Inside the Kessoku Band group chat.
Jhin: "The album recording should be just about finished today, right?"
Nijika: "That's right. The album will be officially released in a few days. I'm so nervous."
Ryo: "What is there to be nervous about? Our band isn't that famous right now anyway. Don't hold too many fantasies."
Kita: "That's exactly why we have to keep working hard to increase our fame!"
Hitori: "Purchase link... where is it... I'm going to buy a few copies so the sales don't look so miserable..."
Jhin: "Bocchi-chan, don't do that kind of strange thing. Your main task right now is to improve your performance skills. You don't need to consider promotion and album sales at all. Focusing too much on that is putting the cart before the horse."
Hitori: "Ah, okay. But I want to collect our first album..."
Jhin: "I'll give each of you a copy when it's done. Nijika, I'll give you the copies for the Manager and the Sound Engineer big sister as well."
Nijika: "Onee-chan said there's no need; she'll buy it herself."
Jhin: "The ones for you guys are Collector's Editions, not for sale to the public. Just keep them with you."
Nijika: "Mn, thanks."
Jhin: "Ryo, you haven't spoken for so long. You aren't thinking about putting the Collector's Edition up on a resale site depending on the sales volume, are you?"
Ryo: "No, doing that would be too stupid. I'm just considering buying normal albums to make signed versions."
Nijika: "That's no good either, you money-grubber!"
Jhin: "I'm coming to the company later. The surprise I mentioned before has been settled."
Kita: "Wow, looking forward to it."
When Jhin arrived at the second floor of the company, the girls had already finished recording the album and were resting.
Skillfully catching Hitori Gotoh, who threw herself into his arms and acted spoiled with all her might, Jhin held her as he sat down, simultaneously placing four documents on the table.
"Remember to take this consent form back and have your parents sign it."
"What consent form?"
"The consent form regarding the Antarctica travel plan."
"?! We are going to Antarctica?"
Nijika never imagined that the mysterious place Jhin mentioned earlier would actually be Antarctica. She picked up the consent form and flipped through it.
"Yeah. We'll go with the scientific expedition team in December and stay there for about three months." Jhin cupped Hitori Gotoh's delicate, tender face with both hands, kneading it continuously. "We'll shoot a promotional MV while we're there. Maybe we can even collaborate with a certain singer."
"Isn't the time we'll be staying a bit too long?"
"Rest assured, I'll find people to tutor you once we're there. You absolutely don't need to worry about your grades getting worse when you come back."
"No... that's not what I meant." Nijika waved her hands repeatedly at Jhin.
In Nijika's previous life plan, if she could get into a music university, she would refine her drumming skills there while scouting for band members. But now, the band was already fully formed, and they even had an exclusive record label. Graduating high school and stepping directly into society as a professional band member wasn't an impossible option.
Ryo's parents didn't have excessive requirements regarding her higher education, much like how they usually raised her with a free-range approach. If she could get into her desired university, she would go; if she didn't pass or chose to work after high school, that was also fine. The worst-case scenario was simply returning to inherit the family business.
Getting into the University of Tokyo used to be Ryo's goal, but that goal had gradually become less important with the development of the band.
"The company will communicate with the school. You can rest easy on that front. Moreover, having students participate in an Antarctic scientific expedition is beneficial for the school's reputation, so it's quite easy to handle."
Compared to the other three who were asking Jhin questions like curious babies, Kita Ikuyo appeared much quieter. Her parents didn't support her playing in a band to begin with; they hoped she would focus her energy on her studies and aim to become a civil servant. For this trip to Antarctica, the most difficult part would probably be getting her parents to sign the consent form.
Nijika noticed that Kita Ikuyo's mood was a bit low and asked with concern, "Kita, what's wrong? You don't seem to have much energy?"
"Ah, no, I just feel a bit surprised." Kita Ikuyo put on her usual cheerful smile. She swore secretly in her heart that she would definitely get her parents to agree to this Antarctica trip.
"Filming an MV in Antarctica... Will the expedition team allow us to bring instruments up there..."
Ryo was already considering what to do once they arrived in Antarctica.
Jhin thought it was time to reveal a little bit of Synapse technology to them now, to save them from overthinking. He opened the storage space of his personal terminal and took out a maid outfit.
Seeing Jhin produce a maid outfit out of thin air, the girls thought he was performing magic. They swarmed over all at once to inspect where the magic mechanism was hidden.
"Strange, I can't see a mechanism capable of storing such a large piece of clothing anywhere."
"Could it be... the mechanism is placed on Bocchi-chan's body?"
As soon as these words came out, the three of them cast gazes that looked like they wanted to strip her completely bare straight onto Hitori Gotoh. It scared her into a full-body shiver, and she squeezed deeper into Jhin's arms, weakly defending herself, "Um... there's no magic mechanism on my body."
Nijika and Kita Ikuyo had witnessed how Hitori Gotoh hid those massive breasts—which made them seethe with envy and jealousy—underneath that pink jersey. To this day, they still couldn't figure out what kind of magic could camouflage those magnificent peaks into a perfectly flat airfield.
Could it be that this magic of Jhin's utilized the same principle?
Seeing signs that Nijika and Kita Ikuyo were transforming into female perverts about to forcibly strip someone, Jhin hurriedly protected the trembling Hitori Gotoh and explained to them, "This isn't some magic. This is Spatial Storage Technology."
"Whoa, a term that only appears in sci-fi movies just appeared."
Seeing they still didn't believe him, Jhin had no choice but to take out the guitar used to save the show during the last Cultural Festival from the storage space. No matter how you looked at it, an object of this volume was absolutely impossible to hide inside one's clothes.
"No way..."
"This..."
"Is it really Spatial Storage Technology?"
The sight of the three of them with eyes wide open and faces full of shock was incredibly cute. Only Hitori Gotoh, still nestled in Jhin's arms, couldn't figure out the situation.
Jhin placed the guitar to the side and said with a beaming smile, "Now you should finally believe me, right? No matter what, Synapse is a technology company. How could we go without a little earth-shattering technology?"
"This has already gone beyond the level of 'earth-shattering', hasn't it?"
"Don't mind these small details. Future technology will only be even more beyond imagination. Consider this a vaccination shot to prepare you in advance. Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Nijika and the others shook their heads. This technology, which far exceeded their cognition, had completely occupied their brains; they needed a little time to digest this matter.
Hitori Gotoh confusedly got up from Jhin's arms, tugged at her boyfriend's sleeve, and asked him, "Jhin, what did you just do?"
"Nothing, just took some things out."
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