The lady can hear my voice

Shiina Riki: "She treats you so badly, do you still want to go back tonight?"

Maomao nodded.

"Okay, I'll take you back then."

Seeing that the two of them were about to leave, Sora Niijima quickly handed each of them a portion of prepared dumplings.

"You can cook it when you get back. Be careful on the road, Lenai-chan, Lixi."

Shiina Riki glanced at him and nodded slightly.

After Riki and Maomao left, it was Touma and Aine's turn.

However, this time, Aine took the initiative to propose before Sora Niijima could even open his mouth.

"Sora, could you give Tomorin and I a ride for a bit?"

Sora Niijima was stunned for a moment, then quickly smiled and said, "Of course."

-

Not long after they walked down the apartment, Chihaya Aine spoke to Takamatsu Deng again.

"Tomorin, I have something I want to talk to Sora alone. Can you please go to the front for a moment?"

Takamatsu Deng blinked, looked at Chihaya Aine's determined eyes, and quickly nodded in agreement.

Sora Niijima didn't expect Chihaya Aine to say that, and became a little nervous for a moment.

“Aine?”

Chihaya Aine looked at Niijima Sora and reached out to touch his face.

"Sora, relax. I'm not a monster. I won't scare you."

Sora Niijima smiled and said, "If you were a monster, then you would be the most beautiful and lovely one I have ever seen."

Chihaya Aine blushed slightly: "You are also starting to become smooth-talking."

"I just want to tell you that you don't have to be so tense. Just relax a little and let us handle the live thing."

"I've been working hard lately, and you can tell that my level is getting better and better."

Sora Niijima: “I heard it.”

Chihaya Aine continued to caress the side of his face, her eyes becoming extremely gentle: "I will try my best at this music festival, so you really don't have to worry."

"Well, thank you, Aine."

Chihaya Aine pursed her lips, took her hand back, and then asked softly: "Can I hug you for a while?"

"Don't get me wrong, it's just a hug between friends."

Sora Niijima: “…Okay.”

After getting the consent, Chihaya Aine walked forward and gently hugged Niijima Sora.

At the same time, he said to him: "I know you have made a lot of efforts and you are already very good."

"I won't cause you any trouble."

“Aine…”

Just as Niijima Sora was about to hug back, Chihaya Aine left his chest with a gust of fragrant breeze.

Chihaya Aine said playfully, "When friends hug each other, I have to hug you, and you can't hug me."

"Otherwise it would be against the rules."

Sora Niijima was helpless: "So there are such rules?"

Chihaya Aine chuckled and said, "I invented it."

"Okay, Sora, just take me here. I'll go back with Deng later."

“The dumplings here…”

Chihaya Aine took the bag and said, "I'll take it back and share it with my family."

Sora Niijima nodded: "I hope your parents will like it."

Chihaya Aine smiled and waved at him, "Come back to you for more if you don't have enough."

"Okay, just tell me and I'll make it, and you're always welcome to pick it up."

Looking at Sora's back as he went upstairs, Chihaya Aine's eyebrows slowly drooped.

Then, she walked towards Takamatsu Deng who was standing in front of her, not even daring to look back.

-

We arrived at the overpass, which was only a few steps away from Takamatsu Deng's home.

Chihaya Aine did not let Takamatsu Tomo leave, but said, "Tomorin."

Gao Songdeng turned his head and looked at her with some confusion.

"Just now, I'm sorry that I didn't let you say goodbye to Sora. Instead, I had him all to myself for a while."

Gao Songdeng shook his head quickly: "Aine-chan..."

Chihaya Aine slowly approached her and said with a smile: "Today... I heard what Grandma Lena said, and I suddenly understood a lot of things."

"As for me...I was definitely tricked into coming here by Sora."

Gao Songdeng: “Huh?”

Chihaya Aine: "After he tricked me into joining the band, I accidentally fell in love with him."

"My loss is so heavy."

Takamatsu Deng: "Aine-chan..."

Chihaya Aine continued, "I'm sorry, Tomorin, I threatened you with quitting the band before."

"It will never be like this again."

"Even if this music festival live ends, even if my confession fails, I will not quit the band."

Gao Songdeng was stunned: "Why?"

She didn't understand why Chihaya Aine suddenly said this.

There were no signs of this.

Chihaya Aine was still smiling, but as she smiled, two lines of hot tears rolled down her cheeks.

"Because...I think I like him too much."

Takamatsu Deng: "Aine...chan..."

Deng wanted to reach out to stop her from crying, but... his hand froze in mid-air when it was halfway extended.

"Tomorin, do you know how much I like him?"

"Because I could see that if the band failed and disbanded, he might break down and cry."

"I just can't bear it when I imagine such a scene."

"I... should like him more than any of you."

Takamatsu Deng looked at Chihaya Aine's long pink hair fluttering in the wind under the neon lights and moonlight, and tears fell one by one. His heart was completely shocked.

“Aine-chan…”

Gao Songdeng finally couldn't help it and went up to hug her with tears in his eyes.

“Aine-chan…”

Chihaya Aine also hugged Takamatsu Touma and asked while sobbing.

"Why? Why do you like the same person as me?"

"Why do so many people like him?"

“Why is he so good?”

"Why... am I so stupid..."

"Why...I want to know him..."

Takamatsu Deng: "Ai... Yin-chan..."

Chihaya Aine felt Takamatsu Touma's embrace becoming increasingly tighter, but the excitement in her heart never stopped.

"I am really in pain... The thought that he might become a boyfriend and girlfriend with Soyo-san... I just can't accept it at all."

"But what I can't accept even more is seeing him, who was forcing himself to smile, completely collapse and even become a completely different person."

"Can you understand me? Tomorin..."

Gao Songdeng hugged her tightly and did not answer.

At this moment, only the two of them, the evening breeze, and the moon could hear their voices.

This is the secret of the two girls.

141 Fear of Losing

"Lixi, is today the day for you to go to the hospital for a follow-up checkup?"

"Do you want mom to go with you?"

Lixi's mother knocked on Lixi's door and asked.

"No need! If you go with me, you will have to ask for leave from the company, right?"

Shiina Riki opened the door and said, "No need, I can go by myself."

"Well...then ask Niijima-kun to accompany you?"

Shiina Riki blushed: "...I already called out."

Lixi's mother's expression suddenly became ambiguous: "Oh~"

Shiina Riki gritted his teeth in shame and anger, but couldn't say anything to refute.

-

Wearing a beige shirt and brown skirt, Shiina Riki stood under the shade of a tree, waiting quietly.

When she doesn't speak, everyone would think she is a quiet and elegant beautiful girl.

Especially the teardrop mole at the corner of the eye makes this temperament particularly prominent.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Hachiman Kailing, wearing a black leather jacket with red lining, came over carrying a bass bag.

"Sorry for the wait, Li Xi-san."

Shiina Riki didn't complain about others being slow as usual, he just nodded.

She lied to her mother. The person she had agreed to accompany her to the hospital today was not Sora Niijima, but Kailing Yawata.

After all... Sora Niijima has been very busy recently, and Tachibana Shiina can still notice that.

And... after what happened yesterday, she always felt ashamed to face Sora Niijima.

It was clearly their own band, but they couldn’t stand up at the most critical moment.

Instead, he could only watch Lenai get scolded.

That show.

The one who should be scolded the most should be yourself.

When Shiina Riki thought that he might make a mistake at the most important music festival, he felt extremely anxious and uncomfortable.

"Mr. Lixi."

Shiina Riki: “Hmm?”

Hachiman Hailing looked at her calmly, "Are you okay?"

Shiina Riki: "...It's okay, thank you for coming to accompany me today, Hailing."

Hachiman Kailing: "You took over my rare day off."