After being elected as the governor of Tokyo, he will debut as a band!

Then she saw Toyokawa Shoko arguing fiercely with a girl she had never met before, and Chihaya Aine was also present.

Aoyama knew that Toyokawa Shoko was going to confront Nagasaki Motoyo that night, and he quickly realized that the top floor of that high-rise building must be where the Nagasaki family lived.

"Miss Mori...you just said that the brown-haired girl who was confronting Miss Toyokawa has been kneeling on the ground for a long time?"

"Yes, at least that was the case before I came down."

"Miss Toyokawa didn't help her up?"

"Yes, at least that was the case during the time I was observing with a telescope."

Qingshan thought for a moment and figured he didn't have anything else to do anyway, so he might as well go and check on the situation.

Toyokawa Shoko is sharp-tongued; she shouldn't make Nagasaki Motoyo depressed.

……

That's why we have the scene where Aoyama suddenly appears in front of Toyokawa Shoko and Chihaya Aine.

Besides him, Mikasa Hatsuka also came along.

Because the two elevators arrived at the 50th floor very close together, it felt as if the two people had arrived together.

Igomachi Music Awards: 106 How come Hatsuka is so elusive?

"How did you get here...?"

Toyokawa Shoko didn't dare address Aoyama Muka as "Mr. Hack," for who knows what identity he was using now...

Toyokawa Shoko didn't want to accidentally use the wrong title and cause others to find out that "Tokyo Governor Aoyama Muka and rock musician Hack are the same person." If that happened, even if Aoyama Muka wouldn't hold a grudge against her, it would definitely lower her rating in her eyes.

"It's just a coincidence."

Aoyama answered her question and then walked over to Nagasaki Motoyo, squatting down to check on her.

"...Ms. Nagasaki Motoyo? Are you alright?"

Motoyo Nagasaki did not respond to his question.

He pondered for a moment, then gently touched Nagasaki Motoyo's forehead with his hand, allowing himself to see her face...

Only then did he realize that the seemingly precocious girl had actually fainted.

It seems to have been caused by a strong mental shock.

Aoyama touched her neck and pulse to confirm that Nagasaki Motoyo had simply fainted and was not suffering from any health problems, then waved his hand behind him.

His intention was to signal to Detective Mori, who had come with him, to carry Nagasaki Motoyo to the sofa inside the house and lay her down. For someone who had fainted, lying flat was the most reliable way to handle the situation.

Although Nagasaki Motoyo fainted, she was not seriously injured, which was fundamentally different from the time when Takamatsu Akari "jumped into the river". Therefore, Aoyama refrained from touching her to avoid suspicion.

But to his surprise, the person who rushed over and picked up Nagasaki Motoyo was not Mori, but a girl with bright blonde hair.

"Please let me do it," she said firmly, then picked up Nagasaki Motoyo around the waist, and together with Chihaya Aine, who took the opportunity to support Nagasaki Motoyo's buttocks, they carried her steadily into the house.

Aoyama was taken aback. Who was this person? When did she come here? And she seemed to be quite strong. She didn't look like a weak girl raised in a metropolis who lacked physical strength. She looked like a farm girl who had done a lot of farm work since she was a child.

Even more surprised than him was Toyokawa Shoko, because the blonde girl was none other than her childhood friend, Mitsumi Hatsuka.

"Hatsuka? Why is she with Haksan...?"

She muttered to herself in a low voice that only she could hear.

Aoyama turned to Mori and asked, "Who is this girl? When did she come up here?"

“Um,” Mori leaned in and whispered, “she’s the backup guitarist for Sumimi, Misumi Hatsuka… As for why she’s here, she’s probably worried about Toyokawa-san, so she came here on her own. Maybe because she was a step behind us and happened to take a different elevator upstairs, we didn’t see her just now.”

"It turns out she is..."

As Aoyama stared at Mitsumaki Hatsuka's retreating figure, he noticed a resemblance between her blonde hair and that of the Ijichi sisters, and a sense of uncertainty crept into his mind—

That guy, Nantian Yourui, did he find out somewhere that I often go to Shimokitazawa to meet the owner of the Shinsei Exhibition Hall? Is that why he sent this girl with hair color similar to Hoshika over? On the surface, it's a gift for me, but is he actually hinting at something to me?

We should then arrange for someone to approach him indirectly and ask him about it.

As for now, let's deal with the issues with Toyokawa Shoko and Nagasaki Motoyo first.

He turned to look at Toyokawa Shoko, who was still standing there in a daze.

"Miss Toyokawa, is Miss Nagasaki Motoyo your friend? She's fainted. Aren't you going in to check on her?"

"Eh? I..."

Toyokawa Koko subconsciously took two steps forward, but then stopped.

No, I can't be soft-hearted here. Otherwise, when Nagasaki Motoyo wakes up, she'll definitely feel guilty for her fainting and then ask me again to... revive Crychic.

She convinced herself of this.

"Ms. Toyokawa?"

“Um, Mr. Hack…” Because Mikawa Hatsuka, Chihaya Aine, and Nagasaki Motoyo had all run inside, Toyokawa Shoko dared to call him by name, “I think I might not be suitable to go in…”

"Oh? What's the reason?"

“There is a certain difference in opinion between me and my classmate, Motoyo Nagasaki.”

"So what? Does having disagreements mean you can't care about each other as friends?" Aoyama found it a bit baffling. "People from two factions who are arguing fiercely in a meeting might be close friends in private. Disagreements are disagreements, and friendship is friendship. As long as you stick to your principles, you won't agree to things that go against your principles because of soft hearts, personal favors, or any other reason."

"In other words, if you don't even have confidence in sticking to your principles, then don't even think about building a famous band. No matter who you are, you will face countless pressures that force you to give up your principles in the process of becoming famous. These pressures don't just come from family, friends, or school, but may also come from places you can't imagine, enough to drag anyone with a weak will into a quagmire."

Aoyama's words made Toyokawa Shoko waver. She wasn't convinced, but rather wanted to prove to Aoyama that she had the ability to "stick to her principles".

A few seconds later, as if she had made up her mind, she walked slowly toward the open door of the Nagasaki family home.

But just then, a girl with light green hair came out.

"Xiao Mu?"

Shoko Toyokawa then remembered that during their previous phone call, Motoyo Nagasaki had mentioned that she and Mutsu had been spending time together.

“It really is you, Xiangzi,” Xiao Mu looked at her, a contemptuous look she had never seen before appearing in her eyes. “Only you could use words to describe Su Shi like that…”

"Xiao Mu, what are you saying?"

Although Xiao Mu's voice was exactly the same as the one Toyokawa Shoko remembered, her eyes and tone of voice made Shoko feel unfamiliar.

"Alright, come in. You brazen fool. If it were anyone else who had hurt Su Shi like this, I would have taught her a lesson. But since it's you, Xiangzi, I can only say that Su Shi brought this on herself."

Without waiting for Xiangzi to react further, she suddenly reached out, grabbed Xiangzi's arm, and dragged her inside.

"Wait, wait a minute!"

The unexpected force caused Xiangzi to stumble. She tried to break free, but no matter how hard she tried, Xiao Mu's hand holding her arm wouldn't budge.

The disparity in strength is the most direct form of threat. Xiangzi's previous ease in dealing with Nagasaki Motoyo has vanished, and she is unable to mount any meaningful resistance against Mutsu in this state.

Now Toyokawa Shoko could truly sense that something was wrong with the little girl in front of her.

Isogachi Music Awards: 107 Mutsumi doesn't want to go back to the way things were.

Looking at the completely unfamiliar Wakaba Mutsu in front of her, Toyokawa Shoko's heart was thrown into turmoil.

Could it really be as Su Shi said, that Xiao Mu developed psychological problems and her personality changed drastically because I didn't play in her band?!

No, no... I didn't want Xiaomu to join Mizhong because it was for her own good, not because I wanted to harm her!

Why did this happen.

Can Xiao Mu be restored to its original state?

Toyokawa Shoko was in a state of utter confusion. Since she didn't know why Wakaba Mutsu had changed in this way, she naturally didn't know how to "cure" it.

In her mind, the most capable person she knew, and the one most likely to be able to cure Xiao Mu, was Aoyama Xiang.

So, while using all her strength to resist Wakaba Muku's dragging, she turned her head and cast a pleading look at Aoyama with tearful eyes.

"Haksan, help me..."

Aoyama was also very interested in Wakaba Mutsu's current state, since the other party might be like himself ten years ago, with two souls fused in one body, so he called out to Wakaba Mutsu.

"Xiao Mu? Let go of Miss Toyokawa. She can go in and see Miss Nagasaki Motoyo by herself."

"Oh, isn't this Lord Aoyama? I'm sorry, I didn't see you earlier."

Wakaba Mutsu immediately released his grip on Toyokawa Shoko's arm. "Since Lord Aoyama has said so, then Shoko, you can go in by yourself."

"Xiao Mu, how did you know he was Qingshan..."

Shoko Toyokawa was stunned by Mutsu Wakaba's uninhibited remarks.

"Because Lord Aoyama showed me what he looked like after he took off his mask... right here in his house."

The day that Aoyama took Wakaba Mutsu to Aoyama Yukio's house and met three legendary figures from the former Tojo Clan can be considered the turning point for the birth of Wakaba Mutsu's Metis personality.

If it weren't for the experiences that night and the following morning, even if Wakaba Mutsuki's Metis personality still had been born, it certainly wouldn't be the personality it is now.

"What? Mr. Hack actually brought you home?"

Toyokawa Shoko quickly grabbed her hand and asked with great concern, "D-Did he do anything strange to you?"

"Hey, Ms. Toyokawa Shoko, isn't it inappropriate to ask such a question in front of me?"

Aoyama's lips twitched slightly, but he managed to suppress an embarrassed expression.

"What are you saying, Xiangzi?" Ruoye Mu took the posture of an elder lecturing an unreliable junior, and even reached out and tapped her on the forehead.

"it hurts."

"Your Excellency Qingshan and I are like heroes admiring heroes, that's why none of the vulgar things you're imagining happened."

"Eh?"

Seeing Toyokawa Shoko's bewildered expression, Wakaba Mutsuko knew that the other woman couldn't understand the feelings between these heroes, so he impatiently nudged her back, urging her to go to the living room to see Nagasaki Motoyo.

Aoyama also instructed his bodyguard, Mori, to stand by the elevator for a while.

This gives the two of them some space to be alone.

"Miss Wakaba...may I call you that?"

“This name belongs to Xiao Mu, and I’m not used to it. Please call me Metis.”

“Alright, Metis… The people from the Dojima board have already reported your current situation to me, but there are some private issues that they can’t understand as outsiders, so they still have to ask you in person…” Aoyama’s eyes behind his sunglasses gleamed with a probing light, “Would it be convenient for me to ask you a few questions that might involve your personal privacy?”

“Lord Aoyama, please feel free to ask,” Ruoye Mu (Mo) said with a hearty laugh. “I, Metis, have always been upright and honest in my conduct, and I have no secrets that I cannot tell anyone.”

"Alright, first of all, I'd like to ask... Miss Metis, are you someone's reincarnation?"

? ”

"No, I don't have any memories of my past life. Even my current memories are from Xiao Mu."

"I see. Then, for the second question, what factors led to your birth? Did they have anything to do with the day I took you to my father's residence?"

“I don’t know the specifics… but I think my appearance stemmed from Mutsu’s wish,” Momo said with a look of reminiscence. “Mutsu wanted a powerful friend or relative to help Su Shi, Xiang Zi, and many others. That day, Dojima and Saejima left a deep impression on her, so she gave this powerful ‘friend or relative’ a ‘righteous underworld’ cloak, and then, I appeared.”

"So, is this dissociative identity disorder? Don't you need to see a doctor?"

"Why go to the doctor? Isn't this better? The taciturn Mutsu and I, who are good at solving problems with my fists, complement each other. At the same time, even if I control the body, Mutsu can always know what's going on 'outside,' and vice versa." Ruoye Mutsu (Mo) looked very relaxed, and her two personalities seemed to get along well. "It doesn't affect our lives, and it won't cause too much trouble for the people around us, so why bother the doctor?"

“You should have said these words to Ms. Nagasaki Motoyo…” Aoyama thought of the words he had heard from Shiina Tatsuki, “That way she wouldn’t feel so guilty now.”

"People will only believe what they want to believe, won't they?"

Moku smiled and said, "Just like Minami, even though Moku didn't intend to play the role of a gangster, that doesn't stop Minami from thinking that way."

Aoyama fell silent; the girls' thoughts were no harder to fathom than those of the councilors in the capital.

Especially these former Crychic members, they're all like the EVA pilots, always getting stuck on inexplicable things, the kind that can't be swayed by anything.

People are inherently selfish; they will choose to believe information that benefits them and spread it to others.

On one hand, Nagasaki Motoyo cares about Mutsu, but on the other hand, she wants to use Mutsu's psychological problems to put pressure on Toyokawa Shoko in order to achieve her goal of reviving Crychic.

In this situation, even if Xiao Mu told her that the changes in her had nothing to do with the band, she wouldn't believe it. Instead, she would think that Xiao Mu was just being sensible and saying it to avoid making herself feel guilty or embarrassing Xiangzi.

Metis was also powerless to do anything about it; she couldn't very well go and beat up Nagasaki Motoyo, could she?

The conversation between the two did not last long. In the few seconds that Aoyama was silent, Chihaya Aine suddenly rushed out.

"Xiao Mu, and Mr. Hack! Something terrible has happened! Sumi's Chu Hua suddenly invited Xiao Xiang to form a band, and Su Shi jumped up from the sofa as soon as she heard that. Now the two of them are facing off, and I can feel the tension in the air..."