Their restricted abilities are refreshed every week.

"You're thinking too much. Play less gal games in the future. I really want to see what's filling your head."

"Well...all of the pretense is about my brother...Shirakawa Haru's questions: What does he want to eat? Is he wearing nice clothes? Is there a girl he likes? Could that girl be me? Why is he so handsome and why do I like him so much..." Suho Yuki said, then closed her eyes.

"There are ham and shrimps in the refrigerator. Do you want me to wrap them in the rice balls?" Shirakawa Haru changed the subject.

Because of what happened with Kaname Rana not long ago, he is still a little distracted. Even when facing his sister Yuki, his mind cannot be completely calmed down in an instant.

"Well, I want to eat rice balls with more ham, they are very fragrant..." Zhou Hou Yuxi stared at Shirakawa Haru's face, as if she found something interesting, "Brother, your reaction to me today seems to be a little problematic... Have you finally noticed my charm as a woman?" She hugged Shirakawa Haru, and pushed up her proud chest with force. The girl's beautiful shape pressed against the boy, hot and soft.

"Psycho." Baichuan Qing scolded her softly.

"Hehe, even if I'm a psychopath, I'm still your little psychopath, and you have to support me for the rest of my life." Suo Hou Yuxi, who was scolded by Shirakawa Haru, didn't care at all. "By the way, brother, if you prepare breakfast and lunch for me, will you be late?"

"I could do that before, but not today. I've taken a day off today. I want to stay at home and read books and listen to music." Shirakawa Haru reached out, moved the tonearm of the record player, and adjusted the needle.

"But that's a lie. Brother, didn't you read books and listen to music in school? You should have learned everything that is taught in school now." Suo Hou Yuxi leaned close to Shirakawa Haru's face. In Shirakawa Haru's eyes, her eyes were so close to his, the color in her purple pupils gradually deepened, and a touch of violet charm swayed in them. "So, please let me talk to you. What is the reason for your leave?"

"Just yesterday, I brought a girl from the band home..." Shirakawa Haru said, "It was Lenai. You two met each other at RING. She has beautiful eyes, like a Turkish Angora cat's eyes, with two gorgeous colors."

"Ah...it's that little girl. Does she have a very special personality, and short silver hair?" asked Yuki Suho.

"Do you still remember her? Her silver hair was also beautiful." Shirakawa Haru said.

"If you want Lenae's hair, is it the same one I have in my hand?" Zhou Hou Yuxi released her right hand from around Shirakawa Haru's waist and abdomen, fumbled on the pillow for a while, then stretched it in front of Shirakawa Haru's eyes and slowly opened it. A short, shiny silver hair lay in her palm, "Is it this hair?"

Oh no! My house was robbed.

I originally thought that my biggest enemy in life, Shoko Toyokawa, didn’t even know where Haru and I lived, let alone set foot inside. But that cat-like girl who seemed to have some electric energy walked into my house quietly, and she probably even slept with my brother!

No wonder there are two pillows on my brother’s bed today!

I never expected that I would just stay at Suho's house for a few nights, and a girl would break through my defenses and sleep in my brother's bed.

This is my place!

It is hard to imagine how much of a shock it would be for a sister who likes or even has a romantic relationship with her brother to suddenly find another girl's hair on her pillow while sleeping in her brother's bed.

Yuki Suho's eyes suddenly became empty and lost their luster, as if a black hole absorbed all the light. The scene was exactly the same as that of Yoshiki, the hero's sister in "Too Many Loser Heroines".

She thought that the smell in the kitchen this morning was so good because her brother had made breakfast for the girl with heterochromia named Yao Lenai.

If she wasn't there and it was just Shirakawa Haru alone, he wouldn't have made such a sumptuous breakfast.

"Yeah." Shirakawa Haru nodded.

"Hmm... Hmm!" Yuki Suho's eyes instantly turned red. She stared at Shirakawa Haru in disbelief and kicked him off the bed. "You're still saying 'hmm'? How could you bring a girl you've known for less than two months to your bed? Brother, you didn't do anything to her, did you?"

"Definitely not." Shirakawa Haru stood up and put on her home clothes in front of Suho Yuki without any defense. "In fact, I let Lenai sleep in the guest room yesterday, but she was afraid of the cold, so she sneaked into my room with a pillow and slept with me. I was drowsy at the time and didn't notice her. It wasn't until this morning that I confirmed that she really slept with me last night."

"Brother, do you like her?" Suho Yuki took out a notebook and pen from the bedside table and wrote and drew on the paper while asking Shirakawa Haru questions. The corners of her eyes just started to turn red, but she suppressed it.

All women in the world are born actors.

"What do you mean by like? Is it friends, band members, men and women, or the kind of relationship where an adult looks at a minor?" said Shirakawa Haru.

"Don't worry about that. I just want to ask you, do you like her?" said Yuki Suho.

The wind blew the curtains.

"Then it should be love." Shirakawa Haru recalled that when he woke up in the morning, Lenna was lying beside him. At that time, Lenna was staring at him with her eyes open. That look could not be described as "indifferent" no matter what. He could easily find her deep attachment to him in Lenna's eyes.

Facing Lenai, a girl who was only fourteen years old and didn't even understand a lot of common sense, he didn't know whether it was good or bad to see such things in her eyes. "She's a very good girl."

The curtains fell.

"It's over!" Zhou Fang Yuxi closed the pen cap and screamed in despair. "Brother, please don't ask me to be your bridesmaid when you get married. I'm afraid I'll be so angry that I'll bring people to kidnap you. And can you let your children call me 'Mom' when the time comes?"

"Yuki." Shirakawa Haru was silent for a moment, then said slowly and affectionately, "You're really hopeless. The Zhoufang family is completely finished now. She's only fourteen years old this year. Even if I like her so much, would I really attack a girl who's only fourteen?"

"Just kidding." Suho Yuki said, "I'm up too. Brother, go prepare breakfast and a lunch box for me."

Tou Lenai... Yuki Suo had some impression of that child. After all, her heterochromatic eyes were really dazzling, and at the same time, her quirky temperament, as if nothing in the world could restrain her, really attracted Yuki Suo's attention.

Compared to Toyokawa Shoko, Suho Yuki doesn't have much resistance to Kaname Rakuna and even Shirakawa Haru staying close to each other.

Because she knew that a girl like Lenai who could take the initiative to sleep in Shirakawa Haru's room must love her brother very much.

And to Suoh Arisuke, Kaname is like a cat: she likes you, and you like her. She likes to circle around you but doesn't ask for anything. If you want to touch her and kiss her, she'll hug you and kiss your face. But if you leave her alone, she can also have a lot of fun on her own.

In short, the ecological niche that Lenai occupies in Shirakawa Haru's heart does not overlap with hers.

While Shirakawa Haru went downstairs to the kitchen to make breakfast, Suho Yuki checked the surveillance camera at home and analyzed Kaname Rakuna's logic while watching.

"It's time to eat." Shirakawa Haru greeted Suho Yuki.

"I'm coming." Yuki Suho's voice came from upstairs.

After breakfast, she left for school with her schoolbag on her back. Before leaving, she told Shirakawa Haru that the motorcycle she prepared for him had arrived and was in the garage. If he had time today, he could go and have a look.

After cleaning the kitchen utensils, Shirakawa Haru returned to her room to listen to music and read.

At noon, a phone rang.

Caller ID: Ichichi Hongxia.

Chapter 13 A packed debut performance

"It's raining so hard today, Senior Liang, why don't you go back to STARRY first?" Kita Ikuyo asked Yamada Liang.

"No, I want to get some fresh air up there. It's raining so hard today, STARRY might get flooded soon." Yamada Ryo held an umbrella and squatted on the stairs outside STARRY. Under his feet was a somewhat muddy stream, carrying soaked paper scraps and plastic sequins along the steps and finally merging into the sewer. "Besides, Hong Xia is here too."

"Pochi-chan, can we go back to STARRY? It's a bit cold outside. You're wearing so little, just a sports jacket. You'll catch a cold." Ijichi Hongxia turned the umbrella handle and looked up at the sky. "You mustn't catch a cold today."

The lead-gray clouds are thick and look like a thick fog from a distance, heavy and swirling.

The rain fell from the thick fog like needles, hitting the ground and constantly changing into misty mist. Then, the mist turned into thick clouds and heavy rain pouring down.

There is no moonlight tonight, no dazzling autumn Milky Way, the gray smoke blurs the constellations in front of us, and all that awaits us is a violent storm.

"I'm not going down. I'll go back when the rain stops." Goto Ichiri sneezed. She leaned against the railing and held the umbrella handle with her chest. She tilted her head and shoulders to hold the umbrella handle. She took out a tissue from the pocket of her sportswear and wiped her red nose.

Her entire face was pale, except for her lips which were still bright red. The overly obvious color contrast gave her an unusual sense of fragility.

At the same time, her hair was wet by the rain and fog, and several strands of hair were tangled together, sticking to her face and slightly curly.

All the girls who had finished their band were standing or squatting outside STARRY, holding umbrellas, looking at the rain tonight bored and worried. They didn't know when the clouds would clear and the rain would stop. The neon lights on the streets of Shimokitazawa were blurry in the rain, and the glass windows on the streets were also blurry due to the mist.

Pedestrians, like them, held umbrellas and bustled through the streets, seemingly as lively as on sunny days: the sounds of conversation, honking horns, and the cries of an underground idol group standing under a billboard handing out flyers...

But it was obvious that the footsteps of passers-by were much faster than usual. No one cared about the mud splashed on their trouser legs. There were only a few music lovers performing on the open space under the lights. There were neither Turkish Angora cats with heterochromatic eyes nor idols with short golden hair and sunglasses stopping.

The lights on the streets are getting fewer and fewer, and some shops are starting to close.

"If I had known earlier, I would have postponed our debut performance for a few days." Ijichi Hongxia sighed. Faced with such a rainy day, her usually high-spirited tone inevitably became low. "It's raining too hard today. There will probably be very few people coming to see our debut performance..."

More likely, no one will come except that person.

"How could this happen..." A strong wind blew, chilling Goto Ichiri to the bone. She took a few steps down the stairs, using the concrete wall as a shield. Even though her face was pale, she still stood outside stubbornly, refusing to return to STARRY.

Today is the debut performance day of the band that Goto Ichiri joined.

She was very excited when she got up this morning. Not only did she take the initiative to go to her sister Erli's room to wake her up, she also asked her mother to help her pick out some nice clothes to wear. She then stood in front of the floor-length mirror in the cloakroom with Erli and fiddled with her hair.

"Mom, the band I'm joining is having their debut performance today!" Goto Ichiri looked at herself in the mirror. Her lips were rosy and her teeth were white, her skin as smooth and lustrous as milky silk. Even though she slept late last night and woke up early today, there wasn't a trace of dark circles under her eyes. Her round, apricot-shaped eyes were full and bright, and her gloomy expression was much more pleasant. She then asked, "Eri, do you think I look good in this?"

"She looks beautiful in everything!" Goto Jiri stood on a small wooden stool and pulled her sister's hair. "She's dressed so beautifully today. Is there someone she wants to see?" She lowered her head and said in a childish way, "She's in love!"

"I don't have any." Goto Ichiri used her mother's mascara to fix her eyelashes. However, because she was completely unfamiliar with how to use it, the application was completely uneven. One side of her eyelashes was straight up, while the other side had a neat, slightly curved lash. "The band I joined is having their debut performance today."

"I know, I know—it's called 'The End of the Band,' right?" Goto Jiri called out to Jimmy Hen who ran upstairs, cupping his face with both hands and rubbing it vigorously. "Jimmy Hen, it's strange that my sister is dressing up today! Do you think she has someone she likes? Otherwise, why would she dress so beautifully?"

Jimmyhen barked softly a few times. He was Goto's little dog.

"No...really, I just went to meet my friends in the band...and classmates." Goto Ichiri picked up the headband and put it on her head, then used facial cleanser to wash off the mascara on her eyelashes. She still felt that she looked good the way she was.

I don’t know why, but today, she, who was originally not confident about her appearance, gradually discovered that she was actually a little cute.

"Oh! That's not easy!" Goto Jiri's eyes sparkled. She opened her mouth wide and ran downstairs with Jimmy Henry. Then she shouted in a voice that the whole family could hear, "Mom and Dad, my sister has someone she likes! The person my sister likes is in the band she's in."

"Er...Erli, what are you talking about!" Goto Ichiri quickly washed his face and dried it with a towel, ran back to the cloakroom to change back into the pink sportswear, and stumbled downstairs.

"You're so energetic. I didn't believe you when you said Ichiri had someone she liked, but now it seems that maybe she really does have one." Goto Michiyo said to Goto Naoki, holding a spoon in one hand and covering her cheek with the other.

"But the members of that band are all girls, right?" Goto Naoki sat at the dinner table and put down the newspaper in his hand. He was just joking and then said it. Could it be that he really got it right?

"No, Dad, I don't think my sister ever said that 'Qing' was a girl. I just called her by her name."

"Really, husband." Michiyo Goto waved a rice spatula in her hand to prepare breakfast for the family.

"Mom and Dad, will you come to see my band's debut performance today?" Goto Ichiri grabbed Goto Jiri's hand and tried to pull her upstairs.

But Goto Jiri just said "clear" in Goto Ichiri's ear, and Goto Ichiri blushed and his heart beat fast, and he almost fell down.

"Ah... I'm sorry, Mom and Dad are busy today, so they might not be able to go." Goto Michiyo's face showed an embarrassment. "As compensation, Mom will give you some pocket money. How about treating your band friends to a nice dinner after the performance?"

"Okay..." Goto Ichiri nodded blankly. It would be a lie to say that she didn't feel disappointed, but she still felt that her parents' affairs were more important.

"Sister, Erli can go to the live show with you!" Goto Erli saw that her sister was feeling depressed, so she quickly told Ichiri that mom and dad couldn't go but I could.

"Children are not allowed to enter." Goto Ichiri rubbed Erri's head.

"Yiri, remember to bring an umbrella when you go out. It seems to have been raining for the past few days! It rained heavily the night before yesterday." Goto Naoki reminded, "Although there is still some sunshine outside now, it is always a good idea to be prepared in advance."

"I understand, Dad!" After feeding Jimmy Henry, Goto Ichiri took an umbrella and hurriedly got on the tram to Shimokitazawa.

It rained heavily the day before yesterday. She had a deep memory of that rainy night because the next day when she went to school, Takamatsu Deng and Shirakawa Haru avoided her and used notes to chat about things she didn't know.

Goto Ichiri had once "accidentally," "intentionally or unintentionally," and "inadvertently" glanced at the note. The topic seemed to be related to a girl named "Kaname Rakuna."

"If I had known, I would have paid more attention to the weather forecast." Goto Ichiri was just as happy as he was when he walked out of the station, but now he felt just as disappointed as he was standing in the rain. "It seems like our live performance is going to be canceled..."

"Don't worry, Pochi-chan, our live won't be canceled. No matter how hard it rains, not many people will come to see our live. We agreed that today is our debut day, so today is it." Ijichi Hongka smiled and jumped in the puddle. Her golden ponytail followed the jump. Her white sneakers stepped on the puddle, splashing water and soaking a little white socks. "Why are you all so sad? It's not like we don't have an audience, otherwise we wouldn't all be waiting outside!"

Who are they waiting for?

Who are the audience who will definitely come?

None of them said the person's name, but everything was tacitly understood. Although the audience they were waiting for did not say whether they would come.

When the girls arrived at STARRY, Ijichi Hoshige told them that it was raining too hard today, and except for them, all the bands that had been scheduled to perform had cancelled their scheduled performances one by one. Most of them didn't even come to STARRY, but just said hello on the phone.

But Goto Ichiri and Ijichi Nijika were convinced that he would come. That audience member whose name they hadn't mentioned yet would definitely come.

It came unexpectedly, but arrived as expected.

They believed that he would come to them when they needed him, and come as expected. Everything was just right!

…………

Shirakawa Haru was wearing a helmet and riding the motorcycle that Yuki Suho had brought him a few days ago, driving through the streets at the safe speed specified by the road regulations.

On the handlebars of the motorcycle, in his clenched hands, hung a tightly wrapped black bag.

At every intersection, Shirakawa Haru would stop the car, take off his helmet, and try to sell tickets to the band's live performance to the crowd nearby.

He would actively promote these tickets and shout loudly, and the more people there were, the louder he would shout.

A few days ago at noon, he received a call from Ichichi Hongxia about this matter.

Ijichi Hongxia asked him to help sell tickets and promote their band at the same time.

Shirakawa Haru was quite popular in Hinomori, and he just told everyone around him about it, and the tickets for the band's live show were sold out instantly. There were even people from the junior high school next door who came to buy tickets.

His own tickets were sold out, but only a few of Goto Ichiri's tickets were sold.

This silly girl has too few friends. Apart from her family and a few friends like Takamatsu Touma and Chihaya Aine, she can't even sell a ticket to strangers.

Even to the female classmates she got along well with in cooking class, Goto Ichiri didn't have the courage to tell them that she was about to hold her debut live.

So now he is helping her sell tickets.

Shirakawa Haru watched the crowd passing by him, and none of the live tickets he had were sold.

Those passersby who were originally interested in tickets lost interest after learning that the live performance was today.

But he didn't get discouraged because he knew that it would be hard to sell any tickets in such weather.

As soon as it started raining today, the classmates who bought his tickets told him that the rain was too heavy today and they would not go to the band's live performance.

The classmates who bought his tickets returned the tickets to Shirakawa Haru. They did not ask for a refund, but Shirakawa Haru still returned the money to them in a tough attitude.

He stopped selling tickets at the school.

He found that those who bought tickets basically did not want to see the band’s live performance, but because they wanted him to support the band and were actually cheering for him.

Takamatsu Touma and Chihaya Aine were rehearsing more and more diligently for their own upcoming debut performances and had no time to watch Goto Ichiri's live performances.