I have pure love with them

A lead singer who works too hard, a bassist who lacks love, a drummer who lacks love and recognition, and a stray cat who comes and goes freely.

Especially the love-starved bassist, after confirming that Toyokawa Shoko would not return to the band, he even said to others, "I will end this band." It is hard to imagine how much mental pressure Goto Ichiri would have to bear if he joined this band.

The gentle, cute and considerate Archangel Shimokitazawa is more suitable for a "social baby" like Goto Ichiri.

"By the way, what is Kita Ikuyo's role in the band... Not the guitar, not the bass... The drummer is Shimokitazawa Archangel... Ah, the lead singer that Aine wants to be the most."

Let Aine join the 'ending band'?

"Let's let her go to MYGO to cope with the pressure. The overseas study incident has left a knot in her heart, and there are some minor personality problems. As someone close to her, it's not that easy for me to solve them. I still have to let Ms. Takamatsu, who wants to become a human, take action."

When Izumi was thinking about the future plans for his sister and Goto Ichiri, Goto Ichiri beside him looked at Izumi with an evasive look.

"Um, can I... join Aine's band?"

"why?"

Hearing Goto Ichiri's somewhat nervous voice, Izumi looked at the girl beside him. She was weak and introverted, but she had a faint fragrance on her body.

Based on their bedtime conversation, Izumi was sure that Goto Ichiri took a good bath every day and there was no strong smell on his body.

“…Because…Aine was the one who invited me first.”

"..."

After hearing Goto Ichiri's answer, Izumi, who had only guessed that Aine would invite Goto Ichiri, was now certain that Aine had invited her. Izumi couldn't help but rub her forehead with her hand and sighed helplessly.

"She really invited you... Don't take it to heart. She just wants to create some topics to attract other people's attention. Even if you reject her, it won't affect your relationship with her. I have already told her about this before, and she won't have any opinions about you."

"But...Aine is Izumi-san's sister."

"It is precisely because of my sister that I don't need to accommodate her. The daily commute is already tiring enough, and accompanying her in her mischief will only drain your energy and enthusiasm."

After Izumi's persuasion, Goto Ichiri gave up the idea of ​​accepting Chihaya Aine's invitation and sat quietly beside Izumi. However, she felt a little confused in her heart and didn't know what her future direction was.

"Yili, can you lend me your hand?"

Seeing the confusion in Goto Ichiri's eyes, Izumi stretched out his right hand, opened his palm and handed it in front of Goto Ichiri.

Goto Ichiri, who was confused, hesitated for a moment when he saw Izumi's hand extended in front of him, and then placed his left hand in Izumi's palm.

The fair and delicate little hand lay in Quan's palm, and the touch was warm and delicate.

He gently covered Goto Ichiri's palm with his left hand and clamped her palm between his own hands, allowing Goto Ichiri to feel the warmth from the broad and soft palm, and her cheeks flushed with shyness.

"Izumi, Izumi... Izumi-san?"

Goto Ichiri's voice was trembling, and with his left hand covered, he felt his heartbeat speeding up.

"No matter what the future holds, I will always be by your side, because... aren't we good friends for life?"

The same words will have different effects on different people.

This speech should have made people feel heavy, but at this moment, it gave Goto Ichiri an incomparable sense of security. She slowly looked into Izumi's eyes, and the confusion and shyness in her heart gradually subsided. She pursed her lips and nodded gently...

'To this day, there has been no reply.'

During lunch break, Nagasaki Souyo looked at the chat interface with Izumi on his mobile phone screen, but still did not receive any reply, which made Nagasaki Souyo feel annoyed.

Looking towards the courtyard of Tsukinomori Academy, Nagasaki Shoyo pursed his lips in silence, and then walked towards the place where that person often appeared.

On a path next to a nursery of cucumber vines, a light green-haired girl, also wearing a navy blue Tsuki no Mori uniform, was holding a watering can and watering the vines that had blossomed.

His eyes fell on the vines, but Nagasaki Shoshi had no interest at all.

He lowered his footsteps and quietly walked up to the girl and stretched out his hand. Nagasaki Shoyo did not rush to ask questions, but just quietly stared at the girl in front of him watering the plants.

"..."

Wakaba Mutsu, who had already noticed the arrival of Nagasaki Soyo, was quietly watering the plants and did not take the initiative to greet Nagasaki Soyo. She knew very well the purpose of Nagasaki Soyo's visit.

"Has Xiangzi been in contact with you recently?"

"……No."

Although she had met Toyokawa Shoko before, it was she who took the initiative to contact Shoko, not Shoko who contacted her. In addition, Toyokawa Shoko did not contact her in the past two days.

Ruoye Mu thought about it in his mind and gave an answer without any expression.

"As expected... Xiangzi has encountered some difficulties, right? She doesn't want to see us, is she worried that we will be implicated? But... we used to be a band, as a bandmate, if there is anything I can help with——"

"unnecessary."

Ruoye Mu's answer was still cold and straightforward.

But the answer of 'no need' made Nagasaki Shoyo's expression complicated in an instant. She pursed her lips, suppressed the anger in her heart, and maintained a forced smile.

When she was about to continue trying to persuade Ruoye Mu in front of her, she heard a buzzing sound from the pocket of her uniform, interrupting her prepared speech.

127. Another lifelong friend, get√

"...No need, did Xiangzi say so himself?"

Without rushing to check the messages sent by anyone, Nagasaki Shoyo suppressed the concern in his heart and the anger at Wakaba Mu's words "no need", and barely maintained a smile on his face, pursed his lips, narrowed his eyes and stared closely at the taciturn girl in front of him.

Ruoye Mu did not answer, but just lowered his head and looked at the sprinkler in his hand, remaining silent.

"Everyone, even if the band is disbanded, we are still partners, right? Words as ruthless as 'no need' don't seem like something Xiangzi would say, so if she needs help, please contact me. If I can do something for Xiangzi, I will be happy to do it."

She had a lot of things she wanted to say to Wakaba Mu, but she knew that even if she expressed her dissatisfaction to the girl in front of her, she would probably not get any response, so Nagasaki Shoyo suppressed this dissatisfaction in her heart.

"Well, I won't bother you anymore, hello."

Nagasaki Soyo, who had always been the one talking about things related to Toyokawa Shoko, had never heard Wakaba Mutsu take the initiative to talk about any topic. He didn't think that the other party had anything else to say to him. After leaving a word "Hello", he disappeared beside Wakaba Mutsu.

Wakaba Mutsu stood alone in front of the nursery, quietly staring at the cucumber vines in front of her, her eyes full of helplessness and sadness. She had agreed to Toyokawa Shoko's request, and could not tell Nagasaki Souse anything.

"..."

Holding the sprinkler tightly in her hand, she continued to water the vines silently.

……

Arriving at an empty corner, Nagasaki Shoyo stopped and stood quietly in the shadow behind the school building. She slowly took out her phone from her pocket, clicked on the screen, and entered the Line chat interface. She saw a reply from Chihaya Izumi after a long gap.

[After receiving Ms. Nagasaki's message, I thought about it for a long time. I'm sorry for not replying in time. I think it's great that Ms. Nagasaki can understand my thoughts. There is indeed not enough understanding between us. It is not a safe behavior to have a relationship rashly. I don't want to leave a bad love experience for Ms. Nagasaki. So, Ms. Nagasaki is willing to be friends with me and try to understand me. I am very happy... I hope we can be friends for life! ]

"..."

what happened?

Why does this person insist on the word "lifetime" in all relationships?

Looking at the previous content, Nagasaki Shoyo was also slightly touched, especially when she saw that the other party did not want to leave her with a bad love experience, and she felt that the other party was a gentle and considerate person, but when she saw the last sentence "for a lifetime" and "!", she felt a little uncomfortable in her abdomen.

Would a normal man really keep talking about the word "lifetime" to someone he has only known for a short time?

Standing in the shadow of the school building, Nagasaki Soyo looked down at the screen of the mobile phone in her hands. For a moment, she didn't know how to reply. She felt that the other party was like a bottomless black hole, constantly pulling her and sucking her into the center of darkness. Her instinct told her that she should try her best not to have any entanglement with the other party at the moment. Keeping a distance was the best solution.

but……

"Isn't the current situation exactly what I was hoping for? I can be friends with him and participate in his life... It doesn't matter if we are just ordinary friends for a lifetime."

Nagasaki Soyo bit her lip and thought for a while. Then she tapped the screen of her mobile phone deftly with her white and tender fingertips and gave a reply.

[I am happy to be friends with Chihaya-kun, so from today on, let’s get along well as friends.]

Originally, Nagasaki Shoyo didn't want to add the punctuation mark '.' at the end, but seeing the other party's serious reply, she felt that her attitude was too casual and inappropriate, and she should let the other party know her attitude, so she added such a formal punctuation mark.

Izumi had already returned to the classroom and sat down in his seat when he suddenly received a reply letter from Nagasaki Shoyo. He picked it up, glanced at it, and then couldn't help but chuckle.

"I wanted to send her more information about me to put more pressure on her, but it's not appropriate to scare her. It's enough to just give her a little sense of heaviness. We still have a long time to spend together, so let's get along well. You are my 'lifelong' friend~"

I just wonder if, after she got to know Toyokawa Shoko, was hurt by him and was completely disappointed, would she answer "I don't know him" when she met him again?

"I always feel that your smile is a little creepy..."

Hiroto Shioyama at the front table heard Izumi's laughter, turned around and looked at Izumi, and after staring at him for a while, he gave his evaluation.

Looking at Nagasaki Souse's reply, Izumi, who was thinking about whether to give another reply, looked at the guy who was afraid of his sister after hearing the words of the person at the table in front of him.

"Ah, I just became friends with a cute girl, so I'm a little happy."

"…If you become friends with a girl, will you smile like a demon king has captured a princess?"

"Isn't that a satisfied smile after achieving a goal? It should give people a refreshing and happy feeling. The reason you find it creepy is that you haven't had such an experience in your life yet, right?"

"Your mouth... is really too much."

Hiroto Shioyama was hit hard in the sore spot by Izumi, and the expression on his face became helpless, but he did not have any actual dissatisfaction. After suffering the oppression of his sister Ryone Shioyama, his personality has become extremely easy-going. Unless there is real hostility and it touches his bottom line, he will just treat it as a breeze.

"Your smile just now didn't have any freshness or happiness. A smile that shows achievement of a goal shouldn't be so hideous and twisted."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hiroto Shioyama took out a small paper box from his desk and handed it to Izumi.

"what?"

Looking at the paper box that Hiroto Shioyama placed in front of him, which looked like it was wrapped in some gift, he looked at the guy in front of him who had an easy-going personality and gave people the feeling that he was out of touch.

"My sister made this daifuku. Well, I've been borrowing your notes, and I don't know how to repay you. It just so happens that my sister made a lot of desserts yesterday. This is for you as a reward. Please take care of me in the future. If I can help you during the exam - forget it, I'll just rely on myself."

Hiroto Shioyama originally wanted to ask Izumi to help him during the exam, but after thinking about what his grades would be like, he thought that the teachers knew it very well in their hearts, and performing too well would only bring him trouble. His grades were not particularly bad, so he decided to rely on his own efforts to cope with it.

Although the deviation value of Xiuhua High School is low, it does not mean that everyone’s grades are terrible.

At least in Izumi's class, most people's deviation values ​​are at a medium level, and there are also many people like Ayatsuji who go to private schools to study.

Hiroto Shioyama's academic performance is rather erratic. Having joined a sports club, he doesn't focus much on his studies, but he can achieve the target with some effort.

After opening the paper box, a large grass-green lotus was lying inside.

"What flavor?"

"Matcha, please."

Hiroto Shioyama, who had already forgotten which flavor he had put in the drink, glanced inside the box and answered.

He reached out and picked up the Daifuku in the paper box, put it in his mouth and bit it gently. The soft and sweet taste, as well as the mellow chocolate cream inside, made Quan like it very much. He swallowed the Daifuku in two bites and looked at Hiroto Shioyama who was smiling in front of him.

"How is it? My sister's cooking skills are pretty good, right?"

His tone was full of confidence and pride.

'It seems that while he is afraid of his sister, his relationship with her is not as bad as he describes it to be, otherwise he would not have used this tone.'