Band heavy girl? Please stay away from me

Among the other five members of CRYCHIC, Shiina Riki failed to persuade even one of them.

Even Takamatsu Deng, whom she trusted deeply, remained silent when she talked about this matter and did not express a clear intention.

This is very difficult to do.

Therefore, Shiina Tatsuki chose to come to Nagasaki Motoyo today, hoping to persuade her to form a new band.

But in fact, the reason why Shiina Riki wanted to form a new band was not just for Takamatsu Touma, but also because of her own wishes.

If Xiangzi quit...

Then it should be my turn to compose music in the band, right? After all my hard work, can the music I create now compare to Toyokawa Shoko's?

Shiina Riki wanted to give it a try, so she went against her usual practice and invited former members of CRYCHIC, who were familiar with each other, to form a band again.

"How can CRYCHIC be without Xiangzi?!" Nagasaki Suyo slammed the table, instantly causing Li Xi's dissatisfaction.

"Huh? Were you listening to me?"

Shiina Riki said firmly:

"Shouldn't I have already mentioned this? It doesn't have to be CRYCHIC."

"Since Xiangzi, who formed the band, doesn't care about CRYCHIC anyway, why should we continue to stay in this band?"

Even Shiina Riki herself didn't realize that when she said these words, she seemed to have some shadow of a certain white-haired person, even the tone was very similar.

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62. Xiang’s Good Friday

Does Shoko Toyokawa care about CRYCHIC?

Maybe......

After all, this is the band she formed herself, carrying a short part of her life.

What's more, apart from the good memories of CRYCHIC, Toyokawa Shoko seems to have nothing left.

He was even deprived of his hobby of playing the piano and had to live in a small rented house all day.

If anything, she still had a customer service job and 5000 yen from Rin, and that was all she had.

And when Xiangzi clearly heard Li Xi say "Toyokawa Xiangzi doesn't care about CRYCHIC", she admitted that her heart was deeply touched.

The heart was beating mournfully.

The complex emotions were like an electric current about to overload, crackling and finally exploding in Xiangzi's mind. After the emotional program loaded incorrectly, she could no longer remain calm.

The girl was shaking violently.

Fortunately, the doll costume perfectly concealed her appearance, and no one could see the inappropriate expression of Toyokawa Shoko under the doll costume.

But the fact is that she was the first to quit CRYCHIC. This was the path chosen by Xiangzi, and there was no turning back.

She didn't know whether she should feel bad that her former bandmates were planning to exclude her from forming a new band.

Reason told her that the behavior of the two team members in front of her had nothing to do with her. Those who voluntarily withdrew had no right to interfere, and she had no right to restrict other people's lives.

But the girl couldn't stop feeling the pain in her heart.

This is like the boomerang that Su Shi had thrown before.

Am I the only one who cares about CRYCHIC?

This was the first time Shoko Toyokawa had this experience.

Such a humble thought...

But it did happen and could not be stopped.

"What's going on with this bear? Why is it standing next to us?"

When Xiangzi came to his senses, the first sentence he heard was a question from Shiina Riki.

Two burning gazes pierced directly at Toyokawa Shoko who was standing there in a daze. The scrutinizing gaze made Shoko inside the teddy bear suddenly nervous.

Damn it, I’m not going to be discovered, am I?

If Nagasaki Suyo and the others came to question him, should he speak up? Or should he just run away with the flyer?

"Lixi, don't change the subject."

"I know, but don't you think it's strange? Instead of handing out flyers, it just sits on the street and doesn't move. Isn't it obvious that..."

Time to run away...

This was Shoko Toyokawa's first thought.

Before his brain gave any instructions, Xiangzi's legs had already taken a step forward unconsciously.

Perhaps because he had escaped too many times recently, Xiangzi even felt particularly skilled at it and disappeared around the corner of the street in a few seconds.

Sitting in an open-air cafe, Shiina Tatsuki and Nagasaki Motoyo looked at each other and saw a strong sense of strangeness in each other's eyes.

"There is indeed a problem..." Li Xi frowned.

"I think it was Lixi who scared them away."

Su Shi retorted mercilessly.

Since the conversation between the two of them has broken down, there is no need for him to pretend to be as gentle as before.

In any case, in Nagasaki Suyo's opinion, it doesn't matter whether she has a good relationship with Shiina Riki or not. As long as she can get Deng into the team, Riki will definitely join at the first time and give up her idea of ​​forming a new band.

In this way, facing Shiina Tatsuki who wanted to kick Xiangzi out and form a new band, the conservative representative - Nagasaki Suyo naturally would not give the other party a good face.

at the same time.

Just as the two girls in the band were having a heated discussion about the band's affairs, the escaping Toyokawa Shoko had already arrived at another street.

"Hoohoohoo..."

The loose doll costume was very inconvenient to run in. Even Xiangzi couldn't help but be out of breath after running such a long distance.

But that doesn't matter.

At this time, Shoko Toyokawa was still immersed in the conversation between Riki and Sushi.

It may feel awkward, but this is indeed the true inner thoughts of the girl named Toyokawa Shoko.

I can quit, but you can't forget?

Really high and mighty...

Xiangzi smiled bitterly and continued to distribute flyers, hoping that the fatigue from work would make him forget his troubles.

It's hot and noisy, and even if you make a lot of money, it can't change the fatigue of working in a doll costume.

It took a total of three hours, and Xiangzi worked himself into a sweat in exchange for a free lunch box and a salary of 3000 yen.

But after the girl had eaten and drunk her fill and received her salary, she didn't have time to be happy for long before the receptionist told her some bad news:

"I'm sorry, Ms. Fengchuan, our department just hired a permanent employee today, and there are no vacancies now. You don't have to come to work tomorrow."

Xiangzi had not signed a labor contract with them, so even if they broke the contract midway, they did not have to pay Xiangzi a penny, let alone liquidated damages.

Faced with this sudden bad news, Xiangzi, a student, was completely helpless and had no choice but to accept it.

"I see......"

After all, he earned 3000 yen, so Xiangzi didn't feel too bad.

However, it was too early for Shoko Toyokawa to rejoice.

Because on her way home, the bad news came quietly.

“Ding ding…”

The cell phone suddenly rang.

Xiangzi took out her cell phone in confusion, and a line of numbers that were very familiar to her appeared in her sight - the number of the Metropolitan Police Department.

A bad premonition quietly arose in the girl's heart.

The phone call from the Metropolitan Police Department seems very far away from the lives of ordinary people, but for Shoko Toyokawa, it is a phone that rings automatically every once in a while.

But every time the phone rings, nothing good is going to happen.

"Mosimoxi?"

The girl answered the phone nervously, with beads of sweat on her forehead from being trapped in her doll costume. A moment later, a resolute male voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Ms. Toyokawa, right? Your family has been detained for drinking on the street. Please come here now with cash so we can bail them out."

Snap.

The phone fell to the ground.

Xiangzi remained in the same posture as when answering the phone, frozen in place, his gaze fixed blankly ahead, the bright light in his amber eyes gradually fading.

Something seems to be broken...

But the world will not stop functioning just because of Xiangzi. The policeman on the phone is still saying:

"Please come to the second floor of the Metropolitan Police Department tonight to bail out your family."

“Ding ding…”

After leaving a final notice, the policeman on the other end of the phone hung up, and the blank noise echoed alone in the quiet alley.

A girl, a dark night, and a quiet alley.

thump.

Shoko Toyokawa knelt on the ground weakly, her hands hanging limply on both sides of her thighs. Despair engulfed the girl in an instant.

More like a fallen girl than a fallen girl.

When Xiangzi saw the call from the Metropolitan Police Department, he immediately understood the whole story.

The dad who stayed in his room drinking all day had absolutely no money in his pocket.

Now I was told by the police that my father was detained for alcoholism. Where did he get the money to buy alcohol?

If he didn't steal or rob, the 5000 yen was probably just left on the table because of his carelessness, right?

But that's the money Rin gave me!

I haven’t even had time to use it myself!

How could Daddy use this money to buy alcohol?

Now he was even arrested by the police for being drunk on the street and had to pay a ransom again...

The ransom from the Metropolitan Police Department of Japan is not cheap. Based on Shoko Toyokawa's understanding of her father, the 5000 yen was probably spent by him on alcohol.

If she wanted to redeem her father, Shoko Toyokawa would have to rely on the 3000 yen she had just earned in less than an hour today.

and then?

Survive a week on a few hundred yen?

"How could Daddy..."

Xiangzi lowered his head silently, closed his eyes, and bit his lower lip tightly.

Because he was kneeling on the ground, Xiangzi's knees were inevitably covered with a thick layer of dirt, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

Dark clouds gathered in the sky, but since it was nighttime, most passers-by in the city did not notice the sudden change in the weather.

This also included the lonely blue-haired girl who was completely unaware that a rainstorm was about to come.

Still immersed in his own world.

why?

5000 yen is such a meaningful gift...

Why did it lose so easily?

I even fantasized that if I worked part-time to earn some money in the next few days, maybe I wouldn't have to spend the 5000 yen.