"Well, it's okay." Shizi said, "Hualian, we are planning to hold a live show in a few days. If you have time, come and have a look."

Kita looked at her with some confusion. How come she didn't know that the band was going to have a live show? Although it was quite reasonable to have a live show at this time after such a long time...

Shizi winked at her. She understood but said nothing.

"Speaking of live..." Shizi took out a roll of manuscript paper in a rather mysterious tone, "I started writing a new song these past two days. The title has been decided."

"Hmm? What is it?" Kita asked curiously.

Shizi's lips moved, but his eyes vaguely glanced at Hualian's reaction: "Starlight."

Chapter 3: Shizi's Plan

Hua Lian let go of the cake. When the cake fell on the table, she had already propped herself up on the table: "Starlight?!"

Her surprised expression made Shizi very satisfied.

Shizi smiled secretly: "Yes, any questions?"

Hua Lian was stunned for a moment, then slowly sat down: "I just heard a familiar word... Sorry, it's okay."

Life went on. Hua Lian still hadn't remembered anything, but she had gotten to know the others. She became an excellent listener when the others were practicing; she would recite some classic plays to the others, and even slightly adapted some of the plots to make them fresh for those who had read the original works; while the airship hadn't taken off yet, she also helped to give some suggestions on the structure of the airship, although not much.

However, she said that her ability was related to time, but she had never used it and could not use it.

The cherubim said, completely corroded by filth, shining in dust, that's what it will be like.

"The new song is finished." Three days later, Shizi sat in his own room which had been restored to its original state, took out a stack of manuscript paper and handed it to the band members sitting around him.

Several people took a copy and looked at it carefully. Liang looked at the music score first, and the others looked at the lyrics first.

"The style of the lyrics this time is very different from before." Yili noticed that Shizi's choice of words this time seemed elegant and gorgeous, "like a drama."

"The song also has a jazzy feel to it," Liang said.

"That's exactly what I was saying." Shizi coughed fakely, causing the others to look up. "I wrote this song for a purpose."

"Is it related to Karen?" Liang asked. She remembered that the plots of "Girls' Opera" that Shizi had previously spoiled were basically centered around the drama "Starlight".

Shizi nodded with satisfaction. There was one good thing about confessing his identity as a time traveler in advance - he didn't have to find another reason to explain at a time like this.

In her previous life, "Starlight" was a fictional play. In this life, she found the play and read it through several times. Although she couldn't memorize all the lines like Hua Lian, she had no problem adapting some of the words into the lyrics.

"For Hualian, the most important things are Xiaoguang and Starlight." Shizi explained in detail, "The two are strongly related. Regardless of how she died, the loss of Shining is probably related to these two things."

"So, you want to play this song at the live show and see if it can remind her of it?" Kita said.

Shizi nodded.

"Does it have to be so complicated? Just follow what you're good at," Hong Xia flipped through the lyrics and lowered her voice a little, "'Now, I am Kagura Hikari', isn't that enough?"

Being imitated, Shizi blushed a little: "Well, let's not talk about whether it will work or not. My acting skills that are purely based on talent are definitely not good enough in front of a professional like Hua Lian. It's not good to show off my skills in front of an expert."

"Besides," she said seriously, "as a band girl, I have to solve the problem using band girl methods, right?"

Hearing this, everyone smiled a little.

Hong Xia clenched her fists: "Okay! Then let's make a program!"

In a blink of an eye, three days passed and the live show arrived. However, it had already been given a name: "Return to Paradise - The End of the Band, Roselia, and RAS Joint Live Show".

After the band decided to hold a live, the other two groups also joined in. As a result, this live not only became a means for Shizi to help Hualian recover his memory, but also became a commemorative live of the previous journey, and the first live of RAS.

"I once imagined that RAS's first live should be held in a high-end livehouse that can accommodate at least 1000 people, such as dub..." CHU? looked at the others who were decorating the stage and did not hide his regret, "rather than playing house here."

Before Pareo next to her could respond, Yukina on the other side spoke up: "Yes, but this is the only way we can play house now."

"Be more balanced, CHU?. The band has never performed live in real life since it ended." Shizi was behind him, rubbing CHU?'s head as if it was a habit.

CHU? He immediately got angry: "What are you doing!"

Shizi had already disappeared. CHU? Turning around, he saw Youxina seemed to be hesitant to speak.

“Say.” She covered her head and looked into Yukina’s eyes.

"Can I rub it?" Youxi had a calm face, as if he was just saying "Can you please let me?"

CHU? His expression was distorted: "Pardon?"

When Shizi was sneaking off to finish the band's show, he saw MASKING on the road.

"Is your arm healed?" She looked at Masking's right hand. A few days ago, there was no sign of injury there. She had started playing drums since the day before yesterday.

"Ah." MASKING shook his arm and showed it to Shizi, "It's completely healed. If there's anything that's not healed, it's the drumming skills that have been neglected these days."

"But I will try my best." She seemed full of expectations.

Shizi smiled, nodded, and left.

Everyone else was still gathered in the studio.

As soon as she entered the door, a ball of pink hair rolled to her side: "No no no no no no no... Dun."

She got up and held Shizi's hand with tears in her eyes: "We have an audience this time... What should I do? I can't do it..."

Shizi was stunned for two seconds before she understood what she meant: Hualian and Yili were not very familiar with each other, and she was the first real audience member. She couldn't stand having such an audience watching her from the audience.

The other three looked at her, hoping that she would come up with a solution. Shizi smiled gently.

Today's dinner was eaten particularly early and was not very rich. Everyone only ate until they were three-quarters full, leaving room for the celebration banquet afterwards while ensuring physical strength.

According to the order of the draw, Roselia first, then RAS, and finally the closing band. They have plenty of time, so there is no limit on the time allocated to each band, just sing to your heart's content.

"Is RAS's reserve of songs okay?" Shizi asked. Roselia aside, the band is no longer the new band that would rush to release new songs just to update its playlist after gradually growing. But RAS was formed not long ago, and half of their time is spent on things other than music. Is there really no problem with the number of original songs?

"If you're willing to pay for the copyright, we can let you cover the band's songs. I'll write you an IOU and pay you back when we get back to reality..." Liang came up to me at some point and stuffed a well-written contract with who knows how many typos there were into CHU's hand.

CHU? didn't even look at it, crumpled it up, threw it into the trash can. "Don't worry." CHU? replied, "RAS will not lose to any other band in terms of the number or quality of songs."

"Oh? Then I'm looking forward to it." Shizi nodded and turned to Hualian.

What will RAS's new songs be like? Shizi wondered. The only song they showed me before was "RIOT", so the next ones must be new songs. I wonder if they are the ones I know, or different songs due to the change of world line?

Hua Lian stood in the audience, waiting for the live show to start. She had never been to a livehouse before, so she didn't know where the band would usually perform. But according to her impression of the stage, the stage in this small bar was indeed a bit small.

However, there is an inexplicable rock atmosphere.

She sees Shizi coming towards her.

"I'm really looking forward to it." She smiled at him. Over the past few days, she has gotten a good idea of the styles of the three bands. What's the difference between a formal live performance and practice?

The members of Roselia have already stepped onto the stage.

Chapter 4: Double R vs.

Shizi snapped his fingers, and the whole bar fell into darkness, leaving only a few lights to provide the most basic lighting, and the screen behind the stage emitted a faint fluorescent light. This was arranged in advance. The screen was made of Shizi's jade slips, and Cherubim was invited to be a consultant for the image design. Although the latter did not accept modern music, he was very enthusiastic about this job.

All the members of Roselia wore brand new costumes, with only minor differences in accessories: purple-black roses on their heads, decorated with black swan feathers; silver-white shawls with amethysts in the middle; black capes on their backs, and purple tops and long skirts, slightly lighter than the crystals, to distinguish them. Black boots made a dull sound when they stepped on the velvet floor.

The grandeur created by the stage and the costumes alone made Hua Lian quickly get into the mood.

"Fighting in the Dark Night"

Without any nonsense, the music started, and Hua Lian saw the church's colored glass, the rosy glare, the dancing lights and shadows. The wind of the past was blowing around her. She was in the world of music.

"SHOUT!"

The drum beats build the foundation, the bass creates the skeleton, Hua Lian trembles in the psychedelic world, seeing the guitars and keyboards filling the world with flesh and blood, and the singing gives the world soul.

I don’t know when, it was already the second song.

She didn't know when she was submerged in the rain.

The church's stone steps, moss, and broken window frames were all submerged in the sudden rainstorm. The melody of the guitar poured down from the sky.

"Determination Symphony".

Then, cross this angry rain and welcome the new fire.

《FIRE BIRD》.

"Neo-Aspect".