A band simulator, but all girl-heavy!

Otherwise, or...

"When exactly? How many bands are there?"

This time it was Su Shi who spoke, and the expression on her face was almost anxious. If there wasn't a light blocking the way in front of her, Aoi even suspected that she would rush up and grab her hand immediately.

"Eh? You, are you interested?"

Aoi asked in surprise.

"Of course...! We'd love to perform with you."

Su Shi nodded vigorously, almost excitedly.

"We... no matter what, we want you to see our performance this time."

Deng lowered his head slightly, but his amber eyes were still full of firm determination.

"Ah, didn't you prepare a new song?"

Aoi tilted her head curiously, but received no verbal response. She only saw the gazes from Deng and the others becoming increasingly heated.

Aoi quickly waved her hand, realizing she had asked something she shouldn't have, and said with a smile, "Ah~ I actually mainly wanted to talk about this matter... Can we arrange a time to discuss the follow-up matters at Starry? Thank you very much!"

After saying that, she turned around and walked out of the recording studio quickly, completely unaware of Deng and Su Shi's hesitantly raised hands.

She felt refreshed after saying this, and the worries that had been weighing on her heart were much less. Her steps gradually became lighter, and she walked down the stairs quickly.

When passing by the lobby on the first floor, she happened to catch a glimpse of the counter where Lixi used to work. She immediately thought of everything that happened to her at RING and recalled her first meeting with Lenai.

This time, I should show my goodwill. After all, I invited them in such an arrogant way. If I don’t bring some gifts, it might cause misunderstanding.

Aoi thought so, walked quickly to the counter, and rummaged through her bag for her phone and wallet.

But after searching for a long time, she only touched various small items in the bag, and there was no sign of a wallet or a mobile phone. Even when Aoi turned the bag over and poured it out, she found nothing.

Did you forget to bring it?

Aoi was a little dazed, but she suddenly remembered that she came here by train, and she couldn't scan the station without her phone...

Suddenly, she suddenly remembered her unfortunate experience in front of the station, and then she roughly thought of where her mobile phone and wallet might be.

What bad luck...

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Chapter 158 I can’t resist this tenderness.

Ikebukuro at night is a world dominated by neon lights.

Streetlights, billboards, big screens on buildings, car lights that flashed and disappeared rapidly...bright and dazzling lights of various colors lit up and went out in the world on the ground, completely lighting up this block that should have been plunged into darkness.

In comparison, the sky that should have been full of stars had already become dark, and the edge of the sky was eroded by light, as if the stars were picked one by one by people, turned into neon lights, and placed around them.

Wakaba Mutsu walked out of Ikebukuro with an indifferent expression. The bright neon lights and the people coming and going on the streets were reflected in his eyes. He suddenly felt like a comet.

A comet is constantly wandering in the universe, without any goal or plan, just moving towards the distant deep space. Although the shining colors of neon stars can be seen everywhere in the distance, there is actually no one around it. It is so lonely that it is floating in this empty vacuum and can never touch the real light.

She has gradually become empty.

Ever since that music festival, Xiangzi, who rarely contacted or replied to letters, became even more indifferent. Before, she would only occasionally show impatience when they met, but most of the time, the shadow of the pure and friendly girl in the past could still be seen.

This time it was no longer the same. Xiangzi had completely changed. It was as if the last light in his heart had been completely extinguished. He no longer smiled, no longer believed in beauty, and was no longer naive. It was as if he had put on a cold mask for himself and completely closed his heart.

Xiangzi is about to break down.

And what right did Mu have to criticize Xiangzi? She was not as dull as everyone thought. She understood everything she needed to understand and was a very perceptive child in many things.

It wasn't just Xiangzi. That music festival changed a lot of things, including Mu himself, who was also about to break down.

The veil that Xiangzi had used to escape and deceive himself was completely torn off, and he became paranoid and indifferent; Su Shi rarely met Mu anymore, and when they met at school, they only exchanged casual greetings. She never mentioned Xiangzi again, nor did she say that she would invite Mu to join their band; as for Aoi, who had always been at the center of all the contradictions... Mu never dreamed of her again.

To be more precise, I actually dream about it every night, but they are all fragmented images and snippets pieced together from memories. There are no longer the clear, real and beautiful dreams that I once had.

Aoi is just like Crychic in the past, forever remaining in their memories, and leaving them irretrievably.

Although no one said it or made it clear, Mu knew very well that he had been abandoned by them.

But she was a numb and clumsy child. She always chose to remain indifferent when it came to what she should say or do, and when she shouldn't say anything, she always chose to say the cruelest words.

In response to the current situation, she did nothing and just endured the wind and rain like a piece of wood. The only change she made was that she started planting sunflowers in the small garden in the Moon Forest.

As if doing this could turn reality into the dream of that day, in front of the small buds that were about to bloom, there was a girl with beige hair, who turned her head and smiled at her while watering the sunflowers.

Besides that, she also decided to rush to RING today.

Su Shi seemed to have gradually let go of his obsession with Crychic, and was living a very fulfilling life in the new band. Mu, thinking that he had not had a good talk with Su Shi for a long time, wanted to come and see the place where Crychic had practiced hard, and see the new band formed by Su Shi and Deng.

But what would all this change? It was like planting sunflowers; it could only comfort herself, without any real effect...

Mu lowered his head slightly and walked quickly across the street in front of the station, as if he wanted to escape from the crowded neighborhood, but his sharp eyes soon noticed a faint light in the grass not far away.

Although it was only a moment of curiosity, Mu subconsciously moved closer and took a glimpse of the true appearance of the glowing object in the grass.

It was a mobile phone, abandoned in the grass for some reason. The screen showed a low battery sign. After emitting the last burst of light, it completely went out and returned to darkness.

Next to the phone lay a beautiful and delicate little wallet, with the sunflower pendant hanging on the zipper curled up beside it, looking like a wounded little animal.

Mu recognized the pendant.

In a clear dream memory, she often saw a gentle and charming girl smiling and taking out this cute little wallet, and the sunflower pendant would shake gently with her movements.

Aoi even explained to her with a smile that she liked this style of pendant and planned to buy another one for her phone later.

She wouldn't be mistaken, only Aoi would use a wallet and pendant like this.

Mu bent down gently to pick up the phone and wallet. He turned the phone over and saw the familiar cute pattern on the phone case. All this proved that this was Aoi's thing, an incredible thing that had passed through the vague dream and came into reality.

Why did Aoi's things appear in the grass?

She couldn't figure out the problem, but just stared blankly at the thing in her hand, standing there letting the breeze blow across her cheeks and hair, not knowing what to do.

It wasn't until the sound of footsteps echoed nearby that she raised her eyebrows slightly and looked over in confusion.

The dream came into reality at this moment.

Under the neon-lit streets, with the bustling night scene of Ikebukuro as the backdrop, a girl with long beige hair walked quickly on the road in front of the station, her emerald eyes constantly searching the ground around her, as if looking for something.

After being treated as a stranger by Aoi at the music festival last time, Mu finally met the girl who once promised to "get along with Mu".

"what."

Because Mu was just standing there in a daze with the things in her hand, Aoi, who was looking for lost items, soon noticed her figure and shouted in surprise.

The two of them stood in the open space under the street lights and stared at each other. No one said a word for a short time, but just let the air become more and more quiet under the night breeze.

Mu once thought about what it would be like when he saw Aoi again.

She would probably be angry, sad, and disappointed. After all, it was obvious that everyone had memories of dreams, but Aoi, who remembered all of this, chose to distance herself from her, pretending to be a stranger and leaving as if they were strangers.

In a sense, the harm that Aoi caused her was greater than the cup of black tea that Xiangzi spilled that day.

She probably felt resentment towards Aoi who ignored her and distanced herself from her.

"Good evening~ I didn't expect to meet you here..."

Aoi was the first to respond.

She walked quickly to Mu's front, with that familiar gentle smile on her face, but her words were even more cruel and unfamiliar than indifference. "Do you remember me? We met at the previous music festival."

Mu didn't reply, but just lowered his head slightly.

This strangeness made her very painful.

But no matter what...she is still——

I can't resist this tenderness.

After taking a deep breath, Mu raised his eyes again and nodded gently to Aoi. Aoi's brilliant smile was reflected in his golden eyes.

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Chapter 159: Master of changing the subject.

For modern people who carry their mobile phones almost all the time, losing their mobile phones is almost like walking barefoot on the street. So after discovering that her mobile phone and wallet were both gone, Aoi fell into a relatively short period of confusion.

Although it is speculated that the bag might have fallen out when someone kicked it away, no one knows the specific circumstances. If it really fell in an unknown place, the cash in the wallet, bank cards, and various data in the mobile phone will be lost.

Putting aside these long-term problems, without a mobile phone and wallet, it would be a problem for her to go home. She had no mobile phone to scan the station entrance, no money to take a taxi, and even no way to contact her family.

The most urgent thing is to find the lost property first. If she really can't find it, she may have to go back and ask Deng and the others for help.

Aoi walked and searched with a nervous mood, trying her best to recreate the route she came from, and finally found her way to the vicinity of Ikebukuro Station.

When she got here, she was extremely nervous. After all, she couldn't leave the station without her cell phone, and the things she lost could only be nearby. If she didn't find them here, it meant she was really at her wit's end.

This is the final stop of this journey to find lost items, and there is no other way forward.

But it turned out that luck was on her side.

Although she did not find her lost property on the ground, a familiar figure appeared in front of her and showed her the way.

A member of the Crychic band in the dream, a young lady with superb guitar skills, a pitiful doll girl, Wakaba Mutsu.

It was surprising that she happened to be there, not to mention that this young lady was holding her cell phone and wallet in her hands.

Although Mu was not a good communicator or easy to get along with, Aoi still liked this pretty girl who looked like a doll. She felt a little regretful that she didn't have a good chat with her at the music festival last time, so she just walked over and said hello.

"By the way... I think I accidentally dropped my phone and wallet nearby, and then miraculously I found them again. Did you help me find them?"

Aoi tilted her head and smiled, pointing at the item in Mu's hand.

"Back to you."

Mu Kan didn't even look at it, nor did he even think of confirming it. He just handed over the phone and wallet in his hand, without his facial expression changing at all.

"Eh? Thank you~!"

Aoi blinked in surprise, reached out to take it, and suddenly remembered that he and Mu had never introduced themselves in real life, so he smiled and said.

"By the way, you don't know my name yet, do you? My name is Saotome Aoi... Can I know yours?"

"Mu."

The doll girl was as simple as ever, staring at Aoi intently, with no emotion on her delicate and beautiful face.

This conversation made Aoi feel a little awkward. After all, the current situation was that two acquaintances in the past were introducing themselves, which felt as unnatural as rehearsing a stage play.

Speaking of which, she and Xiangzi haven't introduced themselves yet. If they have the chance to meet in the future, will they greet each other like this?

"...Xiao Mu, can I call you that?"

Aoi tried hard to put aside the messy thoughts in her head, looked at the girl in front of her with a smile, and asked in a gentle tone.

But for some reason, this time the question was not answered quickly. Mu lowered his eyes slightly, his expression seemed to change subtly, and he silently turned away from Aoi's gaze.

Seeing this, Aoi quickly waved her hands awkwardly and added sheepishly.

"Eh? I'll apologize if that's too much! Can I ask for your last name or something?"

"Do not……"

"…Even the last name isn't allowed?"

"No."

Mu shook his head slightly, his eyes once again tightly intertwined with Aoi's, "Xiao Mu, it's okay."

"Oh, really? I know, Xiao Mu! You're a really nice person."

Aoi smiled brightly and teased her, "You're quite innocent! You actually trusted me so much. As soon as I said it was mine, she immediately handed it over to me. She wasn't worried at all that I was a liar..."

She was answered by the noisy background of Ikebukuro's voices and the sound of car horns in the distance.

The evening breeze carried these noisy sounds, but it made the space between them seem extremely quiet, so quiet that it seemed as if they were in a vacuum.

so awkward.

The smile on Aoi's face became a little stiff, and she suddenly felt a cold and hard atmosphere in the air.

She had only seen high-scoring demonstrations of interacting with Mu in the simulator, and the actual interactions she had seen were just a few words at the music festival. When she actually spoke to Mu face to face in real life, she immediately felt she was stuck.

In my impression, Mu has always been a girl who doesn't like to talk and is taciturn, but is quite cute. There shouldn't be this weird awkwardness when getting along with her... Could it be the difference between simulation and reality?

She couldn't figure it out, so she could only laugh dryly and change the subject.