Tokyo Soft Rice King

Then Kuroba Akira picked up the pair of red high heels, tiptoed up the stairs, and came to Tashiro Hongxiang's room.

He had originally thought about barging in without knocking, but he felt there was no need for such an extreme move, so he knocked and shouted anyway.

"Ms. Hongxiang, are you there? I want to talk to you about what we talked about before..."

no respond.

Hei Yuming turned sideways and put his ear to the door of the room.

No sound can be heard.

Isn't anyone here?

No, he must be pretending not to be there!

But don’t think you can get away with it this time!

It is definitely not good to enter someone else's room without the owner's consent, but Hei Yuming couldn't care less at this moment.

He simply grabbed the door handle and rushed in.

"Ms. Hongxiang! Let's have a frank talk!"

The curtains in the room were drawn and the lights were off, so it was very dark.

In addition, Miss Hongxiang's room was as messy as ever, and Hei Yuming couldn't see where she was at all.

Maybe he's hiding in the closet... Thinking of this, Hei Yuming walked into the room and wanted to search.

As soon as he walked into the room, Hei Yuming heard hurried footsteps behind him.

Just as he was about to turn around, someone pushed him hard from behind and pushed him completely into Tashiro Hongxiang's room.

The fallen Kuroba Akira quickly turned over and sat up, and saw Tashiro Hongxiang with a complicated expression... But he only saw her for a moment, because she closed the door immediately.

Hei Yuming immediately understood what was going on.

Miss Hongxiang probably expected that I would come to find her, so she hid in the bathroom in advance. When I walked into her room, she rushed out and locked myself in the room.

Sure enough, Kuroba Ming immediately heard a sound of metallic friction. It was Tashiro Hongxiang locking the door with a key.

Probably considering the personal safety of the residents, Kobayashi's bedroom door also has an anti-theft lock. If it is locked from the outside with a key, the person inside cannot open the door without the key.

It's over! I'm going to be imprisoned!

Weird.

I mean, what's the point of locking yourself in the room... Grandma Kobayashi has a spare key and she can open the door too.

Rather, is it necessary to do it so drastically?

As long as Tashiro Hongxiang doesn't move away, there will always be a time when I meet myself... Even if I can escape for a while, can I keep running away forever?

And why would you run away? If you really don't want to be one, why not just refuse?

Hei Yuming was a little confused and felt puzzled. He had no idea what she was thinking, so he stood up and banged on the door and shouted.

"Ms. Hongxiang, I just want to hear your answer. There's no need to go to this extent! Hello? Ms. Hongxiang, are you still there?"

“…I promise you…”

"what?"

"I will become... Ziyin's manager."

"Isn't this a good thing? Then why lock me up? Let's talk about it?"

"..."

She didn't reply, nor did she leave.

Hei Yuming hesitated for a moment, and finally asked the key question that had been lingering in his mind.

"Um, Miss Hongxiang...are you still the 'Miss Hongxiang' I know now?"

"..."

She still didn't answer.

But this time, hurried footsteps were heard.

She left as if escaping.

And Hei Yuming was also certain of this.

The Tashiro Hongxiang at this moment is not the Miss Hongxiang that he knows.

She really has two personalities.

Chapter 140: The situations of the time travelers are different

In fact, Hei Yuming had this feeling a long time ago.

Tashiro Hongxiang probably has two personalities because her changes before and after are so great.

The Tashiro Hongxiang we met before, who was very shy and avoided Kuroba Akira, should be the original Tashiro Hongxiang in this world. It is probably because she has social phobia that she chose a special job like embalmer that does not require much contact with living people.

Let’s just call her Socially Anxious Hongxiang.

Then the one who slept with Hei Yuming after getting drunk was most likely the socially anxious Hongxiang, because all her sleep talking was complaints and crying, and after waking up, she switched to the gentle older sister personality, that is, Miss Hongxiang from another world whose real name is "Tian Hongxiang".

In order to make it easier to distinguish her, let's call her Royal Sister Hongxiang.

Then there should be a primary and secondary distinction between the two personalities. Kuroba Akira guessed that the mature sister Hongxiang should be the secondary personality, and the socially anxious Hongxiang is the primary personality.

After all, these time travelers came from other worlds, while the real Tashiro Hongxiang is a native local.

Then after that drunken incident, the appearances of the royal sister Hongxiang increased. It might be because the socially anxious Hongxiang saw her other self chatting happily with her fellow time travelers, so she gave up her body more frequently.

Also, the reason why the royal sister Hongxiang did not directly agree to be Murasakimiya's agent was because she had to seek the opinion of the socially anxious Hongxiang. After all, the socially anxious Hongxiang was the main personality.

When I think about it this way, many of the things that seemed strange before now have answers.

But at this moment, Hei Yuming still couldn't understand what the socially anxious Hongxiang did. Why did she lock herself up?

And after being locked up, he agreed to be Zi Zhi Gong's agent...

Incomprehensible.

There was a sense that key information was missing.

This information could only be obtained by asking her herself, so Hei Yuming ran to the window through the "garbage pile" under his feet, pulled open the curtains, opened the window and shouted downstairs.

"Ziyin! Help me stop Hongxiang...!"

But it was too late.

Hei Yuming saw that the socially anxious Hongxiang, wearing bathroom slippers, had run out of the Kobayashi family's yard, and for some reason she was holding two bath towels in her hands.

Perhaps because Murasakimiya blocked her way, she did not go through the main door, but ran out from the sliding door of the living room to the yard, which was the same route that Kuroo took to enter the house.

Hei Yuming just watched her run away in the afterglow of the sunset...

Although he hadn't figured out the situation yet, Hei Yuming had a bad feeling in his heart.

So he immediately shouted downstairs.

"Ziyin! Help me call Granny Xiaolin! Ask her to come up and open the door for me! Miss Hongxiang locked me in her room!"

Murasakimiya, who had been running after Tashiro Hongxiang, looked up and heard Kuroba Akira's voice. She immediately replied with a "Okay!" and then turned back into the house to look for Granny Kobayashi.

Fortunately, Grandma Kobayashi lost the mahjong game in the afternoon and was in a bad mood, so she didn’t go to the supermarket to buy things, so she is at home now.

After a while, Grandma Kobayashi came with the key and opened the door for Hei Yuming.

When I opened the door, I saw Grandma Kobayashi with a sour face and said.

"What are you guys doing? I warned you before, don't quarrel in my house, or I'll kick you all out!"

Hei Yuming replied with a wry smile.

"We didn't quarrel..."

"Why did Hongxiang run away crying? What did you do to her?"

"what?"

The socially anxious Hongxiang is crying?

Why?

It was me who was locked up by her, I am the victim...

Hei Yuming was speechless. He didn't understand what was going on, but in order to avoid being punished by Grandma Kobayashi, Hei Yuming hurried to explain.

"I really didn't do anything! I just wanted to ask her about what we talked about before! If you don't believe me, ask Ziyin!"

Zi Zhigong also nodded to prove it for him.

"Mother-in-law, what Mingjun said is correct. It's just that Miss Hongxiang has been avoiding Mingjun for some reason recently, so Mingjun went up to block the door... But other than that, he really hasn't done anything excessive."

After all, he is with me when he is at home. I will not let him stare at Miss Hongxiang's breasts... Zi Zhigong muttered in his heart.

Grandma Kobayashi also trusted Kuroba Akira's character and didn't think that he was the one who bullied Tashiro Hongxiang and ran away, so she just waved her hand and said.

"Forget it...Anyway, if you have any trouble, you'd better solve it on your own."

"Yes, yes, I'll take care of it right away."

Grandma Kobayashi didn't want to get involved in these troublesome matters, so she left with her hands behind her back.

Then, just as she came downstairs, another door opened.

"It's so noisy... What's going on with the plane?"

Hijikata Isamu, who was woken up, frowned and scratched his head to check the situation outside. This was originally his sleeping time, so he was very unhappy to be woken up.

After Hei Yuming saw him, he suddenly had an idea and said to him.

"Hijikata-san! I have something to ask you!"

"Uh?"

Hijikata Isamu was confused, and Kuroba Akira pushed him back into the room by the back, and then followed him in.

Zi Zhigong originally didn't want to enter other men's rooms, but when she saw Hei Yuming go in, she wanted to follow in, but was stopped by Hei Yuming at the door.

"We're going to talk about topics between men, so I'll have to ask Ziyin to step aside for a while."

Of course it was nonsense. Hei Yuming wanted to talk about things related to time travel, so it was not good for Zi Zhigong to hear it.

"Um...Okay then. I'll go downstairs and wait for you."

"Well, let's go!"

After sending Zi Zhigong away, Hei Yuming closed the door.

When Hijikata Isamu saw his gloomy expression, he suddenly panicked and said fearfully.

"Uh, Ming, I'm not interested in that... I mean, don't you already have a girlfriend as beautiful as Zi Zhigong?"

"Bah! What are you thinking! I just want to confirm something with you!"

"What's the matter..."

Hei Yuming pointed at him with certainty as if he was accusing a criminal.

"Hijikata-san! Your name in your previous life should be 'Fang Yong', right?"

"Huh? Uh uh uh..."

When his name in his previous life was suddenly revealed, Hijikata Isamu was shocked. His sleepy head suddenly became clear, as if someone had opened a box on the Internet.

"How did you know?!"

"Because the names of us time travelers change in a certain pattern. My name was Bai Yuming in my previous life, and Miss Tadashi's name was Tian Hongxiang. I guess the late Mr. Xiaolin's original surname was Lin. Our given names haven't changed, but our surnames have undergone subtle changes, so I guess yours is the same."

"Is that so... Ah, I understand. No wonder Granny Kobayashi occasionally calls you Baizi... Because you're a kid with the surname Bai, so Baizi! Brilliant!"

After discovering the secret behind Kuroba Akira's nickname, Hijikata Isamu pounded his palms, similar to the reaction of Tashiro Hongxiang before.

Kuroba Akira mentioned the name in order to quickly get to the point. He now wanted to figure out whether Tashiro Hongxiang's dual personality was unique to her or a common trait among time travelers.

"Hijikata-san... I might as well just call you Uncle Yong. Uncle Yong, do you have a second personality?"

"Huh? Where do I get a second personality... Oh, I see. You want to know where I am in this world, right?"