Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

"So what does this have to do with you?"

"But if things aren't explained clearly, won't Xiao Deng remain stuck in the same place forever?"

"I am really convinced..."

Li Xi felt a headache. What she feared really came true. Su Shi's prediction was indeed accurate. This pink-haired girl's perseverance in some aspects was a bit too amazing. She didn't know if this perseverance could be used in other useful areas.

"So, how much have you talked about this?"

"No..." It was Takamatsu Deng who answered Chihiro. She looked at the people present with some helplessness.

"You mean everyone's been arguing, right?"

Although she had a headache, Qianxun felt that everything was under her control, including Xiaoxiang.

As long as her disguise is not discovered by anyone during the whole process, then when the happy ending comes, she can retire successfully and no one will be hurt.

Su Shi, oh Su Shi, just thank me. Where else can you find such a person who knows everything?

"Well, since we're all sitting together, and Lixi has called me over, why don't we just start from the beginning and explain things clearly."

As soon as Chihiro Tsuzuki opened her mouth, the other people present immediately stopped interrupting, which gave Chihiro great confidence.

"Xiao Deng has always felt bad about it. Is it because of that night?"

Speaking of this, Gao Songdeng's eyes dimmed again, but before Deng's biological father Li Xi could speak, Chihiro spoke first:

"Regarding what happened that day, ultimately, only one person was at fault, and that was Xiaoxiang."

"Eh?"

The one who made the surprised sound was not Deng, but Li Xi who was interrupted.

She looked at Su Shi, who once only had eyes for Xiangzi, with some surprise, and marveled at the signs of Su Shi's previous changes, which seemed to be no joke.

This person... seemed to be the first among them to see everything clearly.

"Of course, Xiaoxiang probably didn't consider at the time that her departure would trigger a chain reaction. She even thought that without her, we would find someone else to form a band, and nothing would change much at all.

But that’s not the case.”

"But I didn't sing well at the live performance. Xiaoxiang was disappointed in me, so she didn't come..."

Before Deng could finish, Chihiro stopped her from saying the next sentence, “Xiao Deng sings very well, I have always believed in this.

If it's because of the bad comment on the message board, then I can only say that there are all kinds of idiots when there are too many people. Some people just want to find some sense of superiority and existence. They only want to get a ridiculous sense of accomplishment by belittling others.

Little did he know that in the eyes of most people, he was the joke."

With a bang, Li Xi, who heard this, could no longer contain his excitement and slammed the table.

"That's right! This kind of person is just looking for trouble. He doesn't even know what kind of person he is, but he jumps to conclusions and comments on other people's affairs, making the person involved sad. But she just pats her butt and continues doing her thing... Ugh."

"Say, why don't you say anything?"

Aiyin looked at the suddenly silent Li Xi with a somewhat amused look, as if she had found some ground for it. "I remember someone did something similar here a few days ago, right?"

"...I've already apologized, why are you holding a grudge?"

"Humph, if Su Shi-san wasn't here, I would have bitten you to death."

"Come on, if I don't bite you're a dog!"

"What if I bite it?"

"Then you are even more so, aren't you?"

"……ha?!"

Chapter 43: Plagiarism: The guitar scoundrel is pretending to be cool (still 7)

"Why are you back? Didn't you go to carry out your evil plan?"

At lunchtime, Nagasaki Suyo, who was "under house arrest" by someone, was busy in the kitchen in her pajamas. When she heard the door open, her first reaction was that her mother had come home.

But when he saw that the person who came in was his "stand-in", a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

Then he put on a very unhappy expression, watching the other person change his shoes and come in, and his behavior of snatching food without treating himself as an outsider.

"No, I didn't make yours! This is my lunch."

"Who are you kidding? Didn't you say you're usually too lazy to cook when you're home alone?"

"I……"

Yes, normally she wouldn't cook for herself even if she was at home on weekends, but lately she seems to be spending more and more time in the kitchen.

"How dare you say that? These are things you, as a 'babysitter', should be doing, right?"

"Next time I come, Su Shi, please don't be so distant with me. After all, we are all in the same boat."

"..." Su Shi rolled her eyes, then pulled a chair and sat next to Qianxun. "So why did you come back at noon? Didn't you finish the discussion?"

"We've finished the discussion. It went very smoothly."

"You mean... the band is already formed like this? Five people?"

"Ah, not yet." Tsuzuki Chihiro shook her head. "Runa is still waiting and watching, but she seems very interested in us. Oh, by the way...how did you know she would be interested in our band? Did you know my sister before?"

"I don't know... Oh, don't worry about these!"

"Yes, yes, why are you in such a hurry?"

"So the four of you have reached a consensus? So quickly? And what about Lixi? Didn't she find fault? Like, say bad things about Xiaoxiang or something like that?"

“…She didn’t say a word.”

Because the person who spoke ill of Xiaoxiang was Chihiro Tsuzuki herself, and her purpose was to make Riki think that she was an unwavering supporter of the lamp.

"Is that so?" Su Shi was a little surprised. She didn't expect that this time would be so smooth.

If she had known that everyone would suddenly become so harmonious, she would have gone up on her own.

"But I have to go over there this afternoon. I've booked a recording studio at 3 o'clock. Everyone is going to use that Kasuga Shadow to practice first."

"Haruhi Kage?!"

"No, did you step on the accelerator? You're yelling so loudly!"

Chihiro Tsuzuki was so frightened that her chopsticks flew out. She bent down to pick up the chopsticks and looked at Su Shi who suddenly shouted speechlessly, with an unhappy look on her face.

"You must... not play the Kasuga Shadow."

Su Shi's expression was very serious, even a little cold, which made Tsuzuki Chihiro feel that the matter seemed really serious.

"why?"

"This is a song written by Xiaoxiang. Anyway... we can't use this song."

Su Shi's expression was painful because she recalled the unbearable past again. The scene in her memory was still imprinted in her mind. In the past few nights, she often saw the back of the blue-haired girl with twin ponytails, and the tears floating in the air after she ran away.

The tears accumulated drop by drop, and finally formed a river, flowing endlessly and hitting her cheeks directly.

...Of course, after waking up, Su Shi realized that it was an illusion caused by the damn Chihiro Tsuzuki squeezing water on her face with a wet towel when she was lying in bed that morning and refused to get up.

But no matter what, Kasuga Shadow is an untouchable forbidden spell. Even if the person in front of her is the highly professional Tsuzuki Chihiro, she cannot allow such a crumbling existence to still appear in the daily practice of the new band.

But...it seems like they just pulled out this song for practice because they didn't have any other songs...

Wait, new song?!

"Cough cough."

"What's wrong? You look guilty. Did you steal something?"

"Who are you slandering?" Su Shi slammed the table to show her family status. "What I mean is, if you need songs, I can write them."

"Can you compose music?"

Seeing Chihiro Tsuzuki's suspicious look, Nagasaki Suyo felt very guilty. After all, her plan... was actually to move the song created by Li Xi and Xiao Deng over.

It seems that her behavior is indeed no different from "stealing", even though this song has not been released yet.

And it seems that now is the only chance to copy. In a while, the first edition of Xiaodeng's lyrics and Lixi's DEMO will be released.

As long as we find a song first, we can directly make Kasuga Ying exit the stage of history, and even urge Li Xi to write a second song. In this way, even if it is really performed LIVE, there will be no day when the evil cat will become a war criminal!

Genius, she is simply a genius at doing bad things. She even thought of such a shameless thing as plagiarizing Zhou Mulixi's work.

"I... can't compose music, but I can sing it a cappella. I have the melody and lyrics memorized in my head."

"Original?"

"Um……"

"Why do you feel so guilty?" Tsuzuki Chihiro looked suspicious. "You didn't really plagiarize someone else's work, did you?"

"I'm warning you! Don't question your financial sponsor!"

Su Shi was a little exasperated, and the sound of her voice had broken halfway, but after repeatedly adjusting her mood, she seemed to quickly regain the composure that a mastermind behind the scenes should have.

"Let me put it this way. Although I haven't tried composing or arranging music, I've always felt that... I should be a genius in this area."

"Oh?"

"But I need to find someone who can convert the music in my head into sheet music in a few hours. You... forget it, you definitely don't understand."

"How can you be so sure that I don't understand?" Tsuzuki Chihiro looked at Su Shi, who looked embarrassed after her pretense seemed to have failed, with a bit of amusement. "I'm not talented, but I'm also an original musician. It's just that the songs I wrote...

No one else wants it.”

"After all this talk, you are also a..."

"Because they said that this level of difficulty is not something humans can master, although I feel... as if it's not difficult at all."

"No, you're too good at pretending, aren't you? I'm really impressed by you..."

Just when Su Shi was about to say something, the girl in front of him suddenly stood up and walked towards the bedroom, and then not long after, she came back with a guitar.

Then, I saw Chihiro Tsuzuki in front of me take a deep breath, and then with a miraculous technique and a momentum that could be described as dizzying like a flood, she played a guitar song that was full of nothing but technique.

"Tsuzuki Etude - Chapter 1."

"..."

Looking at the divorced rich lady who was standing in front of her like a fool, Chihiro Tsuzuki waved her palm in front of her, and finally turned her palm into a finger with a somewhat teasing look and pointed it at Su Shi's head.

"No, no, with your level...why would you become a liar?!

Shouldn't you have been snatched up by various bands as a hot commodity long ago?"

"No, can't you use some nicer words?"

"So why?"

“Because I never care about anyone when I play.”

"But that's not the case..."

Tsuzuki Chihiro interrupted Su Shi and sighed in a helpless tone: "When I say anyone, it includes not only my teammates and backstage staff, but also all the audiences below the stage.

I even did it by myself, disrupting the rhythm of the whole group, and playing to my heart's content until the audience frowned and left. It was not until someone unplugged my speakers that I realized I was actually performing. "

"Rogue...you're just a guitar rogue."

"So you just said you had an original piece of music, didn't you? Can you sing it for me now?"

"...I suddenly feel that you should step back from the stage. Or, just play bass like me and inherit my legacy."

"???"

Chapter 44: Tsuzuki's Mother, Sushi Hungry (1/2)

"Although you silently lowered your shoulders in secret"

“But the blue sky is particularly dazzling.”

"..."

“You’ve really tried hard enough.”

“Even if there are bumps along the way”

“You stood up again.”