Tokyo Soft Rice King.

Qingxia took out the savings book with her birthday as the password and 30 million yen deposited for shrine repairs.

Kuroba Akira understood what she meant and smiled.

"Want to eat out?"

"That's right, Kuroba-kun. Let me treat you to eel rice. Use food to restore your energy first. If that's still not enough, Kuroba-kun can ask Nekogami-sama to use me to replenish your energy."

It's as if Haruka has become Kuroba Akira's backup hidden energy source.

"My goal is to avoid troubling you as much as possible."

"Then I'll actually feel a little disappointed."

Kuroba Akira watched as her lowered eyelashes trembled gently, and couldn't help but reach out and run his hand through her soft hair, as if touching a cloud that was still warm to the touch.

Qingxia nodded subconsciously, like a cat being stroked, and rubbed against Kuroba Akira's palm, clearly having come prepared.

"I see now, you're trying to lure me in. You've been setting up this from the very beginning with those three classic questions."

"Hehe, this is a seduction trick I learned from Ziyin, and it seems to work really well."

I see, you learned it from Shion...

You've really found a great teacher!

Ms. Ziyin is a master of romance.

However, Ah Qing, you have to be careful not to catch a yandere's disease.

What if you, the disciplinary committee member, also start to corrupt the rules...

Then I will be plunged into darkness, without light.

Chapter 397 My Sister Was Terrible Before She Lost Her Amnesia

After Haruka helped Kuroba Akira clean his hair, Kuroba Akira saw his bird's nest-like hairstyle through the black screen of the TV.

I was thinking of simply tidying up my unruly hair when I suddenly remembered something and took out my coin purse from my pocket.

Living in Japan requires a special coin purse for holding loose change, since it's still a cash-based society. At most, you'll use a credit card, but many places don't have POS machines. It's common to get a lot of change when you go to a convenience store, and it'll just clink and feel uncomfortable if you put it directly in your pocket.

However, this time Kuroba Akira wasn't there to pay Haruka, but rather because he remembered that he had put an important item in his coin purse earlier.

That was the comb that Ame no Hikaru gave him.

Haruka saw Kuroba Akira take out a wooden comb from his coin purse and tilted her head to ask.

"It's a very old-fashioned comb, but it looks very well maintained... Was it a gift for you, Kuroba-kun?"

"That's it."

Kuroba Akira didn't know why Ameha Hikaru gave him a comb, since boys don't really need to comb their hair. Maybe it had some special meaning.

This came in handy at that moment, and Kuroba Akira used the comb to comb his hair.

The moment the comb touched the top of Kuroba Akira's head, he felt his soul leave his body, and memories that were not his own appeared before his eyes.

The memory is so vivid, it's as if I were there, and the first thing I felt was the biting cold wind and the piercing chill.

The street was swallowed up by a silent wave of snow, and the person who appeared before me was... myself.

But it feels a little different from looking in a mirror.

Huh? 'Me' is right in front of me? Then who's possessing me now?

The next second, Kuroba Akira got the answer.

"Brother! Are you really going to Tokyo?!"

That was Ameyu Hikaru's voice, but unlike the emotionless girl Kuroba Akira knew, her voice was much more lively and full of emotion.

"Yeah... wasn't this part of the plan? I've already bought the JR and Shinkansen tickets. It'll take most of the day on the train, it's such a hassle. I might as well just take a plane."

"Then I want to go with you!"

"Idiot, you're surnamed Tianyu now, how could those old fogies in the family let you leave?"

"I'm not some Tenyu! I'm Hisahimi, Hisahimi Akira's sister!"

"But I'm surnamed Kuroba now... One and only Kuroba, I'm the only one in the entire main family and branch family with the surname Kuroba, it feels pretty cool."

"That's because everyone with the surname Kuroba is dead, isn't it?! It's so unlucky! Brother, don't act like a chuunibyou in a place like this!"

"I will be the only one left alive, Kuroba! That's why I came all the way to Tokyo!"

"They're so cunning. Only my brother can go to the big city, while I'm stuck in this poor, remote place for the rest of my life..."

"Sapporo is a pretty big city, you know... To be honest, I didn't go there because I wanted to, but if I didn't go, I would suffer the same fate as my seniors, the Kurobas."

"What era are we living in? They're still doing this kind of human sacrifice. Serpents and stuff like that don't even exist!"

"That's what I thought too... But, Hikaru, listen to me, the Great Serpent might really exist, because I dreamt about it, and after drinking, I had eight heads chopped off..."

"That was just a dream!"

"It was indeed just a dream, but the fact that you dreamed about it already says something. Xiao Guang, you and I went through the God Transformation Ritual together. Although the effects are not obvious yet, soon you and I will gradually forget our past, just like we have amnesia. In its place will be the experience of gods... At that time, you will forget who I am, and you will also forget... who you are."

"I will never forget... Even if I forget myself, I will never forget you, brother!"

"I don't want to forget you either... Xiaoguang."

However, from Kuroba Akira's perspective, it felt like he was being hugged by another version of himself, a strange feeling.

"Brother...where will you stay after you go to Tokyo? In the boys' dormitory?"

"You don't need to worry about that. The head of the family wrote me two letters of introduction, saying that I can choose one of them to stay at."

"Hmph, that old geezer who only knows how to wield a sword has actually done something that should be done by the head of the family this time."

"He's your godfather now, Xiao Guang."

"I don't acknowledge him at all! By the way, who were those two letters addressed to? Were they to the branch family members who live elsewhere? That Ms. Niwa who became a voice actress? I remember she should be more than ten years older than my brother... Or were they to Uncle Takanashi's daughter who ran away from home twenty years ago?"

"No, that's not it. Miss Niwa left after fulfilling her family obligations. She couldn't possibly help with family affairs anymore. As for the Takanashi family, didn't they cease to belong to the family long ago? Do you think the head of the family would ask a branch that has already been abolished for help?"

"Who else could it be? Does that guy with the bladed head still have connections in Tokyo?"

"Pfft, my head's been split open... cough. One of the letters is from Mr. Saionji Kyoichi, who seems to be the head of the family's swordsmanship disciple. Apparently, he comes from a prominent family in Tokyo. The other letter is for Mr. Tomita Hogen of Chiyoda Inari Shrine. He seems to know a lot about the gods, so I plan to go to that shrine first. Maybe they can help me solve my problem..."

"Saionji, Tomita... Okay! I'll remember that, I'll come find you later!"

"No, that's why I said it. Hikaru, you... well... you're right. I hope we can meet again in this lifetime. I hope we can still recognize each other then."

"I'm sure I'll recognize her! But you, brother, you absolutely cannot associate with any other woman before I come to see you!"

"Why...?"

"Well, that's because you, brother, are going to... cough, anyway, brother, you're not allowed to have a girlfriend!"

"Relax, I'm not very popular with women, and I'm not popular with girls either. I wasn't confessed to by anyone during my three years of junior high school. But you, Xiaoguang, seem to have been confessed to quite a few times, don't you think?"

"I rejected them all! And it's not that you're unpopular with girls, you just haven't entered your romantic period yet!"

"Does that kind of thing really exist? I feel like I'd rather pray to Kiku-ri-hime's fate, since the god of fate seems to really exist."

"No worship! Brother, you must remain single!"

"Alright, alright... Xiao Guang, I should probably go now, or I'll miss my train."

"Brother... comb my hair one last time... and then tie it into pigtails."

"Okay... I've always been the one to comb and tie your hair since you were little. From now on, Xiao Guang, you'll have to learn to do it yourself. This is the last time your brother will help you."

"This won't be the last time! Brother, don't always say such discouraging things! The bond between us siblings won't be broken so easily!"

Well... I hope so. Things will work themselves out.

Kuroba Akira's personality is exactly the same as my current self. It seems that no matter which world I'm in, I'm the same way.

The last scene he saw was him taking the comb from Ameyu Hikaru and combing his sister's hair. The moment the comb touched her hair, Kuroba Akira snapped back to reality and saw Haruka looking worried.

"Kuroba-kun? What's wrong? You've been staring blankly for several minutes... Did you think of something?"

"Uh...it's nothing, I was just thinking about some things from the past..."

That must have been the scene when the brother and sister parted ways.

In other words, this memory belongs to the original Ame no Hikaru.

The brother and sister originally shared the surname Jiuyu, and came from a branch family. They changed their surname after being selected.

Moreover, judging from this, the transformation ritual does not suddenly replace the person, but rather involves a gradual process of forgetting the past.

Kuroba Akira initially planned to stay at either the Saionji or the Tomita family residence when he went to Tokyo, and he chose the Tomita family residence...

"what……!"

Is that why I encountered the black tail?

Because the Tomita family's shrine had already been moved by that time, the original Akira Kuroba must have found an abandoned shrine, and then he encountered Kuroo.

Kuroo also mentioned that she could only use the power of the Yellow Persuasion in her own shrine, so the original Kuroba Akira must have made some kind of wish to Kuroo, which is why the deceased Shiraba Akira was brought into his own body in this world.

However, Bai Yuming woke up at school, and a part of his memory was missing.

This is probably because at the time, the original Kuroba Akira hadn't completely forgotten, but after arriving at school, he completely forgot, and then Shiroba Akira came out instead, leaving behind a mess of a self-introduction at the start of the school year.

In the end, my younger sister was so determined, but she forgot everything, and even her personality changed drastically.

However, she seems to still have some vague memories, which is why she was able to recognize her brother.

And also... what's up with this comb?

Why does it retain the original memories of Hikari Ama?

Why did she give the comb to herself?

Did she know that her memories were contained within these things?

"Um……"

I don't understand.

It's true that we have to ask her in person to find out what really happened, although Kuroba Akira thinks she probably doesn't know either, since she doesn't remember anything.

Speaking of which, on New Year's Eve, Amayu Hikari left first, and by the time Kuroba Akira and Kobayashi Mitsuru came out together, she was already gone.

At the time, Akira Kuroba did ask about it, and Norito Tomita said that Hikari Amayu had been picked up by her family.