I have pure love with them

"Shinobu Eina... a cute high school girl."

Supporting her cheek with one hand, Quan flipped through her homepage updates, her mind elsewhere.

"I feel like I'm overproducing hormones lately... The body during adolescence is really frustrating."

After exiting Dongyun Huiming's homepage, he clicked on another video software and entered Goto Ichiri's personal homepage. After putting on headphones, he clicked on a video at random. Listening to the rock music ringing in his ears and Goto Ichiri's clothes that made people have no distracting thoughts, Quan's slightly heated head calmed down instantly.

"The number of followers has increased quite a bit... from the 3 I started with, it's almost 6 now?"

The number of video views has also increased a lot, but there are still highs and lows. The video released yesterday has only 2 views so far, and a video released a week ago has only 8 views.

"The play count for hit songs will be high, but when it comes to rock music, it will drop..."

It's not surprising. After all, not everyone can accept rock music. The new attention is basically attracted by the playing of popular songs. There are not many people who are really interested in rock music.

Just as Quan was killing time by watching videos, half an hour passed.

Izumi was watching "My Little Pony: Rainbow Rocks" when she saw a pink color at the edge of her vision. She looked up and saw Goto Ichiri, who was looking at her nervously with a guitar on his back.

"Um... I'm sorry, I made Izumi wait for so long. I'm late..."

"No, I'm just watching a video I didn't finish watching before, and the place I want to go to hasn't opened yet. Let's take a rest here for a while. Do you want something to drink?"

"Well……"

Seeing that Izumi was not unhappy with his lateness and invited him to sit down with a smile, Goto Ichiri felt ashamed but also felt a warm feeling in his heart.

"The only person who can treat me so kindly is Izumi-san... It's great to know Izumi-san."

"Good, good."

She sat down opposite Quan, picked up the menu on the table and began to look through it carefully.

Knowing that she was going out today to meet Izumi, the Goto couple gave her a lot of living expenses at once, and warned her - "If Chihaya-kun likes anything, don't hesitate, buy it for him! Girls should be more generous! When facing your male...male friends, friends you have a good relationship with, you should be more proactive!"

142. Chihaya Aine studied abroad for two years

"I haven't seen you here for a long time. Are you here to watch the live performance today?"

Not long after Ijichi Xingge opened for business in the afternoon, a customer came into the store. He looked up and saw that the other person was Izumi who hadn't been there for a while. He was a little surprised and asked casually.

After staying in the coffee shop for a while to rest and adjust their state, Izumi took Goto Ichiri to stroll on the street for a while before coming to 'STARRY'. However, neither of them came across any store that interested them. After a brief stroll on the street, they went straight to 'STARRY'.

"Because I haven't been here for a long time, I wanted to see if there are any new bands here. Also, I haven't seen Senior Hong Xia for a while, so I came here to see if I can run into Senior Hong Xia."

Picking up a box of strawberry milk, Ijichi Xingge's eyes fell on the girl behind Quan. She keenly noticed the somewhat nervous expression of the girl standing behind him when Quan said he wanted to see Hongxia.

"So you really like him? But he doesn't seem to care. Is he not aware of this, or...?"

After inserting the straw, Ichichi Xingge bit the straw and looked at Quan.

"Hongxia won't be here until later. There's no one else in the store right now, and the live show won't start until later. You guys are a little early."

Previously, after hearing what Quan said, Ijichi Xingka would have suspected whether this guy had ulterior motives towards his sister, but after a brief chat with him and facing Quan's unmoved reaction, Ijichi Xingka felt relieved.

This boy is probably not the type her sister likes.

"Then let's order a glass of juice and tickets for today's Live."

Ijichi Xingge looked at the two people sitting in the store, quietly walked behind the counter, and while taking out the tickets for today's performance, he also prepared two glasses of juice and placed them in front of the two people.

It is called mixing, but in fact it is just taking out the fruit juice bought from the supermarket and pouring it into a transparent disposable cup.

After all, it’s not a regular restaurant. It’s just that it’s difficult to apply for a regular business license for a live venue, so it uses a restaurant sign.

"Has the store manager never thought about expanding this place?"

She brought the juice to the table where the two of them were sitting. Just as she was about to sit down aside, she heard Quan ask her a very subtle question.

“Do you think this place is small?”

With one hand on his waist, he tilted his head slightly and looked at Quan who was sitting in front of him. Yijichi Xingge did not seem dissatisfied. Instead, he was a little curious about why Quan asked this question.

"A little bit."

"Don't you know what euphemism means?"

After hearing Quan's honest answer, Ijichi Xingge couldn't help but sigh.

"Well, this place is indeed a little small, but a bigger place would require more money and expenses. The current 'STARRY' is just right for me."

There were no other customers coming to the store, and Ijichi Hoshika, who was alone and had nothing to do, thought that Izumi's question was a bit presumptuous and childish, but he still opened his mouth and gave an answer, and his eyes fell on Izumi.

“Could it be that after watching the live performance here, you have the idea of ​​opening a livehouse of your own?”

"I don't have any intention of specializing in business, but if there is someone I can rely on who has experience and interest in this area, I don't mind investing some money and leaving things to that person."

Now, her younger sister Chihaya Aine has started to form her own band, and she will have a demand for musical instruments and performances in the future. If she has her own livehouse, it can provide her with some convenience. From this point of view, Izumi doesn't mind investing part of the money.

Ijichi Xingge looked at the young man in front of him with a subtle look. The other party's arrogant tone, saying something like "I don't mind investing some money", seemed to indicate that he was very capable.

'A teenage boy who wants to show off his vanity in front of a woman?'

Glancing at the girl who she had identified as the "Guitar Hero", who was gazing at the arrogant brat with admiration, Ichichi Xingge couldn't help but feel a little weird.

Do you believe this?

Unexpected simplicity.

She looked at the young man who was quietly drinking juice. He didn't seem to be bragging at all, and his expression was vain and proud. She was a little surprised. Could he be the young master of a big club?

"If it is a regular livehouse, the investment required is quite a lot. For a small livehouse, the investment required is between 600 and 1000 million yen."

Because Ijichi Hoshige used her personal connections from her previous band, she didn't have to worry about lack of publicity and customers when opening 'STARRY' in this remote basement, saving a lot of rent for prime venues. However, the decoration and audio equipment still cost her a lot of money.

She herself did not spend up to 600 million yen, as some of the non-essential items were second-hand items, but even so it was almost 600 million yen.

Without her father's support, she would not have been able to open 'STARRY' on her own.

After she finished speaking, she saw the surprised expression on the face of the boy in front of her.

"How is it, are you scared? You are not a kid who has not even graduated from school yet, you don't think you can open a livehouse with 100 million or 200 million yen, right?"

I was indeed a little scared.

After hearing what Ijichi Hoshika said, Izumi was stunned. He didn't expect that the funding for a livehouse only required 600 million yen... no, 1000 million yen.

"No, this should be the minimum amount of funds, which is probably the size of this 'STARRY'. For a company like 'RiNG', it would probably be impossible without tens of millions of dollars."

So, when Yidizhi Xingge saw the boy in front of her, she was stunned for a moment, and then she looked indifferent.

600 million yen is still a considerable sum for an average family. For Toyokawa Shoko today, it may be an astronomical figure. But for the Chihaya family, it is probably equal to the originally estimated expenses for Chihaya Aine's two years of studying abroad.

An equation emerges.

Livehouse 'STARRY' = 2 years of studying abroad in love music

"It's probably the cost of my sister's two-year study abroad... It's not as high as I imagined, but at 600 million yen, it should be about the same size as the store manager's, right?"

"..."

She was wondering why the other person's expression changed from surprise to calm, but after hearing what Izumi said, Ijichi Xingge understood.

Study abroad.

It turns out he is a big dog owner!

143. Does your brother like girls with blue hair and twin ponytails?

But just as she was about to say something, she thought of something else and looked at Quan in front of her with subtle eyes.

"My sister went to study abroad, and the tuition fee was 300 million yen a year. As a brother, even though he had excellent grades, he went to school in Xiuhua?"

"..."

The sympathetic look made Quan realize that Ijichi Hoshige in front of him seemed to have misunderstood something. He recalled what he had just said, and thought of the point of 'sister studying abroad', and then recalled his current school, he couldn't help but smile softly.

"Forget it. There's no need to explain this."

"As someone who has been through this, my advice to you is that if you are not particularly interested in music, you should not even think about running a livehouse unless there is a special need. In Shimokitazawa, many livehouses close down every year."

As an outsider, Ijichi Hoshika couldn't comment much on Izumi's family situation, but when it came to the Livehouse, she still gave some advice after learning that the other party's family had the financial strength.

In response, Quan nodded slightly.

He himself had no intention of operating any livehouse, but he thought that if Ichichi Xingge was interested in expanding 'STARRY', he could provide some financial assistance, but his current age obviously did not convince Ichichi Xingge.

"Based on the current relationship, there is no possibility of trusting the other party. Letting a stranger interfere in the management of 'STARRY' is also something she cannot accept."

Quan, who had been prepared from the beginning, was not surprised by the current development. After hearing the advice from Ichichi Hoshika, he ended his discussion on the topic of Livehouse...

"It turns out that something like this happened when Quan Jun was in middle school~"

In RiNG's cafe, Chihaya Aine met Nagasaki Soyo. She originally wanted to discuss the band's affairs with Nagasaki Soyo, but for some reason the girl in front of her kept talking about Izumi, which made Chihaya Aine realize that something was wrong.

"Did you talk too much about Izumi?"

Looking at Nagasaki Soyo in front of her, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but doubt in her heart whether the other party liked her brother.

"Um... does Shuangshi have a crush on a boy now?"

"Hey~ Do we want to talk about this now?"

The slender white index finger of his left hand lightly tapped his chin, and Nagasaki Shoyo's expression seemed a little ambiguous, as if he was thinking about whether to tell the girl in front of him. This made Chihaya Aine suddenly certain in her heart that the young lady in front of her, whom she had just met not long ago, had someone she liked!

With a shy look, Nagasaki Shoyo's eyes were observing Chihaya Aine who was sitting opposite her. Noticing that she seemed to care about this matter, she pursed her lips slightly, smiled, and said with a regretful tone that she had taken the initiative to confess to Izumi before -

"Actually... not long ago I told a boy I liked that I liked him, but he rejected my confession on the grounds that 'we didn't know each other well enough', so... I want to get to know him better and let him know more about me before trying to confess to him."

Holding the index finger of his left hand with his right hand, Nagasaki Shoyo lowered his head and smiled faintly, as if with regret.

"Understand? Just now Shuangshi was asking about Quan, right? Eh? Did Shuangshi confess to Quan?"

Although she didn't know what was going on, Chihaya Aine was shocked in her heart and stared blankly at Nagasaki Soyo in front of her.

"Eh? That...the person that Shuangshi likes...could it be..."

"It's Izumi-kun."

Before the shocked Chihaya Aine could say anything, Nagasaki Shoyo raised her head with a smile and gave the answer.