People are in animation, but they can connect to reality

Asagi watched band after band take the stage, each time drawing cheers from the crowd. MMK and the others took the stage in the middle of the evening, a poor time, perhaps even a bad one. By this time, most fans had already expended their energy and enthusiasm, their spirits much lower than they had been at the start. Some began to play with their phones, their attention waning.

If it's a band they're familiar with, fans will listen attentively. However, if it's an unfamiliar band and the music isn't compelling enough, fans will simply forget about it. The best time periods at a show are the first 20 minutes and the last 10 minutes or so. This is when the audience's energy is highest and they're most open to new things.

While the audience was still lingering on the previous song, MMK and her band had already walked onto the stage, waiting in a dim corner. The stage was large, and to ensure an orderly rotation, the next band had to prepare in advance. As the song ended, the spotlight shifted, shining on MMK and his band.

Renai clenched her fists, trying to ease her nerves. 486 was already seated behind the drum kit, ready to begin, while the guitarists, bassists, and keyboardists waited for the music to begin. Unlike the slightly nervous performers on stage, the audience seemed relaxed. They stared at the stage, a flicker of disappointment in their eyes.

The audience was silent; few knew the band on stage. The sudden silence brought the atmosphere to a freezing point. Many of the audience members lowered their heads, staring at their phones. Only a few, just giving it a try, waited in boredom.

There were no listeners for their performance, and no one had any expectations or enthusiasm for them. The audience began to whisper, discussing among their companions and friends which band was better, and they were not paying attention to the band on the stage.

"MMK, Niina, 486, Chi-chan, and Rupa, come on! I believe in you! Knock them all down!" Asagi put his hands to his mouth, making a trumpet shape. He yelled, screaming at the top of his lungs. He was standing far away from MMK and the others, and in the noisy arena, it was almost impossible for them to be heard.

This was the first time that Asagi had done such a rash thing. Although the people around him turned to look at him with troubled eyes, Asagi's face was hot and his cheeks were red.

"Sing! Knock them all down!" But he still gritted his teeth and shouted.

Nagasaki Suyo and the others were surprised and looked at Asagi. Asagi felt the pressure from all around him, and the looks from everyone around him made him want to hide. Just when Asagi was unsure how to end the song, the melody of "Brave Shine" finally started playing.

"I'm saved. I felt like I was going to die." Asagi covered his face and retreated behind Nagasaki Suyo and the others to hide.

The intro to "Brave Shine" is unlike any other song. It begins like a climax, instantly raising anticipation for the entire song. The bewildered audience, previously indifferent, were captivated by the fast, high-pitched melody as soon as "Brave Shine" began.

The prelude alone set the tone for the piece, and the audience looked up at the stage, their eyes beginning to sparkle with anticipation.

The long-cherished wish hidden in the heart of my left hand remains

What I gaze upon is an illusion that has not yet been realized

Only the empty memory remains in the palm of my right hand

At the end of the world no one knows

Let the endless rain beat down on you while you still have the strength to protect what you want to protect.

Nina's voice may not reach the level of the original singer, but as a rock saint, her singing of "Brave Shine" has its own unique flavor and story.

The audience was stunned at first, then slowly captivated by the melody and moved by the lyrics. In the darkness beneath the stage, someone began waving a glow stick. The solitary glow stick was like a firefly dancing alone in the night, lonely yet strong. Slowly, more and more people joined the group, and the lone firefly found a companion. More and more companions began to gather together, forming a solid object.

"MMK-san, I love you!" Chihaya Aine jumped up on tiptoe, waving the glow stick in her hand vigorously.

"Aine is so bold." Takamatsu Deng was very shy. She waved along with Chihaya Aine, but she was not as brave as Chihaya Aine to express herself.

"Rupa-san, come on, I will always support you." Shiina Riki is a fan of Rupa.

Chapter 247 Not Gentle

In the waiting area behind the stage, the members of Diamond Stardust tilted their ears to listen to the faint singing coming from the stage in front.

"MMK has become so amazing," senior Nana couldn't help but praise him.

"Yeah, MMK and the others' songs have been really good recently. It feels like MMK's composition style has completely changed." Senior Rin also said so.

"If MMK had come up with a song like this earlier, we wouldn't have to break up. Oh, sorry, Hina, I didn't mean to say that." Ai Sun-sun kept apologizing.

"I don't mind," Hina replied calmly. She listened to the new song playing on the stage outside, a complex expression on her face. She knew the song "MY ALL" wasn't composed by MMK, but by someone else. Hina couldn't help but want to pop her head out to see what was going on outside. She also wanted to see what Nina's expression looked like when she sang the song.

"Ah. Sorry." Ai-senpai kept apologizing, but Hina didn't bother dwelling on it. Now she was tied to her seniors, having finally managed to make Diamond Stardust a success.

"What a great song, it's that band again." At the same time, the members of Ave Mujica also heard the new song called "Brave Shine", and Miao Meng couldn't help but praise it.

The new song "Brave Shine" continued the band's style, also a song about forging ahead in the darkness with a light of hope. What they didn't know was that Asagi had just found a song with a similar style.

Sankaku Hatsuka listened quietly, without commenting. Instead, she looked at Toyokawa Shoko, who was currently composing for Ave Mujica. Any praise for another band's lyrics and music was a stab in her face. Sankaku Hatsuka cared deeply about Toyokawa Shoko, and no matter how good a band's song was, she would never praise it in front of her.

The girl firmly believed that Triangle Chuhua would not bring trouble to Xiangzi.

Hachiman Kailing nodded slightly. Even though they were competing bands, she still agreed with Miaomeng's opinion. Wakaba Mutsu continued to play the role of a puppet quietly, not saying much.

After "Brave Shine" concluded, the audience erupted in applause, like a roaring thunder. Nina and the others bowed to the audience and slowly left the stage. The production director stared at the unfamiliar band, their lights fixed on them until they disappeared from the stage.

The future is promising! As a seasoned veteran of the production team, he offered his assessment of this emerging band.

"Wow, that's amazing!" Takeda-senpai stared at the stage with sparkling eyes. She waved her light stick vigorously, her face full of excitement.

Asagi hid in the back, because his behavior just now was too social, and he didn't know why he said such a thing in public in a fit of rage. Even after Nina and the others finished their performance, Asagi's face was still radiating heat.

Diamond Stardust and Ave Mujica were scheduled to appear later, with Ave Mujica appearing last. The directors were dissatisfied with the order of Ave Mujica's appearance, as they believed that the last appearance should be given to well-known bands rather than to a lesser-known band like Ave Mujica.

"Let's go," Toyokawa Shoko, standing behind the stage, said decisively, as if giving an order. She was the first to head toward the stage, followed closely by Sankaku Hatsuka. Wakaba Mutsu and Yawata Kairin were next, and finally, Meow Meng followed, dragging her feet.

Looking at Toyokawa Shoko's back, Miao Meng tilted her head and thought about something.

"It's better to hold on. Although it's painful to endure, for the sake of greater rewards, I can only wait and see for the time being." Miao Meng said to herself.

For a band, the Budokan is essentially the end point; playing somewhere like the Tokyo Dome is unthinkable. Ave Mujica's potential remains largely untapped. Miao Meng followed behind Toyokawa Shoko, nodding repeatedly in affirmation.

"Which band will be the last?" Chihaya Aine asked curiously, rubbing her lips and tilting her head in thought. Asagi looked at Aine's adorable expression and thought, "You'd never guess it was Toyokawa Shoko's band, would you?"

Hearing Aine's words, Nagasaki Suyo's body trembled slightly. The thing she was most worried about was about to happen. Nagasaki Suyo couldn't help but want to retreat, want to escape. No matter how much psychological counseling she had done beforehand or how determined she was, when she learned about Ave Mujica on the stage, she couldn't help but want to escape.

Nagasaki Suyo's heart is broken, and her feelings for Toyokawa Shoko are twisted. Now Suyo is like a broken music box, which can still make clear and pleasant sounds on the surface, but is already rotten inside.

I am not a good kid, nor am I a gentle person.

Or run away, away from here, away from the stage, away from Xiaoxiang. If I can't see Xiaoxiang, can I protect the last trace of connection with Xiaoxiang? That name is the only thing the girl named Nagasaki Suyo has.

Suddenly, the lights in the entire venue went out, plunging the place into darkness. The weary hearts of the audience were suddenly stirred, and their emotions became intense. After a brief silence and doubt, just as the crowd's dissatisfaction with the organizers' missteps was about to erupt, a faint neon light in the room lit up.

A beam of light shone in the center of the stage. Only then did the audience notice a group of young girls standing on the stage. They were either lying down, slumped in a sitting position, standing quietly, or gazing off into the distance, motionless and silent, as if they were dead.

As the lights slowly moved, they finally stopped at a girl with twin pigtails. Like an exquisite doll, the girl began to slowly move. The crowd then realized that the lights in the backstage had gone out not because of a mistake but because of the organizer's deliberate act.

"The moon swallowed by shadows will come back to life,"

"The sad doll will once again have a short life."

The girl, dressed exquisitely for the meeting, slowly began to speak, her body moving slowly. She began to recite the opening of a fairy tale, and as she recited, the other girls slowly opened their eyes and began to move.

The faces of the crowd were filled with shock; they had not expected the final performance to be in this form.

The harder the girls on the stage worked, the more pain the girl named Nagasaki Suyo felt offstage. The name she wanted to protect gradually slipped away from her.

Chapter 248 The Only Friend

Toyokawa Shoko's lips curled up unconsciously. Her puppet band was beside her, and the audience was below the stage. They moved, and the light on the stage shifted.

At first, the girl's soft singing, like the voice of a siren, ethereal yet powerful. That sound struck my heart, like a fairy tale of a mysterious beach, a girl sitting on the shore, gently blowing a conch, eagerly waiting for what she was waiting for.

Slowly, the other puppets opened their eyes and joined in the humming. As the waves crashed against the sea and the wind began to blow, the calm sea surface began to become violent and fierce, as if swallowing everything. The crowd below the stage erupted in applause.

Asagi took a few steps back and turned to look at Sushi. The girl was standing next to him.

The girl squatted on the ground, clutching her chest, her breathing becoming rapid. Cold sweat on her forehead stained her hair. She struggled to stand and looked up at the stage. What caught her eye was an exquisitely masked puppet. A girl with twin ponytails named Toyokawa Shoko was performing on the stage with rapt attention, while the puppets around her danced with Toyokawa Shoko.

Did that blue girl with twin tails abandon her just to live with them? The girl felt as if her heart was being grabbed by someone, the pain was so severe that she couldn't breathe.

Why should I see this kind of thing? If I don't see it,

The light in the girl's eyes gradually dimmed, their brilliance lost. She stared blankly at the stage, her pupils focused on nothing. The figures on the stage gradually blurred. She could no longer make out the puppets. Nagasaki Motoyo slowly retreated, and kept retreating.

The friends around her didn't notice anything unusual about Nagasaki Suyo. They were staring at the stage excitedly, watching the novel performance on the stage. Suyo's body suddenly shook, and she was about to fall to the ground in the next second. Asagi quickly reached out to support Suyo, but heard a "pop" sound, and Suyo opened his hand.

The loud cheers at the scene drowned out the faint sound, so that no one around him noticed the unusual movement.

Nagasaki Suyo staggered for several steps before she could stand firm. When Asagi was stunned, Nagasaki Suyo suddenly turned around and ran out crying. At the moment Suyo left, a light hit Suyo's face and quickly disappeared. At that moment, Asagi saw a weak girl with tears on her face.

After a moment of hesitation, Asagi came back to his senses. Seeing that Suye was about to disappear, he quickly chased after her. After the two figures disappeared, Chihaya Aine turned her head slightly with a strange expression, "Hey, where's Suye? Did she go to the bathroom?"

Asagi chased Suyo outside. The light was dim, and the pedestrians on the road were constantly moving. Asagi couldn't find Suyo at all. He stood there in a daze, not daring to move. This was the nth time he had run out to chase girls: Nina, MMK, 486, Suyo.

He stared around him, and to his lower left, he saw Suyo running past him. Asagi followed her as she stopped in a deserted corner. The scene was a bit like Nina's, and a bit like the second time he'd met Suyo. That time, too, he had invited Suyo to see Toyokawa Shoko's debut performance, only for Suyo to run away midway through.

For a moment, Asagi felt that the Su Shi in front of him overlapped with that Su Shi.

He slowly walked towards Su Shi. When he was more than 10 steps away from her, Su Shi reached out to stop him. "Don't come over, you bad guy!" Su Shi's voice was a little choked, and her eyes were shining with tears. She held on to the chair behind her with one hand to support her slightly shaking body.

"It's all your fault!" Su Shi yelled at Asagi, her beautiful face becoming distorted. Su Shi loudly vented her inner hatred towards Asagi, but the next second, the girl was stunned. She looked at Asagi blankly, and the distorted face began to disappear, and the girl's delicate face returned to her face again.

"No, it's not Asagi's fault, no." Su Shi shook her head and began to doubt what she had just said. As she spoke, she backed away. Suddenly, she wanted to escape, but the chair behind her blocked her way. Su Shi had no choice but to face Asagi in front of her. Even so, she still madly refused to let Asagi get close to her.

"Please don't come over here!" the girl begged.

Seeing Sushi's face gradually losing its rationality, Asagi couldn't help but call out worriedly, "Sushi." His original intention was not to do so. He just wanted to use tonight to encourage Sushi to be more motivated. Otherwise, Sushi and the others' childish attitude would never catch up with Toyokawa Shoko's.

Even if they couldn't beat Toyokawa Shoko now, that didn't mean they couldn't beat her in the future. With the support of the Toyokawa family, Toyokawa Shoko's bottom line was too high, so high that even many small-time bands couldn't touch it. If Sanjiao Chuhua hadn't gotten into Toyokawa Shoko's car, she wouldn't have been able to attend tonight's party, even though she was an idol star.

Asagi would provide them with songs that would allow them to reach a higher level than Toyokawa Shoko and the others. He hadn't expected things to turn out this way; he had overestimated Nagasaki Suyo's mentality.

Hearing Asagi's voice, the girl raised her eyes in confusion. Seeing Asagi gradually approaching, Su Shi suddenly shouted, "Don't come over, please."

Seeing the girl's pitiful pleading, Asagi had no choice but to stop. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't start a conversation for a while.

The girl squatted on the ground, holding her head and sobbing.

"I like Xiangzi very much. When I was in elementary school, my parents had a bad relationship and often quarreled in public. Sometimes they would quarrel until very late, and even fight. I stood aside in fear, not daring to say anything. In order to make my parents reconcile, I tried my best to play the role of a good child, forcing myself to smile in front of my parents, and working hard to do housework so as not to cause trouble for my family." Su Shi's voice rang out again.

"After school, I go home alone and wait for my parents to come back. I wait and wait until I fall asleep. I draw pictures of my parents in my notebook. Everyone in the pictures has a smile on their face, and the words 'happy family' are written next to them. I deliberately put the notebook on the table and pretend that I have forgotten it, hoping that my parents will see it and that they will reconcile." But there was a hint of sadness in her voice.

"But my parents still divorced, and I was left to my mother, even my last name changed. Even so, I tried my best to act like a good child, smiling in front of her so as not to worry her. To make up for me, my mother rented a very expensive place and sent me to the most expensive school nearby. At school, I also tried my best to act gentle and not cause trouble for others."

The girl forced herself to smile, and at this moment the gentle girl appeared in front of Asagi again.

"I became friends with many people, but I wasn't happy at all until I met Xiaoxiang. Xiaoxiang became my only friend."

Chapter 249 Only you are left

"Hey, Xiaoxiang is my only friend, why did you abandon me? I tried very hard to get close to her. I have reflected on it and wondered if I made a mistake. But Xiaoxiang didn't answer me and just cruelly abandoned me."

The resentment gathered in the girl's body and could not be dispelled. Suddenly, the girl stared at Asagi with her eyes shining.

"It's all your fault!" Su Shi yelled frantically. She suddenly stood up, grabbed Asagi's arm and bit it hard. In an instant, the pain spread throughout Asagi's body. He wanted to push Su Shi away, but stopped halfway with his hand.

After a while, Asagi slowly lowered his hand from mid-air, thinking to himself, This is karma, justice will always come back. Playing with a girl's feelings will be punished.

Nagasaki Suyo's voice was hesitant and unclear. "It's all you who asked me to come here. Whether it was this time or last time." Nagasaki Suyo said while wiping away tears, "You knew my feelings for Xiaoxiang, so why did you force me to come?"

"Do you really like seeing the expression of a girl crying miserably?" Su Shi said as she cried, and the strength on her mouth gradually loosened. But even so, Nagasaki Su Shi still did not let go.

Asagi gritted his teeth and endured. It was indeed all his fault; Asagi couldn't deny it. Whether it was the boredom last time or this time, it was all intentional. He wanted to recruit Sushi's band, and MMK and the others alone weren't enough. He had so many songs, he could easily support all the bands in Tokyo, and there was a limit to how much money a band could make. Expanding the group was the best option.

Nagasaki Suyo gritted her teeth and sobbed, "You knew I was scared, scared of seeing Xiaoxiang, scared of losing my name, why did you force me?" "Don't you have any compassion, Asagi?"

The girl opened her mouth and looked up into Asagi's eyes. She stared blankly for a long time, then backed away as if in fear.

"You are a devil!" Nagasaki Suyo spoke slowly, word by word, separating each word.

Asagi was stunned? Blinking for a long time, it took him a long time to react. Why do people say he's a demon? Nina's sister, Iori Suzune, said so, as did MMK's senior, Mion, and you, Motoyo. Is he really a demon? He's clearly doing this for everyone's good.

The pain in his arm dragged Asagi back to reality. He raised his hand and looked at the teeth marks and the blood stains on his arm, and said with some melancholy,

"Judging from my arm, your words are not convincing. It was you who bit me, and I was the one who got hurt. Besides, it was you who agreed to come, and I didn't use any force or threats. But in the end, all the mistakes were put on me."

Asagi looked at the wound on his arm again.

"Oh, that hurts!"

"You,!" Su Shi was very angry about what Asagi said. She gritted her teeth and glared at Asagi. Her body was shaking with anger because of Asagi's words. It was obviously Asagi's fault, but in the end, in the end,

"I wanted to be Suyo's friend, so I made Suyo angry. If Suyo could treat me as a friend, could I replace Toyokawa Shoko and protect you?" Asagi stared at Nagasaki Suyo and asked seriously.

"Why, why are you saying this?" Nagasaki Suyo suddenly became terrified. She twisted her body as if she was frightened. She looked at Asagi in panic, not knowing what to do.

Su Shi wanted to abandon Asagi and run away, but her legs refused to obey her and she was stuck there. Su Shi lowered her head and was unable to speak for a long time.

"Asaki can't replace Xiaoxiang," Nagasaki Suyo's voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible, "because Asaki is also unique and an important friend to me. One friend can't replace another friend, because they are both important."

"I've lost Xiaoxiang, lost an important friend." Nagasaki Sushi's tears flowed again. She wiped her tears and stared at Asagi.

"You are the only friend I have left." The girl's painful voice sounded in Asagi's ears.

But the figure of 486 appeared in the head in front. Remember that 486 is also Su Shi's friend. He introduced 486 to Su Shi and the two have a good relationship. Could it be that Su Shi doesn't regard 2 as a friend in his heart?

Suyo was in pain, and Asagi thought this was rude, so he criticized himself in his heart. Nagasaki Suyo stared at him, her lips moving slightly, as if waiting for him to say something.

"I won't abandon Su Shi, absolutely not." Asagi said.