Girls' Wishing Tree

"Hey, Sakura, I'll take care of Momoka's affairs." Nina's voice was a little trembling, but the trembling was not from fear or nervousness, but because she was too worried about Momoka, and her throat was a little tight.

"Nina, listen to me first. If Momoka isn't feeling well, let her rest. We can talk about the band when you come back. At least you did well in this performance, right?"

There was silence on the other end of the line for a few seconds before Nina's voice continued, "Yakura, you don't know the situation right now. I have to resolve Momoka's issue, otherwise there will be no chance to resolve it. If we return to Tokyo, Momoka will definitely choose to leave. By the way, what is Sakura's reason for playing musical instruments?"

"What else do you need a reason to play an instrument? What are you trying to do now? Taoxiang is drunk, and your communication with her won't be very effective."

"Yeah, you don't need a reason to play in a band." Renai said and hung up the phone.

"Nina, why did you call Sakura directly?" Hongxia grabbed Nina's wrist and said, "Let's not irritate Momoka anymore. She doesn't want to quit the band. Talking about quitting must be very painful for her."

"After talking to Miss Miya, I already know what's going on. I have to say it." Nina pried Hongxia's hand away. "Momoka is someone chosen by the stage. Only when she steps onto the stage will her life shine. It's not just her, it's the same for all five of us!"

"Nina..." Zhi took two steps forward: "Can we talk about it when we get back? Momoka is so drunk now-ah!"

Taoxiang crawled in front of Renna and lifted up her skirt.

Fortunately, there were no passers-by around, so Rencai was spared the embarrassment of exposing herself.

Rencai held the hem of her skirt with both hands and said angrily, "Momoka, don't do weird things after drinking!"

"I didn't drink... not a drop..." Momoka hugged Renai's thighs.

Because Momoka is taller than Nina, this action seems a bit funny. If they were not both girls, this action would have been considered "harassment".

"Get up." Rencai held Momoka's shoulders and pulled her up.

Then, he grabbed her wrist.

"Huh?" Momoka seemed a little surprised by Renai's actions.

"There's a fireworks show being prepared for the end of the music festival by the lake. If we go there now, we can still catch it." Rencai explained only this one sentence and started running with Momoka in tow.

Taoxiang was drunk and ran staggeringly, like a monster in some zombie game.

This strange combination naturally attracted the attention of passers-by. Fortunately, there is no shortage of performance art at occasions like music festivals.

Renai dragged the drunk Momoka all the way to the lake. They both held onto the railings, breathing heavily, and Momoka even vomited while holding onto the railings.

"Hey, you guy--" After vomiting, Taoxiang stared at Rencai with a little resentment.

"Bang-bang!" Fireworks in the distance quickly flew into the sky, exploding into bright spots of light.

The night wind blew across the lake, bringing a hint of coolness. The surface of the lake was sparkling, reflecting the fireworks of the music festival.

"Momoka, look." Rencai said softly, trying to divert Momoka's attention: "These fireworks are so beautiful."

Taoxiang swayed a bit, holding onto the railing to avoid falling. Her eyes were a little blurry, but she managed to raise her head, shifting her focus from the lake to the sky, watching the fireworks continue to rise.

These fireworks will explode when they reach a certain height, and then dissipate into the night sky with a "bang", leaving only the echo on the lake.

"Yes... very beautiful." Taoxiang's voice was a little hoarse, and she was a little drunk.

Nina sighed and put her arm around Momoka's shoulders, "It's not time for us to give up yet. We haven't released an album together, haven't been to the Budokan together, haven't defeated DiamondDust... We haven't proven that Momoka's music is the best!"

Momoka suddenly hugged Renai with such strength that her fingers dug into the flesh of Renai's shoulders.

Nina was slightly taken aback, but she remained calm: "Momoka, you belong on the stage, you... belong to me."

"I..." Taoxiang's voice choked. She didn't know if it was because of being drunk, running, or something else, but her eyes were bloodshot. "I just feel so tired, so tired."

Fireworks continued to bloom in the night sky, illuminating the two people hugging each other. Nina said nothing more, just gently patted Momoka's back.

Taoxiang trembled slightly, and finally relaxed her strength. She lay on top of Rencai and whispered, "I... I'm not drunk."

Renai was stunned for a moment, then smiled helplessly: "Okay, Momoka isn't drunk, so can we make a big splash in the music world like fireworks? Even if we are destined to explode like fireworks, we will use Momoka's music to leave claw marks on the world."

Taoxiang didn't say anything. She let go of Renai and held the railing with one hand. The fireworks show had entered the most critical stage at this time.

A large number of fireworks rushed towards the sky, painting a colorful picture in the night sky. At this moment, both of them were immersed in the beauty of the fireworks, as if time had stood still.

The two stood quietly by the lake, watching the last firework bloom in the night sky and then slowly go out. The night breeze blew, bringing a hint of coolness, but it made them both feel warm.

Twenty meters away from the two of them, Hong Xia silently turned around and left.

When she saw Momoka and Nina's embrace turned into silhouettes in the fireworks, she knew that Momoka might not be able to quit the team this time.

-End of Volume 3-

Chapter 152 Harvest, Band and BangDream: Volume 4 Frontispiece

Starting from this volume, the plot of MyGo and Mujica will be completely rewritten, which can be said to be completely different from the original work. The protagonist will also officially start to form his own band.

The character design will stick to the original, but we will try our best to eliminate the bugs in the original in Mujica.

This volume will also thoroughly address system-related issues.

Thank you for the support of friends who see here.

Chapter 153 Harvest, Band and BangDream: 1. Drummer Interview

Half a month had passed quickly since the night Crychic disbanded.

In Sakura's shrine, the main construction of the small building has been completed.

According to the drawings, the first floor of the small building has two rehearsal rooms, two dressing rooms, and an equipment room. The original rehearsal room was converted into a dormitory room. The second floor has three bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, living room and other living areas. Half of the top floor is a platform for watching the moon and drinking afternoon tea, and the other half is a large conference room.

The underground part has also been excavated, and before the autumn harvest festival, a Live House that can accommodate 240 people will be built.

There are two passages in the underground part, one for entering and exiting from the small building, and the other is an emergency passage, which is opened next to the roots of the cherry tree.

During this period, none of the former members of Crychic came to the shrine, and Sakura did not take the initiative to look for them. Only Hikawa Hina came to mention Shiina Riki's situation, and she heard it from Shiina Maki.

After Crychic disbanded, Shiina Riki seemed a little depressed, but still within normal limits. However, Shiina Maki was a little worried about her sister, so she asked Hina to talk to Sakura.

Sakura told Hinayana that Crychic was over and she could talk to Riki at any time. But until today, no one from Crychic, including Riki, had come to see her.

Crychic probably really did break up.

As for Momoka, she stopped wanting to disband after returning from the music festival and even asked Sakura to recruit a professional agent to help them with their business activities. However, Sakura always felt that the atmosphere in the band was a little off, but she couldn't put her finger on what was wrong.

Ying had no choice but to help them sign up for the BangDream competition, and the band name they used was "Boxed Hedgehog" - it sounded a bit confusing, but after thinking about it, they couldn't think of an official name, so they could only come up with a temporary band name to deal with it.

The competition has already begun. Roselia currently occupies the first place, and RAS is also catching up very quickly. It is difficult to win a ranking now. Letting Taoxiang and the others participate in the competition is more to allow them to increase their tacit understanding through running-in and prepare for their first commercial album.

Even though Taoxiang was a little anxious about the band's commercial performance, she still agreed to promote the process of bringing the band into the public eye.

Ying continued with her musician interview program. This time, she invited Miao Meng, whom she had promised to meet before.

Because Miao Meng is not very famous as a musician, Ying also found another drummer, Roselia's drummer Yazi.

These two drummers are both very suitable for the interview program of Ershan Zero (Four) 7 Umbrellas - Miao Meng is a beauty anchor, and Yazi is a typical "middle school girl".

In other words, they have topics to talk about outside of the band, and the general audience likes to watch them.

Sakura feels a certain amount of pressure to be a drummer in this show.

The reason is that the audience’s recognition of the guitarists interviewed previously was relatively high.

Even if they don't understand rock music or the band, the audience will have some understanding of the guitarist in their minds.

At the front of the stage, the guitarist makes exaggerated movements with his guitar, putting on a "guitar face", and uses techniques such as high-speed tapping to play explosive music during the interlude. This image can be said to be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

But the drummer often sits at the end of the band and may even need a drum shield to prevent the drum sound from affecting the recording of other instruments.

Not many people know that the drummer's drum set is quite complicated. They only know that the long-haired big brother or sister at the end of the band is dancing with two wooden sticks.

They don't even know that the drummer is not shaking his legs, but that the two bottom drums are struck by pedals.

Ordinary people’s low awareness of drummers also brings about another problem – insufficient appreciation of drums.

For instruments like violin and erhu, if you don't have a basic foundation, it's better to play the saw on stage. It's relatively easy to produce a single note for instruments like guitar and keyboard, but it takes a long time to produce continuous music for guitar and keyboard.

To put it simply, users of ordinary musical instruments, even if the audience does not know how to play any instrument, can roughly know the value of the music just by listening for a few seconds.

But if you play drums, it is easy to give people the illusion that "I can do it too."

Even if a drummer performs a particularly wonderful performance, if there is no cooperation from other instruments, many people will just think it is "fast drumming."

So Ying selected two popular drummers and interspersed drumming-related content into interviews with the drummers to make a program with a popular science nature.

Ying looked over her draft of the question again and felt that the words on the screen were about to be distorted - it was indeed very difficult to strike the right balance here.

Her talk show became popular because of her nice songs and a certain level of professionalism.

It's hard to guarantee that a science program won't compromise professionalism. If a program interviewing drummers is made particularly professional, the audience won't be as broad as a program interviewing guitarists.

"Sayu, you're the drummer, come and help me look at this manuscript." Sakura rubbed her temples and called Sayu who was cleaning nearby.

"Sakura has been revising this manuscript for three days, and I have read it five times." Sayu put down the broom, stood beside Sakura, and reminded her in a low voice.

Sakura looked up at Sayu. "I've never been satisfied. The first draft felt like it was just about interesting things in life, and it turned into a daily interview. The second draft added career-related questions, but the transition was abrupt. The third draft integrated the questions a bit, but it felt like their answers were not controllable during the interview. The fourth draft was a bit too professional..."

The mouse pointer is on the file "Drummer Interview Revised Draft 8", and there are more than ten similar files in this folder.

"How about... Sakura, should we just use the first draft?" Sayu cautiously suggested.

"Sayu, do you think the first draft is the best? Can you tell me why?" Sakura's eyes lit up.

Sayu quickly waved her hands. "No... I just saw someone online complaining about the company, saying that the more revisions a draft has, the higher the chances of using the first draft... Well... I didn't mean to offend you, I just said it as I thought."

"It's okay." Sakura closed her laptop. "If I were interviewing a bassist, I could tell a whole series of bass jokes, but drummers don't even have any jokes to tell—Say, Sayu, you won't blame me for letting you practice drums, will you?"

"Of course not. I've learned a little bit of drumming before, and... I also like playing drums. It feels like a kind of... release."

"After school, the lead singer named Kita and Mahiro will be here, right?"

Although she didn't know why Sakura suddenly changed the subject, Sayu nodded and said, "Um... yes, I'd like you to see if we can form a band together."

"Your band is your business." Ying stretched, "But it's okay for me to help you check it out."

Chapter 154 Harvest, Band and BangDream: 2. The Escaped New Member

The two girls walked up the steps of the shrine.

The girl walking in front was shorter, less than 1.5 meters tall, with a tuft of alopecia on her head, while the red-haired girl walking behind looked a little nervous, always unconsciously looking around.

"Mahiro, this is... the shrine you mentioned, right? I've never heard of it before. It was only after I looked it up online that I realized it's actually very popular. Many middle school students come here to pray..." The red-haired girl was looking for a topic nervously.

"This shrine... is indeed very popular." Mahiro lifted her short legs and climbed up another step. "Kita, the miko is a very magical person, and... can really communicate with the gods."

"Communicate... communicate with the Lord God?" The red-haired girl called "Kita" seemed a little scared, and her already hesitant tone trembled a little.

When Shinichi first met Sakura, Sakura could tell that she had a male destiny in the past.

Although Sakura might have been joking, the fact that she could make such a joke showed that the shrine maiden was genuine, and this was proven in the subsequent exchanges.

Sakura taught him a lot about composition and arrangement, and even recommended drummer Sayu as a teammate. Whenever he was feeling down, he would come to the shrine and Sakura would counsel him in a targeted manner, and sometimes he could even hear the voice of the gods.

Perhaps due to Sakura's influence, Shinichi has now decided to say goodbye to his past life.

The first time she was drugged by Meibori, she was a little resistant, but now she has taken the initiative to ask Meibori to refill the potion.

Maybe it's the awakening of the soft part of my heart.

"Yes, communicate with the gods. The gods are very gentle. If you have the opportunity to receive guidance from the gods, it is a very lucky thing."

Kita seemed even more uncomfortable, and she walked the last few steps slowly, as if something terrible would happen if she crossed the torii gate.

But it was only a short distance, and Kita couldn't delay it for too long anyway.

As Kita walked past the torii gate, he saw this scene: a girl in a shrine maiden's costume was standing in the yard, chatting with two girls in school uniforms.

There may be some controversy as to whether the girl in the shrine maiden's costume is petite, but she is definitely not tall. Her cherry blossom-colored hair falls on her shoulders, as if she has saved the cherry blossoms that bloom in spring until after the flowering season.

With just one glance, Kita matched the girl's image with the "Takagi Sakura" she had heard about.

With a friendly smile and a soft but not sticky expression, she is simply the embodiment of the cherry blossom elf.

Even though they were both girls, Kita had to admit that Takagi Sakura was overwhelmingly cute.

"You can use horoscopes and the like as a reference, but you can't trust them completely. People are complex, and you can't draw conclusions based solely on their birthdates. Take, for example, Germany's Bismarck and Russia's Gogol. Both were born on April 1st, but Bismarck was six years younger than Gogol, yet their personalities were completely different. Bismarck was a representative of power and conservatism in Europe at the time, but Gogol's early and middle works contained a strong critical stance towards the old system..."

Kita had no idea what Sakura was saying, but the two girls in front of Sakura nodded repeatedly, probably very satisfied with the shrine maiden's answer.

Mahiro and Kita waited under the cherry tree for a while. Sakura saw them and chatted with the tourists. Then she came over and said, "Mahiro, these are the band members you found. Can you introduce them to me?"

"Ah! Okay!" Shinhiro seemed a little nervous, grabbing the straps of his schoolbag with both hands. "This is Kita, the guitarist we found! We asked her to come here today because we want to form a band!"

Kita tried to hide behind Mahiro, but soon found that Mahiro's small body could not block her figure.

So she could only bite the bullet and stand behind Mahiro: "Um... you must be Takagi Sakura, right? Hello, just call me Kita."

"Hello, Kita. You can call me Sakura-chan or just Sakura, just like Mahiro. Sayu is adjusting the equipment inside, why don't you try playing an ensemble together later?"

At the word "ensemble", Kita stood up straight: "Um... my guitar... is broken and is being repaired at the music store. I didn't bring my guitar, so there's no way I can play together..."

No wonder Kita is holding a bass in the photo, it turns out that his guitar is on strike.