Chapter 120: Qingshan Li Brings a Sense of Crisis

"Li, what do you think?" Ono Mika looked at her younger brother.

"It sounds so good it's hindering my studies." Qingshan Li answered after serious thought, "I'll go check if there are any seats left at the library."

"Come back!" Ono Mika laughed.

Qingshan Li laughed and stopped packing his textbooks.

"How can a manager secretly study while we're practicing!" Bass Sakurako accused.

"A good manager shouldn't disturb the artists while they practice." Qingshan Li said.

"But just thinking about you studying, we can't calm down!"

"You got 44th place this time, right? First in math, right? And now you're studying National Language, right? If this continues, you'll definitely get first place, how can that be allowed?!" F·Rino said angrily.

What's wrong with that?

"Then what do you want me to do? Buy water? You should already have water." Qingshan Li gave up struggling and asked.

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"You're so useless." Drummer Mumi said.

"I'm too useless, I'm really sorry." Qingshan Li said, "Alright, stop idling, keep practicing. There are midterm exams and a long-distance running competition this month, time isn't as abundant as imagined."

"We've already trained for a long time, now is break time." Agatsuma Haruka said.

"In that case." Qingshan Li stood up, "Then I'll take this opportunity to set goals for you and create a sense of crisis."

"Goals?" Ono Mika was puzzled, isn't it revival?

"Crisis?" Bass Sakurako doubted.

Qingshan Li pulled over the movable blackboard.

"First is the goal," he wrote the two characters for goal, and while speaking, while writing, "The big goal is 'Budokan'; the medium goal, 'School Festival Performance'; the small goal is 'Revival'."

"Your handwriting is so pretty, little brother."

"Shut up."

"Wuu~" Agatsuma Haruka is quite good at acting spoiled.

"You all know 'The Art of War,' it says, 'Aim for the highest and get the middle, aim for the middle and get the lowest, aim for the lowest and surely fail,' so our goal is—"

"Universal President!" Drummer Mumi raised her arms, tone determined.

Qingshan Li originally thought the gap between Budokan and the School Festival was already big enough, unexpectedly there was an even bigger one.

Qingshan Li circled the three characters 'Budokan'.

"The goal is Budokan, not saying you should aim for 'School Festival,' but truly striving for Budokan, only then can we succeed greatly at the School Festival!"

"This is the goal." Qingshan Li wrote 'Sense of Crisis', "Next is the sense of crisis, mainly stemming from time. If we can't succeed in May, Seiten Band will completely disappear, you few will be homeless."

"At first you could still arrange to meet somewhere, gradually, meeting times decrease, until completely losing contact."

"How tragic." Agatsuma Haruka said.

"Meeting face to face, hesitating whether to greet, as a result nothing could be said, just passing each other, afterwards even face to face, won't greet again, the past all turned to nothing."

"And it's so realistic!" F·Rino said.

"This isn't the future I want!" Bass Sakurako also said.

"But," F·Rino probed, "can't we practice at Ono Mihana-senpai's house now?"

Bass Sakurako quickly calmed down: "Right."

"By then, I'll have Ono Mihana join another club, she's no longer a member of Seiten Band, will you still have the face to come to my house?" Qingshan Li said.

"What are you saying, Qing Shan Jun!" Drummer Mumi tiptoed, put her hand on Qingshan Li's shoulder, "We who have eaten fried chicken, dorayaki, hamburg steak, and mapo tofu together are not just teammates, but friends, right? Is there a problem with often visiting friends' homes?"

"Well done!" The other three gave her a thumbs up.

Not said well, but "gan" well.

"For your futures," Qingshan Li removed her hand, "I've decided to painfully sever our friendship."

"Does it really hurt?" Agatsuma Haruka confirmed.

"A bit more than waking up early."

"That's very painful." Bass Sakurako nodded in agreement.

Ono Mika couldn't help but laugh, only she knew Qingshan Li got up at 4 or 5 every day.

"Ono Mihana, if we don't successfully revive, I'll force you to join another club, like the manga club, do you want to be separated from them?" Qingshan Li said.

"You're so bad." Ono Mika felt the crisis.

"Time!" Qingshan Li continued being bad, "Today is already the 9th, only 22 days left, and school days are only 16 days, removing the five days club activities stop for midterm exams, only 11 days left!"

"Removing one day for the long-distance running competition, only 10 days left!"

"You, what do you plan to do?"

The atmosphere became heavy.

"Um, I say," Drummer Mumi tiptoed again, put her hand on Qingshan Li's shoulder, "isn't our goal Budokan? Why are you only thinking about club revival?"

"If this continues, we will surely 'aim for the lowest and surely fail,' right?" Bass Sakurako said.

Everyone looked at Qingshan Li.

Qingshan Li turned around, wrote "26th" on the blackboard.

"That day." He faced the girls, "The day before the long-distance running competition, after school, perform in the courtyard—I'll apply for the venue for you."

"26?!"

"It's over, it's over, there's really a sense of crisis now, so nervous!"

Ono Mika took a deep breath.

Thinking about singing in front of the whole school, no matter how deeply she breathed, she couldn't calm down.

Her heart was beating so fast.

"It's all Qing Shan Jun's fault; I feel like throwing up now."

"Sakurako-senpai, I've always thought you'd be great at crosstalk," F·Rino said.

"Really? Then I'll quit the band now and join the crosstalk club; come appreciate my solo crosstalk sometime."

"Give it up, Sakurako," Agatsuma Haruka said, "With so many of us performing together on stage, you can't even do that—how could you possibly perform crosstalk alone?"

"Mingxiang!" Bass Sakurako hugged Agatsuma Haruka and burst into tears.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Agatsuma Haruka's eyes were also lifeless.

Qingshan Li was very satisfied with the situation he had created.

"My uterus is contracting!" Bass Sakurako leaned against Agatsuma Haruka's embrace.

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This wasn't his fault!

Everyone continued training.

Qingshan Li took out his mobile phone to shoot, planning to post it in the group chat in the evening so they could see the results themselves and slowly correct them.

"Dong dong~"

Qingshan Li went to open the door; it was Mikami Ai.

"The supervisor is here!" Drummer Gu Meng Shi cheered.

"She's here to check attendance, right?" F·Rino said in a low voice.

"Good afternoon," Mikami Ai greeted everyone.

"Mikami classmate, good afternoon," Ono Mika returned the greeting, "Thank you for often coming to help us, but aren't you worried about your own matters?"

Mikami Ai confirmed that she was indeed disliked by Ono Mika.

Perhaps it hadn't reached the level of dislike, but the other party was obviously keeping distance from her.

Mikami Ai didn't care.

She also had no intention of becoming friends with Ono Mika.

"Regarding the performance, I have an idea," she said, "How about setting the date for the 26th?"

Agatsuma Haruka turned the blackboard around with a pained expression, revealing the side covered in writing.

Mikami Ai glanced at it, smiled, and asked Qingshan Li, "Did you write this?"

Because of the novel draft, she recognized his handwriting.

"Mm," Qingshan Li smiled and nodded, turning to face the band girls, "Now you should face reality, right?"

Agatsuma Haruka sighed and did not turn the blackboard back around.

What truly made Mikami Ai a little concerned was that Qingshan Li seemed to be keeping his distance from her as well.

Someone like him, who grew up without an umbrella, would run far away at the slightest change in another's expression.

Very hard to catch.

(Chapter End)