Heavy girl? I feel worse than Black Hole Trigger!

----But.

'It's time to give up that dream.'

'Look at the reality?'

"I--"

With a clang, she stood up suddenly.

The girl didn't pause for a moment in the unbearable silence until she had turned halfway around.

She stared at the store door from afar. "...That's all for today."

It seemed so close in my impression, but now it seems so blurry, as if it is so far away that it is out of reach.

"I've said everything I need to say."

Suppressing the urge to bolt for the door, the girl held her breath with all her might, just to piece together the scattered thoughts in her mind into one final sentence—

"So please don't get involved with me anymore."

"...I wish you happiness."

Da, da, da da da——

"and many more!"

Facing the figure that was about to escape, Baodeng Zheli called out to her to stop her.

Xiangzi didn't turn around. "What can I do for you?" Her voice, which was too cold, came out in a low voice.

"Moon Forest..." The man's words were somewhat insincere, and he could only roughly put together his sentences: "Next week, I will still go there. And here, Nascita too, I will always be there. You can come to see me anytime."

"Really? Go ahead."

The girl responded calmly.

She nodded slightly in greeting, still without looking back, and just pushed open the door and left.

The man looked through the window at her back as she disappeared from his sight, then he shook his head.

Perhaps, his experience with Nagasaki Suyo still made him take things for granted.

But that's okay. Words are just the catalyst for determination.

Without action, words are doomed to be in vain.

If Xiangzi still chose to escape this time, then he would do it again next time, and the next time. Or even if Xiangzi finally managed to get out of it on his own, that would be fine too.

He is not afraid of any obstacles, nor is he driven by heroism and insists on making others grateful to him.

He just didn't want the girl to lose hope of being saved.

And, more importantly now...

He turned his palms.

He held something similar to a mobile phone pendant in his palm.

——At the moment when Xiangzi was emotionally excited, he felt a familiar fluctuation.

I thought it was an illusion, but the moment the girl turned around, the fluctuation came out more clearly... from her shoulder bag.

He was not so shameless as to cling to Xiangzi when he clearly resisted.

Even if that was just a tiny bit of modesty coming from the girl's last bit of self-esteem, Zhe Li was unwilling to remove her fig leaf without permission.

After all, Bao Deng Zheli's desire to save someone is nothing more than his selfish willfulness.

If Zheli forced this girl who was desperately fighting for "freedom" to accept his help for his own selfish desires, then how would he be any different from those guys who arranged Toyokawa Shoko's life so clearly and did not pay any attention to her ideas?

He called out to Xiangzi just to buy a moment to activate the super-high-speed mode and take out the thing that was emitting the familiar vibrations.

The moment he held it, Zhe Li understood a lot of things.

"...Really." He sighed helplessly.

This is a long-range megaphone made into a pendant.

Originally, it was a small prop he gave to Su Shi as a precautionary measure - if something happened to Su Shi and he had no way to deal with it, the agreement they made to each other would seem too frivolous.

He usually respects other people's privacy, so he won't go out of his way to listen.

But in fact, every prop he makes has some "genetic factors" attached to it.

Simply put, it is a tiny part of his body.

...After all, he inherited Abolut's physique and his original body is a slime, so it's no problem to separate some of it.

Besides being able to implement cutting-edge technology from the Build world, it also possesses a certain degree of navigational functionality: he can find every item he's sold or given away, including the one he gave to Su Shi. In the event of an accident, he can use the resonance between his genetic genes to more quickly locate Su Shi.

The strange creatures like the Blood Star Slime can almost infinitely increase their combat effectiveness as their emotions become high - but as a price, real Blood Star Slimes have no emotions, and they can only gain a little "pleasure" through fighting and killing.

The fluctuation he felt just now was caused by this little bit of genetic gene being stimulated by Xiangzi's emotions.

With this logic, the whole process becomes clear.

"Suyo. ...Well, Wakaba-san should be here too."

He whispered into the megaphone in his hand:

"Where are you guys right now? Can you tell me via LINE?"

●

“Ah.” “Ah.”

Nagasaki Motoyo raised her sunglasses and looked at Wakaba Mutsu who did the same.

At the outdoor seating of an American restaurant in Ikebukuro, the two of them were looking at the screen on their tablet side by side.

It was called a picture, but in fact it was just a simple monitoring software: the sound signal fluctuating at a low decibel proved that the other party was still holding the sound pendant and waiting for their response.

Su Shi thought for a moment.

"Xiao Mu, where did you put the pendant?"

"…in Xiang's bag."

Su Shi glanced down at the screen and then looked up at Mu, who had an expressionless face.

"Then how did Zheli find out?"

She was very confused.

The two of them monitored the entire conversation and didn't hear any chance for the two to rummage through the bag. Judging from Zhe Li's reaction, he probably only just realized Su Shi was eavesdropping, so the possibility of the two of them being in cahoots can be ruled out...

Wow! How could my perfect plan fall apart so easily?

Mu shook his head, "I don't know."

At that time, Wakaba Mu did not have much time to operate, but it was still easy for her to stuff the pendant into her already large handbag while Toyokawa Shoko was paying with her back to her.

At least Toyokawa Shoko probably didn't notice. After all, she had just taken her bag to the appointment without a second thought.

Rather than how Zheli discovered something unusual, she was more curious about how Zheli managed to steal the pendant from her bag without alerting Xiangzi.

"Hmm." Su Shi pushed up her sunglasses and covered her eyes with the dark lenses, making it impossible to see the thoughts flowing in her eyes.

She posed for a while like a big star on vacation, then took off her sunglasses.

"Xiao Mu, let's go back to Nascita."

——Nagasaki Suyo gave up thinking.

Chapter 114 of Lost Stars: Summer Records: Chapter : I am very uneasy, how can I be elegant?

The two girls filed into the cafe.

The store manager raised his eyebrows lazily and glanced at the door without saying a word of "Welcome".

Nagasaki Suyo saw his reaction from afar and couldn't help sighing.

On the fifteenth of that year, I stood at a teahouse in Ikebukuro, like a minion. At that time, I swore with tears in my eyes—

"Hmm? Come sit down. What would you like to drink?"

It turned out that Baodeng Zheli had just seen the two people enter the store before he struggled to get up from the table he was lying on and walked to the counter. Noticing the noises near the door gradually faded, he turned his head in confusion and greeted the two people again.

"Oh." Su Shi remembered that Nascita was closed today, so it was normal that there was no greeting.

So she happily walked to her exclusive seat at the counter.

Wakaba Mutsu, who had stopped because Su Shi stopped, finally followed her pace and sat down at the counter.

Su Shi waited until Mu was seated before raising her hand, "Give me a cup of Earl Grey tea~"

"Mango juice." Mu said without waiting for Baodeng Zheli to ask.

Su Shi had previously mentioned in the CRYCHIC group that today's team practice time would be postponed by two hours - Zhe Li had thought that today's meeting with Toyokawa Shoko would be a long conversation about life, but he didn't expect it to be a fast break.

As soon as he switched from offense to defense, Toyokawa Shoko ran away directly, leaving him with only a small amount of time left.

The accident gave Su Shi and Mu the opportunity to enjoy some leisure time.

As they stepped through the door, they were still somewhat uneasy. They couldn't quite make out Zhe Li's emotions through the microphone, but they knew he was aware they'd been monitoring their conversation. Seeing him now with his usual smile, even Mu could sense Su Shi's relief.

However, no matter how relaxed the atmosphere in the cafe is, things still have to be faced.

When Su Shi drank half of the black tea, Zhe Li breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Su Shi."

The girl paused for a moment, put down her teacup, and looked intently into the pair of eyes that were as blue as her own.

The man's originally serious expression suddenly smiled when Su Shi was staring at him too intently, leaving her at a loss for a moment. During this time, the man smiled and reached out his hand to pinch Su Shi's cheek.

"Relax. Why are you so serious?"

“…Because you’re so serious.”

Normally, Su Shi might have slapped the hand away in annoyance. She always felt that Zhe Li only made such intimate gestures when he treated her like a child. But she had to admit, she really liked the warmth of this man's fingertips. It was warm, as if Zhe Li had left a mark on her body that would be remembered forever.

Rather than seeing Zhe Li get angry with her and distance himself from her...Su Shi would rather be treated like a child.

At least, I can still rely on him!

"Well, what I am about to say is indeed serious." Zhe Li just pinched it lightly twice and then withdrew his hand.

He leaned against the counter, slightly leaning forward, almost looking at Su Shi who was sitting on a high chair.

"I don't know how much you heard... but I hope you can follow Toyokawa-san's advice and keep it to yourself." He paused, lowering his gaze to the wood grain on the counter, his earlier smile falling. "At least, she chose to confide only in me. If she knew you were eavesdropping, she probably wouldn't have said so much."

Su Shi tilted his head to glance at Mu, then looked at Zhe Li and said, "Yeah, I know."

"Otherwise there's no point in eavesdropping, right?"

Zhe Li couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Besides, you're having a concert next week, right? Why are you still thinking about this? ... Seriously, I thought you'd given up, but I didn't expect you had this trick up your sleeve."

Although he had anticipated Su Shi's ulterior motives, he had never imagined that Su Shi had studied this "remote megaphone" so thoroughly that she could even use it to implement her own ulterior motives. He clearly remembered simply telling Su Shi that it had a call function to prevent any potential problems, and that Su Shi had even teased him with something like, "Do you like me that much?"

Now it seems that who likes who more.

Zhe Li recalled that time and found it a little funny, but that unpleasant expression seemed to make the girl uneasy.

All he heard was Su Shi timidly shouting, "Zhe Li, are you angry?"

This lack of confidence in the voice quickly brought Zhe Li back to his senses, and he quickly lowered his head to look at Su Shi.

She had become more cheerful every day since we met, and now it was as if she had returned to that rainy day, gazing up at the cloudy sky from beneath her umbrella. Her hands, resting flat on the table, were clenching their fingertips, and a light in her eyes seemed to be gradually fading.

So, without thinking, the man leaned forward and suddenly put his face close.

"Angry? No, I'm not angry."

——It was like the night when he suddenly broke into the heart of a young girl.

Facing Su Shi, who was staring with eyes wide open in surprise, Zhe Li smiled widely.

"I'm not saying this to blame you. After all, it's not me who has the right to blame you two, but Toyokawa-san."

"Besides... although it's not very fair to Toyokawa-san to think this way, I'm actually glad that you heard what I said."

He knew that Toyokawa Shoko just wanted to strengthen her own path by talking to someone.

That's why she was "selected" to be Baodeng Zheli.