A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

Did he really think that by dreaming over and over again, he would be able to see Aoi and Crychic walk to the end? By repeating those years in his dreams over and over again, would he be able to let Aoi hold his hand and believe that he could still stay in Crychic?

Even if I really did see that happy ending, what would it matter? Wasn't it all just a dream? No matter how beautiful the dream was, could it save me from who I am now?

Is it realistic to be able to save the present?

Thinking of this, the corners of Xiangzi's eyes twitched slightly, and the hand that was stroking his forehead fell down weakly.

But the reality is clearly like this, and it is clearly as tattered as a broken doll...

Why was even such an absurd and innocent dream taken away?

Is this not just a dream...?

Was it because Aoi had given up? This dream could only continue here. Aoi was disheartened by her last rejection and utterly disappointed by her broken promise.

Aoi always tried to hold onto my hand, but I kept shaking it off. Wasn't it what I wanted for her to just leave? Why did it come to this...

Why now, I hope she won't give up like this.

If she really existed in this world, would she be sad because of my rejection and coldness?

If she really existed in this world, would she reach out to me?

If I really held her hand...would the ending be different?

Xiangzi felt a sore nose and immediately covered his mouth and nose subconsciously. He shook his already messy long blue hair vigorously and began to breathe heavily.

Enough is enough.

Don’t think about that name anymore. It’s meaningless and will never make sense. I rejected her outstretched hand so coldly in my dream. What’s the point of regretting it here now?

What we should do is forget about it all.

Xiangzi finally calmed down his turbulent emotions, fumbled around in the bedside table and took out a small bottle of sleeping pills he had bought during the day. He stood up, poured a glass of water, swallowed the pills, then lay back on the bed and closed his eyes.

The darkness that seeped in from the window grew thicker and thicker, and she felt her eyes gradually becoming heavier and heavier, as if being dragged by an invisible hand to a world that she could only feel but not see.

Finally, sleepiness broke through her extremely restless spirit and swept her into the ocean of dreams.

When the warm spring sunshine shone on her body and the gentle light floated in her eyes, Xiangzi realized one thing almost instantly.

She returned to her 'dream' once again——

She was surprised at first, then filled with an almost uncontrollable joy that washed over her mind. But then, that joy was replaced by a strong sense of disharmony.

This dream was no longer about me in my Tsuki no Mori uniform, extending an invitation to the members of Crychic. It began with me in my Hanaoka uniform, with my bandmates I had long since severed contact with, and that spring day had long since ended.

This dream leaped to the present, no, it leaped to the future... when she had already enrolled as a student of Yugaoka.

For a moment, this dream was no longer so beautiful, no longer so dazzling, but instead became as dark and depressing as reality, without any light at all.

Is this a punishment for her, ending crychic with her own hands again and again?

As always, Xiangzi witnessed everything in the dream with his own eyes. His ecstasy at entering the dream again almost turned into loss.

This dream seemed to confirm her previous thoughts. Crychic had long since collapsed, and only Xiaomu was still in contact with her. Su Shi, who was trying desperately to save the band, had long been blocked by her, and the good times in the past were getting farther and farther away from her.

Moreover, Aoi never appeared, and there was not even a student named Aoi in the Moon Forest.

She didn't exist in reality before, but now, she doesn't even exist in dreams?

Soon after this idea came into being, Xiangzi gradually held his breath.

Because she saw that in her dream, she borrowed the piano in the music classroom as usual, and tried to find the peace of the past through the music of the piano.

It was a day like any other, when the afternoon sun was pouring through the window, when applause came from beside her, sweeping past her ears.

As she turned her head slightly, her eyes suddenly caught the sight of the beige hair as bright as the sun, and the girl's smile that shone almost transparently in the afternoon sun.

"You play the piano really well."

The girl smiled at her, speaking familiar words, "Would you like to form a band with me?"

turn out to be....

Even if the world has already changed, this girl will still reach out her hand to her as she did before.

23: Everything is as the dream said, but she is missing

In April, the cherry blossoms are not yet in full bloom.

The spring breeze carried a faint and barely detectable floral fragrance, carrying one or two fallen petals away into the distance.

Students in neatly-dressed uniforms walked by in groups of two or three under this sea of ​​flowers, occasionally stepping on or crossing the cherry blossoms scattered on the ground, as vibrant as the spring that had already arrived.

Takamatsu Deng had a brooch on her chest that she wore to welcome new students. She followed her classmates in a daze, passing through the colorful and expanding sea of ​​cherry trees. Occasionally, she reached out to catch the petals falling from the sky, but her efforts were in vain because of the breeze.

Today is the first day of high school. The freshmen are filled with joy for the new school and new life, and their smiles seem to compete with the color of the cherry blossoms.

However, Deng could not feel any of that. Instead, he became more dazed than usual, so ethereal that it seemed as if it did not exist in the reality before his eyes. He was just moving forward step by step.

Yesterday, she dreamed about Xiao Kui again after a long time. When she fell into a spiral of self-blame again, thinking that even the redemption in her dream had disappeared, she saw the shining star in her dream again.

However, that dream has changed. The story is no longer set in the good old days when crychic was still around, but has transformed into reality.

The band has undoubtedly disbanded, Xiangzi has never come back, there is no trace of Xiaokui in her past memories, and she does not have the courage to face everyone again.

But this time, Xiaokui appeared in the future.

The Xiaokui in her dream last night was not someone she knew, but appeared in her sight as a freshman at Yugaoka Academy. Although they were in different classes, they would occasionally pass by each other in the corridor and be seen from afar on campus. Later, it seemed that she was often inseparable from her companion, the transfer student.

Deng couldn't tell whether she was happy or sad. She was extremely delighted to see Xiaokui again in this dream, but... when she saw her again, they were like strangers. She was so excited that she wanted to rush up and hold her hand, but in the dream, she could only pass by her and they didn't know each other.

The sense of loss brought by this incident is even greater than not being able to see her. It is like a love movie with only regrets at the end, where the hero and heroine who had made a vow to be together part ways and become strangers to each other.

But...this dream gave Deng extremely rich imagination and inspiration to help her look at this unbelievably real dream and the girl named Xiaokui in a new light.

Because the content of this dream all came from the future, and it was completely deduced towards tomorrow according to her possible future in reality, as if it was predicting her future.

It's possible that her mind was just extrapolating reality, but even Deng, who was prone to imaginative thinking, didn't believe that. She only knew that in her dream, she saw Xiangzi wearing Yuqiu's uniform and appeared at the school, and that she saw a friendly and kind transfer student coming in a few weeks.

She met Aoi here.

Thinking of this, Deng couldn't help but clench his hands and look around.

His eyes passed over every freshman with a red flower on his chest, scanning those young faces that were either nervous or happy, trying to find that familiar and delicate face among them.

After a long time, her amber eyes met a pair of beautiful eyes of the same color, and their gazes were firmly entangled.

The other person has bright blue hair and an elegant temperament, as calm as a young lady. The Yuqiu uniform on her body is neat and fits her well, and it gives her an inexplicably noble temperament.

But that calm and composed demeanor was completely shattered the moment his eyes met the lamp, and was replaced by surprise, followed by confusion and evasion.

Toyokawa Shoko.

Deng had never seen Xiangzi since that cold rainy day. This meeting had even taken almost a year. Before that, she had no idea where Xiangzi had gone or what had happened to him.

But in her dream last night, she saw Xiangzi appear in Yugaoka Academy, and she even knew clearly that Xiangzi was a student in Class B of the first year.

And now, Xiangzi was indeed standing there wearing Yuqiu's uniform, looking at him in surprise.

For a moment, the complex emotions rising in Deng's heart were instantly replaced by an indescribable sense of anticipation.

Because this means that the dream might have really happened, and Xiaokui did not just appear in the dream - although this is hard to believe, people are always more willing to believe what they want to believe.

So, after Xiangzi hesitated and shifted his gaze, Deng came back to his senses from his shock and looked around among the students again with a nervous mood, trying to find another familiar figure among the freshmen.

But she looked for a long time and couldn't find the bright beige color, nor did she see the smile that made her feel warm.

There is no Xiaokui.

Deng's mood immediately sank, but she could only follow the crowd back to the teaching building and continue her futile search, and then continued to be disappointed, until she walked back to the classroom and sat back in the seat she had dreamed of yesterday.

Should she continue to care about what happened in her dream? Or should she face the things she should face in reality?

Xiangzi appeared in Yugaoka. Isn't this a chance to talk to her? Apologize to her, say "I'm sorry that my singing was so bad and disappointed you", and say "Please come back and continue to form a band with us."

Isn't that what she should do? She should be held accountable for the mistakes she made.

But she didn't dare. She didn't have the courage. Wasn't she the one who personally destroyed the crychic, the only thing that could make her 'human'?

Deng lay on the cold desk as if she had given up on herself, burying her head between her arms, as if playing the ostrich would make her feel better.

In the small artificial darkness between her arms, Aoi's brilliant smile reappeared in her mind.

What would she do if it were her?

If the dream comes true, will she appear too?

As long as she shows up, everything will be fine... If Xiaokui is here, things will turn around and there will definitely be other solutions to the difficulties.

Thinking of this, Deng suddenly stood up from his seat, almost knocking over his desk. Then, amidst the worried and confused gazes of his classmates, he rushed out of the classroom and into the corridor.

She will definitely show up!

Everything was just as it was in the dream... She was in Class A, Xiangzi was in Class B, and Xiaokui was in Class C!

Her brain was working rapidly, repeating this information over and over again, urging her to walk quickly through the corridor and barge into the door of Class C very rudely, looking at the entire class under the puzzled gazes of those unfamiliar classmates.

The answer was obvious. Most of the students were in the class, and there was not a single familiar face, not even one of the sunflower girl.

There is no Xiaokui.

"Um, what's wrong?"

One of the classmates noticed the difference in the light and walked up to her and started talking to her enthusiastically.

But Deng did not answer. He just shook his head at her, turned around without saying a word, and walked back in the direction he came from in a dejected manner.

Is it really just a dream?

Saotome Aoi, was it really just a dream?

boom!

In a trance, when passing by the door of other classes, she did not look at the road and direction in front of her because she was not paying attention to the lights. She bumped into a slender figure head-on and was carried off her original track by the impact. She screamed in panic and only avoided falling because she hit the wall behind her.

"Excuse me...Excuse me, have you..."

A panicked and embarrassed voice reached her ears. Deng came to her senses and found that the person who bumped into her was Toyokawa Shoko, who also had a shocked expression.

"Xiangzi..."

Deng held his injured arm in a daze, looking at his former friend in front of him whom he hadn't seen for a long time but met every night.

However, Xiangzi said nothing. After realizing it was her, he just frowned tightly, turned his eyes away from the lamp, nodded indifferently, and passed by her, leaving only a faint fragrance on the ends of her hair.

She didn't chase him, nor did she try to keep him. She didn't even have the courage to turn around. She just stood there trembling.

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24: Can you form a band with me for life?

"Haa ...

After dinner, Aoi dragged her tired body into her room, and fell heavily onto her soft bed as if she was in a free fall.

She hadn't taken off her Shimokitazawa High School uniform of white lining and black pleated skirt yet. She just kicked off her slippers and rolled around in the bed.

Last night, I was halfway through the simulation when I heard my mother's footsteps in the corridor and was afraid of being punished, so I chose to go to bed. Today, I reported as a freshman early and attended the opening ceremony of Shimokitazawa High School.

Of course, she didn't see the person she was looking for. Liang and Hongxia were nowhere to be found among the freshmen, and she didn't have the energy to look for them that day because poor Miss Aoi was inexplicably chosen by the chairman to be the representative of this class of freshmen and was supposed to give a speech on stage.

After that, I had to deal with greetings from all kinds of classmates and teachers. When school was finally over, my mother had a rare day off to rest for a while, but the teacher told her that she had been elected as the class monitor. She then chatted with the teacher on Line for a long time.

Liang Xianbei and Hong Xia's mother didn't see it, but instead they were burdened with troubles. It seems that their future days will be difficult.

Only this simulator can bring her some comfort!

Should be possible, right?

Aoi thought about it, lay down on the bed, returned to the simulator, and connected the simulation content to the previous plot.

[For the band recruitment event, you followed Aine to the Astronomy Club of Hanegaoka Academy. According to her, Takamatsu Touma was the club's president and only member, and was also one of the few people in the class who was not in a band.

After arriving at the destination, I opened the door but saw no lights. There were three or two instruments for astronomical observation placed in the empty classroom. The surrounding walls were mostly covered with posters of the Roselia band and various nebulae and star clusters. There were some strange-looking small objects piled on the table in the activity room.

Just as the two of you were looking at the posters on the wall in confusion, today's protagonist finally arrived. He stood at the door nervously and curiously, but because of your presence, he did not dare to step into his own activity room for the time being.

Feeling a little amused, you gently introduced yourself to the animal-like Takamatsu Deng, chatted with her briefly, and after listening to the introduction of the Astronomy Club, you finally extended your invitation to her.

But Deng just took a half step back, as if he had heard something terrible, and rejected you in a dull voice.

"...If I formed a band, it would still end in failure."