24. Band, what to do
There are also a lot of musical instruments on the second floor of the musical instrument shop, but apart from the musical instruments, the atmosphere and decoration here look more like a café. In the middle is a walnut table and chair, and a menu is placed on it. "Hey, this way!"
At this time, Izumi stood up from the leftmost seat in the penultimate row of the middle and waved at us. Then put the cup of coffee back in the coaster. "You haven't forgotten why we're here today, have you?"
Shion walked over briskly and asked her as if she was angry.
"Of course not, it's just that I didn't expect to have such a delicious black coffee here, would you like to have a cup too?" But Izumi ignored her at all, and asked as if he hadn't heard her.
"Izumi—!"
Shion, who sighed, sat opposite. At the same time, let's sit down together. "Don't look at me like that! This one is really delicious! Then, after we sat down, she emphasized again.
"So ......"
Shion's expression was a little helpless, and then she sighed heavily. Then, despite Izumi's warm recommendation, we all asked for a cup of black coffee similar to hers, which tasted really good.
Unlike ordinary black coffee, it is astringent and bitter, and there is a slight sweetness in it.
"So, have you figured it out?"
Shion gently put the coffee back on the coaster, then looked at Izumi's face and asked. After a while, the conversation returned to the musical instrument, and the coffee in the cup slowly diminished over time. "Just a guitar is enough?"
Izumi smiled and nodded slightly. Then her eyes fell back to the guitar Lola was holding in her arms.
"Are you sure?"
Shion asked again, as if she was a little uneasy. "We can borrow other instruments! Just please—" As he spoke, Izumi turned his gaze back. "Lola, what do you think?"
Then, Lola, who was suddenly called by her name, seemed to be still in a daze. "Lola—" Izumi smiled wryly and gently shook her shoulder with his hand. "All we can do now is bring the guitar home, right?"
Then, finally, as if coming to her senses, she wrote this sentence in her notebook. Then he thought about it again and wrote, "But it's enough, isn't it?" Then, putting down the pen, she reached out and grabbed Izumi's shoulder as if she remembered something again—
"What?" It instantly overwhelmed her. At this time, Lola, whose expression was a little tangled, picked up the pen again and wrote something in the notebook seriously and quickly. Out of curiosity, Aster also leaned her face over on the way.
"Well, more importantly, there is a man among us who knows almost nothing about musical instruments?!"
As she put the pen down, all three of them looked at me, their expressions almost close to despair on their faces. "Just to be cautious, let me ask, Chihiro, have you ever touched a musical instrument before?"
Shion's voice didn't fluctuate as always, but even then I could understand that she was in a hurry right now, and even had some kind of expectation for me. "Whether it's a piano or a bass, you should have a good instrument, right?"
She grabbed my shoulders tightly and slowly leaned her face over. I couldn't help but desperately try to run away from her, and my expression became more and more stiff. "Chihiro, you, can't it be that you haven't touched a musical instrument at all?"
Izumi tried his best to hold back a smile and got up from his seat and approached me and asked. Then, gently push away the aster that seemed to be frozen in place. I could only nod in embarrassment. In an instant, Izumi couldn't hold back his laughter anymore.
"That's right—" She laughed until her shoulders were shaking, and it took her a few moments to stop. But compared to her, Shion obviously didn't recover so quickly, "Doesn't that mean that I have to teach you from scratch?" ”
Shion, who was crying, raised her gaze and glared at my face mercilessly and asked. "Looks like that's all there is to it, right?" Izumi walked around behind me and patted her on the shoulder. "But who's in charge of teaching?"
After Ziyuan finished speaking, it seemed that tears were about to fall.
"Don't look at me, even if I wanted to, it wouldn't be possible, right?" After saying that, Izumi pulled back the hand that was grabbed by Shion at some point. "Neither you nor I have anything to do with musical instruments, do we?"
"What should I do then?"
Shion kept banging on the table as if she was making a fuss, and kept chattering. "Lola, I'll leave it to you!"
After Izumi finished speaking, he ran back to his seat and sat down. Immediately afterward, Lola's gaze circled between her and Shion several times, her expression a little helpless, but she still got up from her seat and approached the very depressed looking front and patted her on the shoulder gently, as if to comfort her. "How?"
Shion raised her face as if she was not angry, and looked at her with tears in her eyes, Lola first shook her head slightly, and then picked up the pen and wrote something in the notebook. She's serious, but it didn't take much time this time—
"Isn't that still me?"
It says so.
Suddenly, Shion jumped up from her seat in an instant, grabbed Lola's hands hard and said, "yes, why didn't I think of it!" Lola, you're more familiar with musical instruments than we all do! As soon as the words fell, he grabbed her hand and shook it vigorously!
"Why?"
To be honest, it surprised me, and before I knew it, I had the doubts in my mind. "Lola used to be in the vocal club!" Shion's extraordinarily pleasant voice instantly crossed half of her face, and Lola, who wanted to explain it to me, told me.
"Really?"
I looked at Lola and asked curiously, and she looked a little flustered, but nodded after calming down. "So, it's best to have her to teach you!" Izumi said confidently.
Shion was also very satisfied and nodded solemnly, "Yes, so from now on, Lola will be your teacher!" Chihiro! Suddenly, her words startled Lola, who had finally calmed down, and hurriedly waved her hand—
Even if you don't write it out, it's easy to understand, "What kind of teacher am I?!" ”
Then, while we were arguing about the subject, the scenery outside the window had changed—"It's already evening...... "It's already evening," Shion sighed; He got up from his seat and stretched.
"It's time to go, right?"
After that, we left the musical instrument shop. Of course, before that, Lola apologized to the clerk who said goodbye to us at the door for the guitar. "It's okay, it's an accident after all! It's okay! ”
The clerk's mildness made Lola a little embarrassed. However, when she said that she was going to apologize, Shion was still worried, and even now she never took her eyes off Lola. After knowing that he would not be embarrassed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then the next day, Lola and I went to the vocal club to explain the situation to them, although everyone understood at first, but when it came to the most critical point, they were a little embarrassed, "I'm afraid this won't work, you see, we have to practice too!" ”
It was a very tactful statement, but Lola and I both understood that they didn't want to. "So, just stagger the practice time between each other, right?" But I don't want to give up yet. He looked up again and said.
Lola stole a glance at me from the side, "Forget it, right?" Her eyes seemed to say so. In that case, there is no problem—" It was still a little reluctant, but in the end they agreed. "Thank you!"
By the time we got back down the hallway, Lola looked relieved. "Succeeded? But Chihiro, were you such a stubborn person? "The moment she showed me the notebook, I honestly made me laugh and cry." Why so insistence? ”
Lola wrote down her question again in a few moments. "Because, at last I had you teach me, and we worked hard to the point where we were only close to succeeding. I don't want to give up in this kind of place. I always think it's a pity to do this......"
I pondered; While slowly organizing the language, "Don't you think so?" Then he turned to Lola again. She nodded vigorously and smiled. Next, we plan to go to the cafeteria for lunch together......