I am the emotional sustenance of your deceased

After eating the crepes, they started playing hopscotch along the bricks on the sidewalk. Lenai didn't know why she ran away from school.

Because school is boring.

But it's not just because of that.

Because your classmates and you are boring.

But how could it be just because of these?

[Because... Chitose Noshiro is so interesting... so brilliant.]

Yes! That's exactly what happened.

……

"Noshiro Chitose!"

A dream about yesterday's events was shattered in an instant.

To wake Lenai from her dream.

She sat up suddenly, turned her head to check the time and found that it was only midnight.

It had only been four hours since she fell asleep.

"call--"

Le Nai jumped out of bed and opened the window. She stood on tiptoe and leaned on the windowsill to breathe in the fresh air.

"In my dream, we met again."

Lenai smacked her lips, recalling the cherry blossom candy her elder sister had fed her that day.

Although it is called cherry blossom candy, it has no cherry blossom flavor at all. It is just a simple and sweet hard candy.

What did you see in your dream?

In her dream, she saw her elder sister teaching her to play the guitar...

Noshiro Chitose told her that day that he looked forward to her future performance.

"Ok!"

Does that mean that as long as I can perform on stage in the future, I can see Chitose again?

Thinking of this, Lenai seemed to have found the meaning of life in an instant. She ran out of her bedroom yelling:

"grandmother!"

"grandmother!"

"I want it now! Learn guitar!"

In her bedroom, Ms. Tsuzuki Shifune was looking at the financial statements with her reading glasses, her face full of confusion:

"???"

Are you staying up late at night to play music?

This child might really be a genius.

……

"I must find Noshiro Chitose! And see that big sister again...!"

Want Lenai to carry grandma's guitar!

She begged her grandma to give it to her last night after crying and making a fuss.

Grandma said she would teach her guitar tomorrow, but Lenai couldn't hold it back.

She was afraid that if she started learning the next day it would be too late, and she felt that wasting one more day would affect her chances of finding Noshiro Chitose.

"Today, cry...something, is there a performance?"

She grabbed the skirt of the front desk staff and refused to let go. She blinked her eyes of different colors and spoke in a firm tone.

"Eh? Crychic? No, but he might come to training."

"Room number."

"I haven't made an appointment yet, so I don't know."

"Tsk."

How can you do this!

Lenai was asked to hold on to the gig bag on her back. The bag was almost bigger than her, but she didn't look funny carrying it.

"Then I'll...wait."

Le Na walked towards the front door, but found that people were coming and going and she had no time to check whether Chitose was among them.

She couldn't even find a place to hide.

"You can go through the back door. After all, many girls in bands come in through the back door where no one goes, which is also the employee work passage."

"Uh-huh."

Lenai was about to leave without looking back. She waved and said goodbye to the big sister with white hair and golden eyes behind her.

[I don't come to SPACE very often, but if there are people with gray hair like me, I will probably remember them.]

Lenai frowned in confusion, but quickly turned her thoughts to other things.

It doesn't matter what happens to the insignificant characters.

"Noshiro Chitose..."

I must find you.

……

"Why, I can't find you."

Lenai took a nap on the stone steps of the staff passage at the back door.

There was absolutely no one passing by here. Outside was a small courtyard with a cherry tree that was slowly shedding its petals as the breeze blew.

The sun was so warm that Lenai was almost tanned just by sitting there.

【I want to sleep.】

If it were any other time, Lenai would have fallen asleep without saying a word.

She is more casual and lazier than a cat.

"Huff, huff, huff… No, I can't sleep."

What if that interesting older sister named Chitose Noshiro comes when I'm sleeping?

If you missed it... you'll have to keep waiting!

Kaname hates waiting.

He used all his mental strength to move Lenai's head up and down as if he was kowtowing.

She almost lost her balance and fell down several times, but luckily she woke up in time.

"Well."

After kowtowing countless times, Lenai still couldn't hold on any longer.

The sleep demon invaded her consciousness like a flood.

Lenai's eyelids were as heavy as the matcha parfait, and sleepiness was coming over her faster than the parfait was served.

[I can’t take it anymore… I’m going to fall asleep.]

Sleepiness, you won, you destroyed me.

[Sorry, it seems I won’t be able to see you today.]

This was Lenai's second to last thought before he fainted.

She fell backwards, but it was as if she fell into an extremely warm embrace.

[So soft... so bouncy.]

This was Lenai's last thought before she fell asleep.

That's the way it is.

Ch351. Yearning to be someone as shining as you

【I dream of becoming someone as shining as you. 】

"Mmm, Mmm~"

Kaname Lenai had a dream.

It's a long... and difficult dream.

Although she was dreaming with the regret of not being able to meet Qiansui, what she dreamed about could make up for her regret a little.

She dreamed that Chitose Noshiro taught her to play the guitar.

Chitose Noshiro held her in her arms and stroked her like a cat. Every day, Chitose kneaded her into a little fool who couldn't think.

And! Her guitar skills also improved by leaps and bounds! Finally... she competed on the same stage with Chitose!

The best guitar showdown in Japan, the world, and even the universe!

Became... someone who shines brightly on the stage like Chitose Noshiro.

can.

It was just a dream after all.

“Hoo…Lulululul~”

Stretching lazily, before she opened her eyes, Lenai found herself lying on something very soft.

[Was it my grandmother or the staff who carried me to bed?]

very nice.

In that case, let’s continue sleeping for a while.

Although I didn’t do anything today, I really worked hard!

Lenai thought about it and turned over.

She hit something like a [wall], but it was a soft wall and her forehead didn't hurt at all.

"Woo?"

Trying to open his eyes drowsily, Lenai raised his head but bumped into something even softer.

"Little guy, you're awake."

"Hmm? Hmm...Hmm!?"

Kaname Rakuna jumped off Noshiro Chitose's lap in an instant. She looked at Chitose in surprise, unable to utter a complete sentence.

[It's her! That super cool, older sister!]

"What's wrong? Did you sleep well? My thighs are a little numb from being pressed down."

"Um… sorry."

"It's no big deal. Little sister, you just need to get more sleep. I used to sleep a lot when I was little. Just be careful about where you sleep. What if you get kidnapped by some bad guys?"

"Well, I don't know."

Lenai sat back down obediently, stretched herself, and hugged Chitose Noshiro all of a sudden.

"Sister Chitose, I was looking for you. What a coincidence, I found you."

"Why me?"

Chitose Noshiro's outfit today is particularly eye-catching.

She did not wear rock performance clothes, but rather dignified and elegant casual clothes.

What attracted Lenai's attention most was Chitose's sandals that showed her toes. Chitose Noshiro's toes looked like two rows of cute buttons.