Love? Please allow me to simulate it first!

Although he was still not sure, Nakamura Mine had already decided to call it a day if this was not the case, so he patiently found a bench not far from the door and sat down and waited. He described the characteristics of Ijichi Hoshika and her bandmates to the ticket seller at the first few shows, and then asked if there were any performances by the band, in order to determine whether Ijichi Hoshika would be there.

There was nothing he could do, since he was penniless. But since he had already decided to take this as his last hope, Nakamura Mine was not in a hurry to ask. He would understand after the show was over.

Nakamura Mine didn't have to wait too long, as many guests left. Nakamura Mine also saw several people in suits and ties who didn't fit in with the others leaving. Nakamura Mine guessed that they might be big shots from a record company.

Nakano and Nakamura Mine saw their target, and Ijichi Hoshika and her bandmates walked out arm in arm, smiling. It seemed that today's performance went very smoothly.

After leaving the "live house", Ijichi Hoshika and another girl with long curly hair said goodbye to two other companions, one boy and one girl, and then walked towards the station while chatting. On the surface, the two seemed to be chatting very happily, but Nakamura Mine could see that it was almost always the girl with long curly hair who was finding topics to talk about, and Ijichi Hoshika was just passively chatting, and her mind was not on the conversation at all.

As he didn't want to be discovered so early, Nakamura Mine didn't follow too closely, so he couldn't hear the conversation between the two. However, he could tell from their expressions that the girl he didn't know was always considering Ijichi Hoshika's feelings, and kept finding topics to talk about, probably because she didn't want to make the atmosphere too awkward.

He followed the two people all the way to their residence, but Nakamura Mine did not show up. He planned to find an opportunity to meet Ijichi Hoshika alone before appearing again. As for now, he might have to find a suitable place to sleep and take a shower.

He didn't know why, but he felt that his skills as a stalker and a hobo were becoming more and more proficient.

Chapter 210: Ichichi Hoshige

Ichichi Hoshige, 21 years old, college student, likes rock music.

Since she found out what she wanted to do, she became more and more impatient with her "family". The more they cared about her and the more they wanted to be close to her, the more annoyed she felt. Her sister's nagging, her mother's persuasion, as long as she stayed at home, everything made her extremely annoyed.

But it doesn't matter, it's all bearable.

Because she had band mates who shared similar interests, they practiced together, and stood on the stage together facing the cheering audience. That sense of accomplishment, that extraordinary sense of pleasure, once made her think that she had found the value of life.

She left home without permission and lived in a house rented by a friend in the band. This was not the first time she had done this. She was an adult and could choose the lifestyle she liked. She was not wrong and would not be wrong. Ichichi Xingge firmly believed this.

As long as she is in the band, her world is shining and her heart is pounding. Her future is bright and bright. This is her fearless twenty-one years old.

But everything... came to an abrupt end.

A month later, she attended her mother's funeral, and from then on, time was paused for her.

At the funeral, she didn't say a word and didn't shed a single tear. Even when her sister cried until her voice was hoarse and her eyes were red, she was not moved at all. She just watched quietly, looking at her mother's portrait, and at the strangers around her who were sobbing or talking. She observed but couldn't think.

How did she appear in the eyes of others at that time?

Cold-blooded, unfilial, ungrateful...

Ijichi Xingge believes that one of them must miss her this way, but does it really mean that the louder she cries, the more it represents her feelings for her mother?

It must not be like that.

Does she love her mother?

Yidizhi Xingge thought the answer was yes. She had been taken care of by her mother since she was a child. Almost all the good memories of her childhood were of that person. She must have loved her very much. Even though she didn't like her mother's preaching, she had never denied that she was a great mother. Therefore, she should have been sad about her mother's sudden death, but she was surprisingly calm.

Even less than a month later, she returned to her band.

But the place that once made her world shine so brightly has now become dim. Even when she is standing on the stage, holding the guitar that once made her proud, her heart can no longer be moved by the plucking of the strings. It is as if God has taken away the colors from her world, leaving only black and white.

For a month, she had no real feeling about her mother's death. It was as if the mother who always smiled and advised her and Hongxia to get along well had just gone to a very far place and could not come back for the time being.

In this regard, perhaps Hongxia, who realized her mother's death early on and cried loudly at the funeral, was much more mature than herself.

A few days before her mother was involved in the accident, she had seen her mother once. She had found her mother at her friend's house because she had not been home for a long time and had not replied to messages. Her mother came to find her because she was too worried. She knew that her mother would always come to find her, as it had always been and should always be the case.

She still remembers the last words her mother said to her.

"It's a good thing to pursue your dreams wholeheartedly. It doesn't matter if you think your parents hate you, because that's Xingge's freedom. But you can't let Hongxia be lonely. It's very important to maintain a good sisterly relationship! After all, mom and I will leave you first one day, and from then on, you two have to support each other and work hard to survive."

"So, I, your mother, hope that you two can become the most harmonious sisters in the world. This is your only wish!"

She was touched when she heard these words, but she felt that it was too far away, so she didn't give any answer. After that, she received the news of her mother's death. She always regretted why she didn't give a positive answer at the time? She even thought about whether her mother's travel path would change if she could make a different choice, if she didn't run away from home, and whether she would not be involved in that damn rear-end collision.

But there are no ifs, she knew that.

After returning to the band, everyone became very cautious when talking to her, as if they were afraid of touching upon her bad memories. She disliked this atmosphere because it was like a constant reminder to her that her mother had passed away. She still did not go home because staying at home would always cause her to have wild thoughts.

These days she met a weird guy, a very weird guy, a super suspicious and weird guy with a "ripe durian" on his head. Although from the voice, the other party should be a few years younger than her, it is not to the extent that he can be forgiven for calling himself "Durian Mask" while wearing a cardboard box.

That guy suddenly jumped out and stopped her. At first, she was about to treat him as a pervert, but he said he was Hong Xia's friend. What a joke! How could Hong Xia have such a big one! Such a suspicious friend! As a sister! As a sister... Thinking about it carefully, as a sister, she didn't understand her sister at all, and she didn't even think about understanding, because before, she only thought that Hong Xia was an annoying little brat. At the age of 21 and 9, there was no possibility of communication at all.

"I have never had a family, and you obviously do, but why does your expression tell me that you are lonelier than me?"

That weirdo said this to her, lonely? Does she look lonely?

"Please tell me, what is family?"

Strange people, saying strange things, doing strange things.

For several days, this weirdo followed her like a sticky candy. No matter how hard she tried to avoid him, he seemed to have many hidden agents and always found her quickly. Even her friends suspected that she was being targeted by some strange organization, but for some reason, she did not think that he was a bad guy.

"What on earth do you want!? You keep following me but you don't even dare to show your face!?"

Really... Doesn't this guy have anything of his own to do?

The strange man seemed to be frightened by his own aura and did not speak for a long time, but finally hesitantly took off the cardboard box on his head.

Chapter 211 Returning Home

What a handsome and beautiful young man.

Just as she needed, the other person looked to be a high school student at most. She was stunned for a moment, but not by his handsome face, but by his eyes. She had never been stared at so seriously by anyone before, as if he didn't want to miss any expression of hers.

She felt a little guilty and uneasy, and her face couldn't help but feel a little hot.

Maybe the contrast is too great.

She had even thought maliciously before, whether the other party brought this dirty cardboard box to her because he was too ugly.

After seeing this guy's face, their friends in the band looked at them again with some ambiguity in their eyes. What a joke!

If I had known I wouldn't have let him take it off...

After he stopped wearing that dirty box, his bandmates seemed to warm up to him. Damn, what a bunch of bastards who only care about looks!

They even brought that guy into the practice room, and Lisa wanted to teach this guy how to play drums! ? What was she thinking while she was lying on the ground? !

But this guy...he learns really fast...

For some reason, she felt a little unwilling. She tried to teach that guy how to play guitar, but he played better than her! Damn! A mere cardboard weirdo was so arrogant.

Unwilling to accept this, she pretended to get angry and gave this guy a lesson. Actually, it wasn't a big deal. As long as she got angry, this guy would become extremely cowardly. Was she that scary? However, when she was working at a musical instrument store, she seemed to have been called the Demon King of Ochanomizu... No, let's not talk about it!

Without any warning, the guy disappeared for two days.

Really, he suddenly appeared and disappeared, what is this guy trying to do? !

However, originally because that guy was so annoying she had no time to think about it, but she became emotionally complicated again during those two days... But that guy didn't even have a cell phone, was he a savage who had just entered the city?

On the third day, the guy finally showed up again. He said he went to see Hongxia and that Hongxia seemed less and less willing to go out.

"I can see that you are trying to escape, right?"

Ijichi Hoshige looked at the boy who suddenly said this to her and wanted to refute him, but her brain could not find any words to refute him.

Am I running away?

If so, what was I running away from? Running away from the fact that my mother was no longer around? Running away from Hong Xia?

"You told me about the agreement you made with your mother. Didn't your mother hope that you and Hongxia could rely on each other and become the best sisters in the world?"

Ah...I really regret telling him...

"Do you hate Hong Xia?"

Being asked so directly, Ichichi Xingge's thoughts flew to the memories of the past.

That was when Hongxia was born not long ago. She had just entered junior high school. The first thing she did when she got home every day was to lie on the cradle and watch little Hongxia sleeping with drool. From time to time, she would poke her chubby little face with her fingers. Seeing this little girl frowning, she felt that all her fatigue of the day was healed.

After Hongxia grew up a little, she became more and more attached to me and liked to follow me in everything I did. Hongxia was really cute at that time.

Later, she found something she liked, but she felt that Hongxia was becoming more and more willful. There was even an incident where Hongxia turned up the volume of the speakers to the maximum to disrupt her when she was practicing.

And every time it was their mother who reconciled the sisters.

"Can you tell me more about your mother?"

It's really speechless. How crazy must one be to ask such a question? Obviously everyone else would deliberately avoid this issue in front of me, but this guy could ask it as if it was a matter of course.

Although she complained in her heart, Ijichi Xingge still slowly talked to the boy about her mother, her childhood, her growth, and how she just told her mother that she wanted to learn guitar, and that person took her to several music stores to look for a guitar. She also talked about how she never allowed her mother to watch their live performances because she felt it was too embarrassing, but her mother secretly came over without her permission, waving a glow stick in her hand. When she found out during the performance, she panicked and made several mistakes that she should never have made. Afterwards, she was severely punished by her bandmates.

"And there's more..."

"Shop...Xingge, that's enough. You don't need to continue. I already understand. I'm sorry. Now, just cry your heart out."

Eh?

Cry? Me?

Yidizhi Xingge touched her cheeks, and sure enough, tears had wet them without her knowing when, and her voice became choked.

Why is this happening? She was clearly talking about happy things, and she didn't even shed a single tear at the funeral.

"You must miss your mother very much. I know it very well. You have been suppressing it all the time. It must be very uncomfortable..."

Yidizhi Xingge grabbed the boy's clothes and cried as hard as ever. Afterwards, she felt ashamed and happy at the same time.

"Let's go meet Hong Xia."

"Um......"

Ichichi Xingge returned to her home and saw her sister staying at home alone, staring blankly at the window.

"I'm sorry, Hongxia."

"elder sister?"

"Hongxia has been staying at home alone, facing the death of her mother. During this time when I was escaping from reality and never went home, she has been alone all the time..."

"elder sister......"

Hearing what her sister whom she hadn't seen for a long time said to her, Ichichi Hongxia felt that the grievances in her heart had finally found an outlet. She grabbed her sister, crying and making a fuss, but she knew that she probably wouldn't have to go on like this alone anymore.

(Mom, I hope you can become the most harmonious sisters in the world. This is my only wish!)

Well, I will definitely keep my promise and I will no longer shirk my responsibilities as a sister.

"Come here and get ready. I'm going to tie your hair."

In the morning, Hongxia walked out of the room. For a moment, she actually mistook her sister for her mother, even though her tone and expression were not gentle at all.

"After you pack up, we'll go out together today!"

Hongxia looked at her sister. She could feel that something seemed to have changed about her sister, but why did such a change happen?

[I'm going to teach your stupid sister a lesson, and then bring her back! ]

Hongxia thought of the note she had put in the drawer.

(Awesome, I really did it.)

Chapter 212 Band

"Okay, done!"

Hong Xia looked at her slightly messy hair in the mirror. She was actually quite happy in her heart because this was the first time her sister had tied her hair. However, on the surface, she still looked dissatisfied >_<.

"It's far worse than what mom made. Mom's would never be so messy. Besides, isn't this the ribbon on the snack box..." Hong Xia muttered.

"We're going out soon, so don't worry about such a small thing." Yidizhi Xingge was a little hit. She originally wanted to hear her sister's praise.

"Ah! Cardboard Box Monster!"

When she got downstairs, Hongxia immediately saw Nakamura Mine, who was squatting beside the flower bed observing ants with a cardboard box on his head.

"Why are you putting that on again?"

"Please call me Durian Mask."

"......As long as you are happy......"

Ichichi Xingge held her forehead in her hands and was speechless. She didn't understand why this guy liked to wear such a thing on his head? He was obviously not bad looking.

How could she know that Nakamura Mine didn't bring him because he liked him? After all, there was the example of Yamada Ryo. He didn't think that the careful Ijichi Kouka wouldn't think of something if she saw his face in real life.

As for why he dared to take it off in front of Ijichi Hoshika, it was mainly because he had no choice at the time and he felt that the other party would simply treat this as a dream like Goto Ichiri.