Who says meal replacements can’t be eaten as meals?

"At least we should each have a bed. After all, I like to fight for the quilt at night. It's okay to sleep with my sister, but sleeping with a friend might affect each other." Miss Sakuya stuck out her tongue and tapped the button lightly, showing the standard suites with little difference at a constant speed.

A balcony where you can enjoy the moon, dark yellow decorative lights, an interestingly decorated LCD TV, and two bass guitars placed side by side next to the sofa, it looks like the most common hotel suite.

"Is it okay if it affects me?" Su Shi was slightly annoyed, so she hit Chihaya Aine, who she couldn't push away, but she didn't continue to worry about the safety of her stupid sister, and she was somewhat relieved. "Don't play too late, in, um... don't."

The call was interrupted for a few seconds. Miss Sakuya was still confused, but Hachiman Kailing beside her had already put her arm around the girl's shoulders and gently hugged her and sat down together.

"Stop it." Ms. Sakuya turned away from her phone and said sternly to Hachiman Kailing who was standing beside her shoulder. "If my sister misunderstands me, I will have to explain myself for a long time."

"I don't think so." Miss Hailing looked at Sakuya without caring, and quietly sighed that the two of them were indeed twins who could exchange identities. Even the words they said subconsciously when they were frightened were exactly the same. "Besides, Sakuya said she liked me, but rejected me at the same time. Isn't that a bit too much for me?"

"I..." Miss Sakuya, knowing she was in the wrong, moved her lips but couldn't say anything to refute. She knew that what she and Hailing were doing was unhealthy and unsustainable, but she couldn't think of a better solution.

"Sakuya, are you still there?" Nagasaki Motoyo was still on the phone, but perhaps because of the bad signal, the call was now switched to an audio call, and there was a bit of shyness in her tone that was not usually heard.

"I'm here." Sakuya gradually came back to his senses from Hailing's embrace and replied blankly.

"There's a band rehearsal tomorrow, so there's no need to come if you're too tired." Nagasaki Motoyo recovered quickly, and even though she had to use one hand to cover Aine's mouth, she still managed to move the topic forward smoothly, not letting her sister get suspicious because of her exclamation just now.

"I still have to go, because I made an appointment with Riki... to compose music together." Ms. Sakuya said stumblingly, and gently elbowed Hailing's soft belly before continuing. "Don't worry, sister, I will get a good rest tonight."

"Well... let's leave it at that for now. See you tomorrow." Nagasaki Suyo paused briefly, then finished her words quickly, somewhat anxiously.

"See you tomorrow." Ichinose Sakuya also breathed a sigh of relief. She pressed the red hang-up button and finally freed her hands to push away Hailing's warm palm that had been placed on her lower abdomen at some point.

The light of the cell phone in the small shark case flickered on and off, and the distance between them did the same, moving slightly apart before coming close together again.

Miss Sakuya tried to struggle but failed, so she moved her body to make herself lie more steadily, puffed up her cheeks, and glared hard.

"Even if I'm pretty, I'd still be shy if Sakuya looked at me like that." Hachiman Kairin lowered her head and smoothed the girl's long hair in her arms, then leaned closer and said.

"We agreed not to move, you lied." This time, Sakuya was not shaken by shyness and entered the puffy puffer mode.

"It's my fault." Hailing admitted decisively that she was indeed a little excited when she heard Sakuya mention Lixi, but wasn't the little country girl a little too sensitive?

“Then just apologize sincerely instead of hugging me like you are doing now.” Sakuya grabbed the quilt and buried her half-red cheeks in it to cool off.

"Sakuya." Hachiman Kairin called the girl's name softly before continuing calmly, "You know, it's hard to resist the desire to get closer to you."

"......" Sakuya opened her mouth, revealing half of her face, and blew bubbles silently. After a long while, she apologized quietly. "......I'm sorry."

"Why apologize?" Hai Ling smiled and reached out to pinch the girl's soft, flushed cheek.

"Because I was willful." Miss Sakuya, who was pinched, explained vaguely.

"There's nothing wrong with being willful, right?"

"But it's not fair to Hai Ling."

"It's your personality." Hai Ling chuckled, lifted the hair beside her ear, and asked with her head down. "So, Miss Ichinose, can you make it up to me for being injured tonight?"

Chapter 263: Do you want to watch the stars together?

Hachiman Kailin always speaks jokingly in a serious tone.

At least that's what Ichinose Sakuya thought.

"Can you make it up to me tonight?" Miss Hailing's remarks were quite problematic, or rather, she said so on purpose.

"...Spend the night together?" Ms. Sakuya looked conflicted. She turned her head towards the door and asked with a raised eyebrow.

"If you're willing, Sakuya, I don't mind." Hailing replied with a chuckle, raising her hand to hook the girl's pretty little nose.

"Then what are we going to do? Let's make it clear in advance that nothing awkward is allowed." Ms. Sakuya made an X with her hands, blushed, and said righteously.

"I just want you to stay with me for a while." Hachiman Kailing said softly in her usual calm tone. Even if she had prepared herself mentally in advance, she would still feel a little frustrated when she was rejected by the other party.

"...before ten o'clock." After a moment's silence, Sakuya turned on the power of his phone, looked at the numbers jumping on the top, and said so.

Before Hailing-san could respond, or rather, before she could open her mouth, evenly spaced knocks and polite inquiries from Miss Idol came from the direction of the door. "Sakuya, are you and Hailing-san in there?"

Hai Ling was speechless, but she looked at the person in her arms with a look that was a mixture of helplessness and doting.

"Ten... before ten o'clock, I will accompany Hai Ling and Xiao Chuhua." Sakuya squinted his eyes, rolled away from the other's arms, and leaned towards the door and shouted. "I'm coming."

Miss Sakuya ran to open the door as if fleeing from her fate, while Hachiman Kairin, wondering if she could not satisfy the little village girl on her own, began to doubt her own charm.

Next time, why not try to invite the cute drummer with a bad temper as well?

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Perhaps because of the expected sudden joining of Triangle Chuhua, Miss Hailing, after pondering for a while, finally proposed a way of companionship suitable for the three of them.

That is, each of them occupied a corner of the bed and played poker.

There was no physical contact or eye contact, and the atmosphere was as harmonious as a junior high school spring outing, not even at the level of a school dormitory. But Sakuya-san, who had just escaped from Hailing's arms, was restless for a long time, and was the last one in a row, which was embarrassing.

The two high school students who took the top two spots are naturally the short-haired duo with a very strong contrast in hair color.

"It seems that my luck is pretty good today?" Hachiman Kailing played the last pair of cards calmly and won the championship again.

"Hailing must have sucked away my luck." Miss Sakuya said in a low voice with resentment as she reluctantly put away the pair of cards with the same value.

"Sakuya-chan's luck is really not very good today." Mikado Hatsuka noticed and tilted his head, and whispered to comfort her. He looked at the girl's hand, which was about half of the cards left, and then he drew two cards from the four three-of-three cards with all suits and played them without leaving a trace. "One against three."

"Okay, my bad." Hachiman Hailing shrugged helplessly, got up from the bed, and walked straight out the door. "I'm going to the vending machine. What do you two like?"

"As long as it's not an eel-flavored energy drink." Chu Hua responded with a chuckle.

"I might not be able to sleep if I drink matcha now, so Hailing will decide." Sakuya confidently played a pair and focused on the game. "...I can take this one."

"Then please continue. I don't have a bigger card than this." Chu Hua smiled brightly at the country girl who looked up at him and blinked his gentle purple eyes that were shining with light.

Ms. Sakuya was stunned for a moment, then suddenly revealed a triumphant smile. It turned out that she was just unlucky before. She refused to admit that her card playing skills were too poor. "Eight."

"I'm sorry." Sankaku Hatsuka blinked, chuckled, and pressed down her cards, intending to let Miss Sakuya, who was very concerned about winning or losing, win just once. "But it's really a new feeling to be able to play cards with friends in a hotel like this."

"Eh? Isn't this a must-do item during the school trip?" Miss Sakuya asked without thinking. With Mikado Hatsuka deliberately letting her win, she happily played all her cards and finally won the second place with honor. "Or does Hatsuka's school not have this custom?"

"To be honest, I'm not sure." Miss Chuhua explained while gathering the scattered playing cards on the bed. "My impression of school trips is that most of them are about visiting scenic spots near home, and when school is over, we go home in different places, and we can catch the evening variety shows."

"A day trip?" Miss Sakuya felt a little sorry for the golden retriever who had no childhood memories. She took the shuffled playing cards from him but didn't deal them. Instead, she put them away and lazily lay down on the familiar bed. "What does Xiao Chuhua usually do on school trips?"

"The Science and Technology Museum, the Aquarium, and internal tours of township enterprises. If you go, you can get a box of sweet and sour fruit drinks from the factory for free. Anyway, they are all in the county or nearby areas, which is not a bad thing. At least I can write less in the feedback diary later." Miss Chuhua lowered her eyes and glanced at the lazy country girl. She felt a little regretful. If the other person traveling together could be replaced, it would be perfect.

"Which one does Chuhua like best?" Miss Sakuya perked up, turned her head using all four limbs, and lay down next to little Chuhua and asked.

"As for me, I prefer to lie on the grass and look at the stars after we're done, right?" Miss Hatsuka lowered her head and smiled, tentatively reaching out to touch the girl's head. After confirming that she didn't mind, she used her fingers to smooth out her messy hair. "Sakuya should know that I've done a lot of research on the stars."

"I don't know anything about stars, even though I joined the astronomy club in high school." Miss Sakuya looked up a little embarrassedly, glancing sideways at the idol who had lost her halo but was still gentle, like a little seal lying on the ice and peeking its head out.

Kyoto's Uji is certainly not as prosperous as the brightly lit Tokyo, and crossing a zebra crossing doesn't feel like a race, but the sweet matcha ice cream and the densely packed shrines and ancient monuments will also make time pass by leisurely. When the stars come up and you say goodbye to your companions, and walk along the cobblestone road to the doorstep of your home where the lights have just been turned on, you will truly feel that another day has passed.

"If you want to know more, I can recommend some books about constellations, or..." Sanjiao Chuhua suddenly paused for a moment, and then lowered his head and asked Sakuya in a rather shy tone.

"The moonlight is beautiful, Sakuya, do you want to watch the stars with me?"

Chapter 264 I Wish I Was Like a Star and You Were Like the Moon

The moon was already hanging in the sky, and two people were leaning on the balcony of the hotel, looking up at the sky. The gentle sea breeze was blowing quietly, and dark clouds were floating on the horizon. The rustling sound of waves hitting the beach could be heard faintly, which was another kind of long-lasting silence. However, the two girls were still together under the lights and moonlight, talking about the stars that few people cared about.

"Little Chuhua, don't you feel cold? It always feels so silly to come out in the middle of the night to enjoy the breeze and look at the stars." Ichinose Sakuya rubbed his arms with his hands, shrank his body and hid behind Chuhua, and said sincerely.

"No." Sankaku Hatsuka chuckled, lowered her finger that was pointing at the stars, and quickly took off her sportswear-style jacket, adding another layer of clothing to the cold-fearing country girl. "Sakuya won't mind the tacky style, right?"

"Hmm...oh, but won't Xiao Chuhua be cold like this?" Reaching her hand through the sleeve, Miss Sakuya only extended half of her palm, bent her fingers to hook the cuff, and put it to her nose to sniff.

"I'm fine..." Sanjiao Chuhua blushed slightly, looking at the girl he liked wearing his clothes a little helplessly, and even boldly sniffed the smell in front of his nose. "...What's that smell?"

"It all smells like shampoo, and maybe a little bit of the sun?" Ms. Sakuya commented without realizing it, continuing to retract her hands and looking up to see what Chuhua had just said.

"The clothes were taken out of the dryer." Miss Chuhua said that the sportswear jackets were hung out to dry during the day, and they would still be stained with night moisture when they got home at night. Miss Idol, who had no time, had long ago only used the dryer to deal with them. "Where can it smell like the sun?"

"That's the smell of Xiao Chuhua." Miss Sakuya answered quickly, and then realized belatedly what she had said. She successfully put herself into a shy state and avoided looking.

"Then do you like it, Sakuya?...My smell." Sankaku Hatsuka laughed out loud, took a half step forward, gently hugged the silly little country girl, and asked in a low voice just loud enough for her to hear.

The smell that I had not paid much attention to before came with the evening breeze and starlight. The citrus-scented shampoo, sea salt-scented shower gel, and the idol's own warm sun-like scent crowded together and rushed into my nostrils.

"It's...it's okay." Miss Sakuya subconsciously wanted to run back, but was hugged around the waist. She had to give an ambiguous answer and turned her head away to keep a little distance from the big golden retriever.

"What does Sakuya smell like?" Miss Chuhua did not comment on the evaluation, but instead became curious about the girl's smell. So she naturally lowered her head and put the tip of her nose just below the girl's neck, which she had exposed, two or three inches away from her collarbone.

"What are you doing all of a sudden..." The breath slid down her skin to her chest, and Miss Sakuya blushed completely, regretting why she had let down her guard against Xiao Chuhua. Although the big golden retriever was very well-behaved today, he was also eager to have a relationship beyond good friends.

"It feels like petals." Ms. Hatsuka looked thoughtful and analyzed carefully. When she saw the light pink spreading all the way to her neck, she suddenly got the answer. "Sakuya-chan smells like cherry blossoms."

"It's the scent of the shower gel, don't talk as if I really have a smell!" Miss Sakuya firmly does not believe in the existence of such a thing as natural body odor. She just thinks that she has been marinated with the smell of the shower gel.

"Sakuya clearly said that I taste good." Chuhua muttered and retorted sinisterly.

"......" The village girl who was framed by herself was speechless. She pressed the other person's shoulder, turned around, raised her hand and pointed at the bright stars in the sky and asked. "That, is it the Ursa Major that Xiao Chuhua mentioned before?"

"That's Cygnus." Miss Chuhua smiled as she let go of her hand and gave a lesson to the ghost member who hadn't been to the astronomy department for a long time. "One horizontal and one vertical, it looks like a cross, so it's very easy to recognize. By the way, the brightest star in Cygnus is Deneb."

"Is it the one next to Vega?" Ichinose Sakuya was deeply impressed and asked stupidly while touching his lips.

"Well, like Altair, they are both part of the Summer Triangle. But in fact, there is still a long distance between them." Triangle Chuhua also touched his lips, recalling his bold behavior last time.

There was no conversation for a moment, and the two just stood in the moonlight, listening to the sound of the tide.

The night is very quiet, with lights facing the sky.

The palms touched each other quietly, and then separated at the same time.

There is wind on my shoulders, and above the wind is the twinkling summer triangle. The distant stars are talking to each other.

"Chuhua, as expected... well, it's still a little cold, right?" Miss Sakuya stood on tiptoe and felt a little relieved after confirming that little Chuhua was not wearing lipstick.

"A little bit." Sanjiao Chuhua nodded honestly, but she didn't want to go back to her room to rest so early.

"Then wait for me." Sakuya said with a sigh of relief as if he had found an excuse, turned around and walked towards the closet.

"You don't have to get clothes here." Miss Chuhua pulled the bolt and couldn't help but smile. "You can't change clothes on the balcony, can you?"

"No need to change." Ms. Sakuya stood on tiptoe, fumbled for a while, and successfully grabbed the spare thin sheet. She wrapped it around her body skillfully, swayed from side to side like a penguin, and ran back to Chuhua, demonstrating. "Wrap yourself with a blanket like this and you won't feel cold. This is what I do when I'm too lazy to change into pajamas at home in the winter."

"Thank you." It was the first time that Sankaku Hatsuka had seen someone teach him such a lazy trick. He thanked her softly and followed Sakuya's example to wrap himself up like a penguin. "It's indeed a lot warmer."

"Pfft, Xiao Chuhua, you look so silly right now." Miss Sakuya suddenly laughed out loud, completely forgetting that she looked the same way just now.

"Because the quilt is still too long for one person, right?" Chu Hua didn't get annoyed. He blinked his eyes smartly, untied half of the quilt, and propped up his arms towards the silly little village girl. "But for two people, it's just right."

"Eh?"

"Sakuya said before that it was a bit cold."

"But...wait, don't hug me so suddenly, it's itchy~"

The moonlight was like water and wine, clear and hazy. The two of them wrapped themselves aimlessly in the quilt, raised their hands and pointed at the unchanging sky, holding up their shadows that had merged into one.

Love is like the sunlight shining on the flower petals, the little octopus finding the conch shell and then having its mouth submerged by the sea water, or the tide hitting the beach on a cool night, the rustling sound is soothing and lulling people to sleep.

May I be like a star, like a moon, night and night.

Chapter 265 No Feeling

Monday morning.

There was a light rain in the grey sky.

Ichinose Sakuya, who had taken a day off and didn't have to rush to school in the rain, was sitting leisurely on a bench at the station, swinging her legs, waiting for the train home.

In his hand was the orange-flavored panda milk jelly that Hachiman Kailing had offered him last night. There was still a large portion of snacks left in the shoulder bag that he was wearing backwards on his chest. It could be used as a snack or as breakfast.

"Did Xiao Chuhua not sleep well last night?" Miss Sakuya took out her favorite nougat biscuits and handed them to the yawning idol lady naturally.

She went to bed very early last night and her sleep quality was better than ever. More importantly, when she got up in the morning, the quilt was still completely covering her body. It didn't become a tangled ball, nor did it wrap her up like a catworm. It was so incredible that her first reaction after getting up was to wonder if she hadn't woken up yet.

"A little bit. I didn't sleep well." Sanjiao Chuhua concealed his tiredness, took the feeding with a smile, and said half-truthfully.

After all, a certain naive country girl did not avoid me when she was chatting with her girlfriend last night. She even pulled me over to say hello before getting into bed and whispering. There was a bedside table between the two beds, so I couldn't hear clearly, but the laughter of Xiaoxiang and Sakuya's chatting could definitely reach my ears, making me feel itchy.

Her guilt towards Xiaoxiang and her love for Sakuya were mixed and entangled together. She really wanted to take this opportunity to take a step further with Sakuya, but she also felt that she would be sorry for Xiaoxiang. She tossed and turned until midnight, and got up to help the country girl, who had an ungentlemanly sleeping posture, tidy up her nightgown and covered her with the quilt again before forcing herself to close her eyes and take a light sleep for two or three hours.

"Haha, little Chuhua looks like an elementary school student on his first spring outing, so cute." Ms. Sakuya laughed openly and rummaged through her schoolbag, took out a cheese beef stick and handed it to the black-haired bassist on the other side.

"It's human nature. It's unavoidable." Hachiman Kailing cast an understanding look at Sankaku Hatsuka through Sakuya. The little country girl who agreed to accompany him last night, but ended up taking a drink, giving a perfunctory hug and quickly running away, always teasing others inadvertently, and then hopping away like a rabbit.

"You two are so childish." Miss Sakuya, who thought she was already a whole junior high school level ahead of the other two, sighed confidently. She took a sip of the same panda milk jelly as the three of them before lowering her head to send a message to her sister that she would be home soon, even though her sister would probably have gone to school by then.

"In fact, Sakuya is the one who has no right to say that." Hailing raised her eyebrows and complained in a flat voice.