You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

Yamada Ryo turned his head without changing his expression. He was not frightened by Li Xi's amazing momentum. There seemed to be a Buddha's light shining behind him. It seemed that he was really immersed in the role and regarded himself as a Zen master with profound magical powers.

"Xiang is resting, don't disturb him."

Because of the example of Toyokawa Sho, when Li Xi saw Yamada Ryo playing with abstract ideas, he didn't feel any desire to complain. Instead, he felt that it was just this level.

Wait, that's not right.

What do you mean it’s only this level?

I am a normal person.

Li Xi repeatedly assured himself in his mind that he was a common-sense person who also acted as a complainer, then he withdrew his hand, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and stared at Yamada Ryo in silence.

"Okay, I won't bother you anymore."

Feeling the pressure coming, Yamada Ryo stood up and walked downstairs decisively.

Li Xi watched her figure disappear, then turned around and looked at the person lying on the sofa.

The other person was resting his head on a doll that looked like it had been there for many years. His silver-blue hair blocked his eyes that were usually invisible. His clean and elegant skin and bones seemed to be cast under the magic of sleep. Even his steady breathing would attract people's attention, making them stare at him for a few more seconds.

Recalling the magical feeling of touching the other person's hair before, Li Xi reached out her hand as if possessed by a ghost, but reason quickly restrained her. The other person was sleeping, and she couldn't touch him.

Different opinions armed themselves with weapons and began a fierce battle in her head.

In the end, I couldn't help but miss the wonderful feeling I had before.

Slowly, holding her breath, she inched her fingers towards Toyokawa Sho's hair, pausing there for a long moment. Then, with an inexplicable feeling, as if an electric current had passed through her heart, she lightly parted his bangs...

This time, it seemed like my heart skipped a beat.

The feeling of hair tangled around her fingers made her teeth itch, and her mind went blank.

She quickly withdrew her fingers, feeling like she was committing a crime. Her cheeks flushed and her eyes were dazed. As she hesitated whether to open it again, a gaze from behind made Lixi shudder.

She turned around quickly and saw that it was Yamada Ryo who was lying in ambush and watching the show secretly...!

The guy's expression was calm, without any unnecessary look, but his eyes seemed to contain countless mocking words, and he seemed to be saying all kinds of jokes.

Dengdengdeng.

Their eyes collided.

Murderous intent is brewing.

Yamada Ryo didn't say anything, just smiled and made a cheering gesture to Li Xi, then turned around and went downstairs, leaving Li Xi with a gloomy face and his fist half-raised in the air.

There was a faint speck of red on her earlobe, and it was unclear whether it was the anger for not being able to kill Senior Gao Yi, or the palpitations from being caught doing something embarrassing.

In the end, all of this turned into a light sigh.

Li Xi sat on one side, crossed his legs, and silently watched the sleeping Toyokawa Sho. After a while, he put down his legs, lay on the table, and looked at Toyokawa Sho with his head tilted, his eyes never wandering from beginning to end.

"Is Fengchuan asleep?"

Until an old voice like a thunderclap pulled Li Xi out of his trance.

Li Xi quickly straightened up, and when he saw that the person coming was Tsuzuki Shichuan, he stood up and wanted to greet him, but after seeing the other party waving his hand, he sat back down in a daze. The youthfulness and immaturity of the young worker were fully revealed in these few seconds.

"Probably asleep."

Li Xi replied stiffly that she couldn't speak naturally in front of the old man like Toyokawa Sho.

"I heard that this guy spent all his money?"

the old man asked.

Li Xi thought about it carefully. It seemed that he had spent all his money when he was checking out at the supermarket...

"Yes, it was all spent, but I asked Xiang to buy these things. Xiang couldn't resist me, so he spent so much."

Li Xi was worried that the old man wanted to blame Toyokawa Sho for spending money lavishly, so he took the initiative to take the blame here.

The old woman was so shrewd that Li Xi's little plan was completely exposed in front of her, but she did not expose it, but just nodded lightly.

"He doesn't seem to have any intention of saving any money for himself. You should pay close attention to this. Other things don't matter, but he must change this one thing."

"Okay, I'll tell Xiang."

Li Xi nodded woodenly.

"You didn't understand what I meant."

When the old woman saw Li Xi's stunned look, she realized that this silly child didn't understand her hidden meaning. She shook her head and simply put the answer in front of Li Xi.

"Money can buy a lot of things, it can buy dreams, it can buy happiness. Many of the goals you want to achieve ultimately require money. Whether you want to buy a better drum set or go shopping in Shibuya with friends on the weekend, it all requires money."

"If someone hasn't thought about leaving money for themselves, it means they have no vision for their future. I don't know what this brat has been through, but there are only two kinds of people in this world who don't leave money for themselves: those who are about to die, and those who have given up on life."

"He's still young. He shouldn't be either of these two types of people."

"……I see."

Li Xi understood what the old man meant.

The old man still didn't know the answer to the mystery of Toyokawa Sho, so when he said this, he felt that Toyokawa Sho must have been burdened by family affairs, which caused him to lose hope for the future.

But Li Xi knew clearly that the reason why Toyokawa Sho had no intention of leaving money for himself as the old man said was because Toyokawa Sho was a helpless and rootless person in this world.

Because he is not sure whether such a time travel will happen again in the future, turning the bonds and past that he has worked so hard to build into smoke, Toyokawa Sho does not think about the future.

He always felt that he didn't belong here.

Li Xi's eyes darkened.

These days she has been thinking about how confused Toyokawa Sho must be coming into this world alone.

However, the more he thought about her, the more uncomfortable he felt, so much so that when he recalled every little detail of Toyokawa Sho's time with her these days, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

The old man was right, Toyokawa Sho really shouldn't continue like this.

Riki also wants to help Toyokawa Sho get rid of the pain from his inner world.

But she didn't know how to do it. After thinking for a long time, she felt that the only way to help Toyokawa Sho was to reorganize Crychic.

But what happens after the reorganization?

Will reunion definitely bring Xiang true happiness?

Li Xi had no idea about the answers to these questions. She felt like a blind person crossing a river by feeling the stones. She could only take one step at a time. She was always at a loss as to the future planning and vision design.

"...Boss, what can I do to help Xiang?"

Li Xi closed his eyes, his complicated expression hidden by his eyelashes. When he opened his eyes again, the underlying tone was one of complete seriousness.

"How can an old woman like me know about your young people's affairs?"

The old man didn't offer any advice, but he did leave a reminder: "If you really want to help him, then you should first figure out how you view him."

"How I view Xiang..."

Seriously fade away.

Instead, there is confusion.

Li Xi was in a dilemma.

As a drum master, she can master any drum sheet with a BPM of 200 with some time, but she is really lacking in terms of emotions.

She has few interpersonal relationships, lacks experience, and her usual interests are giant pandas and decompression videos rather than shoujo romance comics. The combination of these factors has made it impossible for her to correctly realize what her current feelings are.

The old man looked at Li Xi's puzzled expression and immediately understood that the other party was just one step away from success.

Her cloudy but sharp eyes swept calmly over someone who was sleeping soundly on the sofa, "You little bastard, you're so smart."

You yourself know that given your mental state, you really should find a spiritual pillar to comfort yourself.

So you chose Shiina?

Whatever.

I think Shiina is a good kid.

You've provoked this kid to this point, so I'll give you a push.

"It's very simple. You can try to imagine a scene where Fengchuan walks with someone else."

The old man said calmly, "If you feel annoyed or resistant, it means you don't regard Fengchuan as a friend."

Done.

The old man slowly stood up from the chair next to him.

Li Xi, who was still a little confused, hurried over to help her up. The old man waved his hand to indicate that Li Xi didn't need to do so, and then put a note of leave on the table.

"When he wakes up, tell him I can give him a day off tomorrow to rest."

After leaving this sentence.

The old man walked down the stairs slowly with his cane.

Li Xi silently watched the old man leave. His calm heart was now stirred up by a huge wave of storm because of the old man's words just now.

Imagine Xiang being with someone else...

If I feel annoyed or resistant, it means that I don’t consider Xiang as a friend...?

Li Xi hooked his chin with his right hand and tried to think deeply.

Probably because of their encounter that morning, the first person she thought of was Junda Mana. She tried to imagine the scene of the two of them walking together...

"Tsk."

She clicked her tongue subconsciously.

This subtle dissatisfaction made Li Xi stunned.

She felt that the thin layer of paper in her heart had cracked into several cracks, and it seemed that if she thought for a few more seconds, the paper would be torn to pieces, revealing her true thoughts.

But before she had time to think about it, the ringing of the phone brought her back to reality.

She took it out and hung up the phone almost as fast as she could in her life. Then she turned around and looked at Toyokawa Sho. Seeing that he was not woken up, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Xi walked to the stairs and turned on his phone again.

The screen showed that the caller was Ruoye Mu.

No reason.

She felt empty inside.

She should have been delighted by this man's arrival.

Because the other party can come, it means that he has more or less recognized Toyokawa Sho and will not cause any unpleasant incidents like the last time he met Su Shi.

She spent the whole day wondering when Ye Mu would come after receiving her message.

But now she felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

I can’t explain what the suffering is.

I can't explain what it means.

She shook her head, put the thought behind her, and while going downstairs, she called Ruoye Mu again.

The call was answered quickly.

But there was no sound from the other side.

He must be waiting for her to speak first.

"Where are you?"

"...In front of the store."

A thin, clear voice came from the screen.

"The door is unlocked, just come in and go up the stairs. OK, I see you, follow me."

Li Xi hung up the phone, walked to the door of the cafe on the first floor, and then waited silently for Ruoye Mu to come up.

She is not very familiar with Ruoye Mu.

In other words, apart from Shoko Toyokawa, no one in the band was familiar with this girl who rarely showed any expression and hardly spoke during rehearsals.

So when Ruoye Mu walked up to her, she didn't even know how to talk to him appropriately.

"where is he?"