Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

"..."

In the room, Su Shi was a little embarrassed at first. After all, singing in front of such a real musical genius always felt embarrassing.

But she thought about it and realized that the song was written by Li Xi, so even if it was embarrassing, it had nothing to do with her.

Thinking of this, Su Shi seemed to have found some spiritual sustenance. Of course, as she sang later, she really began to immerse herself in the song, and slowly felt emotions that she had never experienced before.

This song could be considered the first song of the five members of their new band. At that time, she actually didn't like this song because it was too noisy and lacked the gentleness of Kasuga Ying.

The gentleness of Kasugai seems to come from the sound of the piano. That ethereal tone contains a kind of companionship and support, dragging everyone to go higher and farther.

Bitian Banzo's rhythm is relatively fast, which is different from Kasuga Ying's style. Moreover, there are many problems when playing, and her mind is not on the music itself at all.

Even when she was practicing, she was always thinking about other things, and Li Xi accused her of not playing the bass as hard as before.

Indeed, at that time, she didn't care at all whether the song was accompanied by a clear sky or a cloudy sky. It was only after she knew that everything was irreversible that she read the lyrics of the song for the first time with a "review" mentality.

After returning to the time point more than a month ago, Su Shi this time seemed to understand the soul of the song, which was the promise of "starting over again."

But what about Bitian, who belongs to Crychic? Why should those who start over have to abandon Xiaoxiang, the most important person?

After all, a substitute is just a substitute. Even if the lyrics are good and the music is energetic, for Nagasaki Suyo, it always feels like it is missing that touch of gentleness that has disappeared.

Piano, she would not accept music without piano.

"I feel like Su Shi also has a very gentle side."

"……Eh?"

"I'm talking about this song. The lyrics are very gentle."

Su Shi was still a little unresponsive. After all, she had never associated this song with herself from the beginning to the end. And when Tsuzuki Chihiro spoke to her in such a tone for the first time, she was more surprised than guilty.

"What's the name of the song?"

"Bi Tian Ban Zou." Su Shi said the name indifferently, "Can you compose a song? Including the scores for other parts?"

"Who do you think you're talking to, you fool who calls himself a genius."

"I... never mind. I won't compare myself to a music scoundrel like you. Your problems are more prominent than your strengths anyway."

Chihiro Tsuzuki didn't seem to care about Su Shi's sarcasm. She just smiled casually, picked up Su Shi's laptop and started downloading software to edit the music score.

And Su Shi did not continue to pursue, but just quietly squeezed on the same chair with Chihiro, hoping to take the opportunity to learn something.

Although she understood music theory and knew how to read music scores, she felt that it would take her some time to figure out how to convert a cappella song into music score.

But there is obviously no time now.

"Alright, this should be enough. I don't think I'll need to practice demos or anything like that, and I don't think there's any need for an arrangement right now. Now... are you satisfied, Sponsor?"

"Ah."

Su Shi nodded, then stood up somewhat evasively, and patted the place on his clothes where he had just touched Qianxun.

"Um..." Perhaps feeling that he had once again met a completely different Chihiro, Su Shi couldn't help but ask one more question, "You said before that you formed a band in the UK, right?"

"Well, what happened?"

"After the band broke up, did you ever consider getting back together?"

Hearing this, Tsuzuki Chihiro sneered, "Who would be willing to form a band with a lunatic like me who doesn't care about other people's feelings?"

"But I feel like when you were learning bass with me these days, you didn't seem to be as immersed in it as when you were playing guitar."

"Bass?"

"Try and see if you dare to mock Bess."

“Ahem…” As if she had predicted it, Chihiro Tsuzuki coughed twice awkwardly, “I don’t know, maybe I gave up?

I used to be very arrogant and thought that the stage should revolve around people like me. Maybe this is the main reason why I only think about myself and not others when playing guitar.

But now I don’t care anymore, even if I see someone playing guitar in front of me, I have no interest at all.”

"why?"

“Because they can’t play as well as I can.”

“…but a lot of them have friends in bands, and you’re all alone.”

"You too."

"F*ck..." Su Shi, who was about to swear, quickly covered her mouth and maintained her image as an elegant and beautiful girl. "I'm different from you. Crychic's disbandment was just an accident. Originally, we might not have disbanded at all. We might have continued to have fun like this."

"Really? I don't think so."

"...What do you mean?" Nagasaki Suyo's face suddenly turned cold. Questioning the level of unity of crychic before Xiaoxiang left was tantamount to questioning the belief she had always pursued.

"Nothing, just think of it as me being unable to stand up to others because I failed myself."

Chihiro Tsuzuki knew that if she continued talking, it would only cause an argument, so she wisely chose to keep quiet.

"But your sister really looks like you."

"..." Tsuzuki Chihiro was too lazy to complain about why the girl in front of her seemed to know all these people very well. "Tell me, how is she similar?"

"Just like you, all you think about is playing guitar, and you don't care about other people's lives..."

"No, you said I can do it, but can you please stop talking nonsense about my Le Nai? Why doesn't she care about other people's lives? Who died?"

"I'm going to die! I'm going to die, okay?"

Nagasaki Suyo finally couldn't bear it anymore, and she punched Tsuzuki Chihiro in the waist with her fist, then turned and left.

But not long after, she came back.

"This is my room, get out!"

"...Why are you so fierce? It's really menopause."

"What do you say?"

"Nothing, your dog-headed military advisor is about to leave. Don't worry, I'm here to make sure we catch him!"

"……etc."

Before leaving, Su Shi thought of something and stopped Chihiro who was about to go out.

She then took out a stack of bills from her wallet, counted out a total of 35000 yen and handed it to Chihiro Tsuzuki.

"It seems like a lot? I just signed the contract with you on Wednesday, right?"

"But our encounter was on Monday."

"Okay, this is something you insisted on giving me. Don't ask me to take it back later."

"I know, I know." Nagasaki Suye was speechless, and then while pushing the girl out, she asked, "What time will you be back for dinner? I'll prepare it for you in advance."

"Let's talk about it later. I'll call you when the time comes and I'll buy the food. You just wait and eat."

"Okay, but don't stand me up and leave me waiting for you hungry."

"Don't worry, I promise to be back before 7: pm to cook for us, Su Shi."

"...Don't be so cheesy."

Looking at Chihiro who waved goodbye with her face against hers, a faint smile appeared on Nagasaki Suyo's lips.

She seemed to...really like this new life.

It's really different to have someone else at home, and Chihiro Tsuzuki is sometimes so reliable that she even feels like she has mistakenly thought the other person is her mother.

"No, what the hell is mom, Nagasaki Suyo you are crazy!"

Chapter 45 Li Xi: Su Shi can actually write songs? (2/2)

Sunday, May 5, 3:2 p.m.

In a recording studio at a live house called "RiNG", with the arrival of Chihiro Tsuzuki, all four members of the new band have arrived.

However, judging from the atmosphere at the scene, it seemed that Aine and Riki still hadn't let go of the "hatred" from that day, and the two sides were still incompatible.

"Su Shi, you're here too, shall we get started?"

"and many more."

Chihiro Tsuzuki did not forget the request that her sponsor had repeatedly asked her to do. Moreover, as the "canary" kept by her sponsor, she had no reason to refuse such a small request.

"Haruhi Kage should stop practicing and try another song."

"Why?" Li Xi frowned and looked at the girl in front of him with a complicated expression, "Could it be that you..."

“Because there is no copyright.”

Chihiro Tsuzuki naturally answered Riki's question with the explanation she and Su Shi had discussed together, and she had to admire him. Although her little money sponsor sometimes looked silly, his understanding of these old friends was somewhat terrifying.

He actually predicted that Li Xi would have some questions.

"copyright?"

“Although we are only using it as an etude, no matter how well we practice this kind of etude, we can’t possibly perform it on stage, right?

Anyway, Xiaoxiang is the composer of this song. Now that everything is over, we shouldn't make things too complicated."

"Eh?"

Li Xi was a little surprised. She thought Su Shi would use various reasons to explain, but she didn't expect that the final explanation... would be so serious.

Besides, she really couldn't refute it.

"But what else can we use if not this one? We don't have any new songs of our own, so wouldn't using songs from other bands also have the same problem you mentioned?"

“Who said there are no new songs?”

Chihiro Tsuzuki smiled. Although the song in her hand was not written by herself but hummed by the one at home, her current identity is Nagasaki Suyo, so saying this is not considered as stealing credit.

Under the puzzled gazes of the whole room, Chihiro Tsuzuki took out several sheets of printed paper from her bass bag.

On the paper was naturally the musical notation that she and Su Shi had just spent half an hour to prepare.

In order to let everyone see it, she specially printed four copies.

"This is……"

Shiina Riki's eyes looked a little surprised, but she still took the music score doubtfully, and the other two also got their copies.

If Li Xi still thought that "Su Shi" was talking nonsense just now, she was really stunned now.

For her, who has taught herself composition and arrangement, although her abilities are still lacking and far from Xiangzi's level, she still has the basic ability to convert the music score in her hand into melody in her mind.

After reading the entire score, her evaluation was... it was perfect.

Ah no, it should be said that it was exactly what she expected from the first song of the new band. It was definitely impossible to say that this song could surpass all the songs she had heard, but... she just liked it very much.

It was as if it was tailor-made according to her preferences, and the lyrics of this song... completely hit all the points in Li Xi's character.

"Did you write this? When?"

"I wrote this casually at noon."

"...Will you die if you don't pretend?"

Shiina Riki rolled his eyes, not believing the big words just spoken by Su Shi, who was not good at learning but suddenly learned to pretend to be cool.

Obviously, such a song could not be written overnight, let alone in just a few hours, or within a few hours after they decided to form a band.

Nagasaki Suyo seemed to have wanted to start a new band for a long time, but it was not the kind of reunion she had imagined, but rather... a rebirth.

While all of them were still wandering around, Su Shi seemed to have really reached a new intersection, and the girl was looking back at the intersection, watching her former friends reaching out to them.

Li Xi could only think so, and there were two reasons supporting her idea.

The first is that this song has no keyboard, and she doesn’t know how to insert the keyboard part into the current version.

Second, of course, is the lyrics.

"Su Shi..."

"How is it, Xiao Deng?" Chihiro Tsuzuki looked at Xiao Deng, who had been concentrating on looking at the printed paper in her hand since the beginning, with a bright gaze as if she had been captivated by the contents on it, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

“I like it very much. It feels like I am speaking my heart.”

If Takamatsu Deng was still a little dazed until just now and had not yet come to her senses from the fact that the band was suddenly formed, then now when she saw these lyrics that seemed to be a replica of what she was thinking one by one, the girl suddenly felt something special in her heart.

Her reaction made Li Xi believe that the "Su Shi" in front of him had the same purpose as himself and chose to pull her and Deng back.