In the anime series, Goto Ichiri is actually my childhood sweetheart?

"Goto-san? Why are you here?"

Rikka wiped the snow off her face and turned around to see Goto Ichiri's face, looking very confused.

Gao Qiaofeng also arrived at this time.

"Rikka! I didn't expect you to come here. Ichiri, your guess turned out to be correct."

"maple?!"

When Rikka first saw Goto Ichiri, she thought she had discovered her by accident. But after seeing Takahashi Kaede, she knew that the two of them must have been sent by her sister to find her.

"I'm not going back. Why did you come to look for me? Can you please leave me alone for a while?" Rikka hugged the railing and sat in the snow. Her intention not to leave was obvious.

She took off her eye mask on the way back, and the golden lens of her right eye was now exposed to the air, and seemed to be glowing with a faint golden light under the reflection of the snow.

"What...what beautiful contact lenses." Goto Ichiri exclaimed unconsciously.

Hearing Goto Ichiri's praise, Rikka's expression was slightly moved.

"No, don't try to trick me into going back with such a simple trick. I won't go back. I still have things to do. Don't bother me!" But she quickly wiped away this trace of emotion with a tougher attitude.

Goto Ichiri was a little at a loss. She looked at Takahashi Kaede, as if expecting him to say something.

Takahashi Kaede put his cell phone behind his back and sent a message to Touka without Rikka noticing. Then he half-knelt in front of Rikka, and Goto Ichiri also squatted beside him with his legs hugged.

"Teacher, are you trying to deceive me again? You are on good terms with me, the Evil King, but secretly you are hooking up with the Saint Counselor. Don't think I don't know about this!"

Rikka snorted and turned her head away, not looking at Takahashi Kaede's face.

Takahashi Feng smiled somewhat awkwardly, as he and Touka's collaboration had actually been discovered. It seemed that Rikka had always known everything but she just didn't say it.

"Then I won't give you any useless arguments. What do you want to do? I'll help you get it done. Then you can come home with me and we can spend Christmas together. How about that?"

Takahashi Kaede went straight to the point and put the conditions directly in front of Rikka.

Rikka didn't look like anything was wrong with her, and her emotions were very stable.

She should be digesting this shock in her own way.

"..."

"I have a big table of food at home, waiting for you to come back and eat anytime. Your sister should be here soon. This winter is really cold. Don't stay outside all the time. You will freeze to death. Your sister will be very sad if you freeze to death. She was crying when she called me just now."

"Really?" asked Rikka.

It wasn't because of the food, but because she heard Takahashi Feng say that her sister was crying.

"Whether it's true or not, you can find out if you come back with me and ask her." Gao Qiao Feng was vague about the answer.

In fact, Shihua has always been very calm. She may have cried anxiously behind her back, but she would never show it on the phone.

After all, this kind of emotional expression is of no help in finding Rikka, and will also bring trouble to Takahashi Kaede.

"...I want to take this swing down. There are two big hooks on it. Just pull the hooks off."

After a moment of silence, Rikka finally spoke.

"Take the swing down? Why do you need to do this? Is it something very important?" Goto Ichiri asked in confusion.

"Well, this was actually...actually it was done by my father, but he has passed away..."

It seems that only when I tell others about this matter, the sadness that has been hidden deep in my heart will be completely released.

Liuhua's voice trembled, and then immediately became a little tearful. Halos of light flowed in her eyes, accumulating a few drops of sad tears.

"All along, everything I imagined was fake. Mom took me to my father's grave. He was lying under that tombstone. I will never see him again."

Beautiful fantasies will be shattered in the face of cold reality. Blood-red strokes ruthlessly carved her father's name on the monument. Only when her hand touched the name did she truly realize that her father had indeed been taken away.

"My father taught me how to make this swing, and he was the one who hung it up. But not long after he helped me hang it up, he disappeared. My sister and mother told me that he went out to work."

"Liar! They are all liars! Mom and sister are liars too, as are the Evil King's True Eyes. None of them are real!"

Rikka stood up and wanted to open her schoolbag and use tweezers to remove her contact lenses, but she gave up after realizing that she didn't bring her schoolbag with her.

She reached out and grabbed the railing, as if she wanted to continue climbing up the railing and take the swing down.

Her tailoring skills were actually learned from her father, and this simple swing was actually made under his guidance.

Now, the only thing that carries the memories of her father is right in front of her. Rikka is determined to hold it tightly in her hand no matter what. This is the most real thing to her.

Chapter 30 Happiness First

Countless soft bamboo strips are cross-woven together to form the base of the swing. The originally bright green hemp rope has become dull after being exposed to wind and rain for so long.

Rikka tried hard to take it off, but she was unable to do anything and could only blame herself for being powerless.

The Evil King's True Eye is omnipotent, but now she can't take down the iron hook hanging high up, and can't find her missing father. In the face of reality, all fantasies are so pale and powerless.

The yearning for extraordinary abilities, the gradually deepening fantasy, and the self-indulgent addiction eventually turned into ashes in the face of the bleak reality.

The Evil King's True Eye shouted the Evil King's True Eye's real name and shot a sky-high laser into the clouds, causing the surrounding wind and clouds to change, the heaven and earth to change, and purple lightning to burst out, destroying all enemies and difficulties that stood in his way, leaving only his own confident and passionate figure.

This is all a lie.

"Rikka!"

"elder sister?"

An anxious voice came from the entrance of the park. Rikka looked confused and saw that the person in front of her was her sister, Juuka.

After shouting, Jukka quickened her pace and walked straight towards Rikka.

Thinking that her sister was going to blame her for being ignorant, Rikka timidly closed her eyes, but felt herself being enveloped by a warm embrace.

Touka opened his arms and hugged Rika tightly, burying her in his chest, as if he was afraid that she would disappear again.

She took off her hat and put it on Liuhua's head, then wiped away the tears on Liuhua's face. Looking at her red ears due to the cold, she felt so sorry for her sister.

"......elder sister?"

Rikka called out to her sister, but found that the body that was hugging her was shaking as if she was sobbing.

Is Touka, who never shows her emotions on her face, always appears stern and serious... crying?

"It's my fault... from the beginning. I could have just said it out loud, but I kept it a secret from you. I also lied to you together with mom, causing you to suffer all this time."

Touka's voice came out, and she took all the blame on herself, as if all this happened because of her.

But this idea was indeed hers in the beginning. Although her intention was good, she did not expect that Rikka would become like this.

"Sister Touka, don't feel too guilty about this. Rikka is fine." Touka's words moved Takahashi Feng, and he comforted her.

Even though it was Touka and her mother who coaxed Rikka together, Touka was the only one who continued to spend time and effort on Rikka. It can be said that Touka was the one who suffered the most during this period.

Takahashi Kaede is a bystander, and his perspective is the clearest.

But that didn't stop Shihua from adding psychological pressure to herself.

Takahashi Feng climbed up the railing and removed the two hooks hanging on the top bar. The swing carrying Rikka's memories fell to the ground, flattening the snow on the ground.

Seeing this, Rikka crawled out of Touka's arms and stretched out her hand to go somewhere, but was blocked by Takahashi Kaede.

"Rikka, do you think your sister is having a hard time?"

"Feng, don't talk about this with Rikka, there's no need—"

"Sister Shihua, please don't speak yet."

Takahashi Feng interrupted Juhua. He wanted to resolve the matter today, regarding Rikka's thoughts and her future plans.

No matter how sad I am inside, or how much I want to regain my memories with my father, I cannot put myself in the dangerous ice and snow, cut off all means of contact with myself, and cause my family members who are most worried about me to suffer in vain.

Until now, her grandparents may still be anxiously waiting for news from her at home.

"...Sister, she doesn't understand me."

Rikka really wanted to nod and agree with what he said, but for some reason, she felt a little unconvinced in her heart.

She obviously had no idea what Takahashi Kaede was thinking. She was still a junior high school student and it was difficult for her to think from her family's perspective.

But Takahashi Kaede will think from Touka's perspective for her.

"Your sister really doesn't understand you, so she attacked me in the middle of the night just to ask for some information about you."

"Huh?" Rikka was dumbfounded.

"You keep saying things she doesn't understand and doing things she can't comprehend. She's worried about your mental health and whether you'll have problems in the future, so she came to me, the bridge for your communication, just to get to know you better."

"Even though she still only half understood it in the end, did you notice that she never doubted the things you wanted to buy, or the lame excuses you made up to leave mom and come to play with me? It can be said that your sister is definitely a big contributor to your success in being a middle school student."

Rikka lowered her head. Through Takahashi Kaede's words, she realized that everything about her and her chuunibyou was closely related to her sister.

"Rikka, I don't want you to condemn your own morality, or to wake up completely from my words, suppress your emotions, and become a good kid that no one needs to worry about. I don't even want to say that Chuunibyou is a bad thing."

After being forced to face the truth by her mother, Rikka began to doubt everything, whether it was her sister and mother, or the second year syndrome, which was what Takahashi Kaede least wanted to see.

"In fact, your mother and your sister have never lied to you, and the Evil King's True Eye has never betrayed you... This is because the anti-magic energy carried by people in modern society is too strong, which makes it ineffective and unusable."

"Feng? What are you talking about?" Tohka didn't understand what Takahashi Feng wanted to say to Rikka.

"Really? But..." Rikka was obviously a little unconvinced.

"Don't worry about whether it's true or not. Why should you worry about it? You should believe the statement that is most beneficial to you. When your father passed away, since your mother and sister's statements were most beneficial to your situation at that time, you believed them. When you found that this idea could not keep up with the changes, when the Evil King's True Eyes and the 'Invisible Boundary Line' became better statements, you turned to believe this."

"If what you saw today makes you devastated and makes you doubt that everything is fake, then everything that happened today is fake. Rikka, all of us just want you to be happy and put your troubles behind you. It doesn't matter even if you keep shouting 'The Evil King's True Eye is the strongest!' But if you choke yourself because of something like this, I will be worried about you, your sister too, and of course Ichiri too."

Rikka looked at Goto Ichiri, who nodded quickly.

"Xiao Feng is right! You must cheer up, Kotori!"

Although Goto Ichiri's words of encouragement were a little halting, he managed to finish them completely.

"Although I cannot completely agree with Feng's point of view, but...Rikka, I still want to see you wearing an eye patch and smiling foolishly every day. No matter what, you are my sister. If you can always be happy, this is definitely the most important thing to me."

Although she was somewhat disdainful of Takahashi Kaede's flexible attitude towards things, Tohka did not deny that it could make Rikka's life easier.

"So... do I still need to look for the 'invisible boundary'?"

"Find."

"But Dad he has already..."

Because the memory just now was too vivid, Rikka could no longer believe it easily.

"Who told you that death is the end of life? Has anyone ever proved that people no longer exist in this world after death?"

Gao Qiaofeng suddenly became a little excited.

"No one can prove it! That is to say, there are countless possibilities for what will happen after death. Rikka, your current situation is essentially the same as before. Jukka has been telling you that your father has passed away. You didn't believe her at that time and were determined to find the 'invisible boundary line'. But why did you believe it when you saw your father's tombstone?"

“Don’t doubt yourself, don’t deceive yourself, believe that your own ideas must be correct. The first step to success is to affirm your own beliefs, and then work hard for them. If you fail in the first step, then everything will be in vain!”

Takahashi Kaede said these words with great determination, and his seriousness made Touka and Goto Ichiri feel a little strange.

But they didn't know that Takahashi Kaede was a reincarnated person and had experienced this kind of thing himself, which was why he was determined to let Rikka grasp that almost ethereal glimmer of hope.

If this were a world-wide chuunibyou competition to choose the person who most firmly believes in imaginary magic and miracles but is not mentally ill, the champion would definitely be Takahashi Kaede.

He doesn't believe in magic and miracles, he is magic and miracles itself.

He may keep this secret forever, but he will never regard it as an accident, he will keep it in his heart forever.

"What if I can't find it?"

At this time, Rikka and Takahashi Kaede switched roles. Takahashi Kaede was a pure chuunibyou, and she was the one who was suspicious.

“Asking for something but not getting it is always the most common thing in the world. The key lies in what you get when you ask for it.”

Success after hard work is a luxury that cannot be more luxurious. Only the second generation of rich people can afford luxury goods.

They are all mortals, and being able to taste the sweetness of hard work is the most they have gained.

At least Takahashi Kaede doesn't ask for more.

"...Teacher, I understand." She felt that the tangled thoughts in her mind were slightly sorted out.

It seems that everything is just as Takahashi Kaede said, as long as you live in the most comfortable way, as for the result, it doesn't matter what.

Rikka squatted down, picked up the swing, and stood up with the help of Jukka.

"I will continue to inherit the title of Evil King True Eye and will not let my family worry about me anymore!"

"well said!"

Takahashi Feng was very satisfied with Rikka's attitude and touched her head.