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

"How could someone as poor as me have a computer?"

"What about the musical instrument?!"

"Of course not... Oh right, would you consider me a musical instrument?"

"...Eh?" Shiina Tatsuki's face suddenly turned bright red. "What...what...what shameless things are you saying?!"

"You're the shameless one! Isn't the human voice a type of instrument? I'm asking you, isn't the human voice considered an instrument in an orchestra?!"

"Calculate……"

Although there is no definitive answer in music theory as to what kind of instrument the human voice belongs to, it is indeed considered an instrument... No, why is she worrying about this!

"Ahem, well then, I'll perform my most prized skill: the human vocal instrumental piece!"

"Stop! You...you mustn't..."

Shiina Riki, remembering what had just happened, couldn't help but interrupt the little witch's "musical performance," which was about to go completely off track.

However, after rehearsing it in her mind, she was indeed certain that her lost talent had returned, although... other people's talents didn't seem to be considered "lost".

"Nanami...do you really want me to come and renew this every seven days?"

"Of course, haven't you heard of mana replenishment?"

"...Replenish mana? What's that?"

"If you haven't heard of it, that's fine. Anyway, it really has nothing to do with this."

"Then why did you try to get me to do that!"

"...You still understand, don't you?"

"..."

"..."

"Ahem, Lixi, are you hungry?"

"Natsuki Nanami, don't change the subject. I'm asking you why you insisted on setting such a short timeframe of 7 days!"

Nanami Natsuki covered her ears and glanced at Shiina Tatsuki with some disdain. "Have you considered that Sho and I also agreed to meet at this time? And do you really want to take away Sho's talent forever? And... do you think Sho would accept having her talent taken away forever?"

"I...I certainly didn't mean forever..."

It will eventually end, that's for sure... As long as either Shoko or Nanami is unwilling to continue this deal, she will no longer have this wonderful experience of freely combining musical notes according to her will.

But if it's Nanami... if it's her, there must be other ways, right?

No, why is she so dependent on Nanami Natsuki? Even after this indirect deal with Shoko ends, is she still planning to continue this shameful farce?

"Don't worry, Lixi, you'll forget about me and all of this sooner or later."

"……what?"

Shiina Tatsuki frowned, completely failing to understand the meaning of Nanami Natsuki's words.

It seems completely unrelated to the topic we were just discussing... Moreover, she always felt that hearing Nanami Natsuki say those words made her feel inexplicably frustrated.

"You mean you'll take away my memories later, right? All the memories of what I've done all this time..."

"If you want, I can certainly do that. After all, it is indeed very painful to wake up from a beautiful dream, but once you gradually forget the content of the dream, won't that sadness disappear?"

"That's true... but I won't do that."

She's already shameful enough. To put her mind at ease and pretend she knows nothing after everything is over? Shiina Tatsuki isn't that shameful. If she really did that... she would utterly despise herself.

"It's okay, you don't need to worry about feeling guilty. After all, you can't remember it back then, so you don't feel disgusted with the part of yourself that tried to pretend nothing happened after doing something bad."

"...Why do I always feel like you're reading my mind?"

"Do I need to?" Nanami Natsuki scoffed. "Lixi, your thoughts are written all over your face. Even Su Shi can pretend better than you. Of course... you and Xiao Xiang are equally clueless, both idiots who can tell at a glance."

"...Now that everything is over for today, can I go back now?"

"Huh? But it's almost 9:30 already, aren't you sure you want to go back at this time?"

"9:30?!"

Shiina Riki glanced at the time, then pulled back the curtains to look outside, only to realize that she and Nanami Natsuki had been doing bad things for so long.

"Oh no... my family must be worried sick."

"It's okay, just tell them you're with me." After saying that, Nanami Natsuki picked up Riki's phone and quickly took a cute selfie. "Here~ show this photo to them, they definitely won't worry about you going astray."

"But I've already learned bad habits from you..."

Shiina Riki was quite helpless, but she had no other choice at the moment. Fortunately, the facts were as Nanami Natsuki had said. After she told her family a slightly condensed version of the situation and sent them a cute selfie of Nanami Natsuki, her parents and sister didn't ask any more questions.

Damn it... why didn't you ask more questions?

Do you really think this girl is safer than a boy?! Do you even have any idea how terrifying this girl is?!

After internally raging with frustration for a while, Shiina Tatsuki finally put away his phone.

"I'm going to make dinner. Aren't you hungry? I'm starving."

"I am an economical and beautiful girl with a small appetite, easy to feed, and strong self-care ability."

"..." Li hope was too lazy to pay attention to this narcissistic girl.

However, although it is a bit far-fetched to start dinner so late, in reality, dinner is just two buckets of instant noodles.

After all, Li hope, who had little cooking experience, had no intention of trying to learn how to cook when she was starving. All she wanted to do was have dinner with this brat and then find a place far away from Nanami Natsuki to spend the night.

"Hey, Nanami. Don't you have any extra blankets? It's still pretty cold on April nights!"

"Do you think I would have that? Those extra slippers were bought for me by Su Shi."

"Then why don't you ask her to buy you an extra blanket?"

"Ah... how about I tell her that Lixi is still lusting after me, and that she should hurry up and send over a blanket, or else she'll lock me in a cage and feed me dog food?"

"Can't you speak like a lady? All you ever talk about is this filthy stuff! And... dog food doesn't distinguish between male and female!"

"Hey~ Lixi is so mean, she's actually considering feeding me dog food..."

"..." Li hope chose to remain silent.

"Anyway, I don't have any extra blankets. If you're cold, you can hug me and sleep with me, or... you can take out a few dresses from my closet and use them as blankets to make do for one night."

"I choose the latter."

"Tch... We've already done those things together, why are you still shy?"

"Shut up! I'm telling you... if you tell anyone what happened today, you're really dead!!!"

"Fine, don't talk then, why are you being so mean to me..."

Looking at Nanami Natsuki's innocent and pitiful appearance, Shiina Ritsuki sighed helplessly. What sins had she committed to have developed such a relationship with a witch like Nanami Natsuki?

Now it's all over, she can't even get away... She's completely helpless against this little witch.

"By the way, you've been tapping on your phone since the beginning, you weren't... chatting with Su Shi, were you?"

“Yeah.” Nanami Natsuki waved her phone screen in front of Riki, but the movement was too fast and Riki couldn’t see anything clearly. “Are you jealous? That’s not good… Riki, you need to have some basic self-awareness. I’m not just yours, you know.”

"However... you will definitely belong to me alone from now on."

“No.” Li hope ignored Nanami Natsuki’s strange words. “Are you really going to keep lying to her like this? Is Su Shi… is it really okay for her to continue like this?”

"Of course I won't keep lying forever. When she's willing to admit it all, I'll naturally stop pretending."

"..."

"You too, Riki-chan. Once you have the determination you've been talking about, I won't bother you anymore."

Lixi clutched her heart, turned over to avoid looking at Qihai who was still playing on her phone behind her, but in the end, she had no choice but to tell the truth:

"I... I can't do it right now..."

Chapter 76 You call this a clever little trick to calm people down? (5700 words)

"Oh no! Nanami, Nanami! Get up, we're going to be late!"

"Waaah...don't make a sound..."

"You idiot, do you even know it's Monday?! No... my textbooks are still at home, oh no, I'm going to be late so soon after school starts..."

"What's there to be afraid of?"

Nanami Natsuki rubbed her eyes and mumbled, "If you're afraid of being late, then just avoid being late altogether and skip class. Anyway, I've heard that Hanasaki River is a gathering place for delinquent girls."

"Where did you hear that from?!"

When Li Xi said those words, she wasn't really confident. After all, she and Nanami Natsuki were considered the worst of the worst. Have you ever seen a good student who didn't study or socialize during their vacation but instead got entangled in researching water elements?

Ugh, ugh, ugh... How filthy!

Although Lixi couldn't see herself right now, she knew that her cheeks must be burning red.

There was no time for breakfast, so Riki urged Nanami Natsuki to get up and change into her school uniform. Without waiting for Nanami Natsuki's consent, he directly rummaged through her wardrobe and found a spare Hanasaki River school uniform to change into, then put it on.

Fortunately, the two of them were not much different in height, and their school uniforms were the same size, so they looked perfectly natural on Lixi.

"We should still make it in time to take a taxi... Damn it, let's split the taxi fare!"

"No, I don't have any money."

"Then I'll take a taxi, and you take the tram?"

"No way, taking a taxi won't cost an extra penny just because I'm there. Lixi is so stingy. I've already given you something so precious."

"...I'll take that as you're referring to Xiangzi's talent."

Li hope was too lazy to argue with Nanami Natsuki, especially since Nanami's way of speaking had become much more human at this moment, and she was much cuter than the brat who used to be so sarcastic.

However, as it turns out, Riki still had the wrong expectations of Nanami Natsuki.

After the two got into the taxi, Nanami Natsuki wasn't very well-behaved during the short time on the road. Although the other party had deliberately chosen a very discreet way to grope her, without letting the driver in front notice anything, Riki still felt very uncomfortable.

She's not some kind of woman; even if she did something to Nanami Natsuki that went beyond "friendship," it was only because of the circumstances.

Lixi herself still hated those things. After soiling Nanami Natsuki, she only felt regret. But when Nanami did the same thing to her in return, she hated herself even more for her outrageous behavior.

That kind of thing won't happen again. She has to make her stance clear to Nanami Natsuki about this matter. She... is sexually normal!

Just as Lixi was pondering these things and becoming increasingly impatient with Nanami's harassment, he seemed to sense her displeasure and instantly stopped what he was doing.