Comet Dragon, breaking into the gravity field

——"Hypnosis was successful"

When Ritsu Narose said this to Shoko Toyokawa, he saw the expression of the girl in front of him gradually change from (oo) to (Oo?), and the same was true for Wakami Yutenji, who came over to eavesdrop on their conversation.

Naturally, they all thought that Ritsu Narose was joking - until they left the equipment room and saw Mutsu Wakaba sitting on the sofa with his legs swinging.

Seeing the three of them appear together, the girl who was enjoying the puffs immediately smiled happily and waved to them with her hand that was still covered with white cream.

"I say...isn't your competitive spirit a little too strong?" Turning around, Yutenji Wakami stared intently at Naruse Ritsu. "Just to prove you're better than me, you even got Mutsuko to act with you?"

"Ms. Yutenji seems to have a rather overactive imagination."

After a light retort, Naruse Ritsu looked at Toyokawa Shoko, who knew Wakaba Mutsuki best among the people present: "Shoko, do you have anything to say?"

"I……"

With a look of hesitation on her face, Shoko Toyokawa's current appearance actually made Ritsu Narose feel a little unfamiliar.

When Yutenji Wakamu went to Wakaba Mu to question her, she whispered, "I feel something is strange."

"Because I didn't perform any proper hypnosis at all... Even if such a crude method succeeded, I didn't give Wakaba any instructions afterwards."

After recounting his own experiences, Naruse Ritsu looked thoughtfully at the green-haired girl across from him who kept looking at him with disdain...

……

After Toyokawa Shoko's mood calmed down a little, Naruse Ritsu and Wakaba Mutsu left the office.

On the one hand, because Ruoye Mu's practice plan for today had been completed, and there happened to be no practice schedule for the entire band today, she could arrange the rest of her time as she pleased;

On the other hand, Toyokawa Shoko has no idea how to get along with this strange "Wakaba Mutsu".

——The unfamiliarity made her a little scared (realistic).

For various reasons, Ritsu Narose had to advance his plan and take the girl who was hostile to him out onto the street.

"If you don't hurry up, you're going to miss the green light," said Ritsu Narose indifferently, looking back at "Wakaba Mutsu" who was keeping a distance from him.

Noticing the flashing traffic light ahead, she was startled and hurriedly quickened her pace. But just as she was about to step onto the zebra crossing, she had to watch the light turn from green to red.

"Mmmm..."

With his mouth puffed up in anger, "Wakaba Mu" glared mercilessly at the person standing next to him.

Unconcerned with the girl's hostility, Ritsu Narushe looked directly at her and muttered to himself, "If the materials that make up a ship are gradually replaced until all the materials are no longer the original ones, will the ship still be the same?"

"I don't understand!"

"I see...it seems my intelligence has also decreased quite a bit."

In an instant, the breathing sounds next to him suddenly became much louder.

"Hypnosis can't reach this level, and what happened to Wakaba-san..." Seeing that she had finally taken the bait, Naruse Ritsu looked at the girl with a soul-penetrating gaze and said slowly, "It's like her second personality has awakened."

"Eh?"

"But could something so sudden really happen in reality? Without any signs—no, it can't be said that there were no signs at all..."

Ignoring the reaction of the girl in front of him, Ritsu Narose fell into his own thoughts again.

Not long after, he looked back at the girl who was not the "Wakaba Mu" he knew: "Anyway, what should I call you?"

"...Why are you saying such strange things? I'm Xiao Mu."

"But the difference between your speaking style and Wakaba-san's is so great that it's hard to consider them the same person."

The traffic light across the street quietly changed color. Ritsu Narose walked ahead and waited until the girl behind him crossed the road before continuing the previous topic.

"I can't keep using 'Another Wakaba Mu' as your name, right? That's a bit rude."

"……name?"

Standing there, Wakaba Mu looked at Naruse Ritsu in front of her with a look of surprise. When she realized that the distance between them was a bit too big, she quickly followed.

After a brief exchange with Xiao Mu who was watching inside her body, she finally gave her own name.

"Mortis—my name is [Mortis]!"

"Isn't this..." Thinking about this familiar word, Naruse Ritsu quickly remembered its origin, "Isn't this the character in the play written by Xiangzi?"

"That's right," Mortis said helplessly, spreading his hands and leaning against Wakaba Mu's face, "It's because Xiaomu doesn't know how to name anything, so she can only call me by the name Xiangzi gave her~"

"So—Ms. Mortis, let's get back to the point."

Seeing his attitude suddenly become serious, Mortis's face also became a little nervous and uneasy.

"According to my guess, you didn't appear out of thin air." Recalling the scene during hypnosis, Ritsu Naruse said meaningfully, "Can I assume that your appearance is directly related to me?"

"That's right!" As if unwilling to be suppressed by his aura, Mortis suddenly shouted to him after walking to a secluded place, "I have a question for you!"

"What?" Completely different from her rushing forward like a pig, Ritsu Narose was like an experienced hunter crouching beside the trap she had set.

"Did you lie to Xiao Mu?"

"Which time?"

"Of course—eh…eh?"

First I was confused, then I fell into panic, and finally my mind was taken over by anger.

Seeing such rich emotional fluctuations on Wakaba Mutsu's face, Narose Ritsu not only did not feel the slightest bit of guilt for playing with the girl's emotions, but instead felt a hint of surprise.

In Ritsu Narose's view, loneliness cannot be created by "isolation" alone - true loneliness comes from missing the opportunity to "break the isolation" again and again.

Words that cannot be expressed will rot vaguely between the brows, eroding the vision and blinding the eyes; then they will melt the taste buds, making the lonely people afraid to even taste the plain and boring syllables they say.

The last and most despairing thing is that only you can understand this feeling.

And now, even if it may be just Wakaba Mu's second personality, her active and proactive communication with the outside world undoubtedly makes people feel at ease.

Does this mean that Wakaba Mu, who looks as autistic as Xiao Mu, actually also longs to communicate normally with others?

Thinking of this, Ritsu Narose's eyes became more kind.

It wasn't until a few hours later that he saw the message on his phone screen.

——"I forgot that I'm not allowed to go out after I get home at night"

——"Hey.踆Rj二?Shanlinsi研究〈QiIIIjpg"

Looking at the tongue-sticking and head-banging emoticons sent on the phone screen, Ritsu Narose, who was stood up, felt like she had been kicked by a naughty kid.

The long-awaited anxiety was replaced by another infuriating emotion.

After saying the words "I'm coming to find you", he took off on the spot and flew towards the Wakaba family in his memory.

59. Overlooking the scenery

At night, the maids of the Wakaba family, who had just finished work, gathered in the living room, finishing up their last bit of work for the night while chatting in low voices.

"Miss Mu... Is there something wrong with her?

"is it?"

"Yeah, she looked really happy. She even greeted me with a big smile, which was totally different from usual!"

"Hmm~ I can't imagine it at all...but isn't that a good thing?"

"The problem is, when I saw her going home, there seemed to be a boy next to her..."

Wakaba Mu was naturally unaware of their discussion. She had returned to her bedroom and was sitting at her dressing table. On the table were the drinks and desserts that Naruse Ritsu had bought her on the way home, but she had no desire to indulge in the sugary treats at the moment.

"Why……"

In the dim room, Ruo Yemu sat blankly in the chair, staring at the TV screen.

The images playing on the TV were none other than those of Mortis controlling his body to interact with Ritsu Narushe.

We went shopping together, shared desserts together, and talked about this and that together...

"I clearly told you I want to stay away from Ritsu, so why is Mortis actively approaching me?"

"Of course Xiao Mu should stay away from that guy!" Mortis, his face frozen, hurriedly defended himself, "But, but I'm not Xiao Mu! That kind of thing can't be put on my head! Besides, I was just accidentally deceived by his despicable means..."

"Besides, I've already tricked him!"

She pulled out her phone from somewhere and pointed it at Wakaba Mu, who had turned into a doll. "Look! I stood him up, leaving him standing outside in the wind like an idiot! This way, he will definitely—"

"Too much...too much," the puppet Ruoye Mu slowly raised his head and stared at his companion who was acting on his behalf with his sesame-sized eyes. "Why did you lie to Lu?"

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Mortis's expression suddenly changed, and he looked at Wakaba Mu with great displeasure: "He obviously lied to Xiaomu too! He even admitted it himself!"

"But you lied to him..."

"Stop talking nonsense! He's lied to us so many times, so what if I lied to him once!" Mortis stamped his feet in anger and grabbed a drink bought by someone on the table and gulped it down.

After viciously destroying a few more puffs, she returned to the dim little room in her mind and heard Ruo Yemu ask her again, "So, why did you lie to me?"

"I never lied to Xiaomu—"

Mortis put his hands on his chest and was about to explain, but he saw the white cream that had not been wiped off the corner of his mouth on the dark TV screen.

Fortunately, Xiao Mu didn't seem to care about this...

"I'm going to see him."

"no!"

Without having time to wipe his mouth, Mortis hurriedly pushed Ruoye Mu onto the chair: "I've already told you! Xiaomu should stay away from her!"

"He's waiting for me."

Without time to retort, Mortis held down the restless doll Ruoye Mu tightly and hurriedly controlled her body, stuffing her into the bottom of the doll mountain in the corner.

"We must think of another way..."

Running to the closet, Mortis changed into her nightgown in an unladylike manner, then threw her turned-off phone into the corner.

It takes time to change clothes and to find a phone - this way, even if Xiao Mu takes over her body when she's not paying attention, she can still stop her from doing anything wrong.

Foolproof!

Alas... I have been trying my best to treat Ritsu Narose in the most gentle way, but Xiao Mu doesn't appreciate it at all.

Unable to help but sigh, Mortis walked to the dressing table and took the last sip of his drink before leisurely returning to the soft bed.

While adjusting her sleeping position, she smacked her lips, savoring the sweet and delicious taste.

Although Ritsu Narose is a bad person, the dessert he bought for himself is innocent.

Comfortable~Comfortable~

As the novelty of today gradually faded, the fatigue that had been lurking in every part of her body surged forward. Closing her eyes, the girl in bed gradually fell into a deep sleep.

However, not long after, she sat up again and left the bed with a completely different movement from before.

Wearing a white nightgown, Ruoye Mu slowly walked to the small corner where Mortis had buried his cell phone more than ten minutes ago.

Lying on the cold floor, she struggled to move the phone out.

The light from the mobile phone illuminated her face slightly. In the dark room, Wakaba Mu began to look through the last chat history between him and Naruse Ritsu.

——"I'm coming to see you"

Seeing this sentence that he had never seen before, Ruo Yemu was stunned and forgot to stand up from the floor for a moment.

——"It's not appropriate for me to knock on the door directly. Is there a place convenient for me to pick you up?"

——"Hello, are you there?"

——"Really fell asleep?" 翏⊙鸸(3) Really?

Looking at the new messages, Ruo Yemu was about to type a reply when he heard the sound of the night wind hitting the glass outside the window.

What was strange was that the noise grew louder and louder—until it became the sound of a window being opened from the outside.

The girl who walked to the window suddenly felt cold all over, but the next moment, her nervousness and fear were replaced by surprise.

"……Eh?"

Seeing Naruse Ritsu leaning against the window with her upper body, Wakaba Mu was stunned for a moment. And when she saw the "strange device" behind Naruse Ritsu that was still glowing, she didn't know what to say to lighten the mood.

The same goes for Ritsu Narose.

Based on the layout of the house he remembered when he came to Wakaba's house before, and the three-dimensional model he made after carefully observing around the house, he was sure that the room he climbed through the window should be unoccupied at this time.

Even if there is, most of them are asleep.