Can I draw Eromanga forever?

"I'm Chihaya Aine. Due to family reasons, I transferred to Haneda... I hope everyone will take good care of me and give me your guidance~"

The girl tried her best to put on a friendly and lovely smile, and walked towards her seat following the instructions of her homeroom teacher.

"Please give me more advice~"

"Hello~"

While she was sitting down, many classmates greeted her with friendly greetings.

This should be considered a successful self-introduction, right?

Greetings are more conservative, so that it is easier to form small groups in the class.

Chihaya Aine thought to herself, school has been going on for a while now, so perhaps small groups have already formed between classes...

Really distressed.

Girls' schools are even more troublesome.

As she was struggling and pondering, the short-haired girl who was sitting at the front table fiddling with rocks slowly turned around.

"Chihaya-san..."

"Hey, what's wrong?"

"I'm Takamatsu Touma... Please, please give me your guidance..."

It was the girl I met by chance at the flower bed this morning. She was really playing with... stones?

A cute and slightly weird girl.

Chihaya Aine thought.

Volume 112: Chapter Aine: Lonely Rock?

The first day of transferring to Haneda.

Chihaya Aine activates her real-life skill: Reading the Air. Her popularity at "Hyugakaoka Girls' Academy" increases slightly, as does her real-life status, and she obtains "key information"—

First, there are a lot of people playing in bands at this school.

Second, the key figure: "Tōru Takamatsu" has not yet joined the band...

Takamatsu Deng sits in front of Chihaya Aine.

Aine was a little concerned about her, and at first she just thought she was a strange but cute girl.

And... like stones?

Rare interests, outstanding appearance, and inexplicable popularity——

mascot?

Takamatsu has a delicate temperament like a little animal. She seems to always stay in her own little world. She is depressed, speaks very little, is a little autistic, and has very cute short hair.

People around her always look at her with concern. This cute creature who doesn't care about the world, just sitting there will make the atmosphere in the class better, right?

Aine thought to herself.

I can’t say… No, there must be a fan club for her at school!

Want to form a band with her?

The rules of the present life have been determined——

"If I could catch the class mascot, my popularity would skyrocket!"

After class.

Aiyin made up her mind and first rejected the band invitations from several classmates.

If you want to do it, make it the most eye-catching!

I, Chihaya Aine, will definitely be the guitar vocalist!

So, Takamatsu-san's words...

Tambourine, triangle, castanets...?

"Hey...where's Takamatsu-san?"

Pulling myself out of my band fantasy and coming to my senses, I realized that the cute creature in the front seat had suddenly disappeared.

"Takamatsu-san is on duty today. He should be taking out the trash, right?"

"……oh oh."

After receiving new information from her classmates, Chihaya Aine skillfully excused herself to leave and began to explore the campus...

"Guitar vocalist, guitar vocalist... Hehe, if I become the guitar vocalist, combined with the aura of being a 'transfer student', I should be able to become a popular figure in the class right away, right?"

Aiyin made some calculations and felt that her future was bright.

"Where's Takamatsu-san? I can't find him... Um, which direction is that—the wind orchestra?"

The girl raised her head and looked towards a window. She could faintly hear the clear and pleasant sound of a piano, but she couldn't hear it clearly.

piano?

"Keyboardist? ...Hmm, it seems like bands these days often don't have keyboardists. But Kasugano Yuu-sensei always says: keyboardists are indispensable, guitarists are replaceable..."

Chihaya Aine, who pays attention to popular trends and fashion elements, naturally also pays attention to "Kasugano Yuu", who is involved in many fields such as comics, music, and light novels.

When I was studying in the UK, I listened to a lot of my teacher's sad songs. The more I listened, the more sad it became. The past was too painful to recall...

Aine shook her head vigorously.

Now it's time to start over!

The girl took two deep breaths, raised her eyes to confirm the door number of the wind band classroom, and carefully pushed open the door.

"...!"

The moment the door opens.

Sheng Hai focused on the girl's body, and Aine subconsciously straightened her body and looked intently.

Amidst the slightly bitter and lyrical piano music, the blue-haired girl sat there gracefully, occasionally lowering her shoulders, her twin ponytails swaying gently, her nimble and slender fingers dancing on the eighty-eight black and white keys.

It was an exceptionally delicate piano sound, like a premonition of spring, or, like a piece of prose without a rigorously designed paragraph arrangement, with only the natural progression of emotions, a feeling of "getting it"...

There must be something more metaphysical, but unfortunately, Aiyin is uneducated and can't quite understand it.

She just felt that—

That blue-haired girl...elegant, so elegant!

“You play it well!”

"..."

Aiyin clapped and praised, causing Toyokawa Shoko to raise her head and look over.

'First-year uniforms?'

"...Are you a classmate in the wind band?" Xiangzi asked with a proper posture and gentle tone.

Whether she was a young lady or a working girl, Xiangzi always maintained a gentle, polite, quiet and lovely demeanor, and it is still the same now.

There is a piano in the new house... Xiangzi thought: This is probably the last time I borrow the school's piano, and the song I played is "Spring Shadow".

I was trying to calm myself down for the upcoming party, and then I unexpectedly saw the pink-haired girl in front of me.

Chihaya Aine took the initiative to come forward and said:

"Um... I just came in to listen. Um, please, can you form a band with me?"

"..."

Slowly closing the piano lid, Xiangzi, who was about to leave, looked at it with a little surprise.

"Ah, sorry it's a bit sudden... Um, I'm Chihaya Aine from Class A, first grade."

"Chihaya-san?"

"Just call me Aine~" Aine said enthusiastically, "I'm looking for band members. I'll be the lead guitarist, and as for the keyboardist..."

"No." Xiangzi refused indifferently.

“Ah, you already have a band… I guess I should look for Takamatsu-san first…” Aine said regretfully.

"lamp?"

Shoko, who had stood up and was halfway there, looked back with some concern, "Chihaya... Aine-san, are you talking about Takamatsu Touma from Class 1A?"

"Oh, are you Takamatsu-san's friend? I heard Takamatsu-san doesn't have a band, so..."

Aine seemed to feel that things were turning around and spoke with effort.

"No." Xiangzi shook his head.

"Do not?"

"Deng is already the lead singer of CRYCHIC, so it's better not to invite her again."

"...appropriate?"

Aine tilted her head. She was a little bothered by the young lady’s habit of speaking, but what bothered her even more was——

Takamatsu-san, does it turn out you already have a band?

Ah, my plan to form a band with the help of Takamatsu-san's popularity and gain a foothold in the new school and improve my status has failed.

(?—?—)

What should I do? Should I give up forming a band?

"I'm not that serious about forming a band..."

Aine felt a little distressed, and held her cheek with her slender palm.

Encountering difficulties... She took out her mobile phone and skillfully opened the YouTube channel of "Kasugano Yuu".

There's no live broadcast today? The teacher's live broadcast is too casual. The top comment on Twitter is an advertisement for the "Gensokyo" library. There are many comments urging the live broadcast, but even more are urging for more updates, urging more updates, and more updates...

Aiyin thought, "Teacher, even with so many projects, and every one of them is so high quality, is he really just drawing and typing 24 hours a day?" It must be so tiring...

“Hey, what is this…?”

While strolling on the campus of Hanedaoka, Aine was browsing Kasugano Yuu's Twitter. She stared at the preview illustration of "5 Centimeters per Second" with some concern for a while, and a retweet popped up.

……

Ikebukuro.

LiveHouse「RiNG」.

Outside the pre-booked recording room, Shoko Toyokawa stopped and felt her heart beating a little faster. She calmed down for a while.

Push the door open and enter.

There were already four people in the recording studio: Nagasaki Motoyo, Shiina Tatsuki, Takamatsu Touma and Wakaba Mutsu.

All eyes converged.

Wakaba Mutsuki was like a doll, his eyes delicate and peaceful; Gao Songdeng's eyes moved slightly, like those of a little animal, and seemed to hide expectation.

Li Xi crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes looking concerned, or perhaps scrutinizing.

"Xiao Xiang?... Great, you're finally here!" Su Shi ran over, unable to hide his excitement.

Xiangzi said, "I'm sorry, I'm late... I was a little delayed."

"Ah, no, we just arrived too..." Su Shi said immediately.

This is a lie.

In fact, she was the first one to arrive. She even forgot about her classmate Ruoye Mu, and did not consider the different class dismissal times of the three schools. After class, she rushed out of the school gate and got into a taxi that she had booked in advance.

then……

Every time the door opened, she would cast an eager glance.