After Being Sacked From My Band, I Found Myself 10 Years in the Past To Redo My Life and Save My Idol

 Chapter 7: Isolated a Thousand Light Years away

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I’m talking with a female classmate the next day.

 

“Hey Shibakusa, were you with Narahara yesterday by any chance?”

 

She went to the same middle school as Shigure.
In fact, she was the one who told me Shigure was singing in the desolate shopping district.
Well, she probably lives near that shopping district and happened to see me with Shigure yesterday.

 

“Oh, yeah…
You curious about that?”

 

I play back the events of yesterday in my head to make sure I didn't do anything suspicious.
I mean, hey, I may have been pressing Shigure's button a bit, but it's not anything worth complaining about, at least from the perspective of a fellow classmate.

 

“What were you doing with her?”

 

“Uh, I was listening to her sing.
I'm in the light music club too, so I asked her if she wanted to join my band.”

 

She sighs hearing my answer.

 

“Shibakusa, just some advice between you and me.
It's better if you stay out of Shigure's way.
And definitely don't invite her to join a band.”

 

“Uhh, why?”

 

I'm taken aback hearing this unexpected piece of advice.
She has such a lovely singing voice.
What's the reasoning for simply cutting ties with her?

 

“When she was in middle school…
she caused one of the clubs to disband.”

 

“Disband…?”

 

What is she talking about? I know plenty of university clubs disband due to messy love affairs, but this seems too extreme for middle schoolers.
And this is Shigure we're talking about.
She's introverted and barely even talks.
There's no way she would instigate any fight that would lead to messy relationships.

 

“She and I were in the music club.
We played the piano and sang songs and just had fun. 

 

I'm surprised that she joined a club like that.
Since it was a music club, they must have had some sort of recital or performance throughout the year. 

 

“But she demanded that everyone do things they couldn't do.
Then she showed them up by doing it.
She really was so cruel.”

 

I don't believe she would be the type of person to make unreasonable demands, even if her classmate is literally telling me about it.
Honestly, she probably has a biased opinion since she was personally involved.
I'll make her stop beating around the bush.
I already have an idea what this is really about.

 

“Well…
maybe Narahara was just so good that everyone else got jealous?”

 

I said that with a very matter-of-fact tone and I'm met with heavy irritation as she retorts.

 

“N-no way in hell! Anyways, she wouldn't cooperate at all and rocked the boat too much! Of course everyone would be upset with her! I mean, in our final term, it was her fault that the concert-!”

 

Bullseye.
She spills the beans and tells me everything, as if something's been eating away at her. 

 

In the end, Shigure just stood out too much and the rest of her club mates, including the girl telling me everything, felt the effects of that.

 

Shigure is simply a musical genius.
Of course her clubmates would feel jealous if they saw it firsthand.
I'm sure the more popular kids at her school zeroed in on her pretty fast.

 

With her clubmates feeling envious, she played the guitar by herself at the concert.
Her performance was breathtaking, but even then, the audience was against her from the very beginning.
When she started singing, everyone left the assembly hall, as planned previously.

 

Even if it was all planned ahead of time, just thinking about it makes my heart ache.
As someone who performed in a band in my previous life, I'd seen many audience members leave a show because they already finished seeing the singer they wanted to see.
When it happened to me, I knew it was because we weren't good enough.
But for Shigure, it's the exact opposite.
When she starts singing, she'll feel the wrath of everyone.
I can imagine how hard it is for her to sing even one song.

 

Therefore, Shigure came to the conclusion that no one wanted to hear her sing, which led her to sing by herself for herself in the desolate shopping district.
Adding insult to injury is that the people who left during Shigure's performance were arguing with each other, debating whether this was overkill or the right thing to do.

 

The club disbanded directly because of how those guys acted.
But of course, their excuse was that if Shigure didn't act like she did, they wouldn't have to disband.
But Shigure didn't do anything.
Rather, it was more like she couldn't do anything.
She didn't do anything wrong.

 

If I had been there, I would never have forgiven them.
And I would probably act so violent that I would never be able to play the drums again.
There's no way such puny egos could hold a candle towards Shigure's talent.

 

“Hey, are you even listening, Shibakusa? You know, it's for the best if you stop hanging around Narahara.”

 

“Thanks for the advice…
But I'll still invite her to join my band.
Hearing what you had to say convinced me even more.”

 

“You're fucked in the head, Shibakusa.”

 

“Well, thanks.”

 

I have so many things I want to retort back, but there's no point in talking with her any longer.
Besides, if it's for Shigure's benefit, I might as well keep my mouth shut.
That's why I decided to give the best answer possible.

 

“Right now, I want to create a band with Shigure where the audience members won't leave part way through.
See ya.”

 

I might have pissed her off with that, but oh well.
I'll definitely get Shigure to join my band and we'll see who gets the last laugh. 

 

 

And so, I find myself going to Shigure in order to tell her.
The nail that's sticking out won't be hammered back in.
Because I'll be there to protect it.