A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

And those fragments... were like tiny shards of glass, stinging my heart.

The hug when I met Xiaokui, the practice with everyone, the training camp that I will never forget in my life... and the song "115 Million Kilometers of Film".

His body was shaking and he could hardly stand. As if his soul had been taken away, Gao Songdeng left the cinema.

On the busy streets, people of the same age strolled together, carrying their musical instruments...

"This world does not welcome me... nor does it belong to me."

Her mind was filled with recollections of scenes from the "movie," scenes of her interactions with everyone.

[Look, your smile is really interesting here.]

"Xiao Kui's smile...I've never forgotten it."

[Let’s imprint all of this in our minds so that we won’t be missed or forgotten.]

“…I remember everything.”

【When you are torn apart by disagreements or frustrating things】

I will keep singing this song at the top of my lungs.

"I couldn't do it..."

The melody in his mind reappeared again and again, and the emotions of self-blame and guilt flowed out of Deng's mouth along with the words.

There is no longer any chance to meet again, no longer any chance to find that warm smile again... 115 million kilometers of film, and everything after that is just blank.

"Xiao Kui...will you blame me?"

Unconsciously, the girl stepped onto a bridge. Her weak body seemed to be reaching its limit. She leaned against the railing... and tears began to fall again.

If I were an ordinary girl... if I were not out of tune with this world.

If none of this had happened... if I had the chance to do it all over again.

If only... I could keep us all together for our entire lives, and fill this long film with wonderful moments.

【Come on~ Start looking for the next wonderful moment from now on】

[Sweet or sour]

【Experience together until the film runs out】

【Keep shooting until the end of my life】

In a trance, Gao Songdeng saw something not far away.

There, Su Shi was waving at her while adjusting the bass with a gentle yet helpless look.

There, Aine seemed to have just finished a quarrel with Su Shi, and was carrying her guitar on her back with a puff of anger.

There, Lenai was scooping her matcha parfait spoonfully, and she seemed delighted to see him arrive.

There, Li Xi was carefully preparing the drum set and printed practice music, but when he saw himself, his eyes lit up and he waved at him.

There... Xiaokui was smiling gently, her beige hair was not stained with blood, and she was as beautiful as he remembered.

"Xiao Deng~We are all waiting for you."

Gao Songdeng's tears could no longer be held back. She showed her happiest smile and nodded.

"Thank you... for accepting me, who can't become a human."

"Xiao Kui...this time, we want to be together for the rest of our lives."

She thought of the Galaxy tram again and of that dream.

In the dream, Aoi took her hand and they boarded the Galaxy tram, traveling in the starry sky.

Now she was standing on the bridge, the overpass where she and Xiangzi had once met. This was originally a transportation facility for pedestrians, and unlike a normal bridge, there was no river flowing under the bridge, but trams.

Now everything is different again.

This overpass is built on tram tracks, with the Milky Way flowing beneath it.

The brilliant, graceful, romantic and sparkling Milky Way.

Can I ride the Galaxy train here?

Can I see Aoi again on the Galaxy train?

154

Chapter 154 We are not the only ones.

"Um, excuse me... You looked vaguely familiar, so I kept staring at you. My apologies."

Rencai looked the old woman in front of her up and down, bowed politely, but still secretly made some calculations in her mind.

She knew that her guess was far-fetched. After all, the fame and strength of the Ending Band at that time were extremely exaggerated, and it was not as understated as described in the dream. At least judging from Aoi's personality, she would not easily quit the band.

But she still couldn't help but imagine that almost impossible future. With nowhere to go and homeless, Aoi finally found them and said with tears in her eyes: "Nina, let me forget everything."

……

The memories in the dream are so precious that Rencai is a little deeply immersed in them.

"Let me guess... You think I look like one of your friends, right?"

The wrinkles on Grandma Hechuan's face have smoothed out, and her beautiful features can still be seen on her face full of scars of time. It is not difficult to imagine that this old woman was also an exquisite beauty when she was young.

What surprised Renai even more was her insight. Her clear emerald green eyes seemed to have a unique magic that could easily see what Renai was thinking.

After all, she really wanted to follow this thread and lie that Grandma Tsurukawa looked a lot like Aoi, and that she was Aoi's friend...

No! This wasn't a lie. She was indeed Aoi's friend. Even though it was in a dream, we all had those beautiful memories, right? As long as there were real memories, we were friends!

"Yes, yes! Um, I wonder if you know Saotome Aoi..."

Nina tried hard to suppress her emotions and gave a polite smile to Grandma Tsurukawa.

"Well, I'm the child's grandmother."

Granny Tsurukawa nodded with a smile, "I suppose you must be here to look for Aoi?"

"Yes! Please..."

"What a pity, that kid isn't here right now. Are you classmates?"

"Uh... just some friends who have musical connections."

Rencai's eyes were a little vague. For some reason, looking directly into her mother-in-law's clear eyes always made her panic, as if the shell she used to protect her heart was penetrated by an invisible force, and all her worries were peeled off and scattered all over the ground.

What's more, there was a hint of familiarity in the kind and gentle gaze of Grandma Tsurukawa, a stern look that only her father had, which made it impossible for her to say that she had dropped out of school.

If I tell her, will she be seen as an uneducated and decadent girl, and will Aoi forbid her to have any contact with me?

Renai thought anxiously, as if she had forgotten that she had never had much interaction with Aoi in real life.

"I see, my friend in music...you too."

Grandma Tsurukawa nodded calmly.

She looked Rencai up and down, and seemed to have already seen some clues from the girl's hesitant eyes and always nervous movements.

Although she didn't want to admit it, she did see a familiar smell on this girl. This smell was very similar to that of Nagasaki Suyo who had visited her earlier, but also a little different.

Being hesitant, uneasy, and absent-minded, she must have a good relationship with Aoi, but something has caused the relationship to become unnatural. She wants to do something to save or improve the current situation, so she can only come to me to find out the situation...

With her petite figure and youthful appearance, she's clearly a high school girl. However, her aura and eyes reveal a sense of heaviness, suggesting she's likely older than she appears. Furthermore, judging by Aoi's current situation and the fact that she calls herself a 'musician'...

Another girl from a band? And she's from the same band...

In fact, Grandma Tsurukawa had already had a brief acquaintance with the members of the disbanded band, and knew that the last person, Nagasaki Suyo, was not Aoi's bandmate, and this time it should be the same.

What happened to his granddaughter, and what kind of experience did she have? Why did the girls who came to visit him all seem to be obsessed with Aoi and care about her so much?

Although Grandma Hechuan considers herself open-minded and can accept her granddaughter having a very close relationship with girls, if she has close relationships with many girls at the same time, she will need to consider whether to correct this bad habit.

Thinking of this, she briefly considered it and asked softly to Rencai in front of her.

"You're a band girl too, right?"

"Eh? Yes, yes..."

"Are you here today to discuss music with Aoi? Or are you here for the band's independent live?"

"what?"

Rencai looked at her mother-in-law in surprise, not knowing how to respond for a moment. After a long pause, she stammered, "Yes, yes..."

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that the grandmother Tsurukawa in front of her didn't seem to be as hostile to the band as she was in her dream. She didn't seem to have the attitude of "the band is just playing house" at all.

"I'll let her know, but didn't she tell you? The warm-up band has changed plans and has been replaced with just one person."

Grandma said calmly, "I'm sorry, but this is the conclusion I came to after discussing it with the store manager. Although Aoi and her band have a solid foundation, they clearly don't have the skills to hold a long-term independent live show. Scaling down the scale of their first live show will help them better prepare for any challenges that may arise."

After saying that, she glanced at Ichichi Xingge who was yawning at the counter not far away, and nodded and smiled at Xingge who happened to look at her.

Hearing this, Rencai couldn't help but frown slightly and asked subconsciously.

"Excuse me...Aoi, does she already have another candidate?"

"That's not true. Although they have the right to choose the opening band as the host band, a review is still necessary."

Grandma Tsurukawa shook her head slightly, a faint smile on her face. "It would be nice to hold a live review of the warm-up band here later."

An inexplicable warm current surged into Rencai's brain, making her feel hot all over and her hands began to tremble uncontrollably.

She didn't even have time to think about why Tsurukawa seemed so concerned about the band, but the first thing she thought of was that Aoi might be planning to invite other bands to warm up for her next independent live.

Are you kidding? Why not choose them? Aoi has seen them before, and has so many vivid memories of them in her dreams. Even if these things didn't actually happen, the memories are real...

Is it possible that their band is not important at all in Aoi's heart?

Thinking of this, Renai couldn't help but clench her fists. Unknowingly, the crimson thorns extended from her soul again and pierced her fragile body.

The original idea of ​​wanting Aoi to come back gradually faded, and was replaced by a radical and stubborn burning thought.

"I'm so sorry, could you please not tell Aoi that I was here?"

Nina bowed solemnly to Grandma Tsurukawa and said sincerely, "I'll leave you here for now."

155

Chapter 155 Return to RING.

Saotome Aoi was on the train heading to Ikebukuro Station, squeezed near the door, looking out the window with a complicated look at the rapidly receding city scenery.

Tokyo outside the window was shrouded in the glow of sunset, the sky covered with an orange halo of sunset glow, and countless high-rise buildings seemed to be immersed in an ambiguous and hazy light, gradually melting into the evening. On the overpass in the distance, countless vehicles shrouded in dusk had turned on their headlights, and were like countless tiny flying insects, going back and forth along the tracks.

The carriage inside the window was packed with students and office workers returning home during the evening rush hour. The colors of uniforms and suits were intertwined, just like a pile of spare parts piled haphazardly in a transportation warehouse. The intertwined human bodies hid in a place where the evening sunlight could not reach, suffocating in the air of fatigue and numbness.

So crowded.

So depressing...

If she had known earlier, she would have asked the family driver to take her, or taken a taxi directly to Ikebukuro. Her pocket money was more than enough to pay for taxi fares and travel around Tokyo.

It's also her fault for insisting on coming alone, otherwise she wouldn't have to rush into the evening rush hour with the other office workers.

She couldn't help but sigh and glanced at the band group message displayed on her phone.

Today is the day when the band's preparations are completed and they will start their independent live performance. At her grandmother's suggestion, she took her grandmother to Starry to let her grandmother meet her bandmates and, by the way, to get some industry experience and suggestions from this veteran musician.

So, after a discussion between Grandma and the store manager Xingge, they finally decided to change their independent live into a scaled-down version of a 'small independent live', reducing the number of songs and performance time, and changing the originally planned two warm-up bands to just one.

After all, a true independent live performance often lasts for nearly an hour, and usually more than ten songs may be played at one time. Regardless of whether they have so many songs, judging from their experience and strength, they are not yet at the level of such high-intensity performance.

In order to ensure the smooth running of their independent live, their top priority now is not to hold an independent live that is on par with other popular bands, but to ensure the quality as much as possible. After all, they are still just a small fledgling student band and cannot set their sights too high or too far at once.

Therefore, their activities today are not training, but they are going to separate and prepare for their independent live performances.

The new equipment had to be moved from the cooperating music store. Since the scale of the independent live was slightly larger, the livehouse staff with whom she had a good relationship had to be asked for help. Xingge provided a list of some bands that she recognized and could be invited to participate in the warm-up.

However, Xingge and Grandma seem to be planning to hold a Live review of the warm-up bands. After all, there is only one warm-up band that will actually participate in the performance, and it will be up to professionals like them to select the most suitable band.

The purpose of Aoi's trip was to go to RING in Ikebukuro alone, find the MYGO band, and try to invite them to participate in the warm-up band review.

To be honest, Aoi was still a little embarrassed. After all, last time, he was only one or two votes behind her band. Inviting him to help and participate in the review always made her feel a little condescending. But whether out of selfishness or consideration for the band, she wanted to invite Mygo.

Since both parties knew each other at the last music festival, it shouldn't be difficult to have a simple chat, but whether they would agree is still an unknown.