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

That guy definitely wouldn't dare go back to his own home to stay any longer, so he'll have to find somewhere to rest at night, right?

So Su Shi thought that if she went directly to the other party's house and blocked the other party in advance, she might be lucky enough to catch the little rascal, and then grab the other party by the neck while making her explain why Xiao Xiang became like that.

"This has nothing to do with that guy? Nobody believes that..."

Although she said that Xiaoxiang's drinking had nothing to do with her, couldn't Nanami Natsuki be the reason why Xiaoxiang was so desperate and self-destructive?

But then another question arises... Why would Xiaoxiang rather keep himself far away from her, rather deny all the bonds between them, than tell her about Nanami Natsuki's sins?

Is there some unspeakable secret? What is the hidden story behind this?

Of course, there's an even more practical question... that brat previously mentioned she could pinpoint her location at any time, so is it really worthwhile for her to hide nearby and wait?

Su Shi glanced at the time on her phone. It had taken her 36 minutes to get from her home to Nanami Natsuki's doorstep, and she had been hiding at the corner of the doorstep for over 20 minutes.

She tried knocking on the door, but no one answered.

Nagasaki Motoyo couldn't tell whether Nanami Natsuki was home or not, but she decided to wait until 7 p.m., have dinner nearby, and then come back to wait for another half hour.

If I really can't wait any longer, then I'll just have to try again tomorrow.

"It's footsteps... Let me see..."

Nagasaki Motoyo, whose legs were a little sore from standing, heard footsteps behind her. Excited, she quickly adjusted her posture to make sure she didn't give herself away, and then peeked out a little to look furtively in the direction of the footsteps.

"It really is you, you little rascal... Eh? Why is Li hope here too? I remember Li hope..."

Nagasaki Motoyo recalled what had happened a few days ago, and she could clearly sense that Riki's attitude towards Nanami Natsuki had been somewhat cold during those days.

Of course... the current situation doesn't seem to be much better. Although Shiina Tatsuki was supporting that brat's arm as they walked towards the other person's door, his expression was somewhat hesitant, as if he was thinking about something.

However, judging from the brat's current drunken state, it doesn't seem like she'd be able to escape my pursuit in a chase, especially since she might have Li hope's help...

It's decided, now is the best time to make a move!

"You little rascal! Where do you think you're going to run this time?!"

Like a demon crawling out of hell, Nagasaki Motoyo stretched out both hands and charged menacingly toward Nanami Natsuki.

"Su Shi?!"

Before Nanami Natsuki could say anything more, Su Shi had already arrived beside Nanami Natsuki and Riki. However, before her hand, which was about to grab Nanami's neck, could touch her body, it was stopped by Riki.

"Lixi? What's this?"

"You still have the nerve to ask me?!" Riki's expression seemed even more terrifying than hers. Nagasaki Motoyo was grabbed by the collar by Riki. "So you finally remember who I am now? Judging from your expression... have you finally regained your memories?!"

"I...no, you've misunderstood..."

Nagasaki Motoyo looked somewhat embarrassed. She could have resisted, but in the end she did nothing and let Riki push her to the ground.

"You can leave now. You've already decided to forget about us, haven't you? My business with Xiangzi is none of your concern. Don't get involved."

"Li hope, you..."

Su Shi, who had fallen to the ground, was somewhat bewildered. She couldn't figure out why Li Xi was angry with her for a moment. But when she did figure it out, she didn't know how to explain it to Li hope in front of her.

What troubled her wasn't whether Li hope would believe she didn't intend to betray Crychic, but rather that in the days leading up to it, she seemed to have developed an insurmountable rift with Li hope.

Could it be that the reason Xiao Xiang was unwilling to tell me what happened in her family was because people like her, who are hypocritical, have never truly become anyone's friend?

Now, Lixi seems to know something, but the other party pushed her away just like Xiaoxiang did this morning, perhaps because she gives off such a hypocritical impression.

Su Shi suddenly felt that all her persistence had been destroyed, Xiangzi had become someone she didn't recognize, and Li hope had completely denied himself in terms of personality.

She was excluded; no one cared about her thoughts, and no one believed that she had changed.

All of this was because of Nanami Natsuki, who was being held by the shoulders by Riki and looking at him with a fake "guilty" look!

"Lixi, don't be fooled by her..."

What are you talking about?

"I know I'm a fake and hypocritical person, and I've never thought from your perspective before, but I genuinely consider you my friends, so... Lixi, don't be fooled by this little rascal's appearance! She won't truly help you!"

"...It seems you really don't understand anything."

A hint of embarrassment flashed in Lixi's eyes, but she managed to cover it up well, which seemed to be thanks to the acting skills that Nanami Natsuki had temporarily given her.

"How could I not understand? Nanami Natsuki is a bastard. She only knows how to use sweet talk to seduce you into getting what you want, but do you really need those things? Would you really decide to believe such a person for those trivial and ridiculous temptations!"

Of course it's necessary...

Shiina Ritsuki looked at Suze, who only knew how to talk big, and found it somewhat amusing.

How could Nagasaki Motoyo possibly understand her pathetic state? She was the kind of person who would willingly ignore Nanami Natsuki's vile nature for such a "ridiculous" temptation.

Just as Nagasaki Motoyo was always pursuing the elusive Crychic, what Riki was pursuing... was the equally elusive talent that had existed before.

Having finally seized this opportunity... she found it very difficult to say that she could easily give up such self-deception.

"Of course I know Nanami is a little bastard, you don't need to remind me."

Feeling the little one in her arms secretly pinch her waist with his fingers, Shiina Tatsuki felt both annoyed and amused.

"Then why are you still..."

"Because she's not Nanami Natsuki, can't you tell who's inside her?"

"……What did you say?"

“Suyo…” Nanami Natsuki looked at Nagasaki Suyo with a somewhat evasive and guilty gaze and said, “Actually, I am Shoko…”

"what?"

Nagasaki Motoyo looked at her like she was kidding her. If she had believed such nonsense so easily, she wouldn't have been waiting here for almost half an hour.

"That Nanami Natsuki... she knew I had been taken home by my grandfather, so she stopped me at my doorstep and forced me to switch bodies with her by promising to let Mutsu go for a month and not harm her..."

"But I was tricked by her... Before the exchange, she said it would only last a week, but after the exchange, she immediately changed her tune and said she wouldn't switch back with me until she was satisfied."

“No, this…” Su Shi was a little confused.

"I'm sorry, Su Shi... I'm so sorry for what happened before. I was completely stunned when you came to my house, and I may have said a lot of hurtful things... but I hope you can forgive me, okay?"

"You...are you really Xiao Xiang?"

“I’ve confirmed it.” Shiina Riki was forced to smooth things over for Nanami. “After leaving the Toyokawa family, she went back to the house she was staying at most recently. Then in the afternoon, she decided to go find you. But she didn’t know where you lived, so she went to RiNG, where you met last time, to try her luck.”

“…I want to apologize to Su Shi in person,” Nanami Natsuki followed up.

"Actually, when I heard her say that she was Xiangzi, I was a little incredulous. After all, in my impression, Xiangzi would never have fallen so low as to be drunk and in such a disheveled state."

"However, it's even less likely that Nanami would be like that, so I was thinking at the time, since Nanami Natsuki can manipulate your memories, could she also completely swap the personalities of two people? And Shoko did reveal a lot of details about the musical exchanges that only she and I knew."

"Swapping personalities... No, really?"

Nagasaki Motoyo felt like she had received too much information all at once. Looking at "Nanami Natsuki," who still felt guilty and dared not look her in the eye, she felt that on the one hand, she really wanted to punch that annoying face, and on the other hand, she wanted to hug her and comfort her.

Would Nanami Natsuki really use the promise she made to herself, "not to harm Xiao Mu within a month," as leverage to lure Xiao Xiang again?

She's incredibly capable! This girl was born to be a devil!

"After I found out that this guy was actually Xiangzi, I gave her a good scolding, but after she told me what had happened in the past six months, I felt that no matter what... I couldn't just watch her leave alone in such despair."

"That damned Nanami, she probably planned everything all along, just to make Xiangzi despair of everything in life, and then easily use her last bit of hope to force her to switch bodies with Xiangzi, so that she could live the life of comfort and ease that she dreamed of in Xiangzi's place."

"..."

By this point, Nagasaki Motoyo was almost completely convinced, because the motive was very reasonable; otherwise, she couldn't understand why Nanami Natsuki would be so hostile to a complete stranger she had never met before.

Previously, he had lured her into "keeping" him through a deal, allowing her to freeload at his home and enjoy his services, which were almost like those of a personal maid... Just thinking about this made Nagasaki Motoyo grit her teeth in hatred.

Could it be that the other person doesn't actually want to support themselves by working, but is always thinking about getting something for nothing, like a little parasite relying on others to support her?

But... Nanami is actually quite pitiful too, after all, she doesn't even have any family or friends to rely on...

No, no, even so, that's not a reason for her to take away Xiao Xiang's life!

"So, Xiao Xiang, did you come here because you want to find some secret about Qi Hai in her house?"

"No, I just... wanted to see what her life was like before."

At this point, Nanami Natsuki's expression seemed to become even more guilty, which left Nagasaki Motoyo somewhat puzzled.

But before she could ask, the girl in front of her spoke first:

"Actually, Lixi... and Sushi, I'm really sorry to you. You were targeted by Qihai because of me..."

"Wait, Xiao Xiang, what do you mean by that?"

"...I'm sorry, I can't say it too clearly. I can only tell you that I... stole Nanami's life. In fact, she should have had the life of a pampered young lady."

"...Huh?!"

This time, not only Su Shi was surprised, but even Li hope, who was standing next to her, was dumbfounded.

“She and I are relatives… but for some reason, she was abandoned by the Toyokawa family, which is why she lives alone in an old hut. After she gained that strange power, she decided to take revenge on me and the people around me.”

As Nanami Natsuki spoke, she had Riki help her walk towards her home.

Pretending to be somewhat unfamiliar with the layout of the house, Su Shi, who was standing to the side, seemed to have completely ignored Nanami's performance and instead turned on the hallway lights with ease.

Seeing the questioning looks from Nanami and Riki, Su Shi said somewhat awkwardly, "I've been here before, and that bastard tricked me into doing free housework for her."

"..."

"Xiao Xiang, could you elaborate on what you just said?" Nagasaki Motoyo was still ashamed and indignant about being tricked, so she turned the topic back to what had just happened.

"Actually, I learned about my relationship with Nanami from my father. It was because I knew that I had wronged Nanami that I locked myself at home and... in a state of extreme despair, I secretly drank my father's wine."

"This can't be blamed on Xiao Xiang, can it?! You didn't know anything at the time."

However, this made Su Shi understand why Xiao Xiang had the same attitude that morning.

Because she didn't want her to be implicated, she told herself not to interfere. Also, to stop Nanami Natsuki from retaliating against Sho's friends, she deliberately denied the bond between the band and wanted to give up on her voluntarily.

So that's how it is... Su Shi had felt that Xiao Xiang was acting a bit strange this morning, and now that she thinks about it, it all makes sense.

"But I enjoyed the happy life she should have had..."

"Xiao Xiang, you did nothing wrong..."

Just as Nagasaki Motoyo was about to say something, she was suddenly startled by a whiteboard that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere in Nanami Natsuki's bedroom, along with the objects on it.

On the whiteboard were photos of many familiar people, with Xiangzi, his father, and his maternal grandfather in the center.

However, neither Xiangzi's maternal grandfather nor Xiangzi's father had any actual photographs; there was only a blank piece of paper with their names written on it and pasted on it.