After Boqi moved into my closet, the quiet life is gone forever

"Hmm~~ How about it? I specially asked someone to make it~~, does the store manager want it? Feel free to take it~~ The original price is not expensive anyway."

"Humph, who wants something like that... Wait a minute, I'll find a table for you. Part of the money from the sale goes back to the store!"

"Of course, 10% belongs to the store, but there probably won't be many people buying today..."

At this time, PA-san came over and looked over.

"Hey? This chibi-style four-person illustration is so cute. Did you ask someone to design it specifically? Give me a set~~ Hey, why are there so many dry towels inside with the "Ending Band" printed on them? Is this also a merchandise?"

"No, those are for today's guests. They're all going to get wet after all this rain, and it wouldn't be nice to watch the show wet. If there are any left, I'll save them for souvenirs."

"You've prepared so well~~"

PA-san said as he picked out four badges from the box.

"Oh, thank you for your patronage. You don't have to pay... I'll just deduct 2 from your salary, so you don't have to go through the aisle."

While Ijichi Hoshige was directing Chaoyang to move the table, she also took the opportunity to grab five badges from the cardboard box, but they were all Pochi's...

"Asahi, Miss Yukinoshita, are you here? You've been working hard in this weather. Alas~~~ It's such a disaster."

After Kita came out of the practice room, he saw Chaoyang and the others and immediately spoke with a wry smile.

"Haha, it's okay. If things are terrible at the beginning, they will only get better."

Chaoyang smiled and joked.

But Kita still looked very worried.

"What's wrong? Didn't practice work well?"

"No... I can't say it's perfect, but even if it's not perfect, I feel like it's pretty close to my best performance. It's just... if it were karaoke, of course it would be fine... but I don't think it's anywhere near the level of being able to perform on stage."

Chaoyang walked up and tapped the forehead of the depressed Kita.

"Ah...it hurts, Chao, Chaoyang?"

Chaoyang held Kita's shoulders and looked at her seriously.

"Don't be so self-deprecating. You're the one who helped me get the band back together. If you deny yourself now, you're also denying me."

"Chaoyang..."

Kita seemed very touched, and then added a sentence.

"Um... Miss Yukinoshita is staring at you..."

Looking back, Xue Noi, who was not far from the rising sun, was looking at him with a cold and uncomfortable look.

153. Strong reinforcement! Yukino becomes the fifth member to end the band! ?

"o(╥﹏╥)o Kita-chan, I'm sorry. It's a bit dangerous today. My parents won't let me go out no matter what."

Kita looked at the screen of his mobile phone and saw that all the friends who had planned to come to the show had sent apology text messages, so he could only reply one by one.

"Um……?"

Seeing Kita sigh, Chaoyang moved closer.

"Your friends can't come? Well, that's normal. It should rain even harder tonight."

Chaoyang comforted Xiduo and started chatting with him.

"Speaking of which, Kita's parents actually let you out."

“Ah… hey hey…”

Hearing this, Kita suddenly turned his head away and smiled awkwardly.

Chaoyang thought for a moment, then said with a smirk, touching his chin.

"If I'm guessing correctly, he ran away secretly, right~~"

"Gu..."

Kita looked as if he had been poked.

At this time, the other three also walked from the practice room to the performance hall.

"Ah hello~"

Chaoyang stopped teasing Xiduo and greeted the three people.

"...Can you please stop imitating Yuigahama-san..."

Yukino held her forehead with a headache.

"Hello~~Asahi, Ms. Yukinoshita."

Hongxia greeted Chaoyang like he did, and looked quite energetic.

"As expected of the Archangel of Shimokitazawa, you shine like the sun today. Today, I'm counting on you~~"

Hongxia immediately blushed and turned her head away.

"Wow... Don't be shy... Hey, all of Ryo and I's friends couldn't come today. Thank you so much for coming, Ms. Yukinoshita~~~ Ah, Chaoyang brought our merchandise too, thank you so much, but I guess we won't be able to sell any today... Huh? Why do I feel like there are fewer Pochi?"

Hongxia walked over and counted the badges placed there. Chaoyang naturally did not bring all 300 badges, but each person brought 20.

"Manager! You took too much of Pochi-chan's! Give some back, and if you're going to take anything, take something from other people..."

"Idiot! Stop yelling in the exhibition hall!"

With her face flushed red, Ichichi Xingge quickly ran over and covered Chaoyang's mouth.

Whispered in a threatening tone

"Two are gifts from you, I'll pay for the rest!"

Chaoyang waved his hand.

"If you really like her so much, that's fine. But the manager is really greedy. He's not satisfied with having such a cute sister, and he's actually interested in Pochi~~"

"I just went back to check the quality! I can't let poor quality products leave my store!"

……

Bored waiting

Seeing that there were still no spectators around, Chaoyang sighed and said to Yukino next to him.

"Why don't you stand outside and act as a poster girl? That might attract more people."

"Then I suggest you just stand there and say something like, 'I'll be more popular!' ...but what nonsense are you talking about? ...wasn't this situation known from the beginning?"

"Knowing means knowing..."

Chaoyang looked at the four girls beside him who looked a little melancholy.

“It’s a little painful just looking at them.”

At this time, the sound of doors opening and closing was heard again, followed by the sound of talking and chatting.

"It's raining so hard, I'm completely soaked."

Chaoyang pulled a dry towel from a cardboard box. It was a cheap item he'd specially prepared, printed with the words "The Band is Over" (or "The End of the Band"), and had custom-made during the summer. He'd use it to boost the favorability of other bands' fans, and if there were any left, he'd sell them as merchandise.

"Oh? It's Miss Fan Number One and Number Two. Please wipe it with a dry towel. This is a gift prepared by the band for the end of today."

Seeing two beautiful girls standing on the stairs, he immediately recognized them and handed them towels from the bottom of the stairs.

"Ah, thank you... Hello everyone~~ Ah, Xiao Yili, please do your best today~ And... that..."

The short-haired girl suddenly became shy when she looked at Yukinoshita.

[Fuck, I'm not sure if I'm falling for Yukino. Speaking of which, Yukino is pretty cool, and she might actually be quite destructive to the characters in Houfumi's world.]

"I'm sorry, I made you misunderstand me, but actually... uh uh uh"

"Oh, Yukino seems to be feeling unwell. Let's go sit in the lounge for a while~~"

Yukino was caught off guard and Chaoyang covered her mouth, and she was carried back to the lounge without any resistance.

At the same time, he gestured to Hongxia to ask them to come over.

In the lounge

"Letting Ms. Yukinoshita join the closing band at short notice? That's outrageous! Ah... I don't mean to say anything bad. I welcome Ms. Yukinoshita to join, but it's just before the performance! We can practice for a while longer at most! How can this be allowed?"

Hong Xia didn't object, she just felt that the timing was too bad.

Chaoyang’s idea is that it is hard to say who Pink No. 1 and No. 2 are fans of now. If they come for Yukino, wouldn’t that be a pity to lose the number one sisters on the list?

This time, let Yukino go up first so that fans number one and two can shift the focus to the entire ending band, and then let Yukino come down.

"Don't we have extra electronic keyboards in the store? We can just pretend and give Yukino a microphone to sing harmony."

"Haha... I don't mind if you don't object."

Yukino didn't object. After all, she knew some of the plot and could probably guess Chaoyang's intention. When she was in school in the Oregairu world, she was often admired by the girls in her international education class. Some of them were the same age as her but called her "onee-sama", which made her very distressed.

"Hey, Ms. Yukinoshita, is that okay?"

Hongxia thought Yukino would refuse, so she turned her attention to Kita and Ryo.

It was even less likely that Kita would express any objection.

"... Let's practice it once and see. If the effect is not good, I won't agree."

Pochi looked very happy.

If only Ms. Yukinoshita could come...if I embarrass myself on stage, she'd definitely be able to help me clean up.

Hong Xia thought about it and decided to raise objections only if the effect was not good.

"I'm going to borrow the electronic keyboard from my sister."

And so Chaoyang and Hongxia walked out.

only……

"No, I won't agree. Explain it to me."

After hearing this, Ichichi Xingge directly objected.

"Hey... I'm not quite sure... You tell me about Chaoyang..."

Hongxia grabbed Chaoyang's arm and pushed him forward.

"The situation is probably like this..."

After a brief explanation

"So, Pochi and that Yukinoshita were on a roadshow together, and some fans actually came for Yukinoshita? They're really doing unnecessary things... I left my electronic keyboard at home, etc!"

After Yijizhi Xingge repeated the situation and understood it, he slowly walked up the stairs with an impatient look on his face. With the sound of a door closing, everyone began to wait.

one minute later

“Haaa… I… Haaa… I got it back… Haaa…”

"So fast! How hard are you trying, sis!?"

The speed was so fast that even Hong Xia was frightened.

"Japan also has its own Flash!"

"What do you mean? I just brought it here for you to practice with. I want to see the results of the practice! If I don't approve, then keep the original configuration!"

Ichichi Xingge looked at Chaoyang fiercely and said,

"Of course, that's what we mean."

Chaoyang replied affirmatively with a matter-of-fact expression.

"Wait a minute, we're short on staff, so please help me collect the tickets at the cashier upstairs!"

"Is there a salary?"

"It's used to pay for the electronic keyboard loan."

“…So expensive!”