You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

"No, absolutely not! That Monopoly card must be a special edition that she has tampered with!"

Toyokawa Sho had a lingering fear on his face, and the memory of being tortured by Yamada Ryo's special version of Monopoly in the previous timeline seemed to be vivid in his mind.

"It must have a mix of Truth or Dare, Fate Chance Cards, and a bunch of other extra sections. The game mode is clearly Monopoly, but they insist on using a lot of literary flair to dissect life. Not only do they give you an incredibly accurate character card at the start, but they even have super-cool golden cards like the Wedding and Divorce cards. They're just trying to bring misery to everyone who plays this game...!"

"Special edition...?"

It was the first time that Li Xi heard of Monopoly, an easy-to-understand social game, and someone could actually DIY a special version of it.

"Li Xi, remember, if you want to play games with Senior Liang in the future, you must either bring Hai Ling or me with you. You must never go play games with Senior Liang alone, especially if she plays the game by herself. Otherwise, she will become unlucky."

"Ah... OK... I understand."

Looking at Toyokawa Sho's serious look, Li Xi nodded awkwardly. Then she discovered her blind spot and couldn't help asking, "Wait, Sho, do you still know Hai Ling?"

"Of course I know him."

Toyokawa Sho nodded, "But I didn't meet her until I was in high school. We didn't know each other at that time."

"That's it..."

Li Xi nodded somewhat blankly, then lowered his eyes, his expression full of worry again.

Toyokawa Sho stretched out his knife and tapped Li Xi's head lightly with almost no force.

The effect of this operation is very good.

Li Xi's eyes suddenly became much clearer.

"Silly boy, don't overthink it. If there's anything you want to know, just ask me directly. I won't hide anything from you."

"I didn't think too much about it. I just felt that since you, Xiang, also knew Hai Ling, then if Su Shi really didn't want to come back..."

Li Xi paused and said, "Hai Ling is a good candidate."

"If that's the case, why don't we just choose Liang-senpai?"

Toyokawa Sho asked curiously.

"Because that guy's skills are definitely not as good as Hai Ling's."

Li Xi commented simply.

She has always been like this.

He has extremely firm confidence in people he approves of.

In fact, Hailing's skills are indeed not inferior to Yamada Ryo. When Toyokawa Sho met Hailing, the other party's bass skills were almost at the professional level, while Senior Ryo was almost half a step away from being a professional.

One is the quasi-professional perfection.

One is at the half-step professional level.

It is clear at a glance who is strong and who is weak.

However, judging from the current timeline, Hai Ling still has nearly half a year to become her complete form.

So maybe now he and Senior Liang are both at the half-step professional level, so it’s hard to say who is stronger.

Just compared to the two of them.

Crychic has a real original bassist.

Although technically I am definitely not as good as the two of them.

But if Crychic can really be reorganized, Nagasaki Motoyo will still be the first choice.

Facing Li Xi's gaze that was prepared for the worst, Fengchuan Xiang showed a relieved expression.

"Whether it's Liang-senpai or Hailing, they are both extremely good bassists, but ours is not bad either."

"But that guy treated you—"

"Don't worry, I didn't take her words to heart. From her perspective, she was indeed more worried about Xiangzi, but the way she expressed it was a bit extreme."

Toyokawa Sho set the tone for Sushi's situation. "From what I know about her, she might come and apologize tomorrow. Regardless of whether we can rebuild Crychic in the future, at least our relationship won't be so strained anymore."

"Well, since you said so, Xiang..."

Li Xi sighed, and then said in a voice as cold as broken glue.

"But if she really comes looking for me, I won't leave again. I will stand aside and stare at her intently. If she dares to say anything about being a liar or a fake, I will never, ever forgive her again."

"Are you speaking up for me?"

Toyokawa Sho teased.

"I just saw that she was uncomfortable!"

The ice and snow just now disappeared in an instant, replaced by the gentle Lixi who appeared more and more frequently in the past few days.

"Okay, let's put aside the heavy things for now,"

Toyokawa Sho smiled and turned the page on the matter. "I won't participate in the games in the cafe. I'll play again when I have the chance."

"Well, then I won't play anymore."

Li Xi nodded and said, "I watched it for a long time but didn't find it interesting."

This is a lie.

If Toyokawa Sho says he wants to play.

Then someone will quickly switch to the second wording and say that she has always found these things interesting.

"So, do you want to come to the studio with me?"

Toyokawa Sho invited.

"Mu will definitely be scolded by her aunt when she goes back this time. I don't want her to be upset all night, so I want to record a song and send it to her to comfort her."

"The day before yesterday, when we were pushing Jueying... ahem, pushing the bicycle that Senior Tugu lent us, didn't he say he wanted to play another song with you? Coincidentally, there are some words in this song that I want to say to you, Lixi."

"Want to play together?"

There was hardly a second of hesitation.

Li Xi quickly agreed.

"want!"

62

Chapter 62: Give me back the ring, it’s so expensive.

"Eh? Can you use the rehearsal room right now? Sure, but it closes in over an hour. Is that okay for you?"

Looking at Toyokawa Sho and Shiina Tatsuki walking up to her, the store manager Shinji Rinrinko raised her head.

She originally wanted to ask these two people to come and help her clean up the garbage, but since they said they wanted to practice, then let them go and practice. There was no rush anyway.

Than helping with work.

She wanted to see this young couple, who had just recently declared their lifelong love and even went shopping together, staying alone in the same room, taking this opportunity to quickly heat up their relationship.

One is a tragic protagonist who is extremely talented and brilliant, but is firmly bound by worldly poverty.

One is a beautiful girl who is prudent and mediocre, cold and warm-hearted, and is unknowingly attracted to the other person, but gradually develops an inferiority complex due to the other person's dazzling talent.

The ambiguous sense of distance, the selfless devotion, the hand that wants to touch but dares not, and the restraint and concession, fulfillment and sacrifice born from the ignorant love...

croak.

How embarrassing, how complicated.

But it is so worth the price of admission.

I have eyes just for seeing this!

"No problem, the music has just been written, an hour is plenty of time to practice."

Toyokawa Sho had no idea what was going on in Rinrinko's mind, so he just smiled and said, "After we finish practicing, we'll help you clean up the cafe, Shinji-san."

"No, no, just practice your own stuff. I'll ask everyone to help clean up the cafe later."

Rinrinko shook her head, then asked curiously, "But, new music, Toyokawa-san, have you written a new song?"

"New song?"

A senior high school student retrieved the keyword.

Her ears moved slightly. She was just in the crowd watching YGO's classic scene of the meteorite clearing the field. Hope's figure joined the battlefield in the blink of an eye and appeared between Shiina Tatsuki and Toyokawa Sho.

"Where are the new songs? Let me see the sheet music."

"Is Liang-senpai going to perform too?"

Toyokawa Sho turned his head and looked at the girl who was leaning over to him like a domestic cat, with her hair hanging down and her eyes lowered on the music score. Her delicate features could be clearly seen.

"Um……"

Yamada Ryo touched his soft cheek, didn't answer, and continued to look at the music score.

She has also studied music theory and arrangement privately, so she pays special attention to the music score.

This is not only a learning process that allows you to accumulate experience, but sometimes you can even roughly see the other person's personality and spiritual world from these jumping and woven musical notes.

She had thought that this seemingly newly written score would have many omissions, and she had even prepared to have a good discussion with her lovely junior to improve her psychological expectations for the work.

But when my eyes fell on the musical notes floating on the paper, I only saw two words: genius.

At first glance, there was no flaw at all. It was as complete as a piece of tempered steel that had been washed and tempered over and over again, and was taken out of a red furnace burning with tongs.

Rather than saying that this is a piece of music written casually, it is more like a final masterpiece that was copied one-to-one by visiting the monuments in the memory palace.

The level of completion is simply daunting...

As expected of the junior fellow student who is known as the Demon King.

Such power.

I bow down in admiration.

"I'm coming,"

Yamada Ryo opened his mouth, then revealed a sly smile, "Junior, I have a proposal."

"What proposal?"

Toyokawa Sho asked.

"Before you become famous, please write me your autograph starting tomorrow. I'll prepare paper and pen. Just write about a hundred a day."

"Xiang is not your money-making machine,"

Li Xi, who was folding his arms next to him, said coldly, "If you want to write, write it yourself."

"Hmm... imitate the handwriting?"

Yamada Ryo pondered the possibility carefully. "No, I'm not very good at calligraphy."

"……Are you stupid?"

Li Xi complained.

Toyokawa Sho looked at the two girls beside him who were unable to communicate with each other on the radio but were surprisingly able to have a conversation. He retracted his gaze and turned to talk to Rinrinko.

"Well, Shinji-nee, Riki, Ryo-senpai and I will go up first."

When Rinrinko heard that Toyokawa Sho wanted three people to go up together, a hint of disappointment flashed across her eyes. If Yamada Ryoka came in, it would not be a situation where the two of them were alone.

With Toyokawa's handsome face, tall stature, and the ability to play guitar and compose music, he also sings beautifully, has no stage fright, and even has a pretty good personality—he's a super-charged template...

There is no shortage of girls who like him.

Ugh.

Shiina-san, you must work harder, Shiina-san.

If you don't take action now to lock in the final outcome, others will get there first.

Rinrinko suppressed the urge to encourage Riki, and after finally operating the terminal system on the computer, she waved and smiled.

"Go ahead, room B03 is unlocked for you."

……