You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

I just saw Su Shifa’s message.

In fact, I still feel very comforted.

But as more and more messages were sent, they became more and more serious.

Toyokawa Sho just felt that this was a kind of mental torture that seemed to never end.

He was already trying his best just to cope with life every day.

I really don't have the energy to reply to other people's messages.

"Your main problem is that you send messages too frequently. Others can only send 99+ messages a day, but you can do 99+ messages in an hour. This chat speed is too scary for most Japanese people."

Toyokawa Sho slid his finger across the screen.

"From now on, if Xiangzi doesn't initiate a chat with you, you only need to send a maximum of three messages a day."

"Isn't three... too few?"

Nagasaki Suyo asked.

"You have to know that if you post too much, people will really lose the patience to read it."

Toyokawa Sho said sincerely.

"why?"

Nagasaki Suyo couldn't understand.

"Because it will make your feelings cheap, and others will not cherish cheap feelings."

Nagasaki Suyo was shocked by these words.

She never thought that her meticulous care would become a burden one day.

She suddenly felt a great sense of grievance rising from her heart.

Her way of survival is to rely on the needs of others.

If even this most basic point that constitutes her is wrong, then how should she live in the future?

"I'm not saying that caring about others is wrong. I'm saying that you should control your degree and not care about others too much."

Toyokawa Sho noticed Nagasaki Suyo's depression, so he patiently explained, "Do you understand?"

Nagasaki Suyo opened her mouth slightly.

She bit her lower lip hard and finally nodded slightly.

"……Understood."

"Then, the next problem is that the messages you sent are too heavy. For Xiangzi and I, what we need now is someone we can rely on, not someone who needs to rely on us."

Toyokawa Sho gestured to Nagasaki Suyo with his hands.

"Like this sentence."

Toyokawa Sho took a quick glance, then tactically cleared his throat and spoke in the same voice as Nagasaki Suyo with great emotion.

"Xiao Xiang, please believe me, I have always been on your side. You said that Crychic is a community of shared destiny. What happened that made you suddenly want to quit the band? I really like the feeling of being with everyone. Now every night when I think of you leaving, tears will flow unconsciously. The days without you, I really-"

“Ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh——!! Xiao-Xiao Xiang! Don’t say any more aaaahhh…!!!”

Nagasaki Suyo stood up from the chair with a bang, waving her hands vigorously to try to cover Toyokawa Sho's mouth.

Yue Zhisen had been imposing standardized etiquette since the first day of the new year, or perhaps it was the social mask she had put on herself, all of which were used to disguise herself, but now they were no match for the extreme embarrassment brought about by social death.

The visible blush on her cheeks could be seen clearly even by the three people watching the show several tables away.

Rinrinko took out a slender monocular telescope from somewhere and spoke in a rhythmic tone.

"Oh no! That girl actually attacked Toyokawa-san...! What should I do, Yamada-san? She must be attracted to Toyokawa-san's beauty and wants to beat Toyokawa-san to her knees and take her back to Tsuki no Mori to enjoy her!"

"Heroes are truly as numerous as the sea of ​​fish. How can their mobility be so strong? Is this the power of the Moon Forest... I am in awe."

Yamada Ryo shook his head secretly, with bitterness in his tone.

She originally thought that she could dominate the world with her duet with her junior, and that no other bassist in the world could surpass her, but she never expected that there was actually such a master.

really.

No matter how much you say.

Why not just get started?

Action-oriented, so powerful.

"...It must be just Sho imitating the voice again, nothing to be surprised about."

Li Xi still had his arms crossed, looking calm and composed, indicating that he was different from the two people next to him and was a completely normal person.

But that's what it says.

When she saw that Nagasaki Suyo was already pressed against Toyokawa Sho, her sinful figure hidden under her school uniform, which was unmatched among her peers, was pressed tightly against Toyokawa Sho's arm.

Her voice was trembling a little, and it sounded a bit sour to her ears. Even her eyes, which had not been looking in that direction before, now began to stare directly at the two people.

Obviously, he was a little restless.

"Now do you understand how cheesy the message you sent was?"

Toyokawa Sho broke free from the seal set by Nagasaki Suyo with his own hands, and looked at the girl in front of him with a smile, whose almost entire face was red.

"...I, I understand...I really understand, I won't post this kind of...this kind of-"

Nagasaki Suyo never thought that one day she would be tortured by her own chat records.

This was a relatively light piece of news that Toyokawa Sho had retrieved from the phone. This alone was enough to make her lose all her composure, and she didn't even have the courage to look at her phone screen again...

She didn't even dare to think about what Toyokawa Sho and Toyokawa Xiangzi were thinking of her when they saw her sending these messages...!

"Now that you know, let's start contacting her now."

Toyokawa Sho held up two fingers and said, "Remember, first, reduce the frequency of sending messages, and second, don't be too emotional."

"But... even if I send a message now, Xiaoxiang still won't respond to me."

Nagasaki Suyo said.

"You don't need to worry about this. I can make sure she replies to your message right now."

Toyokawa Sho picked up Nagasaki Suyo's cell phone again and waved to Nagasaki Suyo.

At first, Nagasaki Suyo was confused about what Toyokawa Sho was going to do, but after seeing Toyokawa Sho turn on the front camera, she immediately understood and stood obediently next to Toyokawa Sho.

But before she could show her signature smile, she saw Toyokawa Sho press the shutter button.

Click.

A photo was taken just like that.

……

……

……

The night is gloomy.

Toyokawa Shoko curled up in bed alone.

She had just finished taking a shower, and her long silver-blue hair was still a little wet. She looked at the phone number on the screen with the note "Another Me" and her eyes were slightly absent-minded.

Xiang now...

What are you doing?

Did he go home?

Or are you still working hard now?

Shoko Toyokawa silently turned to the side and buried her head in the quilt.

Today, my bastard dad bought a lot of food, including beef, lamb rolls, mentaiko, tempura, and a lot of tuna sushi. Dinner was very delicious.

Watching that asshole dad pick himself up again.

Being able to sit down and eat together as a family again.

It should have been a very happy thing.

But looking at the empty space next to it.

Shoko Toyokawa couldn't be happy no matter what.

"Xiang..."

She whispered the other person's name softly.

I want to call and ask if he is willing to come back and stay tonight.

Even if you don't want to come back and live here, it's fine.

As long as you can hear the other person's voice.

She also felt satisfied.

But just when she was about to hit him.

Another message window popped up.

See the two words 【そよ】 in the remarks.

Toyokawa Shoko sighed tiredly and slid the pop-up message window aside.

But the next second.

Another message box popped up.

Shoko Toyokawa was just about to cross it out with her finger.

But his eyes were glued to the words on the message preview.

【そよ: I am with Xiao Xiang now. 】

"Eh……?"

72

Chapter 72 Soft and sticky Xiaoxiang: Will you come back to stay today?

Toyokawa Shoko didn't react at first and just blinked a few times blankly.

But after she clearly read the message sent to her by Nagasaki Suyo, she widened her eyes and felt her head buzzing.

Her heart seemed to be suddenly tightened, as if someone was climbing up to her heart wielding a cold weapon, cutting open her flesh and burying a bomb of anxiety inside.

Classmate Sushi...

Why are you with Xiang?

Is it because I didn’t reply to her that she went to find Xiang?

Toyokawa Shoko's long and thin eyebrows were lightly squeezed together, and her pretty face pressed on the pillow seemed to have picked up a gray cloud, covering up the hazy sweetness and attachment that she originally felt when she missed the person she cared about.

It was obvious that before this, no matter what message Nagasaki Suyo sent her, she could ignore it. Her situation was not enough to support her to pursue that naive dream of playing in a band happily with everyone for the rest of her life.

But when she saw Nagasaki Suyo said that she was with Toyokawa Sho, Toyokawa Shoko could no longer sit idly by.

It was as if your most precious collection was being coveted by someone else with greedy eyes, or your favorite toy was being borrowed by a naughty child who didn't know how to handle it.

A strong sense of unease arose in Shoko Toyokawa's heart.

This feeling of uneasiness was not about the possibility that Toyokawa Sho would attract Crychic members like Nagasaki Suyo and the others, but rather that she was afraid that Nagasaki Suyo and the others would snatch Toyokawa Sho away from her.

Toyokawa Shoko herself was surprised by the change in her mentality.

She never thought that one day, Toyokawa Sho's position in her heart would be higher than that of Crychic, whom she regarded as her spiritual support.

But think about it carefully.

I also feel that this matter is as it should be.

She and Toyokawa Sho are symbiotic beings woven together by fate from two different timelines. They are another self with the same appearance, family environment, and even life trajectory.

Just from the perspective of this relationship which is unique in the entire world, Cyrchic cannot be more special than Toyokawa Sho.