Their restricted abilities are refreshed every week.

In his opinion, it was a very wrong decision for Aine to bring the topic of the dispute to Takamatsu Deng.

——After all, Deng’s character is soft and sensitive. She didn’t say a word before, and it was obvious that she was trapped in a vicious circle of self-doubt and denial.

A girl like her would definitely think about whether what she is doing is right, and she would also wonder whether Xiangzi's departure has anything to do with her.

Her personality is destined to lead her in the direction of self-torture. At the same time, her care and love for her friends will make her take all the blame, and doubt and denial will continue to worsen the situation.

If someone has a conflict with her, the first thing this girl thinks about is definitely not who is right or wrong, but how to compensate the person with whom she has the conflict.

Shirakawa Haru guessed that this was what Deng thought of Nagasaki Suyo and Riki.

——Because both of them are her good friends and were once members of the same band who shone brightly.

So when they were arguing over another team member, she couldn't speak up to help anyone.

But she would doubt herself and feel inferior to herself. Her silence just now was probably because she was constantly questioning her mistakes in her heart, even though she had not made any mistakes.

But in the end, Shirakawa Haru didn't have time to stop Aine from saying what she was about to say. When he realized what was about to happen, Aine had already lit the lamp, a powder keg that was on the verge of exploding at any time.

The lights rushed out of the cafe.

Just like the huge crystal chandelier in "The Phantom of the Opera", it suddenly fell down at a slow but extremely fast speed without anyone noticing. Everyone could see the shadow flashing across their faces, but no one could stop it from falling.

When a crisp sound came from the cold ground, this beautiful work of art was shattered. However, it was this kind of beauty that made it closer to the concept of art. Any art should be reborn in destruction.

However, when such beauty appears on a young girl, the girl is pitiful.

Deng rushed out of the door, leaving several people looking at each other in confusion.

Shirakawa Haru sighed.

Chapter 35: The Aquarium in the Afternoon is the Afterglow of the Sunset

"Did I say the wrong thing?"

Aiyin watched Deng's silhouette gradually shrink until it became a blurry black dot, and then disappeared in the corner of a high wall. She lowered her head and asked Shirakawa Haru.

Aine felt like running away, thinking that she seemed to have messed up again.

In order to stand out, he destroyed the already unstable atmosphere in the room. It was just like when he went to study in the UK. He was obviously happy and wanted to solve problems for others, but he always got the opposite result to what he expected.

I kind of want to run away...

But before that, let's go get the light back.

"You did say something wrong, but the fault isn't yours. I can see you want to solve their problem, but without understanding, people often do things with good intentions but in the end, they can do bad things."

Baichuan Qing sighed and wondered what kind of gods and immortals these were.

The autistic Xiao Deng, Tengu Sushi, Deng Xiaozi Lixi, and the half-sweet girl Aine were able to be caught to be the so-called band manager.

He can only say that he has it in this life.

"lamp!"

Among all the girls present, Lixi was the first to react to the light explosion and ran out the door. The rest of the girls were still in a state of dreamlike feeling.

Lixi wants to catch up with Deng.

But she immediately thought that it was because she was constantly arguing with Nagasaki Suyo that Deng left. Perhaps she was an important factor in Deng's emotional outburst, and she should care more about Deng.

When she thought of this, Li Xi's regretful emotions could not be suppressed and burst out, and it was these bad emotions that prevented her from catching up with Deng's fleeing footsteps in the first place.

But in just a few breaths, Takamatsu Deng, who was not very good at sports, disappeared from everyone's sight.

Maybe she didn't run far at all, and even her back was clearly visible to everyone, but her wish at this moment was to disappear from their sight, so they naturally couldn't see the lamp.

Li Xi was a little distraught. Although Nagasaki Suyo did not seem as excited as Li Xi, her mood was obviously depressed.

"Yuki, help me calm the people at the scene. I'll go chase the lights."

Baichuan Qing glanced at the girls present and found that they all showed more or less obvious emotions about the explosion of lights.

——Aine wanted to escape, Riki felt regretful, and Nagasaki Suyo was embarrassed.

The former's emotions are stronger, while the latter's embarrassment is not too strong and is more like a disguise.

Anyway, let’s catch up with the light first.

When Aiyin saw Shirakawa Haru running away after the light, she immediately followed after him.

But she didn't know how much of her emotions came from wanting to catch up with Deng and apologize to her, and how much of her emotions came from wanting to leave the room where the emotional conflict had erupted because of her. She herself didn't know.

She only knew that when she was escaping from the room, she kept telling herself in her heart - don't run away again this time.

Go up the alley and across the street.

Shirakawa Haru, who was running on the street, was looking for Deng.

He thought to himself that it was not a good idea to keep looking like this. If he wanted to catch up with her at this time, he had to know where she was going. So where would the lamp go, or where did she want to be found by whom?

Shirakawa Haru suddenly remembered the band-aid with a little penguin pattern that he had put on his wound when he was injured last time.

At that time, Deng squatted down, and from her own perspective, she looked like a little penguin, lonely and alone, like the only penguin in a silent world at the end of the world.

She also showed me many band-aids with animal patterns and introduced me to the Northern Rockhopper Penguin. She said that the penguin was called the Northern Rockhopper because it was very good at jumping from one rock to another and lived in Antarctica.

He still remembered that the lamp at that time was chattering to him about the various types and characteristics of penguins, just like Wikipedia was showing him all the knowledge about penguins in detail.

It’s just that Deng’s voice is more pleasant than the AI voice on Wikipedia. Although it is light and weak, it always reveals a tenacious temperament.

This is the vibrant life hidden within her, unique to her.

I'm afraid she is hiding in some penguin-related aquarium right now.

Shirakawa Haru turned on his phone and used the navigation to find the nearest aquarium - Sunrise.

This is an aquarium with a long history. Although it is quite old, it has been under constant renovation and the facilities are constantly updated, so even people who have visited it several times will not feel bored.

At the same time, because it is located on the roof of the building, the animals in the aquarium can enjoy great sunlight, which also allows the aquarium to take very dreamy photos when the weather is good.

I'm afraid the light is there now.

After buying the ticket for the aquarium, Shirakawa Haru walked in this sunny aquarium.

The sun's golden rays, like fine raindrops or slanting flames, shone directly on his head. Penguins swam in the display case overhead, stirring up waves that echoed like the echoes of water splashes.

Here, he indeed found Gao Songdeng.

At this time, the lamp was standing right below the largest penguin display cabinet in the Sunrise Aquarium. The rippling light was cast on her, adding a bit of dreamy temperament to this girl who was somewhat inferior and self-doubting.

But Baichuan Qing thought that Deng was a very dreamy girl, or she had some electric wave type.

——He had this idea when she introduced the penguins to him, and it was even more so when he caught a glimpse of the astronomical telescope and some old astronomical props in the astronomy department when he went to the lamp to get a band-aid.

Shirakawa Haru walked forward and came to the side of the lamp.

He kept a distance from her because Shirakawa Haru knew that it was difficult to close the distance with a girl like this by simply using words, especially when she had just had an emotional outburst.

Deng was obviously startled when he noticed someone approaching, but when he found out that the person was Shirakawa Haru, the atmosphere of a penguin guarding against killer whales on the ice floe immediately disappeared.

She remained silent, yet always ready to listen.

But what puzzled her was that Shirakawa Haru didn't say anything, but just looked at the penguin quietly like her.

When Takamatsu Deng saw that Shirakawa Haru didn't make any more moves, she shifted her gaze away from Shirakawa Haru and focused on the penguin.

The boy and girl just quietly watched the penguins swimming slowly in the aquarium display cabinet.

There was a penguin slowly sinking in the display cabinet, like a whale, like a shooting star seen through an astronomical telescope in the summer, and like herself.

Whales swim in the ocean, cruising along a mysterious route; meteors wander in the universe, their long tails like romantic fireworks on a cosmic scale; they drift continuously on the ice floes generated between people.

The rippling water gradually took on softer, more vibrant colors. Golden-pink clouds slowly covered the sun's face, making it too dim. Now, a burning flame pierced through the glass display case, striking the lamp's face, softening the girl's profile along with it.

He felt that the atmosphere had been set.

So, it's time to talk to Xiao Bi Deng and relieve her autism.

Chapter 36: Lamp, what did you do wrong?

"How are you feeling now?"

Shirakawa Haru looked at the penguins swimming above them and said to Takamatsu Deng in a nonchalant tone, "Have you calmed down?"

Takamatsu Deng's character is too self-deprecating, Shirakawa Haru thought.

In order to dispel the melancholy in Deng, he had to master the rhythm of the conversation, first staying in the same space with her, and then sending her the signal that he wanted to communicate.

If Deng wanted to communicate with him, she would definitely respond to his words.

But if she is unmoved by his concern, then he will have to stay with her longer, like a hot stone.

As long as you are sincere, even a piece of cold jade will become warm one day sooner or later.

What's more, Deng is not a stone. She is just a whale or penguin that is a little uneasy and confused in human society.

"Um……"

The lamp made a voice as thin as a mosquito, followed by a long silence, and then an even weaker and more vulnerable apology.

"Sorry……"

Gao Songdeng is such a person. She always seems so at a loss in interpersonal communication.

It’s like a penguin on an ice floe that, after hitting another piece of ice, the first thing it thinks of is not to explore or make friends on it, but to jump into the water to avoid possible danger.

So whenever there is any conflict or trouble where she is, this silly girl will immediately attribute the root of the problem to herself.

——As if this can dissolve all the grudges and conflicts. But it won't work this way, it will only slowly drown yourself.

A group of penguins flashed before Shirakawa Haru's eyes, most of them basking in the warm sunset on the water.

The only remaining penguin followed behind them alone, then pecked its wings gently and slowly sank to the bottom of the display cabinet.

Looking closely, the lonely penguin seemed to have wounds on its legs. Perhaps it was expelled from the penguin group or even attacked by other penguins because it was not sociable.

He saw Deng next to him staring at the penguin with a very worried look, and the look in his eyes seemed to regard the penguin as himself.

"That penguin, how pitiful."

Deng said in a heartbreaking voice, speaking to herself: "We are all penguins, so we should be friends. Why do you want to hurt your friends?"

"That's for sure," Shirakawa Haru took a step closer to Deng. "Even members of the same band, or even close friends, can inadvertently hurt others because of their own selfish desires."

"Relationships between people can be abstracted into lonely islands, each drifting in a boundless ocean. If one wishes to make friends or understand someone's true feelings, then breaking down barriers is essential. However, the act of opening one's heart to others is also extremely dangerous; the one who initiates this act often ends up deeply hurt by the other."

Baichuan Qing said slowly, pulling out a metal box from his mouthband: "When you care about others, why don't you take care of yourself first?"

Shirakawa Haru took out a handful of band-aids with whale cartoon images on them from the iron box.

"Taka-Song-Deng—is that the name right? If you care too much about others, you tend to forget yourself."

Baichuan Qing continued to move closer to the lamp, then half-knelt down, "Doesn't it hurt here?"

"Hey, Shirakawa-kun, please don't get so close to me suddenly..."

When Takamatsu Deng suddenly approached him, he first called out in panic, wondering why Shirakawa-kun suddenly wanted to get so close to him. Then, under the guidance of Shirakawa Haru, Deng saw the scabbed wound on his knee.

I don't know if it was a psychological effect or something else, but when Deng pointed out the wound on Shirakawa Haru's knee, his knee, which had not felt any pain before, immediately began to ache.

Although the wound has scabbed over, it is like a spring blocked by a stone, continuously oozing out her sadness.

"Don't move. Let me help you put the bandage on." Baichuan Qing carefully tore off the protective film on both sides of the bandage, then carefully examined Deng's wound and gently put the bandage on. "Done."

When Shirakawa Haru was putting a Band-Aid on Deng's wound, Deng saw every move he made.

From a high vantage point, the boy's handsome face and delicate features were clearly visible to the girl.

The young man's youthful breath gently patted the girl's knees. Deng felt that her wound was a little wet, and then there was a subtle itchy sensation, but that was actually an illusion of hiding in the quilt baked by the warm sun.

"Sorry." After Shirakawa Haru put the sticker on Takamatsu Deng, the two of them sat on the bench in the aquarium for tourists to rest.

"Eh? Why are you apologizing to me?" Deng was a little confused after receiving Shirakawa Haru's apology. Then he realized that Shirakawa Haru was apologizing to him and immediately wanted to stop him. "Shirakawa-kun obviously didn't do anything wrong, right?"

I didn't do anything wrong, Baichuan Qing thought, but you didn't do anything wrong either, but you still say sorry to others all day long?

"But I didn't notice the wound on Deng's knee right away. The hem of her skirt was a little long..." Baichuan Qing smiled at her and then twisted the remaining bandage with her hand. "If I had discovered it earlier, if I had observed it more carefully, maybe Deng wouldn't be in so much pain now?"

"But……"

Deng wanted to continue to defend herself, but she probably didn't even notice that she was looking for excuses for the person apologizing:

"But what does this have to do with Shirakawa-kun? These wounds were caused by me falling on the street. They clearly have nothing to do with Shirakawa-kun. Not only that, Shirakawa-kun even treated my wounds and put on band-aids."