The Amazing Name of a Group Friend: Invincible Pig Head Meat Does Pole Dancing at Home and Kicks Her Mother-in-Law Away

Weifei Land, Chenghui Plateau.

A household in the urban village.

Hmm... the hall was decorated somewhat strangely. White cloth hung on the walls, paper carnations were piled by the entrance, and a signboard draped in red cloth stood in the middle.

In the corner were an odd assortment of instruments: a suona, cymbals, an erhu, drums, an electric keyboard...

"Um... Nangong, are you sure the teacher you found, Yuzuha, is reliable?"

Sunna surveyed the subtly unsettling room and felt a little frightened.

Faced with Sunna's question, Aria hesitantly spoke up as well. "Nangong, according to my core processing results, this appears to be a mourning hall in Weifei Land, not a rehearsal room."

"A mourning hall? What's that?" Sunna looked utterly confused.

"A room where the bodies of the deceased are temporarily kept, according to Weifei Land customs."

"!!!!!!"

Sunna froze instantly and instinctively edged closer to Aria.

"Oh, Sunna, Aria, don't worry yourselves sick!"

Nangong looked at her two trembling friends with an expression of exasperated disappointment.

She put one hand on her hip and secretly made a gesture behind her back with the other. "Look, even Griseo isn't scared!"

Behind Nangong, Griseo cooperatively nodded and said seriously, "Big Sister Sunna, Big Sister Aria, there are no sad colors here."

What she meant was that if this really were a mourning hall, there would be the dull gray colors left behind by grieving relatives.

But there was nothing like that here, which meant it was merely a rehearsal room styled after a mourning hall.

"I-Is that so?" Only after hearing Griseo's words did Sunna and Aria relax a little. After all, Griseo would never lie.

The two then entered the room and looked around. Everything appeared perfectly normal.

Just as Sunna breathed a sigh of relief, a mournful funeral tune suddenly began to play.

!!!!

A chill ran down Sunna and Aria's backs. They whirled around to see what had happened, only to find that the table bearing the signboard in the middle of the room had suddenly flown into the air!

A pair of red twin-tails appeared, followed by a tanuki dropping from the ceiling and ending up hanging upside down right in front of Sunna.

"AAAAAHHHH—THE CORPSE IS COMING BACK TO LIFE!!!"

All the color drained from Sunna with a whoosh, turning her into a black-and-white picture.

Aria was the same. She was so frightened that she froze outright, her projected appearance flickering violently several times.

"Oh my, I didn't expect you two young ladies to be so easily scared!"

"Oh? One of you is even one of the Intelligent Constructs~!" Yuzuha Ukinami flicked her red twin-tails and smilingly raised a hand to call Cauldron back.

"Hmph, Nangong, I'm never talking to you again!!"

"Me too!"

After recovering, Sunna and Aria huddled miserably in the corner together, accusing the mastermind behind the prank.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey! Lei took part too, so why are you only blaming me?" Nangong refused to accept Sunna and Aria's accusations. "I object!"

"Lei is so well-behaved. You must've led her astray!"

"Exactly! It's all Nangong's fault!"

"..."

On the other side of the room, however, the atmosphere was entirely different.

"Oh my! So your name is Griseo!" Yuzuha Ukinami brought out a huge pile of pastries from Tea Immortal and warmly treated Griseo.

She examined the little girl with a beaming smile.

How should she put it?

Yuzuha had always been known as the neighborhood's child leader, thanks to her gift for talking and cheerful personality.

Although she was an energetic little devil who spent all day weaving wild ghost stories, she had always been very good at judging people.

The moment she first saw Griseo, she felt that this girl was special.

Pure? Childlike innocence? No, other children had those too.

She could not describe exactly what that feeling around Griseo was. It was strange, different from everyone around her, and that was why she liked the little girl so much.

Of course, after that little interlude came the real business.

"Hello, everyone. I'm Yuzuha Ukinami from Strange Explanations Studio. Just call me Yuzuha—this is my companion, Cauldron."

Yuzuha sat atop an overturned wooden crate, her tone light and cheerful.

Though the room's decor was bizarre, she seemed perfectly at ease. Cauldron, perched on her shoulder, nodded and raised a paw to straighten his military cap in greeting.

"Hello, Miss Yuzuha. I'm Sunna, the composer for Angels of Delusion."

"I'm Aria, the lead singer. As you can see, I'm one of the Intelligent Constructs. I hope you don't mind."

The three girls, having made up again, introduced themselves one after another.

When it was Nangong's turn, she merely gave her name before stopping—after all, she and Yuzuha had already met while planning that prank.

"Hello, everyone! I've heard of Miss Sunna's great name for a long time!"

"Not at all, Miss Aria. We also have one of the Intelligent Constructs in Weifei Land, Master Ban Yue. He is greatly respected."

With just a few words, Yuzuha quickly closed the distance between them. Then the corners of her lips curled up, revealing a mysterious smile.

"Don't worry. Since you've come to me as your guide teacher, I'll definitely let you experience the oldest and most influential music in Weifei Land!"

"Really? Teacher Yuzuha, take us there quickly!" Sunna's eyes lit up as she eagerly cried out.

"There's no need to go anywhere—this is the place."

Yuzuha pointed at the ground beneath their feet. She walked over to the corner piled high with instruments, picked up a suona in one hand and an erhu in the other, then turned to face the three of them.

"Huh???" Sunna and Aria both froze, question marks practically covering their heads.

But Yuzuha truly had not lied.

The oldest music passed down in Weifei Land really did involve those two instruments, and naturally the other instruments were much the same.

As the saying went—

Of all instruments, the suona was king: either it sent you to heaven or accompanied your wedding.

A pipa lasted a thousand years, a zheng ten thousand; one erhu could be played for an entire lifetime.

You arrived in this world full of excitement, but once the suona sounded, the whole show was over.

When you first heard the suona, you did not understand its tune; when you heard it again, you were already in the coffin.

"Oh, don't look at me like that!"

Seeing "Are you serious?" written all over the faces of the three from Angels of Delusion,

Yuzuha hurriedly waved her hands, her tone turning cheeky.

"As the old saying in Weifei Land goes, there's no one an erhu can't make cry, no soul a suona can't send away, no sorrow a flute can't blow away, and no person a ringing gong can't wake up!

This is the essence of Weifei Land!"

As she spoke, Yuzuha even struck a pose with the suona, looking quite like a wandering folk performer.

"Big Sister Yuzuha wasn't lying."

At the dessert area, Griseo had already eaten more than half the pastries.

Clearly, Griseo liked Tea Immortal's desserts very much. Perhaps they carried the flavor of the Divine Land from her memories, or perhaps it was because Hua had made them for her before.

"Then shall we give it a try? X2"

Hearing Griseo's words, Sunna and Aria exchanged a glance before speaking hesitantly.

As for Nangong, she did not care either way. Anything was fine with her—she knew too many things.