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The song ended.
"How was it?"
Asakura asked Yukinoshita Yukino for her opinion.
"As a student, it's quite good."
Yukino nodded.
"Then, as a performance?"
Asakura pressed.
"A bit subtle."
Yukino was blunt.
"Pfft."
Gotō Hitori, devastated by the blow, spat blood and melted into a slime.
"Don't do that, tomato juice is hard to clean up."
Asakura hurriedly pulled out a few napkins to wipe her clean.
"Sorry..."
Gotō Hitori was dejected, the cowlick on the side of her head drooping lifelessly. She probably felt very bad for disappointing Asakura's trust.
"It's okay, don't take it too much to heart."
Asakura said, "Yukino is a genuine young lady. The concerts she attends are the kind of high-class ones that would put us commoners to sleep. It's normal for her to find a guitar solo 'subtle.'"
"Is, is that so...?"
Gotō Hitori regained a little spirit, and her eyes brightened somewhat.
"But it's definitely worse than when you were 'at home,'" Asakura added.
"Pfft..."
"I told you not to spit tomato juice!"
"Sorry, I, I accidentally..."
Gotō Hitori said sheepishly, "Speaking, speaking of which, the tomato juice Asakura-kun gave me seems to have 'Anna' written on it with a marker..."
...It's just ordinary graffiti, no need to worry.
After all, the tomato juice originally belonged to Yanami, but there were no other drinks in the activity room, and Asakura was too lazy to go out and find a vending machine, so he simply commandeered it.
He believed the hospitable Yanami wouldn't mind.
Meanwhile, Yukinoshita Yukino watched coldly as Asakura fussed like a mother, wiping Gotō Hitori's mouth. After a moment, she said, "Are you two done being lovey-dovey? If you don't mind, I'll continue."
"Lo, lovey-dovey?! Ah, wah, wah..."
"Don't mind us, just continue."
Unlike the flustered Gotō Hitori, Asakura said without the slightest waver.
"As you just said, guitar solo as a form of performance was not previously within the scope of musical forms I appreciate... However, putting aside taste, most people still have a certain shared feeling about 'whether it sounds good or not.'"
Yukino continued, "While there will certainly be a group of people who like the somewhat noisy musical form of guitar solo, considering the audience, I also don't recommend a pure guitar solo."
"Audience, huh…"
Asakura stroked his chin, he really hadn't paid much attention to that.
The audience that would appear at the Founders' Festival, besides the students from Soubu High School, would also include graduates from Soubu High School, most of whom were so-called 'honorary alumni'. Age-wise, most were forty and above, so it was hard to say how many among them would appreciate a Guitar Hero solo.
Did he really have to get Kessoku Band together?
"I think it might be better if the Guitar Hero solo was replaced with a more popular singing and playing style—" Yukinoshita Yukino continued to suggest. "Also, I don't know if it's just my imagination, but the idol postcard you had there earlier, didn't the character's pose look a bit different from before…"
"No such thing, you're overthinking it—" Asakura said with a smile, brushing her off.
"Singing and playing? No no no, I can't do that…" Gotō Hitori shook her head and waved her hands frantically, her head almost a blur.
"But Hitori, don't you often improvise and sing by yourself?" Asakura asked curiously.
Although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ijichi Seika, Ijichi Nijika's older sister and the owner of STARRY, had witnessed Gotō Hitori singing and playing, and had given her quite a high evaluation.
"That's just my usual complaints… it's not something I can perform…" Gotō Hitori whispered.
"Improvised singing and playing can't guarantee the quality. It's better to sing and play some finished songs. If it's not for profit, many popular songs online can be used freely, right?" Yukinoshita Yukino, perhaps taking Asakura's request for help as a Service Club commission, seriously offered her suggestion.
"If I don't have to sing and just play, then I can play them all…" Gotō Hitori mumbled, hugging her guitar.
When she uploaded videos to her Guitar Hero account, she would periodically choose some popular songs of the moment to record. In a way, the smooth operation of her Guitar Hero account was also due to her active efforts in riding trends.
"Using songs from the internet is still a bit…" Asakura stroked his chin, then, as if remembering something, sat down in front of the computer. He wiggled the mouse to wake the sleeping computer, then opened a data document and pulled out a folder from it.
Gotō Hitori and Yukinoshita Yukino both looked at the screen curiously.
"This is… sheet music?" After Asakura opened the folder, Yukinoshita Yukino saw that it was filled with sheet music, most of which seemed to be unfinished, while some appeared to be completed.
The girl looked at Asakura in astonishment: "You wrote these?"
"How could I?" Asakura rolled his eyes. "I transcribed them. The authors are others, it's just inconvenient for them to show their faces. The songs here are all without copyright, you can use them freely."
Although it was incredible, what Asakura had told Nijika and the others before was true—in his previous life, he had indeed learned the suona, and at that time, he also learned a bit of music theory. He definitely couldn't write songs himself, but if he just transcribed scores based on memory, he could restore them to about five, six, seven, or eight tenths.
Originally, Asakura had planned to sell these scores when he was short on money. For those whose original authors he could remember, he would directly credit them; for those he couldn't remember, he would list them as anonymous. He would simply act as a porter, earning some transportation fees.
However, later, under the guidance of the Stock God Girl, although Asakura didn't achieve financial freedom, he temporarily escaped his financial predicament. So, all these scores were left on his computer, and if it weren't for the relevant topic coming up today, he probably would have forgotten about them himself.
"You try this one first." Asakura opened one of the documents.
"Time… how do you read this word?" Gotō Hitori blinked and asked.
"Time Adventure, literally translated as Time Adventure—" Yukinoshita Yukino said, looking at the score and lyrics. "The lyrics are quite simple… anyone who graduated from junior high should be able to understand them. As for the score, it also seems quite simple… can such a song really be good?"
"I quite like this one—" Asakura said happily. "Do you understand what it means to start with a Magic puppy and rely on picking up equipment for its value?"
Yukinoshita Yukino slanted a glance at Asakura and didn't respond. She felt she was getting used to this guy occasionally saying something inexplicable.
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