The shining Shoko Toyokawa

"You will know soon," Taoxiang smiled, with a complicated expression on her face.

"Hey, what exactly is it? It's so hard to guess~"

Miao Meng approached Li Xi, and placed his dirty little hands on the shoulders of the black girl.

"We also need to send the communicator, navigator, and helmsman away."

Li Xi knew that the 'bastard cat' must have had his own guesses.

But she didn't ask.

Because 'cats', especially guys like Miao Meng, always enjoy playing tricks on people.

If she really asked, Miao Meng probably wouldn't tell her.

Compared to guys like Meow Meng, the 'kitten' of the 'Rich Family', Lenai, is much more obedient...

Well, except for the fact that sometimes I can't find anyone,

For example, now.

"Wow, Riki-chan is being cold and violent to me!"

Miao Meng wiped her eyes with the backs of her hands, as if she had already cried.

"Half a month ago, did you post something on your channel that you shouldn't have posted?"

Li Xi looked at this drama queen as if he was looking at kitchen garbage.

"No...no," Miao Meng's eyes subconsciously drifted upwards, and he said with a guilty conscience, "I just let my imagination run wild a little bit. No one will take it seriously."

It's hard, Lixi's fist is hard,

This damn outdated internet celebrity actually cared about it, saying that she was 0 and everyone took turns pointing the finger at her, saying that she had used her imagination a little bit?

If Taoxiang and Jeanna hadn't been watching, and if fighting hadn't disturbed the appearance, Li Xi would have probably "dispersed" his body and beat her up.

A bad cat like Miao Meng should be corrected!

"Everyone, you may need to prepare yourself mentally,"

Jeanna's expression, like Momoka's, was also somewhat subtle.

"Mental preparation?"

The subtle premonition in Soyo's heart seemed to be coming true.

Jeana didn't say anything else. On the screen in front of her, the girl with blonde hair and golden eyes nodded, indicating that she could start.

Jeanna sighed and pressed the confirmation button with her slender index finger.

The next moment, Maya, without sunglasses, appeared on the bridge.

Lixi and Soyo were stunned for a moment, and then their pupils suddenly shrank and trembled violently.

'Xiaoxiang!'

'Xiangzi?'

Looks like, so much like,

The girl in the projection looked exactly like the grown-up Xiangzi they imagined.

"Feel sorry…"

Before the girl's voice fell, another voice that was very familiar to the two of them rang out.

"Soyo, Riki...what's going on? Why are you on the Thornless Yagama?!"

Maya switched the camera to the Garuda's 'bridge' meeting room.

A touch of pink was transmitted through the radio waves to the projection on the bridge of the Agama.

An was on the bridge of Garuda at the moment, and no one would think that she was going there for vacation.

Just like the pink-haired girl herself, she wouldn't think that the two friends were traveling on a thornless flagship.

"Why... did it become like this?"

She finally understood why Maya hesitated just now.

This development is too "O. Henry-esque" for the pink-haired girl.

She could not sit idly by and watch Caius's atrocities, but she also hoped that her companions would not be dragged into the war.

Her companions thought the same.

This... is really a complicated feeling.

"Why are you there... idiot..."

Soyo was so shocked that he didn't have time to think about whether the blonde girl was Xiaoxiang.

No wonder Jeanna asked them to be mentally prepared. This kind of thing was really too much of a surprise for them.

But the bigger surprise is yet to come.

Just when Li Xi and Soyo were so shocked that their brains were numb,

Maya looked at them and spoke slowly.

"Lixi... soyo, long time no see..."

"!!!"*2

Hearing these words, both of their hearts skipped a beat.

They had never met the thornless Maya, so it was not a long time since they had seen each other.

But what if…

If Maya is who they think she is,

Then it all makes sense!

"You are…"

The flaxen-haired girl stopped asking halfway and didn't dare to ask any more.

She pinched her thigh hard and felt the pain.

Her breathing immediately became much faster.

The joy of regaining what was lost gradually emerged in her eyes, which were like the first clear day after the snow.

It was as if the last snow of winter had fallen at this moment.

"Yes, just as you thought..."

Maya clenched and unclenched her hands several times before finally finding some courage.

"I'm sorry, soyo, Riki, for not telling you until now. I... am Toyokawa Shoko."

"...Why do you have to say sorry?" The flaxen-haired girl's blue eyes were filled with tears.

Winter has passed, and the next rain that will fall will surely be the spring rain that awakens the world, causing grass and flowers to grow on the earth and new buds to sprout from the branches.

"Thank you, Xiaoxiang, thank you for being alive."

Two lines of tears fell on her face, they were not bitter, but extremely happy.

At this moment, the flaxen-haired girl seemed to have been redeemed.

Her 'world' was saved at this moment.

'soyo…'

An's mood was complicated. On the one hand, she was happy from the bottom of her heart that Su Shi, who had always been depressed, could smile happily.

But it wasn't herself who made her smile, An...was still a little jealous.

But because the person who made Su Shi smile was Xiao Xiang,

So An still feels happier.

Now I meet Xiaoxiang again.

Soyo also knew that Xiaoxiang was still alive and well,

Two happy things intertwined together will surely bring more...more joy.

"Wait, are you really Xiangzi?"

Coming back from her ecstasy, the black-haired girl felt a little bit unbelievable.

"Xiangzi once borrowed money from me. Do you know how much it was?"

"25 yen." Maya remembered this incident clearly. "I'm sorry, Riki. At that time, I was only thinking about myself."

"What was the name of the piece our band practiced during their first rehearsal?"

Li Xi still found it a little unbelievable and asked Maya several more questions.

In fact, except for the first question, looking at the excited blush and smile on the face of the girl with long black hair, you can tell that she is sure that the person on Garuda is Xiangzi. The other questions are more like reminiscing about the past.

Maya responded readily.

Because she... never forgets these trivial things,

After all, at that time, she really thought that she could form a band with everyone for the rest of her life.

Let the happy time like a dream continue forever.

"Cough cough,"

Finally, Jeanna ended this somewhat long "reminiscing" and talked about business.

"Captain Maya, I'm sorry to interrupt your touching farewell,"

"Supplies and support personnel will be sent to Earth in the near future. This communication took a while, and we might be caught by Caius."

"Don't worry, we'll see each other again soon."

The subtext of Jeanna's words is to ask Soyo and the others to provide support.

"Well, Captain Maya, Miss An, and Rencai, I wish you good luck in your military career."

"and many more!"

Just when Jeana was about to end the call, Miao Meng, who had been eating melons beside her, finally spoke up.

"You've made it so hard for us to hide this, Xiaoxiang!"

She came close to the camera and started to complain.

"That's fine with me, but why are you hiding it from your boss?"

Miao Meng's expression became serious for once.

"You know how much she loves you,"

Hatsuka's love (gravity) is obvious to everyone, including Renna.

Plus, she is no longer a little idol who can't do anything.

Now we are about to find out the true identity of Maya.

For them, it is definitely a heavyweight 'opponent'.

"It was Captain Maya who asked me to call you over as well."

Seeing that Maya was indeed in the wrong, Taoxiang defended her.

"Of course I know!"

Miao Meng was about to say something when her fanning the flames was interrupted, but Maya spoke again.

"I feel sorry for Chuhua, so I would like to ask you to tell her about my situation first. After that, I will apologize and explain."

Seeing her admit her mistake so straightforwardly, Miao Meng couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Based on her understanding of Toyokawa Shoko, shouldn't she be tough and tough again?

Acknowledging everyone now means that everyone will be dragged deeper into the matter.

The silly boss of Miao Meng's house, if he knew she was Xiaoxiang, he would have to support her even if he had to sell his pants and go bankrupt.

These sound like good things.