What?! My anime figurines have all come true!

"I knew you knew them! Even if you can only sing the basics, or any other song, it's fine. Your friend will definitely get a good share of the payment afterwards!"

Seeing Chen Xiao hesitate for a moment, Ding Jiafang was overjoyed and even mentioned that she would be paid afterwards.

"Huh? They even give you money?"

Chen Xiao was taken aback upon hearing this.

"Of course. Although I paid to get this spot, it's officially the organizer who paid for the stage, so those invited by the organizer naturally receive corresponding compensation."

"Let me think about it..."

Upon hearing Ding Jiafang's explanation, Chen Xiao fell into deep thought.

He wasn't bothered by the issue of compensation.

Instead, he thought about the exposure of the female figurines that he had been worried about all this time. Even though the existence of Black Rock Shooter was known to the whole world, he still held the same fear that the girls would be harmed as before his superpowers were awakened.

For example, yesterday when Ram went out to buy groceries, he was so scared that he refused to meet Aoyama Nanami as if he had a stress reaction. He even convinced himself by saying that Nanami might ruin his interpersonal relationships.

But if Chen Xiaozhen really didn't want people to know that he was keeping a mistress, he could have some of the powerful figures in his figurines, such as a certain dragon maid, put some kind of cognitive barrier magic on the girls who went out.

Deleting memories is also a piece of cake.

But as his superpowers continue to grow stronger in the future, one day the other female figurines in his house will also be exposed to the world like Black Rock Shooter. At that time, will he still lock the girls in the display case in the name of protecting them?

Although the goal is to make money, releasing Yamada Elf and Shiina Mashiro to write novels/draw pictures is also a way of actively showing the world their existence, just not in such a direct way.

'Perhaps my will isn't as strong as I thought; I've changed my mind again so soon.'

Chen Xiao sighed deeply.

In other novels, this would definitely drag on for ten or twenty chapters, and the protagonist would even have to have a big argument with the heroines, causing conflict, and then go through some minor plot developments before they can reconcile and allow the heroines to appear in front of the world.

However, the female figurines in Chen Xiao's family, whether they were "closed off from the world" or "opened up to the world", wholeheartedly obeyed his ideas, and there was no problem of arguing at all, which caused Chen Xiao to get stuck on his own ideas.

You have to make peace with yourself.

'Once there's one, there's bound to be two, and once there's two, there's bound to be three.'

Finally, Chen Xiao convinced himself.

Why not just open up a small loophole?

But to be honest, didn't he also have the idea of ​​letting the things he loved in his previous life shine in this world?

Everyone has a tendency to show off.

"I'll ask Jiafang when I get home."

"Great!"

Ding Jiafang immediately jumped up excitedly.

drop by drop...

Just then, Chen Xiao's phone rang; it was a call from a friend who worked at the computer store.

"Xiao, I've prepared everything you wanted. Come and get it... Wait, let me ask you something. You didn't just come on your electric scooter, did you?"

The friend on the other end of the phone seemed to remember something halfway through their sentence and asked in a suspicious tone.

"Yup."

Chen Xiao replied.

"With all this stuff on your little electric scooter, let alone whether it can even fit, those two little tires will probably burst before you get very far!"

"Then I'll call a Didi..."

"Why don't you just have us deliver it directly to your house, and we can even install all the equipment for you while we're at it!"

A friend who works at a computer store couldn't help but complain.

However, he didn't blame Chen Xiao for being so muddle-headed.

In his view, the issue of 'not going to school' put too much psychological pressure on Chen Xiao.

"Xiao, what did you buy?"

Ding Jiafang, who was standing to the side, asked curiously.

"I bought some computer equipment for home use... but my little electric scooter probably can't fit it all."

Chen Xiao held his phone a little further away and answered Ding Jiafang.

"Ha! This is no big deal. I have a car that can help you take the equipment home."

Ding Jiafang patted his chest and said.

But when Chen Xiao and Ding Jiafang arrived at the computer store and saw the mountain of equipment, his eye twitched involuntarily.

"Wow, you bought so much equipment... are you planning to open a private internet cafe at home?"

"I forgot to calculate the volume of the packaging."

Chen Xiao sighed and rubbed his forehead, admitting that he hadn't been feeling well lately.

"This isn't about whether I forget or not! Even just taking the things inside is a lot!"

Ding Jiafang sighed.

Fortunately, his car has enough space; including the trunk and the back seats, it can just fit all these things.

"Then I'll ride your little electric scooter over there, Xiao. Considering our past friendship, I'll install the equipment for you for free this time."

A friend from the computer store stepped forward and offered the suggestion.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

Chen Xiao smiled and put his arm around their shoulders.

Before he learned that this world was an urban supernatural realm, in addition to training himself according to the template of an urban protagonist, he also interacted with all kinds of people like an urban protagonist, and built up a lot of connections.

The benefits are now clear to everyone, but the downside is that once he made his "no school" declaration, it was like some old woman declaring war on all nations, and everyone came to advise him not to do anything foolish.

While Ding Jiafang was driving, he thought about how Chen Xiao was still riding that little electric scooter, and couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Xiao, I remember you got your driver's license a long time ago, why haven't you bought a car yet? Riding a little electric scooter isn't always convenient."

Just like it is now.

"Still considering it."

Chen Xiao can't exactly say that he never thought about it before, but now he just doesn't have enough money.

Chapter Twenty-Four: XX's eyes sharpened.

"You wicked class enemy!"

Although the computer store friend and Ding Jiafang knew where Chen Xiao lived and had visited before, they still cursed in unison when they saw the villa in front of them.

"You guys..."

Chen Xiao twitched the corner of his mouth.

He then stepped forward, scanned his fingerprint to open the door, and turned around to have his friend from the computer store and Ding Jiafang carry the items inside.

Fortunately, on the way there, Chen Xiao sent a message to Shiina Mahiru at home, asking her to return to the display case for the time being. So what the two of them saw was a clean and tidy but empty villa living room.

"Xiao, aren't you afraid living here all alone?"

Ding Jiafang subconsciously rubbed her shoulders.

"What if you ran into that superpowered criminal from a few days ago and something happened to you while you were home alone? Luckily, there's Black Rock Shooter... Hey, you've seen Black Rock Shooter's videos, right? He's so cool!"

When talking about Black Rock Shooter, Ding Jiafang was as excited as a fan meeting their idol in person. If he weren't holding something in his hand, he probably would have demonstrated how to make a Rasengan on the spot. (@A Certain Golden-Haired Milk Dragon)

"Oh! I know! I watched it too, Black Rock is really cool! So cool and cute!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiao subconsciously glanced at the bedroom. With his classmate speaking so loudly, Hei Yan could definitely hear him.

However, I didn't just watch the video; I was actually there in person and had close contact with Black Rock!

"cute?"

Ding Jiafang seemed somewhat puzzled by Chen Xiao's description.

How could a cold, taciturn, dark-themed superpowered girl be associated with 'cute'?

But Ding Jiafang thought that Chen Xiao clearly had a strong anime/manga vibe and liked to use internet memes, but he didn't watch any popular anime at all.

Perhaps his aesthetic sense is different from that of the general public.

"By the way, the class monitor was there too, did you know? It's a pity she didn't take a video with her phone."

Was Lin Qi there at the time?

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiao raised an eyebrow. At that moment, half of his attention was on the members of the countermeasures team and the armed police brigade around him, and the other half was thinking about how to get Hei Yan away. He did not notice the onlookers on the surrounding high-rise buildings.

"That's a real shame..."

"Xiao, we'll move it to this room to install it, right?"

The friend from the computer store went up to the second floor and saw a piece of paper with the words "[Computer Room]" on the door. He turned to Chen Xiao behind him and asked him about it.

"Yes, this is the room."

Chen Xiao glanced at it and nodded in response.

"The handwriting is quite nice."

Ding Jiafang, who was the last to enter, glanced at the three handwritten words on the paper and said with some surprise.

Although Chen Xiao's handwriting wasn't so bad as to be completely illegible, the elegant style of his handwriting didn't seem like it was written by him.

There's no need to have someone else write this on a piece of paper, is there?

"Jiafang, what are you standing there for? Hurry up and move your things over here."

At that moment, Chen Xiao, who was already unpacking in the room, called out to him, interrupting Ding Jiafang's thoughts.

"I heard you, I'm coming right now."

Ding Jiafang shook her head, feeling there was no need to think about it too much, put the equipment in her hand in the room, and then followed Chen Xiao downstairs to move other equipment.

Meanwhile, the friend who owned the computer store was in charge of installing equipment in the computer room.

'It's been cleaned so thoroughly...'

As he moved up and down, Ding Jiafang began to observe the situation inside the villa. He hadn't looked around much when he visited before, but he knew that Chen Xiao usually lived at school and only came back on weekends and holidays.

Only on that day would he do a simple cleaning of the villa.

However, the villa in front of us was spotless, both inside and out...

No, it's actually a bit too clean.

It's like someone is cleaning every day.

Based on Ding Jiafang's understanding of Chen Xiao, even though he has graduated now, it's impossible for him to change his habits overnight.

Not to mention, cleaning such a villa every day would be exhausting!

"Could the speculation in the group be true?!"

Ding Jiafang's eyes widened suddenly, and her gaze sharpened instantly!

That happened after Lin Qi and Chen Xiao talked in the coffee shop. Since even his childhood sweetheart couldn't persuade him to turn back, there were many possibilities that people could think of. One of them was that Chen Xiao met a 'girlfriend who fell from the sky'!

If you had a girlfriend living with you and helping to clean the villa, then it's certainly possible to get it this clean.

But it's also possible that Chen Xiao paid someone to help clean it up.

and so……

"The shoe cabinet in the entryway!"

While moving things, Ding Jiafang pretended to be tired and secretly glanced at the shoe cabinet next to the entrance.

There were no women's shoes.

"Phew...no."

Ding Jiafang breathed a slight sigh of relief.

No, we can't let our guard down yet. Maybe they just went out!

"And then there's the toilet!"