Aspiring to be a girl in a band

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"Didn't I tell you, you don't have to come? I won't be angry, and I won't make excuses to hold you accountable later."

Arakawa Kirika explained impatiently once more.

But Xiangzi simply shook his head slightly again.

"What if I said...I want to come...to see you?"

As soon as he uttered those words, Xiangzi's face turned so red it looked like water could be squeezed out of it.

She herself never expected that her prepared remarks would turn into such ambiguous and shameful words halfway through.

Xiangzi's words terrified Arakawa Kirika.

She immediately stood up from her seat.

First, he paced back and forth in the room like a headless fly.

After a while, she walked up to Xiangzi with a slightly flushed face.

"That's strange... Ling. Mengwu Yiqi Ba Xia Ming-Liu I..."

Arakawa Kirika reached out and touched Shoko's forehead.

Xiangzi's face was still red, but he did not resist.

"I thought you had a fever again... but you don't. Why are you suddenly talking nonsense?"

Eh?

Although Arakawa Kirika's concern touched Shoko somewhat, she noticed something else that she should pay more attention to.

What does it mean to...?

I have a fever again?

Xiangzi stood there stunned, and then began to reminisce.

She remembers it clearly.

During this period of time... no.

This entire semester.

She only had a fever once.

And that fever was also thanks to this nasty thing in front of me.

However, after Arakawa Kirika mentioned the word "again," Shoko suddenly remembered something.

On the day she had a fever, in her half-awake state, she always felt that someone had come to her bedside.

She was absolutely certain that she couldn't be wrong about that clear feeling.

At first... she just thought it might be her father.

But... now she has to start to have doubts.

And... it just so happened that from that day on, his father inexplicably found a high-paying job.

Hmm...that's really weird.

At that moment, Xiangzi made up his mind to investigate thoroughly.

As for Arakawa Kirika's suggestion.

She and Arakawa Kirika argued back and forth for a while, until Arakawa Kirika angrily said "Whatever"... and they reached a preliminary consensus.

Xiangzi refused Arakawa Kirika's long leave offer and instead decided to take only a week off. She wanted to resolve the Hatsuka matter as quickly as possible before taking back the maid's job.

Arakawa Kirika angrily crossed her arms and turned her head away, ignoring him.

Xiangzi simply shook his head slightly.

I disobeyed her again, so it's normal for her to be angry.

Just then, her phone rang.

She quickly answered the phone and then dealt with the situation for a while.

After closing the phone.

She turned to Arakawa Kirika and said.

"Um... it's already very late today. That was my father on the phone, so..."

Xiangzi's meaning was clear: she wanted to take her leave.

Arakawa Kirika did not stop her.

But as if suddenly remembering something, he called Xiangzi to his side again.

Xiangzi walked slowly.

After all... she knew that Arakawa Kirika was in a bad mood right now.

She couldn't predict what they might do to her.

But Arakawa Kirika simply asked Shoko to unlock the phone and then hand it to her.

Xiangzi did as instructed.

Arakawa Kirika swiped her finger across Shoko's phone screen a few times before handing it back to her.

"I didn't expect... you actually kept using that name. Are you an idiot... um... no wonder you hang out with Aine."

Arakawa Kirika glared at Shoko with disgust, then quickly took two steps back, as if she didn't want to get dirty.

...What's going on? Why is Aine suddenly involved?

Despite being abruptly insulted, Xiangzi wasn't angry at all; instead, she found Arakawa Kirika's expression... kind of cute.

With a hint of doubt, she looked at her phone.

Oh... she understood what was going on.

Arakawa Kirika just checked her Line account.

The contact name I gave to Arakawa Kirika was still... [Master].

There was nothing she could do about it, after all... this note was what Arakawa Kirika had requested in the first place, and she even said something like, "If you dare to change the note, you will bear the consequences." Naturally, she wouldn't dare to change it on her own.

So... what does she mean now?

Xiangzi looked at Arakawa Kirika with a puzzled expression.

Tsk.

Arakawa Kirika clicked her tongue in surprise, blaming Shoko for not being able to read the room.

If it were a pink-haired person, they would immediately understand what they meant.

Hey.

After sighing, Arakawa Kirika explained.

"I mean! Don't use this nickname anymore. Don't you feel embarrassed looking at it? Change it right away."

Arakawa Kirika said irritably, her tone tinged with a hint of embarrassment and anger.

"Oh……"

Xiangzi then understood what Arakawa Kirika meant, but new doubts arose within her.

They told me to change it... but what should I change it to?

So Xiangzi carefully looked at the other person again, his finger, which was about to type a character, stopped in mid-air.

"A name is fine!"

Arakawa Kirika shouted something without saying a word.

She's starting to suspect that the blue guy is pretending to be stupid. How did he suddenly become so dumb, having to explain everything himself?

I'm so annoying.

So Xiangzi finally corrected that shameful nickname to "Arakawa Kirika".

But... after a brief hesitation, she took it upon herself to shorten it to the two characters "Mist Flower".

After changing the note, Xiangzi quickly and carefully put the phone into her bag, seemingly worried that Arakawa Kirika would take the phone to check it again.

"Can...can I go now?"

Xiangzi blushed, twirled a strand of his hair, and asked timidly.

"Ah."

Arakawa Kirika nodded.

"Then I'll go."

As Xiangzi spoke, he slowly began to back away.

"See you in a week?"

She confirmed this to the sulking, nasty thing in a novel-like manner.

"Ah."

……

Only after Xiangzi left did Arakawa Kirika, who had nowhere to vent her frustration, pick up her phone.

She sent a message to someone.