Another string reel from Bandoli

Even though I showed him so much kindness and friendliness, he always acted like I was some annoying person.

Will the Toyokawa family collapse without him? If he can do it, why can't I?

The Toyokawa family is not that fragile!

"I...I...I really want to be...Chow Mein Man!"

Listening to Xiangzi's final lament of longing for that noble hero, Wakaba Mu's inner personalities were extremely entangled. As an outsider, she clearly knew this from Minami-chan's conversations with others.

After that incredible boy took the helm of Toyokawa Group, the giant that had been gradually declining with the times expanded terrifyingly as if it had been reborn.

Some outside media even claimed that "the reborn Toyokawa Group is competing with the aging and decrepit overlord Genmaki Group" to attract attention with such headlines.

——Even though everyone knows it’s a joke.

Shoko Toyokawa's wishes are just the least important detail. All the relevant beneficiary groups hope that she can tie the boy firmly to Toyokawa's Galaxy Battleship as soon as possible.

Change the unlucky and cursed surname to [Toyokawa].

The reason why it hasn't been implemented yet is exactly the opposite of what Xiangzi thought. It's because the cursed boy is extremely unwilling, and the leaders who are most stubborn in wanting to carry it out violently are [unlucky] and unfortunately have [an accident], which is why it has been delayed until now.

But this was ultimately a problem that would remain unsolved over time, and it was beyond the power of the two girls, both living in a circle of interests and attending junior high school, to decide. Even the boy's own wishes would be of no avail.

In the face of the enormous power of the chaebols, personal will is no more effective than a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

No one really believes in such naive utopian fairy tales about high school students fighting against chaebols.

It's impossible that the person who resists happens to be a superman who can destroy the entire Japanese conglomerate and subvert society with a wave of his fingers.

Reality is reality after all. Even the Fried Noodle Man who obtained powerful alien military weapons had to surrender to the Self-Defense Forces in reality.

If Ye Mu understood the reality so clearly in her heart, she would feel sad for Xiangzi, but deep down in her heart she also felt a hint of...jealousy.

She slowed down, noticed something that Toyokawa Shoko, who was still breathing heavily and not looking at the road, had not noticed, and stopped.

"Xiang...Su Shi is in front..." Mu reminded in a low voice, stopping Xiangzi from breathing.

As if listening to a divine plan, the blue octopus spun in circles, completing its digital evolution from octopus to human.

She hastily adjusted the hem of her skirt.

"Greetings, Sushi-sang."

The confident blue-haired girl with twin tails, who was as pure as an angel but exuded the aura of a succubus, greeted the brown-haired girl with slightly curly hair who was holding a double bass in one hand and chatting with her bandmates with her charming smile.

Although she is also in the second grade of junior high school, Nagasaki Suyo is like an older sister with a stable atmosphere. She treats everyone gently. However, when Toyokawa Shoko greeted her, she showed a complex emotion of "disgust, nausea, and seeing a cockroach" for a moment.

But she suppressed it immediately, causing the students in the wind band who caught that moment to wonder if they were hallucinating from eating mushrooms.

"Hello... How are you, Toyokawa-san." Nagasaki Suyo's sweet voice sounded more stiff than before, and she was quite reluctant to greet Toyokawa Shoko according to the ancestral motto of the Tsuki no Mori family.

"Hey, Su Shi-sang, last time I invited you to visit your mother at your house or invite your mother to my house, are you free recently?" A gust of cold wind blew, rolling up the hem of Xiangzi's skirt, and the smiling blue-haired girl looked like an angel descending to the earth.

But in Nagasaki Suyo's eyes, it was as nauseating as a maggot in the underground.

"Mother... is still busy with work and has no time recently." Su Shi fiddled with his fingertips, and the bone-chilling coldness made his whole body shiver.

This woman... every now and then she'd come around to insinuate and insult her single-parent family, fabricating a story about her mother having an illegitimate child who was being the guardian. She'd also occasionally try to trick her into believing she had an imaginary brother.

Lately, she's even started imagining herself as the fiancée of her nonexistent brother. How could such a disgusting bully exist among the eldest daughters of Tsuki no Mori?

Not allowing her to see her mother and adding pressure to her mother was Nagasaki Suyo's last act of resistance.

"...You must be very busy. After all, you are a well-known figure in the industry - the sleeping Ms. Nagasaki. Xiangzi, please don't make things difficult for Nagasaki-san." Accomplice number one, the unknown cucumber man, spoke up to help Nagasaki Suyo out of the predicament, which made Nagasaki Suyo a little surprised and suspicious.

What new tricks has B come up with to torture himself this time?

Ms. Nagasaki is a rising star in the industry. No matter how complicated or difficult the meeting or negotiation, as long as she sits there as if she is in a deep sleep, she can use her exquisite words to break down everyone's psychological defenses.

A miraculous reversal in negotiations caused her status in the foreign trade company to rise steadily. Despite a series of negative buffs, she climbed to the position where she was almost certain to be the next president.

Although she always looked confused and couldn't explain clearly when people asked her about it afterwards, it was this humility that made everyone impressed and respected her.

Her company is also an important part of another long-established Japanese conglomerate that is no less powerful than the Toyokawa Group.

That is why the Fengchuan Group did not want to make it too difficult to ask for custody, but she was always so tough and unyielding even when she was sleeping.

Some of the less intelligent individuals in charge of this matter even resorted to even dirtier means in a fit of rage.

But overnight, Ms. Nagasaki earned the title of the legendary adult in the Yakuza. Single-handedly, as if she were asleep, she performed stunts that were impossible for humans to perform and defeated more than 10 Yakuza members who were disguised and looking for trouble.

Some individuals even mysteriously disappeared the afternoon after their actions. When they were discovered again, thanks to the Toyokawa family's heavy-handed efforts, the high-ranking member of the collateral branch, who had suffered a hysterical attack due to the Toyokawa family's genetic disease, had actually purchased several boars with his personal account.

In an abandoned factory, unnoticed but rife with private LAN surveillance cameras, he performed a brutal act of hot-dogging on himself. He even recorded the entire process, setting a date for automatic upload for millions of people to watch for free.

After being freed from the hooks the pigs had pushed him into, the victim, disoriented, lost in time, and missing all his limbs, insisted on claiming he had been kidnapped. He was force-fed a strange matsutake-flavored drug by a lanky creature with an inhuman, pale, and inhuman-looking face, draped in cloth. That's why he was so energetic; normally, he only played with the babies for three minutes!

However, the police and the Toyokawa family privately retrieved surveillance footage, remittance records, purchase records, and dozens of witnesses with clear memories who appeared at each point in a very timely manner. They all proved that everything was done by the high-ranking member of the side branch who wore sunglasses and kept drinking canned coffee. There was no suspense or doubt.

Even the elites of the Fengchuan family, after careful investigation and search, found evidence that perfectly met their expected bottom line from the best hiding place they had expected, proving that this senior member of the side clan did have past experience and hobbies in this regard.

There are both videos and photos, and after diagnosis using the most advanced modern technology, no trace of photo-editing flaws was found.

Just like the family members before.

In the end, he was sent to the affiliated high-level mental hospital under Fengchuan.

The police sighed, the Toyokawa family... Alas, they have been unlucky this year, this is the nth time.

Although Ms. Nagasaki wanted to hide the matter from her daughter, Nagasaki Suyo still learned some of the relevant details through the police call that she accidentally received while Ms. Nagasaki was sleeping due to excessive muscle stretching.

Later, using the skills taught by the senior students of Tsukinomori, he was able to trick a middle-aged and talkative police inspector Masato, who came to visit the family, into revealing the mastermind behind the Toyokawa family.

Perhaps, this is the reason why the dwarf from the Toyokawa family deliberately came to humiliate him.

It’s really...disgusting!

Because of business failures, they take their anger out on others and even resort to such despicable means in private.

Even if their dirty tricks fail, they can still bring the problem into the campus.

Nagasaki Suyo, who used the wisdom taught by her seniors to understand everything, felt ashamed that Yue Zhisen allowed such scum to be introduced.

A surge of humiliation surged deep within my heart, tormenting me with stomach reflux. Living independently in a single-parent family had taught Sushi a strong character early on. The weak me would have died long ago in the old house. Now the one who survived... Nagasaki Sushi, who would never rely on or yearn for family, and who wouldn't fantasize about a new family besides her mother!

Su Shi pondered the detective agency business card left by the drunk and loud-mouthed detective in her pocket before he left. He claimed that his son-in-law's family background was quite powerful. If she encountered any trouble, this son-in-law who was well-known in Kanto could accompany her to visit the Toyokawa family.

But she soon laughed at her own thoughts.

How could a detective of minor fame shake the authority of the Toyokawa family? How powerful could his family background be?

Can a business card become a page of the Death Note?

I had just made a promise, and in just a few seconds I was able to recover briefly from my weakness.

And I, being weak, must die now!

She looked at the duo of bullies with a determined gaze and said, "Use whatever tricks you have. I, Nagasaki Suyo, have nothing to fear!"

Toyokawa Kiyoshi: Hehehe! I want to survive!

Chapter 19 Chapter 19: Nagasaki Suyo, the Talented Introducer of Butterfly Group

Looking at the determined eyes of Nagasaki Suyo, Toyokawa Shoko and Wakaba Mutsu's hearts twitched.

"Ms. Nagasaki... you haven't been home often lately, you must be so busy." Wakaba Mutsu said in a calm tone.

"Thank you for your concern... Mom, I've been working very hard lately." Nagasaki Suyo realized that someone was watching and retracted her determined gaze. She calmed down a little and twirled her hair with her fingers.

But inwardly I was gritting my teeth.

Who do you think keeps mom so busy?

Nagasaki Suyo knew clearly, and she learned from the Tsukinomori seniors through subtle inquiries that it was precisely because of the increasingly intense business dealings between the Toyokawa Group and the Suzuki Group's foreign trade companies that her mother had taken the initiative to increase her work, resulting in a sudden increase in her workload.

"But, the child's birthday party... I heard from Namina-chan that she wants to attend the child's birthday party. She always keeps to the date every year... She'll be home on the 27th of next month, right?"

Nagasaki Suyo clenched the ends of her hair tightly and pulled it painfully, as if she wanted to pull out the pain in her heart as well.

The unknown cucumber man's critical hit pierced Nagasaki Suyo's heart.

Mom, I've missed her birthday party for three years in a row. And now I bring it up!

"Ah, I remember too. At last year's birthday party, the three of us had a lot of fun playing together at home! I also saw it in the video that grandfather received. Su Shisan was smiling so happily." Xiangzi's innocent and brilliant speech sounded like a devil's whisper.

My heart is filled with anger, but I have to bear it alone.

"Mom, this year's birthday party may also be delayed. I'm not complaining, after all, mom has done so much for me."

Her tone was as soft as cotton wool, and her eyes were filled with murderous intent.

"Huh? But isn't Aunt Nagasaki always there for my brother's birthday party every year? I want to join, but I'm always rejected. Could you please complain to him for me, Sushi-san?"

Jealousy. Toyokawa Shoko had seen the video of her attending that guy's birthday party. They fed each other cake and joked. He'd never smiled such a joyful smile before her, so why was this "sister" in front of her able to monopolize that guy's love?

[Sister] can also show a never-before-seen middle school aura in front of him, saying things like "I am a super-large demon princess".

Ms. Nagasaki also spoke slowly, enunciating each word.

She had to state in advance that she absolutely didn't like that guy, she just didn't like his cold, disgusted look as if he was looking at a cockroach.

Now she can accept being looked at like a cockroach. So it's no problem.

"But! The Suyo-sans usually use the last name Ichinose when joking around. Is this a [special name] for the family?"

The bleak cold wind was biting, overlapping with Nagasaki Suyo's rapid breathing.

Nagasaki Suyo's pupils constricted, her face livid, and the knuckles of her fingers gripping the double bass turned white from excessive force. Even the handle crackled with a strange sound from the excessive force.

"Toyokawa-san... Wakaba-san... please stop teasing me. I'll say it again, I'm the only child of my mother! I don't have any other brothers or sisters. If there's nothing else, please let me and my classmates leave."

Under the worried gazes of her bandmates, Nagasaki Motoyo used all her strength to suppress the rage that erupted like a volcano in her heart.

Facing the unreasonable person, he ordered him to leave with his voice as hoarse as torn silk.

Toyokawa Shoko was puzzled by the sudden outburst of temper and anger.

This person really is a brother-con... There are so many photos and videos recording it, and they once happened to encounter the three of them strolling on the street, and the picture of their family of three having a happy time together, but she always insists that this brother doesn't exist.

——Although due to unexpected reasons, I always failed to catch up with them. Or they disappeared just around the corner.

Although Toyokawa Shoko disliked that person, her mother, father, and grandfather were all eager to meet Ms. Nagasaki in person. However, various coincidences kept preventing them from meeting.

I guess it was fate that allowed me to open up a new path.

The only way out now is the [sister] of the guy in front of me.

She had to state in advance that she absolutely didn't like that guy, it was just the grandfathers' request.

Facing Nagasaki Suyo, who was angry for some unknown reason, Toyokawa Shoko tried her best to think, but she felt as if she was in a dead end.

Just like the encounter with that guy and the current situation.

Last year, he could still greet her in a sweet voice, but now he can't even speak. He would rather save money than open his mouth.

Am I so bad as a fiancé that I won't even have a conversation.

She had to state in advance that she absolutely didn't like that guy, but the familiar sound of her younger sister's clips always reminded her of the past. There was always a shadow of her.

What else does that guy want from me? Get down on my knees, crawl over to me and keep shouting his name!

Already did it last year!

Toyokawa Shoko cleared her throat and was about to continue speaking.

"Toyokawa, stop it!" Suzuki, a broad-foreheaded member of the wind band, couldn't stand it anymore, and she angrily ordered Toyokawa Shoko.

Oh, and by the way, although Nagasaki Suyo may not know it, the detective who came to visit her home was actually the father of her mother's best friend.

"What grudge do you have against Nagasaki that you have to pester her?"

Hattori, another member of the wind band, was not fully aware of the sense of justice that was cultivated in her family, but she protected Nagasaki Suyo.

"Oh...that...I..." Shoko Toyokawa started talking incoherently when she was scolded, and her legs couldn't stop swaying backwards.

Xiang...that's it...Cucumber Monster Wakaba Mu saw how things were developing and realized that his current personality was not enough to deal with this situation.

Yes, yes, I can leave this situation to...

Thoughts surged in his mind, but before Ye Mu and his friends could finish their instructions, the meeting was over.

Perhaps because the noise was a little too loud, a senior schoolmate came from a distance with steady steps, looked around, and after noticing the two parties, she raised her eyebrows and walked in to join the conversation.

"Gui'an, I'm Yashio Rui, a member of the student council. May I ask what happened?"

Yashio Rui, a slender beauty with asymmetrical sideburns who was too tall for a junior high school student, was holding a file bag and surveying everyone with half-lidded eyes.

"Hello! Senior! No! Nothing happened. We were just having a friendly visit and conversation with our Nagasaki classmate." The unusually cheerful and lively "Wakaba Mutsu" spoke first before Toyokawa Shoko and everyone else.