"Iwasawa, the lead singer! And everyone from GDM..."
The girls quickly stood up and looked at the famous seniors outside the door in some surprise.
Shiina Tatsuki, who has the deepest knowledge of various bands, was even so nervous that he quietly hid at the back. It was as if he was suddenly greeted by a big star he was a fan of when he was having a party with friends. His expression became visibly stiff and he looked a little at a loss.
The other people's behavior was normal: Nagasaki Suyo reflexively acted like a good kid in front of outsiders, Ruo Ye Mu was expressionless as usual, and Takamatsu Deng had a confused look on his face, as if he was immersed in his recent mistake and had not yet figured out the situation.
As for Toyokawa Shoko, she almost instinctively displayed the elegance of a young lady, standing in front of everyone as a leader, smiling gracefully despite the surprise.
"Of course it's not a bother. Rather, it's our fault for not welcoming you in person and saying hello to the seniors first..."
"Don't be so polite. I'm not used to playing tricks on you. Just relax."
Iwasawa Masami waved her hand casually, her neat and handsome fiery red short hair swaying across her cheeks, and her pair of bright yet gentle eyes swept across everyone, finally stopping on Takamatsu Deng.
In the face of Gao Songdeng's puzzled gaze, she smiled and said straight to the point: "I didn't come to you all of a sudden just to say hello, I just have a question to ask you... I hope you don't think I'm being rude."
"Question?" Toyokawa Shoko was stunned for a moment, and tilted her head slightly in confusion. "It's just a little sudden, but it's not rude... If you have any questions, just ask."
"That's good."
Now that the courtesy had been reached, Iwazawa Masami had no intention of being polite.
She folded her hands over her elbows, looked at the five girls in front of her scrutinizingly, and expressed her doubts very directly.
"Didn't you guys take the rehearsal seriously just now?"
"Are you deliberately hiding your abilities and preparing to give everyone a surprise? Or is it..."
"When you get serious, is this the extent of your efforts?"
The moment the sound fell, the air froze.
"..."
After taking a few seconds to understand the meaning of these words, the faces of several people, which were already pale, turned pale again. Gao Songdeng even lowered his head to his chest, clutched the corner of his clothes, and his shoulders began to tremble slightly.
Shiina Tateki, who was standing at the back, first widened her eyes in disbelief, and then a pure anger surged in her heart, breaking through her admiration and respect for the senior band. She rushed to Takamatsu Tomori with great momentum and tried to confront Iwasawa Masami.
"you--"
Just as she uttered the first word, Toyokawa Shoko raised her hand to block her, causing her to subconsciously stop all movements.
She forced herself to swallow the words that were about to come out of her mouth, and her angry purple eyes arced across her body, sharply questioning Xiangzi silently.
Toyokawa Shoko pursed her lips tightly and looked back at her.
Those amber pupils seemed to be frozen, cooling down the anger in Shiina Riki's heart a lot.
"...Tsk!"
After a moment, the black-haired girl clicked her tongue loudly, her face flushed with anger, and she stepped back indignantly.
Toyokawa Shoko turned around, the polite smile no longer on her face.
Her dignified and polite demeanor instantly turned into a cold and arrogant aristocratic demeanor. She slowly stood three steps in front of Iwasawa Masami, folded her hands on her lower abdomen, raised her chin, straightened her back, and looked down at the other person's rather rude gaze from above. Her voice was colder than the cold wave on the top of a snowy mountain.
"What do you mean by that? Is it meant to provoke or to ridicule?"
"I don't have to do this to you." Iwasawa Masami shook her head and said sincerely, "I'm not that bored. I'm about to rehearse, but I come here to provoke you."
Toyokawa Shoko still frowned, and was not easily persuaded: "Then why did you come to ask us this 'question'?"
"I'm sorry, I'm a bit blunt. In order not to offend others, I usually try to speak as little as possible."
She tried to ease the atmosphere, but it didn't work. Iwazawa Masami didn't care and continued to talk to herself, "It's just that from your current music, I don't hear the shock and emotion that the video brought to me at that time... Whether it's my songs or your original songs, I can't hear the 'soul' that I want to hear."
Toyokawa Shoko looked gloomy and replied indifferently, "We were too nervous during the rehearsal, and our performance was indeed not very good... I am sorry to disappoint your expectations."
"No, it's not a matter of performance." Iwazawa Masami looked at Takamatsu Deng who was lowering his head, and sighed with some regret, "I can tell that your skills and tacit understanding have indeed improved, but there are other more important things..."
"Forget it, let's just leave it at that."
It seemed like someone pulled her a few times from behind. This cool and cool-looking older sister tilted her head to look outside the door, then smiled helplessly and turned her gaze back to Toyokawa Shoko, whose expression was not very good.
"You can't show your full strength until the very last moment... I hope you are this type of player."
After leaving these words, she waved her hand and turned away.
"As a 'fan', I will be looking forward to your performance when you officially take the stage."
Just a few words added a suffocating pressure to the already heavy air.
The door panel was slowly closed.
Just before it closed completely, Iwazawa Masami suddenly poked her head in again, with a happy smile on her face that was different from before, and looked at Minghai who had been standing in the corner watching.
"Brother Ming Hai, I still haven't thanked you for what happened that night."
Ming Hai was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect her to come back and subconsciously answered: "No, it's nothing. It's what I should do."
"So mature. I always feel like you are more like an adult than us."
Iwazawa Masami raised her eyebrows slightly and spoke in a teasing tone, and could vaguely hear a lot of people outside the door joining in the fun.
"Okay, let's go to rehearsal. After the music festival is over, let's go out for dinner together. You can have any feast you want. Everyone likes you and they will definitely not let you pay."
"Well, Sister Yanze, this is not a question of whether to pay or not..."
Before he could finish his words, the door was completely closed, ending his complaints in vain.
Swallowing the sound silently, Ming Hai rubbed his forehead speechlessly.
He wasn't very familiar with these big sisters in the band, so how come they were all so familiar with him and flirting with him like a little brother after just having dinner together?
Although he didn't hate them, he felt that this group of people were easy to get along with...
What a pity, this is probably the last time we meet, right?
Shaking his head to get rid of the strange feeling of separation, Ming Hai was about to turn back to continue comforting the girls when he found that five figures had gathered around him.
He subconsciously took a step back, leaning his back against the cold wall, as if he was going to be executed on the spot by them the next moment. An inexplicable sense of threat surged in his heart, causing him to stutter and ask:
"You, you guys...what's going on?"
"You still dare to ask us what's wrong?"
Toyokawa Shoko smiled brightly, tilted her little face up, and moved so close to him that her chest was almost touching his.
As if the heavy and depressing atmosphere just now was all a lie, her voice was melodious and pleasant, her smile was as sweet and bright as a poppy, and her breath gently brushed his face.
"Shouldn't we be the ones asking you what's going on?"
"Sister Iwazawa, hum~ you're calling me so intimately." Shiina Riki sneered, and his finger bones made a crackling sound, as if he couldn't wait to inflict capital punishment on someone.
"Everyone calm down, there might be some misunderstanding." Nagasaki Suyo gently comforted everyone. When she turned her gaze to Narumi, there was not much light in her eyes. The sweet smile on the corners of her mouth seemed to be stuck on with tape. She said briskly with a fake smile, "We have to believe in Narumi. He is not the kind of scum who would abandon us and have sex with the big sisters in other bands...right? Narumi."
Ming Hai: “…”
No, how could I have committed adultery? You are going too far in accusing me of that!
Before Ming Hai, who opened his eyes wide and looked innocent, could cry out for justice, Ruo Yemu said pointedly:
"Unbeknownst to us, he had a good relationship with the other band members... and just now, he didn't speak up to help us."
I don't know why, but she still didn't show much expression, and her eyes were calm, as if she didn't care about anything.
However, Ming Hai still saw a little dissatisfaction and nervousness on the little face of the puppet girl - just like Su Shi and Xiangzi beside her.
Since even she has expressed her opinion like this, it is natural that Gao Songdeng cannot remain indifferent.
The gray-haired girl finally raised her head, and looked at Ming Hai with eyes as moist and aggrieved as a puppy's. Her soft and thin lips had been bitten by her until they turned white, and it seemed that even her breathing was whimpering, and she whispered in a tone that was afraid of being abandoned:
"Mr. Ming Hai, I will definitely work hard to sing well... So, can you please not go to other bands..."
"no……"
Hearing these pathetic words, Ming Hai finally couldn't help it.
He suddenly opened his hands and shot left and right at a speed invisible to the naked eye, tapping each person on the forehead.
Clap clap clap!
Four voices rang out almost without any interval, accompanied by the girls' cries of surprise.
"Ah wu..."
"Ugh..."
"Well……"
"Ugh..."
Finally, he came to the middle, Ming Hai pinched his girlfriend's soft and pink cheeks with both hands, and pulled them fiercely towards both sides.
"Please wait for me to explain the situation clearly before you take turns to condemn me - is my image in your eyes so bad?!"
He gritted his teeth, lowered his head, stared into Miss Xiangzi's tearful eyes, and said word by word: "And you, Fengchuan Xiangzi, I remember I explained it to you a long time ago, right?"
"Now it's like I've been caught cheating. Did you do this on purpose or was it an accident?"
"No, it was an accident..."
Toyokawa Shoko didn't dare to struggle. She could only stand there like a doll and let him bully her honestly. She defended herself in a vague voice: "I was too focused on what happened just now... I just remembered now that you told me about what happened that night, Minghai-kun... But your relationship is indeed closer than I thought..."
"That's them, not me."
Ming Hai unhappily let go of her hand, rubbed her cheek which was left with red marks, and turned to look at the girls who were gasping for air while holding their foreheads -
He showed no mercy when he flicked the forehead. The blow went through the forehead, causing everyone to feel pain for a while on average. What mattered was fairness.
With a cold snort without any pity, Ming Hai folded his elbows and began to explain confidently:
"As your agent, I have been running various procedures and dealing with various people for you during this period, so that you can prepare for the performance with peace of mind."
"Not only the organizers of the music festival, but also other bands including GDM... Because of the things you all know, I went to Miss Iwasawa to thank her."
"After chatting about the band, I was planning to treat them to a meal as a favor, but the organizer invited everyone who attended the meeting to an izakaya, so I went with them. That's when I got to know Ms. Iwasawa and the others."
"In order to collect some information related to the music festival for you, even though I can't drink, I stayed until they were all drunk before leaving... But I didn't expect that they had no control over their drinking and they all drank to the point of being drunk. In the end, it was Miss Iwasawa and I who worked together to send them all to the taxi and then sent them back safely."
The above are all indisputable facts, but there are a few details that have not been mentioned.
For example, some older sisters tried to force him to drink after getting drunk, or boldly invited him to sit in the house when sending him back, and tried to touch his accidentally exposed abdominal muscles...
Although in the end, Ming Hai successfully got away using his girlfriend as an excuse and kept the chastity that he intended to leave to Xiangzi...but this is ultimately not something worth mentioning.
So he didn't plan to tell them in detail, but simply talked about some good things he had done.
"That's why Ms. Iwazawa came to thank me specially. At that time, many men saw that they were drunk and tried to take advantage of them. It took me a lot of effort to stop them all."
"After they wake up, they will treat me better. This is normal, right?"
"Unlike you, you started to make wild guesses as soon as you saw the slightest clue, and took my kindness as evidence of betrayal to the band, and even tried to surround me and put me on trial..."
"Oh, I'm so angry. Can this world ever get better?"
Looking around, Ming Hai just sighed with a little disappointment at the girls who lowered their heads in shame. In the end, he couldn't bear to continue to attack them.
Not long after, he put away his sarcastic attitude and raised his eyebrows slightly at them calmly:
"Now you know what's going on, right?"
Like elementary school students who have lost their temper after being scolded by their teacher, several of them lowered their heads and answered weakly in unison:
"understood……"
"That's good to know." Ming Hai nodded, and continued, "As for why I didn't speak up for you just now, the reason is very simple."
"The reason why the lead singer Iwazawa followed us to the lounge was to cheer you up and encourage you to work harder - there is no reason for me to stop her."
"Put on some energy?" Shiina Riki frowned. Not only her, but the others also showed obvious disbelief. "Her attitude will only have the opposite effect, right? She has already hit the lights, and in the end, she has brought us unnecessary pressure."
"What she said was indeed problematic, but it did bring about good results." Ming Hai spread his hands, with a hint of laughter in his tone, "At least for me - compared to the lifeless and self-pitying you just now, I prefer the feeling now."
"There is even more pressure, and there are seniors who are looking forward to my performance... and there is also an opponent who must let 'that guy' see our true strength."
Looking into everyone's eyes, he suddenly became serious and said in a resounding and passionate voice: "The plot has come to this point. Whether it is a hot-blooded manga or a useless cute manga, there is no room for us to continue to be depressed, right?"
“‘We must give our all in our performance and let the audience’s souls resonate with us’—that’s what you said yourself.”
"If I get stage fright now, wouldn't it be a shame for all the effort and determination I've put in along the way?"
“Give it your all, like fireworks setting off into the sky – don’t worry about how you perform in rehearsal, just give the audience a once-in-a-lifetime performance. That’s all you need to think about!”
"..."
Staring at him clenching his fists and speaking passionately, the girls were speechless at first, and then looked at each other, not knowing how to react.
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