Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

And the reason why crychic disbanded, why they had to disband, is actually the most important point."

"Reason?"

Nagasaki Suyo seemed to have figured something out, but still seemed a little confused.

"Yes, even if there is no possibility for everyone to come back, even if this commission was impossible to complete from the beginning, I still have to find out the truth behind it and give an explanation to my financial sponsor... oh no, I should say my little maid now. Anyway, I have to give you, Su Shi, an explanation.

An explanation that will allow you to dig yourself out of this mess."

"Qianxun..."

"Are you touched? Do you think being my maid is the best decision you've ever made in your life? Well then... take a look at these pictures and pick one for yourself."

"What picture..."

Nagasaki Suyo was a little confused, then took the phone handed to her by Tsuzuki Chihiro, and the more she swiped back, the darker her expression became.

Maid costumes, all different styles of maid costumes, even cat girl versions, as well as bunny girls and... reverse bunny girls?!

No, the last one was a bit too much!

"Chihiro Tsukushi, my patience has its limits...Please don't go too far!!!"

Chapter 122: Su Shi: Someone is trying to steal my girlfriend?! (2/2)

"There seem to be fewer guests today."

In a beef bowl restaurant called "Yoshinoya", a shorter working girl casually complained to the taller one next to her.

However, judging from the situation in the store at the moment, it seems that there are indeed no customers.

As an ordinary worker, not the actual owner of the store, the girl should actually be happy about this. After all, no matter how noisy and prosperous the Tokyo night is, it has nothing to do with Satoshi Ebizuka who is hiding in the kitchen of the beef donburi restaurant.

"After saying so much, aren't you just curious about why those people who performed on stage yesterday haven't been here for a long time?"

"What?" The girl wearing the mask felt as if her tail had been stepped on after hearing what the girl next to her said. "Why would I be curious about them?"

"........Are you sure you don't want to try it?"

"what?"

"It seems their band is still short of someone, right? There are four of them, and they're missing a keyboard."

As an adult and half guardian of Xiaozhi, RUPA actually understands his thoughts very well. He says that he doesn't want to go to the LIVE or form a band with others, but in his heart he still hopes for this opportunity.

For this reason, he even secretly tried to add piano parts to those people's songs in the room, making it clear that he really wanted to be with them.

"That's not necessary." Ebizuka Satoshi shook his head, as if reminiscing about the past. "Besides... they should already have a bassist."

"Eh? Xiaozhi, are you considering where I should go?" RUPA looked at Xiaozhi with a smile, "But if you keep hesitating like this, they might find a suitable keyboard player."

"What does that have to do with me?"

"Once you miss an opportunity, it's hard to find it again. And if you keep shrinking back because of the fear of failure, then don't hang the picture of your dream on the wall. It would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?"

"......"

But the problem is, they seem to already have a backup keyboard player, right?

When Ebizka Satoshi thought of this, he actually thought of another person, that is Shoko Toyokawa.

In fact, she and Xiangzi didn't know each other, but she had seen him a few times when she participated in piano competitions.

I met him under the stage of that LIVE yesterday evening. I don’t know if it was just a coincidence, but Ebizuka Satoshi always felt that...the keyboard part of that song might really have been played by him.

After all, in her memory, only Toyokawa Shoko could play a piano that she could not detect any problems with.

"Hello, what would you like to eat?"

Hearing RUPA beside her welcome the guests, Ebizuka Tomoya stood at attention and looked towards the door. However, as soon as she looked over, she saw two figures that looked somewhat familiar.

"Xiaozhi, you haven't forgotten them, right?"

"......"

The people sitting at their seats thinking about what to eat in the evening were naturally Chihiro Tsuzuki and Suyo Nagasaki.

Because the distance is relatively close and she had eaten here once and thought the food was delicious, after buying some daily necessities in the supermarket, Su Shi brought Chihiro here to eat.

What made Su Shi feel a little strange was that the two shop assistants in the store seemed to be looking at her and Chihiro with strange eyes.

Could it be that... Chihiro has harmed another working girl without her knowledge?

Nagasaki Suyo rolled her eyes, then nudged Chihiro, who was looking at the menu and having trouble making a choice, with a cold expression and asked, "Chihiro, they..."

"What did you call me?"

“…It’s outside.”

Nagasaki Suyo clenched her left fist. She really wanted to punch this guy on the head in public. Yes, she said "this is outside" not because she would call Chihiro "Master" obediently when she got home, but because she didn't want Chihiro, who was looking for a fight, to embarrass herself in public in front of outsiders.

This guy...really treated her like a servant. He bought a large bag of things in the supermarket and asked her to bring them back. The most infuriating thing was that this guy even bought several large bags of sanitary napkins.

When asked what she was doing, the girl actually said that these were the insoles she used to raise her shoes when she pretended to be an adult, and she kept explaining to herself which brand was more comfortable to wear.

When Su Shi asked Qianxun which adult she was planning to pretend to be, the little thing just smiled mysteriously and said... "You'll know later."

Actually, these are fine, but the most infuriating thing is that when I finally walked out of the supermarket, this guy actually leaned over and whispered in my ear...

"Actually, Sushi brand shoes are the most comfortable to wear."

Nagasaki Motoyo strongly suspected that Tsuzuki Chihiro was deliberately making trouble for her just because she kicked her out of the house. She didn't expect that this woman was so petty!

"Um... can I excuse you for a moment?"

Just as Nagasaki Suyo was about to reach out and twist Chihiro's slender waist as a warning, the clerk who had just looked at her and Chihiro with strange eyes came up to them.

Now, Su Shi doesn’t have to say whether he wants to leave or not, because the “victim” comes to him directly.

The reason why Su Shi thought so was because he met the first victim, Rencai, not long ago.

"Is there a problem?"

Tsuzuki Chihiro looked at the two girls in front of her and asked in confusion, "Are you closed? Or are you out of ingredients today?"

"Neither..." Rupa ignored the somewhat repulsive look from Satoshi behind him, smiled at Chihiro Tsuzuki in front of him and asked, "If I'm not mistaken, are you the bassist who performed on stage at RiNG yesterday?"

"Are there...problems?"

Chihiro Tsuzuki turned her head to look at Su Shi beside her, only to see that the other person was looking at her expressionlessly, as if saying, "Why are you looking at me?"

Just as she turned her head and looked back, when Chihiro was about to ask something else, a figure less than 1 meters tall appeared in front of her, rushed over and handed her a card.

"Is this... is this called red ginger? How do you translate it?"

"Hello you all."

"......"

Ten minutes later, the four people moved from Yoshinoya's beef bowl restaurant to a nearby coffee shop called "Marufuku". Chihiro Tsuzuki and Suyo sat on one side, while Satoshi Ebizuka and RUPA, who had just handed over their business cards, sat on the other side.

"So... you guys are musicians?"

Qianxun felt like she had really stirred up a hornet's nest. How come she met people from the same business every time she had a meal? She had clearly wanted to spend more time with the young widow beside her while Lixi's "vacation" was still going on.

But it seems like there's always someone who doesn't want her to enjoy herself.

"Let me introduce myself again. I'm RUPA, this is Satoshi Ebizuka, and we're the operators of a music composition team account called 'Red Ginger'.

I found you because I wanted to collaborate with you on music.”

"Ah..." Chihiro Tsuzuki looked at the girl sitting next to Rupa, who had a white bow on her head and handed them business cards with a fierce look on her face, but now had a cold face and was drinking from a straw. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "What a cute child, hiss..."

Feeling that her thigh was pinched hard by someone next to her, Chihiro kicked the other person to express her dissatisfaction. However, just when Chihiro was about to find a reason to refuse, Su Shi next to her replied in her standard clip voice:

"So I understand that you guys are trying to steal my girlfriend, right?"

"......"

Chihiro Tsuzuki felt that Su Shi seemed a little unfriendly tonight.

......

ps: I will start updating three chapters starting tomorrow. There are only 7 chapters left. I should be able to finish them this month.

Chapter 123: Su Shi: If you don’t find a job, how will you support me? (1/2)

"Sorry, sorry, that's just her personality. Just don't take it personally."

Chihiro Tsuzuki looked at Rupa, who was just smiling in front of her and was not angry at what Su Shi said, and Satoshi, who was already a little unhappy. She pinched Su Shi's legs under the table and made amends for Su Shi with the same smile.

"Then let us introduce ourselves. My name is Chihiro Tsuzuki and her name is Suyo Nagasaki."

"..."

Although Su Shi didn't say anything, Qianxun assumed that she had already calmed down. "So I have a question. What exactly do you mean by cooperation?"

"Your band, of course!"

"Band?" Tsuzuki Chihiro cast her gaze on the lovely girl sitting across from her. "But... I'm planning to quit that band, right?"

"what?!"

Satoshi Ebizuka looked at the girl sitting in front of him in disbelief, his big eyes filled with surprise and incomprehension.

She had never expected Chihiro Tsuzuki to say such a thing.

"Ah... maybe saying I'm quitting isn't quite the right word. It feels like I'm just being willful and reckless. To be more precise... I didn't actually plan on playing in a band. I just went over to help out my friends because Nina and the others are my friends.

So if you guys want to play in a band, you can actually go directly to them. They happen to be short of a keyboard and a bass, and you guys... seem to be a perfect match?"

"The keyboard from yesterday was also recorded by someone else, right?"

"What else? Is there a ghost on the stage playing in the void?"

"..."

Ebizka Satoshi suddenly felt that his first impression of Chihiro Tsuzuki seemed completely wrong. This girl who looked well-behaved and gentle always spoke in a way that made people angry.

But... she herself seems to have a bit of this character.

"I have a question... Is that person Toyokawa Shoko?"

"Eh?"

Now not only Chihiro was a little surprised, but even Su Shi next to her almost fell down.

"How do you know it's hers?"

"I saw her in the audience that day."

Satoshi Ebizuka recalled some things in her past. At that time, she was the eldest daughter in the family. However, she later discovered some things in her family that she could not accept, so she chose to leave home.

But before that, she had participated in many piano competitions, and Toyokawa Shoko was able to compete with her to the end every time.

Although the two did not become very good friends, and even when they chatted, they only talked briefly about competitions and piano, but during those years they were actually paying attention to each other's competition performances.

But later I decided to drop out of school to form a band, and I never saw this piano rival again. I don’t know if he has gone further and further on this path and finally surpassed me completely.

However, Ebizuka Satoshi did not tell all her memories, but simply explained that these were just her guesses. It was this ambiguous answer that made a certain brown-haired girl most uneasy.

"Come to think of it, why is that..."

"what why?"

Satoshi Ebizka looked into Chihiro Tsuzuki's eyes, seemingly unconvinced by what he had just said. "Why didn't you stay? Didn't they invite you? You..."

"Ash."

Rupa interrupted Xiaozhi, who obediently stopped talking. "...In that case, we won't ask any more questions. Thank you for sharing this with us."

RUPA felt that many things could not be forced, and they had already obtained some important information. They just had to wait until they met the other three next time and then propose cooperation again.

"that……"

At this moment, Nagasaki Suyo, who had been very resistant at first, spoke, but her expression seemed a little conflicted, as if she had already made up her mind.

"Is this Red Ginger of yours a composing team? I just checked online and it seems like they were popular for a while, but they just didn't show their faces."

Su Shi's grumbling wasn't without reason. While she was a bit agitated, her excitement stemmed from a subtle unease within her heart. But in that brief moment, besides thinking about Xiao Xiang, she was also thinking about another thing: what she and Chihiro should do in the future.

For Su Shi, she probably won't go to Aine's band for the time being. It's not for any other reason, but because she feels that she has not figured out how to face those people and this band that she doesn't know what it is.

But these are just some of her personal problems after all. As for Chihiro who is next to her, what should she do?