[BanG Dream! Ave Mujica + Girls Band Cry + BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! + Bocchi the Rock!]
“I'm just a store clerk.”
That was something Lin Xiao often said, until the first time he met Nina. The girl wore an old jacket from Kumamoto and held an untuned guitar. She stood outside the convenience store, unsure what to do next.
Then she called out to him, telling him not to leave.
Later, he kicked an empty beer can in an alley. When he crouched to pick it up, he found Hiroi sitting against the wall, her spine stretched like a cat's by the streetlamp. She looked up at him, the half-empty beer can swaying in her hand. “You smell like guitar strings.”
Later, the lights in the rehearsal room came on. Someone set an unsigned sheet of music on the stand, said, “Give it a try,” and went back to tuning their instrument. He practiced all night, and when morning came, he realized he was still playing.
He didn't know how he'd ended up on this path. He'd been pulled in, tugged one way by one person and pushed along by another, stumbling all the way to where he was now without ever finding his bearings.
But he was still playing.
The nights in Shimokitazawa never end, and the lights in the rehearsal room stay on.
A story about someone music keeps dragging back onto the stage, and who never wanted to make music but can't escape the girls' bands pursuing him.
The writing is pretty good, but I'm a bit confused if I haven't read the original work. Also, if you want to read more female protagonists, don't come here. The author mentioned the if line, no cp, no party fighting, and no stock trading.