Momoi Taro wants to form a "don" brother duo, but it's a music anime.

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A powerful burst of music began—

Ai Yin nervously followed the rhythm of the drum, strumming the strings.

[There were some changes to the paragraphs just now... If I do it this way, the rhythm seems to improve... But I shouldn't mess around with it now.]

[Hailing and Miaomeng caught up quickly... But Xiaole Nai is really amazing, she can come up with a passage that matches the song so well...]

[Taro seems to have added a short keyboard sound... Meow Dream caught the beat!?]

Ai looked at Miaomeng with concern, but saw that Miaomeng quickly regained her composure and focused on her guitar.

The song ended—

"Nyan Dream..." Taro began, as if to say something.

Miao Mengqin raised two drumsticks, her hands trembling slightly, and said, "Hey, I beat the beat too fast. I'll be more careful next time."

“Your physical fitness still needs to be improved—” Taro said, then looked around at everyone present: “I can confirm from the practice just now! Your level is high enough to participate in the joint live performance.”

Everyone seemed quite happy, but Aine looked a little sullen. Taro drew a few more lines on the sheet music with his fingers and said, "Anyway, let's practice individually like this for now."

"Ugh~~ Do I have to change it again?" Aine complained a little, feeling dissatisfied. Getting used to it again meant more practice, and she almost made a mistake on the part she was revising during the second practice session.

"This is necessary for forging individuality." Taro took out his phone, tapped a few times, and then announced: "One last thing, I've prepared choreography for the theme song of the Dong Brothers group and sent you the dance diagram. I won't force you to practice it. If you're willing, you can record a new MV with me anytime."

"I have to do it!" The cat awkwardly picked up her phone and looked at the picture Taro had sent in a private message: "Interesting."

"That concludes today's practice session. Hailing, if you have some free time later, could you teach Rakuna how to use a mobile phone? I remember you're both from Hanasakikawa, right? I'll leave it to you."

"Ah, no problem. Do you need classmates from the junior high school? Hanasaki River has a pretty good amount of academic freedom." Hai Ling readily agreed, since it wasn't much trouble.

"Then I'll have to leave it to Hai Zi~" Miao Meng said with a smile, "I tried teaching him for a long time but couldn't get it to work~"

"Alright, everyone remember to report your schedules to Hailing from now on. That's all! Dismissed." Taro announced, and Lena was the first to respond. She put her guitar back in its case and said, "Band, is it over? Bye-bye."

Just as Le Nai was about to slip away, Hai Ling grabbed her arm and said calmly, "Classmate, I'm sorry, but you have to learn how to use a cell phone from me and report your whereabouts to me."

The cat tilted its head and said, "Matcha Parfait."

"Just put it on my tab," Taro said from the side. "I have other things to do after this, so I'll be going now."

"Wait! Taro!" Hina waved her hand and asked, "My sister wants to see your live performance, and of course, I want to go too. What about the tickets...?"

"Just ask Ms. Rinrinko. Anyway, I'm leaving now." Taro waved and left.

"Well... Taro has always been such a proactive guy. Well then, I'll be going now. Goodbye, everyone." Hina waved to everyone: "Mutsu, Metath, see you tonight."

"Okay, see you tonight..." Xiao Mu nodded, packed her things, and left.

"Well then, I'm off too. I'm a bit tired today." Meow Dream greeted Aine: "Aiko, see you tomorrow."

"Yes~ See you tomorrow!" Aine smiled and waved as she saw Nyanmeng out of the practice room. The practice room, which had just felt crowded, suddenly became empty.

"Ah... I'm all alone now." Aine looked a little downcast.

"But Taro seemed to want to say something back then," Aine thought to herself as she put her guitar back in her bag. "Why didn't he just say it...?"

"Although I would definitely get the answer if I asked Taro directly, since Taro isn't telling me, he probably thinks it's unnecessary. Oh well... let's leave it at that."

"But I always feel that Hina-senpai and Taro's relationship is more than just ordinary... that level of understanding." She muttered to herself, then couldn't help but think of what her mother had said yesterday, and her pretty face blushed.

Ai Yin quickly shook her head. Now wasn't the time to think about these things; she needed to take care of the band's affairs first. So she took out her phone.

She first sent her recent schedule to Hailing. Although it was a schedule, it wasn't a big deal. As a student, she didn't need to work, so it was very simple. Then she looked at the two files that Taro had sent her.

The first one was the song from last time, and then there was his own dance... Ah, it feels a bit strange. Next was the dance diagram he sent to himself, which was a very large compressed file. Ai Yin opened it and took a look. There were so many pages of sketches of himself dancing. That's amazing!

Although she knew Taro was outrageous, the extent of his absurdity once again exceeded her imagination...

"Ugh... but it looks so embarrassing... forget it." She glanced at it and decided to give up on learning the dance.

Finally, she checked the messages on her phone, thought for a moment, and sent a message to the teacher Taro had found for her.

"Anno: Kasumi-senpai, it seems you're not scheduled to work today. I have a karaoke coupon that's about to expire, want to go together?"

It took a while for Kasumi-senpai to reply to me.

"Kasumi-senpai (note): Okay! But we're practicing with the band right now, how about 5 PM?"

Anno: Okay!

Kasumi-senpai: Is it the one in the shopping mall?

Anno: Yes!

Kasumi-senpai: I understand, I'll be there on time!

Anno: Okay! Speaking of which, there's a rumor that Kasumi-senpai often practices in the warehouse, is that true?

"Kasumi-senpai: It doesn't happen that often!"

Afterwards, Aine chatted with Kasumi for a while, and then ended the call because she didn't want to disturb Kasumi-senpai's practice.

She looked at the empty practice room, sighed again, then glanced at the time on her phone and said softly, "Three o'clock... I still have to wait an hour. Anyway, RiNG isn't far from the shopping mall, so I'll practice for a while first."

The girl is practicing...

Meanwhile, in Meteor Hall's warehouse—

The group, who were resting, watched as Kasumi frantically played on her phone, then put it down.

Bess asked curiously, "Kasumi, who are you chatting with?"

"Yes!" Kasumi nodded excitedly and said with a smile, "It's Aine, the guitarist of the Taro Band! She's so cute!"

"Oh, speaking of Taro," keyboardist Arisa Ichigaya yawned, "that guy is so infuriating! He formed a band and didn't even tell us!"

"I already said that," guitarist Tae Hanazono retorted to Arisa's words.

"Huh? Where!?" Arisa looked at Tae in confusion. Tae picked up her phone, showed her WeChat Moments, and pointed at the phone, saying, "See, didn't we agree on this?"

Arisa looked closely and saw a post on Taro's WeChat Moments: "Today my band, the Dong Brothers, was formed. Link: —"

"Ha! This is way too perfunctory!" Arisa still looked very dissatisfied.

"Is that so?" Tae placed her hand on her chin and thought, "To me, as long as there's a place where I can see it, that's enough to inform me, right?"

"Well, well~" Drummer Saaya Yamabuki skillfully stepped in to smooth things over: "After all, our band was probably the first to know that Taro had formed a band, right?"

"That was just something you happened to see, Aya!" Arisa retorted loudly, then crossed her arms and said, "Well, whatever that guy does has nothing to do with me. And then? What did that guitarist say?"

"Hmm—" Kasumi pondered for a moment, then said, "Taro asked me to teach this kid guitar before—he often comes to ask me for lessons when I'm not busy with my schedule. Saya saw that, right?"

"Hmm, what a super polite junior!" Shaya recalled how Aine would always be there beside her when she came out to ask for advice, looking at guitar textbooks while waiting for Kasumi to have some free time. She nodded in agreement.

"After get off work, she would invite me to karaoke and stuff, and she really sang really well!" Kasumi said excitedly, "She had a really 'kirakiradokidoki' feel to her voice! She even often asked me for singing tips!"

"They invited me to karaoke this time too! We've arranged to meet at five! Oh right! It seems like it's been a while since anyone's been to karaoke!" Kasumi exclaimed excitedly, as if remembering something, "How about we all go together?"

"I'm sorry... Kasumi," Rimi whispered an apology to Kasumi, "My older sister is coming back today, so..."

"Saya—" Kasumi looked at Saya with a bitter expression. Saya laughed twice and said, "Kasumi, I promised my family I would go back to help out today, so I'm sorry."

"By the way, I'm going to work today." Tae crossed her arms, nodded, and spoke first, looking quite pleased with herself.

"A~r~s~~" Kasumi hugged Arisa with a sob in her voice, acting cute.

"Wow! Kasumi! Don't hug me like that!" Arisa tried to push Kasumi away from her. "I know, I know! I'll do it! Let go of me now!!"

"Yay!" Kasumi let go of Arisa's arms after hearing her agree. "It's decided then, we'll go together in a bit."

"This guy! He's infuriating!" Arisa felt her fist harden.

Saya stepped in to smooth things over once again, saying, "Well... let's continue practicing!"

This is the ordinary daily life of Po61's wife doctor, Emu Dam, dead, si, ppin'Party—

Chapter 43, Awakening

Inside Yoshinoya, the bright white lights dispelled the loneliness brought by the darkness of the night.

Renna sat down in the shop, next to an empty medium-sized beef rice bowl, and she was carefully scanning her study reference book.

Her phone was placed not far from the table, and she would glance at it every now and then to see if the screen lit up because of someone's message.

Although she was generally still reading attentively, anyone could sense the unease in her heart.

Since arriving in this place, I've only made two friends: one is my idol, Momoka Kawahara, and the other is Taro Momoi... Thinking about it this way, don't you think I'm quite destined to be with Momoka?

But now is not the time to think about these things. Right now, Nina is at a crossroads in her life—

Unfortunately, I didn't have the courage to bother others, and I rarely communicated with the two people. But a few days ago, things changed a little.

That day, Ms. Momoka announced on social media that she was going to hold a street performance, which happened to be not far from where she was, so Nina decided to go and watch.

Ms. Momoka was very happy to see me. After playing a piece, she suddenly said that she wanted to hear her little fan sing "The Empty Box". At Ms. Momoka's invitation, I tried my best to sing it once.

Not long ago, Ms. Momoka invited me to go to karaoke, and then very abruptly asked me to join the band.

"I also want to try what it feels like to be focused on the guitar instead of being the lead singer."

Ms. Momoka's voice was filled with indescribable loneliness and exhaustion. She didn't know what to do and could only say that she wanted to focus on her studies. She declined Ms. Momoka's invitation, but she kept thinking about it afterwards.

She was clearly distracted while studying, but at that moment, she suddenly received a LINE message from Momoi Taro. It turned out that he was fulfilling his promise to let her know as soon as the band had an SNS account. Naturally, she followed the account called "Don Brothers".

She wasn't very familiar with Momoi Taro; they'd only met once. But that meeting with someone named Momoi Taro had a profound impact on her...

"Here it is!"

"15 PM!"

She spoke her mind without hesitation and did the right thing without wavering—she was exactly the ideal version of herself!

Speaking of which... Momoi Taro said something that day.

"No, we've also become connected. If you encounter any difficulties, feel free to discuss them with me."

Normally, one would assume it was just a polite remark. But would someone named Momoi Taro really make such polite remarks?

Nina tried to imagine it for a moment. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't picture Momoi Taro making polite remarks…

So, if you really have difficulties, you can talk to the other party about it...?

So, she painstakingly typed a message on her phone: "I'm in trouble, can you help me?"