Guitar Hero also wants to play Kasuga Shadow!

"Has Yili eaten yet? Deng also ate at our house just now."

"Eat...eat."

"Then Yili should go back to the room quickly. Erli and the others have been waiting for so long."

"okay."

Pochi said as he walked upstairs cautiously, wanting to listen to what was going on in the room before entering.

-

"How about it, pretty impressive, right?"

Erli was holding a guitar that was almost as tall as himself, and he even had to lean the guitar against the ground to play it a little.

"It's awesome."

Gao Songdeng clapped his hands and asked, "Did your sister teach you all this?"

"Ah."

Erli nodded but immediately shook her head, "No, my sister said she would teach me, but she never had the time. This was taught a long time ago. And I learned it from watching my sister play, not from her teaching."

"Hey~ You can learn just by watching, Erli is really amazing."

Come to think of it, I seemed to have thought about learning guitar before. Everyone else had an instrument, but I could only hold a microphone or something.

And...this way, Pochi can teach me.

"By the way, Sister Deng."

Erli took down her guitar and put it on the bed. The guitar was still too heavy for her five-year-old self. "Band, is it really that fun?"

"Eh? Why...why are you asking that suddenly?"

"Because my sister comes home very late after playing in the band, she doesn't have time to teach me how to play guitar. She didn't even come home yesterday. I think she stayed overnight at one of the band members' houses."

“No…no.”

At this moment, Pochi opened the door, scratched the back of his head, and walked in a bit embarrassedly, sitting next to them. "They are other friends, not band members."

Deng was delighted at first when she saw Bochi, but then she immediately became depressed again when she remembered that she had slept at someone else's house last night. When she heard Bochi say that she was not a member of the band, she became more certain of her guess - Bochi had gone to Xiangzi's house to spend the night last night.

"Well... well, we agreed to meet in the afternoon, but Deng actually came at noon..."

He spoke to Deng with a silly smile, trying to ease the somewhat depressing atmosphere at the moment, but it was of no use.

"Pochi...why didn't you tell me?"

Gao Songdeng lowered his head and muttered softly, "Forget about Xiangzi, Pochi didn't tell me..."

"Eh?……"

I didn't know what kind of relationship it had with Xiangzi, but I didn't know about this kind of thing at first. I ended up staying at Mu's house without knowing what was going on.

And...do I need to tell other friends about this? "It's...it's my fault. I had an appointment with Deng today, but I only came back now."

Is that the reason? Takamatsu Deng raised his head, hoping to get an answer from Pochi's eyes, but he got nothing. So... in Pochi's eyes, he was just an ordinary friend, nothing special.

"Sister Deng is unhappy."

Erli carefully tugged at her sister's clothes, covered half of her mouth with one hand, and whispered to Pochi, "It took me a long time to make Sister Deng happy, but as soon as she came back, she became like this again."

"Eh?"

What…what did I do wrong? Why is Deng so angry? I originally thought it was because she came early and I wasn’t there, but…why is she so angry? “Well…well, Deng, let’s go out now.”

"But the planetarium show won't start for a long time."

"No...it's okay, we can go first..."

After thinking for a long time, I couldn't think of any place to go since I never went out on weekends before. "Let's go to Ring."

Gao Songdeng just lowered his head and said nothing.

"That...that..."

In this case, Pochi didn't know what to do.

"At times like this, just grab her hand and run."

Erli whispered to his sister, feeling very disappointed with his sister.

"Is...is that so?"

"Yes, that's how it's played on TV."

"That……"

Looking at the lamp that was lowering its head and remaining silent, he thought, since he had no other choice, wasn't this the only option?

"lamp……"

Pochi carefully took Deng's hand, "I... let's go."

-

"Ugh……"

Li Xi, who works at Ring, yawned. He clearly hadn't stayed up late in the past few days, so why was he still so sleepy?

It was only one in the afternoon, and there was no one in the coffee shop. Who would go out to drink coffee in the middle of the day? Rinrinko-senpai had gone off to do other things, and now I was the only one in the entire coffee shop.

"Ugh……"

I yawned again. When I stayed up late at home, I usually drank instant coffee. Should I make myself a cup of coffee now? It should be fine. Since there were no customers right now, I could just order one for myself.

I finished my cup of coffee, but still no one showed up. I didn't feel sleepy anymore, though. I don't know if it was the coffee or the process of making it.

However, instead of feeling sleepy, I felt bored. I pulled out my phone and habitually opened the band's group chat. The last chat history was from the day I asked Hailing to come support, and then there was the notification that Su Shi had left the group chat.

It's been ages since I last saw Pochi and Deng. It feels like I've been back to the days before I met Pochi. Every day, I'd get out of school and come home, only chatting with Hailing in class. Then, I'd go to Ring to work, and sometimes I'd go catch other bands live.

But... why does the life that seemed so ordinary before seem unacceptable now?

If you calculate the time, it’s only been a few days since I last saw them, so why do I feel so upset?

I opened the social platform in a state of distraction and found a familiar person on the homepage.

"Chuhua, birthday?"

Oh yeah, I followed Sumimi before. No wonder I felt a commotion behind me when I was sleeping in the classroom yesterday. It turned out to be Chuhua's birthday.

However, it was yesterday, and adding a blessing now would be even more rude. But... seeing Chuhua reminded me of Chuhua and her group sitting here last week.

At that time...

Pochi is sitting in this position...

"Tsk..."

Why was I thinking of Pochi again? Was there something wrong with me?

[Ding Dong~]

The coffee shop's automatic door rang. Li Xi immediately put away his phone and said, "Welcome..."

What is this? Is this an illusion? Why did Pochi appear right before my eyes just as I was thinking about him?

"Li... Lixi, it's your turn to go to work today..."

143

Chapter 143: Invite Hailing to join the band.

Pulling others along is simply a lie.

When I left home, I was so exhausted before I even ran to the first corner to meet love. Even Deng was worried that he would run out of breath and fall to the ground.

But holding someone else's hand was still useful. At least Deng was willing to speak. The two of them staggered to Ring together.

"Why are you here?"

Li Xi looked at Pochi and Deng who walked in hand in hand, and asked curiously, "You two probably don't like going out that much."

Also, why does the light look a little unhappy?

"Wait... later, let's go to the planetarium with Deng."

Pochi Gangdeng answered.

"Hey, where's the planetarium?"

I do know that Deng likes to look at the stars, but I know nothing about that. If I go to the planetarium with Deng, I will probably fall asleep in no time.

But since Pochi was going with Deng, there was no problem. "What would you like to drink? Pochi or mango juice?"

"Um... well, give me some more ice, it's so hot outside."

Pochi said, turning to look at Deng, "Hey Deng, anything to drink?"

"My words,"

He looked up at Pochi who was sitting next to him and said, "I'll have some mango juice too."

"okay."

Li Xi turned to prepare drinks, muttering, "Why are more and more people liking mango juice?"

Walking into the backstage, I took out a mango from the box of "Fully Ripe Mangoes" and looked at the somewhat funny logo on the box. I remembered the first time Pochi played the guitar in front of others, right in this cafe.

At that time, I helped her get it out of the cardboard box. Come to think of it, why could she, who was so timid and introverted, burst out with such power when playing?

But after forming the band, they never really performed together. Instead, Pochi performed several street live shows with Stray Cats and others.

How to perform a street live with a drum set?

If the band continues like this, it seems like we won't be able to perform with Pochi anymore. So, since they happened to be here today, we need to clarify some things.

……

Li Xi was not there, and they were alone in the coffee shop. Pochi turned to look at Deng, who was looking down at him, not knowing what he was thinking. He hesitated, but still said, "Deng...are you a little unhappy?"

"No."

Deng said this and turned his face to the side so that Pochi couldn't see his expression.

"But...but the lights today are very different from usual."

"Maybe I didn't sleep well."

I didn't... I didn't sleep well. When I said that, I remembered what happened last night. I was hugged by Mu as a pillow and fell asleep very late. I don't know when Mu got up in the morning and didn't wake me up.

"Here, your mango juice."

Li Xi came out from the backstage and placed two glasses of mango juice in front of them. At the same time, he said the question he had been thinking about these days, "Um, what do you think about the band?"

"Music...band."

Pochi said as he looked at the lamp beside him, trying to understand her thoughts, but she just lowered her head and said nothing.

"Without the bass, the band can't survive."

As he spoke, he thought of Hailing. It seemed that the guy hadn't brought his bass to school recently. He didn't know what was going on. "Pochi, what do you think?"

"My...my words,"

He looked up at Li Xi, somewhat afraid to meet her gaze, and lowered his head again, saying with a stiff upper lip, "I still feel...Su Shi..."

"Is it still that guy..."

Hearing Pochi's answer, he was a little disappointed, "She has done that kind of thing, why are you still thinking about her?"

Deng turned his head with some confusion, "Shouldn't Pochi be the one who's hurt the most?"

I could lower my head to avoid Li Xi's gaze, but I had no place to hide from Deng's gaze. I couldn't tell Li Xi and the others about Su Shi and Xiang Zi, so I could only think of other reasons. "I... I'm not used to having other strangers around."

This statement may seem selfish and far-fetched, but it is the best excuse I can think of.

Not used to other strangers...

Hearing this, Li Xi and Deng exchanged a glance. They were indeed quite familiar with Pochi and could communicate with him like normal friends, but looking back, Pochi was initially unable to speak to strangers.

"So, how about that Hailing guy?"

"Hailing?"