The couple simply couldn't feel comfortable entrusting the Takamatsu lamp to Kusano Akira's family.

……………………:

"Hum~"

Takamatsu Akari ran back to her room with light steps, eagerly opening her notebook and turning to a brand new page.

【May 14:

What a happy day!

I will still stay by Ming's side, no matter how he tries to distance himself from me!

It's great that Mom and Dad still remember Ming. We'll have to invite him to our house sooner or later!

I can go to Ming's house this week. Can I visit him at his house later?

If he knew where he lived, he wouldn't have run away in the future, right?

But Ming only stopped contacting me because of this, and that's why he forgot me...

As she wrote this, Gao Songdeng's pen gradually stopped, and the smile on her face gradually disappeared. She silently touched her chest, and indescribable emotions surged within it.

"I'm so terrible..."

Takamatsu Akari slumped dejectedly onto the table, her pale cheek pressed against the still-wet ink of the notebook. She turned her head to the side, her expression growing increasingly sorrowful.

"Even in this state, I still want to be happy because of my own affairs..."

Takamatsu Akari felt that she was really despicable. After learning what had happened to Kusano Akira, she was only sad for him for a short time, and then she was smug about her current thoughts.

"...Search $q group: 凄四^∈镏玖★|°裬…"

Gao Songdeng knows she isn't a very independent person, which is why she was so passive when Crychic disbanded, but she doesn't want that anymore.

She wanted to take action.

Takamatsu Akira picked up her phone, opened her contacts, looked at the phone number of Kusano Akira that she had saved before, swallowed hard, and gently touched it with her fingertips.

"No, no, no!"

But before she could even touch him, Takamatsu Akari quickly withdrew her fingers. Touching her heart, which had suddenly become very fast, she straightened her body and sat upright in the chair.

"Huff...huff...deep breath..."

Takamatsu touched his heaving chest, took deep breaths, and the flush on his face slowly faded with each breath.

"This time, it will definitely work...!"

After Takamatsu Akari adjusted herself to a state that felt about right, she looked back at the phone screen that she had tossed on the table.

"..."

Takamatsu held her slender fingers above the phone and slowly reached them downwards.

five.

As Takamatsu watched the fingers gradually approach the phone, his breathing became heavier.

Four.

Takamatsu looked at the fingers that were gradually approaching the phone, her eyes flickering for a moment.

three.

As Takamatsu watched his fingers gradually approach the phone, a bead of sweat rolled down his cheek.

II. One

As Takamatsu Akari watched her fingers approach the phone, her legs began to tremble again. (Six)

One.

As Takamatsu watched the fingers gradually approach the phone, he quickly pulled the phone away with his free hand.

"...!"

Looking at the phone that had already appeared in her hand and the finger that had poked the table, Takamatsu Akari froze for a moment, then hugged her hair and let out a cute wail.

"What am I doing..."

"This time, definitely! This time, absolutely!"

Gao Songdeng rallied once again. She realized that her courage had vanished before because she had dragged things out for too long. So this time, she decided not to give herself time to react.

Gao Song Deng blindfolded herself and quickly tapped the phone screen. This time, she didn't miss the mark; she actually tapped the screen.

Hearing the familiar buzzing sound, Takamatsu removed his hand from his eyes and happily looked at his phone.

Chihaya Aine.

"..."

"Hey, Dengdeng. What's wrong?"

Chihaya Aine's sweet voice came from the other side of the screen, and Takamatsu Akari hung up the moment she heard it.

"..."

Three seconds later, Takamatsu Akari finally realized what was happening and anxiously called Chihaya Aine back.

"Hey?"

Chihaya Aine's somewhat helpless voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Xiao Ai, I'm sorry!"

After seeing that the call had been answered, Takamatsu Akira quickly apologized.

"What just happened? Why did you suddenly call me and then hang up?"

"I...I dialed the wrong number...Seven! I got nervous and hung up on you, I'm sorry, Xiao Ai!"

While regretting her mistake, Takamatsu Akari quietly apologized to Chihaya Aine.

"Oh, it's alright. Anyway, I don't have anything urgent to deal with."

"Then, I'll hang up now...?"

"Okay, bye-bye, I'll hang it up this time~"

Chihaya Aine hung up the phone after giving Takamatsu Akari time to make sure she could handle the message.

"Thank goodness it's Xiao Ai..."

Gao Songdeng relaxed his shoulders, which had been tense since the beginning, took a deep breath, and then looked at his phone screen again, a resolute glint in his eyes.

"This time, we must succeed!"

This time, Takamatsu Akira mustered all her courage, aimed at Kusano Akira's name, and pressed down hard.

hum - hum - hum -

The phone lay in Gao Songdeng's palm, vibrating repeatedly.

After a while, the phone automatically disconnected because no one answered for too long.

"..."

Is it because you want to distance yourself from me?

Takamatsu Akari thought with some frustration that although she wouldn't give up, Kusano Akira's continued refusal to answer her calls still left her feeling disappointed.

Fortunately, just as she thought that, her phone vibrated again. Kusano Akira, who had missed the call earlier, was calling back.

"...!"

Gao Songdeng was overwhelmed with surprise at the sheer number seven. She solemnly answered the call, holding the phone to her ear.

Ming, I...

Before Gao Songdeng could even speak, a cold voice came from the other end of the screen.

"This is Wakaba Mutsu, hello."

Ugh?

Gao Songdeng accidentally applied a little force with his hand, and there was a 'crack' sound.

My phone screen is cracked.

Author's Note: Some readers might think that Deng's feelings are a bit off. They've only known each other for a few weeks since childhood, so it's inappropriate for such feelings to develop so quickly.

Let me explain: the impact of the first playthrough isn't just like Mortis's.

That's all for today.

good night

Volume 1: Chapter 65 (2k words)

To Takamatsu Akari's surprise, the voice on the other end of the phone wasn't the comforting voice of Kusano Akira that she had expected, always carrying the feeling of a summer breeze and warm sunshine. Instead, it was another voice that was also very familiar to her, a cool and clear one.

It's Wakaba Mutsu.

Gao Songdeng accidentally scratched the phone screen with her grip, and the phone emitted a faint groan under her strange force. However, she did not notice this at the moment because she had something more important to pay attention to.

"Did I dial the wrong number again...?"

Takamatsu Akari muttered as she took the phone away from her ear, checking it several times before confirming that the name on it was indeed 'Kusano Akira' and not 'Wakaba Mutsumi'.

"Mu, why is Ming's phone with you...?"

Where is Ming?

Hearing Takamatsu's question, Wakaba Mutsu glanced at Kusano Akira, who was lying on the bed next to him, peeking through the gap between the bed and the wall while saying, "I'm picking up my pick," and calmly said.

He's in bed.

"Eh?"

Takamatsu felt his brain was about to overload again.

Wakaba Mutsu glanced at where she was sitting and added a sentence.

"I'm in bed too."

"Eh?!"

Gao Songdeng was overwhelmed by the sudden influx of information. She placed both hands on her shattered phone, her legs went weak, and she collapsed onto the floor like a duck.

"What do you want from him?"

As if completely oblivious to the oddity in her words, Ruoye Mutsu casually added another sentence.

"...What kind of relationship do you have?"

Gao Songdeng's tone suddenly became calm, but unlike her calm tone, her voice had a slightly eerie quality, as if she were scraping a shard of glass wrapped in cotton against a blackboard.

"..."

As soon as Ruoye Mu opened her mouth, she felt a warm, furry thing on her shoulder.

"Whose call was it, Mu?"

Having failed to find the picks, Kusano Akira had no choice but to give up his persistence. Instead, he took out another bag of picks and saw Wakaba Mutsumi talking to someone on her phone. Curious, he came over and rested his head on her shoulder.

"Here you go."

When Wakaba Mutsumi saw Kusano Akira approaching, she regretfully abandoned her idea of ​​taking advantage of Takamatsu Akira's misunderstanding and returned the phone.

"Let me see, the light? Why are you calling at this hour?"

Akira Ryūkuno took the phone and saw that it clearly displayed the name Takamatsu Akira. He curiously brought his ear closer to the phone screen.

"Hello, is this the light?"

"...Ming, why is Mu with you?"

A strange voice came from the other end of the phone, as if he was suppressing something.

"Since we happened to run into each other on the street, we just went along with it..."

"What kind of relationship do you have?"

Fukimatsu interrupted Kusano Akira, her amber pupils gradually turning blood red, and her hands, which were supporting her on the ground, unconsciously began to exert force, even pressing a hole in the hard floor.

The strange voice that suddenly appeared in her mind gradually took away her thoughts, and she seemed to see a lens-like illusion.

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