I am the emotional sustenance of your deceased

"..."

"Actually, I was the one that day."

Lixi didn't dare write it down, but she said it subconsciously.

Ah, Chitose can’t hear me anyway, so it’s better to say it out loud than to keep it in my heart.

Seeing that Li Xi was slow to write, Qiansui looked flustered. She started writing hurriedly, and her notes were a bit hasty.

[Um, did I say too much and upset you? I'm sorry, you're the first person willing to chat with me in all these years, and I can't help myself.]

【That’s not the case! 】

【I, Shiina Tatsuki, am super happy! 】

Ch196. Chitose Noshiro is definitely not a simple girl

【I, Shiina Riki, am super happy! 】

Qiansui was as beautiful as a Venus de Milo statue just sitting there. Lixi didn't dare to look at her directly, but just secretly glanced at her out of the corner of his eye.

She saw that Qiansui's little face was very red, and there was anxiety and embarrassment in her eyes.

This animal-like reaction touched Lixi's heart even more.

【Really? 】

[Really? I want to be friends with Noshiro-san, is that okay?] Riki asked.

【friend?】

There was a flash of surprise in Qiansui's eyes.

Yes, my friend.

[Can someone like me have friends? ]

Chitose pointed at herself uncertainly with her little finger.

Li Xi was very anxious, but there was no point in being anxious. She really hoped that the other party could hear her. After all, written communication was too long and complicated.

Where are your hearing aids?

[Of course, I really want to be friends with Noshiro-san! ]

"Eh!"

Riki clearly heard Chitose Noshiro's cute exclamation.

[Then, please call me Chitose, Shiina-san.]

"!!!"

[Just call me Lixi. I prefer my friends to call me Lixi rather than my last name.]

【Lixi...】

When Chitose wrote Li Xi's name, he suddenly paused, but soon shook his head apologetically.

【What's wrong, Chitose?】

[That is, I thought of something, but I don’t know if it’s okay to say it out loud.]

[Huh?]

It couldn't be that during the conversation, Chitose recalled that he was the culprit who caused her to become deaf.

This speculation made Li Xi straighten his back, like a prisoner about to be tried.

But Qiansui wrote down something that Lixi did not expect.

[Well… I actually wanted to say that Riki’s name is very similar to “shiitake” (香菇).]

"Ha, after all this time it turned out to be just such a trivial matter. I was scared to death."

In fact, Shiina Riki doesn't like eating shiitake mushrooms, konjac noodles, leeks and grated yam. This is because she was once teased by her classmates because her name is similar to these words.

However, Li Xi did not feel offended by what Chitose said. Seeing that Li Xi was not angry but helpless, Chitose began to stop holding back his smile.

She laughed so hard that her body was shaking, and she was very beautiful. Li Xi didn't know why Chitose found such a little thing so interesting... Could it be that there were no such interesting things in her daily life?

Li Xi supported his head and waited until Chitose finished laughing before deciding to write a small sentence to "retaliate" against Chitose.

[Year-old, your laugh sounds like a crow.]

After putting down his pen, Li Xi felt that he had gone too far, but Qian Sui held Li Xi's hand with a gleam in his eyes.

"Mmmmm... Uh..."

She wanted to speak, but failed, perhaps because she was too emotional. In the end, she could only express her feelings to Lixi through pen and paper.

[I like Crow very much. Thank you Lixi for praising me so much. You are the best person I have ever met!]

"Eh?"

Actually, I'm not as good as you think.

When Shiina Riki was about to write something, he saw the girl hurriedly packing her things.

Chitose Noshiro left the notebook and pen to Riki, and finally sent her a message on her cell phone, waved goodbye and ran away.

The other party disappeared so quickly and suddenly, leaving Li Xilixi feeling empty inside as if she had lost something.

If he sniffed carefully, Li Xi could still smell the fragrance left by Chitose Noshiro in the wind band club.

She looked at her phone screen:

Chitose: I have some things to do. It was nice chatting with you today! See you next time.

Staring blankly at the piano in front of him, Li Xi seemed to still be able to see the girl's flying fingers dancing, but everything disappeared like a dream.

Until the end, Shiina Riki still couldn't express the apology in his heart.

And she had already vaguely understood that if they ever crossed paths again in the future... well, they would definitely cross paths. As their interactions deepened, it would definitely become more difficult for Shiina Riki to explain.

But it was too late.

"What a girl who is as beautiful as a crow."

Just flew away freely.

……

It’s a pity that Li Xi is not such a free person.

Ever since she met Chitose Noshiro in the morning, she had been in a dazed state all day.

She wanted to send a message to Chitose, but was afraid that he would hurt his eyes by replying to her message.

Li Xi didn't know what was wrong with her, she wanted to see Qiansui right now.

I want to see him play the piano again, and see his long silver hair fluttering as the performance progresses.

At the same time, I also want to see the innocent look on the other person's face.

【She is so pretty. 】

Shiina Riki thought.

"What's wrong, Li Xi-san? Is there something on your mind?"

Haizuka-san at the next table turned his golden eyes to the side and stared straight at Shiina Riki.

This gave Lixi a creepy feeling.

"I'm fine, I'm just not feeling well."

But Haizuka-san didn't pay attention to Riki's words, and just continued to narrate on his own.

"So you're not feeling well? Get well soon. I thought Lixi-san had encountered something special just like me."

"Something special? Me? Forget it, my daily life is pretty ordinary."

Perhaps it was the acquaintance of Chitose that made Riki feel a little better. Normally, Shiina Riki would not chat so much with the classmates nearby.

After class, she usually puts on headphones to listen to music, immersing herself in her own world and not letting anything in the outside world bother her.

"No one can predict this kind of thing. I saw a girl in the bathroom today, about to cut her wrist with a razor blade. She had white hair and was pretty good-looking."

"Oh, that's the kind of thing that happens. It's quite normal for this kind of thing to happen in our country."

Li Xi waved his hands listlessly, but stood up straight the next moment.

"What did you say? What color was that girl's hair?"

"Stop pulling my hand, it hurts me."

Even as he pulled his wrist back in pain, Haizuka-san's eyes remained calm.

"I said, it's long silver-white hair, it's very rare."

"Hahaha... Yeah, that's really rare."

Li Xi shook his head, not wanting to think about these weird things anymore.

Although she had only known Chitose Noshiro for one day, she felt that Chitose was a very gentle girl.

Does self-harm really have anything to do with an angel like her? Stop teasing her.

Lixi took out the draft book of her communication with Chitose from the desk. She carefully savored the words on it, killing time in this way.

But when Lixi subconsciously flipped forward and found the first few pages that did not belong to her conversation with Qiansui, her pupils trembled subconsciously.

Ch197. On the draft book, distorted notes and crows

Notes, music scores, crows.

The page Lixi was looking at now was before the first page of their chat.

The themes that make up the contents of these two pieces of paper are musical notes on the staff. Some parts are drawn quite flatly, and it seems that they were drawn with the help of props such as a ruler.

But in some places, the sloppiness is obvious at a glance.

Lixi knew these musical notes. She tried to hum them softly but found that most of them could not form a complete song.

It's countless little fragments.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that some parts are covered by other things and Li Xi cannot read them, such as the graffiti about crows.

Crows, lots of crows, roam scattered across the page, all of varying sizes but all composed of countless messy lines.

Shiina Riki stopped moving and subconsciously turned the page back.

The back is a clean and tidy chat record, but the front is filled with twisted and dark notes and flocks of crows.

[Is this really Chitose Noshiro's notebook? This is also...]

She is completely different from the smiling and shy girl I saw today.

Lixi turned around again and wanted to ask Huizuka, a classmate at the next table, but found that he had walked out of the classroom just before her.

"Hey, don't go..."

The ineffective call only made Li Xi feel more anxious.

She glanced at the clock at the front of the classroom, hoping that school would end soon so that she would have time to contact Chitose again.

Shiina Riki no longer hesitated. She mustered up the courage to open the social software and finally clicked on the crow avatar of Chitose Noshiro.

Hmm... Chitose really likes crows.

I have to show off my best social skills and ask Chitose out after school! I have to go and apologize to her...

I will win! I will definitely apologize! This is inevitable!

Li Xi tapped violently on the screen, and finally pressed the send button in one go. The whole set of movements was as smooth as flowing water.

……

【Taki: Are you there?】

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