Chapter 237 On Christmas Eve, the RUNTO band held its first barbecue meeting
"One cup of matcha strawberry, four cups of hot cocoa, thank you."
"..." The clerk was a little dull.
"What's wrong?" Tianhai Jiuliuli asked.
"Ah? Hug, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. I was distracted just now," the young boy behind the console was very shy, blushing and bowing his head to apologize again and again, "Can the guest please tell me his needs again...?"
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"One cup of matcha strawberry, four cups of hot cocoa."
The clerk touched the screen of the console a little stiffly, keeping his face with a blushing face and lowered his head in front of Tianhai Jiululi, "Confirm, one cup of matcha strawberry, four cups of hot cocoa, right...?"
"Yes."
"...Tomorrow is Christmas, and all drinks in our store are currently on sale at 30% off, so the total is 2,450 yen."
Tianhai Jiuliuli took out a ten thousand yen note from the satchel on his waist and handed it to the clerk with his slender hand.
The clerk took it with both hands, gave change, and bowed his head to express his apology in the polite manner of the service industry:
"Okay, please wait here for a moment."
Tianhai Jiuliuli waited in the store for about ten minutes. During this period, while the clerk was preparing milk tea, she kept carefully observing her movements out of the corner of her eye, and she saw them all.
"...Guest, I've been waiting for your milk tea for a long time."
"Thank you."
Tianhai Jiuliuli took it politely, passed by a new customer who had just entered the store with some snowflakes on his down jacket, and left the milk tea shop.
The young clerk watched her leave at the counter. It wasn't until the smooth, flaxen hair completely disappeared in the crowd that he withdrew his gaze with a hint of loneliness.
"...What do you think, this is the last time, right?"
He murmured, and couldn't help but look at the place where the back disappeared. All he could see were passers-by walking outside the store.
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Christmas trees all over the street, red decorations everywhere, discount billboards marked with eye-catching fonts, passers-by wearing red hats, the Christmas song "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells"...<
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Facing the upcoming Christmas, these elements have already fallen in the snow and filled the entire commercial street.
"It will snow tomorrow too, right? White Christmas!"
"Hmm... Well, I should be able to do this."
"Then, we agreed, you want to take me out to play."
"Where do you want to go?"
"Amusement park! Go see the ice withers! Go ride the Ferris wheel! Go ride the merry-go-round!"
"Really, why are you still like a child, playing this every year?"
"Huh... aren't you the same? Are you cold or not? Do you want me to hold you?"
"Well...promise!"
"Hehe..."
The conversation between the lovers at the intersection before the intersection made Tianhai Jiuliuli, who was waiting at the traffic light, look up at the snow and feel a trace of longing for it.
It’s been almost a week since he formed the band to practice their instruments, right? It’s been two days since the final exam. I wonder if he can take the initiative to invite himself out tomorrow?
It's obviously a romantic relationship, but he seems to rarely invite me to go out with him...
Of course I know that he has been busy learning guitar recently and laying a good foundation for bass. I am also very happy to learn rock related knowledge with him...
But what I want most is to be alone with him, to listen to him say nice things to me, to hold his arms and lean on his shoulders.
If...if you suddenly want to kiss...it's not impossible, just say a few words in your ear.
I... will probably agree...
Tianhai Jiuliuli crossed the intersection and walked on the street, blushing, thinking about these things in his mind, but his heart felt empty for some reason.
She felt that her brother did not like her as much as he did when he first confessed to her.
"Why?"
Probably because he has not completely forgiven himself yet - Tianhai Jiuliuli thought about it and could only blame himself for the mistake.
But she was not entirely convinced by this answer, because judging from his interactions with her during this period, he did not have any sense of distance from her because of past events. On the contrary, he was very proactive. When they were in a world together,
He always pulls me into his arms for a hug.
Tianhai Jiuliuli likes that feeling very much.
Compared to Qi Mingyue's state of never being able to get close, I don't know how much better I am, right?
Well, you shouldn’t feel negative and decadent!
Although he still has an absolute advantage against Qi Mingyue, in front of his twin sister, a twin sister whose face is exactly the same as his own, he still has to take the initiative and let his brother understand who is the one who wants to rely on and like him the most.
!
Tianhai Jiuliuli encouraged herself in her heart, carrying the milk tea she bought, crossing the street and entering an office building.
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On the sixth floor, a room like a warehouse.
Putting aside the soundproof wall decorated in black style, apart from a bunch of messy wires and a bunch of brackets that don't know what to put, there are only a series of musical instruments left.
Tianhai Qimingyue sat expressionlessly in front of a bunch of musical instruments that made up the drum set, including bass drum, snare drum, toms, hi-hats, ride cymbals, and used simple 8 beats to get familiar with this instrument.<
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She is very focused and serious, and she is meticulous about learning this instrument.
Kanbaru Raku is holding the guitar and is helping Kanbaru Suzu, who is also holding the guitar, to correct how to play the F major chord so that it runs smoothly.
Tianhai Zhixue sat quietly by the floor-to-ceiling window, eating bread and staring blankly into the distance where the world seemed to not exist.
The door to the room opened.
Kagura Raku saw Tianhai Jiu Liuli coming in from the door.
He smiled at her, put down his guitar, walked over and said a few words of care, took the milk tea she bought from her hand, and then distributed it to everyone one by one.
"Put it aside." Tianhai Qimingyue seems to be still familiar with the drum set.
"Oh, thank you." Although Kanbaru Suzu was very happy to drink milk tea, because it was bought by Tianhai Jiuli, she was a little confused whether she should say thank you to her.
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"..." Tianhai Zhixue said nothing.
A band with absolutely no tacit understanding!
After practicing for so long, Kambara, who is well aware of the interpersonal relationships in the band, feels desolate in her heart.
"How is my brother's guitar practice going?" Tianhai Jiuliuli asked.
Kanbaru held his elbows and recalled with his eyes upward: "It's... OK, at least I've regained my previous level. I don't even remember how many years I haven't played."
"Six years," the short-haired Kamihara Suzuki, who was sitting on a small stool, squeezed milk tea in her hands and interrupted, and then continued, "I remember, brother, your guitar was originally picked up from the garbage dump. It was very old.
I studied by myself for a period of time, and then I broke down and stopped playing the guitar."
"I played pretty well back then." Kanbaru Suzu took a sip of milk tea and quickly added.
"Brother, why didn't you continue before?"
Kambara reluctantly explained: "Guitars were expensive, and I couldn't afford to buy them at that time. My life was much better since I was in junior high school, but later on I forgot about it because I was studying all the time and preparing for the entrance examination of Meide Junior High School."
Although Tianhai Jiuliuli understood what he said, it was still difficult to empathize with his experience of "having no money."
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Generally speaking, everyone in today’s runto has a musical foundation.
Needless to say, Tianhai Jiuliuli and Tianhai Qimingyue.
The eldest lady in the boudoir never knew the music theory she had learned for many years since she was a child.
Jiuliuli is also a genius in classical piano, capable of holding independent concerts.
At their level, they only need to transfer years of music theory to different instruments, and the rest is just practice.
I don’t know if I should say that they are musical geniuses?
After seeing the two of them playing a rhythm or a song in a decent manner after just a few days of exposure to complicated instruments such as electronic keyboards and drums, Kambara's heart almost dropped.
No wonder they are called geniuses, they are really geniuses who can learn everything quickly.
If he hadn't had the foundation before and the music theory knowledge he learned when learning piano, he wouldn't be able to catch up with them in a rocket.
Although Ah Ling is a lazy person, she is not slow at learning, she is just lazy.
"Ahem, now that we've drank the milk tea, let's try playing together and find out how we feel."
"Ask a question!" Kanbaru Suzu raised her hand.
Kanbaru looked over and said with a smile: "What a good question! Please tell me."
Kanbaru Suzu lay on the backrest of the chair and kept squeezing the empty milk tea can, "What song are we going to play together? Little Star? I'm not very good at playing guitar yet."
"Nonono, how can it be as simple as playing a little star ensemble? I have already decided on the practice song, Green Day's classic song "Wheember Ends"."
"This one." Kambara Suzu remembered that her brother had played and sang in front of her before. "Do you have the music score?"
"Yes, I printed it out yesterday," Kanhara Raku took a stack of paper from his backpack and distributed it to everyone in the music room. "To be honest, it's really difficult to find the sheet music for each instrument."
Tianhai Qimingyue took over the drum part she was responsible for, holding her beautiful chin and looking at it carefully.
"Everyone, let's get familiar with it now. After noon, we will try to sing a piece together. Ah Ling, you should also learn to sing it."
"Let me sing this?" Kanbaru Suzu looked at the guitar tab in her hand, "Is that okay? I haven't learned a few chords yet."
"I know you're not good at playing guitar yet, so just sing the vocal part first and don't worry about the guitar in your hand."
"Oh."
"Can you sing a lyrical song in English?" Kanbaru asked again.
"Look down on me!"
"Okay, as long as you are confident, let's get familiar with each other. We will officially start the snow in the afternoon?"
Tianhai Zhixue raised her head blankly.
"Is that okay? Let's try to play together in the afternoon." Kambara asked.
The snow of Tianhai nodded lightly.
"Okay, let's get started."
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Although this Green Day song is indeed very suitable for novice bands to use.
However, a few people were only familiar with the instrument enough to be able to use it. Under various difficulties, the time had already reached five o'clock in the afternoon.
I also ordered takeout for lunch, and just ate a packed lunch.
After practicing like this for a day, Jiuliuli, Zhixue, and Aling didn’t have any major problems with their electronic keyboards, main guitars, and vocals.
The main problem lies in the drum set of Tianhai Qimingyue and the bass of Kamigahara Music.
The two of them are not too familiar with musical instruments.
"The beat changes very quickly and the speed requirements are high. I'll try again."
Qi Mingyue is saying that the main difficulty in playing drums in this song lies in the speed of the beat.
In fact, after practicing two or three times, she already knew clearly where her shortcomings were. These days she was just getting familiar with how to use the drum set more smoothly.
Kanbaru's bass must maintain a sense of rhythm when playing, highlight each beat in the song, and add different timbres to the song. He also understands.
Music is like this, even though you know where you are going wrong, you still find it difficult to control where you are going wrong.
"Practice again."
Kambaraku suggested this, and Tianhai Qimingyue didn't say anything at all. He just picked up two drumsticks and continued to find the rhythm.
Her slender hands held the drumsticks, moving from ride cymbals to ride cymbals, and then quickly back to ride cymbals. Her legs under her skirt were also tapping the pedals rhythmically. She wore headphones, and her hands were like lights in the night.
Jumping as lightly as a butterfly, her unwavering expression makes every beat of hers clearly identifiable.
At first glance, it really looks like that.
Kagura Raku often observed her, and sometimes he couldn't help but tap his legs to join in a rhythm she repeated many times.
Under such circumstances, the time came to eight o'clock in the evening.
It's already dark.
Several people haven't finished their meal yet and are still improving the parts they are responsible for.
However, it has indeed reached a level where we can play together.
Everyone is more or less... no, it should be said that the fatigue is written on their faces.
In order to cheer up everyone's spirits, Kanhara, who was holding a bass, stood up enthusiastically, clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to look at him:
"Okay! No matter how you practice today, try to play a complete piece of ensemble. Don't interrupt if you make any mistakes. Just finish the whole piece. Ah Ling!"
"Oh!"
"Jiu Liuli?" Kanhara looked at the girl behind the electronic keyboard who was wearing Audio-Technica monitor headphones.
"Okay."
"Seven bright moons?"
Tianhai Qimingyue, who hung the earphones around her neck, nodded slightly.
"Where's the snow?"
Tianhai Zhixue, who had an electric guitar hanging on her face, scanned a row of notes with a dull expression on her face to express her response. The end of the electric guitar was quite harsh.
"Okay, then everything is ready, right?"
Although this band has only been established for a short time, it doesn’t look like that.
But, it’s still the first step, right?
Kanbaru took a breath of cold air, picked up the bass in his hand, and looked at the brightly lit Tokyo night sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window. After a few seconds of silence, he nodded to everyone, indicating that the ensemble could officially begin.
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shit.
Apart from shit, Kambara no longer knows how to describe today’s results.
In the warm-colored self-service barbecue restaurant, Kanbaru took a sip from a bottle of juice.
"Okay, okay," Kanbaru Suzu patted her older brother's slightly decadent back, "Judging from the fact that we can get together, isn't this band making progress?"
"A-Ling, are you here to ridicule me?"
"How can I not? I am just trying to comfort you, okay."
Kambara Suzu said, glancing at Amami Kuruuri who was running to get the barbecue ingredients, and deliberately moved closer to Kanbaru Raku, bumping her body against him twice, "We have only been playing for less than a week, and we can't sing a song together."
Songs are not a normal thing?"
"That's what I say... But we are not complete novices, so we need to learn Qi Mingyue's drum set from scratch."
"I didn't learn the guitar from scratch!" Kambara Suzu said, and took the initiative to pour another glass of juice for Kanamehara.
"...It's not like you can't do it if you just sing." Kanhara glanced at her sister pouring juice for herself strangely.
"What's wrong? Look at me like this."
What's wrong?
If the juice is replaced by beer, and the identity is replaced by a boss and a social animal, such an action will not feel inconsistent at all, okay?
"Be courteous for nothing."
"What does it mean to be courteous for nothing? You are my brother, can't I pour you some juice?"
"There's nothing wrong with pouring juice...but you pour it." Kanbaru picked up the cup and used the chandelier of the barbecue restaurant to see through the liquid inside, "Is it poisoned?"
Kanbaru Suzu was angry, "Humph, you are stereotyping! What are you talking about poisoning? It's so outrageous. I want to poison you and knock you out countless times."
"Then what's this?" Kanbaru brought the juice in front of her.
"This is my condolences to you after a hard day."
"A Ling, you have changed."
"How can I not!"
"You've really changed."
"No means no."
Kanbaru couldn't figure out why A Ling was so diligent in pouring juice for her, but she actually learned to serve her brother, which was unprecedented.
"Don't you have anything to eat yet?" Tianhai Zhixue, who was sitting opposite, asked, her hand already placed on her belly.
Kagura Raku said: "Right away, they will come back with the things right away."
"Brother, why don't you let Zhixue get things by herself? It's her first time in the cafeteria."
Indeed, this is Tianhai Zhixue’s first time at a buffet restaurant.
When she knew that everything in the restaurant could be eaten at will, her eyes lit up.
As for why she wasn't allowed to get it herself...
Kanbaru was afraid that she would grab a piece of food and pluck it hard. She was already full before the group started eating.
Tianhai Jiuliuli and Tianhai Qimingyue returned to their seats with the ingredients.
Kanbaru Raku and Kanbaru Suzu sit aside.
The snow of Tianhai separates the two sisters of Tianhai in the middle.
The three Tianhais sitting across from each other did not have any communication, and they were silent.
"Brother, I'm going to grill you some meat." Kanbaru Suzu became enthusiastic. She picked up the pieces of meat and threw them on the iron plate.
"A Ling."
"What's wrong?"
"I think it's quite weird, you are not you anymore."
"What! You don't appreciate the kindness to you." Kambara Suzu clenched her fist in front of him.
"Let me bake it for you."
"It's okay, I'll do it."
Tianhai Qimingyue: "It's not that my brother doesn't let my sister Jiang help her bake, it's just that you don't bake it well."
"...Excessive!"
"The dishes made by Ling are indeed not delicious." Tianhai Zhixue ate the small cake Jiuliuli brought for herself.
"Ah," Kanbaru Suzu said, making her want to scratch her head, "Why do you even say that to Lian Zhixue?"
"Because it's true."
Kanbaru Raku remembered that A Ling tried to make a tomato scrambled egg meal for Zhixue. She said that she wanted to try to learn cooking again, and asked Zhixue to help as a test subject.
The result...the food tasted even weirder than Jiuliuli’s food at the beginning.
"Okay, okay, I know you have good intentions, so let me handle the barbecue."
"Hehe, brother is still nice to me!"
After a while, the meat was roasted, and Kanwaraku directly put a piece of aling into the bowl.
She is quite happy, so happy that no one knows why she is so proud.
"I always feel that the meat you grill is a level better than others."
"Really? Then eat more, pay more attention when practicing, and don't keep dropping the beat."
"...That's not because Qi Mingyue's drum has not been beaten properly."
Tianhai Qimingyue raised her eyes: "I followed my own rhythm and made no mistakes."
"It's not wrong, but it means you didn't cooperate well!" Kanbaru Suzu imitated Qi Mingyue's arms, crossed her arms, and looked provocatively.
Tianhai Qimingyue's hostility towards sister-chan is no longer surprising. "It sounds like you just cooperate with me, sister-chan."
Watching the two of them start to fight again for no apparent reason, Kagura Le directly stopped them:
"Okay, let's have a barbecue and stop arguing."
"Brother, this is baked." Tianhai Jiuliuli gave Kamarale a piece of his favorite pork ribs.
"Ah? Well, thank you Liuli."
Tianhai Jiuliuri suddenly intervened, and Kambaru Suzu and Tianhai Qimingyue, who were still tit-for-tat, instantly shifted their focus.
"Sister really knows how to choose the right time to eat meat."
"That's right." Kanbaru Suzu nodded repeatedly.
Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled and said: "It just happened that the ribs were roasted."
After saying that, he put another kuaizi into Kambaraku's bowl.
"..."
"..."
Both of their eyes were on Jiuliuli's movements.
Even Kanbaru Raku fell silent.
They are obviously just two pieces of meat, why do you feel like they are about to fight?
Tianhai Jiuliuli said casually while picking up the meat: "Don't look at me like that. My brother will help you grill the meat. I will help him grill it."
Kanbaru Suzu curled her lips and said: "Tsk, attentiveness."
Tianhai Qimingyue said in a dull tone: "A small favor."
Kanhara Raku: "..."
Liuli, are you putting me on the fire to roast me?
His feet under the table were stepped on twice.
What kind of flight are you doing? Didn’t you say you were tired from practicing and came out to have a meal?
"Zhiyuki." Kanbaru Raku looked at the quietest Koyuki directly opposite.
"Huh?"
"Do you have anything you want to eat? I'll bake it for you."
"That."
"Beef tongue, right?" Kanwaraku immediately picked up two pieces of beef tongue and put them on the iron rack. After roasting, he immediately put them into her bowl, without giving a few people a chance to grab them.
"What does stinky Lele mean...?"
Although this question was asked by Kanbaru Suzu, it also represents the look in the eyes of the two Tianhai sisters.
"Ah, it's not interesting." Kanbaru smiled and pretended to be stupid, "You just don't think it's good to have a meal in peace?"
"..."
Don't tell me, the rest of the tricks really worked, and everyone stopped bickering.
Seeing that there was no more conflict, Kanbaru became enthusiastic and took the initiative to assume the role of barbecue minister, livening up the atmosphere.
"Come on, come on, you can eat it yourself. You don't need to feed it to me. You can eat it yourself if you want."
In fact, without the quarrels, the atmosphere has become much better.
The smoke of fireworks in the barbecue shop also becomes stronger and stronger as time goes by.
Kagura Raku took the initiative to open up the conversation with today's exercise, and everyone began to express their thoughts.
"There is no doubt that today's ensemble failed." Tianhai Qi Mingyue put down her tachyon and said.
"I'm so full...what do you think I should do?" Kanbaru Suzu touched her belly, complaining that she couldn't eat, and stuffing meat into her mouth.
"Practice."
"Tch, I thought you had any great ideas!"
Tianhai Jiuliuli also put down Kuaizi and said: "Actually, we formed a band without knowing anything about rock. Apart from knowing that we should practice the music, we have no sense of direction."
Kagura Raku understood what he said, and the abbreviation was just for a layman.
"We don't know where the band is going to perform, we don't know what short-term goals we want to accomplish, and we don't know how to effectively work together."
Kanbaru Suzu seemed to understand, "You mean, we are all outsiders? We need to find an insider to help guide us?"
Tianhai Jiuliuli nodded.
Kanbaru Suzu continued to ask: "Do you know anyone who plays rock music and bands?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"The people I know are all in the classical music circle," Tianhai Jiuliuli said, holding her chin and thinking for a while, "They are either violinists or orchestral musicians. They should know each other in pop music, but we have no reason to ask each other to come to us for a long time.
question."
"Wouldn't it be better to pay for it?"
Kagura Raku hit his sister on the head with a knife: "Have you forgotten what we said? Don't use the power of the Tianhai family."
"That's not..." Kanbaru Suzu said aggrievedly, "I'm just collecting money to hire a consultant!"
"How much money do you have left after renting a music room and buying musical instruments? Do you know how much your guitar costs? How much does my bass cost? How much does a Jiuli electronic keyboard cost? There is also a pair of monitoring equipment, speakers, and cables.
, microphones and so on, not to mention Qi Mingyue’s drum set.”
"I know it's an astronomical figure, but isn't Qi Mingyue in charge of the company? Let her make some money and use it..."
Kagura Raku hit her on the head with a knife again: "We have agreed that our band will be self-reliant in addition to using some initial funds? And we are not a company, not a bank, so there is no reason to take it casually."
Come and try it soon.]
"You're still relying on your own efforts...it's only been a few days, and you're going to be so poor that you have no money!"
"Then why don't you use your salary to help everyone?"
"What? I don't want it, I'll save it for my future wedding."
Tianhai Qimingyue suddenly interjected: "At present, our level still needs to be improved by consultants. We can't even sing a piece of music together well. Even calling the consultant is just embarrassing... But we can indeed deal with the consultant in advance.
Set a goal. How much money does our band have left now?"
"If each person contributes about 150,000 yen, there will be more than 100,000 yen left."
There is no doubt that as long as they borrow money from the Tianhai family, this team's funds will probably be so strong that no team in the country can match them.
But what’s the point?
Is this a band?
Everyone knows that without pressure, there will be a lack of motivation.
If they don’t impose some restrictions on themselves, how can they allow the band to officially enter the Budokan with their lifelong ability to eat and drink?
So everyone decided not to borrow help from the Tianhai family.
Although with the pocket money of Tianhai Jiuliuli and Tianhai Qimingyue, it is impossible for everyone to be short.
"How can we hire people when there are so few? Why don't you Qi Mingyue invest some more in our place?"
Tianhai Qimingyue hummed and said: "What was promised is fairness and justice? Five people are equal? I will invest 500,000, can you add another 500,000?"
"This can't be done... I already have half of my savings..." Kanbaru Suzu muttered, "I still want to get married."
Nothing came out of the discussion around team funding, but everyone decided on the same idea.
That's it - the band really needs a consultant.
"You really don't know anyone?"
"No."
Everyone said no.
"Where's Zhixue? Ah, forget it..." Kanbaru Raku was about to ask Zhixue, who plays rock and roll, if she knew her peers, when she suddenly remembered her identity as a squatter at home.
How is this possible!
"Wait a minute!" Kanbaru Suzu stood up suddenly. She remembered something, "I seem to know someone!"