Their restricted abilities are refreshed every week.

When Shoko Toyokawa realized that she had used extraordinary powers, she subconsciously increased the strength of common sense modification to the maximum, just like when she used "Alice in Candy and Greetings" for the first time on the tram.

This made her power approach hypnosis and even go beyond that, like a command.

She had clearly thought in her mind last time that she would never use Alice's Candy House like this again.

Especially towards Qing, because she respected him and secretly liked him at the same time.

Out of fear, Toyokawa Shoko used her ability on Haru again. She internally condemned her mistake, telling herself that Haru's rejection was perfectly reasonable and right. He should have kept his promises. Shirakawa Haru was someone who valued his word, always keeping it. Yet, a resentful voice in her heart wondered why he had rejected her, asking why he valued her so much, yet he would reject her for another girl.

The value of that piano exceeded the money she owed, which meant that if she sold it, she would no longer have to live the life she was living now, feeling like she was stuck in a quagmire, trying in vain to save herself, but every struggle only made her sink deeper.

Shoko Toyokawa didn't want to sell the piano, she absolutely couldn't sell it.

Before she met Shirakawa Haru, she thought that this might be the end of her life, but Shirakawa Haru appeared when she was most powerless and brought a ray of sunshine to her dark world.

She was like a prisoner trapped in a cage, trying desperately to grasp the sunlight and struggling to break free from the cage.

Shoko Toyokawa knew that Shirakawa Haru didn't hate her, and that her questioning of Shirakawa Haru was just nonsense caused by the gap between her self-expectations and reality. She had a good impression of him, so she often had positive expectations for his answers.

When inviting Shirakawa Haru, Toyokawa Shoko had already seen Shirakawa Haru as his band's manager, and constructed various beautiful scenes in his mind, which was a future of mutual support between them.

But he refused.

This expectation was shattered in an instant, and the huge gap made her fall into self-doubt. Toyokawa Shoko would feel that she must not be accepted by Shirakawa Haru in some aspects, so he rejected her.

In fact, it is not at all.

It was she who expected it, invited it, and suffered it on her own.

Like a fool.

Forcibly hypnotizing others and distorting the target's thinking is the worst practice in any work and is extremely harmful to the mind.

Shirakawa Haru maintained that bent posture and tilted his head. His expression at this moment was very different from his daily life.

Outside the barrier of Toyokawa Shoko's [Alice in Candy and Sour House], Shirakawa Haru is the student council president of Hinomori High School. He leads the student council, a large group. He is not only a leader but also good at understanding people's hearts, even making others feel that he is not a student, but a high-ranking official.

But within the barrier of Alice in Candy and Smoke, Shirakawa Haru is as cute as a newborn baby.

Toyokawa Shoko revised Shirakawa Haru's common sense within the barrier [You think everything is normal now] [Everything he did to Toyokawa Shoko in the piano room was a true expression of his feelings, breaking through the constraints of social identity on the individual]

Shoko Toyokawa has not yet thought about the last common sense modification point. The [Alice in Candy and Sweepstakes] barrier will last for thirty minutes, and she will save this opportunity for the most important place.

"Xiangzi, what happened to you just now?" Shirakawa Haru bent his waist even lower, with his hands on his knees. Toyokawa Xiangzi was sitting on the piano bench. The bench had been raised, and now she was half a head taller than Shirakawa Haru, but Shirakawa Haru faced her as if she were a little girl in kindergarten.

"It's nothing, just a little sad!" After calming down, Shoko Toyokawa felt a wave of annoyance in her heart, and then this annoyance turned into regret, which continued to erode her heart.

If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have used [Alice's Candy House] so impulsively. Is this kind of clear weather really what I want to see?

Toyokawa Shoko asked Shirakawa Haru to sit back on the piano bench. She turned to face the piano, her arms gently draped over it. As she pressed the keys, Toyokawa Shoko and the piano became one, part of the beautiful music. Shirakawa Haru listened quietly, breathless and focused.

A powerful, gripping note shattered the silence.

Her hands turned into two paintbrushes, and the two-color keys of the piano were colorful paint buckets.

Shoko Toyokawa used the piano to create a portrait of a flaxen-haired girl.

"Xiangzi, are you still angry?" asked Shirakawa Haru. He was now sitting on the piano bench, which he had raised like Toyokawa Xiangzi, with his legs hanging in the air.

"I didn't tell you to speak, so you can't speak!" The piano's heavy notes fell, and Toyokawa Shoko stopped playing. Then she walked to Shirakawa Haru's side and pinched his face with her hands. "Don't resist, this is my punishment for you!"

"...Xiangzi...please stop pinching me...I can't speak."

"This is how you deal with someone like you who's fickle! You looked for Chihaya Aine when you first enrolled, stayed over at my place the day before yesterday, and today you were passing notes in class with Deng and the others..." Toyokawa Shoko forcefully pulled the sides of Shirakawa Haru's face, "How many girls do you have to find before you'll be satisfied?"

"Let's not talk about the fact that I'm not a fickle person. Secondly, no matter how many girls I approach, it seems like none of them have anything to do with you, Xiangzi, right?" Shirakawa Haru said, "I only approached them because of Chihaya's situation. Also, those girls seem to be feeling a bit upset. Although I don't like to meddle in other people's business, since I see that they're upset about this, I can't just ignore it."

"What's the matter, Xiangzi? Are you going to restrict my right to make friends now?" Shirakawa Haru said to Toyokawa Xiangzi.

"That's your own business, not mine! I'm just reminding you that you're the student council president of Hinodemori High School, the face of the school. You have a responsibility to maintain the school's image. If rumors spread that you're having affairs, you'll be in big trouble at school."

After hearing Shirakawa Haru's teasing answer, Toyokawa Shoko's clenched teeth made a sound of colliding with each other. She thought that although she wanted to refute, she really had no position to restrict Haru's friendships at the moment. It would be great if she was Haru's girlfriend. In that case, she would let Haru stay with her every day.

Shoko Toyokawa looked at Shirakawa Haru's smiling face and felt that his expression at the moment was very mean, just like a Samoyed you raised that rummaged through the trash can when you were not at home, and when you came back to scold it, it flew towards you and rubbed its stinky smell on you.

"Qing, didn't I tell you to shut up?"

"..." Baichuan Qing closed her mouth and didn't dare to speak.

"I just want to be with you. I don't care who you form a band with, but I just want you to have a place in my future band. Do you understand how I feel?" Toyokawa Shoko said, "Another girl made a promise with you first, and you rejected my invitation because of another girl. When I think about this, my heart trembles with sadness."

"..." Baichuan Qing didn't say anything.

"That Sunday, you dragged me along to run contracts. We walked on the scorching streets of Tokyo, scorched by the sun. I held a saltwater popsicle you bought for me, and I savored it so much that even the wind in my face felt less sweltering. When I finished eating the popsicle and saw the words 'Winner' written on the stick, I felt incredibly lucky at that moment."

"..." Shirakawa Haru continued to remain silent.

"Then we went to a clothing store, and the store manager's wife cut my hair and changed me into new clothes. I looked in the mirror and saw that she was so elegant and beautiful, so unlike myself at all. It reminded me of when I was still in the Toyokawa family. Back then, my family was harmonious, and I felt like the happiest princess in the world."

"..." Baichuan Qing was unable to speak.

The sound of the piano flows slowly like running water, and the soothing melody is sung loudly.

This piano room is a world that belongs exclusively to Toyokawa Shoko. There is a huge floor-to-ceiling mirror behind Toyokawa Shoko. Shirakawa Haru's eyes are fixed on Toyokawa Shoko against the light, and she feels that she is the center of this world.

The piece she was playing at that moment was "The Water Nymph", the first movement of the piano poem "Phantoms of the Night" composed by the French Impressionist master Ravel in 1908.

This movement is known for its melody, which is extremely moving.

At the beginning of the music, the right hand slowly plays densely packed 32nd-note augmented chords, alternating and repeating between major triads and their semitones with gentle dynamics, depicting a charming scene of rippling water. The left hand plays the lyrical and melodious theme melody, carrying a sense of distant and beautiful emotion.

According to legend, the water nymph often seduces young men to become their spouses. In this piece of music, the water nymph confesses her love and resentment to a young man. She keeps singing the beauty of the underwater palace and invites the young man to become her spouse and king, but is coldly rejected by the young man.

Ravel used subtle musical phrases, such as constant transposition with minute semitone changes, to make the music alternate between light and dark, hazy and blurred, depicting a magical and romantic impressionist mood.

The difficulty of playing this piece lies in the fact that the right hand needs to touch the keys lightly, steadily, quickly and neatly in order to express the fluidity and granularity of water, which requires the performer to possess "devilish skills".

Shoko Toyokawa can easily control this piano and use a variety of techniques to show the vitality of music.

Shirakawa Haru thinks that Toyokawa Shoko and the piano are inseparable and one.

It is as if a wonderful dream overlaps with reality, and destiny also intersects and resonates with this moment.

Toyokawa Shoko was playing music. She closed her eyes and raised her long neck high, as proud as a black swan. Warm golden flames flowed between her legs. She was expressing her heart with music. She invited Shirakawa Haru just as the water fairy invited the young man, but received a cold rejection just like the water fairy.

Shirakawa Haru saw that the skin on Toyokawa Shoko's legs was as delicate as cherry blossoms in early spring, covered with a layer of light pink.

"Unfortunately, it's not like that now. I was kicked out of the Toyokawa family, and the family was torn apart like glass beads falling on the ground. I also have to pay back the money for that alcoholic father." said Toyokawa Shoko.

"Isn't it ridiculous? Although I always thought I had a very good memory, after just over a year, I can no longer remember my father's face. The same goes for my mother. Even if they passed me in a crowd right now and I turned around in surprise, I probably wouldn't recognize them from behind."

"There are things I can only tell you, the one whose common sense I've altered in Alice in Candy and Sweets," Toyokawa Shoko said. "I'm a very troublesome person. I have a strong sense of pride and a stubborn personality. I always try to control the rhythm of the conversation, which sometimes makes me seem overly aggressive."

"Qing...why don't you speak?"

Toyokawa Shoko turned her head and looked at Shirakawa Haru. She thought to herself that she had said so much, even if it was a stone, these gentle and sincere words could warm it, but why did Haru say nothing after listening to so many words? She looked at Shirakawa Haru's face, and Shirakawa Haru was listening very carefully.

Although his eyes were still very dull under the control of Alice's Candy House, his expression looked so sad, like a corpse drowned in the ocean.

"..." Baichuan Qing blinked and the corner of her mouth moved, "Xiangzi, didn't you tell me not to talk?"

Shirakawa Haru's expression seemed somewhat innocent.

"Qing, what on earth are you thinking about?"

Toyokawa Shoko's eyebrows arched upwards, her eyes burning with anger. Her cheeks flushed slightly with excitement, and her lips pursed tightly, as if suppressing her anger. She looked like an angry little lion, full of majesty.

But in the next second, Toyokawa Shoko suddenly covered her forehead with her hands. This action was filled with helplessness and regret, as if she felt that her actions were a bit too extreme after her anger.

She rubbed her brows with her fingers, as if trying to calm the turmoil in her heart.

Then, Toyokawa Shoko burst into laughter, like a flower blooming in spring, instantly dispelling the previous haze. Her eyes curved into crescents, and the corners of her mouth turned up, revealing a row of white teeth, full of strange and infectious charm.

"Are you scared by me? I was just joking!" The girl said with a playful wink, her tone light and lively, as if the anger just now had never happened. This sudden change caught Shirakawa Haru off guard, and he couldn't help but sigh inwardly that all girls are masters of face-changing. The unpredictable weather in Tokyo in September is nothing compared to them.

Shoko Toyokawa is like an elf, with changeable emotions and full of charm.

"A little bit." Bai Chuanqing said, "I was wondering what to do if you start crying. Should I run away immediately?"

"So do you still want to escape now?" asked Shoko Toyokawa.

"Hmm... I don't know." Shirakawa Haru said, "Maybe I want to run away, maybe not. People's emotions and thoughts are changeable, and so am I. For example, your anger just now made my heart soar, but when you said you were joking, my heart sank again."

"Do you think I'm a troublesome woman?"

"..."

"To be honest, no matter what you say, I won't be angry."

"It seems there is a little trouble."

"How dare you say that!" Shoko Toyokawa raised her voice.

"You told me to say that."

"So, you want to escape from me now?" Toyokawa Shoko said, "It's a pity that you can't escape anymore."

"I didn't think about running away." Baichuan Qing said helplessly. He felt that the current topic seemed a little bad, and he had already seen the bad direction of the topic.

"I'm both proud and stubborn. I tell myself I've forgotten crychic, but I still miss them at night. They weren't at fault that day; it was my own fault. Mu said she's never been happy about the band, probably just to help me out," Toyokawa Shoko said. "Sometimes I can be cold and resolute. Nagasaki Suyo keeps trying to find me through Mu, but I've rejected every one of her invitations. I don't want them to know how miserable I am."

"If they knew, they would definitely try to help me at all costs, right? That's not good. My pride would crush me. Besides, Mu can't continue like this. She's stuck between me and Su Shi. With two wounds on both sides, even the strongest heart will become scarred."

"My heart is constantly struggling in the quagmire, and my personality is contradictory. I always get myself into a dead end and confession is fruitless. Although I appear hard and indifferent on the surface, I actually always want someone to accompany me forever." Toyokawa Shoko looked at Shirakawa Haru.

Looking at Toyokawa Shoko's gentle smile, Shirakawa Haru recalled the time he took her to Chiba Prefecture's last summer festival. She'd bent over the sink, a rice paper net for scooping goldfish, trying to catch them. They'd tried many snacks and games on the cultural street. Her smile, then, was undeniably genuine, without a trace of falsehood.

He discovered that Xiangzi actually longed for friends and companionship, and hoped to be a simple and carefree girl and enjoy a happy time.

However, family changes and life pressures forced her to suppress this side of herself.

After joining the student union, Shoko Toyokawa took on almost all the decision-making and most of the homework. Most people, including herself, only praised her for being capable and serious, but did not try to understand what kind of emotions were hidden under her cold face.

If you must say it, he is partly responsible for Xiangzi's current situation.

Shirakawa Haruki wished she could understand Xiangzi's heart earlier.

"You were the one who took the initiative to reach out to me, right?" Toyokawa Shoko looked at Shirakawa Haru with a bright and brilliant smile on her face. Her eyes sparkled with a warm light, as if hiding the brilliance of the entire starry sky. "Now I'm entangled with you, and you can never leave me."

"I'll pay off my debt soon, and I'll be very different from who I am now," Toyokawa said. "Actually, I shouldn't be telling you this right now."

Shoko Toyokawa stood up from the piano bench.

She thought that she shouldn't say these words to Shirakawa Haru, but she had Alice's Candy House, and he would just remember nothing after the barrier closed.

"Qing, I like you." She walked to Baichuan Qing's side and asked Baichuan Qing to stand up. "Although I still can't figure out the complicated and contradictory feelings in my heart, the fact that I like you is absolutely true."

"Let's hug?" Shoko Toyokawa opened his arms and the boy made a silent invitation.

The girl stood quietly, her eyes fixed on the boy in front of her. The breeze from the window gently brushed her hair, and her eyes were full of tenderness and expectation.

[Shirakawa Haru will not refuse to hug Toyokawa Shoko]

She used her third chance to revise her common sense here. She knew that Haru wouldn't refuse her hug now, but she really didn't want to be rejected again. Shirakawa Haru's refusal to join her band had left her heart so empty. If he refused her hug, she might cry blood and die.

Shirakawa Haru didn't hesitate and took the initiative to hug Toyokawa Shoko.

His hug was warm and powerful. The girl felt the boy's heartbeat, and the steady rhythm was like the most beautiful melody, making her heart feel satisfied and rich.

They hugged each other tightly, forgetting the passage of time and everything around them.

When Toyokawa Shoko's ability was about to end, she let go of Shirakawa Haru. She asked Shirakawa Haru to smooth out the wrinkles on her body and asked him to maintain the posture before she hypnotized him.

After doing all this, she sat back on the piano bench.

"Qing, forget about all this." Toyokawa Shoko spoke with difficulty, but she finally said it.

Under the power of "Alice in Candy and Smoke", Shirakawa Haru's memory was quickly overwritten and erased.

His dull eyes became lively again, and Shirakawa Haru blinked. He looked at Toyokawa Shoko's somewhat lonely expression and wondered if he had forgotten something. He thought that maybe it was because he had rejected Shoko's invitation that she seemed a little lonely.

"Xiangzi? You're not angry, are you?" asked Shirakawa Haru.

"No." Toyokawa Shoko said, "Haru, thank you for your concern."

"I'm glad you're not angry." Shirakawa Haru said.

The cell phone vibrated in his trouser pocket. Shirakawa Haru took out his phone and glanced at the message. An expression of helplessness and fatigue appeared on his face.

This was a message from the chairman, asking him to go to Tsuki no Mori in the afternoon to introduce the new situation of the Hinode Forest Academy Festival to the teachers and students there.

Because this is the first college festival organized by students independently without any intervention from the school management, perhaps the chairman of Tsuki no Mori Academy will be interested in this model.

He also said that they can choose their own accompanying personnel and then just talk to the teacher about asking for leave.

"... Xiangzi, do you have any important classes this afternoon?" Shirakawa Haru asked Toyokawa Xiangzi tentatively, "The chairman has found me another job."

"What's going on?" Toyokawa Shoko gracefully stood up from the piano bench. "None of this afternoon's classes are that important."