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Toyokawa Shoko was also a true genius. She had created a perfect score in less than half a day. Even with Shiina Riki's discerning eyes, she couldn't find any flaws...

Shiina Riki knows that her sister Maki loves her very much, but she just can't like Maki.

She hated the fact that Maki always showed off her grades. Maybe that was just Maki wanting her sister to be proud of her, but because of this possibility, she hated Maki even more.

Because this meant that all her past quarrels were meaningless, and she would never be able to catch up with Maki's talent in her life, and she would not even be able to match her.

Whenever Maki tells Shiina Riki about her new achievements, Shiina Riki's sense of inferiority will swell uncontrollably.

I don't want to continue arranging music, I'll just take a day off.

Shiina Riki blinked, raised his eyes and secretly glanced at Shirakawa Haru, who was rubbing his ankle with his hands, and looked as if he was really injured.

Who made you so reckless? You could have just knocked on the door for a while longer, but you chose to jump from the tree to the fourth floor. Now you must have sprained your ankle.

Although she knew that Shirakawa Haru might not open the door for him after he came to look for her, after all, she locked the classroom door to prevent others from disturbing her.

From this perspective, Shirakawa Haru's approach is correct.

Shiina Riki kept sneering in his heart, he deserved it!

"Hey, Shirakawa Haru, is your foot okay?" Shiina Riki stood up from her seat, dug out a medical kit from under the podium, took out the spray for treating bruises and injuries, and sat down next to Shirakawa Haru. She raised her chin and said arrogantly, "Lift your foot up for me and take off your socks. Let me see where it's hurt."

"Shiina-san, thank you." Shirakawa Haru straightened his back and smiled. He closed his eyes, a completely defenseless gesture. "Shiina-san's heart is much gentler than she lets on."

"Who are you calling gentle? Do you want me to scold you? I just realized how smooth-talking you are. Deng has such a good relationship with you, so I guess you must have been deceived by him!" Shiina Riki's face flushed slightly. "Lift your feet up and put them on the stool!"

"Okay." Shirakawa Haru looked at Shiina Riki's face, thought for a while, and finally raised his feet obediently.

"Take off your socks." Shiina Riki ordered Shirakawa Haru. She first asked him to take off his shoes and then take off his socks, and Shirakawa Haru did so.

"It stinks! How long have you not changed your socks?" Shiina Riki said, covering her nose. In fact, she didn't smell any strange smell.

"I wash my socks by hand and change them every day," he said.

"Who knows about this kind of thing?" Shiina Riki was a little surprised. Did someone like him wash dirty clothes by hand? Of course she believed what Baichuan Qing said, but she still wanted to choke him.

"Where does it hurt? Let me apply the spray for you," she said.

"I'm looking for."

"faster."

"The sprain is a little hard to find. It's not serious to begin with. Just now, when we were chatting, I felt that the sprain was no longer serious. I used to get sprains when practicing swordplay and running, but after doing it more often, I became less sensitive to it."

"Do you mean to say that the spray in my hand was taken in vain?" Shiina Riki shook the spray can up and down, and a sound of hard objects colliding came from the spray can.

"It wasn't in vain. At least I know that Shiina-san still cares about me." said Shirakawa Haru.

"Then I want to pay more attention to you now." Shiina Riki grabbed Shirakawa Haru's ankle and pressed it where he thought it was most likely sprained. Shirakawa Haru's expression was a little unnatural, "Is it here?"

"Um...hiss!"

"Don't move!" Shiina Riki sprayed a circle of healing spray on Shirakawa Haru's ankle, centered on the point where his finger was pressing.

"How do you feel?" she asked gloatingly. "Are you feeling any better?"

"It's just a little cold." Shirakawa Haru put on his shoes and socks, then relaxed his injured ankle.

"Hmph! You are so reckless that you actually jumped from the maple tree into the classroom on the fourth floor. You should be more careful next time. You won't be so lucky every time. You jumped in this time, but you may fall down next time." Shiina Ritsuki's tone was a little unfriendly. Shirakawa Haru knew that she was like this. Even when she was comforting others, her tone would not be very soft.

"This is my first time spraying someone else. If there's anything I didn't do well... forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything." Shiina Riki shook his head, opened the classroom door and went to the sink to wash his hands.

When Shiina Riki came back, Shirakawa Haru closed the open window in the classroom.

Shirakawa Haru walked up to Shiina Riki and said, "Shiina-san, let me help with the arrangement."

"Huh? You can compose music too?" Shiina Riki's eyes were full of distrust.

Chapter 106: Because Shiina-san is so pretty

"Today I went to the bookstore and looked at some textbooks on songwriting. I even bought a few." Shirakawa Haru saw Shiina Riki's distrustful expression and explained, "I already have a certain understanding of the basic methods of songwriting. I think I can help you with that."

Shiina Riki took a deep breath and then loudly expressed his dissatisfaction with Shirakawa Haru: "Let alone this morning, even if you spent the whole day reading textbooks and reference books, you might not be able to learn the basics of composing music!"

"Shiina-san, I'd say I've only built the basic framework for composing music, and I'm far from even learning the basics." Shirakawa Haru pulled out the book he'd been reading in front of Hanasakigawa Academy that afternoon, "This is it."

"Arnold Schoenberg's 'Principles of Composition'?" Shiina Riki flipped open the book, which was filled with chaotic, wavy lines. "What's the point of scribbling all over the book? You don't think that just by taking 'notes' you can grasp all this knowledge, do you?"

"I'm not that arrogant, but I think I can achieve the level of 'remembering most of the content'." Shirakawa Haru took out another music reference book and placed it on the table.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Do you think you're a genius who can be published in the American "Time" magazine?" Shiina Riki threw the book to Shirakawa Haru, "Even if Maki said that, I would think about it for a while before confirming whether she was lying to me..."

Wait! Shiina Riki's somewhat dull gaze fell on Shirakawa Haru, who was reading the newly taken out reference book.

Shiina Riki looked at Shirakawa Haru's expression and knew that he was immersed in reading. She suddenly remembered that her sister Maki had always praised him and always said that Shirakawa Haru was much more talented than her. How could it be so unfair? He was like the darling of the world.

So Shirakawa Haru is not joking?

Does he really have the ability to compose music now?

Shiina Riki subjectively didn't want to believe it, but the fact might be true. She asked Shirakawa Haru a few questions, which were all the contents he had underlined in "Basic Principles of Composition".

Shirakawa Haru answered very well. Not only did he answer the questions, but he also asked Shiina Riki, "Are the questions you asked in a certain sentence in a certain chapter or paragraph?"

Shiina Riki closed his eyes and sighed in frustration.

All correct! According to this situation, even if Shirakawa Haru is unable to understand the core of music composition for the time being, he can still rely on his memory and complete the composition through the creative "formula".

Now Shiina Riki has no doubt that Shirakawa Haru has memorized the book "Basic Principles of Composition".

To give an example, it is like doing a math problem. Although Shirakawa Haru doesn't know how the seemingly "simple" formula is derived, he can apply the formula and knows how to use it.

As long as his reaction is fast enough, he can apply all the formulas and principles he has learned the moment he sees the problem, and then come up with the most perfect combination of formulas.

Shirakawa Haru cannot help Shiina Riki with the details, but he can create a perfect "skeleton". As long as this "skeleton" is filled with flesh and blood, Shiina Riki can get a music score that is perfect for her at the moment!

"Shiina-san, how's it going? I've answered all the questions you asked, right?" Shirakawa Haru asked. "Am I capable of composing music for you?"

"Your current level is good enough." Shiina Riki turned her head and looked out the window unhappily. She didn't want to look at Shirakawa Haru's face, because no matter how she looked at it, she felt that he was mocking her. "Although I can't help much, at least I can share some of the pressure."

"I have to go to RING for rehearsal soon..." Shiina Riki scratched her head in annoyance, "The score I made last night is complete garbage today!" She lay down on the desk again and made muffled and annoying complaints. She was complaining about why she didn't have enough ability.

"Let's go to RING and compose music. Everyone's here, so if you have any questions, we can fix them right away." Shirakawa Haru stuffed the reference book back into the knitted bag where the panda doll was previously placed. "It's getting dark quickly now, so it's not too late yet. Everyone's waiting for you at RING."

"Let's go!" Shiina Riki thought to herself that she had rested long enough, and the light was still waiting for her at the ring. She stretched her limbs to soften her body, but when she turned around, she froze because Shirakawa Haru was looking at her. "God damn it! Staring at me like that, do you believe I'll dig your eyeballs out?"

"I wasn't staring at Shiina-san with lustful eyes..." Shirakawa Haru thought to herself that there were only two of us in the classroom now. I just closed the book and put it back into the knitting bag, so you were the only one in the classroom who could be observed.

"Then why are you looking at me!" Shiina Riki said fiercely, walked to the door of the classroom and unlocked it.

"Because Shiina-san is beautiful." Shirakawa Haru, who usually spoke his mind, recalled the scene he had just witnessed. Shiina Riki stood beside him, stretching her lithe body with all her might, her ample breasts forming a breathtaking outline. Perhaps she hadn't rested enough, tears welled in her eyes, her purple pupils gleaming with a hazy, alluring quality.

"Huh?" Shiina Riki heard Shirakawa Haru's praise, but she didn't see any offense in her eyes. She knew that Shirakawa Haru was simply boasting about her looks. Faced with the praise of a genius that even Maki admitted was inferior to her, she subconsciously covered her cheeks with her hands. The pride she felt after being recognized by a super genius washed over her heart. "What nonsense are you talking about? You can say this to Chihaya Aine and Nagasaki Motoyo, it won't work on me!"

"Then Shiina-san, just treat me as talking nonsense." Shirakawa Haru chuckled. He could tell that Shiina Riki really liked his praise of her, but her tsundere personality always made her show a certain degree of aggression. "Let's go."

He added, "I meant what I said just now."

"Shut up and don't talk to me like that anymore." Shiina Riki faced the door, and behind her she heard the footsteps of Shirakawa Haru.

She lowered her head and blinked, not knowing why she was always so easily irritated with Shirakawa Haru.

Shiina Riki savored Shirakawa Haru's affirmation of her and suddenly smiled, but the next moment she tightened her face, maintaining a cold expression with anger: "Are you teasing me?"

She did her best to look like a volcano about to erupt.

"Let's talk on the way. Open the door first. Don't stand there like an idiot." Shirakawa Haru turned around a few times behind Shiina Riki.

"Huh... hold on..." Shiina Riki held her breath and concentrated, then she suddenly opened the door and rushed out!

Baichuan Qing looked at her back curiously, not knowing what she was going to do. With his physical fitness, it was very easy for him to catch up with her.

The thick soles of the shoes made a clear clattering sound when stepping on the wooden floor.

The echo reverberated through the corridor like ripples spreading out in space and time.

Shiina Riki was almost running to the end of the corridor, and Shirakawa Haru chased after him. However, next to Shiina Riki was the teacher's office on this floor of the teaching building.

There was light spilling out of the room, and a teacher was inside handling official business.

Shiina Riki is a student at Hanasakigawa Girls' College. When she was caught running fast in the corridor by her teacher, she was only criticized at most.

Shirakawa Haru is not like that.

Although he had the chairman's consent in advance, he was still a boy after all. If he came to the women's college and chased the students in the corridor, he would probably be called to the police if he was caught by the teacher.

"I'll wait for you at the school gate for one minute. If you haven't arrived at the school gate after one minute, you'd better be prepared to walk to RING by yourself!" Shiina Riki turned around and snorted coldly. Looking at Shirakawa Haru tiptoeing past the office, her mood couldn't help but become cheerful.

There are quite a few offices to pass along the way.

Although she would still wait for him at the school gate in the end, she more or less wanted to scare him. After all, what he said in the classroom just now was really shameless!

Shiina Riki hummed happily and walked slowly down the teaching building.

When she walked to the entrance of the college, Shirakawa Haru was already waiting for her there. There was a taxi parked next to him. He was standing outside the car. The driver rolled down the window and the two of them were talking and laughing.

"How did you run faster than me?" Shiina's eyes widened. "Did you climb down the tree?"

"No." Bai Chuanqing shook his head, "I jumped directly from the third floor."

"You're so lucky to be alive today." Shiina Riki was convinced. She sighed, "I thought you might be a daredevil or a psychopath before, but now I'm sure you are a psychopath."

"There's nothing we can do. If we don't walk faster, Shiina-san will leave on her own," Shirakawa Haru said softly, "Get in the car."

Shiina Riki's expression was somewhat self-blaming. Before getting on the bus, she had originally planned to sit separately from Shirakawa Haru, but after getting on the bus, she still sat together with Shirakawa Haru, and her seats were a bit too close: "Hey, Shirakawa Haru..."

"What's the matter?" Baichuan Qing opened his eyes.

"I'm sorry about what happened just now." Shiina Riki said, "I didn't mean to not wait for you, I was just joking."

"I know," he said.

"I'm apologizing to you. I don't need your comfort!" Shirakawa Haru's words were a bit frivolous. In Shiina Riki's eyes, he seemed to change the subject as if he didn't care at all. She said, "Be serious!"

"I'm serious."

The taxi was driving in the traffic, Shirakawa Haru and Shiina Riki were sitting side by side in the back seat, the light from the street lamps shone on their faces in a certain fixed rhythm, and then quickly withdrew, and the shadow that occasionally flashed across their faces was the towering shadow of the overpass.

"I told you before, Shiina-san is a gentle person, so she definitely wouldn't leave me alone with my injured foot. And then, I guess the reason she did that was because she felt that what I said in the classroom was a bit too much, and she was angry, so I should apologize to her." Shiina Ritsuki couldn't see Shirakawa Haru's eyes in the darkness. She could only hear the even, light breathing beside her. She listened to Shirakawa Haru's description of Shiina Ritsuki as if she was not Shiina Ritsuki, but a bystander. "Shiina-san, do you think my analysis just now is correct?"

Shirakawa Haru's breathing became heavier, and he took something out of his pocket. Shiina Ritsuo saw a black outline on his palm. It was the pendant!

He pinched the furry pendant and said, "Shiina-san must be feeling incredibly unconvinced right now. She's thinking, how does Shirakawa Haru know what I'm thinking? Is he secretly watching me again? I hate people like this who are so smooth-talking, so reckless, and like they're psychopaths!"

They passed another overpass, and the lights on both sides of the street were particularly bright. At this moment, Shiina Riki met Shirakawa Haru's gaze. It turned out that he had been staring at her in the dark. His eyes... were very beautiful and charming.

The taxi drove outside the overpass, and a thick black shadow fell on the roof of the car, and mottled light and shadow fell on Shirakawa Haru.

Shiina Riki was stimulated by the strong light and closed his eyes for a moment.

When she opened her eyes again, the car was plunged into darkness again.

Now she couldn't see him again, but Shirakawa Haru's breathing was still so light and even.

Shiina Riki's face was burning, and she said cautiously, "Wrong."

In the darkness, Shirakawa Haru's breathing paused for a while. He was a little confused. He had clearly seen through Shiina Riki's psychological changes since he jumped into the classroom through the window. Why did a change occur now that he was not aware of?

He did not speak, but remained silent.

"I don't think what you said in the classroom was excessive. On the contrary... I like it very much." Shiina Riki said, "I also like the panda doll you gave me. I have already forgiven you for what happened last time."

"Well, as long as you like it." Shirakawa Haru said.

The taxi became quiet. A window on one side of the back seat was opened. Someone was holding up his chin with his palm to enjoy the breeze. His long hair was blown against his face by the wind, and he had to use his hands to push his hair behind his ears.

Whenever the lights inside the car came on, Shiina Riki would glance to the side, wondering if Shirakawa Haru was still looking at him.

She chuckled softly in the darkness.

"But to me, you are indeed a smooth-talking, reckless psychopath," she said.

When Shirakawa Haru turned around, Shiina Riki was looking at the scenery outside the window.

In RING's rehearsal room, Chihaya Aine was walking around the room anxiously. Takamatsu Touma beside her asked her to sit down and rest, or practice guitar for a while.

Kaname Rakuna was looking at Chihaya Aine with interest, while Nagasaki Suyo was looking at her phone.

"Hmm..." Chihaya Aine made a dissatisfied sound like a child, "It's almost 7:30, why hasn't Riki come yet? Seriously, the chairman didn't even reply to my message."

"Aine, wait a little longer. Riki said she would come. She is not someone who would go back on her word, and... Haru is with her." Takamatsu Deng sat obediently on the round chair.

"He said he would bring me some candied haws." Lenai looked at the door of the rehearsal room boredly.

There was a sound of the doorknob being twisted, and Shirakawa Haru pushed open the door and walked into the rehearsal room, followed by Shiina Tatsuki.