Tokyo Soft Rice King.

Then Kuroba Akira realized that working overtime was just her excuse, and that she was clearly avoiding him.

This made Kuroba Akira feel a little nostalgic. He remembered that when they first met half a year ago, Miss Hongxiang would always avoid him and try to avoid having too much contact with him.

She probably felt unsafe because of the presence of a young man among her roommates.

So, in fact, Kuroba Akira only became familiar with Ms. Kurenai after the drunken incident some time ago, but for some reason, he reverted to his original state.

He already had some vague guesses about this... but there was no conclusive evidence yet.

In short, in order to have a proper talk with Miss Hongxiang, he rushed home earlier than usual.

After returning to Kobayashi's house, Kuroba Akira went inside and first checked the shoe cabinet in the entryway. Tashiro Kurenai's high heels were still there, indicating that she hadn't gone to work yet.

"My lord, you're back so early today."

Purple Palace was like an NPC that would reappear at the entrance every day, coming out to greet her immediately, and she was in a better mood than usual today.

During this period, Kuroba Akira didn't get home until 8 PM because of the literature club's activities, which made Murasaki a little unhappy because she had less time to spend with him.

So she was very happy to see him come home so early today.

Kuroba Akira put his index finger to his lips, signaling her to be quiet.

"Shh..."

Murasaki no Miyako quickly covered her mouth with both hands and nodded, her expression becoming tense.

Although I don't know what happened, I'll just do as he says for now.

Then Kuroba Akira leaned close to Murasaki's ear and whispered a question.

"Ziyin, is Miss Hongxiang home?"

"Well……"

Feeling the warmth of his breath on her ear, Murasaki felt her body going limp, and she longed to just collapse into his arms.

"Ziyin?"

Murasaki quickly perked up, putting her erotic thoughts out of her mind, and replied after a moment's thought.

"Hmm...yes, she should be at home. Miss Hongxiang went home this morning, and I haven't seen her leave since."

"Okay, I see."

"Mingjun, is there something you need from Miss Hongxiang?"

"Yes, it's about asking her to be your agent. Has she mentioned it to you?"

"Ah, actually I asked Miss Hongxiang before... but she didn't give me a straight answer, saying that she hadn't thought about it yet."

"No direct response...?"

If you really don't want to switch careers to become an agent, you can just refuse directly. Why hesitate for so long?

She must be waiting for something.

But even on the last day, she still hasn't made up her mind?

No, it's definitely not that they haven't thought it through, but rather that there's a 'disagreement in their ideas'.

Kuroba Akira pondered for a moment, then turned around and took out the pair of red high heels from the shoe cabinet.

He then instructed Zizhigong, "I'm going upstairs to find Miss Hongxiang now. Ziyin, you stay here. If she tries to escape later, stop her for me."

"it is good!"

Murasaki nods obediently without hesitation. Between Tashiro Kurenai and Kuroba Akira, she will definitely choose to help her beloved without any conditions.

Then Kuroba Akira, carrying the pair of red high heels, tiptoed upstairs and arrived at Tashiro Kurenai's room.

He originally intended to just barge in without knocking, but felt there was no need to go to such extremes, so he knocked and called out instead.

"Miss Hongxiang, are you there? I'd like to talk to you about what we discussed before..."

no respond.

Kuroba Akira turned sideways and pressed his ear against the door.

Not a sound can be heard.

Is he not here?

No, he's definitely pretending he's not there!

But this time, don't even think about getting away with it!

It's definitely wrong to enter someone else's room without their permission, but at this moment, Kuroba Akira couldn't care less about that.

He grabbed the doorknob and barged inside.

"Miss Hongxiang! Let's have an open and honest talk!"

The room was dark because the curtains were drawn and the lights were off.

In addition, Miss Hongxiang's room was as messy as ever, and Kuroba Akira couldn't see where she was at all.

It might be hiding in the closet... Thinking this, Kuroba Akira entered the room, intending to conduct a search.

As soon as he entered the room, Kuroba Akira heard a series of hurried footsteps behind him.

Just as he was about to turn around, someone gave him a hard shove from behind, shoving him completely into Tashiro Kurenai's room.

Kuroba Akira, who had fallen to the ground, quickly sat up and saw Tashiro Kurenai with a complicated expression... but she only caught a glimpse of her before she immediately closed the door.

Kuroba Akira immediately understood what was going on.

Miss Hongxiang must have anticipated that I would come looking for her, so she hid in the bathroom beforehand. When I entered her room, she rushed out and locked herself in the room.

Sure enough, Kuroba Akira immediately heard a metallic scraping sound; it was Tashiro Kurenai locking the door with a key.

Presumably for the safety of the residents, the bedroom door of Xiaolin's house is also equipped with a security lock. If it is locked from the outside with a key, the person inside cannot open the door without the key.

Oh no! I'm going to be imprisoned!

Weird.

What's the point of locking yourself in your room...? Grandma Kobayashi has a spare key, she can open the door too.

Rather, is it really necessary to go to such extremes?

As long as Tashiro Kurenai doesn't move away, she'll eventually run into me... Even if I can escape for a while, can I keep running away forever?

And why run away? If you really don't want to be a [person/entity], why not just refuse?

Kuroba Akira was a little confused and felt completely bewildered, having no idea what she was thinking. So he got up, banged on the door, and called out.

"Miss Hongxiang, all I wanted was to hear your answer. There's no need to go to such lengths! Hello? Miss Hongxiang, are you still there?"

"...I promise you..."

"what?"

“I will become... Shion’s manager.”

"Isn't this a good thing? Then why are you locking me up? Let's talk."

"..."

She neither replied nor left.

Kuroba Akira hesitated for a moment, but finally asked the key question that had been hovering in his mind.

"Um, Miss Hongxiang... are you still the 'Miss Hongxiang' I know now?"

"..."

She still did not answer.

But this time, hurried footsteps rang out.

She fled as if she were escaping.

And that's how Akira Kuroba was confirmed.

The woman in question, Tashiro Kurenai, was not the Kurenai she knew.

She does indeed have two personalities.

Chapter 140 The Circumstances of Transmigrators Are All Different

In fact, Akira Kuroba had this feeling a long time ago.

Tashiro Kurenai likely has two personalities because her changes are so drastic.

The shy Tashiro Kurenai I met before, who avoided Kuroba Akira, was probably the original Tashiro Kurenai of this world. She probably chose the special job of an embalmer, which doesn't require much contact with living people, because she had social anxiety.

Let's just call her Hongxiang, who's socially awkward.

Then, the person who slept with Kuroba Akira while drunk that time was probably socially anxious Hongxiang, because her sleep talking was full of complaints and sobs. When she woke up, she switched to a gentle older sister personality, which is the other world's Hongxiang, whose real name is 'Tian Hongxiang'.

To make it easier to distinguish her, let's call her Yu Jie Hong Xiang.

Then there should also be a primary and secondary personality between the two personalities. Kuroba Akira guessed that the mature and elegant Hongxiang should be the secondary personality, while the socially anxious Hongxiang should be the primary personality.

After all, these transmigrators came from other worlds, while the real Tashiro Kurenai was a native of the area.

After that drunken incident, the mature and elegant Hongxiang appeared more often. Perhaps it was because the socially awkward Hongxiang saw her other self chatting happily with her transmigrator companion, so she gave up her body more frequently.

Furthermore, the reason why the mature and elegant Hongxiang did not directly agree to become Zizhigong's manager was because she still needed to consult the socially awkward Hongxiang, since the socially awkward Hongxiang was the main personality.

Thinking about it this way, many things that seemed strange before became clear.

But at this moment, Kuroba Akira still couldn't understand what socially anxious Kurenai was doing. Why did she lock herself up?

And after being locked up, he surprisingly agreed to become Murasaki no Miya's manager...

I can't understand it.

There's a feeling that key information is missing.

This information could only be obtained by asking her herself, so Kuroba Akira ran through the 'garbage heap' to the window, pulled back the curtains, opened the window, and shouted downstairs.

"Ziyin! Help me stop Hongxiang...!"

However, it was too late.

Akira Kuroba saw that the socially awkward Akira, wearing bathroom slippers, had run out of Kobayashi's yard, and for some reason, she was carrying two bath towels in her hands.