In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

"Coco is cute too."

Ouyang Xuan praised Coco as he wished.

"You need to be more affectionate. It's like I'm forcing you to call me cute. Brother, can you please be more serious?"

"Brother, what's the meaning of your expression? Were you just thinking that my sister is troublesome?!"

As a younger sister, Keke's ability to observe Ouyang Xuan's micro-expressions and psychological changes is no less than that of her lover Yang Nai and others. She can accurately interpret Ouyang Xuan's inner thoughts from his seemingly unchanged eyes. Ouyang Xuan's eyes just now clearly meant that my sister is so troublesome.

The one who calmed down the runaway kitten was Eri. Like Hina and Coco, Eri also changed into the Otonogizaka school uniform. The only difference was that Hina and Coco changed into the uniforms left by Umi and Nicole, while Eri changed into the one she left behind.

"Yeah, I think I gained a little weight when I was in college. My chest feels so tight."

"Yes, she did. She continued to grow after entering university."

Rin said enviously.

"Amazing! Is this the adult?"

After looking at Eri, Hanayo looked at herself and suddenly became depressed. Not only Hanayo, but Coco and Hina also fell silent. Although Hina and Coco knew that Eri was older than them when they were at the door, Eri was wearing a loose skirt at that time, so it was not very noticeable. Now that they changed into the same clothes, it brought different shades and amplitudes, and the gap was immediately revealed.

Coco went back to the Idol Research Club with a tense face and sat down. As soon as she sat on the chair, the tense expression on her face could no longer be supported. The position she was sitting in now was inherited from Nicole, the position of the director of the Otonokizaka Idol Research Club. The joy of being crowned made Coco's mouth curl up involuntarily, and then she could no longer suppress her smile, and she sat there laughing foolishly.

[Love you ~Long live~]

Maki was still talking to Eri and Ouyang Shun at the door, but her own voice came from inside the club room. Maki looked inside curiously and saw Rin playing a CD.

"This is, this is..."

Coco was lying on the table, her eyes wide open, staring at the CD player in front of her.

"This is a version of "Love You Long Live" that I've never heard before! Is this an unreleased version? Or is it a new recording by Maki-san? Ah~ I'm dead~"

"Wait! Rin, where did you get this? This is from when I was writing the song and playing it on the piano."

Hearing her own voice from two years ago coming out of the CD player made Maki feel a little ashamed. If they were all acquaintances, it would be fine, but now there were three strangers.

"Maki-san, can I listen to you play the piano just once? Please, this is really important to me!"

Coco grabbed Maki's hand again.

"You're too close. Stay away from me. Also, don't speak Chinese when you get excited. I don't understand you."

Maki wanted to ask Eri for help, but Eri just gave Maki an encouraging look.

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27

Chapter 27 Where the dream begins.

[Long live loving you~ I'm so honored to be here~ Our present is just beginning~]

In the music classroom of Otonokizaka, Maki once again sat in front of the piano, which was the place where her dream began, and played a song that was extremely important to her and μ's. Just playing this song made Maki's mouth curl up involuntarily, and the beauty and happiness of the past overflowed on the paper.

Thank you, Honoka, for letting me see more beautiful and happy things. It’s great to be a school idol.

Honoka: I... don't think I'm dead yet...

"It's so beautiful, it's the sound of nature, the sound of nature~"

"So."

Maki felt a little helpless but more of an emotion that she couldn't hold back, "You don't have to lie by the window and watch like Honoka did the first time."

"Only in this way can I experience the emotion that Honoka felt when she first met Maki. I have already experienced how excited Honoka must have been when she was confused and wanted to form a school idol group to save her school, and she met a beautiful girl who played heavenly music!"

"Well, it's not that good."

Maki felt quite shy about Coco's compliments, and habitually tangled her fingers in her hair and started playing with it.

In the music classroom, Ouyang Shunyang, Nanae and the others were listening to Maki's performance, but Coco ran to the corridor and pressed her whole face against the glass with great force, even deforming her face. However, even her deformed face could not block the light shining in Coco's eyes.

In order to pursue that initial feeling and explore the moment when the light started, Coco, like Honoka a few years ago, took a voyeuristic perspective to watch it, but after listening, Honoka clapped her hands, while Coco spit out her soul like a rice cake from her mouth with a look of bliss.

While the feeling of being touched has not yet faded, Coco wants to experience the next project immediately.

Yes, now the purpose of the group has changed from visiting Otonogizaka to Coco experiencing the daily life of the μ's members back then. After listening to Maki's piano solo, the next thing Coco wants to experience is Rin's sports.

"So, being a school idol is... so tiring... My lungs... feel like they're on fire... Bro... help me."

"You only ran one and a half laps."

"No."

Coco collapsed on the ground, her face showing a look of fatigue. Coco proudly pointed to her cheek and said, "Don't underestimate your sister's physical strength!"

"With your physical strength, is there anything worth looking down upon?"

As a student who can be the top student in the grade from a place with the highest academic performance in the mainland, Coco naturally has to devote most of his time to study. The time he spends on sports is much less. The most exercise he does in a day is when he walks into and out of the subway station when going to and from school. Apart from his hands-on learning skills, his physical fitness and athletic ability can be said to be a small fry among small fry, a real West Lake vinegar fish.

With Coco's exercise volume and physical strength, if she were in the Tianshi Mansion, she wouldn't even be able to compare with the Chinese pastoral dog that guards the door. You know, that dog can follow the disciples of the Tianshi Mansion for morning exercises.

"You can't do that with your level of stamina, Coco-chan."

Rin looked like nothing had happened. Unlike Coco who was fished out of the water, there wasn't even a trace of sweat on Rin's forehead.

"If you want to be an idol, singing and dancing at the same time is the most basic of skills. You can't be an idol with your physical strength."

"I'll work hard! I'll work out! I'll climb ten flights of stairs ten times every day!"

Cocoa is burning.

"Ten flights of stairs."

Lin said, "That's definitely not enough. It should be at least twenty times."

"Eh!?"

The cocoa burned out.

According to the original plan, lunch was to be eaten outside the school. After all, it was the weekend and the convenience store in Otonogizaka was not open, and Ouyang Jun and his group did not prepare any lunch boxes. Originally, if Ouyang Jun needed a lunch box, Yang No or 2B would prepare it for him, but because of the battles last night and early this morning, they could not even come to visit Otonogizaka as originally planned. Ouyang Jun thought that they should still be sleeping soundly at home.

As Coco struggled to recover from her corpse-like state of exhaustion, Hanayo magically pulled out a lunch box.

"When Eri told us the day before yesterday that some of our fans were coming to visit, I started preparing. I was worried that if we were too happy visiting, we might forget to eat lunch, so I specially prepared a bento. If you don't mind, please have some."

Hanayo excitedly opened the lunch box. "Even though it's just some simple rice balls, please don't be disgusted."

"No, no, the president and we are not very picky about food."

Hina took the lunch box from Hanayo. Although she hadn't seen what was inside, the unexpected weight she felt when she took it still made Hina's smile freeze.

There was only a rice ball in this not-so-small lunch box, but it did not make people feel shabby at all, because this rice ball was a bit too urbanized. Simply put, it was a bit too big for Hina's cognition. In Hina's cognition, rice balls should be a kind of snack food that is smaller than a fist, but what is this rice ball in the box that is smaller than her head?

"This is rice cooked with this year's new rice from Hokkaido. Adding the sour plums with just the right acidity from my hometown and fresh saury floss, the taste is absolutely top-notch."

Huayang ignored Ouyang Falcon and Yang Cai's surprised looks and started eating with big mouthfuls. "Mm, the viscosity and sweetness of this rice makes it super delicious with just a little bit of salt. Mm, I won't get tired of it no matter how much I eat. Eating rice balls like this doesn't require any side dishes at all."

"Hanayo still likes eating big rice balls like this."

Eri smiled.

"Of course. Rice balls are better if they're bigger so more rice can be kneaded together. A small amount of rice won't bring out the flavor of rice at all."

Hua Yang is usually as timid as a little rabbit, but when he eats rice, he turns from a little rabbit into Mr. Yu, the boss of the first mooncake factory in Guanghan Palace, and imposes heavenly punishment on anyone who doesn't like to eat rice.

"Don't be surprised, Hanayo is a big rice lover. When it comes to rice and eating rice, she becomes a completely different person."

Eri, Maki, and Rin skillfully used chopsticks to break up the huge rice ball into smaller pieces, or rather, some kind of sushi filled with fillings.

"This rice ball may not look like much, but it's very delicious. It's delicious just by seasoning it with salt."

"That being said, this is too big..."

Looking at the heavy rice ball, Hina was still a little scared.

"This...this is Hanayo's special μ's oversized rice ball. It's the food that has supported the μ's members throughout their journey!"

Unlike Hina, Coco picked up the huge rice ball in front of her as if it were a sacred object.

"Is it because of eating like this three times a day that everyone at μ's has such strong stamina!?"

"Not at all."

Maki said unhappily.

"Although it tastes good, eating too much carbohydrates is not good, especially for girls like Coco who don't exercise much."

Rin said.

"This isn't just too much. Eating one is already a serious overdose. It's not like Hanayo has a super strong digestive system for rice."

Maki complained as she put a mouthful of rice mixed with stuffing into her mouth, and her slightly frowned brows immediately relaxed. Hanayo's rice balls were really delicious.

"Senior Ouyang, Yang Cai, Ke Ke, don't wait any longer, let's start eating quickly. The rice must be eaten while it's hot. If it gets cold, the flavor will be lost."

While everyone was talking, Hanayo had already eaten half of the rice ball.

Ouyang Xuan silently picked up the rice ball and started to eat it. Although he didn't say anything, from his slightly twitching eyebrows, Yang Cai guessed that the rice ball was really delicious. As for Coco, she had already started to eat it in big mouthfuls. For Coco, who had the added seasoning of faith, even if the rice ball in her hand was tasteless, it would still taste as delicious as dragon liver and phoenix marrow. This was a rice ball that she had made with her own hands, so it had to be delicious even if it didn't taste good.

Muttering to herself, "I'm starting to eat," Hina ate the rice ball in small bites. Eri and Maki were not lying. The rice ball made by Hanayo was definitely a top-notch rice ball. Whether it was the air squeezed into it, the precise seasoning of the rice, or the perfectly proportioned fillings, all of them showed that this was a rice ball that would get 95 points even from the Don royal family.

Under the influence of delicious food, people's appetite will always be bigger. This made Yangcai, who had a small appetite, quietly eat one-third of the rice ball. The sweetness of the rice, the sourness of the plums, and the freshness of the fish all tempted Yangcai to stuff more and more into her mouth, until she felt something bad in her stomach, and then she realized that she was too full.

"President..."

Feeling her bloated stomach and looking at the half-eaten rice ball still in her hand, Hina asked her lover for help in distress.

"give it to me."

Ouyang Xuan took the rice ball from Yang Cai's hand. He had already finished his own. Unless the meal was cooked by his lovers, Ouyang Xuan would usually stick to the principle of not talking while eating or sleeping and finishing quickly.

"Hanayo knows how much we eat, so she prepared one rice ball for the three of us."

Eri explained: "Hanayo always misjudges the appetite of strangers, so she prepares rice balls for you according to her own appetite."

"I think most people can't finish that much rice."

Hina felt like the rice was about to come out of her throat.

"Hanayo is a school idol and she exercises a lot, so it's okay to eat more. You won't get fat."

Hanayo finished her rice ball and scraped the rice grains from the corners of her mouth into her mouth to eat. "That time, yes, that time I gained a little weight because of Honoka."

"As a result, you went running to lose weight, and then you went to have a snack."

Rin complained.

"That's because that shop sells fresh rice from Akita. No one can resist fresh rice from Akita! They also got new rice from Shikoku yesterday, and it's super delicious too. It's especially delicious when cooked with beef rice. It's even more fragrant than Akita rice, and paired with the rich side dishes, I ate three bowls in one go last night."

"Hanayo."

Rin's voice trembled and the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Hanayo."

Eri said she wished for the best.

"Hanayo."

Maki's eyes were cold and her tone was stern.

"Come to the student union room later and weigh yourself."

While Hanayo was defending herself, Coco was eating rice balls with a determined look as if she was going to join the party. Although her stomach was about to burst like Hina's, it did not affect Coco's determination to finish the rice balls she pushed and pinched.

"Brother, please walk slower. I'm so full. My stomach feels like it's pressing against my stomach when I walk. It's so uncomfortable."

On the stairs of Otonogizaka, Coco squeezed her little face, pulled Ouyang Xuan's clothes with her hands, and asked him to act as a locomotive for her in front.

"That rice ball is obviously not your usual meal. It's okay if you don't finish it."

"Not bad, then, woooo~"

Coco quickly covered her mouth and swallowed the rice grains that were rushing up her throat. Even though the mainland panda girl had a bigger appetite than the island country Sakura girl, Coco still felt that she couldn't hold it anymore after eating the Hanayo rice ball.

Coco was still a little better than Hina, she only ate one-third of it, and then asked Ouyang Sun for a large piece. As a result, Hina, who had overestimated her own capacity, now had a very bloated stomach, and she and Hanayo were digesting the food in the idol research club's office together.

"Slow down bro, the rooftop won't run away, let's take it slow."

"I'm already stopping at one step at a time. I can't slow down any further."

Ouyang Xuan said helplessly, "How about I just carry you up there? There are still two floors to go."

"No... No way. My stomach can't stand any stimulation right now... If it's squeezed any more, I think I'll vomit..."