Crossover Anime: This is not pure love at all

Forget it, it's too late now anyway, I'll go after school tomorrow.

After all, the dimensional rift that Yukino mentioned was already closed by the time her people discovered it; all that remained was plants. Even if he rushed over now, he would probably only see ashes.

Thinking of this, Kuroe Sanpei lay down on his bed and closed his eyes.

……

Meanwhile, the Goto family...

The Goto family home quieted down tonight after a day of noise.

The Goto couple and their second daughter were already in a deep sleep, though they might still be awake at this moment.

Only the pink-haired girl with her big blue eyes wide open, Goto Ichiri.

Goto Ichiri hid in the closet, watching the candle she took in melt and slump away, bit by bit…

Just like life, it fades away little by little...

life……

Boqi's nose tingled, and he couldn't help but cry softly again.

Hei Jiang still didn't come today (I didn't see him). If he were still alive, how could someone as gentle and kind as him not come to practice with her!

Because she was so heartbroken, Goto Ichiri had barely been able to eat anything for the past two days.

She has always loved sweets, but these past two days she has been so upset that she can only drink half a cup of cola.

The remaining half cup was used to feed Jimmy Heng.

However, just as Goto Ichiri began to sob softly, she keenly noticed a series of deliberately suppressed footsteps coming from outside the door.

She instantly snapped out of it and wiped away her tears.

Did she wake up her parents?

But... but she was clearly very careful... and she even specifically chose to do it at night...

Dad has to go to work tomorrow...

[Pochi's Inner Theater]

"Yili! It's all your fault! My crying kept me from getting enough rest, and now the boss has fired me!"

"Oh dear! I'm so sorry, Dad!"

In the short skit, Goto Ichiri kneels down and performs a dogeza (a deep bowing gesture) to apologize to her father, who is portrayed as out of character.

"Hmph, it's too late to say anything now. I'm kicking you out of the house!"

"No, no!"

Then the scene shifts, and Goto Ichiri only has time to reach out to stop her sister who is watching the show from the sidelines before the scene changes from her home to a dilapidated and dirty factory.

Before she could react, a fat man with "Boss" written all over his face lashed out with a whip beside her, making a loud "crack!"

Boss: "Hey! Goto Ichiri, right?! Get to work right now! Or I'll dock your entire salary for this month!"

"Yes, yes!"

She nervously and hastily faced the assembly line in front of her.

Then, the perspective shifts again, and she marries a man with the word "husband" plastered on his face, but whose physique resembles that of Kuroe Minoru. They have a child, but her husband is a gambler who takes her money every day and even sells her guitar to play pachinko.

Poor Goto Ichiri died in the snowstorm...

"Ami-ro!!!"

Seeing the word "the end" appear before her eyes, Goto Ichiri instantly covered her head and screamed softly.

Then she suddenly realized what was happening, shoved the black-and-white "portrait" of Kuroe that she had hand-drawn into front of her under the cushion, and then hurriedly blew out the candle with a "poof".

In the darkness, Goto Ichiri held her breath, shrinking into the deepest part of the closet like a frightened hamster, trying her best to breathe steadily so that others would think she was asleep.

"rustle……"

The footsteps outside grew closer and closer, eventually stopping in front of her bedroom door.

However, the voices coming from outside the door were not those of Naoki Goto or Michiyo Goto.

Instead, it was two male voices that had been deliberately lowered, but they were so far away that she couldn't make out what they were saying at all.

……

Outside the door, two male and one female family members of special agents were gathered together discussing countermeasures.

"So, are we really just going in to talk to her?"

One of the male agents muttered, somewhat puzzled, "This is too much trouble! I think we should just storm in, kidnap this human, and use her as a hostage to threaten him. Wouldn't that force him to die without transforming?"

"Idiot! Do you have a death wish?!"

Another male relative, who clearly appeared to be the boss, immediately retorted, "Using such an old-fashioned tactic as kidnapping is unlikely to succeed, and we'll probably all be caught! We might as well use it."

"Then, what should we do?"

Use your brain!

The superior's subordinate snorted coldly, "I've already investigated this human's background. According to the human, she's a socially awkward shut-in, weak and naive, but she has many connections with that human named Kuroe Minoru."

"So when we go in later, we'll pretend to be the 'wish-granting spirits' from mythology. We'll say we have a way to help her win Kuroe Minoru's love and make her his girlfriend."

"Then we'll have her lure that human away, and we can easily complete Lord Rango's mission!"

A moment later, the whispering outside the door stopped, causing Goto Ichiri's heart to clench instantly.

Countless beads of cold sweat slid down her forehead like rain.

Male voices, and two male voices at that.

So, it wasn't Dad and Mom outside, but...

Kidnapper?!

Thinking of this, Goto Ichiri trembled with fear.

And just then...

"Whoosh—!"

The closet door was suddenly yanked open from the outside!

By the faint moonlight filtering in through the window, Goto Ichiri was horrified to see two tall men dressed in bizarre red and black clothing and wearing masks, looking down at her.

"Eek—! Help me, ahhhhhh!"

Goto Ichiri was terrified. He had just let out a scream when the lead agent swiftly covered his mouth.

"Shh! Don't scream! I'll kill you if you scream again!"

"Um?!"

The agent had just uttered a vicious threat when he was glared at fiercely by his superior, another agent.

He then remembered his plan, and loosened his grip slightly, speaking in what he thought was an incredibly gentle voice to Goto Ichiri, whose face was already streaked with tears, "Hello, little girl...we're not bad people."

"We are wish spirits from another world. We know the pain deep in your heart, and we know that you deeply love that boy named Kuroe Minoru."

"If you're willing, we can help you fulfill your wish, so that he will always only look at you..."

The agent was memorizing his lines when he noticed that Goto Ichiri suddenly stopped crying when he heard the key words.

She stared at them, her eyes wide with disbelief.

"So...you mean...Kuroe-kun...he's still alive?!"

Goto Ichiri asked in a trembling voice.

They were afraid of waking their parents and scaring away these abstract-looking little elves, and they were also afraid of getting a negative answer from the elves.