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

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“Yes! I’ll help too!” Hina jumped up from the ground and took out her phone: “I’m also very good at taking pictures.”

"Then I'll trouble you, Hina-senpai. Everyone, come and take pictures!" Aine greeted everyone in a cheerful manner as they took pictures, but in her heart, she was secretly making a plan.

Given Taro's personality, he probably won't give up the center position, but he might fight for the top spot.

Aine grabbed Rakuna's hand and squeezed to Taro's left, and Rakuna let her stand in front of Taro in the end.

"Are you all ready? Three, two, one! Cheese!" Upon hearing Hina's command, Aine's eyes flashed, and she thought to herself, "Perfect opportunity!"

She quickly lowered her head, making a peace sign and leaning against Taro's chest, but a sudden, immense force blocked her head, preventing her from moving any further. Then, with a click, the photo was instantly frozen in time.

A mournful cry arose from Aine's heart—

[Damn it! My battle for center position has failed again!]

But what could she do? She could only smile and walk towards Hina, saying, "Hina-senpai, how did our photos turn out?"

"Hmm... how is it?" Hina's eyes drifted upwards as she thought and tried to express her feelings: "Although I feel a lot of lu, I also have a bit of a zawazawa feeling inside, a hissing feeling, which is a little uncomfortable, but it also feels very lu. What's wrong with me?"

Aine's forehead was sweating. "What are you saying, sis? Can you say something I can understand?" she whispered. "Um, Hina-senpai, can I see the photo?"

"Hmm~ We can exchange contact information! Let's exchange contact information." Hina handed over a QR code, and Aine immediately perked up: "Eh? Really?! Hina-senpai's contact information!?"

"Okay! Sure!" Hina repeated nonchalantly, "Everyone come along!"

In short, everyone joined in the fun and added Hina as a friend, and Hina sent the photos she had just taken to the group.

In the photo, Taro stands unsurprisingly in the center, his handsome and aloof face revealing a faint smile. To his left and in front of him stands Aine, her face beaming with a radiant smile, her head tilted to the side as she makes a peace sign, her canine teeth gleaming under the light.

The only flaw is that her smooth hair was roughly pressed and pushed away by Taro's left hand. The photo doesn't show Taro's strength, but it gives the impression that he pushed Aine away with a look of disgust.

The cat stood between Aine and Taro, a matcha lollipop that Meow Dream had given her dangling from her mouth. Her gaze drifted towards the corner of the ceiling.

Meow Dream struck a peace sign just like Aine, standing beside Taro, exuding a mature charm (16-year-old maturity.JPG).

Hailin stood between Taro and Meowmeng, one hand on her chest, her expression seemingly unremarkable.

In short, it looks like a very band-like group photo, something like this?

"So, Aine, is this one usable?" Taro asked. In his opinion, although the photo had a few minor flaws, it was still an excellent piece, scoring over 45 points. However, he wasn't sure whether it was suitable for promotional purposes for the band.

"Ah, it should be fine." Aine waved her hand, but why did she look like a puppy being disliked by its owner in this picture... However, judging from the composition, she was quite eye-catching, so it should be fine.

"I'll be tagging everyone's personal accounts later, and then I'll send the account and password to everyone's private chat!"

"Hmm, all the general needs to do next is retweet our band's account or something?" Miao Meng was still thinking about getting some traffic.

Taro shared the post on his WeChat Moments as Miaomeng had suggested, and then sent individual messages to a few other people, since it was something they had agreed upon beforehand.

“Next is the schedule.” Taro held up a second finger.

"Um? What's a schedule?" Aine tilted her head, puzzled.

"Hi!" Hina raised her hand, squinted her eyes, and said cheerfully, "The so-called schedule is just... everyone in the band has their own things to do on weekdays."

"So, we need a unified plan to determine everyone's schedule, when they're free, and when we can practice together," Hina proudly explained. "By the way, we at Pastel-Palettes also have something similar, but we leave it all to Mr. Shidaifu to coordinate."

Hai Ling's heart skipped a beat, and she stepped forward to say, "Can you leave this to me?"

Taro stared at the other person for a moment, then nodded and said, "No problem! I'll leave it to you."

"Then, please send me your schedules for confirmation after you finish contacting me." Hai Ling took another step forward, adopting a businesslike demeanor.

"Yes~" x2

Meow Dream and Aine responded to Hai Ling's words in perfect unison, while Taro and Neko showed absolutely no desire to respond.

"The third thing... I need to prepare a house for our band, where we can live during the week. It'll be a dormitory-like building with practice rooms in the middle," Taro said, but his expression was a little troubled. "First, the location is uncertain; second, I'm unsure if you'd be willing to move in; and third, if you are willing to move in, what do we need to furnish?"

"Ah..." Ai Yin was the first to lower her head and whispered, "It's a little inconvenient."

"I want to go!" Lenai, who had been silent for a long time, answered first, shaking her body excitedly and saying, "Kotatsu, refrigerator, matcha candy, cat!"

"I understand!" Taro nodded, acknowledging the agreement.

"Eh~ I need to think about it." Miao Meng squinted her eyes. She really needed a free house, but her lease on her own house hadn't expired yet, and she had also decided not to get too involved with the band.

"Then let's put this matter aside!" Taro didn't dwell on it and announced that they would go have lunch first and then come back to practice.

Taro gave two chocolate snails to Hailin, and then went to a fast food restaurant with Muku and Hina to order fries.

After they finished eating, the seven of them returned to RiNG. Taro's voice became arrogant: "Alright! Servants! Let's begin our training!"

"Huh? This is the first time I've ever seen Taro like this!" Hina looked at Taro with shining eyes: "What is this! It's really special!"

"Taro? There are two of them too?" Wakaba Mutsu looked at Taro thoughtfully, then shook her head, feeling that he looked quite different from herself.

Taro took out a tomahawk keyboard from the corner and carried it on his back, while the others also prepared their instruments and got ready.

A powerful melody began to play.

Everyone played incredibly well. I know Miaomeng's drumming very well, after all, we've practiced together for so long. Hailing's bass... I couldn't quite hear it, so I ignored it. Taro's singing was as moving as ever, though he didn't play many instruments...

However, what truly moved Aine was Rakuna's guitar playing. It was an incredibly free-flowing guitar; some phrases looked completely different from her sheet music, but the rhythm made the song even more powerful.

The part where Rakuna changed the melody... The first thing that flashed through Aine's mind was that she could do an impromptu piece to match her?

No, no, no, I'm just a beginner. Improvising is completely wrong! Taro certainly wouldn't want me to be like this...

Thinking this, Aine secretly glanced at Taro's profile. He was absorbed in the song... seemingly oblivious to the changed melody.

The song ended—

Taro subconsciously glanced at Aine, who was looking down at her guitar beside him. Her pale fingers, holding the pick, were trembling slightly.

"Now!" Hina's eyes flashed, and she pulled a wooden stick from her pocket, swinging it at Taro—

Before almost everyone could react, Hina suddenly lunged forward, her wooden stick striking Taro with lightning speed.

However, Taro was definitely not among these almost all people. He quickly knelt down and raised his hands high, performing a bare-handed attack. He grabbed Hina's wooden stick with both palms, and with a little force, he snatched the stick away and threw it over Hina's head.

"Ouch!" Hina shook her head, then smiled and said, "Ah~ there's nothing I can do, I'm 0 wins and 60 losses now."

"Hmm," Taro wasn't angry. He pointed to the corner and said, "300 push-ups!"

"Yes~" Hina didn't object either, and went to the corner to do push-ups. Mutsu quietly sat down next to Hina.

Everyone was stunned by what they saw. Taro stood up and announced loudly, "There's one more thing to say today!"

"..." Xiao Mu secretly rejoiced that the other members of C Group were not here, otherwise this one sentence would have triggered a lot of PTSD.

"Huh? What? What?" Ai Yin gathered up her distracting thoughts from the performance, smiled again, and asked, "So serious about it, it can't be some trivial matter again, can it?"

"There's about a 15-minute gap in the middle of the joint performance by Poppin'Party and Afterglow at the end of next month." Taro glanced around at everyone, his expression serious.

"What does this have to do with us?" Ai-yin's voice sounded a little fearful; she had an inexplicable sense of unease.

"No need for further explanation! Our Dong Brothers group will fill this 15-minute gap! We'll participate in this joint live performance!" Taro's tone was somewhat unquestionable.

The air seemed to freeze instantly, and no one had quite processed Taro's words.

"I want to go!" The first to respond was Cat, who flashed a bright smile: "Live! I want to go!"

"Well, there's nothing we can do if the band members have to go live." Hailing responded calmly, awakened by the cat's voice.

While it's normal for bands to hold live performances, it's very rare for a band that's only been around for a short time to go to such a prestigious live event. Even she was shocked when she heard about it.

"...Well, since the general says so, then let's give it our best." Meow's expression was uncertain. Although she really wanted to become famous, if she messed up her appearance at such a popular live show, it wouldn't just be a matter of popularity.

Although black and red are still red... if possible, she still doesn't want black and red.

She lowered her head and gripped the drumsticks tightly... All she could do was practice, practice twice as much! No, three times as much! If she could shine in that kind of setting, she would definitely get a lot of attention.

"Wait!" Ai shouted, trying to stop her teammates' abstract decision: "That's a joint live performance! We've only been a team for less than a week, and this is our first rehearsal. Are you guys really going? Doesn't that seem weird? Meow Dream and I are both newbies. If we go to such an important event..."

If anything goes wrong... I'll definitely get a severe scolding. Aine kept these words to herself. She'd just decided yesterday to take music seriously, so what was she doing? But she was truly terrified!

"This is my judgment as the master! Servants only need to follow me!" Hearing Taro's resolute words, Aine could only lower her head helplessly...

“Next…” Taro looked at Rakuna, and Aine’s heart skipped a beat. Was Taro angry? She had to find a way to ease their conflict!

Chapter 42, revised

“Next…” Taro looked at Rakuna. Just as Aine was thinking about how to ease the tension between the two, unexpected words came out of Momoi Taro’s mouth.

"Lena, do you have any ideas about these musical phrases?" He pointed out the phrases that Lena had just changed, holding up the sheet music.

Huh? He's not angry? Aine looked at Taro in disbelief.

“Yes, this will be more comfortable,” Lena said with a smile, and then played the places Taro had pointed out again.

It seems a little different from before. Would it be better if we cooperated like this...?

Aine placed her hand on the frets, then the pick trembled as it rested on the strings. She shook her head, thinking, "No, no, a novice like me should just wait for the two geniuses to make the arrangements."

“I see. The space originally left for human voices can indeed enhance the feel of each instrument by making these changes.” Taro picked up a pen and wrote something on Rakuna’s side first, then added a few strokes to Hailin and Nyanmu’s scores.

He walked over to Aine's side, held out his pen, and drew a line on Aine's sheet music. Aine was slightly taken aback again. Taro's proposed modification was surprisingly similar to her own, even though it was slightly different...

"Um, Taro?" Aine called out to Taro, who turned around. She then asked in a soft voice, "Rakuna changed your score, aren't you angry?"

"Why are you angry?" Taro asked, looking at the other person with great curiosity. "It's only natural to revise the score."

"Huh? But normally Taro would say..." Aine cleared her throat and tried to imitate Taro's voice, "My sheet music is a 100-point sheet music! There's no need to modify it!"

"My sheet music is of course a perfect score!" Taro declared confidently to everyone, then added seriously, "However, there's only one thing that no matter how perfect the sheet music is, it can't make up for—"

“That is—personality,” Hina, who had somehow stood up, easily picked up on Taro’s words, and said with a smile, “Nuttarou, am I right?”

Taro nodded in agreement, saying, "Just like Hina said, the band is made up of five people. Only when the five of us are together can we be called the Dong Brothers, so the songs should naturally reflect the personalities of the five of us."

"Does a group of five have to be called the Dong Brothers?" Hai Ling pondered, resting her chin on her hand. "Well, most of my band members are scattered now. Although I can't agree with that, I'll give it a try anyway."

Miao Mengmi III is 〇 Qi Er Er Si Xia 罒 with her eyes closed and did not speak.

“Yeah~ a band needs five people to be together, and then they can really have fun together,” Hina said, hands on her hips, her eyes crinkling with a bright smile, showing idol-level cuteness: “If Pastel*Palettes is just me spinning around by myself, it definitely won’t last long.”

Ai Yin looked at Le Nai, who smiled and said, "The band is having a lot of fun."

Ah... I still can't quite understand Xiaole Nai.

"Moreover, this kind of modification will not affect the completeness of the piece." Taro explained calmly, "It's just a matter of whether to focus more on A or more on the feeling of B. Both are acceptable. If it were a poor-quality, unauthorized score, I would naturally say so!"

"I see...?" Aine nodded, seemingly understanding. Taro glanced at Aine but said nothing: "Alright—servants! Let's practice the whole piece again—"