Are you, as meal replacement users, ready for the consequences?

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Toyokawa Ningko ignored him and focused on killing time.

This is her most proficient skill; she used to kill time every single day.

Cooking for an extra ten minutes or so is not as simple as it seems.

Ha ha…

……

get out of class ended, and the teacher had just left the classroom when Toyokawa Ningko got up from her seat and went to Takamatsu Akari's side.

"Sorry, am I being too strange?"

"Huh? What? No, there isn't any."

"I'm being dramatic, because I'm really afraid of losing the light. I'm sorry."

"Ning? I, I..."

Toyokawa Ningko lowered her head and said no more, her blue hair cascading down to cover her face, so Takamatsu Akira couldn't see her expression.

This reminded her of that rainy day, when a heavy rain took Xiangzi and everyone else away, raindrops extinguished the flower field, and a butterfly's wings were broken, preventing it from flying again...

"Ningzi, I really..."

"Little Lamp, I'm sorry."

"No! It's my fault. I've always remembered Ningzi."

"Really? The lamp isn't lying to me."

With her head held high in pride, Toyokawa Ningko's radiant smile rendered Takamatsu Akari incapable of thinking.

It's Xiangzi's smile again!

"Hug me! Light!"

With light and agile movements, Ningzi held down the bewildered lamp and, under the incredulous gazes of the entire class, rode on Takamatsu's back.

Even through the fabric, Takamatsu could still feel the warmth of the other's two cheeks.

"Huh? Me? I, I..."

The Takamatsu lamp's processing system crashed and caught fire.

"Please, hold me for the rest of your life. We've agreed that we'll walk a long road together."

Let's go to Antarctica to see lions!

They even go to the rainforest to catch polar bears!

"lifetime?"

This is too heavy.

Takamatsu's eyes turned into round eyes; she couldn't tell the difference, she really couldn't tell the difference.

Is the person she's wearing actually Toyokawa Shoko?

That familiar smell... it's Xiangzi's smell. But the person holding her is Ningzi, whom I just met...

"Xiao...Xiang..."

You're such a silly child, but since you want to call me that, go ahead. I'm beautiful and kind-hearted, so I won't hold it against you.

"I'm here, Little Lamp!"

"..."

Gao Songdeng gave up thinking.

The other party actually responded to his address.

I really can't tell the difference!

"What are you doing?"

An unbelievable scream came from the back door, and Takamatsu Akari looked toward the source of the sound.

Toyokawa Shoko stood with her hands on her hips, glaring at herself like an old father who had just seen his daughter being snatched away by a blond-haired man.

"Xiao...Xiang?"

"I'm here, light..."

Toyokawa Ningko spoke softly to Takamatsu Akari, while winking at her older sister.

"..."

The students around them automatically made way for them, realizing that the relationship between the three was something that ordinary people like themselves couldn't interfere with.

With a gloomy face, Toyokawa Shoko approached Takamatsu Akari and picked up Ningzi with one hand.

"Deng, I hope you can move on from what happened before and not involve Ningzi in our affairs."

“Saki! I didn’t…”

"Ningzi is very fragile, please don't..."

Toyokawa Shoko hesitated for a moment:

"Hurt her."

After saying that, he pulled the bewildered Ningzi out of the classroom. At the door, Xiangzi turned around and opened his mouth in the direction of the light.

The lamp knew what Xiangzi was talking about.

Xiangzi is saying:

I am sorry…

At the same time, she also saw Ningzi turn around and speak.

The lamp also made out what Ningzi was saying.

Ningzi is saying:

I love you, see you later!

Chapter 9. Can we hold hands for a lifetime?

"How are you feeling? Do you need me to take you home?"

Toyokawa Shoko carefully pulled Ningzi to the corner of the corridor.

She was afraid that if she used even a little force, she would hurt her younger sister. Ningzi's body was very fragile, but she was a little stronger in spirit than Ningzi.

"How does it feel? It feels amazing, the light really likes me."

Oh no, my worst fears have come true.

Shoko Toyokawa gazed at the classroom in the distance, and could vaguely make out a gray penguin peeking in their direction.

If you were to ask Ningzi who she was most worried about before she came to the school, it would definitely be Gao Songdeng.

Takamatsu Akari is... a girl who once deeply touched Toyokawa Shoko. Before the changes in their family, they were close friends who could talk about anything.

Composing music bathed in the afternoon sun, chatting about dreams under the moonlight, shouting at the top of one's lungs from the overpass...

These are all beautiful things that have died. What happened in that heavy rain destined Toyokawa Shoko's future and Takamatsu Akari's future to never intersect again.

He left the band and devoted himself entirely to working to earn money to support his family...

What he was worried about was that his younger sister would be approached by Takamatsu.

She didn't want to hurt the lamp, nor did she want Ningzi to be affected.

Both are my flesh and blood, but I'm sorry, Deng, I hope...

"Stay away from the lamp in the future. The situation between her and me is complicated. I'm sorry, Ningzi, I don't want this to hurt you."

Is the situation complicated?

Toyokawa Ningko's breath hitched.

You two really are having an affair, aren't you?

My dearest sister, and my beloved lamp, how could you treat me like this?

You'd better think about this carefully.

A squirrel passing by outside the railing spoke coldly, and its icy voice instantly snapped Toyokawa Ningko back to reality.

No, my sister would never do anything to betray me. She only loves me. Now she's saying she has something to do with Gao Songdeng...

I understand!

Toyokawa Ningko's eyes lit up; she had finally figured out the cause and course of events.

Gao Songdeng, unable to find her, turned to her older sister for help. Her sister, being very tactful, always maintained a safe distance from Gao Songdeng.

The reason his sister is telling him these things now is because Xiangzi doesn't know that Deng and he have been in love for many years.

She was afraid the light would cling to her like it was clinging to her!

"Xiangzi, you are so great! I understand now."

"what?"

Toyokawa Shoko looked at her silly younger sister with a puzzled expression.

She doubted whether this idiot had really understood what she was trying to say.

"Good, what would you like for lunch?"

If Xiangzi were going to school alone, she could just eat whatever she could find.

But his sister also came. Xiangzi could go without food, but he couldn't let Ningzi go hungry.

"Anything is fine, I love my older sister the most, I want a hug!"

"Be careful, don't be so casual in public. What happened to the etiquette I taught you before?"

"I don't care, I just want to hug Xiangzi."

The two blue-furred creatures were stuck together, with the shorter one rubbing its head against the other's chest, occasionally making a comfortable purring sound.

"Go, Xiao Ningzi!"

The squirrel glanced at Toyokawa Shoko again, then hopped and skipped away into the distance.

Thank you, my illness.

Ningzi lay on top of Xiangzi, her amber eyes looking towards the classroom.

There was a little penguin waiting for her there.

……

Takamatsu Akari walked back to her seat from behind the door. The scene of the sisters embracing was beautiful, but it had little to do with her.

The lights are now in a mess.

The two Xiao Xiangs have the same physical characteristics, the same handwriting, and the same personality.

But the new guy, Xiao Xiang... seems to care more about her and show her more affection, like...

Just like before.

"No! Ningzi is Ningzi, and Xiangzi is Xiangzi...they are not the same person!"

Gao Songdeng huddled in his seat, clutching his head, like a curled-up pill bug.

She opened her notebook and repeatedly wrote down "Ningzi" and "Xiangzi".

There are too many suspicious points; she can't sort them out.

Xiao Ning knew her, but she truly didn't know Xiao Ning; it was just a white lie. Having ruled out the possibility that she had forgotten the other person, the truth seemed to be emerging.

Eliminate all the impossibilities, and whatever remains of this incestuous act, however unwilling you may be to believe it, is the fact, it is the truth!

Takamatsu continued writing in his notebook:

Ningzi = Xiangzi.

Yes, that's probably how it is.

The Xiangzi I saw before was not just Xiangzi.