Chapter One: Toyokawa Sakiko Descends Beside Me / Chapter Two: Nagasaki Sose Frowns

Rock Girl Descends Beside Me!

Author: Aoluoer

Synopsis:

When Toyokawa Sakiko appeared in Riki's home, he panicked—but not that much.

When Nagasaki Soyo appeared in Riki's home, he began to waver.

When Riki was dragged into the twisted relationships of a beautiful-girl rock band, he panicked a little.

When they all began demanding that Riki take responsibility, he completely lost it.

Volume One

Chapter One: Toyokawa Sakiko Descends Beside Me

Huaguo, Haicheng, 9:45 a.m.

Riki turned on his computer and started watching the latest anime. Although new shows had been coming out nonstop over the past two years, his favorite was still Mygo on his desktop—a veritable golden-age family-ethics drama of the otaku world. Riki wasn't the only one; most of the idiot netizens were die-hard fans of the new series too.

Naturally, his favorite character was Toyokawa Sakiko, the fallen young lady in the number-one villain slot. To Riki, a prickly young lady like her was an addictive poison.

"My heart has already been stolen by Mygo. Perhaps I'll never experience joy or sorrow again in this lifetime." Riki sighed. He was just about to start another anime when he heard something shatter in the living room.

Had someone broken in?

Riki was startled. He picked up the Tōya Lake sword he'd bought at an anime convention beside his bed and quietly opened the door. Then he was completely dumbfounded.

A beautiful blue-haired girl in a short skirt stood helplessly in the living room. A glass lay shattered on the floor, and the moment she turned and saw Riki, she covered her mouth in terror.

"Holy—" Riki exclaimed in shock.

The blue-haired girl froze for a moment. I was inexplicably kidnapped to this place, and before I could even get scared, the kidnapper was the one acting shocked?

"Teacher Da Xiang!?"

Toyokawa Sakiko froze. Though she didn't know what it meant, she could clearly sense the dense malice in the name. Crossing her arms, she retreated to the corner by the door and warily fixed her eyes on Riki. "Who are you? Why did you kidnap me and bring me here? Let me go at once, or I'll call the police! I have something very important to do next!"

"To work as a customer service agent?" Riki asked instinctively.

Toyokawa Sakiko's delicate face immediately flushed bright red.

From embarrassment. From anger too.

Is this person a stalker? Otherwise, how would he know what I'm doing?

Riki realized he'd said the wrong thing and hurriedly said, "Customer Service Xiao Xiang—no, I mean... Sakiko, please sit down first. I'm a little confused too. I'll open the door, and you can leave whenever you want."

Seeing Riki open the door and put some distance between them, Toyokawa Sakiko breathed a sigh of relief. The other person clearly wasn't a kidnapper. Otherwise, he wouldn't have opened the door so readily. Besides, she couldn't shake the feeling that he was even more shocked than she was.

Could this be a misunderstanding?

But why did I suddenly arrive in this strange place?

It doesn't matter. The weak me died in the past. From now on, I won't be confused or lost anymore.

Toyokawa Sakiko opened her determined, beautiful amber eyes.

"You're Toyokawa Sakiko, right?" Riki asked.

"That is correct." Toyokawa Sakiko nodded with dignified composure. "May I ask where this place is?"

"Listen to me, and don't be afraid. This is another world, different from the one you came from."

I see. Another world.

Toyokawa Sakiko nodded. She rose and walked to the window, looking down at the endless stream of traffic and the Chinese-character signs scattered throughout the city.

"...Huh?" Toyokawa Sakiko was dumbfounded.

The weak version of her seemed to have come back to life.

Ten minutes later, Toyokawa Sakiko finally calmed down. "You said this is another world. What proof do you have?"

Riki thought for a moment, carried his laptop into the living room, and opened a classic Kasukage video on Bilibili.

"That's... Akari?" Toyokawa Sakiko recognized the familiar face on the video and relaxed slightly. The title read, "Kasakage—Mygo!!!!! Version."

Mygo?

Toyokawa Sakiko was puzzled. Then she saw a flood of comments rolling across the screen: "Kasakage, begin!", "The little song that broke her defenses," "Who played my epic ballad?", "Sweating bullets, are we, Soyo-chan?", "Wishing you happiness (sob) (sob)"...

What does this mean?

Before long, Toyokawa Sakiko saw Takamatsu Akari, Nagasaki Sose, and Shiina Riki—who had once formed Crychic with her—performing Kasakage alongside two girls she didn't recognize.

The instant the intro began, Toyokawa Sakiko felt a sharp pain in her heart. Seeing five people who were not Crychic perform Kasakage together made her fingers tremble. Then she quickly saw herself standing below the stage.

The Sakiko on the screen left Ring's concert hall in tears. Tears scattered behind her as she staggered away from Ring.

Toyokawa Sakiko gripped her skirt tightly with both hands and watched the video before her expressionlessly.

She remained silent for three minutes. Riki asked worriedly, "Are you all right?"

He cursed himself inwardly. If I'd known, I would've picked a less direct video.

"Thank you for your concern. I'm fine." Toyokawa Sakiko loosened her hands and said to Riki, "I believe you now. From your perspective, Akari and the others and I are characters in an anime, aren't we?"

"That seems to be the case. Though perhaps my world was also created as a work by someone with a twisted sense of humor." Riki said.

Toyokawa Sakiko knew he was trying to comfort her. Her expression softened for a moment. "I'm sorry for suspecting that you were a kidnapper."

"It's fine, it's fine. What I'm curious about is how exactly you came to this world." Riki asked curiously, then posed the most important question: "Can you go back?"

Toyokawa Sakiko recalled what had happened. "I had just left Haneoka and was about to go to work... Um, to work as a customer service agent, when everything flashed before my eyes and I arrived in this living room."

"What time and where?"

"I remember it was 3:45 p.m., at the entrance of Haneoka Middle School." Toyokawa Sakiko answered.

As expected of a young lady. Her memory is excellent, and she's incredibly calm... Riki marveled.

"Thinking about it, the good news is that you might be able to return tomorrow at 3:45 p.m. The time matches, at least. As for the location..." Riki sat down on the sofa, opened Google Maps on his computer, and moved the map to Japan.

Toyokawa Sakiko leaned over to look as well. Their positions were quite close, and Riki could smell a faint osmanthus fragrance on her. He'd once thought that all those claims about beautiful girls smelling nice were lies made up by virgins online.

They really do smell good.

"I remember Haneoka was supposed to be in..."

"Tokyo!" Toyokawa Sakiko quickly answered as Riki enlarged the map around Tokyo.

"Toshima Ward..."

His voice abruptly stopped.

Riki and Toyokawa Sakiko stared silently at the empty "undeveloped land" on the map.

"It seems Haneoka Middle School doesn't exist in our world." Riki said. He thought that made sense. Otherwise, the school would already be packed with people making pilgrimage visits.

"I'm sorry. I suppose we'll have to try again tomorrow." Riki looked at Toyokawa Sakiko cautiously.

Toyokawa Sakiko sighed, then turned to smile at Riki. "Please don't apologize. This has nothing to do with you. I should be thanking you for helping me understand the situation."

She rose. "However, you've already helped me so much. It wouldn't be appropriate for me to stay any longer. I'll go out and find somewhere to wait until tomorrow, then see if I can return."

Riki nodded. With Toyokawa Sakiko's proud personality, she wouldn't readily accept help from others—especially not assistance wrapped in pity.

"May I ask your name?" Toyokawa Sakiko asked, her beautiful face turned toward Riki.

"Lu Yi. Lu is my surname, Yi is my given name. It's written like this..." Riki wrote the characters on a piece of paper for Toyokawa Sakiko to see.

"I see. I understand, Lu Yi. If we meet again, I'll certainly come back to thank you." Toyokawa Sakiko smiled. "In any case, I'll return to Japan first. I'll think about what to do afterward."

How carefree. You'd never guess she was once a young lady who had never even seen a drink machine.

"Yeah. Goodbye." Riki nodded with a smile as well. He watched Toyokawa Sakiko leave and close the door. A faint sense of loss welled up inside him. After all, he might be the only person in the world who had experienced seeing his favorite character in person, let alone sharing a room with her.

This meeting...

Maybe it really is goodbye forever.

God of Heaven, if only I could see her once more.

"Let's just treat it as a dream. Waking up, I'm still deeply moved..." Riki shook his head and cast off his melancholy, then began working on his first-year music major assignments.

Half an hour later, heavy rain poured outside, accompanied by peals of thunder.

Riki heard the doorbell and opened the door, only to see Toyokawa Sakiko standing outside, soaked through and blushing furiously.

God of Heaven, you answered my prayer way too quickly.

"I hope I become rich!"

Chapter Two: Nagasaki Sose Frowns

"What are you talking about?" Toyokawa Sakiko asked strangely.

"Ah, nothing, nothing. Come in quickly." Riki hurriedly stepped aside. Toyokawa Sakiko was soaked through, water dripping straight down from her skirt. Even looking at her made him feel cold. It was spring, but the weather hadn't warmed up yet; she could easily catch a cold.

Toyokawa Sakiko entered the room, lifting her skirt as much as possible to keep it from wetting the floor. "I'm very sorry. I didn't expect the heavy rain to start not long after I left. Besides, you're the only person here who can speak Japanese, so I had no choice but to come back."

"Japanese?" Riki froze.

Although he'd watched countless anime, he couldn't even recognize all the kana and only knew words like "naruto," "sasuke," and "bakayarō." How could he speak Imperial Army language like Liu Bo?

Riki was just about to ask when he saw Toyokawa Sakiko shivering violently with her arms wrapped around herself, drenched from head to toe. He hurriedly said, "Take a shower first. There's hot water in the bathroom."

"Thank you!" Toyokawa Sakiko's lips had already gone pale from the cold. Without another word, she hurried into the bathroom, shut the door, and began rustling around as she undressed. The sounds made Riki's imagination run wild.

Riki, Riki, in front of your favorite character, you're actually this shameless? Bah!

Riki shook his head with a sigh.

He was just about to act like a gentleman and return to his bedroom when Toyokawa Sakiko's quiet voice came from the bathroom. "Um... how do I turn on the hot water?"

Riki hurried to the bathroom door. "Turn the knob toward the red side. Be careful not to turn it too far. The hot water here gets boiling."

"It's so hot... Ah, thank you."

Riki thought everything should be fine now, but then Toyokawa Sakiko asked softly, "May I ask if you have a bath towel?"

"I do. It's in the cabinet beneath the sink." Riki replied. Halfway through, he suddenly remembered that the towel was one he'd ordered online, printed with Toyokawa Sakiko wearing a swimsuit and very little else.

"You..." Toyokawa Sakiko also paused. After a moment, she forced out, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Riki replied instinctively.

Wait. What are we thanking each other for?

The atmosphere suddenly became strange.

Riki stood by the bathroom door, unsure whether he should leave. Ten minutes later, the sound of water gradually stopped. He suddenly remembered that Toyokawa Sakiko had no change of clothes, so he went to the bedroom and took out several plain outfits of his own. A man's wardrobe naturally consisted entirely of identical-looking clothes.

"Here." Riki passed the clothes through the gap in the bathroom door. In a flash, he saw Toyokawa Sakiko's fair, rounded shoulder and hurriedly began reciting the Diamond Sutra.

I am a Confucian gentleman. I have no thoughts about such things. I love Confucianism most of all.

Bah!

What am I even saying?

The bathroom door opened, and Toyokawa Sakiko stepped out in a white shirt. Her legs were long and shapely, her face flushed smooth and rosy from the steam, and she carried the fragrance of body wash.

Boyfriend shirt! Nice!

Riki kept a straight face and turned on the heater. "Sit down and rest for a while. You said I was speaking Japanese—what did you mean?"

Toyokawa Sakiko sat on the sofa. As expected of a former young lady. She spotted the most expensive furniture in my house at a glance.

"When I went outside, I heard everyone speaking Chinese. I planned to use gestures and the spare change on my phone to stay at a hotel for one night, but I didn't expect the money on my phone to be unusable..." Toyokawa Sakiko explained.

"It seems the databases of the two worlds aren't compatible." Riki said. He wasn't even sure whether Toyokawa Sakiko's world had the C language.

"Then why did you say I was speaking Japanese?"