Guitar Hero also wants to play Kasuga Shadow!

"Alright, alright, this kind of thing will definitely improve with more practice." Su Shi felt that today's practice might end here. Chatting in the rehearsal room was a pure waste of money. "How about we stop here for today?" He wanted to ask Li Xi's opinion, but when he looked over, he found that she seemed to have been there for a long time. "Li Xi?"

"Huh? Oh... I'm fine." When his name was called, he finally stopped thinking about it.

"What do you mean, nothing? I'm asking for your opinion!" Why do I always feel that this guy is weird today?

"what?"

"Today! That's all for now!"

"It's only been a short time?!" Li Xi said, looking at Deng's expression, which seemed a bit reluctant. "Then... let's go here first."

"How about we go to a coffee shop and have a cup of tea? And talk about the next issues?" Su Shi said. After all, there were too many problems for such a band.

"Ah."

The group put away their instruments, went to the front desk to check out of the rehearsal room, and then walked towards the rehearsal room.

"Pochi...are you feeling okay?" Deng, who was walking at the end, asked in a low voice.

"Well... although it's different from the band I imagined, it's still great to be with you all... I think so."

"I see..." Hearing Pochi's answer, Deng breathed a sigh of relief, "Lixi is talking..."

"I know, this is my problem. Li Xi also wants to make the band better..."

"What, what?" Aine, who was standing in front, heard their noise and turned around. "What are you whispering about?"

"Nothing... just some small things." Deng said with his head down.

"Eh~ Come to think of it, I don't know when it started but the relationship between Deng and Pochi-chan became so close... Ouch."

I saw Aine, who was walking behind me, bump into Su Shi.

"Watch the road when you walk~" Su Shi reminded with a smile, "Also, we're here."

Lixi stood in front of the coffee shop. The automatic door opened to both sides, and then a strong melody came from inside.

"Hey, someone's playing guitar here."

"It's a stray cat." Li Xi, who was not surprised, walked in first.

"A stray cat? Is that the white-haired girl from last time? I think her name was Lenai?"

When Pochi approached the coffee shop, he made eye contact with Lenai, who then stopped playing and ran towards Pochi, skipping and jumping with her guitar in her arms.

"Come play guitar?"

"Eh? No...I..." Pochi still doesn't know how to deal with stray cats.

"Here." Without listening to Pochi's explanation, he took off his guitar and handed it to her.

"I..I'm not here..."

"Oh~ I brought my own guitar today." Lenai smiled and ran back to the stage, then looked back and said, "Don't you want to come with me?"

"Hey~ Pochi, it seems like you're very familiar with her~" Aine teased with a smile, "Last time, that kid gave Buffy to Pochi too."

“I..I didn’t…”

"Come to think of it, did you know each other before?" Li Xi thought for a moment, but he had no memory of the stray cat being familiar with anyone.

"I saw him again yesterday..."

"That kid is waiting for you to go up together. He seems to like Pochi very much. Have you ever played here?" Su Shi also asked.

"Yes!" Rinrinko at the front desk suddenly said, "She and Lenai played here yesterday~"

"Pochi didn't tell us?" Aine looked back at Pochi with a wicked smile.

"It's... played very badly..."

"If I can't play well if others are watching..." Li Xi lowered his head and thought for a moment, then looked up at Rinrinko, "Rinrinko-senpai, do you still have the cartons for the goods?"

"Of course I do... What are you going to do with it?"

"Just give it a try."

...

"That won't work..."

"Even this..."

"It feels like... it might be comfortable in there?"

"Huh?"

In the backstage of the coffee shop, Su Shi and Aine looked at Deng with surprise at the strange words he said.

"Because it's narrow... I think it's safe..."

"Yes...Is that so."

"How does Pochi feel?"

The three people looked over and saw Lixi holding tape in his hand to stick two standing cardboard boxes together. Inside was Pochi holding a guitar.

"Huh~" Li Xi cut the tape after finishing his work and knocked on the cardboard box. "How does it feel?"

"This! This is exactly the same environment I usually perform in!"

"No... What kind of environment are you playing in?" Li Xi looked at the 'ripe mango' on the carton and smiled, "It should be fine now."

"Yeah! Let's get the ring excited together!"

"Your personality has changed... Then go and give it a try." Li Xi opened the door for Pochi, holding the box and led her to the stage.

Kaname Rakuna was looking at the big cardboard box in shock, then realized that Pochi was inside.

"Hmph~ Interesting girl...girl!"

Li Xi handed the string to Pochi in the box, "Are you ready?"

"Ok!"

Then he looked at Lenai who was standing beside him with an excited look on her face, "Speaking of which, what are you guys planning to play..."

Before he could finish, Lenai made a move, and the sudden burst of melody startled Pochi in the box, "Impromptu?!"

After a brief thought, he also moved, keeping up with the pace of the stray cat.

"Hey~ Not bad." Li Xi looked at Lenai and 'Fully Ripe Mango' next to him as they walked off the stage, and sat in his seat to enjoy their performance.

“That’s... Pochi?” Aine was shocked and stared at the ‘perfectly ripe mango’ that she had picked just now with wide eyes. This... this can’t be right... If Pochi’s skills are so good... then...

“Yeah~” Tomo, who hadn’t really appreciated it last time, now sat back and fully enjoyed her performance, not noticing Aine’s disappointment. “Pochi… that’s amazing…”

"Gu..." Then I am a complete clown...

Chapter 34: The First Buffy

"Well...well, I have something to do, so I'll leave now!" After Pochi and the stray cat finished playing, Pochi ran away before he came out of the 'Fully Ripe Mango'.

He's the one with the worst skills... and yet he's so smug. That's terrible...

“Aine?”

Gao Songdeng, who was standing by, noticed her abnormality, reached out his hand, but caught nothing.

"What's that guy doing?" Li Xi looked at the direction where Aiyin left with dissatisfaction, "He just ran away like that?"

"Maybe, there is something important." Nagasaki Suyo narrowed her eyes, knowing what the pink-haired girl was thinking.

"Satisfied~" After finishing the performance, Lenai walked off the stage and slumped on the chair on the rooftop without any image.

"Tsk, you don't even know how to help Pochi get it out." Li Xi said from the audience, walked up, and patted the motionless 'full-ripe mango', "Hey, it's out~"

"oh oh..."

Why is this answer so weak? Never mind, let's get her out first.

I lifted the box up and heard strange noises from inside.

“Wait…wait a minute!”

"Huh? Lifting the box must be tiring!"

"The guitar is stuck."

"Tsk..." There was no way, Li Xi could only maintain the holding posture.

"Okay... okay." After fiddling with it for a while, Pochi finally fixed the guitar that was lying across the middle of the cardboard box.

"So slow..." Li Xi said as he opened the box, "I'm telling you, what's wrong with the guitar..." He was about to complain, but was met with Pochi's blushing cheeks.

It may be because the temperature in early summer is already quite high, and the small cardboard box is particularly stuffy, plus playing the guitar is indeed a very physically demanding exercise.

Pochi's face was now covered in sweat, his overlong bangs plastered to his forehead, and he had a harmless look in his eyes. The zipper of his pink tracksuit had somehow slid down to his chest, draping it carelessly across his body.

"Hmm?" Why did Li Xi stop talking mid-sentence? Was my performance not so good? "Well...that?"

"You..." He wanted to say something, but facing her blushing cheeks, he couldn't say anything.

Damn, why did this guy suddenly become so attractive...

"Ahem..." Li Xi pretended to cough, walked up to her and pulled up her sports jacket which was draped too casually, then returned to his seat with his head down and his face red.

"?" I didn't understand the situation at all, but my hair was really uncomfortable. I fixed it and went down to sit next to them, only to realize that someone was missing. "Ai... Where's Aine?"

"Aine said she had something to do and went back first." Su Shi explained.

"Is that so..." Did she hear me play the guitar? I told her I'd play it for her when we first met...

"Yes..." Takamatsu Deng sensed what Pochi was thinking, "Aine heard Pochi's guitar."

“Is that so?” It’s good that Aine heard it...

"Matcha Parfait~"

Lenai, who had been slumped in her seat for a long time, regained her strength. Perhaps she was feeling hungry, so she wandered over to Pochi and said, "Matcha~Buffy~"

"Eh?" Is this... is she asking me to treat her to a meal again? Shakily, she pulled money out of her bag and handed it over.

"If you want to eat, buy it for yourself! Stray cat!" Li Xi next to him finally couldn't stand it anymore. If he didn't stop it, the stray cat's behavior of cheating for food and drink would get worse.

"Stare~"

Stray Cat uses the skill 'Eye Attack'!

Target, interesting women..girls!

Outstanding effect!

"No...it's okay, I don't spend much pocket money..."

"No, that's right! She can't eat without money!" Li Xi was still firm. "That was the first time. She didn't even pay and ran away halfway through eating. How awful!"

"Tsk~ Boring woman."

"Clam?!"

Seeing that she couldn't fill her stomach here, Lenai went to the front desk and pestered Rinrinko, "Matcha Parfait~"

"Then wait a moment, Lenai~"

"Rinrinko-senpai! Stop feeding her!"

"It's okay. Isn't Lenai playing guitar also helping us attract customers?"

Rinrinko's words left Riki unable to refute, and then he saw Lenai turn around and make a face at him.

"This guy!..."

"Alright, alright, Li Xi, calm down," Su Shi said soothingly, "It's still early and he doesn't have any bad intentions."

"snort!..."

"Come to think of it, why does that kid like Pochi so much? The first time, he gave Pochi his favorite Buffy."

"Oh yeah..." Deng looked at Pochi with a puzzled look.

"I...I'm not sure either." Pochi looked at Lenai, who was sitting at the front desk, shaking her head. "She always says it's interesting..."

"That's really a strange creature..." Although he often saw her, Li Xi couldn't understand the way stray cats think.

The stray cat over there got the Buffy he had been longing for, and then walked over to sit next to Pochi. "Here," he said, handing Pochi a spoon.