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Upon hearing this, Shiina Riki frowned, and with an inexplicable feeling of extreme dissatisfaction in his heart, he spoke in a cold voice:
"…Then there's also the music we agreed to compose—"
As a result, Nakagawa Nobuyuki was obviously well prepared and quickly said, "I will go during your final practice!"
However, probably because he was really annoyed by Shiina Riki's somewhat cold tone, Nakagawa Nobu immediately continued in a somewhat mean way: "So Shiina doesn't have to miss me too much."
Shiina Riki, who had a cold face but was still listening to Nakagawa Nobu, immediately became angry and started to speak like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
"Your——"
Ding dong.
Nakagawa Nobuyuki gently hung up the call.
Phew... Fortunately I hung up quickly, otherwise it would have been terrible if the new receiver had been broken by Shiina's yelling.
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Chapter 188: Aiyin: … Is Xinxin pretending to date Xiangzi?! ?
dong dong dong.
“Alright Aine…it’s already noon, time to get up.”
As the lunch break bell rang, Nakagawa Shinzai gently tapped on Chihaya Aine's desk. The sleepy girl's face seemed to be completely glued to the desk.
“…Huh? It’s… already noon—”
Chihaya Aine raised her little head reluctantly, looked at everyone who were sitting at tables in groups of three or four, rubbed her eyes, yawned loudly, and got up from the table.
Yesterday... I watched some Miao Mengjiang’s videos last night, and then practiced guitar, and it was already super late... I originally wanted to call Xinxin, but the line was always busy.
“…Aine, saliva.”
Xiao Deng, a classmate standing nearby, also came early with his lunch box and sat down at Nakagawa Nobuyuki's table. Looking at the crystal clear smile on Chihaya Aine's lips, he subconsciously shrank his shoulders and reminded her softly.
"What……"
Chihaya Aine was suddenly stunned, and her fingers subconsciously touched the corner of her lips.
Really, it really exists!
"Ah! Really? What's going on with Xinxin's weird expression?"
After punching Nakagawa Shin, who was trying to hold back his smile as if nothing had happened, the angry little pink-haired boy took the wet wipes handed to him by Xiao Deng.
But the pink-haired girl was not the kind of girl who would hold grudges. Just as she was taking out her carefully wrapped lunch box from the hole in the table, Chihaya Aine asked out of curiosity.
"Xinxin, what were you doing last night? You didn't reply to my messages or phone calls."
If you click on Nakagawa Nobuna's Sisyphus avatar now, you will probably still see a lot of emoticons and busy call records below the screen.
"It's just a small matter... Even if I don't tell you, Su Shi will tell you when the time comes."
Sitting back in his seat, Nakagawa Nobuyuki shrugged at the two people who looked at him curiously, looking quite indifferent.
"Does it have anything to do with Soyorin?"
Chihaya Aine picked up an octopus sausage from the lunch boxes of Xiao Deng and Nakagawa Nobuyuki, blinked her bright gray eyes, and spoke with some curiosity.
"Anyway, this is super embarrassing... Can you please listen to me first?"
With a sigh, looking at the two girls in front of him with shining eyes, Nakagawa Nobuyuki gently placed his chopsticks on the lunch box and reminded them: "... We agreed not to make too much noise later."
Originally, both of them had agreed to it, but when Nakagawa Nobuyuki said, "I thought Nagasaki was going to jump off the building," they couldn't help but exclaimed and quickly asked about what happened next.
"So don't worry..."
Perhaps the classmates around him were used to it, Nakagawa Nobuyuki ate the octopus intestines in the lunch box leisurely and told the story without any change in his expression.
To be honest, if it weren't for Nakagawa Nobuyuki's leisurely look, as if nothing serious had happened, the two girls would have hurriedly called Nagasaki Motoyo.
“That’s it…By the way, Aine, the octopus sausage is good.”
Looking at the two girls in front of him who were looking at each other in bewilderment, Nakagawa Nobuyuki could only shake his head, expressing the same subtle expression, and casually praised the salt-fried octopus sausage.
"Well, that, Xinxin..."
Chihaya Aine's expression was quite subtle. She blinked and looked at Takamatsu Deng on the other side. She found that Deng's expression was not much different from hers, both looked weird.
"…Why did you call Toyokawa-san first?"
After a slight pause, the pink-haired girl narrowed her eyes, pursed her lips slightly, and spoke in confusion.
"What did Xiangzi say?"
Similarly, Xiao Deng also blinked and asked softly with some concern.
"After all, Nagasaki kept talking to me on the phone about what happened in Crychic... He was also talking about Xiangzi's withdrawal..."
Nakagawa Nobu sighed, looked at the little pink-haired boy who took a piece of fried chicken from his lunch box, shrugged his shoulders, and continued: "That's why I called Xiangzi."
"Is that so... But speaking of which——"
Chihaya Aine gently put the fried chicken on the chopsticks into her lunch box, pursed her lips slightly, and spoke as if nothing had happened.
"…Xinxin, when did you start calling Toyokawa-san "Shoko"?"
As she spoke, Chihaya Aine gently stroked the hair on her temples, held up her little face with some suspicion, and stared at Nakagawa Nobuyuki in front of her with a frown.
"..."
Xiaodeng looked like he wanted to say something, but feeling the strange atmosphere, he just shrank his shoulders and held back what he wanted to say.
Since the name is [Xiangzi]...it's actually pretty good...at least this way, it seems like everyone is together again.
But... it seems like Aine is a little unhappy.
"So this is the focus of your concern?"
Nakagawa Nobuyuki's brows twitched, and his expression looked a little subtle, but looking at Chihaya Aine who was looking at him with suspicion, Nakagawa Nobuyuki still sighed and spoke softly.
"…Actually, there's nothing to hide. For some reason, people in Nagasaki think that I'm dating Shoko."
I feel like I don’t really want Aine to misunderstand me… I feel like something is going to go wrong.
"Dating?!"
Hearing some important words, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but open her eyes wide, and she didn't even hold back her voice. Her particularly iconic voice immediately made everyone in the class look over.
“…Aine, the sound…it’s too loud.”
Feeling the sudden gazes from all directions, Xiao Deng couldn't help but shrink his neck and gently reminded Chihaya Aine who was in shock in front of him.
"……oh oh."
Seeing that everyone around them was suddenly looking at herself and Nakagawa Nobuo with eyes as if they were a perfect couple, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but blush and sat back in her seat awkwardly.
"…Um, no, nothing."
Although she tried hard to appear normal and natural, her extremely rosy complexion made this expression seem more obvious than it actually was, which caused a small discussion among everyone.
[I told you already... Nakagawa-san and Chihaya-san obviously have a better relationship! ]
[…So now it’s Nakagawa-san who’s confessing to Chihaya-san? ]
[Eh... Impossible, in a place like this? ]
[But Chihaya-san's face is obviously red, right? ]
But fortunately, the good kids in Class A just blushed slightly and whispered to each other.
...Should we say that this is a school like Hanegaoka? If it was the junior high school that Nakagawa Nobuyuki attended in Yokohama, some extremely unpleasant things would have been spread to the ears of Nakagawa Nobuyuki and his friends by now.
Although she was very curious about what had happened that required Xinxin and Fengchuan to pretend to be a couple, the little pink-haired girl was quite tactful and did not continue to ask.
...When I meet Soyorin this afternoon, let's ask her what's going on.
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Chapter 189: I was here first, right?
The last class in the afternoon seemed too long for Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who felt somewhat guilty. He only felt a sharp pain in his back.
"……snort."
"...Xinxin, that's too much."
"…It's so mysterious. I'm super angry."
The little pink-haired girl pursed her lips slightly and poked Nakagawa Nobuyuki's spine with an unhappy look on her face.
Although I know that Xinxin is so formal...it must be something very important, but I am still very unhappy.
In this somewhat weird atmosphere, the Chinese class slowly came to an end. As the familiar bell rang, Nakagawa Nobuyuki finally breathed a sigh of relief.
While Nakagawa Nobuyuki was still packing up his scattered things, Xiaodeng suddenly poked his head out and tugged at the corner of Nakagawa Nobuyuki's clothes.
"Xin-san... can't you really tell me?"
Classmate Xiaodeng raised his somewhat timid eyes, tightly grasped the tie on his chest, and asked unwillingly.
The answer is right in front of me, but it feels like it's being deliberately covered up, like a kitten scratching me, making it impossible to ignore it.
I have a vague [intuition] that if Xin is willing to tell me why he and Xiangzi pretend to be in love... I will know the answer to everything...
However, it is impossible for Xin to leak the secret, except for this matter which he is very clear about.
Just like I won’t tell Xin and everyone why I wrote “Mi Xing Xiao”…
"I really want to say this, but I've already promised Xiangzi... so I'm sorry, Deng-san..."
Nakagawa Nobuyuki looked at Xiaodeng, who was frowning and looking worried, and sighed with some reluctance.
Xiaodeng really takes the band and other things very seriously. Xiangzi's inexplicable departure must have really hurt Xiaodeng a lot.
Thinking of this, looking at Xiaodeng classmate in front of him with a disappointed look, Nakagawa Nobuyuki couldn't help but soften his heart a little and whispered a little.
"But Xiangzi did have his reasons, Deng-san... I believe you will understand when the time comes."
This shouldn't be considered a leak, right?
Alas... After all, it is obvious that no one would joke about such a serious matter, so why is Xiangzi unwilling to tell everyone?
Although Zhonghe Xin thought so in his heart, he did not tell anyone about his difficult life story.
"…Xin-san, I believe in you."
Gently loosening the corner of Nakagawa Nobuyuki's clothes, Xiaodeng just pursed his thin lips which had turned a little pale and nodded vigorously.
Trust your classmates... they will definitely not lie to you.
At this time, the little pink-haired boy with an embarrassed look on his face could only touch his head gently.
Xiao Deng's mood is too formal, too unreasonable... I feel like I'm just jealous... not jealous!
...but I'm just not happy anyway.
Thinking of this, the little pink-haired girl immediately pursed her lips, and with some dissatisfaction, she gently twisted Xiao Deng's arm and said in a muffled voice: "...Xiao Deng, let's go."
As she spoke, Chihaya Aine gave Nakagawa Shin a slightly jealous look with a somewhat sour look of her own.
At this moment, Nakagawa Nobuyuki and Chihaya Aine's eyes met. Nakagawa Nobuyuki blinked and subconsciously explained:
“…By the way, Aine, we’re not really dating.”
They stared at each other for a few seconds, and the next moment, both of them turned their eyes away quietly with a tacit embarrassment.
"...I, I know... Why are you explaining this to me?"
Chihaya Aine was stunned, and she just turned her head away quite unnaturally, her face turning slightly red.
In this somewhat silent atmosphere, Nakagawa Nobuyuki cleared his throat somewhat awkwardly and faced the door of the classroom.
"...Now, let's go."
Similarly, Chihaya Aine acted as if nothing had happened, fiddling with her temples and responding stiffly.
"...Okay, okay... Well, I'll wait outside then."
As soon as she finished speaking, Chihaya Aine moved towards the door with stiff steps that were somewhat swaying.
Chihaya Aine's heartbeat became a little rapid, and her brain was still slightly malfunctioning at this moment.