You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

Li Xi realized that she had hardly taken her eyes off the other person all day and covered her face. The boomerang came too fast and she couldn't resist it at all.

It's so embarrassing...

I actually spent the whole day thinking about this...

Even every time I think about this, I can vaguely feel an indescribable sense of accomplishment gradually spreading deep in my heart.

Li Xi couldn't describe exactly what this sense of accomplishment felt like.

I just feel itchy in my heart.

It felt like a feather was scratching gently on the outside.

And the corners of his mouth would inevitably turn up.

This kind of pleasure, as if marking the other person as one's own property... allowed this young girl, who was just beginning to fall in love, to taste the sweetness of the adult world for the first time.

At this time, even if she thought about Ruoye Mu or Gao Songdeng again, she would no longer feel confused and helpless. Instead, she felt a little smug, which even she felt was stupid.

"Are you not going to hide your feelings at all now?"

Next to the bar, Yamada Ryo, who had been forced to change into a butler's uniform, popped up. "It seems like you've been staring at my junior all day. Have you confirmed your relationship?"

"Tsk..."

Lixi turned her head and looked at Yamada Ryo who came over to tease her, and suddenly she had the urge to grab the other person with one hand.

She sighed deeply, and averted her gaze almost in disgust, wiping the cup in her hands with both hands. Her cold voice was no longer made cute by shyness and concern, but returned to her usual stressed mode.

"Instead of talking about this, why not get down to business? Have you practiced the song Xiangxin composed?"

"It can already play back like a stream."

Yamada Ryo boasted narcissistically to himself, then looked at Kaname Rakuna who was writing a test paper. "If I were the boss, and I knew that my junior was going to use this kind of masterpiece as a promotion for the store, I would definitely marry my lovely granddaughter to him."

"...That wild cat?"

Li Xi also looked at Yao Lenai.

"Ah."

Yamada Ryo nodded.

The atmosphere fell into a brief silence.

Only the slight friction sound of wiping the water cup could be heard.

After a while.

Yamada Ryo saw a glass of freshly made mango juice placed in front of him. He looked to the side and saw that it was Li Xi who put it there.

Yamada Ryo picked up the juice, bit the straw with his teeth and took a few sips, then whispered, "Bribe?"

"Just think of it as a bribe."

"Are you looking for help? Let me be clear, my price is very high."

Yamada Ryo changed his tone to one of boasting.

Li Xi silently rolled his eyes at someone.

"So, what's going on?"

"Can you lend me the travel guide to Shimokitazawa that you mentioned last time?"

"why?"

Lixi put the wiped cup back to its original place.

She raised her eyes again and looked at Toyokawa Sho who was chatting with the guests with ease, as if she was longing to lift up the other's tightly covered collar and see the fine red patch that she had bitten lightly.

She parted her lips slightly.

Surprisingly, I can't say I feel shy at this moment.

On the contrary it was very calm.

It seemed as if he was saying something that was very natural.

"He's always busy with other people's affairs. It seems like he never has a day off."

"So I want to ask him out after the show and relax with him."

"Isn't this a date?"

Yamada Ryo bit the pipe.

Lixi glanced at Yamada Ryo, her eyes as sharp as a knife. Seeing that Yamada Ryo ran away after saying that as expected, she curled her lips and muttered in a mosquito-like voice.

“…So what?”

……

……

……

A middle school somewhere in Tokyo.

Master Xiang changed into casual clothes and walked into a convenience store opposite the school gate.

He casually bought a box of part-time worker's bento worth a few hundred yen from the store. After the clerk helped him heat it up, he found a seat by the window and sat down, eating while waiting for someone to get out of school.

Probably a few minutes later.

The target appeared in the field of vision.

So he took out his cell phone from his pocket and called the other party. After the other party answered the call, he waved at the other party through the glass.

The other party came over quickly.

She walked like a young lady, holding her standard schoolbag in front of her knees with both hands.

A junior high school sailor uniform with white and black stripes and a big bow on the collar.

And that face that makes her look round and girly, with distinctive features, but because of poor expression management, it looks like she is sulking.

Obviously, the person who came was Shoko Toyokawa, with whom she had agreed to go to Takamatsu Deng to apologize today.

"Didn't we agree to wait for me at the shop where you work?"

Toyokawa Shoko walked over to Toyokawa Sho and saw him eating a pre-made bento that cost several hundred yen. Her brows quickly turned into a look of worry, "...Eating this stuff is not good for your health."

"That's better than cheap bread."

"……really……"

Recalling the days when they were dominated by cheap bread, Shoko Toyokawa's expression became much more depressed.

From morning till night every day, I either had bread that didn't fill me up or instant noodles that I couldn't finish. It's really not easy for me to have made it all the way from that most difficult time to now.

At this time, Shoko Toyokawa heard some chattering sounds coming from behind her. She turned around and found that she and Sho Toyokawa were very conspicuous in this convenience store.

"...So why did you come all the way here?"

Shoko Toyokawa didn't like the feeling of being treated as a spectacle, so she elbowed someone who was still eating in annoyance.

Among those whispering people there were a few classmates. It was obvious that they had already made up a lot of stories and were waiting to spread them in the group.

"I'm afraid you'll run away."

Toyokawa Sho answered honestly. He now defined Toyokawa Shoko as "Shoko Paopao", which involved doing things like going to someone's house to apologize, which might lose face as a young lady, but he didn't feel comfortable catching the other person in person.

"I'm not the type to run away when things get tough."

Shoko Toyokawa tries to redeem her reputation.

"It's hard to say,"

Toyokawa Sho teased, "From what I've seen, you've run quite a lot."

“I was——!”

Shoko Toyokawa couldn't stand Toyokawa Sho's humiliation anymore, so she stood up and wanted to defend herself seriously, but when she came to her senses, she realized that Toyokawa Sho had revealed a very important piece of information.

Xiang can actually see his own memories?

She slowly sat down, her restless mood like Alice in Wonderland, suddenly falling into the clouds. What she and Toyokawa Sho most desired now was this kind of proof that their relationship was unique...!

"...Can you see my memories?"

Shoko Toyokawa glanced at the people around her, then moved closer and lowered her voice to seriously confirm in Toyokawa Sho's ear.

"Isn't that normal? You can see my memories, so it's only natural that I can see them too."

Toyokawa Sho could clearly feel the hot breath of the other person coming close to his ear, as well as the unique fragrance of the girl, but Toyokawa Sho was not interested in it.

Until now, he still didn't regard Toyokawa Shoko seriously as a member of the opposite sex. He only felt the heat when her breath came out of his ears, and he didn't have any impure thoughts when he smelled the fragrance. He only felt that the smell of the shampoo was still so familiar.

"That's normal, yes, but...if we can see each other's memories, doesn't that further demonstrate the close connection between us?"

The corners of Shoko Toyokawa's mouth curled up in a happy arc, she lowered her eyes, and her voice was like a cloud that envelops her.

"More unique than anyone else, a bond that allows you to entrust your life to someone else, a bond that is unique in the world..."

Toyokawa Sho held up half of his face, looked sideways at Toyokawa Shoko's silly look, and said in a completely unromantic way, "I don't remember ever agreeing to entrust my life to you."

Being thwarted again by Toyokawa Sho, Toyokawa Shoko was unusually not angry. Instead, she said with a confident tone, as if she had already foreseen the future, "I will definitely do it in the future, Desuwa."

"?"

Toyokawa Sho didn't understand where Toyokawa Shoko got the confidence from.

Toyokawa Shoko pulled the ribbon woven into a bracelet from her pocket and teased Toyokawa Sho, saying, "Why don't you put it on now? We can even share memories. Doesn't that prove that we are one person, sharing weal and woe?"

"Let's be clear, we agreed that the match would be decided on Saturday. If you just took the prize first, what's the point of the competition?"

Toyokawa Sho gently pushed someone away from him, "It's time to go. Are you ready to see the lights?"

Shoko Toyokawa nodded. After spending time with Sho Toyokawa, her character had grown more complete.

At least I won't be like I used to be, breathing on people who help me, secretly crying when others don't help me, and saying that someone is so arrogant if they force me to help them.

"By the way, Xiang, is my eyesight bad...?"

Toyokawa Shoko asked suspiciously, "Why does a spot on your neck look red?"

"Bitted by a mosquito."

A certain scumbag classified Lixi as an insect without batting an eyelid. Most people who have grown strawberries would say it was a mosquito bite when asked about this by their family.

"By a mosquito bite? I don't believe it."

Toyokawa Shoko had now evolved to the point where she could tell if someone was lying. She lowered her eyebrows and asked in a tone that was almost like interrogating a criminal, "You were with Riki-san last night, right...? What did you two do last night?"

"We're just staying over at Deng's house, and Deng is sleeping right next to me. Do you think Lixi would do something inappropriate in Deng's room given his personality?"

The big liar was still lying, but what he said was indeed the truth. Before getting up this morning, he really didn't think Li Xi would do anything to him.

But Li Xi did it.

And I made a lot of them.

“…I think so…”

Toyokawa Shoko was deceived by someone.

But she always felt that something was wrong. She wanted to ask, but she couldn't put it into words. Seeing the other person gradually walking away, she immediately put aside all these complicated thoughts and trotted after him.

Anyway, even if she really did something, she would be the winner in the end.

She has made all the preparations.

Shoko Toyokawa was thinking silently in her heart. When she saw Sho Toyokawa reaching out his hand to her, she understood at a glance and handed the standard schoolbag in her hand to Sho Toyokawa.

The two of them were walking together on the street.

The shadows lengthened by the dusk slowly overlapped.

Toyokawa Shoko looked at Toyokawa Sho's empty hands.

She recalled in her mind the day when it rained heavily and Toyokawa Sho patiently hugged her and kept comforting her.

Want to hold each other's fingers tightly.

But in the end, he only dared to use the back of his hand to pretend to touch the other person accidentally.

The "all-rounder" who has been able to perfectly overcome any difficulties since childhood has now encountered the most difficult problem in her life.