You are Toyokawa Shoko, then who am I?

Toyokawa Sho recalls the past, "I had a childhood playmate. Although I didn't know her as long as Mu, she was still very important to me. She was more like an object of admiration than a playmate."

"I hope I can stand before her with dignity. This is not only for my self-respect, but also because I don't want to cause her any trouble. No one would want to be seen in their miserable state by someone who admires them."

Toyokawa Sho sighed.

"So I kept thinking at that time that I would never contact her until I solved my problems. I felt that I was in such a miserable state that I didn't deserve to be in front of her. I wanted to overcome the difficulties in life and then tell her with a smile that I didn't mean to avoid her all these years, I was just too busy with work."

"Xiang..."

Li Xi's eyebrows softened, and he looked at Fengchuan Xiang worriedly, "I'm sorry for making you recall bad things. You were so tired, but I still wanted you to comfort me..."

She couldn't help biting her lips, her white teeth squeezing her thin lips hard.

“I’m really terrible…”

When Toyokawa Sho heard this, he did not respond immediately, but walked in front of Li Xi, bent down and lowered his head.

Before Li Xi could say anything, he heard Toyokawa Sho say.

"Try touching it, maybe it will make you feel better."

This invitation is really too surprising.

So much so that Li Xi didn't react for a while.

The silvery blue hair in front of him seemed like a sea of clouds rolling and floating in the boundless sky. The streets were flashing with neon lights, and the sound of cars passing by could be heard from time to time. These elements that can be seen everywhere in daily life, combined with a scene that is not common now, made Li Xi's mind go blank.

Reason told her that she should help Toyokawa Sho up now.

But his hands moved over involuntarily, his fingers sinking into the other person's hair, and unexpectedly... it felt good.

"pain."

However, Toyokawa Sho was hit several times in the face by the bag that Riki had hanging on his wrist, and both sides of his face were hit.

"Ah, the bag...! Sorry, Sho, I forgot I had a bag—"

Li Xi hurriedly withdrew his hand. After a brief thought, he came up with the simplest solution, "I, I'll let you touch mine too!"

Toyokawa Sho looked at the girl in front of him bowing to him, and for some reason he felt as if a girl mustered up the courage to ask her crush out to a small, deserted place, then closed her eyes, handed the love letter to the other person, and then waited for the judgment to come.

He suppressed his smile, put the bag in his hand on the ground, and then touched the black hair that shone with a raven-feather luster without any hesitation.

Lixi's hair is very soft.

It seems that my hair is very hard and I don't usually take special care of it, but in fact it feels like touching smooth silk, soft and very girly. The hair passes through my fingers, as if locking the fresh fragrance on my fingers.

Lixi lowered her head, her teeth biting hard, her little toes wrapped in shoes gripping the soles tightly, and the redness on her ears was growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. When Fengchuan Xiang just touched her, her whole body even trembled.

Just like that, ten seconds passed.

Thirty seconds pass.

A minute passed.

Toyokawa Sho is still touching, and I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but it seems that his technique and rhythm are becoming more and more skillful... ?

"Wait, wait... Xiang, have you touched enough...?"

The girl almost squeezed out these tiny sounds from between her teeth.

"Sorry, it feels so good, I got addicted without realizing it—"

Toyokawa Sho laughed.

Then, as expected, the angry girl raised her head, and her crystal eyes with the evening cherry blossoms as the background were filled with extremely strong emotions.

"But in this way, Li Xi also comforted me, didn't he?"

Toyokawa Sho smiled and said, "So, stop saying bad things about yourself."

"what?"

Li Xi was stunned. "...Is touching your hair considered comforting?"

"Why doesn't it count?"

Toyokawa Sho bent down, picked up the bag on the ground, and continued walking forward with Lixi.

"Simple physical touch is more powerful than words, such as lending your shoulder to someone, holding them in your arms, or, like now, letting them touch your hair."

"Didn't Li Xi feel better when he touched my hair just now?"

When asked this question, Li Xi, whose ears were still burning red, stammered and turned her head away. Her slender fingers subconsciously scratched her palm. After hearing this, she actually missed the feeling just now...

"It seems like you're in a better mood."

Toyokawa Sho joked.

"no!"

Someone is stubborn.

"Then just pretend it didn't happen."

Toyokawa Sho obeyed, "I also told you that if you're in a bad mood again in the future, you can come and ask me to pat your head for a while."

"……May I?"

"of course can."

In response to Riki's question, Toyokawa Sho confirmed it.

This is his most simple understanding of Li Xi.

No matter what Li Xi said.

Just need to affirm her.

She couldn't stand it.

"You've worked so hard. The pressure of studying, the pressure of talent, and the pressure of eagerly wanting to prove yourself—all these things are piled on your shoulders. It must be very tiring."

Li Xi let out a soft "ah".

The simple words were woven into a sharp sword, cutting through the shackles in her heart like cutting through tender tofu.

No fancy words.

It must be tiring to just say this often.

But this is something that everyone would say. For Li Xi, who always puts pressure on himself but restrains himself from showing it, almost no one around him notices it.

It is the simplest and most powerful affirmation.

"I wouldn't say your lack of confidence is wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to be a better version of yourself, someone who can hold their head high. Being able to acknowledge your shortcomings and find ways to make up for them—just being able to do these two things is already amazing."

Toyokawa Sho slowed down his tone, and carefully and patiently helped Li Xi to sort out his worries again.

"Perhaps for a long time in the future, you will be like today, groping forward slowly with confusion and uncertainty. Even after a few years, you will still ask yourself whether you are worthy of standing by my side."

"But that's not a big deal, is it?"

Toyokawa Sho smiled and said, "No matter how many times you ask, I will give you a clear answer. Qualifications are not important. What's important is, thank you for being my drummer."

The wind blows through the night that turns from blue to black.

He walked through the busy streets and approached the two of them.

Li Xi stared blankly at the young man next to him. Both his head and heart were blank. The mist in his pupils slowly blurred his vision, unconsciously painting the other person's figure with beautiful colors.

There are very few people in this world who will pay attention to you from beginning to end.

Will patiently affirm you.

I will gently say that your inferiority complex is not wrong.

She recalled what Yamada Ryo had said to her at noon, saying that she should confirm her position in Toyokawa Sho's heart.

In fact, there is no need to confirm.

She had heard the answer from Toyokawa Sho herself yesterday. She was undoubtedly important to Toyokawa Sho.

But she always felt that Toyokawa Sho said she was important only because she was a member of Crychic. When she met other members in the future, Toyokawa Sho would also say that she was very important and there was nothing special about her.

But now, her views have changed a little.

Maybe I am to Toyokawa Sho.

It's really special, but not necessarily.

puff.

puff.

The sound of my heart beating faster came to my ears.

Li Xi didn't know why she felt so excited about this unconfirmed speculation.

She felt that the answer was right in front of her, like thin paper that could be pierced through with a gentle poke, like a hazy veil that could be untied with the back of the hand, but she could not utter the name of the answer in her heart.

This feeling of being just one step away from success made her very uncomfortable.

But she knew another thing.

That is now, she is more determined to put Toyokawa Sho's affairs before her own.

54

Chapter 54 Full Recall Wakaba Mu and Juewu Lixi.

After coming back from shopping.

Toyokawa Sho's physical strength dropped completely to zero.

If he also had an energy light on his chest, it should be flashing red light continuously.

He did not go to the cafe with other people in the store to celebrate the opening tomorrow, but apologetically declined various invitations and went to the second floor of the museum alone. He found a corner by the window and a red leather sofa to rest well.

Toyokawa Sho recognized at a glance that this was the sofa he had moved from the truck in the afternoon, so he naturally had no psychological burden sleeping on it.

Now the symptoms of insomnia no longer prevented him from going to the land of dreams. Under the dual pressure of physical fatigue and mental exhaustion reaching their peak, he finally broke away from reality and his consciousness fell into a deep sleep.

The first person to discover that Toyokawa Sho was sleeping was naturally Shiina Tatsuki.

She saw Toyokawa Sho go upstairs and thought he was feeling unwell, so she hurried to the staff room to get some medicine.

But when he saw that Toyokawa Sho was hiding up there and sleeping, he breathed a sigh of relief, put the medicine on the table, then went downstairs to get Toyokawa Sho's windbreaker hanging on the stool, and carefully covered him with the clothes, fearing that any big movement would wake him up from his peaceful dream.

The second person to be discovered was Yao Lenai.

She spent the whole afternoon watching Toyokawa Sho busying around, without saying much because she herself was still tormented by the endless sea of questions. However, she left a cup of her favorite matcha parfait for Toyokawa Sho.

Later, she saw Toyokawa Sho go upstairs. She played downstairs for a while, then went upstairs to find Toyokawa Sho with some snacks.

Seeing that Sho Toyokawa was sleeping, she put the snacks on the table, then went downstairs to get the black cat doll she brought with her, and stuffed the doll under Sho Toyokawa's head as a pillow.

The next person to be discovered was Yamada Ryo.

After she showed off her bass on the first floor of the cafe, she happened to encounter other employees teaming up for a solo performance. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't win (because the sound of her bass was covered by the guitar on the other side).

So he made up his mind and resolutely devoted himself to the path of evil. He decided to go upstairs to ask for help and find the real extraterritorial demon king Toyokawa Sho to give his employees a little demon king shock.

But seeing that Toyokawa Sho was actually sleeping, she pondered for a moment and quickly went downstairs. Like Doraemon fiddling with its four-dimensional pocket, she reached into her backpack and fumbled for a while, then took out a string of Buddhist beads with her own entrance sound effects.

Dengdengdengdeng-

It is a rosewood Buddhist rosary.

Now that the devil is asleep.

Then let me help him to be liberated.

Sigh, looking back, the Demon King wasn't a Demon King yet, he was just a cute junior student...

Yamada Ryo shook his head, climbed back to the second floor, walked up to Toyokawa Sho, clasped his hands together, and recited the Great Compassion Mantra to save all sentient beings in a very formal manner. A tear of emotion hung sincerely in the corner of his eye.

The performance was spot on.

But unfortunately, he hadn't read for long before he was caught by Shiina Riki who came back to check the situation.

"Hey……"

Li Xi grabbed the collar of Yamada Ryo from behind, exuding a terrifying aura. Even his beautiful eyes seemed to be hidden in the terrible black bars, and only a flash of frightening murderous light could be seen.

"Does the family have any unrequited wishes?"