Teacher Daxiang, please teach me how to play Kasuga Shadow!

But after observing it this way, she finally realized that her mother Rina seemed to have misunderstood something.

"Mom, you don't think I'm sulking because I found out Ayano and the other two have a new band, do you?"

"Ah? Isn't it?"

Nagasaki Suyo smiled, and the smile seemed to have some complicated meaning.

It would be a lie to say that she didn't feel uncomfortable, but while she was feeling uncomfortable, she was also thinking about what her mother told her all the time.

Yes, since some things have been lost, just let them go.

This was the best outcome for Xiaoxiang. Ayano and Xiaomu were both trustworthy people, and with them around, Xiaoxiang would definitely not be lost.

She had worried before that Ayano might have just been angry and found some random band.

But now that she knew the truth, she understood one thing: she was the only one who would do irrational things out of anger.

"Mom, what kind of person do you think Ayano is?"

"I think?"

"Yeah." Sushi smiled and looked at her mother's surprised face and asked gently, "Mom, don't you know Ayano's mother? You must be taking special care of them because Ayano's mother can't return to take care of Ayano, right?"

"This one……"

Rina was a little confused. She had no idea how Su Shi came to such a conclusion.

But she thought about it and realized that this was not completely wrong. It was just that as they got to know each other better, she gradually changed her impression of Ayano from "Nanako's daughter" to "a good friend that her daughter cannot miss."

"Ayano is a really good kid. She's beautiful and kind-hearted. She's gentle and patient with everyone. I've never seen her lose her temper, nor have I heard of her and Xiaoxiang and the others losing their temper."

"...Yeah, so it was just a lie?"

"what?"

"Nothing..." She wanted to say "nothing" subconsciously, but then she thought that there was no need to hide it from her mother, so she changed her words and said, "When Ayano met me alone before, she lied to me that she and Aine had a fight, and then persuaded me to help her end Aine and her friends' band."

"quarrel?"

Nagasaki Rina was a little surprised. She replied incredulously, "I've never heard of them quarreling. Besides, Aiyin often comes to the company to help. Before Xiaomu came, she was the rhythm guitarist. It's just that... Xiao Aiyin has never been very focused.

Maybe Ayano also knew what Aine was thinking, so she and Xiaoxiang decided early on to get another guitarist to come over."

"That's no wonder."

Su Shi sighed, and she once again found herself amused by her previous stupidity.

How could she have thought Ayano was the type to lose her temper with Aine? The only time she'd been so sharp was when she argued with Aine and Riki, but even then... Ayano hadn't said a single curse word, and she was the first to apologize after the misunderstanding was resolved.

How could such a person not communicate with his friend over such a problem, but instead ignore the friendship of nearly ten years and quarrel with him?

Combined with the fact that Ayano asked her to bring her bass to the scene that day, and then told her to follow her heart and not do anything that would make her regret...

This is obviously Ayano's plan.

In order to prevent her from doing something she would regret under impulse, she was encouraged to go directly to the scene, leaving her with no way to escape.

Then he fully believed in Aine, believed that Aine and everyone else could pull her back. How could such a person... be the kind of person who would randomly find a band to go into a cold war with just because he was angry?

But the more this happened, the more uncomfortable Su Shi felt.

She didn't know what made her upset. She thought that with someone as steady and smart as Ayano around, Xiaoxiang and Xiaomu would definitely not have any major problems.

But she also felt sad because their band had lost Ayano forever.

regret.

And...if I hadn't deceived everyone, if I hadn't taken it upon myself to let Xiaomu bring Xiaoxiang to the show, and if I hadn't gone to Xiaoxiang's house to talk to him at night.

Would all of this not have happened later?

On the one hand, he feels guilty towards Ayano and longs for her to come back; on the other hand, he is looking forward to Xiaoxiang and is happy that she can regain hope with Ayano's help.

These two emotions made her completely unsure of how to make a decision.

"Su Shi, what's wrong with you?"

Rina Nagasaki felt something was wrong, because after she finished talking to her daughter, she found that her daughter's expression seemed to become more gloomy.

"Mom...I don't know what to do."

.....

at the same time.

Chihaya Aine sat in a daze at the dining table in the living room. She smacked her lips as she chewed the meatballs, but her eyes were fixed on the corner of the corridor in front of her, recalling the scene half an hour ago when Ayano and Xiaoxiang took a shower and went to practice the piano together in the room.

Something is wrong, nine out of ten times something is wrong.

Although there was no direct evidence, she always felt that there was something between Ayano and Xiaoxiang that was being hidden from her.

Logically speaking, since Ayano had played such a big prank on Xiaoxiang before, given Xiaoxiang's personality, he would have been in a cold war with Ayano for a while.

But nothing happened. Although Aine knew that it should not be impossible for Ayano to persuade Xiaoxiang in one night with her eloquence, but... it was still too strange.

And now Aine feels more and more that the time she and Ayano spend alone is not as much as that spent alone with Xiaoxiang.

Oh no, are these two doing something shameful behind my back?!

Thinking of this, Aine didn't care about the uneaten dishes on the table anymore, she just stood up and trotted towards Ayano's room.

Chapter 242 Aine: There are so many twists and turns today (1/2)

With a click, Aine pushed the door open.

Although she would usually knock twice before entering, tonight she pushed the door open without even thinking.

But when she opened the door and walked in, she found that...these two people didn't seem to be doing anything suspicious?

"Is something wrong? Aine."

At this moment, Ayano was wearing a gauze nightgown. Because she had taken a shower after dinner early, her hair had not been completely dried yet, and there were still a few drops of water on her forehead.

She held a violin in her left hand, which she placed on her left shoulder and clamped with her chin. The bow in her right hand was placed on her thigh wrapped in thin black stockings, which looked quite charming.

"Ah...I just wanted to see how you practice."

"Is that so?" Ayano smiled slightly, casually placed the violin on the bed beside her, and then pointed to the armchair beside her with her left hand, "Then why don't you sit down and listen together? After all, if you don't come in, Xiaoxiang will start to whine in pain."

"A whine of pain?!"

Aine, who didn't think anything of it at first, suddenly became excited. She looked at Xiaoxiang, who was full of surprise, and at Ayano, who had said something very serious but had no self-awareness at all.

"Yeah, because my playing is so bad, Xiaoxiang always scolds me for sawing wood."

"Oh...I see."

Aiyin breathed a sigh of relief. She felt that she was indeed a little overly sensitive.

But just as she was about to sit down in the ergonomic chair in front of the desk, she was surprised to see several blue hairs stuck to a comb on the dressing table.

Aine quickly picked up the comb, looked at Ayano nervously, and asked, "Ayano, why is there Xiaoxiang's hair on your comb?"

"Hmm?" Ayano narrowed her eyes. "Isn't this normal? She just took a shower and came to my room to comb her hair. There's no dressing table in her room."

"Ah... that seems to be true."

But before Aiyin could rest assured for long, she found Xiaoxiang's iconic hairband on the chair she was about to sit on.

This is nothing, but the key point is that Xiaoxiang has not taken off the hair tie on his head!

Aine, I feel like I've discovered something again!

"Ayano, this is..."

"Oh, that?" Ayano's eyebrows twitched slightly, and the next moment she immediately thought of an excuse, "Because I was thinking of changing my hairstyle for Red Ginger's new plan later, I asked Xiaoxiang for a few braiding ties to practice."

"Red Ginger's new plan?"

As expected, Aine was immediately attracted by the new information in Ayano's words. She no longer cared whether the hairband was really left behind as Ayano said. Instead, she blinked her eyes and asked curiously:

"What new plan? A new song? Or something else..."

"I'm going to steal her heart."

Ayano's sudden words to Xiangzi made Aine feel like a crisis was coming, and the grievance that had been suppressed in her heart was about to surge out again.

Is it true that Ayano has fallen in love with Xiaoxiang? Her behavior of reaching out to Xiaoxiang and shouting at him at this moment is almost like a confession of love.

But why didn't she notice it before?

"When did you guys...?"

Before Aine could finish her question, Ayano interrupted and said, "Didn't I tell you before? The Phantom Thieves of Hearts."

“…Huh?”

Aine was immediately thrown into a state of confusion.

"What do you mean? I don't quite understand."

"It's just a worldview setting that borrows from my Mujica's creativity." After Aine finished speaking, Xiangzi, who was somewhat speechless by Ayano, also explained, "The three of us are Phantom Thieves, but we don't steal treasures, but the twisted desires of human hearts.

And then there's the Phantom Thieves who wear masks, and the masks symbolize their personalities... What does taking off the mask mean... I forgot, but it's pretty chuunibyou anyway."

"What do you mean by borrowing?" Ayano rolled her eyes. "Xiaoxiang, you can't claim everything as yours. If you keep going like this, even I..."

At this point, Aine's pupils suddenly dilated, but fortunately, Ayano dispelled her suspicion with the next word.

"You're even going to take this property of mine away from you. After all, its construction method is inspired by the construction method of your previous residence."

"Pfft~"

"By the way, what is this Phantom Thieves group? Can I join them?"

Aiyin, who was sitting on the chair, looked at the undoubted conversation between the two people in front of her, and felt relieved. She began to put forward her own ideas for this very interesting new plan.

After all, she hasn't played music with Ayano for a long time. To be honest... she can't hold it back anymore.

"Of course. If you don't come, who will play the guitar? It can't be Xiaoxiang."

"Mizushima Ayano!"

Seeing Toyokawa Shoko suddenly blushing and shouting, Aiyin, who was sitting here observing all this, felt touched in her heart.

She originally thought that Xiaoxiang might exclude her because of her average level, but Ayano just made a joke and the other party argued so hard, determined to win back the position of guitarist in the group for her.

Originally, she would have felt a little uncomfortable because Xiaoxiang used mujica to snatch Ayano away, but now that she thinks about it... Xiaoxiang is actually a pretty good person.

"By the way, although I haven't learned the violin yet, I have already composed a new piece. Aiyin, please bring my tablet over and familiarize yourself with the guitar part first. Oh... and the bass part as well."

"What? Bess?"

“Otherwise, the main reason is that the bass part of the song “Take Over” is quite important, and I don’t want to leave it all to computer simulation.

And if you turn down the mid- and high-frequency parts of your guitar, it can barely pass as a bass."

"No...then why don't you just go find Su Shi or Hai Ling?"

"Isn't this creating an opportunity for you? A chance to prove your strength."

"......Okay." Aine was speechless, but she agreed. However, after she got Ayano's tablet after a long time, she entered the password several times but it showed an error every time.

Realizing that if she entered the wrong password again, her phone would be locked for 10 minutes, she looked up helplessly and asked, "Ayano, why did you change your tablet password? Wasn't it on my birthday before..."

"Um, it's 0214."

“0214?” Aine was a little confused, but she entered the password directly. “Strange… 0214 isn’t your birthday. Ayano, isn’t your birthday 0420?”

etc.......

Aine suddenly had a bad premonition, oh no, not "ominous", but a "good" premonition.

"Xiaoxiang, when is your birthday?"

"Ah..." Xiangzi was a little at a loss for words, but seeing Aine looking at her with the aura of a queen questioning her, she also replied weakly, "February 2th."

"what?!"

Before Aine could finish her sentence, Ayano yelled out, "I was wondering why I kept entering the password incorrectly, forcing me to use facial recognition every time. Turns out it was all your prank, Xiaoxiang!"

"Ah... I, I was wrong." Xiaoxiang was also quite cooperative. When he heard Ayano say this, he immediately lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

"Xiao Xiang, you disappoint me so much. Do you think what you said is fair to me that day?"

Aiyin put down the tablet, lowered her head and sighed, and her tone startled Xiangzi, who almost collapsed to the ground.

But Aine's next words were so shocking that the two people in front of her stopped thinking.