The faded person who shuttles between the everyday and the extraordinary

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An Yan, who worked almost all night, was woken up by the alarm clock after just a short sleep. As usual, she was the first to rush out of school when school was over.

In order to avoid meeting Bai Yingui, he didn't even change into the iconic winter school uniform of the student council president during the change of seasons, and quickly boarded the car that had not been transferred after countless warnings.

Just after he had successfully boarded the car, his cell phone suddenly rang, and the sender was Boqi.

【sorry!If possible, can you come to STARRY today?If you can, please stop by my school gate... It's best to come by car. There is a very trendy and cute girl today! ! 】

"What's going on? Does Pochi want to introduce me to my girlfriend?"

The strange email made him have a question mark on his face, but he still replied "ok" and asked the driver to change the route to see how Pochi was doing before going to work.

When the car stopped at the entrance of Xiuhua High School, An Yan discovered through the glass that Boqi was standing in the corner of the school entrance, looking around anxiously.

But for some reason, next to Bochi, who was always alone, there was now a red-haired girl who looked very cute without even looking closely.

The red-haired girl's body was almost overflowing with the scent of sunshine and vitality. It was completely different from the atmosphere on Pochi's body, and could even be called two extremes.

When the vehicle stopped in front of the two of them, Boqi took two steps back in fear, while the red-haired girl stepped back warily and looked at the unfamiliar vehicle curiously.

It was also at this time that the car window slowly lowered, revealing An Yan in the back seat.

But at this moment, his face was almost full of speechlessness: "....You obviously asked me to come, why did you retreat instead??"

"Ah...ah...that..." (Surprisingly, unexpectedly...a luxury car actually came?!) Pochi was so flustered that he couldn't speak incoherently, and he danced and held it in for a long time. Without saying a word, he simply raised his hands high like breaking a can: "—Hey, hey! Brother~!"

"....what?"

"Today, today! We have a new companion!"

With an overly weird twisted expression, Pochi forced himself to speak cheerfully that he couldn't understand at all. He also winked at him crazily from a position where the girl behind him couldn't see him (please! Understand what I mean! Although I I don’t even know! What are I doing~!)

companion?What companion?What kind of facial gymnastics is this? ——Seeing Boqi's outrageous expression changes, An Yan's expression was also a little distorted.

After a long time, he couldn't help but ask: "You... suddenly called me here just to watch your weird expression?"

"No, no!"

"Then...introduce new friends?"

"Yes! That's it!"

"...I see." An Yan, who was lying on the car window, nodded silently, and then pointed at the girl who had unknowingly fled far away: "But your friend has already slipped away. ?”

"—?!"

Pochi turned his head suddenly.

The girl who had retreated almost ten meters subconsciously stopped when her eyes met, forced a smile and waved her hands: "I really don't want to learn guitar anymore, I will start today..."

"Wait a minute, you may have misunderstood. Although she is strange, she is not a bad person, and I am not strange, nor am I a bad person." An Yan opened the car door, came to the girl, and extended her hand with a friendly smile. Come: "Anyway, let me introduce myself? I'm An Yan, Shinomiya An Yan, Pochi... Goto Doku's friend, nice to meet you."

"Oh, oh... the Fourth Palace? Huh? Is it the Fourth Palace?"

"This is not important, where is your name?"

"Ah, I am...Kita...Ikuyo, my friends all call me Kita." The girl who called herself Kita reacted, quickly held his hand and reported her name.

"Why emphasize this?"

"Please call me Kita!" Ikuyo Kita seemed to have some inexplicable insistence on his last name for some reason, which made him very puzzled: "Why? Isn't your name nice?"

"Because, because! Doesn't it sound like a cold joke?! Here we go, let's go~! Haha~ Super silly~ Haha! Aha... Hahaha~"

"Kita·Ikuyo" has the same pronunciation as "We've arrived, let's go". Kita Ikuyo was reluctant but still said his full name. Just saying his name made him look like he was going to be ruined. At the end, he was forced to be cheerful. He also kept giggling.

"...What's wrong with this guy?" An Yan turned around blankly and looked at Boqi, who had just followed but said nothing.

"No, no...I don't know...Actually...she and I just met..."

"Is that so? We've known each other for a while, why did you suddenly become nervous again?"

"This... that..." (When I actually saw the luxury car, the name Shinomiya was more real than I imagined! He really comes from a very rich family. Boy! Can I really be considered a friend with him if I’m such a social person?)

Boqi's eyes unconsciously glanced behind An Yan. She couldn't understand the brand at all, but she felt that it was an expensive car at a glance, and the driver in the car was looking at the front silently waiting. She only felt two The difference between people can be described as worlds apart.

And when An Yan noticed this look, how could he not know what Bo Qi was thinking?

So he smiled helplessly, put his hand on Pochi's head, leaned over when she raised her head in confusion, and whispered: "Shall I tell you a secret?"

"What, what?"

"Actually, I am an illegitimate child, and I will definitely not inherit the Shinomiya family's property. When I reach the right age, I will definitely find a rich woman to marry into."

"Huh...? Why do you suddenly say such a thing..."

"But I will definitely run away at that time, so in fact, it doesn't make any difference to me. It's better to say that you still have your parents to rely on. All I can say is..."

"Going to lie to a girl?"

An Yan paused for a moment, thinking about what it should be like, but Boqi recalled Hongxia and Irena, and subconsciously added to his statement in the store.

This made An Yan's face stiffen, and then he stretched out his hands and put them on Cai Cai's face and started rubbing them: "——I obviously wanted to say some cool lines! You actually revealed your shorts at this time?!"

"Ah...Yes, I'm sorry! I was wrong! I was really wrong! Forgive me~~!"

Poor Boqi had his face rubbed but couldn't resist. He just begged pitifully for mercy... But An Yan had no intention of stopping.

Instead, he seized this opportunity and played with it for a while without letting go of her face. He only stopped rubbing her face when he felt it was about the same, pressed his hands on her face, and asked her, turning her face into a meat bag. : "Then, why did you ask me to come here?"

"Ah... Actually..." Poch, who didn't resist, or was unable to resist effectively, glanced at Kita, who looked at the two of them curiously, but didn't get too close, and whispered in a low voice. Something happened.

The actual process was not complicated. It was simply that the band wanted to recruit a lead singer. She happened to hear that Kita was good at singing and playing guitar. The most important thing was that he was cute, cheerful and outgoing. She was the ideal candidate for the band's lead singer, so I just wanted to invite him over.

Just thinking that he was too gloomy, he started to brag that his band members were very sunny, had weekend beach barbecues, semi-annual football competitions, and held parties in limousines from time to time. Simply put, they were a group of party animals.

It was also to show her strength when bragging... She thought of An Yan, the richest guy she knew.

After understanding all this, An Yan didn't know what to say to her. After all, Boqi's ideas were more imaginative than his. If he really tried to understand, he felt like he would lose.

"Anyway... Let's talk while we walk? Although it's very close to Shimokitazawa... But if you don't ride in the car, it's useless, right?" As he said this, he pushed Boqi directly into the car and looked towards Kita stood aside and had almost recovered.

"Shimokitazawa? No, I just..." Upon hearing this place name, Kita quickly waved his hands and wanted to refuse, but...

"You're welcome~ Now that we all know the names, we are also friends now~" An Yan smiled and grabbed her wrist and pulled her directly to the car.

"Huh? It's so simple to be friends?!"

"Yes! It's that simple!"

Without any explanation, he half-forced Kita into the car, which made Pochi on the side look at him and couldn't help but sigh, hoping that one day he could be as outgoing as him.

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In the car.

(An Yan is actually a good person? Those words just now should be to comfort me, and you don’t want me to feel a sense of disparity, right?) While Boqi on the right side of the back row was sitting upright, his thoughts were constantly spreading out to himself. An Yan was moved.

Sitting on the left side, Kita, who was also sitting upright, looked much flustered, and even regretted why he didn't insist on refusing, but ended up getting it anyway.

Only An Yan in the middle sighed in his heart, this is probably the legendary harem state... Although he is not familiar with the girl on the left.

This also made the atmosphere in the car slightly awkward. Fortunately, Shimokitazawa arrived soon. The three of them got off the car together and the driver temporarily waited nearby.

Walking along the pedestrian street towards STARRY, An Yan had a number of novel "pendants" on him in less than 2 minutes. He couldn't help but look back at those hiding behind him, with both hands on his shoulders. Basically, Let him drag the pink-haired girl forward:

"I said...you must have been here many times, right? Why are you still hiding behind me now?"

"....I'm sorry.... Even so, I'm still not used to this street...."

"You...forget it, whatever."

"....Thank you~! You are indeed my best friend~!" Just such an indulgent attitude made Boqi so moved that he almost burst into tears: "If possible, please come with me in the future~!" "

"No, that's not okay no matter how you say it. After all, I still have a part-time job and I have to go to work later..."

This actually made Kita, who was walking nearby, find it very interesting and couldn't help but sigh: "Your relationship is really good, but your personalities are so different, why did you become friends?"

"It all started from a fateful encounter."

"Sounds very romantic! Be sure to tell me~!"

"...Forget it then, wait until STARRY is handed over to Hongxia, I won't listen to it myself."

Although he was speaking nicely now, he knew better than anyone else that the origin was just that he wanted to recruit a friend to use it for free. If he really asked about it, he could only prevaricate.

But when Kita heard this, not only did he not continue to ask, but he stood there for a moment, then turned his head suddenly and looked over, saying without any warning: "I'm sorry! I have to go back first!"

"Why... ugh?" Before Boqi could finish speaking, Kita suddenly stretched out his hands and pressed them on her face like An Yan did before, making her face turn into a meat bag again. : "Although I can't tell you why! But I absolutely can't go there..."

"——Pochi-chan~~Oh~Is An Yan, the killer of the next year, also here?"

Before Kitadu finished speaking, a store not far away suddenly appeared. For some reason, Hongxia was holding a bunch of energy drinks, and with a smile on her face, she gave An Yan a new title after being kissed by Rachel.

Just when she got closer, she noticed... there was another person beside An Yan, which made her frown unconsciously: "An Yan, where did you turn... Ah! The escaped guitarist? !”

"~~?!" Kita, who wanted to escape but could no longer escape, his face suddenly became very excited. At the moment of being at a loss, he unconsciously increased the strength of his hands, pinching Poch's face and it became very interesting.

However, Hongxia suddenly looked at An Yan and asked suspiciously: "Why are you next to Kita-chan? You...don't you want to attack Kita-chan too?"

"What are you talking about all of a sudden? Am I that kind of person???"

"Yeah... that's right." Thinking about the age when Irena ran away, and then thinking about the age of Rachel, the serious expression on Hongxia's face relaxed for a moment: "Kita-chan is older, you should I don’t like it.”

"Huh?? Me? I'm older??" Kita froze again and pointed to herself blankly. An Yan also quickly defended: "Don't spread rumors casually, okay! Kita is completely my strike zone!"

"Huh?" The strange statement made Kita take a step back and distance himself from him.

"No...I just want to say that I'm normal and I don't mean to attack you! Why are you avoiding me??"

"I-I believe it?"

"Then stop!"

"Yes, I'm sorry~!"

"Don't apologize. People like you who don't know better think I'm bullying you! Forget it...forget it! Can't I just go back?"

Looking at the girl who trembled and bowed to apologize reflexively, An Yan lost his temper for a moment. He just gave up halfway through the rant. He simply took a can of energy drink from Hong Xia's arms and quickly turned around to leave. He didn't want to add any more. And into this matter.

But before he took two steps, Boqi grabbed the corner of his clothes. While avoiding his target as much as possible, he looked at him pitifully: "...An, An Yan..."

"what happened?"

"sorry....."

"...No, why are you apologizing?" He opened the jar and poured a sip into his mouth. Then he glanced at Hong Xia who seemed to be thinking about something and said:

"Although I also feel that it is necessary to have a good talk with Hongxia to change her strange impression of me, but I really have something to do now, and I am not angry with you. It's just Hongxia's suspicion of people. "

"...You're so embarrassed to say it." It can be said that this is the first time in her life that Hongxia has doubted someone so much. She sighed helplessly from the bottom of her heart: "I don't want to doubt you, but can you tell me? , why do you always walk on the edge of committing a crime every time I see you... It can even be said that you are committing a crime, right?"

"Have it?"

"I won't tell you what you did to me the first time on the street, the second time about Irena... the third time about Porchi-chan, the fourth time... about Rachel. "Hong Xia clapped her fingers like a treasure trove and told one thing he had done. In the end, An Yan's head went numb when he said it: "-Wait a minute, those are all things in the past, and they all have their own differences. Various reasons! Please don’t mention it, I have changed my ways! Sincerely..."

"....It's not that I want to bring up the past, but both Kita and Porchi are good kids. If you had pulled Poch and really done something to Kita, I wouldn't be the same as before, so I would simply forgive you, okay? "

"I know, anyway, anyway... I really have something else to do, so I'll leave first...!"

The girl's gentle persuasion, although there was a sense of disregarding past suspicions, made him a little unable to bear it. Although he wanted to explain that this time he did not coerce Boqi and deceive the new ignorant girl like he did with Irena last time, he still hesitated. Take a moment to prepare for next time.

After all, he was going to be late for work soon, and he didn't want to delay any further and end up working late at night until dawn, and ran away before Pochi could ask him to stay.

"Ah..." Pochi was very regretful, muttering in a low voice but unable to say anything.

Hongxia looked at Kita worriedly and asked with concern: "How much have you borrowed? Let me help him pay it back first. Although he is like that, he is not a bad person in essence. He just occasionally has some... tight?"

"No, no, you misunderstood! Senior Hongxia!" The sudden concern made Kita wave his hands in denial: "I was not cheated! Nor was I lent money!"

"Really? You can't be deceived but don't know it at all, and are you still helping him hide it?" Hongxia unconsciously looked at Boqi beside her... Undoubtedly, the last person who had no self-awareness was exactly the same person. is her.

"Ah, no, it's not... I misunderstood..." Pochi opened his mouth wide, stumbling and waving his hands repeatedly: "It's me this time..."

"You? What?"

"I'm the one... please..."

Although it was difficult to speak, on the way to STARRY, Pochi still followed him towards STARRY and told the truth of the matter.

Inside STARRY.

After listening to everything Boqi said, she understood that he was just helping Boqi to lie and create a strange band image. Hongxia's expression became very exciting, and she lay on the table with her head in her hands:

"What should I do...I have completely wronged him, he will definitely be very angry, right?"