Neon lights in the night sky, Christmas trees decorated with LED strips, and countless red and green screen advertisements are playing in the square.

The cold wind blows through the empty pedestrian street in front of Shinjuku Kabukicho, and it is cold air that can condense the air, but the crowds of people coming and going make the pedestrian street full of warm and lively Christmas atmosphere.

A van was parked on the side of the road.

Drum kits, electronic organs, stands, benches, microphones, stereos... The same object was removed from above.

"By the way, we don't seem to have a street performance license, right?" Kamihara jumped out of the car with a snare drum in his arms and turned his head to ask Yoshihara-senpai, who was standing aside eating lollipops.

Yoshihara Nao was originally looking at the guitar singer who was playing and singing alone on the opposite street, and when she heard Kamihara's words, she replied casually:

"Nope."

"Senior, I need to remind you, when I came here just now, I saw police patrolling this street."

"Police?" Yoshihara Nao looked completely unconcerned, "Kamihara-kun, what is the spirit of rock 'n' roll?" ”

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Kamihara had read the rock chronicles, and it was clear, and after setting up the snare drum according to the request of the seven bright moons, he replied, "Freedom?" ”

"Yes, that's right! Freely! Street show permission is oppression! Cage! It's a bondage to people like us! Yoshihara Nao's eyes reflected the thin figure of the guitar singer opposite, and he looked like he was missing something with one hand on his waist, "Seeing the police holding a musical instrument and running quickly is the essence of playing a band." ”

“......”

Bohemian rock band, right?

Judging from the nostalgic eyes of the predecessors, it is estimated that they have done this before.

"What is the guy on the other side singing?" Suzu Kamihara spotted the guitarist on the other side who wasn't much watched.

"I don't know." Tianhai Jiuliuli, who had put the stereo, listened carefully.

Kamihara also looked over, and he felt a little familiar when he heard it. Frowning and listening carefully, he found that he really knew, "The sea and the sky, it's still the Japanese version." ”

"You sing with a lot of emotion." Suzu Kamihara's eyes kept on the guitarist's back.

In the crowded streets, there is only one audience willing to stay in front of him.

Kamihara looked at it for a long time, "I guess I'm homesick." ”

"How does my brother know? Hear it? ”

Kamihara put a knife on Suzu Kamihara's little head, "Didn't you hear the middle of the song and change the language?" It was Cantonese, and the female audience was still singing with him, and the tears were about to come out. ”

Nao Yoshihara closed his eyes and said with one hand: "As a singer, even if there is only one person who is willing to stay as a listener, it is lucky enough." ”

After saying this, she immediately clapped her hands again, urging the people around her: "Okay, okay, don't look at the other side, everyone, be a little faster, what you want for a flash is fast, start immediately when the layout is arranged!" gogogo！ ”

Yoshihara's seniors urged behind, and everyone's idleness suddenly disappeared.

Everybody knows what's going to happen next.

Their little band, which has only been in existence for a week, is about to perform for the first time on Christmas Eve.

One by one, the instruments were moved down at an accelerated pace.

"Nervous?" Tianhai Qi Mingyue said sarcastically.

Kamihara Le smiled directly: "Nervous? You know I'm thick-skinned, even if it's a problem to yell in the street that I'm stupid. Qimingyue, you seem quite determined? Obviously, the drum kit is only at the level of novices. ”

It's not so nervous, but to say that you don't feel it in your heart is fake.

"I've seen a lot of big scenes, so naturally I don't feel anything about this situation."

As soon as Qi Mingyue answered, Kamihara Le found that his band was really outrageous.

Not to mention Jiu Liuli and Qi Mingyue, the scene of their piano is much bigger than this.

Ah Ling is an idol voice actor, and he has been behind the scenes before, and he has recently had the experience of singing at the front desk, so he probably won't be too nervous. It's just that she has some refusal to be recognized by fans.

The snow is simply not nervous.

Engage in a long time, only one person is the most pulling?

Shen Yuanle thought about it for a long time, and his heart was a little empty.

"Lejun is actually the most powerful of us."

"Huh? Why do you say that all of a sudden? Kamihara looked at the nine glasses of the heavenly sea in confusion.

"Because isn't this band all because of my brother? Without my brother, we wouldn't be able to get here at this time, it has nothing to do with strength, and the most important thing is that a team has the soul that can build it together. ”

"Why, everyone will agree to join only if they have their own goals."

That being said, but the words of encouragement from Tianhai Jiu Ruri still cheered up Kamihara a lot, and made him show a serious attitude that he wanted to face this performance seriously.

He's a bass player, and the presence of a band bassist is also very important!

"Thank you."

"Brother, brother, I'm actually nervous too." Seeing that Tianhai Jiu Liuli was talking to his brother, Shenyuan Ling immediately stood in the middle of the two, squeezed out of Jiu Liuli's position with a smile, and said directly to Shenyuan Le with a smile.

"You are so alive, where are you nervous?"

"It's true, what if I get recognized by the fans? They might even ask me why I joined a band all of a sudden. ”

"If you want to meet fans in Akihabara, I still believe that this is Shinjuku, Kabukicho."

"Smack."

Yoshihara Nao's trademark hands folded and smiled kindly, "OKOK, this is the end of the chat, it's all ready, right... Ready to get started! ”

Small talk is just a snippet, and it takes less than 20 minutes from the moment the van stops until all the facilities are ready.

This speed is a street flash in the truest sense of the word.

Several people are seated according to the predetermined seats.

Suzu Kamihara and Snow of Amami have a lead singer and a guitarist occupying the front C position.

The keyboard of Jiuliuli is close to the middle, the drum kit of Qimingyue is close to the right, and only the bassist of Kamihara Music is arranged in the most inconspicuous lower left corner, and there is a Christmas tree next to it.

If passers-by don't look closely, they will probably think that this group is a four-piece girl band.

After everyone was in their seats, Nao Yoshiwara stood at the front of the crowd, and under the snowfall on Christmas Eve, and in front of the countless pedestrians in front of Kabukicho, she shouted to the five:

"That's it! Everybody of Runto! Improvise, ready to begin! ”

Everyone in the band raised their right hands at the same time, echoing Nao Yoshiwara's voice.

Because this band is full of young girls, and they are all beautiful girls who can win a beauty pageant with just one of them, some couples on the street, passers-by drinking canned beer, uncles shopping on Christmas Eve, and young people have some curiosity in advance.

A band of maidens.

What music is to be played?

With this curiosity, some people have begun to stay in front of everyone, and they have gathered more and more.

The bustle of the streets, the countless dazzling advertisements that fell on the heads of the stranded crowds. Everything was adorned with the snowfall on Christmas Eve, and more and more people watched, waiting wordlessly, and couldn't help but tighten their fingers around the neck.

It was only at this time that Shen Yuanle realized that nervousness was really inevitable.

"Whew..."

He closed his eyes, and his lips spat out a mouthful of white mist, expelling the stagnant air in his lungs, in order to calm his mood at the moment.

His left hand pressed on the chord, trying to recall the rhythm of the beginning of the exercise.

......

Quiescence.

The silence of waiting.

In the silence of waiting, the four beats began to count down.

"Hoo ......"

Breathing sounds that can be heard clearly.

The clear and pleasant bass of the guitar began to flow, and the fingers of the snow of the sky were just repeating simple plucking, and the playing without any technique was surprisingly intoxicating.

The light and simple guitar repeats three sections, and the soft and lyrical vocals begin to flow from Suzu Kamihara's mouth.

“summer has e and passed...

“the i ever last...”

Obviously it was just a simple guitar accompaniment, and there was no exciting, emotional, and soul-shaking rhythm, and Kamihara couldn't help but shiver behind him the moment he heard Ah Suzu's clear voice in the rear.

The enthusiastic audience was also cheering up and applauding the Kamihara Suzu.

Tianhai Qimingyue was expressionless, his hands were jumping back and forth on his slender hands, and the timing of the rhythm and blues drums provoked the glitch in his back. After the three-person ensemble played a half-tour, Jiuliuli's piano began to embellish the harmony brightly, like the stars in the night sky leading everyone to accompany Ah Ling's singing.

At this moment, Shen Yuanle's heart was touched by an indescribable feeling, and his fingers couldn't help but tremble with her voice!

It's good, keep it, just keep it that way.

Kamihara Le couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he seemed to have seen a flash of light in the eyes of the passers-by in front of him in a trance. They were moved by Suzu Kamihara's ethereal voice.

“ wheember ends......”

Suzu Kamihara's singing continues, and the guitar of the snow of the sky continues to repeat the clear and clear guitar.

The melody of the song is light-paced, but the lyrics are full of sadness and heaviness.

With the flow of music, the drumbeat of the seven bright moons in the sky and sea becomes warm and agitated. Immediately afterwards, the snow of the sky and the sea suddenly exploded, and everyone's cold hairs instantly stood up, and the electric guitar that was dragging and wandering like electric light pierced everyone's brains.

The rhythm exploded, tearing everything apart, and only Suzu Kamihara's voice maintained the only remaining silence.

With his eyes closed, his back already burrs, Kamihara tried his best to support the structure of the song with his body following the fourth-quarter rhythm of the drums, trying his best to squeeze the harmony between the drums and the notes like a game of finger slats.

To be watched, to be expected, to be admired... The brain seems to be intoxicated with the touch of the instrument, as if it is being scorched by the heat, as if it is torn apart by the drumbeat of the seven bright moons, and completely dissolves into the music played by the ensemble, the neon lights that illuminate everything with colorful colors....

It's a great feeling!

The blood of the whole body turned into a fire to resist the cold, and Kamihara Le's left hand was tightly clasped with the metal strings, constantly cooperating with the drum beat of the Seven Bright Moon of the Sky Sea that made people nod and shake their legs, and with the Snow of the Sky Electric Guitar like a silver snake to stimulate the continuous and repeated sections of the ears, and then followed their rhythm, step by step, step by step.

“summer has e and passed......”

The singing of Kamihara Suzu is becoming more and more intense, but the rhythm is getting clearer and clearer.

Completely... Can't afford to hold back. Swallowing the dry saliva hard, trying everything to squeeze the rhythm into the rhythm, his brain kept distinguishing the drum beat carved by the seven bright moons of the heavenly sea, and in the crazy upward rhythm of the snow of the heavenly sea, Kamihara felt that he had lost himself, and only a pair of fingers were left on the tightly coiled metal strings.

Dazzling lights, a few crowds singing along with Kamihara Suzu...

It's so comfortable...

Tianhai Qimingyue used his shaking body to drive the drum kit to beat out the rhythm with his shaky body. Jiuliuli uses the piano to affect the ease and brightness of the whole song. Suzu Kamihara facing the microphone and the backlit silhouette of Yuki Amami holding an electric guitar.

Kamihara Rakudo has already observed.

He could see everybody, and he could hear everybody's hard work in this song.

Isn't that all right?

Kamihara used the bass to add to the tension in the middle of the song, but he already laughed from the bottom of his heart.

It turns out that this is the feeling of a band, the feeling of playing in front of an audience in the true sense of the word.

Even if it's not very mature, even if it's not perfect.

But it is enough to see everyone's efforts......

.......

"Good work!"

"Very good!"

"Great! One more song! ”

"That's right! One more song! ”

The music stopped, but the voices of the passers-by who stopped did not stop, and they looked at the five-member band in front of them, and applauded with their hands without hesitation. Clapping, whistling, and silent shouts, all sorts of people turned their eyes to it.

The dazzling neon lights of Kabukicho opposite, the applause and trance of the audience raising their arms, even made Kamihara Raku not shake his mind for a while.

This... Is that the end of it?

Could it be a little too fast?

To be honest, even if there are still some flaws in the middle of this song, the coordination is not perfect.

But Kamihara was already a little sunk in, and there was still a little heat left in his body.

He wanted to keep playing.

A song is not enough at all.

He looked at Nao Yoshihara, who was watching the battle from behind.

She gave a look.

It means, "If you have practiced any other songs, then whatever you want." ”

But it's just a joke.

They don't know how long they have practiced this simple song alone, and they don't know how many times they have practiced it in the ensemble.

"It's gone." Kamihara Le could only smile at his seniors so bitterly.

"Ah, if it's gone, let's leave." Yoshihara Nao didn't seem to care.

"But senior, this ....." Kamihara Raku pointed to passers-by who still wanted to hear it.

"Then you can't repeat a song too many times... Ah, like, you don't have to continue. ”

As soon as Yoshihara's voice fell, a group of blue-clad policemen wearing hats and vests interjected into the crowd.

The police were unfriendly, and the topic was "Do you have permission?" And "Did you know that this is going to cause you trouble?" "Up.

But because it was Christmas Eve, the police didn't want to embarrass them too much, so they just had to pack up their things and leave.

Most of the audience also knew that they would not be able to watch the performance next, and shook their heads in disappointment.

Some people also came to ask what kind of band they were and if there was a place to see the performance.

Most are young men.

Kamihara reckoned that they didn't want to listen to songs, but wanted to hook up with their beautiful sister.

Of course, the reality is that their small band doesn't have anything now, and the level is only enough to barely play this song well, and they can't sing or something... That's a fantasy.

*

Syllable!

Nao Yoshihara pulled down the back door of the van at once, she clapped her hands, turned around, and faced the five people in front of her.

"Hmm......" she scratched her cheek with her fingers, "what should I say?" ”

“......”

"By the way, you, Kamihara, the bass is playing too badly, the bass of this song is used to maintain the overall rhythm, you see what you are doing? And you, Qi Mingyue, the drum beat is so urgent, can Jiu Liuli and the bell keep up?

"And Jiu Liuli and Ling too, what are you doing? The band is a group, a group!! Since Qi Mingyue's drumming is fast, you should also try to keep up! In that case, it's just the bpm (tempo of the song) going up, not the whole thing like the one just now!

"Not to mention the snow, I played it by myself throughout the whole process, and there was no cooperation at all."

Yoshihara Nao said impatiently to everyone, and nodded to himself after speaking, "Yes, that's right, you don't cooperate at all." ”

“......”

In silence, Suzu Kamihara raised her hand: "That... Predecessor. ”

"Huh...? Say. ”

"Senpai wouldn't say that because he wanted to put pressure on us, would he?"

"Not really."

“......”

Okay, Kamihara is sure, and Suzu is right.

"Ahem," Yoshihara Nao also knew that he couldn't hold back, and coughed twice to hide his embarrassment, "Okay, you did a good job just now, but it was limited to the rookie team, that's all." Although the mistakes I just mentioned are not so serious, they are more or less flawed.

"And the atmosphere on the street is still a little less, how can there be an underground stage interesting?"

"Well," Nao Yoshihara suddenly sighed again, "I was originally going to use this flash mob event to teach you a lesson, to let you know that the band is not a child's play activity, and you can't come in with the mentality that you can just give up halfway." But who knew that you guys had such a good music foundation, and it was only a week since it was formed, and it has only been a week since it was formed! You can play a piece that is comfortable for the audience! ”

"Then the senior just wants to give us a dismount through a flash mob event?" Kamihara asked, hugging the bass.

"That's it, but you're doing so well that I don't even know how to train you to show me as a guide."

"But," Nao Yoshihara changed his mind again, "If you really want to perform on a low stage, I can help arrange it, but that stage... You can't be at the level you can make up for now, and you have to prepare at least five or six songs. ”

"Understood, practice hard, right?"

"Okay, okay, it's Christmas Eve, I don't say anything about the gifts, and I stood outside with you for an hour. I hope you can really appreciate something in this ensemble, let's go, pack up and go back. ”

*

In this way, after several people followed their seniors back to the rented music room and moved all the instruments back, they were all exhausted.

Everyone didn't have any idea of going to Christmas, they just wanted to go home quickly and wash up and go to bed.

When I got home, I soaked in the bathroom, relieving the pain of exhaustion, and I still remembered the feeling of standing behind them tonight and watching their backs, playing the same rock song together.

Their performance, their backs, the passion and cooperation that everyone put together in the same song.

That feeling of fulfillment, the feeling of striving upward......

Is... It feels so fulfilling.

Presumably, Jiu Liuli and Ah Ling also have this, right?

They all looked very happy when they were finished.

At least, the smile on Jiu Ruri's face was an expression that Kamihara had never seen since she finished playing the piano alone.

As long as it continues, everyone can grow in this band.

The reconciliation of Jiuliuli and Qimingyue is also a matter of time.

- Kamihara looked up at the masking ceiling of the bathroom, thinking so firmly in his heart.

Yes, the little band must be led upward.

......