Guitar Hero also wants to play Kasuga Shadow!

What can't be done is,

"Because she's just that Shiina Maki's sister..."

I've tried so hard! I've been stricter with myself and spent more time practicing, but...

"Here...how about changing it like this?"

I just can't do it. From childhood to university, I have always been slower than my sister in everything. Xiangzi knows how to fix something that I have been thinking about for a long time just by looking at it.

She always wanted to be with Deng, but now the one next to her is Pochi, the new transfer student...

We are all human beings, so why is there such a big gap between us?

...

"Li...Lixi," Lixi, with his head down, exuding a low pressure, made Pochi breathless, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, don't worry about me." He turned his head to the side.

"Uh..." He didn't look like he was alright at all. If only...if only someone else was here, he wouldn't know how to handle this situation.

The others... turned around and met Rinrinko's eyes at the front desk. Yes... yes, they should have something to drink at this time.

"Wait a moment." He left this sentence and walked to the front desk.

"Would you like something to drink?" Rinrinko watched Pochi coming over. This was her first time ordering, as others had always ordered for her before.

"Hmm..." How do I order at a coffee shop? "Any...any recommendations?"

"How about mango juice, Pochi? He seems to like it."

"Okay..ok, then, what does Li Xi usually like?"

"Li Xi?" Rin Rin looked at Li Xi who was looking down at him, wondering what he was thinking. Could the strong-willed Li Xi be like this? "Li Xi hasn't really ordered anything. He usually just drinks water."

"Is...Is that so?"

"But if you want to order something for Lixi, I recommend mocha coffee. This kid likes to stay up late, so she might like it."

"oh oh."

"Wait a moment then~" Rinrinko said softly while preparing drinks, "Ritsuki always has a lot of things on her mind that she doesn't want to talk about. As a senior, I'm also very worried about her."

"Is...is that so?" Pochi looked back at Lixi. In her impression, Lixi was always strong.

"So, I'll leave it to Pochi-chan," Rinrinko said, placing the prepared drinks on the table. "How about you go and help Senior to enlighten Riki?"

"Okay... okay..." Pochi said as he served coffee and mango juice and walked towards Lixi who still had his head down. Could he... do this?

"Give."

"Hmm?" Li Xi looked at the coffee in front of him, "No, you drink it..." Then he saw the mango juice in Pochi's hand next to him, "Then give it to Deng later..."

"This is... specially bought for Li Xi."

"Specially for me? I don't really need it..." Li Xi lowered his head again and stubbornly insisted on his own idea.

"Lixi, why are you so hard on yourself?"

"I..." I looked up at Pochi, not expecting her to care about me. "I just want to do better..."

"But Lixi has done a great job." Pochi took a sip of mango juice and continued, "He plays drums very well and is very dedicated to the band. When the time comes, we'll have to ask Lixi to arrange the music, right?"

"No...if it's just this level..." Both Xiangzi and my sister can do much better than me...

"This level is already very serious. I can't even perform normally on the stage..."

"That's not the problem..."

"What's that?" Pochi moved closer to Li Xi. "Who is Li Xi...competing with?"

Has everyone seen through this?! Riki looked up in surprise, then turned aside again with a blush on his face as he faced Pochi, who was standing right next to him.

"It has nothing to do with Pochi, right?" Why is this guy so close?!

"It's related, right? Li Xi... is the indispensable drummer of our band."

"Indispensable, what's that? You're talking like we're very familiar with each other!" He yelled a little loudly. Why is Pochi a bit aggressive today?!

Then Lixi immediately regretted it. He might have lost control of his emotions today. His eyes became more and more lost as he looked at Pochi.

"Eh..." Pochi didn't expect to be yelled at. He just stood there holding the mango juice. "I... I thought we were already friends..."

"Uh... no, that's not what I meant. I just..." Shiina Riki is so pretentious, it's obvious that Pochi is just trying to care about her.

"It's Xiangzi... my former keyboard player." He said what he was thinking, then took a sip of the coffee in front of him. It was so bitter...

"Shoko? Shoko Toyokawa?" Hearing the familiar name at this time made Pochi look up unexpectedly.

"You know her?"

"Well..we are classmates."

"She, is in Yugaoka?"

"Ah."

"This guy! How dare he show up in front of Deng?!" She was angry when she thought of the heavy rain that day and her sudden departure without saying goodbye. We all had a lot of questions to ask her!

"Xiangzi, she must have a lot of difficulties..."

"So why not speak up? Does she know how much damage she's done to the light?"

"Li Xi, aren't you unwilling to speak out your heart?"

"Uh..."

"Xiangzi has tried very hard, please don't blame her anymore."

"All right..."

"So why does Lixi want to compete with Xiangzi?"

"Because...because she can do anything..." Li Xi lowered his head and hugged the coffee cup, speaking out his inner thoughts.

"When Xiangzi asked me to form a band, I was actually quite happy, thinking that I could finally break away from my sister and pursue the music I wanted."

"Then I discovered that Xiangzi and my sister are actually the same type of people. They can easily do things that are difficult for us."

He took a sip of coffee and continued,

"At first, Deng couldn't sing at all. She had never sung before. But Xiangzi said, 'The lyrics written by Deng should be sung by Deng.' The next day, after just one night, Deng could sing perfectly."

"I know I didn't understand lights, and I still don't understand lights now, but even now I still don't understand how she did it. It's just like when I was learning to compose music later, I would think about something for a long time but couldn't figure it out, but she could solve it with just one glance."

"Then it was live, it started to rain, and Xiangzi withdrew, leaving nothing behind. I hated her for being so decisive, for the damage she had done to Deng, and for her talent. Can you understand this feeling?"

"I..."

Pochi opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything...

Chapter 39: I didn’t cry! It just flowed out on its own!

“So after that, I still learned to compose music, thinking that I would have a set of skills that would be useful if I formed a band again. But in the end, you guys were the ones who brought me and Deng back together, so I’m actually very grateful to you and Aine. But that guy is definitely a bit annoying.”

"Uh..."

"I'm sorry for saying so many things at once that you didn't understand. I feel much better now." Lixi smiled bitterly. She never thought that she would actually tell Pochi what was in her heart.

"No... don't apologize," Pochi touched his head a little embarrassedly, "This way I understand Li Xi a little better..."

"What's there to understand about someone like me..." And don't you like lights, Pochi?

"The Lixi I knew before had a bad temper,"

"Hmm?" Hearing this, Li Xi turned around and glared at Pochi. What was he trying to do by suddenly saying something bad about him? But he found that she didn't seem to think he was saying bad things, and then he muttered to himself,

"He always keeps the lights on, works part-time to earn pocket money, and learns to compose music. He's like a superman."

"Eh? Pochi, is that how you look at me?"

"Yeah." Pochi nodded, "But it's different now."

"Different, huh?"

"So, Riki also has worries, things he can't do, and he also..." Pochi said, extending his hand to Riki, "and cries like this."

"Huh?!" Li Xi felt a touch on his face and immediately slammed the table and stood up, "What...what are you doing?!"

"Just... just to help Li Xi wipe his tears..."

"Huh?! I'm not crying!" Li Xi said as he touched the corner of his eye. The wet feeling told him that Pochi was not lying. "It's just...it just flowed out on its own! I'm not crying!"

"What? Who's crying?" Just then, Aine and Deng approached the coffee shop.

Li Xi quickly turned his back to prevent them from noticing his abnormality.

"Hey~" Chihaya Aine noticed Rikki's strangeness and approached with a smirk on her face, "Rikki can cry like a normal girl."

“Huh?! I’m not crying! And what is Rikki?” He shook off Aine’s hand and quickly walked backstage, “Wait a minute!”

"What did Pochi do? He bullied Riki until he cried." Seeing Riki running away, Aine didn't chase him. Instead, she sat next to Pochi and started gossiping.

"No...don't bully Lixi." Deng also spoke weakly. She still remembered that Lixi was the first one to cry after crychic's performance.

"No...I didn't do anything either."

"Did Tomorin see that Li Xi being so shy? I should have recorded it with my phone."

"It's better... not to record it."

The automatic doors of the cafe opened again, and Nagasaki Suyo walked in to see the three people from Haneda already sitting there, "You all are here, Riki no Nen?"

"Listen to me, Rikki..."

"Don't call me Rikki!" Li Xi heard this strange name as soon as he walked out from the backstage.

"Eh~ that... soyorin is..." Nagasaki Motoyo only now realized that the strange syllable 'soyorin' was actually her own name.

"Nicknames, nicknames~ Like Pochi, tomorin, Rikki, cute, right~"

"Huh? That's totally incomprehensible, and I have to say you have pretty bad taste."

"Huh? It's cute, isn't it, Pochi?"

"It's... okay." After all, before this, other people only called me 'hey' or 'that', so I'm really happy to have this nickname.

"Eh~ That's..." Do all pink-haired girls have such bad taste? Nagasaki Suyo narrowed her eyes, almost unable to contain herself. Whether it was Pochi or Soyorin, how could they sound so much like names for dogs? Even so, she foolishly liked these names.

"Tsk... Let's not talk about this for now." "What Pochi likes to shout doesn't seem so unacceptable? Li Xi thought, "We have to go to PopiPa and AfterGlow's live this weekend too."

“Huh?” Aine was the first to be surprised.

"PopiPa and AfterGlow's live performance? Lixi is amazing." Live performance or something, it doesn't really matter.

"No, no...wait a minute, isn't it too early for us to hold a live?" Aine couldn't help but remind everyone.

"Really."

"Didn't you say before that you wanted to hold a live performance?" Li Xi asked.

"But we haven't had a proper rehearsal yet." At this time, why not hold a live performance? At least give me some more time to practice...

"Why don't we just start practicing from now on?" This guy is obviously the worst at technique, so why is he still so unmotivated?

"That's right..." Su Shi narrowed her eyes and watched the conflict between the two of them, "By the way, how long is the performance?"

"About 10 minutes, I should be able to play two songs."

"Hmm... We haven't really rehearsed much, so maybe it would be better if we just focus on one song first?"

"Wait, wait, there's absolutely no time! What do you think, Pochi? Is it really okay to go on stage so soon?"

"For Pochi, a cardboard box would be fine."

"That's impossible! That's a real live performance, and they use cardboard boxes and stuff..."

"Why not? HelloHappyWorld has a bear!" Li Xi retorted, "Besides, it's not easy to get the live performance opportunity of PopiPa and AfterGlow."

"Pochi, what do you think?" Aine looked at Pochi with a hint of help.

"I..."

Live... Isn't this the stage of my dreams...

"If...you have a cardboard box, I think it's fine..."