My youth story cannot be a knight war

Yukinoshita took over the conversation. She clasped her hands on the table, looked at Ye Shan calmly, and said indifferently:

"But please keep your words brief. We are willing to help you, but that doesn't mean we really want to help you. This is an opportunity that Miura-san fought for you. Remember to thank her later."

"Yumiko? I see..."

When Ye Shan heard the name that appeared in Yukinoshita's words, he was stunned, and then his expression suddenly became silent.

"So that's why you guys... you made her worry about me. You really caused her trouble."

"It's good that you know, so tell me, what's bothering you?"

Yukinoshita said in a cold voice, her eyes looking at Ye Shan were full of obvious impatience, and her words were reflected in her tone, which was as cold and sharp as a sword drawn from its sheath.

Anyone could see what her attitude was towards Ye Shan's arrival. She didn't directly order him to leave, which could be said to be entirely out of professional ethics.

But it is basically impossible to expect any good attitude. Even outsiders can clearly see Yukinoshita's attitude towards Hayama, so there is no need for the person involved to say much.

"……sorry."

After a moment of silence, Ye Shan spoke.

"...Huh? I'm asking you what's been bothering you lately. Don't you understand what I'm saying, Hayama-san?"

Yukinoshita raised her eyebrows when she heard that, and her eyes looked at Ye Shan even colder.

"I know, that's why I wanted to say...I'm sorry, Yukinoshita-san."

Bai Duan couldn't help but tighten his hands on his knees. Ye Shan lowered his eyes, slowly raised his head and spoke.

"Actually, I've been thinking a lot about the past lately, Yukinoshita-san, and that's—"

The words stopped in his throat before he could say them, and Ye Shan, looking at Yukinoshita, was suddenly stunned.

He stared blankly at the face in front of him, his eyes frozen by the reflected figure.

"--well???"

Because he saw himself.

……

"Are you looking at Kana?"

"Ah."

A soft voice came to his ears, and Aqua nodded calmly in agreement.

"You actually admitted it..."

Akane Kurokawa sat down next to him with a subtle expression. She leaned against the wall with her hands on her knees, looking at her "boyfriend" in annoyance and muttering to herself.

"Really? I am also——"

"Akane???"

"What's wrong? Did you finally realize—Ah!?"

Hearing Aqua's hesitant voice, Kurokawa raised her head with a smile on her face, but what she saw completely stunned her.

Looking at the black beauty with straight hair sitting next to him with a dazed expression, Kurokawa said subconsciously:

"Aqua...became me?"

“——W-What is this!???”

A cry that was almost like a scream resounded throughout the rehearsal venue. Arima Kanai looked at the "self" that appeared in front of her with a horrified expression, as if she had seen a ghost in broad daylight.

Not only her, almost everyone had a similar expression to Arima's when they saw the other self appearing in front of them. The two supervisors sitting in the coaching seats nearby were so scared that they fell off their chairs when they saw them appearing in front of them.

"What is this?! Aqua, you—"

Kurokawa looked at the other self in front of her in panic, and the other person made the same expression and movements as her, which made her even more terrified.

Just when she was about to faint from fright, the steady voice of her "boyfriend" came from behind her other self.

"Wait, Qian, don't panic, this is-"

Looking at the blond young man in front of him with a solemn expression, Aqua stretched out his hand in unison with the other party. Their fingertips touched each other, and ripples like water waves appeared at the contact point.

The touch coming from his fingertips replaced the solemnity in Aqua's eyes with surprise.

"Is this... a mirror?"

The moment Aqua came up with the answer, the mirror image in front of him suddenly became dark and dim, and it was as if a dark upright shield appeared out of thin air in front of everyone, and the edge where it met the air was constantly rippling with faint distortion.

A huge exclamation came through the walls and windows of the rehearsal room. Upon hearing this sound, Aqua instantly realized that the abnormality was not limited to their area.

This scene also triggered his memory, taking him back to that day a few months ago.

Strange things appeared out of nowhere, encompassing everyone. This is——

"This is the light curtain that appeared last time!"

"Eh? Light curtain!? Why did it become like this this time???"

His pupils shrank extremely in shock, and Aqua couldn't help but take a few steps back at Kurokawa's exclamation.

At this moment, several lines of scarlet fonts slowly emerged on the dark mirror surface.

【This time, the ending of the story...】

【I decide.】

……

"Hey, hey, hey, no way..."

Looking at the words appearing in front of him, Hikigaya's face twitched violently, and the clear words "It's over" appeared in his eyes.

He passed the "light curtain" that blocked his vision and met the gazes of the other three people. Everyone's face turned pale and blue. Obviously, this scene also brought back some bad memories for them.

It should be said that regarding the memory of that incident, almost no one in the world would think that it was a wonderful memory.

"...What's going on?"

Forcibly suppressing her inner fear and anxiety, Yukinoshita covered her face with one hand and tried to remain calm as she asked.

"Hasn't that incident already been resolved? Why does the light curtain appear again???"

"Could it be that the matter has not been resolved yet?"

"... Before we discuss it, let's take a look first."

The tips of his fingers pierced into his palms due to excessive force. Ye Shan stared at the dim curtain in front of him as he spoke.

At this moment, the premonition that had been in his heart for all these days became so turbulent that Ye Shan could even hear a materialized howl coming from deep in his heart. All this was because of the scene before him.

The uneasiness that has been lingering in my heart these days... is it caused by this scene?

"—Look! The scene emerges!"

At Yuigahama's exclamation, everyone immediately turned their gaze back to the curtain that belonged to them.

2. Shadows in the Night (5K)

[Near Kyoto Sangyo University, Kita-ku, Kyoto Prefecture.

10:25 PM

Warm yellow old wind-caged lanterns lit up one by one along the long street, illuminating the deserted street. Even though the light illuminated the darkness, there was still an unspeakable sense of oppression lingering.

Suddenly, a rapid gasp was heard in the darkness of the street where no light could reach. Two figures rushed out from the darkness, one in front and one behind, running on the long street.

Both figures were wearing the same hooded robe, one with a black hood covering his head, and the other wearing a wide, long-brimmed hat that covered all his hair. It was impossible to see the two people clearly, and one could only vaguely see black and golden hair overflowing from under the brim of the hat as he ran.

Based on the tone of their breathing and the contrast in their figures, it was clear they were a man and a woman, and the man was clearly running much faster than the woman, leaving her far behind in no time.

Kyoto Prefecture, Kitauji, Musical Instruments Department.

"Ugh?"

When she saw the long street where the two were running, Huang Qianyouzi's expression suddenly changed, and her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

And it wasn't just Huang Qian. Almost everyone in the band showed the same reaction as her. Even Taki Sheng, who always smiled in the band, slowly put away the smile on his face and looked solemn.

"Hey, that street...I remember it's the one near Kyoto Sangyo University, right?"

"Yes, it is indeed there. My sister is a student at Kyoto Sangyo University. I went there to see her recently... No way???"

"——This time, the incident happened here!?"

In just a few words, the emotions of everyone in the wind band were instantly ignited by this discovery. Boiling panic instantly spread throughout the entire classroom and spread out at an extremely fast speed.

No one will forget what happened in Tokyo, the main stage of the previous "story", near the end of the story. The entire city was burned down by fire, and the dead and injured were scattered all over the place.

This result was even reflected in the real Tokyo. Now the employment rate in Tokyo has plummeted like an Indian rocket, and the occupancy rate has dropped by a quarter in the past few months. Foreign capital has basically withdrawn, resulting in a series of consequences such as plummeting prices and reduced wages, causing the city's GDP to lose nearly 30% of previous years.

As a result, the first thing all Tokyo officials do when they wake up every day is to give the No. 0 (human form) simulated human sandbag at home a set of military boxing to vent their anger.

With the tragic situation in Tokyo in mind, all other regions in Japan were frightened. At the same time, they were thankful for the first time that the level of development in their own regions could only be described as rural areas compared to the former, and the population density was not so outrageous, which is why they were spared from the disaster.

Among the regions facing the miserable situation of Tokyo, Kyoto Prefecture is the one smiling the happiest. As Japan's second largest internationally renowned region, most of the capital withdrawn from the former has flowed into here. It can be said that Kyoto Prefecture has been particularly happy to suck the blood of Tokyo recently.

As a typical Kyoto citizen, Kumiko Oomae felt gloating about this many times. For a while, making fun of Tokyo people on the Internet became her daily source of happiness.

Just as Mr. Zaimokuza said, the smiles will not disappear, they will just move from Tokyo to the faces of people in Kyoto Prefecture.

——And now, Huang Qian felt that he was happy too early.

"Rina!"

She suddenly reached out and grabbed the white thigh of the black-haired girl under her skirt, her five fingers sinking tightly into the white and tender thigh flesh. She turned her head and said seriously:

"How about you reconsider my original proposal? We--Pfft!"

She skillfully raised her fist from the head of her best friend who had been knocked unconscious, and let her fall unconscious at her feet with foam at the mouth. Reina Kousaka pulled away the dirty hand and stared at the face floating in front of her without changing her expression. The face looked different from the one on the curtain before.

"…What on earth happened here?"

【"--ah!!!!!!"

A shrill wail suddenly exploded in the night sky, the sound filled with unspeakable terror and despair, echoing in the silent night.

"!?"

The moment they heard the scream, the two running figures immediately stopped, turned around and looked at each other, and saw the solemnity and uneasiness in each other's eyes.

"...You stay here for now, and leave the rest to me."

The man, whose face was hidden by the hood, spoke, his voice as deep and hoarse as the sound of mercury.

"Please, be careful."

The woman, whose face couldn't be seen in the darkness, nodded, her hands nervously clutching the collar opening on her chest.

"……well?"

She stared intently at the two people who appeared behind the curtain in front of her. When the man spoke, Kurokawa Akane's originally serious expression suddenly froze.

Although the syllables in her speech had a slightly lower pitch than I remembered, and her face was obscured by her features and the light filter, I couldn't see her clearly, but the familiar tone and pauses in her voice, and the pure blonde hair that peeked out from the corner of her hat, without any highlights...

"No way……?"

As his mind subconsciously drew a profile of the man behind the curtain's external features, Kurokawa's clear eyes gradually widened, and his gaze gradually became dull.

She hugged her knees with her hands and turned her head to the left blankly, looking at the person sitting next to her.

The next person to react was Kana Arima, who was on the other side of the rehearsal room. Her bright rose-red eyes were fixed on the person next to Kurokawa, with an emotion of disbelief surging in her pupils, like the roaring waves that rapidly rose and submerged the beach in the night.

It's not just the two of them. Everyone in this rehearsal room works in the entertainment industry, and voice actors occupy half of the Japanese entertainment industry, and there is no rival even internationally.

Therefore, those who work in this industry have more or less developed the auditory ability to distinguish the voice characteristics of voice actors. Compared with ordinary people, people here have a much higher ability to recognize other people's voices.

The male voice whose face could not be seen clearly behind the curtain sounded very familiar to them, and it didn't take them long to figure out who the voice belonged to.

"Hey, hey... is it true or false?"

The fancy sunglasses slipped from his ear and were then pushed back by his slightly trembling right hand. Seeing the gradually tense atmosphere in the venue, Sumiaki Raita, the organizer of this stage event, wanted to say something witty to ease it, but found that even his voice had an unconcealable tremor at the end.

"A supporting role becomes the main character...it's quite a topical gimmick, isn't it?"

Toshiichiro Kaneda's eyes were deep and silent. He silently glanced at all the people in the rehearsal room, but a playful face that had begun to fade with time appeared in his eyes.

"It seems that there is no need for me to do anything more for you...Xiao Ai."