Can Lixi look at me alone?

Yeah, the window is broken... I need to scrape together some money to fix it...

Thanks to Mu's reminder, Xiangzi stopped trying to resist and walked towards the elevator with her.

Sleeping without a window... let alone whether you can even fall asleep. What if you wake up with a cold?

So what is she going to do now?

Looking for Jieyue?

"Yuzuki can't solve it... Hmm? Mutsumi, you've been to my house?"

Mu nodded honestly.

"Blood on the ground, broken windows..."

Xiangzi covered her mouth.

Chu Hua looked at Jie Yue with a complicated expression, who seemed to be crying because of the fact that she was mentally ill.

She waved to Lixi, hoping to let her know that she would also help Jieyue, but Lixi ignored her.

I'm so annoying.

The blonde girl silently left Yuzuki's hospital room.

So, she really dislikes being treated as mentally ill?

Chu Hua gently tugged at her hair.

Even if Yuzuki really has been bothering Xiaoxiang all along and has been badmouthing Xiaoxiang in front of her... is it really reasonable for her to say those things about her?

After calming down and rethinking the issue, Chu Hua covered her ears.

She was crying very loudly.

Only she herself knew how much of Yuzuki's tears were due to what she had said that afternoon.

They dragged their companion, Akari, into the attack on the two of them, and mocked Yuzuki as a mental patient…

It's too much.

I went too far.

Even if Jieyue went to bother Xiaoxiang, it was ultimately an attempt to help Xiaoxiang.

And me? What did I do?

Shiina is right, I didn't do anything. Instead, I'm blaming Yuzuki for doing everything for Sho...

"Chuhua?"

Xiao Xiang's voice...?

Xiangzi, who was being led back by Mu, gave a somewhat awkward smile.

"Xiao Xiang? Is there anything else you need to do?"

Mu nodded and peeked her little head in through the doorway.

With her emotions mostly calmed down, Yuzuki was wiping away her tears with Riki's help.

"Lixi."

Mu waved his hand.

After Lixi left, he pulled Xiangzi inside and closed the ward door behind him.

Jieyue was resting in bed, with Mu on her left and Xiangzi on her right.

It felt like going back to the day she was sick when she was a child.

Everyone has just grown up a lot.

"Xiao Mu...? You're here too."

Mu nodded and obediently nuzzled against the hand that was stroking her head.

"Mumu, tell me. Why did you bring me back..."

Mu Jin's golden eyes lost their luster, looking at Xiangzi with a dim yet dignified expression.

"Xianghe Jieyue should have said, why didn't you tell me about this?"

Her two best friends were both hurt, but neither of them chose to tell her.

Mu gritted his teeth.

why?

Is Chu Hua's relationship with Xiangzi better than hers? Or is Jie Yue's relationship with Li Xi better than hers?

No, that's not it. That's the real reason Mu is angry.

They would rather look for someone else than look for themselves.

If Lixi hadn't told her about this, she probably would never have known.

"This... I don't want to trouble Mutsu. It's already so late, Mutsu should..."

The blue-haired girl gently touched the bandage on Yuzuki's palm.

"Since it's already so late, why doesn't Xiang agree to Jieyue's request?"

Mu almost shouted those words out loud.

She didn't understand why, what exactly was Xiang insisting on?

She's not stupid. How could Jieyue be the kind of person who would break a window instead of using a door?

So there must be no way out... which means Xiang locked the door.

That forced Yuzuki to go in through the window, right?

She considered many possibilities, and she was afraid that the blood on the ground was ominous... After all, she didn't want Yuzuki to lose control of her emotions and do something.

But she didn't want the blood on the ground to be Yuzuki's, since Yuzuki had been very fragile since childhood.

She worried for a long time, even hoping that the dried blood on the ground was her own…

If that's the case, wouldn't the peaceful moon-ending ceremony be free of arguments?

She snapped out of her daze and waited for the answer.

"..."

Xiangzi could not answer the question.

Muta was too willful; the question she asked in front of Yuzuki was practically a death sentence.

She could say with ease that it was because she didn't need Jieyue's help.

But ending things this way would make me unhappy...

Should I lie? But Yuzuki knows everything, and she might not help me cover up the lie...

"Because Xiang has more important things to do."

Jieyue coaxed Xiaomu as she always did.

"Right? Xiang?"

Nodding in agreement with the lie fabricated by Yuki, Xiangzi hoped that this would fool Mu. But she clearly misjudged Mu's feelings.

"That's why Xiang did this because he didn't want to accept Jieyue's help."

Mu turned to look at Jieyue.

"Why did Yuzuki lie to me? Could it be... that I was wrong?"

She looked at Yuzuki's smile with some confusion.

The pink-haired girl reached into Mu Qing's hair.

"Good girl, Xiao Mu."

She dodged the hand.

Volume 1 Crychic! : Chapter 155: The Disobedient Mu

"Good girl, Xiao Mu."

"乖" is the word Mu has heard most often since she was a child.

Her teacher praised her for being well-behaved, her parents praised her for being well-behaved, and Xiang always said the same thing about her.

But... Yuzuki, Yuzuki wouldn't say that.

At least not when I was a child.

"It's okay, Xiaomu... If you don't want to listen, then don't. Just blame it on me~"

Yuzuki secretly told her what to do when she was unhappy.

But she never did.

Because she should obey...

"Mumu, be sure to have lots of fun with the children from the Toyokawa and Chika families!"

She nodded to her parents.

"Little Yuzuki, you must have a good time with the heir of the Toyokawa family, and you must listen to her in everything, understand?"

Yuzuki nodded to her parents as well.

She is a toy.

A toy, carefully packaged, was given to Toyokawa Shoko.

A toy that is completely obedient and would never disobey Xiangzi no matter what...

The purpose of Yuzuki's birth was to exchange for more value, and she herself even accepted this identity.

She was Toyokawa Shoko's toy, and Mutsu was Toyokawa Shoko's doll.

That's why they got to know Xiangzi.

Mutsuki didn't know why she had to try to please that seemingly cheerful child, but Yuzuki did.

To prevent herself from being as obedient as He Mu, which would lead to Xiang Zi quickly getting tired of her, Jie Yue chose to become another kind of toy.

She finds psychological pleasure in contradicting Xiangzi everywhere and then losing to him.

This is all a child could think of.

The good news is that Yuzuki doesn't need to live at Shoko's house and be with her 24/7... because the Toyokawa family looks down on such a rival. Allowing them to interact is merely to give the heir a few more friends in the future.

That's why Jieyue had the opportunity to live in Mu's house.

Looking at Mu, who was also being ordered around by her parents and couldn't refuse them.

Yuzuki revealed her completely unguarded and sincere feelings to her.

"It's okay, cry if you want to cry, laugh if you want to laugh. With me, Xiao Mu doesn't need to be a good girl at all."

Mu looked at the girl lying on the hospital bed in front of him.

“Yuzuki said that I don’t need to… be a good child.”

She began to disobey Jieyue.

The pink-haired girl tugged at her long hair, but Mu immediately grabbed her hand.

Xiangzi was at a loss for what to do; she had never expected Mu to maintain such a tough attitude towards them.

"Mu, don't do that... Can we finish talking first?"

Is there anything else you want to say...?

Yuzuki tilted her head, looking curiously at the little blue octopus. She wondered what other tricks the octopus could pull.

Mu nodded; she had become accustomed to always following Xiangzi's advice.

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