Their restricted abilities are refreshed every week.

"I'm doing my homework." He asked Lenai to take out the eraser and remove all the dirty lines on the notebook.

"Why is Lena doing homework in the rehearsal room now? I remember that you never did homework in the rehearsal room, right?" asked Shirakawa Haru.

Except for Lenai, everyone else in the band has brought their school assignments to the rehearsal room to complete.

Shiina Riki was working part-time, Chihaya Aine was burdened by her workload, running back and forth between the classroom and the student council office after class, and even practicing guitar at night, while Nagasaki Motoyo was simply enjoying the atmosphere...

Only Lenai never brought her homework into the rehearsal room to complete it. It was as if she never had homework, and she never mentioned it in the band's daily life.

Why today... Baichuan Qing thought about it and wondered if something special happened to Lenai in the past few days - did she want to adopt those stray cats!

"Because I want to adopt Yaoi and the others." Yao Lenai said while doing math problems in her notebook, "Grandma only allowed me to adopt Yaoi, and the other cats will have to follow me and wander around. I don't want that."

"Mom said that if I improve my grades, she'll let me adopt Taxue and Yueliang," Yao Lenai wrote furiously. "Even though I'm very sleepy, I can't go to bed yet. I have to finish my homework. I'm their parent, and it's my responsibility to provide them with a stable home."

Kaname yawned loudly.

Shirakawa Haru stood up and walked towards the door. A moment later, he returned to the rehearsal room with two cups of warm milk and thick Japanese matcha pancakes.

"It's... the smell of matcha... Matcha parfait!" Yaoi Rana, who was about to fall asleep, woke up immediately after smelling the scent of matcha. She walked towards Shirakawa Haru and grabbed his sleeves with both hands.

"It's not matcha parfait, it's matcha pancake." Shirakawa Haru was holding the plate, and Lenai reached out to take the plate from Shirakawa Haru. "The weather has gotten colder, Lenai, you'll get diarrhea if you eat anything cold."

"No." Lenai was not lying. Although she was only this short now, her parents had very good genes. Her father was tall and looked like a wall standing in the crowd. Her mother was tall, slender and had perfect proportions.

According to her grandmother, Lenai might even grow taller than her father once she fully goes through puberty!

With the blessing of this gene, it is impossible for her health to be bad.

Therefore, eating cold food on cool nights in late summer and early autumn was just a common occurrence for her.

"Okay, stop making trouble, Lenai. Eat the pancakes while they're still hot." Shirakawa Haru put the plate with the pancakes on Lenai's head, and Lenai closed her eyes, stretched out her hands, and sat down again with the plate on her shoulder like she was walking on a tightrope.

"Lena, these questions you are doing don't seem to be high school teaching questions, right?" Shirakawa Haru took a look at the formulas on Lenai's homework book and asked her.

"Well, it's not a high school question," Lenai mumbled as she ate the warm pancake.

No way, so, Lenai is still... Shirakawa Haru suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

The formula Lenai used was not taught in high school classes.

Because that would be too easy, and Lenai obviously couldn't be a college student.

After several collisions between the metal fork and the porcelain plate, a sound was heard, and Shirakawa Haru's bad premonition finally came true.

Kaname Lenai said, "I'm still in junior high school. So, I'm fourteen years old."

Lenai finished her pancake, drank her share of milk along with Shirakawa Haru's, and fell asleep on the desk with her homework under her, making childish gurgling sounds.

It's like a cat being petted by a stove.

In order to prevent Lenai from catching a cold, Shirakawa Haru took off his coat and covered Lenai with it.

"Yaoji...Taxue, Yueliang, Damaow...I will let you live in a new house...and let you live on."

Shirakawa Haru looked at Kaname Rana's sleeping face and wondered what kind of position he held in the heart of this fourteen-year-old girl.

Is it really right for me not to reject her closeness?

And that kiss. Does Lenai know that girls shouldn't just kiss boys on the face?

I don't understand.

"Qing... Yaoji said it's going to rain heavily soon... Help Yaoji and the others, help me." Yao Lena turned her head and turned her face away, "Qing. I like it."

If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it for now. Maybe you're just that irresponsible person. Shirakawa Haru set the alarm for an hour and a half, then felt a little tired and fell into a deep sleep.

Chapter 8: Lenai's Family Gossip Time

"Lena, that's great. Your monthly exam results this month are already in the upper echelons of the school. Compared to last month, when you were hovering in the middle and nearly falling into the bottom, you've made great progress." Yao Yi, Yao Nai's father, put down the report card and handed it to Yao Bei, Yao Nai's mother. He then picked up the newspaper. "A super typhoon is about to make landfall in mainland Japan, and it's expected to have a significant impact on Tokyo..."

"Treading snow, the moon, and Big Cat's family." Yao Lenai lay in her mother Yaobei's arms, eyes narrowed. The air conditioner hummed in the spacious, warm living room. She wore a pair of home clothes and extremely short shorts. Her skin, smooth and delicate like mutton-fat jade, gleamed in the light. A distressed white T-shirt, a unique design, accentuated her youthful figure. Her toes rested on her father Yaoyi's thigh, occasionally curling her toes to kick the newspaper he was holding. "I want to adopt them."

The pure and beautiful silver short hair was scattered wantonly, and the T-shirt slipped down one side of the shoulder for no reason, revealing the white and round shoulders.

"Well... Lenai can adopt either Snow or Moon, but not more. If we have so many cats, my dad, grandma, and I won't be able to take care of my favorite Lenai." Yaobei pulled up Lenai's T-shirt that had slipped down from one shoulder, then patted Lenai on the shoulder. "Lena is working hard to improve her grades so she can adopt those stray cats, right?"

"Taxue, Yueliang, and the Big Cat family... they're not stray cats." Lenai turned over, her small feet in white boat socks lightly kicking the newspaper her father Yaoyi was reading. She reached out and hooked her arms around her mother Yaobei's neck. She leaned forward and placed a kiss on her face. "If your grades improve, I'll adopt them. It's a deal."

"But we really can't have too many cats at home," Yaobei said with a distressed expression, knowing that his daughter Lenai had loved playing with cats since she was a child. "Mom can't take care of them all by herself. And grandma is old, so it's best not to trouble her."

There have been countless cats that have been with Lenai since he was a child. Why did he suddenly think of adopting these cats now?

In the past, Lenai had wanted to adopt these cats, but apart from playing guitar, Lenai was only interested in things for a short time. Even after adopting the cats he liked to play with, he rarely paid attention to them.

She said she adopted the cat, but she just left it to her grandmother to raise. Lenai herself would only feed the cat occasionally when she wanted to play with it.

"I can take care of them myself." Lenai kissed Yaobei on the face a few more times, trying to act like a spoiled child, wanting to bring Taxue, Yueliang, and the Big Cat family into the house all at once. "Yaobei is well taken care of by me."

A pure white cat walked out of Lenai's room. Like its owner Lenai, it had a pair of beautiful and spiritual heterochromatic eyes. It was Yaoji.

The cat walked gently in the corridor, living room, and kitchen, looking around.

The cat walked to the balcony, meowed twice, gently bit off two petals of the flower in the flowerpot on the balcony, then retreated and walked gently between the piano and the flowers, seeming to be very lonely.

Yaoji trotted all the way to the sofa in the living room, first rubbing back and forth on Yaobei's calf, then jumped onto Lenai's abdomen, stepped on her soft belly, and went up along the undulating mountains, and finally dropped a petal on it.

Yao Ji also brought a petal for Yao Bei.

"Yaoji is indeed well taken care of by Lenai, and she is very smart. Look, husband, the cat that Lenai adopted brought flower petals to Lenai and me!" Yaobei stood up, holding Lenai's small buttocks with one hand and lifting Lenai's back with the other hand, holding Lenai like a baby.

"I see. Yaoji is indeed a very smart kitten, just like our Lenai." Yaoyi teased Yaoji, pulled up the boat socks on Lenai's feet, and continued reading the newspaper.

"Lena has put a lot of thought into taking care of Yaoji these days." Yaobei still hasn't forgotten that when Lenai first started taking care of Yaoji, she had to rely on an alarm clock to feed Yaoji on time.

Her sense of time is even stronger than hers as a housewife who has to prepare three meals a day for her family.

"Hmm~Hmm~" Le Nai hummed softly. In her opinion, being able to take good care of Yao Ji was already a great achievement. "I want to raise Taxue and the others."

"You can only keep one." Yaobei emphasized again.

"Mom~" Kaname Rakuna hooked her arm around Kaname's neck and began to rock her, "But if we adopt one, Kaname will be very lonely."

Yaoji jumped off Lenai's belly, ran to the balcony, and crouched under the gloomy sky. From Lenai's perspective, it fit perfectly into the gray sky, and its fur with a slightly silvery sheen was like a solid-colored suit. It called softly as if it was directing an impending rain, stirring up the sound of rain all over the sky, and playing the music of rain.

"No, you can only have one. Not to mention that having too many cats in the house is very troublesome. There's hair, bugs on their bodies, and the possibility of spreading bacteria and germs. These are all potential safety hazards. Just like Lenai is responsible for these stray cats, I have to be responsible for the health of my family." Yaobei touched Lenai's head. She found that Lenai especially liked to do this action recently and kept asking her to touch him. "Even if Lenai takes good care of Yaoji, I don't know how long she can take care of her. If she can hold on for a month, I will agree to let you adopt a third cat."

"Yeah." Lenai lowered her head.

She knew her mother had made up her mind and would not change it.

Although she always looks like a three-nothing and electric wave, and speaks some natural words like a cat, she is not a real cat after all, and she can resonate with the moods of others.

Lenai knew that both her mother and father doted on her.

But they would not love her unconditionally. Besides being her mother, she was also her father's wife and her grandmother's daughter, so she had to be responsible for them.

"Let's talk about something off topic, Lenai." Yaobei suddenly picked Lenai up and placed her on her lap, so that her still chubby face was facing her. "Why does Mommy feel that Lenai has been acting more and more like a spoiled child recently? If her requests were rejected in the past, she would always run straight back to her room to play guitar. Moreover, Lenai seems to be quite skilled at hooking her neck with her hands. Lenai must do this often, right?"

"Are you acting like a spoiled child in front of your friends in the band? You can actually get close to Lenai. It seems like they are all nice people." Yaobei poked Lenai's face. Lenai twisted her body in dissatisfaction, trying to run away from Yaobei's legs.

"Well, it's about being... spoiled to my friends in the band?" Kaname Lenai said, "Is this spoiled?"

"Yeah. That's called acting cute." Yaobei looked at Yao Lenai with a smile. "Since Lenai would subconsciously act cute towards that person, it must mean that Lenai really likes that person, right?"

——A straight nose, charming fox eyes, a sometimes melancholy expression, an upright figure and the faint scent of sandalwood that can be smelled from her body, a slightly thin and beautiful face, this is Shirakawa Haru.

Le Nai had to admit that Shirakawa Haru's appearance had left a deep impression on her. How deep was that? In the past, Le Nai thought her mother was the most beautiful person in the world, but after being invited by Shirakawa Haru to join the band, she thought her mother was one of the only two beautiful people in the world.

But what she liked most was the gentle look in Shirakawa Haru's eyes when he looked at her, she liked that he remembered to leave a matcha parfait for her at the front desk after she left, she liked that he knew she was a cat tongue and could drink warm milk, and he called her "Ms. Lenai" when asking the clerk about her.

He didn't just show a gentle look to her, sometimes his expression would be serious. That day in the pavilion, when he was telling her what her responsibilities were, that charming expression appeared on his face.

——No more wandering

I hate distance, shadows, pain, rain. I want bright days, with you, by the sea and the beach. I want a magical sky, my favorite country, but with you, with you... sunny.

"Yeah, Mom, I like Haru very much." Lenai murmured to herself, "I like him very much."

"So the child's name is 'Qing'," Yaobei turned on the TV and tuned in to a variety show filled with canned laughter. The special guest was the famous comedian Ruoye. During the discussion about raising children, he mentioned that he had a lovely, beautiful girl who listened to him very much and always fulfilled any request with flying colors, never saying no. "Judging from the name, she must be a very beautiful child, right?"

Yaobei certainly didn't know that the "Qing" her daughter was referring to was a boy. It would be better to say that the possibility that "Qing" was a male was ruled out by her from the beginning.

She simply could not imagine that her daughter, who was quirky, independent, free and seemed indifferent to everything, at this age when she was not very interested in the opposite sex, would act like a spoiled child with a man whom she had only known for less than half a year, or even three months, not even a complete season.

Lenai lacks some common sense. Apart from subconsciously making purring sounds and hugging her close family members, she has almost no concept of being coquettish. Intimate actions such as hooking the neck can only be used when lying on someone else!

"Well, Qing is very beautiful, just as beautiful as her mother." Yao Lenai got down from Yaobei's lap and sat next to her mother. "If my mother were not my mother, then he would be more beautiful than my mother."

"You're so young, yet you're already leaning outward, little girl." Yaobei tugged at Lenai's plump cheeks. "It seems like you really like that older sister."

"It's not my sister." Kaname explained in a muffled voice.

"Not my sister?" Yaobei asked.

Lenai didn't answer her mother. Her lips pursed into a cat-like shape. Her shorts outlined her tight figure, the hem of her T-shirt pressed against the sofa, the stretched fabric wrapped around her slender waist. She swayed her upper body, her short silver hair shimmering in the light.

Of course I couldn't answer my mother.

Lenai thought that she could not reveal the fact that she was acting like a spoiled child to a grown boy in front of her family for the time being. Even if she lacked common sense, she knew that it was not in line with social morality for a fourteen-year-old girl to fall in love with a boy, hook his neck and even kiss his cheek.

I am free and I don't care.

If Lenai thought to herself, I don't care what people in society think of me, otherwise I wouldn't have dared to kiss Shirakawa Haru on the face in the rehearsal room while turning sideways to hide the other girl's back.

If I like her, I like her. If I want to kiss Qing, I want to kiss Qing. She is free, like a cat. Free and carefree.

If someone said something was wrong with her, she would ask Qing to help her, otherwise she would run to Qing's house and hide.

She doesn't have to interact with people in society. After all, she knows cat language and can make friends with both humans and cats.

But she couldn't think that way when facing her family. If her mom, dad, and grandma knew she was acting like a spoiled brat with a grown-up boy, they would definitely not let her stay with Qing and play guitar with everyone in RING's rehearsal room.

After all, she was only fourteen.

This was something she couldn't accept, so she had to hide it from her parents and grandma.

Grandma knew that she had a good relationship with a boy, but she didn't know that she often acted like a spoiled child to him.

The mother knew that she would act like a spoiled child to someone but she didn't know that person was a boy.

The pure white Turkish Angora cat jumped off Lenai's lap and walked towards the balcony.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it. By the way, Lenai, why did you suddenly think of adopting those cats and being responsible for them? You also liked to adopt cats when you were a child, but you would just leave them to grandma and me to take care of. Wouldn't it be better to do the same this time?" Yaobei asked.

"No. If that happens, Yaoji and the others will still be wandering." Lenai held Yaoji, who had jumped onto her lap. Her heterochromatic eyes widened. The yellow and blue pupils, framed by the silver hair on her forehead, were so beautiful that it seemed as if starlight was reflected in them. She looked at Yaoji in her arms, stroking its head with one hand and gently scratching its chin with the other. "Qing told me that Lenai can't be so selfish, saying she wants to adopt them but then letting them continue to wander. She needs to prepare a place for them to live and provide them with stable meals. Mom and Dad are responsible for me, and I am responsible for Yaoji and the others."

"I can't just adopt them and feed them when I want them to play with me."

Lenai's voice was not loud, and even had a childish and immature sound to it, but when she spoke, the whole living room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Yaoyi stopped reading the newspaper, Yaobei stopped watching the TV variety show with a smile, and even the comedian Ruoye on the show remained silent.

"You've grown up, Lenai," Yaobei exclaimed. "It seems that girl named Qing really likes Lenai and is willing to tell you all these things. And you really like her too and are willing to listen to her. Lenai was particularly talkative when she mentioned that girl today."

"Lena, bring Taxue and Yueliang into the house." Yaobei looked at his daughter with a smile, "Even though we can't let Da Miao and his family move in, at least these two won't have to wander around anymore."

"Love you mom." Lenai gave Wanbei a hug.

The Angora cat with two-colored eyes came back from the balcony and meowed at Lenai a few times.

"Mom, I want to go out." Lenai quickly got up from the sofa.

Yao Ji just told her that it was going to rain outside soon.

Big Cat and his family are still outside!

Chapter 9 Rain·Stray Cat·Going to Qing's Home

It was raining all over Tokyo tonight, first drizzling and then pouring heavily.

The rain kept falling. In the sudden, heavy downpour, the last ray of moonlight was blocked in the sky. Only the light of street lamps on the street flickered in the tiny raindrops, shrouding the street in a dazzling hazy halo.

As Le Nai ran in the rain, she felt that the rain was getting heavier. When she just walked out of the house, she could only smell some dampness in the air. She had to wait for the rain to wet her short hair to confirm that it was raining. At this moment, the rain was heavy enough to completely wet her clothes in a few seconds.

A figure flashed by on the side of the road. She turned her head to look at the figure, which seemed familiar.

The man was holding something in his arms. He turned his head to look at her and then ran away.

Kaname Lenai was holding a dark brown cardboard box with an umbrella on top.

She found the cardboard box on the street a few days ago when she and Haru Shirakawa were on a roadshow. The box fell next to a trash can and no one wanted it. When it was about to be crushed and recycled as waste, she picked it up.

She plans to use the giant cardboard box as her cats' new home.