Can Lixi look at me alone?

While she was still pondering how to be honest with her friend, the chat history miraculously jumped up on its own.

Yuzuki's message had already been sent to her before she could.

Well then, let's see what Yuzuki has to say before making any plans...!

Ai Yin breathed a sigh of relief and began reading the new message.

"Chihiro~ Was that cotton candy delicious? I saw you signed for it not long ago, you should have tasted it by now, right?"

While resting on Li Xi's shoulder, Jie Yue secretly fiddled with her phone, even though Li Xi knew she was up to something. But since it wouldn't disturb her rest, she didn't do anything.

At a table not far away, Xiangzi was wolfing down her food, while Mu kept feeding her.

"I didn't expect Lixi to be such a good cook."

Xiangzi's unexpected praise startled Lixi for a moment, as if the all-encompassing Xiangzi had reappeared before her...

"It was Yuzuki who taught me how to do it."

Yuzuki is amazing; she actually turned Xiang back into her original form.

Mu glanced at Jieyue furtively and shrank back somewhat unhappily.

Yuzuki… clearly doesn't like Sho. Why did she do this?

Doesn't Yuzuki always say... that she likes me more than Sho?

"it's not like that."

Mu couldn't help but interrupt their conversation.

"It was Lixi's own hard work."

It has nothing to do with the end of the month.

Under Mortis's guidance, Mu spoke very eloquently, and neither Xiangzi nor Lixi felt unhappy.

But the atmosphere on Aine's side is quite different from here.

Aiyin quickly calculated the time and realized it was 3:45 PM London time. She then hurriedly searched for the classmate to whom she had entrusted the package…

The girl, still unpacking her package, heard her phone ring. Politely, she answered, and considering all the delicious food, she tore open the packaging and popped a candy into her mouth…

Having received the answer, Aine hung up the phone and relayed the taste of the candy to Yuzuki.

"Sweet and sour, delicious!"

"Thanks for the cotton candy, Xiaoyue!"

Feeling relieved that she had successfully fooled the sampler, Aine sighed. Next time, she definitely needed to tell the taste tester in advance, otherwise she might have to call during the tester's break time...

Ah... what was I going to say to Yuzuki just now?

"It's okay, after all, this is the only little bit of help I can give Chihaya..."

"Please take good care of yourself over there. I'll try my best to make Chihiro happy as soon as possible!"

The courage I had mustered vanished immediately after that interruption, and I don't know how long it will take to gather it again.

in particular…

She typed out her reply.

"Um~ Thank you, Yuzuki!"

The weak and feeble thank you symbolized her surrender tonight—abandoning the honesty and continuing to use the excuse of being in England to elicit Yuzuki's concern...

It's simply because I didn't have the courage to tell her the truth.

"Um, Yuzuki? Does Yuzuki really want me to continue studying in the UK?"

Although she lacked the courage to speak directly, she was at least a coward who knew how to hint indirectly.

Yuzuki blinked and glanced furtively at Riki, who was secretly watching her from the side.

"what's wrong?"

Knowing that she had something to ask, Li Xi asked softly. Xiang Zi, who had finished eating, also came over to check on Jie Yue and looked at her phone screen. Then Mu covered her eyes.

"Xiang, that's going too far."

After a brief commotion, the four huddled together, and Yuzuki, who had put away her phone, recounted her predicament.

"Is that so? A friend who went abroad to study... asked if you want her to come back?"

Xiangzi tapped his chin and thought for a while.

"It's obvious, isn't it? She just misses you and wants to ask if you miss her too."

Xiangzi took Jieyue's hand and carefully changed her bandage while sharing his insights.

"In this situation, don't say anything about wanting her to come back, it will make Yuzuki seem childish. It's better to just say that you miss her too, but you'd prefer to wait until she comes home for vacation."

Yuzuki looked at Mutsu beside her and noticed that Mutsu was peeking at her with her little head, so she touched Mutsu's hair.

Lixi, who has never been good at speaking, voluntarily withdrew from the discussion and was kicked out of Jieyue's house by Xiangzi with a random excuse.

Following Xiao Xiang's instructions, Jie Yue edited a message that could be described as 'perfect' and pressed send. This caused Ai Yin, dozens of meters away, considerable discomfort, forcing her to awkwardly end the conversation with an emoji.

Aine shyly burrowed under the covers and rolled around, while Xiangzi, equally embarrassed, hugged her two childhood friends tightly. Next, they needed to work together to solve… the problem with the lamp.

Xiangzi simply told Musashi what had happened that day, waiting for her to share the information she knew as well.

But what she got was Mortis, who had gained control of her body.

"Xiang? Why did you send Jieyue to see Deng?"

Mortis, feigning his usual tone, questioned Xiangzi in a low voice as if he were angry. Yuzuki, standing nearby, also fell silent, waiting for the two of them to come up with a solution she deemed suitable.

After all… she had absolutely no idea what to do about Xiaodeng's problem.

"I ran away on my own initiative, so you can't blame Xiao Xiang."

She suddenly spoke up, trying to take all the blame upon herself.

"If I had had the courage to face the light back then, I wouldn't have made everyone unhappy..."

The blue-haired girl seemed tired of this kind of talk, so she simply pulled Yuzuki to the other side of the sofa and sat down in the spot where Yuzuki's body was still warm.

He crossed his arms and started badmouthing the lamp to the two of them.

"It's clearly the lamp's fault."

I have to pretend to be Mutsuki just to say a few words... It's so troublesome. But I really can't help it... How can someone as good as Yuzuki be dragged down by Touka? Yuzuki should be with Mutsuki.

Mortis looked at Xiangzi, knowing he was her only enemy. What she had to do was make Xiangzi admit that it was all the lamp's fault.

"It's either choosing a time or doing something that Jieyue can't accept, or being sad on her own and causing trouble for others."

Mutsu talked a lot, but neither Xiangzi nor Jieyue felt anything was wrong. After all, it was a good thing for them that Mutsu was willing to talk.

"You can't say that, after all, Xiaodeng is also..."

Mortis tugged at her sleeve.

"It's the lamp's fault."

The dimmed golden eyes stared intently

Staring into Qingmei's eyes.

"The lamp did something wrong, that's why it's like this."

The blue-haired girl affectionately hugged Yuzuki's shoulders, wanting to taste her delicious flavor again.

But Yuzuki's words struck her like a thunderbolt, causing her to stop all movement.

"But Little Lamp didn't do anything wrong... did she?"

Quickly interrupting their search for another topic, Xiangzi thought of Jieyue crying in the street that day and decisively asked her what had happened to her. After all, Dengke hadn't seen Jieyue at all…

"Ah...that's because..."

Yuzuki gently rubbed her fingers together.

"Hailing and I broke up."

Mortis and Xiangzi exchanged a glance, and after inwardly celebrating that Xiaomu had one less competitor, they heard about Xiangzi's problem with minting coins.

"And then what did she do? Did she just abandon you on the street?"

The silent pink-haired girl made Xiangzi realize he had said the wrong thing, and after being glared at by Mu, he obediently apologized.

Mortis, who wanted to expose all the bad things that Tama had done that had caused Yuzuki's condition to deteriorate rapidly, gritted his teeth and gave up attacking Tama after realizing that he could not continue to reopen Yuzuki's wounds.

"I... hate lights."

After leaving behind this sentence, he returned to the consciousness space, allowing Mu to open his eyes and see Yuzuki so close at hand.

Finally understanding why Hailing hadn't come to eat for the past few days, Mu puffed up her cheeks in a fit of pique.

"Yueyue is not allowed to like Hailing anymore."

None of them know how to cherish the end of the month, so let me cherish the end of the month.

"Can you two finish what you're really doing before... Sorry, Yuzuki. I'm not saying you did anything wrong... but please listen to me first..."

Feeling that the two of them had gone seriously off-topic, Xiangzi tapped the table and began to seriously consider what to do next.

Dividing line

Love you all, meow

pytime ~Uma Musume Pretty Derby, I Want All the Horse Girls to Hate Me!

He arrived in Tressen with the appearance of a "w".

Ling Qi, with his terrible personality and the Great Villain System, grinned wickedly.

Driven by system requirements and, more importantly, by her own will, Ling Qi is forced to become a stress monster, playing the villain, a wicked horse girl, and bullying ponies. The story needs a villain to increase tension and provide a better narrative experience for viewers and players.

The better the villain is portrayed, the higher the progress bar goes?

Looking at the progress bars above each of the horse girls' heads, which were almost full, she felt that she had done a good job as the villain.

It wasn't until later, when Ling Qi entered a period of weakness and was pinned to the bed by the horse girls, that the belatedly aware girl finally realized what had happened.

"Holy crap! This progress bar is for affection level!?" (Orange)

Volume 2, Mygo! Chapter 35: Mercenaries Are Not Tools

"In short, don't come to the school to see me again recently."

Xiangzi patted Jieyue's head, making this decision out of a desire to protect her.

"Can you say yes, Yuzuki?"

Xiangzi looked into Qingmei's eyes and forced her to nod in agreement before letting go.

For Mu, Xiangzi had come up with a rare good idea, so he quietly nestled in Jieyue's arms without making a sound.

Seeing that his two childhood friends both agreed with his plan, Xiangzi happily sat back down next to them. The three of them stayed together like they did when they were children, but this time they didn't play together. Instead, they each did their own thing.

Xiangzi's plan was to stall, to deliberately delay. Only after stalling for a while, confirming Jieyue's attitude towards Deng, and Deng's attitude towards Jieyue, could he proceed with the next step of his plan. Otherwise, if one of them exploded, the other would naturally be affected as well…

Out of a desire to protect Yuzuki, she chose to first figure out what the lantern meant.

Although she could roughly guess that the lantern festival would say something like, "As long as Yuzuki can forgive her, it's fine," she still wanted to find out more.

After all, besides the lights...

There is another person who might harm Yuzuki.

Meanwhile, Su Shi was explaining the Crychic and the lamp to Aine.

"I see... Crychic is a big family, and everyone feels happy in this home..."

Even though Ai Yin didn't know much about the band, she thought the band atmosphere was great, but she was more curious about one thing... If everyone is happy, why not continue playing together?

The answer to this question came from the moon that Su Shi had inadvertently altered.

Selfish, only caring about her own feelings, she disbanded the band without permission, hurt innocent members of the band, and even used her feelings to kidnap the keyboardist and guitarist, forcing them to play with her.

"How can there be such a person... They're so annoying..."