Shiina Ritsuki found it increasingly strange, because she was already waiting for Suze to lose her temper and find a reason to steer the conversation towards her, so that they could naturally get to the point...

But the current situation is that Nagasaki Motoyo doesn't seem to have any intention of paying attention to her at all. She's just sitting there watching Nanami Natsuki eat, which is making her a little hungry...

Wait a minute! Why are you feeding each other?!

No, she couldn't hold back any longer. Even if she had been successfully lured, she had to tell Su Shi her thoughts directly: that she shouldn't come looking for her here again about Crychic, and that she shouldn't use such outrageous tricks to attract her attention.

"Hey, Su Shi, what exactly are you trying to do here...?"

"Huh? I came here to bring food for Xiaoyue, and I was just about to order a cup of black tea. Are you still going to kick me out?"

She wasn't surprised that the other person knew her name, because it was also possible that Xiaoyue had told them.

Nagasaki Motoyo was indeed a little annoyed, but her tone was still relatively mild, and she didn't speak too harshly to the girl with long black hair in front of her because of what happened yesterday.

"Wait, you mean...you brought her food? No, what are you thinking? Didn't I tell you you don't need to come here to see me anymore?"

"what?"

Seeing that this person always spoke with a barb and seemed to be very hostile towards her and Xiaoyue, Nagasaki Motoyo's tone became even sharper.

"If I don't bring food for Xiaoyue, am I supposed to bring food for you? Who are you? We're not even acquainted, can you please stop being so self-centered?"

"N-Not familiar with them?!"

Shiina Ritsuki glanced at Nanami, who was smiling beside her, and suddenly she understood...

Nagasaki Motoyo is about to embrace new friends and completely sever ties with her old acquaintance.

Although doing so means that Su Shi has already decided that the past is completely over, why... does she still feel a sense of anger and resentment?

…………

Meanwhile, at home alone, Toyokawa Shoko hesitated for five or six minutes after ending her call with Nanami Natsuki before picking up her father's phone again.

Her original phone is now in her father's hands, and Xiangzi has no intention of switching the two phones. After all, her father needs to work under her identity and live his life under her identity.

This was supposed to be an opportunity for them to get to know each other, and even though both sides felt a little uncomfortable, Xiangzi's father couldn't say anything because of her insistence.

Perhaps it was also a feeling of guilt at play? Of course, Xiangzi didn't know whether her father still possessed those qualities.

Of course, she still copied down Nanami Natsuki's phone number. After contacting this despicable guy, her next step was to log into her LINE account on her father's phone and contact Nagasaki Motoyo to see if she could arrange a real-life meeting with him.

"But given my current situation... wouldn't it be troublesome if we actually met?"

Toyokawa Shoko didn't regret switching bodies, after all, she had many other things to do besides apologizing to Su Shi during this time.

For example, she could prove through her actions that she could support the family and bring happiness to them after assuming the identity of her father; or she could return to the Toyokawa family as her father and ask her grandfather what exactly happened in the family recently that she didn't know about...

[Toyokawa Shoko: Su Shi, can we talk?]

After typing those words on his phone, Xiangzi sent them without hesitation.

Not long after, a reply came from the other end:

[Nagasaki Motoyo: Who are you?]

Who am I? No, why would Su Shi say that...?

Oh right, all of Su Shi's memories of the band are in her possession, so Su Shi might genuinely not remember who she is now.

Damn it... This must have been the outcome that Nanami had foreseen, right? She wanted to put herself in this helpless situation.

[Nagasaki Motoyo: When did you add me? How do you know my real name?!]

How can this be explained?

Toyokawa Shoko felt somewhat helpless. On one hand, she felt very guilty towards Su Shi and was not very willing to face him directly; on the other hand, the newfound obsession with the band made her eager to contact everyone, including Su Shi, and rebuild the Crychic they once were.

Of course... Xiangzi is still conflicted about this last point. On the one hand, she is eager to fix everything, but on the other hand, she is afraid that she will not be able to support such a band that has no energy to deal with it.

[Toyokawa Shoko: Suze, I don't know how to explain this to you, because you might not believe that we were actually good friends before. You might have just forgotten me, and all of this is because of me. It's my fault.]

Ten seconds later, Su Shi replied.

[Nagasaki Motoyo: Are you trying to say that your so-called problem is simply because you're currently experiencing financial difficulties?]

Su Shi already knew?! Could it be... that Nanami Natsuki told Su Shi?

That's certainly a possibility. After all, Nanami Natsuki is a villain. Unless she explicitly states that she didn't do something, she might secretly do it behind your back.

[Toyokawa Shoko: So you knew all along.]

Xiangzi didn't know how much Su Shi had learned, so he could only accept what Su Shi said without offering any further explanation.

But the next moment she felt like a fool, because the reply she received was like this:

[Nagasaki Motoyo: Heh, I knew you were a liar. Pretending to be my childhood friend so you could borrow money from me, right? You damn liar, go stay on my blacklist!]

Chapter 21 Su Shi: Xiao Yue, you did a good job scolding me! (1/2)

"Xiaoyue, is this the same liar you told me about before?"

Nagasaki Motoyo handed the phone to Nanami Natsuki, pouting and asking angrily.

"Oh? Sister Su Shi, don't you know her?"

"How could that be? I don't even know when I added her. My account was probably hacked... Not long after you left this morning, she contacted me. She probably wanted to play the childhood friend card and borrow money from me, but I saw through her immediately."

Nagasaki Motoyo naturally couldn't recall anything about Shoko. In her "clear" memory, she had never been a true friend to anyone when she was studying at Tsukimori Girls' Middle School, and among her ordinary friends with whom she had a relatively close relationship, there was never a person named "Toyokawa Shoko".

"Xiaoyue, were you also deceived by her before? Is that why you asked me this when you found out that I used to be from the Upper Moon Forest?"

"Um... well... how should I put it?"

"It's alright, Xiaoyue. I am me, and she is her. Just because there's a con artist in Moon Forest doesn't mean you're a con artist too!"

Nagasaki Motoyo paid no attention to Shiina Tatsuki's increasingly dark face beside her; she simply chatted naturally with her only friend about their own topics.

"Okay, I'll tell you then. Xiangzi was really rude to me before, and she would curse at me all the time. She even accused me of being a female pervert... Waaah..."

"Xiang, Xiangzi?" Li hope, who was standing to the side, was suddenly stunned. She began to wonder what these two people were up to.

However, Su Shi didn't give her a chance to speak at all, as if she didn't exist. She only had eyes for the "wronged" little angel, Nanami Natsuki.

"How could she be so rude? Blocking her was definitely a wise move... By the way, Xiaoyue, she didn't bully you, did she?"

"She didn't bully me, but one of her friends was very rude to me. I was just trying to help her get away from Xiangzi, that jerk, when she suddenly got angry and pushed me to the ground, hit me and cursed at me, and said she would teach me a lesson."

"what?!"

"I was so angry at the time, so I called her a 'big thunder sow,' sob... Sister Su Shi, is it because of me? I shouldn't have called her that, otherwise she wouldn't have treated me like that..."

"No! You did nothing wrong! Xiaoyue, you're right to scold her! This kind of idiot who makes bad friends and doesn't know how to repent or listen to advice should be treated like this!"

What Nagasaki Motoyo hates most is people who attack without knowing the facts, especially when the target is this delicate little girl who has no chance to fight back.

"Really? But swearing is bad, isn't it..."

"You're not just randomly swearing at people without any reason, so what's the big deal? Pfft... But calling her 'Big Thunder Sow' is a bit too... cough cough, anyway, Xiaoyue, you're not wrong. Just keep teasing her like that next time you see her!"

"Let her be friends with the scammer and even protect him..."

"Ah... alright, fine, since you insist..."

Nanami Natsuki was almost bursting out laughing.

It wasn't just because teasing Nagasaki Motoyo, who had bullied her before, made her feel good; it was also because during this time she had received a series of strong emotions from Motoyo, including but not limited to "a sense of justice," "anger," "sympathy," and "overflowing maternal love."

At this rate, she should be able to reach her goal of 5000 emotion points in 10 days.

"Have you all said enough?! And you, Nagasaki Motoyo, what's wrong with you? You were fine yesterday, but today you've suddenly figured it out and decided to say goodbye to everything from the past?"

"..."

Nagasaki Motoyo was a little confused when she was suddenly yelled at by the long-haired, black-haired, and irritable girl. However, she was also a little puzzled and curious, since she always felt that this girl, whom Satsuki called "Shiina-chan," seemed to have known her before.

"Su Shi, do you really have to go this far?"

What did I do?

"you……"

Shiina Riki felt as if she had fallen into a trap, because she was indeed filled with an anger she had never felt before because of Nagasaki Motoyo's "performance".

She admitted that she could never forget Crychic, but she couldn't forgive Xiangzi for never apologizing or making amends for the band's disbandment. She felt that if this problem wasn't resolved, the so-called band reunion would just be another blow to Deng.

Whether you forgive her or not is one thing, but it's impossible to expect her to completely treat the past as if it never happened, like Su Shi is doing now.

Without Crychic, how could she have met Lamp? How could she have found her own path when she was lost and confused because she envied her sister's talent?

Crychic may never come back, but those memories can never be erased. If even those past experiences are completely denied, then what difference is there between her and that bastard Toyokawa Shoko?

"Su Shi, are you really going to say that none of this ever happened, that the band never existed, and that the time we spent working together never happened?"

"A band?" Nagasaki Motoyo frowned, giving Nanami Natsuki, who had brought up the same topic yesterday, a strange look.

However, Nanami Natsuki seemed to be still eating her meal in small bites, completely unaware of what they were talking about.

"I don't remember ever being in any bands. If I had to say, the only thing I remember is being a member of the wind band and playing the double bass."

"..."

Seeing Li hope's sad expression, Su Shi softened her tone, "I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe you've mistaken me for someone else? I only met you yesterday, and I only learned your name from Xiao Yue."

"You... never mind."

Shiina Riki originally wanted to say something to expose Su Shi's despicable lie, such as revealing other information about Su Shi... but she sadly discovered that she only seemed to know Su Shi's name and school, and didn't even know her class or home address.

Saying it out loud might only corroborate the other party's point of view, further confirming the so-called "truth" that Su Shi claimed they didn't "know" each other.

As for mentioning the things everyone experienced together during the Crychic era, is it to prove that those things actually happened?

it's useless……

You can't wake someone who's pretending to be asleep. As long as Nagasaki Motoyo continues to deny everything, she can pretend that nothing has happened. As long as the band is still falling apart, all explanations are meaningless.

So that's how it is... Perhaps Su Shi really is tired.

Previously, Lixi was very impatient with Su Shi's entanglement, but it is undeniable that it was also because Lixi disliked Su Shi's undignified behavior of trying to please Xiangzi.

She felt that the band's disbandment was not their fault at all—of course, Xiao Mu's last statement was also problematic—Su Shi should not have so humbly taken on all the responsibility.

Perhaps this is a good outcome? After all, Su Shi has moved on, she has completely given up... given up on losing face and cleaning up someone else's mess at all costs.

"I'm sorry, maybe I really mistook you for someone else? My old friend looks a bit like you, and the pronunciation of her name is similar. I just mistook her for you."

"I knew it! See?"

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