Tokyo: Idol Girls have absolutely no bad intentions!

"Hayakawa-san!"

"Uh...you want to be an underground couple?" Hayakawa gasped. "That's not impossible."

She stroked her chin. "You could create some scandals that you can accept, and that would shatter their positive perception of you."

Asada and Ito both looked at Hayakawa, but neither of them said anything.

This suggestion doesn't sound reliable at all.

"Still not satisfied? You guys are really picky!" Hayakawa said, becoming dissatisfied. "Don't think that just because you're a little famous now, you can ignore your older sister!"

"I have dirt on you, enough to live on for the rest of my life!"

Frustrated and useless adults can only find a sense of superiority by looking down on students; what a pathetic state of affairs...

“Okay,” Hayakawa said, seeing that they were unmoved, and then casually pulled up her stockings that had slipped off at her ankle. “I was just talking nonsense.”

"So you knew that?" Ito asked with surprise, as if he were meeting Hayakawa for the first time.

"..." Hayakawa was speechless, blowing on her manicured nails. "Yu~ I have Chinatsu's contact information, so watch your words~"

What did it mean when Mori left his contact information with Hayakawa?

Don't you trust yourself?

Besides, would Ito be afraid of women?

"Yu, I remember you like to put your underwear in the first drawer on the bottom left of your wardrobe, right?" Hayakawa smiled at Asada. "I hope Chinatsu won't do anything bad."

"No way!"

"I didn't say I would definitely do something terrible... Xiaoyou, why are you so agitated?"

"..." Ito took a deep breath. He had indeed become more and more emotional. In the past, he could remain completely unaffected when Hayakawa teased him.

"Actually, I really think it's very simple to solve this problem." Hayakawa pressed his face against Asada's.

It turns out this guy hasn't forgotten the important matter he needed to address.

"Xiao You, you're really stupid~" Hayakawa didn't immediately give a solution. "It's amazing that you can get along well with so many girls. It's really unreasonable that you're so popular with women."

"There's no need to go into the trivial stuff," Ito said with a dark face, enduring Asada's dangerous gaze.

“Anna,” Hayakawa repeated, “Anna’s fame is no greater than Sakura’s. How come she can live a peaceful life at school without anything happening that would make you, Yu, stay away from her?”

Ito remained noncommittal, vaguely recalling the hostile looks he received from his classmates during the time he and Takikawa were deskmates.

"Hey! You didn't make a move on Anna too, did you?!" Hayakawa noticed the change in Ito's expression. "Yu, you really have wicked intentions~"

"Ito, apologize to me!" Asada suddenly demanded.

Ito didn't answer, but instead transferred the broccoli from his bowl to a new bowl and placed it in front of Hayakawa.

"As a reward, this is your dinner tonight."

"Xiaoyou! Am I a rabbit, sister?" Hayakawa stirred the broccoli with her chopsticks. "This stuff isn't even fit for human consumption! How can you treat your savior like this? It hurts my heart so much!"

Ignoring Hayakawa's ramblings again, Ito picked up her phone and went to the balcony.

As the evening breeze caressed his face, he gazed at the bright moon on the horizon, hesitated for a moment, and then sent a message to Takikawa.

The chat history was still from a few days ago when she asked about the music festival and warned him not to bully Asada.

Perhaps Takikawa really does have a solution.

.......

The following morning, on a rare day off, sunlight streamed into the room through the gaps in the curtains, filling the air with the lazy tranquility unique to the weekend.

However, this tranquility was soon broken by the sound of the doorbell.

Asada, who was sleeping near the balcony, squirmed in his blankets with dissatisfaction, then pulled the blankets up over his head, trying to block out the noise in this childish way and pretend that he was isolated from the world.

Anyone who shows up so early in the morning is definitely not a normal person.

This is one of the life tips that "Professor" Ito gave Asada, and after experiencing several miserable encounters with insurance salesmen at her door in the early morning, this tip has been proven true in blood.

The doorbell kept ringing, showing no sign of stopping.

The person outside the door displayed remarkable perseverance and patience.

But this kind of perseverance, misplaced, is destined to be futile! Asada thought angrily.

She would never leave her warm and comfortable bed for a guy who might be an insurance salesman!

Ito also had no plans to get up early during the holiday.

After some time, just when Asada thought that the other party had finally given up and was preparing to sink back into her dreamland to continue her great dream of "enslaving Ito".

A soft "click" sound came from the entrance hall.

That's the sound of the door lock being turned!

Asada sprang up from the covers, wide awake, and turned her gaze toward the entrance.

The door... was opened from the outside?!

Insurance salespeople at least have a respectable job, but this blatant break-in...did he switch careers to become a thief?!

That could land you in jail!

No...maybe the person who came is just a thief!

Light streamed in through the crack as the door was slowly pushed open, so bright that Asada instinctively raised her hand to shield her forehead. As the door opened wider, a tall figure stood backlit in the doorway.

"What's going on! I'm clearly in the room!"

Standing in the entryway, Anna Takigawa saw Asada sitting on the bed in the living room with a blank expression and complained with great dissatisfaction, her tone as familiar as if she were in her own home.

The bedroom door opened at that moment, and Ito, wearing a wrinkled nightgown and with her hair a mess like a bird's nest, peeked out with sleepy eyes.

When he saw who was standing in the entryway, he only vaguely reminded them, "Keep your voice down..." and then closed the bedroom door again with a blank expression.

Takikawa: "......"

Asada: "..."

Fast forward to thirty minutes later.

In the living room, Ito managed to tidy himself up, but still couldn't help yawning as he sat on the sofa next to Asada, who also looked sleepy.

Opposite her was Anna Takikawa, who had already taken off her trench coat and was exuding an air of accusation.

Asada handed Anna a cup of hot water and asked, puzzled, "Anna, why did you suddenly come here? And... shouldn't you be working on set at this time?"

Takikawa took the water glass, but glanced at Ito, who was still struggling to stay awake, and said in a slightly annoyed tone.

"Hmph, it's all someone's fault! Sending me some weird SOS text in the middle of the night! Saying 'I'm being bullied at school and need my help'? Director Hasegawa is a good person. He saw that I've been making good progress on filming these past few days, so he made a special exception to let me come and see our great composer who's 'imprisoned'."

She paused, her tone becoming even more displeased.

"But I never expected this! If I hadn't known that Hayakawa-nee habitually hides her spare key under the small flowerpot under the doormat, I wouldn't even have been able to get in! What kind of SOS is this? I thought I would find two corpses when I got in!"

"You came too early..." Ito mumbled indistinctly with his eyes closed.

“Ito!” Asada nudged him lightly with her elbow, though she wholeheartedly agreed with him.

It's a bit of a shame that I couldn't accomplish the great feat of enslaving Ito in my dreams.

“Actually, this kind of thing… could totally be said on Line.” Ito struggled to open one eye and added.

"You mean it was completely unnecessary for me to cancel my work and come all this way?!" Takikawa's handsome eyebrows immediately furrowed, and a small flame ignited in his sky-blue eyes.

The two immediately started arguing back and forth, sparks flying in the air.

"Stop!" Asada quickly called for a halt, first casting a powerful silencing spell on Ito, then turning to Takikawa with a earnest and expectant tone.

"So... Anna, what's your plan? How can you get those people at school back to normal and... agree to let Ito and me have normal contact?"

She simply couldn't stand the feeling of being followed wherever she went.

"We can solve this by having Ito undergo a gender swap." Takikawa crossed his arms and threw out an outrageous solution without even thinking, clearly still resentful of Ito's attitude earlier.

Asada actually turned her head and stared at Ito's face for a long time before nodding seriously. "Hmm... I'll consider it."

Ito: "???"

What are you considering?!

"Is there...is there any other way?" Asada quickly asked, as she also felt that the first plan was too difficult and absurd to implement.

Becoming sisters with Ito? I'll think about that later.

“Then I’ll have to take action!” Takikawa raised his chin, his tone full of confidence.

"Huh?" Asada looked puzzled. "What do you mean?"

“Literal meaning.” Takikawa stood up, his sky-blue eyes glancing defiantly at the bewildered Ito. “I’m going back to Hibiya to continue my studies until the end of this semester. Anyway, the school already notified me, hoping I can successfully complete my studies. And by the way…”

She deliberately drew out her words, a sly smile playing on her lips.

"Help my 'good deskmate' solve his 'little trouble'."

The sunlight shone perfectly on her slightly raised chin, making her sky-blue eyes appear exceptionally clear.

Ito rubbed his temples helplessly, the morning light dancing through his slightly disheveled hair.

He looked out the window and saw vehicles occasionally passing by on the street in the distance, their tires making a soft rustling sound as they rolled over the pavement.

"I still don't understand... If things can only be resolved by you going back to school, then coming here so early... doesn't feel like it's that simple."

Asada immediately turned to look at the absent-minded Ito, and then spoke again: "Besides, I wanted to find out the method and let Asada solve it by himself."

"After all, she is the one who is going to become an idol. If she always relies on others, she will not get any training."

The room fell silent. Asada was lost in thought. She opened her mouth slightly, wanting to say something to promise to solve the problem, but Takikawa spoke first.

"You just find it troublesome, don't you?"

Ito didn't argue; that was indeed what he thought, so he didn't dare to face Asada's probing gaze.

"Say what you want, I'm going to sleep now."

He got up to leave, but Asada wouldn't give him the chance to escape. She tackled Ito to the ground, pinning him down, and then spoke viciously:

"Ito, apologize to me!"