Guitar Hero also wants to play Kasuga Shadow!

"Guitar...I don't think he likes Buffy..."

"stare..."

The white-haired girl didn't say anything, but just stared at Pochi for a while, then skipped away on her own.

All that was left on the table was a half-eaten matcha parfait and a bewildered Pochi.

After a few seconds, Pochi finally reacted and looked up, only to find that the others were looking at him with different expressions.

"Well...well...I..."

He spoke for a long time but couldn't organize any words.

"Pochi, you have a friend." Seeing Pochi's reaction, Aine smiled and said, "What a cute girl. When did you meet her?"

“Eh? No…”

"Yeah, that girl, she's called Wildcat," Li Xi said, looking at Buffy. "I haven't heard that she has any good friends. She always hangs out by herself. Sometimes she comes to the ring to play guitar, and she won't give us food..."

Li Xi seemed to remember something when he got here and turned to shout backstage,

"Rinrinko-senpai! Did that Wildcat guy give the money?!"

"Eh?" Rinrinko, who was cleaning up the backstage because there were no other customers, poked her head out. "Did Lenai run away again?"

"Ah! That guy..."

As if he had often been tortured by stray cats, Li Xi looked at Buffy on the table, and then at Pochi in front of him. The others' eyes also followed Li Xi's line of sight and focused on Pochi.

"Eh?! I...I'm not..."

But the combined pressure of everyone's gaze was too great. Pochi tremblingly took out a few large-denomination bills from his small wallet.

"Is this...is this enough...if not, I can stay and wash the cups..."

...

"Meow!"

On the way home, a cat's meow attracted Pochi's attention. When he walked over, he found that it was a white cat squatting on the wall, stroking his fur and looking down at him.

She looks like that girl, her name is... Lenai?

Although not heterochromia...

In the end, that 'Rinrinko-senpai' didn't take my money either, and I thought I had become a meal ticket for no reason...

"Meow!"

The wild cat on the wall called out to him again and stopped stroking his fur.

"What...what's wrong?!" Did he notice the dark aura emanating from him all the time?

Then the wild cat jumped down to the ground, and walked slowly to Pochi's feet with its tail raised, scaring Pochi so much that he dared not move.

"Meow!" The wild cat cried out and rubbed against Pochi's legs, circling around his legs.

"Eh?"

It was the first time for Pochi to be so intimate with a wild cat, and he was a little overwhelmed. After a while, he realized that he might try to touch it.

As soon as he bent down and stretched out his hand, the wild cat ran away again.

"...Do you want to be touched or not?"

Cancan withdrew her hand that was suspended in mid-air, stood up, and then a notification sound came from her cell phone.

Who could it be? I just formed a new band, and someone wants to chat with me? I opened my phone with a hint of anticipation.

"Pochi-chan, tomorrow is the weekend, let's go to the planetarium together."

Chapter 20: Date?!

"I am back."

Pochi stood at the entrance changing his shoes as usual while greeting people inside.

"Dong dong dong." A sound of footsteps was heard. Without looking, Pochi knew that it was Erli and Jimmy Henry running down.

"Sister, sister! You've been coming home so late these past few days. What are you doing outside?"

"Wang Wang!"

"Hehe~" she let out a strange laugh, "Sister, I am already completely full of cash!"

"Eh~" Erli remembered that his sister seemed to have said something similar about making friends last time. "Really? Not an imaginary friend? Didn't you stay in the park late on purpose?"

"Eh?!" Erli...how did you know so much?! He took off his shoes and slowly walked into the living room, thinking he had kept it a secret at that time. "Er...Erli, how did you know?"

"Sister, you're so understanding!" Erli followed closely behind. "But it seems like Sister actually made a friend this time. How did she do it?"

How did you do it?

Pochi hasn't thought about this problem carefully yet.

I had no friends for the past ten years of my life, but now I've just transferred to another school and I have a band I'll be with for the rest of my life. I've never really thought about why...

"Sister, why aren't you talking?" Erli tugged at Bochi's trouser leg. "Could it be that Sister paid a friend fee or something?"

"Friendship fee?!" What kind of abnormal friendship would require something like this? But if it were me in the past, I wouldn't have refused if I could have friends by paying a friendship fee...

"Okay, Yili and Erli, it's time to get ready for dinner." Mom came out of the kitchen. "Yili, put your guitar down quickly."

"Oh oh..." I realized I was still carrying my guitar when my mother reminded me. I walked to my room, took off the guitar and prepared to eat.

But then I suddenly remembered that this guitar was actually lent to me by my father. I walked back to the guitar, took it out, and touched it, feeling the traces of use on it. I couldn't tell which ones were left by my father and which ones were my new additions.

Yes, Dad used to have a band, but then...what happened?

I put down my guitar and walked into the living room, only to find that the others were already waiting for me at the dining table.

"Sister! You're so slow!" Erli complained but still sat in his seat obediently without eating first.

"Oh...oh, here it comes."

"I'm starting to eat." After that, everyone started eating.

Pochi ate his meal in small bites as usual, looking up at his father from time to time, still very curious about what became of his father's band.

The father noticed his eldest daughter's gaze and turned to look at the mother. "I heard that Yili made a friend. What kind of child is he?"

"Eh?"

I was still considering whether to ask my father about his past, but I didn't expect to be stumped by the question first.

"Yes... there are classmates in my class, and girls from the class next door." Then he thought to himself that his bandmates could definitely be considered friends, "and people from other schools."

Hiss... The number was a little beyond the old father's expectations. He originally thought it would be good enough for his eldest daughter to make one or two true friends, but he didn't expect that she could meet so many in just a few days, including those from other schools.

"Then...how did everyone in Yili know them?" The mother next to her was also surprised and asked.

"We...formed a band together."

"Band?" Mom turned around and looked at Dad. "That's great! Yili has its own band now."

"Hmm..." Pochi ate his rice in small bites, looked up at his father again, and finally asked what was on his mind, "Why did Dad's band stop performing?"

"Well~" Dad put down his chopsticks. Just now, his eldest daughter mentioned forming a band, and he had a feeling she would ask about this. "Because of you~ Yili."

"Eh? Because of me?" Pochi couldn't figure out the cause and effect for a moment.

"Yeah, at that time, Mom was pregnant with Ichiri, so we didn't have much time to continue with band activities."

"Is that so?" But... But this is too...

I didn't know what to say, I just felt that the band shouldn't end like this. I took another bite of my rice and asked quietly, "And then?"

“And then it’s over.”

"But..."

"Yili," Dad interrupted Bochi, "I know Yili probably feels that the band shouldn't end so hastily, but at that age, everyone has other lives, and the band's performance isn't outstanding, so it was only a matter of time before it disbanded."

After saying this, Dad picked up his chopsticks again, thinking that he should be able to figure out these things after hearing this.

"No...it shouldn't be like this." Pochi lowered his head and whispered his thoughts firmly, "It shouldn't end like this..."

"Hmm..." Dad was silent for a moment, looked at Mom, and organized his words, "Although Dad seems to be a loser, Dad doesn't regret it~"

"Eh?..."

"Because that way I can take good care of Ichiri." He rubbed Pochi's head and said, "But Ichiri is different from dad. He has only been playing guitar for a few years, but he is already much better than me."

"Is there...is there any?"

"Yeah, Mom and Dad are both very proud of Yili, so Yili's band must be better than Dad's."

"Hehehe..." It's not often that he gets praised like this, and Pochi is already stroking the back of his head and grinning foolishly.

"What is the goal of my sister's band?" Erli ate with a spoon in his mouth and spoke incoherently.

"Yes...it's my goal for life~"

"Uh..." Dad stopped patting my head. This kind of lifelong promise...is it really a normal relationship between a girls' high school band?

"Amazing! A lifetime!" Erli swung his legs, "My sister and I will have a lifetime too~"

"Eh? Yes...yes."

I looked at Erli, sitting on a chair with her legs barely touching the ground, and wondered what she would look like when she grew up. Then I looked at my own tracksuit. Erli was so cheerful, she wouldn't be as gloomy as me when she grew up.

"Erli, will you learn to play a musical instrument in the future?"

"of course!"

"What will you learn?"

"Guitar~ My sister looks so cool when she plays guitar."

"Hehehe... Really... Oh right," Pochi remembered that he and Deng had agreed to go to the planetarium together tomorrow, "Tomorrow, I have to go out."

"Eh?! My sister is going out on the weekend?!"

"Yes, with friends!"

"Where are you going? I want to go too!"

"Erli is going too?!" No...that's not possible. I've hardly ever been out, let alone taking Erli with me.

"Erli, don't cause trouble for your sister," Mom said. "This is a very important first time for your sister to go out with her friends."

"Hmm...very important..." Erli lowered his head in thought, then suddenly raised his head and shouted, "Ah! I know!"

"It's a date, right?"

Chapter 21 Then...what about me?

"Date...date..."

After finishing her meal, Pochi returned to her own territory (the closet) and muttered to herself, "Does she even know what a date is?"

but...

I mumbled the word 'date' again, slowly resting my head on my knees and squinting my eyes. It would have been fine if Erli hadn't said it, but after he did, it felt more and more like it was a little too ambiguous...

No...that's not right. They're just normal girls hanging out. Don't get carried away. The date was just something the kids in Erli said as a joke.

Speaking of which...it's been a while since I played guitar seriously...

I opened my video channel and scrolled through the recent comments section.

"Why haven't you updated yet?!"

"Without Guitar Hero!..."

These are all comments urging for more updates.

"Well... now that I have my own band today, it's time to play some guitar."

I took the guitar next to me and chose a song that I liked that was quite popular recently to practice.

Well, no big problem, I'll try playing it later. Just then a message came from my phone.

Who could it be? The lamp? Or someone else?