I'm a weird expert in Japan

"Are you trying to save face?" Lian shook her head.

Di, however, showed no concern. "It doesn't matter. Even if it makes everyone angry, I still want to find out what else happened during the training camp."

"Especially in unusual situations." Lian stood up and pointed a finger to remind, "Of course, rather than saying it's unusual, it's better to say it's something that's unnecessary but did happen."

“It feels so blurry…”

"As long as it doesn't involve anything too private, feel free to ask around and come to my house to report in the evening." Lian put her hands on her hips, "I think my uncle won't mind you coming over, right?"

"No, that's right." Di nodded, "It's okay to stay for one night."

"Then come over and stay for a night, and have a junk food party together."

"You may have!"

"Then it's settled."

After Lian finished explaining everything, she took Shiyu and left the football club lounge.

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When I left the football club, it was just past four o'clock, far from the time to finish club activities and leave school.

Lian, who was passing by the campus atrium, just happened to hear Bach's overture coming from the open window of the second music room.

The three parts of the overture gradually pick up speed, with a faint sense of impatience.

"Aha……"

After hearing this, Lian couldn't help but sigh and walked towards the shoe cabinet at the entrance of the teaching building.

"Are we going to the second music room next?"

"I didn't say that. Don't decide other people's schedules without permission."

"Otherwise, we'll go meet with Oshino-sensei and Hanekawa-sensei to report on the soccer club's situation."

"Those two can grasp the situation without my reporting." Lian said as he changed his shoes back, "By the way, don't you need to go home? You've been following me..."

"We agreed before that we would go after school to celebrate the fact that everything has been fine lately."

Lian then showed a very cunning smile, "That's not necessary now, something has happened to the football club."

"You clearly didn't find anything, did you?" Shiyu was also very efficient and changed her shoes in the blink of an eye.

"Didn't I tell you that someone brought something bad to the football club?" Lian continued walking towards the special building. "Of course, if you really want to investigate, you can't find out anything. It's just that I smelled a curse-like smell in that lounge."

"Curse... Is it the snake cutting the rope again?"

"No one would know that using the snake to cut the rope will bring disaster, but would still continue to use it, right? No way, no way? Is there really someone who is so ignorant of the consequences?" Lian pretended to be surprised.

This sarcastic attitude made Shiyu want to poke his ribs and break them, but in the end she didn't reach out her hand.

"What kind of curse is that?"

"How should I know?" Lian turned around and said, "My knowledge comes from what Sister Shinobu taught me. Of course I don't know what she didn't tell me."

"Is that why you asked the Emperor to help you investigate?" Shi Yu continued to ask.

"Only by figuring out what the football club did and what happened during the training camp can I determine whether it has anything to do with the weirdness." Lian's attitude was clear.

He didn't want to make a blind judgment, as once the news got out it would only cause more unnecessary panic.

"That's right. If the rumor spreads too far, the football club might be ruined." Shiyu sighed. "In fact, it's almost time now. If we don't solve it quickly, the football club will be finished."

"...You're right." Lian smiled bitterly and walked up the stairs.

Shiyu still followed closely behind, as if she had not given up yet.

"I said..." Lian turned around and met Shiyu's wine-red eyes.

Deep in her eyes were emotions that Lian could not understand. The only thing that could be understood was that Kasumigaoka Utaha would never obediently go back.

"What's wrong……"

Then, the light in his eyes flickered for a moment, and something like fear flashed across his eyes.

"It's up to you." Lian turned her head away. "That guy really hates strangers entering the second music room..."

"But I heard that Shinomiya-san and Sawamura-san would go there from time to time to listen to music?" Shiyu suddenly threw out a piece of information.

Lian almost lost his balance, "How do you know everything?"

"Everyone is talking about it. Even if I didn't want to know, I know it now." Shiyu looked relaxed.

She would never admit that she had deliberately paid attention to the developments in the Second Music Room and noticed the gossip of the girls in the class.

"So idle..." Lian couldn't help but laugh.

"You're just too free, so you ask such boring questions." Shiyu's voice seemed a little melancholy.

"Don't take it personally... It's not your fault. Being possessed by something strange is indeed related to one's own mental state, but it's not something you can choose."

Lian stopped and told Shiyu without turning back.

"Um……"

This was the most concern he could express now. Shiyu agreed gently and changed the topic to the previous matter.

"But considering that it can be transmitted and can cause problems with people's physical conditions... there are a lot of possibilities, right?"

"There must be a lot, so we need to investigate the inside story."

"Like hunting fire bees?" Shiyu followed Lian's slowed pace and walked beside him.

"It's amazing that you can even say that name..." Lian looked at her in surprise.

"Don't look at me like this. I did a lot of cramming on folk legends and strange stories during the Golden Week." Shiyu puffed out her chest with a little pride. "I'm still very confident in my memory. At least it's better than Lian who can't remember people's faces."

"No, it was just inconvenient to search my memory at that time." Lian tapped his temple, "After all, the picture I made was too bizarre."

"...Please stop talking, I'm worried I'll have nightmares at night." Shiyu seemed very scared.

“Who would believe that…”

Lian looked like she couldn't stand it anymore and pushed open the door of the second music room.

The fact that it was not locked made Lian look at Touma Kazusa with a little surprise. Of course, the other party stopped playing and looked at him with more obvious surprise in her eyes than his.

"You are really welcome." Touma Kazusa glanced at Lian, "I thought you were not planning to come today."

Lian spread her hands, "I met a new teacher, and was captured to be a guide along with Kasumigaoka."

"Aren't you a directionally challenged person?" Hesa ​​pointed out the problem nonchalantly.

"...That's why both Kasumigaoka and I were captured." Lian shrank back.

At this time, Hesha stopped playing and looked at the two of them in surprise, "That's not right, there are others here, what do we need you for, a person with poor directions?"

"Because the teacher is Lian's acquaintance, we brought him along to avoid embarrassment." Shiyu put her hands behind her back, walked in front of Hesha, leaned over slightly and smiled at Hesha.

"Lian...?" Kazusa was stunned for a moment, "Wasn't it Shijo before?"

"I'll keep this a secret." Shiyu smiled mysteriously, "Kasumigaoka Shiyu, do you still remember me? You shouldn't be as forgetful as Lian, right?"

"That guy has started to suffer from amnesia?" Hesa ​​looked at Lian with sympathy.

There is something wrong with her head and there is something wrong with her head, mentally and physically, no one knows what Kazusa has misunderstood.

"What's with that compassionate look in your eyes?" Lian's face was filled with black lines.

He remembered that last time in the gym, his clothes were kept by Shiyu, which meant that the two people had met before and even knew each other.

"You're already forgetting things at this age, so it's better to see a doctor as soon as possible."

Hesha put her hand on the piano music and looked at Lian with a sidelong glance.

Unlike Shiyu's teasing sarcasm, Kazusa seems to really think so.

"You should continue practicing..."

Chapter 87 Chapter 2 Hesha: Watching the Show.JPG ()

So, Touma Kazusa continued her practice as if no one was around, even though she was repeating various Bach pieces over and over again. But after having a goal, the practice turned into a process of self-examination.

Lian pulled a chair over and motioned for Shiyu to sit down, then she stood beside the piano and watched the rhythm of Hesha's fingers falling on the keys.

"…Although this set of overtures is a three-part piece that gradually speeds up, your performance has become unnecessary for its interest in order to maintain the speed," he reminded.

"Really?" Kazusa's hands paused slightly before continuing to play.

This time, the speed and beat were obviously slowed down a lot.

Looking at Hesha who didn't care about anything except the piano, Lian felt that something was wrong.

"...That's strange. I thought you would chase Kasumigaoka away."

He covered his mouth with his hand and spoke to Kazusa.

"Over there, watch your volume when you say bad things. I can hear it all." Shi Yu responded unexpectedly.

Kazusa glanced at Shiyu, "Why?"

"Anyway, you always seem impatient every time someone from the Second Music Room comes to see me."

"Is my impatience useful?" Hesa ​​sneered.

"No, Lian is trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife." Shiyu held her arms and pinched her chin and said, "He wants to use the anger of Touma, the owner of the second music room, to drive me away from here."

"Is that so?" Kazusa finally reacted.

“…I don’t know.” Lian turned away guiltily.

Despite repeated warnings in advance, Lian actually still thought that Hesha would drive Shiyu away.

After all, she didn't come prepared with exquisite desserts like Shizuku and Eriri, nor did she leave Kazusa helpless like Teacher Hanekawa.

"It's really hard, sharing the same music classroom with such a petty man every day." Shiyu seemed to be talking to Kazusa, but actually her target was Lian.

"I don't know what kind of person he is, but he is very accomplished in music. People like you are the ones who have talent but no morals, right?"

As if a switch had been pressed, Hesha's words were sharp and hit the point directly.

"So what are you doing here? Shizhu, Sawamura, and even Hanekawa-sensei can all understand and appreciate music, but you're just an amateur..." Lian was not shy, "Aren't you bored and sleepy?"

Hesha looked at Lian speechlessly.

She really wanted to tell Lian that among the two friends he valued, the blonde girl didn’t know much about music at all and would fall asleep halfway through listening.

But if she said it out loud, even Kazusa knew that this fact would be very hurtful, so she kept silent.

And the next second, Sawamura Spencer Eriri knocked on the door of the second music room.

When Lian opened the door and saw her Kasa, she felt awkward and turned her head away, pretending she knew nothing.

"Why are you alone?" Lian asked.

"If he doesn't come, then I can't show up?" Ying Lili raised an eyebrow. "By the way, do you ask this every time Shizhu comes to see you alone?"

"Nope."

"Do you really think I'm a bound item?" Eriri complained.

Lian raised her hand, "Ahahaha... So what are you doing here? Listening to music by yourself? You haven't been getting enough sleep lately, so let Touma play a requiem for you."

"That's not a peaceful sleep, it's an eternal sleep!" The veins on Ying Lili's forehead throbbed, and she suddenly sighed, "Forget it, I came here for something anyway--"

"what?"

Then Eriri held up the box in her hand, "This is the raw Yatsuhashi from Kyoto that Shizhu brought from home."

"He's back home again?"

"No, these are authentic snacks shipped from Kyoto during routine purchases." Eriri shook her head and turned her body to look into the music room. "Here are two portions, just right for you and Touma-senpai—"

Then, as expected, she saw Shiyu also looking at her.

"Oh, I thought it was a stray dog ​​that ran into the second music room, but it turned out to be Sawamura-san running errands for his owner."

"Hey... why is that guy here too?"