People are in animation, but they can connect to reality

Chihaya Aion was immersed in her own fantasy. She squinted her eyes and began to imagine herself becoming MMK in her head. In front of her, there was a small Chihaya Aion who became her fan and surrounded her.

After entertaining herself for a while, Nagasaki Suyo opened her eyes. Suddenly, her expression became serious and indifferent, as if she had become a completely different person.

"But I'm not happy!" Nagasaki Suyo said in a very cold and indifferent tone.

The atmosphere at the scene seemed to freeze. Chihaya Aine folded her arms and looked at Nagasaki Suyo with some worry. She wanted to walk over and touch Suyo, to pull her back to her original state.

But Nagasaki Suyo suddenly glared at her coldly, and Chihaya Aine retracted her hand in fear. Nagasaki Suyo's change made her feel a little scared, as if something unreal had been torn apart.

"What's wrong with you, Su Shi? Are you sick? You look terrible. Do you need me to take you home?" Chihaya Aine looked at Su Shi worriedly.

"Didn't I tell you? I'm not happy. Let me say it a few times. Or is it that your Chinese is not up to standard and you don't understand the meaning of the words?"

Nagasaki Suyo frowned and coldly rejected Chihaya Aine's concern.

The surroundings became extremely quiet, and the two stood opposite each other under the dim streetlight. Nagasaki Suyo sneered and slowly approached Chihaya Aine. She stared into Chihaya Aine's eyes, and the oppression and strangeness made Chihaya Aine instinctively want to escape.

"Why? Su Shi suddenly became like this? I don't really understand."

Chihaya Aine asked quietly.

"Why?" Nagasaki Suyo sneered, "Because you don't understand me at all, and you don't know what I'm thinking."

"I also want to understand Su Shi, because Su Shi is a very gentle person."

"Gentle? Is that so? Am I such a person in your eyes?"

Chihaya Aine nodded, becoming cautious, afraid of saying the wrong thing. She instinctively felt that something familiar was about to leave her, and she wanted to grab it, to hold it in her arms, but she couldn't see it, and couldn't catch it.

She could only stand there helplessly, watching that familiar thing leave.

"If you knew the truth, would you still look at me like this? The tenderness you expected might have been false from the beginning. It never existed in the first place."

It felt like something terrible, something horrible was about to happen. Chihaya Aine instinctively wanted to avoid it. If she continued to stay here, something irreversible would definitely happen. Chihaya Aine had this premonition in her heart.

Because Nagasaki Suyo was so strange right now, she seemed to be guiding me to continue what she said. Chihaya Aine turned and left, walking quickly, her goal being home. I couldn't say any more.

Nagasaki Suyo was stunned. Chihaya Aine had interrupted her spell. If Chihaya Aine escaped, how could her plan proceed? Nagasaki Suyo quickly ran and grabbed Chihaya Aine, who was trying to escape.

Chihaya Aine looked at the hand that grabbed her wrist with fear.

"Don't try to escape, Aine. You have the right to know the truth." Nagasaki Suyo panted, grabbing Chihaya Aine and refusing to let go.

"The truth is, Chihaya Aine is redundant and not needed by the band. Nagasaki Suyoshi pulled Chihaya Aine into the band just to make up the numbers, to keep the band going until Toyokawa Shoko and Wakaba Mutsu return. When Shoko and Mutsu return, Chihaya Aine will no longer be needed."

Nagasaki Suyo said it all in one breath.

Chihaya Aine's face darkened instantly. She had a premonition that Nagasaki Suyo would say something terrible to her. However, she had never expected that the truth would be so heartless and despairing.

Chihaya Aine is someone who is not needed, someone who is superfluous, someone who should not exist. How could you say such a thing? Chihaya Aine's pupils turned extremely dark, her eyes were blank, she shook off Nagasaki Motoyo's hand, and left decisively.

"What should I do next? I'm so tired! I feel like kneeling down would be more convenient and simpler." Nagasaki Suyo lamented in her heart.

Suddenly, Nagasaki Suyo grabbed her again, but Chihaya Aine did not look back this time.

"Please wait a moment, Aine. I have something else to say."

"Now, what's the point?"

Chapter 111 Resurrection

"Yes, of course it makes sense. Because these words are what I truly want to say to Aine."

Chihaya Aine turned her head and looked at Nagasaki Suyo with the same indifference. Suddenly, the roles were reversed. Just now, it was Nagasaki Suyo who looked at Chihaya Aine with indifference, and now it was Chihaya Aine who looked at Nagasaki Suyo with indifference.

"What else do you want to say? Do you think I've been kept in the dark and fooled by you like a fool? Do you want to laugh at me?"

"Then laugh at me all you want. I'm an idiot anyway."

"No, no, it's not like that!" Nagasaki Suyo shook her head frantically, grabbed Chihaya Aine's shoulders, and tried to hold her back. She took a deep breath and said what she was thinking.

"Actually, I'm very stupid. I've been stuck in the past and can't get out." Nagasaki Suyo smiled bitterly, and under Chihaya Aine's cold gaze, she began to speak.

"When I was in elementary school, my father and mother had a disagreement and divorced, and I was given to my mother. Originally, Nagasaki Suyo was called Ichinose Suyo, but because I was given to my mother, I changed it to her last name, Nagasaki."

Nagasaki Suyo lowered her head, and her face looked very sad.

Seeing Nagasaki Suyo's sad face, Chihaya Aine's pupils gradually regained some color and she tried to calm herself down. She had never heard Nagasaki Suyo talk about her own story. Or rather, she had never thought that Nagasaki Suyo had such a life experience.

In Chihaya Aine's eyes, Nagasaki Suyo has always been cheerful and gentle, so Chihaya Aine thought that Nagasaki Suyo must have a warm family. However, it seems that she guessed wrong.

Nagasaki Suyo is pitiful, but this is not a reason for her to treat herself as a tool.

"Maybe Aiyin hasn't experienced that kind of thing. At that time, I even felt that I was redundant. Facing my parents' emotional problems, I couldn't do anything. I could only watch them quarrel, have the cold war, and finally divorce."

"I sat alone at home waiting for them to come back. It was dark, there were terrible screams all around, and I was alone."

Who says I haven't been through something similar? Who hasn't had a few tragic experiences these days? Do you know what I went through when I was studying abroad? I was ostracized, surrounded by loneliness, and I couldn't even cry when I wanted to.

Because, it was my own stupidity that led to this situation. Everyone around me was so talented that I felt like a clown. Standing in the classroom, facing the teacher's roll call, I made a fool of myself in front of the class.

At that time, I was alone and finally escaped back.

"Then what? Is this the reason?" Chihaya Aine looked at Nagasaki Motoyo calmly.

"Then I met another girl, Xiaoxiang. She liberated me from my loneliness."

"Xiao Xiang? Toyokawa Xiangzi? Is she the girl with the blue twintails?"

Chihaya Aine thought about it. She had met Toyokawa Shoko before, and even accompanied Deng to look for that girl. Even earlier, she had seen Toyokawa Shoko playing the piano in the music room. Her demeanor made her look like the daughter of a certain family.

Toyokawa Shoko wasn't too bad to Chihaya Aine, and they even spoke a few times. However, after Toyokawa Shoko discovered that she was walking with Takamatsu Tomo, they stopped talking.

Chihaya Aine frowned slightly, and the gloom in her eyes slowly faded away and disappeared.

"During that time, we formed our own band, CRYCHIC. It consisted of Xiaodeng, Lixi, Xiaoxiang, and Mu. We created Spring Shadow together. Then, one day, Xiaoxiang suddenly quit the band, and a quarrel broke out in CRYCHIC that day. Deng blamed himself for Xiaoxiang's departure and was deeply distressed. Later, Mu gradually faded away, and CRYCHIC ended."

"For me, CRYCHIC is another home. It gives me the warmth that my home doesn't have." Nagasaki Suyo lowered her eyes, recalling the happy times at CRYCHIC. Everyone was laughing at that time, and their eyes were so gentle.

"So, why are you telling me this?"

"Because Aine deserves to know the truth. Because I want to revive CRYCHIC."

"Ah? This has nothing to do with me," Chihaya Aine said, suppressing her grief. She felt far worse than Nagasaki Suyo at this moment. Suyo, whom she had loved all along, had turned out to be a liar, playing with her feelings. Being betrayed by someone you trusted was a terrible feeling.

"I want to invite Aine again, to join CRYCHIC. Our own CRYCHIC."

"???" Chihaya Aine blinked and stared at Nagasaki Motoyo motionlessly. The development of things seemed to be beyond her imagination. She thought she was going to be out.

"I was a fool. I was always trapped in the memories of the past, neglecting the people around me and treating you, Aine, as a tool. In the end, I realized that it was just my wishful thinking. So, I want to apologize to Aine and hope that Aine can forgive me."

Chihaya Aine's heart was beating fast, and her brain had regained some of its normal thinking. However, it was hard for her to accept this, especially since Nagasaki Suyo had just hit her in the past and apologized the next.

Chihaya Aine hesitated.

Seeing Chihaya Aine's hesitation, Nagasaki Suyo decided to perform a special stunt. She had been practicing for this day for so long.

"Do you want me to kneel down and apologize? I'm willing to kneel down for Aine if that's what you want."

After saying this, Nagasaki Suyo was about to demonstrate the unique skills she had practiced for many days. Chihaya Aine was terrified when she saw Nagasaki Suyo about to kneel down. How could such a thing be possible? She couldn't bear it at all.

Chihaya Aine quickly hugged Nagasaki Suyo, holding her tightly in her arms, not letting her kneel down. This kind of thing must not happen. If Suyo kneeled down to her, Chihaya Aine would feel that there would be a shadow in her heart for the rest of her life.

How vicious you are, making your best friend kneel down to you. If I didn't know beforehand, it would be fine, but now that I know, I must never let this happen. Chihaya Aine thought to herself.

"Su Shi, I forgive you. I forgive you for whatever you did wrong. Please don't kneel down." Chihaya Aine was so anxious that she was in a panic.

"Are you willing to forgive me?"

"Ah."

The two girls hugged each other and cried.

"Well, I have something else I'd like to ask Aine for help with."

"I want to build NEW CRYCHIC. Can Aine help me?"

"You want to kick Nai-chan out? That's not nice. I probably can't do it."

"No, I want NEW CRYCHIC to be the name of our band."

"That kind of thing? Although I also want the band to use the name I came up with. But, if it's Su Shi's request, I can help."

Chapter 112 Diamond Star

Asagi saw the reconciliation scene of Nagasaki Motoyo and Chihaya Aine from afar. He took out his mobile phone and pointed it at them. The figures of the two people in the phone were blurry. Because he was standing too far away, he could not clearly capture their expressions.

It’s better not to have this kind of scene, because you can’t even capture the faces of Su Shi and Aine.

Asagi put his phone down and looked at it for a while. He felt a little bored. Now that his mission was completed, it was time to leave. This kind of scene was not suitable for him to appear.

"Keep up the good work, Sushi. Come on!"

After sending a message to Nagasaki Suyo, Asagi turned and headed home. Although summer was slowly approaching, Tokyo still felt a bit chilly late at night. I wondered if 10 PM was still considered late.

Asagi sat on the train, the surrounding cars empty, with few people. Even those who worked overtime would have gone home long ago. Asagi was also surprised. Lately, he had been coming home so late, practically working harder than the overtime dog.

“When can I live a carefree life?”

That being said, if you really have nothing to do all day, you'll get bored, right? Humans are social creatures, and we need connections with others to survive.

Asagi leaned against the window, boredly looking at the scenery outside the train through the window opposite. Asagi hadn't seen Toyokawa Shoko for many days, but she remembered that she would occasionally appear on the train.

"Aine has been taken down, who are we going to capture next?"

After returning home and packing up briefly, Nagasaki Suyo sent me a message.

"Let's go with Kaname Rana." Asagi thought about it and decided to set Kaname Rana as his next target.

"Nana-chan?"

"Well, she's easy to win over. Lenai doesn't really care about things like the band's name, so you can win her over with just a little bit of goodies. Like some of her favorite snacks, desserts, or something like that."

"Nai-chan really doesn't care about these things. She only does what she likes, which sometimes makes people think she is a little willful." Nagasaki Suyo replied.

"I know what to do."

"I'm a bad guy, right?" Nagasaki Suyo asked a strange question.

Asagi looked at this question, thought about it, and decided to tease Su Shi.

"? Congratulations on finally realizing this. You still have some self-awareness."

"really?"

"I'm just kidding. If you think you're bad, it means you're a kind person. If you can feel guilty even for this level of badness, it just proves that your heart is pure. I think Su Shi is a kind child."

Striving for one's own goals is inherently a process of constantly persuading others to accommodate oneself and identify with oneself, and this can even lead to the exclusion of others. Striving inevitably brings competition, and competition inevitably leads to elimination.

Because Asagi could not sense any malice at all, perhaps because he had long been accustomed to lying. Lies gradually became a part of his life, and this kind of lie was not illegal and would not hurt others.

There was no answer.

After finishing today's affairs, Asagi fell asleep peacefully.

"Good morning, Rin-senpai, Nana-senpai, and Ai-senpai."

When Hina walked into the room that morning, three Diamond Star seniors were already seated on a sofa at the side of the room. Several of them were looking down at their phones. When they heard Hina's greeting, they all looked up and smiled.

"Good morning, Hina." Several people said in unison.

Hina sat down on the chair opposite the three seniors. She put her bag on the chair and took out her phone like her seniors, scrolling through the messages on the Internet.

Idols like these, signed to agencies, are very similar to most office workers. On the surface, they seem to have a lot more freedom, but they can't just wander around without a care in the world. Their agencies might announce something or take them out any second.

The three seniors from Diamond Star are very easy to get along with. They don't have the arrogance, overbearing attitude that would put down the juniors. Regarding Hina's arrival, the three seniors tried their best to show goodwill to her.

They took the initiative to approach Hina and answer all her questions. For this, Hina is very grateful to the three seniors from Diamond Star.

However, Hina could sense that the three seniors were reluctant to tell her some things. However, Hina did not force them to do so. She was a person who knew when to advance and when to retreat, and was very good at protecting herself. She also knew not to delve into other people's secrets.

"Rin-senpai, Nana-senpai, and Ai-senpai, would you like some snacks? I brought some with me when I came from home."

Hina took out some snacks from her bag that she had prepared specially. She bought them at a nearby store last night. They tasted good, so she brought some with her.