Substitute Toyokawa Shoko, you can become stronger by breathing

"Maybe something happened at school that delayed him."

Sanjiao Chuhua tucked her long golden hair behind her ears, her amethyst-like eyes shone with water, and she gently and tenderly tried to find an excuse:

"Xiaoxiang is always very serious."

"Can you be so serious as to make everyone wait so long?"

Yutenji Wakamu sneered, her short purple hair swaying slightly as she shook her head, seeming quite dissatisfied.

"She's like this every time we rehearse. She was late last time too."

Ruoye Mu sat in the shadow of the corner, as if isolated in a transparent barrier, his drooping bangs blocking the faint light flowing in his gilded pupils.

Her light green hair fell on the guitar case, her golden eyes stared intently at the tuner, and her pale fingertips produced a subtle metallic vibrato when plucking the strings.

"But last time it wasn't Xiaoxiang's house..." Sanjiao Chuhua just raised his wrist to explain but was interrupted.

Hachiman Hailing leaned against the wall with her arms folded. Her face, as cold as jade, was expressionless beneath her long black hair. The bass straps on her black leather jacket wrinkled the shoulders. "A leader should lead by example."

"That's right!" Yutenji Ruomai straightened up suddenly. "We all arrived on time, why should we wait for her alone?"

"How about...we warm up first?"

Sanjiao Chuhua clasped her hands in front of her chest, her long eyelashes trembling nervously, and the violet ribbon slid down to her elbows:

"We can start right away once Xiaoxiang arrives."

"whatever."

Yutenji Wakamu tugged at her purple bow tie irritably, and her skirt lifted dangerously as she crossed her legs.

"But I must make it clear to her this time. I can't do this again."

"Everyone... just calm down."

Sanjiao Chuhua hesitated, as if he wanted to explain something, but after a moment he gave up and said:

"I believe Xiaoxiang must have her reasons."

In fact, she said this because she was aware of Shoko Toyokawa's current situation.

Xiaoxiang's current living environment and her father, who is hard to describe in words, have caused her to have a somewhat awkward personality. Because of this, Xiaoxiang's relationship with other people in the band is not particularly harmonious.

But she couldn't explain the reason to other members of the band.

After all, this is Shoko Toyokawa's family affair, and she can't tell these things to others without anyone's consent.

Hachiman Hailing shook her head, her green eyes gleaming with a cold emerald light. The head of her bass guitar made a crisp sound on the ground, and she said calmly:

"Being late is being late, there's no reason."

Suddenly, hurried footsteps were heard in the corridor, and Ruo Yemu's fingertips, which were tuning the strings of the guitar, paused imperceptibly.

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PS: There are three more chapters.

Finally it can be opened, cool

Chapter 21 Shut up and watch me operate

The time goes back a few minutes.

At dusk, the taxi drove over the cherry blossoms and stopped in front of the building.

When Kujo Renji opened the car door, the evening breeze lifted the dark blue sailor uniform scarf of Yugaoka Girls' College.

He reached out and lifted the blue twin ponytails on the left side of her hair that hung down to her chest behind her back. The blue at the end of her hair shone coldly in the sunset.

"Excuse me."

As he handed the change to the driver, his amber pupils shrank slightly under the shadow of his eyelashes.

The pleated skirt of her school uniform rippled as she stood up, and the red marks on the top of her white socks caused by the black loafers were faintly visible.

"You're almost half an hour late!"

Toyokawa Shoko seemed a little anxious.

Except for the last time when she was late because of her father, she always arrived on time.

"As the band's creator, what's wrong with coming in a little late?" Kujo Renji wondered, "Can you have a little more self-awareness as a commercial band?"

"What does this have to do with whether or not this is a commercial band!?"

Toyokawa Shoko felt that this man was simply unreasonable.

"You're late, they should be grateful that you gave them some time to breathe. This is what a commercial band should do."

"This is too dark! What kind of worldview are you living in?!"

"Shouldn't it be that your eldest lady's worldview is too naive?"

After recalling Toyokawa Shoko's memories, Kujo Renji could almost see at a glance why her band was having so much trouble.

As a commercial band, there are almost no restrictive contracts for its members.

On the contrary, there are quite a few compensation contracts for investors.

Doesn't this clearly show that there was a problem with a band member, and the other party was fine, but as the band leader, she is the one who should be held responsible?

This isn't about forming a band, this is clearly about doing charity.

The most difficult thing is that almost all of the most valuable members of the band came because of Toyokawa Shoko's appearance.

Instead, it is the less valuable members who are singing a different tune.

Jiujo Renji sighed: "Do you know that I came late on purpose?"

"You're showing off, aren't you?" Toyokawa Shoko felt like she was going to faint from anger.

Actually, there was no need to be late. After Kujo Renji managed to practice the piece to be rehearsed tonight in the piano classroom, he still had a long period of "free time".

But he did not go directly to the rehearsal room immediately. Instead, he chose to go to a convenience store to have a nice meal of oden.

Okay, that's understandable.

After all, performing is a physical job, and not eating can easily lead to hypoglycemia.

And even if you add the time for eating oden, it is more than enough for Kujo Renji to come to the rehearsal room.

After finishing his oden, he suddenly had the idea to go to the game hall to take a look.

Does this have anything to do with the band?

Isn't this just deliberately delaying time and being late?

"Sometimes, if you want to catch the instability within a team, you have to expose the handle first."

Jiujo Renji was not stingy with his explanation, as if he was really imparting his management experience. He sighed and said slowly:

"Half of the five people in your band are rebellious... they just don't show it."

"If you don't fish, their evil intentions will be hidden forever until you least expect it and they'll give you a big blow."

"Are you kidding me? I founded Ave Mujica and personally selected each of them. There's no way they would appear..."

"childish."

Kujo Renji suddenly lost interest in explaining.

He didn't know how many times he had experienced this situation.

He was stabbed in the back by the men he had promoted himself, and betrayed by people as close as brothers.

Even a life-long friendship will appear fragile in the face of interests.

trust...?

He had already paid an unbearable price for this thing once.

Thinking of the news he had seen before, Kujo Renji's eyes dimmed a little.

He felt that he was rational and cautious enough, but in the end he was defeated by human nature.

There is nothing trustworthy in this world.

"Before you came, there was no voice in the Ave Mujica team other than mine. No matter what they thought, as long as they didn't actually do it..."

No matter what they think, as long as they don't do it, they are trustworthy.

This is what Shoko Toyokawa thought.

In Kujo Renji's opinion, these words were so naive that they were ridiculous.

"Did they not do it, or did they not do it yet?" Kujo Renji asked back.

Judging from his memories of the books by Toyokawa Shoko that he had read, the band Ave mujica could be said to have completely slipped out of Toyokawa Shoko's control.

She seemed to have put a lot of effort into the band, including lyrics, arrangements, and even the stage play arrangements and post-performance publicity.

But she never really "sunk" into the band.

On the one hand, they blindly trust the "bond" within the band that does not exist at all, and on the other hand, they are unwilling to actually create the so-called "bond".

"If you're going to treat the band as a career, then don't get emotionally invested. If you're going to get emotionally invested, then don't act like a spoiled brat, treating the band members like puppets with no temper of their own while treating the band as your everything."

"I don't..."

For a moment, Shoko Toyokawa didn't know how to refute.

Or she couldn't refute it.

After all, she had long been aware of the problems within the band; Ave Mujica was far from being as harmonious as it appeared on the surface.

Kujo Renji could understand what this young lady was thinking.

The so-called band was just a "toy" for her to escape. She did not regard the band members as living people at all, but as dolls at her mercy.

She thought that she had written the script and prepared the stage in advance, and everything would develop as she expected.

Actually?

"Do you think you can really maintain this band with your ridiculously crude management style?"

The other party's words completely silenced Toyokawa Shoko in his body.

"Shut up and watch me operate quietly."

Kujo Renji decided to take practical actions to make the young lady realize her mistakes.

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Chapter 22 You are not qualified to reason with me

"Sorry, I'm late."

Kujo Renji pushed open the door of the practice room, his blue hair brushed across his slightly sweaty nose, and his amber pupils were as calm as the surface of a rime lake.

"finally reached."

Yutenji Wakamu placed the phone heavily on his knees, snorted, and pointed at the wall clock:

"Do you know how long we've been waiting?"

"Sorry, I just had something to do in the music room."

Kujo Renji walked straight to the keyboard, the hem of her uniform rising in a cold arc with her neat steps.

"I remember Xiaoxiang used the same excuse last time. He wasn't even willing to explain further?"

Seeing the other party's indifferent attitude, Yutenji Wakamu couldn't help but get really angry, and her short purple hair exploded as she suddenly stood up.

"Do you know the current situation of our band? We have more and more fans and more and more performance invitations. We can't be so casual anymore."

Kujo Renji paused slightly and looked at Yutenji Wakami.

To be honest, I was nearly half an hour late, so I deserved to be blamed.

But judging from the image of the other person in Toyokawa Shoko's memory...

Yutenji Wakamu is a very "utilitarian" person, and it is not her character to dwell on the issue of being late like she is now.

The other party is also quite satisfied with the current band. Logically, she should try her best to avoid conflict with Toyokawa Shoko.