Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“The school festival in a month, please.”

“School festival?”

Hearing Touma Kazusa's words, Ogiso Setsuna couldn't help but be stunned.

“We... are going to perform at the school festival in a month?”

“Huh? Don't you know yet?”

Touma Kazusa took out her bass and wiped it, pointing to Yozora standing aside.

“This guy took it upon himself to sign us up.”

Touma Kazusa raised her head and looked at Ogiso Setsuna, her eyes showing no emotional fluctuation.

“Less than a month, at most three weeks, about twenty days, to start from scratch and work together. Now you should understand the difficulty. If the coordination isn't good enough, you'll only embarrass yourself on stage. If you want to quit, do it now.”

Ogiso Setsuna was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then replied very seriously.

“No... I will definitely not quit. As long as I put in twice the effort... no... ten times, a hundred times the effort, twenty days will definitely be enough!”

“Is that so...”

Touma Kazusa nodded indifferently.

“Since you have this determination, it's best to start now. Have you memorized the lyrics?”

“Yes, I've memorized them. No problem at all.”

“That's good.”

Touma Kazusa strummed the bass in her hand.

“Then let's play it once.”

...

Five minutes later, after finishing the song.

Touma Kazusa held the slender, white fingers of the bass and couldn't help but clench them tightly.

She stared at Ogiso Setsuna, who was standing there with a look of guilt, and slowly opened her mouth.

“Ogiso, you... didn't hit a single beat.”

“I'm sorry...”

Ogiso Setsuna looked a little lost and apologized.

“I'm sorry, I... I...”

“Have you ever had experience as a lead singer before?”

“Eh? No, but I often go to karaoke alone.”

Touma Kazusa frowned slightly, looked at Yozora holding the guitar with a watching-the-show look, and bit her silver teeth lightly.

“You... are you deliberately trying to anger me?”

“How could I?”

“Don't you understand that just singing well is completely different from being the lead singer of a band?”

Touma Kazusa was really annoyed.

She originally thought that since Ogiso Setsuna could agree to join the band, she should have had some experience in this area before.

As a result...

Karaoke!?

Are you kidding me?

Singing alone in karaoke with unchanging accompaniment is completely different from a live band performance!

“Just tell me if Ogiso-san sings well or not.”

“It's true that she sings well...”

Before Ogiso Setsuna could be happy about Touma Kazusa's recognition of her singing, she heard the other party continue in a deep voice.

“But that's all it is, just singing well.”

Touma Kazusa looked at Ogiso Setsuna, her face looking very serious.

“Ogiso, not only is there a problem with your entry point in the song and your coordination with the two of us, but... singing in front of so many people at a live performance, are you sure you can do it?”

Ogiso Setsuna held her hands in front of her chest and lowered her head.

“I... I will work hard...”

“Work hard?”

Touma Kazusa stood up, walked to Ogiso Setsuna, and took a deep breath.

“It's good that you have this determination, but I'll just say it directly. In just twenty days, to make you someone who can be a live lead singer, and also considering the coordination between each other, it's almost impossible to do.”

“What I'm asking now is not whether we can succeed.”

“But... can you accept the result of ultimately failing even after exhausting all your efforts?”

Faced with Touma Kazusa's words, Ogiso Setsuna opened her lips slightly, but didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Seeing this, Touma Kazusa's eyes showed a bit of complexity, and finally she just put away the bass, put it in the corner of the practice room, then picked up her bag and said faintly.

“I'm leaving first.”

After saying that, Touma Kazusa really left the practice room without looking back.

“Yozora-san, I...”

Ogiso Setsuna's eyes looked a little dim, and she clenched her hands tightly in front of her chest, whispering.

“Did I... disappoint Touma-san...”

“Of course not.”

Yozora put down the guitar in his hand and smiled.

“Rather, you're even more amazing than I imagined.”

“Eh? Really?”

Ogiso Setsuna couldn't help but smile, then said suspiciously.

“You're not deliberately coaxing me, are you?”

“Who's coaxing you? My main focus is honesty.”

“Then the band...”

“You should go home first too. Think about what she just said. It's not too late to come find us after you've made up your mind.”

“Okay... alright.”

Watching Ogiso Setsuna's departing figure, Yozora thought to himself.

As expected, it has to be Ogiso Setsuna.

When was the last time Touma Kazusa spoke so much to someone other than me?

It should be the day when Yukinoshita Yukino joined the Over-Capacity Club.

But this time is different.

Touma Kazusa's words were less of a question to Ogiso Setsuna, and more of a question to herself.

Has Touma Kazusa ever lost on the piano?

She hasn't lost, but she hasn't won either.

She hasn't lost, meaning that among her peers, Touma Kazusa's piano playing level is undeniably world-class. Even Fujiwara Chika, a ceiling-level player at the amateur level, would be crushed in front of her.

And hasn't won... meaning that in Touma Kazusa's eyes, there has only ever been one goal.

That is her mother, Touma Youko.

Exhausting all efforts, but ultimately still failing...

Isn't Touma Kazusa asking her own heart when she says these words to Ogiso Setsuna?

Just then, the phone in Yozora's arms suddenly rang.

After answering, the voice coming from the other side was Riao Futaba's slightly anxious voice.

“Did you see the news? Something happened.”

“I haven't seen it yet. Where is it?”

“It's that private Toyonosaki Academy, only a dozen kilometers away from our school.”

Chapter 265: Important Figure Eriri, War Correspondent Suga Natsumi

“Private Toyonosaki?”

Yozora was certainly familiar with this name, and the teachers and students of Soubu High School were no strangers to it either.

Among the high schools in Kyoto, if you exclude the highly developed ones with completely different teaching philosophies, which are more like fighting arenas than schools, then Private Toyonosaki is perhaps second only to Private Shuuchin Academy.

Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the door of the practice room.

Hiratsuka Shizuka didn't even bother to knock on the door, and directly barged in.

“Yozora...”

“What's wrong?”

Hiratsuka Shizuka was slightly stunned when she saw that Yozora was on the phone, but at this moment she couldn't care about etiquette or anything, and quickly stepped forward, handing over her phone.

“This, Private Toyonosaki Academy, is suspected to have unidentified people with weapons entering!”

Yozora looked down and saw that the phone screen was showing a live report from a reporter outside Toyonosaki Academy.

He couldn't help but complain.

“Why does this always happen? Am I living in Kyoto, or am I living in Gotham?”

After saying this, Yozora raised his head to look at Hiratsuka Shizuka, smiled and shook his head.

“I'm an exorcist, not some kind of superhero. What's the use of telling me?”

“You...”

Hiratsuka Shizuka took a deep breath, took out a slender silver nail from her arms, looked directly into Yozora's eyes, and slowly opened her mouth.

“Are you really just exorcising demons?”

Then, without waiting for Yozora to reply, Hiratsuka Shizuka put the silver nail that she had confiscated on the first day of school aside, and said to herself.

“Regardless of whether you are that person or not, but... with your ability, even if the Metropolitan Police Department is helpless now, you can solve this incident, right?”

Speaking of this, Hiratsuka Shizuka pursed her lips, put her hands together, and looked pleading.

“Private Toyonosaki Academy has a pretty good relationship with our school. The other high school that I told you about at noon today, the one we were invited to exchange with, is Private Toyonosaki Academy. Please.”

Futaba Riao on the other end of the phone also heard Hiratsuka Shizuka's words, and added faintly.

“If it was just kidnapping a single student, that would be one thing, but publicly attacking a school, only a mentally deranged madman would do such a thing. Most likely, it's a survivor who occupied a human body left over from the last cleanup of Kyoto.”

“I see...”

Yozora nodded indifferently.

“Okay, I understand.”

After hanging up the phone, Yozora looked at Hiratsuka Shizuka and said with a smile.

“Since it's a request from lovely Shizuka, then I'll reluctantly agree. Let's go.”

“Go?”

Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at Yozora and hesitated.

“You... are you just planning to go like this?”

“Then what else? Buy two pounds of oranges, and chat with the kidnappers while eating? Use love to move them?”