I'm not a womanizer for Chihaya Aine

Yes, although Qing and Aine would not bring this up in public, their morning schedule was undoubtedly a date. However, their first date so far was not very good. They met Aine's junior high school classmates and Deng, and then discussed the band and Aine's study abroad.

The only time they had to enjoy their own world was the time they had spent on the way to the piano store since lunch. The only thing worth talking about was the photo taking, and the rest was just chatting with Aine as usual at school.

Buying a guitar was not something worth remembering for the two of them, and after buying the guitar they had completed their scheduled itinerary for today. There was no reason to continue playing outside, which basically meant the end of today's date.

From an objective point of view, the process of this date was not pleasant at all, and could even be considered bad, although they also confirmed their feelings for each other during this date, and Ain even gave Qing an unforgettable thank-you gift. But this did not affect Qing's apology for not giving Ain a good date experience.

After realizing what Qing wanted to say, Aiyin was stunned for a moment, then she smiled happily and said, "Huh? I didn't expect Qingqing to care so much about this, it's a bit unexpected. It's okay, I don't care about this at all."

Ain really hadn't considered this. Even though today's date wasn't a date, Ain had never thought of blaming Qing. And when she saw that Qing, who had always been rational and open-minded, blamed himself for her feelings and didn't dare to look at her when talking, Ain couldn't get angry with Qing at all. Being valued so much, what else could she be dissatisfied with?

But Qing still looked straight ahead and didn't meet Aiyin's eyes. She said softly: "I don't like shopping. I don't understand trends or fashion at all. I can't understand what girls like. I can't even continue some topics. It was only after you discovered this, Aiyin, that you took the initiative to give me a way out so that we could continue the topic."

Qing spoke bit by bit about the things in her heart that she couldn't handle properly. Although her tone remained calm and steady, the more she spoke, the more her eyes dropped downwards.

Yanagisawa Ao is a male time traveler who is nearly 30 years old. She only has the body of a teenage Japanese high school girl. In essence, she is still out of tune with other female high school students. The age difference, cultural difference, and thinking difference have created a huge gap between her and her classmates and friends, including Aine.

In fact, although Qing, with her more mature thinking and prophetic eyes, can navigate among a group of young girls, see through people's hearts, grasp the overall situation, stir up the situation, and seem to be omnipotent, in fact, Qing has always put herself in a weak position in terms of the emotions of the girls.

After all, she is alone and free from worries, unlike others who bear the love, expectations and even life of others. After experiencing the torture of reality, she has long lost her dreams when she was young, and what she pursues is only a little romance that ordinary people can touch.

Qing is different from other girls who still have dreams, friendship and youth. Qing even doubts the meaning of her existence in this world from time to time. So Qing regards the stories of the girls as the value of her existence here, and for this she can devote everything.

This is why Qing always puts herself in a weak position emotionally, and why she dares not respond to Aiyin's feelings. She has nothing, and she is even too inferior to dare to own anything.

Just as Qing was becoming more and more confused by what he said, Aine suddenly stopped, and then Qing felt a strong pulling force coming from the hands he and Aine were holding. Qing was caught off guard and staggered back a bit, but he quickly adjusted his body shape, stood still, and looked at Aine in confusion.

However, Aine said with a look of regret: "Ah, failed! Qingqing, you have such a good balance. I wanted to replicate what you did to me this morning."

What did you do to Aine this morning? Qing thought about it, and combined with Aine's actions just now, she immediately understood what Aine was referring to. In the morning, when Aine was upset, Qing had pulled Aine into her arms, but she did so at the time because Aine's upset look was so cute that she couldn't help herself. It's quite embarrassing to think about it this way. Was it too greasy?

But why did Aine want to recreate that scene now, or was it after the roles were reversed? Was she trying to change the subject? Or was she trying to get revenge for the incident that happened this morning? Or... was she trying to finish what she hadn't finished this morning? No, no, no, even though there was no one here, it was still considered to be on the street!

Perhaps thinking of something that made him feel embarrassed, Qing temporarily put aside his depressed mood, looked away again awkwardly and said: "That was because Aine was too distracted at that time."

No matter what, it was impossible for Qing to snuggle in the other's arms like Aine did in the morning. It was absolutely impossible! If such a thing really happened, the dignity of a man in Qing's heart would be shattered to the ground.

"So cunning! I also want to be as handsome as Qingqing!"

Aiyin puffed up her cheeks, and then tried to pull Qing's hand a few times when Qing wasn't paying attention, but unfortunately this time she couldn't even move Qing a step.

“Handsome or something…Aine, do you think so?”

Qing was surprised at Aine's feelings towards her, as it had been a long time since she heard anyone say she was handsome.

Aiyin replied as if it was a matter of course: "Isn't that natural? Qingqing, don't you know what you have been doing all this time? You can always look at things rationally, and you can see through the other person's mind in a few words. It seems that no matter what other people think, they can see it in front of you. Isn't this amazing?"

"And when we encounter problems, you always find solutions to them, handle them calmly, and consider other people's feelings carefully. Qingqing is so gentle and handsome. I feel very safe as long as I can be with Qingqing."

Having said this, Aine turned to face Ao, placed her other hand on the hand that she was holding, and continued.

"Although Qingqing is out of touch with other girls on many topics, Qingqing, who doesn't know how to take care of her hair, can let me mess with her hair. Qingqing, who doesn't know how to dress up, can work hard to choose an outfit for today's outing. Qingqing, who is not good at communicating with classmates, can lead the band meeting for our band. This kind of thing is far more precious to me than just chatting."

"And Qingqing is not a boring person. She is cute in many ways. When she is gentle and considerate of others, she is cute when she is exposed and she is stubborn. When she wants to retaliate when I tease her, she is cute. She is usually cold but sometimes looks at me with a cute expression."

Qing was a little confused after hearing this. Although Aine was always praising her, she felt unworthy of some of the things Aine mentioned. She didn't want to be called cute by Aine at all!

So Qing hurriedly tried to stop Aine from saying, "Wait, wait a minute, that's too much! And, but, there's no such thing as cute..."

But before Qing could finish her words, Aiyin held Qing's hand, raised her head and looked straight at Qing, and said sincerely: "Qingqing is so cute now!"

Qing was suddenly blocked by Aine's sincere eyes and words, and was speechless for a moment. She had no experience in dealing with such a situation in her past life. If her buddies were so sissy to her, she would have thrown him out long ago. As for girls, it was simply irrelevant. A girl as close as Aine could say such things to her.

But Aiyin did not stop what she was going to say because of Qing's interruption and silence: "So, Qingqing, the things you said are actually not important at all, and they are not things that affect the experience of being with you. What I care about is you, Qingqing, who is gentle, handsome, cute, awkward, romantic, rational, and will always be by my side!"

"This kind of Qingqing is my favorite!"

Aine didn't seem very excited when she said these words, and her voice was always steady, even gentle. However, Qing could feel the heat in Aine's heart when she said these words, and that was not a false emotion.

That was what Qing had been pursuing in vain and had decided to let go of. He had once thought it was very important, but later felt it was not important. But now he feels extremely happy because he has it, and even his heart is pounding - the feeling is called love.

"…What is this? I'm not prepared at all…"

Qing looked up at the sky and let out a long sigh. Her mind was a mess at the moment, let alone how to respond to Aiyin. She could only complain with a complicated expression.

"Need I say more? It's a confession."

Aiyin looked at Qing with a smile and spoke directly in a concise and clear manner.

In an instant, Qing burst into tears. The pressure she had experienced since she came here and the confusion she had about this strange world were all shattered by the girl's sincere emotions. All the bitterness of an adult's soul turned into tears and poured out. The uncontrollable emotions made her usually cold voice turn into a shameful and meaningless cry. An adult's collapse happened in an instant.

"It's okay, it's okay, Qingqing is a good child."

Seeing Qing suddenly break down and cry, although Aiyin didn't know why Qing suddenly became like this, it didn't affect her tenderness in holding the most vulnerable Qing in her arms and comforting Qing softly.

Although Qing was aware of her loss of composure, she couldn't stop her emotions once they burst out. She just buried her head deeply in Ain's shoulder. Ain let go of Qing's hand and stroked Qing's head with one hand and stroked Qing's back with the other, patting her back from time to time to comfort her.

At this moment, Qing was crying with her head down like a wounded child, but she looked a little awkward buried in Aine's arms as she was half a head taller than Aine, giving people a feeling of contrast.

Aiyin has not experienced as much as Qing in life, but Qing, who always gives people a tough impression, has been so broken down. Perhaps Qing has experienced a lot of pain and accumulated a lot of pressure in places she doesn't know about? Maybe indifference and strength are just her self-protection shell, so when this shell is melted by love, Qing will appear so fragile.

Then the only thing Aiyin can do is to stay by Qing's side and comfort her. Aiyin is not like Qing, who knows a lot of things and can solve all problems handsomely. So the only thing she can do is to hug her.

She would not ask Qing what happened, nor could she empathize with Qing, but Aiyin believed in Qing. She believed that Qing would tell everything one day, and by then their relationship would no longer be affected by other factors, and no matter what happened, it would no longer separate them.

So Aiyin didn't say anything else. She just took out a tissue from her bag with one hand. After Qing slowly calmed down and stopped crying so hard, she let go of Qing's hand, lifted Qing's head with her hand, and then gently wiped Qing's tears, just like a mother comforting her child.

"Okay, okay, stop crying. If someone passes by and sees you like this, they're going to laugh at you, okay?"

Seeing that Qing was much better, Aiyin tried to comfort her. If she had comforted Qing just now, Qing might have cried even harder because she was emotionally broken, but she could try now.

"No, I didn't cry!"

Qing took the tissue from Aine and said stubbornly.

"Hey, Qingqing is also very cute now, right?"

Aiyin saw that Qing had adjusted his emotions and would not have a sudden breakdown again, so she couldn't help but tease him.

"I'll cry for you to see?"

"Eh? No!"

"Pfft!"

Seeing Aine panicking because she was afraid that she would cry again, Qing couldn't help but burst out laughing, but this laugh made her snot bubble up, causing Qing to blush and wipe her snot with a tissue. Now it was Aine who couldn't help but burst out laughing again.

Qing turned his back to Aine, showing her his back. He didn’t want Aine to see his appearance. He quickly adjusted his expression and said, “Just pretend that what happened just now never happened.”

Aiyin asked reluctantly: "Eh? Do we have to treat what I just said as if it never happened?"

What Aiyin was talking about was of course her confession. Although she made her confession not long after she was sure of Qing's feelings, she had made a great determination. Moreover, it was because the atmosphere was right that she was able to confess. She didn't know if she would have such a good opportunity next time.

No, after all, why do I always have to confess? Doesn't Qing like me too? Aine felt a little unhappy when she thought about it.

Qing was also stunned by Aine's question, because she hadn't thought of how to respond to Aine's confession. Generally speaking, it is normal for two people to be together if they love each other, but Qing feels that she is just a shell now, and she is afraid that Aine will be disappointed after knowing her true nature, so she wants to become a human being with a full inner self before being with Aine.

Seeing that Qing hadn't answered yet, Aiyin was a little disappointed, but not frustrated. She just sighed and said, "Okay then, Qingqing, if you ever want to agree to me, then it will be your turn, okay?"

Well, anyway, Aine wanted to replicate the scene where Ao pulled her into her arms in the morning, and it was a replica, after all, Aine did hold Ao in her arms. Although the process was completely different, and Aine was not as handsome as Ao, wasn't it nice to support Ao, who was the most vulnerable, so gently? So it was fine like this.

Qing paused when he heard that, then turned his back to Aine and replied, "I will. And thank you, Aine."

Where Aine couldn't see, Qing smiled softly.

Thank you, my sun.

85

Chapter 85: Shopping, fans, and picks.

Inside a music store in Ikebukuro, the owner is putting posters of girl bands on the store's decoration. In this era of girl bands, there are quite a few young people patronizing the music store, so he also needs to follow the trend of young people and from time to time he will put posters of various girl bands in the store and play girl bands' songs.

Some fans who like a certain girl band may curiously enter the store when passing by. Although they may not know much about music, let alone musical instruments, they will be determined to buy musical instruments and practice in order to chase their idols.

The boss has seen many such people, and they have increased a lot of profits for his store, but in fact only a small number of these people can stick with it. Most of them only appear in the store once when buying musical instruments, and then never appear again, so the boss does not have any deep impression of them.

In addition, there are some serious music patrons who come from time to time, and the boss will remember these people. But there is another type of people who are obviously not very skilled but still leave a deep impression on the boss.

The pink-haired girl in front of him, who came with another black-haired girl, was such a master who had impressed the boss.

First of all, this pink-haired guy had been to this store three times before, and he would test his guitar every time. The boss had seen many musicians with decent skills come to the store to show off their skills in the name of testing their guitars. But this pink-haired guy was obviously not very good, but he would pretend to be intoxicated every time he tried to play.

It gives people a feeling of being both unsophisticated and pretentious.

This is not surprising. What is surprising is that after more than a year, this pink-haired guy's guitar skills have hardly improved at all. He still can't play half a song properly.

That would have been fine, but what was even more incredible to the boss was that this pink-haired girl actually came today to help the person next to her choose a musical instrument.

No, you yourself only know that the more expensive the better, how can you be someone else's military advisor?

In fact, Aiyin's knowledge of musical instruments was extremely limited, so she had to trouble the boss to introduce more. Then Aiyin and Qing kept trying to play different guitars.

In fact, logically speaking, the trial playing should have nothing to do with Aine, but Qing asked Aine to do the trial playing for her on the pretext that she couldn't play. Her real purpose was to take the opportunity to find out Aine's guitar level.

After all, Qing wanted to pretend to be a guitar novice who was worse than Aine. It would be terrible if she overestimated Aine's guitar level and turned out to be not completely bad enough. Not only would this fail to help Aine share the pressure from Li Xi, but it would make Aine feel the frustration of being surpassed by a novice.

But she can't be as bad as a blank sheet of paper, after all, she still has to put some appropriate pressure on Aiyin. Qing is not sure how serious Aiyin is about the band, but in order to prevent Aiyin from practicing for a few days and resting for a few days, she still creates a kind of pressure that if she doesn't practice hard, she will be surpassed by the newbies.

After trying a few guitars quickly, the trial was over. With Qing's budget, he didn't need to try too many guitars at this price. But in the end, Qing still wanted to try a few guitars himself, at least to see if he felt comfortable playing them.

For Qing, the shape and size of the guitar body is the most important criterion for her to choose a guitar. Of course, with Qing's physical condition, she can basically adapt to most guitars, because she is tall and has long hands, and there is no excessive burden on her chest that would cause the guitar to rest on her body. As long as the model is not too anti-human, she will have no problem playing it.

However, Qing didn't notice that her boss who was watching her beside her could still figure out the clues just from the fact that she simply tried a few notes and even needed Aiyin to teach her how to press the chords.

An expert can tell whether a guitar is good or not at one glance. The boss could tell that Qing was definitely not a novice from the position of the guitar he held after putting it on and his subconscious and standard string-guarding movements. Some details before and after the trial playing, such as the position of the fingers, further confirmed the boss's inner thoughts.

The specific strength is unclear, but at least it is stronger than the pink-haired girl next to her. Although the boss noticed this and was very curious about why Qing pretended to be a newbie, since she wanted to hide her weakness, the boss would not ask.

"Hey, Qingqing, you are amazing. You learned the chords so quickly! I feel that your fingers are very strong. Do you do anything to exercise your finger strength?"

Aine was amazed at Qing's learning speed, mainly because Qing's fingers were long and strong. As long as Aine taught Qing the fingering techniques, Qing could play chords quickly.

Qing pondered for a moment. Her finger strength was basically increased by the system, and her keyboard and guitar playing skills had also increased. But she couldn't say this out loud, and she couldn't even say that she had played a musical instrument before, so she could only make up an excuse: "Maybe it's a part-time job. I've always had good physical fitness. If Aiyin wants to strengthen her finger strength, maybe she can try finger exercises."

Aiyin didn't ask any more questions. After all, Aiyin knew that Qing had fought with gangsters and won, so it wasn't surprising that he was stronger. She just asked, "What do you think? Qingqing, which one do you think is better?"

Qing thought about it and finally chose a white guitar. The tone of this guitar was fine, it was comfortable to hold, and the price was also suitable. Well, so in the end, Qing still had to make the choice, and Aiyin was just there to make up the numbers.

The boss then asked: "Are you playing in a band? Do you need to buy some effects pedals?"

Aine answered the previous question: “Yes, we formed a band.”

Qing answered the latter question: "I won't use the effects pedal for now. I'll just rent one from the Livehouse when I perform."

It is quite normal to rent music equipment or even musical instruments from Livehouse for performances or joint practice. For example, it is difficult to carry a drum set conveniently. Of course, it is better to use the effects pedals you like, but Qing is not pursuing so many for the time being, at least she has to wait until she has money.

The boss didn't feel sorry that Qing didn't choose to buy an effects pedal. He just took out a guitar bag and continued to ask: "You are all guitarists, right? It must be difficult for you to recruit people to form a band like this?"

In the boss's view, Qing and Aine are both guitarists, and no matter how good Qing's guitar skills are, at least the level she shows is that of a novice, which is equivalent to two guitar novices. It is really a blessing to be able to recruit teammates with such a configuration.

Aiyin said proudly, "No, our band is already formed and we will be performing in a month. Will the boss come to see us?"

The boss was very surprised when he heard this, and at the same time he became curious. He wanted to know how these two people found their teammates. Could it be that all the members in their band were childhood sweethearts so they wouldn't dislike each other?

Qing explained at this time: "Because we took in the heartbroken former band members who had disbanded."

"Oh, I see. So what's the style of your band? If it's something I'm interested in, I can go check it out."

The boss was completely interested in Qing and her friends' band and began to ask about the band's details.

"Hmm...what style is it? Maybe it's still unclear right now?"

Aine pursed her lips with her hand.

The boss was surprised again and asked curiously: "Don't you have any bands that you chase after? You should have your favorite bands, right? Like Roselia or something like that."

This question was answered by Qing, who said: "We want to make our own music and express our own voice. It is impossible to stick to it for a long time just by following a certain band."

Actually, what Qing wanted to express was that the goal was to form a band for life, so they couldn't just follow other bands. But Qing was not Deng, and he wouldn't easily say something like "for life" in front of outsiders.

Qing's answer impressed the boss. He also saw that Qing's ability was not simple, so he believed Qing's words and looked forward to Qing's band. He said: "It's a great declaration. I look forward to your music. By the way, what is the name of your band?"

"Anon Tokyo!"

Aine answered complacently.

The boss didn't know that Anon was Aiyin's name, so he didn't find it particularly strange, but he really couldn't understand the meaning of the band name. He nodded, then handed the packaged guitar to Qing and said, "Anon Tokyo? I'll pay attention to it."

After paying, Qing picked up the guitar and put it on his back. Then he looked at the open box of picks on the counter, picked up two picks, and asked, "In that case, can the boss give us two picks?"

Aiyin was stunned for a moment when she saw the two familiar picks, one blue and one pink, in Qing's hands.

The boss looked at Qing suspiciously and asked, "Didn't I give you two picks when you were trying to play the instrument just now?"

Qing shook his head and said, "That's different. You gave it to me, and I chose it. I want these two."