A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

Xiangzi slowly raised his head from between his knees, as if a thousand-pound weight was pressing on his head, making him feel heavy and hesitant.

She hoped this was a repeat of that rainy day.

Xiangzi was overwhelmed with grief when he discovered that Aoi had disappeared. He curled up alone in his own little corner and cried helplessly. At this moment, Aoi's voice appeared in his ears. The girl who had been forgotten by everyone smiled in front of him and gently took Xiangzi into her arms...

Aoi is always like this, appearing when Xiangzi is at her most broken, dragging her back to that happy world when she is on the verge of collapse...

"sunflower--"

Xiangzi had a dull expression on his face as he stared ahead, his dim room reflected in his golden eyes.

There's nothing in my ears.

There is nothing there.

There is nothing around Toyokawa Shoko.

Everything that just happened seemed like an illusion, echoing only in Xiangzi's mind, but she took it as what actually happened in reality.

So what about Aoi?

The Aoi I had seen these days, the Aoi I had seen before... all of this...

Are they all wishful thinking, or are they real things?

At this moment, Xiangzi did not cry. She just stared blankly at her empty room, feeling the pain of her tears drying up, feeling her soul completely broken into countless pieces, falling to the ground one by one, never to be put together again.

At this point, she wasn't even sure if the hope and light she cherished really existed...

"……sunflower?!!"

Consciousness shattered at this moment.

Xiangzi suddenly jumped up from the bed and shouted the name in a hoarse voice.

My body felt so heavy as if it was being held down by countless pieces of lead. Although there was no specific pain, I felt as if my whole body was being tortured. It was as if someone had cut out the most important part of my heart. I felt a sharp pain like a knife and an empty sense of loss.

She was breathing heavily, as if she had just run a marathon in her dream. The sweat oozing from her forehead almost wet her bangs and soaked her pajamas.

At this moment, she was sitting in her bedroom with the curtains tightly drawn.

There was no one beside his bed - this was natural, because the room was not at all the meticulously maintained one in his dream, but was just kept clean and tidy at the most basic level.

Xiangzi lay in bed gasping for breath for who knows how long, and then he remembered that all this was just a dream, a long-lost... a very clear dream in which Xiaokui appeared.

A dream that made her heart ache and she didn't even want to think about it again.

"……sunflower."

Xiangzi couldn't help but tighten the fabric on his chest with his hands, wrinkling his pajamas. His golden eyes trembled uncontrollably as he tried to ease the pain in his heart.

After a moment, she suddenly grabbed the phone on the bedside and dialed Ruoye Mu's contact number without hesitation. After the call was connected, she no longer cared about her image and elegance, and almost roared:

"Aoi... Where's Aoi?! ​​You remember Aoi... right?"

【Shoko...】

Xiao Mu on the other end of the line sounded somewhat bewildered. After a long pause, he spoke in a low, lost voice: [Xiangzi… don’t you want me to attend Aoi’s live performance?]

Mu she remembers Aoi.

Xiangzi felt relieved, as if a heavy stone had been lifted from his heart. He breathed a long sigh of relief and didn't even notice what Mu answered.

"……Do not."

After trying hard to calm himself down, Xiangzi clutched the phone tightly, feeling the pain and grief echoing in his mind, and asked with a trembling voice:

"...Independent Live, when is it? I...want to go see it too."

212

Chapter 212 Xiangzi’s theory of parallel universe.

Xiangzi hung up the phone, put down his cell phone, reached out and opened the curtains.

The light coming in from the window was so dazzling that Xiangzi could hardly open his eyes.

She had always hated this old, cheap apartment, and naturally, the street she looked out the window. But somehow, the scene before her at this moment was different. The surrounding low-cost apartments exuded a sense of peace in the early morning, and the golden sunlight shone on the lonely street, as if warming the cold earth.

The sky was blue, almost transparent, and along the large, shining diamond hanging above it and the horizon, the color grew darker and darker, transforming into a deep blue like the sea at the top of the celestial sphere.

The room, which, though regularly cleaned, could almost be described as drab and lifeless, was now illuminated by the sunlight, and the light-colored sheets of the bed seemed almost gleaming.

Xiangzi couldn't help but think of the layout of his bedroom in his dream, and thought of the rare sunny and bright weather she had experienced recently...

It was difficult for her to explain how she felt right now.

She had been trying to convince herself that she was completely accustomed to such dreams. She would no longer be shaken by these dreams that were so clear that they rivaled her real memories...

But she seemed unable to do it. She couldn't even convince herself that it was just a dream. Long before, she had guessed that all this was actually happening in other worlds, a projection from other time and space.

I don’t know which book once mentioned that the number of parallel worlds is endless, and one of the few ways to observe parallel time and space may be dreams.

Xiangzi and the band members just happened to receive special radio waves, which opened the door to a parallel world in their dreams. However, they could not intervene and could only watch everything happening in the parallel world like spectators.

If that's really the case... then did this dream actually happen? In some unknown world, a girl named Saotome Aoi mysteriously disappeared and was forgotten by the entire world.

How could a normal person, a living human being, who had left so many traces on this world from birth to adulthood, suddenly be forgotten, reduced to a ghostly existence? Even to the point of disappearing completely from her sight... There was no clue about this, and it even sounded like a fantasy story.

But in her dream, she felt so clearly that even Xiangzi now could feel the pain in her heart.

Is this her punishment...?

Why was she the only one who remembered Aoi? If so, why did he take that person away from her after this? This was far more cruel than death. Death merely stripped a person of their life, but the evidence of her presence in this world would slowly fade away over years, even decades, until no one remembered her anymore.

To completely erase the traces of a person from existence is the most cruel thing...

How helpless and painful would Aoi feel when she saw this memory and endured this memory?

And...if all this really happened in a parallel world, would it happen in reality? Would she suddenly one day, when she talked about Aoi with others, the response she got was "Who is Aoi?"

Or, is it possible... In this world, she actually knew Aoi, and the possibilities shown in the dream had actually happened in reality. Aoi might be Xiangzi's childhood sweetheart, or Xiangzi's high school classmate, but no matter what, she joined Crychic.

However, this strange phenomenon of disappearance, so strange that science can't explain it, still happened. However, unlike in the dream, no one had completely forgotten Aoi. Instead, they didn't remember Aoi ever joining Crychic, or even their acquaintance. Only through the influence of the dream did they vaguely recall all this...

"...How is that possible?"

Xiangzi's expression suddenly became a little struggling. He shook his head vigorously and muttered in a low voice.

If she let her imagination run wild, anything was possible. How could she possibly get the answer she wanted by just guessing? Ultimately, she couldn't do anything.

What should she do?

Unconsciously, when Xiangzi came to her senses, she had already cleaned the room from top to bottom, and arranged it exactly according to her memory. The sound of Aoi giggling beside her at that time vaguely appeared in her mind...

After this dream, her mentality has changed drastically. It is no longer possible to force herself to ignore everything as before.

She could no longer escape, could no longer reject the weight of memories, and even more so, could not ignore the name that had tormented her for so long...

But what was the point of thinking more? In reality, let alone becoming inseparable childhood friends, they hadn't even exchanged a single word. In this state, was she still worried about whether Aoi would disappear?

Thinking of this, Xiangzi finally made a decision. She opened the door and walked out of the room. She glanced at her father who was unconscious on the sofa and the living room full of wine bottles. Without paying any attention, she quickly changed her clothes and shoes and left home.

She walked along this familiar street that she and Aoi had walked countless times in her dreams, enduring the memories that kept resurfacing in her mind, suppressing the twitching in her eyes, and finally stopped at the door of a store.

It was a coffee shop, similar to Yuze Coffee Shop, an exquisite shop with transparent floor-to-ceiling windows. The shop sign also specially added the title of "Music", and the sign at the door stated that music performances would be provided in the store every day.

Therefore, the grand piano by the window stands out.

Xiangzi had never been to this store in real life, but she remembered the way and every detail in the store, even remembering that one of the pedals of the old piano was a little loose.

I pushed open the door and walked into the store. The wind chime hanging in front of the door made a very crisp sound. There was also a kitten pendant hanging on it, swaying with the power.

"welcome."

The store manager was wiping the dishes at the counter. She looked exactly as I remembered her, a kind and amiable woman.

Sure enough, all this cannot be summed up in just one dream.

So...the Aoi in the dream, even though she had been forgotten by the world, still tried her best to help Xiangzi, and even brought this gift into reality.

All of this is the last gift from the girl who has disappeared in the dream.

Thinking of all this, and then thinking of the smile of the girl beside him, Xiangzi could no longer bear his tense sadness and grief, and tears flowed like a spring.

She wouldn't let this happen again...

But if she wants to do all this, she must first get close to Aoi.

This is not only for herself, but also for Aoi.

——The plan Xiangzi conceived to solve the problem, the new band that has not yet been born needs Aoi...

213

Chapter 213 This must be a fairy tale.

"Hey, hey~ Xiao Kui... Seriously, don't sleep~ Wake up~ Breakfast is ready, okay?"

"Sleeping face... so cute..."

"Goto-kun! Move aside a little, I can't take a picture! Seriously..."

"Why don't I get this treatment when I sleep in?"

"It's annoying enough that you like to roll on top of others when you sleep, isn't it?!"

noisy.

The noisy sounds around her finally interrupted Aoi's sweet dream, causing her consciousness to return to her hazy mind and she opened her eyes in a daze.

However, her morning grumpy mood still dominated her sleepy eyes, and it took Aoi several seconds to extract the information from the scene in front of her - for some reason, her companions who had finished the band had already changed their clothes and were chattering and huddled beside her bed, staring at her intently.

"...Everyone, what are you doing?"

Aoi finally reacted and asked in a daze while rubbing her eyes.

"Ah, finally awake~"

Hong Xia sighed helplessly, immediately pushed aside the noisy guys around her, and said with a smile: "It's almost ten o'clock in the morning...Breakfast is ready. Seeing that you haven't gotten up yet, I wanted to come and wake you up."

"Ah...Huh?! Is it already ten o'clock?"

Aoi blinked blankly, but exclaimed once she realized the time, quickly glancing at her phone.

It was indeed almost ten o'clock. Their plan for the day was to start training immediately at nine o'clock and continue until the evening, but they ended up sleeping for more than an hour.

"Yes, I'm sorry! Why didn't you wake me up in advance..."

Aoi broke out in a cold sweat.

"You seem to be sleeping soundly, and Xiaokui has been very busy lately, so I wanted to let you sleep a little longer..."

Hong Xia explained with a wandering look in her eyes.

"...Xiao Kui, you went to bed quite early last night..."

Pochi's voice drifted faintly from the side. The eyes of this girl, who usually couldn't be bolder, were filled with worry: "He must be very tired recently... Otherwise, how could he sleep until now..."

"Ah, ahahaha... maybe that's the case, but I've rested now~"

Aoi scratched her cheek and felt the cold sweat pouring down even more. She could only choose to get up in a hurry and run to the bathroom: "I, I'm going to wash up! Let's go have breakfast first!"

She was too embarrassed to tell these girls that she overslept because she stayed up late playing the simulator.

Moreover, not only did this confident simulation fail to achieve the expected results, the rewards at the end were also minimal. The plot was so heartbreaking that Aoi couldn't help but cry, and it also caused her to oversleep, making her lose face in front of everyone...

Why on earth had she started this simulation?

If I remember correctly, the final ending of the simulation was: [The ghost of spring will not go to the summer night]. After the pseudo-combat continuation skill in the ghost state was bound to Xiangzi, all the lines related to other people disappeared, and all her plots could only be bound to Xiangzi alone.

Since Xiangzi would be unhappy when the topic of the band was brought up, Aoi's strategy was to stabilize Xiangzi's life first, and then talk to her about the band - this was a very realistic consideration. You can't ask a person who can't even get enough to eat to pursue poetry and distant places. Only by letting Xiangzi escape from that hellish life, she might be able to become the white moonlight who formed Crychic again.

It's a pity that there was not enough time. When Aoi was about to complete the first step, the band's cohesion dropped to the lowest point, and the simulation was forced to end, which was the worst ending since Aoi started playing the simulator.

After Aoi's existence disappeared from the simulated world line, Xiangzi fell into deep self-doubt, trapped in the past with Aoi and unable to move forward. While he firmly believed that Aoi really existed, he also doubted whether he was imagining it.

Because of this, her life fell into a slump again. The beauty of the past was shattered like a bubble, and now everything has fallen to the bottom. She has never formed a band again, and has not even played the piano again. She is like a broken puppet being manipulated by others, living a stiff and lifeless life.

Since Aoi's participation this time was very limited, the final reward was just a little violin skill as usual. The only gain was probably that Xiangzi's favorability was raised to 90.

To be honest, Aoi didn't quite trust the simulator's skills. Take the battle continuation skill for example. Not only did it do nothing, but it also forcibly created a catastrophic bad ending... Even though all this was only seen in the simulation, Aoi felt very uncomfortable.

Aoi, who had been expecting to rely on the skills she had acquired this time to turn the tables and usher in a perfect ending for Crychic, felt like she was forcibly stabbed by a dagger hidden in the flowers, leaving her covered in wounds and at a loss to what to do.