The lady can hear my voice

"No problem at all."

……

While eating the meal prepared by Deng's mother, Xiangzi looked at Deng sitting next to him and Deng's parents sitting opposite him.

"Xiao Xiang, are you the girl who formed a band with Deng at the beginning?"

"Eh?"

Xiangzi looked at the light in surprise.

"Yes, yes...but...the band disbanded due to my personal reasons."

"It's okay, we just wanted to thank you."

"Thank me? W-why?"

Toyokawa Shoko was very confused.

"Well, although... your original band disbanded, and my child's father and I never went to see their performances properly, but... because of you, the initial opportunity, Deng met the current band..."

"And the boy named Sora Niijima..."

"Well, thank you very much anyway."

"The lamp can become what it is now, really... all thanks to you."

Toyokawa Shoko was stunned.

Deng's mother looked at Gao Songdeng's cute appearance and smiled, "In the past, Deng never told us what happened at school, nor did she tell us what she was thinking. But now... she can speak her mind and express clearly what she wants to do. She has really... improved and grown a lot."

"The child's father and I are very relieved and grateful."

"Yes, Xiaoxiang, your name and Niijima Sora's name are the ones that Deng mentions most often."

When Toyokawa Shoko heard this, she put down her chopsticks completely and looked at Deng Bao who was smiling at her.

Just hugged him directly.

"lamp……"

"Saki-chan..."

After dinner, Deng's parents insisted on keeping Xiangzi.

So Xiangzi had to spend the night with the lamp.

However, Xiangzi was a little hesitant and didn't know whether he should send a message to Chuhua.

She always felt that... Chuhua... might have really started to hate her.

"Saki-chan?"

"Lights? Why, what's wrong?"

"Aren't you going to send a message?" Deng Bao, wearing penguin pajamas, looked at her blankly.

The current Dengbao may look stupid, but he actually has very sharp observation skills.

It’s better to say that her cute appearance is her best natural disguise.

Toyokawa Shoko: “…I don’t know whether I should send it or not.”

"Send it. No matter what, there's nothing wrong with contacting your friends."

"It's better than saying nothing, isn't it?"

Toyokawa Shoko: “…You are right.”

Driven by the light, Toyokawa Shoko sent a message to Chuhua and apologized.

It was at this moment that Toyokawa Shoko suddenly felt that it was not that difficult to explain these things clearly.

Deng and Xiangzi sat on a blanket on the ground, with the hot milk their mother had just brought them in their hands.

A glass of hot milk before bed can calm your nerves and help you sleep.

"Saki-chan, I'm sorry."

"Eh? What happened so suddenly?"

"I treated you badly during the cultural festival and said some harsh words. I'm sorry."

Toyokawa Shoko probably knew what she was talking about, from watching Aine's stage play...

"Deng, I was also at fault that time. I was a little too self-righteous. I'm sorry."

After apologizing to each other, the way they looked at each other obviously changed.

Toyokawa Shoko pursed her lips, turned her head to look around, and found a large number of notebooks with insects as covers.

There was one book she recognized.

It was the notebook in which Xiangzi improvised the song "Lantern Essays" when they first met.

"I miss you so much... You still kept the lamp..."

Deng sat next to Xiangzi and they looked at the notebook together.

Deng: "I will never throw away my old memories, because they are all invaluable treasures to me."

“…Yeah, I think so too.”

Shoko Toyokawa continued flipping through the pages and came to the song that she had improvised at the beginning.

"I've obviously made friends like everyone else."

“I’m with everyone, but I feel like I’m alone.”

"I just want to live like everyone else."

"I really want to be a human."

"Becoming a human being... Deng, you have now realized your original idea." Toyokawa Shoko closed her notebook, savoring the beauty and bitterness of these memories.

"But...Saki-chan, it seems like she didn't become a human."

"I?"

Deng nodded: "Saki-chan, what are you worried about? Or... is there anything else that worries you about accepting Sora? Can you tell me?"

Toyokawa Shoko pursed her lips.

She turned her head and looked at the lamp, and said seriously: "Then I also want to know how you and Kong met in the beginning, is that okay?"

"it is good."

-

"So that's how it is... So, Sora's original goal was to make me and Soyo-san reconcile with you, Ritsuki..." Combining what Toyokawa said with what she said, it felt like she was getting to know Sora Niijima all over again.

Deng Bao nodded: "Sora at that time... was very simple and pure, but he was too kind, so he would rather pile all the pressure on himself and not tell anyone, so as not to make us worry."

Toyokawa Shoko: "No..."

"But... from what you said, Saki-chan... Sora's injury in the hospital... might have been partly due to us."

The lights are so impressive.

Sora Niijima's self-loathing after their Live failed, and the tears he shed...

"And your call, Saki-chan...just gave him some time to catch his breath."

Toyokawa Shoko: "...but I..."

Deng: "I'm sorry, Saki-chan, I wrongly blamed you for this matter before..."

"Don't say that, Deng. I... do have a lot of questions, too."

"Then, we are accomplices, Saki-chan."

"An accomplice who harmed Sora."

Toyokawa Shoko was stunned.

"So, Saki-chan, we need to make it up to Sora instead of continuing to hurt him."

"Compensation...but now I am..."

Deng shook his head: "Saki-chan, how could Sora hate you?"

"He loves you, loves you so much that he doesn't know what to do anymore, so he lets you go and lets you make your own choice."

"love me……"

"Kong treats each of us the same. He respects everyone and likes everyone from the bottom of his heart, so he helps everyone and gives to everyone."

"Saki-chan, don't get the order wrong. If you don't like it, how can you pay for it?"

Toyokawa Shoko: “…”

"Then how should I make it up to you? Should I just confess... or..."

Deng Bao looked at Toyokawa Shoko's conflicted expression.

She thought about Soyo's current state where he was happy to see everyone.

"Sak 彫i-chan, talk to him."

"That should solve the problem."

Toyokawa Shoko: "Eh? Beep... You mean beep? Eh? But our bet..."

Deng Bao: "That was just a lie, Saki-chan. I can't control Sora's life."

"Sora's first time is gone."

"Eh?"

"Soyo-chan took it."

Fengchuan Xiangzi listened to Deng Bao's calm tone and suddenly recalled the scene she saw that day...

Soyo's mouth is pale... and... he seems to be chewing for some strange reason...

Soyo actually...

Actually...

Toyokawa Shoko felt so sad. How could it happen so quickly, and... why was it her?

"Light...then, aren't you heartbroken?"

"Heartache?"

Deng Bao was a little confused.

"That was my first experience with the person I liked..."

Deng Bao: "I don't have such obsession."

"Compared to the first time, I care more about every moment we spend together in the future."

"Besides, Soyo-chan should be almost unable to hold on."

"Eh?"

"During practice today, she couldn't stand up the entire time and had to sit down. She also didn't have much strength to play the bass."

Toyokawa Shoko blushed.

"Is this so..."

She began to think seriously about Deng's ridiculous statement.

Beep...

Is it true that just beeping can solve everything?

For tomorrow's trip to Okinawa.

Xiangzi had an inexplicable expectation.

With the help of the lamp, a lot of the original depression was cleared away.

I once helped the lamp in this way, but now... it is the lamp that helps me.

Feeling this subtle sense of reincarnation, Shoko Toyokawa felt that life was truly wonderful.