I am the emotional sustenance of your deceased

"It's your turn! Write together!"

"I…"

"It just so happens that CrychicⅡ doesn't have its own song, so you and I, let's complete it together!"

"..."

Yao Lenai picked up the pen silently, and she clearly found that her hands were shaking.

What should I write?

There were already eight lines of words on the paper, the first one was written by Chitose Haizuka and the middle one was written by Chitose Noshiro.

Then write it yourself at the end?

Le Nai started writing lyrics very naturally. She wrote:

【君とjuたいよ，】

(I want to be with you,)

Ch376. You will eventually lose your home and family

I want to be with you.

After finishing writing, Lenai felt much more relieved.

She didn't dare to look up at Chitose Huizuka directly, but just rolled her eyes to peek at the other person's reaction, thinking she was infallible.

"Do you want to be with me forever?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"So pure! You're so cute."

The girl beside him held up her pretty face with both hands. Even though he couldn't see her expression clearly, Konaka could feel how bright her smile was.

Chitose's smile reminded Lenai of an afternoon when Chitose Noshiro held her in his arms and they basked in the sun in the small courtyard downstairs.

That day, Lenai squinted her eyes because the sunlight was too bright; but today, Lenai looked directly at her sun.

The pen in her hand was shaking due to the trembling of the person holding it, and Lenai tried hard not to look at Chitose who was approaching.

She couldn't even feel how fast her heart was beating as the other person's hot breath hit the side of her face.

Squeezing her legs together, Rakuna hoped Chitose would stop staring at her.

"stare--"

"..."

Finally, Lenai also turned his head and used the same trick on Chitose Haizuka.

"Stare—I'm not cute. I'm cute when I'm 20."

After speaking out her true feelings, she was no longer nervous. Lenai half-lay down in front of the table, looking at Chitose with interest and a smile.

"But whether I'm cute or not won't be determined by your compliments."

It is half past eleven now. Tomorrow is the weekend and the girls' short vacation is about to begin.

"Hey! Lenai, I'm telling you..."

"what?"

Kaname Rakuna kept staring into Noshiro Chitose's eyes. She seemed to see a circle of golden rings rolling in them, which was about to take shape.

"I say, why don't we stay up all night and finish writing it!"

……

I say, why don't we stay up all night and finish writing it together!

That's how the lively-looking little wild cat tried to persuade him.

What happened later?

"I'll buy you some coffee to cheer you up."

"Meow, I want to sleep. I don't want to come to rehearsal."

"Be obedient, Xiaosui."

Lena carried Chitose to SPACE. They wrote more and more enthusiastically yesterday and stayed up until three in the morning, an unprecedented time.

For these girls who have never gone through such a big trouble to stay up all night in their lives, this is undoubtedly a big challenge.

Lenai didn't remember what time she fell asleep, nor did she remember how long Chitose stayed up.

In the last moments of her consciousness, she still remembered the girl who kept revising the lyrics under the dim yellowish light.

Ah, it would be more accurate to say that he was in a coma rather than sleeping.

"Huh, why are you working so hard on writing lyrics?"

"Because I want to complete a song that belongs to you and me."

Blinking tiredly, Chitose Haizuka reluctantly gave a thumbs up.

"Welcome~ What would you like to eat today?"

Today's waitress is still enthusiastic and enthusiastic. It seems that Lenai grew up under her care.

But if you look at it the other way around, the other person also grew up under Lenai's care.

They were even.

"I want coffee," Kaname raised her hand and wiggled two fingers in the air.

"Okay, two matcha parfaits... huh? Coffee?"

The waitress's surprise did not wake up the two drowsy white cats. After ordering coffee, Kaname fell into a light nap leaning on Chitose Noshiro's head.

Chitose leaned on Lenai's shoulder, Lenai rested her head on Chitose's head, their eyelashes trembled from time to time, and their hands were around each other.

“Coffee is here~”

The waitress gently put down the coffee and left without disturbing the girls.

If only the world could remain quiet forever.

Lenai thought, take a nap for five more minutes, then get up and ask Chitose to have coffee together, and then go to rehearsal.

Just five more minutes... Just five more minutes...

"Hey! Did you hear that?"

The conversation of the guest sitting next to him served as white noise for Lenai's sleep. Lenai was ready to stop dozing off after the other party finished talking.

Thank you, strangers on the street, today you are my cutest little alarm clocks.

"Which thing? Can you please stop being a riddler? Explain it clearly."

"Oh my, it's about SPACE closing down. Aren't there a lot of promotions and performances lately? These are considered farewell performances and farewell events."

"Huh! I see."

[Hmm…hmm? SPACE? Is it going to end soon?]

When is the next farewell performance?

"There's a performance next Friday. Do you want to come and see it? I heard that's the last one. After that, SPACE will be demolished or renovated. Who knows?"

"..."

Yao Lenai suddenly opened her eyes, and immediately all her sleepiness disappeared.

"SPACE, it's about to end, next week?"

Since she has been hanging out with Chitose Haizuka at the Noshiro residence recently, she has not been able to go home to talk to her grandmother about this matter.

One is that she is pretending that she doesn't care and using music to relax her nerves.

The second reason is that she doesn't dare to care too much, because if she does, she will definitely be sad for a long time.

But now——

Lenai didn't wake up Chitose, but started drinking her own glass of iced American coffee.

The coffee liquid was bitter, and its texture was cool and stimulating to the brain, but Lenai had been shocked and sober by the previous news.

Even the coffee seemed like the icing on the cake.

"SPACE, the day of the end... has finally arrived?"

While holding the coffee cup, the other hand was placed on Chitose's waist.

The cold and the heat came at the same time, and countless memories of her grandmother's shop that she treasured appeared in front of Lenai's eyes.

From Noshiro to Haizuka, from six to fourteen... so many years have passed in a flash, so many years have passed that grandma's back has bent, and Chitose has fallen into eternal sleep, and so many years have passed that the little home that once sheltered her from the wind and rain is about to collapse.

"how so."

"Hmm? Lenai? What's wrong?"

Chitose rubbed against Kaname with sleepy eyes, a barely perceptible smile on his face.

"I'm… fine."

Lenai didn't want to spread her thoughts everywhere, as that would seem like she was begging for others' pity.

Maybe Sister Dai Qiansui told her that the most important thing in life is not to cause trouble to others all the time.

Chitose Haizuka also said...there is no mercy when performing.

So, still…

"Is it really okay?"

Huizuka's voice was so sweet that Lenai couldn't remain quiet.

Kaname Lenai looked at the clock not far away, and finally opened her mouth reluctantly.

"age."

"Ok?"

"Years old... When is the earliest we can perform on stage?"

"Performing on stage?"

Noshiro Chitose blinked, and after thinking it over again, she finally spoke:

"If I train harder these few days, the earliest I can..."

Ch377. Drunkenness and Dreams, Whispers from the Devil

"You're going on stage next week? Huh? Are you kidding me?"

"Isn't this a bit too rushed? Hasn't our band only been together for a few weeks?"

When Chitose Haizuka told her teammates about her idea, they showed reluctance as expected.

One of the system's clones, Shiina Kyo, even stood up directly and spoke to Lenna in a somewhat impatient tone.

"Absolutely not!"

"Rejected. You have to go on stage next week. If you delay any longer, you won't have the chance."

"Ha you…"

The other Jing stepped forward to act along with his clone, keeping his tone as kind and gentle as possible.

"Can you explain to us why this happened? That way we can better prepare for the next training session, right?"

"There's nothing to explain."

Yao Lenai shook her head expressionlessly. She didn't want to make her own worries and family affairs public.

There's nothing much to say about those things.

She just wanted to dedicate a mourning song to SPACE before it closed down. As long as she could complete the memorial service for SPACE—

No matter how much I miss it in the future, I won’t be overly depressed and sad.