The social phobia substitute will not dream of the band girl

Although Yuki was dealt another blow, the "Diva" was no longer the "fish on the chopping board" she had been so easily manipulated a few minutes ago. She could only suppress her anger. After all, if she could close this deal, she would get a promotion and a raise. Furthermore, once the contract was signed, there were countless traps that even adults couldn't discern. Wouldn't she be able to manipulate a mere underage girl at will?

"...As the price for allowing you to step onto the world stage, our company will also need to 'sacrifice' a considerable amount of resources. Naturally, we can't make a final agreement so easily. After all—"

"After all, we have no 'sincerity'?"

Minato Yukina had learned to interrupt the spellcasting by responding immediately, and the slight curl in her lips suggested she was enjoying the situation where she was being silenced. Now Yukina could understand why Hirayuma had been so vocal earlier; after all, it felt really good to be the one to deliver the blow when you were right.

The woman in the suit wanted to say something but was interrupted by Yukina——

"...If I had been alone before, I might have agreed immediately... But now, I have a group of companions I can trust - I believe we can make it to the Future World Fes. stage on our own."

"...Yukina-san!"

"...Yuhina-san..."

Udagawa Ako and Shirogane Rinko happily called her name, and after feeling their sincere emotions, Minato Yuki felt extremely guilty -

She must have been possessed by evil spirits before and wanted to abandon her teammates and rely on crooked means to get on that stage. If it was fundamentally wrong, how could she prove that her father was right?

"...Miss, thank you very much for teaching me this valuable lesson."

"...If you dare to resort to means other than fair competition, I'll make you lose everything, okay?"

Faced with Yukina who had already made her choice and Hiranobu who had given her "advice", this office dog who always wore sunglasses and whose name and face were unknown to anyone just left the stage like that.

Chapter 4000 Eastern Tradition ()

"...Red Bean Paste Private Marseille (I'm so sorry)!"

After returning to Hirashin's house, Minato Yukina waited for the six members of Roselia to gather and bowed to apologize to everyone.

This wave, this wave is the traditional performing arts of the East——

"Ha... I didn't expect something like this would happen. Minato-kun, why didn't you discuss this with us?"

Because everyone was murmuring, Hikawa Sayo, who had ordered the shadow maid to bring unlimited copies of the famous guitarist's notes, was a little reluctant to leave. At this moment, she was almost "poached" again and her emotions were a little out of control. She completely forgot what she had said before, "Don't bring personal feelings into the band."

"...By the way, how did Ako and Rinko end up there?"

"Of course I'm worried about Yuki-san, since you'd actually leave with a stranger before practice!"

"...I've made a new dress design...I want to show it to everyone...Yukina-san too..."

Faced with the sincere eyes of these two people, Yukina, who was about to turn evil due to the influence of the woman in the suit and Hirashin, was directly purified and restored to her "innocent" personality.

"I'm sorry... I'm really sorry everyone. My attitude as a band member wasn't correct enough. I will definitely discuss anything with you guys next time."

"T-Then I'm responsible too! I...I've only been watching from afar...leaving Yukina to struggle alone. As her childhood friend, I'm also to blame!"

Hearing this, Hirayuko's lips twitched. After all, it wasn't the first time Yuki had been followed and eavesdropped on. Back at the livehouse CiRCLE, he and Lisa Imai were "making a loud plan" in a corner, and Hirayuko had overheard them clearly. Today, not only had he left with a stranger, but he'd even been followed to the very end by the duo of Udagawa Ako and Shirogane Rinko, who had even heard every word.

Before, I only vaguely felt that Yukina lacked the necessary "common sense" and "vigilance" in some aspects. It seems that everything was caused by this overly gentle world and the overly responsible mother Lisa.

You should be more careful when dealing with women!

Ping Xin, who had not reflected on his usual "mistakes" (spoiling) at all, complained in his heart.

"...Could it be that Minato-san only sees us as 'competition players' rather than 'band members'?"

Even though Baku Baku junk food was making carbohydrates, Hikawa Sayo's thinking and speech were as sharp as usual, not affected at all by the concentration of blood in her stomach. Ping Xin's food temptation plan actually failed...

"Wait...Saya, what you said is too..." Lisa Imai wanted to refute to protect her child.

"As Saya said, everything I did was to perform at the Future World Fes. It was to achieve this goal that I decided to form a band." Minato Yukina calmly stated her thoughts.

After this incident, she has grown up. At least she is no longer completely led by her emotions and cannot see clearly what is in front of her.

"Future World Festival is indeed a pinnacle, and countless musicians aim for it, including you and me. But...

Minato, if everything you do is for the sake of 'a music festival appearance,' does that mean you can bring us together for the festival and then just kick us out once it's over? And...what happens after we achieve that goal? You have no vision or perspective for the future. Don't forget, Hirayuko-san's promise to us is to only achieve our goal of appearing at the competition."

Hikawa Sayo's words were simple and direct, and at the same time, they also made Yukina fall into thought -

With the Future World Fes. goal and Hirayukoshi's all-around support, everything seems to be going smoothly... but what about the future? Hikawa Sayo was right. She hadn't given any thought to the future, forming Roselia solely on the strength of her painstakingly honed singing voice and a single-minded desire. As the band's founder, leader, and even a member of the group, she had an obligation and responsibility to find a suitable path forward for everyone, but...

"How about trying to become a professional band? After all these days of hard work, your playing and performance skills have reached a new level. You can say that all you need to become a professional band is a contract."

"..."

Minato Yukina was thinking, a rare occurrence. Heishin must have had his reasons for saying this, otherwise he would never have suggested something that would make her uncomfortable.

"...Yukina, [commercialization of music] does not mean [commercialized music], do you understand what I mean?"

The commercialization of music and...commercialized music?

"Before that, why don't you tell me why you're so obsessed with that stage? After all, I'm just speculating based on hearsay. Aside from Liza, the other three probably don't know anything about it, right?"

"Yukina-san..."

"...The reason for your obsession?"

Seeing Yukina lost in thought again, Hirayobu decided it would be best to resolve the current trust crisis first. After all, this was just a hair's breadth away from a "fight to the bitter end, leave tonight" situation. Hikawa Sayo, Udagawa Ako, and Shirogane Rinko looked at Yukina, while Imai Lisa's face showed a hint of worry.

"Yukina..."

"I'm fine, Lisa... This story is a bit long. Once upon a time, there was a guy in a band..." Minato Yukina recounted her father's journey from playing in a band to being discovered, signing with an agency, and debuting, to the various constraints that followed the band's commercialization. The result was that the band gradually strayed from its original purpose, becoming solely focused on writing lyrics, composing music, and promoting performances to cater to the public and the market. As a result, they were eliminated from the Future World Fes preliminaries by the judges, stating, "This isn't the music you used to make, nor is it the music we want."

Yukina's father once argued with his manager over an outrageous arrangement of a song. The manager, however, argued that after debuting, the band was no longer a hobby but a business, adding, "Before you act like a child, you should do your job like an adult." Yukina witnessed the argument. After her father's band disbanded, some people criticized it, and Yukina listened to all of it, feeling deeply saddened and indignant on her father's behalf.

I learned singing from my father from a young age, and I always looked up to him as my most respected musician. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, his band disbanded and he gave up music. My long-cherished dream of performing at Future World Festival became a distant dream. My cheerful and cheerful personality was also affected, and I no longer smiled when discussing music with my family at home.

So Yukina decided to fulfill her father's wish at all costs and have her music recognized!

So she formed Roselia, intending to step onto the FWF stage with the power of five people.

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"...I see. I've seen this band in a magazine before... Their work as an independent producer was particularly famous. So, they're... Minato's dad—"

Hikawa Sayo understood why the "simple" Minato Yukina behaved this way and that.

"I founded Roselia, concealed my personal feelings (my true thoughts), and pretended to [push the limits of my music], but in fact I only deceived you for my own selfish desires... I am truly sorry."

Minato Yukina bowed again and continued, "Although I'm not very good at organizing my words, I am also responsible for what happened before - so I think I should leave Roselia. After all, your beliefs are all [truth], which is different from mine."

"...Wait a moment!"

"...Yako too!"

"Wait, I'll let you guys discuss how we're so close to disbanding. And after all...is motivation really that important? You share a common goal, and you work together towards it. Isn't that the best description of the word 'partners'?"

At first, Ping Xin just thought that music could give him a voice, allow him to vent his emotions, and allow him to put the annoying reality behind him.

Because music is easier to handle than reality, the opportunity for me to really like... no, to love music was when I saw foreign rock music, which was so low-brow, so vulgar, full of dirty talk, sex and drugs.

They curse the government, the company, and everything they dislike, not for anyone to hear, but simply to vent, to give reality the finger, to insult it mercilessly.

"But I made such a mistake..."

"I'm just asking if you want to continue working hard with everyone?"

Because of Yukina's excessive nagging, Hiranobu got angry!

His overall perspective ultimately boils down to a simple value system of categorizing things as good or bad and then changing them. After all, he's neither a saint nor a superman. It's fine if it's just external matters, but once it involves someone close to him, Pingxin immediately transforms into the King of Haste and displays his legendary RTA (accidental speedrunning) skills.

"...Even though this is incredibly self-important, and even though my ideals and beliefs are ultimately just [personal feelings]...I still want to create music with the five of us! It won't work without these five! I want to stay in Roselia and perform on the Future World Festival stage with everyone!

But... I don't know what everyone thinks. After all... I did that kind of thing, and I know it's shameless to say this... But I still hope to continue playing in a band with everyone!"

Yukina Minato lowered her head, and now she left the choice to everyone in Roselia.

"...But I can understand how you feel, Minato-kun."

"...Saya?"

"Putting aside the motivations for sticking with music, the motivations in the beginning, everyone... is very personal, right?"

Hikawa Sayo said, remembering that she was trying to surpass her genius twin sister in some aspect.

"At first, Ako just wanted to follow in her sister's footsteps and become the 'world's second best drummer'! She's exactly the same as Yukina-san's dream father!"

"...My old piano teacher taught me that I can express my feelings through the piano...and I hope...to change myself...and playing with everyone at Roselia...I'm so happy!"

"I'm Nozomi and Yuki... Oh, I don't need to explain~"

"Yeah, just like I just wanted to vent my stress and turn the whole world upside down—"

"?"X5

Why is everyone so warm and friendly when a weird thing suddenly sneaks in?

The atmosphere is ruined!

"...Anyway, it doesn't matter if everyone has different things in their hearts. We keep them in our hearts because we can't give them up but find it difficult to express them to others, right? So this is the only way for us to move forward... isn't it? And - I also hope to continue my musical journey with these five people!" After forcibly ignoring Ping Xin who disrupted the formation, Hikawa Sayo concluded.

"...Hmm? Does this mean...that this is a sign of Roselia's reorganization?" Ako said this in a middle school student tone on purpose. The atmosphere here eased and everyone laughed easily.

"They haven't disbanded yet, so how can there be any reorganization? But if you insist, it could also be 'New Roselia'? Anyway, if you want to hype up the sentiment, just add the word 'new' and people will buy it~" Ping Xin complained.

"...Then we'll register for the Future World Fes competition under the name [Roselia]. Is that okay with everyone?"

“I have objections!”

"...Ping Xin-san, you better really have an opinion."

He had repeatedly disrupted the formation and ruined the atmosphere, and now he was interrupting her speech. If it weren't for Hirayobu's constant and unpaid help, Hikawa Sayo would have rushed up and slapped him.

Why are you the only one who talks too much?!

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*Old and old series

But this was just a joke. After all, Hikawa Sayo (when it comes to topics other than her sister) isn't impulsive; instead, she's very capable of calm deliberation. And as the Discipline Committee member at Hanasakigawa Girls' Academy, she's naturally on the side of order. While the stereotype of Discipline Committee members has become that they're the first to disrupt order, at least so far she's been a serious, easily compromised, yet slightly neurotic, good girl.

"My suggestion is to stick to the original plan and build up your reputation at the Tokyo Summer Music Festival first. Registering after you've established a certain level of global fame can save you a lot of unnecessary hassle."

After all, they were serious about reaching that stage through their own strength, so Ping Xin naturally wouldn't resort to trickery to tarnish their "awareness." Given that, in a real fight, besides the test of "hard power," "tactics" were equally important.

"I see... I understand. Then let's stick to the original plan..."

"And one more thing."

Heishin classmate!!!

Bingchuan Saye, whose speech was interrupted again, was already in a state of annoyance. She only had one last chance before the "slap in the face". After all, there is no such thing as three times the limit.

"What do you think about what I just said?"

"...thing?" Yukina asked doubtfully.

"It's just a commercial thing—"

Chapter 52: Facing the apologetic Yukina Hirayuko's request...

Commercialization?

After hearing this, Yuuki Minato remembered the issue of "commercialization of music" and "commercialized music" that Hirayuma had just mentioned, and her already limited brain was further strained. For a singer who has always deliberately avoided commercial topics, this question was beyond her scope!

"Simply put, it's 'selling music' and 'making music for the sake of selling music.' The former is your father's band's early works, and the latter is the 'commodity' they made after being tied to corporate interests. Do you understand what I mean?"

"..."

Seeing that Yuki still didn't seem to understand, Hirayuma added, "What you hate isn't the commercial behavior itself, but the fact that people change their music just to make money. So, what if I just gave you a bigger stage to showcase your music? Now is such an opportunity—"

There's a 'business deal' that's very helpful for you guys to increase your influence. The other party gives you conditions and you write songs. Would you do it? I think it's a pretty good offer to let you showcase your music according to the other party's conditions."

"...Minato-kun?"

Yukina finally came back to her senses after being called by Hikawa Saya. She remembered her identity as the leader of Roselia. Now she can represent herself, but she is not the only one -

"Please let us hear the details. We can give you a reply after we discuss it together."

"...Minato-kun!"

"Yukina..."

"Yukina-san!"

"...!"

I see, I've grown up. This is a good start, Ping Xin thought.

Then Ping Xin sent the electronic version of this project plan to Roselia's small group -