Rock Girl Descends Beside Me!

"Weren't you speaking Japanese the whole time?" Toyokawa Sakiko asked Riki, looking puzzled.

"Ah, I thought you, being a young lady, had received Chinese education, which is why you were conversing with me so fluently," Riki replied, equally confused.

So, neither of them knew the other's native language. How had they been communicating?

Was it Sacred Kara that connected them?

"In any case, there must be some kind of connection between us, otherwise, no one else besides me should be able to understand you," Riki said. "The worst-case scenario is that even if you came to Japan in my world, you wouldn't understand each other."

Toyokawa Sakiko sighed, then looked up at Riki and said, "Could I stay here for the night? I'll leave tomorrow. I'll pay you... uh, I'll work to earn money for you."

"No problem, no problem," Riki waved his hand. I'm already happy enough to have you here in my home.

Toyokawa Sakiko frowned. "Please don't patronize me."

That's right, Teacher Da Xiang is such a proud person.

Riki thought for a moment. "How about we settle for the price of a youth hostel? Forty yuan for one night, about eight hundred yen."

As a former young lady who had just been forced to retire by the Young Lady Club, Toyokawa Sakiko had no idea about the prices of inns in China. She pretended to think seriously for a moment before nodding. "Okay, I'll be in your care tonight."

That way of speaking is a bit odd.

Riki started working on his freshman year assignments. Toyokawa Sakiko leaned over curiously. "Are you a music major?"

"I just picked a major at random. Mainly because my Mom thought if I got into bar dancing, I should choose music," Riki said casually.

"Your mother is very interesting," Toyokawa Sakiko's expression softened, and she couldn't help but smile.

Riki was momentarily stunned by her radiant smile.

I was careless, I didn't dodge.

So this is Teacher Da Xiang's White Moonlight form?

No wonder Empress Akari fell for her. It's understandable, she came out with a full set of gear. It's not unfair to lose.

"Is this a song you wrote?" Toyokawa Sakiko asked curiously.

Perhaps because she was in an unfamiliar place, she no longer needed to maintain her dignity as a young lady. Instead, she found herself chatting happily with Riki.

Before they knew it, they were chatting animatedly. In a daze, Toyokawa Sakiko fell asleep leaning on Riki's shoulder.

Toyokawa Sakiko suddenly opened her eyes. The bright morning sunlight streaming through the window was a bit harsh. The smell of beer in the room made her realize she was in her "home."

Was yesterday... a dream?

Toyokawa Sakiko stared blankly at her fair palm. Suddenly, she smelled the scent of body wash on herself. It was the body wash from another world, from the home of someone named Riki.

A slight smile appeared on her face.

It wasn't a dream, and that was also good.

Toyokawa Sakiko got up, put on her Haneoka school uniform, and headed expressionlessly towards Haneoka Middle School. She didn't greet anyone along the way. Suddenly, she saw a girl with gray hair like a Penguin walking ahead – Takamatsu Akari.

Takamatsu Akari also saw Toyokawa Sakiko and opened her mouth as if to speak, but Toyokawa Sakiko said nothing and walked straight ahead expressionlessly.

Toyokawa Sakiko had completely let go of the past. She would be a completely new person from now on.

"Sakiko-chan..." Takamatsu Akari couldn't help but call out and follow her.

"Classmate Takamatsu, please do not speak to me," Toyokawa Sakiko said calmly, her footsteps not stopping.

Takamatsu Akari's expression darkened.

Toyokawa Sakiko walked on, clutching her school bag. She knew that Takamatsu Akari would later form her own band, and she did not belong there.

She studied diligently at Haneoka Middle School for a whole day. Toyokawa Sakiko needed a scholarship, so she didn't slack off in her studies. However, after school, she still had to go to work. As soon as she stepped out of the school gate, she saw a brown-haired girl in a Tsukinomori school uniform waiting at the entrance. Her eyes lit up when she saw Toyokawa Sakiko.

"Sakiko-chan, I've been waiting for you for a long time. Let's talk properly," Nagasaki Sose said quickly, stepping forward.

Toyokawa Sakiko suppressed her displeasure and continued walking expressionlessly. "I have nothing to say to you."

But Nagasaki Sose was different from Takamatsu Akari; she was very persistent and quickly followed behind.

"Why did you leave Crychic? We can definitely help," Nagasaki Sose said anxiously, even pleadingly.

"What do you know!?" Toyokawa Sakiko couldn't help but retort angrily. Looking at Nagasaki Sose's naive expression, her anger flared up.

"You're just a student, don't make such bold claims!"

Nagasaki Sose stood frozen.

Toyokawa Sakiko's phone rang. She answered it. At this moment, Nagasaki Sose saw a photo of a young boy she had never seen before in Toyokawa Sakiko's opened photo album.

She had never seen that boy in the past three years.

Who was he?

Just then, she heard Toyokawa Sakiko exclaim in surprise, "Riki, you said you were in the park... No, forget about waking up covered in a trash bag. I'm on my way."

His name was Riki? Nagasaki Sose frowned.

Why was Sakiko-chan so nervous about this person?

What was his relationship with Sakiko-chan?

Chapter 3: Boyfriend-kun?

"Are there any landmarks in the park?" Toyokawa Sakiko asked Riki on the other end of the phone.

"Uh, let me see... there are two deer eating my clothes."

"That's Shikano Park, don't move, I'll be right there."

Toyokawa Sakiko hung up the phone and walked quickly. Fortunately, Shikano Park wasn't far. Five minutes later, she saw Riki sitting on a bench, feeding leaves to the deer.

Toyokawa Sakiko couldn't believe her eyes when she saw Riki. He was actually here: "Why are you in Shikano Park?"

"I'm alive, I have to be somewhere, right?" Riki replied.

He was also confused. When he woke up, he found himself in the park. If he excluded the possibility that Teacher Da Xiang had maliciously taken his kidney, then there was only one conclusion: he and Toyokawa Sakiko had somehow traveled to her world.

What was this?

A mutual longing?

He tried calling Toyokawa Sakiko's phone, and it actually went through. So, the code in this world was also C++?

"By the way, who is the beautiful girl behind you?" Riki looked at the brown-haired beautiful girl behind Toyokawa Sakiko. She was wearing a Tsukinomori school uniform, and her chest was so full it stretched the uniform, clearly not the size of a high school student.

With this characteristic, he could roughly guess who it was: Mygo's number one villain, and number one victim, Nagasaki Sose.

Toyokawa Sakiko looked at Nagasaki Sose behind her, her brow furrowed in surprise: "Why did you follow me?"

Nagasaki Sose, with an unfriendly expression, quickly walked up to Riki and said, "You're that man from Sakiko-chan's phone, aren't you? Did you make Sakiko-chan quit? Why would you do something like that!!"

Nagasaki Sose was very emotional.

Riki: "?"

What did he do?

Nagasaki Sose turned to Toyokawa Sakiko and said, "Sakiko-chan, you must have been bewitched by this man. He doesn't look like a good person at all. It's better to stay away from people like him!"

Nagasaki Sose had clearly misunderstood, attributing the reason for Toyokawa Sakiko's departure from the band entirely to Riki.

She also misunderstood that Riki and Toyokawa Sakiko had some kind of special relationship.

Toyokawa Sakiko paused for a moment, but she realized that in a way, her relationship with Riki was indeed very special. They treated the walls between their worlds like curtains for visiting each other. She sighed and said calmly, "My relationship with him has nothing to do with you, Riki. Let's go."

Toyokawa Sakiko took Riki's hand and walked towards the park exit.

Riki looked back and saw Nagasaki Sose standing there, stunned. He almost felt sorry for her.

"You were a bit too harsh," Riki whispered.

"Are you closer to her or to me?" Toyokawa Sakiko looked at Riki.

Riki choked for a moment: "Of course, I'm closer to you."

Toyokawa Sakiko snorted.

You look just like a child.

Riki looked back at Nagasaki Sose. Her expression clearly showed no signs of giving up, and she might have even set her sights on him.

Teacher Nagasaki, I'm sweating buckets. Please let me go.

"Based on our last experience, we should go back soon. Just wait here for a bit," Toyokawa Sakiko said as they walked.

"What about you?" Riki asked.

Toyokawa Sakiko pointed to the office building in front of them, the meaning unspoken.

Customer Service Xiao Xiang was about to come online.

Riki understood.

Toyokawa Sakiko entered the office building. She worried if Riki could adapt well here, but as she was about to start work, she cleared her mind, sat at her desk, put on her headphones, and started working. Working as customer service wasn't easy. There were not only unreasonable customers but also people who called specifically to curse at her, and many people who dialed the wrong number. However, Toyokawa Sakiko had adapted to this job; after all, she had been working for a month.

"Hello, I am Sakiko, customer service representative number 5247. How may I help you?" Toyokawa Sakiko said in a practiced, emotionless tone.

"Uh, Customer Service Xiao Xiang, do you have anything to repel mosquitoes?"

"I'm sorry, you've dialed the wrong number... No, wait, why are you calling?" Toyokawa Sakiko was stunned because the voice on the phone was Riki's.

"I saw the advertisement number on the office building and called. I'm being bitten by mosquitoes down here, and my nose is itchy."

"Of course, there are many mosquitoes in Japan in the spring, and your itchy nose is normal. It's the hay fever season in Japan right now, put on your mask quickly," Toyokawa Sakiko frowned.

China doesn't plant as many cedar trees for greenery as Japan does, so there aren't these kinds of problems. In some prefectures in Japan, the incidence of hay fever reaches fifty percent. It won't stop until it makes you cough to death.

"I don't have any money," Riki said helplessly.

Like Toyokawa Sakiko, he had arrived with nothing.

Toyokawa Sakiko sighed. She glanced at her colleagues working diligently nearby, took mosquito repellent and a mask from her bag, and silently walked to the window. She leaned out and whispered to Riki, who was fighting mosquitoes below, "Hey, over here, above... I'm dropping something down."

Watching the mosquito repellent blow and hit Riki's head, Toyokawa Sakiko worriedly looked down. Seeing Riki squat down, covering his head and rubbing it, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle. She walked back to her desk, put on her headphones, and continued the call: "Remember not to use too much mosquito repellent. I bought it on sale at the supermarket, and I need it to last for a month."

"Understood, understood," Riki said quickly. "The cap is open, but how do I spray it?"

"Just press it down first..."

Toyokawa Sakiko directed Riki, who fumbled with the mosquito repellent spray before hanging up the phone. She leaned back against her chair and sighed.

That guy is surprisingly stupid.

He's a smart student who got into university, so it's probably about the same as Keio University, right?

As Toyokawa Sakiko was thinking this, she heard her young female colleague at the next desk laugh, "Sakiko, were you on the phone with your boyfriend?"

"Ah? No, no, this is..." Toyokawa Sakiko quickly denied it.

"It's okay, I sometimes have my boyfriend call me so I can take a break. Otherwise, who could handle so many annoying calls..." the colleague said irritably.

So there's a way like that?

Toyokawa Sakiko blinked.

She felt like she had stumbled upon a secret to work, and she forgot to deny that she was on the phone with her boyfriend.

"Speaking of which, you seem to be in a good mood today. Usually, you have a poker face and I don't dare talk to you. But today, you've been smiling. Did your boyfriend give you a gift?" the colleague asked curiously.

I smiled a lot today?

Toyokawa Sakiko was taken aback. Her reflection appeared on the computer screen, her soft lips curved into a faint, captivating smile.

It must be a misunderstanding.

Toyokawa Sakiko thought.

Two more hours passed. After work, Toyokawa Sakiko saw Riki and walked over. "Did anything happen while I was working?"

"Nothing much, except I saw a monster invading Tokyo, and I eliminated the evil Zoffy while piloting an EVA. Other than that, no problems," Riki thought for a moment.