Guitar Hero also wants to play Kasuga Shadow!

Never mind, these things are not important.

"Pochi has more friends now than I thought."

"Neither...nor." Xiangzi's tone was strange. Was it an illusion?

But speaking of it... Xiangzi seemed to know all of his friends, except for the stray cat that often wandered around the ring.

"Oh, this is for Xiangzi," Pochi said, pulling out a packed lunch box from his bag and handing it to Xiangzi. Ever since he knew Xiangzi could only eat bread every day, he had asked his mother to make an extra lunch box.

"Eh? No, no, I can't accept it." This would be too much trouble for Pochi's family.

"Hurry up and take it. Mom was very motivated when she heard me ask her to make an extra lunch box for a friend."

"That way I can't accept it."

Mother...

Will I ever be able to eat my mother's cooking again? I shook my head, throwing away the nostalgia for the past. There was no need to dwell on such unrealistic things...

"But...but I can't finish two servings. If Xiangzi doesn't accept them, they will just be wasted." Pochi lowered his head and whispered with a lonely expression.

"Waste..." Xiangzi, who worries about food and daily necessities, hates to hear these two words the most.

"Alas." Toyokawa Shoko sighed helplessly and took the bento away from Pochi. "If it's a waste... then there's nothing we can do."

...

The bell rang, and the morning class ended. When I came to my senses, Xiangzi was gone. But with the lunch box, Xiangzi should not be hungry anymore.

I picked up my lunch box and headed towards the Astronomy Department. I hadn’t apologized properly to Deng after he ran away last time.

...

Takamatsu Deng sat alone in the astronomy club, his lunchbox still unopened. He'd run away again last time, even though Pochi had only wanted to play a familiar piece of music and hadn't done anything wrong.

I had no reason to say anything when Xiangzi and I played in the music classroom, but...

Gao Songdeng opened his notebook. The dragonfly drawn on it had flown away and landed next to a watermelon worm, but that watermelon worm was not him.

"Excuse me for interrupting you."

The voice of Pochi, the watermelon worm, came from the door, and Takamatsu Deng quickly put away the notebook.

"Po...Pochi..." He looked at Pochi approaching the Astronomy Club with a complicated look. Should he apologize? He just ran away without saying anything...

"Sorry...I'm sorry."

"Eh?" Shouldn't I be the one to apologize?

"I...I shouldn't have played Kasuga Shadow so casually." Pochi had been brewing emotions on the way here, and he was finally able to speak them out properly.

"No, I..." Facing Pochi's seemingly serious apology, Takamatsu Deng didn't know what to say for a moment, and the two of them just stood there in a stalemate.

"Ah ho~"

Yuan Qi's voice came, and both of them looked towards the door with a look of help.

"Good afternoon, little..." Stepping into the Astronomy Club, Chihaya Aine sensed a strange atmosphere, and two people gave her even stranger looks. "What...what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that? My lunch box isn't big enough for three people..."

...

"Haruhi Kage?" Chihaya Aine asked in confusion after understanding the general idea. "You memorized it just by looking at the sheet music?"

"Hmm..." Pochi next to him took a small bite of rice into his mouth.

"Hey~ How cunning! I didn't even hear Pochi's guitar!" Chihaya Aine pretended to be angry and took a meatball from Pochi's lunch box, "This is compensation!"

"Eh?" Is this the point? Pochi stared blankly at the meatball that was stuck in Aine's lunch box.

"And what's even more cunning is that you went out to play without asking me!" He took an octopus intestine from the lamp nearby, "Compensation, compensation."

"Oh...oh." Takamatsu Deng looked at Aine blankly. He had never done something like exchanging bento boxes before.

"But~ neither of us did anything wrong." Aine said as she passed Pochi's meatball to Deng and passed Deng's octopus sausage to Pochi.

"Alright! That's it!"

"Oh...oh..."?2

"Really? You have to make that kind of expression for such a small thing. You can just say it out nicely." If you ask me, the astronomy club really won't be able to do without Aine.

Speak out nicely...

Thinking of this, Pochi and Deng's eyes met, then they quickly looked away, lowered their heads and put the food from each other into their mouths.

Yes, just say it out loud.

...

“Although there are still many things to decide…”

Five people sat together in the coffee shop of Ring.

Chihaya Aine put on her seldom-used glasses, hoping to project a more intellectual image as the band's lead singer. "But we should definitely decide on the instruments first!"

"Why are you the one giving the orders?" Shiina Riki looked at her incongruous black-framed glasses and felt even more annoyed with her. "And aren't the instruments obvious? Vocals, drums, bass, and two guitars."

"This is my forte. I used to be the student council president." Chihaya Aine selectively ignored the second half of Riki's words. Although Deng's singing was indeed great, only the lead singer could attract attention and would never give up the middle position!

"Xiao Deng, you can play the tambourine, right?"

"Clam?"

"The triangle is good too."

"No, wait..."

"Castane is also good." Aine continued, ignoring Ritsuki's doubts.

"I...I will try my best." Although Gao Songdeng had little experience with musical instruments, he still encouraged himself.

"Then it's decided. First of all, I'm the lead singer on guitar."

"Tsk, the light is the lead singer."

"Hmm..." Why is this guy's head full of lights?! "Then... harmony?"

"Lead singer!" Why does this damn pink-haired girl always disobey people!

"Tsk... there's really nothing I can do."

Pochi silently watched Riki and Aine bickering, as well as Deng who was agreeing with them.

Then he turned to look at Su Shi, who had been silent beside him. As if she noticed his gaze, she gave him a gentle smile.

"Gu..." I'm about to melt. Su Shi's gentle smile is too lethal!

but...

I looked at the people at the table again and took a sip of the mango juice in front of me. The band was really great...

Chapter 31: First Rehearsal

"Then it's okay for the guitarist and vocalist to coexist." Chihaya Aine compromised, then turned to look at the other guitarist grinning beside her, "Speaking of which, can Pochi sing?"

“Eh?” Sing… sing?! “No no no no no no no no.”

"Uh..." Su Shi, who had been silent, finally couldn't stand it anymore, "Are the three lead singers a little..."

"Are you messing around?"

"No! I'm serious!" Although he knew that three lead singers might not be realistic, he still insisted, "By the way, the guitar lead singer will be in the middle of the stage, with Pochi and Deng on either side of me."

"That's even more impossible." Shiina Riki sighed. After all, a band is not a playful thing.

"Here we go! Stereotype!" Aine pointed a finger at Riki, the one you'd always objected to. "Who said we can't have three lead singers? That's not rock 'n' roll!"

"Tsk..."

"Ai...Aine, you can just stand in the middle. I...I'll stand a little further back."

"Hey, can you stand next to the drum?"

“Yes…yes.”

Ahhh~ Here it comes again, my head is full of lights~ Aine propped up her head with her hands and looked at Li Xi beside her. Although the little lights are very cute...

Then he looked at Pochi who was in a daze beside him, and it turned out that little Pochi was cuter.

"Isn't this... a little too novel?" Su Shi, who was already sweating profusely, clapped his hands. "How about we talk about other topics related to live first. For example..."

"That's the band name, right?" Soyo-san really knows it.

"Eh?

"Actually, I've thought about a lot." He turned the phone over and faced everyone. "How about [UnKnown]? How about [Hey.]? Or [Anna Yu]?"

"They are all your names, right?" How come this guy can even draw a picture? Instead of doing these trivial things, shouldn't he practice his skills more?

"So what."

“It’s not your band.”

"You're so willful! No one will like this. Luckily, I, Aine, don't mind. Then add your name too, and thank me." He pulled out his phone and operated it. "What's the kanji for Taki?"

"Stand for Li, hope for Xi."

"Pfft...cough cough..." Li Xi didn't expect Su Shi to agree with her. He almost spit out the water he had just drunk.

“Hey~” Aine let out a strange and meaningful laugh, “Isn’t that Rikki?”

"Clam?"

"It sounds like a monkey."

Is this guy asking for a beating on purpose?

"But we can't call our band 'Monkey Call' or something like that, we're a beautiful girl band."

"Tsk!" I can't stand it anymore!

Li Xi slammed the table and stood up, "What the hell is wrong with this guy?! It's so infuriating!"

"You can't say that about others~" Nagasaki Suyo tried to smooth things over again, "What about Pochi? Who do you think is better?"

"Eh?" Pochi, who had been sipping mango juice, was called out. The others all looked at him, "I... am alright, right..."

"Look! Even little Pochi approves of my taste!"

"Huh? That's just a courtesy, right? Don't you understand?!"

"No! I was the one who came up with the name Pochi! Pochi really likes it!"

"Ahh, you have such bad taste! It's completely meaningless, okay?!"

"It's not meaningless! Pochi is..."

"No...don't quarrel." Pochi himself said weakly.

"Hmph!"

They both turned their heads to the side at the same time.

"How about we go to the rehearsal room first and think about the band name later." Nagasaki Motoyo looked at her teammates, none of whom were easy to worry about, and thought about how there were not so many conflicts when they were in crychic.

but...

Xiaoxiang, who is the leader, and Xiaomu, who is not a talkative person, don't seem to be able to argue like this...

"Su Shi, let's go, why are you still sitting here?"

When I came to my senses, the other people had already left their seats and were waiting for me.

"Here it comes~"

...

Seriously?

Shiina Riki, who was still fiddling with the drums, looked at the two pink-haired guitarists in the band. One of them could only play some basic chords... no, she couldn't even understand some of the chords.

There's another thing... I understand how to play the chords, but... it feels weird, like my body is out of coordination, there's an indescribable feeling.