Their restricted abilities are refreshed every week.

"I haven't said anything yet!" Shiina Riki raised her voice slightly, then she turned her head to look at Takamatsu Deng beside Chihaya Aine and whispered softly, "Deng, we all need to work harder recently to prepare for our first live performance soon."

"Ritsuki-chan, everyone in our band is really serious right now, so you can be more assured about our first live performance in the future." Nagasaki Suyo comforted Shiina Ritsuki. In this situation, she deliberately did not mention Lenna who had just run away. "Aine-chan has also been working very hard."

"I know." Shiina Riki crossed his arms across his chest.

She praised Chihaya Aine in a helpless tone: "Although I don't particularly want to praise you, your efforts are obvious to all of us... So, please don't fall behind!"

"Rikki~" After receiving the praise from Shiina Rikki, Chihaya Aine's mouth curled up. She walked in front of Shiina Rikki and clenched her fists to make a gesture of encouragement, "Wow, finally I got the praise from Rikki!"

"Why are you calling me in such a disgusting tone? And you are not allowed to call me Rikki!" Shiina Riki warned Chihaya Aine.

"Why, why! Rikki is Rikki!" Even when she saw Shiina Ritsuki's disgusted expression, Chihaya Aine still pestered her, "You're so dishonest."

Since the last time Shiina Ritsuki was brought back to RING's rehearsal room by Shirakawa Haru, Chihaya Aine and Shiina Ritsuki had a heart-to-heart talk for a while with Shirakawa Haru's translation.

Although Shirakawa Haru received several cold stares from Shiina Riki during this process, the result of the conversation was good.

The relationship between Shiina Tatsuki and Chihaya Aine has improved a lot, and they understand each other better.

The most intuitive manifestation is that when Chihaya Aine calls Shiina Rikki, she no longer uses "Rikki" but the nickname "Rikki".

Although she always called her Rikki before, it always felt a bit awkward. Now, she can say this name fluently without changing her expression.

She knew that although Rikki Shiina appeared fierce, she was actually very gentle: Rikki was strict with others as well as with herself.

At that time, Shiina Riki was working very hard to revise the music score in order to integrate herself into the band. She didn't come to RING rehearsal because she doubted her own ability, not because she was angry with her.

"Ugh! I'm about to throw up. This is terrible!" Shiina Riki waved his hand and looked at Shirakawa Haru. "Hey, Shirakawa Haru, in your eyes, how have we performed these past few days?"

Surely we'll get a good review? Every time we finish rehearsal, he'll praise us generously. Shiina Riki looked at the panda pendant on his phone and couldn't help but feel happy.

She snorted at Baichuan Qing, signaling Baichuan Qing to stop being in a daze.

"Well, just like Nagasaki-san said, everyone is working hard." Shirakawa Haru said in a dull tone.

"Aine's guitar skills are improving rapidly; I can see how hard Shiina-san works when composing music; Nagasaki-san manages every aspect of the band like a patriarch; Deng's lyrics are particularly well written, as beautiful as a poem; Lena..." When talking about Lena, Shirakawa Haru was stunned.

"What's wrong with Wildcat?" Seeing that Shirakawa Haru didn't know what he was thinking, Shiina Riki looked at Shirakawa Haru with confusion and worry, wondering what was wrong with this guy today?

"Sorry everyone, I have something to do today. Can I leave early?" Baichuan Qing said to the girls in the rehearsal room.

Chapter 6.6: Thinking carefully is full of questions, doing is full of answers (k

Last night, Shirakawa Haru said "sorry" to several girls in the band, went home early from RING's rehearsal room, and locked herself in the room.

He locked the door and decided to be alone for a while to think about his relationships with these girls.

"Qing... are you in there? Why is the door locked?" Before Shirakawa Qing could think for long while lying on the bed, Suo Fang Yuxi banged on the door and then opened the door lock all of a sudden.

"I remember I locked the door. Yuki, how did you get in?" Shirakawa Haru stood up, sat down at the desk, took out a beautiful notebook, and wrote something on it.

"Hmm. Qing, you remember correctly, right? The door didn't seem to be locked when I came in, or was it broken? Anyway, as soon as I turned the doorknob, the door opened." Zhou Hou Yuxi tapped his lips with an innocent look, "Brother, your memory is so good, maybe there is something wrong with the door lock."

"Yeah. This kind of thing has happened many times..." Shirakawa Haru closed the notebook and locked it in the bookcase. "I'll find a master to help me take a look later."

"What were you writing just now?" Zhou Fang Yuxi sat on Shirakawa Haru's lap. She skillfully took out the key from the drawer, then opened the bookcase and took out the notebook that Shirakawa Haru had locked inside. "It's a diary!"

"That's right." Baichuan Qing nodded, "A lot of things have happened around me recently, and my mind is a little confused. I feel like I need to sort out my thoughts."

"Hey, Lena... Another girl kissed you on the cheek today?" Suho Yuki looked at the words on the notebook and arched her back for a moment while sitting on Shirakawa Haru's lap. "And another girl asked you to feed her when she was half asleep. That transfer student from England!"

"Don't look around. I would be shy if someone saw my private things." Shirakawa Haru's face was expressionless.

"It seems that you are really troubled by those girls." Suho Yuki looked at Shirakawa Haru's face and found that her brother was really shy. If she hadn't lived with him for so long, she would definitely not be able to see it. "Do you want me to help you 'warn' them?"

"No need." Baichuan Qing took back the notebook and locked it back in the bookcase. "This is my own business. I can handle it myself. Don't meddle in it, little girl."

"If Chihaya Aine confesses her love to you tomorrow afternoon, what will you do?" Suho Yuki was very interested in Shirakawa Haru's answer.

"...I'll probably reject her." Bai Chuanqing closed his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "I've already said that I don't have any thoughts of falling in love for the time being."

"Naqing, you wrote so ambiguously in your diary. 'There's a strange feeling in my heart, a feeling that's hard to describe in words. Could it be love? Could it be the secret atmosphere before falling in love? I don't understand, I don't know.'" Suo Hou Yuxi closed her eyes and memorized Shirakawa Haru's diary, "There's something else..."

"The wind breezes through the dark pine forest. The moon gleams phosphorescently on the drifting water. The same days chase each other again and again. The mist dissipates into dancing shadows. A silver seagull flies down from the west." Suho Yuki flutters her long eyelashes. "What a romantic way to write it."

"I don't know." Bai Chuanqing thought for a long time, and finally threw out a few dry words, "I just wrote down my feelings at the time... It's not illegal."

"Whatever you say," said Yuki Suho. "I just came in this time to see if my dear brother was sick." Yuki Suho's shoulders felt heavy, and she turned her head to see Shirakawa Haru's face so close to her. "The last time you locked the door, you were solving a 'reward puzzle' for a school competition alone."

"I'm glad to see you're okay." Suho Yuki said, "Good night, brother."

"Good night."

After waking up the next day, Shirakawa Haru sorted out his thoughts and went to school as if nothing had happened. Only he himself knew how he tossed and turned in bed last night.

In the afternoon, Chihaya Aine arrived at the student union office on time to handle work.

Shirakawa Haru gave Toyokawa Shoko a few days off, and the work piled up by the student union was completed by him and Chihaya Aine together.

While Chihaya Aine is working on the forms, Shirakawa Haru is teaching her how to gain a deeper understanding of how the Hinomori Student Council operates.

With yesterday's work experience, Chihaya Aine processed the forms much faster today.

"Finally finished my work for the Student Union!" Chihaya Aine pushed up her glasses. Wearing these glasses can protect your eyesight. She told her father on the phone yesterday that she needed to stare at the computer for a long time to handle Student Union work, so her father bought her these glasses in the evening. "Chairman, while it's still early, let's go to the shopping street quickly?"

"Aine, you go out first. I'll close the office windows and turn off the lights." Shirakawa Haru turned off the computer and left the desk.

"Chairman, I have turned off the lights and closed the windows." Chihaya Aine stood at the door of the office, holding the strap of her guitar bag in her hand, and waved at Shirakawa Haru.

"I'm coming." Shirakawa Haru locked the office door.

Chihaya Aine was running in front, skipping and jumping with her guitar bag on her back. Her long hair flew high in the air, then was attracted by gravity and fell down in a messy manner. Finally, it gathered together to form a bunch of pink hydrangeas.

We're just going to drink milk tea together, is there any need to be so happy?

Walking on the downhill pedestrian path, Shirakawa Haru followed behind Chihaya Aine. Just by looking at her back, he knew that Chihaya Aine was extremely excited at the moment.

He didn't know why she was so happy.

"Aine, the road we are walking on now is downhill. You have to be careful and be careful not to fall." Shirakawa Haru was a little worried about Chihaya Aine. Although he believed that she would not fall, he couldn't help but remind her.

"Hehe~ The chairman's tone is just like my dad's, even though he's just a high school student." Chihaya Aine stopped and turned back to look at Shirakawa Haru with a bright smile on her face, "Don't worry, I won't fall."

I'm not the type to trip and fall down on the street. If I do, it will definitely give the chairman the impression that I'm reckless. Although he might think my recklessness is cute, I want him to think of me as a girl with a vibrant and beautiful back on the street at dusk.

Chihaya Aine waited for Shirakawa Haru for a while, and only turned around after Shirakawa Haru walked side by side with her. She walked very slowly.

She seemed a little excited and a little nervous.

If she had acted so energetic before to let Shirakawa Haru understand her charm, then by walking slowly on the road she was trying to make this short road seem longer and longer. She hoped that this road could be like the slow motion in the movie, where time seemed to slow down very slowly, so that she could enjoy the time walking side by side with Shirakawa Haru for a while longer.

"Let's go to the milk tea shop later. What would you like to drink, Chairman?" Chihaya Aine asked.

"I don't have any particular preferences." Shirakawa Haru thought for a moment and said, "It depends on what you order, Aine. I'll drink the same thing as you."

"The chairman drinks whatever I order? Really?" The smile on Chihaya Aine's face became even brighter.

"Yeah." Shirakawa Haru didn't understand why Chihaya Aine suddenly became happy. But in his eyes, girls were just like that, inexplicably and beautifully beautiful.

When walking to the commercial street, Shirakawa Haru saw Doraemon holding Dorayaki in one hand. Its expression was exactly the same as the one seen on TV, with squinting eyes and grinning. In the other hand, it held a special offer flyer for a milk tea shop. On it were colorful pictures of milk tea with quite complicated names.

"Is this the store?" Shirakawa Haru lowered her head and asked Chihaya Aine.

"Please wait a moment, Chairman. Let me confirm this one more time." Chihaya Aine held her phone, blinking as she operated the map app. "Doraemon holding a Dorayaki pot, and a large flyer... Chairman, this is the shop!"

Most of the schools around have already finished class, and the commercial streets are now bustling with people. Most of them are wearing school uniforms, are about the same age as Shirakawa Haru and Chihaya Aine, and are walking in pairs of one boy and one girl.

"Wow~ Chairman, there are so many people here!" Chihaya Aine exclaimed, "Even though this is a new store, when I checked the store location on my phone yesterday, the photos showed that there weren't many people here."

"Maybe that day, this store will go viral online," said Shirakawa Haru. "The internet is so advanced these days, so a new store that was once deserted might be packed the next day."

"It looks like we'll have to wait in line for a long time... How about, Chairman, let's just forget about it today and just order some milk tea to takeout, and order one for Deng and Soyo-san as well." Chihaya Aine looked up at Shirakawa Haru's expression. There were really too many people in line. This was the case with famous commercial streets and stores in Japan. If you had to queue, at the rate the queue was shrinking now, it might take more than half an hour.

In this way, all the time you have squeezed out with great difficulty will be wasted in queuing.

And she didn't know what Bai Baichuan Qing would think.

If you invite a friend out to play to make amends, but when you arrive at the place, your friend finds that there is nothing there or there is only a deserted scenery, although your friend will not be angry, he or she will almost certainly be dissatisfied.

Chihaya Aine was feeling a little down. She knew that this had nothing to do with Shirakawa Haru, but was simply because she had not done her homework beforehand.

"Aine, you want to go into this shop and take a look, right?" Shirakawa Haru said, "Even if you order milk tea to go, with the speed of this shop's delivery, everyone will definitely have gone home by the time it arrives at the piano store. If you want to drink milk tea from this shop, Aine, I'll wait in line with you."

"Eh? Chairman, are you willing to queue up with me?" Chihaya Aine's tone rose a little, and the frustration in her eyes also faded a little, "Even if it's not this store..."

"Actually, you're looking forward to it, right?" Shirakawa Haru joined the long line. Seeing Shirakawa Haru's resolute attitude, Chihaya Aine followed him and leaned against him. "It seems like Japanese high school girls these days spend a lot of time making plans before traveling. I think you're the same way, Aine. Wouldn't it be a shame if we didn't stick to our plan?"

The milk tea shop is located in the center of the commercial street, not far away from several famous local colleges in Tokyo. The square menu boards are all written in chalk. The bright lights are turned on in the evening, and the colorful chalk words look very warm.

"For you, Aiyin, you invited me to the milk tea shop this time to apologize to me, but for me," Shirakawa Haru took a deep breath, "I was fulfilling my promise to you. You said yesterday that you would treat me to milk tea."

Chihaya Aine didn't say anything. She lowered her eyes and looked at Shirakawa Haru's face quietly, thinking that he was really handsome.

The music in the milk tea shop was played by Junichi Kamiyama, "水のゆりかご".

"So if you want to take me into this milk tea shop, I'll queue up with you." Shirakawa Haru asked Chihaya Aine to listen carefully to the music coming from the milk tea shop. "The melody of this song is very beautiful. To hear such quiet music in such a noisy street might be a hint for us to queue up properly, because it will be our turn soon."

"I didn't expect the chairman to be so smooth-talking and eloquent." Chihaya Aine put down her schoolbag and stood obediently beside Shirakawa Haru to queue with him. "Do you talk to all girls like this?"

"No one has ever invited me out for milk tea before," said Shirakawa Haru.

"So what the chairman means is that whenever a girl invites you out to a milk tea shop for tea, you will say this?" Chihaya Aine looked at Shirakawa Haru with a smile.

Shirakawa Haru stopped talking.

The chairman is really a very cute big boy. Chihaya Aine stayed close to Shirakawa Haru. She always felt that she was special to Shirakawa Haru, or maybe that was the fact, but he hadn't admitted it yet, or didn't know how to admit it.

"Chairman~" Chihaya Aine changed the subject, "Do you like cheese black tea au lait? I just saw a set meal, it's very cheap, including a cup of cheese black tea au lait and a cup of cheese wild berry, with a macaron."

"I'm not very picky," said Shirakawa Haru. "If you like it, buy this set."

"So," Chihaya Ai clapped her hands and then spread them out, "I'm asking you, Chairman, if you like it!"

"Do you like it?" Shirakawa Haru asked. Chihaya Aine's cheeks flushed under his gaze. "If Aine likes it, I like it. I'm not lying to you, this is the truth."

"Okay, okay! Let's buy this set meal!" Chihaya Aine lowered her head, not wanting Shirakawa Haru to see her blushing face.

She knew very early on that she liked Shirakawa Haru, but every time she was sure of this, her heart couldn't help but beat!

As time passed, the positions of Shirakawa Haru and Chihaya Aine kept moving forward, and finally it was their turn.

Chihaya Aine walked into the milk tea shop, the guitar bag on her back trembling with her steps. She said to the owner calmly, "Give me the 'Heartbeat Melody' couple's set meal!"

When she said "couple", her voice was deliberately louder than when she said it, wanting Shirakawa Haru to hear it and see what kind of expression he would have.

Unfortunately, Shirakawa Haru still had that expressionless look on his face.

"Ah? 'Heart Melody' set meal... Oh! That couple's set meal, right?" The boss was obviously startled by Chihaya Aine, and looked at the couple in front of him who seemed to be in an "interspecies" relationship, dumbfounded.

She thought that it was usually boys who ordered, and girls hid behind boys, blushing and embarrassingly stirring their hair with their fingers.

Why is this couple so strange now? The girl is more proactive than the boy, and the boy seems to be frigid and can remain calm in this situation.

And it's not just girls, even boys are so beautiful... But we can rule out the possibility that he is actually a girl, after all, he has a very obvious Adam's apple.

"Um, customer, have you carefully read the rules for purchasing the couple's meal before ordering..." The boss looked at Chihaya Aine cautiously, "Excuse me, are you two a real couple?"

"Of course we're a real couple!" Chihaya Aine raised her chin and revealed her sharp fangs. "If we weren't a couple, we wouldn't come here to buy the couple's meal."

"Is the couple's set meal sold out?" Amidst the incredulous gazes from the side, Chihaya Aine approached Shirakawa Haru and took the initiative to hold his hand.

"No, please wait a moment, it will be ready soon." said the boss.

Shirakawa Haru and Chihaya Aine sat in a corner of the milk tea shop, next to a huge floor-to-ceiling window just a few centimeters off the ground. It was dusk, the sky dim, and the streetlights were too glaring. The pure white light reflected on the glass, forming a mist. Only those who were very close to the window could see the view across from it.

After a while, the waiter brought two cups of milk tea and a macaron to Shirakawa Haru and Chihaya Aine.

Shirakawa Haru and Chihaya Aine were drinking milk tea, and almost at the same time they discovered a string of small words printed on the paper cup of the milk tea.

Chihaya Aine's cup read, "I want to live with you in a small town somewhere."

The inscription on Shirakawa Haru's cup reads "Sharing the endless dusk and the endless ringing of bells."

"Hmm... Chairman, do you know what these two sentences are about and where they come from?" Chihaya Aine asked Shirakawa Haru. She didn't know, but Shirakawa Haru definitely knew.

"This is 'I Want to Live with You,' the poem by the Russian poet Tsvetaeva," Shirakawa Haru said after a moment of thought. "This poem is both beautiful and delicate. Tsvetaeva must have written it out of a yearning for a better life. Her open-minded attitude towards love is also admirable."

"The chairman knows so much!" Chihaya Aine said, holding her face.

The background music of the milk tea shop suddenly changed to "Stop Clock Illusion" by Mushroom Empire.

"Reading more poetry is very helpful in life." Shirakawa Haru said while biting the straw of his milk tea. "Sometimes you can find the answer to a truth you don't understand in poetry. Even if you don't know why the answer is this, just do it."

I'll go to the convenience store with you.

Bought a 350ml bottle of beer.