Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

Outside the activity room of the wind band club at Tsukinomori Girls' Academy.

Nagasaki Suyo shouted excitedly to Tsuzuki Chihiro on the other end of the phone: "How many days are you going to disappear again?!"

"Su Shi, why are you so excited?"

"You...whose house are you going to again?" Nagasaki Suyo asked in a sour tone with some jealousy.

“Aine~”

"Aine? The pink-haired one?"

"...Why are you so rude to Aine? Didn't you always tell me she was a very nice person?"

The past was before and the present is now.

So...how many good sisters do you, Chihiro Tsuzuki, have?

It’s okay for a blood-related stray cat; we can also ignore that stinky little sister named OB who suddenly showed up and left for unknown reasons; but how can you, a pink-haired deserter from the UK, take her away at will?

"Forget it, go wherever you want...I can't control you anyway."

"Don't say that, Sushi. Don't you still have your mother waiting for you at home? Although it's a pity that you can't discuss your past embarrassments with Sister Rina, this is also a good thing for you."

"...Can you please stop calling my mom 'sister'?"

"This is not important."

This is very important!

"Then when will you come back?"

Tsuzuki Chihiro on the other end of the phone was a little hesitant, but after a brief hesitation, she added, "Su Shi, I'm sorry..."

“…Why are you saying sorry?”

Nagasaki Suyo frowned, her heart skipped a beat, as if she felt that something unexpected was about to happen.

"The commission between us seems to be a little difficult to complete at the moment."

Chihiro Tsuzuki on the other end of the phone was very hesitant. The reason she said this was not because she really had no other choice, but because she wanted to persuade Su Shi to give up.

Is it completely hopeless to bring everyone back to form the old C group?

Not really. As long as she wants to think about it and is willing to spend time and energy, Chihiro feels that it can be done.

But such an ending may be far from the perfect ending she expected. After all, misunderstandings can be resolved, or new misunderstandings that are beneficial to the ending can be created, but the problem is that people's character is difficult to change.

She didn't think that Xiaoxiang, whom Su Shi had always wanted to get back, was the beautified Toyokawa Shoko in her memory.

The "happy ending" achieved in the end may not be the result that Su Shi expected.

"This matter is not your fault... I didn't do my best, but I hope..."

"Do not……"

When Su Shi heard Qianxun suddenly say these words, he became panicked.

He wanted to break away from the agreement and said at this time that he would stay at Aine's place for who knows how many days. Does that mean... that Chihiro Tsuzuki is planning to give up on him?

"Chihiro Tsuzuki, you can't go back on your word like this! You promised me!"

"..."

"Don't even think about abandoning me."

"...Okay." Tsuzuki Chihiro sighed. She could sense the girl's persistence in Su Shi's words. "Since you said so, I'll try harder."

"Um……"

After hanging up the phone, Nagasaki Suyo's face turned very bad. To be honest, she really felt that she was a shameless person.

Why did he force Chihiro to do this useless thing when he clearly felt that there was no hope?

She seems to have been doing these ridiculous things all the time, using excuses that seem to be for "everyone" to satisfy her own selfish thoughts.

In the past, she used the excuse of "forming a new band" in front of Aiyin and others to try to win back Xiaoxiang. Now, she uses the excuse of "winning back Xiaoxiang" to try to tie the girl she likes to her side.

What kind of liar is Tsuzuki Chihiro? She is the worst liar...

"next time……"

Su Shi said to herself, "If Chihiro says the same thing again next time, I will agree to her."

Chapter 173 Xiangzi: I, I'm going to turn evil! (2/2)

"Why hasn't Su Shi come out yet..."

Standing at the gate of Tsuki no Mori school, with the iconic big bell of Tsuki no Mori above her head, Shiina Riki paced anxiously. She could be said to have run here as soon as school was over today, just to find Su Shi and clarify with her some issues that she couldn't explain yesterday.

But what should I say after meeting her?

Shiina Riki was very hesitant because she felt that she could not see the perfect ending, even though she and Chihiro Tsuzuki had communicated with each other and agreed to act according to her ideas.

The main reason lies in one person: Shoko Toyokawa.

Shiina Riki never hides his dislike for someone, nor does he hide his love and admiration for someone.

During her time in the C band, she admitted that she had basically only identified with two people in the band. One was Deng, who expressed her inner thoughts, and the other was Xiangzi, who was so talented in music that she couldn't help but feel inferior but wanted to catch up.

The lights never change.

But Xiangzi seemed to have changed into a person she had never recognized overnight.

Who is the real Xiangzi? Li Xi felt that the person who distanced herself from them with a cold tone that night seemed to be the real her.

She has never really considered everyone in crychic as a companion.

When forming a band with such people, there may not be any major problems at the beginning, and the creation and practice of music may even go extremely smoothly.

But if they encounter some difficult problems, the band may fall apart in an instant.

Of course, Lixi is facing the same problem now, and their new band seems to be on a very dangerous edge.

So what Shiina Riki wanted to do was not to follow Xiangzi's old path. She felt that some things could not be avoided, because she knew how embarrassing and shameful the self she once wanted to escape from was.

In other words, there is no one missing from their new band. If there are a thousand reasons for her to help Chihiro and Su Shi to destroy the existing band and re-form the former crychic.

Then even if she couldn't come up with a thousand corresponding rebuttals, she had to shamelessly stand in front of those two people and say that their ideas were wrong from the beginning.

"Lixi?"

"..."

At first, Shiina Riki thought she had misheard, because she had been wandering here for a long time, and she did see Xiaomu leave in the middle, and she and Xiaomu did have less than two rounds of conversation.

But apart from her, there is probably no one else in this school who can call out her name.

However, when Lixi turned around and saw who the person in front of her was, the expression on her face suddenly became extremely cold.

"Toyokawa Shoko..."

No, she had to hold it in and control herself.

If it weren't for the conversation between Qianxun and her yesterday, Lixi would probably have rushed up and grabbed the other person's collar, and then severely insulted this hateful guy who dared to appear at the door of Yuezhisen.

But even though she didn't say anything rude, the disgust in her heart still showed on her face without any concealment.

"I have something to ask you."

"I have something to ask you."

Shiina Riki frowned and asked back in a somewhat unhappy tone, "You... ask me? I don't have anything to tell you, right?"

"..."

"Forget it, for Su Shi's sake, just ask whatever you want."

Anyway, she wouldn't say anything useful, and she wouldn't tell Xiangzi anything that should be hidden.

——Just like Xiangzi who left without saying anything.

"You guys formed a band, right?"

"Asking knowingly."

Shoko Toyokawa knew very well that the girl in front of her was very dissatisfied with her, although she had not originally intended to come to find Li Xi, but came to ask Su Shi some questions.

But now that she met Li Xi, she really wanted to get some information out of her.

"Who's in your band?"

"Huh?" Shiina Riki looked at Xiangzi, who seemed to be forced to answer her question, and the dissatisfaction in his heart surged up again. "Do I have to answer just because you ask me? Our band's affairs have nothing to do with you, a guy who has already left, right?"

"..."

"Who I form a band with is none of your business. Miss Toyokawa, who's busy playing the civilian experience game, seems a bit nosy."

"Lixi, you..."

Why did Li Xi suddenly become so sarcastic? Who influenced him?

Although Li Xi used to be the kind of person who was easily irritated and often spoke in a bad way, why was he so malicious towards her today?

"...I really don't understand why they all like you so much."

Without pursuing Li Xi's inexplicable question, Xiangzi asked the question she wanted to ask, "Is Su Shi with you?"

"……No."

"You don't have to lie, I already know."

"what?"

"Chihaya-san has already told me that Suyo is your bassist. Why did you hide this from me? Could it be that... she has been colluding with that Tsuzuki Chihiro to deceive me from the very beginning?"

"This damn pink-haired guy!"

Shiina Riki gritted her teeth and cursed inwardly. She knew that Aine would do something bad. Although she really didn't know about this matter, it was understandable that she let it slip.

However, she still wanted to grab the pink-haired girl's neck and bang her head against her snare drum while listening to her crying.

However, after complaining about this, Li Xi returned to his previous expression, and even revealed a sneer that made Xiangzi feel very uncomfortable:

"To deceive you? Are you thinking too much?

Su Shi and Qianxun do have some plans, and since you already know almost everything, I won't hide it from you."

Shiina Riki had endured enough. She could ignore Aine's unintentional disruption, tolerate the wild cat's elusiveness, ignore Deng's hesitation and confusion, and understand the repeated deceptions between Su Shi and Chihiro.

But the only thing she couldn't accept was why Toyokawa Shoko, the culprit who caused them to be in this situation, could come here and ask questions like nothing had happened, and even come with some sarcasm.

"Su Shi actually already understood her ending, but she still couldn't let go of the past. Because of your words, everyone fell into a haze.

That's why she found Chihiro, hoping that Chihiro could replace her and become everyone's companion.

She never does it for herself, everything she does is for everyone, which is different from you."

"...So, this is why Chihiro came to me?"

"I don't know what she said to you, but I just want to say, please don't appear in front of us again. Nagasaki Suyo doesn't need your pity, and Chihiro doesn't need you to be her companion."

Sorry Chihiro, sorry Sushi...

This time, she, Shiina Riki, is going to do something impulsive again and destroy your wishes.

"……I see."

Chapter 174 Lixi: Chihiro is not your substitute! (1/2)

Run, run away?

Shiina Riki looked at Xiangzi in some surprise as he glanced at her fiercely and turned away. Her whole expression looked a little surprised.

She hadn't even started to exert her strength yet, and she still had a lot of things to say to criticize Miss Toyokawa, so why did this guy just slip away?

"Forget it...just run away. It's best not to appear in front of Deng and Su Shi in the future."

But in this case, it seems that he has no idea how to explain it to Su Shi and Chihiro.

After about 10 minutes, Li Xi, who was waiting at the school gate, finally saw a familiar figure walking out of the school.

There were a few of Su Shi's friends around her, but after seeing her from afar, they hurried away in panic, as if they had seen something terrible.

Only Su Shi who stayed behind frowned, and the smile on his face froze in an instant when their eyes met in the air.