Congratulations, Sushi, you have been optimized by me.

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Beni: Hey! Three cats, oh no... Chihiro Tsuzuki! What happened to your friend?! Why did he leave the group?

I Have Three Cats: I Don’t Know…

【Shouga: Was he scared away by Chihiro's hype? 】

“…Come on, this idea of mine is obviously great.”

Besides…others might not know, but didn't she know? That string of letters "ob" was Xiaoxiang. Xiaoxiang should be the least likely to quit, right?

Uh, no.

This idea is actually a bit inappropriate, because there was once a girl named Nagasaki Suyo who thought the same way.

"Chihiro, what's going on?" Nagasaki Suyo frowned. She totally didn't understand why Chihiro's friends would suddenly quit in this situation.

"I……"

"Could it be that you deceived her feelings before, and then it was exposed?"

"No, I really didn't lie to her that much..."

Her attitude towards Xiaoxiang can be said to be the most sincere among all her interpersonal relationships, right?

Chapter 169 Xiaoxiang’s skin seems to be a little itchy (2/2)

"Su Shi, I'm going out to make a phone call."

"Ah."

Nagasaki Suyo nodded and didn't ask who the call was for, because she knew that if Chihiro wanted to tell her, she would definitely not hide it, but she didn't mention who it was, which meant she definitely didn't want her to know.

This experience was also gained from Xiaoxiang. She once wanted to know what had happened to the other person, but the result was predictable.

Although Chihiro is not Xiaoxiang, and the two have completely different personalities, but... Su Shi still chose to remain silent.

After saying these words, Chihiro Tsuzuki also came to the balcony of her own house. The layout of her balcony was similar to that of Su Shi's house. Even if she removed the troublesome green plants on the side, she could climb directly to Su Shi's house.

There was no wind tonight, and Qianxun's thin clothes would not let her catch a cold here. After finding a place to sit down, she put her legs on the bench, then looked at her phone and waited for Xiaoxiang to give her an explanation.

Yet such an explanation does not seem to be forthcoming.

Chihiro Tsuzuki was speechless. Is this still the soft and cute Xiaoxiang she knew?

However, he just left the group without saying anything. It was obvious that something must have happened. The first thing Chihiro thought of was that the agreement between her and Su Shi might have been known to the other party.

But there's no reason...

No third person knew about the agreement between her and Su Shi. Even Li Xi only knew about a fake "agreement".

Could it be that Lixi went to tell Xiangzi?

This doesn't seem reasonable. Chihiro has already figured out what kind of personality Li Xi has these days. This girl is a very strong-willed person and is rather stubborn.

She was still clear about Li Xi's attitude towards Xiao Xiang. After all, in her eyes, Xiao Xiang was the culprit of everything. It was impossible for Li Xi to figure everything out overnight and then run to Xiao Xiang to exchange information.

So the Lixi line is definitely impossible.

That... is Su Shi himself?

This is even more impossible.

Chihiro Tsuzuki fiddled with her long hair and gave a self-deprecating smile. She could suspect anyone, but at the moment, Su Shi was the least suspicious and the person who should be least suspected.

"Really... why am I guessing? Wouldn't it be easy to find out if I just give them a call?"

Chihiro shook her head. She felt that she was also crazy. It was probably because she had been with Su Shi for too long and had picked up some stupidity.

I opened the phone's address book and called Xiaoxiang's number.

But what made her feel a little strange was that no one answered the phone after she waited for a long time.

Just when Chihiro wanted to give up, the several missed calls finally got through, but Xiangzi's voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little strange.

"Hey, what's the matter?"

"Xiaoxiang, why did you leave the group? And why didn't you answer my calls?"

"..."

Xiangzi on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, as if hesitating about something, but finally he let out a sigh, and only after this sigh did he speak again.

"I'm sorry, it's my personal problem. I can't make music with you in the future."

"It's only been less than two days, right?"

"It has nothing to do with the time. I just don't have the energy. I'm sorry."

Xiangzi's tone was neither too close nor too distant, and slightly alienated, as if he was just dealing with a job.

Of course, strictly speaking, Red Ginger is indeed a job. At least, unlike crychic, it is a more commercial group.

Shoko Toyokawa really wanted to work hard. Although she was not familiar with the other people in the group, at least she could trust that Chihiro would not lie to her.

But the problem is that things are different now. Xiangzi now feels that everything that has happened to him recently has been arranged.

"Chihiro... do you know my grandfather?"

"Your grandpa?"

"Toyokawa Sadaharu, do you know this person? Or rather... have you seen her?"

Xiangzi on the other end of the phone hoped to hear a positive answer, but unfortunately Chihiro on this side had never heard of this name, and she had never seen this person.

After receiving a disappointing answer, Xiangzi, who answered the phone, looked lonely.

"I see. In that case...just pretend I never asked this question."

"But you have to give me an explanation, right?"

Chihiro Tsuzuki was a little unhappy. Although she did think Xiao Xiang was a cute child, what was going on now? Why was he suddenly throwing a tantrum?

Recalling the scene of the rainy night that Su Shi described and Li Xi's long-standing dissatisfaction with Xiangzi, Chihiro suddenly felt that the development of some things was actually already determined.

"Then why don't you give me an explanation first! Do you dare to say that your approach to me was just a coincidence, and that you deliberately approached me because you had reached an agreement with someone else?!"

"...No, Xiaoxiang, did you misunderstand something?"

"Still lying to me."

"I……"

"It seems that my guess was correct. You had a purpose from the very beginning."

Shoko Toyokawa sneered and then hung up the phone.

Chihiro, with a confused look on her face, looked at the phone screen which had returned to the main interface, and had no idea how she had offended this hedgehog.

However, judging from the situation, Xiangzi should have known everything.

"Qianxun..."

"Hmm? Sushi." Tsuzuki Chihiro looked at the person in front of her, who might be the "other person she had an appointment with" that Xiaoxiang mentioned, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. "When did you come?"

"Just arrived."

Seeing Chihiro with such an expression, it stands to reason that Suyo would not miss the opportunity to step on her, but when the opportunity was placed in front of her, Nagasaki Suyo did not want to do so.

"Chihiro, did you just call that friend of yours? Did you have a fight?"

"Yeah, she said she wanted to quit Red Ginger for no apparent reason, then claimed it was her fault. Then, after a few questions, she turned hostile again. Isn't that infuriating?"

"what?"

After hearing this, Nagasaki Motoyo's first reaction was to run over and ask Chihiro to call again, and then she would scold her harshly.

But compared to this, she is more concerned about her good friend's current emotional state.

"Don't worry, I'm not really sad, I just have a headache."

After all, this matter was messed up by herself. If she told Su Shi Xiaoxiang now that he had discovered everything, the young widow would probably be anxious and angry.

It's not that she wanted to hide it on purpose, but based on Qianxun's understanding of Su Shi, this guy would do things that normal people would not expect when he got anxious, and it would often lead to some very speechless consequences.

Rather than letting Su Shi know and then do something rash, Qianxun felt that it would be better for her to "teach" this stinky Xiaoxiang a lesson herself.

Chapter 170 Xiangzi: Why are there legends about Chihiro everywhere? (1/2)

Ever since that LIVE ended, everyone seemed to be in an awkward situation.

Chihaya Aine has been seeing this, but she doesn't know how to deal with it. These days, she often talks to Xiao Deng, but it seems that every time she mentions topics related to the band, Xiao Deng's reaction becomes very strange.

"Vacation" and the like is just a lie after all, right?

It was the same today. After school, her first thought was to ask Xiao Deng in the front seat about some related topics, such as when they could start practicing, but when the words came to her lips, she didn't know how to start.

Do you want to ask Chihiro for help?

It seemed that every time she encountered difficulties that she couldn't solve, she couldn't help but ask her good friend for help. Over time, she even developed a certain dependence on her good friend.

But this time she really didn't want to trouble her good friend anymore. Chihiro should have her own band now. If Chihiro, who is busy every day, has to take time out to solve her own problems, wouldn't it make her, Chihaya Aine, seem useless?

"Little lamp..."

"?"

At the classroom door, Aine took the initiative to stop Takamatsu Touma who was about to leave. She looked at the girl who was slightly shorter than her and gave an awkward smile. She scratched the side of her face and asked tentatively:

"Well, how about we go to RiNG together today~ If we don't go, Li Xi will definitely be angry!"

"Lixi..."

"Yeah, Lixi is scary when she gets angry. She must be blaming us..."

"Blame me?"

"……Eh?"

It seemed that Takamatsu Deng didn't listen to what Aine said, or maybe she only grasped some key words, and other content did not make her react as she should.

Why didn’t Li Xi say anything after the LIVE ended, and didn’t even mention the problems of the LIVE in the group?

This made Deng feel very scared because she knew that she was the culprit for the failure of the LIVE.

What made her even more scared was that from now on, they might not be able to rehearse together properly anymore, and Su Shi... might never come back.

Last night, Takamatsu Deng had a horrible dream in a daze. In that dream, only Aine was by her side.

In front of her eyes was Nagasaki Suyo, who was walking and talking and laughing with some friends of Tsukinomori whom she didn't know.

At that time, she seemed to be trying desperately to catch the other person back, but no matter how she shouted or how she chased, Su Shi, who was just a few steps away from her, seemed to never hear her voice.

Just like that day when I was on the stage... my voice was so small when I sang with her.

The scene changed, and it seemed that in an instant Takamatsu Deng returned to the LIVE from the station, and at that LIVE, she still saw Xiangzi listening to her singing in the audience.

However, this time's Xiangzi was different from the Xiangzi in real life who looked at her with a smile and cheered her on. The Xiangzi who looked at her with complicated eyes in the audience seemed to be very depressed. In the end, he couldn't accept it anymore and ran off the stage crying.

why cry...

Gao Songdeng couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried. Could it be that he had formed a band with someone else and had completely left Xiangzi alone?

If that's the case, is it right or wrong for me to form a band with Lixi and the others?

"Little Light? Little Light?!"

"what……"

Oh yeah, and Aine-chan...

As Takamatsu Deng looked at the smiling Aine in front of her, chatting with her cheerfully as usual, and always seeming to face everything with great enthusiasm, another scene emerged in her mind:

Aine and I were still sitting in the classroom, one behind the other, just like now. But when my eraser fell to the ground, Aine didn't help me pick it up.

The girl who had once brought her a lot of comfort and courage seemed like a stranger at that moment, and was no longer a stranger to her.

The reason for this is the last scene in the dream.

It was an argument between the three of them in the recording studio. She couldn't hear the specific content, but she was sure that Li Xi's anger was directed at herself and Aine.

Because at that time, there were only her and Aine in the room.