People are in Mygo, and I can write their personalities.

For example, Muhe Chuhua, or her own happy home... As long as they were satisfactory to her at that time, she wouldn't care whether their existence was reasonable or long-lasting.

It wasn't until an unexpected event occurred, a change that she found unacceptable, that Toyokawa Shoko, this pathetic drifter, realized she was being carried by the current to an unfamiliar future, and only then did she begin to resist and argue.

"But... what have I done?"

Xiangzi felt incompetent. Perhaps it wasn't just her who thought so now; Nanami Natsuki must have thought the same way about her long ago.

They only think of salvaging things when they discover unfavorable changes, but they do so in a very naive and passive way.

"Mu...why didn't you tell me this? Instead, you told Nanami about these things."

Feeling somewhat guilty, Xiangzi cautiously pushed the door open a crack, peeking inside to see what was happening while also making sure he wasn't discovered by the people inside.

"Everyone, look this way!"

"..."

As soon as she started eavesdropping, Toyokawa Shoko witnessed a truly bizarre scene: Wakaba Mutsumi was holding her phone, striking a selfie pose, and speaking in a very awkward voice to the empty mirror behind her, where only she was reflected, saying the words that Suze had once said.

"What is this for?"

After Mu finished taking the photo, his expression instantly changed from joy to confusion. At that moment, Xiangzi seemed to see himself in that time.

"The band name has already been decided, so I thought I'd create an account." Is it going to be "Su Shi" again this time?

Toyokawa Shoko stared in disbelief at Mutsu in the recording studio, who was playing five different characters. However, most of the time it was Wakaba Shoko, Wakaba Riki, and Wakaba Motoyo who were speaking, while the other two... "personalities" didn't seem to say much.

Oh right, back then, Xiao Deng and He Mu in the band rarely spoke.

Xiangzi stared blankly as those familiar scenes were replayed in the room, and she was even a little curious about what Mu would do when the rehearsals started.

However, a sudden question from Mu sent a chill down her spine:

"Excuse me, what can I do for you?"

"...Huh?"

Shoko Toyokawa then realized that she seemed to have been exposed, and met Mutsu's somewhat "familiar" gaze. "Are you talking to me?"

"Yes, we're rehearsing. Are you... a staff member at this live house?"

"You...don't you recognize me?"

"Huh?"

"Sorry to bother you, I was just passing by... Goodbye!"

Shoko Toyokawa simply couldn't face the unfamiliar Mutsuki Wakaba. Her physical fear eventually overcame everything, and she quickly closed the door and ran away without looking back.

............

“Su Shi, that Lan…” Ai Yin noticed that Su Shi’s eyes suddenly became somewhat eerie, so she quickly changed her words, “I meant Xiang Zi… Why hasn’t Xiang Zi come yet?”

"Yes... I hope nothing happened to Xiao Xiang."

Although Ai-yin's level of expertise was so amateurish that even Su-shi was speechless, the questions she raised were indeed something Su-shi cared about a lot.

The problems with Xiao Mu are already troublesome enough; now, is Xiao Xiang going to back down as well?

Probably not...

Xiao Xiang isn't that kind of person, and wasn't she perfectly fine yesterday? Even the loss of her musical talent couldn't dampen Xiao Xiang's spirits, and the direct cause of the band's disbandment—the family crisis—was no longer such a big deal.

So, why hasn't Xiao Xiang come here yet?

After briefly explaining to the two people inside, Nagasaki Motoyo put down her bass, picked up her phone, and left the recording studio.

After finding a quiet rest area, Su Shi bought a can of juice from a vending machine and sipped her drink while making a phone call to Xiangzi.

"Hello? Xiao Xiang...where are you?"

"Ah... Su Shi? I... I have some things to do today, so I might not be able to come."

"Huh?"

Nagasaki Motoyo frowned, a bad feeling creeping into her heart. "Xiao Xiang, are you alright?"

"It's okay, don't worry about me, you guys just practice first."

"What about tomorrow? Can you come?"

"Yes, I will definitely be there tomorrow."

"...Is that so? Then it's settled."

Nagasaki Motoyo reluctantly hung up the phone.

She had actually learned from Xiao Xiang a few days ago that when she asked Xiao Xiang if he could come before the band disbanded, Xiao Xiang was planning to reply to her.

However, Xiao Xiang was delayed by family matters at that time and was unable to send the message that could bring hope to everyone.

But this time Xiao Xiang promised me on the phone, so... it shouldn't be the same as last time, right?

Su Shi sat on the sofa next to the vending machine, her elbow, which was holding the can, resting on the back of the sofa. She was relaxed and sank into the sofa, her head turned to look at the clock on the wall... She didn't want to go back to the recording studio so soon.

Just as she was pondering how to deal with Aine in the coming days and how to persuade that Meow Dream to join Crychic, her phone rang again.

Su Shi, who was initially excited, thinking it was Xiao Xiang calling to explain what she had been busy with that day, turned ashen-faced when she saw the caller ID on her phone.

Even if Aine came to see it, she would think that Su Shi, who had been making things difficult for her in the house before, was too gentle.

"How dare you call me?"

"..."

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Nagasaki Motoyo tightened her grip on the can with her left hand, and her tone became more impolite. "Mikami Hatsuka, you're not calling now to ask me to apologize to Nanami Natsuki, are you?"

"I don't know what benefits she gave you later, maybe it was an irresistible temptation, but if it makes me feel sorry for you... never mind, what's the point of telling you this? You and I have no relationship to begin with, right?"

"It's ridiculous that I would expect you to be my ally."

As she talked, Su Shi herself felt a little bored, because she felt that Chu Hua and she didn't have much of a relationship to begin with, and that it was already quite good that Chu Hua had provided her with some information that she didn't know.

Even if she betrayed him later, it wasn't worth him yelling at her in such anger.

After all, Chu Hua isn't a member of Crychic, she's not Li hope... If it were Li hope calling, even if Su Shi answered, she wouldn't have stopped talking after only a few words.

"..."

"No, what do you mean? You called me but didn't say anything?"

"Woof woof..."

"You, you barked at me like a dog?!"

Nagasaki Motoyo realized she was wrong. She thought that Mitsumi Hatsuka was a pretty good person compared to Riki, since her first impression of her was that she was very gentle and reliable.

But this person, after learning from Riki to betray the side of justice and defect to the evil Nanami Natsuki's side, is not as good as Riki who "kindly advised" him on the phone!

"Are you insulting me? Do you think I can only understand dog barks?!"

"Woof..."

The call was disconnected; yes, it was the person who called, Sanjiao Chuhua, who disconnected it beforehand.

Nagasaki Motoyo was furious beyond words. She had never seen traitors so arrogant. However, after hesitating for a long time, she couldn't suppress her emotions and was about to call back Hatsuka to give her a good scolding when she received several consecutive LINE messages:

[Sanjiao Chuhua: I'm sorry, Su Shi, I forgot about my current situation. I really have something I want to tell you.]

[Mitsuba Hatsuka: I didn't mean to bark like a dog. It's because that bastard Nanami Natsuki turned me into this. I won't be able to stop barking like a dog whenever I open my mouth until tomorrow night.]

[Mitsuba Hatsuka: Right, I didn't quite understand what you meant earlier. Didn't you betray me back then?! Nanami Natsuki told me that it was you who spilled the beans to her, and I was forced to tell Nanami the whole truth under pressure!]

"..."

Wait, what is all this about?

Looking at this series of "explanations," Nagasaki Motoyo was hesitant to believe them, since she didn't really know the other person well.

With these doubts in mind, even though Su Shi tried to explain that they might have been tricked by Nanami Natsuki, she added that she didn't really believe her.

Trust is something that is inherently difficult to repair... Moreover, unlike the Crychic members with whom she had some foundation of friendship, Mitsumi Hatsuka was just an outsider to Nagasaki Motoyo, whose status was similar to that of Aine.

You want her to fall for your tricks again just because of a dog barking and a few explanations from the other party on the phone? Nagasaki Motoyo isn't some fool who's easily fooled.

[Sanko Chuka: How about this, can you spare some time to meet me now? There are some things I need to 'say' to you in person. Since we're trying to build trust, I think I should express my sincerity, but I need to make sure that only you know about those things.]

After a considerable delay, Su Shi received the following message on her phone.

"Say it face to face? What kind of trick is this Triangle Chuhua up to now...?"

But you want her to go back to the recording studio now and listen to Ai Yin's guitar playing, which sounds like a child learning to walk? Su Shi felt that she might as well accept the invitation and go see what this Sanjiao Chuhua was trying to explain to her.

Having agreed and confirmed the location, Su Shi returned to the recording studio, greeted Ai Yin and Xiao Deng who were slacking off inside, and then officially left RING LIVE HOUSE. While pondering how to face Chu Hua later, she headed towards the coffee shop Chu Hua had specified.

The destination wasn't far from where she was now. Perhaps it was because Chu Hua knew that she must be in RING's area, so she chose a location that wasn't too remote.

After entering the coffee shop located inside the mall, Nagasaki Motoyo quickly found the blonde girl sitting nervously in the corner, dressed in casual clothes and wearing sunglasses.

What do you want to tell me?

"..."

“…Oh, I forgot that your current setting is that you can’t speak.” Su Shi said with a hint of sarcasm, “But if that’s the case, how are you going to communicate with me?”

With a ding, a bewildered Su Shi took out her phone, glanced at the messages on it with a hint of exasperation, then looked at Chu Hua, who was completely unconcerned, and couldn't help but mutter:

"No, since you're still communicating with me via text message, why do you insist on making me come all the way here to meet you?"

I need to make sure no one else sees the messages I send you, and also, please clear the chat history afterwards.

"......ill."

She muttered a complaint under her breath, but Nagasaki Motoyo quickly accepted this very strange meeting, even though the current situation seemed more like her frantically talking to a mute person who couldn't speak.

"First, I need to confirm one thing: what is your purpose in contacting me? Even if I assume that what you said before is true, and neither of us intentionally wanted to betray the other... so what?"

Su Shi, I want to work with you.

"Me?" Nagasaki Motoyo raised an eyebrow. "I still mean the same thing: why should I believe you? I don't know you at all."

After those words, Mikasa Hatsuka, sitting opposite him, fell into a long silence.

However, unlike the silence of someone separated by the internet, where one cannot know the other's thoughts, Su Shi could see the grief and despair on the girl's face. And she was all too familiar with that expression... She had seen it on many other people before:

Lixi, Xiaoxiang... and myself in the mirror.

However, the expression that Mitsumi Hatsuka showed was more exaggerated. No... it shouldn't be called exaggerated. It was more like she was trying hard to restrain herself. But even after restraining herself, the result still made people feel that the person making the expression was extremely uneasy.