Girls' Wishing Tree

Gao Mu took a bite.

Yoshinoya's food tastes just so-so.

But Gao Mu hadn't had a proper meal for a long time. After she became a human, she had only eaten some snacks given to her by others.

She ate a very filling bowl of beef rice, not leaving any of it.

"Another bowl." Although his stomach was already a little full, Gao Mu still wanted to eat a little more and enjoy the long-lost feeling of fullness.

The two working girls exchanged glances and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

Gao Mu was also able to observe them for a while longer.

The ligaments in the fingers of these two people are stretched, probably because they have been doing delicate and flexible work for a long time.

The most likely possibility is playing a musical instrument.

"Your beef rice is delicious, please enjoy it."

The short girl brought the meal to Gao Mu.

"Wait, can you play any musical instrument?" Gao Mu asked casually.

"...a little bit." The girl was a little surprised by this question, but didn't say much.

"I might open a music restaurant and I'd like to find a few staff members who understand music." Gao Mu made up an excuse and waved his phone. "I saw that your fingers must have practiced musical instruments, so I asked. Can I add your contact information?"

"No, we can just work here." The short-haired girl refused directly.

Gao Mu did not force it. After all, he could move freely within Tokyo now, and there was no shortage of girls who could provide shining points.

After finishing her second bowl of beef rice, she wandered around until late at night before returning to the shrine. At the edge of the shrine, she took out the key left to her by the old priest and opened the shop that the old priest had left for her.

This store is very small. Although it has two floors, each floor is only about 30 square meters. The first floor is an old grocery store with a strong Showa period flavor, and the second floor is a sleeping room and warehouse.

Behind the shelves on the first floor, Gao Mu also found a temporary bed. It seemed that the old priest had become seriously ill and even had difficulty climbing to the second floor.

Because no one has been in here for a while, the place is filled with the smell of dust.

If there are some music performances at the shrine in the future, this place can be converted into a ticket office and peripheral sales point.

Gao Mu thought of this and immediately took action - she now had a real document proving that "Miko Takagi Sakura" was the head of the Sakura God's Neighbor (9) Sanroku Kuisha Society. So, she only needed to cross-verify it with some forged documents to get a complete set of real identities, and then she could get a approval letter for the shrine renovation. After completion, she would use the renovation documents to register...

Of course, a complete renovation of the shrine would require a lot of money, so for the time being, her skill at forging documents would be used to create an identity for herself.

He was born when his parents were stationed in China. Later, his father died in a production accident and his mother passed away due to illness. He was adopted by a shrine in Hokkaido. Last year, he came to Tokyo, met an old priest, and was entrusted with the management of the Short Hill Sakura Shrine...

Based on the identity she had created for herself, she made some fake documents and planned to go to the management department the next day to use the fake ones to replace the real ones - mainly to have someone enter her into the electronic system so that there would be no doubt about her identity.

Gao Mu has already prepared herself mentally - from now on, she will be the shrine maiden Gao Muying.

It is also the great tree demon of the shrine and the wishing tree where girls can make their dreams come true.

-End of Volume 1-

Chapter 40 Dryad, Live and the Musical Girl: Conclusion of Volume 1

The first volume ends here. Thank you for your support.

Here, I would like to make a few explanations about this book based on questions raised by readers.

1. The timeline of this book basically uses the timeline of BangDream. The time when characters from other works are added is based on the needs of the plot.

The first volume ends shortly after Space shut down, CHU^2 was still recruiting, and Crychic hadn't yet been formed. Some of the characters' interactions have been tweaked, such as bringing forward the timeline of Deng and Lixi's acquaintance.

2. This book will not become a superpower combat series. The tree demon's spells, Minori's medicine, etc. are just side dishes. The main plot of this book is always the music girl.

3. This book will respect the original work in the composition of the bands in the first two volumes, but the subsequent plot will not be restricted to the groups in the original work, including MyGo, Mujica, Togetoge, and the members of the Bond Band will be different.

4. From now on, the name "Gao Mu" will only be used in some memories, and the name "Gao Mu Ying" recognized by the protagonist will be used mainly.

Thank you again for your support. I hope you can patiently listen to the author finish telling the story of Takagi Sakura. Thank you.

Chapter 41 Shrines, Festivals, and Monsters: 1. The Shrine Maiden Returns to Poverty

After becoming a giant tree demon, Takagi Sakura tried to communicate with the cherry tree.

Once she left the shrine, she would normally have no way of paying attention to what was happening inside the shrine.

But as long as you close your eyes and silently say "return to the original body" in your heart, you can instantly return to the shrine and your perspective will change to that of the cherry blossom trees.

In "out-of-body simulation", the consciousness will jump back to the place it had previously reached.

It was just her guess that when the consciousness returned to the shrine, the body outside would faint.

She tried it once in the shop left by the old priest. After her consciousness jumped back to the shrine and then jumped out, her body, which was originally standing in the shop, was lying on the ground.

She tried another situation, where her body stayed in the grocery store, her consciousness returned to the cherry tree, and then she forcibly summoned her body again at the cherry tree.

then……

Her body was summoned, but it was naked. When she put on her shrine maiden costume and ran to the grocery store, she found the casual clothes she had worn before were lying on the floor of the grocery store.

It seems that if it is not necessary, you should not play this trick - if you disappear with a "pia" in front of your friends, leaving only a few pieces of clothes, it would be a scene from a horror movie.

The functions of the system have also become more complete. In addition to the violin, there is also a system space the size of a small suitcase. Although it cannot accommodate larger instruments such as guitars, it can hold personal items such as mobile phones. At least I don’t have to carry a bag when going out like other girls.

On the interface, there are additional queries for making options and personal skill lists. In addition, there is also a targeted skill extraction function.

Spending more Shining Points may allow you to extract skills in a targeted manner. Each time the range is narrowed, the required Shining Points will be doubled. If you lock in a skill for purchase, the Shining Points will be eight times higher.

For example, 500 points can be used to draw an intermediate skill. To draw an intermediate art skill, the points are doubled to 1000 points. To lock in a performance skill, the points are doubled again to 2000 points. To lock in "bamboo flute performance" alone, the points required reach 4000 points, which is eight times that of a completely random selection.

Sakura Takagi took the forged junior high school diploma and the shrine registration documents that the old priest had helped her to get, and ran to the police station and said that she had lost her IDCard.

Although the police station staff could not find Takagi Sakura's identity information on the online system, it was normal for colleagues in Hokkaido to make mistakes. After Takagi Sakura produced a forged birth certificate, the police station staff apologized to her and asked her to fill out the form to register her identity again.

She only used half of those forged documents and already obtained Takagi Sakura's legal identity.

Now, she is Takagi Sakura, who became a professional shrine maiden after graduating from junior high school and inherited a small shrine in Tokyo. She just turned 17.

Life is really beautiful.

Sakura Takagi returned to the shrine carrying a large bag of purchased items, only to find that all the members of PasPale were waiting for her at the shrine.

"Xiaoying!" Maruyama Cai rushed towards Gao Muying and hugged her tightly: "PasPale is alive!"

"Yeah, I saw it all." Takagi Sakura watched the whole process on her mobile phone the night before.

In Maruyama Aya's eyes, Takagi Sakura was admitting that she had been to the scene.

"Thank you... You did this for us..." Maruyama Aya said this, then realized something and stopped talking.

Sakura was supposed to be at the old priest's wake, but she'd broken her vows because of her. Seeing how she went on a shopping spree today, she must have been feeling pent up at the shrine. But if someone from PasPale pointed this out, it would be a bit naive.

No matter what, they will remember Takagi Sakura's help.

Maruyama Aya let go of Takagi Sakura, but still held her hand: "Sakura, you will always be the sixth person of PasPale!"

"Don't talk about the sixth person or anything like that." Sakura smiled at Maruyama Aya. "Just remember to come here often. I plan to turn this shrine into a venue for girl bands. But unlike LiveHouse, we'll hold a few music festivals here every year, and usually sell some amulets and girl band peripherals to maintain the shrine's operations. By the way, next time I have time, I'll go talk to your office and see if we can get some PasPale peripherals."

"I'll go talk to the agency." Bai Lu Qiansheng agreed. "It shouldn't be a problem. The agency just wants to expand PasPale's visibility."

"Well, thank you Qiansheng. Let me put my things down and I'll make tea for you." Takagi Sakura walked towards the bedroom.

"Sakura, let me get you a bag." Maruyama Aya took a bag from Takagi Sakura's hand.

Her purchases were simple: a few changes of clothes and some snacks.

She placed the bag of snacks directly in the corner of the bedroom.

"Sakura, can I come in?" Maruyama Cai stopped at the door and asked.

"It's okay, it's just where I usually rest." Takagi Sakura waved to Maruyama Aya to follow in, took the bag from her, took out the newly bought clothes, and put them into the empty old closet.

Watching Sakura Takagi put clothes into the closet one by one, Aya Maruyama's eyes became more and more surprised.

These clothes were too androgynous. She even saw a plaid shirt. The only skirt was a plain-colored, knee-length skirt.

"Sakura, the clothes you bought... don't look like clothes girls of our age would wear." Maruyama Aya said, "If you want to buy clothes, you can let me help you with some advice."

A head popped in from outside the door: "Cai, Ying, what's wrong?"

"Hina, Cai said that my taste in clothes is not good." Gao Muying glanced at the wardrobe: "It may not be very good, but I don't think it matters."

"How can a girl say clothes don't matter?" Hinata came in and started looking through the clothes Sakura Takagi bought. The more she looked, the uglier her expression became. She walked to the door and waved outside, "Xiao Qiansheng, come and take a look at the clothes Sakura bought. They don't look like what girls should wear at all!"

Sakura Takagi didn't know what was going on. The pleasant chat suddenly turned into a "criticism meeting" of her fashion sense by the PasPale members.

Except for the somewhat shy Yamato Maya, the remaining four girls all expressed their dissatisfaction with Takagi Sakura's clothing purchases. Hina even said, "The money you spent will cry if she knows she used it to buy these clothes."

The "extremely evil" Sakura Takagi was "escorted" out of the shrine by five people and taken to a clothing store.

When they came out again, they were carrying more than a dozen sets of clothes, and the money that Takagi Sakura found in the grocery store had been spent.

The clothes I bought based on the recommendations of PasPale members were almost all cute little skirts with various laces and patterns. Even the underwear was of very girlish styles.

Takagi Sakura folded the clothes and put them in the closet, her cheeks already flushed - they were so different from her dressing style in her previous life.

Moreover, we are now faced with another problem.

No money.

In the grocery store left by the old priest, she found more than 200,000 yen. She originally only spent about 40,000 yen on snacks and clothes, but PasPale took her and spent all the rest.

If she lives on her own, she can go without food and drink, but expanding the shrine, purchasing equipment, renovating the store, and holding festivals all require financial support.

You can't just wait and take the money out of the prize box, right?

She spent the whole night thinking about the little dress that filled half of her closet. She thought about taking her bass and going out as a backup musician, and she thought about being a plagiarist and selling her best-selling novels from her previous life, but in the end she didn't have any good ideas.

If you can't figure it out, then forget it. Just take your bass and go out tomorrow to try your luck.

Thinking this, Takagi Sakura did not crawl into the tree, but lay on the bed and fell asleep like a human.

Chapter 42 Shrines, Festivals, and Monsters: 2. Supporting the Bassist

A girl wearing a dress and carrying a bass guitar walked on the streets of Tokyo. In order to distinguish herself from her shrine maiden identity, she tied her hair into a ponytail, fixed her bangs with a hairpin, and wore a pair of sunglasses.

She still looked at the street scene with curiosity, her eyes constantly glancing back and forth between the building signs.

During her girl band days, her image wasn't particularly eye-catching, but it seemed like... passersby looked at her a little strangely.

It wasn't until she reached the shopping street that she realized what was going on.

When the two Sakura girls walked past her, they discussed her in no low voices.

"This guy looks like a country bumpkin who just arrived in Tokyo. He keeps looking around in the shopping streets."

"There's nothing to do in the countryside now, so I have no choice but to come to Tokyo. There are so many people from the countryside..."

Takagi Sakura secretly summoned a tree root as they passed by, but unfortunately only one person kicked it and almost fell to the ground, but was pulled by another person.

Seeing the girl squatting on the ground rubbing her ankle after nearly tripping, Takagi Sakura sighed with a hint of regret and continued walking forward. Not long after, she saw a LiveHouse.

Go in and try your luck.

Sakura Takagi pushed open the door of the LiveHouse called "Galaxy". The lights inside were a little dim. There were several performance notices posted along the corridor. The most eye-catching one was Roselia's, and there were also several small bands co-hosting performances.

In the era of big girl bands, there were really a lot of girls playing in bands.

"Um...this person...if you want to buy tickets, you can come here. There's a performance by Afterglow today--" A girl with dark hair gathered to one side of her shoulder and tied into a low side ponytail, wearing big-rimmed glasses and a school uniform, walked up to Takagi Sakura and guided her.

There was also a dialog box next to her head.

"I wanted to see if there were any bands that needed support for their bass player."

"Ah, are you the support musicians? The bulletin board for finding support musicians is over here—" The girl took Takagi Sakura to another less conspicuous bulletin board.

Takagi Sakura continued to chat with the girl while looking at the announcement: "Are there many bands here that need support musicians?"

"Well... if a newly formed band doesn't have all the members or a band member has something to do, it's normal to find backup musicians."

Among the notices on the wall, most were looking for a bassist and a drummer, and there wasn't a single notice looking for a guitarist.

Sure enough, the guitar is like the sword in martial arts novels. No matter which novel it is, there is always a shortage of knights wielding swords.

"Can you recommend me one or two bands that need a bassist?" Takagi Sakura took a look and found that most of the bands looking for bassists did not describe their requirements very clearly. One band even only wrote "female, alive, and can play bass."

In this case, you definitely need to go for an interview. If you can find someone to guide you, you can save a lot of effort.

"Ah... uh... that..." The girl standing next to Takagi Sakura hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "I'm not sure which band is suitable."

"Oh? You work here, right? Do you play in a band yourself?" Takagi Sakura asked casually.

"So... it's just for fun."

Before the girl could say anything more, Takagi Sakura continued, "Since you used to be in a band, you should have a basic appreciation for bands, right? I just want to find a band that's not too watery or too gloomy to be my backup bassist. Please!"