Teacher Daxiang, please teach me how to play Kasuga Shadow!

In the private room, Aine naturally sat next to Ayano, then reached out to take the pad on the sofa, and while sliding it, she asked Ayano:

"Ayano-chan, do you have any favorite songs to sing?"

"I don't know. I haven't sung much before."

For some reason, Ayano remembered the song she heard when she attended a LIVE before. Although she didn't know the name, it actually sounded quite nice.

And thinking of this, she looked at the lamp in front of her again. Ayano always felt that this girl had some similarities with the girl who sang on the stage that day.

The hair color seemed to be similar, but Ayano could no longer remember what the lead singer's face looked like.

Moreover, one of them was singing desperately, with a level of energy that she could not understand at all, while the other was a well-behaved girl as quiet as a little animal. They didn't look like the same person at all, did they?

As for the other people on the scene at that time, she had even less impression of them.

"Really, Ayano, you're so boring... But you can listen to us sing."

After saying this, Aine looked at Deng who was standing beside her. "Deng, can you sing Sumimi's song? I'll sing Hatsuka's part, and Deng, you can sing Mana's part."

"Sumimi? Who's that?"

"Eh? Don't you know Sumimi?"

"I don't know either. You didn't make this up, did you?" Ayano sat aside, her legs in pantyhose crossed, drinking water and complaining.

"Ayano, you don't know that this is normal! Also, don't make a habit of ruining my life!"

After giving Ayano a cold look, as if in retaliation for her earlier sabotaging remarks, Aine snatched the water that Ayano had just taken a sip or two from, and started drinking it herself.

Since the two of them had known each other for a long time, Aine didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

On the contrary, she felt that after returning from London, she could finally sit down and play with Ayano. Even if the often sharp-tongued Ayano continued to retort her, she felt very happy.

And in Ayano's words, there might be some mental problem under the pink hair.

However, Aine is not the type of person who completely disregards other people's thoughts and only cares about herself.

There's nothing she can do about Ayano not liking to sing, but her new friend Xiao Deng has been in a band before, so it's impossible that he really can't sing a single song, right?

"Xiao Deng, why don't you find a song you like?"

"I don't sing..."

"what?"

“I’m not good at singing.”

"It's okay if you're not good at singing." Aine smiled and glanced at Ayano who was standing beside her. "Everyone has things they're not good at, just like if you asked Ayano to play the piano, she wouldn't be able to do it.

The main thing is that we all come out to play together, it’s not too bad if I’m the only one singing here

All right. "

“…I should be able to play the piano.”

"Amo~ Why is Ayano-chan always making fun of me today?"

Aine pretended to be angry and puffed her lips. She looked at Ayano with dissatisfaction and said, "Ayano-chan, you can play the piano? How come I didn't know that! Ayano-chan, you've really changed now! You've reached the point where you want to see my embarrassed face and want to go crazy!"

"Have it?"

"Hmm... Oh, right."

Aiyin suddenly thought of something and turned the pad back over. She tapped it with her fingers and said with her head down, "Xiao Deng, what was the name of the song you mentioned before...

Oh, Kasukage?"

Haruhi Shadow?

Ayano turned her head to look at the two of them. She felt that the name seemed familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it.

Maybe... in my own dream?

“I can’t find it.”

"...That's a song we all wrote together." Deng, who had been silent all the time, finally spoke after hearing the Spring Film Queen.

“What does ‘will end in failure’ mean?” Aine asked casually without looking up as she continued to flip through the songs on her pad. “It’s what you said before.”

"Or was it because they had some conflict before and are unhappy in the band? Or... are there differences in musical style?!"

"No, it's not."

Deng glanced at Aine, then at Ayano who was silently standing beside her, and she lowered her head again.

A lot of memories suddenly flashed back in my mind. The pictures in the memories were like many photos connected by a line. I just don’t know at what point in time, this river of memories was suddenly cut in half.

'I'm quitting crychic.'

These words rang in her ears again. Deng grasped the edge of her skirt and said tremblingly, "I think...it must be my fault."

If I hadn't done well enough, hadn't worked harder, and hadn't met Xiangzi's expectations, would everything have ended at that time?

"That Xiao Deng must be very sad... But life is long, isn't it enough if we just try to avoid repeating the same mistakes?"

"what."

Looking at the somewhat surprised Deng, Aine looked into her eyes and continued, "Because next time, maybe I'll encounter a miracle and meet those amazing band members. Of course, I'm not saying it will definitely be me.

But I really want to form a band with Xiao Deng, even though you rejected me once before..."

"Maybe you're too bad?"

"Ayano! I'm going to bite you to death today!!!"

Looking at Aine who was pretending to be angry and looked like she was going to eat her, Ayano raised the corner of her mouth in an extremely irritating arc.

"But... Ayano, you said you can play the piano, right? Then why don't you form a band with me?"

"you invited me?"

"I don't care, Ayano-chan, you've been tearing me down today. Since you said you can play the piano, why don't we form a band together, along with Xiao Deng."

Having said this, Aine turned her gaze towards Takamatsu Touma, who had remained silent.

"Then...then are you willing..."

The lamp seemed to have made a decision. It looked at the two people in front of it and said something that made Aine a little confused.

"Would you like to be in a band with me for life?"

"Lifetime... Is that the name of the band?"

Ayano frowned slightly and complained subconsciously.

"Ah, how can there be such a weird name, haha~"

Upon hearing this, Aiyin couldn't help but burst out laughing. And because of these two sentences, Deng, who was sitting opposite them, was suddenly stunned.

For a moment, she felt as if she was suddenly pulled to a very far distance, and she could no longer even see the expressions of Aine and Ayano in front of her.

Escape, as soon as this thought appeared in her mind, Deng immediately picked up the bag beside her and ran towards the door.

"Little Light?!"

Chapter 4 Were you dumped by your ex who was in a band?

This must be an autistic person...

Although it was not very polite to comment on or summarize someone you just met, Ayano always felt that what Xiao Deng said was really hard for her to understand.

lifetime?

What passion can last a lifetime?

Not to mention enthusiasm, which can cool down at any time, objective things will also change with the passage of time. And the thought of old ladies in their seventies and eighties playing rock music together, well, that's too rock...

As for Deng who suddenly ran away, Ayano actually had no intention of chasing after him, but when she saw her pink-haired cat running after him, it seemed that even if Ayano wanted to stay, she had no reason to.

Sighing, Ayano picked up her schoolbag, took a last look at the Sumimi song still playing on the KTV screen, and quickly walked in the direction the two had left.

Because she was slow, by the time Ayano arrived, Xiao Deng, who was originally with them, had already run away in a farther direction.

And now it seems that my childhood sweetheart is arguing with a strange girl.

Tsk... Has Aine's social skills weakened since she started high school? Wasn't she very good at making friends before?

Why do all the people of my age that I meet now seem a little abnormal?

"What? And

Accomplice? "

The black-haired girl looked at Ayano who was walking towards Aine, and looked at the two of them with a bad face, like an inflated pufferfish.

His lavender eyes revealed undisguised anger, and his body naturally reacted in a way that warned him against the enemy.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

"We are Xiao Deng's friends." Aine felt confident when she saw Ayano coming.

"friend?"

The black-haired girl shook off Aine’s hand that had been holding onto her arm, looked at her with an unhappy expression and said, “One of you is chasing the light in the front, and the other is waiting behind to support you. You two don’t look like good people, do you?!”

"That's why we chased her because she ran away."

"Why are you running if you're not chasing her?"

"Why would we if she didn't run away... No! I just wanted to invite her to form a band together."

“Huh?” The black-haired girl looked at Aine with a look of disbelief, “Inviting a band from the Light Group? You… are such a jerk!”

"So who are you? Xiao Deng's parent?"

While the two sides were arguing, Ayano gently pulled Aine's arm, then walked between the two of them, squinting her eyes as she looked at the girl in front of her who had inexplicably stood up to cause trouble.

"Looking at your hair color, it doesn't look like it... So, you've been divorced?"

"……what?"

For some reason, when Li Xi saw the brown-haired girl in front of him with indifferent eyes and no idea what she was thinking, his first reaction was to take a step back.

But she soon felt that her behavior was a little puzzling. After all, in her opinion, these were two suspected school bullies who were chasing her little Deng.

She didn't think the pink-haired girl was a bit silly at first, but now seeing the person in front of her, she was completely certain of her inner guess.

This brown-haired guy obviously has bad intentions!

And look at what this person said, she doesn't think those people are her ex... Bah! She doesn't have an ex, let alone a divorce!

"Do you want to quarrel?!" Li Xi felt that compared to the brown-haired girl in front of her, the pink-haired girl was not as threatening as her.

However, in response to her hostile gaze, Ayano simply tilted her head, and a smile on her face was also somewhat frivolous when she spoke, "Because I think only parents with a strong desire for control would do this.

Everyone has their own hobbies and life choices. If you are a normal friend, shouldn’t you express support for such normal preferences?

Even if I don’t like it.”

Having said this, Aine's gaze towards Ayano became slightly complicated.

Indeed, Ayano never understood her behavior and preferences, but she never used her preferences to interfere with her.

Ayano would always be by her side, no matter what she did, and that was also the case now...

"Let me guess... maybe your ex and you were in a band, but she dumped you right in the middle of your most important relationship, so you're holding a grudge and becoming this bitter bitch who hates the very word 'band'.

Love turns to hate. The more you loved her before, the more you hate everything related to her now.

So now I see that my family, Xiaodeng, actually wants to repeat the same mistakes and follow your old path.

Or you formed a band with people you didn't know at all, so you immediately had a stress reaction, thinking that everyone who makes music is not a good person, we all have ulterior motives, and will definitely hurt Xiaodeng in the future.

In the end, she had the same miserable end as you, right?"

"……you?!"

"Wrong guess? I'm so sorry." Ayano bowed slightly to the black-haired girl, "I also don't think normal people would be so outrageous. You don't look like an abnormal human being.

Right."

This person...

Li Xi didn't know how to fight back for a moment.

You might say that the brown-haired girl guessed wrong, but the following sentences really made her feel like she was being dissected open for examination.

I guessed it right... No, aren't those adjectives you attributed to her a bit too far-fetched?!