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

But no matter what, the tense atmosphere that had spread everywhere in the lounge now enveloped most people. However, in Su Shi's eyes, these situations were too normal.

In other words, it was completely under her control, just like Monkey King could not escape from the Five Finger Mountain. The emotional state and behavioral logic of everyone present were within her expectations.

No, she couldn't laugh out loud yet.

"It's okay, as long as everyone can perform at their usual level, that's good enough." Su Shi, as always, acted as the team's coordinator, but the look in his eyes when he looked at these people contained a joy that was deliberately concealed.

"Ayano is really amazing. From beginning to end, Ayano-chan was the only one who didn't make any mistakes."

"If you practiced hard, Aine, you wouldn't have this problem." Riki rolled his eyes at Ayano who was still holding her pink hair at this time, although... there was really nothing wrong with this sentence.

"By the way, where's the wild cat?"

"I don't know where he went..."

"Really?" Li Xi closed her eyes in frustration. Then, when she heard someone standing up next to her, she opened her eyes again and asked unhappily, "Where are you going again?"

"Ah, let's go check out the other lounges. We can't just wait like this, right?"

"you……"

Seeing that everyone except Deng was planning to go out, Li Xi thought about it and sighed helplessly.

After all, she really needed to find an opportunity to be alone with Deng and say something to him.

As the door was closed by several people outside, the lounge became completely quiet. The warm light shone on Lixi and Deng, as if they could see the sunset outside from indoors.

"Deng, don't sit on the ground, you'll catch a cold."

"Ah."

Li Xi still felt a little uncomfortable seeing Deng sitting on the ground with her legs hugged. Fortunately, after she said something, Deng did not refuse. Instead, he sat next to her after she made some space for him.

"Are you nervous?"

This sentence is complete nonsense. At this time today, except for the lost Lenna and the always confident Ayano, everyone else is very nervous about the upcoming performance.

However, there are different reasons for being nervous. Some people just need to drink a few sips of water or change their environment to relax.

But Deng, who has never known how to speak out her thoughts, needs to take the initiative to look into the other person's eyes and force the child to speak out what is hidden in her heart in order to resolve the knot in her heart.

"...When we officially go on stage, there should be an audience, right?"

"Well, after all, today is afterglow's home game, so the people here should all be their fans."

"Before... Ayano told me about that..."

"What did she say?!" Li Xi suddenly became excited, but she quickly controlled her emotions, "Ayano, didn't she say anything excessive?"

"No, Ayano told me that she envied me."

"envious?"

That girl who seems to have everything she needs actually has times when she envies others?

"Yeah." Deng nodded silently. "She said that on the day she posted the comment, she didn't understand the significance of our hard work together. She said that before... she actually envied me for being able to fully devote myself to something.

But now Ayano-chan doesn’t envy me anymore.”

"Why? No... I mean... why?"

Deng didn't look at the excited Li Xi, but clutched the corner of his clothes and said, "Because Ayano-chan said that she now understands the meaning of working too hard, and she has also found something that makes her work hard for it."

Lixi frowned. She didn't know whether this was Ayano's true meaning or just something the guy said to defend himself.

But if that's the case, why is the light

Why are you still so worried?

"If that's the case, there's no need to be too nervous about the lights, right? Or are you worried that there will still be..."

"no."

Deng shook her head. She actually didn’t know how to define her current situation.

Maybe she was afraid that she would mess up the LIVE today, disappoint everyone's expectations of her, and make Ayano disappointed in her; or maybe she couldn't help but doubt whether the way she sang was correct. Besides Ayano, would there be more people who would think her songs were ridiculous?

She only knew that if she wanted to solve this problem, she had to find it through LIVE, but she always felt uneasy in her heart, but she didn't know what the reason was.

With all these thoughts in her mind, she could never calm down.

"Deng... Actually, someone once told me that singing your heart out isn't a bad thing. It's actually a compliment to you."

"Compliments?"

Just when Li Xi was about to explain further, the door of the lounge happened to be pushed open at this moment. Because it was Aine and Ayano who walked in, Li Xi immediately took back his words.

She didn't know why exactly, she just felt that she didn't want to say these words in front of Ayano.

But when Li Xi saw the box of things in Aine's hand, she couldn't help but frown and asked:

"What's that you got?"

"Snacks, I saw these in the hallway and brought them here."

"Is it prepared on the spot? Senior should take it first."

"But the people at Afterglow said we can take more." Aine said nonchalantly, and at the same time, she tilted her head like a kitten and bit off the three-colored meatball that Ayano handed over.

"Huh?! You actually started talking to them!"

"What's wrong..."

"...Forget it." Li Xi let out a long breath, then tried to calm his excitement and sat down again. "So, what else did you say besides that?"

“Aine said this is our first time participating in a live show, so she asked them…”

Before Ayano could finish, Riki stood up again, staring at Aine who was being fed by Ayano and said, "You guys are not going to apologize to them, are you?"

"That's not true."

"No, that's good..."

Shiina Riki sat down again.

But before she could take the three-colored meatball from Deng's hand and take a bite, Ayano continued what Aine had just left unfinished, "I told the girl who seems to be the lead singer that we should pay more attention to it later so that we don't attract too much attention and make the other bands feel invisible."

"No!" Li Xi almost threw the meatball in his hand to the ceiling, "Aren't you declaring war on them?!

Do you know that they are our seniors? How could you be so... Never mind, I will go and apologize now."

"No, Ayano, why are you lying again?" Aine swallowed the meatball in her mouth and looked at the player Riki who was doing squats repeatedly with an amused look on her face, "How could Ayano-chan be so speechless as you?

Although Ayano-chan did ask them to do something.”

"Who are you saying can't speak?! No... We are the juniors, how can we bother the seniors?"

"Rikki, don't be so excited~" Aine quickly raised her hands in surrender, then lowered her right hand and took out a piece of paper from her dress pocket and handed it to Rikki.

"This is?"

"Ayano-chan asked them to sign, saying that you seemed to care about them a lot, Rikki, so they also wrote a message for you."

"Prepared for me..."

Li Xi's eyes lit up slightly, and then he saw that on this light red card, there were indeed the signatures of five people, including Mei Zhulan, and even a line of words at the end:

【Rikki, damn it! 】

"Thank you, thank you..."

"Eh? Rikki, I didn't hear what you just said~" Aine first secretly touched Ayano's long legs in pantyhose to signal her good friends not to ruin her show, and then deliberately teased the cute Rikki with a blushing face.

"Thank you."

This time the sound was a bit louder, at least everyone in the room could hear it clearly.

"Ah, Rikki can actually say thank you too."

"I'm not talking to you, why are you so proud, you pink-haired girl!" After saying this, Li Xi looked at Ayano with a complicated expression again, but his lips trembled for a long time and he still couldn't say more words of thanks frankly.

Calm down. Although it seems that there is no need for her to blame Ayano too much at the moment, she still wants to use today's LIVE to make Ayano admit in front of her that Deng is right. This idea has not disappeared and is destined not to change because of a little benefit.

If you bow your head too much now, your momentum will be lost.

"I am back."

At this moment, Su Shi finally returned to the lounge slowly. Just as she opened the door and hadn't said anything more, someone outside the room said:

"Lena-chan, we have matcha spiral bread~"

"I want to eat."

"Wait!" Li Xi stood up again when he heard the name of Lenai. Of course, when he stood up, he did not forget to put the card with the idol's signature in his pocket. "Yamabuki Gaku

Sister, catch her for me!"

……

"So, did Lenai-chan run out to steal some food?"

"..." Li Xi glanced helplessly at the wild cat who was still eating in small bites, then said seriously with all his might, "Don't run away to other places all the time, you must come to the LIVE.

Also, don't play the guitar without permission."

"unauthorized?"

"It's just like what we just rehearsed." Su Shi reminded gently from the side.

"Don't play guitar on your own when you get on stage. You can only play after the MC is over. Understand?"

"Ah."

so good.

Su Shi sat aside, watching Riki and Deng, whose emotions had calmed down after she and the others deliberately left to give the other two some space, and Aine, who had become stable again thanks to Ayano's mediation.

She felt that their current condition should be the most perfect one.

Everyone was still a little nervous, but this nervousness was not enough to prevent them from even performing on stage.

But she is not too confident, so confident that she suddenly performs beyond her expectations and makes Xiangzi in the audience feel that she is the one who is not needed.

Alas, the overall situation has been decided, and life... is easy!

.....

5:40 p.m.

Toyokawa Shoko and Wakaba Mutsu walked into RiNG's LIVE venue together.

What surprised Xiangzi a little was that at this rather awkward time, that is, during the warm-up time before the band that everyone was paying attention to came on stage, there were actually quite a few audience members waiting in front of the stage.

Some of them even seemed familiar to her. Hiss... Aren't those members of Ayano's fan club?

But then again, I wonder if Ayano will be nervous when it comes to her first official performance with an audience?

Probably not. According to Xiangzi's understanding of her, Ayano is a fearless person, so she would probably never get stage fright...

Xiangzi took Mu to find a relatively suitable position, which was neither too close to the front desk nor too close to the people on the stage.

But at this moment, Xiangzi forgot a basic theory in physics, which is the reversibility of light path.

Although it was a little dark under the stage, Xiangzi could see the positions of everyone on the stage clearly. As long as the people on the stage paid attention, they could also see Xiangzi below and the expression on her face.

"It's about to begin."

"Hmm..." Hearing Mu's words, Xiangzi nodded lightly in response.

Just as Xiao Mu said, after the six people on the stage found their seats, the voices of the people chatting below became a little quieter. It can be seen that those who can come to the LIVE have more or less some respect for these band members.

But before Xiangzi saw Ayano show any strange expression, the pink hair on the left side suddenly froze there, like a stretched balloon.

This made Xiangzi want to laugh, but when she thought of Xiaomu who was right next to her, she suppressed her smile.

“When we first met, we were a substitute band.

We all feel very nervous and hope that the audience can take good care of us.

Everyone, are you ready?"

The person who spoke was naturally Su Shi, but after she said this, Aine on the other side still looked a little dazed. Finally, with Riki's hint, she seemed to have recovered a little bit of normality.

These people... should be fine, right?

Xiangzi didn't know what kind of mentality she had towards this LIVE, but for her, if the six people on the stage could successfully complete their performances, then she should be able to feel at ease.

But, am I qualified to say these things now?