People are in Mygo, and I can write their personalities.

Being mocked for being short by this guy was something Nanami Natsuki could never accept, so she chose to... take the place of a senior and thoroughly humiliate this blue-haired monster who dared to expose her true height.

"So that's how it is... You're Hatsune Miku..."

"Don't call me Hatsune Miku. I only have one name, and that is Nanami Natsuki."

"Oh……"

"Now that I've been exposed, I'll tell you the truth... Toyokawa Shoko, do you know how much harm your family has caused me?!"

"Waaah..."

Hehe, it's so satisfying to say anything in front of Xiao Xiang!

"I will definitely make it up to you... but could you give me some time? I still have things I need to do..."

"Hmph, whatever. My revenge won't end so easily anyway."

"Wait... don't hang up yet, can I know who your mother is?"

"I'll hang up!"

Too much talk leads to mistakes, so even though Nanami Natsuki was feeling incredibly happy, she could only hang up the phone, not giving Shoko a chance to continue asking about her private affairs.

However, impersonating Hatsune Miku doesn't seem to be too difficult. From the conversation just now, we know that Toyokawa Shoko knows nothing about Hatsune Miku except that she has an aunt of the same age.

Perfect timing... She's been in the bathroom for far too long. If she doesn't come out soon, Su Shi will probably come over to check on her.

Nanami Natsuki's guess was correct, because she had just left the women's restroom when she ran into Nagasaki Motoyo, who was about to walk in.

"Xiaoyue...are you alright?"

"Ah... what's wrong?"

“That man went too far. He and his daughter are a disgrace to Tokyo… They actually attacked an innocent person like you because they couldn’t cheat them… I will definitely not let that Toyokawa Shoko get away with it next time I run into her.”

"Cough cough...Is that so?"

Nanami Natsuki felt a little guilty. She glanced at the girl who was indeed several centimeters taller than her even without mid-heel shoes, and at the girl's "kind" face, and she had an ominous premonition that a storm was about to break.

However, she was too poor. The thought of being able to eat and drink for free at Su Shi's house for 10 days, and that Su Shi would take such good care of her, made her reluctant to leave early.

Stay a few more days... and sneak away when the deadline is almost here, hmm... it should be fine.

"Xiaoyue, what time do you get off work this afternoon?"

"Me? I got off work early today, I finished at 3:30."

"Hmm... then I'll stay here with you, and I can also see if those guys will come looking for trouble again."

"Um... okay, alright."

…………

Inside Xiangzi's rented room.

After the call was disconnected, Toyokawa Shoko felt much calmer. She wasn't so afraid anymore... or rather, she felt more guilty towards Nanami and a burning determination to overturn her fate.

It seems I can't go to Su Shi's place anymore.

It's obvious that Nanami Natsuki, who has always lived in torment and whose parents don't care about her, could have been a well-off young lady with no worries about food and clothing, but instead she can only hide from her grandfather and live in the shadows.

Such a person would definitely feel envious of her previous fulfilling life, and the band she joined... is definitely something she doesn't want to see, a wonderful experience that she has but the other person doesn't.

But just as all the negative emotions in her heart were stirred up and released towards Nanami, that girl... or rather her aunt actually let her go.

"Perhaps it's because... my aunt saw her past anger and despair in me."

That's why people say you should release negative emotions... If you hadn't done the same thing under immense pressure before and knew that bottling them up would only cause more pain, how could you say such a thing to yourself?

"The promise my father didn't keep... I will help him keep it."

The first step, naturally, is to help my father find a job with a future and hope.

Shoko Toyokawa is a very proactive person. After making all her decisions, she immediately started looking for suitable opportunities on job websites.

“If it’s still a job like a supermarket or convenience store cashier, my father probably still won’t be willing to work hard… In that case, it seems we have no choice but to find some more ‘respectable’ jobs.”

But how could she possibly meet the hiring standards of those companies? Firstly, she lacked social experience, and secondly, besides music, she wasn't good at anything else…

Wait, music?

Shoko Toyokawa happened to see that an agency called "Win-Wing Production" was recruiting talent in composition and arrangement, and she immediately decided to give it a try.

"But why does this firm's name sound so familiar?"

"Hatsuka...it seems that Hatsuka's current Sumimi is from this agency? Never mind...I don't have the right to be picky right now."

Chapter 30: Father's Alcoholism, Daughter's Stealing of Alcohol! (4/4)

The recruitment process for a company of a certain size is certainly not as simple as the recruitment for part-time jobs that students can do.

Toyokawa Shoko first needs to prepare her own resume, along with her works related to composition and arrangement, in order to have a chance of being selected.

"No... I don't have any instruments or a computer for composing right now."

No matter how talented she was, Xiangzi couldn't just write a perfect score out of thin air. To gradually improve it from imperfect to perfect, she had to constantly analyze problems from her performances and use computer-aided composition, taking the arrangement into account as much as possible.

Her father has no relevant industry experience, so to increase her chances of being selected, she needs to submit a complete assignment.

"Spring Shadow... Remove the lyrics to 'Little Lamp' and rewrite the lyrics... that should work, right?"

Toyokawa Shoko never expected that at this crucial moment, the only person she could rely on was Crychic, whom she had once abandoned.

She certainly hadn't forgotten that song, even though some details of the lyrics were a bit blurry. But since she couldn't simply copy over parts that weren't her own right now.

All afternoon, Toyokawa Shoko racked her brains to come up with a completely different set of lyrics. Perhaps it was because the memory of that performance had become particularly profound under the influence of both her own and Sose's memories that she found it difficult to break free from those fixed frameworks in her thinking.

"We need to change our approach... The theme also needs to be drastically changed, but we still need to maintain the lyrical style."

While searching for inspiration with his phone, Xiangzi suddenly had an idea and nervously opened his father's phone's photo album.

This is an invasion of her father's privacy... But Xiangzi is just too curious. After all, the only thing she can think of that fits her current identity and the theme of the song might be hidden in these photos.

The album wasn't locked. After opening it, Xiangzi slowly scrolled up and saw many beautiful pictures of his family of three living together in the past.

There are old photos of her when she was just born, candid shots of her first time playing the piano, a family portrait with her serious-looking grandfather, and the last photo of her with her mother before she passed away...

Xiangzi felt a lump in her throat, but this time she didn't cry. Instead, she smiled as she looked at the photos.

“I know how to write it… Memories of the past… How about we call this song with rewritten lyrics ‘Shadows of the Past’?”

After spending nearly another hour writing down the score on paper, Xiangzi took a photo of this extremely important "stepping stone" and sent it to the firm's email address along with his father's revised resume, which was already on his phone.

"Hopefully we'll hear news tomorrow..."

"Before that, let's think about what to eat tonight. Dad works really hard too..."

As Xiangzi rummaged through the refrigerator for ingredients to prepare the meal, her phone rang.

"We've heard news so quickly?!"

Unfortunately, the call wasn't from the agency at all, but rather... from the Akabane Police Station.

“Hey…” Xiangzi was hesitant to guess, because she didn’t want to believe that her father would do such a thing with her body.

"Excuse me, are you Toyokawa Kiyoko, the guardian of Toyokawa Shoko?"

"Well, I am."

"Your daughter is underage and has been drinking alcohol, which violates the 'Law on the Prohibition of Drinking Alcohol by Minors.' Now, you, as her guardian, need to come here."

"What...what did you say?!"

"...Your daughter works at a restaurant and secretly took the beer that the owner had put in the freezer. Really...How did you raise your daughter as her guardian? And I saw that you yourself have multiple records of being taken to the police station for alcoholism."

"In short, since you are the child's father, I hope you will come here as soon as possible. According to the law... as the guardian, you will be fined."

"..."

The phone call ended, and it seemed that Xiangzi's hope for the future was also about to be extinguished...

…………

"What's wrong with Xiao Xiang? He keeps throwing up emotional triggers at me today... and he keeps switching back and forth between positive and negative."

"Xiaoyue, what are you muttering about?"

"Ah...no, no~"

Seeing Nagasaki Motoyo's squinting smile at her, Nanami Natsuki still felt a little creeped out.

"Then hurry up and come in, I've prepared a gift for you!"

"Gift?"

Nanami, who had already returned to her home in Roppongi with Suze from Ikebukuro, looked at Suze's mysterious expression and felt that what Suze was going to give her was not a good gift, but a leather whip specifically for whipping her.

No, no, no, she must be overthinking it. Su Shi's memories are still preserved with her, how could she possibly harbor malice towards her at this time?

"Shall we open it and take a look?"

"Oh... um?" Nanami Natsuki opened the gift box and saw what was inside. "Are these new clothes for me?"

"Yeah... I always felt that your previous clothes... ah... anyway, I think a cute girl like you should wear these kinds of clothes."

"W-Really? Wait! Why is there a dog leash and a dog collar in this box?!"

From the very beginning, Nanami Natsuki felt something was off about Nagasaki Motoyo, who seemed to be using her as a dress-up doll, and the clothes in her hands.

A beige short-sleeved shirt, a white tiered skirt, and off-white tights... Is this outfit meant to suggest that Su Shi, this wicked woman, shouldn't be so ruthless at such a young age?

That's fine, at most Nanami Natsuki is a little guilty... but the problem is, how do you explain this dog leash and collar?!

"Ah..." Nagasaki Motoyo's face turned slightly red. "This was an accident. I saw some cosplay supplies at the store next door and thought they looked interesting, so I bought them. I didn't expect to forget to put them in the gift box with them."

"...Sister Su Shi, you can't do this to me."

"How could that be? How could I have such thoughts? This is truly an accident..."

Nanami Natsuki sighed; she was increasingly feeling that Nagasaki Motoyo's house wasn't very safe.

"Try it on quickly, I think this style of clothing suits you best."

"……All right."

Looking at her from all angles, Nanami Natsuki felt that Su Shi was simply expressing friendliness and didn't show much sign of turning evil. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

"Xiaoyue, you're so cute..."