Aftermath

[I never really left boys, I promised I'd do it! 😤🎉 One million special!!!
Also, have you read that bonus manga one-shot about their plane crashing? Now I'm not saying they copied me, but maybe someone from the staff read my shit and copied me! 😤 /j
This is just gonna be scenes and scenarios, some real slice-of-life type of thing in no particular order. Just so you know I tried to write it out as I normally do, but there is SO much to write and I honestly don't have the energy for it. So I've decided to make it like one of those tumblr list thingies! Let's go!]




-Remember how you and Senku moved in together? Obviously there's a piano in the living room and sometimes, he'd sit beside you as you played. One thing led to another, you'd teach him some piece that you could play together. And you'd sing songs! One of those being "A Cat Is a Cat" by Slide20xx and Emily Anderson.
"Appeler un chat un chat." you sang under your breath. "I just want to, stay in with you."
"You pronounce the French part differently, don't you?" he pointed out.
"Because they pronounce it wrong!" you exclaimed, then went on a small rant about French pronunciation.
The sudden change of atmosphere in what started as a quiet wholesome moment made him laugh.



-Now that there were whole cities around the world, whenever someone had a big science or art project in mind, they had to pitch it to people. Thankfully, most projects were accepted! You called on a pitch meeting the most out of everyone in the world. Everytime, you'd come in with a list of what you wanted to do. A lot of these were collaborated works with Ryu, Gen or Senku's departments, so they were accepted too. Most of them...
"Lastly I have...one, last project that I really wanna do it and I know I've been asking this multiple times now, but-"
"Is it the Russian boat one again?" Gen asked, his expression twisting in cringe.
"...Yes."
The whole board groaned.

"Russian boat?" Tsukasa asked (he was here to pitch a world boxing tournament project, so it was his first time here).
"Don't ask!" Senku exclaimed.
"Glad you asked Tsukasa!" you looked at him with stars in your eyes. "You see, there's this Russian song called 'The Boatmen of the Volga'. The whole folklore around it is that, back in like the 17th, there were people whose job was to literally pull boats up the Volga river! And they would sing this song as they did it to walk on the beat, to go at a steady pace! It's a really popular chant that was covered by a lot of orchestras!"

"Ah. And we've recently revived some people in Russia."
"That we did! And we've found what used to be the Volga river!"
"We're not going to dress up as peasants and sing in Russian while pulling a giant boat up a river, with an entire orchestra on the boat!" Magma glared (he was also in line to make a pitch, this wasn't his first time here).
"Come oooon!!!" you whined. "How cool would that be?!?!?!"
"(Y/n), those singers will die!" Senku exclaimed.
"That sounds doable to me." Tsukasa smiled.
"Don't!"
"Exactly! We just need the strongest people to do it!"
"Can't we just...attach an engine to the boat?" Chrome asked (he was also in line for a pitch).
"No! Are you dumb?!" you glared. "This performance would be all about rawness and authenticity! Helping the Boatmen would be cheating!"
"Oh so you want them to die!" Senku cackled.



-You and Gen collaborated a lot in the show-business careers. You were a really popular duo. The two of you were judges on a "[blank]'s got talent" type of talent show. After a beautiful performance from a young singer, the audience exploded with applaud.
"Oh that was marvelous!" Gen exclaimed. "Surely a treat for the musical expe- Oh my god!"
He panicked – over-exaggerating of course – when he saw you slumped back in your chair like you just passed out.
"(Y/n)-chan?!" he shook you. "(Y/n)-chan wake up!"
"Sorry!" you suddenly sat up. "Sorry my soul ascended for a second, I'm back!"
The audience laughed.



-You and Senku would frequently go on dates. And he became more and more accustomed to it.
One day, you were both sitting down on a bench, you've been there for a while. Senku checked the time and told you that the movie was about to start and that you guys should get going. Both stood up and started to leave, with him in front of you, and he blindly reach a hand behind him for you to hold.
Silently, you clenched your chest and hunched over. You held his hand with one hand and clenched the other.
'So fuckin' cute!!! Best boyfriend ever!!! I love this man!!!'



-You were hanging out at a cafe with your gossip group, consisting of Nikki, Minami, Chelsea and the three sisters. They were having a lively chat but they could help but notice the distant look on your face.
"(Y/n)? You good?" Chelsea asked. "You've been spacing out for a while now! What's up with that?! Are you having artist block or somethin'?"
"...I have a question." you asked with a grave expression. "And I need you guys to answer honestly."
The girls leaned a bit closer, intrigued.
"Is...Is Xeno hot?"
They all leaned back in their chairs.

"R...Really?" Nikki asked. "You're asking us that?"
"Answer the question!"
"(Y/n)." Minami said. "Why do you think so many people listen to his boring podcast?"
"It's not boring! What do you mean?!"
She gave you a look that said 'really?'.

Here is now an excerpt from Xeno's weekly podcast, a little side project he does for fun. He said that with all modern databases gone, he needed somewhere to dump all of his knowledge. Of course, his knowledge was mostly space-based:
"The existence of atmospheres around TRAPPIST-1's planets depends on the balance between the amount of atmosphere initially present, its rate of evaporation, and the rate at which it is built back up by meteorite impacts, incoming material from a protoplanetary disk and outgassing and volcanic activity. Impact events may be particularly important in the outer planets because they can both add and remove volatiles; addition is likely dominant in the outermost planets where impact velocities are slower. Although the properties of TRAPPIST-1 are unfavourable to the continued existence of atmospheres around its planets, the formation conditions of the planets would give them large initial quantities of volatile materials, including oceans over 100 times larger than those of Earth."

"His voice is so smooth!" "And his eyes are so piercing." "When he mumbled under his breath?" the three sisters squeal.
You looked a bit disturbed by that.
"I like his podcast 'cause it's interesting!" you exclaimed. "And it's ASMR-esque, so it's great to have as background noise!"
"Honestly, what shocks me the most is that you don't find him hot!" Nikki pointed at you.
"Ew! Why would I?!"
"He's literally like an older darker Senku!"
You burst out laughing.
"He is nothing like Senku! How dare you?!"
"I'm pretty sure Xeno and (Y/n) have a more 'in-law siblings' relationship." Chelsea said, checking the relationship chart she had in her head.
"In-law?" Minami asked.
"Yeah! 'Cause Xeno's definitely Senku's big brother!" she giggled.
"Oh that is so true!" you exclaimed, then high-fived her.




-"These two," Senku pointed at a board, on it was a drawing of two strange animals. "are Pakicetus and Indohyus."
"What are they?" Gen tilted his head, confused.
"They look like a mix between a wolf and a gerbil." you said.
"Are they Capybaras?!" Taiju asked, enthusiastic. "They're big hamsters right?!"
"They are not capybaras!" Senku glared before continuing his storytime segment. "One day, Pakicetus decides to search for more food in the water. Fast forward, thirty-five million years later!"
He turned the board around, there was now a big whale and deer.
"What?!?!?!" everyone exclaimed.
"That's crazy!!!" Chrome added.
Senku cackled.
"Moral of the story: evolution is exciting!" he smirked.




-Today was father's day. Senku went to Byakuya's grave, and he asked if you wanted to come along. Of course you said yes. As you stood in front of his grave, Senku took out two shortbread biscuits, with a drawing of a rocket on it, made with frosting. It was really ugly, which made it clear that he made it himself.
"He'd make me make these." he handed one to you.
"Every year?" you took it.
"Every year."
You both started eating in silence. But Senku could tell that you were holding back your words out of respect. He glanced at you before looking back at the grave.
"No I didn't get any better."
You wheezed.
"I didn't say anything!"
"Didn't have to."

"...It might not look the best, but it tastes really good!"
"Heh, thanks."
There was a moment of silence, during which you finished your biscuits.
"Yeah, we're dating now."
You looked at him with big eyes. He was talking to the grave.
"I know exactly what you'd say in this situation, and I don't want to hear it. Kukuku! Good thing you're dead old man!"
"Senku!" you hit on the arm, he just cackled some more.
"Turns out I can fall in love after all." he ignored you. "It's just... A shame, that you two never got to really talk." he finally looked at you. "He always said that he wanted you to come over for dinner. I always stopped him from asking though, I thought it was way too cringe."
"Oh that's what he wanted to say all this time!" your eyes widened.
Every time you came over to his house to hang out, Byakuya would always eventually say 'Hey (L/n), if you want you can-' or 'Hey, how 'bout you-' and Senku would always say no and quickly drag you away with him. Thinking about it again, it made you laugh.

"I'm sure I would've loved him."
"You would've..." he nodded, and hung his head down.
You could see his hands shaking, clenched into fists. You held his hand, intertwining your fingers together. You heard him sniff and he gave your hand a gentle squeeze.
You stayed like this until he felt like leaving.



-[Got the idea from thepinkprayingmantiss on tiktok]
As mentioned before, you and Senku had your own personal beetle farm at home. Despite not being as big of a fan of insects as Senku was, beetles mostly walked, so it was fine by you. This one time, he was laying on the couch, a big goliath beetle of the back of his hand, annoying it by brushing its head with a small paint brush. He started doing that when he discovered that the beetle would wave its front legs in the air, to make the brush go away.
"Kukuku he really hates that!"
He poked the beetle again, it waved its front legs again. You were working on music sheets on the other side of the room, witnessing Senku's bullying.
"Poor babyyyy." you whined.
"Kukukuku!"
"Stop!"
He just cackled some more. At this point, the beetle started to get into position.
"Are you gonna fly?" Senku asked, putting a hand over it.
"Please don't fly." you shook your hand.
The beetle took off and began flying around the room, making a loud buzzing noise. You yelped and quickly ran away as Senku went after the insect.
"Senku! Apologize!"
"Alright I'm sorry okay?!"



-These days, you tried to learn about how to write and read music sheets. Senku would sometimes help you study.
"I just don't understand the three by two, three by three whatever." you huffed, frustrated.
"It's tempo (Y/n). Literally the basic of basics."
"All music is in four by four!" you folded your arms with a pout. "As long as you don't count like a fuckin' nerd!"
He cackled, holding his stomach.




-When the film industry developed, of course you guys worked on remaking movies. One day, you were checking out the animation studio that was recently set up. Suddenly some dude bursted into the room.
"I tried to stop him!" Yuzuriha exclaimed, coming in after him. "He was just de-petrified and I was showing him around when he suddenly got angry."
"I'm shutting down this operation!" he shouted in english. "You're recreating Cinderella?! That is property of the Disney Company! I could very well sue all of you for this!"
"...Sir." you spoke in english. "You're wearing a leaf skirt right now. You should be worrying about if you're gonna eat tonight. We're not doing this for money or fame. This is charity work. But hey." you raised your head. "If you don't want to be a part of this, you are welcome to go out there on your own." you pointed to the wildlife outside the window.
He gulped.
"If you wanna stay here and be part of the Kingdom of Science, you gotta contribute something." you added.



-This one time, Senku disappeared overnight without telling anybody. Your friends were starting to panic and they ran around, looking everywhere for him.
"Senku!!! Are you in there?!?!?!" Taiju looked into a chicken coop.
"Oh, poor (Y/n) dear!" Ryusui dramatically looked into the distance. "She must be devastated!"
"She must be freaking out!!!" Chelsea panicked.
"Where the hell is he?!?!?!"
"Oh he went to Africa."
"Huh?!?!?!" everyone looked over to see you walking by.
"Yeah he told me he'd go study some rocks there."
"He told you?!" Taiju exclaimed. "He didn't tell anyone else!"
"Yeah, he was very excited about it." you nodded.
"He went to Africa, and he didn't ask me to get him there?!" Ryu pointed at himself.
"I think he asked Stanley to do it."
"Aaaaaw!" Gen leaned closer to you. "Senku-chan giving a heads up to his girlfrieeeend!"
You couldn't help but giggle.



-"Senku," you said, lounging on your long chair. "I thought you said we'd go on a beach date."
"We are on a beach date. You're having an attitude right now."
"You know, when I think of going to the beach, I think of sunbathing, swimming around, eating watermelons, drinking fresh drinks and having fun."
"Are you telling me sedimentary geology isn't interesting?!" he looked at you from the bottom of his one-and-a-half-meter deep hole in the sand.
"I'm not saying it's not interesting." you stood up and went up to the hole to look at him. "I'm saying that, when I'm at the beach, I wanna do beach things!"
"Are you kidding me?! This is a beach thing! Sedimentary is in the name! Look at this!" he gestured to the walls. "Look at the patterns of those layers of sand! How cool is that?!"
You crouched down to better see the look of excitement on his face.
"You are...such a nerd." you shook your head, smiling.



-You just recreated the song "What Once Was" by hers. You listened to the finished product with Chrome and Nikki.
"Man! This is crazy good!" Chrome beamed. "Can't wait to revive these guys!"
You laughed. The laughter turned into crying and Chrome comforted you, confused.
Nikki told him what happened to the band and he cried with you.



-[Got the idea from ubereric on tiktok]
Sometimes, you'd gather all your stone age friends and share thing from pop culture, so that they could catch up.
"So this." you pointed at the board where there was a drawing of an empty room. "This is the backrooms. It's a liminal space where the horror comes in the fact that it feels so eerily familiar – like you've been here before – but it's still so alien to you. And you wander these halls forever and it's basically an infinite empty void-"
"It's cool and all." Gen raised a hand. "But what if there was a big scary monster wandering the place and chasing you and he goes 'raaah I'm gonna get you!', wouldn't that be cooler? And what if there were like thousands of other floors and all are different with their own story. And in the floor I made, floor 666, there's a goblin man who chases you with a knife like 'ooo I'm gonna stab you'! Wouldn't that be scarier?"
You gave him a nasty look, to which he responded with a big smile. He knew what he was doing!



-When the science team was bringing the phone system to another level, there were some questions: do they replicate the path the invention took the first time, or do they try to replicate the modern version directly?
"When telephones were first invented," Xeno said. "there were no phone numbers, every phone was connected to an operating line. You would ask to speak to someone and the operator would then connect the call to that person, using a cord and a telephone switchboard."
"I say we do phone numbers right away." Senku said. "Decreases the risks of having another Strowger situation."
"Strowger?" Gen tilted his head.
"What's that?" Chrome asked.
"He was one of two undertakers from Kansas City in the late 19th century." Senku explained. "His business started to tank, and he found out that was because the wife of the other undertaker was a phone operator and every time someone asked for an undertaker she would always connect them to her husband's business, even if the caller asked for Strowger. So he went on and invented the automatic telephone exchange and the rotary dial out of spite! Kukuku!"
"Wowie!" Gen exclaimed. "Talk about revenge, he pushed that woman out of a job!"
"She was a real one for that though." Chelsea nodded.



-At some point, Senku came back home with a funky looking flute, you instantly recognized it as a EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument). Basically an electric flute, sounds like something out of animal crossing.
"Oh my gosh!" you rushed over to him and reached for it. "I can't believe you made-"
"Um." he held it away from you. "That's for me."
"What?! But music is my thing! Your thing is nerdy science!"
"Fuck you!" he gave you a nasty look. "Also, just because science is my thing doesn't mean I can't have other things." he huffed. "I like these, they make a funky sound."
"I know that!" you huffed. "You better share."
"But I don't know how to play it. I was actually gonna ask if you could teach me."
Your eyes widened. You looked at him, touched, like you were about to cry. He cringed.
"A'ight, cut it out now." he looked away, his cheeks dusted with pink. "It's not THAT serious."
"I love you."
He groaned.




-You were chilling in a bar, chatting with your friends and François who was bartending. You watched them mixing cocktails and pouring beers into cups.
"François, I've always wondered," you said. "why do you always leave so much foam when you pour a beer? Only half of the glass is the actual beer."
"That is a very interesting question, Lady (Y/n). The answer is quite simple."
They placed two empty glasses on the counter and took out two small bottle of beer.
"It is all about the speed in which the beer is poured. A rookie bartender would pour it very slowly, like so." they opened a bottle and pour it slowly into one of the glass, and there wasn't that much foam in it. "Very carefully, so as not to let a drop fall. A professional bartender, who knows the proper way of pouring a beer, would pour it much faster." they did the same process with the other glass, except faster, that way, around half of the glass was filled with foam.
"Okay. But how is one better than the other?"

"Well you see, this beer," they pointed at the first one. "was poured so slowly that the gas in still in the beer. And this is what happens in the customer's stomach."
They took out a napkin, folded it into a tube and dropped it into the glass. Like with a shaken soda can, bubbles started to form and the beer overflowed the glass. You and your friends let out a 'woah!'
"But when the gasses are being dissipated as the beer is poured." they pointed at the foam part of the second glass. "Look at the difference."
They did the same process with the napkin. This time, there were still bubbles, but a lot less than the first time, and this time, the glass didn't overflow.
"And this is how you spot the difference between a rookie and a professional." they made a small bow while you and your friends clapped.



-This one time, you and Senku went to a get together with some friends you haven't seen in a while. At some point, Senku gasped.
"We made a new discovery at the lab!"
"Really? You didn't tell me about this." you tilted your head.
He fully rotated his chair to face you.
"(Y/n), babe, listen-"
"Babe?!" you wheezed. "You never call me babe! How excited are you?!"
Your old classmates stared at you two, baffled. What the hell happened while they were petrified, they thought.



-You've recreated "Beach Baby" by Bon Iver and now you just sat back and enjoyed listening to it.
"...(Y/n)." Chrome broke the silence. "You said this would be the prettiest song in the world-"
"One of." you corrected, keeping your eyes closed. "For me, personally. Just awakens something in me man."
"Well I just don't see it." he sighed. "This just sounds like any other chill song you've made."
"Wait for it." you lifted a finger.
Just then, the lap steel solo hit and you heard Chrome gasp. You smiled, pictures of summer flashing in your mind.



-Safe to say that you, Senku and company became real celebrities in this new world. The new recruit at Senku's lab had a huge crush on him. Today there was a science festival, where every scientist of all sorts would show off their skills with an experiment. Her booth was right next to his.
'I just want him to think I'm cool!' she thought.
Needless to say, he was wowing anyone that walked passed, with his miniature fireworks. And it looked so effortless too! In fact, he looked bored. But his attitude changed once his girlfriend came by. Although it didn't show in his face, the young scientist could tell he put more effort into this next batch of firework. These even had shapes! As they went off, he kept making glances at his girlfriend, who was in awe.
'Oh my god.' the young scientist thought. 'He wants HER to think he's cool!'
Despite her crush on him, she couldn't help but root for him in his endeavor.



-One day, you guys had a big meeting about how to organize the rebuilding of cities. You thought it would be about the now limited supplies for architecture, making more walkable cities since there's like five cars in the whole wide world. But when Senku stepped up to speak to everyone, he said something even you couldn't have expected.
"Every house gets three chickens!"
"What?!" everyone looked at him with big eyes.
"Why?" you asked.
"Back in the modern world, a city in Belgium offered three chickens to like two thousand families. So that was six thousand chickens."
"Where would we get that many chickens?" you mumbled.
"Where did they find that many chickens?!" Gen asked.

"Within the first few months, the amount of food waste dropped by tons. And not only do they take care of pests in the fields, but also, since all these people had chickens, they didn't need to buy eggs. If everyone had three chickens, the entire egg industry wouldn't be needed!"
The people in the room raised some concerns about that: that would mean that a lot of people wouldn't have a job. The egg industry was pretty massive in the modern world. But you knew that was just capitalism talking!
"And if I may add." you faced everyone. "If we go through with this, everyone gets three free pet chickens."
That seemed to win everyone over.



-You and Senku would regularly share fun facts out of the blue. If he shared one, you had to share one as well, and vice-versa. Whoever already knew it wins.
"The TRAPPIST-1 system is made of seven exoplanets that are similar to Earth in density and size. With the millenia that have passed when we were all petrified, there might be life on these planets by now."
You thought for a second, laid on the couch, before looking at him.
"A couple of lesbian penguins keep stealing eggs from other penguins. So there's 'drama in the queer penguin community'. That is a real headline from a real article that really existed and that you could actually read if you looked it up."
"I knew that."
"Dammit!!!"
He cackled. Yet another point for him.




-[Got the idea from Malcom in the Middle]
Along with regular school, Chrome and Suika attended special classes, taught Sai, Xeno, and/or Senku (it all depended on the subject of the day). Right now, it was Xeno.
"In order to break free of the Earth's atmosphere, the rocketship must attend speed of more than twenty-five thousand miles per hour."
"That's too crazy!" Chrone frowned. "If they went that fast, why aren't they squashed into their seats?!"
"You're confusing acceleration and velocity." Xeno explained. "You feel it at first, but once your body is up to speed, you wouldn't notice. For example, right now we are standing on a planet that spins at roughly 1,037 miles per hour. That planet also rotates around the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour, or 18,5 miles per second. And the solar system itself is moving around the universe at a speed of around 448,000 miles per second."
Knowing this, Chrone grabbed his desk, like he was afraid of falling back.
"Weeee!" Suika raised her hands.
Xeno sighed.




-"Gen, it's pride month!" you told him once you got to work. "Happy Pride month!"
"Happy Pride month, (Y/n)-chan! Will you be coming to the Pride?"
"Will I be going where there's a cool ass party? If I wasn't hired for a gig, I would've come anyway!"
"Do you think Senku-chan will accompany you?"
"Huh... I don't know, I don't know if he's even out-" your expression fell.
"What's wrong?"
"I told you he was asexual, yet he might be in the closet." you held your head. "Oh no! I outed Senku!"
"...I'm pretty sure everybody knows." he smiled with a raised eyebrow. "Even if we didn't, I'm sure he wouldn't mind."
"We don't know that though. He never speaks about that stuff- I gotta go and apologize as soon as I see him again."

Unfortunately, when you saw him again, it was today, at work, so a lot of people were around. He came over to the entertainment department to install and repair some things. Gen noticed your hesitation and decided to help you out.
"Soooo Senku-chaaaaan?"
"What?" he asked in a monotonous tone, not looking away.
"It's Pride Month, (Y/n)-chan and I are going to the Pride."
"Mh-hmm."
"Would you like to join us?"
"Nah, I'm good."
"Really?" you asked. "Anyone can join, you know."
"I know."
You began to silently panic.

"Why don't you wanna come with us?" Gen asked. "It'll be fuuuun!"
"It's just too much for me. Plus, I'm busy these days."
''Too much' as in 'this event's gonna be packed and loud and I'll get a headache', or 'too much' as in, 'It makes me feel awkward and out of place because I'm not even out'?!'' you thought.
'I admit, he should be more specific...' Gen thought.
Thankfully for you both, you were about to be put out of your misery, when a delivery man came in.
"Mr. Ishigami. I have your commision here."
"Cool." he smiled. "Thanks."
The man gave him a small box and wished everyone a good day before leaving.
"What is this?" you asked.
As a response, he opened the box and took out a small asexual flag. You and Gen gasped.

"Aaaaw, how adorbs!" Gen smiled.
"Will you put it at home?" you asked.
"On my desk, at work."
Your eyes widened.
"It's Pride Month." he smirked. "Gotta celebrate it, even in small ways."
"...I told Gen you were asexual without asking you if it was okay." you let out. "I'm sorry."
"It's cool. Pretty sure he knew that already."
"I totally did." he nodded.



-Every summer, you and Ryu would collaborate and start your 'Around-the-World Ultimate Party Tour'. The title is rather self-explanatory, the two of you would travel around the world and have some wild parties. It was for the local population of whichever country you'd stop at, but because of how famous you guys got, your fans would follow you.
"The Party Globetrotters are at it again!" people would say after you'd announce the tour.
"That's our nickname now?" you asked no one in particular.
"Hahaha! I like it!" Ryu snapped his fingers. "Bringing joy around the world!"



-As any famous person, you have your variety segments on tv. One of them was you interviewing people. One day, you interviewed Tsukasa about the winter sports tournament he'll manage. It went smoothly! There was a good flow of conversation going and a palpable chemistry between you two. Not far from where you were, a hockey team was training.
"Watch out!"
Before you even had time to process what happened, Tsukasa turned around and caught a flying palet that was about to hit you in the face.
"Careful." he told the players. "You almost hit her."
While the players apologized deeply, your cameraman was giggling and zooming on the look on your face. You were blushing like crazy! Shock, awe, it was all there!

"Sorry about that." Tsukasa turned back to you, smiling politely. "You were saying?... (Y/n)?"
"I uh..." you cleared your throat and fanned yourself. "I need to have a talk with my boyfriend after this." you mumbled before wheezing.
"Ah. Yes, me too."
"Huh?"
"I need to have a talk with your boyfriend after this."
You both laughed.



-Once animation could be recreated, the first thing you did was to recreate AMVs. You showed it to Chrome, an anime fight scene with a song by My Chemical Romance, and he was speechless.
"That is the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life!!!"
"Hell yeah." you nodded, happy to re-experience such a feeling through him.



-You recreated "Remember the Rain" by 21st century, and as soon as you did, you called on a meeting with the cinema department. You played them the song on repeat while you pitched your idea. This phenomenon happened a lot, they would say 'oh boy, she's inspired'.
"They're both like complete opposite socially. She's a top A student while he's the loser, the bad boy, the lost cause! He's from the other side of the tracks!" you said, really invested. "But what the others don't know, is that they are playground sweethearts!"
They were gasps, all from people who weren't from the modern world (it was clear to them that you wanted to bring back 70's/80's romance flicks).

"But they keep that a secret, because they know that they would never be accepted- Her parents would never! Still, they promise to be together once they get out of highschool, out of this town! But then! He's framed for a murder he didn't commit!"
"What?!" "But she knows he's innocent, right?"
"That's the thing, she thinks he did it too!"
"No way!" "How heartbreaking!"
"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" you nodded with each yeah.
"And then what?!"
"Cut to a year later. He's released because there's not enough evidence to prove he did it, he comes back in town to clear his name. She's in college now and she has a new boyfriend! The guy her dad approves of!"
"No way!!!!"
"Yeah! Yeah! And he-"
You had to pause because the line 'can you remember the rain' came up, and you just had to sing it. It was an intense meeting.




-Sometimes when you make or recreate too many sad songs in a row, it starts to get to you. Senku heard you recreate "M." by Anıl Emre Daldal in your room. When you came into the living room, you were quietly crying. You sat beside him on the couch and laid on his lap.
"You love me, right?"
"Oh boy." he bookmarked his book and put it aside. "Did making all these breakup songs make you think otherwise?" he smiled with a raised eyebrow.
"I just..." you sniffed. "I just wanna hear you say it."
"I love you."
"Cool." you nodded.
He chuckled.

"Not gonna say it back? Now I'm depressed."
"Ah shit." you rubbed your eyes. "I love you too. I love you so much."
He cackled.
"Don't laugh at meeee!" you blindly slapped him.
"You sound drunk!"
"I'm saaaaad!"
You guys spent the rest of the evening cuddling.




-Because there is a lot of music and you're just one person, whenever a musical artist was revived, they were asked to recreate the music they've made in the past (at least a good part of it). But sometimes, there are some stubborn folks.
"The stuff I made was cringy as hell! I'd rather it be forgotten forever!"
But you would say 'screw that!' and remake the tracks yourself, saying that it was your now, since the original artist didn't want it anymore. And honestly, sometimes it was for the best.
"You know what I hate the most in music?"
"Woah!" Gen exclaimed, shocked. "(Y/n)-chan hating something music related?!"
"That is unheard of!" Chelsea added.
"Hey just because I'm the music girl doesn't mean I don't have my pet peeves." you clarified. "When someone on the internet presents a really cool concept for a track, and of course it gets popular and people are like 'when is this dropping?' So you wait and wait. The song finally drops. That cool concept that got everybody hooked? It's a small ass fragment of the song!!!"
"Oh my!" both Gen and Chelsea leaned back, startled at how heated you suddenly got.

"How many times did this happen to you?" he asked.
"So many!" you shouted. "It makes me mad every time! I've been scammed! Deceived! Tricked! Baited! Falsely advertised!"
"Drop names!" Chelsea exclaimed.
"No!" you said. "...I will say this though! This one guy was like 'Hey, what if we used...these cool instruments in a symphonic track?' and it sounded amazing! I patiently wait for the track to be released. It was – I kid you not – an almost eight-minute-long song, with basic independant guitar-plus-reverb-voice type of thing. Not even symphonic, no orchestra no nothing! That part, with the cool instruments, comes up in the very last minute! Oh my god!" you held your head. "I am so angry right now!"
You were so angry in fact that when the day was over. Senku called Gen.
"Mentalist, what the fuck did you do to make her this angry?!"
"She did that to herself! I was as scared as you are!"




-Being famous, you and Senku would of course have a couple segment. This time it was a 'who does what in the relationship'.
"Who's most likely to rant to the other?"
You both thought for a moment.
"Both of us actually." Senku said. "We both get pretty passionate about stuff."
"Last time it was you though." you pointed at him. "About how there's still some debate about-"
"Oh don't bring that up again." he rolled his eyes. "Or else we're gonna be here all day."
"Next question: Who cooks?"
"François." you both said at the same time before bursting out laughing, leaning against each-other.
"We mostly order take outs!" you exclaimed, still laughing. "That's why!"



-"So Beethoven became deaf at some point right?" one of your musicians from the stone world asked you one day.
"Right."
"So... How did he made music? I get that he was good, but seriously, how did he do it?"
"Ohohohoh!" Gen laughed. "Simple stone world folks just can't seem to understand the level at which this genius played. Right, (Y/n)-chan?"
"Actually, he would put a metal rod on his piano, and put the end of it in his mouth. He bit down on it and that way he could technically hear the pitch through his bones."
Everyone in the room looked at you, baffled.
"What the heck do you mean 'through his bones'?!?!?!"

"Uh..." you tried to think of an explanation. "I know there's a term for it, and I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for this. But I don't know it, I just know the result. You're gonna have to ask someone smarter than me." you chuckled, your eyebrows furrowed.
"That should be easy to do." Gen mumbled with a smirk.
"Man fuck you!" you hit him on the arm.
Meanwhile, your employees went to look for someone on the science team. And they ran into Xeno. They told him what you said and asked for an explanation.
"Ah yes, bone conduction." he said. "It's the phenomenon in which vibrations are transmitted through the bones of the skull to the cochlea and the associated sensorineural structures resulting in the perception of sound. It is truly elegant, isn't it?" he smiled.
"...That doesn't help!!!" they told him.




-New people have been depetrified, one of them was a snob music elitist who heard about you and went to you immediately. In your optimism, you were just happy to talk about your passion with a fellow music fan.
"I'm so happy we can teach these stone age people what real music is." he said. "No more of this commercial trash with nothing in it except violence, drugs, and 'fuckin bitches'."
'Oh no.' you thought.
He went on about how rap, pop, and almost any modern music is worthless, how real rock'n'roll died with Nirvana in the 90's and at this point your brain turned off.

"Say." you said. "I have a concert tonight, wanna come?"
"As a featured artist?" his eyes lit up. "I remember my verses by heart!"
"Noooooo." you stood up. "But do come by, free of charge."
He looked really happy. Jokes on him, all your concerts are free!
You opened the concert with "ELEVATE" by Sinizter. Everyone was very hyped and that elitist assholes was stuck in the middle of the crowd. At some point, you gave him a middle finger, which only he would know was for him. Thankfully, everyone was too hyped to care, a lot of them even returned the gesture which made you laugh.
It was on that day that you got your very first hater.



-At a party, for once you weren't the one doing the dj-ing, so of course you were right in the middle of the dance floor! As every party with a dj goes, each time a new song came up, some people would get hyped and scream. But one thing that Gen noticed as him, Tsukasa and Ryusui were standing on the side, was that you would scream with every single song. He of course told his two buddies about it and so the three of them would laugh. Each time a new sing ended...
"Wait for it... Wait for it..." they leaned over a little bit.
They watched as you looked over at the dj, expectantly. As soon as the music started:
"OH MY GOOOOD!" you jumped up and down.
The trio laughed.



-"Hello hello hellooo everybody!" Gen waved to the camera. "Welcome to a historical moment in this stone world! This band right here is going to play a song that our dear (Y/n)-chan doesn't know! If she likes it, it shall be the next recorded track within this new world's musical achieve!"
The crowd cheered. You also clapped, sitting in your large seat in front of the band.
"You know, (Y/n)-chan," he went up to you and rested his elbow on your shoulder. "you sure shook the nation when you told these guys that you didn't know the song they requested you to remake."
"Eh. I don't know everything." you shrugged. "Especially when it comes to music you find on the internet. One song can have thousands of remixes. I'm just one lil lady."
The crowd laughed.

"If anything, I feel bad for these guys." you pointed at the band. "You and the others came up with this tv bit, the entire country is watching them. What if I don't like it?"
"You will!" the lead singer said.
Everybody laughed while you and Gen let out an impressed "oooo!"
"Well they sure are confident! Any last comment?"
"All I know is that it's to the instrumental of 'The Lost Soul Down'. I'm excited! Let's fuckin' goooo~!" you sang as you rotated your seat to face the band.

[floki & lost soul remix]

As music started, the singer started to talk in Russian. You were pleasantly surprised, you didn't expect that. And when he started to sing:
"Ooooh shit!!!" you sat at the edge of your seat, bopping your head up and down.
And when the chorus hit, and all the members of the band sang, you jumped out of your seat and danced, even sang the repeated parts.
"I think she likes it." Gen glanced at the camera.
Once the song ended, you demanded hat they play it again. They happily obliged. After that one, you asked for a translation of the lyrics. Kind of an edgy romance song, but overall sweet! You played it again, this time you were up on the stage and singing along. You clearly needed to work on your pronunciation, but it was still impressive that you already memorized it!
After the seventh time, you faced the crowd. Only now remembering the concept of this new segment.
"...Needless to say they passed."
The crowd cheered.
"Hurraaaay!" Gen applauded.
'Don't make her repeat the song more than three times!!!' he made a mental note. 'I was this close to getting sick of that song!'




-You've asked Minami to find you an opera singer. You said that now was the time to get to that. She found you a famous young singer, known to sing in recitals around the world. And when you first tested his skills, despite being a little cocky, he seemed to be the perfect fit for the job! But once you started to record "Recitar!... Vesti la giubba" from the opera Pagliacci...
"No no no!" you stopped everything and stepped into the recording booth. "What is this?!"
"What?" the singer frowned, not liking being interrupted.
"What's wrong (Y/n)?" Nikki asked. "That sounded perfect to me."
"It may have been." Ryusui said, his arms folded. "But something essential was missing."
"Do you even know what you're singing?" you asked.
"No." the singer gave you a weird look. "Why does it matter, I know the lyrics by heart."
"You fuckin- Have you ever went to the opera?!"
"I didn't have the money okay?!" he huffed. "I only heard the songs and I liked how powerful the singers' voice were. Opera allows me to be as loud as I want and have rich people applaud me for it."
"That's his reason...?" Nikki mumbled. "What a brat."

"What the fuck do you think opera is?!" you glared. "It's the-a-ter!" you said, popping the T.
"You can't even tell what they're saying!"
"They literally have subtitles!"
"What?!" him and Nikki exclaimed.
"Yeah, there are screens at the top and bottom of the stage and it literally gives you the song's translation! Because there is a plot to follow!"
"Hahaha how passionate!" Ryusui laughed.
"And with a plot, there are feelings. And you're not conveying shit!" you pointed at him.
"What feelings?!"
You took a deep breath.

"The opera is about a circus clown who's also the leader of his traveling group. He learns that his wife, who he's very protective of, is having an affair with someone in their group and she refuses to tell him who it is. He is heartbroken, but the show is about to start and he knows he must go on stage. He sings this song while preparing himself for the show, and he tells himself that he must turn his anguish into laughter. At the climax of the song, the lyrics go like 'Laugh clown, your love is broken. Laugh of the pain that poisons your heart.' And then he breaks into tears." your voice cracked as eyes grew teary and you whined. "Aaaaah stop!!!"
'You're the one talking.' the others thought.
"Wow..." the singer processed all that information. "When was it made?"
You sniffed.
"Late 1800's."
"No way!"
"Yeah. It's really poignant and kinda meta for its time."
"(Y/n) dear." Ryu said. "Would it be right of me to assume that you saw that opera and cried?"
"I cried a lot!" you nodded. "I fuckin' love the opera!"

"Well now I wanna know more!" the singer exclaimed, now with stars in his eyes. "What happened after? What happened to the wife? To the clown?"
"Okay okay, we'll start from the top."
"Maybe you should've done that from the beginning..." Nikki said. "Instead of starting with that song already."
"It's my favorite one!" you huffed.
Ryu laughed.




-Now this took place when you and Senku were almost middle-aged adults. Space travel was possible once again and for the sake of parallels, there was a trip around Earth planned with a team of astronauts and you. Just like with Byakuya's team and Lillian. Technology progressed so that you could broadcast an 'out in space concert', so you called it. It was the most watched broadcast in the history of the stone world!
When it was over. You had a moment with Senku where you both looked up at Earth. from the window.
"...You know," you broke the silence. "this would be a great time to propose."
You wheezed, clearly joking. Senku smiled.
"Yeah. That'd be crazy." he reached in his pocket and took out a small box.
He knew this was going to be gold. He was glad you two were alone.




[And that's it!
I'm sorry there's no proper ending to this 😅 and I have more scenarios in mind (I really wanted to share music from as many genres as possible), but I wanted to finally post this! It's been so long! 😤
Thank you for your patience, and again, thank you for reading 💖 And thank you for ONE MILLION reads! 🎉
Goodbye!]

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