You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

But then I thought about it.

Isn't this idiot who is so concerned about his reputation himself the same as me?

Toyokawa Sho's expression fell almost instantly.

When he looks at Toyokawa Shoko now, he feels like he is looking at a huge piece of black history. He does not have any extra good feelings towards her, only pure disgust in his heart.

I guess Toyokawa Shoko sees him the same way.

"So, what are you going to do next? Are you going to stay with me forever?"

Look, it’s true.

This is going to kick me out of the house.

It's so sad, Shoko Toyokawa.

Toyokawa Sho casually picked up a tissue and used it as a handkerchief, acting like a woman, crying and sobbing, unleashing his triple crown acting skills.

"This is my fault. If I had known that you were narrow-minded and intolerant, I would not have come here, so as not to bother you and make you dislike me..."

"...I don't mean to chase you away."

Toyokawa Shoko clenched her fists. Would she become such a smooth-talking person in ten years? What on earth had she gone through to become such a disgraceful person?

I really can't stand it anymore, I must correct it from the root.

No matter what this guy has been through, I want him to remember the upbringing and pride he once had as a descendant of a noble family.

She took a deep breath to calm her disturbed mood, and glanced at Toyokawa Sho with a cold gaze like a knife, intending to set an example to wake him up.

"You came to me for no apparent reason, with nothing on you except this piece of clothing. In other words, you don't even have the most basic things like identification and personal information. You're a complete illegal immigrant."

Toyokawa Shoko placed her hands on her large chest and sat as straight as a pine tree.

"But after all, you are my future self. I won't kick you out alone or anything like that. You and I both know how uncomfortable that would be, right? So—"

She raised her eyes and looked at Toyokawa Sho seriously.

"I'll do my best to take care of you. If you need anything, just tell me. You're welcome."

Toyokawa Sho looked at her blankly, with a storm in his eyes.

"...You, you're actually a nice person, aren't you...?"

"Do you think the me in the other parallel world is so bad?" Toyokawa Shoko's perfect smile showed signs of cracking.

"After all, in my eyes you are just a fake." Toyokawa Sho said bluntly.

Click.

Shoko Toyokawa put the brewed teacup back on the table, and the crisp sound seemed to declare her silent dissatisfaction.

Facing the girl's eyes that said, "You'd better explain why you're speaking so harshly."

Toyokawa Sho seemed to understand why the other party had just pretended to be righteous.

Maybe she feels that he has lost his edge and is a little smooth in his dealings with others, which is inconsistent with her self-esteem, so she wants to correct it?

This is really the kind of thought that only a little kid would have.

Toyokawa Sho slowly recalled the stumblings and setbacks of the past ten years, as well as his current situation where things have changed so much and his old friends are no longer around. He turned his head, withdrew his gaze, and his tone unconsciously sounded a little vicissitudes of life.

"But, in this world, in the eyes of those you and I know, I'm afraid I'm the imposter."

"........."

For an instant.

The resentment and anger in my heart disappeared like smoke.

Shoko Toyokawa stood there in a daze, not knowing what to say at this moment.

Looking at the other person's expression that seemed to be indifferent, she suddenly found that she could see that Toyokawa Sho had actually been hiding his emotions.

That calm and composed appearance was nothing but a mask woven with superb acting skills.

Hidden beneath the mask is a dark and seemingly boundless loneliness.

Only then did she realize.

This guy in front of me, who speaks harshly and has a strange temper... is actually a superfluous person in this world.

No one remembers him.

No one knows him either.

Everything he owned did not belong to him here.

Like a lost traveler.

I don’t know where the road ahead lies, nor do I know how to get home.

"……Feel sorry."

Shoko Toyokawa sat back, the suppressed emotions lingering in her heart, making her feel very uncomfortable.

"Can you please stop looking at me with such pity? I just suddenly came to a strange world. I won't take such a trivial matter to heart."

In the final analysis, they are still homologues and their essence is the same.

Toyokawa Shoko is stubborn and persistent, so Toyokawa Sho naturally has similar bad habits.

Both of them realized that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, so they remained silent tacitly.

"Let's get back to the topic just now." said Toyokawa Sho.

"Yeah." Toyokawa Shoko nodded.

"Don't worry about the ID issue. I will find a way to solve it myself." Toyokawa Sho sat in the chair and rubbed his temples.

Unlike China, Japan has never had a complete and sound household registration system. To put it bluntly, it is a mess.

Before the personal number card was officially launched in 2016, there was no ID card in the clear sense in daily life. Most people used their driver's license as proof of identity.

Toyokawa Sho plans to first get the basic health insurance card and resident registration, and then see if he can get one when the Individual Number Card is introduced next year. If that doesn't work, he'll ask Genmaki and the others for help...

what.

forget.

They may not recognize me anymore.

Then... let's think of other ways. There are always more solutions than problems.

"As for whether or not you want to live here, I plan to stay with you for a month and then move out once my finances are better. During this time, I'll pay the rent and utilities, and I'll help you with the housework. If there's anything else I can help with, just let me know. I owe you a favor this time."

Shoko Toyokawa tilted her head slightly and asked, "Aren't you planning to live here permanently?"

Toyokawa Sho smiled back and said, "Of course not. I don't have any strange interest in being kept by a minor. After all, you are just a student. Can you bear the responsibility of someone else's life?"

But I'm just a student...

This sentence was like a heart-wrenching blow to Shoko Toyokawa, leaving her with a deep memory.

The two men's eyes met in the air like swords, lightning and sparks flew, and the narrow room was suddenly filled with a tense atmosphere.

After several rounds of fighting in silence.

Toyokawa Shoko returned to the topic.

"Let's arrange it this way for now. The next question is, how are we going to explain this to that asshole dad later?"

After all, it’s a big deal that there is suddenly an extra pair of chopsticks in the house.

Shoko Toyokawa felt that it was necessary to tell that scumbag, and she also had to think about what explanation to use to explain this supernatural event.

"explain?"

Unexpectedly, Toyokawa Sho looked puzzled after hearing this.

"Why should I explain it to him? Do humans in this world have the custom of asking bugs for their opinions?"

Easy to scold.

Shoko Toyokawa silently gave Sho Toyokawa a thumbs up in her heart.

Only at this moment did she feel that the other person's sharp words were so pleasing to the eye.

She had reason to hate her scumbag father.

Before she was kicked out of the Toyokawa family, the image of her father in her mind was always gentle, kind, and omnipotent like the sun that illuminates the world.

But since he lost everything, this man has become emaciated, self-destructive, and there is no hope of life in his eyes.

Shoko Toyokawa originally thought that he was just temporarily unable to accept such a huge blow, and that he would be able to pick himself up after some time.

However, time flies and a month has passed.

This man still looks like a useless person who has given up on life, showing no signs of cheering up.

Not only that, Toyokawa Shoko also found that the family's already tight budget was always used by him to buy cigarettes and alcohol.

You have to know that this is Tokyo, where the pace of life is extremely fast and the cost of living is extremely high. It is the ultimate hell where people can be eaten legally and legitimately.

Toyokawa Shoko has already tried her best to support herself, let alone support a lazy and useless person?

She didn't even complain that she was implicated because of her father's fault. She just hoped that her father could one day muster up the courage to face life again. That would be enough.

but.

This scumbag couldn't even fulfill such a small wish.

They just left their daughter, who wasn't even an adult yet, out in the world, exposed to the wind and rain and suffering.

He used the money his daughter earned to buy cigarettes and alcohol without any psychological burden, and let his daughter face the huge debt that was enough to crush a person's physical and mental health alone.

seriously.

Calling him a scumbag is already an understatement.

Facing Toyokawa Shoko's expectant eyes that seemed to say "Tell me more", Toyokawa Sho slowly drank a sip of hot tea, and the water in the teacup slowly reflected his memories.

It was not until he entered his third year of high school that he learned the real reason why his father was expelled from the Toyokawa family:

Group gambling, violence and alcoholism, exploitation of employees, and bullying of the weak.

This man has done almost all the illegal things.

He has several mistresses outside who are always flirting with him. He can take turns playing with the curvy models on magazine covers for a month without repeating himself. It is said that he is even suspected of molesting minors.

He is like a beautiful peacock, with a bright and gorgeous appearance, but when you peel back the layers, you will see an ugly and sick heart beating inside his chest.

He hid it very well and never let important people notice it. Especially after he married into the Toyokawa family, he became more cautious and restrained.

If he was willing to turn over a new leaf, he might be able to live a happy and stable life, but due to his early experiences of poverty and pain, as well as the constant pressure from his wife, he has a crazy obsession with proving himself.

He believed that his family would choose to trust him one day, and as expected, in the fifteenth year of his marriage, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity fell into his hands.

The family decided to give him a multi-billion dollar project. As long as he could handle this matter well, he could become the core figure of the family.

He was overjoyed and bet all his chips on this opportunity. He was eager to realize his life value through this opportunity and to do something that would make his wife affirm his achievements.

But in the end, his all-in effort resulted in a crushing defeat.

Due to his arbitrary and dictatorial behavior that did not tolerate questioning from others, the Toyokawa family suffered a crushing loss, and all of his negative information was dug out because of this failure.

For the wealthy Toyokawa family, a few billion is not a big deal.

But wealthy families have always attached great importance to their family reputation. Property loss is nothing, and tarnishing the family's reputation is the most intolerable. In order to completely suppress his black material, the Toyokawa family paid a considerable price.

The Toyokawa family originally planned to kill him and let his body sink in Tokyo Bay, but knowing this, Mrs. Toyokawa, who was mentally traumatized, stood up and decided to let this scum suffer the pain of the world again.

He hated the whole family and also Toyokawa Sho.

Many years later, Toyokawa Sho turned the tide and, with the help of his childhood friend Genmaki Shin, kicked out the Toyokawa family and transferred the couple to a mental hospital.

From then on, I never saw him again, and I don’t want to see him again.

Later, these things were leaked out, twisting the truth into falsehood, and became the hottest trending topic in the industry in the past decade. It was during this time that a certain lowly woman took advantage of the opportunity to rise to the top...

But these are all things for later.

Toyokawa Sho raised his eyes and looked at the girl in front of him.

If he remembered correctly, at this point in time he still had a glimmer of hope for the scumbag.

In other words, the guy in front of me is just like me ten years ago, dreaming of a family reunion.