Rock Girl Descends Beside Me!

"Okay, it's done. The lyrics are right here. Thankfully, Riki helped me finish them in time for the live..." Takamatsu Akari said with a smile.

"Is that so? Riki helped you... Huh? Is he there with you right now?!"

Shiina Riki slammed the table in surprise, her expression blank.

"Yes, he's right beside me." Takamatsu Akari found Shiina Riki's excessive surprise a little odd and turned the camera towards Riki.

"Yes, children, it is I."

Riki nodded calmly.

I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm not bothering anyone. It's perfectly normal to be a guest at Akari's house, right?

"It really is you," Shiina Riki's face looked a bit complicated. "Why are you at Akari's place?"

"I asked Riki for help, so he came over," Takamatsu Akari explained.

"I see," Shiina Riki breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good."

"What about the lyrics?" Takamatsu Akari asked. "What do you think?"

"What Akari writes is always the best!" Shiina Riki quickly replied.

Takamatsu Akari was always a little unaccustomed to Shiina Riki's enthusiasm and felt unsure of what to do.

"Oh, right, Akari, can I come over to your place next time?" Shiina Riki asked tentatively.

Takamatsu Akari smiled. "Of course! Come with Anon, Sose, and Rakuna-chan."

"...Everyone, huh," Shiina Riki sounded a little disappointed. "I'll try out the new song, it'll be quick. I'll be in touch."

After Takamatsu Akari hung up the video call, she stared blankly at Riki. "What should we do now?"

It's your house, why are you asking me?

"I rarely bring friends home, so I don't know what to do with friends," Takamatsu Akari said apologetically.

It's not Akari's fault. I feel like she and I are both shy kids who aren't good at entertaining others.

Let's start with something interesting.

"Do you play Genshin Impact... Ah, no, what games do you usually play?" Riki asked.

"I like stacking stones and watching them turn into stars. It makes me happy," Takamatsu Akari said with a faint smile.

Riki nodded.

At first glance, that's a bit hard to understand, but if you replace "stones" with "stars of light," and imagine Ultraman flying out of one star of light after another, just thinking about it makes me feel good!

I didn't expect Lamp and I to get along so well.

"I wish Riki was my classmate," Takamatsu Akari said.

"You go to an all-girls school. There's no way I could get in," Riki replied.

The only men you can see in the Bang Bang world are rare Pals. Of course, this is the real world and not influenced by the worldview.

Riki was about to say something when he suddenly heard a noise from outside, as if Akari's parents had returned.

"Did your parents know I was coming to see you?" Riki asked.

"I forgot to tell them," Takamatsu Akari said blankly.

Remind my future self to notify the parents before going to a girl's house. I'm hanging up now.

Chapter 60: Sose: Girlfriend?

"So, you're the music advisor for Akari's band, Riki-kun? Akari is a bit different from other children, thank you for looking after her."

"You're too kind. Compared to a brat, Akari is quite cute."

Riki looked at Takamatsu's parents sitting on the sofa opposite him, then at Takamatsu Akari sitting beside him, and couldn't understand how things had turned out this way. He should have been under the bed, not in the living room. However, Takamatsu's parents weren't nervous about the unexpected man, but rather welcomed him enthusiastically.

"Akari hasn't had many friends. Thank you for spending time with her," Takamatsu's mother said happily to Riki.

"Actually, I'm like Akari. I'm too shy to speak up in college. My classmates often yell at me, which puts a lot of pressure on me as a shy person. I can only diligently write music. Being with Akari makes me feel much happier."

Riki was also a "Chinese-style" child and knew when to play along.

Endure a little more, classmates at Haicheng University. I'll take the good reputation.

"You're a college student? And you play an instrument? Akari has made a truly remarkable friend. Would you like to stay for dinner tonight?" Takamatsu's mother was very enthusiastic.

"No, actually I just..." Riki tried to refuse and was about to get up.

"I bought abalone to make soup."

"I'm hungry."

Riki cut in and sat back down.

I've been Akari's Seven-day statue all afternoon. Is it okay to eat some of Takamatsu's mom's cooking?

Takamatsu Family Dinner Today, Coming Soon!

The Takamatsu family is indeed one of Mygo's rare healthy families, and healthy children live in healthy families.

But if that's the case, how did Akari become "Little Closed Akari"?

Riki, well-versed in the ways of a guest, volunteered to help with cooking. He just hoped they wouldn't ruin his abalone.

"You're quite skilled at chopping vegetables," Akari's mother exclaimed in surprise.

In Japan, men who can cook are a rarity, aside from professional chefs. Most men, after getting married, leave household chores to their wives and focus on their careers, serving as ATMs. Japanese women don't usually mind this, after all, if an ATM sprouted arms and started cooking, what would be the point of them?

"You must be very good at cooking, right?" Akari's mother praised.

"This humble one is indeed skilled at cooking."

Riki, the first-year Haicheng University culinary prodigy, that's me.

"Riki, you're amazing," Akari chimed in.

Riki nodded, then suddenly frowned, realizing something was off. Why had this turned into a Riki appreciation session?

Could it be that the Takamatsu family had some strange intentions towards him?

Were they going to capture him and keep him for life as a...

Chef?!

"Riki-kun, thank you again for being willing to form a band with Akari. We don't always know what she's thinking, so we're very happy to see her have a good friend. We hope you can be lifelong good friends," Akari's mother said with a smile.

"Of course!"

"Thank you, eat plenty tonight!"

Akari's mother, could you give me that large abalone?

In the end, the large abalone went into Akari's bowl. She wanted to share it with Riki, half and half, but seeing her innocent eyes and the piercing gaze of Akari's parents, Riki could only retreat.

"I've never liked abalone," he stated righteously.

Akari, if you want to share next time, do it secretly later. Otherwise, your mother's eyes look like she'll drag me into your house to be a laborer Pal for life.

Today's victory--Riki's defeat.

He didn't get to eat the large abalone.

At dinner in her high-rise apartment, Nagasaki Sose ate the noodles she had cooked by herself.

Mom: [Sorry Sose, Mom can't come home today either. Make something for yourself to eat, Mom loves you.]

Nagasaki Sose: [Okay Mom, I understand.]

Nagasaki Sose had always been an understanding child, so she wouldn't disturb her mother's work. Therefore, she would cook for herself, not throw tantrums, and her grades were excellent. She was a child everyone liked.

In the empty high-rise apartment, she was the only one with the lights on, eating noodles, the crisp sound of her fork clinking against the ceramic plate occasionally breaking the silence.

Nagasaki Sose remembered what Toyokawa Sakiko had said to her, and lowered her eyes, quietly eating her noodles.

"I'm not wrong," Nagasaki Sose murmured softly.

Then she thought of Riki again. Sakiko had told her not to get close to Riki. Was it simply because they were friends?

Or was it because Sakiko... liked Riki?

Because it was someone she liked, she didn't want her to get too close?

"I don't have any feelings for him either," Nagasaki Sose said to herself at the dining table.

There was no one around to respond. Nagasaki Sose suddenly thought that if Riki were sitting opposite her, he would definitely chatter on about strange things, things that would annoy her.

"I don't want to hear it."

Nagasaki Sose muttered softly, a slight smile playing on her lips. But when she looked up, she found Riki wasn't there.

"You don't want to hear what?"

Nagasaki Sose suddenly heard Riki's voice and froze.

Hallucination?

"I bet you're thinking it's a hallucination right now, but your next sentence is... You pervert!"

Nagasaki Sose suddenly noticed a slight change in her surroundings. She had been eating in her own dining room just a moment ago, but in the next instant, the scenery abruptly changed. This... was Riki's voice.

Speaking of which, Riki's voice seemed to be very close?

Nagasaki Sose turned her head and saw that the distance between her face and Riki's was no more than five centimeters. She could feel his warm breath on her lips, and she herself... was sitting on Riki's lap.

Almost visibly, Nagasaki Sose's face changed from pale to flushed, her ears turning crimson.

"You pervert! Why am I sitting on your lap!"

A slap came flying.

Riki quickly turned his head to avoid it.

Kennedy: Send sensitivity.

Kennedy, stop sending me messages, adjust the sensitivity yourself.

"It's not like I can control this. Who knows why you sat on my lap the moment you arrived? I suspect it's your own problem," Riki the detective said, investigating seriously.

Nagasaki Sose was about to retort when she suddenly remembered that she had indeed been thinking about Riki before. She didn't know how to answer, but she couldn't lose face. She glared fiercely at Riki.

However, Nagasaki Sose found that when she saw Riki, her heart couldn't help but relax.

She looked up and found Riki looking at her.

"What?"

"Why don't you come down before you talk?" Riki said, Your fleshy legs are pressing on me, I'm turning the soft seat into a hard seat.

"I'll come down without you telling me," Nagasaki Sose said irritably. She suddenly noticed Riki looking at his phone with a serious expression.

Riki turned to Nagasaki Sose and said, "Can you play the cello?"

"Cello... I can, why?" Nagasaki Sose asked strangely. Before playing the bass, she had practiced the cello, even more than the bass.

"Let's make a video together." Riki shook his phone, showing a message from a classmate: Godfather, help!

He called him Godfather, so the situation must be really serious.

"His cellist girlfriend broke up with him, and he can't find anyone to play. He can't submit it to the teacher as homework either. Since you can play the cello, let's make the video."

Girlfriend?

Nagasaki Sose, who extracted the key information from the many keywords, was stunned and looked at Riki vigilantly.

This guy really had ulterior motives toward her.

Chapter 61 Wedding