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

However, these one hour and 23 minutes did make Xiangzi feel like he was reborn.

Although she knew that it might be difficult for her to regain some strength from this woman who knew her weaknesses, but... at least she could show her weakness only to Ayano.

At other times, when facing others, she would no longer hesitate or cry like before.

"Have you decided on a band name?"

"No...now is not the time to think about that."

"I have a suggestion for you. How about using my old name, Ave Mujica?"

"..."

"You actually thought about it instead of refuting it right away. Tsk tsk, and you still say you're not a middle school kid?"

Click.

While Ayano was teasing Shoko with words, the blue-haired girl behind her had already taken out her cell phone and took a picture of Ayano with twin tails. As long as she didn't speak at this moment, she would give people a very soft and cute feeling.

After doing all this, Xiangzi jokingly shook the phone in his hand and said:

"Be careful, I'll send this honorable image of yours to your fan club and shatter their aloof impression of you."

"You're so mean."

"Let me learn from you..."

"But think carefully, I still have your maid costume video."

“…I’ll delete the photos right now.”

Chapter 104 Nagasaki Suyo's Cross Montage (2/2)

Roppongi Luxury Apartment 45th floor.

Nagasaki Suyo lost the ability to leave the house.

She turned off her cell phone completely and threw it under the pillow at the head of the bed, pretending to ignore it.

The messages going back and forth were all from her friends in the class. It didn't take long for Su Shi to even feel that the news of her sudden illness today would spread to the club. The chirping electrical signals seemed to be reporting their hertz numbers while constantly drilling into her brain.

She was tired of it and didn't want to see any more useless information.

Anyway, she knew that she had been blocked by Xiangzi and he would not reply to her message, so why bother herself?

It can be said that Nagasaki Suyo did nothing the whole morning.

She couldn't sleep, and her waking mind had no daydreams. She just stared at the bedroom ceiling, her eyes wandering over the glass ornaments on the chandelier, as if she were playing a childish game of escaping a crystal maze.

Gradually, Su Shi didn't know how much time had passed, and the whole world once again made her feel a kind of quiet horror.

With no one to accompany him, and his mother, who had been forced to bear most of the family's burden after the divorce, not coming home for a long time, Su Shi, unable to bear the silence, thought of one of the reasons why he chose music:

Let her ears hear a reassuring voice.

In this torment, Su Shi sat up, took out the bass from the bass bag in the room, and played it twice.

But before she had played for a minute, she lowered her head and stopped what she was doing.

"Why does the bass sound so loud..."

.....

"Huh? Do we need to pay special attention to the bass part? Most people can't hear it!"

In the studio at Ayano's home, when Shoko Toyokawa heard Ayano suggest finding a dedicated bassist to make up for the missing part of their "Red Ginger", she complained a little unhappily.

"I heard from Aine and the others that bass is quite important, isn't it?"

“That’s in a band like yours that focuses on live performances. For a band like ours that focuses on original music, the emphasis should be on writing lyrics, composing music, and arranging music, rather than actually finding a group of professional performers to record live.

To be honest, I think Aiyin can be optimized away."

"Why don't you say this to her face?"

"Do you think I don't dare?" Xiangzi was still dissatisfied. How was she weaker than the pink-haired girl? Why did she act like she was afraid of the pink-haired girl?

However, thinking that the guy might switch to a big dog and bite people if he was forced into a corner, Xiangzi reluctantly gave up the idea of confronting the other party head-on.

"Anyway... the array software these days is very powerful. It's more than enough for us. We don't need to perform everything live. Even if we don't have a lead singer, we can still use VOCALOID as the lead singer."

"Are you saying that we can use a computer to simulate a guitar in the future, and then lie to people that it was Aine who played it, so that no one will say that she plays badly?"

"...You are still cruel."

"Just saying it~" Ayano smiled, and then continued with the arrangement work under Shoko's guidance.

This song is nothing else but the one that answers

"Bi-Li-Li Emotion", which Ain requested to record but has not yet started recording.

She uses a melody style that is a mixture of pop and rock for the whole song. Since many of the lyrics written by Aiyin are a mix of Japanese and English, it is actually very easy to grasp the rhythm and focus of the song.

But... is this guy writing the lyrics like this to show off that she has been to England?

Shaking her head with amusement, Ayano looked at the project on the computer screen and continued to think about how to design the arrangement.

"I think the layering of your song is pretty good. I can tell you wanted to reduce the presence of the keyboard and increase the proportion of the guitar... But are you sure Aiyin can play it?"

Hearing Xiangzi's malicious complaint, Ayano smiled and said jokingly:

"It's okay, I believe she can do it. After all, as a mother...how can I not trust my own child?"

.

"Okay, Mom."

In the corridor connecting the living room and the entrance hall, Su Shi pretended to be calm and explained his condition to his mother who called to inquire about his "illness".

Of course, she must have lied.

But a mother always believes her children, so even though this lie was the most imperfect one she had told in the past few days, the mother on the other side did not hear anything wrong.

All he had was concern for her, but unfortunately, this concern still lacked the warmth that could be actually felt.

Su Shi touched her stomach and felt a little hungry. She walked to the kitchen with some annoyance, opened the refrigerator, found some instant food, unpacked it and put it in the microwave.

Her eyes were still lifeless, but when she thought that Xiangzi, who was crying sadly that day, might be just as sad now, or even hiding alone in an empty house like herself to avoid others, she felt a strange feeling in her heart... that this could relieve some of her guilt.

Moreover, Xiangzi is different from herself. From what she learned from Ayano, there may not be anyone around her who will take the initiative to care about her enthusiastically. Ayano, the only one who can say anything, is one of the sinners who hurt Xiangzi.

What about your own side?

At least there were still many people asking her why she didn't go to school. Although Su Shi didn't care about these caring greetings at all, it was better than the helpless Xiaoxiang.

"Xiao Xiang...you must be feeling very uncomfortable, right?"

While Su Shi was muttering these words silently, she heard the sound of the microwave oven finishing its work, and then she absentmindedly touched the hot paper box with her hand.

"Hiss, it's so hot!"

"Xiaoxiang, you're too careless. Did you get burned?"

Seeing Xiangzi, who was so engrossed in chatting with her about mujica, getting scalded by the steam from the rice cooker without noticing, Ayano grabbed Xiangzi's hand in annoyance and patiently blew on her hand.

"Well, it's just a little burn. I'm not made of paper."

"So what are you made of?"

“…Made of meat.”

"Hello, Xiangzi." Ayano was also amused by Xiangzi, who didn't laugh even though she told a joke, "But you don't look like someone who can live independently.

If you don’t have anyone living with you, you might get hurt while cooking, and then you won’t even be able to find someone to help you heal your wound in a panic.”

"What are you talking about?"

Xiangzi strongly condemned Ayano's behavior of picking on a shameful thing about her and then slandering her, "I didn't live alone before. Although the place was not big, I still lived with my father.

He's a bit of a jerk, but he can be helpful when he's not drinking."

"Really? I didn't realize you've gotten over it so quickly now. You're not so easily excited when you mention him anymore."

“…Not really. It’s just that once you have a goal, there’s no need to think too much about some things.”

Thinking of this, Xiangzi suddenly thought of something, and then looked at Ayano with a serious look and asked: "Just think of it as me borrowing money from you... Ayano, can you help me with some money?

My own ideas alone are definitely not enough to form Ave Mujica. I... need funding."

"Hey, you accepted the name I suggested very quickly."

“…” Xiangzi rolled her eyes. As a customer service representative, how could she not know that Party A was the boss?

"Of course there's no problem with this request. It's good to keep you by my side as a slave. How can I give such a good thing to others?

What if those unscrupulous capitalists sell my Xiaoxiang to Africa? "

"No, Ayano, watch your words!"

Xiangzi now very much suspects that the beautiful girl in front of him may have a real problem with her sexual orientation, and even now she seems to be a little abnormal.

Until now, her mind is still filled with the images of them taking a bath together. It's like her computer is infected with a virus, and she will see a screen full of errors every time she turns it on and off.

"Then let me be serious. I have only one request of you."

"what?"

"If one day I am forced by objective reasons to have nowhere to go and need to

You can’t say no to someone who’s in your band.”

"Okay." Xiangzi agreed without thinking.

For her, Ayano will not leave Aine's band now. Rather than any "objective reasons", Xiangzi thinks this is more like a step that allows her to trade with peace of mind.

And it seems that she was forced to agree to the boss's request to "bring money into the group", but she didn't lose anything at all.

Even if her female boss really joins the group, she will be an MVP who can play the piano and sing.

But the problem is, it is highly unlikely that someone like Ayano will have the chance to leave her original band, leave Aine, and come to him.

..

"Kick Ayano out."

While Nagasaki Suyo was stroking the burned area on her palm with her fingers, she was thinking about this crucial decision in her mind.

Although Ayano is very strong and is indispensable to the band, if she can contact Shoko and confirm that the other party intends to come back, then she will have to drive Ayano away.

But it's not appropriate to drive her away directly, so... I can only attack Aine, right?

Su Shi's eyes had lost their brilliance and she no longer had any of her rationality or kindness. She only thought of one thing:

There should never be two keyboards in a band.

Chapter 105: Ain: A healthy and green life is my best teacher (1/2)

After lunch, Xiangzi took the initiative to clean up the dishes on the table and put them into the sink. Because she was still not used to using a dishwasher, she still chose to wash them by hand.

Besides, there is not much workload to begin with, and always relying on machines will make it seem like you are not serious about your work.

But when he saw Ayano trying to help clean the kitchen counter, Xiangzi suddenly became embarrassed and stammered:

"Ayano-chan......."

"what happened?"

"What I told you, you..."

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

Ayano walked over to Shoko with a rag in her hand. Shoko naturally moved a step to the left so that Ayano could easily rub the rag in her hand under the sink.

When the two of them were standing together and chatting, Xiangzi could clearly feel the height difference between her and Ayano. He estimated that Ayano should be about 1.6 meters tall.

Coupled with the same hairstyle now and the other person's ability to always know what he is thinking, Xiangzi feels that he is becoming more and more like Ayano's sister.

"How do you know what I'm going to say?"

"Because I found that my mind reading seems to have worked on you recently." Ayano wrung out the rag and continued to clean the range hood while saying, "I know you still have a long way to go, but that is your own path, and you need to practice it yourself.

No matter what you choose, as long as you don't leave me, I will always keep a room for you here."

"I..." Xiangzi's face flushed. She felt that Ayano's words were no different from a confession. "I know. Let's keep this a secret between us. As for Aine...you should keep it secret as much as possible.

The main reason is that I don’t know Aine well enough…”