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

Shiki muttered something before standing up and heading for the door.

"It doesn't matter. I just need to know that Washimiya-kun is a gentle person."

The young lady with strange eyebrows said so.

"Ashasi is not that cheap." Si Ji snorted.

"Boys who are tsundere are not cute at all!" Tianzhong Ritsu cheered from the side.

"Do you want me to arrange the after-school tea party after the super-large band performs?" Si Ji turned his head and asked with a smile.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong. Please just arrange the normal seat." The drummer immediately slid to her knees.

Having won a great victory, Shiki left the light music club happily.

In just a few steps, he caught up with the girl Kita, who had not yet walked far.

"Xiduo, why do you want to learn guitar?" he asked, "Can't you play bass too?"

"It's not the guitar, I have to..."

Kita was whispering something, but even with Shiki's hearing, he couldn't make out her mumblings.

"Is there something unspeakable?"

Si Ji asked: "Like athlete's foot?"

As a beautiful girl in real life, Kita naturally could not swallow her anger when she was questioned about having athlete's foot.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" she asked unhappily.

"Nothing, I just want to know why you care so much about the guitar." Si Ji said with his hands spread out.

"Are you a senior in the light music club caring about your juniors? But I don't plan to join the light music club." Kita said in a low voice.

"No," Shiki shook his head and said seriously, "I just want to have fun."

"Don't treat other people's past as a manzai joke!" Kita looked at Shiki carefully for a moment, but couldn't tell from his expression whether this guy was serious or joking. In the end, he could only sigh and said as he walked.

"I couldn't play the guitar at all, but because I admired someone in the band, I deceived them and joined the band as a guitarist. But lies always get exposed... Soon after, our band was going to perform on stage, but I still couldn't learn to play the guitar, so I had to run away secretly."

"The people in that band are really weird. They didn't realize they were fooled by you for so long." Si Ji commented.

"They are all good people. They never doubted me even when I firmly refused to participate in joint practice." The girl became more and more upset. "In the end, not only did I lie to them all the time, I even bought the wrong instrument. I couldn't even learn guitar to make up for it. It turns out that I am not suitable for a band..."

"Actually, I've been wanting to study band music lately, and I feel like the easiest instrument among them is the bass. However, new basses are very expensive. If you don't mind," Si Ji asked the girl, "I won't be using it anyway, so can you sell me your bass at a 90% discount?"

"Hey, senior, do you really want this bass?" Kita asked in surprise.

"Well, I can see that you have practiced hard. The bass has traces of use. If you sell it at a music store, you can only get a 30% discount at most. It's better to sell it to me." Si Ji said: "Of course, if you plan to go for the 'JK original flavor' route, then just ignore what I said."

"There's no such route! I just wonder if Senior is feeling sorry for me..."

"Oh, oh, if you sell it to me now," Si Ji interrupted the girl before she could finish her sentence, and said mysteriously, "As a gift, I can also introduce you to a guitarist who ran away like you, but he ran away from the Light Music Tribe and has now become the lead guitarist of a band."

"...I understand." Kita's expression brightened up again after hearing that. She said very seriously, "Thank you, senior. I won't let you down!"

Note: In Chapter 66 of the manga "Lonely Rock", when Pochi tried to escape by claiming that he had athlete's foot, Kita simply took out the athlete's foot ointment he carried with him, thus creating the "Kita has athlete's foot" meme. The original author also found it very interesting, but because it was edited, I hope everyone can forget about it.

Chapter 174 Goto Ichiri's Holy Land and the Invaders

Goto Ichiri walked through the green bushes and came to the dark, damp but deserted corner of the courtyard again.

Suddenly she felt her whole body and mind relaxed, as if she had returned home.

Ever since the Service Club's activity room, that holy place for slacking off, became unusable, especially since even the student council president has been refreshing there from time to time recently, Goto Ichiri has been committed to transforming this corner into his own secluded paradise.

Although it has disadvantages such as 'it cannot be used once it rains', 'it's very cold in winter and very hot in summer', and 'there are occasionally some uninvited guests with many or no legs', for Goto Ichiri, it is at least much better than those places that require dealing with humans.

Taking out the picnic blanket she had prepared long ago from her schoolbag and spreading it on the lawn, the girl sat on it in a relaxed manner, picked up her guitar and practiced the song that her band needed to perform in the livehouse recently.

Although the current Ending band already has original songs, it still does not have a lead singer.

Ichiri thinks that actually Yamada Ryo is very suitable to be the lead singer. After all, he not only has good bass skills, but also has a nice voice. Apart from his slightly weird head, he is a very capable person. But for some reason Yamada Ryo is not very willing to be the lead singer, saying that it will ruin the style of the band Ending. He wants it to become his own band, although Ichiri Goto thinks that the current band Ending doesn't have much style.

Yamada Ryo also recommended Nijixia to be the lead singer, but Nijixia felt that her voice was average, and as a drummer she was not suitable to be the lead singer - there are bands with drummers as lead singers, but there are not many - but Goto Ichiri thought she was so cute, sunny and cheerful.

Ijichi Hinikaka has been encouraging the guitarist Ichiri to become the lead singer, but for the socially anxious girl Goto, just standing on the stage has exhausted her remaining courage, let alone singing in front of the audience.

However, Hong Xia's words still made her very happy. She often hid in a corner and sang and played the guitar by herself, and occasionally gave an impromptu performance.

"Ah, Slug-san is here again..."

After finishing her practice, the girl looked at the soft-bodied creatures crawling along the water pipe on the wall in front of her and let out a small exclamation. Then she pretended to say, "Thank you for the love of this fan. Next, please listen to Goto Ichiri's self-composed, self-played and self-sung song "Me, Loneliness and Slugs"~"

"In the dark corner, the slug crawls and crawls, just like me who is lonely, crawling and crawling~?"

"We won't be knocked down by dampness and cold, because our bodies are fine and healthy, unlike the Yinjiao~?"

"I don't want to go to work anymore. The light of the real life is like salt, making me melt~?"

It was not known whether the slug understood what the girl said. It just squirmed slowly and stretched out its tentacles and eyestalks.

"Wow, the guitar playing is so amazing!" an amazed female voice rang out.

Goto Ichiri scratched his head sheepishly, his face melting with laughter: "Hehehe, it's not that good~"

After about a second, her expression turned into shock. She stared at the slug with wide eyes: "Eh hey hey?! The slug spoke!"

"How rude! Slugs are hermaphroditic creatures. If they could speak, their voices should be more neutral." A male voice that sounded familiar to Goto Ichiri sounded.

Then the female voice just now complained in a subtle tone: "Isn't that the place that should be corrected?"

Goto Ichiri then realized that the voice came from behind her, so she turned around and first saw the four seasons as usual. But before she could calm down, another bright red color suddenly caught her eye.

She was a beautiful girl who exuded a "fashionable" aura even with her naked eyes. Moreover, she was at the top of the school's food chain, the kind that was surrounded by many people!

From Goto Ichiri's perspective, the other party's level of beautiful girl is second only to Yukinoshita Yukino among the people she knows, and is on the same level as the Yamada fairy who always wants to capture her to use as BGM.

Moreover, this red-haired girl is a different type of "beautiful girl" from Yukinoshita Yukino. She is more sunny and approachable. Such a character is definitely more popular than the inaccessible ice beauty like Yukino.

Why would Washimiya-kun suddenly bring such a character to my place? Oh no, this is just a corner of the school. Maybe he just wants to have a relaxing time here where few people pass by, and flirt with a popular girl.

So the girl with the horn sobbed quietly like a girl who was bullied by a bad official in the Edo period, and packed up her picnic blanket: "S-Sorry, I'll leave right away...Ah?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Si Ji gave him a slap in the face: "I didn't mean to chase you away, but you were thinking about something very rude just now, right?"

"That, that's what happened..."

Goto Ichiri said in a low voice with his eyes wandering.

"Then tell me what you were thinking about just now?" Si Ji asked.

"...Can you promise not to hit my head?" Goto Ichiri covered his forehead and asked in a pitiful voice.

"No problem, I promise."

Four Seasons nodded.

"I thought Washimiya-kun brought that...classmate here...out of the unique energy of modern people...wanting to do...well, what they love to do at school..." Goto Ichiri first spoke the truth in a timid manner, and then let out a small whine: "Ah, please don't pinch my face..."

"Although I've always felt that you have some misunderstandings about real people, I still want to correct you before that," Shiki said as he rubbed the other person's face, which was as soft as slime, "I'm not a real person."

"Eh?" The girl widened her eyes.

"This look is the most rude thing today. As punishment, I will be rubbing your face for ten minutes." Si Ji said with a smile.

"Hey, Washimiya-senpai, is this really okay...that kid's eyes look dead," Kita asked in a low voice.

"It's okay." Si Ji replied calmly.

"Really..." Kita still seemed a little unable to let it go.

"Ichiri's eyes have always been like this." Shiki played with Goto Ichiri's little face, who didn't dare to struggle at all, and continued happily.

Kita: “…”

No, no, no, how can a girl look like a dead fish like this! According to common sense, this is already considered harassment, right? I don’t understand the relationship between you two at all! The girl shouted in her heart.

Chapter 175: Runners Alliance

"This is Goto Ichiri, the guitarist from the Light Music Tribe I told you about before." Shiki naturally couldn't really rub Goto Ichiri's face for ten minutes. He just rubbed it a few times and then let go. He introduced Goto Ichiri to Kita: "Although it's a bit strange, her guitar skills are absolutely guaranteed. What you just heard was just her improvisation."

"Hello, Goto-san." Kita immediately showed his outgoing personality and approached Goto Ichiri who was still rubbing his face, scaring the latter.

However, Si Ji felt that the other party was just feeling jealous when he saw him rubbing Ichiri's face. After all, Ichiri's face felt really good.

"This is Kita...By the way, what's Kita's full name?"

At this point, Si Ji realized that he seemed to only know the other person's last name and had never heard her say her full name.

"...My name is Kita Kita." The red-haired girl said with a warm smile on her face after a moment of silence.

Who would have such a name?

Si Ji complained in his heart.

It seems that the girl is quite resistant to her own name.

"I see. This is indeed the first time we meet today. It's normal for you to be wary of me. I certainly wouldn't tell my full name to a suspicious stranger when we just met."

So Si Ji said in a very lonely tone.

It's a pity that this is not a business negotiation, otherwise I could use the acting skills in the maximum level business skills to make my performance more realistic, enough to deceive all the old foxes in the business world.

But even if it is only this degree now, it is enough. At least judging from Kita's expression, the girl's heart is already full of guilt.

"That's not true. After I left the light music club, Washimiya-senpai has been helping me all the time. Of course I don't distrust Washimiya-senpai..." Kita gritted his teeth, and finally, as if giving up, he said in self-abandonment: "My name is Ikuyo, and my full name is Kita Ikuyo."

"Kitawa Ikuyo..." Goto Ichiri muttered to himself: "A cold joke?"

"No! It's not!" Kita Ikuyo almost subconsciously grabbed Goto Ichiri's face and rubbed it like Shiki did: "I didn't choose this name by choice!"

"Ah..." Goto Ichiri let out a weak cry.

"The soft flesh on her cheeks feels better when you pinch it. Also, if you touch her chin while rubbing it, it will become even softer." Si Ji instructed from the side.

“Really…”

Kita Ikuyo tried it as he said and couldn't help but whisper in surprise.

"Ahhhh..." Goto Ichiri seemed to be protesting, but the two of them ignored him tacitly.

After a while, Kita Ikuyo let go of her hand.

For some reason, the girl's complexion became much better, and even the alopecia on her head seemed to be more upright.

"Huh, I feel like the pressure is gone all of a sudden. I can understand why Washimiya-senpai likes to do this. Ichiri-chan, you can be my stress relief tool from now on!"

He actually called me by my name so soon?!

“Oysters oysters oysters!”

Goto Ichiri, who was a little shocked by Yangjiao, shook his head desperately.

Just like a smile will not disappear out of thin air but will only be transferred to someone else's face, Kita Ikuyo's pressure will not disappear out of thin air but will only be transferred to Goto Ichiri who was pinched on the face. If the pressure is too great, he might lose his feathers like a parrot.

"Speaking of which, I haven't finished the introduction just now. This is Guiqulaixie... Ahem, Kita Ikuyo. She also ran away from a band for some reason, and now wants to learn guitar skills from someone," Shiki said to Goto Ichiri. "Among the people I know (from the perspective of the original), your guitar skills are the best, so I recommended her to come to you to learn."

"Hey, it's not that good~"

Goto Ichiri, who was originally depressed because of being pinched on the face by two people one after another, suddenly became happy again.

Seeing this, Kita Ikuyo on the side seemed to be lost in thought, and felt that she seemed to have grasped the trick of how to treat Goto Ichiri.

After Goto Ichiri found out that Kita Ikuyo was also a runaway guitarist like himself, he felt a little closer to her - just a little bit.

"Hey, hey, the Runners Alliance..."

"No, no, no, there is no such weird alliance. Besides, I don't have a guitar today, and I have to buy one tomorrow before I can learn from Ichiri-chan." Kita Ikuyo sighed. Although she had already received the money from Shiki after the depreciation of the bass, it would take until tomorrow to buy the guitar.

"If you just want to practice, I have a spare guitar I can lend you. I just happen to have something else to deal with, so you guys wait here for a while."

Si Ji said this and left this dark corner.

Does he really have a guitar?

The answer is no, he doesn't play music, so where did he get the guitar?

However, guitars are not expensive for me, and considering that some performers' instruments may have problems at the upcoming Fengyin Festival, it makes sense to prepare some spare instruments in advance.

So he simply found a nearby music store, made a phone call, bought a batch of musical instruments and had the store deliver them directly to Toyosaki as soon as possible. Considering that it might disturb other students, Shiki specifically asked them to unload the goods at the more remote theater club activity room - after deciding to hold the Toyosaki Festival, Nagisa Furukawa contributed the theater club activity room, which had been idle due to the lack of members, so that the Servant Club, as the organizer, could use it as a warehouse to temporarily store some items and materials.

Because it was a 'big deal', the people at the music store acted quickly and delivered the musical instruments specified by Four Seasons in just over ten minutes. While Four Seasons was directing them to unload the goods, he received a text message.