Heavy girl? I feel worse than Black Hole Trigger!

The slightly smooth touch frightened her. She curled her fingers into a fist.

She couldn't hear a word the teacher said. For Toyokawa Shoko, who had already read the entire textbook beforehand, staying in the classroom and listening to the lecture was just a way to save face for Tsukinomori.

The girl stared at the textbook, but was thinking about what was going on at home.

—The man she was supposed to call father was as if dead.

Even though she stubbornly chose to live in the same cramped apartment, the man fell silent after his initial outburst of abuse, as if his daughter had never existed in the first place, as if this cemetery-like, dead place contained only a living corpse and a corpse that hadn't yet died.

The man never spoke to her. When she left for school, she saw him lying on the floor, and when she came home from school, she still saw him there, but with a few bottles or cans of wine around him.

The only thing to be thankful for was that at least he used his own money to buy the wine.

Maybe on her way to school, this person would go out to do odd jobs, or just pick up change dropped by someone on the street?

But no matter which situation it was, it was completely different from the future star of Toyokawa that she had imagined.

She had thought that as long as she expressed her support for her father, he would be able to return to his normal life in no time...

"————."

Buzz, buzz. The phone, which should have been set to Do Not Disturb mode, vibrated noticeably.

When Shoko Toyokawa came to her senses, she heard the school bell ringing throughout the school.

She had wasted another day. This was the life she had once cherished.

"……call."

Shoko Toyokawa breathed a sigh of relief, took out her cell phone from the drawer and turned on the screen.

Mu【Su Shi wants to see you. 】

Lost Star Chapter 101 Summer Time Record: Chapter A little bit of consciousness, but not much

"Zheli!"

Nagasaki Suyo waved to the man under the shade of the tree.

Baodeng Zheli looked up in the direction of the sound. Besides Su Shi, there was also Ruoye Mu, hanging about a step behind her, until Su Shi started running and then he was pulled away.

Su Shi quickly came under the shade of the tree, raised her face and smiled at him.

Zhe Li saw a drop of sweat sliding down her cheek, so he took out his handkerchief and wiped it for her.

"Hmm." The girl's expression froze for a moment.

During this brief moment of daze, Ruo Yemu followed and also walked into the shade of the trees. She gently moved her inorganic eyes, lingering for a second on Su Shi's stiff profile and Zhe Li's calm face.

Zhe Li looked around again and put away his handkerchief only when he was sure there were no remaining beads of sweat.

Noticing Mu's gaze, he smiled and said, "How was it? Did you meet Toyokawa-san smoothly?"

Mu shook his head. Su Shi finally came to his senses. He just glanced at the handkerchief Zhe Li put back into his pocket, then looked into Zhe Li's eyes and said, "It's a failure. I didn't expect Xiao Xiang didn't even want to see Xiao Mu. What else did she say -"

“‘Don’t be someone else’s mouthpiece.’”

Wakaba Mutsu continued Nagasaki Suyo's speech in his usual calm voice.

Su Shi blinked and looked at Mu. She felt that there was something like a complaint in Mu's words.

But after a closer look at the girl's softly drooping eyes, she felt that the words didn't seem to carry any particular emotion. When Mu Ye's gaze caught her eye, she couldn't guess what the girl was thinking, so she just smiled.

Zhe Li shook his head, "It's not too difficult to guess the result."

When he heard in the morning that Su Shi wanted to meet with Toyokawa Shoko and even asked Wakaba Mutsu to mediate, he had already told Su Shi that there would probably be no good results.

On the rainy day before leaving CRYCHIC, Toyokawa Shoko huddled in the bus shelter, her appearance almost like a young animal silently licking its wounds in its lair. Wounded, she preferred to curl up in the rain, using the frosted ice spikes to dispel the companions who once supported her, and to walk forward alone...

For such a person, a casual "let's talk it over" is definitely useless.

Su Shi actually understood this matter.

'But I don't want to do nothing.'

Recalling the determination in Su Shi's eyes at that time, Zhe Li couldn't help but look at her again.

"Hmm?" Su Shi tilted his head.

"It's okay." Zhe Li grinned, slightly dispelling the dull atmosphere. He coughed a few times, spread his hands and said, "Since Ruoye's approach doesn't work, do you have any other plans?"

Su Shi and He Mu looked at each other.

Su Shi looked distressed.

Mu looked into the distance as if feeling guilty.

“…….” “…….”

It's a bit funny, you two.

But they couldn't be blamed. As the saying goes, even a judge can hardly judge family disputes, let alone two junior high school students who weren't even officials. If Toyokawa Shoko refused to say anything, and they were just friends and childhood playmates, they wouldn't know where to start to help her.

"In that case, don't think too much."

Baodeng Zheli gently patted Nagasaki Suyo's shoulder.

"The concert is coming up soon, right? Let's stop wasting our energy on this and focus on getting back in shape... hm?"

Su Shi suddenly reached out and gently grabbed his hand which was about to be withdrawn.

The girl paused in silence for a moment, then quietly raised her eyes to gaze into the man's equally azure eyes and spoke softly—

"Has Zheli come up with any solution?"

Zhe Li opened his mouth in silence for a long time before he burst into laughter.

"...It's not really a solution. But, you can give it a try."

Feeling the warmth of the girl beside him in his palm, his smile became more helpless:

"Besides, I haven't said anything yet. How come you act like you can read my mind?"

"Hehe. Yes, I can read minds. Don't try to hide anything from me in the future." Su Shi laughed quite proudly.

Of course, she couldn't read minds. But the look in Zheli's eyes at that moment was exactly the same as when he'd said he'd bring Xiangzi an umbrella. Sushi had memorized every smile and expression of his, and could more or less guess what this man was thinking or what he was about to do.

The girl lowered her eyes slightly and tightened her grip on the man's hand.

"But, Zheli, you don't have to take our affairs too seriously."

It was obvious that at first she just wanted him to see that she could "stand on her own".

But, out of a childish desire to not let him treat me like a child, I joined a band I had no interest in out of spite. Now, not only do I really enjoy playing childish house games like a child, but I also have to make him clean up their messes time and time again. So, what on earth am I capable of?

...No. Compared to those——

"Why are you looking so sad?" Zhe Li was confused when he saw Su Shi's expression which seemed to be depressed again.

Just like Su Shi could read his mind, Zhe Li could also read Su Shi's thoughts most of the time. But this time, she had a guilty look on her face just a moment ago, so why did she suddenly look sullen?

"because."

The girl pursed her lips, then raised her head and said loudly:

"I don't want you getting too close to other girls."

"……what?"

Zhe Li was stunned for a long time, and could only let out a cry of surprise. Xiao Mu also tilted his head after hearing this.

Su Shi wrinkled his nose and snorted:

"Xiao Xiang must be in some huge trouble right now, to not even pay attention to Xiao Mu like this, right? Imagine a girl is at her most helpless, and then, wow, a young and handsome boy suddenly jumps out and solves her dilemma in two or three snaps. And then, hey, this girl's heart is so cute—wooo."

A young and handsome boy lowered his eyes and tapped her lightly with his hand.

"I thought he had some brilliant ideas, but it turns out he's just been watching too many TV series lately."

Su Shi pouted and rubbed her forehead, which didn't hurt at all, "I didn't say that casually..."

Isn’t there a living example right before your eyes?

"Even if that's true." Seeing her rubbing for a long time, Zhe Li curled his lips and simply reached out to rub her. "That doesn't constitute a reason for me to stand by and watch."

I don't do what I can do. I don't even try to find a solution.

Bao Dengzheli would not allow himself to become that kind of person.

and.

"Seeing you so busy and exhausted every day because of this matter, I feel bad too."

Su Shi looked at Zhe Li's face and blinked. "...Huh?"

"Convince Shiina-san to stop, give Toyokawa-san some time to calm down, and let Deng return to practice."

Zhe Li shook his head and counted for a while, and finally turned his gaze to Ruoye Mu who was quietly watching their conversation.

"And reconciling with Wakaba-san? I saw it all."

When Toyokawa Shoko left CRYCHIC, the back door was left open. Even if Zheli was just an ordinary person, he could have heard their quarrel at the door clearly, not to mention that he had the blood star's super hearing.

"..."

Mu paused, then looked away as if something had happened.

At this time, Su Shi was biting her lower lip, her cheeks were slightly red, and she looked a little embarrassed.

"I know you've tried very hard." If he had seen the girl lose her composure like this in the past, Zhe Li would have probably teased her a few times, but now he just held the girl's hand tightly, looked seriously into her slightly blurry eyes, and said in a deep voice: "I'm not good at it, and I don't intend to persuade you to let go of Fengchuan classmate's matter, but I don't want to see you keep worrying about it."

"It's not for anyone else, I just want to help you."

"Su Shi, may I be allowed to help?"

"..."

Yes, I can’t handle it anymore!

The girl turned her head away and said hurriedly, "Whatever you want. ... And don't look at me like that."

——Oh, really!

How can I respond when someone looks at me like that and says something like that?!

……

Wakaba Mu slowly looked up at the sky.

So can I go home now?

Chapter 102 of Lost Star, Summer Time Record: Chapter What is this operation?

Just like every day before, Shoko Toyokawa put on her uniform, took her school bag, and took a bus to Tsuki no Mori.

Perhaps she should be thankful that, for the sake of traffic safety, Tsuki no Mori Girls' Academy restricts parents from picking up their children by private car. Therefore, no matter how prominent the families of the students are, once they enroll in Tsuki no Mori, they must commute by train.

This way, she wouldn't have to worry about how to conceal her drastically changed family circumstances on her way to school...

She walked along, greeting the faces along the way, familiar and unfamiliar, until she finally calmed down a bit when she returned to her seat. She sometimes thought that even if Fengchuan hadn't issued that order and her father hadn't been "stripped of his surname," she would probably one day start to hate this kind of life.

It’s not that I hate these classmates or this school.

However, from the moment she was sent to this school as "Toyokawa Shoko", the trajectory she could leave on campus was determined: at home, at school, and wherever she did what, she was invisibly restricted; in this world where the end could be seen at a glance, even though she could still look forward to the future of visual painting at first, over time, she gradually found it boring.

...Or rather, I'm afraid of that future.

The closer it got to the present, the more profoundly she felt about what her mother had said at that time.

【Do you want to be sold as a 'commodity'? 】

"Xiaoxiang, please come to our house from now on."

How are you going to compete with other kids?

"Brother, he is no longer from Toyokawa."

Recalling the moment when I pushed open the door of the old apartment.

Rather than feeling pity or anger towards her father's current situation, Toyokawa Shoko...

When she looked at her father's miserable appearance, the real emotion in her heart was actually "fear".

Even the excellent mother who taught her to be a qualified young lady could not stay in this world until the end.