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Chapter 10 I Became Toyokawa Shoko's White Moonlight

Just as Toyokawa Shoko had just said, the place where the two of them were just now was very close to the brass band club.

It took less than two minutes to reach the brass band club.

Shoko Toyokawa opened the door with the spare key and walked into the brass band club with Genzakura Katori.

"This was actually a music classroom before, but later because of the renovation of the teaching building, the school built a new music classroom that is larger than this one. This old music classroom is placed here, but it cannot be converted into a classroom due to the area. It is really a waste, so it was allocated to the wind band club to use it as a classroom for club activities." said Shoko Toyokawa.

"This place is so nice, especially during the holidays. It's really a pleasant thing to spend some time alone playing the piano in such an old music classroom that is neither too big nor too small." Katori Genzakura sighed.

"Right."

After hearing what Katori Genzakura said, Toyokawa Shoko smiled rarely. She was very happy that Katori Genzakura understood her feelings about coming to school to play the piano during the holidays, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth involuntarily.

When Shoko Toyokawa's smile appeared in her sight, Katori Genzakura couldn't help but be stunned. This was the first time she saw Shoko Toyokawa's smile, and it made her cheeks feel slightly hot involuntarily.

The beautiful girl's smile in front of him really made his heart beat faster and his cheeks feel slightly hot.

Even Toyokawa Shoko herself only realized that she had laughed after a smile appeared on her face?

Why am I laughing?

Ever since my family fell into poverty and ever since I left CRYCHIC...I feel like I haven't smiled since then.

Why, at this moment, would I smile in front of a girl I had just met?

Shoko Toyokawa kept asking herself this question in her heart.

When Katori Genzakura saw the piano, she suddenly felt itchy for some reason and was eager to play a piano piece.

Is it because I haven’t played the piano for a long time?

Katori Genzakura didn't think much about it, but asked Toyokawa Shoko with great interest: "Shoko-san, do you want to play a piano piece for four hands?"

Four-hand piano is a performance form in which two people play together on the same piano.

"Huh? Four-hand piano duet? Can you play the piano too?" Shoko Toyokawa was very surprised and asked several questions in a row.

"Well! I know a little bit!" Katori Gensakura didn't know how good her piano skills were now. After all, she hadn't played for a long time, so she was humble at first.

Although Shoko Toyokawa has never tried playing with four hands, she always plays the piano alone, both in the past and now.

When she first started learning piano, Toyokawa Shoko knew about the four-hand piano playing style, but she didn't pay much attention to it at the time. In her opinion, she preferred playing alone to playing with others.

This way you won't be dragged down by others, and you won't be dragged down by others.

Shoko Toyokawa thought it would be better for her to reject Katori Genzakura's invitation. After all, she had never tried playing four-hand piano before, and it would be bad if she accidentally made a fool of herself.

Ever since her family fell into poverty, even though she kept trying to cheer herself up like she was hypnotizing herself, Toyokawa Shoko could still clearly feel that her once confident personality was falling apart bit by bit, and her heart was becoming more and more inferior and sensitive.

Toyokawa Shoko didn't want anyone to know that her family had fallen on hard times. She didn't want her former friends to look at her with pity, so on that rainy day, she said to Nagasaki Motoyo and the others:

"I'm quitting CRYCHIC."

He ended the band he had formed with his own hands.

This also led Wakaba Mu to say, "I... never thought bands were interesting."

At that moment, CRYCHIC parted ways completely unhappily.

After saying the words of quitting, Toyokawa Shoko was struggling in her heart and felt vaguely regretful, but her inner inferiority made her feel as if her heart could be torn apart at any time.

She knew that the inferiority and sensitivity that was gradually growing in her heart would continue to hurt herself and her friends around her.

But even so, she couldn't control her inner inferiority. She could only run away like a lost child, not knowing the direction, and gave up on herself and told her CRYCHIC friends that she was quitting.

Whenever she recalled the expressions on Nagasaki Motoyo and the others' faces at that time, Toyokawa Shoko would smile bitterly: People like me are destined to never be redeemed in this lifetime.

While Toyokawa Shoko was still thinking about it, he wanted to quickly try playing the four-hand duet of Katori Genzakura with Toyokawa Shoko. He took the initiative to hold Toyokawa Shoko's hand, led Toyokawa Shoko to the piano, and said with a smile:

"After I knew that you could play the piano, Xiangzi, the idea of ​​playing four-hand piano with you instantly popped up in my mind. Hehehe, isn't this idea of ​​mine weird?

I am just like this. Whenever I get excited, I always have some weird ideas and do some weird things.

It seems that instead of thinking calmly, it is better to act according to your instinct first, which may bring a new turn of events.

"Hey... Xiangzi, why is your hand bleeding?"

Katori Genzakura, who was still holding Toyokawa Shoko's right hand, suddenly felt something strange. Looking down, she found a wound on Toyokawa Shoko's right hand. Then she looked at her left hand and found that there was also a wound on her left hand, and blood was slowly flowing from both wounds.

Shoko Toyokawa came to her senses and remembered that she had just been in the corridor. She couldn't help but clench her hands because she recalled the bankruptcy of the Toyokawa family and her hatred for the culprit. It must have been at that time that her nails dug into the palms of her hands.

I should have felt a piercing pain, but the hatred in my heart at that time prevented me from feeling any pain, and I only noticed now that my hand was bleeding.

"Maybe you accidentally scratched something just now? It's just a minor injury, don't worry about it."

Shoko Toyokawa is a girl who is afraid of pain. She is very afraid of pain, but at this moment, she does not want to show her weakness.

Because she felt that she already had enough low self-esteem, and being weak would only add fuel to the fire and fuel her low self-esteem...

"How can this be? If the wound is not treated in time, it will easily leave marks on the palm. And Xiangzi, you must be in pain now, right? Medical kit, medical kit... No, the brass band club doesn't have a medical kit, what should we do?" Katori Genzakura looked around.

Seeing Katori Genzakura panicking for her, Toyokawa Shoko stared at her in a trance. Why was the girl in front of her so panicked for her? This was supposed to be the first time they met, right?

Before she had time to figure it out in her mind, before she had time to ask, Toyokawa Shoko felt something wet wrapping around the wound on her palm.

Toyokawa Shoko opened her eyes slightly, and Katori Genzakura had raised her right hand at some point and covered her still bleeding wound with her seductive cherry lips.

When the bleeding from her right hand stopped a little, Katori Genzakura immediately held the wound on her left hand with her mouth.

Shoko Toyokawa only felt a tingling sensation like an electric current, surging in her limbs and deep in her soul at that moment. She felt the warmth of the sunlight shining into the house through the window, and felt Katori Genzakura's panicked but sincere concern for her, and she was also looking at... Katori Genzakura's beautiful and delicate face that looked like a doll.

After a long time, when the bleeding on her left hand had stopped, Katori Genzakura finally let go of Toyokawa Shoko's tender white hand. Coming to her senses, she realized that what she had just done was really too bold. With a wry smile, she said to Toyokawa Shoko very embarrassedly:

"Sorry, Xiangzi, I just got carried away and did something strange. I hate to see people I care about get hurt.

Because when I was a kid, I accidentally caused my sister to get seriously injured...

Perhaps it was at that time that the obsession of not wanting to hurt the people I care about began to take root in my heart."

"The one who cares...in your heart, do you care about me very much?"

Shoko Toyokawa's cheeks turned slightly red. She didn't know why she asked this question now, but at this moment, she asked this question!

It was as if after hearing Katori Genzakura's words, deep down in my heart I didn't want to wait even a moment longer and wanted to hear Katori Genzakura's affirmation.

"Ok!"

Katori Genzakura nodded vigorously and spoke her thoughts seriously:

"Although this is the first time we've met, Xiangzi, you were very patient in explaining things to me when you showed me around the school. I'm very grateful to you.

Of course, you can also think of me as someone who simply likes beautiful girls. The first time I saw you, I was attracted to you because you are so beautiful.

In short, whether it was your patience with me or your appearance, I couldn't help but care about you in my heart from the first day I met you."

Katori Genzakura chuckled as she spoke her thoughts, but she didn't know that her words were like a gentle spring breeze, quietly caressing Toyokawa Shoko's heart, leaving a deep mark on Toyokawa Shoko's heart, as if it were a deep mark that would never disappear in her lifetime.

"Thanks……"

Toyokawa Shoko felt the sincerity in Katori Genzakura's words, without a trace of hypocrisy, and couldn't help but smile. She looked at her palm, then looked at Katori Genzakura and said:

"Thank you for caring about me."

——I think I care about you too.

Toyokawa Shoko did not say the last half of the sentence, but chose to keep it in her heart.

In response, Katori Genzakura gave a warm smile, then pointed at the piano excitedly and said, "Xiangzi, can you still play the piano now?"

"Well, it's just a minor injury. It won't affect my piano playing. It's just that I've never tried four-hand piano before, so I don't have much confidence that I can play well." Toyokawa Shoko said a little worriedly. She was afraid that she would be a burden to others.

Katori Genzakura saw the inferiority in Toyokawa Shoko's heart, and didn't say much, just smiled gently. Then she walked behind Toyokawa Shoko, put her hands on her shoulders, asked Shoko to sit on the piano stool first, gently held Shoko's wrists, and let Shoko put her hands on the black and white keys. This action also made Katori Genzakura's cheek closer and closer to Toyokawa Shoko's cheek.

"Don't worry, playing four-hand piano is actually very simple. All you have to do is sit here and play the keys according to your understanding of the music. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Even if you do make a mistake, I'm still playing and I'll help you make up for it. Don't be nervous, because I'm by your side."

After saying this, Katori Genzakura leaned towards Toyokawa Shoko, then sat on the piano stool, placed her hands on the keys, and said to Toyokawa Shoko:

"Can you play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata?"

It was as if Katori Genzakura had all the initiative in her hands. Toyokawa Shoko still felt her cheeks burning from what Katori Genzakura had just said in her ear. She nodded shyly.

“I can play it.”

"Okay, then let's choose the Moonlight Sonata as the first piece for our four-hand duet."

Katori Genzakura said with a smile, and then she was the first to strike the piano keys, letting this sad and long music, like the last ray of calm before madness, echo in the band room.

Under the influence of Katori Genzakura, Toyokawa Shoko also began to play the "Moonlight Sonata" according to Katori Genzakura's rhythm.

Although this was the first time for a four-hand piano duet, it seemed as if there was an innate tacit understanding between him and Katori Genzakura, which made their first collaboration so perfect.

Shoko Toyokawa played the piano keys with both hands, looking at Katori Genzakura who was sitting next to her. She found that the moment Katori Genzakura started playing, it seemed as if her whole body and mind were immersed in the playing.

Music as cool as moonlight flowed from Katori Genzakura's fingertips, and wisps of light like veil let the moon's silver light shone across the sea. And Katori Genzakura's stunning silver hair, in Toyokawa Shoko's eyes, was like a silvery moonlight.

The first time we met, she started to care about me. She would feel anxious when I got hurt and would give me the most gentle smile... Toyokawa Shoko looked at Katori Genzakura infatuatedly.

After her family fell into poverty, Shoko Toyokawa felt like a lost child, not knowing what direction to take in the future.

Revenge?

Let the Toyokawa family make a comeback?

These should all be her inner goals, but when faced with these goals she is working towards, Toyokawa Shoko feels that the real goals are still hidden in the deepest part of her heart. She cannot see them clearly, so she cannot know them.

Because I don’t know and I’m confused, the inferiority complex in my heart continues to spread.

But today, when I saw Katori Genzakura holding her wound with her mouth, and saw Katori Genzakura playing the "Moonlight Sonata" at this moment.

Katori Genzakura was like a ray of silver moonlight, shining into his heart.

Although it has not yet completely illuminated her heart, Toyokawa Shoko has this feeling that if every day they spend together is continuously added together, perhaps this moonlight will completely illuminate her heart and let her know what the real goal hidden in the deepest part of her heart is?

'Perhaps someone like me can also be redeemed?' Toyokawa Shoko thought to herself.

At the end of the song, Katori Genzakura came back to her senses from the state of being fully immersed in the performance. She hadn't played an instrument for a long time, and she didn't expect to be immersed in it as soon as she touched it.

"How do you feel, Xiangzi?" Katori Genzakura asked Toyokawa Xiangzi with a smile.

Toyokawa Shoko did not answer, but just stared at Katori Genzakura infatuatedly, her eyes seemed to be filled with a myriad of emotions.

Seeing that Toyokawa Shoko hadn't answered, Katori Genzakura thought that Toyokawa Shoko was also immersed in the music just now, so she was about to ask again:

"Xiangzi, Xiangzi classmate? What's wrong with you? Xiangzi...eh?!"

Before Katori Genzakura could finish her words, she was suddenly hugged tightly by Toyokawa Shoko. As if a drowning person were clinging to a straw of salvation, Toyokawa Shoko hugged Katori Genzakura's delicate body tightly.

Like the setting sun rising slowly, Toyokawa Shoko's face gradually turned red from the bottom up, from her shoulders, neck to her cheeks, as if all of them were dyed red by the setting sun. She buried her blushing cheeks in Katori Genzakura's arms and whispered softly:

"Mr. Yuanying, are you willing to be the moonlight of my life?"

Chapter 11: Really High and Mighty

After returning home, Katori Genzakura soaked in the bathtub and stared at the bathroom ceiling in a trance.

Since junior high school, Katori Gensakura has had this habit. Whenever she encounters something that bothers her, she likes to take a hot bath and soak her body in the warm water. Although doing so may not necessarily help her come up with a solution, it can help her relax a little.

——Mr. Yuanying, are you willing to be the moonlight of my life?

What Toyokawa Shoko said to herself in the brass band club this morning is still echoing in Katori Genzakura's ears, and the expression on Toyokawa Shoko's pretty face at that time has been burning in the depths of Katori Genzakura's eyes.

"I...actually became Toyokawa Shoko's white moonlight?!"

Katori Genzakura has not come to her senses yet. She is submerged in the water, spitting bubbles from her mouth.

Although Katori Gensakura loved reading twisted white moonlight literature in her previous life, she never expected that one day she would become the white moonlight in someone else's heart.

"There must be something wrong!" Katori Genzakura shouted in her heart.

Although it was true that he really wanted to get closer to Toyokawa Shoko and make his first good friend before school started, he didn't expect that after all these actions, their relationship did get closer, but a little too close.

It was as if I was still trying to hold on, but then Shoko Toyokawa came up and didn't even use a basic attack, but used her ultimate as soon as they met.

Toyokawa Shoko's active hug towards her was as if it had just happened the previous second, which made Katori Gensakura feel a little itchy in her heart.

Katori Gensakura is not a fool. She knows very well that if she had been a little more proactive in that situation, the situation might have turned out that she already had a girlfriend named Toyokawa Shoko before school started.

Katori Gensakura felt that she was not Liuxia Hui who could remain calm in the face of temptation. However, when she thought about the possibility that there might be some grudges between her family and the Toyokawa family, Katori Gensakura hesitated and did not respond to Toyokawa Shoko's feelings at that time.

Because she was a little afraid that if she really started dating Toyokawa Shoko now, what if her family would really be the culprit that caused the Toyokawa family to go bankrupt?