I am the emotional sustenance of your deceased

"Because you have captured my heart, and I know it is very worn out, so please spare those insults, and please also give me some dignity."

Today is the day for collecting materials, which is also Friday after school.

Lixi sat in the pavilion in the small park and silently recited the lyrics.

"Huhu, so serious, little Lixi is really getting better and better."

Li Xi didn't know whether doing this would help him write good lyrics, but it obviously did have some effect.

But she still hasn't figured out how to continue writing the three lines of lyrics that she wrote last time when she had a flash of inspiration.

"Still can't figure it out?"

"Ah."

"I haven't been home for half a month. Is it really okay?"

"..."

"I don't know how you convinced your parents. Aren't you afraid that I'll kidnap you?"

"You're a jerk, so no one's going to worry about that."

Shiina Riki closed the notebook with only three lines of lyrics written on it, and for a moment he didn't know how to continue writing.

"Let's go. I'll take you to a place I really like. Hmm... I just don't know if that place existed more than ten years ago."

"what?"

"It's okay, but Li Xi has to go home and behave herself this weekend, okay? You can't hide from your sister your whole life."

"I know…"

"I also know that it's not that you don't want to see your sister, but you're afraid that your heart will be unstable and you will give up chasing her halfway, right?"

"..."

"Don't be afraid, my stupid dumb tear mole girl."

Qiansui lifted Lixi's chin again and looked at him with smiling eyes.

"I will help you face all the difficulties. Just trust me and I will help you handle everything."

"Oh well?"

Shiina Riki stretched her muscles, as it was indeed time for her to go home and see her sister.

If possible, she would like to ask Shiina Maki for some music theory advice...

Forget it, I won’t ask.

The same applies to Qiansui.

……

In Akabane, northern Tokyo, near a small, unknown port.

Chitose Noshiro found the place where she and Deng drank and fell into the sea to take a hot spring bath six years later. She touched the wooden stake that had not yet grown moss.

Is this what the world was like when it was young?

"The sunset is beautiful."

"Hoohoo, Chitose Selection, you are trustworthy!"

"It's a pity... I don't seem to have any inspiration."

Seriously, Shiina Riki!

Noshiro Chitose gave the other person a blank look.

"Lixi, don't be anxious. Although I know you are ready now...ah, are you really ready to defeat and surpass your sister?"

"I think I'm done."

"Just saying that is far from enough."

If Li Xi's only goal is to defeat your sister, it would be such a pity and a waste.

For example, if you only study for the sake of exams, then you will only learn so much, and it will only be for your own enjoyment in a small range.

It’s a pity that Lixi is still young, so saying these things... is almost the same as not saying anything.

Chitose bought two bottles of soda from the vending machine nearby and threw them to Lixi who was looking at the sea.

"Why did you bring me here?"

"Because this is the place I will never forget." Chitose dug into her bag and pulled out the item she was most familiar with, yet also most unfamiliar with—beer. A can of beer left behind by her father in this life.

"you…"

“Don’t worry, I won’t drink. I want to treat my sister and my seniors.”

The fingernails pried open the pull tab, and the wine poured down into the port.

"Please don't judge my behavior because it's a sister's tribute to her stupid drunk sister whom she will never see again."

Soon, except for a few drops of wine flowing on the inner wall of the bottle, most of the wine flowed into the sea.

Shiina Riki looked at Chitose silently. Her heart told her that she should say something, but she couldn't utter any words of comfort.

"Don't comfort me, don't pity me, I will make the same mistakes over and over again."

Chitose threw the beer can into the trash can and took Riki's hand.

"As for me, I particularly like the way Li Xi is creating, just as I like Li Xi's lyrics, just as I like Li Xi."

"But I think you're only fifteen, and your goals are great and I admire them, but you should also go home to see your sisters and cherish every day you spend with them. You still have a long life ahead of you..."

"I'm ready, Chitose, really..."

"I believe you. We should go to the music festival together next year. Next year we'll be in the third year of junior high school and graduate soon."

One year! Chitose had spent a year planning the script for this simulated business trip.

She can now play the guitar proficiently and has also started learning the bass.

"At the music festival before graduation, we're going to shine with our songs! Little Lixi!"

"it is good!"

The afterglow of the setting sun shone equally on the girls. Chitose had her back to the setting sun. Riki saw that behind them was an orange-red sea.

The sea was so vast, just like the future she could see.

"Come on, I'll take you home. Remember to get along well with your sister... I know you'll just be a little upset, but you won't really ignore your sister."

"Going home? Going home."

Then go home.

……

When he said "go home", Lixi's heart had already returned home.

"See you on Monday! If you still want to stay at my house on Monday, that's fine. My house is your home."

"Don't you want to go up and have some tea?"

"I didn't think a fool like you could make tea."

"Huh? You actually underestimated me!"

"See you later, Lixi."

"Sweet dreams, Xiaosui."

Chitose didn't look back. It was now six o'clock in the evening.

She was going somewhere, but that place had nothing to do with Shiina Riki.

After hailing a taxi, Chitose Noshiro told the driver, "Go to Ring, the faster the better."

The scenery flashed quickly on both sides of the car window, and Noshiro Chitose's thoughts had shifted from planning Riki's script to studying the past events about Deng, Xiangzi, and Riki.

"But in this simulation, Li Xi didn't meet Xiangzi and the others. So what would Xiangzi and the others be like?"

Especially you, Shoko Toyokawa.

Although only two characters are simulated, they are both related to you.

What kind of person were you in the past that I can't see?

"I'm really becoming more and more curious about you."

Ch53.Ring, Goodbye Gao Songdeng

Ring, a place that Chitose could never forget.

Six or seven years later in another simulation, Chitose was here giving a thrilling show with the lights.

The song "Welcome to the Black Parade" still rings in Chitose's ears.

"Hello, do you know Crychic? I'm one of their teammates, but I can't contact them right now. Do you know the room that Toyokawa Shoko has reserved for today?"

"Oh, okay, they're on the innermost part of the third floor."

"Thank you, and have a nice evening."

Chitose Noshiro found that she was completely unable to pretend to be the same person she was when she first met Riki.

Her performance really couldn't last... This wasn't surprising, after all, it was impossible for her to master the skills of a bad woman in just ten days or half a year.

Holding the Crychic poster in her hand, she might not have been able to find it if she hadn't seen Toyokawa Shoko's name and phone number written in the lower left corner of the recruitment poster.

Now she went up to the second floor, now she climbed up to the third floor. Qiansui's pace was getting faster, but when she reached the stairs to the third floor, her pace slowed down.

The room at the end is less than a hundred meters away.

Inside is Takamatsu Touma, the small-time sister and small-time colleague who accompanied Chitose through her childhood and adulthood.

Deng has always been her sister, no matter if it was the first simulation or the second simulation.

Well…except for reality.

They are just the closest people in the simulation, nothing in reality.

This was Qian Sui's third simulation. She was clearly a qualified simulation user, knowing that she had to devote herself to the simulation...

But when she thought about the fact that there was a light in this world, it was the light of a teenager who had grown up alone without her companion...

Chitose couldn't help wanting to see Deng.

"Xiao Deng, you, you."

Qiansui walked slowly, holding onto the wall. The wall seemed to be infinitely long, and she felt that she would never reach the end in her lifetime.

That Toyokawa Shoko! Was she the one who disbanded the Crychic band in the film "The Light Cries"?

What kind of attitude did that impoverished young lady who I had speculated about have in mind to hurt Deng so much? No, ah...

Xiangzi, Xiangzi, what kind of person are you?

Why do you make me feel pity and want sympathy, but also inexplicably feel resentful and regretful?

In just a moment, Chitose Noshiro walked to the door where they were rehearsing.

Among them was her good sister, with whom she had been living for more than six years.

Obviously! Among them was her good sister whom she had been with for six years...but Qiansui knew that Deng couldn't possibly know her.

In this script that belongs exclusively to Shiina Tatsuki, Takamatsu Touma is just a minor supporting role that is not recognized by the system.

dong dong dong-

There were three brisk knocks on the door, and the keyboard sounds coming from inside the door stopped abruptly. Soon, a girl with blue hair and twintails poked her head out from the crack of the door.

"Hello? Who are you looking for? Wait—you're the one behind Shiina-san that day!"

"Yes, that's me. My name is... Chitose Takamatsu. I heard you were looking for a drummer, so I wanted to come up and take a look."

"Takamatsu? So your last name is Takamatsu too?"

Qiansui didn't care about Xiangzi's surprise. She pushed the door open and walked in, looking for the exquisite gray-haired penguin calmly.

The little animal is sitting on the floor.