Tokyo Heart Thief's Daily Life

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"Ijichi-kun, the rooftop is off-limits. I occasionally go up there to daydream, breaking school rules, but you, a good student, are so good at copying me."

"...Hey, Aliang."

Hong Xia turned around and sat down directly against the railing.

Yamada Ryo followed suit and sat cross-legged beside her, not even afraid of her skirt being exposed.

Hong Xia held her face in her hands, very puzzled:

"Do you remember when we first met Master Luo?"

"Remember." Aliang nodded immediately:

"In January, I was still on vacation. After leaving Diamond Stardust, Sister Taoxiang was silent for a while, but then she revived on social media."

"She sent out a notice about a roadshow, so I asked you to go with her."

Oh, yes, Hongxia just remembered it.

Because Aliang rarely takes the initiative to invite people out, this is the first time she suddenly sent me a text message during the New Year holiday.

Hongxia was quite touched at that time, thinking that this despicable person at least remembered to send her New Year greetings.

Unexpectedly, she completely ignored the New Year and just asked me to go watch a street performance with her.

Hong Xia hugged her legs and swayed her body like a tumbler, thinking:

"Yeah, I remember that too. Momoka-san is going on tour this New Year. It seems like even after leaving the band, she's still working hard on her own. I'm so touched~!"

"That's also when we met Luo Zhenjun... He was helping Taoxiang-nee move equipment and entertaining fans while selling albums, right?"

Street roadshows are also a kind of commercial activity and require advance booking and application.

Although Diamond Stardust was not a very popular band during the Peach Fragrance period... to be frank, they were just rubbish.

But they have been operating for more than two years, and there are still some die-hard fans like Yamada Ryo.

So there were quite a lot of onlookers at that roadshow, and they all came after seeing Taoxiang’s tweet.

Hong Xia, who was mixed in the crowd at the time, was also trying hard to stand on tiptoe, jumping and dancing, so that the triangular hair on her head could stand out.

She also heard a lot of gossip from fans.

Is this young boy Luo Zhen a relative of Momoka's? A younger brother or something?

She can't possibly find a younger boyfriend, right? ...No, it's very possible.

So, could it be that the reason Diamond Stardust disbanded was because Tao Xiang found a boyfriend at a male escort club?!

...and so on, all kinds of outrageous gossip fermented.

But no matter how outrageous the gossip was, Taoxiang's singing and playing were very stable and were not affected at all.

Similarly, Luo Zhen's support is also very qualified.

He entertained the fans present and answered their questions one by one, especially questions about why Momoka quit Diamond Stardust.

There was even a rock star who took a fancy to him, flirted with him, and even paid to take a photo with him.

On this basis, he also continued to promote Taoxiang's personal album, showing great diligence and responsibility.

Then, of course, Luo Zhen also came into contact with Hong Xia and Aliang.

I came face to face with the handsome boy from the pool, who was not wearing glasses at the time.

…and then, and then…

What did Luo Zhen say to himself at that time?

"...Hongxia, what's wrong with you?"

Aliang was a little concerned about Hongxia's pensive attitude, so he asked:

"Constipated? Or leaking? I have sanitary products, 500 yen each."

"——Who wants it? And you're charging me for it, Liang, you really hurt me! At least you can charge me afterward! (一︿一?)"

Miss Hong Xia, who has a very good personality, decisively complained about her friend and was angered by her despicable joke.

She finally sighed and answered frankly:

"I suddenly feel a little confused about when I first met Master Luo."

"I always feel like I've known him for a long time. Not just a casual acquaintance who saw me at a roadshow for a few months, but something much longer-term... And he seems to even know that my sister and I didn't have a good relationship in the past. Isn't that strange?"

"Strange...?"

The empty-headed Ms. Xie Liang tilted her head with an unchanged expression:

"Maybe you mentioned it occasionally but forgot about it. Or maybe Sister PA and Sister Xingge told him. It's not surprising."

Hong Xia: "Oh, it's true...it's true~~~! (?>﹏

Archangel Shimokitazawa scratched his hair in confusion, unable to accept such a simple answer.

This feeling, which she didn't know whether to describe as scratching an itch through a shoe, or as having words stuck in her throat but forgetting what she wanted to say, really made her feel itchy all over.

Yamada Ryo blinked and looked at Hongxia's exaggerated reaction.

Finally, she smiled coolly:

"It's been a while since I've seen Hongxia like this. You've been this anxious before, too, though it didn't last long."

"...Huh? When did that happen? Have I ever been so embarrassing?!"

Miss Hongxia was extremely surprised and a little concerned about how she would appear to outsiders.

Yamada Ryo replied, "You said you can't remember when you met Luo Zhen, but do you remember when our relationship became good?"

Ah... Hongxia nodded:

"Yeah. Although we've been classmates since elementary school, we didn't really become friends until the second year of junior high, right?"

Hongxia was still deeply impressed by this.

At the cultural festival of her second year of junior high school, Yamada Ryo, the cool sister who has always been a maverick, suddenly took the stage and performed a super unpopular heavy metal solo.

Although it is the era of big girl bands now, there are a lot of girls who like bands.

But the music that Yamada Ryo was playing at that time was in another field, and not many young girls would get into heavy metal.

This resulted in Yamada Ryoudan on the stage sweating profusely, while the audience below was as quiet as a funeral hall.

Only Hongxia, who had watched her sister play in a band since she was a child, had some understanding of this and she couldn't help laughing at the time.

Hong Xia narrowed her eyes happily:

"That was the first time I realized that the cool Yamada Ryo would do something like this to shoot himself in the foot~. I thought you were super interesting, so I invited you to form a band with me. That's how we became close, right?"

"Yes," Miss Yamada Ryo nodded in agreement.

Although this incident was also a heartbreak for her, every time she thought about it she felt like she was on late-night TV and being eaten by her own shadow.

But the point now is not this, Yamada Ryo wants to use this to say something else:

"At that time, I already had a band, so I turned you down. But I also found out that your family runs a live house, so we started chatting more."

"But at that time, RiNG had just been built. A lot of customers went there, and even worse, performing bands would prioritize going there. Business at Qunxing became very poor, and Sister Xingge even considered closing it down."

“............Huh?”

Hong Xia shuddered all over and looked terrified for a moment.

She instinctively grasped her side ponytail and stroked it to comfort herself:

"Liang, Liang, you're not trying to scare me, are you? ...Did something like this happen back then? I don't remember it at all..."

Liang nodded very firmly: "Yes."

"It was during that time that you acted even more anxious than Sister Xingge. You tried hard to advertise in school, trying to get your classmates to patronize you, and you even got lectured by the teacher."

"Back then, you even said that it would have been great if you had formed a band earlier. If you had a band that could perform on stage earlier, you could have shared the pressure with Sister Xingge. Such childish arrogance."

Although Yamada Ryo is the same age as Hongxia and he is also a child, he can act like an old man and speak in a nonchalant manner as if it has nothing to do with him.

......But Hongxia is not in the mood to complain about her now.

"I really don't remember... Why? I completely forgot how I felt at that time..."

Hongxia was a little hesitant and a little scared.

Of course she remembered the memories of that period, but it felt so distant.

If Liang hadn't mentioned it specifically, she wouldn't have remembered what her mental state was like at that time, and would have just passed it over calmly.

......But when I think about it, of course I would be anxious?

The LiveHouse opened by my sister, this [Stars], is my favorite place and home.

Hong Xia had secretly made up her mind a long time ago that she must make her debut in "Qunxing" in the future and support her sister to keep the store going... for "a lifetime".

It's just because she is too shy to say it, she has never said it clearly.

That was at that time...about three years ago.

Faced with the situation where she was completely powerless, even her sister was about to accept the status quo and give up.

How did I cope with it and get through it smoothly... ?

"But fortunately, the heat soon passed."

Aliang took out the already cold boxed drink from under her skirt, inserted the straw and drank it:

"[RiNG] is great, but there's also a demand for smaller venues like [Various Stars]. At the time, the PA sister seemed to have done a lot of promotional work, attracting some performing bands and audiences."

"Business is picking up at Various Artists now. With the addition of Momoka-san and Nina's band, the customer response is positive. It's all good news."

"...Yes, it's all good."

Hong Xia sighed softly and leaned her head against the railing behind her.

......She suddenly wanted to eat dessert, preferably made by Luo Zhenjun.

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So, the other side.

On this day when all students are very busy, Miss Akechi Tamako, a star high school student, also goes home from school as usual.

Tamako Akechi attends Kousei High School, a school with a strong artistic atmosphere.

As the daughter of a politician, she could have transferred to a better aristocratic school.

However, because Akechi Tamako liked the school's suit uniforms very much and claimed that "art students are interesting", she was forced to transfer to this high school.

As an art school, Kousei's academic pressure is not great, and the school ends early, which makes it convenient for Akechi Tamako to do her own things.

But today she didn't wander around, but went straight home.

She entered her rented one-bedroom apartment, opened the door and turned on the light.

...and then.

Before entering the bedroom, Akechi Tamako knocked on the door abnormally.

She whispered to the room where no one should be.

"Armageddon."

"...tens of thousands of mantras."

The people in the room said something that no one outside could understand and opened the door.

Upon meeting her, Miss Yuzi softened immediately:

"Xiao Zhenzhen~~~! I miss you so much! (??＞?＜?)"

She threw herself on Luo Zhen and pushed him directly onto the bed!

Before Tamako Akechi returned home, Luo Zhen sneaked directly into her house through another world.