Zongman: Kulaixiku, resurrection!

Night falls.

Nagasaki Suyo sat alone in the empty villa, leaning against the soft sofa, the bass in her hand making a dull sound.

Loneliness is not always a bad thing. When you are alone, you can think more quickly and with greater wisdom.

I heard from Aine that the adult named Kashiwa Miki is actually planning to form a band and has even found a guitarist.

Xiangzi... Xiangzi, at least he doesn't resent me anymore. This is a good start anyway. Now we have to race against time before they actually form a team...

At least we have to place Mu in there. Well, I heard from Aine that Kashiwa Sanhui has been ill recently. Let's go visit Mr. Kashiwa tomorrow.

At this time, the phone rang.

I put down the bass and picked up the phone. It was Lixi calling.

"Sushi, the light is gone!"

……

"Huh? The light's gone?"

After receiving a call from Su Shi, Aine heard the news and spoke out in surprise.

After finishing their meal, Liang and Yili sat for a while and then left. They ate and took away the remaining soup.

Li Xiao didn't react much. He turned his head to take a look and then looked away, continuing to wash the dinner dishes.

She didn't know who the kid named Deng was.

Kashiwa Sanhui stopped grinding the coffee beans, and the coarse coffee powder scattered all over his body.

"...Okay, Soyo, take a good rest first. I'll try to find the light."

Putting down the phone, Aine was visibly panicked, tears welling up in her eyes.

"What should I do, Ke-chan, tomorin is missing!"

"Ah..." After a moment of feeling sorry for his clothes, he casually brushed off the coffee powder that had spilled on his white lining and sat down in front of Aine. "Don't be impatient. Tell me what happened first."

"Soyo just called and said that Rikki went to find Tomorin, and Tomorin's parents said that Tomorin..."

Chihaya Aine, the nickname king of grooves, it is hard to imagine that five katakana subjects can appear between two commas.

Aine, who was extremely anxious, spoke in a somewhat confusing manner, but with the help of her body language, Kashiwa Miki was still able to understand her.

"...So, Li Xi went to visit Deng, and Deng's parents said Deng said he was going to practice, so he left on crutches that afternoon. He hasn't come home yet, and RiNG can't find him. Is that right?"

"That's right, Ke-chan is still organized. What should we do now?"

"Oh..." There are nothing but troubles every day.

Looking at Aine who was feeling anxious and on pins and needles, Kashiwa Sanhui touched Aine's head and said softly, "Don't be anxious, Aine, don't be anxious. You must not be anxious when encountering problems."

"Think carefully, where would the light go at this time?"

He quietly turned his wrist and activated his [Poker Face] technique.

Aine suddenly felt a special feeling, as if... she was soaking in the sea, rising and falling with the waves.

"Calm down now?"

"Well... Thank you, Ke-chan, I feel much better." Aine wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and her breathing gradually stabilized.

Just calm down, I'm going to explode.

After turning off [Poker Face Expertise], Kashiwa Sanhui took out his mobile phone and opened the map.

"Where could the light possibly go at this time?"

"Hmm... since it's neither at home nor in RiNG, it could be at the aquarium. But aquariums are closed at night, and we don't know which aquarium the lights will go to."

"School is unlikely. The school gate is locked after school. Where else could the light go..."

Following Aine's words, Kashiwa Miki eliminated one place after another where Tou might go.

"Aine, time." Kashiwa Miki reminded. "Deng goes out in the afternoon."

In fact, Kashiwa Sanhui already had some guesses, but he just wanted to verify his guesses by getting to know Deng Aine better.

"Time? Ah—" Aine suddenly had an idea. "Observatory! The observatory is open at night. Is it possible that the lights went to the observatory by train?"

It seems that my guess was right. The girl named Deng said before that she was a member of the astronomy club.

"Let's get going without delay—oh, wait." Kashiwa Sanhui rushed into the bar next door, grabbed the violin bag on the stage, and rushed out the door holding Aine's hand.

"Beer Lady, please go out for a moment!"

"Climb back before two in the morning and I'll leave the door open for you."

Since they were going to look for the lost student, Li Xiao was quite reasonable and let Baihe Sanhui go without even looking at him. Now that things had come to this, he could do nothing about it.

"Hey, hey, Ke-chan, hands! Hands!"

Um, hands?

……

"Auriga...North Star...Ursa Major...Big Dipper..."

The lamp could not enter the observatory. After all, it was on the mountain, and the lamp with crutches naturally could not go up.

From home to RiNG, to school, to the foot of the mountain, then to the middle of the mountain, and then here.

For eight hours, because he had no money, Deng had neither food nor water. The short rest he took was just sitting by the flower bed on the roadside for a while, or even just leaning against the wall for a while.

The observatory was built on a small extinct volcano, with a vertical altitude of 600 meters from the foot of the mountain. The road up the mountain is winding. Thanks to the messy infrastructure of Japan, the steps up the mountain were built decades ago. Basically no one chooses to go up the mountain on foot.

Of course, there are elevators, but they require a little Fukuzawa Yukichi.

At this time, Deng was on a step halfway up the mountain, covered with leaves and dust, and a rotten crutch was thrown casually beside him.

The two originally smooth thighs were now covered with tiny scratches and bloodstains from abrasions, and the baseball sweatshirt had already been torn into several holes by branches.

The moon was high in the sky, and the stars looked dim and difficult to distinguish against the hazy moonlight.

Why did I come to this place?

"Vega... Vega..." The vision in front of me suddenly became blurry. Not to mention the tiny stars, even some of the stars that I had already distinguished were nowhere to be found.

The stars are hiding too. They don’t want me to see them either, right?

It’s the same with Xiangzi, and it’s the same with everyone now. Now that there’s a better doctor named Ke, no one wants to be seen by me, right?

I'm just that kind of guy, always destroying things that people cherish...

My eyelids became heavier and heavier, and my hands and feet were no longer able to support my body.

Then I'll just hide like this, since no one needs me anymore...

"...Light! Can you hear me? Light!"

It seems like someone is calling my name, but it's just an illusion...

"Don't sleep, light! Stay awake!"

“…Hey, doctor, Aine?”