Touhou belongs to ZUN.
Bang Dream belongs to Bushiroad.
Tae came to ChuChu's studio for audition as Rei requested, unfortunately that Rei wasn't there but it wasn't a big deal. The audition went smoothly; ChuChu and Pareo were pleased with Tae's performance, the child producer decided to choose her as band guitarist in an instant.
Tae didn't accept the invitation right away though, she posted her condition that she couldn't be a permanent member due to she was already in another band, she would be just support guitarist from time to time. This was resulting from her last second thought about leaving PoPiPa. She couldn't bear seeing the look of being betrayed from them. She told herself that this was just for gaining extra experience only, she wouldn't have it another way.
ChuChu didn't like it but she agreed anyway, thinking that she could persuaded Tae into changing the band later.
They exchanged contact details afterward. ChuChu told Tae that she would give her the band schedule soon.
Tae just hoped that the schedule wouldn't be overlapped with PoPiPa's schedule or she would have a big problem.
Iku didn't aware she had a gift for guitar. In a short time, she got all the gist of it already: notes, chords, techniques. She had confident that she would play well without putting her outstanding gear to shame.
She decided to take a break since she wanted to summarize what she had been through so far.
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Before she called it a day, she decided to at least listen to her chosen song.
She wore in-ear headphone; set the vinyl disc on the player, and placed the tone arm on the disc.
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"Wow!" The song caused Iku to be frozen for a full minute, until she finally backed to her sense.
The song was too speedy….all she could say was just speedy. The guitars, the drum, the bass, or the keyboard, everything was on a rush. Her second opinion was the song was too chaotic; it was like she was hit by freight trains after freight trains from start to an end.
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The song was over, but Iku was far from over now. She backed to her guitar and started tuning it with the effect board. She stepped up her challenging game herself by mimicking those riffs while she put the song on repeats, pauses, and backwards.
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She let loose her inner wildness into the playing once she got the hang of it, unaware of her electrical nature which seeping out little by little from her speedy tapping until it became visible purple lightning arc running around the guitar body.
It should be a fantastic sight to behold if not for the fact that the instrument wasn't design to hold such high voltage supernatural power; its' inner circuit, the effect board, and amp finally broke down after a short period of time from direct power surge.
"Oh my god!"
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She packed all the destroyed set, intended to visit Yukari for repair (if possible) or replacement.
'How mad will she be?' Iku was afraid of Yukari's reaction once she learned about her high voltage handling.
Kasen knew about Metal genre by theory in general, but she didn't willingly listen to it before. To be a drummer was not hard in her opinion, but to be on the expert level? She would have to find out herself how hard it was.
She finished all the basic pretty fast. Now, it was time she listened to an example. She would know her milestone once she heard the playing.
She didn't plan to listen to the whole album, thus she chose the song which had the same name with the album, she thought this song should be the highlight track. She wore a full-size headphone; inserted the CD into the CD Walkman, then chose the track before pressed Play.
It surely didn't let her down.
The opening drum solo really got her hook already for just the first time listening; she decided in a flash that she would cover this song, the rest of the song didn't matter at this point as she listened to memorize the beat without the need of consideration.
While she was busy head-banging, her cleaved evil right arm in the glass container was moving its' finger along with the rhythm as well.
Little did she know that this would lead to an unexpected turn of event shortly.
"Yuyuko-sama! What on earth is this?!" The half-ghost gardener got shaken to the core by just the opening tract of the album. She pushed Pause button in the middle of the play.
"A metal song, It is called Angel of Death." Yuyuko innocently answered after she saw the song list on the back cover.
"It's so frightening, Yuyuko-sama! I cannot endure it anymorrrrrreeeeee!" Youmu ran away. The dark lyrics about Auschwitz butchery camp and evil sound of the song strained her mentality very quickly; if she stayed a little longer, she would puke.
On the contrary, the lyrics didn't affect Yuyuko that much. Her ability was the Control over Death, she could invoked death in anyone or being if they weren't strong enough to resist her power. She used to kill either intentional or unintentional, even her best friend was once nearly fell victim to her power. Death caused by her wasn't bloody like what the song described the camp, but it was dead all the same so she felt nothing about it.
She was used to dead, but that didn't mean she enjoyed killing alright!
The instrument part amazed her. The sound was very aggressive, but she refrained to comment for now as she would like to hear the whole album first. She pushed the Pause button again resuming the play.
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At last, she finished listening to the whole album.
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"Finish already? I really hope it won't end. This is the very first time something completely makes me forget about vengeance for my son."
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Yuyuko was too absorb into the songs; especially Raining Blood (the final song), that she failed to notice a new entity in her vast yard.
She turned around to face the newcomer, and she got cringe immediately as the person in front of her, who was in Chinese style attire and seemed to be high-class lady, emitting a purely dense vengeful aura.
"Do you mind enlightening me on this music?" Yuyuko suddenly got a new wave of pressure again even the woman asked normally. Unknowingly to the Chinese woman, her pure vengeful nature always coated anything coming out of her in Fury.
Despite being pressured, Yuyuko was perfectly sane and rational. She had so many questions right now, such as who she was, how she could enter this place, what the purpose of her being here, etc. But all of that could wait, it wasn't a good idea to toy with a stranger which your gut feeling told you she was super dangerous.
"I just got it from my friend. It should be better if I let her explain to you since I'm new to this as well. By the way, who are you?"
The Chinese lady smiled motherly (with grudging aura, of course!).
"Just call me, Junko."