About the fact that I accidentally turned my sister into a cripple

Chapter 240 On Christmas Eve, the RUNTO band held the first barbecue meeting

"One cup of matcha strawberries, four cups of hot cocoa, thank you."

"." The clerk was a little dazed.

"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 operating desk was very shy, blushing and bowed his head repeatedly to apologize, "Can you please tell me your needs again?"

"One cup of matcha strawberries, four cups of hot cocoa."

The clerk touched the screen of the console a little stiffly, and kept blushing and lowering his head in front of Tianhai Jiuliuli, "Just to make sure, one cup of matcha strawberries and four cups of hot cocoa, right?"

"Yes."

". Tomorrow is Christmas. Recently, all drinks in our store are sold with a 7% discount, so the total is 2450 yen."

Tianhai Jiuliuli took out a sheet of ten thousand yen from the satchel at his waist, and handed it to the clerk with his slender hand.

The clerk took it with both hands, gave the change, and bowed his head in a polite manner in the service industry to express his apology:
"Okay, please wait here for a moment."

Tianhai Jiuliuli waited in the store for about 10 minutes. During the period, while the clerk was preparing the milk tea, she had been carefully watching her movements from the corner of her eyes, and she was also watching.

"Guest, your milk tea has been waiting for a long time."

"Thank you."

Tianhai Jiuliuli took it politely, passed 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 from the counter, until the smooth long flaxen hair completely disappeared in the crowd, and he looked away with a hint of loneliness.

"What do you think, this is the last time, right?"

He muttered, and couldn't help but look again at the place where the figure disappeared, but all he could see were passers-by walking outside the shop.

Christmas trees all over the street, red decorations everywhere, discount billboards marked with eye-catching fonts, passers-by wearing red hats, and the Christmas song "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells".
Facing the upcoming Christmas, these elements have already filled the entire commercial street in the falling snow.

"It will snow tomorrow too? White Christmas!"

"Well, it should be."

"Then, we have agreed, you want to take me out to play."

"Where do you want to go?"

"Playground! Go see the ice sculptures! Go ride the Ferris wheel! Go ride the merry-go-round!"

"Really, why are you still like a child, playing with this every year?"

"Hmph, aren't you too? Is it cold? Do you want me to hold you?"

"Yes!"

"whee."

The conversation between the lovers in front of the crossroads made Tianhai Jiuliuli, who was waiting at the traffic lights, look up at the snow, and at the same time, he couldn't help feeling a little bit of longing.

It's been almost a week since forming a band to practice their respective instruments, right?Two days have passed since the final exam, I wonder if he can take the initiative to invite himself out tomorrow?

It's obviously a relationship, but he seems to rarely invite himself out together.
Of course I know that he has been busy learning guitar recently and laying a good foundation for bass, and I am very happy to learn rock related knowledge with him.
But what I want most is actually to be alone with him, to listen to him say nice things to me, to hold his arm and lean on his shoulder.

If you suddenly want to kiss, it's not impossible, just say a few words in your ear.

He will probably agree.
Tianhai Jiuliuli crossed the intersection and walked down the street, blushing, thinking about this in her mind, but her heart felt empty for some reason.

She felt that her brother didn't like her as much as when he confessed to her.

"why?"

Probably he hasn't completely forgiven himself yet—Tianhai Jiuliuli thinks about it, and can only blame himself for the mistake.

But she was not entirely convinced by this answer, because judging from the interaction between him and herself during this period of time, he did not have any sense of distance from her because of the previous things, on the contrary, he was very active. Will pull myself into my arms for a hug.

Tianhai Jiuliuli liked that feeling very much.

Compared to Qi Mingyue's state of never being able to get close, I don't know how much better it is, right?
Well, one shouldn't feel negative and decadent!

Although I still have an absolute advantage in the face of Qi Mingyue, in front of my twin sister, a twin sister whose face is exactly the same as my own, I still have to take the initiative and let my 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 bought milk tea, crossed the street, and entered an office building.

*
On the sixth floor, a room that looks like a warehouse.

Aside from the black-style soundproof walls, apart from a bunch of messy wires and a bunch of brackets that don’t know where to put them, there are only a series of musical instruments left.

Tianhai Qimingyue sat expressionlessly in front of the drum kit consisting of low drum, snare drum, four-sided tom, hi-hat, and ride-cymbal, familiarizing herself with this instrument in simple 8 beats.

She is very focused and serious, and takes the learning of this instrument meticulously.

Sakakihara Raku is holding the guitar, and is helping Sakakihara Rin, who is also holding the guitar, to correct how to press the F major chord smoothly.

Tianhai Zhixue sat quietly by the floor-to-ceiling windows, while eating bread, while looking blankly at the distance that seemed to not exist in this world.

The door of the room opened.

Sakakihara Raku saw Tianhai Jiuliuli coming in from the door.

He smiled at her, put down his guitar, walked over to say a few words, took the milk tea she bought, and then he distributed them to everyone one by one.

"Put it aside." Tianhai Qimingyue seemed to be still familiar with the drum set.

"Oh, thank you." Although Sakakihara Ling was very happy to drink milk tea, because it was bought by Tianhai Jiuliuli, she was a little bit unsure whether she should thank her.

"." Tianhai Zhixue didn't say anything.

There is no tacit understanding of the band at all!
After practicing for so long, Raku Sakakihara, who is well aware of the interpersonal relationship in the band, can be said to be desolate.

"How is brother's guitar practice?" Tianhai Jiuliuli asked.

Sakakibara supported his elbow, looked upwards and recalled: "It's okay, at least the previous level has been recovered. I don't even remember how many years I haven't played."

"Six years," the short-haired Suzu Sakakibara, who was sitting on a small stool, squeezed milk tea in her hand and interjected, "I remember, my brother picked up that guitar from the garbage dump at the beginning, it was very old, After studying by myself for a period of time, the guitar broke down and I didn’t continue to touch it.”

"It was pretty good back then." Suzu Sakakibara sipped her milk tea and quickly added.

"Why didn't brother continue before?"

Sakakibara explained helplessly: "Guitars are expensive, and there was no money to buy them at that time. Life was much better when I started junior high school, but because I kept studying and preparing for the Mingde private school, I forgot about it."

Although Tianhai Jiuliuli understands what he said, it is still difficult to empathize with the experience of "no money".

*
Generally speaking, everyone in RUNTO today has a musical foundation.

Needless to say, Tianhai Jiuliuli and Tianhai Qimingyue.

The eldest lady of the deep boudoir, she never knew the music theory she had learned for many years since she was a child.

Jiu Liuli is also a genius in classical piano, the level that can hold independent concerts.

At their level, they only need to transfer years of music theory to different instruments, and the rest only needs to be practiced diligently.

Don't know if they should be said to be musical geniuses?

After seeing that the two of them were able to play a rhythm or song decently within a few days of being in contact with complex instruments such as electronic pianos and drum sets, Sakakibara's heart was almost cold.

No wonder they are said to be geniuses, they are really geniuses who can learn everything quickly.

If it weren't for his previous foundation and the knowledge of music theory he learned when he was learning the piano, he really wouldn't be able to catch up with the two of them by rocket.

Although Ah Ling is a slob, she is really not slow to learn, just lazy.

"Ahem, now that we've drunk all the milk tea, let's try playing in an ensemble and find out how it feels."

"Question!" Sakakihara Suzu raised her hand.

Sakakihara looked over and said with a smile: "Good question! Please tell me."

Sakakibara Ling lay on the back of the chair, pinching the empty milk tea pot with her hands, "What song are we going to play together? Little Star? I'm not good at guitar yet."

"NONONO, there is no such simple thing as an ensemble of little stars. I have already decided on the practice song, the classic song "Wake Me up When September Ends" by the Green Day band."

"This one." Sakakibara Ling remembered that her brother played and sang in front of her before, "Is there a score?"

"Yes, I printed it out yesterday." Sakakihara 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 part of the drum set she was in charge of, and pinched her beautiful chin to take a closer look.

"Let's get familiar with it now. After noon, let's try to sing together. A Ling, you have to learn to sing."

"Let me sing this?" Sakakibara Suzu looked at the guitar score in her hand, "Is that okay? I haven't learned a few chords yet."

"Knowing that your guitar is still not good enough, you can only sing the vocal part first, and don't worry about the guitar in your hand."

"Oh."

"Lyric songs, or English, can you not?" Sakakihara asked again.

"Look at me!"

"Well, as long as you are confident, let's get familiar with each other. We will officially start in the afternoon. Zhixue?"

Tianhai Zhixue raised his head blankly.

"Can you? Let's try to play together in the afternoon." Sakakihara asked.

Tianhai Zhixue nodded lightly.

"Okay, let's get started."

*
Although this Green Day song is indeed very suitable for novice bands to use.

However, a few people are only familiar with musical instruments to the stage where they can use them. Under all kinds of difficulties, the time has already come to five o'clock in the afternoon.

I also ordered takeaway for lunch, so I ate the boxed meal and did nothing.

After practicing like this for a day, Jiuliuli, Zhixue, and Ah Ling didn't have any major problems with their electronic piano, lead guitar, and lead vocals.

The main problem lies in Tianhai Qimingyue's drum kit and Sakakihara Raku's bass.

The two are not too familiar with musical instruments.

"The tempo changes quickly and the speed requirements are high. I'll try again."

Qi Mingyue is saying that the main difficulty of the drum kit in this song lies in the speed of the beat.

In fact, after practicing two or three times, she already clearly knew where her shortcomings were. These times were just that she was getting familiar with how to use the drum kit more smoothly.

Sakakibara's bass has to maintain a sense of rhythm when playing, and emphasize each beat in the song, as well as add different timbres to the song.He also knows.

Music is like this, knowing where it is wrong, but it is still difficult to control where it went wrong.

"Let's practice again."

When Sakakibara suggested this, Tianhai Qimingyue didn't say much at all, but just picked up two drumsticks and continued to find the rhythm.

Her slender hands hold the drumsticks, from ride to cymbal, and then quickly back to the ride, and her legs under the skirt are also stepping on the pedals rhythmically.She wears headphones, her hands dance lightly like butterflies in the night, and her unwavering expression makes every beat of her clearly recognizable.

At first glance, it really looks like that.

Sakakihara often observed her, and sometimes couldn't help pointing her legs to catch up with a rhythm she repeated many times.

Practice yourself, ensemble, practice yourself, repeat try ensemble.

Under such circumstances, the time came to eight o'clock in the evening.

It was already dark.

A few people haven't finished their meal yet, and they are still perfecting the part they are responsible for.

However, it has indeed reached a level that can be played in an ensemble.

Everyone is more or less no, it should be said that the exhaustion is written on the face.

In order to cheer up everyone's spirits, Sakakihara Raku stood up enthusiastically with a bass on her shoulders, and clapped her hands to signal everyone to look at her:
"Okay! No matter how you practiced today, try to complete a part of the ensemble, don't stop if you make mistakes, just finish the whole ensemble. Ah Ling!"

"Oh!"

"Nine colored glass?" Sakakihara Raku looked at the girl wearing Audio-Technica monitor earphones behind the keyboard again.

"can."

"Qi Mingyue?"

Tianhai Qimingyue, who had the earphones hanging around her neck, nodded slightly.

"What about Zhixue?"

With an electric guitar hanging on her face, Tianhai Zhixue swept a row of notes lightly to express her response.The tail of the electric guitar is also quite harsh.

"OK, then everything is ready, right?"

Although this band has just been established, although this band does not seem to be the case.

But, is it the first step?
Raku Sakakihara took a breath of cold air, picked up the bass in her hand, looked at the brightly lit Tokyo night sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, and after a few seconds of silence, nodded to everyone, indicating that the ensemble could officially start.

*
shit.

Apart from shit, Sakakihara no longer knows what to use to describe today's results.

In the warm-toned self-service barbecue shop, Sakakihara took a bottle of juice in one gulp.

"Ah, ah, ah," Sakakibara Rin patted his elder 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 mock me?"

"How could I? I'm just trying to comfort you, okay?"

Sakakibara Ling said, glanced at Tianhai Jiururi who was running to get the barbecue ingredients, deliberately moved closer to Sakakihara Raku, and bumped his body twice, "We have only been playing for less than a week, and we can't play a song together. Isn't the song a very normal thing?"

"That's what I said, but everyone is not a complete novice, only Qi Mingyue's drum kit needs to be learned from scratch."

"I haven't learned the guitar from scratch!" Sakakibara Ling said, and poured another glass of fruit juice for Sakakihara Raku.

"It's not bad for you to only sing." Sakakihara Raku glanced strangely at the action of her sister pouring juice for herself.

"What's wrong? This look at me."

Hey?

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 disobedient at all, okay?

"Nothing to show courteousness."

"What does it mean to be courteous for nothing? You are my brother. Can I pour you juice?"

"There's nothing wrong with pouring juice. But you pour it." Sakakihara picked up the cup and looked at the liquid inside through the chandelier of the barbecue shop. "Is there poison in it?"

Sakakibara bell became angry, "Hmph, you are stereotyped! What poison is it? It's too much to say, I want to poison you, and I have already knocked you out so many times."

"Then what is this?" Sakakihara brought the juice in front of her.

"It's my sympathy for your hard day."

"A Ling, you have changed."

"How can I have!"

"You have really changed."

"No is no."

Sakakihara Le couldn't guess why Ah Ling poured juice for herself so graciously, but she actually learned to serve her brother, which is simply unprecedented.

"Have you eaten yet?" Asked Tianhai Zhixue who was sitting opposite, her hand was already on her stomach.

Sakakihara said: "It's coming soon, the two of them will come back with good things right away."

"Brother, why don't you let Zhixue get things by herself? It's her first time in the cafeteria."

Indeed, it was the first time Tianhai Zhixue came to the cafeteria.

When she knew that everything in the restaurant could be eaten casually, her eyes lit up.

As for why she didn't let her take it by herself.
Sakakihara was afraid that she would grab a certain kind of food and squeeze it hard, and she was full before the group of them had a meal.

Tianhai Jiuliuli and Tianhai Qimingyue returned to their seats with the ingredients.

Sakakihara Raku and Sakakihara Suzu sat aside.

Tianhai Zhixue separates the two sisters Tianhai in the middle.

The three Tianhais sitting across from each other did not communicate with each other, Yaque was silent.

"Brother, I'll grill meat for you." Sakakibara Suzu became enthusiastic, grabbed the meat slices and threw them on the iron plate.

"A Ling."

"What's wrong?"

"I think it's weird that you're not you anymore."

"What! You don't appreciate your kindness." Sakakibara Ling clenched her fists in front of him.

"Let me bake it for you."

"It's okay, I'll come and I will."

Tianhai Qimingyue: "It's not that my brother doesn't want my sister to bake for her, it's that your bake is not delicious."

". Excessive!"

"The dishes made by Ling are really not delicious." Tianhai Zhixue ate the small cake that Jiu Liuli helped her.

"Ahhh," Sakakibara Suzu wanted to scratch her head, "Why did you even say that to Zhixue?"

"Because it's true."

Sakakihara remembers that A Ling tried to cook a tomato scrambled egg for Zhixue. She said that she was going to try to learn how to cook again, and asked Zhixue to help her as a test sample.

The result. It tasted even weirder than the dishes made by Jiuliuli at the beginning.

"Okay, okay, I know you are kind, I'll do the barbecue."

"Hee hee, brother is still good to me!"

After a while, the meat was roasted, and Sakaki Hara directly put a piece of it in A Ling's bowl.

She was quite happy, so happy that no one knew why she was so proud.

"I always feel that your roasted meat is a level better than other people's roasted meat."

"Really? Then eat more, use more snacks when practicing, and don't lose the beat all the time."

"...That's because Qi Mingyue's drum didn't beat well."

Tianhai Qimingyue raised her eyes: "I followed my rhythm and made no mistakes."

"If it's not wrong, then it's not cooperating well!" Sakakihara Ling imitated Qi Mingyue's arms crossed, with provocative eyes.

Tianhai Qimingyue's hostility towards Sister Sauce is no surprise, "It's as if you have cooperated with me, Sister Sauce."

Seeing that the two of them were inexplicably fighting again, Sakakihara Raku stopped directly:

"Okay, don't quarrel after eating a barbecue."

"Brother, this is ready." Tianhai Jiuliuli gave Sakakihara Le a piece of pork ribs that he liked.

"Huh? Well, thank you, Liuli."

With Tianhai Jiuliuli intervening so suddenly, Sakakihara Ling and Tianhai Qimingyue, who were still fighting each other, instantly shifted their focus.

"My sister really knows how to pick the time to pick the meat."

"That's right." Sakakihara Rin nodded repeatedly.

Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled and said, "It just so happened that the ribs were baked."

After speaking, he put another chopstick in Sakakihara Raku's bowl.

"."

"."

Both of them focused their eyes on Jiu Liuli's movements.

Even Sakakihara was silent.

It was obviously just two pieces of meat, why did I feel like they were about to fight?
Tianhai Jiuliuli said casually while sandwiching the meat, "Don't look at me like that, brother will help you roast the meat, and I'll do it for brother."

Sakakibara bell curled her lips: "C'mon, be courteous."

Tianhai Qimingyue's tone was light: "Small favors and small benefits."

Sakakihara Raku: "."

Liuli, are you setting me on fire?
His foot under the table was stepped on twice.

What kind of plane are you doing? Didn't you say that you came out to have a meal when you were tired from practice?
"Yuki." Sakakihara Raku looked at the quietest Koyuki directly opposite.

"Ok?"

"Do you have anything you want to eat, I'll bake it for you."

"that."

"Beef tongue, right?" Sakakihara immediately put two pieces of beef tongue on the iron rack, and put them into her bowl immediately after roasting, so as not to give anyone a chance to snatch it.

"What do you mean by Smelly Lele?"

Although this question was asked by Sakakibara Bell, it also represented the eyes of the two Tianhai sisters.

"Ah, it's not interesting." Sakakihara smiled and pretended to be stupid, "I just think it's not good to have a quiet meal?"

"."

Not to mention, the remaining trick really worked, and everyone stopped bickering.

Seeing that there were no more conflicts, Sakakihara became enthusiastic and took the initiative to assume the role of Minister of Barbecue, enlivening the atmosphere.

"Come here, if you want to eat, you don't have to pick it up for me. If you want to eat, just eat it yourself."

In fact, without the fights, the atmosphere is much better.

The fireworks in the barbecue restaurant also became more intense as time went by.

Sakakihara took the initiative to use today's practice to open up the conversation, and everyone began to express their thoughts.

"There is no doubt that today's ensemble failed." Tianhai Qimingyue put down her chopsticks and said.

"I'm so full. Then what do you think should I do?" Sakakibara Ling rubbed her stomach, yelling that she couldn't eat, and stuffed meat into her mouth.

"practise."

"Tch, I thought you had some great ideas!"

Tianhai Jiuliuli also put down her chopsticks and said, "Actually, we are a band that formed without knowing anything about rock and roll. We don't have any sense of direction except knowing that we should practice the songs."

After hearing this, Sakakihara Raku understood this, and the abbreviations are all laymen.

"We don't know where the band is going to sing, we don't know what short-term goals to accomplish, and we don't know how to effectively run in."

Sakakihara Suzu seemed to understand, "You mean, we are all outsiders? We need to find someone inside the circle to help guide us?"

Tianhai Jiuliuli nodded.

Sakakihara Suzu continued to ask: "Then do you all know anyone who plays rock and band?"

All shook their heads.

"The people I know are all in the classical music circle," Tianhai Jiuliuli squeezed his chin and thought for a while, "They are either violins or orchestras, and they should know pop music, but we have no reason to ask each other to come to us for a long time The problem."

"Isn't it okay to ask for money?"

Sakaki Hara directly threw a knife at her sister's head: "Forgot what we said? Don't use the power of the Tianhai family."

"It's not like that," Sakakibara Suzu said aggrievedly, "It's just raising money to hire a consultant!"

"Rent a music room, buy a musical instrument, how much money do you have left? Do you know how much your guitar costs? How much does my bass cost? How much does a Jiuliu electronic organ cost? There are also a pair of monitors, speakers, cables , microphones and so on, not to mention Qi Mingyue’s drum kit.”

"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?"

Sakakihara hit her on the head again with a knife: "It was agreed that our band should be self-reliant in addition to using some initial funds? And people are not a company, not a bank, so there is no reason to take it casually."

"Still self-reliant. It's only been a few days, and I'm going to be so poor that I have no money!"

"Then why don't you use your salary to help everyone?"

"What? I don't want it. I keep it for my future marriage."

Tianhai Qimingyue suddenly interrupted: "At present, our level still needs to be advanced by consultants. We can't even play a song well. Even if we call a consultant, it's just a shame, but we can indeed put the consultant's affairs in advance .How much money do we have left in the band now?"

"If each person contributes about 15 yen, there will be more than 10 yen left."

There is no doubt that as long as they borrow money from Tian Hai's family, the team's funds may be so strong that no team in the whole country can match them.

But what's the point?
Is this called a band?
We all know that without pressure, there will be a lack of motivation.

If you don't impose some restrictions on yourself, how can you let the band officially enter the Budokan in a state where they can eat and drink for the rest of their lives?
So everyone decided not to borrow the help of the Tianhai family.

Although it is impossible for everyone to lack the pocket money of Tianhai Jiuliuli and Tianhai Qimingyue.

"There are so few, how can we invite people? How about Qi Mingyue, you can invest in us a little more?"

Tianhai Qimingyue snorted softly: "The agreement is fair and just? Five people are equal? ​​I voted 50, can you add another 50?"

"If it doesn't work, I've already saved half of it," Sakakibaru mumbled, "I'm still getting married."

Discussions around team funding didn't lead to much discussion, but everyone agreed on the same idea.

That is - the band does need a consultant.

"I really don't know you?"

"No."

Everyone said no.

"Where is Zhixue? Ah, forget it." Sakakihara Le just wanted to ask Zhixue, who plays rock and roll, if she knows her peers, when she suddenly remembered her identity as a squat at home.

How is this possible!
"Wait a minute!" Sakakibara Suzu stood up suddenly, she remembered something, "I seem to know someone!"

"Who?"

"senior!"

(End of this chapter)