Tokyo Wingman King

What is it like to form the "most perfect twins" in the eyes of others with a person who is not related to you by blood?
At parties, the two of them were always put together, talked about, teased, or watched by others.
In kindergarten, they were arranged to sleep on the same bed, host activities and perform together on stage, and work together to demonstrate for other children.
This experience is not good. I feel like I am standing on a booth, showing off the performance of new toys to investors from time to time.
"You are really not sisters?"

"Which one is the older sister and which one is the younger sister?"

"Who runs faster, the elder sister or the younger sister?"

"Xiao Chanyu and Xiao Yaojia, the colors you two filled in your paintings are exactly the same."

The comments of adults sometimes brought her frustration and sometimes gave her confidence. Those ups and downs of emotions still make her feel ashamed when she thinks back on them.

In contrast, every time she observed this non-blood-related twin with curiosity, she always saw excessive silence.

Why can she not care about these things?
Just because he is half a year older than her?

In order not to lose to Xiaolongzao Temple in this respect, Xiaofenghuangyuan followed suit and separated emotions from his expressions, gradually becoming more stable.

After that, the way of tying shoelaces, the technique of braiding hair, the posture of walking, the tone of speech, unknowingly, Xiao Fenghuangyuan and Xiao Longzaosi became more and more coordinated. Even if they didn't deliberately imitate, they could still make the same reactions as Xiao Longzaosi.

When they were on a summer hike in the first grade, they were bitten by mosquitoes in the same place. They both pinched a small cross on the bite with their fingernails to relieve the itch and took out anti-itch cream from their side bags at the same time.
This was the first time they smiled at each other because of the coincidence that they were in the same mood.

As time went by, Xiao Fenghuangyuan found that she and the young lady from Ryuzoji had more and more common points.

Wearing the same dress at a party, ordering the same set meal at a restaurant, and giving each other the same exchange gifts
I also like to read encyclopedias, fantasy novels by Jules Verne, Defoe, and Jonathan Swift, and movies by Ingmar Bergman and Eric Rohmer that I don't quite understand but feel comfortable watching.
I also hate philistine tutors, family events full of preaching, and gatherings where people are displayed like commodities.
We all yearn for a free daily life, like righteous companions, sympathize with those who suffer, and despise those who are rich but unkind.
The two of them share the same voice, the same emotions, the same joys and sorrows, the same hatreds and loves, the same praises and honors.
Countless knowing smiles made the not-so-talkative Xiaolong Zaosi slowly open up and they became close friends with whom they could talk about anything.

From then on, the two of them began to truly accept being seen as the most perfect twins by others.

The title of "The Twin Peaks of the Temple and the Courtyard" was constantly mentioned by others in the family circle.

The first and second place on the list, the relay race on the playground, the duet under the spotlight, the exclusive seat in the library.
Countless memories.
unfortunately
When did you part ways?
Even if a person just smiles or yawns, it can infect the people around him.

Being with a person who is very opinionated every day is a disaster. You will be unconsciously assimilated, influenced, and swallowed up by the stable climate created by that person.

Hououin, who started learning how to manage Ryuzoji's facial expressions when he was less than five years old, finally realized when he was in the sixth grade of elementary school that [Hououin Haruka] had always been trying to become the other half of [Ryuzoji Chanba], just like the virtual image in the mirror.

She didn't want to just imitate Ryuzoji Chanyu and become a fake, nor did she want to be bound by the name "Inner Temple Twins" and become one of the two in everyone's mouth.

They were not the same person.

She prefers to wear baggy trousers rather than skirts.

She prefers black tea pudding to green tea cake.

She prefers supernatural movies to soft science fiction movies.

Compared to the novels that Ryuzoji liked, she liked the experimental reports on psychology and sociology more.

Fenghuangyuan began her own revolution. She explored her true preferences through extensive reading.

There are fewer scenes where the two speak in unison, and more scenes where they each go their own way.

"Haruka, are you tired of this friend game?"

"Well, if you also think this is a game, Chanyu, it would be better if it ends sooner."

So, she became the traitor who broke up the group.

However, even real twins can have serious differences, let alone them?

Take helping others as an example.

Ryuzoji has always advocated doing things herself, but she prefers to spend money to let more professional people do the job.

Ryuzoji is accustomed to high-involvement one-time demonstration practices, and she prefers to do low-involvement long-term knowledge drip irrigation.

I don't know since when, but defeating Ryuzoji Chanba became a natural thing.

Even if she didn't prepare seriously for the exam, she could still beat Ryuzoji Chanyu.

Achieve success in various fields that Ryuzoji is not good at and does not like.

Her micro-novel "Glass Greenhouse" won the only gold medal in the national elementary school group, while Ryuzoji's "Desert Wildfire" became a shortlisted work.

In the national sand table design competition "Ideal City of the Future", she won the first place in all age groups with her integrated micro-community proposal based on Le Corbusier's Radiant City design and centered on the golden ratio and carbon neutrality. However, Ryuzoji's transparent city proposal that advocated removing all walls, banks and physical businesses, and using a large amount of transparent glass in buildings failed to win the award.

Fenghuangyuan knew very well that it was not herself but the collective ideology of this society that helped her win independence.

While he is catering to the gaze and applause of the big Other, Ryuzoji Chanba has been trying to perform piercing treatment on the entire world.

What the world can accept most is always reformative balance optimization rather than destructive revolutionary reconstruction.

But, does defeating Ryuzoji mean that I have escaped from her influence?

Without her, she even fell into a bigger dilemma. She just changed an abstract object to shape herself.

She understood that realizing the life task of "conquering the strong and supporting the weak" as soon as possible would be the best answer for herself and Ryuzoji.

But how easy is it to actually achieve this?
Self-denial and disgust with society as a whole surrounded her, weaving into an impenetrable despair that suffocated her.

Then she encountered an Other that was bigger than this society.
“I just want to live concretely while pursuing the abstract.”

"Phoenix Academy, the nobleness of your life mission is at least in the top three in my opinion."

"If I can help, I will do my best to help you."

"Comrade Phoenix Court, you are already my friend."

Such a high density of existence never made her feel anxious about being constrained. That night in Vienna, his words formed a crutch that helped her completely pull herself out of the quagmire of existential dilemma.

He was the person she could never be, but he told her personally that the him she was talking about was actually herself, and she was the person she would become.

These were clearly some unfounded and irrational conclusions, but they gave her unprecedented power.

Because he is Asama Shisui.

Yes, as early as the first time I saw him and the first time I dreamed of him, the sub-propositions under those life issues - the so-called modern subjectivity construction and existential redemption - had already pressed the enter key.

She no longer tried to break free from her shackles, and once again parasitized on the "Asama Shizumi Thought" through the "True Society", and calmly accepted the fact that Hououin Haruka was not strong enough, not perfect enough, not pure enough, and not [Hououin Haruka].

She also let go of her burdens and approached her goal step by step with her feet on the ground in specific matters that she was not fully sure of.

Managing investment projects at the Phoenix House, improving the cognition of the heroes and idiots at the [True Society] and [Love Consultation Department], providing long-term support to Fuzugawa Risa and her charity work, and assisting Daiki Heping and those low-income teenagers to achieve stable employment, everything will become her experience of [restraining the strong and supporting the weak]. Ironically, the two phantoms in the past once made her breathless, but now when she is covered by this phantom that can cover the sky and the sun, she can accept it with pleasure.

As the Great Teacher said, she will eventually break away from the internal spiral of imitation, awakening, rebellion, alienation, and imitation again.

However, when the shadow of the past that she had deliberately denied comes after her, what expression should she use to face it?
Hououin Haruka thought so as she stood at the door of the [Service Club] belonging to Ryuzoji Chanba.

It's ironic.

When Kujo Alice asked her who could take over the Service Club, there was only one option in her mind.

It doesn’t mean that apart from her, there is only one capable and good person in the entire Toyo Eiwa.

Arima Yoshihiko is too busy and she is not familiar with him; Asama Shizumi is not with Eiwa; Fushigawa Risa... she is also busy.

I heard that [Yorushiya] and [Phantom Troupe] have recently started to operate abstract businesses just like [Bronze Tree Abnormal Human Mutual Aid Department]. For example, helping people draw cards live.

In her mind, there was only the girl who had been inseparable from her for seven years - the Benzaiten of the Hououin family - Hououin Haruka.

In the four years since she broke off her friendship with her, Ryuzoji Chanba has never doubted the virtues and character of Houhouin Haruka.

However, even though she had spent many days with Fenghuangyuan in those strange dreams, she still didn't know why Fenghuangyuan distanced himself from her.

Naturally, she doesn't believe in competitiveness.

Hououin didn't show off to her, nor did he compare himself to a monster like Konoe Chiyo. Hououin Haruka was an extremely peaceful and kind person, and he would look for the cause of most problems on himself.

She also didn't believe that Phoenix Court had made new friends and forgotten the old ones.

Fenghuangyuan is just as unsuitable for making friends as she is. She cannot stand being bullied, cannot tolerate falsehood, cannot tolerate sand and fools, and is used to staring at other people's shortcomings. During her four years of loneliness, Fenghuangyuan was also lonely for four years.

Is it because of what the head of the Fenghuangyuan family said?

Maybe it was because the two families had been hyping up the "Eight Temples Dragon and Phoenix Twins" for a long time, but there had been no substantive cooperation. She had already started to participate in the business of the Phoenix family last semester, unlike herself, who did not intend to care about these things even though she was an adult.

Is it because I restricted her?
Maybe it was because Ryuzoji Chanyu was too old-fashioned and boring, while Hououin Haruka was a talented person with a greater thirst for knowledge and a heart full of stars and seas. She was the kind of person who was interested in learning any knowledge, unlike herself, who was picky about knowledge and was self-satisfied.

Before Hououin Haruka told her the real reason herself, everything was just her meaningless speculation.

But do you really need a reason?

The distance between the two of them is very far, as far as a word that has been silent for eight years and still unspoken.

However, those strange dreams stitched her, Hououin Haruka, Fuzugawa Risa, and him together.

It was precisely because she had experienced fighting, arguing, cheering and struggling together in her dreams that she had the courage to re-observe the girl who had the same hairstyle, the same colored band, and the same skirt as her, and who was like her own sister. She was able to be sure that Ryuzoji Tanaba and Houhouin Haruka were people heading in the same direction in their destiny.

Even though Phoenix Court was not with her these years, it was doing the same thing as her - helping those in need as much as possible.

It's just that they each chose a different path.

Countless fragments of dreams bloomed in my mind.

Although she was the founder of the Human Revolutionary League, the connection between the four people in the dream all depended on Asama Shizumizu.
Hououin Haruka and Asama Shizumi are on the same front. They are used to reshaping other people's thinking frameworks through knowledge output, and have never agreed with the ideal of equality for all. What they pursue is to achieve moderate hegemony without changing the existing order.

Doing so, even if the result is good, will ultimately not allow us to get close to the suffering of the weak and generate true mutual understanding.

Risa Fuzugawa, who was on the same front as her and was in charge of the affairs of the People's Revolutionary League, also became a supporter of Shizumi Asama. Those radical creations in the dream have now become painless and whining.

But the ending of the dream being shattered just shows the immaturity of Ryuzoji Tanba and Fushigawa Risa.

The more she studied Asama Shizumizu, the more she understood why Asama Shizumizu, who always claimed to be an outstanding representative of the proletariat in her dreams, would willingly admit his identity as an illegitimate child in reality and choose to return to the Konoe family.

If there were no traitors like the Fire Thief among the gods, humans would not be able to master the power to kill gods.

She could only hope that while erasing the shortcomings of lust, recklessness, arrogance, etc. in her dreams, Asama Shizue could also retain the pure kindness in her dreams, just as she retained her habit of lying.

Ryuzoji Chanyu, who had been harassed by strange dreams for more than three months, covered her forehead. Although the dreams brought her closer to Phoenix Court, she also developed the habit of not being able to distinguish between dreams and reality.

From now on, whether they would never see each other again or reconcile, if it was the Phoenix Court's opinion, she could accept it.

But isn't this kind of wishful passivity a manifestation of one's own cowardice?

Should I be more proactive?

After reading the message from Fenghuangyuan, Ryuzoji inexplicably thought of the most proactive person in his dream.

The girl sighed.
"Why is it that in my dream, your real girlfriend is me?"

Because it was class time, there were not many people in the cultural club building.

The rain stopped, and fresh, moist air seeped into the corridor through the one-foot-wide window gap.

The two girls in the corridor spotted each other.

Nowadays, no one thinks that Ryuzoji Chanba and Houhouin Haruka are a pair of mirror-born twins.

There was no long silence, and the two nodded to each other at the same time.

Ryuzoji took out the key from his pocket, opened the door of the [Service Club], and said,

"Please come in."

"Ah."

"What do you want to drink? How about green tea?"

"No need. I haven't changed my mind. I could have finished what I was saying just now outside the door."

"Is it."

Ryuzoji opened the drawer and took out a wooden box.

The moment the box was opened, Fenghuangyuan suppressed his surprise and asked,
"what does this mean?"

"You will understand after reading this." (End of this chapter)