After dropping out of school, I chose to join a girls' band.

However, they discovered that the hour hand of the clock on the wall was only pointing to nine, which meant that it only took Yue an hour to clean the entire living room.

"I can't possibly spend my weekends in bed..."

Yue reflected on her past weekends. Leaving aside the weekends during her break from school, it seemed that the two weekends she spent after joining Yuqiu were spent playing games on the sofa at home.

"No! I must change starting now!"

Yue took out her phone, gently swiped the screen, opened her contacts, and looked at the names on it.

Her fingertip hovered over the screen as she pondered who she should invite out to play.

"First, let's exclude those from Shengxiang. I don't want to see Taozi anytime soon. Meeting with others will eventually get back to Taozi, and I feel like that would be too much trouble."

The moon's finger swept past the names above and stopped at the name Toyokawa Shoko.

"Toyokawa-kun..."

Yue recalled the genuine smile on Shoko's face that day.

"Why don't you give it a try?"

Her fingertips danced across the screen, typing out a message which she sent to Xiangzi.

"Xiangzi, can we hang out this weekend?"

I received Xiangzi's reply not long after.

"Thank you for your invitation, Yue, but I'm sorry I don't have time at the moment."

The words reveal the image Xiangzi presents to the outside world: elegant and considerate.

Yue silently stared at her phone screen, looking at Xiangzi's brief but polite reply. After thinking for a while, she replied.

"It's alright, Xiangzi. Let's make time again next time if we have time."

Yue continued to scroll down the phone screen, gradually browsing the contacts in her address book.

She hadn't paid attention to this contact list before, but now that she looked through it, she realized that she had added so many people she had only exchanged a few words with.

"I have so many people in my contacts, but I can't find a single friend I can hang out with on the weekend..."

As Yue thought this, she began to clean up some people she probably would never contact again.

"Let me see... Miki Sato, Risa Murakami, and Hiko Tomoe were all colleagues at Sweet Pleas... I guess we can probably delete these names..."

Yue ruthlessly deleted the contact information of these former colleagues.

Yue's eyes lingered on a name in her contacts: "Sankaku Hatsuka...who is this?"

A sense of curiosity welled up within her, because the name left some impression on her mind; she seemed to have heard others mention it often, but she couldn't match it with any face she remembered.

She gently bit her lower lip, searching her mind, and finally found traces of him in the corner of her memory.

This probably happened after Sweet Pleas disbanded, when I was studying at Seisho High School.

My former manager sent me a message saying that one of her juniors, whom she is currently managing, is a fan of hers and wants an autograph. She asked if I had time to meet her.

I think I added the other person as a friend and then arranged to meet at a certain place.

Yue's thoughts wandered through her memories, and she recalled past events related to this name.

She vaguely remembered that the other person seemed to be a blonde girl.

The reason why Yue could still remember Misaka, whom she had only met once, was because her smile was very warm and comforting.

Her former agent even boasted to her that he had found a new talent who was no less capable than her.

"Come to think of it, I do seem to have heard this name somewhere recently... Oh right! The lead singer of that popular idol duo, sumimi."

Based on her memories, Yue searched further and finally found the reason why the face seemed familiar yet she could hardly place it.

Recently, thanks to the efforts of capital investment, sumimi's advertisements have been placed in almost every corner of Tokyo, and sumimi's new songs are being played on almost every fluorescent screen.

As a result, she gained widespread attention among high school girls, and she often heard her classmates discussing Sumi's new song.

"Fine... since they're my fan, I'll keep them."

After thinking for a while, Yue removed her finger from the delete key and continued to move her gaze downwards, where she saw the familiar panda icon.

"Lixi... never mind."

Lately, whenever she sees He Lixi's name, she feels like banging her head against a wall and dying.

What was wrong with me that night?!

In the end, there was only one answer left: her back seat, Haneoka's little animals, the head of the Astronomy Department, Crychic's lead singer, Takamatsu Akari.

"The lamp? Come to think of it, the person I was closest to at school was definitely the lamp, but I don't know why... I always feel that the lamp and the peach have something in common..."

"Let's give it a try..."

"Deng, do you have time to go out and play today?"

Before long, Deng's reply appeared on the phone.

"Okay... Yue, where are we going?"

Having finally found someone to go out and have fun with, Yue sprang up from the soft sofa and seriously considered where they should go.

However, after thinking about their shared hobby, Yue realized that if they were to go for it, the only option would be to visit the planetarium again.

"Do you have any ideas about the lamp?"

After much deliberation, having lost many brain cells, Yue finally decided to hand over the decision-making power to Deng.

"Want to try it at the aquarium?"

Yue stared at the reply from the light on her phone screen, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes.

"An aquarium... seems like a nice place, but I always feel like there are a lot of couples there on weekends."

After thinking it over, Yue realized that she couldn't think of a better place to go.

"Then let's go to the aquarium."

Yue finally replied on her phone.

Before the stage opens: Chapter Twenty-Five: The Aquarium

As May approaches, the spring breeze no longer carries a hint of chill, but is gentle and warm.

A gentle breeze blows, and cherry blossom petals dance in the air, releasing a faint fragrance.

Yue wore a simple white T-shirt with a light blue jacket over it, the cuffs slightly rolled up, showing a casual style.

She wore light blue shorts that showed off her long legs, and the slightly exposed knees revealed her youthful vitality.

Wearing black knee-high socks and simple white sneakers, her steps were light and agile.

When the moon arrived at Ring, it saw a person squatting by the door, watching the insects slowly crawling in the flower bed.

"Good morning, light!"

Yue carefully and silently crept up behind the lamp, patted her shoulder, and greeted her.

"Well."

Deng's body trembled slightly. She slowly turned her head and saw that it was Yue. The tension on her face gradually faded.

Good morning, Yue.

"What is the lamp looking at?"

The moon crouched down beside the lamp and looked into the flower bed. In the artificially planted greenery, some natural creatures had already taken up residence, and various insects were busy inside.

"Wheat worms..."

Liu Jiudeng's gaze lingered on a rock, where she pointed to a small, black insect curled up in a ball.

What features of a pill bug would a light find appealing?

The moon looked at the watermelon worms under the stone.

It hides under rocks, and its appearance is not as outstanding as that of a butterfly. It has no remarkable features and even hides in various dark corners because it is afraid of sunlight.

"I don't know either, I just feel that they don't want to see the sunlight, they're very similar."

The image of the worm and butterfly that the lamp had drawn on the notebook flashed before Yue's eyes.

"This child...is far too insecure."

Yue turned her gaze back to the pill bugs on the ground.

Actually, when I think about it carefully, I seem to have some similarities with pill bugs...

They were all afraid of the sun, afraid of its brilliance.

"Oh, sorry, we should be going to the aquarium."

After squatting by the flower bed for a while, Deng finally realized that he had made an appointment with Yue to go to the aquarium, not to look at the flower bed here.

"It's alright. Sometimes looking at insects can be quite interesting."

Yue smiled slightly, indicating that she didn't need to worry too much.

"Then let's set off for the aquarium!"

However, as soon as Yue took a step, she suddenly realized that she didn't know which aquarium to go to, and she didn't know why such a small place as Tokyo had two or three aquariums.

When she was still at Shengxiang, she heard her teacher mention a case involving a senior colleague.

It is said that one of her seniors once traveled all over Tokyo and visited three different aquariums in order to find her roommate.

"Moon...what's wrong?"

Deng looked at Yue and asked as she suddenly stopped walking.

"Lights...which aquarium should we go to..."

Yue asked, a hint of confusion in her eyes.

“Hmm… there’s an aquarium right next to the planetarium we went to last time, it’s very close to here,” Deng said.

———The girl is walking———

The two walked and arrived at the entrance of the aquarium.