I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 19: Lilizi: I am in love

Also in the morning, during break in the classroom, sitting in the back row by the window.

Tokugawa Ririko stretched out her hands, lay on the table, and was lazily baked by the sun.

What's the point of swinging the sword yourself?

Lilizi thought.

——Could it be that the millions of swords she swung day and night were just to allow Uesugi Tetsu to use his talent to humiliate her more than ten years later?
Next to Lilizi, her two best friends were crunching shrimp chips and whispering to each other.

The girl in the inner corner opened her mouth in shock. "You look so listless. Could it be that the rumors from yesterday were true?"

The girl in Yangjiao pretended to cover her face and was about to cry: "Things like the love affair between Xiao Tokugawa and me will happen at least ten years after I die!"

"The rumors are true, but the romance is fake."

The whispers of the two best friends sounded like loud shouts to Lilizi, and she could hear them clearly.

Shizuma Manatsu, also known as the girl from Yokaku, covered her mouth and exclaimed, "The information is actually genuine!"

She hugged Lilizi and winked, "Is his name Uesugi Tetsu? I heard he's a dark, 2D otaku like Runa! How do you know him, Tokugawa? How did you get together with him?"

"If you want to scold me, just say it! There's no need to use other people as metaphors!"

Kitano Runa, wearing black-framed glasses, clenched her fists and placed them on her chest, pretending to be angry: "What the hell did our 2D world do to you!"

Lilizi pushed her best friend's face away, grabbed the shrimp chips, and poured them all into her mouth, chewing them.

"My shrimp chips!" Shizuma Manatsu exclaimed, but when she saw the bag was empty, her attitude immediately changed: "Eat! Eat everything! Just consider it my love fund!"

Lilizi's cheeks puffed out slightly as she chewed and said, "First of all, Uesugi-kun is not thin; secondly, I'm not interested in love."

Shizuma Manatsu stared at her for a moment, then smiled and said, "Since you're not interested, could you recommend his line to me? It just so happens that the dark and gothic style is more to my taste lately."

Kitano Runa, who had been silent the whole time, pinched her nose and waved her hand: "Take away the smell, it's really disgusting."

Lilizi shook her head: "No push. He doesn't have time for that. He still has to practice swordplay with me."

"Yohoo, you're still trying to hide it." Shizuma Manatsu smiled ambiguously: "Practicing swordsmanship? From where do you start?"

Seeing Lilizi's silence, the two of them looked at each other and spoke at the same time:
"——Girl, you're in love!"

"I do not have."

"You are in love!"

Lilizi slammed the table and stood up, loudly retorting: "I didn't!"

After saying this, Lilizi realized that everyone in the class was looking at her.

Because she is usually seen as a "silent and cold goddess" by outsiders, the volume she spoke today is unprecedented.

"Look, I'm in a hurry."

Shizuma Manatsu pointed at her and said, "Normally, you wouldn't bother to refute such a topic."

Lilizi was surprised to find that this was indeed the case.

She scratched her head, sat down, and asked her friends in confusion, "Does it count as love if I want to humiliate Uesugi-kun by stepping on him?"

The two best friends looked at each other in astonishment. They exchanged glances for a while, and finally Kitano Runa said seriously:
"Of course it counts!"

She has been deeply involved in the field of the second dimension for a long time. She took her mobile phone and opened the precious collections hidden in layers.

Soon, the door to the new world opened to Lilizi.

"What, what is this?!"

Lilizi's face turned red instantly. She looked around quickly and breathed a sigh of relief when she found that no classmates were paying attention to them.

He took the phone and flipped through the black and white comics inside.

Before she knew it, Lilizi had been deeply absorbed in the ups and downs of the story, the exquisite paintings, and the passionate fighting scenes.

She didn't want to read on, but her curiosity drove her to move her fingers instinctively.

One book after another, one article after another.

It was not until the screen showed "There is no next page" that Ririk looked up and saw her two best friends trying to hold back their laughter at the table.

Lilizi suddenly said: "I understand."

——Love is the desire to control other people’s emotions.

——I want to see those who were once stronger than you obey your orders, and make geniuses with talents far superior to yours bow down to you.

This is love!

Although she was only eighteen years old, Lilizi, who had practiced sword for more than fifteen years, understood everything.

This look of enlightenment made the two best friends exclaim "Ah" in confusion.

—No, sister, can you understand the truth of life by reading a book? Now, Uesugi Tetsu's sword swinging for half an hour is equivalent to her sword swinging for a month, which has turned into a great thing.

——The stronger and more talented a person is, the more meaningful it is to step on him.

She doesn't even bother to take a second look at those small-time passers-by who are complacent because of a little talent, and are ordinary but unwilling to invest everything.

Then I shouldn't have had the despairing thought of "like a mayfly seeing the blue sky" yesterday, but should have applauded and admired Uesugi Tetsu's powerful talent!
Lilizi thought about this and recalled a buzzword she had heard before: "Is this change of mindset what's called 'love brain'?"

It is said on the Internet that girls who are in love are not normal and should go to the hospital for treatment.

Now it seems that may not be the case.

Thus, the girl's sword heart that was almost shattered yesterday was mended again and became more crystal clear than ever before.

At this moment, Tokugawa Ririko easily transcended the "oneness of man and sword" that had held her back for over a decade, reaching a realm of swordsmanship that was rare in modern times and only achievable by great swordsmen in ancient times.

The heart of the sword is clear.

Kitano Runa looked at Lilizi, whose body was faintly glowing, and stammered, "C-Come to Buddhahood?"

Shizuma Manatsu didn't care about the natural phenomenon of sunlight shining through: "So, do you like Uesugi-kun?"

"I like it, of course I do."

Lilizi smiled.

In the afternoon, let’s skip class and go practice with Uesugi-kun.

She looked at the bright and warm sun outside the window, her eyes full of anticipation.

——Uesugi-kun, you have to become stronger quickly.

……

However, before the afternoon, the two met in the cafeteria.

"Lilizi?"

Uesugi Tetsu, who had ordered a large portion of beef rice, stopped and looked at the two people beside the expressionless Ririkko: "Who are these two..."

"Uesugi-kun! You must be Uesugi-kun, right?" Shizuma Manatsu, who had also ordered an oversized lunch, winked at him in a familiar manner. "My name is Shizuma Manatsu, and I'm a good friend of Tokugawa Kotokugawa. Please give me your guidance!"

Lilizi has friends?
Uesugi Tetsu, who almost blurted out these words, coughed and said, "Why don't we find a place to sit down first."

Lilizi nodded silently, looking extremely cold.

Uesugi Tetsu didn't know what was wrong with this girl. She seemed to become like this whenever there were a lot of people around her.

Could it be that the passive ability has been triggered?

I don't understand.

However, Lilizi doesn't look like she has something on her mind now, which is good.

The four of them sat down, and the two good girlfriends naturally assisted by deliberately letting Uesugi Tetsu and Ririko sit face to face.

The two of them were not pretentious. They put down their plates and started eating.

This scene made Shizuma Manatsu and Kitano Runa who were standing next to them look a little dumbfounded.

Why do young lovers not say a word when they meet and have dinner?

Is this, is this right?
Actually, this is very true.

Uesugi Che believes that when eating, one should eat well.

Lilizi only uses food to restore her sanity when she is in a bad mood. Under normal circumstances, eating is just a way for her to replenish energy.

But the two best friends didn't know what was going on and thought they were having a cold war.

In desperation, Shizuma Manatsu had to take the initiative to find topics that everyone might be interested in to liven up the atmosphere.

She smiled and said casually, "It seems like paranormal events here have been very popular lately. It seems to have been trending on Twitter several times."

Kitano Runa tried her best to act as the atmosphere: "Amazing, amazing, really?"

"Of course!"

Shizuma Manaka opened the photo album and shook her phone. "Here, look, these are the selfies I took over the past two days. Isn't the shadow flashing past me quite creepy?"

She put her hands on her hips and laughed:
"——I searched the topic and it seems to be called Bai Prajna. I heard that he is a terrifying evil ghost."

pat!

pat.

Shizuma Manatsu noticed that Uesugi Tetsu and Ririko put down their chopsticks at the same time and looked at her together.

She raised her hands and stammered:
"What, what's wrong?"

(End of this chapter)