Lonely Rock: Love Songs Dedicated to the Stars

After hearing PA's words, Hoshika and Yuma exchanged glances. They weren't worried at all, since the band had become quite mature by now.

"To be honest, I'm a little worried." Yuzhen winked at Xingge. "How about we go out and check on them together?"

As soon as he said that, PA realized she had said the wrong thing. She shouldn't have asked that question.

"Alright, let's see how well they can perform in front of unfamiliar audiences."

After Xingge finished speaking, she stood up and looked at PA with Youzhen.

"I understand, I'll watch the shop." PA slumped back onto the table.

"Actually, I wanted to ask if you wanted to come along," Xingge scratched her cheek. "But since you don't want to go, then forget it."

PA watched as the two of them abandoned him and left the performance hall.

……

After leaving, Hoshika and Yuuma didn't go to see the band's street performance. They had just started wandering around the streets of Shimokitazawa and were now sitting in a coffee shop.

Yuzhen used a fork to put a piece of cake into his mouth. Xingge insisted on buying it for him. After tasting it, he felt that the cake tasted somewhat familiar, as if he had eaten it before. However, he didn't eat cake often.

"Why did you insist on dragging me here? Is it just because you want to eat cake?"

Xingge didn't answer him, but simply picked up the donut she had bought and took a bite. However, Youzhen looked at her and sensed a hint of expectation in her eyes.

Was this something they hoped he would discover? Yuma glanced around the store.

The shop's decor is quite nice; it looks like a place that girls in high school would like. Plus, the cakes and coffee inside taste pretty good.

Yuzhen looked away and poked his matcha cake with his fork again. He didn't eat cake often because he didn't really like it.

"The last time I ate cake was for my birthday." Yuuma looked at the cake on the plate, lost in memories. "Before that..."

He recalled many things, and finally, the memory of confessing his love to Xingge at the cake shop occupied his mind.

"No wonder the taste felt so familiar." He understood why Xingge had brought him here.

“This is the cake shop.” Xingge had already finished her donut. “In the years you were gone, the owner here turned the original cake shop into a coffee shop.”

"So much has happened lately." Yuuma put down his fork; he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

Xingge suddenly dragged him to a place like this, it must be to reminisce about the past, Youzhen felt that he should do something now.

"Senior Xingge~"

Yuma called her that on purpose.

Xingge was drinking coffee when she heard Youzhen, who was sitting opposite her, suddenly call her that. She choked and coughed twice.

"Cough cough... What are you doing all of a sudden?"

"Aren't you here to reminisce, Hoshika-senpai?" Yuuma squinted at her, a smile playing on her lips. "Of course I'm helping you. Do you hate being called that now?"

"Hmph, I don't need your help. I remember it perfectly well." Xingge blushed and turned her head away, looking out at the street and taking a sip of coffee.

Chapter 118 You're Not Allowed to Be Unhappy

Kenzaki Yuuma now finds playing pop music incredibly interesting, and he thinks it might become a lifelong hobby.

"I like Hoshika-senpai~" Yuma still had that slightly mischievous smile that Hoshika-senpai saw. "Hoshika-senpai~ Can we go out together?"

"What are you talking about?" Xingge looked down, glanced around briefly, and breathed a sigh of relief when she found no one else was paying attention. "We're married, why are you saying things like that?"

"Didn't you say you wanted to reminisce about the past?" Yuma picked up her cup and took a sip of coffee. "I was just going along with Hoshika-senpai~, is there a problem?"

"Don't call me that anymore!" Hoshika warned Yuuma in a low voice.

"What about Xingge's response?" Youzhen looked at her with a smile. "I've already confessed, aren't you going to give me a response?"

Just as Xingge was about to speak after hesitating for a moment, Youzhen interrupted her in a nonchalant tone:

"Fine, if you don't want it, you don't want it. Anyway, you can't possibly reject my confession."

"Are you kidding me?" Xingge glared at Youzhen. "Hmph, but I really won't refuse. If I were to refuse you in this kind of game out of spite, you would definitely find another way to tease me."

She felt she knew exactly what Kenzaki Yuuma was thinking; he loved to tease her, but she was gaining experience and wouldn't give him another chance.

"That scared me to death! I thought I was going to hear Xingge say 'I don't need it' again." Yuzhen breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Xingge's words. "I never want to hear that kind of thing again."

Xingge slightly rose from her seat, leaned towards Youzhen, picked up a fork from the table, and tapped Youzhen on the head with the end of the fork.

"What are you doing? Ouch."

“I remember that bet still stands.” She sat back down and looked straight at Yuuma.

"Didn't you already use it?"

"Didn't I withdraw my decision later? You were the one who said it wasn't necessary."

"I thought you were joking." Yuzhen looked at her helplessly. "Fine, what do you want me to do? Just tell me, I'll do whatever you say."

He also knew what Xingge wanted to do, and what Xingge would ask him to do in this situation.

"Then, you're not allowed to mention those sad things all day long." Xingge crossed her arms and looked at Youzhen, giving him the order.

"Oh? This one?"

"That's it. You're not allowed to be unhappy all day." Xingge nodded. "How about that? You said you'd listen to me."

Yuzhen couldn't help but chuckle as she looked at her serious expression.

"I understand. I won't think about those sad things today." He smiled again. "Today I'm going to spend time with Senior Xingge reminiscing about the past."

"Don't call me that again!"

……

The two went to Xia Gao together, but they couldn't go inside. They looked at their old school from the outside for a while.

Over the years, things have inevitably changed a lot. The exterior of the teaching building alone is much nicer than when they were in school.

"The school was being renovated right after I graduated," Yuzhen recalled about the school. "But Xingge, you've experienced the school after the renovation, what was it like?"

"This one……"

What could Xingge say? That she slept at school all day and didn't pay much attention to these things?

She felt guilty whenever she thought about these things, and then she remembered how anxious Yuzhen was to help her make a study plan before her college entrance exam.

Fortunately, she worked hard enough during that time, and she was also smart enough that she didn't let Yuma down.

"It feels... well..." She tried hard to recall what was worth saying, "um... the air conditioner works pretty well."

"That's good." Yuzhen assumed that she didn't want to recall these memories because they were too old. "When I was in my senior year of high school, the air conditioner broke down and there was no one to fix it."

Kenzaki Yuuma started talking to himself about how he endured the terrible environment while studying in his senior year of high school. That is, until Hoshika stuffed the meat roll she bought into his mouth.

"Mmm...delicious."

“Of course it’s delicious.” Xingge also took a bite of the meat roll in her hand. “It was featured in ‘The Solitary Gourmet’.”

No wonder.

Yuzhen and Xingge ate as they walked, and Xingge bought two more crepes.

"This is just so-so."

Although the crepe tasted so-so, it was overpriced. Yuzhen felt ripped off.

I never thought that they could be scammed by something like this after living in Shimokitazawa for so long.

"This was advertised on TV." Xingge also thought the taste was just average. "Although the taste isn't great, it's still quite famous."

"Was what you ate just from the advertisement?"

Although it didn't taste good, Yuzhen still finished the whole crepe, and then ate the ones that Hoshika couldn't finish.

Speaking of which, although the two of them had shopped in Shimokitazawa many times, Yuma felt that he could always find something different each time he went shopping.

The two of them walked into the Village bookstore chain.

I don't know why Xingge suddenly said she wanted to buy something at the bookstore.

Although she didn't know why she suddenly became interested in books, Yuzhen didn't ask any more questions and followed her.

“The handwritten promotional boards here are quite interesting,” Yuma said, following behind Hoshika. “They always make you want to buy things.”

"Can it be used inside the exhibition hall?" Xingge pondered, looking at the promotional boards.

"I think I'll pass."

Yuzhen couldn't imagine how such a thing would be used in the exhibition hall. Did they have to hang a promotional board on every bottle of beverage?

While Yu-chan stopped to look at the CDs in the display case, Hoshika went to another counter and bought a blank photo album.

When she returned to Yuzhen's side, she was holding a bag containing photo albums, and she wouldn't let Yuzhen see the contents no matter what she said.

"Hmph, if you don't want me to see it, then don't. I don't care."

Yuma eventually had no choice but to give up and went to pay for the CDs he wanted to buy.

……

When the two of them returned, Yuzhen saw that Hongxia and the others had finished their street performance and were now sitting at a window seat in his family restaurant, eating.

After Yuma and Hoshika entered, they went to their seats, but neither of them saw Bochi.

"Where did Boqi go? I haven't seen him." Xingge asked.

Hongxia pointed to the suitcase next to her, and the two looked over and sure enough, they saw Boqi through the gap.

At this moment, Pochi seemed to have learned the Hozuki clan's water transformation technique and had become a fluid. She was brought back by Nijika in a box.

"Is this thing really human?" Yuuma stroked his chin, his expression full of doubt. "What would happen if I sprinkled gelatin powder on her right now?"

Upon hearing Yuuma's question, Hongxia quickly put her suitcase inside and protected Boqi: "Brother, you mustn't do those weird experiments on Boqi!"

"It was just a joke."

"Ah, it's already this late." Xingge watched Youzhen and Hongxia playing around, then checked the time and realized that it was almost time for the performance hall to open. "I'll go and prepare with PA first. You guys remember to come down and get to work after you finish eating."

Yuma saw Hoshika hand the things she bought to Nijika, and then Nijika put the bag into her suitcase.

“We understand,” Hongxia and the others replied to Xingge, and then began to eat their dinner.

Yuzhen followed Xingge. He had nothing to do anyway, so he could go to the performance hall to help out.