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Hachiman Kailing stared at Shiina Riki's face for a few seconds, then suddenly realized and said, "Are you jealous?"

Shiina Riki's heart suddenly tightened. Her thoughts were seen through, but she reflexively wanted to choke Hachiman Kailing. She said, "No, you should leave quickly." But she immediately realized that Hachiman Kailing no longer needed to support any band.

"Ah, Soyo-san!" Chihaya Aine finally came to her senses, smiled apologetically, and then said to Nagasaki Soyo, "It's okay, I'm not sick, it's just that something happened around me that made me distressed..."

What troubles are there? If you have any troubles since you are always around Shirakawa-kun, Shirakawa-kun will definitely help you solve them as soon as possible, right?

Nagasaki Suyo glanced subtly at Shirakawa Haru who was sitting in the corner chatting with Takamatsu Deng.

Could it be related to Shirakawa-kun?

No wonder Chihaya Aine didn't stick to Shirakawa Haru like a golden retriever during the break in rehearsal today. According to her previous behavior, she would have squeezed over and sat with Shirakawa-kun.

Nagasaki Suyo felt that her guess was correct. Chihaya Aine's thoughts were easy to guess, so she decided to give it a try.

"Come to think of it, Shirakawa-kun doesn't seem to be in a good mood today!" Nagasaki Suyo deliberately lowered her voice, looking very troubled. "Think about it, during the breaks in rehearsal, does Shirakawa-kun usually comment on and praise each of our performances?"

"Eh?" Chihaya Aine turned her head anxiously to look at Shirakawa Haru, and found that he was stroking Lenai's head in the corner. Lenai showed a very enjoyable expression and kept rubbing his hand with her head. Shirakawa Haru was playing with the cat.

It seems so.

Nagasaki Suyo thought that Shirakawa-kun was a person whose mind was difficult to see through. He was like a mirror, and you could only see your own or others' reflection in him.

Looks like I made a mistake—good thing.

Nagasaki Suyo thought happily in her heart that now she was watching talk shows about how men and women fall in love every night. She felt that she had learned a lot and it was time to turn theory into practice.

Looking at Chihaya Aine's uneasy face, Nagasaki Suyo felt like laughing.

If I hadn't wanted to "possess" Shirakawa-kun for Xiangzi's sake, and if I hadn't exposed my purpose openly and launched a romantic offensive, I'm afraid Shirakawa-kun would have already fallen in love with me by now, right?

Nagasaki Suyo is determined to capture Shirakawa Haru.

"So, Soyo-san, what do you think I can do to make the chairman feel better?" Chihaya Aine asked Nagasaki Motoyo with a blushing face. Perhaps because of her loud voice, besides Shirakawa Haru and Lenna who was feeding him candy, who still stayed in the corner, Shiina Riki and Takamatsu Touma moved closer to her. "Don't look at me like that. The chairman has helped me a lot...so I occasionally want to help share some of his pressure."

Chihaya Aine's face turned even redder as she spoke. In fact, she knew that in the eyes of others, her affection for Shirakawa Haru was obvious, but because of the reserved psychology of a young girl in love, she still wanted to refute and hide her true feelings.

In front of Chihaya Aine, the three girls behaved differently.

Shiina Tatsuki's expression changed the least.

She could see that Chihaya Aine liked Shirakawa Haru, but she didn't know why Chihaya Aine was so cautious in her love for her, and felt that there was no need for Chihaya Aine to do that.

Since you want to help Shirakawa Haru share the pressure, just say it directly.

She took out her phone to check Twitter and SNS. The panda pendant on the phone kept swinging with her movements, and the silver chain made a rattling sound.

"Maybe he twisted something. You can try to ask him where he is injured and whether he needs help massaging or treating it." Shiina Riki said with a slight dissatisfaction.

Chihaya Aine and Nagasaki Motoyo felt that Shiina Riki didn't act like a girl at all. If they wanted to share the boy's worries, they wouldn't have asked him if he was injured right away.

Nagasaki Suyo smiled and rubbed her fingers together. "If you want my advice... Aine-chan, how about bringing Shirakawa-kun a homemade bento tomorrow? You can also keep an eye on Shirakawa-kun's back. If you know that someone is always there to encourage you while you're doing things, you'll definitely feel more relaxed, right?"

It's best not to take my advice.

Nagasaki Suyo thought that this was her plan for the future, and she didn't want Chihaya Aine to "steal" her feelings.

Baichuan Qing cooked a meal for her, so she also wanted to cook a meal for Baichuan Qing.

Shiina Tatsuki and Chihaya Aion feel that Nagasaki Motoyo is not just sharing the pressure with Shirakawa Haru, she is simply treating him as her boyfriend or even a family member.

But this is in line with her style. In the band, Nagasaki Suyo is the girl who is best at taking care of others.

"If you want to cheer up your friend, Aine-chan, you can try reading a poem to him. If you sing to him, Shirakawa-kun will probably like it too." Takamatsu Deng's expression was very cute.

When she has no worries, she is like a penguin. The biggest thing for her every day is how to stay with her lifelong friends.

"Do you want Aine-chan to give Haru a kiss... and try?" Takamatsu Deng paused, thought for a moment, and then said something shocking. She looked at the people around her who were looking at her with shocked eyes, "I... was just kidding..."

Gao Songdeng felt that she was not joking. Just the night before, she had suddenly kissed Shirakawa Haru on the face on the sidewalk downstairs of her house for some unknown reason.

At that time, she was filled with burning emotions and firmly believed that she had taken a step closer to becoming a human being.

She could vaguely feel that although Baichuan Jun himself didn't quite understand it, he must be happy in his heart.

Chihaya Aine, Shiina Tatsuki and Nagasaki Motoyo only discovered today that Takamatsu Teru is such a bold girl.

If their suggestions were still exploring a vague and hazy edge, then Takamatsu Deng's suggestion was equivalent to directly telling Shirakawa Haru: "I like you."

"Wait... your suggestions are so weird! Will this really make the chairman feel happier and help relieve his stress?" Chihaya Aine looked very confused. Were her band members making fun of her? She said, "I'm serious!"

"Huh? I'm serious. I'm giving you a suggestion, not just letting you do whatever you want!" Shiina Riki said, "I'm going to ask him to compose the music."

"Most boys like girls to give them homemade bento, right?" Nagasaki Motoyo said, "But maybe Shirakawa-kun isn't such an 'ordinary' boy."

She waved her hand and opened a bottle of milk.

"Well... Haru is very sensitive to changes in his emotions. Aine-chan, you don't have to think too much about what to do specifically... If your intention is to make Haru happy, he can sense it." Takamatsu Deng took out a pebble from the pocket of her skirt and wiped it carefully.

When you give suggestions, have you ever considered how Shirakawa Haru would view you if you did those things yourself?

Are you serious about your suggestions?

Chihaya Aine was a little depressed.

I just let Shirakawa Haru feed me dessert when I was half asleep, and I wanted to apologize to him...

Chapter 4.6 I am free, I don't care (k)

"What? Do you have something to tell me?" Shirakawa Haru wrapped the candy wrapper left after Lenae peeled the candy in a tissue and put it in his pocket, preparing to throw it away when he left the rehearsal room. When he turned around, he saw a shadow falling beside him. It was Chihaya Aine.

"Um, Chairman, are you still angry?" Chihaya Aine spoke hesitantly.

From time to time, she raised her eyes to look at Shirakawa Haru's expression, but quickly lowered her head. She didn't know what expression to make and could only smile stupidly.

"Why should I be angry?" Shirakawa Haru said, and soon realized that Chihaya Aine was alluding to what happened this afternoon, "I'm not angry."

He didn't lie. According to common sense, a pretty girl asked you to feed her, which means she trusts you very much. If she has no intention of developing a special relationship with you, then you are at least close friends now.

"Then why does the chairman look so unhappy?" Chihaya Aine clutched her sleeve, not knowing whether it was because of her concern for what happened this afternoon. Now, if Shirakawa Haru did something that didn't go her way, she would think he was angry with her. "I see that you seem a little distressed."

"Really not." Baichuan Qing's expression was somewhat helpless, "I don't like to make expressions."

The girl has a stubborn temper, which reminds Shirakawa Haru of the winter when she used to wrap Suho Yuki up like a big dumpling before letting her go out.

Yuki Suho keeps saying I'm not cold, I'm not cold! The only coldness in the world is that my brother thinks I'm cold!

He speculated that the current situation was similar to when he added clothes to Yuki Suho in winter: "Just think of it as feeding a pet. A neighbor near my house has a big dog. When I pass by, it always sneaks out the small door and bites my trouser legs. I feed it ham sausage, and its tail wags hard."

"Chairman, stop talking like that!" Chihaya Aine felt embarrassed when she heard Shirakawa Haru describe her interactions with him. "That's so weird..."

When Lenai heard Shirakawa Haru say "pet", she opened her eyes. She sat down on the sound-absorbing pad in the corner as if limp, with her upper body resting on Shirakawa Haru's thighs. She raised her eyes and looked at Chihaya Aine in confusion.

Shirakawa Haru gently touched Lena's head, then patted it again: "Do you want to eat matcha parfait?"

"Want to eat."

"Go to the front desk and buy it. Tell the lady there that the bill will be put on me. If it feels too cold, don't eat it."

"I want two matcha parfaits."

"Have you had dinner yet?"

"Ate."

"You'll get diarrhea if you eat too much, and you're wearing so few clothes."

"But I want two helpings. You said my stomach was cold, so would you like to touch my stomach? It's very warm." Lenai lifted up her black T-shirt with a frayed hem. "If you touch it, I'll have two helpings."

"Ask the lady at the front desk if she lets you buy it. If she says yes, then buy two." Shirakawa Haru pulled down Lenai's skirt. "Also, girls can't let boys touch their stomachs casually."

Can't I let you touch my belly casually? Lenai tilted her head. When she was walking in the school, the stray cats wandering around the school liked to have her touch their belly.

They would circle around her and then meow. Each meow had a different meaning, and she could understand the cat language.

When cats are rubbed on their bellies, they make a very comfortable sound.

Lena stood up from the ground, walked out of the rehearsal room and went to the front desk to order a matcha parfait. When she came back, she did not sit next to Shirakawa Haru but leaned against Takamatsu Deng.

She knew that Shirakawa Haru patted her head to tell her: You go away for a while, Chihaya Aine and I have something private to discuss.

The chairman and Lena-chan are so close! Why is the chairman so close to Lena? Although Li Xi always calls Lena-chan "wild cat", Lena is not a real cat, she is just a cat-like girl.

Seeing the intimacy between Shirakawa Haru and Kaname Rakuna, Chihaya Aine felt a little jealous, wondering if the chairman really treated Rakuna like a cat. But this made a lot of things make sense.

Because he treats Lenai as a cat, he doesn't have the same feelings towards her as a boy would towards a girl and can get close to her at will.

Perhaps in this regard, Lenai feels the same way about the chairman, because he is a cat, so he can do whatever he wants without caring about what others see.

"Chairman, can I treat you to a cup of milk tea tomorrow? It will be my apology to you." Chihaya Aine gritted her teeth and felt that it was not right to smile foolishly in front of Shirakawa Haru all the time. What if he looked at her for too long and really thought she was a fool!

"Okay." Shirakawa Haru said, "But you have to finish your work for the student union first."

When Shirakawa Haru agreed to the invitation, Chihaya Aine immediately heard the words "Great! Chairman, LOVE!" in her head. But his next words instantly dispelled the romantic thoughts that had just arisen in Chihaya Aine's heart.

She didn't think there was anything wrong with going out together after finishing the student union work, but when Shirakawa Haru said that, it always gave her a feeling of "vagueness and prevarication":

Agree to your request first, and then put forward a premise.

"Oh." Chihaya Aine's bright eyes dimmed, and her mood became much worse because of Shirakawa Haru's next words.

It’s nothing. Didn’t the chairman already promise to go drink milk tea with me tomorrow?

Chihaya Aine rubbed her face and forced herself to cheer up.

Shirakawa Haru noticed Chihaya Aine's low mood. He rubbed his sore eyes, looked at her seriously, and said softly, "Aine, you're feeling a little sad right now, isn't it because of what I just said? I'm really sorry, that's just how I am. I apologize if I made you unhappy."

He asked in a declarative tone.

"No... I didn't." Chihaya Aine wanted to quibble, but her lips moved a few times and finally fell silent. "Sometimes I really wonder what's going on in your head, Chairman."

"Want to know?" Baichuan Qing said, "If you want to know, I don't mind telling you."

Chihaya Aine didn't answer, and Shirakawa Haru went on to talk to herself: "This morning, I was outside the piano store in Chiba Prefecture, wondering when the train would change shifts; in class, I was thinking about reading more books and learning more knowledge; I went to the student union in the afternoon, thinking about so many forms, Aine, wouldn't you be tired after working for half the afternoon? So I went next door to get you some dessert; while you were practicing the piano, I was wondering if your fingers are feeling better now. Didn't you say before that your fingers hurt when you practiced? Just now, I felt that you were sad because of what I said, and I was thinking about how to make you happy..."

"That's all." Shirakawa Haru said, "Now I'm thinking about you, Aine. I've said so much, do you think I'm being long-winded?"

Chihaya Aine sighed deeply, and she suddenly leaned close to Shirakawa Haru's ear and whispered softly, "I forgive you." She thought to herself, it's always like this, always like this! Whenever she wanted to get angry, the chairman would say something serious that would make her blush.

Thinking about me or something...

"Then~ Chairman~ you must not go back on your word!" Chihaya Aine lifted her long hair, gave Shirakawa Haru a sweet smile, and walked to the side of her teammates.

The door was pushed open and Lenai came back with a matcha parfait. Her face was puffed up with anger. It seemed that the waitress at the front desk finally did not agree to let Lenai have two matcha parfaits.

She sat next to Shirakawa Haru, handed him the spoon and asked him to feed her.

When Lenai eats parfait with a spoon, the spoon always hits the glass, making a crisp sound. However, this rarely happens when Shirakawa Haru uses a spoon. He only scoops a small spoonful of ice cream or cream each time and puts it to Lenai's mouth.

"It's melted..." Lenai looked at Shirakawa Haru with his blue and yellow eyes, "You're not concentrating. What are you thinking about? Look into my eyes, aren't you thinking about me?"

The melted ice cream on the spoon flowed back onto his fingers along the handle of the spoon because Shirakawa Haru raised his hand.

The milky white sticky juice surged like a tide, gradually unable to resist the pull of gravity and about to fall. Le Na hugged Shirakawa Haru's fingers, then stretched out her tongue to lick off the white cream.

The people Shirakawa Haru knew always had a deliberate look in their eyes, but Kaname Rakuna didn't have that at this moment.

Lenai didn't have that kind of gaze. She simply let her careless thoughts flow out, transforming into an unconcealable dusk and a pale blue dawn. She hoped her gaze wouldn't make Shirakawa Haru feel uneasy, that he wouldn't think she was arrogant and cold. There were many things she didn't understand. Her grandmother hadn't taught her, but she had seen them in her own parents.

Dusk burns in her eyes, dawn swirls in her soul. Night falls, night pries the gears of dreams, and the biggest stars gaze at her with her eyes; the sun rises, burning or cold, suddenly engraving a rose that will never fade in her eyes.

Shirakawa Haru might never forget, perhaps for a long time to come, the pure yet slightly shy smile in her eyes, seen between the two slender suspenders at the round neckline. Lenai leaned close to his face and, while he was completely off guard, quietly placed a kiss on it.

"Do you like it?" Le Nai said innocently. She didn't seem to understand the meaning of doing such a thing, but who could be sure? She was a girl who lacked common sense. She would call girls her own age "women", but that didn't mean she didn't understand the meaning of a kiss, even if it was just the side of the face.

Girls are naturally sensitive to this knowledge.

What's more, even cats express their love and intimacy by licking each other's faces and combing each other's hair.

"Lixi said I was a wild cat." Lenai grabbed Shirakawa Haru's hand and said, "If I am a kitten, then you are a big cat. I like the feeling of being with you."

"Don't move." Le Na turned from one side to the other side of Shirakawa Haru. She glanced at Chihaya Aine and the others. After finding that they were not looking at her and Shirakawa Haru, she kissed the other half of Shirakawa Haru's face, "Don't let them find out. Someone will be unhappy if they see it."

"But I'm a willful person - I'm free, I don't care."

Lenai sat astride a small round chair, supporting her face while eating the parfait with a spoon. Although a lot of the cream and ice cream had melted, the ice cream at the bottom of the parfait was still cold and fluffy.

She was hiding her blush.

"See you tomorrow. I'm leaving first." After finishing the matcha parfait, Lenai jumped from the small round chair onto the sound-absorbing mat. She put away her electric guitar, unplugged the audio cable, and left dragging the convenient small speaker.

"Tsk, why did the wild cat run off again?" Shiina Riki said unhappily. She and Shirakawa Haru had just finished composing the music, and Deng had finished the lyrics yesterday. These past few days should have been spent rehearsing diligently to check for any errors in the lyrics and sheet music. "But the wild cat running off isn't a big deal; her skills are more than enough for this song."

When she mentioned strength, she turned her gaze away and looked at Chihaya Aine sternly. She believed that a certain amount of pressure could improve the efficiency of training.

"Rikki?" Chihaya Aine subconsciously shrank her shoulders when she was looked at by Shiina Riki. "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm telling you, I've been working really hard on learning guitar lately."