Crossover anime/manga, can you be my immortal companion for life?

Kerry picked out a larger guitar bag that was more sturdy and had a striking silver exterior, and ordered three of them.

Kirito chose a bass bag with a red and black color scheme.

Xiangzi was overwhelmed by the choices; she liked several of them with lace decorations, so she simply bought one of each.

Finally, there's Kazuma. Since he hadn't been very successful with his B-shaped half-page sword many times, he chose a simple-looking, sturdy cello case this time because he had crystal elephant tusks.

"Hmm...that's strange, why are these customers only buying bags?"

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Chapter 237 Xiang, just how many people have you offended?

Four people walked side by side on the streets of Ikebukuro.

The instrument case is already in the car. Besides those things, the group will also buy some other small items today.

Such as gloves, clothes, and boots.

Especially boots; the group usually buys more convenient sneakers, but even so, the soles often break down during battle.

You can see tourism advertisements from all over the world on the street from time to time.

Because it's almost July, festival announcements from all over the country can be seen everywhere.

Summer festivals are being prepared in various places.

Such as the Tenjin Matsuri in Osaka, the Gion Matsuri in Kyoto, the Tenka Matsuri at Mount Fuji, and the Yamashita Fireworks Festival.

Of course, there are also locals in Ikebukuro who might be able to see a pair of blue-green haired, incestuous sisters at the Tanabata Festival.

As the weather gets hotter, the Japanese girls on the street have already changed into various outfits.

Although these girls wore short skirts and thick tights in winter, flesh-colored tights and short skirts in spring, and thigh-high short skirts in summer, it was hard to tell the difference unless you looked closely. However, they still added a touch of youthful color to the group's appearance.

Ah...it's so good to be young.

Kazuma watched the high school students playing by the roadside, or the couples walking together with various expressions on their faces.

There's always a feeling of being out of place.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the fact that he is now immortal.

Because that's how he was when he was a shut-in.

"Festivals... Speaking of which, next time we go out, should we check out other cities? After all, not everything strange can happen in Tokyo. Let's try our luck somewhere else."

Teacher Da Xiang seems to want to travel, but she phrased it rather tactfully.

"If you're going abroad, how about Okinawa?"

Kazuma made a suggestion.

Why is it that when Japanese people talk about travel, their first thought is always "that"?

Kerry was somewhat curious.

"Because it wasn't part of Japan in ancient times, and it's very well preserved, plus it has a rare tropical island climate, making it perfect for diving."

Kirito seemed to know quite a bit and started explaining things to the group.

In fact, the Ryukyu that the neighboring great power often referred to in ancient times was actually Okinawa. At that time, there was a separate Ryukyu Kingdom there, with its own language and writing system. They often sent envoys to learn from the neighboring country. However, it was later colonized by Japan and slowly annexed.

Even today, there are still about one million people who speak Ryukyuan as their native language. However, Japan is also involved in this matter, making children learn Japanese as their primary language. It is estimated that Ryukyuan is not far from extinction.

Shoko Okinawa had clearly been there before and wasn't that interested.

"Speaking of which, going to the beach in the summer would be even hotter, wouldn't it be better to go to a place like Hokkaido?"

Kirito added a question.

Kazuma was taken aback upon hearing this, and moved from next to Kirito to behind Kirito and Kerry.

"You're such a social butterfly, don't you want to see bikini-clad girls on the summer beach?"

"No, from what I understand, only 30% of the people on the beach in summer are people like you, and a few women who are just looking for handsome guys."

And a large number of middle-aged men and women wearing swimsuits.

Kirito mercilessly shattered Kazuma's illusions.

"Damn it, aren't all the girls on the beach the same young women? Come to think of it, the three of us could dress up and totally imitate those male escorts..."

Kazuma was filled with resentment.

Kerry felt that Kazuma was also suppressing his emotions, and he couldn't help but point to the host club billboards that could be seen everywhere in Tokyo.

Is that what you mean?

Kazuma turned his head and saw several greasy men with brightly colored hair making flirtatious poses in front of everyone, with titles or achievements such as "Sales Champion of Xx Store" and "Prince of Xx" hanging next to them.

And to be honest, he's more strange-looking than handsome.

"Uh... so girls like this kind of thing?"

Kazuma choked.

Xiangzi glanced at the group of people who were taking notes on what Guru was saying, then turned his head away.

Even if the voice was low, it wouldn't help. Although Xiangzi and the others' hearing level couldn't compare to that of someone on another world line who could eavesdrop on Xiangzi's training sessions from 25 meters away on the Baolai Bridge, it was still far beyond what ordinary people could achieve. She could hear their whispers clearly at such close range.

However, if her senses were sharper, she probably would have noticed that a gaze had just swept over her from the crowd, but the person pretended not to notice and walked away.

Is that Xiao Xiang?

Although she has just debuted in the mainstream and is not yet very famous, Mikasa Hatsuka, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, watched the backs of the four people walking and chatting.

Even through a mask, even with just a fleeting glance in a crowd, she could be 1000% certain that she wasn't mistaken.

That's... a band, but Xiao Xiang's band isn't.

She recalled the band she had attended their first performance, and immediately took out her phone, skillfully tapping on their special contacts and glancing at them.

Indeed, as previously confirmed, the activities have been suspended for some time.

But why does Xiao Xiang have a new band again?

Why don't you contact me? Why don't you reply to my messages? Misaka Chuka picked up her phone and glanced at the chat window. There was still news about her upcoming debut, but that familiar number was still showing as unread.

Does she hate me now? No, I can't think like that. I haven't done anything that would make her hate me, but...

But why is this?

Did you change your phone card and forget to tell me? But... it's still not enough. It can't be like this. I need to make myself more famous so she can see me, remember me, and then maybe...

Misaka Hatsuka pulled her hat down further. Unlike Soyo, she didn't act secretly, nor did she rush over straight like He Mu. Instead, she watched them leave, opened her phone's notes app, and noted down their characteristics. She planned to go back and search for all the news about bands that debuted since CRYCHIC disbanded, and to prevent this band from being a pre-debut group, she planned to check various live performance posts and comments every day.

She turned and left the crowd, heading back to her rented room. It was always better to make herself more dazzling and be sought out than to go to someone's door and beg.

That's what she thought.

On the other side, Xiangzi, who was still unaware of how many important figures he had encountered in his short 15 years of life, managed to chime in during a break in the conversation.

"If you were to ask around, I'd be more curious about Osaka. I've heard it's a city that never sleeps."

"Uh, in Osaka..."

Kazuma, who knew a bit about the area, thought back to how to introduce the place.

"It's probably full of thugs, police trying to reassure tourists, police advertisements, cigarette butts and trash everywhere, drunkards, and cars parked haphazardly..."

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Chapter 238 I can do that too!

"This is……"

Among the numerous promotional posters on the streets of Ikebukuro, Kerry stopped in front of one of them.

"what happened?"

Because Kerry stopped walking in the middle of the hall, the others also turned their curious gazes in that direction.

"Fishman Festival..."

Kazuma read out the name on it and then looked at the advertisement in the lower right corner.

"JNT0 Branch of Aomori Prefecture Publicity Department"

Then I looked at the content above, which was about a small village in Aomori Prefecture that was surrounded by the sea on three sides and had always been isolated from the world.

After conducting an investigation by folklorists, it was discovered that the village retains many ancient customs, and they hope to pass on and promote these cultural traditions, so they are preparing to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony.

"Haneyu no Jabura..."

Xiangzi read the name aloud, and the pronunciation of the name in Japanese is the same as "Bermuda".

The event will be held on July 14th.

Kerry didn't really think anything of it. He just felt that the name of the village looked familiar, but it didn't seem to be from any game he had played or an anime he had watched.

I've probably only seen this level of detail in discussions on certain forums.

"If we're going out, how about we check this out? It's by the sea anyway."

Although it only looked familiar, Kerry thought it would be worth a visit.

"what?"

Kazuma first expressed his doubt, but then asked Kerry about it.

"Did you notice something?"

"No, I just felt that the merman theme..."

Kerry shook his head.

Kazuma's thoughts then turned to the group of Deep Ones that Totsuki had captured.

"Good heavens, could this be one of those deep-diving breeding villages? When we pulled out the gills of those things and interrogated them, they all said they lived in fishing villages."

"That's certainly something we can go and take a look at."

Kazuma picked up his phone and took a picture of the poster in the corner.