Heavy girl? I feel worse than Black Hole Trigger!

For no reason, this made her feel uneasy.

The girl sighed softly, tightened the shoulder strap of her schoolbag, and was about to go back to the street the way she came.

"——Huh?" A clear voice came.

The girl's expression brightened instantly.

"Isn't this Nagasaki-san? My house is closed today."

"Mr. Manager?"

…and then froze into ice when it saw someone coming.

A man and a woman came in from the alley.

The tall man carried a guitar case on one hand and a full plastic bag in the other. Next to him was a petite girl who was pulling a trailer with a guitar case on it with one hand and eating a crepe with the other.

One is tall and the other is short, and one has gold hair and the other has silver hair.

The man walks on the right, holding the violin case in his right hand. The girl walks on the left, pulling the trailer with her left hand.

Among them, only the man was looking in this direction because he was talking to her. The girl kept looking up slightly and gazing at the man beside her, showing no interest in herself being called Nagasaki-san.

It seemed that she, Nagasaki Suyo, was the superfluous one...

Lost Star Chapter 12 Summer Record: Episode Home for Stray Animals

"Shigasaki-san? Shigasaki-san? ...Uh, why are you ignoring me?"

Baodeng Zheli tried to shout a few times, but Nagasaki Suyo just stood there without saying a word.

Helpless, Zhe Li had to say to Lenai, "Let's go. That's the coffee shop I opened up ahead."

"Yeah." Lenai responded vaguely.

She is now more concerned about the matcha crepe in her hand.

Until Zheli walked to the front of the coffee shop, took out the key and prepared to open the door, Nagasaki Suyo stood silently by.

As Zheli unlocked the door, he called out, "Nagasaki-san?"

This time she woke up from her dream, turned around and looked straight at Zhe Li.

"Would you like to come in and sit down?" Zhe Li asked tentatively.

Then, he saw Nagasaki Suyo forcefully pulling up her cheek muscles, revealing a very unnatural smile, which she only retracted when she was about to reach the uncanny valley. She said softly:

"Okay~"

Although she still had the familiar gentle smile on her face, her eyes seemed to be out of focus, making people feel very empty.

She just looks at you like this, as if she is always smiling at you, a smile that makes you feel cold in your heart.

Yeah...we need more normal people here!

Zheli began to miss the pink-haired girl.

The man pushed open the shop door while thinking about something.

"Little Lenai, you can come over now."

The silver-haired guitar girl, still savoring her crepe, nodded and moved closer.

Her arrival slightly diverted some of the attention from Zhe Li.

"Lena...?"

She seemed to hear Nagasaki Suyo whispering her name.

……

"Hot Earl Grey tea. And then a matcha parfait."

The man who had recently switched to being a rock bassist returned to his old job as a cafe manager.

The cafe "nascita" seemed particularly quiet on this closed day.

Su Shi was still a little dazed when she saw Bao Deng Zheli raise his eyebrows at another girl and said:

"You're such a big eater. You just finished a whole crepe, and you want a parfait?"

The silver-haired girl called Lenai didn't seem to care at all. As soon as the parfait was served, she took a spoon and stuffed a big mouthful into her mouth, whimpering, "Delicious." Zheli just held his forehead with his hand pretending to be helpless, and ignored her, turning to look at Nagasaki Suye.

"Shigasaki-san, have you been waiting here for long?"

"No, I just arrived too." Nagasaki Suyo said firmly.

She smiled, picked up the teacup, took a sip, squinted her eyes, and savored the flavor carefully before putting it down again. "I was about to leave when I saw the shop was closed, but I didn't expect to see the manager coming back."

Zhe Li glanced at her bangs lightly.

A few strands of hair stuck to his forehead, probably the result of sweating and then cooling and drying.

"That's it."

The store manager smiled kindly.

"Sorry, we don't have fixed business hours here... I've just been thinking about making some arrangements. I'll let you know next time I'm ready. You don't have to make these wasted trips anymore."

"……after……"

Su Shi whispered softly.

Her almost silent mumbling did not escape Zhe Li's ears.

Baodeng Zheli always felt that the child was a bit anxious and worried. Like an abandoned puppy that has been adopted again, he was caught between a dilemma of being cautious and wanting to act spoiled. Zheli, on the other hand, was like... well, it would be a bit shameless to continue.

He knew that he was not in a position to say anything more, so he could only try his best to show concern within his ability.

Zheli looked at Nagasaki Suyo, who was lost in thought, and shook his head helplessly. Then he glanced at Lena, only to find that she had almost eaten most of the matcha parfait. He hurriedly called her:

"Hey! Don't eat so hastily! No one's rushing you."

"Hmm?" Little Lenai, who was holding a spoon in her mouth, looked up at her in confusion.

Zhe Li narrowed his eyes and pointed at Parfait, "Eating ice cream too fast will give you a headache."

"no problem."

Lenai bit the spoon and raised his arms to show off his soft biceps.

"I'm strong."

"That's really not noticeable at all."

Lenai glanced at him and suddenly increased the frequency of eating!

“Ahh. Ahh ...

She froze.

"See, it's starting to hurt." Zhe Li immediately looked at her proudly.

"Hmm..." Little Lenai's speed of moving the spoon slowed down significantly.

"Really? Couldn't you have done this earlier?"

"Aww."

"……hehe."

Su Shi on the side let out a light laugh.

Only then did Zheli notice that Nagasaki Suyo had finally come to her senses.

As he moved his gaze over, his eyes met Su Shi's, and she smiled sweetly and raised her hand to cover her mouth.

Looking at her half-hidden smile, Zhe Li was speechless for a moment.

The silent space was suddenly filled with only the sounds of spoons hitting glasses and cups and plates touching each other.

After Lenai swallowed the last bite of the parfait and muttered, "Satisfied," Zheli turned to Nagasaki Suyo, who was sipping her half-cold black tea with a serene expression, and said:

"I'm sorry, we have something else to do later, so we won't entertain you."

"If you want to go home, just leave. I'll lock the door myself later."

Su Shi paused for a moment.

A pair of beautiful eyes trembled for a moment before they suddenly looked up and looked at Baodeng Zheli.

"Can I ask...what are you going to do?"

"We formed a makeshift band," Zheli smiled, motioning for the other man to look at the guitar case that Lenai had brought along on the trailer. "But RiNG... that new live house that recently opened in Ikebukuro didn't have a vacant recording studio, so I brought Lenai to my own soundproof room."

After Zhe Li finished speaking, he felt that he was very suspicious.

But surprisingly, he did not see any hesitation on Nagasaki Suyo's face.

After listening carefully, the girl just blinked and asked softly, "Then, can I take a look too?"

"It's no problem to take a look... Are you interested in the band too?"

He remembered that Nagasaki Suyo was a member of the wind band club, right? It seemed like a term far removed from rock music.

Not to mention that she herself is a student at Tsukinomori Girls' Academy. She is a young lady who "stands like a peony, sits like a peony, and walks like a lily." She has elegant manners and even says "Hello" when greeting people.

It's a bit hard to imagine her shaking her head to the rhythm in a dimly lit live house.

In response to Zheli's question, Su Shi narrowed his eyes and chuckled again: "Haha, a little bit."

The tone sounded like he wasn't interested at all.

Although I don't know what she is planning, there are no secrets in the recording studio anyway, so it doesn't matter if she watches.

Zhe Li thought about it and nodded, then turned around and called out:

"Are you ready, Lenai-chan? Do you still need some rest?"

Lenai suddenly raised her face and asked, "Can you play the guitar already?"

Those two eyes of different colors sparkled as if lights were turned on with a click.

Shouldn't I be the one asking you this question? Zhe Li wanted to complain, but seeing the girl's yearning expression, he said:

"That's all right."

"Ah."

Lenai stepped down from the chair in front of the counter, which was a little high for her, and ran towards her guitar with small steps.

Zheli also grabbed his bass and walked towards the recording studio backstage first, followed closely by Lenai.

Su Shi was a beat late in getting up and following.

Lost Star Chapter 13 Summer Time Record: Chapter Choice

The air still lingered with the resonating notes.

"……Amazing."

Nagasaki Suyo's eyes widened.

She had actually tried her best to raise her expectations in her mind.

But the performance of the two people in front of her still exceeded her imagination.

————Present the volume.

It was supposed to be just practice, but it looked like the two of them were standing on the stage.

The man's graceful singing voice and the girl's otherworldly guitar solo...

Although there were only two of them, they displayed an aura as if they could control the entire live house. The melody, rhythm, and scenes described by the lyrics, even the cheers of the audience that did not exist at all, became part of the performance, weaving together into a torrential downpour.

Originally I just wanted to watch quietly from the side, but before I knew it I was shaking my head and tapping my feet to the beat.

It was not until the man who played the last note turned his gaze in her direction that she realized her cheeks flushed and turned her face away.

Regarding Nagasaki Suyoshi's performance, five-star General MacArthur once said:

"This is the first time I saw someone cheating."

Anyway, you'll just get used to it. This is a music show, so there must be people with even more ridiculous talents out there.