A Lifetime (Grand Finale) (Continued)

"How was it?" Sakiko asked, turning around in a circle.

"Great!" Riki gave a thumbs up.

"What about mine?!" Nagasaki Sose rushed over, her skirt not even fully pulled up yet.

Chubby legs look good.

"It looks good too," Riki said with a smile.

They went out together, and although they were from different schools, they shared a section of the same road. When they reached the entrance of Ring Rinrin-senpai stopped them.

"You guys are quite the celebrities in Ring now, how about taking a picture and leaving it at the entrance before you go to school? Just like Roselia and RAS," Rinrin-senpai laughed. "Riki can't run away either, let's all take a picture together, I'll take the picture for you!"

Since we left early, we have plenty of time.

"I agree!" Miaomeng quickly replied.

Every little bit of time I can delay getting to school is a good thing. Why do universities have classes at 9 a. m.? It's inhumane!

"Sorry Riki, I stepped on your foot." Toyokawa Sakiko adjusted her position in front of the camera and accidentally stepped on Riki's shoe.

"I'll just stand next to Riki," Nagasaki Sose said with a smile.

"Huh? It's the lamp, isn't it?" Shiina Riki frowned.

"Look Rikki the camera first, otherwise the photo will look terrible," said Hachiman Mairin. Hatsuka and Mana, who were very experienced in taking photos, stood next to her.

Miao Meng was still a little sleepy, so she sat on the chair at the very end, propping her elbows on the table and resting her chin on her hand, pretending to be Sleeping Beauty.

Takamatsu Akari and Wakaba Mutsuki looked at the camera respectfully.

Looking at Su Shi and Rikki, who were arguing back, Kaname Runa suddenly became interested, a smile playing on her lips. She lunged forward and said, "I want to stand next to Riki too!"

Kaname Runa's sudden lunge startled everyone, throwing their formation into disarray. Each face wore a mixture of surprise and amusement.

"Snap!"

Rinrin-senpai took a picture of the scene before her, and chuckled as she looked at the chaotic sight, "This noisy scene is the Riki and the others I know."

"Let's enlarge this photo and place it next to the Ring counter."

"That most conspicuous spot."

The girls in the photo couldn't help but glance at Riki Riki, who looked at their happy and loving smiles.

Toyokawa Sakiko said, "We should go to school after taking the photos."

She turned to look at Riki and smiled, "From now on... please guide me!"

"Please guide me for the rest of my life," Riki replied with a smile, looking at each of them.

What follows isn't just their second year of high school, but their entire lives.

(The End)

*****

The feelings between Aine, Hailing, Miaomeng, and Mana are all there, so the final act is a natural progression. However, if I were to write it out, it would definitely be censored, and it wouldn't be good to release free chapters to re-upload it, otherwise the book would be gone. Finally, thank you to all the readers who have followed this book for half a year.

Author's Closing Remarks

Brothers, let's start rating this book from 1 to 5. I want to know how you readers like the characters so I can better design them in the future.

1. Riki

2. Toyokawa Sakiko

3. Nagasaki Sose

4. Shiina Riki

5. Takamatsu Akari

6.Chihaya Anon

7. Kaname Runa (Who are you?)

8. Mikumura Shioka

9. Wakaba Mutsuki

10. Meow Dream

11. Hachiman Mairin

12. Sumiida Mana

Actually, Riki, as the protagonist of this book, is at a disadvantage because I wrote him as a tool rather than a character. I didn't develop him much. Most of the time, people only see him making sarcastic remarks and using memes. This is because what I really wanted to write about were the girls in the Mygo world. I wanted to develop the beautiful girls first and then have Riki come to the rescue and intervene. I feel a little sorry for him in this regard.

However, it's not entirely about portraying a beautiful girl.

For example, the cat character with the least amount of screen time—it's not that I don't want to write about her, or that I hate cats, it's just that I really don't know how to write a cat character. Don't tell me you don't know what she's thinking; I don't know either! Who knows what a cat would think after it becomes human!

Also, there's relatively little screen time for Mutsuki-chan and Akari in the later episodes, partly because I'm not good at grasping their personalities. I don't quite understand why Takamatsu Akari is so lonely, and I also find it difficult to write about how Wakaba Mutsuki can break a person's defenses with just one sentence.

It's entirely due to my writing skills. I need to read more literary classics to learn from this—but this kind of cultivation takes five or ten years. I don't even know if I'll still be writing books in ten years. But for now, I'll just learn slowly.

Then we'll review the book.

As you can probably see, the structure of this book is a simple one: each time a girl travels through time, she romances another girl. Each girl is given 100,000 words of story, which proved to be fine. However, the mistake was that I abandoned this structure after 800,000 words. I thought it would be better to focus on the BanG Dream! world, but this actually made the readers' expectations unclear.

As for the outline, the emotional development, character portrayal, and plot progression, there are many shortcomings. I will definitely need to address these issues in my next book; the problems are too significant.

As you all know, when I released this book, I said it was a spur-of-the-moment decision. Actually, my mindset at the time was like this. "Write a couple of chapters to give myself some fun! Then someone posts a comment? Okay, I'll write another chapter!" And there are so many people posting comments?

When I published the book, I hadn't even read any other Mygo fanfiction; it was purely a whim.

Mygo is primarily a band, and Mujica's character is less developed. Characters like Donut Lady Sumiida Mana are practically nonexistent. So, I used the simplest method—labeling.

I labeled Mana as serious; I labeled Hatsuka as a good brother and Heavy Woman preference for women; I portrayed Nekomu as greedy... and then I slowly developed their family backgrounds to bring them to life, but I still didn't write it well enough.

Of course, the most important thing for starting a harem is the approval of the girl's parents, so I used a shortcut here: Mana's father is a feudal fanatic who doesn't care about starting a harem; Su Shi's mother is a single mother who doesn't care as long as she loves Su Shi; Rikki's parents are both idiots, and her older sister is a desperate woman who wants to get married and steal her younger sister's boyfriend; as for Miao Meng and Sakiko, needless to say, they have no parents.

In conclusion, I would like to thank all the readers for your support over the past six months. My next book should be in about a month, and this time I will carefully design the outline.

There's a lot of enthusiasm about the pure love IF storylines. I'll see which one I'm most inspired by— Sakiko is definitely one. As for the others, I'll think about them slowly. Please post here any IF storylines or epilogues or side stories you'd like to see (there really isn't a Riki Rokko storyline, so please don't be so enthusiastic, I'm already sweating bullets).

By the way, I'll change the book's status to "completed" first, then everyone can read the extra chapters for free. I hope you all enjoy reading it.

Side Story: Sakiko's Route 01

The students at Haicheng University looked at the well-dressed young homeless men at the school gate with strange eyes—they were dressed so smartly as if they were going to a wedding, young and energetic, with sunny smiles, but their eyes shone as if they had just escaped from a famine in Africa.

"Godfathers, you saved me from the clutches of the heavy tanks this time. I will repay you with my life in my next life." Rokko looked at the emblem of Haicheng University, his eyes gradually brightening, his lips trembling. He almost thought that his life was over.

Riki kicked him in the butt, then trembled as she took a sip of cola, saying with lingering fear, "Singapore, this local capitalist country, is so rude. I almost couldn't get back at customs."

If it weren't for the principal's help, they would have been publicly caned by the Singapore police.

I'm about to participate in my first National Music Competition, so I'll just simply win first prize to thank my old school.

Beijing team?

What kind of market stall is this? I bought it in seconds!

That aloof female captain from Beijing, don't think you're so great just because you have big breasts. Let me show you what Haicheng real deal is!

"I went home to take a shower. I've been on the run for a week and I'm all dirty. I could become an eight-bag elder in the Beggars' Sect by now." Riki was a local and didn't stay in the dormitory with these outsiders.

He has a family.

"Riki, weren't you always opening blind boxes? I got thirty points from the trendy toy club I joined, and I gave them all to you. There are lots of anime figures in the blind boxes, and they're all high-quality items," Rokko said to Riki.

"Why are there so many anime/manga fans?" Riki frowned and waved her hand, saying, "Don't use those silly things!"

I just wanted to smoke Mai-senpai.

That doesn't mean I'm into anime/manga.

When Riki returned home, he was met with complete silence as he opened the door. On the table was a note his mother had left for him when she came back; she was going on a business trip for a while longer.

"Everyone's busy, it's good to be busy..."

Riki sighed, went into the bathroom and took a refreshing shower, transforming from a beggar's disciple back into a sunny and handsome eighteen-year-old boy, and then... he started gambling!

I'll try my luck with a blind box.

"The drop rate for Mai-senpai's figure is 0.02, first come, first served. Isn't this just forcing people to spend money..." Riki pondered, but looking at the large and white image of Mai-senpai in her Bunny Girl outfit on the screen, she couldn't help but start drawing lots, since she had thirty draws from Rokko anyway.

Ten consecutive draws.

Ten consecutive draws.

Ten consecutive draws.

Send.

"Let's draw a prize and go to the rooftop." Riki stretched and was about to go to the rooftop to get some fresh air when she suddenly realized that she could use her lottery points for another draw.

Actually, I don't care at all whether you give me this draw or not.

I'm the kind of guy who's so rich he only does 10-pulls, but I'm in a good mood today, so I'll give it another try.

Click to draw a single item!

The screen lit up with a golden light.

The golden light represents the rarest figurine, which means... Bunny Girl Mai-senpai!

Riki remained expressionless, but his heart was pounding. The golden light slowly faded, revealing an image, and his expression turned somewhat strange.

I didn't get the Mai-senpai.

"A figure of Toyokawa Sakiko?" Riki looked at the figure in the photo. Toyokawa Sakiko, dressed in the Tsukinomori outfit, had blue hair and was smiling brightly, as if the future was bright.

Riki knew this was a character from the recently released Mygo anime, and he... did indeed know a little about this anime.

Of course, he wasn't a fan of anime or manga.

"If I can't get Mai-senpai, getting Teacher Da Xiang is fine too, they're both beautiful girls..." Riki thought for a moment.

A few days later, the package arrived. Riki unpacked it and placed the lifelike Toyokawa Sakiko figurine on his bedside table. When he went to sleep at night, it felt as if Toyokawa Sakiko was watching him and smiling.

From the angle from which Riki lay down, she could see the light blue underwear beneath the skirt of the Toyokawa Sakiko figure.

He fell asleep.

Then he disappeared from the room.

Toyokawa Sakiko stopped at the Red Lantern at the pedestrian crossing with heavy steps. She kept looking down at her clean student shoes. Water droplets fell heavily on the shoes. She wiped her eyes in a panic, and after a moment of surprise, she looked up and realized that it was raining under the leaden sky. The rain was thick and continuous.

Today, Toyokawa Sakiko was fired from her part-time job at the family restaurant.

Three months after leaving the Toyokawa Family, Crychic disbanded, and her fourth part-time job ended.

All the skills she learned at the Toyokawa Family were useless in the real world.

After leaving the Toyokawa Family, she realized that the pull of reality was very heavy.

Sometimes, Toyokawa Sakiko dreams of her first time at a karaoke bar. Back then, she was terrified of the beverage machine she first saw, but now she can skillfully handle frying chicken nuggets and pork cutlets, filling drinks in cups of all sizes... more skillfully than anyone else.

Besides washing dishes, she has broken far too many dishes.

Because she was careful not to let her hands come into contact with too much dish soap to avoid irritating her fingers, it was only natural that she would be fired.

The green light for the pedestrian crossing across the street turned on.

Toyokawa Sakiko walked along, head down, muttering to herself, "I should go for an interview at the customer service company tomorrow, that way I won't run into anyone else."

Yesterday, she saw Nagasaki Sose having dinner with her classmates at the family restaurant. Toyokawa Sakiko quickly pulled up her mask and hid in the kitchen.

Then, 1000 yen was deducted from my salary because I wasn't at my post.

The rain was getting heavier, and the cold water was penetrating her bones. Toyokawa Sakiko shielded her head with her hands and started jogging home. It wasn't that she didn't want to take shelter from the rain nearby, but her clothes were hanging on the window and would get wet if she didn't go back. She didn't have many decent clothes.

When Toyokawa Sakiko ran back to her old apartment, she was soaked to the bone. Raindrops pattered on the rusty iron stairs as they ran down her skirt. She took out her key to open the door, but then noticed that the door was already ajar.

Is that Dad?

No... if he comes back, the door should be wide open.

"A thief?" Toyokawa Sakiko took a step back in alarm.