Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

Marina, she is no longer needed.

So, she left.

Simple and straightforward, just like the impression she has always given people.

The day after the live ended, after taking a group photo, Xinmu stood at the hatch of the airship and said goodbye to everyone.

"You guys are going to avenge Marina now, right?" she asked. "Although I can't leave...please, take my share with you."

Shizi nodded solemnly.

"With Miss Araki's help, everything will be fine."

The airship slowly took off.

Xinmu watched it go away, then turned around and returned to the lake.

Did I protect Marina?

Back then, in the flames and hurricane, these were her last thoughts.

It must be possible, right? After all, I have come this far.

As long as Marina and the others can still move, they will be able to react and run away quickly, right?

Xinmu's figure was immersed in the lake.

Why……

Why……

Why... I still couldn't protect her...

"Why - I protected them, but I couldn't protect you -" She screamed at the top of her lungs, making a sound that no one could hear in the tranquil lake.

"Marina... why..."

"I thought... maybe it would have been better if I had been stronger..."

"Should I force you to persevere..."

"Should I help you support the band..."

"Is it better to see you more often..."

"Marina... why... I tried my best..."

"Marina... I still have a lot to say to you..."

"I really want to listen to your guitar again..."

“I really want to play drums for you again…”

"I really want to form a band with you again..."

"I really want to run into you on the street again, chat with you, eat snacks together..."

"Why... can't I protect you..."

"Marina... have I conveyed my wish to you..."

Xinmu's figure gradually became transparent in the water. Something kept escaping from her body, merging into the water, and filling the missing brilliance.

A figure emerged in Xinmu's blurry vision.

"Marina...?" Araki saw the figure reaching out his hand to her. She smiled happily.

"I will protect the person you want to protect."

"So, you came to pick me up..."

She took the hand the figure extended, and they melted into the water together.

By the lake, Hina stood there with a silent expression that she never showed in front of others.

She held the gem she had obtained not long ago, and as her imagination progressed, a simple tombstone appeared before her.

She stood there for a long time, turned around, and disappeared on the spot.

On the airship, Shizi seemed to sense something and turned his head sharply to look in the direction of the Golden Country.

The lake sparkles in the desert, like a sapphire pearl inlaid in the topaz land, shining brightly.

ps: I thought for a long time whether to expand on the character of Araki, because when I first conceived it, I really just used her as a tool. The first volume was an emotional foreshadowing for Marina's death, and the fourth volume was a guide NPC to make this plot pass quickly. For the same reason, I deliberately deleted the roles of those previous generations of time travelers in the third volume. However, I finally decided that even if she is a tool, she must have a relatively complete story line. She must have her own past, her own motivations for behavior, and her own ending, and she cannot be lost in the future.

However, I also know that fan fiction readers come to see the original characters, not the original characters, so I made a balance. Shinki's chapter is only one chapter long, which won't be too long. What effect can this chapter achieve... I think it should be okay.

At least it's a happy ending, isn't it? Of course he is the one who dies...

Chapter 35 Interesting People

"…The graceful lotus flowers are her attendants, and her golden clothes are adorned with spots and moles; those are the red jades given by the immortals, which contain wisps of fragrant fragrance; I want to find a few drops of dew here and hang pearl earrings on each flower…" (Note 1)

From a distance, Hua Lian's singing voice could be heard.

"Oh, A Midsummer Night's Dream." MASKING glanced at it and lowered her head to continue reading her book. Not far away, Shizi was lying on a bench, sleeping soundly in the fragrance of flowers and plants.

The airship greening plan that I had worked out with Yusaki and the others was finally implemented. Not only were green plants planted everywhere, but an area was cleared in the center of the airship, and the first and second floors were connected to build an indoor park. Thanks to Yusaki's efforts, the park is not big, but it is quite interesting, with fragrant flowers and plants, lush trees, and dragons and tigers crouching. At first glance, it is pure natural scenery, and it is completely invisible that it is indoors. Yusaki was squatting near Shiko, trimming branches.

"Hehehe...you look quite good..." She laughed like a nerd while making some fine adjustments with the twig shears.

Suddenly, Shizi sat up from the side like a zombie, which scared her. She cut the wrong place. Her face changed immediately. She quickly put down the scissors and used her ability to carefully repair it.

"Yili is looking for me." She heard Shizi mutter and run away.

Arisaki felt a chill down his spine: "This has already reached the level of a special ability..."

Yili was indeed looking for Shizi. She went there to ask Shizi to correct the papers.

It's a Chinese test paper.

Since she made up her mind, she has been taking time to learn Chinese. Unfortunately, just like her talent in other subjects, she can't understand it even if she tries hard. And Shizi has no experience in teaching. After studying for a long time, she can only have a simple conversation with Shizi in Chinese. Once Shizi speeds up or says a word she doesn't understand, she can only put on a "dazed" face.

Shi Zi had no choice but to forge an English exam paper for the college entrance examination and excitedly gave Yi Li a set of Huanggang papers, asking her to take them herself.

"Wrong, wrong, wrong... What the hell... There is no such expression... Where did you learn this dialect? I don't think I've ever said it..." Shizi's red pen trembled as she drew circles on the yellow paper that protected her eyes. Now it was her turn to be "dazed". To be honest, she had never seen such an outrageous test paper in middle school.

Yili looked at the circles one by one, his eyes sparkling: "All correct?"

"All wrong..." Shizi sighed, "Our custom here is to count the mistakes if they are in circles."

She squinted at Yili and said, "Yili, why don't you pretend to be dumb when you come back to my hometown with me? I'm here for you..."

Yili shook his head vigorously.

"Okay..." Shizi sighed again and began to explain each question one by one, "First, this side..."

When he finished, it was completely dark outside, and the lights came on at some point. Yili, at least on the surface, understood everything.

Their stomachs started to growl at the same time. They looked at each other and said, "Damn it, I guess we didn't hear the dinner bell."

Yili rushed to open the door, hoping not to miss dinner.

However, the door hit something. Yili squatted down and saw two insulated boxes, each containing a dinner for one person, both fried pork cutlet curry. The pork cutlet was very large and fried to a golden brown, the rice grains were separated, and the curry was rich in texture. Just looking at it made me want to drool. Yili took them back.

"Sheng Hongxia, Amen." Shizi clasped his hands together in front of the incubator.

"How gentle." Yili was also a little touched.

Hongxia was in charge of the meal today and they enjoyed the meal very much.

Hongxia is best at this kind of home cooking; Lisa is good at everyday desserts; MASKING is good at young lady-style Western food; and Sa-ling is good at everything related to bread.

"This is the Four Heavenly Kings of Cooking..." Shizi said solemnly.

"What?" Lian Yili sometimes couldn't keep up with Shizi's radio waves.

"Including Nana from Shengxiang's side, they will be the five kings." Hina's voice came from under the table.

"There are five of the Four Heavenly Kings. This is common sense." Shizi stepped back a little and poked Hina's head out from under the table. "And why are you here? Peeping will increase your sentence."

"Eh..." Yili hugged Shizi's arm and trembled, "Could it be possible..."

"Ah," Shiko explained, "I don't know how she did it, but now Hina can use her abilities normally even though her body is full of filth."

"We are currently observing Shizi day and night to find his weakness!" Hinata added.

"I...I'm going to tell others..." Yili wanted to slip away. But Shizi and Hina looked at her from both sides. Yili was stiff and didn't dare to move: "I, I will be obedient, don't kill me..."

Shizi twitched his face: "She's not a murderer...Also, have I become Caicai's meal replacement? Do you want me to wear a pink wig?"

Hinata was still crouching under the table, "Shizi-chan and Cai-chan are different...and if we talk about being as interesting as Cai-chan, Ichiri-chan is pretty close."

Yili was sweating all over. "Huh? Me? What does this mean? Does it mean that being the target of bullying is fun?"

"Look, it's really interesting!" Hina couldn't help laughing, but she still patiently explained, "I've never seen someone like Xiaoyi, who has so many things he can't do, but keeps trying, just like Xiaocai!"

"They are all pink-haired." Shizi interrupted.

"Correct!"

Shizi thought seriously: If he cut Yili's hair and made it into a wig, and then wore it himself, could he really become Caicai's meal substitute?

"The colorful Maruyama... Oops, I bit it!" She suddenly posed and imitated Maruyama Aya's voice.

"Haha! That's right! Bite your tongue!" Hina looked really happy.

The door was smashed open with a bang.

"Where is the color black!" PAREO's extremely rare roar, which Shi Zi had never heard of before, rang out.

Hina disappeared in an instant.

Shizi kept gesturing and turned to PAREO.

"…I am Maruyama Aya!" She still maintained Aya's voice.

"…It's Xiao Cai…" Tears welled up in PAREO's eyes.

Hina's figure transformed into a spirit form, jumping between consciousnesses.

Ryo who was composing music, Nijika who was operating the dishwasher, CHU? who was competing with the mecha for some unknown reason, Satomi who was eating her third chocolate snail after dinner, Yukina who was meditatively composing music surrounded by snacks... and Kasumi who seemed to have heard something again.

Hina accidentally saw something from Kasumi.

She immediately shifted her gaze.

“(Not only are there interesting people, but there are also a lot of interesting things happening.)”

"(Don't look at Kasumi-chan for the time being.)"

Hinata obediently jumped back to her room using the virtual personality that she had not returned to Shiko last time, pretending that she had not been anywhere, and waited for Sayo to return.

Note 1: Excerpted from

》Act 2, Scene 1. I only had one feeling when reading this book: when it comes to distortion, great writers still understand...

Chapter 36 Under the Stars

Yili has already gone back. No one else will come at this time.

Shizi finished writing today's letter to his other self, thought there was nothing else to do, changed into pajamas, and fell into bed.

Starlight from the window fell on her face. There were shadows on the ceiling.

Shizi used a quilt as an eye mask and covered his face. In this way, the faint light outside would not affect his sleep, and he would take off the quilt soon after falling asleep, so that the morning sunlight could wake him up normally.

It would be another day. I followed the schedule in my pocket: keyboard practice, eating, practice, thinking about what improvements I could make to the airship, combat sparring, composing music, writing lyrics, and so much more.

No matter what we do, we do it together with everyone.

It was always noisy, and she always maintained a changeable image of sometimes being hot-tempered, sometimes agitated, and sometimes calm and complaining. Through such a layer of masks, she seemed to have gained other people's happiness. As long as she was with others, her time was very fulfilling.

And in this short period of time when everything is quiet and I am not asleep, I feel a sense of melancholy coming from nowhere, like a thin mist in the early morning, which is vague but real in my heart.

"(Well, it's late night wwy time...)" she tried to complain to herself.

not effectively.

She tried to gesture and say the complaint out loud, but there was no one around and she was embarrassed and didn't dare to say it.

From somewhere in the distance, there was a remnant of a roar.

Shizi put down his hand and retreated back into the quilt.