"Hmm, I also want Riki to call me by my name... Can you call me Anon?"

Chihaya Aine looked pitiful and quietly moved closer to Shiina Tatsuki.

"Huh? This is impossible! Don't suddenly appear next to me like a ghost!"

Hearing Aine's plaintive whispers, Shiina Tatsuki's face instantly turned bright red.

"Stingy Riki, you still relied on me."

With a pout, Chihaya Aine turned away in dissatisfaction.

"Ugh, why is this guy always like this..."

Shiina Tatsuki was suffering from a severe headache and didn't know how to cope, but Aine did help her.

Without Ai-yin pulling Deng to ring, she and Deng would never have been able to sit down and have an open and honest conversation. Although the conversation ended without reaching a conclusion, at least she was still able to continue her journey with Deng.

And today too, if it weren't for Ai Yin's guidance, she probably would have kept thinking and still couldn't figure out why Nina was angry.

Although seeing that face made me inexplicably angry, I still had to thank him when the time came.

"Then, let's do it this time."

Shiina Tatsuki's cheeks continued to flush red, and her voice gradually became barely audible.

"Love, love, I'm so, so grateful..."

"I didn't hear you clearly, Riki—"

"You guy!"

Shiina Tatsuki is going crazy.

Sure enough, she still disliked this woman!

Book 1: Confusion Together - Chapter 29: Teacher Da Xiang is still pursuing me!

Following Nina, the three of them finally arrived at the door of a somewhat dilapidated rented house.

"Does Kawaragi-senpai live here?"

Looking at the dim lights inside, Shiina Ritsuki had a question in her mind.

If someone lives in a place like this, their economic situation is probably not very good.

"It's probably because of the matter of leaving the team..."

Shiina Riki pondered silently. Through online information, she already knew that Kawara Momoka had actually left Diamond Dust.

"He left the team, just like Shoko..."

Shiina Tatsuki recalled unpleasant memories.

In some ways, DD and Crychic are similar, both experiencing the departure of core members of the group. However, DD chose to change the lead singer, while Crychic disbanded completely.

"If we could find out why the seniors left the team, wouldn't that allow us to deduce part of Xiangzi's motives?"

She firmly believed that no one does something without a reason; every cause has an effect.

"But we'll see... I feel like if I say it again, something bad might happen."

Shiina Tatsuki didn't want any more problems to arise.

"Tomorin told me that Nina and you guys are here to talk about something, right? There are so many of us, is it okay if we go in?"

Chihaya Aine stood in front of the entrance door and asked with concern.

"Yes, yes, we won't disturb Nina-chan's conversation."

Takamatsu quickly responded.

"Mmk shouldn't mind, right? I can just ask her. Oh, she's here, and so is Subaru."

Jing Qinrencai turned around and saw two people coming out of the inner room: a young woman with gray hair and a high school girl with long, straight black hair.

"Nina, what's going on? Are these your friends?"

Kawara Momoka looked suspicious.

Based on her understanding of Nina, she knew she would never make friends willingly, so these people must have come to interrogate her.

Thinking of this, Momoka Kawahara gave An and Subaru a wary look.

"Of course, they are all my friends."

Seemingly sensing MMK's attitude, Izana took a step forward and raised her chest.

"My new friend!"

"Yeah, is that so?"

Kawara Momoka smiled faintly and then went into the living room in the inner room first.

"In that case, come in first. I was worried that we wouldn't be able to finish all those meat buns, but now that your friend is here, we can share them."

"Excuse me, senior!"

Chihaya Aine greeted him politely.

"So this is the Subaru that Tomorin has been longing for..."

With her bright silver eyes fixed on An and Subaru's retreating figure, Chihaya Aine murmured.

Although she hadn't actually spent any time with Subaru yet, she could sense from her demeanor that this energetic girl exuded a particularly sunny aura in every gesture.

Opposites attract, likes repel – suddenly, Chihaya Aine realized that this statement was true.

"Greetings, senior. This is a small token of our appreciation."

Seeing that the fruit and snacks he had brought would finally come in handy, Shiina Tatsuki immediately opened the plastic bag in his hand, revealing peaches and apples inside.

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

Kawara Momoka quickly waved her hand. Although she didn't know what Takamatsu Akari and the others were here for, it was obvious that they had come prepared.

“mmk-san, we just wanted to come with Nina, that’s all.”

Gao Songdeng's eyes held a hint of shyness, and she leaned forward slightly, looking docile.

"mmk-san..."

Kawahara Momoka wondered to herself, she remembered that this was the first time she had met this child, so why did this child named Takamatsu Akari seem so friendly to her?

"Could she be one of my former fans? Another Nina?"

Since they were guests, she thought for a moment and decided to chat with Gao Songdeng and the others for a while.

Although Takamatsu and the others claimed to be Nina's friends, well...

Izakura, a child who has come to Tokyo in a turbulent and uncertain way, must not be deceived by those with ulterior motives.

mmk thought to himself.

The city is full of tricks, and even a kid from Kumamoto can't figure them out!

"Actually, I mainly wanted to meet you, senior. Please don't feel awkward about this sudden visit."

"And tomori, I also want to apologize."

With a serious expression, Shiina Ritsuki moved from the sofa to the left of Kawara Momoka, closer to her.

At first, she didn't understand the relationship between Nina and MMK, and presumptuously thought that visiting Nina meant visiting MMK as well.

However, this is not the case. Nina and MMK all have their own lives and only contact each other when necessary.

So, as she sees it now, they really did come to visit her unexpectedly.

"Calling me 'senior' is too formal. You can just call me mmk-san, like Takamatsu Akari does."

Momoka Kawahara shook her head, her expression complicated.

She's only twenty years old, okay? She's barely three years older than these people...

"Yes, thank you, mmk-san."

Shiina Ritsuki breathed a deep sigh of relief; thankfully, Kawara-senpai seemed quite easy to get along with.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Shiina Tatsuki, and I'm a first-year high school student. This is Takamatsu Akari, and that is..."

"Chihaya Aine."

Her gaze swept over Tomori's little head and landed on Chihaya Aine's head, pausing at the end of her sentence.

“I used to have a band, but it eventually disbanded because of the departure of some members.”

Hesitantly, Shiina Ritsuki looked up at mmk with concern, wanting to see mmk's reaction, but she saw nothing.

He only had a blank expression.

"So, what's next?"

Kawara Momoka ate the meat bun in her hand while picking up her phone, still looking calm.

"Yes, the person who left was named Toyokawa Shoko, the one who brought us together."

"She had unparalleled talent and was our backbone, but she chose to leave the band without saying a word, and our band eventually fell apart."

"I really want to know why she left the team..."

When talking about Xiangzi, Shiina Tatsuki's feelings are complicated.

On the one hand, Xiangzi's strength fascinated her, but on the other hand, it also put her under great pressure.

During this break before starting school, she spent most of her time honing her composition skills, but even so, she couldn't compare to Xiangzi during her Crychic era.

Aside from composing, Xiangzi is far more capable than her in other aspects. She can easily become the backbone of Crychic and also become the object of Tomori's worries.

She can't do any of these things.

Deep in his mind, Shiina Tatsuki had a fleeting fantasy: that Shoko hadn't left.

This way, Crychic will maintain a consistent daily routine and won't disband.

But that's impossible now; Crychic is over.

At this moment, she only wanted to know the reason why Xiangzi left the team...

“I really hope that none of the people at Crychic owe you anything, Xiangzi.”

Xiangzi, as a shadow of the past, should also completely dissipate, disappearing from Deng's heart, disappearing from Soyo's heart, and including herself.

That's how they can start over.

Book 1, Together in Confusion: Chapter 30 seems a bit too heavy.

"The team's backbone, he's leaving the team..."

"Haha, this does sound somewhat familiar."

With a look of reminiscence, Kawara Momoka took a bite of the meat bun in her hand.

"..."

"..."

"..."

Band, leaving the band, backbone – these are not positive words for MMK right now, and the scene fell silent.

"Why are you all making this so serious? Why are you all looking at me? Weren't we talking about Shiina-san?"

As she emerged from her memories of Hokkaido, Momoka Kawara realized that everyone was staring at her in silence.

Although it seems to be about Xiangzi and Crychic, there's a saying that goes something like this.

They didn't mention it in words, yet they kept bringing it up in conversation; everyone knew perfectly well what was going on.

"Alright, all of you, especially you two, Subaru and Nina, don't look at me like that."

Nina's particularly concerned gaze made her feel a little uneasy.

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