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

Just ignore it like this?

It's bad. Although this child is becoming more and more like me, it's becoming increasingly difficult to understand what he's thinking.

"arrive."

The car stopped downstairs of the company's new address, but just as Ayano put away her phone and prepared to get out of the car, Nanako interrupted her next move.

"Aine, go buy some drinks and bring them up there. They don't have a water dispenser up there yet."

"Oh well."

Aine, as if pardoned, quickly got out of the car from the other side and ran away, leaving Ayano sitting there with a bewildered look on her face, staring silently at her mother who seemed to want to say something in front of her.

"Ayano...why don't you tell mom about this? Otherwise, it will be hard for me to support this couple~"

"Old women are quite gossipy?"

Chapter 152: Two six-member bands, a total of 11 people, isn’t that normal? (2/2)

"You're so arrogant now, aren't you, little girl?"

"How could that be~" Ayano immediately turned into a good girl when she heard her mother say that, "I listen to you the most, mom. Who can be more obedient than me?"

"You should get back to normal... You look like this, and I feel like vomiting."

"No, Nanako, how could you talk to your daughter like that?"

"How can you talk to your mother like that?"

Nanako rolled her eyes helplessly, but she really didn't have that much respect for these traditional family relationships.

For her, family affection is the only bond connecting family members, not various etiquettes of seniority. She herself is a person who does not like these old-fashioned rules, although she has explained these etiquettes clearly when educating her children.

...But when facing your closest family members, you don't need to follow these external etiquette too strictly.

Compared to all these, Nanako felt that she was most curious about who Ayano was planning to be with.

To be honest, among the two girls now, she felt that Ayano and Aine would have the least resistance to being together, because as long as these two people didn't take the initiative to make it clear and stayed together as good friends, no one would find it weird.

After all, this is how these two have been living all along. Their relationship is good enough that they can live together naturally without being suspected by the public.

Of course, as long as Ayano doesn't do anything extreme like kissing Aine in public, it'll be fine.

Moreover, the two families are very familiar with each other. Aine's mother especially likes to joke that the two are like a couple. Although she knows it is a joke, it does represent part of her true thoughts.

"I'm such a worrier... I haven't gotten much sleep these past two days because of you, kid."

"…Sorry, Mom, shouldn't I have told you in advance?"

"No." Nanako looked at Ayano in the rearview mirror, a gentle smile on her lips, "I'm very happy that you can take the initiative to tell me about it."

The Mizushima family is like that. They don't like to put off important matters. If Ayano keeps hiding things like this, she can wait until she graduates from university and her family is anxious to introduce her to someone...

That would be a complicated situation.

Not only is it difficult for the child's father, but Nanako also won't be able to accept it so easily.

"Wait...are you planning on pursuing that kid from the Nagasaki family?!"

Nanako suddenly thought of a terrible possibility. Who said that her daughter's partner must be those two in the family?

The real target is probably not someone who is open to her to choose, but someone who is hidden underwater, someone she has never even met.

"……What?"

"You gave her mother a holiday, changed her job location, reduced her workload... Even I, your mother, became your tool to curry favor with her family.

Tsk tsk, you haven't even told that kid after all this. Such self-sacrifice, if I weren't your mother I'd kowtow to you."

"You have a very rich imagination."

Looking at her mother who started talking nonstop and paying no attention to others once she got into her own rhythm, Ayano shook her head helplessly.

She was too lazy to explain. Her mother would think she was lying no matter what she said.

Besides, Miss Nanako is still too conservative. She has never said that she only wants to spend the rest of her life with one person. Isn't it nice for everyone to have fun while playing music?

Just like Aiyin and Xiangzi, both of them are still too conservative. One hopes that she can go back to that unknown band, while the other hopes that she will stay.

So why not join in at the same time?

Two six-member bands together only have 11 people. Isn't that normal?

When the time comes, the two bands will compete on the stage, with her, Mizushima Ayano, and Solitudinis playing against each other. Just thinking about it makes me feel so jealous.

Ahem... I've gone off topic. Ayano felt like she was a little overwhelmed by Ms. Nanako. Otherwise, how could she come up with such a ridiculous scene? It was impossible for such a thing to happen.

dong dong~

The right car window was knocked by a pink-haired girl carrying a bag of water, interrupting the boring activities of the mother and daughter who were thinking about their own things and not interfering with each other.

In fact, Aiyin is really a little nervous now. Although the reason she said before that she was nervous was just something she made up, but when she thought about it carefully, it seemed to be somewhat reasonable.

——It was so reasonable that it actually made her a little confused.

Because today is Monday and it is not yet time to get off work, when the three of them took the elevator to the 42nd floor of the building, there were still several people in the office area busy with their work.

Some of them are colleagues who just happened to come here with Rina Nagasaki. Now they are mainly responsible for Sumimi's schedule arrangements and business cooperation. Of course, they will have a new job in the future, which will also be the most important job.

Ayano didn't know most of these people, but with her personality, she was too lazy to get to know them one by one.

As long as she knew Aunt Nagasaki, it didn't matter to her if she couldn't remember the names of other people. Besides, there was a useful person like Xiangzi. If she let him share more of these things, wouldn't she be able to relax a little, right?

Of course, there were even more people that Aiyin didn't know. Because she had never met them before, she didn't even realize that the woman in front of her who was walking towards them enthusiastically and proactively was Su Shi's mother who had just ignored her two days ago.

Although Aiyin is not an introvert, otherwise she would not have found a suitable small group to join on the first day of school and quickly integrated into the new class.

However, the professionalism of these people in front of her, and the series of professional terms they spoke that she did not understand at all, made Aiyin, who thought she had average skills, feel uneasy.

This made her subconsciously grab Ayano's arm, and then asked nervously:

"Um...Ayano, what exactly are we planning to do today?"

"Performance."

"Performance?" Aine was stunned. "What performance? With whom? Where?"

"The song is the one I wrote for you, 'Bi-Li-Li Emotion.' The performers will be the two of us, Xiangzi, and two other impromptu people. As for the location..."

"where?"

"On the street."

“…On the street?!”

Seeing Aine's somewhat withdrawn look, Ayano smiled and teased with a hint of sarcasm: "Why, you don't dare?"

“Who said that?” Aine retorted somewhat unconvincedly, “How could I not dare… I, I’m a professional. I persevered through the last live performance. This time, there are just more people, the audience is more likely to leave, and it’s easier to make mistakes…”

"Why are not you talking?"

Ayano looked at Aine, who was gradually losing her voice, and felt a little amused in her heart, "Don't worry, no one will recognize you with the wig and mask on. Besides, this performance has nothing to do with Mujica. I just want everyone in the city to hear this song that you and I wrote together."

"..."

Of course, the most important reason is not this. Ayano is just

I want Aine to gradually become more confident and quickly get rid of the confusion brought to her by her former teammates. Then, only if she believes in herself enough, can she believe in everything she wants to believe.

Mujica does not belong to Aine after all, and a lost child will always find his own way one day. Originally, the biggest obstacle for Aine to return to the nameless band, apart from the inner self she had to face, was her own Mizushima Ayano, but now this obstacle no longer exists.

——After all, the person has already been hooked up~

"Besides, Aine, if you can hold on, I can treat you to some candy when we get home~"

"No, there are so many people here."

Seeing Ayano say such things in public, Aine was so scared that she quickly turned around to look at the other people around her. However, when she found out that these people were just looking at them as little girls and that there was nothing "ambiguous" between them, she felt much more relaxed.

However, this also made Aine feel a kind of excitement similar to "having an affair". Even after calming down, she looked at Ayano's red lips with some anticipation, and then begged:

"Um, can I have some popping candy?"

“…Aine, you seem to be taking things a bit too far.”

Chapter 153 If Ye Mu knew the truth, he would silence himself (still 13)

Wakaba Mutsu lives in a good family environment.

Her father is a popular comedian and her mother is a well-known actress. Her good family conditions gave her a large house, but Ruo Yemu's biggest impression of her home was the various celebrities who came and went, whom she could not even name.

Since she was a child, she has received elite education from her parents, including ballet, piano... and the etiquette that a young lady must know. These are all necessities that accompany her growth.

But for Mu, what makes her happiest is to truly do what she wants to do and spend her life both inside and outside of school with the people she loves.

But during this period of time, she gradually felt confused.

In Tsukinomori Girls' Academy, the only friend she could talk to was Nagasaki Suyo, but ever since Suyo and Xiangzi met that time, the distance between them seemed to be widening.

She didn't know what to do. She only knew that the girl who used to accompany her to grow cucumbers hadn't come to see her for several days.

Wakaba Mu stepped carefully into the small vegetable garden belonging to the Horticulture Department in Moon Forest. She lowered her head, afraid of stepping on any new plants.

As the sun sets, the last rays of sunlight, which look back every step of the way, cast mottled shadows through the gaps between the leaves, shining on the ends of her hair that are slightly curled up due to lack of care, making her look particularly gentle.

In a corner of the garden, she spotted small cucumbers, nearly ripe. Cucumber vines coiled around thin bamboo trellises, their emerald green leaves broad and plump. The cucumber flowers had already withered, leaving only a few withered yellow petals dotted among the lush green leaves.

She squatted down, stretched out her slender fingers, and carefully pushed aside a few leaves, revealing the cucumbers hidden inside. Their skin was covered with tiny thorns, which felt a little prickly to the touch, but they looked extremely healthy.

"It's time to mature."

The girl lowered her eyes, sighed softly as if she had thought of something, then stood up and patted the dirt off her hands.

The watering work was completed quickly, but since there was no need to continue the ballet class today, Ruo Yemu didn't know what to do for a moment.

She didn't want to go home because she didn't like the atmosphere at home. Although her parents didn't come home every day, the long-standing habit made her somewhat resistant to it.

Su Shi seems to be a little off these days.

She just had this intuition, but just having an intuition couldn't change anything. Even when she realized it belatedly and wanted to take the initiative to say something to the other party, she couldn't find the right opportunity.

After putting down the kettle, Ruoye Mu picked up the schoolbag on the stone bench beside him, and then walked towards the school gate.

She took out her phone and checked the LIVEs that RiNG might hold in the future. She scanned the list of performers for the LIVE with a calm gaze, but it was obvious that the name she was looking forward to was not on it.

What happened to Su Shi’s band?

Or...as a member of that band, does Su Shi understand that Saki will never come back?

Seemingly walking aimlessly, yet also as if consciously heading in a certain direction, Ruo Yemu walked quietly on the road that was not heading towards home, until she was attracted by a group of people gathered on the side of the road and some familiar singing coming from her ears.

If she remembered correctly, this song should be one she heard on YouTube.

She was a little vague about the specific title of the song, but she had a good impression of the group that composed and performed it.

"Red Ginger" - a name she accidentally heard from Su Shi's friend when she was walking with Su Shi in school.

There are three songs in total on their homepage. For Wakaba Mu, her favorite is actually the first song called "Empty Box".

Although she didn't have much of a feeling for the arrangement style, the lyrics did give Mu a different feeling.

Of course, the fundamental reason why she has been following this account is not these, but the inexplicable sense of familiarity she felt from the singing of the person with the stage name "Vega" when she heard the second song "Spring Day".

This familiar feeling penetrated time and space, and was brought back to her just as Ruoye Mu's small body stood at the back of the crowd, his eyes fixed on the stage.

"saki..."

She will not admit her mistake.

Although the black-haired girl on the stage was wearing a mask that concealed most of her face, her height and body shape, as well as some natural habits when playing the piano, allowed Wakaba Mu to confirm her identity.

Mu opened her phone, logged into YouTube and found the specific name of the song being played at the moment. However, when she opened LINE and wanted to say something to Su Shi, she couldn't help but hesitate.

She really didn't know whether her behavior was right or wrong.

Saki once gave up music due to family reasons and lived a relatively difficult life. Ruo Yemu previously thought that she could understand Saki's pain, but the other party's heart and eyes wrapped in layers told her that no one can truly understand anyone.

Saki told me not to get close to her again. In Saki's words... not exposing her weakness is the greatest respect for her.

However, she didn't do it.

It was also because of this that when Ruo Yemu looked at Saki on the stage who was immersed in the music and seemed to have forgotten everything else for the time being, she suddenly felt a sense of guilt in her heart.

Or... just don't say it anymore?

Mu silently put down his phone and stood behind the crowd, watching the audience around him shaking their legs to the rhythm of the music, and watching everyone cheering for the people on the stage after the performance. In the end, he turned around silently and left in the other direction of the street.

"Xiaoxiang, what are you looking at?"