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"I'm sorry, Shirakawa-kun, I don't know much about this."

Shirakawa Sawa continued speaking.

"The planet I'm pointing to is Venus, one of the eight planets."

“It was already there when we met at the school gate, but it wasn’t that clear then.”

“It was already observable last week, but the location was different. With each passing day, the location where it was observed would be a little lower.”

"Correspondingly, when you see it again tomorrow, its position will be a little higher than today."

Shirakawa moved his finger slightly to the right.

"Nagasaki-san, can you see what's here?"

Nagasaki Motoyo looked at it carefully, and then spoke.

There is a star that is not very bright.

Shirakawa Ze gently shook his head.

"Actually, there are many, but our naked eye can only observe one."

"These stars are the Pleiades cluster M45, an open cluster in the constellation Taurus."

A smile appeared on Nagasaki Motoyo's face.

"Wow, that's amazing. You know so much."

Although she still doesn't understand what the other person is trying to express, it's always good to play the straight man for now.

Shirakawa Sawa turned to look at Nagasaki Motoyo, his eyes also showing a hint of seriousness.

"Nagasaki-san, do you know how I found out all this?"

Nagasaki Motoyo put on the mask that she found very interesting and looked at the other person.

"Hmm? How did you know?"

Shirakawa Sawa: "It was Tou-chan who told me."

"Eh?"

Nagasaki Motoyo felt a little confused. She looked at the boy in front of her with a puzzled look in her eyes.

She didn't expect the other person to bring up the topic of Takamatsu lamps.

Shirakawa turned to look at Venus.

"When Deng Jiang told me these things, her eyes were sparkling, as if the entire galaxy was flowing in her eyes."

"She told me that she has loved looking at stars since she was a child, and she also likes things related to stars, such as konpeito (Japanese sugar candy)."

She also said that she likes to collect things that she finds interesting. When she was a child, she thought it was fun that pill bugs would turn round when touched, so she collected a bunch and gave them to her friends, but she didn't expect to scare them to tears.

"I also told her a lot about my childhood in the orphanage, like how I tricked my friends into using a slingshot to shoot down a hornet's nest, and how I waited outside the henhouse for her to lay an egg but ended up scaring her so much that she couldn't lay it."

"Some things are still interesting to talk about now, some things are a bit boring to think about now, and some things are a bit sad to think about now..."

"But none of that matters."

"The important thing is that we are sharing with each other."

"The most important thing between friends is sharing."

Nagasaki Motoyo listened intently. Looking at the boy in front of her, she seemed to understand something. Why was it that she had been struggling to get close to Toyokawa Shoko and Takamatsu Akari for months, but he was able to become familiar with them in just a few days after the start of the school year?

She unconsciously sat up straighter and mentally repeated what the other person had just said.

"The most important thing between friends is sharing..."

Nagasaki Motoyo felt her thoughts gradually becoming clearer.

"It is indeed the case."

"Looking back on my interactions with the other party, I either used past events to put pressure on them or I asked one-sided questions, like I was interrogating a criminal."

"If it were me, I wouldn't want to be friends with this kind of person either."

Only now is she beginning to understand what her mother told her a few days ago.

Looking at the boy before her, she felt the power contained in his words even more.

“Ze-jun, I…”

Shirakawa made a "shush" gesture, indicating that she should not speak yet.

“Nagasaki-kun, I can feel your feelings and your deep attachment to your friends.”

"That's why I'm still willing to communicate with you."

"Because I think that someone who values ​​friends so much can't be a bad person at heart."

"But for someone who isn't your friend, your actions really hurt me, which is why I treated you badly before."

"Since you want to be friends with me now, I will definitely explain my thoughts to you."

"As for the rest, it all depends on fate."

After saying that, Shirakawa Sawa got up and left.

Nagasaki Motoyo slowly rose, watching the other person's departing figure, her mind a jumble of thoughts...

Volume 1: Chapter 30 Su Shi, You Have a Motherly Feeling

After Shirakawa Sawa disappeared from her sight, Nagasaki Motoyo left the park and headed home.

"Buzz"

The phone vibrated twice.

She opened her phone and saw a message from Ruoye Mu.

"You've seen Xiangzi."

Upon seeing the message, Nagasaki Motoyo immediately realized that the other party must have been misunderstood by Toyokawa Shoko, and replied immediately.

"Xiao Mu, I was planning to go to Xiuhua High School to find someone, but I didn't expect Xiao Xiang to be at that school too."

"You must have been misunderstood, right? I'm going to go and explain to Xiao Xiang now."

After sending the message, Nagasaki Motoyo opened her chat box with Toyokawa Shoko. It was filled with messages, but they were all sent by her alone. The other party had not replied and there was no indication that the message had been read.

"Xiao Xiang, I want to explain what happened today to you."

"I actually went to your school to look for someone. I didn't know you were there beforehand, and Xiao Mu never mentioned anything about you to me."

"So this was a complete accident, not something I was told."

After sending it, she was still a little worried, so she added another message.

"I don't want any more misunderstandings between us, so what I just said is 100% true."

After checking and confirming that there were no typos or ambiguous sentences, Nagasaki Motoyo returned to her chat with Wakaba Mutsumi and saw that he had replied with "It's okay".

She put away her phone, sighed softly, and continued walking forward.

When she reached the entrance of RiNG, she stopped and turned to look inside.

After watching for a while, I decided to go in anyway.

Although she and Shiina Ritsuki weren't exactly on the same wavelength, he was still one of her few friends.

At that moment, she felt she desperately needed company, even if the other person didn't look too happy.

Nagasaki Motoyo went straight to the second-floor lounge area and saw Shiina Tatsuki standing behind the counter making matcha parfaits. In front of her, a silver-haired girl was peering at the counter with longing in her eyes.

Nagasaki Motoyo didn't know Kaname, so she glanced at her and then ignored her. She walked to the counter, greeted her, and

"Lixi."

Shiina Riki looked up and then hummed in agreement.

Nagasaki Motoyo didn't sit at the counter; she remained standing. She felt that sitting on that stool wasn't elegant enough, but she still wanted to chat with the other person.

Shiina Ritsuki placed the matcha parfait she had made in front of Kaname, then looked at her.

"Did you come here today for something?"

"Or would you like something to drink?"

Nagasaki Motoyo lowered her eyes and gently shook her head.

She didn't want to bring up Toyokawa Shoko with the other person, even though that was the source of her current sadness.

Shiina Tatsuki sensed that the girl in front of her, who always seemed mature and gentle, appeared somewhat sad and lost today. Apart from the day Toyokawa Shoko left the band, she had never seen her with such an expression.

She didn't know how strong the other person's mental resilience was, but she knew that the other person was someone who wouldn't easily show negative emotions in front of others. The way she was now, she must have just experienced something that triggered her.

Although she had many thoughts in her mind and wanted to comfort the other person, she didn't know how to say it, so she silently turned around, made a cup of black tea, and placed it in front of the other person.

"It's your treat."

Nagasaki Motoyo looked up at the cold-faced girl in front of her, a hint of surprise and emotion flashing in her eyes.

"Lixi..."

Shiina Tatsuki looked away without saying anything.

Nagasaki Motoyo picked up her cup and took a sip, feeling the warmth of the hot black tea flowing not to her stomach, but to her heart.

She put down the cup, and the expression on her face softened.

"Thank you, Lixi."

The other party did not reply.

But then, Kaoruna, who was eating a matcha parfait and watching her, suddenly spoke up.

"The feeling of a mother."

At first, Nagasaki Motoyo didn't react much, but when she realized the other person was staring at her as they spoke, she suddenly felt awkward and started sweating, inwardly complaining.

"Mom's feeling... what is this...?"