It started with being hated by the girl in the band

When he thought that a studio like this could become famous in Shimokitazawa, Nakagawa Nobuyuki suddenly despaired of this world.

"Ijichi-senpai, the gate to the stars is not open yet."

"Don't call me Ijichi-senpai...you're one year older than me, just call me Hongxia..." As she said this, Hongxia took out the key, walked to the door, and opened the door of Fanxing.

As a result, Miss Yamada moved slightly and squeezed between Hongxia and Nakagawa Nobu, separating Nakagawa Nobu from her, and gave Nakagawa Nobu a look that said "experience it yourself".

Hmm... I guess I haven't offended Ms. Yamada, right?

It was only then that Nakagawa Nobuyuki suddenly realized that the red-haired JK from yesterday had disappeared.

After a while, while cleaning, Nakagawa Nobuyuki was wiping the dark painted wooden counter and asked curiously, "Then...Hongxia, where is the red-haired girl from yesterday?"

Hongxia was mopping the floor at that time. When she heard Zhonghe Xin's question, she put the mop on the side of the counter.

"Are you talking about Kita-chan? We waited for her in the park for a long time...but she suddenly sent a Line message saying that she had a lot of duty today and couldn't come out."

"It's six o'clock and you haven't finished your shift yet. Isn't it obvious that you don't want to come... or you are being bullied...?"

Nakagawa Nobuyuki supported himself on the table and made his own judgment with a subtle expression.

"Well, if that's the case, I'd rather hope that Kita-chan simply doesn't want to come."

Hong Xia spread her hands, her tone somewhat helpless.

When Hongxia turned around and prepared to continue mopping the floor, the mop mysteriously disappeared. After seeing clearly, the scene in front of her shocked Hongxia completely.

If it was just missing, even if it was done by a monster or an alien, or even if the mop turned into a tsukami or something, Hongxia would not be so shocked. What shocked Hongxia the most was that the mop now appeared in Miss Yamada's hands!

She was even really mopping the floor!

"Um, Nakagawa-san, just to confirm... can you see Ryo mopping the floor?"

"some."

"Then it looks like Liang has a fever."

"Don't deny other people's work so easily!"

"Is this cool?"

"...Including Ms. Yamada!"

Having said that, Hong Xia still wanted to go over and find out why her childhood friend was acting so abnormally today.

As soon as I approached, Miss Yamada, who had a serious face, pulled me to the corner on the other side.

"Hey...wait...Nakagawa-san, sorry to have to excuse me for a moment!"

Then I could hear Hong Xia complaining quietly: "What do you want to say when you suddenly pull me over?"

Seeing this, Nakagawa Nobuyuki immediately called out the [Emotional Progress Bar]. He had been very curious about this matter yesterday.

Sure enough, the progress bar is moving forward slowly. Although it is not fast, it is indeed a progress that can be captured by the naked eye.

Staring at the slowly rising progress bar, Nakagawa Nobuyuki seemed to be thinking about something.

It wasn't that Miss Yamada was 100% saying bad things about him that made him fall into deep thought, but he was a little surprised that the progress bar actually started to grow slowly because of this.

It didn't start to increase when they met. According to this progress, it should have started to increase after Miss Yamada took Nijixia away.

So, the key is not the [emotion], but the [overflowing] emotion?

And there was another point that made Nakagawa Nobuyuki very curious, which was why Miss Yamada had such a big opinion of her?

At present, this is not a bad thing. It does not affect my normal social life and I can get free progress. But what about the future? If this thing really affects my schooling or part-time job, wouldn’t it be a loss?

It is better to resolve misunderstandings as soon as possible to avoid them developing into unexpected situations.

Chapter 6: Ms. Yamada is on guard

Not long after, Hongxia and Liang came back from the corner of the wall.

Hongxia looked at Nakagawa Nobuyuki behind the counter, and for some reason she seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"What do you want to say, Hong Xia-senpai?"

At this moment, Nakagawa Nobuyuki hated the fact that he really couldn't read minds.

"Um... that is to say..." Hongxia still seemed hesitant. After a few seconds, Hongxia asked, "Nakagawa-san, do you have any tattoos?"

“No tattoo.”

"...That's good..." After taking a quick glance and confirming that there was indeed no strange pattern on Nakagawa Nobuyuki's arm, Hongxia breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Yamada Ryo suddenly appeared on the side and asked faintly: "Where is the little finger?"

Nakagawa Shin was full of questions, but he still did as he was told and showed his perfect and healthy little finger to Hongxia and Liang.

"It wasn't cut off." Liang looked very regretful.

"It's not like 'it wasn't cut off?' It's more like why the little finger was cut off!"

Nakagawa Shin's face was filled with black lines.

"Besides, Hongxia is too old-fashioned." Ms. Liang attacked Hongxia's taste expressionlessly, "Some yakuza don't necessarily have tattoos nowadays."

(Note: Yakuza generally refers to the Japanese underworld.)

"Hey, when did I become a Yakuza?" Nakagawa Nobuyuki, who was behind the counter, expressed his solemn protest.

"Ryo, you must have misunderstood... Besides, if he is really a Yakuza, he must have a tattoo, right?" Hongxia also tried to persuade him.

Ha ha.

On one side is the gangster Nakagawa Nobuyuki who totally denies it, and on the other side is childhood sweetheart Hong Xia who is deceived by his good-natured appearance. Ryo feels at this moment that the burden on his shoulders is extremely important, and it is even heavier at this moment.

Once we find someone who goes to the same junior high school as Nakagawa Nobuyuki, we can easily explain the problem.

And the task now is to change Hongxia's cognition first!

"A yakuza I know once told me this..." Liang thought for a moment and spoke calmly, but was interrupted by Hongxia who was standing beside him.

"Liang... When did you know the Yakuza?" Hong Xia raised her hands, looking like she had seen a ghost, not giving any face at all, "In this case, I have to tell Auntie, okay?"

"...Anyway, Hong Xia may not know it, but a gangster I know told me so..." Liang responded casually and continued speaking, but was interrupted by Nakagawa Shin again.

"Kiryu Kazuma or Majima Goro?" Nakagawa Nobuyuki asked casually while wiping the cup.

"...Sawamura Haruka." Ms. Yamada was silent for a moment and then told the truth.

Nakagawa Shin's face darkened, "No, Sawamura Haruka is not a gangster at all, right?"

"Huh? So Nakagawa really knows him!" Hongxia's eyes suddenly widened.

Miss Yamada's eyes lit up and she immediately added fuel to the fire: "I've said it before, it was Hongxia herself who didn't believe it." Then she looked at Hongxia with a pitiful face, "It's very painful when a friend doesn't believe in you..."

"I won't lend you money again. If I lend you money again, you will definitely have to buy a new bass." Hongxia turned her face away and ignored Liang's pitiful attack.

"I definitely won't buy a new bass." Liang said with a serious look on his face, pointing four fingers to the sky, and swearing seriously.

“Not even the guitar.”

"hateful."

Liang instantly retracted his pitiful expression and turned back into his three-faced self.

"So, does Nakagawa really... know these people?" Originally, Hongxia wanted to ask a direct question like "Are they gangsters?", but after considering the words, she decided to ask this.

"Yes, not only do I know it, I've also operated it." Nakagawa Nobuyuki smiled.

Hong Xia was stunned, "What do you mean by operated...?"

"Because those were all characters in the game." Liang added.

......

Several people looked at each other in silence.

"...cold."

Nakagawa Nobuyuki couldn't help but shudder, what a cold voice.

"What are you doing?" Miss Yamada had already quietly slipped away to a far place.

"Can you please not run away?" Nakagawa Nobuyuki could even see the black energy condensing into substance from Hong Xia's voice.

Within a few minutes, the criminal suspect Yamada Ryo, who was obviously lacking in training, was cornered by Officer Ijichi Kouka where musical instruments were placed.

"...I have another way to prove it!"

One second before being arrested, Yamada Ryo suddenly spoke and pointed his finger directly at Nakagawa Nobuyuki.

"Zhonghe, you..."

Yamada Ryo asked calmly.

“I don’t have cancer.”

Nakagawa Shin answered calmly.

"Damn it."

Yamada Ryo cursed calmly.

(*Joke analysis*)

"It seems that Liang has realized his mistake."

Hongxia smiled, clenched her fists, and continued to move forward.

"Wait." At this moment when Hong Xia was getting closer, Yamada Ryo suddenly seemed very confident, straightened his back, and raised his left hand high, "I have something else to say!"

"Ms. Yamada, when it's not playing, even if the bassist touches the bass, it won't disappear."

However, before Miss Yamada could speak, Nakagawa Nobuyuki had already commented on Yamada Ryo's behavior and continued to wipe the table without even raising his head.

"...Nakagawa, you're too talkative."

Yamada let go of the bass with his right hand expressionlessly.

A few minutes later.

Yamada Ryo came back pitifully, holding both sides of his head.

Hongxia picked up the mop again and taught her childhood sweetheart a lesson while mopping the floor.

"Ryo, you can't just be suspicious of others just because of games or something like that, okay?"

"Besides, Nakagawa-san is very serious about his work and everything else, so there's no way he could be a yakuza, right?"

"Okay, okay, I used too much force just now. Can you please apologize to Nakagawa first?"

In fact, Nakagawa Nobuyuki was not listening to how Hongxia was teaching Miss Yamada a lesson. Now Nakagawa Nobuyuki was observing the progress of the [Emotion Progress Bar].

Even now, when Ms. Yamada was apologizing to him pitifully, the progress bar used to absorb [lost emotional energy] still did not show any progress.

In other words, either there was something wrong with the progress bar, or emotions such as apology could not be used. Apart from these situations, there was only one possibility, that is, Yamada Ryo was still stubborn in his own thoughts and did not apologize for his speculation at all.

Considering that the underlying working logic of the progress bar is still not entirely clear, Nakagawa Nobuyuki guessed that the last possibility is most likely.

Yamada Ryo still believes that his idea is correct.

After get off work, Nakagawa Nobuyuki stopped Yamada Ryo.

At this time, Yamada Ryo had returned to his cool look, and his face was as calm as a windless lake.

"Ms. Yamada, can I hear your thoughts?"

With his bass on his back, Yamada Ryo looked at Nakagawa Nobu again.

"You looked quite different in junior high school than you do now."

It would have been better if he hadn't said this. After he said this, He Xin had more questions in his mind.

Nakagawa Nobuo can think of many differences between his junior high school days and now. Nakagawa Nobuo in junior high school was not as high as the current Nakagawa Nobuo, nor did he work as many jobs as the current Nakagawa Nobuo, and he would not...

Oh, I see. That's what Ms. Yamada was talking about.

When I was in junior high school...

Now let’s take a quick look back at Nakagawa Nobuyuki’s junior high school life.

When he was in junior high school, Nakagawa Nobuyuki was studying in a junior high school in Yokohama, because the director of the orphanage and the principal of the school at that time were old classmates.

Unlike schools like Yuqiu, which had a relatively harmonious school atmosphere, the middle school that Nakagawa Nobuyuki attended at the time did not have a very chaotic campus atmosphere, but incidents of bad guys extorting money or fighting with each other did occur from time to time.