Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

This was the sentence she was most afraid of hearing, and it was also the most terrifying thing for her.

Her mother was very good to her. She raised her alone and moved her into a big house with a balcony. She also told her that if she had time, she could invite her friends to a party on the balcony.

But... the only person who had been to her balcony seemed to be Chihiro Tsuzuki, who had suddenly broken into her life recently.

Later, my mother's work became busier and busier. As her position rose and her tasks increased, she came home less and less often. Her home...now has become a place where she is afraid to go back if she can't hear Chihiro teasing her.

Su Shi walked with his head down in the bustle, as if there was a layer of transparent glass separating him from the cheers.

Each of her footsteps seemed to carry a tremendous weight, a dull thud that made her breathless. The sound gradually faded away, and her gaze involuntarily fell on the dark shadows on the ground—mottled black stripes, now like a cold interrogator, outlining her crimes one by one.

What was her sin? Perhaps it was that she got something she shouldn't have.

She was just greedy and just wanted a place to live, even though she was now... so confused that she didn't even know how to decide what to do.

She shouldn't have done that.

Su Shi's thoughts were pulled back to the moment in the garden just now. She knew that she was betraying her past self and was walking the same useless path again.

She knew that after she said those words to Xiaomu, she would definitely tell Xiaoxiang, because... Xiaomu would never act according to what she wanted her to do.

Nagasaki Suyo gripped the strap of her schoolbag tightly, her nails almost digging into her palms.

But what was she doing? An escape?

Because she saw no hope of getting Xiaoxiang back, and because her attitude towards Chihiro had changed, she placed her hopes on this new home.

She... is really an unacceptable person.

"Su Shi, I've been waiting for you for a long time~"

“…Huh? Mom?!”

Nagasaki Suyo stood in front of the subway entrance, looking at the figure in front of her that was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar. At this moment, she suddenly had a feeling that "God heard her voice."

Chihiro Tsuzuki must be pretending to be me and going to Hanasaki River, right? So... the person in front of me can only be my mother.

Really, what is she thinking about?

Chihiro has never seen her mother, so how could she pretend to be her mother? Besides, the idea itself is ridiculous.

"Let's go, let's go. I didn't stay long last time when I came home and left early. I'm really sorry, Mom."

Chihiro, who is made up as Nagasaki Rina, uses her superb acting skills to look at Suyo who is full of surprise.

However, before she called out to the young widow, Chihiro could not ignore the lonely look on her face as she was walking alone on the road.

This child... looks like he has suffered a great injustice.

Chihiro Tsuzuki shook her head. As a bad guy who had taken Su Shi's mother's meal on her behalf, she had to return the meal out of conscience.

Moreover, she deliberately said yesterday that she would go to find Li Xi today, which meant that she wanted to do the opposite so that Su Shi would not doubt her disguise.

"Mom...where are we going today?"

"Su Shi can go wherever she wants. Mom will listen to her good daughter today."

Anyway, she is considered a wealthy woman now. Is she still worried that she can't support a little Su Shi?

...

The main gate of Hanegaoka Girls' College.

According to her latest plan, Shoko Toyokawa will definitely take the subway to Shibuya as soon as she leaves the school today.

Although Sunkei's store manager, Sister Azusa Kujo, was very nice to her and would not blame her even if she was a little late, she was even better than the boss she met when she was a customer service representative at a moving company.

But thinking about this, she felt a little sorry for the customer service department leader. After all, it would have been fine if she had just resigned alone, but she had also said she was leaving with Xiao Qian last Sunday morning...

"Xiang..."

"..."

When she heard the voice calling her name, Toyokawa Shoko paused for a moment, and then she realized that the person standing in front of her was her childhood friend, Wakaba Mutsu.

Xiangzi frowned. How many times has this happened?

She remembered that she had told Mu not to block her at the school gate last time. And this time, she took out her phone to confirm that she had not received Mu's message.

However, Xiangzi was also a little surprised. If the last time Mu came to see him was because of Su Shi.

So what was it all about now? Regarding Su Shi's problem... well, she did want to understand through Mu why Li Xi was so angry with her.

"Let's go."

This time, Xiangzi no longer pretended not to know the other person. Instead, after sending a message to Sister Jiujo saying that he would be half an hour late, he took Ruoye Mu to the coffee shop she often went to.

When Xiangzi came here to drink black tea again, she was not as reluctant as last time. After all... she was a wealthy person now.

"Go ahead."

Sitting in the coffee shop, Shoko Toyokawa took a sip of black tea. While enjoying the delicious tea, she asked the girl in front of her why she was looking for her.

"Su Shi...is about to break down."

Chapter 134: Su Shi is so miserable! (1/2)

"Su Shi?"

Are you really here to talk to me about things related to Su Shi?

This was not unexpected to Toyokawa Shoko, although the following sentence "broken" really made her a little confused.

"What's up with her?"

"..."

Wakaba Mutsu in front of Toyokawa Shoko took two sips of mango juice, but she just frowned. She couldn't say what she wanted to say.

The main reason was...she was afraid that if she said that, it would hurt Su Shi.

"Mu, what did Su Shi say to you?" Toyokawa Shoko was a little dissatisfied. She was helpless with her childhood sweetheart's always holding back personality. "I still have to...work today. If you don't have anything to do..."

“She invited me to form a band.”

"Form a band?"

This was an answer that surprised Toyokawa Shoko.

Or rather... it was an answer that would not have surprised her not long ago, but today she did find it a little strange.

After she quit crychic, she did disappear from LINE for a while.

At that time, she actually wanted to say sorry to Su Shi, but later she didn't even send the word "apology", but chose not to reply at all.

During that period, Su Shi would come to him every day to ask him questions, but Xiangzi was busy working every day and had no energy to deal with Su Shi's questioning.

So she chose to escape and blocked her.

She thought Su Shi would find her through Mu, but for some reason... Su Shi suddenly came to her senses.

She didn't bother me anymore, nor did she go to the Xiaomuti band to rebuild these things, as if she had completely forgotten all the things in the past.

This made Xiangzi feel very complicated.

On the one hand, she felt that it was a good thing that Su Shi was able to move on and not be hindered by people like herself; on the other hand, she had a vague sense of loss, and the last bit of hope in her heart to return to her past life had completely dissipated.

But today Mu actually found him and said that Su Shi wanted to form a band again?

Sigh...why do I have to chat about these crychic past events every time I come to Yuze Coffee Shop?

Originally, she was on the phone yesterday wanting to invite Xiao Qian to her favorite store to have tea and chat.

Let’s talk about the Red Ginger Music Team, and also take this opportunity to ask about Xiao Qian’s situation in the Su Shi family.

In the end, the agreement had to be cancelled because Xiao Qian said she had other important things to do today. But even though the agreement was not reached, she still came here.

I always feel like... fate has already arranged a lot of things.

"Wait..." Xiangzi was about to ask a few more questions when he suddenly remembered something, "Didn't Su Shi say she was going abroad in the future?"

"Ah."

"That means...she decided not to go abroad?"

Ruoye Mu paused, and finally did not say anything, just shook his head.

Shoko Toyokawa was a little helpless. Although she was used to Wakaba Mu's silence most of the time, this kind of troublesome communication mode really made her feel a little at a loss as to what to do.

"So she is Sushi?"

"I do not know."

"Okay." Shoko Toyokawa nodded. This was a reasonable answer.

After all, these matters are quite personal, and Mu is not the type of person who would ask questions and dig into things, so she really doesn't know the details.

But what surprised Xiangzi was that after saying this, Wakaba Mu hesitated for a moment and then continued:

"Yesterday, Teacher ANON came."

"anon...you mean Chihaya Aine?"

"What?" Ruo Yemu had never heard of this name, so he was a little confused.

"......nothing."

Did she hear wrongly?

Toyokawa Shoko frowned. Although she and Chihaya Aine were not very familiar with each other and had only chatted a few times, she had only met her for the first time in the piano room at school.

The second time I met her was at the entrance of the corridor. I wanted to ask her how the band was going, but the girl seemed to have been stimulated that day. After hearing what I said, her face became very panicked, and she shook her head and left.

At that time, Xiangzi thought that Chihaya Aine was no longer forming a band.

However, when she saw her on the stage for the last time, Xiangzi was a little surprised, because she really didn't expect that two of Aine's teammates were people she had known before, and she didn't know how to face them.

But the only thing that was certain was that Li Xi's band did not have a bass guitarist that day, and he later briefly asked Xiao Qian, who knew the guitarist in the band and was the child's sister.

It was confirmed that the bass part of the song that Xiao Deng sang that day was indeed recorded with her help.

"So, who is this ANON teacher?"

"She's the English teacher who taught a few classes here before."

"and then?"

"Yesterday...Teacher ANON came to school to discuss studying abroad with Su Shi."

“…I see.”

Toyokawa Shoko also understood what had happened. Simply put, Su Shi should have decided to study abroad in the future, but the problem was that she herself did not want to leave just like that.

But she couldn't resist her family's arrangement, just like herself and Mu...

Su Shi may not have completely let go of the past, she still wants to resurrect crychic... Alas, this is really a stupid idea.

If it was the Xiangzi of the past, in this situation she might have put on a cold face and used icy words to make Su Shi give up these foolish ideas, but now... she felt that something seemed to be wrong with Su Shi's situation.

"Has Su Shi never mentioned the idea of forming a band to you before?"

"No......"

"What about her club activities?" Toyokawa Shoko suddenly thought of this and hurriedly asked further, "Does she carry out her club activities at school after school, or..."

"She's at school most of the time...after school."

This is also the basis for Xiao Mu to feel more confident in her own thoughts. Although she rarely asks about these things, occasionally when she passes by those people in the class who have a good relationship with Su Shi, she can hear these people talking to Su Shi about the wind band practice yesterday.

"So she doesn't know about Lixi and the others..."

Thinking about it this way, doesn't it seem even more tragic?

But the problem is, this is a band that is destined to be impossible to bring everyone back and is destined to be unable to be repaired, even if she, Shoko Toyokawa, does not consider all other factors and can really force those people to come over.

Three years later, on a night when it’s uncertain whether it will rain or not, leaving the group...disbanding...falling apart...won’t these things still become an indelible pain in everyone’s heart?

meaningless.

Each of them is just a puppet, and the adults' silk thread has been entangled around each of them, making it impossible to escape.

"Su Shi, find a place to sit down. It's still early for dinner. How about chatting with mom first?"

"?!"

When Xiangzi and Ruoye Mu beside him suddenly heard this voice, they trembled slightly and only dared to glance at the source of the voice with the corner of their eyes.