I just want a single ending

Taking her attention away from Shiina Riki, Nagasaki Suyo asked about today's rehearsal plan.

"Continue practicing 'Kasuga Shadow' and wait until I finish composing the music for 'Ishizuku Sora' before changing." Shiina Tatsuki answered.

"Ah."

No one raised any objections to this.

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In the blink of an eye, it was afternoon.

After the rehearsal, they all dispersed.

After rejecting Nagasaki Suyo's suggestion to go home together and saying that he wanted to go explore the shops, Kamikawa Su left the ring alone.

"I've been to all these stores."

He randomly chose a road and walked along it for a while. Then, looking at the familiar shops, he simply chose to pass by them.

Just as Kamikawa was about to continue walking along the road, a girl who looked familiar came out of a karaoke bar not far ahead.

She has long red hair, fashionable clothes, and carries a big guitar bag on her back.

"Are you Kita?"

Kamikawa Su quickly walked up to the girl and couldn't help but ask.

Hearing the familiar voice calling her name, Kita Ikuyo subconsciously turned her head to look over.

"Ah~ Good afternoon, Kamikawa-senpai!"

After seeing it was him, he smiled and greeted him, but his voice sounded a little hoarse.

"You are actually Kita!"

Kamikawa Su glanced into the karaoke bar, and after making sure that no one else came out and she was the only one there, she said in great surprise.

"Kamikawa-senpai, what's wrong with you?" Kita Ikuyo tilted her head in confusion. "Why haven't you dared to confirm who I am?"

Kamikawa Su explained, "Nothing, I just can't believe you'd actually come to a place like karaoke by yourself."

Chapter 231 It’s all their fault!

"Eh? Does Kamikawa-senpai think it's weird for me to come to karaoke alone?"

Hearing his biased remarks, Kita Ikuyo couldn't help but complain, her voice still hoarse.

In his mind, how weak is his own personality?

"Isn't that so?" Kamikawa Su said matter-of-factly. "With your personality, it's absolutely impossible for you to come to a place like a karaoke bar alone."

A real-life character like her will always call her friends and go with many people no matter where she goes or what she does.

Being alone is the most impossible thing.

That's why he couldn't believe that Kita Ikuyo would come to karaoke alone just now.

"It seems so."

After thinking about the past for a while, Kita Ikuyo admitted that what he said was indeed correct.

"By the way, what's wrong with you? Why did you suddenly come to a place like this alone?"

As Kamikawa Supo spoke, he took out a bottle of mineral water from his backpack and handed it over.

Fortunately, today was the day the band had rehearsal, otherwise he wouldn't be walking down the street with a bag full of drinks and snacks on the weekend.

"Drink some water first, and then answer my questions."

"Thank you."

After Kita Ikuyo took it, she unscrewed it with a little force and began to drink it in small sips.

After a while, she felt her throat was much better, and then she continued, "...I just suddenly wanted to experience what it's like to go to karaoke alone."

"Experience?"

Kamikawa Suku was very skeptical of this answer.

"Yeah, Kamikawa-senpai, haven't you done something like going to the cinema alone before?"

In order to increase the persuasiveness, Kita Ikuyo also gave an example of something he had done.

"I'm just here at karaoke alone. There's not much difference between what you and Kamikawa-senpai are doing, right?"

"You're right, there really isn't any difference." Kamikawa Suku seemed to agree with her explanation. "Sometimes, people do have sudden ideas that they really want to realize."

“Even though I know there’s no point in trying to achieve it, I still want to try.”

"And the sudden urge to try karaoke alone is probably one of those things, right?"

"Yes."

Seeing that it was just fooled, Kita Ikuyo happily agreed.

As a result, the next second after she relaxed, Kamikawa Su took the opportunity to add, "But, Kita, you've been coming to karaoke alone all this time, right? It seems that doesn't match what you just said."

"Eh?! H-How did you know that?"

Kita Ikuyo was stunned for a moment, with an incredible expression on her face.

Just as he said, he had indeed been going to karaoke alone during this period.

But she never told anyone about this.

So, here is the problem?

How did Kamikawa Suku know this?

Tracking yourself?

Impossible, there's no reason for him to do such a thing.

Moreover, if he was following me, he would never have reacted like that just now.

She really couldn't understand it.

"So, you admit that you've been coming to karaoke alone a lot lately?"

Kamikawa Suku did not answer her question, but wanted to get a confirmation.

"Ah."

Since he had said it directly, Kita Ikuyo gave up the idea of ​​hiding it any further.

"It's simple. I just guessed."

After she said that, Kamikawa Suku began to answer.

"How did you guess that?" Kita Ikuyo looked confused.

Even if it's a guess, it can't be that accurate, right?

"Because your Instagram and Twitter updates have dropped a lot. You usually post several times a day, but now you only post two, sometimes only one. This is such an obvious change that it's hard not to notice."

Originally, Kawasaku was planning to find an opportunity to ask Kita Ikuyo about this matter, but now it seems that there is no need to ask anymore.

The answer is already obvious.

"Considering the fact that you came to karaoke alone, I can naturally draw a conclusion."

"That is, you've been coming to karaoke alone all this time."

"As a result, you have nothing to shoot."

"After all, you can't keep posting photos of yourself at karaoke for days in a row, right?"

“So, your update frequency has decreased a lot.”

"This is my guess, is there anything wrong?"

Kita Ikuyo exclaimed in astonishment, "Kamikawa-senpai, are you a detective?"

He was right, the facts were exactly as he said.

"No, what kind of detective work is this? It's not a very difficult puzzle." Kamikawa Saku quickly denied it. "Anyone who's not an idiot should be able to guess what's going on."

"Anyway, Senior Kamikawa is very awesome." Kita Ikuyo couldn't stop praising him.

"So, am I right?"

Shangchuan Su saw that she was trying to change the subject, so he naturally wouldn't be fooled.

"Ah."

Hearing this, Kita Ikuyo could only nod.

"So, can you tell me the real reason why you came to karaoke alone?" Kamikawa Su was still obsessed with this question. "Or, why did you come to karaoke alone to practice singing and playing guitar?"

The more she tried to hide it, the more he wanted to know.

It is impossible for Kita Ikuyo to change her behavior habits for no reason.

There must be something wrong.

"Senior Kamikawa, you figured it out." Kita Ikuyo smiled awkwardly.

"If a detective can't even see these things, can he still be called a detective?"

No one can fail to see such an obvious fact.

Her slightly hoarse voice when she spoke was obviously caused by singing practice.

The guitar bag she was carrying indicated that she was playing guitar in karaoke.

"..."

This time, Kita Ikuyo did not give any praise, but remained silent, as if she had no intention of speaking.

"By the way, Kita, do you remember the day we pretended to be a couple?"

After waiting for a while, seeing that she was still like this, Kamikawa Su started talking about other things.

"still remember."

There is no way Kita Ikuyo could easily forget such a memorable thing.

Kamikawa Su went on to say, "Then do you remember the time when we played basketball on the shooting machine and had a competition?"

"Ah."

Kita Ikuyo already knew what he was going to say.

"At that time, we agreed that the winner could make a reasonable request of the other party, and the loser would decide whether it was excessive or not," Kamikawa Su said with a chuckle. "In the end, I won, but I didn't use that request at the time. I kept it."

"Did I say anything wrong?"

"No."

All of what he said were good things.

"Well, I'd like to use this request now." Shangchuan Su looked at her with eyes full of worry. "Can you tell me now why you often come to karaoke alone during this period?"

"If you think it's excessive, you can refuse to answer."

He knew that what he did was very bad.

Keep asking about the other person's thoughts that they are unwilling to express.

Even if his intentions were good and he wanted to help Kita Ikuyo.

But the fact that the behavior is wrong cannot be changed.

Knowing this, he still had to do it.

There's no way around it. Takamatsu Touma and Shiina Tatsuki are the best examples.

Even though I was able to help successfully those two times, it doesn’t mean that I will be successful every time.

Especially Tatsuki Shiina.

It was really almost there.

To avoid situations similar to Shiina Riki from happening again.

He really wanted to know what Kita Ikuyo was worried about.