Zongman: Please stop destroying the worldview!

Xiangzi: "This is not a problem that can be solved through ordinary communication. There is no need to persuade me to let it go in a condescending manner. You don't understand the grudge between us.

Don't meddle in my affairs rashly. Oblivionis has been in decline for too long. Only after revenge will I regain my power."

How could a soul swap happen at such a critical moment? It's hard not to suspect that Chen Mo did it on purpose, but looking at his attitude, he doesn't seem to be lying to me.

Xiangzi thought to herself that when she recalled her behavior over the past few days, she should not have revealed any flaws.

Ever since Kasuga Shadow broke down her defenses during the roadshow that day, Xiangzi, who believed she had completely turned evil, began to prepare her own revenge plan. When she learned that Chen Mo had started to form a new band, she called it a coincidence of fate.

She was ready to use the Galaxy Battleship lineup to smash Chen Mo's small band into pieces!

In addition to writing the script settings these two days, she has sent invitations to Chuhua and Hailing in the name of oblivionis. Their responses were very positive. Xiangzi agreed to meet with them tomorrow to discuss the details and sign a contract.

It just so happened that our souls were exchanged at this moment. If I can't go tomorrow, I'm afraid they will think that my intentions are insincere. How can I let the Galaxy Battleship fall apart before it even takes off!

Because this was Chen Mo's revenge, he definitely couldn't be asked to help now. Who knew what this villain was up to? So, he could only hope that Xiao Zhiming would perform well and pull Chu Hua Hai Ling in according to his own script!

Lupa breathed a sigh of relief and took the dishes to the sink. "It's okay. I was just asking."

When Lupa heard the word revenge, he felt serious for a moment, thinking that there really was some major grudge, but when he heard the rest of the story, it was just the childish remarks of a middle school student after a quarrel!

The saying "birds of a feather flock together" is true. Xiangzi originally had a strong tendency towards being a middle school student, but due to her superb creative ability, this kind of middle school student behavior was not so shameful, but instead had a kind of artistic beauty.

When he was in Group C with a group of love-deprived girls, Xiangzi behaved like a sunny and cheerful little sun.

Ever since joining the dark, deep and cruel middle school chat group, where people talk about life as a bloody rose and the dark fire dragon devouring everything, Xiangzi has evolved into a holy body whose every word and action is integrated into the middle school setting.

Chen Mo wouldn't be surprised if someone said "I have ascended to god" someday.

-

Elsewhere, in a classroom at Haneda High School, Xiaozhi inside Xiangzi's body pressed his phone, frowning as he flipped through the complicated setup information Xiangzi had sent her. After swiping down several times and still not getting to the end, he grew impatient and sent Xiangzi a message: "What the hell is this? You sent me all this stuff."

Xiangzi quickly replied: "Just remember this. I haven't had any problems working here, so you should handle my affairs properly too."

Xiaozhi complained, "Why do I even need to remember these chuunibyou settings? I don't have to act out a play for you. What's the point of talking to others with those OB settings and wearing that weird mask?"

On the other side, Xiangzi's face flushed red as he argued in the message, "That's not a Chuunibyou setting! It's a worldview! Worldview... things, do you understand? Can the band's things be called Chuunibyou?"

Xiaozhi felt a lot of question marks pop up in his head: "Wait a minute, are you going to use these settings in a band? I thought you were going to form a drama troupe!"

Xiangzi: "This is a combination of worldview and band, interspersed with stage performances in the music performance, showing the worldview to the audience, and at the same time giving the audience an unprecedented sense of substitution..."

Xiaozhi said bluntly: "You rely on this to attract people, and you can still be considered a band?"

Xiangzi: "Why isn't it considered a band?"

Chapter 31 The Headman Is About to Break Down

Xiaozhi's attitude of "everything except music is impure" is incompatible with Xiangzi's idea of ​​launching a small, second-year theater online. When he saw her strategy of using the Toyokawa family's publicity to make her debut as quickly as possible to gain fame, his eyebrows almost twisted down.

Finally, after a heated negotiation, Xiaozhi agreed to Xiangzi's request. Firstly, it was not their own band, and secondly, Xiaoxiang was really talented. As a keyboardist and composer, Xiaozhi could see that Xiangzi was also determined to stick to her musicality - she insisted on keeping the middle school theater, and even insisted on that set-up when interviewing future team members, wearing a difficult mask and calling herself "ob" (a string of letters).

Xiaozhi recalled the words Xiangzi had told him with great discomfort: "I am oblivionis, and this time I invite you to enter the world of avemujica. Are you willing to give your life to me?... I would never say this to myself even if I died!"

Xiangzi sent a final message to remind him: "Remember the settings. Once you put on the mask, your identity will no longer be that of a mortal like Toyokawa Xiangzi, but of an abandoned and sad puppet like Oblivionis."

Xiaozhi: "I know, I know!"

Xiaoxiang: "It's not a long story. Just read it a few times and you'll remember it. Tomorrow, use these words to get Hailing Chuhua to join avemujica!"

Thanks to the personality that Xiangzi usually maintains in school, she has always been a transparent person in the class and has almost no social interaction. Her classmates can't even call her full name.

Xiaozhi disguised himself as Xiangzi and went to school. No one noticed anything was wrong, and he waited until school was over smoothly.

After a day of school without talking to any of her classmates, Xiaozhi thought her school life would end uneventfully until she saw Wakaba Mutsu waiting at the door.

When she saw Xiaozhi coming out, she immediately went up to her and grabbed her arm: "Oblivionis, can we talk?"

During this period, the emotion of melancholy seemed to be deeply engraved between Mu's brows, making her more and more like a walking puppet.

And now, the puppets are also starting to look for companions.

-

Xiao Mu increasingly wondered why the world had become this way—perhaps she had never understood, having only used external things to mask her inner feelings. But now the harsh truth was bearing down on her like the collapsing sky, leaving no room for escape.

After the meeting in the mall, Mu knew that Xiangzi was a monster like himself. At that time, it was like walking alone on a foggy road for many years and finally seeing a fellow traveler. The joy of finally finding a fellow traveler and someone to talk to occupied his entire heart, so much so that he forgot that monsters could not be happy. Even the small comfort of the company of his own kind was hidden behind a greater sadness.

Mu remembered the meeting with Xiang after that.

She tried hard to tell her story one by one, the pain of her childhood when she couldn't tell who she was due to the conflict of personalities, how the Metis personality helped the Xiaomu personality become the master of her body, and how when she met the guitar, she felt like she had found a true anchor, but no matter how she played, she couldn't feel the confusion of the rhythm in her heart.

Xiangzi accepted all this very calmly, and it seemed that she had long been aware of her own affairs. She told herself coldly and firmly that oblivionis was born and the weak Xiaoxiang was dead.

But what Oblivionis said next made Mu feel like she was falling into an ice cave: she called herself Metis.

Doesn't oblivionis need Metis instead of Xiaomu?

No, that's not right. Oblivionis is another person. Then my friend, Xiangzi, whom I care about very much, has disappeared!

Xiao Mu suddenly woke up with a start. Xiangzi was dead, killed by oblivionis, just like those "Mu" who were sleeping inside the spiritual world, arranged in an orderly manner and killed by himself, and were abandoned as failures.

When facing Xiangzi's body, how should I deal with it?

Melancholy and doubt tormented Mu's heart. Over the past decade or so, her life had been shattered. Beyond the labels slapped on her by outsiders—"child of celebrity parents," "child star with boundless potential"—few things truly belonged to her. Her guitar served as her anchor, the brief moments of happiness she experienced with her band, and her wish for the happiness of her childhood friend, Xiangzi. And perhaps the cucumbers planted in the schoolyard.

The guitar can no longer sing, Band C has disbanded, and Xiangzi is dead. The dead cannot feel happiness.

Metis's voice came from my ear: "Since it's so painful, why don't you let me help Xiao Mu? Let me face the things you don't want to face, and just treat everything as a dream."

Mu shook his head, a small hope rising within him as he calmed down. Their last conversation had been too hasty. Perhaps Xiaoxiang's personality still existed, simply being completely suppressed by oblivionis.

She liked to see one side of Xiaoxiang's personality, just one side.

-

Sitting in the coffee shop, Xiao Mu across from her fell silent after ordering a glass of mango juice. He looked at Xiao Zhi's face with almost lifeless eyes, which made her feel a chill.

Xiaozhi has always been a straightforward person, always speaking his mind, and even if he is disliked, he insists on not reading the air. But what is going on with this inexplicably heavy feeling that makes it almost impossible to breathe?

Mu: "oblivionis, order."

Xiaozhi casually ordered a cup of coffee, holding his phone under the table and texting frantically: "Toyokawa Xiangzi, your friend named Wakaba Mu dragged me to the cafe as soon as school got out, saying that we must have a good talk today. What should I do?"

Soon, Xiangzi replied: "Don't worry, Xiaomu is easy to get along with, except for being quiet. She probably contacted you again because of my old band. If she mentions you, just say no. If you're unsure how to respond, just say 'I don't want to answer'."

Xiaozhi: "So simple?"

Xiangzi: "Yes, Xiaomu is easy to deal with."

Xiaozhi thought back to her last band, which had started out promising but then clashed midway, leading to a bitter breakup. The band's poster was still hanging in her room, and she had even covered her two former teammates' faces with stickers out of spite. This Wakaba Mutsu was probably the type of friend who was always trying to smooth things over.

Okay, Xiaozhi felt relieved and didn't notice that Mu's pupils were shaking and he was struggling inside.

Metis's voice echoed in Xiaomu's ears: "Xiangzi hates coffee the most, but now he ordered a cup as if nothing had happened.

She is no longer Xiaoxiang now, do you understand?"

Chapter 32 The Temporarily Repaired Mutou

Mu is not good at speaking, which is something known to both others and himself. This time he made up his mind to come to Xiangzi to explain things clearly, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back and thought over them again.

If you say the wrong thing, things will get worse.

Metis started chattering again, trying to get control of Xiaomu's body:

"You can let me help you. I'm good at talking and I know everything! I'm the only one who can be Xiao Mu's true companion!"

But Xiao Mu remained unmoved. After the mango juice and coffee were served, Xiao Zhi had to take the initiative to break the deadlock: "What do you want from me?"

Mu: "oblivionis, I want to see Xiang."

It turns out that people around Xiangzi really do call her oblivionis, a name that seems out of place. Birds of a feather flock together, it turns out. What does Ruoye Mu mean by this sudden, self-contradictory statement?

Xiaozhi was confused by Mu's incoherent words: "What do you mean? Isn't oblivionis Xiangzi?"

"no."

Mu lowered his head: "No, you are not the same person."

Facing this taciturn guy, Xiaozhi felt his patience was rapidly depleting: "Can you please speak more clearly? I don't understand what you are saying."

Mu bit the straw and finally managed to say, "I want Xiangzi to come back."

Come back, go back where? Go back to Xiangzi and tell him about the band she had quit?

It seems that it is really about the previous band. Although Xiaozhi doesn't know why Xiangzi's previous band disbanded, it must be either because of differences in musical concepts or irreconcilable conflicts between band members.

Xiaozhi followed the words Xiangzi had taught her in the message and asked, "Is it Nagasaki Suyo who asked you to ask me this again?"

Mu: “No, I asked it myself.”

Xiaozhi: "No way, I will never go back."

Mu's heart tightened. Oblivionis, who had been released from the abyss of his subconscious and finally regained control of his body, certainly would not be willing to return to the sleeping darkness.

If the personalities that I killed and fell into a dormant state were to replace me one day, they would definitely do the same.

In his mind, Metis suggested: "Xiao Mu, you can't speak at all. Can I come out and speak for you?"

Mu: "Metis, after you replace me, will you also be like her and refuse to go back?"

"How is that possible! Xiao Mu, you're going too far!"

In Wakaba Mu's spiritual world, a chubby doll made in Mu's image rolled around on the black and red patterned floor, making noisy, childish noises:

"I exist to help Xiaomu! Xiangzi and Sushi are both evil-minded people who only want to use you. No one cares whether Xiaomu is happy or not. I am the only one who stands on Xiaomu's side!"

Mu lowered his eyes and silently answered in his heart: "You are not allowed to say that. Xiang and Su Shi are important people. I want them to be happy."

Metis yelled, "What about you? Xiangzi asked you to form a band and you went, and asked you to help disband the band and you helped. But you were just a messenger, caught between the two of them and suffered their anger!"

Obviously, Xiaomu was the one who was hurt the most by the disbandment of CRYCHIC, but no one ever cared about you! Doesn’t Xiaomu have anything he wants to do?

Now that Xiangzi is dead and Sushi has found a new band, Xiaomu should start living his own life! "

Mu still maintained that stubborn attitude: "No."

Metis wanted to make a noise, but Mu's personality appeared in the spiritual world, grabbed Metis in doll form, locked her in a cage, and then covered her with a pile of dolls piled up into a small hill.