MyGO? The string value monster craves the band girl!

Could it be that after graduating from college, Genjumaki-kun still wanted to reminisce about his youth, so he transferred to Tsuki no Mori?

While Shoko Toyokawa was daydreaming, she suddenly felt a pair of hands on her shoulders with a "click".

"Okay, now it's time to sit down and talk to me calmly, right? I'm not like Xin, who smiles happily even when I sleep. If I don't smile, it means someone else will have to smile even less."

As the hands on his shoulders exerted a little force, Xiangzi, whose calves were sore, was pushed back into the chair obediently.

"How did Genmaki-kun know Nagasaki Suyo?"

Seeing that Genmaki Yuiya had returned to her seat, Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but ask.

"In the final analysis, this matter was caused by you, Xiangzi."

So, Toyokawa Shoko listened with mixed feelings as Genmaki Yui finished telling the whole story of how he and Nagasaki Suyo met in the cafe.

"So it was Genmaki-kun who wanted the rights to Kasuga Film that day? Since you can tell it was my composition, you should just contact me directly. Getting involved with someone like Nagasaki Motoyo who only thinks about herself will only lead to endless trouble."

"I don't have Ms. Toyokawa's contact information, and it would be rude to call her directly after asking someone for your phone number. It would be better to pass it on through Nagasaki, who has been managing the band's account." Genmaki Yui seemed to have no fear of the "continuous troubles", and her face did not show any sign of being frightened like Toyokawa Shoko.

"...At least please, as a friend, Genjumaki-kun, don't tell Nagasaki Sushi about my situation."

He temporarily gave up the idea of ​​escaping, and his confrontational personality was suppressed by the even more confrontational Xianjuan Wei. Xiangzi, who was cutting tiramisu into pieces, sounded much softer.

"Of course that's no problem. Xiangzi is my friend."

The smile and look on Xianjuan Wei's face as she slowly stirred the sugar cubes with a cup and spoon made Toyokawa Shoko feel a little uneasy and scared - it was exactly the same as when he had just said such rude words, "Whether it's ten or a hundred, one day, a year or a lifetime."

Toyokawa Shoko's ominous premonition was immediately fulfilled. After picking up the teacup and tasting the liquid that had turned into sweet tea, Genmaki Yui recalled with a tone of emotion and admiration:

"But Nagasaki-san is also a girl who left a lasting impression on me. Even after the band disbanded for a year, she's still pursuing the cause of rebuilding it with awe-inspiring passion. Although I haven't had much contact with her, I can sense her passion and sincerity for you, her teammates. Such a profound emotion truly amazes me."

"If Nagasaki-san wants to be friends with me, I don't think I have any reason to refuse."

Shoko Toyokawa, who was eating tiramisu in small bites, immediately changed her expression and almost choked on the cream and cake in her throat.

Xiangzi glared at the guy opposite him who always had a smile on his face. His amber eyes revealed a look of shame and anger that he had never shown even when he was working as a customer service representative.

"Nagasaki Suyo, she has simply trapped herself in the corpse of Crychic, and sees you, Genmaki-kun, as a tool to help her cast her resurrection spell!"

Xian Juanwei was not annoyed at all, but nodded in agreement:

"That makes sense. Nagasaki and I had never met before. It's our first time interacting as strangers, so there's nothing wrong with thinking based on the value they can provide."

"What do you... Genmaki-kun want to say? You can't be reporting to me just because you want to make friends with Nagasaki Suyo, right?"

Xianjuan Wei stretched out his finger and tapped his chest, then pointed at Toyokawa Shoko across from him:

"Shoko is my friend. Helping Shoko hide this means disappointing Nagasaki-san. At least now, the two of you can't smile at the same time."

"Although I also want to bring more smiles to those I see, when two smiles conflict with each other, of course I prioritize preserving the smiles of my closest friends."

"But Nagasaki-san is just as popular as Xiangzi. If Xiangzi starts avoiding me after tonight, I can't guarantee that I won't treat Nagasaki-san as a more important friend than Xiangzi over time, and do her some small favors. (II) Xiangzi is such a reasonable person, so he shouldn't ask me to stop contacting Nagasaki-san, right?"

"I understand..." Shoko Toyokawa sighed, a helpless and haggard smile on her face.

"Friend is such a beautiful word, yet Genjumaki-kun has placed it on the cold scale called relationship balance."

Xianjuanwei carefully savored Xiangzi's fragile expression and gave a friendly explanation.

"Of course, relationships need to be maintained by both parties. For Xiangzi, Nagasaki-san's priority is certainly not as high as Miss Wakaba's, right?"

"...Then please tell me directly, Genmaki-kun. In order for me to become a friend closer to you than Nagasaki Suyo ever was...what exactly do you want me to do?"

Genjumaki Yui pulled up the agency list on her phone again and showed Toyokawa Shoko the ones with the highest priority.

"Come be a music producer, Xiangzi!"

"Well... after all, Genmaki-kun is still giving me charity."

Shoko Toyokawa smiled bitterly and sighed, but ultimately did not directly refuse.

"Xiangzi, don't you think too little of your own abilities? Aunt Mizuho said that Xiangzi's piano skills are no less than those of a professional."

Xiangzi's ability is limited to his professional ability as a musician, and is by no means equal to team leadership, Xianjuanwei silently reminded himself.

"!"

When her mother's name was mentioned again, Shoko Toyokawa's pupils shrank sharply, and it looked like she was trying to hold back the tears that were about to burst out.

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"I appreciate your kindness, Mr. Xianjuan, but please don't mention my mother's name again."

"I agree. Xiangzi, don't be so self-deprecating. Let's discuss the salary based on the typical music producer contract on the market. I will also set corresponding output and performance requirements for Xiangzi. We are just temporary workers, and Xiangzi's hard work and talent should not be buried in a job as unskilled as delivering newspapers."

"Thank you so much, Genjumaki-kun... I will prove that I am worthy of every penny of my salary."

Xianjuan Wei nodded, marked a line on the spreadsheet on his phone, and handed it to Xiangzi.

The "Recent Performance" column of the data row clearly states "Launched the super popular idol group sumimi."

"Although I'm currently in a state of not deciding on a firm and having no development plans, what do you think of this firm, Xiangzi?"

Toyokawa Shoko subconsciously resisted: "I'm not suitable to see Chuhua now."

"Wake up, you're not the newspaper delivery boy Xiaoxiang now, you're the music producer Toyokawa Xiangzi! If you're not planning on bringing Chuhua back to meet your parents, what's there to worry about?"

"Did Xianjuan-kun choose this firm just because Chuhua is there? Isn't that a bit too casual?"

Xian Juanwei leaned back in his chair and spread his hands:

"No matter what I do, there will always be people gossiping about me, saying I'm just playing house, right?"

"Since the young master of the Genjumaki family is making trouble, then adding the eldest daughter of the Toyokawa family would make it seem more normal in the eyes of others, right?"

Upon hearing this, Shoko Toyokawa couldn't help but laugh - although she still felt helpless and unwilling in her heart, she hadn't smiled so sincerely for a long time.

"Well, there's really nothing I can do about that mischievous Genjumaki-kun... Then I'll accept Genjumaki-kun's invitation and play a willful game together."

Chapter 21: Moon Forest? Feels Not as Good as Hanasaki River

After confirming that Xiaoxiang had fallen into the trap, Genjumaki Wei felt that she had done her part in the shock that Miss Marina had suffered these days.

The screen downstairs and Miss Marine's window also died for a good cause.

"So, Xiangzi, are you ready to tell me about the current situation? Why... do you need to deliver newspapers in the middle of the night?"

Xiangzi touched the ponytail at the back of his head with his right hand, avoiding Xianjuan Wei's gaze and said:

"Genjuki-kun, please just assume that I ran away from home because of a quarrel... This is an internal matter of the Toyokawa family, so please don't delve into it."

"Are you quarreling? And your pocket money has been stopped?"

Xianjuan Wei tapped her fingers on the table, looking at the red tracksuit that was absolutely unworthy of Toyokawa Shoko's status, and suddenly her tone turned cold:

"Xiangzi...did your father bully you after Aunt Ruihui left? If he dared to do so..."

"No! It has nothing to do with my father!"

Seeing the boy across the table speaking in a bad tone, Toyokawa Shoko quickly stopped him from saying anything even more outrageous.

Although the other party seemed to be making malicious speculations about her father, Toyokawa Shoko found with some sadness that she did not feel much emotion called "anger" at this moment.

Ever since her father was defrauded of 168 billion yen in company funds and resigned and was kicked out of the Toyokawa family, Toyokawa Shoko, the rich girl who had lived in a honeypot for the past 14 years of her life, has suffered unimaginable hardships in just one year. While working hard to support her alcoholic father and herself, she also has to study hard to win a high scholarship to the Hanaoka Girls' Academy.

Although my feelings towards my father have not yet reached the point of being heartbroken, the image of him, whom my mother called "a man of sincerity," who worked hard to improve himself despite being often scolded by my grandfather, has become increasingly faded.

Even... when outsiders like Xianjuan Wei made malicious speculations about his father, he didn't even have much desire to defend him.

"Not your father?"

Xian Juan Wei seemed a little skeptical, and then continued to ask: "Could it be that you had a conflict with your grandfather?"

"Neither!"

"Xiangzi, apart from these two people in the entire Toyokawa family, there shouldn't be a third person who dares to bully you, right?"

"Mr. Xianjuan, do you have to ask me this hard, just to enjoy my embarrassment? Since you still care about my mother, please consider giving me some face, oh stockings!"

The newspaper deliveryman Xiaoxiang was pushed so hard by her that tears started to fall from the corners of his eyes. Xianjuanwei sighed softly, "Sorry, I won't ask anything that Xiangzi doesn't want to say." Then she opened her Line and asked Xiangzi to add her as a friend so that they could communicate in the future.

When Xianjuanwei opened the Line interface, Xiangzi's eyes uncontrollably swept across the simple interface of the chat history, and lines of text spontaneously drilled into Xiangzi's mind.

"Heart: [Video Call]"

"Okuzawa Misaki: Ahahaha... Next time, I hope I won't make friends with whales anymore."

"Bai Lu Qian Sheng: OK~ The schedule is now free. Please contact me before departure."

"Nagasaki Suyo: Good night, Genmaki-kun should go to bed early too."

Nagasaki Suyo...you sent the message a few hours ago. You are so persistent. I clearly blocked you, but you still found channels other than Mu.

Toyokawa Shoko's face didn't reveal any change in her mood, and she added Genmaki Yui's friend as if nothing had happened.

"Xiangzi, although I won't reveal any information about you to Nagasaki-san for the time being, with Nagasaki-san's amazing mobility, it's not impossible for him to get information about you from other channels."

Shoko Toyokawa looked at the surface of the black tea with a gloomy expression, speechless.

She had witnessed Nagasaki Suyo's terrifying persistence and perseverance with her own eyes.

As for her ability to take action... Although there has been no concrete action from Nagasaki Suyo other than pestering Mu, her act of sending a good night message to Genmaki Yui before going to bed set off alarm bells in Toyokawa Shoko's heart.

As a friend whose relationship is even greater than that of Nagasaki Suyo, Genmaki Yui will keep the secret for her, and Toyokawa Shoko believes this. The heir of the Genmaki family should not bother to lie.

But the behavior of this woman, Nagasaki Suyo, is completely unpredictable. If she and Genjumaki Yui are together every day, there is no guarantee that something that will worry Toyokawa Shoko will happen over time.

Perhaps that woman will pretend to be friendly with Genjumaki-kun in order to find herself... No, even if you think from a normal perspective, it would be difficult to think of a better candidate than Genjumaki-kun as a future partner, right?

No matter whether Nagasaki Suyo is insincere, pretending to be real, or being sincere at that time, once there is a qualitative change in their relationship, can I still expect Genmaki-kun to continue to keep it a secret for me?

Genjumaki-kun had just said it without hesitation… He would make his choice based on the closeness of the relationship. There was no need to ask what the outcome would be when choosing between a close friend and a girlfriend.

In order to prevent Nagasaki Suyo from taking advantage of the situation... perhaps we can expect that the Lower Moon Roll is the type of workaholic who will devote himself to his work once he gets involved?

When the business at the firm opens, should I try to squeeze as much of Xianjuan-kun's time as possible?

"Speaking of which, Xiangzi, Nagasaki-san said you're no longer in Tsuki-no-Mori, and you're not on Hanasakigawa's roster this year... Did you go to Hanegaoka?"

Toyokawa Shoko took a sip of cooled black tea, her expression helpless and exhausted. "Genmaki-kun, besides asking to the end, there's another option called stopping at the right point."

Genjumaki Yui seemed lost in memories. "I heard from Nagasaki that on the day you left crychic, you explained to them that it was for your own reasons and had nothing to do with them."

"But judging by the results... they didn't seem to believe it. It's said that Deng has been feeling guilty ever since you left, believing that his singing skills weren't up to par and that's why the band disbanded."

Upon hearing this, Shoko Toyokawa's fingers holding the teacup trembled slightly, but she immediately turned her head away, and her voice had a tone of giving up.

"I did say some harsh words to Deng that day... but even if I hadn't said those words, what would it matter? Crychic... can't be saved no matter what. Even if I told them everything, they wouldn't be able to help at all. What's the point of saying more than just making them worry unnecessarily!"

"Right now... I can't even pay Tsuki no Mori's tuition. It's obviously better for both of us to live our own lives from now on, but Nagasaki Suyo still thinks that as long as everyone is together, we will still be the same warm crychic... How self-righteous."

"She obviously...if she thinks about it carefully, she should know. I've been attending Tsuki Mori since kindergarten, but I left Tsuki Mori in high school. What other reason could there be? If I leave Tsuki Mori, I can no longer be called a young lady."

Genjumaki Wei suddenly stood up, leaned over and tapped Toyokawa Shoko's forehead.

"Hiss...what are you doing!"

Genmaki Yui scoffed, "Is Tsuki no Mori the proof of your status as a young lady? Who stipulated that? It's not even as good as a single piece of Hanasakigawa's."

"The total assets of the students at Tsuki no Mori are not even as much as the average assets of Hanasakigawa. Girls from your family will be expelled from the upper class if they don't go to Tsuki no Mori? How come I've never heard of such a rule?"

Shoko Toyokawa suddenly recalled a rumor she had heard - the younger sister of the heiress to the Genmaki family, a family synonymous with wealth, the girl who always made her laugh and cry with all kinds of wild ideas when she met her a few times as a child, did not go to Tsukinomori to study, but instead went to Hanasakigawa Girls' Technical High School, where the academic atmosphere was the most lax and the discipline was the worst.

What the directors of Yuezhisen are most proud of is the recognition of the quality of Yuezhisen education by people in the upper class, who send their daughters here to receive the most orthodox education for the daughters of aristocrats.

It’s just that… it’s an undeniable fact that Tsukinomori, known for its strict education, high wealth density, and strong student backgrounds, is left far behind by its neighbor Hanasakigawa in terms of student assets.

"Genmaki-kun... well, your way of comforting me is quite unique. I'll accept your comfort. Unfortunately, now that I'm in Haneda, I feel even more embarrassed to see my old friend."

"Genmaki-kun and your sister should be 17 years old this year, in their third year of high school. Perhaps after your sister graduates from Hanasakigawa, Hanedaoka will be more valuable."

Genmaki Yui shook her head: "There's no hope for Tsuki no Mori in two years. Even if Kokoro graduates, Charlotte will still be there... Tsuki no Mori will still be a loser whose total assets are not as good as the average assets of Hanasakigawa."

Charlotte, a childhood playmate of Genmaki Kokoro, was led astray by Genmaki Kokoro and also wanted to fill the whole world with simle. However, she did not have the same strong mentality as Kokoro. After being ostracized at school, she turned from fan to hater. She transferred thousands of miles to Hanasaki River and wanted to embarrass Genmaki Kokoro and break her defense to complete her revenge, but she ended up becoming a captive of Kokoro again.

Being able to block the big hand of the black-clad man from the Genjumaki family at a specific time and place (within a street), Charlotte's family is not afraid of retaliation from the Genjumaki family because of her funny revenge. They are considered one of the super families in the Bang Bang world second only to the Genjumaki family.

Genmaki Shin and Charlotte, two young ladies whose family backgrounds are exclusively at the T0 and T0.5 levels, did not go to Tsuki no Mori, which is known as the Young Ladies Academy. Instead, they both settled in Hanasakigawa - although given their personalities, if they went to Tsuki no Mori, the next step would be to overthrow the board of directors and turn the school discipline of Tsuki no Mori into the second Hanasakigawa.

"Anyway... I'm very grateful to Genjumaki-kun today for allowing a minor like me, a runaway, to find a more respectable job. It seems that after hearing what Genjumaki-kun said, I don't feel so heartbroken about leaving Moon Forest anymore... It's getting late, so I'll take my leave now and not disturb Genjumaki-kun's sleep."

Shoko Toyokawa stood up from her seat and saluted with impeccable gestures - although such etiquette, combined with her red sportswear, had a strangely funny feel.

"Do you need me to arrange a car to take Xiangzi home?"

"Since I'm too embarrassed to even talk about my current situation... why do you, Genjumaki-kun, still ask me about it when you already know the answer?"

Toyokawa Shoko walked to the escalator and added to Genmaki Yui, who was standing behind her to see her off, "If Genmaki-kun won't even give me a small favor like this, then please take me to the Toyokawa family's old house. Remember to put your bicycle in the trunk. I'll wait until you leave and then ride home by myself."