A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

It was this emotion that motivated all the members of the band to perform with extraordinary effort, not only because of joy and emotion, but also because - they wanted to keep up with Xiaokui's footsteps.

Driven by this mood, all of them almost exerted their mental and physical strength to the extreme. By the time the first piece was finished, they were sweating and panting as if they had practiced it no less than ten times.

Aoi lowered the bow from the strings, and the last syllable of the song gradually melted away in the breeze like snowflakes falling into the water.

At this moment, a brief vacuum was created.

There seemed to be no sound around them, as if a transparent barrier separated all of them from the outside world. The sound of the wind, the singing of birds, the noise of the crowd, the honking of vehicles in the distance, all these sounds were getting farther and farther away from their existence.

The expressions of every audience member in the audience seemed to become so clear: joy, shock, emotion and sadness on their faces...

The concentration that was almost like a blank mind during the performance gradually dissipated, and the whole world became so quiet that it seemed as if only the sound of one's own breathing could be heard, as if only one thought was echoing in one's constantly beating brain.

Has our performance been recognized by everyone?

Did we make any mistakes just now?

Will we get everyone's applause?

As a result, a brief period of tension and anticipation arises in this brief vacuum.

“The closing band was amazing!!!”

"The song just now was actually an original song? What a shame! I wanted to record it and listen to it over and over again at home..."

"The violin in a rock band is so shocking..."

"Xiao Kui looks so beautiful playing the violin!"

"Kita! You sang so well!"

"Hongxia plays drums so handsomely!"

"Ryo-senpai!! I want to marry you!!"

"That pink guitarist next to you is pretty good too. What's his name?"

……

The vacuum burst.

The world is drowned by the sound of the audience.

The huge waves, as if as tall buildings, instantly swept them up. When they came to their senses, the wind was filled with cheers and applause mixed with the fragrance of flowers.

As she said, today there are only flowers and victories.

Aoi's smile was filled with the warmth of joy, her cheeks flushed, and she winked gently at her friends around her.

70

Chapter 70: The light that you can’t touch even if you stretch out your hand.

The band looked dazzling on stage.

They were obviously of similar age, and they all looked very nervous. During the warm-up MC segment, the red-haired lead singer and the drummer who was suspected to be the leader even stuttered when they spoke, and the lead guitarist looked like he was trembling as if he wanted to hide under the floor.

But the violinist with emerald eyes and a smile as warm as the afternoon sun made everything different.

She took the place of the two team members who were responsible for warming up the audience, took the initiative to start conversations, make jokes, introduce members, and even gave her teammates encouraging smiles before the performance.

Her presence lights up the band.

All of this was similar to what was happening to them in the audience, but it had nothing to do with her.

Because standing next to the ending band was Saotome Aoi, and next to them once stood, or rather, in their memories, stood Aoi.

"That guy...why is he there..."

Through the audience's murmurings and the music on the stage, Deng could hear Li Xi's shocked voice beside him, and see Li Xi's expression of disbelief and Lenai's puzzled eyes.

But in her eyes, in her world, all of this seemed to have turned into a background board, getting farther and farther away from the world she was in.

She seemed to have returned to the past when she had hidden herself deep underground, deep in the darkness, like a watermelon worm that was afraid of the light, and only wanted to crawl into the dark and damp crevices.

Everything in front of me is so clear, yet so hazy and blurred; reality is so profound, yet so blurred and dim.

She seemed to see that rainy day through the stage in front of her, and saw Xiangzi pushing open the door of the recording studio and announcing to them that he was quitting the band.

Seeing Xiangzi's stubborn and indifferent eyes full of cracks, staring at her on the verge of breaking, he began to accuse her, "Mingming Deng is the one who should practice the most, what have you done so far?"

Through the violin in Aoi's hand, she saw those dreams, saw the beautiful Crychic shattered again and again, saw Aoi's powerful slaps and Xiangzi's completely shattered eyes.

Through the bright smile on Aoi's face, she saw the last time Crychic dream, when Xiangzi failed to return because of Kasuga Ying, and the expression on Aoi's face after hearing Xiaomu's words.

If there was a mirror in front of her, would she be able to see herself in the mirror with the same expression as Aoi had at that time?

I tried my best to grab something, tried my best to hold on to something, but in the end I couldn't grab anything, I couldn't find anything. I screamed and cried helplessly, but there was nothing in my hands, even the last bit of warmth at my fingertips was gone.

She wanted to cry out loud, to scream desperately, to vent, to cry out, but all of this was like a torrent behind a dam, just madly beating every corner of her heart, stirring up every inch of weakness in her soul.

My stomach churned.

The twisted, vomiting urge swirled around her senses, stimulating her head so much that it caused a dull pain. She could only feel her lower abdomen twitching slightly and groaning.

Want to escape.

Escape from here, escape from the crowd, escape from the band, escape as far away as possible.

Just like what happened after Xiangzi left the band, all he had to do was run away. If he ran away, he wouldn't be hurt anymore. If he stopped trying, he wouldn't be hurt anymore.

After failing, you try your best to stand up again, believe with all your might, and finally achieve success. This kind of story only exists in fairy tales and dreams.

She once firmly believed that as long as Aoi existed, she could do anything. As long as Aoi existed, she could sing loudly and try to hold on to the star that she had never dared to hold on to before.

She was even willing to take the initiative to participate in this huge performance for Aoi, and was willing to sing out her heart's voice loudly and convey it to Aoi who was under the same blue sky and starry sky at this moment, because Aoi gave her courage, because Aoi made her omnipotent.

But now, that is impossible...

If she had only seen Aoi in another band, she might have tried to muster up the courage to call out to Aoi using Kasuga Shadow.

But at this moment, the sound echoing on the stage, resonating in her ears, is the song "If You Can Bloom." It is the reply letter that Aoi once said in her dream that she would write to Crychic, to the lamp.

That song is full of Aoi's feelings towards the band and everyone.

But at this moment, it wasn't Takamatsu Touma singing the song on stage, nor were the other performers playing it. The lyrics were so familiar, the melody so familiar that she could sing the corresponding words subconsciously, yet now, all she felt was unfamiliarity.

That song is no longer for the lights.

That song now belongs to the closing band on stage.

Her vision was blurred by tears, Deng's hands were almost trembling, and her legs felt a little weak, as if she would fall to the ground in a mess if someone pushed her even slightly.

This moment reminded her of the time when she was doing astronomical observations alone.

At that time, she was still very unfamiliar with using astronomical telescopes, and she could not align the focus of the finderscope and the eyepiece. After finally aligning them, she found that the starlight displayed in the tube was so blurry that it was completely invisible.

Just like now, she was looking at the dazzling sunflower on the stage, as if she was observing a dazzling and charming star through an astronomical telescope.

Sunflower is like a sun, warm, dazzling, and beautiful. But the stars in the sky are all suns, all so warm and so dazzling...

She was so attached to the enchanting light that she thought she could get closer to it by using a telescope.

But in reality, even if the light clearly illuminated her eyepiece, the feedback in her retina would be of no use, because there was still the telescope lens between them, the farthest distance in the universe.

The starlight in the picture seems to be within reach, but in fact the starlight is light-years away. Even the light will take more than ten years or even tens of millions of years to come. If you stretch out your hand, you can only touch the air, and you can't even catch the birds in the sky.

Are these dreams the telescope?

It made her mistakenly believe that she was close to the stars and touched the starlight.

In the end, just before she took that brave step, everything was thrown to the ground. The original light disappeared, and under the illumination of the city lights, she might not even be able to see where the star was.

Kui must have been as sad and angry as Xiangzi was at that time.

She thought it would all end in failure, so she didn't even want to try again, and gave all her warmth to other people and other bands.

And is this band the place that will give her back warmth and happiness?

The lamp thinks it doesn't know.

She didn't think she wanted to know either.

She only knew that this time it had indeed ended in failure, a complete failure that made her previous beliefs seem extremely ridiculous and even a little pathetic.

Deng trembled all over and covered his eyes which were still filled with tears. He turned around suddenly and pushed away the audience around him, trying to escape from the crowd and the stage.

"lamp!"

Li Xi turned around in panic and hurriedly chased in the direction where Deng had escaped, leaving Lenai staring at the two of them disappearing with an expressionless face.

But Lenai didn't move, but turned his head again to look at the stage.

Those eyes of different colors also met the emerald green eyes of the violinist on the stage, and their gazes intertwined.

71

Chapter 71 Let me forget everything.

Choosing to come to Jizo-dori Shopping Street today was one of the worst decisions Shoko Toyokawa had ever made in her life.

Today was a rare day off, and her part-time job was relatively easy, so she could finish it early. Therefore, even in this bleak and cruel reality, she still occasionally wanted to deceive herself and return to her former peace and tranquility.

So, she made an appointment with Mu to meet at the Yuze Café on Jizo-dori Shopping Street today to taste her favorite black tea.

She and Mu grew up together and had long since established a relationship that could not be easily severed. Moreover, most importantly, she and Mu had met someone she cared about very much at Yuze Coffee Shop.

She didn't plan to talk to Mu about the girl named Saotome Aoi, nor did she plan to talk about this matter with anyone. After all, it was just a dream that troubled her, comforted her, and gave her redemption.

What was the point of sharing a dream that could only temporarily comfort her with others? Moreover, if the dream was real, she would rather keep it to herself.

She has deeply felt all the efforts that Aoi has made and all the charm that she has displayed in her dreams.

But even so, she was always willing to hold Xiangzi's hand tightly. What about others? Would she also have the same tenderness and patience?

However, it was pointless to think about these things... She no longer thought about the band, the dream she once loved, or who she had hurt in the past. She just wanted to live a quiet life and completely break away from her naive past.

By the way, make friends with someone who can temporarily comfort her and help her forget the pain of reality.

This was the answer she came to after seeing Aoi at the Yuze Cafe that day. With Mu beside her at the time, her mind was in a mess and she did not come to such a conclusion at all. She was even afraid of being discovered by Aoi.

But now it's different, she has figured it out, her dream is just a channel connecting countless parallel worlds, showing her the scenes happening in those parallel worlds.

These parallel worlds have many similarities, but there must also be differences. Perhaps Xiangzi in other worlds will also see bits and pieces of the world she lives in.

No matter which world she is in, she will meet everyone from Crychic and Aoi.

She didn't know if this was a kind of fate, but in so many dreams, the Aoi she saw was always so gentle and warm, although she also had the shortcoming of being too persistent and placing too much emphasis on feelings...

But the Aoi in this world now was not in Crychic, nor was she in Hanaoka. There was no one who would hug her tightly and beg her to re-form a band, but a stranger who would smile at her and praise her piano playing, a stranger with beautiful violin skills and a sweet smile.

She no longer asked for too much, if only this stranger could smile at her like in her dream, invite her out shopping in his spare time occasionally, and become her friend.

Maybe reality will be a little better.

However, reality did not seem to allow her to escape like this.

By the time she arrived at the entrance of Yuze Café, the street was already crowded with people. The shouts of shops promoting their events and the noise of the crowds were almost mixed together, making a huge noise.

The Yuze Coffee Shop was already full of customers, and it looked like it would take some time before her turn even if she lined up.

Ruoye Mu stood at the door of the coffee shop without complaint, in an open space with less traffic, quietly waiting for Xiangzi's arrival, seemingly having no interest or reaction to the crowds around him.

There was obviously some activity going on at Dizangtong today, but since she had already asked Mu out, she couldn't just turn around and leave without saying anything. She had no choice but to call Mu and walk with her in the crowded streets, trying to find a shop where they could sit for a while.

Because she didn't get to drink her favorite black tea, and the surroundings were noisy and crowded, Xiangzi's mood plummeted. After discovering that the alternative coffee shop was also full of people, she finally decided to give up.

She stopped in annoyance, looked through the glass window at the crowded coffee shop, then looked at the crowd not far away who seemed to be holding an event, and sighed heavily.

"Mu, it looks like we need to change the meeting place today."

There was no response, and there was only noisy background noise all around, which made it a little quiet for her. No matter how taciturn Mu was usually, he would at least say "hmm" softly, but at this moment he said nothing and just stood there blankly.

"Mu?"

Xiangzi frowned slightly and turned around with some confusion, but found that Mu was just standing there, looking in a certain direction in the distance.

Xiangzi became even more confused and without saying anything else, he looked directly in Mu's direction.

That was the venue for the event not far away. Many people gathered around a makeshift stage, forming a lake of people. If you looked closely, you could see the words "Jizangtong Student Music Festival" written on the stage frame.

At this moment, there happened to be a band standing on the stage, led by a girl holding a violin, and about to start their performance.

The moment he saw the scene clearly, Xiangzi's amber pupils suddenly contracted, and he let out a brief uncontrollable cry and gasped.