Who says meal replacements can’t be eaten as meals?

Musical instrument stores are rarely opened on the same street as shops. Firstly, the noise from test-playing may lead to complaints. Secondly, ordinary passers-by are unlikely to shell out a considerable sum of money to buy a musical instrument that they will hardly use more than a few times. After the test-playing, they may loosen the strings of the guitar or add a few scratches to the newly-made frosted bass.

After walking through many twists and turns into the mall and taking the elevator to the basement level, Ms. Sakuya stepped over the piles of unopened rectangular cardboard boxes and finally saw the sign for the musical instrument store.

The electronic keyboard was placed flat on a protruding stand, followed by a wide variety of CDs and music magazines. Guitars and basses were neatly arranged according to their respective brands. Combined with the bright exhibition lights above, the value of everything seemed to have gone up.

"It's amazing, there are so many guitars." Miss Wei looked around with her mouth open, quite like Granny Liu.

"Wei, have you chosen one?" Lu was a drummer, and since she had no interest in guitar, she didn't look at it much and asked quickly.

"Are there any selection criteria?" Wei clenched his hands and held them to his chest, speaking in the tone of a newbie who had just arrived at the driving school and asked his instructor how to start the car.

"Of course, when it comes to guitar, the tone is of course important, and the weight, neck shape, and width are also important. So for girls, a thinner neck is better..." Ms. Mio Akiyama, a reliable bassist in her professional field, began to talk endlessly about science.

"Of course it's the appearance, the appearance!" Ms. Sakuya also joined the battle. "If the bass is not good-looking, I won't be motivated to play it at all."

"Sakuya~ Don't mislead others." Nagasaki Motoyo raised her hand to suppress her own sister who was spreading her idea of ​​beauty.

As for Kotobuki Tsumugi? She was looking at the two sisters clinging to each other with shining eyes, her face full of happiness.

"Ah, this guitar is so cute~" Miss Wei, who had not been listening at all, seemed to feel the guidance of fate. She ran to a Gibson guitar with maple veneer and squatted down, with a cute light in her eyes as if she saw a small animal.

"This guitar costs 25 yuan." Miss Lu reminded while looking at the price tag.

"Ah, really... I really am powerless about this..." Hirasawa Yui suddenly felt disappointed.

"Do you want this guitar?" Miss Tsumugi also squatted down and whispered like a rich woman.

"That one over there is also very cute. Xiaowei, do you want to try it?" Sakuya pointed at the sky blue guitar on the wall with a price tag of 49998 and said.

"Oh... um... uh... this one is really the best..." Miss Wei murmured to herself, feeling quite like a pitiful child who sees a cute toy but cannot afford it.

"I also worried for a long time about buying the bass I have now." Akiyama Mio felt the same way.

"I also haggled for a long time over a second-hand drum set." Lu sighed.

"Me too..." Ms. Sakuya paused as she was about to express her gratitude for the hardships she had experienced and recall the past.

My bass guitar seemed to be obtained by my father's help of massage and back patting, and GB-4 was a birthday gift. How come I can't empathize with it all of a sudden...

"I also expended a lot of sweat to get it..." Miss Sakuya added softly while wiping the sweat off her face. It was really hard for her to act like a spoiled child.

"Um... what does bargaining mean?" Miss Tsumugi was a little confused.

"In order to get what you want, use your efforts and determination to overwhelm the other party!" Lu said her classic passionate speech. If you don't have money, just overwhelm the other party with your momentum! Although the clerk cried for a long time afterwards.

"That's amazing. It's really inspiring." Tsumugi raised his head, and his tone became more excited.

"Speaking of sweat, let's all go to work! To help Wei buy a musical instrument!" Miss Lu, the head of the light music department, ordered the next stage of club activities.

"Working part-time?" Miss Tsumugi found that there were many words she had never heard of.

"Oh, this...I'm so sorry to everyone." The little cutie who had been staring at the guitar finally came to his senses and waved his hands embarrassedly.

"I want to try it too." Miss Tsumugi is very practical. Although she doesn't know what a part-time job is, it sounds very interesting.

"Okay! Go ahead!" Standing on the right side of Miss Mio, Ritsu, who was supporting his waist with one hand, stood on tiptoes and raised his raised right fist higher. "Oh!"

"Oh!" Miss Tsumugi stood up from Mio's left side and raised her right hand high.

"Oh! Take me too!" Miss Sakuya, who was standing behind Mio, also raised her hand and high-fived the two of them.

Akiyama Mio, who was sandwiched between the three, was very upset: "Sakuya, just... forget it, do as you like."

Nagasaki Suyo, who was not far away, watched the topic change from buying a guitar to working part-time, and reached a consensus at the speed of light. The five people who were performing the strange ritual held their foreheads with a headache. Finally, I know why my sister has become so stupid. I should drink less matcha in my daily life. Maybe the air in Uji is filled with a clear breath.

After a while, her sister, who seemed to have become clearer, came over and pulled at the hem of her dress, blinking shyly and saying nothing.

Nagasaki Motoyo could tell with her fingers that Sakuya wanted to drag her to work part-time, but she didn't have any friends in Uji, so she might as well treat it as an experience of life.

After nodding Sakuya's forehead as an agreement, Nagasaki Motoyo couldn't help but sigh as she watched the light music club members rejoin the conversation to discuss whether the double-necked guitar should be played by the four-handed tyrant. She thought silently in her heart:

"What the hell is wrong with these people?"

Chapter 51: Seniors of the Hydrogen Music Department

The joys and sorrows of different people are not shared, just like the vacation times set by the school.

Sakuragaoka's Golden Week schedule is two days shorter than that of Ugaoka. Although there will be three consecutive days off starting from Tuesday, the evil Monday and Friday are still forced into the calendar with yellow blocks and ugly Arabic numerals drawn with bright red markers.

"Why doesn't Sakuya have to go to school? We are all high school students." Tianzhong Ritsu walked unsteadily with his hands behind his head, causing the shoulder bag behind his head to sway back and forth.

"I'm accompanying you to school, aren't I? Although it's just a tour of the college we applied for." Ms. Sakuya, dressed in casual clothes, walked briskly. After all, going to school by herself was a torture, but watching others go to school was a pleasure.

"There's nothing we can do about the different school situations. It seems that Sakuragaoka's compensatory leave last year was planned for the school trip." Akiyama Mio walked neatly on the outermost sidewalk. The three of them hadn't gone to school together for a long time, and they didn't expect to experience it again today.

"Let's go quickly. We finally managed to avoid staying in bed. We can't be late." Mio said

"Okay~" the two agreed.

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The blue sky, the playground, the statue of the principal covered with a strange hat, and the wooden classrooms that make people feel warm and peaceful.

"They're basically all made of wood." Following behind the long-haired music teacher named Yamanaka Sawako, Ms. Sakuya sighed at the school building. The little country girl's concept was still stuck in the rural idea that log buildings must be very expensive.

"Just walk up the stairs from here and you will reach the music department." Teacher Sawako guided softly and ladylike, pointing to a wooden staircase with a bronze turtle and a rabbit on the handrails. The third floor of the school is not very big and there are no other classrooms. The end of the stairs is directly connected to the double door of the music department, so it is very convenient to go up and down as you like.

"It feels a bit strange to be entering the principal's office. After all, it's the highest place." Ms. Sakuya was a little curious and followed him to the music classroom in front of the light music club's activity room.

"Excuse me~" Miss Sakuya carefully opened the door, poked her head in and shouted towards the empty room.

The space and furniture were very neatly arranged. Next to the well-lit window were four neatly placed student desks, the brown tabletops reminiscent of chocolate bars. In front was a sofa bench that could seat three people or one person to lie lazily. Further in front was Ritsu's yellow Yamaha set under the blackboard. Two comic books were spread out on the music stand for the sheet music, which had been blown to the last page by the wind. On the right was a high-end tea cabinet that suddenly appeared, which contained a lot of tea sets that Miss Sakuya could not tell the name of, but she thought they should be more expensive than those used by her sister.

The gentle teacher Sawako looked at Sakuya's back with a smile on her face, and said softly, "Well, I'll leave first. Please feel free to look around. Today is only a half-day class, and Ichinose's friends will come here after lunch break."

For a moment, Sakuya was the only one left in the empty music classroom. The sky was high and the clouds were light. The academy was filled with silence during the class. The sudden relaxed atmosphere made her a little dazed. It seemed that she hadn't had time to be alone like this for a long time since she went to school in Tokyo.

Ichinose Sakuya walked over to Ritsu's Yamaha Hipgi, wanting to tap it a few times to make some noise, but after walking around she didn't see any drumsticks. She guessed they were carried by the drummer.

I picked up the comic book from the shelf in disappointment, sat on the sofa and flipped through two pages, but found that I had already read it, so I just lay down on my back in an ungraceful manner.

The ceiling of the music classroom is very high, so high that there is little need to face it. The sunlight pouring in from the window can illuminate every corner. The spring breeze flips the pages of the book in his hand carelessly, and the light comic paper rubs against each other, leaving a slight rustling sound.

“Maybe it would have been a good idea to come to Sakuragaoka at that time?” Sakuya said to herself while looking at the straight beams.

Familiar faces flashed through her mind one after another, and the eventful high school life over the past month was replayed in her mind. Feeling that the sunlight was a little glaring, Miss Sakuya simply covered her face with a book.

Smelling the scent of ink left by the embroidery printer, Sakuya still couldn't understand why the five people of Crychic had become like this, and why her sister was so persistent, even though she had tried very hard to make her feel more relaxed...

It's the usual coquettish behavior, taking Nagasaki Suyo out shopping together, and sharing her friends, but Sakuya still can't see through the layers of coercion in Nagasaki Suyo's heart.

"I get tired too, sister..."

The sound hits the paper and reflects back, sounding muffled, as if it had some reverberation and distortion.

Miss Sakuya's strange sense of humor came into play. She suddenly chuckled, and then her own laughter made her want to laugh even more.

"What is this? Youth melancholy literature?" Miss Sakuya turned over from the sofa and threw the comic book aside, making a slight plop sound when it landed on the cushion.

"Although Sakuragaoka is a good person, I won't be able to see my sister. It's a win-win situation." Miss Sakuya was full of confidence when she started working again, as if she had been recharged. It has only been a month, and no matter what kind of hurt her sister had suffered in the past, she would always be healed by the new warmth.

She couldn't sit still and was too lazy to take out her cell phone. She went to bed early yesterday and was not sleepy at all. Miss Sakuya, who was a little obsessed with cleanliness, simply cleaned the light music club while no one was around. Cleaning tools were neatly stacked in the corner. It was no different from the astronomy club room in Yugaoka, except that it was a little bigger.

After cleaning the classroom clockwise, I found some interesting things. I observed a moment of silence for two seconds in front of the club establishment application form that was crumpled up in the drawer. When I opened it, I saw only Lu Kong's name on it. Now it was my turn to observe a moment of silence for Miss Lu.

She spread out the application neatly on the large "chocolate board" desk, pressed it with the manga she had read, and glanced around the music classroom, which had become much fresher, with satisfaction. Then, Sakuya's eyes moved to the closed door of the storage room beside her. "Next is this side."

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The lunch break bell rang, and Lu was still the first to push open the wooden door of the light music department, without any sign of pity.

"Sakuya, we're here. Did you miss me... Wow, what are these?" Ritsu asked, looking at several cardboard boxes piled in the middle of the classroom.

"It seems to be what was left behind by the previous club. Most of them are broken effects pedals and tapes." Miss Sakuya was sitting at the table. After responding casually, she continued to look down at the khaki-background photo album in her hand.

"They are very wild seniors." Sakuya shook her head at the photo of all the members wearing Shamatte style, with words like 'death' and 'kill' written in the gaps, and then looked up at the members of the light music club who came in one after another. Mio-san couldn't help laughing when she imagined the Shamatte style. "Is this the light music club? It's really rock and roll."

Chapter 52: Nuclear Smile

"I always have a subtle feeling of prying into other people's dark history." Ms. Sakuya pressed the shutter button of her mobile phone while condemning herself. She always felt that the woman with short purple-red hair looked familiar.

"Wow, that's great~ It looks very interesting." Hirasawa Yui came closer and picked up a slightly faded photo to look at it carefully.

She is a girl with great visual effects. She holds a guitar, and her long brown hair is dyed cherry purple, which complements the lipstick of the same color. Her eyes reveal a wild beauty.

"Hey, let me see too... What is this?" Miss Lu sat at her desk as usual. She glanced at the creased club application with her name on it. Her voice became lower and lower, and cold sweat broke out.

"Lü, you haven't submitted the club application yet?" Miss Akiyama Mio's words were full of reproach, and her palm was already covering someone's crown.

"Hey~ I forgot." (?ω<)★

"Don't forget such an important thing!" After suppressing the unreliable minister with Lushan Shenglongba, Akiyama Mio simply dragged her chair to Lu's side to help her complete the application that should have been submitted last week.

"Okay, okay, okay~ Anyway, let's have some tea first. Do you want any cake?" Miss Tsumugi, who had feasted her eyes, also took the tea set and tried to smooth things over. She distributed black tea to everyone and then took out five cheesecakes like a magician, and handed them to everyone one by one.

The relaxed atmosphere of the tea party made Ms. Sakuya blink twice, and then happily joined in. The topic jumped from the principal statue's outfit today to which dessert shop had the best pancakes, and then continued to talk about part-time jobs. In order to buy a guitar for Ms. Yui who didn't know what a guitar was a few days ago, Ms. Sakuya remembered that there was a surprise that she hadn't told everyone.

"Well, by the way, I saw a guitar when I was cleaning the music club's storage room today." Ms. Sakuya pointed at the heavy silver-white dusty instrument case leaning against the wall. "It's a very good guitar, although it seems a bit old, but after it's repaired, maybe Yui can use it to practice?"

"Eh? Really? But these are other people's things, isn't it a bit bad?" Wei, who still had cake crumbs on the corners of his mouth, felt embarrassed at this moment.

"Let's open it first!" Lu opened the instrument case with great energy. A slight musty smell came out, and what appeared in front of him was a bright red guitar that looked quite good. "It's all moldy."

"Eh! Could it be that the neck of the guitar is covered with mold?" Akiyama Mio crossed her arms over her shoulders, her face a mixture of fear and curiosity.

"It's not that serious. I just checked it. It can be used again after a little repair. Although it has been here for a long time, it is better to get the consent of the owner of the guitar." Ms. Sakuya said as she spread out the album again and pointed at the photo of the visual girl holding the guitar and said softly. "I have posted the photo on the Sakuragaoka forum. Maybe someone will leave a comment soon."

"Oh, Sakuya was like a great detective just now." Kotobuki Tsumugi clasped her hands together and looked admiringly.

"Eh? Does our college still have a forum?" Ritsu scratched his head and stood up, then grabbed the club application form on the desk, put one hand on his waist and announced loudly: "Anyway, let's go find Teacher Sawako first!"

"Why?" Sakuya was puzzled.

"Because I just found out that club application actually requires a consultant teacher, hey." (?ω<)★

"Don't wait until now to find out about something so important!" Ms. Mio was a little desperate. "At this point, I can only ask Mr. Sawako, the music teacher, for help. I can also ask about the past events in the light music club. Ms. Sawako might know something."

"Let's finish our tea first." Ms. Sakuya spoke lazily while lying on the table.

"That's true~"*3

Akiyama Mio looked at everyone who suddenly lay down in a ball to bask in the sun and shook her head helplessly. She then shyly joined the group of cats and bugs at the calls of everyone.

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Yamanaka Sawako, aged 18 years and several months, is a music teacher at Sakuragaoka High School and also the advisor of the wind band. She is very popular among students because of her beautiful appearance and gentle personality. Whether it is her smooth brown hair, her fitted beige dress, her kind and gentle voice, or the small glasses hanging on the tip of her nose, they all show that she is a standard lady.

After finishing her homework, Miss Sawako was leisurely browsing the student forum, wanting to see how everyone would praise her today. After taking a sip of scented tea and clicking the mouse on the most popular post, Miss Sawako suddenly coughed, leaving a wet mark on her lining.

When she raised her head again, Sawako's eyes had changed, becoming sharp and violent. No... she was no longer Sawako. Now she was Catherine - the ruthless devil of DEATH DEVIL.

"Who is it!?" Sawako stood up from her workstation.

"I didn't expect that the last photo album would be in the school. That is a bloody history that must not be known to the world." The distance from the teacher's office to the staircase corridor could not slow down her speed even a little bit.

"We must not allow the devil's son to awaken in the world." Stepping across the bookshelf.

"The Sealed Book is not allowed to be seen." Slide to the other side of the guardrail.

"The forbidden door must never be opened!" He dived through the students who were transporting the hula hoops with a perfect diving move.

"That's...that's...that's it!" The bronze tortoise and rabbit on the handrail were left behind, and Sawako finally stood at the door of the music classroom.

She pushed open the door without any ladylike air, her lungs thirsting for air, her trembling hands unable to be restrained, and Sawako smiled what she thought was a friendly smile. "Excuse me, the teacher has something to do." After saying that, she locked the door of the light music department.

Today, not a living creature can crawl out of this room.

Hirasawa Yui blinked and opened his mouth to think.

Tianzhong Ritsu showed a look of surprise. Now he didn't have to take the initiative to find Teacher Sawako.

Akiyama Mio felt a little strange, but still sat up.

Kotobuki Tsumugi had already found the best viewing spot and was ready to watch the show with a cup of tea.

Ichinose Sakuya felt something was wrong. His keen intuition and the distorted face of his music teacher made him feel a surge of murderous intent. He quietly hid the green-sealed photo album under the table.

"Ichinose-san..." A slender but strong hand grasped the small hand that was trying to destroy the evidence. "Can you show the album to the teacher?"

Sawako's tone quickly changed from kind to fierce. She threw her glasses aside and glared at Sakuya fiercely: "If you don't hand it over, I will kill you all!"

Chapter 53: Ms. Sakuya's life is full of betrayal