Mygo, Takamatsu Touma wants to reverse the future

"I didn't say that—"

In the blink of an eye, Gao Songdeng looked around and spotted a disposable ballpoint pen and a sheet of white draft paper on the table in the room. She quickly walked over to the table and tore off a page of draft paper.

"I'll write the first one right now!"

Takamatsu Akari leaned over the table and began writing intently. Toyokawa Shoko could even see the corners of her mouth barely concealing a smile.

"Wait, wait! Who gave you permission to do this now—"

The blue-haired girl reached out to try to stop it, but unfortunately, the draft paper, still warm from her body, had already fallen into her hands.

"Here! This is... the second sticky note for Xiaoxiang!"

Takamatsu stood up, his eyes gleaming with victory.

"This is the second sticky note I sent to Xiaoxiang. I got to talk to him today, and I'm so happy. I hope to see him again tomorrow!"

Toyokawa Shoko's hand recoiled as if burned, but she eventually took the draft paper.

Although she desperately didn't want to admit it, the moment their fingertips touched, she felt something welling up from the bottom of her heart, a bittersweet feeling.

Shoko Toyokawa's fingertips lightly traced the rough edge of the draft paper. Takamatsu Akari's crooked handwriting reminded her of the lyric drafts scattered all over the floor in the old Crychic practice room.

That was indeed... a wonderful time...

Shoko Toyokawa thought about it, but then quickly shook her head, indicating that she couldn't think about it anymore.

She's the captain of Ave Mujica now, no... she can't think about the past anymore!

"Well, let's just leave it at that for now."

Even if you've decided to establish contact with Takamatsu Akari...

But she still needs to think carefully about how their relationship will develop and how they should get along!

Volume 3, Ten Years of Mygo: Preview Reminder: This chapter picks up where the main storyline after the music festival left off.

Something came up tonight; I'm busy writing my graduation thesis and trying to meet my full attendance bonus. I'll just finish the two chapters I jotted down while slacking off at work first. If you think you'll read them early, you can subscribe later. I'll continue updating the music festival content tomorrow. (100 words)

Volume 3, Ten Years of Mygo: Chapter 1, Ten Years of Mygo

As I stepped through the door, a halo of light spread out in front of Takamatsu Teng.

There's a difference between a bedroom door and a wooden door. If the truth lies behind the wooden door... then the key to finding the truth lies behind the bedroom door...

But she could hold the key in her hand.

A faint scent of incense filled his nostrils, and a white mist appeared and disappeared. The cold air made Takamatsu Akari shiver involuntarily, and then he opened his eyes.

"here it is?"

The short-haired girl looked around; everything was unfamiliar.

An unfamiliar ceiling, a wooden desk, a bedside lamp casting a soft glow, the balcony to her left, and glancing sideways, the shimmering moonlight spilling onto the floor—everything was quiet and comfortable.

This atmosphere made her feel comfortable.

Even so, Takamatsu Akari was certain that this was not her usual home; this room had never appeared in her past memories.

She sat up in bed instinctively and went to the bathroom, only to see a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

The girl in the mirror had a touch of maturity on her face. Her short gray hair was meticulously styled, with neatly trimmed bangs. Her pupils were still the familiar amber color, but now they possessed a more ethereal quality…

More importantly, Takamatsu discovered that he had actually grown a little taller than before.

"This

Is it me, but a more mature me?!

Feeling the softness on her cheek, Takamatsu gently stroked her skin with her fingers. After nearly five minutes, she was finally certain.

The body before me is still hers, but... she will grow up in the future.

Behind the door lies a timeline, and it is clear that Takamatsu Teng is currently in a world quite far into the future.

"The time should be visible in the calendar on your phone."

She turned on her phone, and a bright light shone on her face. The time displayed on the screen was 2035, which was far from the 2025 she knew.

This is ten years from now.

"Crychic disbanded as usual, and Mygo brought back Aine and Riki, but under Kasuga Kage's performance, they still fell apart, and afterwards, everyone became like strangers..."

As Gao Songdeng searched for memories of the past ten years of mature lamps, he felt a pang of unease.

For the rest of her first year of high school after the band disbanded, she never spoke to Aine, even though they sat just one seat apart. In her second year, she was assigned to a class without Xiangzi and Aine. She gave up on forming a band and devoted herself entirely to applying to university. Five years ago, she was admitted to a women's university in Tokyo, and a year ago, she graduated and became a children's picture book author with an above-average income, enough to live comfortably on her own.

The house she is currently living in is a rented room where she lives alone.

The bookshelf on the desk was filled with neatly arranged books. The books on the upper shelf were by other authors, while the lower shelf contained her own works, a total of six books.

"The lights in this world are amazing."

Without a band, perhaps she really would have gone down that path; Ai Yin once said that she had such talent.

After calming her mind, Takamatsu stepped out of the bathroom, her calm eyes gazing at the sky outside the balcony. The night sky was bright, and countless stars, like tiny diamonds, shimmered with a cold and mysterious light, giving people a sense of complete peace of mind.

"Was the telescope my dad bought me still well preserved ten years later?"

The balcony is small, and a somewhat old and worn-out astronomical telescope is stacked on a small table and stool, showing that its owner takes great care of it and polishes it regularly.

A sense of loneliness, solitude, regret...

Takamatsu Akari couldn't describe the feelings that were surfacing in her heart at that moment; feeling restless, she decided to go out for a walk.

Choosing to go out at this time was not a good choice. It was close to 2 a.m., and the number of pedestrians wandering outside was quite dangerous. However, Gao Songdeng needed to relieve his depression. After hesitating at the door, he finally went out.

Just to be on the safe side, she brought pepper spray.

"Ten years sounds like a really long time..."

Using ten years to measure life, seedlings will grow, old trees will wither, ten years is enough to change everything, to change a person's life, but perhaps it will change nothing at all.

My thoughts and memories rewind to yesterday.

Aine, Souyo, Riki, Rakuna...

Where are you all now? What kind of work are you doing? Do you still remember music and the old MyGo?

The chill in the air rose with the gray-haired girl's breath. Feeling the cold, Takamatsu Akari tightened the scarf around her neck, and before she knew it, she found herself at the entrance of Haneoka Girls' Academy.

She is no longer a high school student and can no longer revisit those youthful years as bright as the midday sun in summer. Now, she has become a mature adult as she wished.

She wanted to become a mature and capable adult so that she could accomplish more, but after becoming an adult, reality didn't seem to change as much as she had hoped...

Even though they are from different worlds, Takamatsu believes that every lamp has an obsession with crychic and mygo.

But the lights of this world eventually drifted away from everyone, and gradually faded into the distance.

Gao Songdeng stopped walking, neither continuing forward nor leaving, but simply leaning against the golden campus plaque, feeling the cold wind.

"We'll be in a band for life, even if we're lost, we'll keep moving forward together. But now it's been ten years, are you still willing?"

Ten years have passed, and everyone has their own busy lives and rhythms. They are no longer the naive and ignorant high school students they once were, but have taken on the responsibilities of reality and family... To rashly intrude into everyone's daily lives now would probably be truly selfish.

Perhaps this is why the world's lights don't seek out people?

Regret is regret, there's no need to dwell on it. The scars left by the past are always clearly visible, and no one can go back.

The right thing to do is not to bother everyone and to live your own life well. Once the band members start interacting again, all that will be left is pain, as the past has already proven.

Takamatsu Akari can now roughly sense that what the wooden door meant by asking her to find the truth.

If the future behind the door is bleak and hopeless, and everything is beyond redemption, then it is especially important to go back to the key moments of the past and take the initiative to make changes.

Because only in the past, in the early days of mygo's establishment, was it most likely to reverse the future and lead to a happy ending for everyone.

There was no way to get a precise answer in a short time. Takamatsu kicked her legs, got up from her leaning position, and walked towards the nearby 24-hour convenience store. At least for the next few days, she needed to think carefully about how to act in this world.

However, fate often responds to our deepest desires when we least expect it and when we are least expecting it, creating new encounters and connections without our knowledge.

The moment Takamatsu Akari stepped into the 24-hour convenience store, a face that looked nine-tenths like Riki appeared in front of her. The young woman who looked remarkably like Riki was stunned when she saw Takamatsu Akari, and the goods she had just prepared involuntarily fell from her hands.

The only sound spreading in their silence was the crisp thud of goods hitting the sales counter... like the thumping of a heart hitting the ground.

Volume 3, Ten Years Later (Mygo): Chapter 2, Ten Years Later, We Are Friends

Gao Songdeng never imagined that he would meet Lixi so unexpectedly and without any preparation.

Fate, like a playful spectator, arranged this encounter for them, one that could hardly be described as having an elegant beginning.

First target practice, then archery.

In the past, Gao Songdeng believed that she had made preparations in advance and made mental predictions before taking action. But at this moment, complex and unspoken feelings surged into her heart like a surging tide—what could she say to Li Xi ten years later?

"Um... sir, what would you like to buy?"

The black-haired girl dressed in a convenience store uniform spoke first, and Takamatsu Akari immediately saw through her tense expression, which she couldn't fake at all.

Gao Songdeng remained silent, only staring at the shop assistant with his clear eyes. Ten years had passed, but Li Xi's heroic spirit and fierce temperament were still almost the same as before. You could find traces of the past... no, the shadow of reality in every frown and smile.

"..."

Seeing that Takamatsu Akari ignored her, Shiina Tatsuki's face visibly darkened. Her fingers rested lightly on the retail counter, her fingertips slightly cool. She neither gripped nor loosened them, leaving them limply, like someone on the verge of death.

With just this one action from Li Xi, Gao Songdeng's sixth sense led her to conclude that Li Xi was afraid of her.

"Could you give me a small pack of tissues, and two bottles of orange frozen milkshakes? Do they have...panda designs?"

"It's the brand with the panda logo, I don't..."

I remember what the brand was called.

It's not that I don't remember, it's that I simply don't know.

However, in reality, Takamatsu had seen Riki bring panda-patterned drinks to the training room a few times, so it can be inferred that Riki probably likes to drink this kind of beverage, and Riki is a big fan of pandas.

"I'm sorry, we don't carry that kind of drink. It was discontinued three years ago. Please choose another brand."

The business world is like a battlefield, and the turnover of beverage brands is not uncommon in the past decade. Like fallen leaves destined to wither, Orange Frozen Panda Milkshake is just one of the many small brands that have emerged.

Hearing Shiina Tatsuki's friendly and polite words, Takamatsu Akari's lips twitched. She wanted to say something but swallowed it back, and in the end, only a calm and expressionless face appeared on her face.

"Lixi."

Gao Songdeng softly uttered the name of the person she had been longing for.

"..."

However, Shiina Tatsuki's response to her was silence.

"Lixi, how have you been these past ten years...?"

"Well, that's fine. Right now, I'm just doing this waiter job, just enough to make ends meet."

Shiina Riki gave a forced smile and scratched the back of his head.

There were so many things I wanted to say and so many questions for Lixi, but all of them turned into a sigh.

Gao Songdeng exhaled a breath of stale air and did not ask any further questions.

"Then Tomori, what about you? How are you now?"

The black-haired girl turned to the side, not looking at her.

"Me? I'm fine, but... not fine either. Right now, I'm a children's picture book author."

"A children's picture book author? That's what Tomori will do in the future. That's good. Time... has passed so long."

Li Xi's words were full of reminiscence and emotion about the past.

The two of them chatted back and forth, spouting dry, uninteresting talk about old friends reuniting after a long separation, their conversation stiff and rigid.

Throughout the entire conversation, Gao Songdeng made absolutely no progress in understanding Li Xi's current situation.

"It's three in the morning, Tomori. Why are you out now? You should be careful out at this hour."

"Is Lixi concerned about me?" Gao Songdeng asked bluntly.