A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

This song is written for Nina and Momoka, but actually it is also written for the entire band. You will become a black sheep in the entire Japanese music scene, and set off a wave of rebellion among the docile Aries.

"Because, our relationship doesn't need to be proven with songs..."

You said this to the silent Subaru, and told her that if she needed you, you would stay here with her until she got tired of it, and you would not leave even if the Live ended successfully.

Tip: An and Subaru's favorability increased by +4, and the current favorability is 78.

She was silent for a long time before she finally loosened her grip on you and hugged you directly, burying her head in your chest and sobbing softly. You stroked her head while waiting for her to calm down.

I don't know how long it was before I heard her speak in a slightly hoarse voice.

"I forgot, Aoi has always been a sweet-talker since she was little... Maybe you're more suited to being an actor than me?"

Although it sounds like she is complaining, you can feel that she has gradually let go of her worries. She keeps asking you for reassurance and hopes that you can do everything you have done with Momoka and Nina during this period.

At the same time, she also hopes that you can write a song one day, a song that belongs only to you and her.

I feel like this person is a little dangerous. This favorability...

Aoi has gradually figured out the limits of the simulator's favorability. Once the favorability exceeds 80, it is no longer just jealousy between friends. It will directly become like Su Shi, where they want to kiss.

What should I do?

Subaru has already shown a clear tendency to be jealous. If he wants to get along well with her, he must maintain a good relationship with her. However, if he does so, he will probably easily cross the red line of 80, and what will happen at that time is completely unknown.

But if she were to follow the simulation from last week, Subaru had already demonstrated what she would do.

It's so hard... This simulator, Aoi only just realized, shouldn't be called a band simulator at all. A 'heavy girl simulator' would be more appropriate! The difficulty of music and career is basically negligible. The only trouble is always caused by the teammates around you, and the only trouble is the favorability system.

She couldn't help but sigh, and decided to take things one step at a time. Judging from the current situation, it would be better to get along with Subaru normally. The higher the favorability, the better. That would be much better than having the group fall apart immediately.

[Tip: The final deduction of all members of the confrontation live has ended, and the confrontation live is about to officially begin.

Red Band Name: 'TOGENASHI TOGEARI'

Band members: Isen Jinna (vocals), Kawaharaki Momoka (lead guitar), Saotome Aoi (rhythm guitar, sub-vocals), Yasuwa Subaru (drums), RUPA (bass), Ebizuka Satoshi (keyboards)

Blue Band Name: None.

Band members: Hoshino Kuruna (vocalist, musician)

Calculating both sides' basic attributes and skill points...

Calculating performance results...

As planned, you went to Tokyo and came to a gymnasium in Shibuya, where you attended the solo concert of your grandmother's student, the 18-year-old high school graduate Hoshino Kuruna, and appeared as the special warm-up band for the concert.

Momoka had analyzed it carefully before, and you have no advantage at all in this performance. After all, the performance is entirely Miss Hoshino's home turf, and the audience here are basically all her fans. No matter what, the result will be in her favor.

It can be seen that your grandmother actually never thought about the possibility of your band winning. From the very beginning, she hoped to use this performance to let you see the gap and make you give up.

But even so, you still came because you have always believed in a very important concept - 'No matter what, the band cannot avoid performing'.

Even though most people have never heard of you, even though many audiences treat your band as just a soap opera advertisement, you still came, bravely stood on the stage, felt the suffocating air, looked at each other, and nodded in tacit understanding.

Then, let the voice of your cutest, most rebellious, most stubborn and most unyielding lead singer fill the entire venue!

"We!! Are here to mess things up!!!"

Jing Qinren's petite figure was reduced to a slender silhouette under the stage lights, but her raised hand and the raised little finger were extremely conspicuous, as if they were enough to swallow up all the light.

"Please listen!!

151

Chapter 151 This is not just a dream.

"Who are these people...? I don't know them at all."

"They said the warm-up band we invited today was just a band the organizers hired to fill the show's schedule, right? How heartless..."

"A band? That sounds so boring..."

"These guys are really lucky to be able to take advantage of Nana-chan's popularity."

Tiny whispers drifted in from all directions.

The scene before her eyes was the most tense, fierce, urgent, dazzling and exciting stage that Rencai had ever participated in her life.

It is no longer a small open-air stage, nor a dark and gloomy livehouse, but is located in a stadium that has been converted into a large concert venue.

She only felt as if she was in an unknown world at that time, with only darkness all around. Looking around, the entire stage area was only illuminated by the audience's glow sticks and mobile phones that were blocked by the seats. It was as if she was stuck in the darkness. No matter where she looked, she had no direction, it was deep and heavy.

But as the stage lights suddenly came on, the darkness seemed to be swallowed up and retreated to the corner in the blink of an eye. The light sprinkled on her hair, lit up her eyes, and ignited the stage under her feet.

As long as she turned around, she could see her bandmates nodding and smiling at her, and the dazzling light dotted in Aoi's emerald green eyes, as if a dazzling first-magnitude star was swaying.

At that moment, she suddenly felt that the outcome of the performance didn't matter at all.

What was important was that they were standing here, together with Aoi, presenting that song to the audience who might be yawning under the stage.

Let your heart beat more wildly, let your voice roar more crazily, let the instruments play more desperately, and don’t pay attention to your heavy breathing and tense and depressed mood. The win or loss of this performance is actually not important!

The past that once filled her heart like an eternal night, the heavy reality that followed, the pressure from the Saotome family...all of this suddenly came like a tide, filling her heart like a magazine.

Now, she wants to collect all the things that hurt her, and use this sword called "The Sword of the Gods" to bring her back to the world.

So, Renai tightly gripped the microphone in her hand, took a deep breath of the oppressive air in the concert, mustered up her courage, and tried her best to squeeze her emotions out of her lungs.

"We!! Are here!! To mess things up--!!!"

The microphone amplified her voice countless times, layer by layer overwhelming the air filled with tiny whispers, like an invisible wave that instantly washed away all the noise, echoing continuously throughout the entire venue, drifting away in waves, and the lingering sound lingering in the air. By the time the loud voice disappeared, the entire venue was already silent.

After making sure that the surroundings were quiet, Renai raised her hand high, raised her little finger, and smiled quietly at Aoi beside her.

The companions behind him immediately understood what he meant. With the clear and loud opening of the electric piano, the moment the rhythm was established, the instruments immediately rushed forward, and the sound of the music was completely directed to the shocked audience.

This is not an intense song. On the contrary, the melody and arrangement of Black Sheep are very gentle, and can even be described as depressing and pessimistic. The tearful keyboard, sad guitar, heartbreaking drums, and depressing bass, everything seems so dark and helpless as if being swallowed by an invisible deep sea.

It was just like a girl in a high school uniform, crying silently with her head down. There was no screaming or hysterical wailing, only sobbing as she tried desperately to hold back her tears. She had endured bullying and oppression, but she just spoke calmly about her experiences.

It was just like her past self, the one shrouded in repressed emotions, with crimson spikes piercing her fragile body, constantly expanding with gloom and sadness.

She had buried all these emotions and memories deep in her heart, locked them with countless layers of heavy padlocks, and thought she would carry these memories with her throughout this hopeless life.

But Aoi brought her out and rescued her from the dark and narrow room where she was curled up in the corner and crying helplessly.

Aoi understood her and sympathized with her. She turned the memories that she chose to carry alone into a song, and through today's performance, let everyone feel her scarred heart.

But unfortunately, she is not here to admit defeat, nor does she want to gain any sympathy through this song. Rather, this song "Black Sheep" is not just a helpless cry and confession of a victim from beginning to end.

Whether it's the line 'It's all my fault' or 'I don't want to become an Aries no matter what', they both reflect the true mood of the song.

Screw your social connections! Screw your rationality and reality! Screw your overall interests!

We will never go along with you.

She sang this song very hard. Although the vocal part did not require her to scream with all her might, she still felt extremely difficult to suppress her pounding heart and almost surging emotions. The song was obviously calm, but it was infused with countless emotions and was full of huge energy.

As the sub-lead singer, accompanying her in harmony, Aoi's voice in the chorus is clear and ethereal, like a hymn nun in the choir, like the light seeping through the cracks in the dark room, and like a faint trace of salvation in despair.

As the other musicians played desperately, the originally dark stage gradually became dotted with glowing fluorescent sticks, and the number of them kept increasing.

By the time Black Sheep ended, the entire auditorium was already mostly filled with glow sticks. Everyone was listening attentively, still immersed in the world created for them by Rencai and the others.

After an unknown amount of time, someone could be heard clapping softly, and the audience began to cheer as if awakened from a dream. The deafening applause replaced the previous blank silence and filled the entire stage.

"Huh? It's surprisingly good..."

"The lead singer works so hard, I love it so much..."

"The guitarist who plays the secondary vocals is so cute..."

"I love this song so much. Can I find it online?"

The voices of doubt had dissipated, and for a moment, Rencai felt that the originally dark and silent world was instantly filled with light and noise.

Standing among the crowd and singing this song on the stage is in itself her redemption.

In a trance, she seemed to see herself, who had lost her color, was gray and depressed, and covered with crimson thorns. She was standing under the stage, among the crowd in the audience, smiling at her and waving at her.

She made peace with herself.

So, when Renai woke up from her sleep and opened her eyes, she found that she was not facing the stage or the bustling audience seats, but the narrow rental house. Suddenly, she could only feel complex emotions surging in her mind.

Tears kept flowing from her eyes, but she didn't know whether it was sadness or relief that was lingering in her heart.

This is all just a dream.

All this is not just a dream...

152

Chapter 152 Anxiety.

Around the next day, when An He Subaru pushed open the door of the recording studio, she was greeted by a strange atmosphere.

The band members were almost all present, but unlike usual, they weren't bickering or chatting, nor were they silent as before. Everyone sat in their seats, and although they were mostly silent, one could sense the mixed emotions among them, though no one had spoken first.

This is also a matter of course.

Subaru sighed softly, said "Good afternoon" casually, packed up his things, sat down at his seat, and silently blended into the atmosphere of his companions.

With so many things happening in the recent dream, it was impossible for everyone to calm down. After all, they participated in a grand performance that they had never experienced in reality, and they gave 100% of their strength and enthusiasm in that performance, allowing everyone to hear their music and voices.

Subaru only remembered that the dream ended at the end of the performance that day, when the entire audience gave them loud applause and cheers.

She can still vividly recall the excitement, joy, relief and touching moments she felt at that time. She also remembers the nervousness and suffocation before the performance. Even now, she still feels her palms sweating when she thinks about it.

They had already confirmed that all this was not just a dream, but now it seemed that everything that happened in the dream would have a more intense and thorough impact on their lives.

Moreover, for Subaru, the most shocking thing was not just the performance, but a private conversation she had with Aoi before the performance.

When she thought of that scene and the situation at that time, she felt her heartbeat begin to accelerate and her cheeks gradually became hot. In her mind, she couldn't help but imagine Aoi's soft beige hair spread out on the bed and her innocent and helpless emerald green eyes.

She did strange things in her dreams... How could she do such things?

He threw his childhood sweetheart, who was two years younger than him, onto the bed, pinned her hands to her sides, looked down at her helpless appearance, and questioned her why she wrote such a perfect song for others but not for himself.

This kind of thing was so strange that Subaru didn't believe for a moment that this was done by herself in the dream. After all, she thought of herself as a very free and easy-going person, and she was also the peacemaker among her friends. No matter what conflicts occurred, it would not be her turn, and she would play the role of mediator in any conflict.

Although this word may not be considered a compliment, she knows that she is tactful and always prioritizes other people's feelings in everything she does. In interpersonal relationships, she always puts herself in a difficult position to achieve harmony in the group.

She was such a person, yet she felt such strong jealousy that she couldn't even control herself and questioned and pressured the gentle Aoi.

Aoi, my childhood sweetheart, who had grown up with me and was inseparable from me, had recently focused on other people. But so what? Aoi had her own social freedom. She could be close to whomever she wanted. Relationships, whether love or friendship, could not be forced.

Can you get something by releasing gravity and asking desperately that you can't get when you interact with others naturally?

What about the fact that Aoi wrote Black Sheep for Nina and Momoka, but never wrote a song for Subaru?

Such a precious thing, such a valuable treasure, could not be obtained even after more than ten years of being together. Could it be that if Kui was urged and forced one day, she would write it for herself?

How could I not understand these principles?

She understood, of course she understood, and she could feel that she understood it in her dream too.

Emotionality is a very scary thing. Even someone like her who learned how to wear a mask of smile in art school cannot escape it. The feeling of loss and the bitterness brought by jealousy surround her and she cannot escape at all.

Although Aoi resolved all of this with her gentleness in the end, Subaru could actually feel it both in his dream and in reality, that all of this was just Aoi's comfort.

But she really needed such comfort.

"Alas...how could it turn out like this?"

Subaru sighed deeply involuntarily and muttered to himself.

In fact, even now, she could still feel the bitterness lingering in her heart. After all, she had always been smooth, good at deceiving others and even better at deceiving herself. No matter what relationship she faced, she would always think of taking a step back to preserve the overall situation.

Aoi probably prefers Nina and Momoka, and might even be more interested in Rupa and Satoshi than her. Because they were childhood sweethearts, having grown up together and knowing each other well, Aoi no longer has any interest in her.

Feelings cannot be forced. It can even be said that the more you force it, the less likely you are to get it. As the pressure from one side becomes stronger, the two sides will drift further and further apart.

Will Aoi distance herself from her?

When Subaru thought about this, she could only feel waves of pain in her head and didn't know what to do. After all, no matter how clearly she thought about it, it was useless because she couldn't control her actions in the dream.

Besides, why would she even think about it? She'd only met Aoi once in real life. Even if she thought about it thoroughly, it was still fake. Aoi wasn't her childhood sweetheart, not even her friend.

"I think we should go talk to Aoi after all."

Just as Subaru was still immersed in his own sad and anxious fantasy, the voice that broke the silence was none other than the most active person in the past—their most rebellious and most adorable lead singer, Ii Serina.

As everyone's eyes were fixed on her, she stared back at them with a serious expression, speaking word for word, "The live performance in my dream yesterday... I can't believe you all don't care. It was such a great performance, but it didn't actually happen... Isn't that kind of thing weird?"