What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

After that, the girl followed Si Ji, watching him busying around between the shelves, and she was too flustered to help.

"Okay, that's about it, let's go back."

After comforting the girl who kept apologizing for not being able to help, Si Ji went to the cashier to pay the bill.

"I, I'll pay part of it too." Seeing Si Ji was about to pay, the girl also took out her wallet.

"No thanks, just consider this meal as my payment for the ticket you gave me."

But Si Ji politely rejected her. Then, in order to prevent the girl from feeling that she had done nothing and falling into her previous state of self-doubt, Si Ji gave her a shopping bag to carry.

Sure enough, after picking up the heavy shopping bags, the girl's originally panicked expression became much more at ease.

After returning to STARRY, Yamada Ryo immediately surrounded him: "Rice balls, crab sticks, fish roe, lucky bags, hot spring eggs, and even red bean milkshake stuffed taiyaki ice cream and tea... All of this stuff, I can't satisfy my taste buds, Yamada-sama, with just these cheap things! Ahhhhhh..."

"You say that, but Ryo has already started eating the potato salad inside..." Ijichi Hongxia complained.

"What?! If you're not careful, your hands will..."

As Yamada Ryo said this, he reached out for the most expensive Japanese steak bento in the two bags.

But this time he was blocked by Si Ji.

"Before the evening performance starts, you can borrow some equipment to practice ensemble and get used to the stage. I need to take care of these things and give you a surprise later."

他笑眯眯地说道。

But that smile was filled with such unquestionable courage that even a self-centered person like Yamada Ryo was frightened for a moment, and he obediently ran to the stage to practice with Ichichi Hongxia and the others.

Ordinary bands don't have the conditions to practice here, but thanks to Ichichi Hongka's elder sister Ichichi Hoshika, who is the manager of STARRY, we are able to receive this preferential treatment.

Having said that, because it is an open kitchen, even when Shiki is cooking there, she can still hear the girls' ensemble. Similarly, the girls can naturally smell the aroma coming from the beverage corner.

It was obviously not long since lunch time and still early for dinner, but soon, as the rich fragrance filled the house, the girls all felt genuinely hungry and their saliva could not stop flowing. But even if it was just for the sake of their girlish modesty, they could only swallow their saliva back into their stomachs.

It was extremely torturous to practice playing the instrument while fighting off this increasingly strong appetite.

After a long time, Siji said faintly, "It's done." The girls immediately put down their instruments as if they had been pardoned, and quickly surrounded Siji like zombies attracted by fresh life.

"Although it's just a simple dish, I still hope you enjoy it." Shiki pushed a few paper bowls from a convenience store in front of the girls.

The bowl exudes a rich and delicious aroma that makes your mouth water, and it is somewhat similar to a dish called porridge.

"Seafood and Land Treasures Rice Soup, Enjoy It."

"Is it my illusion? It feels like these bowls of rice in tea are glowing..."

Ichichi Hongxia swallowed and asked subconsciously.

"You must have seen it wrong. There is no fluorescent agent added, so how can the food glow?"

Shiki said loudly with a harmless smile on his face.

Seeing that he was so sure, Yidi Chi Hongxia temporarily put aside her doubts and carefully scooped a spoonful to taste it.

The next moment, the girl's eyes narrowed happily, and a faint blush of enjoyment appeared on her face.

"Is it tea rice made from rice balls and rice from bento? The eight delicacies, do they refer to eight ingredients like fish roe, crab sticks, and matsutake mushrooms... The idea is pretty good." Yamada Ryo wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, immediately picked up a disposable spoon, gently scooped a large spoonful into his mouth, and said incoherently: "Let me be the judge!"

But after that, she never spoke again, but just hurriedly put spoonful of rice soaked in tea into her mouth, like an efficient and precise instrument.

"Delicious." Goto Ichiri also tried the tea rice, and was naturally amazed by the combination of four seasons. The girl could not imagine that those fast foods that looked quite cheap could become so delicious after being properly cooked together.

But after all, she was one of the people who had enjoyed high-end ingredients in the gourmet world at that celebration banquet. After tasting that kind of beyond-the-limit deliciousness, she naturally had a certain degree of resistance to this kind of ordinary delicacy, so she did not lose her composure like her two friends.

"It feels like a very gentle scent." The pink-haired girl said softly.

"Is this your dish too?"

Soon, Yamada Ryo finished her portion of rice over tea at lightning speed and turned her eyes to the small disposable paper plate that Shiki had placed aside.

"This? This is dried squid with peanut butter, just a test product," Si Ji touched his chin, "It may taste a little bit..."

"It's okay, I'm not polite either!"

The blue-haired girl with teardrops picked up one with a toothpick and put it into her mouth without hesitation: "Hmm, the peanut butter is sweet but not fragrant, which highlights the fishy smell of the dried squid. The dry but not tough dried squid also makes the peanut butter more sticky. It's very delicious... Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh..."

The beautiful girl with an iron stomach who can even digest weeds, Ryo Yamada, has died!

Chapter 133 Kitchen Waste

Fortunately, the peanut butter dried squid just tasted terrible and was not poisonous itself, so after recovering, Yamada Ryo returned to normal. However, when he looked at the plate of dried squid, there was still an undisguised fear in his eyes.

"It's just something unpalatable. Your reaction is really scary, Ryo."

Having just watched her best friend fall straight down, Ichichi Hongxia couldn't help but complain to Yamada Ryo: "I almost called the emergency number."

"No, Hongxia, you don't understand. That feeling is just too terrifying."

Yamada Ryo said succinctly: "It's like being tightly wrapped by the tentacles of a giant squid and dragged into the deep sea..."

Ijichi Hongxia didn't know what to say for a moment. She and Yamada Ryo had known each other for quite a long time, but this was the first time she saw fear in the other's eyes.

It seems that the lethality of peanut butter dried squid is indeed quite impressive.

So the considerate girl showed a cheerful expression and changed the subject: "By the way, did Washimiya-kun listen to our performance just now? How did you feel about it?"

“It’s quite touching.”

Si Ji, who was staring at the peanut butter dried squid and seemed to be thinking about something, came back to his senses and said seriously.

"Oh? So you think it's pretty good?"

The blonde girl suddenly smiled brightly, and her smile was so bright that it seemed as if the dim STARRY had become much brighter.

"In fact, I have been busy with some personal matters in the past two years. I hardly have any time to rest. I have been jumping back and forth between overwork and sudden death. For a while, I felt like I was buried alive by endless work. I was in a dark and narrow space. Even breathing became a luxury."

Si Ji looked at the dark ceiling. His originally introverted and gloomy appearance now looked even gloomier. He sighed sincerely, "Just now, listening to your ensemble, I felt the suffocation I haven't felt for a long time..."

"We can say we played badly."

Ichichi Hongxia puffed up her cheeks, and her expression turned into a cute, puffy look: "No need to take such a big detour!"

After being silent for half a second, Yamada Ryosuke suddenly realized.

"So, we should play despair-style death heavy metal rock, right?"

"No, no, no, that's absolutely not the case! That's definitely not a style that ordinary high school girls like us can pull off! Ryo, don't let the band go down a weird path just because you think it's fun!"

Ijichi Hongxia quickly complained about her best friend who had a strange way of thinking and told her not to have any bad ideas.

Goto Ichiri looked at Shiki's back with some surprise and worry.

However, Shiki seemed to have eyes on his back and suddenly turned around to look at Goto Ichiri.

"What's wrong, Ichiri?"

The girl panicked for a moment and subconsciously lowered her head to hide her expression. But after a while, she carefully raised her face to look at Shiki and said softly, "Well, I just didn't expect that Washimiya-kun, who always seemed so confident and as if nothing could stop him, would have such a difficult time."

Si Ji couldn't help but laugh: "I'm not a superman, of course I'll encounter difficulties. Apart from other things, if I just look at my guitar skills, I'm far inferior to you, Yili."

"Hehehe, it seems like that," the girl scratched her head embarrassedly, "I just have this feeling, I feel safe around Washimiya-kun..."

Suddenly realizing that there seemed to be some ambiguity in her words, the girl blushed again and shook her head hurriedly: "Ah, no, no, no, that's not what I meant, it's just that..."

"'If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up', right." Si Ji said considerately.

"Yes, that's what it means!"

Goto Ichiri nodded vigorously.

It seems that this girl’s Chinese performance is a bit poor.

"But Washimiya-kun is indeed very humble. He knows so many things, has a wide network of contacts, and cooks delicious food. He seems to be completely different from those boys in the class who are always showing off like children."

Ichichi Hongxia said.

Si Ji said calmly: "Someone once said, 'The more ignorant a person is, the more he thinks he knows everything; the more incompetent a person is, the more he thinks he can do anything'..."

"Oh, it sounds like a very reasonable proverb." The golden-haired girl immediately wondered whether she should write this sentence down.

"——BY Washimiya Shiki." Shiki continued lightly.

"You said it yourself!" the girl said with an embarrassed expression.

"5 points, as a comedian." Yamada Ryo was scoring seriously on the side.

"I don't plan to be a comedian!" Hongxia glared at Yamada Ryo in dissatisfaction.

"95 points, as a warm-up performance," Yamada Ryo continued.

"So it's based on a 100-point system? No, I didn't plan to use manzai as a warm-up content!"

Ijichi Hongxia's eyebrows were raised and she looked even angrier. It was a pity that she always showed a gentle image and even when she was angry, she seemed soft and not very intimidating.

"It's Pochi's turn next, come warm up the stage."

Yamada Ryo decisively ignored her best friend's cute anger and turned her attention to Goto Ichiri, who was shaking his body like a garden eel, seemingly hesitating whether to join the conversation.

"Eh, eh, eh? I, I want one too?"

After being stunned for a moment, the girl put her hands together and stretched them forward, leaning her body forward, and in order to maintain balance, she stretched her right foot backward.

Then she kept this action and tried to shout in a cute soft voice: "sa~ka~na~"

The whole scene was silent for three seconds.

"0 o'clock, as a comedian."

The very strict Ryo Yamada-sensei gave his own ratings.

"Oh... As expected, I am just a recyclable garbage..." Goto Ichiri sniffed and walked towards the trash can.

"Wait, wait a minute! Don't hide in the trash can, Pochi-chan!" Hongxia hurriedly stopped him, while constantly winking at Yamada Ryo.

The latter immediately understood what she meant and added.

"That's right, Little Bo the Wizard is not recyclable garbage!" she said in a loud voice.

"Liang, Liang-senpai..." A glimmer of hope appeared on Goto Ichiri's face again.

"According to the classification, you should be kitchen waste!" Yamada Ryo continued in a shocking voice: "And there is no trash can for kitchen waste in STARRY, it hurts..."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Hong Xia used Chestnut to stop the other party from continuing speaking and was so angry that her hair was about to stand on end.

“…Ahaha, I see. There’s not even a trash can here that can hold me.” Goto Ichiri’s entire body turned gray.

"I will be responsible for dealing with the leftover kitchen waste. Yili, come over to my side." Si Ji waved to the girl, and the dazed girl came to him obediently.

"Today's performance hasn't even started yet, don't suddenly kidnap my guitarist!"

On this day, Ichichi Kouka's tired voice echoed in STARRY.

Chapter 134 Storage Fees

After returning to Washimiya-ryo, Shiki lay down on the tatami, relaxing from the fatigue of the first day of the Golden Week holiday.

I don't know if the previous rehearsals have improved the girls' proficiency in playing together - of course, it may also be that Hong Xia's threat that "whoever has problems in the official performance will be responsible for dealing with the remaining peanut butter and dried squid" played a role. In short, in the official performance not long ago, the girls who finished the band performed quite well.

Although it can't compare with those underground bands who make a living by doing this, let alone those professionals, it is barely qualified as an amateur warm-up band.

Not only has he witnessed their rehearsals several times, but he can also tell from the calluses on the girls' fingertips that they have not wasted their time and have been practicing hard. However, for various reasons, things are not going well. Si Ji actually does want to help them.

It's just that he really has no skills in music. The system mall has had related skills in the past. His goal over the past four seasons has been to save money to buy Gundam, so all these "unnecessary" skills in life have been ignored by him.

After meeting Goto Ichiri and the others, Shiki bought some musical instruments and tried to learn them himself, but unfortunately his talent in this area was only "within the human range" to put it in the most euphemistic way.

As for writing lyrics, with his level 10 writing skills, he can write beautiful and catchy lyrics. However, when a rock song is not mainly rap, the composition or melody is the key point, and the lyrics are just a part of it to add color.

Even if the lyrics are written in a profound way, it doesn’t quite fit in with the style of the band. A group of high school girls who are bitter and resentful and criticize this and that every day may not only fail to achieve the desired effect, but also make people feel that they are pretending to be profound and too nosy…

What's more, it's too early to consider making original songs now that the band has ended and there's not even a lead singer.

"Is there a way to help them..."

At this time, Si Ji suddenly remembered that he still had a blank resume.

That was the reward for completing the mission of getting Yukinoshita Yukino to move into Washimiya Dormitory. However, Shiki had no interest in creating a new alias during this period - the previous alias, Fuyuo Kishikyu, hadn't made his official debut yet - so he just kept it in the inventory and didn't activate it.

But now thinking back, when I activated the blank resume, three [paths] would appear directly for me to choose from. I already had [paths] in literature and painting, so the possibility of music being the one among the three [paths] was actually quite high.

What's more, a vest can bring at least one innate skill of level 5 and at least one special reward.