I have pure love with them

"I see. That's really sad~"

Glancing at the depressed Takamatsu Tomo sitting opposite her, Chihaya Aine suddenly recalled her failed experience studying abroad. She was silent for a moment, then reached out and clicked on the song selector. Before Takamatsu Tomo became even more depressed, she expressed her thoughts.

"But, isn't it okay to work hard so as not to fail next time?"

Her study abroad failed due to her own fault, so she returned to China. However, she did not become discouraged by the failure. She reapplied to a new school and started her life again.

"Eh?"

“Even if you fail once, you must have the confidence to try again.”

The thought of her brother who had always been by her side when she failed came to her mind. Chihaya Aine pursed her lips, but when she noticed that Takamatsu Touma's expression in front of her was a little surprised, she thought that her remarks might be a little too heavy, so she smiled to ease the atmosphere.

"Otherwise, life is so long, how can we live it?"

At the same time, thinking that he still had to invite the person in front of him to become his teammate, he added another sentence.

"Maybe next time, a miracle will happen and I'll meet really good teammates."

The slender white index finger was raised, and he tried to persuade Gao Songdeng in front of him.

"Not that I'm talking about that."

Noticing that Takamatsu Deng's eyes were completely on her, Chihaya Aine knew that she couldn't be too straightforward at this time, so she removed herself first. She felt that under such circumstances, if the other party chose to rejoin the band, there was no reason not to consider her as a confidant.

"But I wish you could play in a band."

Seeing that Takamatsu Deng was in a bad mood and didn't seem to be willing to sing, Aine decided to sing a song she was good at first to warm up the atmosphere, and then let Takamatsu Deng sing along. Otherwise, the two of them who had already paid couldn't just sit in the private room.

After ordering the song, the bright private room suddenly darkened, the ambient lights began to flicker, and the prelude sounded.

"That……"

With Chihaya Aine's persuasion, Takamatsu Deng's tightly locked heart loosened. She raised her eyes and looked at the pink-haired girl sitting opposite her, her hands on her knee-length skirt clenched slightly.

"Will you form a band with me for the rest of my life?"

"..."

In the small room, a huge sense of oppression suddenly emerged, stunning Chihaya Aine who was already ready to sing. She looked at Takamatsu Deng in front of her with surprise, not knowing how to react for a moment.

"Hey hey hey... a lifetime?"

Chihaya Aine hesitated internally, and asked back with a forced chuckle, wanting to confirm the other party's attitude and deal with it in a joking way.

Takamatsu Deng had just untied the layers of protection she had put on herself and revealed her inner self to Aine, but she saw that Aine's reaction seemed to be unwilling, which made her feel deeply desperate. It was as if she was blown by ice. She couldn't stay in this private room any longer, so she picked up the schoolbag beside her and rushed out of the room.

"Little lamp?"

Chihaya Aine looked at Takamatsu Deng who suddenly rushed out of the private room in a daze, with a look of surprise on her face. She never expected that the other party would suddenly rush out of the private room, but seeing the other party's reaction when leaving, it seemed abnormal in every way, which made her feel uneasy.

She picked up her schoolbag and before she could even sing a song, she hurriedly followed Gao Songdeng who was escaping.

"Wait a minute, Little Light!"

After running to an intersection, Aine finally caught up with the fleeing Takamatsu Deng, grabbed her hand, and apologized to her.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have laughed."

Takamatsu Deng was panting, facing Aine who was apologizing to him. His apologetic expression showed the guilt in her heart, which made Takamatsu Deng purse his lips and deny the reason of Aine.

"It's okay. I said something weird first."

She knew that her attitude towards things was different from that of others, and not wanting Aine to feel guilty, she put the blame on herself.

"Thanks for asking me to form a band, but... I'm sorry!"

Takamatsu Deng bowed and apologized to the cheerful and kind girl in front of him. Having confirmed that the other party was not the person he expected, he rejected her with a serious and solemn attitude.

"Little lamp..."

Aiyin wanted to say something else, but she knew that her actions had hurt the other person...

Standing in front of the door and preparing to take back the store's signboard, Shiina Riki vaguely caught a glimpse of a familiar figure out of the corner of his eye.

'lamp?'

The person he cared about was bowing his head and apologizing to someone. The pink hair made Shiina Riki take action before he could think carefully about the other person's identity. He rushed between the two people, opened his arms, and protected Takamatsu Deng behind him.

"Light, are you okay?"

Then she stared at the person in front of her. The moment her eyes fell on the other person's face, she remembered the other person's identity.

"You...that man's sister? What's the matter?"

After recognizing that Chihaya Aine was Izumi's sister, Shiina Riki's dissatisfaction did not ease at all. He questioned the person in front of him in a cold and hostile tone.

She didn't care who was in front of her or what happened.

She only knew that the current lamp needed her protection!

130. Let’s drink some black tea before we go

"Ah... the clerk with a bad attitude that day, you asked me, are you her acquaintance?"

At the same time that Shiina Ritsuki recognized Chihaya Aion, Chihaya Aion also had a very deep impression of the girl in front of her who suddenly interrupted her conversation with Takamatsu Deng. She couldn't help but frowned and asked a question in return.

"I'm asking you!"

After recognizing Chihaya Aine's identity, Shiina Riki crossed his arms and stared at her with cold eyes.

Takamatsu Deng, who was protected by Shiina Riki behind her, heard Shiina Riki's tough tone and voice. She was obviously dissatisfied with Chihaya Aine, but she was more guilty and uneasy about meeting her former bandmates. Driven by complex emotions, she grabbed the straps of her schoolbag tightly.

Staring at the girl with long pink hair in front of her, Shiina Riki unconsciously recalled her brother. She stared at the person in front of her with dissatisfaction, but before the person in front of her could speak, a hurried sound of footsteps suddenly sounded behind her.

"lamp?"

Shiina Riki looked back.

The person she was supposed to protect turned his head and ran away.

'Why? ’

"I'm protecting you, aren't I? Why are you running?"

Feeling confused, Shiina Riki didn't want to care about the pink-haired person in front of him. He turned sideways and prepared to catch up with Takamatsu Deng who was leaving.

"Wait!"

But just when Shiina Riki was about to chase after Takamatsu Tomo, Chihaya Aine reached out her hand and tightly grasped the arm of the bad-tempered clerk, stopping her and preventing her from catching up with Takamatsu Tomo who had already run away.

Originally, she and Takamatsu Deng had finished their conversation, and Takamatsu Deng had no intention of running away, but after this person interrupted her, she found that Takamatsu Deng's reaction was not right. It was also when this person was speaking that Takamatsu Deng chose to escape. Her intuition told her to keep this person and never let her catch up with the running Takamatsu Deng.

"lamp!"

Shiina Riki was left behind and had no way of catching up with Takamatsu Deng who was leaving. He could only watch the person he hadn't seen for a long time, but who he thought about day and night, disappear at the end of the road.

"..."

A surge of anger suddenly burned in his heart, and he turned to look at the person who had caught him. His already sharp and ferocious eyes became even colder when he looked at Chihaya Aine.

"What are you doing?"

The question seemed to be asked with gritted teeth, which made Chihaya Aine tremble in her heart. She felt that the person in front of her was not a good person.

"I'm her friend!"

Although she had only known Takamatsu Deng for a short time, considering that they had just gone to karaoke together, Chihaya Aine decisively classified their relationship as friends.

"friend?"

Shiina Riki shook off Chihaya Aine's hand that was holding her wrist, and asked back with an extremely contemptuous and disdainful look and tone.

"Just friends!"

"Were you chasing her?"

Looking at the sweat on Chihaya Aine's forehead, Shiina Riki looked indifferent and didn't believe what she said at all.

"I only chased her because she ran away. I just invited her to form a band."

Reaching out her hand and pressing it lightly in front of her, Aiyin had no idea what was going on with the other person. It was as if she couldn't tell that Takamatsu Deng was just running away from her, and his attitude was so bad, he was almost like a delinquent.

"what?"

Shiina Riki, who was originally listening to the other party's explanation and trying to prove that she and Deng were friends, suddenly changed her expression from contempt to disbelief after learning that the other party was inviting Deng to join the band.

"Have you invited the Lighting Band?!"

"So what? You keep saying 'you'..."

Ai Ne, who could no longer tolerate this clerk with a bad attitude, was about to point out his bad behavior, but she saw that he looked at her with disgust and disdain, as if he had done something excessive.

"The worst."

"what?!"

Obviously, the other party was the one with the bad attitude, but now he gave her the "worst" evaluation, which made Chihaya Aine unbearable.

"You were the one who bothered me first, weren't you?"

But Shiina Riki was no longer in the mood to talk to the person in front of her. Takamatsu Deng had already left, and the person in front of her was not a band member, but just a pink-haired sister. Not wanting to reveal what happened in the band's past, she turned and walked into the store.

"Hey!"

Aiyin saw the other person enter the store, and wanted to ask her what the relationship between her and Takamatsu Deng was, and severely criticize the other person's bad attitude, but the other person completely ignored her and walked into the store as if he couldn't hear her.

"Are you okay?"

Just as Aiyin was feeling dissatisfied and wondering whether she should go in and argue with the other party or go look for Takamatsu Deng who had left, a gentle question came from behind her.

'Who is it again?'

Aine, who was in a bad mood, looked back.

A pair of straight white legs and a navy blue sailor suit with a deformed collar came into view one after another. A fair and beautiful face was looking at her with a concerned look.

"Did something happen?"