Iruma-san wants to win the Akutagawa Prize

In the subsequent content, the lady updated her current situation.

[Cheating]

Such words made Nagasaki Suyo sit up suddenly in bed.

In fact, when such words appear.

The heart of Nagasaki Suyo——

For a moment she seemed to think that she had some serious illness. She could hardly breathe or speak, and her chest seemed to be torn in half.

She thought about it briefly -

What would she think if one day, Hibiki Iruma passed by her holding the hand of Nikka Ijichi?

Ijichi Hongka is a member of the band and a family member, so it doesn’t matter?

Will this happen?

Nagasaki Suyo received an ambiguous answer amidst a slight sense of loss and emotions that she herself could not understand.

What if the target is Chihaya Aine?

Absolutely not.

Nagasaki Suyo seriously denied it in her heart.

So what about Shoko Toyokawa?

Probably at this moment, Nagasaki Suyo felt that her aggressiveness had reached its maximum, and the fire burning in her eyes was like a lion.

She wanted an answer.

An answer about Hibiki Iruma——

So Nagasaki Suyo found a pen and paper.

Wrote a love letter.

No signature.

The handwriting was also deliberately disguised.

Nagasaki Suyo's handwriting is actually very beautiful and generous, but when she wrote, she deliberately imitated the round and cute characters of Ijichi Hongka.

She even used some emoticons that she usually doesn't like to use.

Finally, I wrote this love letter.

Then on the first day of school—

She stuffed it into Hibiki Iruma's shoe cabinet.

The high shoe cabinet actually made Nagasaki Suyo feel a little nostalgic, because before her parents divorced, when she was still Ichinose Suyo, she had spent several extremely nostalgic and happy years in an ordinary elementary school.

After those irreplaceable days ended, her impression of shoe cabinets was the exquisite door cabinets like the ones in Yuezhisen Junior High School.

The shoe cabinet below was a bit tattered, with years leaving marks on the wooden boards, with many scratches and peeling paint.

But it is clean.

After opening the small door, Nagasaki Suyo saw Iruma Hibiki's indoor shoes.

Apparently, Iruma Hibiki didn't come today.

She gently placed the letter in Iruma Hibiki's shoe cabinet, adjusted it slightly, and then closed the small door. Of course, Nagasaki Suyo also checked the name tag on it at the end. It was a bit annoying for Nagasaki Suyo to have her love letter seen by someone else.

then--

Early that morning, Nagasaki Suyo was also late for the opening ceremony of Tsuki no Mori.

Of course, she actually had no idea about Toyokawa Shoko's feat of disrupting the cleaning rhythm of the entire class during the general cleaning, and she missed it.

but--

She did what she wanted to do most at the moment.

I welcome my autumn with anticipation and worry.

35 Pochi-chan is the "guitar vocalist"

The love letter was stuck in Hibiki Iruma's notebook. Ever since Toyokawa Shoko left the love letter all over the place last time, Hibiki Iruma changed his habit.

Loose-leaf pages are very convenient to use, as they don't cause you to encounter painful sealing lines when using even-numbered pages. However, when you are out and about, loose-leaf pages are too easy to lose, so Iruma Hibiki recently changed her notebook.

It was a very old style that he had used when he was a child.

This style is even the kind that most schools give away for free. As far as Iruma Hibiki remembers, he has received several of them as gifts.

In the center of the green cover, there is a real photo of a rhinoceros beetle. In the name column, Iruma Hibiki wrote his own name.

And he put the love letter on the first page of his notebook.

He didn't know who the love letter came from.

But he is particularly sensitive to words and has a feeling about it——

Familiarity.

Such words were probably written by someone he was familiar with. When writing, the other person probably experienced deep entanglement, and finally wrote such a love letter.

It doesn't seem like a confession.

Instead, it seems like a self-destruction.

Can't wait to vent all the emotions in my heart.

Hibiki Iruma actually cared a little about the person who wrote this love letter, although he had no intention of agreeing to it, and he knew that being gentle at this time might cause the other party to misunderstand.

But he still didn't want the person who wrote these words to get hurt.

Therefore, Iruma Hibiki put the letter away carefully and waited for the owner of the letter to appear.

"See you next week."

"Yeah! Bye-bye--"

Friday afternoon, time to go home from school.

Hibiki Iruma packed her schoolbag, then wrote down her part-time job and band activities on the extracurricular activity report for the week. After hastily filling out the other items, she also started packing her schoolbag.

Ijichi Kouka in the front seat moved faster than him, probably because Ijichi Kouka didn't have to worry about the extracurricular activity report.

"The performance is about to begin."

After Iruma Hibiki packed up her things, Ijichi Nichina spoke.

"My drums, Ryo's bass, and Pochi-chan's rhythm guitar."

"Eh?"

Hibiki Iruma heard some concerning words.

"Is Goto-san's position rhythm guitar?"

He asked out loud in confusion.

Speaking of the difference between rhythm guitar and lead guitar - in fact, it is often difficult to make such an objective distinction, but generally speaking, the solo, the most difficult and most attractive part of the music, is often performed by the lead guitar. Therefore, compared to the chord playing of the rhythm guitar, the lead guitarist needs a certain degree of improvisation ability, which is the so-called responsibility. It will be slightly heavier and require more control and freedom when performing.

And Goto Ichiri, playing rhythm guitar?

Maybe Goto Ichiri won't be the lead singer. If Goto Ichiri sings, then Iruma Hibiki will definitely be surprised if he has traveled through time again, and then he will show a relieved expression as if saying, "Oh, my daughter has grown up."

Of course, at the moment, it is obviously not a time travel.

And Ijichi Hongxia was also serious.

"Yes."

Following Ijichi Kouka's affirmation, Iruma Hibiki also received this shocking result.

"I thought Goto-san was going to be the vocalist. So, Ijichi, are you actually still short of two members?"

Iruma Hibiki thought for a moment and then gave the answer.

Maybe it’s not that the lead guitarist can’t be the lead singer, but if so, then the limelight will be stolen by one person no matter the verse, chorus or interlude.

It's completely become a one-man show.

And the guy who can take on this responsibility must be absolutely amazing, at least a guitar master at the level of Goto Ichiri.

Based on Hibiki Iruma's shallow understanding, he felt that this was the case.

Although he is also working hard to become a lead guitarist, if he wants to form a band, he probably only considers himself as someone who can strum chords well.

"If that doesn't work out, I'll be the lead singer."

"Drummer and lead singer?!"

Hibiki Iruma cried out in surprise.

"Things like this do happen, I'll do my best."

Then he received a response from Ijichi Hongka with a smile.

"call--"

Iruma Hibiki sighed. To be honest, he regretted asking such a question. After asking it, his heart, which had been relieved, suddenly died.

"Ijichi, good luck on the performance."

He said this so solemnly at the end.

"Well, I will definitely not let you down, Iruma."

"Besides, I think Pochi is serious. She is absolutely serious. She is definitely serious!"

Ijichi Hongxia repeated it three times.

"When Pochi decided to perform, he stared at me seriously. He was a completely different person. Ah! Speaking of which!"

Ijichi Hongxia moved slightly closer to Iruma Hibiki.

And Iruma Hibiki was a little frightened by this action.

But he quickly stopped retreating and allowed Ichichi Hongxia to get within half a meter.

"Ah! I see!"

Then, in front of Iruma Hibiki, Ijichi Kouka knocked her palm with her fist, and a light bulb seemed to light up in her head.

"Pochi-chan at that time had a look very similar to the look you had when you first approached me to form a band, Iruma."

Ichichi Hongxia smiled brightly with her back to the sunset.

Her shadow fell on Hibiki Iruma, being slightly elongated.

Perhaps at this moment, the longing for the past also extends.

Iruma Hibiki tried hard to recall himself at that time—

Although the memories have faded a lot and some details have long been blurred, Iruma Hibiki can probably imagine what he looked like at that time.

It is definitely a look full of expectation and determination.

That's absolutely true.

Because at that time he——

It's definitely not a dead kid.

"That's great."

Hibiki Iruma tried hard to recall the emotions he felt at that time, and then he came in last in the self-imitation competition.

“Good luck on the show!”

The final encouragement by Iruma Hibiki was a little awkward, probably because he was thinking about the past and imitating himself poorly.

Then Ichichi Hongxia laughed.

"Iruma too, I hope everything goes well with the new band."

"Ah, that would be nice."

With a slight sigh, Iruma Hibiki spoke lightly, and then their laughter echoed in the noisy classroom after class.