Heavy girl? I feel worse than Black Hole Trigger!

——I am enough as the “evil guy”.

The words she spoke loud and proudly that day were meant to be heard by only one person.

Toyokawa Shoko glanced at Su Shi's confident expression.

"hehe--"

The corner of the girl's mouth curved into a crooked arc.

"...I should have known this earlier. He has a close relationship with you, so it's only natural for him to tell you."

She had only watched with a smile as the man and the girl interacted. She had truly blessed the pure affection between them.

She certainly would not have thought that her indulgence at that time would eventually become a bitter fruit that she had to swallow.

Xiangzi took a deep breath to calm himself, but he felt a burning sensation in his throat.

What listening... What keeping silent...

In the end, a promise made to someone you met by chance is not as good as a request from Nagasaki Suyo.

……

What else can we believe in?

"I'm all alone now."

Lost Star Chapter 118 Summer Record: Chapter : Self-esteem has been severely damaged

"I really trusted the wrong person."

It was as if I was back to that evening when it was still raining.

The girl stood alone in the light and shadow, as depressed as a drowned rat.

"...But it doesn't matter, no. It's just right."

Nagasaki Suyo frowned, "What are you talking about?"

I saw——

Toyokawa Shoko smiled a smile that was too bright.

"I feel so sorry for you, Nagasaki-san. Loving a man who's full of lies is going to make your future very difficult. Oh, no, I guess you've been deceived to the point of being dizzy, hehe..."

The boiling emotions made her smile full of uncontrollable cruelty. She became more and more excited as she spoke:

"Oh, I can't blame you. He's quite good at making up stories. With his eloquence, he could even fool the teacher at Tsuki no Mori, so fooling a silly little girl like you and me wouldn't be a piece of cake. Now think about it, what's the meaning of opening a shop in a deserted alley? Is he trying to hide something bad?"

"A foolish woman and a cunning man. What a match made in heaven!"

"..."

It was not until the surging blood subsided a little that she came back to her senses from the state of near hypoxia and dizziness.

——What am I doing?

The girl's smile remained unchanged, but she looked completely unmotivated.

Facing the speechless Nagasaki Suyo, Xiangzi turned the raging fire in his chest into words and spit them out.

But she didn't feel even the slightest pleasure.

It was as if everything hidden deep in my heart had been burned by this flame, and the only remaining ashes polluted the air along with the words. There was nothing left in my heart, only waves of emptiness.

"Are you finished?"

"……Um?"

Toyokawa Shoko looked up a little absentmindedly, only to see Nagasaki Suyo looking at her expressionlessly.

Before his brain could even begin to process the situation, he saw Su Shi take an elegant step forward.

"If you're done, I'm going to get started."

The always gentle girl suddenly grinned, a smile that could perhaps be described as ferocious.

Bang————!!!

"..."

Until the tingling sensation on my cheek completely cleared the confusion in my mind.

Xiangzi then realized that he had been slapped... ?

"This palm strike is for Zheli."

The girl in front of me waved her hands leisurely and said.

Her cold eyes touched Xiangzi's dazed expression, and she reached out again to grab the girl's collar. Xiangzi subconsciously placed his fingers on her arm, but seemed to have forgotten how to exert force, so he just gently hooked her clothes. Following her arm up, he saw Su Shi's half-closed eyes and a rather cold expression.

She looked directly into Xiangzi's eyes and asked, "Do you remember that Xiaomu met you a few days ago?"

"...She was, instructed by you?"

"Hmph." Su Shi snorted noncommittally, and raised her "long-range megaphone" with her other hand. "Do you remember this pendant?"

Sushi was taller than Xiangzi, and the way she tugged at his collar was rather rough, forcing Xiangzi to tiptoe slightly to ease the pain. Sushi seemed to notice that Xiangzi's posture was a little awkward, so she loosened her grip slightly to allow him to regain his footing.

"Let me be frank. This is a remote recorder. Xiao Mu hid it in your bag."

Su Shi did not completely let go of Xiangzi's hand on his collar, still forcing Xiangzi to look into her eyes. She just bathed in Xiangzi's gaze, with a cold smile on her face:

"That's how I heard your 'little secret'."

"…………what?"

The words that reached his ears were so absurd that Xiangzi even forgot to ask for an explanation for the slap he had received.

Looking at Xiangzi's dull face, Su Shi's lips curled slightly, but her brows furrowed even deeper. Then she took a step forward, exerting force with her fingers, bringing their foreheads together. Her gaze, like a knife, pierced Xiangzi's eyes at close range:

"Even if Zheli discovered I was eavesdropping, he would absolutely not discuss anything with me."

Su Shi's breath was accompanied by a scorching temperature, but he could not feel any ambiguity. Instead, it was like the fire of hell, so hot that Xiangzi subconsciously wanted to escape.

Then he realized that he was still being held tightly by the other person's iron-like hand.

She could only helplessly stare at her own amber reflection in those azure eyes, letting the words, as gentle as a breeze yet as terrifying as the calm before a storm, linger in her ears like invisible shackles: "Because of a promise you made that you didn't even believe in, he wouldn't even share it with me—even though he knew I had heard the whole story."

"I really don't know. Why do you say that?"

"......" Toyokawa Shoko struggled to hold her breath and slowly opened her mouth: "Let me go."

Swish. Su Shi abruptly untied the restraints, causing Xiangzi to stumble for a moment before he could stand still.

She regained her composure after a few breaths, gently stroking her still stinging cheek, and glared at Su Shi, "What on earth is your purpose in telling me all this? ...Are you here to make fun of me?"

Provoke without reason, get angry without reason, and accuse without reason.

What an unreasonable woman. She really began to doubt Baodeng Zheli's judgment——

"Oh, don't you understand?"

But Nagasaki Suyo suddenly showed a smile that was brighter than flowers, and her eyes were as clear as yesterday; however, because it happened right after those previous words, Xiangzi now felt that the smile was creepy.

"I'm just returning what you did to everyone else."

"..."

——Provoke without reason, get angry without reason, and accuse without reason.

The girl smiled in the sunshine.

Xiangzi seemed to see the weak self who once gave up in the rain.

"Zhe Li doesn't want me to continue to be involved in this matter...but I can't stand it no matter what."

Su Shi put his hands behind his back, not looking into the distance, but just looking at the woman beside him.

"Why can I only watch from afar and wait for Zhe Li to carry all the responsibilities on his shoulders?"

"Why is he still so nice to you even though you've rejected him more than once?"

"Why did you only get his concern after you gave up on yourself?"

"Why did I envy and want to be like you?"

If the person he met at the beginning was the former Toyokawa Shoko.

If only he didn't have to deal with such a troublesome woman like herself.

——Perhaps, he will become happier.

Out of the little awkwardness in the girl's heart...even if it's just a little bit, she wants to try hard to become that person, so that this unreasonable imagination in her heart will be broken, so that one day she can hold her head high and say: I am the best.

That's why she tried hard to take over the girl's responsibilities after Toyokawa Shoko left.

That's why she tried hard to suppress her anxiety and play the role of leading everyone.

...But, as expected, that wasn't the real me.

"so--"

She tried to forget it all.

She tried to remember herself before she met that man.

How she just went with the flow.

How she hated the world.

Bring back those long-lost memories and rekindle the fire that has been hidden deep in your heart because of that person.

"Now," Su Shi said with a smile, "I am also a 'bad guy' like you."

“————…….”

The girl was bathed in the sunshine.

It's like compressing long memories into a short moment.

It was as if there was once a girl who was just one step away from being lost in the long night, and was accidentally illuminated by a ray of dawn.

In that intense moment, the girl raised her head, gently tapped her cheek, and smiled at her.

"It's your turn now."

And Toyokawa Shoko gritted her teeth, slowly raised her hands and raised them above her head——

"Snapped!!"

No more, no less, an equally sharp slap.

Nagasaki Suyo narrowed her eyes, stuck out her tongue, rubbed her cheeks, and looked up into her eyes.

"Then we're even... Hmm. It still hurts after all."

Even though she had just been slapped, she looked relieved, with her usual gentle smile on her face.

"We are both 'worthless' 'evil'——"

"Now, can we finally have a good talk, Xiaoxiang?"

Chapter 119 of Lost Stars: Summer Records: Chapter If You Haven't Been There, You'll Know Why

"My grandfather and uncles were all very kind to me when I was a child."

"Even when I was a kid, I was naughty and had a bad temper and didn't want to go to class, everyone was very kind and tolerant of me."

"So when I grew up, I wanted to seriously meet everyone's expectations and become something that my family could be proud of."

"But it took me a long time to realize that it wasn't a matter of course."

"Once the 'deadline' has passed, members who still haven't demonstrated their 'value' will be marginalized until they make a mistake, whether big or small, and then they will be expelled from the family with a feigned pity."

"It was because my mother bore the heavy burden that should have been placed on me that she gradually became paranoid."

"After my mother 'ran away', it was my father's turn to bear the brunt of the burden, but he's now too busy to take care of himself—"

The girl's fluffy twin ponytails were hanging by her ears.

Somewhere in the distance, birds seemed to be singing, and a breeze rustled the branches.

Toyokawa Shoko turned her back to Nagasaki Suyo and looked up at the cloudless sky.