"Ah, I'm just a little happy. Miss Xiangzi, please follow me."
Afterwards, the two of them walked for a while and came to a Chinese restaurant in the north of Ikebukuro, where they chose a seat by the window.
"Miss Xiangzi, can you eat spicy food?" Tian Nalin asked as he picked up the menu.
Xiangzi shook his head. "Tian Na-kun, just order what you want. It's fine with me."
"Ok."
Since Xiangzi said so, Tian Nalin ordered a few signature Sichuan dishes without hesitation. He had been eating bento boxes for a while and his appetite had become dull.
However, in order to take care of Xiangzi, he tried to order dishes that were more suitable for his taste.
"Waiter, I want mapo tofu and Kung Pao chicken, and a serving of shredded pork with fish flavor."
"Okay sir, please wait a moment."
Xiangzi felt a little surprised when he heard Tian Nalin order the dishes in fluent Chinese.
"Tian Na-kun, do you really speak Chinese so well?"
"Not bad, Miss Xiangzi, would you like something to drink? I'll get it for you."
At the same time, Tian Nalin thought: [Teacher Daxiang, you don’t understand this, it’s normal for a time traveler to master multiple languages.]
Hearing his inner voice, Xiangzi was shocked and tried to hide his emotional fluctuations by answering questions.
"Juice will do."
"Ok."
Looking at Tiannalin leaving happily, Xiangzi was lost in thought.
She was not a fool and had long noticed that the other party seemed to know her and several members of Crychic very well, but she did not think too much about it at the time and thought he was just a weird fanatic.
However, the recent abnormal behavior of "foresight" has made Xiangzi overturn this view.
Therefore, she agreed to go to dinner tonight, hoping to take the opportunity to find out more about the other party, but she didn't expect to get results so soon.
Taking out his cell phone, Xiangzi searched the meaning of the word "traveller" and immediately came up with a new guess.
"Could it be that Tenna-kun is someone who traveled from the future and knows all this?"
Although this assumption is very bizarre, it is not surprising that she, Su Shi and others can already hear each other's thoughts.
After sitting in his seat and thinking for a while, Xiangzi saw Tian Nalin coming back with two glasses of orange juice, and he spoke out the words he had prepared.
"Tenna-kun, don't you drink?"
"I don't like drinking. Miss Xiangzi, do you want to..." Tian Nalin looked surprised.
"No, Tenna-kun is one of my few friends. I just want to get to know him better," Xiangzi said with a smile. Since the other party didn't drink, the plan of getting him drunk was canceled.
"Ah?" Tian Nalin was immediately flattered and once again had one of the three major illusions in life.
Ignoring his inner voice, Xiangzi continued, "Just now, when the live show was over, I was in a hurry and accidentally stepped on Tenna-kun. I hope you don't mind."
"It's okay, Miss Xiangzi. The lighting in the exhibition hall is quite dim, so it's normal for everyone to make some small mistakes."
After being hit by Xiangzi's series of moves, Tian Nalin also developed a memory misunderstanding and thought that he had wronged the other party.
"I'm very happy that Tianna-kun thinks so." The smile on Xiangzi's pretty little face became brighter and brighter, even with a kind of enchanting beauty.
3
Chapter 40 Adversity
After a hearty meal, Tian Nalin and Toyokawa Shoko chatted about the quality of the restaurant, and the atmosphere between them became more relaxed.
Xiangzi took the opportunity to announce, "From tomorrow on, I may not come to Tenna-kun's place to give lessons every day like before."
Tian Nalin, who was drinking tea and rinsing his mouth, put down his cup and asked, "Miss Xiangzi, do you have other work to do?"
"That's right, Tenna-kun, what do you think would happen if I formed a band and debuted mainstream?"
Tian Nalin replied without hesitation: "With Miss Xiangzi's accomplishments, I believe she will definitely be a great success."
At the same time, he thought: [Then, Teacher Daxiang, your Galaxy Battleship will be pulled by the gravity of reality and born as destined, setting off a new storm.]
Xiangzi narrowed his amber eyes slightly, becoming more and more certain that his guess was correct, and began to investigate further.
"Why are you so sure, Tenna-kun? After all, a mainstream debut is no easy feat; it requires more than just the artist's personal qualities."
On the surface, Tian Nalin said politely, "I just rely on my intuition and think that Miss Xiangzi can succeed. Please don't be offended."
In reality, he was thinking, "Of course, it's because I've seen your subsequent performances. Although your style is niche, your technical level is indeed high. Coupled with proper promotion and marketing, it shouldn't be difficult to achieve good results in the early stages."
Xiangzi further asked: "Based on your intuition, what do you think is the key to a band's continued success?"
This time Tian Nalin didn't answer so quickly, but pondered for a few seconds before speaking.
"If it were before the internet, I would say it was technical prowess and musical style. But now, I think it's appearance and traffic."
[Teacher Daxiang, isn't it precisely because of this that you chose Meow Dream?]
Not hearing the voice he wanted, Xiangzi changed his tone and asked, "Tian Na-kun seems to have a lot of insights on this. What if my band fails?"
Although he was a little puzzled as to why the always proud Xiangzi would say that, Tian Nalin still said truthfully: "If you fail, you can try again. Life doesn't just have one chance."
Although I didn't know how you, Teacher Daxiang, overcame all the difficulties to reorganize the Galaxy Battleship before I traveled through time, it must have been related to Deng Bao and the others.
"So this is what Tenna-kun thinks." Xiangzi said meaningfully.
After determining the approximate time point of Tian Nalin's travel, Xiangzi was worried that asking too many questions would arouse the former's suspicion, so he changed the subject.
Then the two of them sat in the restaurant for a while and took the train back to Akabane's residence together.
When he walked to the front of the rental house, Xiangzi suddenly caught a glimpse of two adult men in black suits standing at the door of the stairs in his house.
The other person was smoking and chatting with an impatient expression on his face. The lights in the living room upstairs were still on and the windows were wide open as if someone had been there.
'Who are these people?'
In Xiangzi's impression, his father has cut off contact with all his former friends since he was kicked out of the house. How could anyone come to visit him?
Considering the fact that her father was always away from home during the day, she began to have a bad premonition.
Tian Nalin followed her gaze and noticed the situation. After a slight hesitation, he said, "Miss Xiangzi, let's go and take a look together."
【What happened at Teacher Daxiang's home? 】
Hearing that Tian Nalin was also unaware of this, Xiangzi became even more uneasy.
"Okay, thank you Tenna-kun."
She took out her cell phone and turned it to emergency alarm mode, and then walked towards her residence with the other person.
The two people opposite saw someone approaching, looked at each other, then breathed a sigh of relief, put out their cigarettes, threw them on the ground and stomped them out.
Holding the phone tightly, Xiangzi was the first to ask, "Who are you?"
The two people opposite stood up and bowed in unison. The middle-aged man wearing black-framed glasses said, "Hello, I guess you are Miss Toyokawa."
"That's right." Xiangzi waited for the next words with a cold face.
Another younger man in a suit said, "Excuse me, Ms. Toyokawa. We are from Mitsui Bank and we apologize for visiting you so late. Here are our business cards."
Xiangzi took the business card and looked at it for a while, then roughly understood what it was about.
"Are you two here to look for my father?"
"That's right, Miss Toyokawa, you are really smart. Your father has been in a coma, so we are waiting for you here. Please forgive us."
"I understand." Xiangzi responded expressionlessly.
Then she turned her head and said in a slower tone, "Tian Na-kun, you should go back tonight. I can handle these things myself."
"Okay." Tian Nalin also understood that the former didn't want him to know about the family scandal, so he said goodbye and left immediately.
Xiangzi took the two bank workers upstairs to the room to discuss business.
But a minute later, Tian Nalin appeared downstairs of the rental house again, leaning against the wall and listening carefully.
"Ms. Fengchuan, your father's credit card debt with our bank is overdue for over a month..."
Listening to the conversation above, Tian Nalin roughly understood what was going on.
Simply put, Xiangzi's father owed the bank a large sum of money and refused to pay it back, so the bank came to collect the debt.
Two other bank employees also issued a formal warning: if the debt is not repaid after two face-to-face reminders and the debt is overdue for more than three months, it can be considered "malicious overdraft" and suspected of credit card fraud, and there is a high possibility of being imprisoned.
Hearing this, Tian Nalin suddenly felt enlightened.
When he finished watching the MyGO animation, he felt that Xiangzi was in a hurry to establish Ave Mujica and make a mainstream debut to earn gold coins. In addition to the fact that he was defeated by Kasuga Kage, there must be other more important reasons.
Now Tian Nalin finally understood that Xiaoxiang was trying to help his father pay off his debts.
If he hadn't come back specifically to eavesdrop on the incident, he might not have known about it.
But the only puzzlement is why did the bomb planted by Xiangzi's father explode only now? They had obviously left the Fengchuan family a year ago.
Tian Nalin reasoned according to his own ideas and came up with two possibilities.
The first possibility: Xiangzi's father has only recently started to give up, because before that Xiangzi had not completed 9 years of compulsory education (under the age of 16) and was not allowed to work part-time.
Until this year when Xiangzi graduated from junior high school and was able to support himself with a part-time job, Xiangzi's father no longer shouldered the responsibility of raising him and quit his job to pursue his own interests.
Of course, this is just the former better guess. After all, there are no real bad guys in the Bang Bang world.
What might be worse is that Xiangzi's father may have other debts, or even borrowed money from gangsters like loan sharks, and is trying to quench his thirst by repaying each other's debts.
With the interest compounding over such a long period of time, the huge amount of debt accumulated from multiple debts would make even the Toyokawa family frown.
But no matter which possibility it is, it is not good news for Xiangzi, who is still 16 years old.
Chapter 41 Triangle Begins
Not long after, the two bank employees said goodbye and left.
Looking at the room upstairs where the lights were on but there was no movement at all, Tian Nalin shook his head and sighed.
[Alas... poor customer service representative Xiaoxiang, now he has one more pain to swallow.]
He had just had his heart pierced by Kasuga Shadow that afternoon, and had a quarrel with an old friend. Now he encountered such a bad thing when he returned home. He must be feeling very uncomfortable and crying silently alone.
If he were to stab Xiangzi again at this moment, he would surely leak out more "sweet things" and he would never forget the pain he suffered today for the rest of his life.
But as a fun-loving person, Tian Nalin would not do anything that violates principles, let alone comfort the other party.
Because the kind comfort from others is an insult to Xiangzi.
In fact, with the troubles Xiangzi is facing now, as long as he gives up his worthless self-esteem, he can easily solve it by asking Wakaba Mu or his old friends for help.
However, the self-esteem that Xiangzi tried hard to hold on to was her only remaining pride. If she really accepted the kindness of others, then this person would no longer be Xiangzi Toyokawa.
So Tian Nalin just pretended not to see it.
"I'm talking about self-esteem. It may look ridiculous, but at least it supports me and tries not to let me fall..."
Humming a rap fragment of an unpopular song, Tian Nalin returned to the rental house and copied the song he had just remembered into the music book.
This is one of the assignments assigned by Xiangzi, which can exercise his application of music theory knowledge and connect the music in his mind with real notes.
And after the recent systematic learning, he has been able to recall the songs in his mind while transcribing them, but the speed is very slow.
When I was halfway through my work, the breathing light of the phone on the table flashed. I picked it up and saw that it was a message from Xiangzi.
Xiangzi: Tianna-kun, I have something to do tomorrow and cannot come to teach you. Please study on your own.
After seeing this message, Tian Nalin knew that the other party must have calmed down, so he called Chuhua and invited him to meet.
"As expected, the inertia of history is very strong. Even if there are mistakes, they will correct themselves."
After controlling his phone to reply to the corresponding message, Tian Nalin continued to busy himself with his own affairs.
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On the other side, in a high-end apartment somewhere in Shinjuku.
Sanjiao Chuhua, who had golden shoulder-length hair and a great face, stared blankly at the phone in his palm, with a sense of illusion on his face, immersed in the aftermath of the conversation just now.
She never expected that Toyokawa Shoko would actually call her and ask her out.
The moment Chu Hua heard the other person's voice, all the fatigue in his body seemed to disappear, leaving only the joy of meeting again.
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