Guitar Hero also wants to play Kasuga Shadow!

This is the completely different mental state of the two people at this moment.

Ichiri, who was standing by, looked back and forth at the two people in front of him, and had a bad feeling...

Chapter 7: The Past That Can't Be Returned

"I..I'm back."

When Goto Ichiri returned home, he heard the sound of "bang bang bang" coming down the stairs as usual.

"Sister! How was your day at school today?"

"Wang Wang!"

"That's great! I've made a new friend." Even though I said that, the lyrics kept coming back to me. Why? Isn't playing in a band supposed to be fun? Why did I have that painful expression?

"Really? My sister is going to become a real person?!"

"Wang Wang!"

"Oh~" He forced a smile and touched Erli's head, then walked past her inside, but found that his hand was held by Erli.

"Sister, you look a little unhappy."

"...No~" He rubbed her little head again, "It's just that there are some things I can't figure out..." Then she showed an expression that seemed to understand but not quite.

"Yili, Erli! Come and have dinner~" Mom's voice came from the kitchen.

"Okay, let's go eat." Yili reached out and grabbed his sister's hand, interrupting her thoughts of asking further questions.

...

"Yili, are you unhappy?" Mom noticed something at the dinner table. After exchanging glances with her husband, she asked cautiously, "Is it something you can tell Mom and Dad?"

Hearing this, he stopped mechanically picking up a few grains of rice at a time, looked up at his mother's concerned eyes, thought for a moment, and turned to look at his father. "Why...why did the band disband?"

"So Yili is already worried about the band?" Upon hearing this, the father put down his chopsticks and looked at his eldest daughter with satisfaction. "It seems that making friends is not a lie."

"The child's father!"

"Oh." After receiving a glare, he brought the topic back to the point. "As for the band, it's formed by everyone, so we often encounter disagreements."

"Oh." Goto Ichiri showed an expression that seemed to understand but not quite.

"So, the band will eventually disband, but until then, it's enough for everyone in the band to work hard together and be happy together."

"Is it really...really impossible to keep this band going?" Goto Ichiri lowered his head and muttered to himself, "A band for life."

"Uh..." The father originally thought that his counseling was very effective, but now he realized that his daughter was so emotionally burdened, and looked at the mother for help.

But she just gave herself an expression that said, "Don't look at me, I've never been in a band." "Well... Yili, you have to know that life is very long, so..."

"I know! Once we get married, we can be together forever!"

"Huh?!" The others looked at Erli, who was only five years old, in surprise.

"Just like mom and dad!" Erli slurred his words as he ate from the bowl and expressed his understanding.

Well, if marriage lasts a lifetime, why can't a band last a lifetime? Ultimately, the reason I want to keep the band going is to avoid getting hurt.

"I'm all alone in this world..."

Goto Ichiri seemed to understand something.

"Erli... being in a band is a little different from getting married."

"I'm full!" Goto Ichiri put down his chopsticks, stood up and walked towards his room.

Yili...have you figured it out? The father looked at his eldest daughter's back, hoping his words would have some effect.

"What's the difference? Aren't we all together?" Erli kept asking.

"You'll know when Erli grows up." He touched his little daughter's head and wanted to just pass it over.

"Humph! Then I'm going to marry my sister when I grow up!"

The father had no choice but to look at the child's mother with a pleading look, "Say something too..."

...

Bands will break up, and breaking up is sad. Is there no other way? I don't understand. Aren't bands supposed to make people happy? I don't understand.

Pochi pulled out his phone from the closet, fixed his eyes on the newly added profile picture, and mustered up the courage to click into the chat box.

"How did our band break up?" I typed, then shook my head and deleted it. On a first chat, I should have said hello first...

"Hello there."

"Hello~"

Nagasaki Suyo was lying in her darkened bedroom as usual, staring at the unchanging crychic homepage until she saw the news about Pochi. As expected, she came to ask me...

"Do you want to ask me something, Pochi-chan?"

"What happened in the past?"

You're so impatient, don't you know how to be more tactful? Nagasaki Suyo looked at the message sent by the other party coldly.

"A lot happened in the past. Didn't Xiao Deng tell you?"

"No, she...seems unwilling to talk about it."

"I see, Xiao Deng is such a delicate child, but it wouldn't be nice for me to say something she doesn't want to say."

"Is...I see."

"Sorry to bother you, Suyo-kun."

"It's fine."

After sending the message, I closed the chat box with Pochi and clicked on Cucumber's avatar. "Xiao Mu, are you free tomorrow?"

...

"Xiao Mu!" In the pavilion of Yuezhisen Girls' Academy, Nagasaki Suyo greeted the delicate girl outside who looked like a doll. "Sorry, I have something to ask you before the club activities."

The doll named Wakaba Mu stood aside. She probably knew why Su Shi was looking for her today.

"Please sit down." Nagasaki Suyo invited.

"Yeah." He responded, but didn't sit down.

Nagasaki Sushi's eyes were blurred. Why did Xiaomu always disobey? It was obviously for your own good. "Xiaoxiang, have you been contacted?"

Ruo Ye Mu just shook her head blankly. Xiang said that she should not contact her unless it was something particularly important.

It's really useless... "Really? I thought as a childhood sweetheart, you could get her to reply to messages." He stood up and walked to the side. "Xiaoxiang, where is she now? I wonder if she's doing well."

At the same time, he turned around to look at Xiao Mu, but she was still frozen in place, as if she hadn't heard what he said. Tsk...why was she so wooden? "It would have been nice if I could have asked her a few more questions on the day Xiao Xiang quit."

He observed Xiao Mu's reaction and just nodded, not wanting to say anything. He really looked like a puppet. "I'm sorry! Xiao Mu. It's not your fault."

"It's your fault!"

"By the way, I've joined a band. Although it's not confirmed yet, I want Lixi and Xiaodeng to join as well. What about Xiaomu? How about we go together after the club ends?"

"Today, we have to practice ballet."

"I see, we need to practice dancing." Mu was just avoiding it like this... "Of course, we can go back to the way we were before." He said this to Xiao Mu, and also to himself, "Leave it to me."

Back to the past... Ruo Yemu repeated these words in his heart. Even if he could form a new band, even if Li Xi and Deng came back.

Su Shi, you will never return to your gentle self, and Xiang will never return to the past, just like rain falling from the sky, it can never go back...

Chapter 8: Astronomy Department? Black Hole?

Toyokawa Shoko woke up in her old rental apartment, grabbed her phone, checked the time, and saw her alarm had a few minutes left. She sat up, rubbed her sleep-deprived eyes, and sat on the tatami, lost in thought.

Until the cell phone rang, Shoko Toyokawa quickly got up, dressed, pulled open the curtain that separated her sleeping space, and faced the new day.

Before going out, I looked at the blonde Gothic doll on the wall cabinet next to me and reminded myself, "The weak Shoko Toyokawa is dead."

...

"Good... morning, Toyokawa-san."

Shoko Toyokawa was sitting in her seat preparing the books she would need later. She heard someone calling her name for the first time in a long time. She looked up and saw that it was the cute girl who was willing to share her lunch box with her yesterday.

"Good morning, Ichiri, you can call me Xiangzi from now on." Suddenly I remembered the scene I saw in the music classroom after school yesterday, Pochi, Aine, and Deng were walking together.

Could it be that... "By the way, Yili, have you found a new band partner?" I would feel relieved if Deng was willing to come out and form a band with them.

"Yes, she's a girl from Tsukinomori." Goto Ichiri didn't notice that his expression froze when Tsukinomori Shoko was mentioned. "Her name is Nagasaki Motoyo."

"Is that so..." I tried hard not to frown, but my heart was in a mess.

Why did I hear her name here?

Why are you still pestering me?

Why do you trample on our last bit of dignity like this?!

why...

"Shoko-san... looks unhappy?" Even though he was not used to socializing, Goto Ichiri noticed that something was wrong with Shoko and spoke cautiously, "Did I say something wrong?"

"No, it has nothing to do with Ichiri-san."

"Yes...Is that so."

Does it have nothing to do with me? Well, we are just classmates who just met each other, and we just had a lunch box together. We are not even friends.

Thinking of this, Pochi lowered his head and walked past Toyokawa Shoko to his seat.

"No..." That's not what I meant...

Only then did Toyokawa Shoko realize that she had said the wrong thing. She turned around and wanted to say something, but Ichiri just lowered his head and seemed not to want to listen at all.

"My past weak self is dead!"

Thinking of this, I turned my head away. For me now, friendship is a luxury...

It was not until the teacher asked during class, "Goto-san? Are you okay?" that Xiangzi turned around to look at the slender girl again, only to find that she was standing there frozen as if she had lost all color.

"Ichiri-kun?!"

...

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you."

Finally, the get out of class was over and Shoko Toyokawa apologized to Pochi.

"It's okay, it's...I'm just too sensitive."

Goto Ichiri still kept his head down, not daring to look the other person in the eye.

As expected, she was still hurt. Like me, she was a child who was more delicate than the lamp in some aspects. In this case...

Toyokawa Shoko reached out and held Pochi's hand on the desk.

"Eh?" Pochi, unused to close contact, felt his hand suddenly grabbed. He instinctively pulled back, but he couldn't break free from the other person's grasp. "Uh...uh? Xiangzi-san?"

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have taken it out on you." Toyokawa Shoko leaned forward and apologized sincerely. But she didn't quite understand why she did that.

I clearly hurt Deng in the beginning, but I still can't even say the simplest words "I'm sorry". I'm really terrible...

"No...it's okay." Is it okay? He was just told that, but Xiangzi's indifference at that time was not fake. "Su Shi, you have formed a band with Xiangzi, right?"

When he heard the name he didn't want to hear again, he immediately wanted to let go, but this time she held him tightly.

"Can you...can you tell me what happened?"

Toyokawa Shoko opened her mouth, wanting to tell all the resentment she had felt since then about why she had to...

But in the end, he didn't say it out loud, "It's just... the band broke up."

"Really..." Goto Ichiri could see that the other party was still hiding something, but with her social skills, she didn't know what else to do.

"Well... can you go to the music classroom with me after school this afternoon?" Toyokawa Shoko looked at Ichiri who was keeping her head down and not saying anything, scratched her palm, and made an invitation.

"Music room?"

"Well, I wanted Ichiri to listen to me play the piano as a thank you for the lunch box yesterday."

"Eh? Okay...ok." Their hands were still holding together, and Yili nodded blankly and agreed.