I have pure love with them

Xuanji Ci, who had never expected that Izumi would help him, stared blankly at the boy in front of him. After hearing his question, he nodded blankly.

After getting the answer, Izumi took his homework book, turned around and walked towards the classroom, leaving Akatsuki standing there, looking at Izumi's back, and for a moment he didn't understand the meaning of Izumi's actions.

'A show of good will? Want me to let my guard down?'

Guessing the purpose of Izumi's actions, Xuanji Ci frowned slightly, slowly took his steps, followed behind Izumi, and walked towards the classroom together.

'No matter what your purpose is, I will not let my guard down against you easily!'

347. Quan: I have only one goal in mind

[Signature, already signed.]

Toyokawa Shoko, who had just left the company, looked at the message sent by Wakaba Mutsu with a thoughtful expression on her face.

[Tomorrow, I will go to your house.]

It was getting late today, and Toyokawa Shoko was a little worried about meeting Wakaba Mutsu's parents, so she didn't choose to go to Wakaba Mutsu to get his autograph immediately. She decided to wait until after school tomorrow to go to Wakaba's house to get the autograph she had asked Wakaba Mutsu to sign.

[Um.]

After receiving the reply from Toyokawa Shoko, Wakaba Mutsu had no opinion on it. After giving a simple reply, the two had no further communication.

Standing alone on the street, Shoko Toyokawa slowly raised her head and looked up at the gray sky.

In summer, the days are long and the nights are short.

Thinking that the temperature would become increasingly hotter in the coming period, and that in that small residence, the smell of residual alcohol from the wine cans that were not handled in time would fill the entire room, the expression on his face became gloomy.

"Even if there is no air conditioning, the electricity bill will go up in the summer... Considering other expenses..."

The pressure from all aspects of life made Toyokawa Shoko bite her lip. She looked back at her part-time job and considered her current income. She felt that she might need to find another job.

Although the school rules and laws of Yugaoka Girls' Academy have requirements and restrictions on part-time jobs for high school students, most things in this world adhere to the principle of "no prosecution, no punishment". In many cases, some places that recruit part-time workers will not overly pursue the age and identity of the applicants.

As long as Toyokawa Shoko herself can support the high-intensity work, then working two or even three part-time jobs will be feasible.

'Want to contact him?'

Thinking about what she had promised Quan, Toyokawa Shoko felt conflicted after receiving Wakaba Mutsu's reply, wondering whether she should tell him about it.

But the signature has not yet reached her hands, and she doesn't know if anything will happen in the middle. After careful consideration, Toyokawa Shoko gave up the idea of ​​contacting Izumi now and decided to wait until she got the signature before contacting the other party.

'Go back first. '

After thinking for a while and making a decision in her heart, Shoko Toyokawa decided to go home first and finish her work for the day.

There is another person in the family who is equivalent to a "useless person" and needs her to take care of him.

A person walked to the station silently, got on the tram, and just as Toyokawa Shoko, who was full of thoughts, sat down in her seat, she heard a surprised voice coming from the side of her. Toyokawa Shoko stopped her thoughts and slowly looked to the side.

"what……"

Long pink hair, familiar face.

Toyokawa Shoko looked at the other person's surprised face and couldn't help but frowning.

"It seems... Toyokawa-san doesn't seem happy to see me here?"

"……No."

Even if he had such thoughts in his heart, when the other party really asked him, Toyokawa Shoko obviously could not give a positive answer. Once the other party pressed the issue further, it would be of no benefit to Toyokawa Shoko at all.

“It seems that there is no meaning of ‘no’ at all…”

Chihaya Aine did not expect that she would actually meet Toyokawa Shoko on her way home. Looking at Toyokawa Shoko sitting next to her, many things suddenly came to her mind, but for a moment, she did not know how to start.

The atmosphere suddenly became subtly quiet.

"What should we talk about? Should we talk to her about Shuangshi? But... she seems to hate Shuangshi... No, she seems to hate things about the band."

Chihaya Aine, who was also an acquaintance of Toyokawa Shoko, subconsciously wanted to find some topics to talk about with Toyokawa Shoko when she saw that she was sitting next to her, but she unexpectedly found that she seemed to have no common topics to talk about with her.

"The band is not good...ah..."

Thinking of someone outside the band, Chihaya Aine hesitated for a moment, and her eyes slowly fell on the other person.

"This isn't the first time we've met on this line, right? Could it be that... Toyokawa-san lives in this area?"

This question is basically nonsense, but it is the question that Toyokawa Shoko least wants to answer.

After hearing Chihaya Aion's question, Toyokawa Shoko was silent for a moment and gave a negative answer again, but she did not look at Chihaya Aion when answering.

"No, I just came here for something."

"..."

Faced with Toyokawa Shoko's negative answer again, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but look at Toyokawa Shoko's profile, opened her mouth, and wanted to say something, but hesitated for a moment and did not speak again.

She had originally wanted to talk to Toyokawa Shoko about Quan, but now she felt that Toyokawa Shoko didn't seem to be cooperating and didn't want to communicate with her, which made Chihaya Aine give up the idea of ​​communicating with Toyokawa Shoko. The two of them remained silent. After arriving at the platform, Chihaya Aine got off the bus first. Before getting off, she still said goodbye to Toyokawa Shoko.

"..."

Facing the girl who took the initiative to say goodbye to her, Toyokawa Shoko was silent for a moment, but still nodded and responded.

Until Chihaya Aine left the train, Toyokawa Shoko silently memorized the current stop.

'Does he live in this area?'

She memorized the stop in her mind. It wasn't too far from where she lived, and it would only take about ten minutes on foot.

"The siblings didn't go home together, so... Chihaya didn't join the band?"

Just now, Chihaya Aine was carrying an instrument and looked like she was participating in a band activity, but Izumi was not with her, which made Toyokawa Shoko more suspicious and thoughtful.

"What is he doing now?"

In a trance, Toyokawa Shoko recalled the boy who protected her in dangerous moments, and was curious about what he was doing now.

Quan, who was sitting in his room and reading a book, suddenly seemed to sense something. He slowly raised his head and looked towards the sky outside the window. Noticing the night sky, he slowly closed his eyes and rubbed them gently.

“Is it this time already? It’s about time to go downstairs and check…Aine should be home by now.”

Considering the problems with Tokinoya Mio's legs and his own future career options, during this period of time, whenever he had free time, Quan would read some books on medicine.

We hope that one day in the future, Tokinoya Mion's legs can be healed and the girl can stand up again.

348. This is a secret between us

"How much do you know about Toyokawa-san?"

"Ok?"

Izumi, who was tapping on the screen of her mobile phone and killing time with '2048' after her meal, slowly raised her head and looked at her sister after hearing Aine's question.

"Toyokawa-san! How much do you know about Toyokawa-san?"

"It's really rare to hear you take the initiative to talk about her. Did you meet her again today?"

The two of them were in the same school, Yugaoka, and in the same grade, so they could have run into each other at any time in school. Today, they suddenly talked about Toyokawa Shoko. In Quan's opinion, it was likely that she had run into Toyokawa Shoko and there was some conflict during their communication.

"...Yeah, I ran into her on the train on my way home, and she seemed pretty cold... It was completely different from the first time we met."

Aine, who was sitting next to Izumi, leaned in towards her and rested her head on her shoulder before adjusting to a comfortable sitting position, sighing with regret as she recalled her first meeting with Toyokawa Shoko.

When she first met Toyokawa Shoko, she didn't know the relationship between Toyokawa Shoko and Takamatsu Tomo and the others. She just had the idea of ​​forming a band in her mind, and tried to invite her to join her band as a keyboardist, but was politely rejected by her.

"...Well, the current situation is partly due to my fault."

It can't be blamed entirely on Toyokawa Shoko. Chihaya Aine also knew that she had asked the other party some impolite questions before, and there was a reason for the other party's cold attitude.

"Everyone else has already joined the band, I wonder if Toyokawa-san can also join our band..."

"..."

Noticing that Izumi's gaze towards her had become subtle, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but frowned.

"I know it's unlikely, but it's not too much to just think about it, right?"

Aiyin vaguely remembered the matter of the '10 million' that Izumi had mentioned to Nagasaki Soyo before. She didn't think she could come up with the '10 million', or that the band was worth '10 million'. Naturally, she didn't think she could invite the other party to join the band. But in her heart, there was still a glimmer of hope, hoping to see Toyokawa Shoko join her band.

"It's enough for you to understand that it's impossible. The relationship between Shuangshi and her right now... is basically completely broken. Don't let the band, which has just stabilized, have any more troubles."

"……I know!"

Facing her brother’s lecture, Aine, who was sitting next to him, couldn’t help but puff up her cheeks and answered in a rather depressed tone.

“I’m not a member of the band, but I know everything about the band so well… I always feel a little angry.”

"Generally speaking, such emotions can be called 'jealousy'."

"I'm not a jealous woman!"

"I didn't say that."

Chihaya Aine, who was originally just a little depressed, became really angry after this conversation with Izumi. She stared at Izumi sullenly for a while, and suddenly she thought of something and looked at Izumi with a subtle look.

"Come to think of it, last time, when you encountered danger, the girl you protected was Toyokawa, right? Didn't Shuangshi say anything?"

It was something that happened a long time ago, but now that Aine brought it up again, Izumi, who was leaning on the sofa, didn’t even move his head. He stretched out his right hand and flicked Aine’s forehead.

The bullet hit the girl’s fair forehead accurately, causing Aine to cover her forehead and let out a cry.

But apart from flicking her forehead, he didn’t do anything else to Aine. He stood up from the sofa silently, and without waiting for Aine to fight back, he walked quietly towards the stairs.

"..."

Aine was about to complain to Izumi, but was stunned when she saw Izumi suddenly stand up.

The figure who left without saying a word made Aiyin, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly feel as if there was a gully between her and Quan. The words she wanted to say to Quan were choked in her mouth. She stared at Quan's back in a daze, feeling an inexplicable sense of loss in her heart.

"Can't you tell me about what happened with Shuangshi? Is it private? "

Facing Izumi who suddenly started to keep a distance, Aine, who was sitting alone on the sofa, felt a strong sense of loneliness in her heart.

'spring……'

Quan returned to his room and sat down in front of the computer. Recalling the scene just now in the living room, he reached out and gently touched his cheek.

"I haven't told her about what happened over the weekend yet... I'll tell her tomorrow, or today..."

Thinking of what Aine had talked about with her before, such as asking Toyokawa Shoko to join her current band, Izumi couldn't help but glance at the autograph sketch that she had just completed with the help of Toyokawa Shoko and Nagasaki Soyo, and a faint smile appeared on her face.