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

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“Hmm! Dengdeng did a good job! Next, it’s like this…” Ai Yin adjusted the position of Xiao-Yue*Yi/Liu Yi (Seven) Yi Wo Ba ⒈罒玐}Deng’s fingers again and said, “Then strum this string.”

"Hmm, very well done!" Ai Yin praised, then glanced at the time: "Oh no, let's eat our lunch first, or our lunch break will slip away."

"Mmm! Thank you..." Gao Songdeng said softly, "Xiao Ai, I'm really happy that you came to teach me. Can I play it again? I want to hear it..."

"Hmm~ I really can't do anything with you, then give me the guitar~" Aine took the guitar from Takamatsu Akari's hands, and then a familiar yet unfamiliar voice came from the guitar.

Spring Shadows... Once everyone's most important memory, Aine adapted it into a guitar solo, releasing it through her guitar playing...

Sure enough, Ai is amazing! Takamatsu looked at Ai with sparkling eyes. When the song ended, Ai proudly raised her little nose, gently rubbed it with her finger, and said proudly, "How about that~ I'm amazing, right?"

"Xiao Ai! That's amazing!" The little penguin cheered excitedly. Ai smiled but didn't say anything more. Vanity still lingered, but she had more important things to pursue now.

After school, Nyanko was already in the practice room as usual, and Aine greeted her happily. After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Nyanko asked, "By the way, Aine, was dancing fun yesterday?"

"Fun and stuff..." Aine's eyes drifted upwards, and she thought for a moment: "It's alright, just a little tiring. You know, Taro is very strict."

"I see..." Miao Meng thought for a moment, but didn't say anything. At this moment, the door was pushed open, and it was Hai Ling. Ai Yin greeted Hai Ling in a very sunny manner: "Good afternoon, Hai Ling."

"Good afternoon, Ai Yin. By the way, I also brought this guy with me." Hai Ling, wearing a leather jacket and a collar, pulled behind her, pulling out a little girl named Xiao Le Nai dressed in black.

"Band, are you ready yet?" Xiaole looked around the room but didn't see Taro. Aine seemed to sense Xiaole's thoughts; she took out her phone to check the time and said softly, "Taro won't be here for another eight minutes."

"Hmm—" Lena thought for a moment, preparing to leave. Aine thought for a moment, then ran to Lena's side and whispered, "Little Lena, please stay here and behave yourself, okay?"

"How boring." Lena tried to escape Ai Yin's grasp, but Ai Yin sighed, put her hands on her hips, and said, "I really can't do anything with you. Here's some matcha candy, stay here obediently."

Upon hearing Aine's words, the cat's eyes lit up. She pulled her suitcase into the practice room, snuggled into Aine's arms, and Aine unwrapped the candy, took out the candy, and stuffed it into Renai's mouth.

After the candy was put into Lena's mouth, Lena smiled contentedly and snuggled into Aine's arms. Aine said helplessly, "Little Lena, you still have to practice."

"?" Xiao Le Nai raised her heterochromatic eyes and said in confusion, "I know it all."

"Really," Aine muttered, rubbing her head. She felt like only Taro could handle her.

"You two are really good friends," Hai Ling said as she walked in, closing the door behind her. "Should I bring some candy next time? That way, it'll be easier to bring Yao along."

"Haha... This will definitely give me cavities, right?" Ai Yin laughed awkwardly, chatted with a few people for a while, then glanced at her phone, put Le Nai down, walked to the door and opened it.

Outside the door, as Ai Yin expected, stood the handsome young man in red, holding a stack of papers in his hand, his expression somewhat strange.

"Taro, welcome back." Aine's smile was as bright as ever as she reached out and pulled him in from outside the door.

Taro was led inside by Aine's hand. After a while, he nodded and let out a confused "ah".

"Aiko, your relationship is progressing so fast." Miaomeng stared in disbelief at the inexplicable tacit understanding between the two, and it took her a while to utter this sentence.

Taro quickly shook his head, squatted down, and slung the stack of laminated paper he was holding onto the ground. He said, "Instead of all that, let's look at the sheet music first. Rakuna, take a look and see what you think."

Lena squatted down, glanced at the four sheet music books, stood up and turned around, only to find Ai Yin standing behind her, holding the old guitar that Lena had brought, and handed it to her: "Yes~ this is for you."

Lena's guitar case had been carefully opened and placed in a corner, and the effects pedals inside had been carefully taken out and placed in the spot where Lena usually kept them.

Lena tilted her head, looked at Aine, took the guitar Aine handed her, smiled at Aine, played for a while, thought for a moment, and said, "This one is fine."

Taro nodded, looked at Aine, and asked, "Aine, what do you think?"

Aiyin glanced at the sheet music on the ground and laughed awkwardly, "Haha, I can't understand the other sheet music."

"Then let's confirm it during practice. Just do your best, everyone." Taro distributed the sheet music, but each person received two copies. Hailing looked at the other copy and said, "Is this a new piece? It looks a bit simple."

"That's good. The vocals in this piece need to have a narrative quality. Aine, I plan to have you sing the verses." Taro looked at Aine. Aine couldn't quite understand his gaze, but she felt a heavy weight in her heart. She smiled, patted her chest loudly, and said, "Don't worry, leave it to me."

"Okay! It's yours to handle. Go back and practice hard." After saying this, Taro's face darkened, and he spoke arrogantly as if he had become a different person: "Now we'll continue practicing. Everyone go back and practice the new piece individually! Now, let's practice the previous pieces!"

"Servants! Return to your positions!" Taro slung his keyboard over his shoulder and stood in his place, and the other four followed suit.

Powerful music began to play—

"This is the final product," Taro announced in a deep voice, then looked at Meowmee: "Meowmee! Your rhythm was very messed up just now, you need to pay more attention!"

"Well, practice is all about correcting mistakes," Aine said, trying to smooth things over. Meowme shook herself and honestly said, "I'm sorry!"

“Someone I know said that practice should be like a formal performance, and a formal performance should be like a practice session.” Taro glanced around and said, “Now that we’ve confirmed the official score, I will hold you to that standard! Let’s start again from the first two phrases! Meowmu! You start.”

"Yes~" She skillfully tapped the drumsticks, leading everyone into practice once again.

The Dong Brothers are also having amazing practice today!

Chapter 51, Another sneak attack

Yuzawa Cafe

"I see, is that what Su Shi said?" Xiangzi felt relieved. She was worried that her words would discourage Su Shi, but seeing Su Shi cheer up again made her happy for her.

"But how was this resolved?" Xiangzi began to think. Could it be that Su Shi suddenly figured it out on her own? He always felt that Su Shi was the type who had a hard time getting over things on her own, otherwise she wouldn't have been bothering him for so long.

She recalled the days when she had just withdrawn from Kulaixiku, when Su Shi would send her a dozen or twenty messages every day, and she couldn't help but shudder. She looked curiously at Ruoye Mu sitting opposite her.

Wakaba Mutsu slurped up a mouthful of mango juice and said obediently in a low voice, "Please, Taro."

“Senior, ah—” Xiangzi’s lips curled into a smile, which then disappeared. She coughed lightly with her fist to her lips and praised, “Truly worthy of being called Senior Taro, you are truly remarkable.”

Speaking of Taro, Xiangzi felt a toothache. Recently, senior Taro has been busy with band affairs and basically leaves as soon as he gets off work, so he hasn't had much time to chat with senior Taro.

What upset her even more was that she saw on the SNS account of Taro-senpai's band that she had followed from Taro-senpai's WeChat Moments that day that the temporary bassist she had rehearsed with Taro-senpai that day but who had stood her up (see Chapter 37).

She had invited her before, but she declined, citing that she already had a full-time band. It turned out she was with Taro-senpai's band. For some reason, Toyokawa Shoko felt like she'd been ripped off, even though Taro-senpai had come first. Why was that?

"Hmm..." Ruoye Mu took another sip of mango juice and asked, "Xiang, how's the search for band members going?"

"Ah...it's not going very smoothly," Xiangzi sighed. "After all, drummers and bassists are scarce, let alone bassists and drummers of our skill level, which are even harder to find."

But she quickly realized that Ruoye Mutsu cared about her so much, and if she continued to look so upset, Mutsu would definitely worry about her. So she gave a sweet smile, took Ruoye Mutsu's soft, boneless hand, and said softly, "But Mutsu, don't worry, there will always be a way. Just leave it to me."

"Hmm..." Ruo Ye Mu saw through Xiangzi's intentions clearly. When Xiangzi said there would always be a way, it meant there was no way at all... However, she tried her best not to show any expression that would make Xiangzi more troubled. It would be best if she could comfort him, but unfortunately, she was not good with words and found it difficult to do so.

Seemingly realizing that Wakaba Mutsu was still worried about her, Shoko's smile became even brighter and more sincere: "Mutsu, really don't worry. If things really don't work out, the two of us... or maybe the three of us... or even the four of us will debut online!"

She originally wanted to say two people, but then she remembered Chu Hua and changed her mind. Then she thought of Taro and changed her mind again, even though she knew that the possibility of Taro-senpai joining her was extremely slim.

She composed herself, clenched her fists and made a thumbs-up gesture, then said with a smile, "Do you know, Mu? There's a group online called Red Ginger. They're really popular right now, and many record companies want to sign them. All they have to do is learn that thing called Vocaloid... or even not. We might even have a lead singer."

"Hmm..." Ruoye Mu tried to soften her expression and nodded.

Meanwhile, on the Dong Brothers' side, Aine's life has become very busy ever since Taro released his new song.

I read music theory books while eating breakfast. During lunch break and after school, I teach Akari guitar for a while. In the evenings, if I don't have band practice, I sit and practice guitar. If Kasumi is free, I ask her for advice on singing techniques.

During the Golden Week holiday, she spent all her time practicing—singing, music theory, and guitar. However, she only taught Gao Songdeng guitar when he invited her out.

Of course, there were times to relax. On the third day, Ai Yin wanted to take a good rest. She asked in the Dong Brothers group chat if anyone wanted to go to Disneyland together, but everyone seemed to be very busy.

Taro needed to work, Meowmon had a video production appointment that day, Hailing had band support to do, and although Xiaolena can use a mobile phone now, she doesn't like to reply to messages much. Everyone from Poppin'Party needed to make contact for the live performance, and Dengdeng needed to practice guitar, so in the end, she had to go to Disneyland by herself.

By the way, Ai-on and everyone in Poppin'Party have become good friends and often hang out at Meteor Hall's warehouse. Also, Takamatsu Akari's guitar skills have improved quite quickly, almost reaching the level she had back in the student council. Of course, Takamatsu Akari took shortcuts; she can't play anything except her self-arranged solo of Kasuga Kage.

Time flew by like this, until the last day of the Golden Week holiday—

Today, Aine arrived at RiNG half an hour early after dinner, but unexpectedly found Xiaolanai eating a matcha parfait in the front field. So Aine chatted with Xiaolanai for a while, and after Xiaolanai finished eating the matcha parfait, she carried Xiaolanai back to the practice room together.

Well, Miaomeng was undoubtedly the first to arrive. She seemed to be seriously familiarizing herself with the third song, their band's theme song…wait, Aine's vision caught sight of an unexpected person: Wakaba Mutsumi, with long green hair, sat cross-legged on the ground, a wooden sword resting on her lap. She looked like a swordsman preparing for battle—

"Oh, is it going to be that again?" Aine pouted and said strangely, "Is Mutsu going to have another match with Taro Masaki? Didn't she lose badly last time?"

"Since Xiao Mu was punished last time, it's as if I didn't lose if I wasn't punished!" Motis said stubbornly, completely ignoring the thought in her heart that Ruo Ye Mu wanted to lock her up again. She just sneered and said, "Besides, this time is different! I have a very reliable assistant!"

"Haha..." Aine laughed awkwardly, nodded and said, "I always feel like Mutsumi is a completely different person whenever she wants to have a showdown with Taro."

“Hmm… there are two interesting girls.” The cat smiled, like a cat spotting its prey, pointing at the cross-legged Wakaba Mutsu.

"Huh?" Wakaba Mutsu looked at Rakuna and asked curiously, "You can see?"

Miaomeng also stopped her familiar rhythmic movements out of curiosity and looked over.

"Yes!" The cat nodded: "Two people in the same body."

"Um... what are you talking about..." Aine raised her hand softly, and Wakaba Mutsu said a little impatiently, "Simply put! It's multiple personality disorder!"

"You have multiple personalities! I always thought that was just a concept in manga!" Aine looked up slightly in surprise, looking at the other person with concern: "Are you alright?"

“What could possibly happen to us…” Metathy muttered softly, but seeing Aine’s genuinely worried expression, she couldn’t say anything more. Finally, it was Wakaba Mutsu in her heart who reminded her before she spoke up: “Mutsu said… we will always live together, so don’t worry, that’s right.”

Hearing Wakaba Mutsu say this, Aine's expression relaxed a little. She smiled and tried her best not to put pressure on Wakaba Mutsu: "Then, how should you distinguish... I mean names and such?"

“The one inside my body is Xiao Mu, and I am Metasis!” Metasis looked away somewhat awkwardly and said softly, “Just call us that.”

"Hmm! Well then, little Metis? Good luck!" Looking at Metis's timid and cute appearance, Ai Yin almost couldn't resist reaching out to rub her head, but she felt it would be impolite so she didn't, and stood in her place to familiarize herself with the new song.

"Aine's guitar... has improved again." Wakaba Mutsu's voice echoed deep within her heart. To be honest, she was very surprised. She hadn't seen Aine for a while, but she didn't expect her to have improved so much.

"Hmm... I don't quite understand the guitar stuff," Mortis said softly. "But this doesn't seem to be a different piece from the previous one, does it?"

"Should be, new songs. The live performance is fifteen minutes long, so at least two songs should be included."

As they were talking, the door was suddenly pushed open, and standing outside was a blue-haired girl, Hikawa Hina, with a wooden sword tucked into her waistband. After entering, she didn't greet anyone, but simply pulled Motis to a corner to whisper to her.

They were probably discussing how to deal with Taro... Aine thought to herself. It might be a bit tricky if the two of them were together, but if it were Taro... Hmm... Aine couldn't imagine Taro losing no matter what.

Not long after, the door was pushed open again, and bassist Hailin walked in. She glanced around the practice room and calmly remarked, "The practice room is quite lively today. Are they preparing to ambush Mr. Momoi again? I don't think they can win."

In just half a month, Hai Ling realized how outrageous Momoi Taro was, so she expressed her feelings and took the bass out of her bag to try practicing.

“That’s how you get the feeling of lu!” Hina said with a grin, checking her watch.

"Don't underestimate me! I've practiced a lot!" For some reason, Mavis seemed to have a natural talent for swordsmanship, easily mastering various techniques, but she always had a feeling that Mu would do even better.

"Well, if it doesn't interfere with your practice, go ahead and do what you like." Hai Ling was also familiarizing herself with the sheet music. Although the second song was relatively simple, she still needed to get used to the bass part of the theme song.

And so, the practice room was set up with four people practicing and two waiting for their chance. In this strange atmosphere, the practice room door was pushed open, and Taro appeared. Hina, who was crouching by the door, shouted, "Now—!"

As she shouted this, Hina tried to draw her sword from her waist and unleash an iaido slash, but Taro swiftly pressed down on her elbow, slamming down both Hina's arm and the wooden sword she had just drawn.

"Now!" Without the slightest hesitation, Mottis drew her short sword and slashed at Taro's forehead. Taro quickly dodged to the side and slapped Mottis's wrist with his palm, causing her hand to weaken slightly, and the wooden sword slipped down.

"No, you can even be empty here, sis!" Hina exclaimed in surprise, then quickly turned around, broke free from Taro's grip, and drew her wooden sword to slash at Taro. Taro clapped his hands together without missing a beat, catching Hina's wooden sword with his bare hands.

Hina, unwilling to give up, launched a sweeping kick. Just as she was about to kick out, Taro's thigh struck her at the point of force, stopping Hina's sweeping kick. "Ouch!" Hina cried out, letting go of her leg and collapsing to the ground, unable to bear the physical pain, shedding a few tears.

"Iaijutsu, a two-person attack, interesting! But no, no! We need more practice." Taro casually tossed aside the wooden swords he had been clapping his hands together: "Metis, one hundred sit-ups; Hina, three hundred!"

"Ugh—why is mine tripled?!" Hina complained, rubbing her shinbone that had been kicked, and slumped to the ground. Taijiro glanced at Hina, looked up at the practice room light, and said, "Three strikes mean a tripled punishment game."

"Isn't three hundred a bit too much?" Ai Yin glanced over there with a little concern.