In the music series, the male protagonist writes a self-help manual for the inner world

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"Don't go...don't go."

Chihaya Aine's tone was almost pleading, and her expression showed the same attitude.

...It's not good. Chen Xinghua saw that Chihaya Aine's body was just like Goto Ichiri's whose dark history was discovered. She kept shaking, as if she was afraid of something particularly bad.

"I'll explain to you right away why I ran away just now."

Chihaya Aine held Chen Xinghua's wrist tightly, refusing to let go for a moment.

"So... could you please not leave for now?"

As if she was afraid that Chen Xinghua would abandon her again like that nameless band, Chihaya Aine added another sentence.

Chen Xinghua lowered himself slightly, narrowing the height difference between himself and Chihaya Aine, allowing her to meet his gaze instead of having to crane her neck to look into his eyes.

“Aine.”

He called out softly.

"Ah."

Chihaya Aine answered him immediately, as if a conditioned reflex had been triggered.

"I'm here."

Chen Xinghua deliberately held Chihaya Aine's hand tightly, giving her what she needed most right now - a sense of security.

“…Take a deep breath, take a deep breath.”

With Chen Xinghua's comfort, the pink-haired guitarist, who almost thought he was about to be abandoned again, took a deep breath and tried hard to suppress the emotions surging in his heart.

"Do you remember the day we met?"

Chihaya Aine's gray eyes stared straight at Chen Xinghua, refusing to stray even a little bit.

"I remember it very clearly...that day, you collapsed to the ground due to heatstroke."

The corners of Chen Xinghua's mouth revealed a helpless expression.

"I called an ambulance to take you to the hospital."

But is what's happening now related to this matter? Chen Xinghua pursed his increasingly dry lips and moistened them.

"Actually, it's a bit ridiculous... I seemed to dream that Toyokawa Shoko had returned to 'CRYCHIC'."

While changing the subject, Chihaya Aine took out her cell phone from her pocket, moved the fingerprint on her thumb onto the screen, and prepared to turn it on.

"The body that had been dead for a long time has come back to life... or rather, it had never been dead."

"The Lamp's Unknown Band has disbanded once again."

"look……"

Using the hand speed she had developed from frequently watching videos online, Chihaya Aine hurriedly called up the homepage of 'CRYCHIC' which had not been updated for a long time.

The object that occupies the largest space on this main page is a group photo of five people: Shoko Toyokawa, Soyo Nagasaki, Mutsu Wakaba, Touma Takamatsu, and Tatsuki Shiina.

"Toyokawa-san seems to be the leader and keyboardist of 'CRYCHIC'."

Chihaya Aion was like a college student who realized at eight in the morning that her cell phone was out of battery and only had eight bars left. She desperately begged for a life-saving straw to power up her phone from the people around her.

Can you tell Xinghua why you are so stressed out about Xiangzi? Chihaya Aine stared at the first and last group photo that CRYCHIC had taken.

Just as she had seen before, there was no place for Chihaya Aine, Kaname Rakuna... and Chen Xinghua in this group photo.

"I dreamed that our band... Deng's band had their first live performance at RING."

Chihaya Aine changed her words when talking about the band's name.

“That live was perfect…”

Chihaya Aion earnestly recounted the scenes from her "Chihaya Aion" memories, "Although I was out of tune when I first played 'Bi Tian Ban Zou', which forced everyone to stop several times to adjust to my rhythm."

Chen Xinghua nodded. Based on the guitar playing skills that Chihaya Aion had demonstrated before, he felt that it was entirely possible for Chihaya Aion to do something as embarrassing as she had just mentioned during a live performance.

"After solving my problem, the light stopped singing again..."

Chihaya Aine sighed and said, "It's really hard to start a band."

"But at the last moment, Deng was like the protagonist in a hot-blooded comic book. At the crucial moment, he sang out his heart's voice loudly."

Chihaya Aine continued looking at the group photo of 'CRYCHIC', there was no room for anyone else in it.

In the past, "Chihaya Aion" thought that she could form a band again with Nagasaki Motoyo, Takamatsu Touma, Shiina Tatsuki and Kaname Rakuna on the ruins of "CRYCHIC".

But after seeing 'CRYCHIC' resurrected from the corpse of that unknown band, Chihaya Aion gave up the idea, and Chihaya Aion was on the verge of giving up.

"Everything is as beautiful as in the girl band comics..."

"We rehearsed intensively, and then when it came time to perform, I got nervous because it was my first time, and I couldn't fully utilize the results of my practice."

"The finale was the old-fashioned happy ending, and everyone was able to perform on stage what they had practiced in the studio."

Chihaya Aine tells the clichés of band girls' comics.

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Chapter 242 Will he believe what she said?

Although these routines are unremarkable, if you think about it, these routines only look unremarkable, but they are actually very good to experience.

But unfortunately, the life of "Chihaya Aine" is not an ordinary band girl comic.

"Everyone finally performed two songs in full... 'Walking with the Blue Sky' and 'Shadows of Spring'."

So would he believe what she said?

Chihaya Aine herself felt that this was a bit nonsense, and then she raised the corners of her mouth, revealing her two cute and slightly sharp fangs.

It’s highly unlikely... After all, no matter what, it’s ridiculous to say that a plot that only happens in light novels will happen in reality.

Maybe others will think that this person may have mental problems. Should he go to the hospital to make an appointment with a psychologist and have his mental state diagnosed?

"Then what……"

Chen Xinghua thought that Chihaya Aine’s dream might not be that simple.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have exhibited such stressful behavior as soon as she saw Xiangzi.

But as for "Haruhi no Shadow"... Chen Xinghua was thinking about the band's repertoire that Chihaya Aine had just mentioned, and suddenly a sense of foreboding emerged in his heart.

He remembered that Nagasaki Suyo seemed to have been emphasizing to everyone not to play "Kasuga Shadow", not to play "Kasuga Shadow".

Unfortunately, for a long time, Tatsuki Shiina ignored what she said.

If it was in a dream, it would be reasonable for Tatsuki Shiina to ask everyone to play "Kasuga Shadow" in Live.

"Then Suyo was yelling backstage about why we had to play 'Haruhi no Kage,' and then Riki said we never said we couldn't play 'Haruhi no Kage.'"

Chihaya Aine recalled the first step of the collapse of the nameless band, then the second step, and the third step.

"In the end, Su Shi couldn't win against Li Xi and ran away from us crying."

And Rakuna? Chihaya Aine looked at the scene in "Chihaya Aine's" memory and suddenly realized that Rakuna was like a cat that accidentally poked a bottle on the ground and hurriedly fled the scene before its owner noticed.

“That’s quite reasonable.”

Chen Xinghua nodded, feeling that the actions of Nagasaki Motoyo and Shiina Tatsuki in Chihaya Aine's dream were more in line with their respective personalities.

"In my dream... Deng's band disbanded completely after that live performance."

Chihaya Aine spoke slowly, her tone no longer melancholy, only a bit of indifference and a hint of helplessness.

"Did you skip a lot of things?"

Chen Xinghua asked with some confusion. He always felt that a lot of things must have happened between the end of the first performance and the end of the band.

But the next moment he realized that dreams were always nonsensical. If several of the plots could be logically connected, it would be a very rare situation.

...If what Aine said was just a dream.

Chen Xinghua had a vague feeling of unease in his heart. What Aiyin said seemed to be more than just a nightmare that could be seen everywhere.

The new sweat on Chihaya Aine's forehead continued to run downwards under the command of gravity, forming several tracks on her cheeks, as if matching the emotions of its previous owner.

"After the live ended, Su Shi would never come to Deng's band again. Because in her dream, she thought she had no intention of forming a new band at all."

Chihaya Aine deliberately emphasized the word "dream".

"Everything she did for Deng's band was just to revive 'CRYCHIC' on this band."

When Chihaya Aine said this, Chen Xinghua's pupils shrank suddenly, because he thought of the sincerity that Nagasaki Motoyo had said to him before.

Previously, Nagasaki Motoyo's idea of reviving 'CRYCHIC' had always remained at the level of thought... or perhaps she had made some subtle and unnoticeable movements for this purpose, but in any case, there should not have been any major moves.

At least the way Chen Xinghua found out Su Shi's true thoughts was by suppressing her emotions and inducing her to speak out.

Instead of inferring Nagasaki Suyo's psychology through various strange behaviors.

And now Nagasaki Suyo should have given up this idea...but the question is how Aine knew Nagasaki Suyo's previous thoughts.

Could it be that she can read minds?

"Did she do it?"

As if he had noticed something, Chen Xinghua asked in a low voice.

Chihaya Aine did not answer Chen Xinghua's words, she just lowered her gray eyes.

"And in your dream...Did the band of lights break up?"

Chen Xinghua stared into Chihaya Aine's gray pupils and saw the indifference mixed in them.

...Is it indifferent?

Chen Xinghua blinked his eyes to make sure he was not seeing things.

"almost."

Seeing Chen Xinghua's reaction that he was going to continue listening, Chihaya Aine breathed a sigh of relief, "Then Deng, knowing Su Shi's thoughts, chose Su Shi."

"I chose to rebuild 'CRYCHIC' with her, Riki, Xiangzi and Wakaba Mu."

"Eh?"

Chen Xinghua couldn't help but wonder why a guy like Toyokawa Shoko, whose self-esteem was so high, would choose to put aside his dignity and rebuild "CRYCHIC" together with the former members of "CRYCHIC".

Take the lamp for example. In his mind, the lamp should be the kind of greedy person who wants everything... At least it should not be the kind of person who abandons others for Xiangzi.

After all, if Deng was this kind of guy, how could she hug herself in front of Xiangzi? This doesn't fit Deng's character at all.

Chen Xinghua still remembers the tenderness he felt when Deng hugged him, as well as Deng's extraordinary strength that was no less than that of an adult man.

"Is it hard to believe?"

Chihaya Aine said that she didn't expect Chen Xinghua to believe what she said.

At this moment, a dark cloud floated over the sky at the right time, blocking the strong sunlight from the man and woman below.

"no……"

Chen Xinghua wiped his forehead with his free hand.

"You just wanted to ask a question... You didn't seem to dream about me?"

He did not hear his own role in Chihaya Aine's story.

So it was just a dream without logic? And not something more terrifying?

Chen Xinghua wanted to let out a long sigh.

"No."

Chihaya Aine responded immediately.

"Because that dream happened before I met you."