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

Chapter 242 In Christmas Eve, the first street flash mob (end)
Neon lights in the night sky, Christmas trees decorated with LED light strips, and countless red and green screen advertisements played on the square.

The cold wind blows through the empty pedestrian street in front of Kabukicho in Shinjuku. It is obviously cold air that can condense the air, but the crowds 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 pianos, stands, benches, microphones, stereos... the same objects were moved down from above.

"By the way, we don't seem to have permission to perform on the street?" Raku Sakakihara jumped out of the car with a snare drum in his arms, and turned to ask Senior Yoshihara who was standing beside him eating a lollipop.

Yoshihara Nao was originally looking at the guitar singer who was playing and singing alone on the opposite street. After hearing Sakakihara Raku's words, she replied casually:

"No."

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

"Police?" Nanao Yoshihara seemed completely indifferent, "Sakakihara-kun, what is the spirit of rock and roll?"

Sakakibara has read the rock and roll chronicles, so it is quite clear. After setting up the snare drum according to Qi Mingyue's request, she asked back, "Freedom?"

"Yes, that's right! Freedom! Permission to perform on the street is oppression! A cage! It's a bondage for people like us!" Nanao Yoshihara's eyes reflected the thin figure of the guitar singer opposite, with one hand on his hip, as if missing something , "Seeing the policeman holding the instrument and running away is the essence of playing a band."

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Bohemian rock band, huh?

Judging from the nostalgic eyes of the seniors, it is estimated that he did this a lot in the past.

"What is that person singing?" Sakakihara Rin noticed the guitarist opposite who no one was watching.

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

Sakakihara Raku also looked over, and he felt a little familiar.Frowning and listening carefully, he found that he really knew it, "Broad sea and sky, it's still in Japanese."

"It's quite emotional." Sakakibara Suzu kept her gaze on the guitar singer's back.

On a street full of people, there is only one audience who is willing to stay in front of him.

Sakakihara looked at it for a while, "I guess I'm homesick."

"How did brother know? Did you hear it?"

Sakakihara Raku put a knife on Sakakihara Ling's small head, "Didn't you hear that the language was changed in the middle of the singing? It was Cantonese, and the female audience was still singing with him, tears were about to come out."

Nao Yoshihara closed his eyes, supported his back with one hand and said: "As a singer, even if there is only one person who is willing to stay as an audience, that is already lucky enough."

After saying this, she immediately clapped her hands again, urging the people around her: "Okay, don't look at the opposite side, everyone, speed up, what you want in flash is to be fast, and start immediately after the arrangement is complete! GOGOGO !"

As soon as Senior Yoshihara urged from behind, everyone's idleness suddenly disappeared.

Everyone knows what's going to happen next.

Their little band, which has only been established for a week, is about to usher in its first performance on Christmas Eve.

One by one, the musical instruments were moved down at a high speed.

"Are you nervous?" Tianhai Qimingyue said sarcastically.

Sakakibara laughed directly and said, "Nervous? You know I have a thick skin, even if I call myself an idiot on the street, it's fine. Qi Mingyue, you seem quite calm? You are obviously a novice with drums."

Although it is not that nervous, it would be a lie to say that there is no feeling in my heart.

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

As soon as Qi Mingyue answered, Sakakihara found that her band was really outrageous.

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

Ah Ling is an idol voice actress, she has been behind the scenes before, and recently she has had the experience of singing in front of the stage, so she probably won't be too nervous.It's just that she refuses to be recognized by fans.

Zhixue is not nervous at all.

For a long time, only you are the most annoying person?

Sakakibara thought for a long time, feeling a little empty in his heart.

"Le Jun is actually the most powerful of us."

"Huh? Why did you say that suddenly?" Sakakibara looked at Tianhai Jiuliuli suspiciously.

"Because this band is not only able to get together because of my brother? Without my brother, it is impossible for us to get together here at this time. It has nothing to do with strength. A team has the soul that can form it. the most important."

"No way, everyone agrees to join because they have their own goals."

That's what I said, but Tianhai Jiuliuli's words of encouragement still cheered up Sakakihara a lot, and made him show a serious attitude to face this performance seriously.

He is a bass player, the presence of a bass player in a band is also very important!

"Thank you."

"Brother, brother, I'm actually very nervous too." Seeing Tianhai Jiuliuli talking to her elder brother, Sakakihara Ling immediately stood between the two of them, smiled and squeezed Jiuliuli's place away, and smiled directly at Sakakibara speak.

"You are alive and kicking, why are you nervous?"

"It's true, what if my fans recognize me? They might ask me why I suddenly joined a band."

"I'll believe you if you meet fans in Akihabara. This is Shinjuku, Kabukicho."

"Snapped."

Nao Yoshihara clasped his palms together, and smiled kindly: "OKOK, this is the end of the chat, are you all ready, then... get ready to start!"

Chatting is just a fragment, and it takes less than 20 minutes from the time the van stops to all the facilities are ready.

This speed is a street flash mob in the true sense.

Several people were seated according to the predetermined positions.

Sakakibara Suzu and Amami Yuki are the lead singers, and the guitarist occupies the front C position.

Jiu Liuli's keyboard is near the middle, Qi Mingyue's drum kit is near the right, and only the bass player, Sakakihara Le, is placed in the most inconspicuous lower left corner, with a Christmas tree blocking it.

If passers-by don't look carefully, they may think that this team is a four-piece girl band.

After everyone was in their positions, Nanao Yoshihara stood at the front of the crowd. Under the snow on Christmas Eve and in front of countless pedestrians coming and going in front of Kabukicho, she shouted to the five people:

"Okay! Everyone in RUNTO! Impromptu performance, ready to start!"

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

Because this band is full of young girls, and they are all beautiful girls who can win the beauty pageant at random, so some couples on the street, passers-by drinking canned beer, uncles shopping on Christmas Eve, young people, There was some curiosity ahead of time.

A girl band.

What music to play?
With this curiosity, some people have already started to stay in front of the crowd, and more and more people gathered together.

The noise surging on the street, countless dazzling advertisements falling on the heads of the stranded crowd.Everything is decorated colorfully by the snow on Christmas Eve, and more and more people are watching, waiting silently, and they can't help clasping their fingers tightly to the neck of the piano.

Only then did Sakakihara realize that being nervous is really inevitable.

"call"

He closed his eyes, and lightly exhaled a mouthful of white mist from his lips to expel the stagnant air in his lungs, so as to calm down his mood at the moment.

He pressed the chords with his left hand, trying to remember the rhythm at the beginning of the exercise.

silence.

The silence of waiting.

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

"call"

Clearly audible breathing.

The clear and melodious guitar bass began to overflow, Tianhai Zhixue's fingers just repeated simple plucking, and the playing without any skills at all was surprisingly intoxicating.

The light and simple guitar repeated three paragraphs, and the soft and lyrical singing voice began to flow from Sakakibara Rin's mouth.

“Summer has come and passed
“The innocent can never last”

It was obviously just a simple guitar accompaniment, and there was obviously no exciting, emotional, and soul-stirring rhythm. The moment Sakakihara Raku heard Ah Ling's clear voice from behind, she couldn't help shivering behind her back.

Enthusiastic audience also cheered for Suzu Sakakibara and applauded.

Tianhai Qimingyue was expressionless, with both hands jumping back and forth with drumsticks in her slender hands, and the well-timed insertion of rhythm and blues drums aroused the burrs on her back.After the three-person ensemble played half a tour, Jiu Liuli's piano began to embellish the harmony brightly, like stars in the night sky leading everyone to accompany Ah Ling's singing.

At this moment, Sakakihara Raku's heart was affected by an indescribable force, and her fingers couldn't help trembling with her voice!

Very good, keep it up, just keep this rhythm.

Sakakibara couldn't help sighing in his heart. In a trance, he seemed to have seen a gleam of light in the eyes of the passers-by in front of him.They were moved by Sakakibara Suzu's ethereal voice.

"wake me up when september ends"

Sakakibara Rin's singing continued, and Amami Yuki's guitar also continued to repeat the clear and clear guitar.

The melody of the song is light and fast, but the lyrics are full of sadness and heavy atmosphere.

With the rush of music, the drums of Tianhai Qimingyue became enthusiastic and exciting.What followed was the sudden explosion of Tianhai Zhixue's electric guitar, and everyone's hair stood on end in an instant, and the electric guitar swaying and wandering like electric light pierced everyone's brains.

The rhythm exploded suddenly, tearing everything apart, only Sakakibara Rin's voice maintained the remaining tranquility.

With his eyes closed, Sakakihara has already had countless burrs on his back. He tried his best to support the structure of the whole song with his body following the four-point rhythm played by the drums, and tried his best to squeeze the harmony into the drums like a game of hacking and knives between the musical notes.

To be watched, to be expected, to be appreciated. The brain seems to be intoxicated by the touch of musical instruments, as if it is scorched by heat, and it is like being torn apart by the drums of Qimingyue, and completely melted In the music played by the companions, in the colorful neon lights that illuminate everything
What a great feeling!

The blood in the whole body has turned into a fire to resist the cold. Sakakibara is clasping the metal string with his left hand, constantly matching the drumbeat of Tianhai Qimingyue, which makes people nod and shake his legs, and the Tianhaizhixue electric guitar, which is like a silver snake. Duan, and then follow their rhythm, step by step, step by step.

“Summer has come and passed”

Sakakibara Rin's singing voice became clearer and clearer as the rhythm became more intense.

Can't hold back at all.Swallowing the dry saliva hard, trying everything to squeeze the rhythm into the rhythm, the brain kept distinguishing the drum beats engraved by Tianhai Qimingyue, in the crazy rising rhythm of Tianhai Zhixue's expressionless face, Sakakihara felt that he had lost himself, Only a pair of fingers remained on the tightly coiled metal strings.

Dazzling lights, some crowd singing along with Suzu Sakakibara
so comfortable
Tianhai Qimingyue used her trembling body to drive the drum set to beat out the rhythm.Jiu Liuli used the piano to influence the lightness and clarity of the whole song.Backlit silhouettes of Suzu Sakakibara facing the microphone and Yuki Amami holding an electric guitar.

Sakakihara Raku has already observed.

He can see everyone, and he can hear everyone's struggle to put together in this song.

Isn't this all right?

While Sakakihara Raku used the bass to increase the tension in the middle part of the song, Jae already laughed heartily.

It turns out that's what it's like to be in a band, what it's really like to play together in front of an audience.

Even if not very mature, even if not perfect.

But it's enough to see everyone's hard work
"Thanks for your hard work!"

"not bad!"

"Great! One more song!"

"Yes! One more song!"

The music stopped, but the voices of the passers-by stopped. They watched the small five-member band in front of them, and applauded generously with both hands.Applause, whistle, and silent shouts, all kinds of people cast their gazes over.

The dazzling neon lights of Kabukicho opposite, and the applause and trance of the audience with their arms raised, even made Raku Sakakihara not dazzled for a while.

Is this the end?
Is it 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 Sakakihara Raku had sunk in a little bit, and there was still a little heat left in her body.

He wanted to keep playing.

One song is not enough.

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

She gave it a look.

It means: "If you have practiced other songs, you can do whatever you want."

But this is purely a joke.

They didn't know how long they practiced this relatively simple song alone, and they didn't know how many times they practiced it together.

"No more." Sakaki Hara could only smile bitterly at the senior.

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

"But senior, this." Sakakihara pointed to passers-by who still wanted to hear.

"Then you can't repeat a song too many times. Ah, it seems, you don't need to continue."

As soon as Senior Yoshihara finished speaking, a group of blue-clothed policemen wearing hats and vests inserted into the crowd.

The attitude of the police is very unfriendly, and the topics around are "Do you have permission?" and "Do you know that this will cause trouble for everyone?"

But because it was Christmas Eve, the police didn't want to make it too difficult for them, just let them pack up and leave.

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

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

Most are young men.

Sakakihara guessed that they didn't want to listen to the song, but wanted to hook up with the beautiful sister.

Of course, the reality is that they have nothing in this small band now, and their level is only good enough to play this song well.

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Snapped!
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.

"Well." She scratched her cheek with her fingers, "what should I say?"

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"By the way, you, Sakakihara Raku, play the bass too badly. The bass in this song is used to maintain the overall rhythm. Look at what you are doing? And you, Qi Mingyue, the drums are beating so fast, Jiu Liuli Can He Ling keep up?
"There are also Jiu Liuli and Ling, what are you doing? The band is a group, a group!! Since Qi Mingyue's drums are playing faster, you should try to keep up! In that case, the BPM (rhythm speed) of the song will only increase. , instead of the whole rotten mess like just now!
"Not to mention Zhixue, she played the whole process on her own without any cooperation."

Nao Yoshihara said impatiently to everyone, and then nodded to himself, "Yes, that's right, you didn't cooperate at all."

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In silence, Sakakibara Suzu raised her hand: "That...senior."

"Huh? Say."

"Senior didn't say that because he wanted to put pressure on us?"

"No."

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Well, Sakakihara is sure, A Ling is right.

"Cough cough," Nao Yoshihara also knew that he couldn't hold back, coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, "Well, you did really well just now, but it was only limited to the rookie team, that's all. What I said just now was wrong Although you are not that serious, you have some problems more or less.

"And the atmosphere on the street is still a bit less, how can there be more fun in the underground stage?"

"Oh," Nanao Yoshihara sighed suddenly again, "I originally planned to use this flash mob event to teach you a lesson, to let you know that the band is not a child's play event, and you can't come in with the mentality that you can just give up halfway. But Who knew that you guys have such a good musical background, and it took only one week to set up! You can play music that the audience can listen to comfortably!"

"Then senior just wanted to show us off through the flash mob?" Sakakibara asked while hugging Bass.

"That's it, but you performed so well that I don't even know how to train you to show the role of my guidance."

"However," Nanao Yoshihara changed the subject again, "If you really want to perform on the lower stage, I can help arrange the arrangement, but that stage... your level cannot be what you can live now, and the songs are also You have to prepare at least five or six poems."

"Understood, practice hard, right?"

"Okay, okay, today Christmas Eve, not to mention the presents, I stood outside with you for an hour. I hope you can really appreciate something inside this ensemble. Let's go, pack up and go back."

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Just like that, after several people followed the senior 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.

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

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

That sense of fulfillment, the feeling of trying to make progress.
It was so fulfilling.

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

They also looked very happy after it was over.

At least, the smile on Jiu Liuli's face was an expression that Sakakihara Raku had never seen after 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.

—— Sakakibara looked up at the misty ceiling of the bathroom, thinking so firmly in her heart.

Yes, the little band has to be led onwards.

(End of this chapter)