After Boqi moved into my closet, the quiet life is gone forever

"What's wrong?"

Yukinoshita felt the gaze from behind her and asked.

"You're not a high school student in this world, are you? Why are you pretending to be serious and writing?"

"This is my diary. I've been writing it since I came to this world. Recording everything I see and hear is a rare experience. ... Let me warn you, this is private and you're not allowed to look at it."

"Hmph, got it! Who's so bored that they want to read a human's diary~~"

"Haha, who cares? Just because I know doesn't mean I agree."

Of course, even if it was just the filling, I couldn't just grab it right away. I'd just wait for a chance to check it out later.

In the afternoon, Sandwich Sauce went out for something.

"Ms. Goto, have you ever thought about resolving your relationship with Ms. Evil God?"

"Wow ah ah..."

Pochi, who was practicing guitar, was startled by Yukinoshita's sudden words.

"Ah...um...what happened?"

Pochi slowly took off his headphones and looked at Yukinoshita fearfully, and Yukinoshita gently repeated it.

"...If it's possible, I'd like to, too. But... I don't know how to say it."

"Just use your strengths?"

"Specialty? ...ah... being a punching bag for her to hit?"

Pochi, who has low self-esteem, doesn't even think that guitar is her specialty.

Yukinoshita held her forehead and sighed, then calmed down.

"Your guitar, music. Music brings people together. I've prepared this for you. Take it."

"Ah...thank you...what is this...music sheet? Jimbocho Elegy? What is this?"

"Don't you know? This is the song Miss Evil God sings herself. If you can play it, she won't bully you anymore. Miss Evil God, although she has a bad personality, is surprisingly simple and honest. If you play this song casually in front of her, she will definitely be friendly to you."

"The Evil God's... song? Got it! I'll practice hard. ... I looked at the sheet music and it's not difficult, but the lyrics... is this really written by Miss Evil God? ... style..."

After hearing this, a smile appeared on Xueshita's lips. She lifted the hair beside her ear and said calmly.

"Demons, across various cultures and religious traditions, are often associated with human desires, often representing emotions and behaviors that humans consider negative. Alternatively, demons' emotions can be said to be stronger than humans'... From my research, this song is a love song that Miss Evil God wrote for Yuri Suzu after she had lived through a period equivalent to the limit of a human lifespan. So, the atmosphere gets strange from the second verse on."

"Ah... Hara, I see. Thank you... Miss Yukinoshita."

Yukinoshita waved her hand gently, elegantly indicating that she didn't need any thanks.

"Mr. Su simply asked me to help you find a way to protect you from being bullied by Miss Evil God. So thank him if you want to thank me. Now, I'm going to the library to read for a while, and I'll leave the house to you."

"Ah..., then, be careful on the road."

After watching Yukinoshita's back disappear from the entrance, Pochi quickly glanced over the music sheet he had just obtained.

[Well, the song is indeed not difficult.]

Her fingers began to play naturally, and Pochi began to practice with full concentration. The sound of the guitar echoed in the quiet room, melodious and full of emotion. She gradually immersed herself in the world of music, forgetting everything around her.

The sandwich sauce also returned at this time.

"Tsk, my entire month's allowance is gone. There's definitely something wrong with the machine in that shop. I clearly felt like I was going to win today."

Back home, Sandwich Sauce cursed and vented his dissatisfaction with the pinball machine.

[Hmm? That pink-haired girl is playing guitar again, but even though she's feeling disgusted and upset, she seems quite happy. Listen carefully, she's playing a Showa-style piece. She's clearly a brat. I've decided to tease her today and steal her money so I can go have some fun!]

Sandwich Sauce walked into the room impatiently, its snake tail wagging.

"Hahaha, you country bumpkin, give me your money."

As he spoke, his tail had already wrapped around Pochi, scaring him half to death.

"Wow wow wow wow, ugh~~~"

Pochi was dragged into the air and was so frightened that he looked like he was about to vomit.

"Wait, don't vomit!"

Sandwich realized that Pochi's expression was wrong and immediately dragged Pochi to the toilet.

Pochi relieved the stress caused by the sandwich sauce in the bathroom.

[Ah, why is it different from what we agreed on, Ms. Yukinoshita? Ms. Yukinoshita can't be wrong, it must be me. I guess my playing is just terrible. I played with others before and they looked down on me. Woo woo woo...]

Pochi came out of the bathroom frustrated, but Sandwich was gone. He returned to the house and found Sandwich holding the paper with the music sheet he had just received.

"Pink Hair... Could it be that this song was actually written by me?"

"Ah... yes, that's right, Jimbocho Elegy... um, I suddenly remembered I had dinner plans with a friend, so I'll be leaving first! Bye!"

Pochi was afraid that Sandwich Sauce would do something again, so he ran away and even caused dust to fly in the clean house.

Only Sandwich Sauce was left at home.

Actually, I didn't know this song existed. I wanted to watch an anime that recorded my heroic figure before, but after watching a few episodes, all I saw were scenes of Yuriel being killed. I immediately got bored and stopped watching. So I didn't see the song appear in episode 11. But after seeing the lyrics, it is obvious that it is about me and Yuriel. Strictly speaking, after I spent a long time with Yuriel, Yuriel died and I was filled with resentment.

"I... I can't possibly have such feelings for Yuriel! I'm an elite, noble demon who's lived for thousands of years! Even if I've lived with humans for a few decades, it's just a drop in the ocean of my demon life! How could I be so humiliated by Yuriel's death?! This can't be me... Yuriel... turns out she's going to die of old age too... What witch... turned out to be just an ordinary human..."

Then, Sandwich returned to the upper level of the closet in silence with a complicated feeling in her heart, and lay on the bed, thinking about how to go back, and the next day passed like this.

After buying groceries, Sandwich Sauce returned to the empty house. The three of them had gone out to work, and it was rare for him to be home alone today. Thinking that there was nothing to do, he decided to clean up first.

"Hmm? What's this? A diary...isn't this the one with the poker face?"

Sandwich Sauce immediately remembered the scene where Yukinoshita wrote in her diary after returning home from eating curry.

"Mehahaha, I didn't expect the opportunity to come so soon. Let's see if there's anything in the diary. You act so serious all day long, maybe you're actually quite sultry underneath."

Sandwich-chan, with no hesitation in her heart, immediately flipped through the notebook that looked like Yukinoshita's diary.

"..."

As he watched, Sandwich Sauce's originally smirking face gradually calmed down.

[…Did these two guys keep this from me? So, as long as I don't use the Little Evil God's Flying Kick to inflict harm on anyone and then get killed and resurrected, I could probably go back? …It's frustrating, but I want to kill Lily Ling with my own hands before she dies of old age! This demon must go back. I don't want to become that person in the future. I'll just deal with Lily Ling cleanly and quickly! Yeah! For this goal, I can compromise everything else.]

……

Time returns to the present again

Chaoyang couldn't get the answer from Yukinoshita about Sandwich becoming a good boy, so he had to sit down and continue to rest. At this time, Yukinoshita stood up from the chair, took out the wallet from the pocket of her skirt, and took out the credit card she had lent Chaoyang before and handed it to Chaoyang.

"By the way, I borrowed your credit card a few days ago and haven't returned it to you yet. Thanks for the 5 yen. I'll pay you back on my payday. Just in case, I suggest you check your credit card spending history."

"okay."

It’s not that he didn’t trust Yukinoshita, but Chaoyang thought that he also wanted to see how much he would have to pay on his credit card next month, so he followed Yukinoshita’s advice and opened the website to check his credit card records.

"Bondy?... This place sounds familiar... Where is it? I'll check on my phone... It's in Jimbocho. Oh, and by the way, this place was also included in the pilgrimage of the evil god and the girl with the kitchen disease. You actually have the leisure to go to Jimbocho for a meal."

Chaoyang regularly clears his web history to prevent his XP from being exposed after his death. Back when he was in language school, a classmate suddenly died of a heart attack in their rented apartment. He missed classes for three days until the language school teacher visited their home and discovered their body. Such accidents can happen when you're alone in a foreign country, so Chaoyang has made this a habit ever since. But before clearing it, he subconsciously checked his browser history.

"Hmm? Who's still on the computer late at night? Was it Sandwich-chan who was watching this? She actually finished watching all two seasons of Little Evil God and the Girl with the Second Syndrome in one night. ...Come to think of it, I heard Pochi practicing a new song recently, and the melody sounded familiar. If I recall correctly, Sandwich-chan sang it to Yuririn when she was sick. Did she write it down after watching it?"

"Pochi-chan"

Chaoyang opened the closet door without thinking and asked directly, "Is it you?"

"what???"

Looking at Pochi's cute expression with a question mark on her head as she tilted her head, Chaoyang knew it wasn't her.

"Yukinoshita, did you see that? I didn't expect you to be interested in sandwich sauce."

"Well, as part of understanding her, this is necessary..."

There was a little more warmth in Yukinoshita's eyes when she spoke today than usual.

"...you...could it be..."

Looking at Yukinoshita's eyes and words just now, Chaoyang suddenly had a clever association in his mind.

"Pochi-chan, you've played the Jimbocho Elegy, right?...Who told you that?"

"Ah... that's Ms. Yukinoshita... she said she was commissioned by you."

Chaoyang looked slightly surprised, but then his eyes turned cold.

"Yeah, that's what happened. Sorry to bother you, Pochi-chan."

"Ah... no, it's okay."

After saying that, Chaoyang closed the closet door.

"Ms. Yukinoshita, would you be so kind as to go out on a date?"

"Have you figured it out?"

"probably."

"Okay, as a reward, I'll make an exception and hear your answer."

Although Yukinoshita said this, her face was full of displeasure when she agreed.

"Uh, am I really that ugly? I'll ask Pochi next time... Besides, I don't really want to date you. I just want to ask you out for something. There's no need to show that expression."

The two of them walked silently to a nearby park. Chaoyang bought a bottle of sports drink from the vending machine and threw it to Yukinoshita, then bought a bottle of Coke and drank it in big gulps.

"Wow... so insidious, your hearts are so dirty when it comes to tactics. Yukinoshita, you actually did so many things in private, just to subtly make her want to go back, doing everything you can to make her recall her life with Yuurisuzu, and then change herself for it, right?"

"Huh? You actually figured it out on your own? You're more capable than I thought. Even with strong external constraints, subjective initiative can't compete with it. The so-called reward and punishment system is just superficial."

"...No, you left some hints and deliberately made some unnecessary movements to let me notice. As expected of a service club, you handled it with ease."

But Yukinoshita could hear that there was no happiness in Chaoyang's tone.

"You look a little unhappy. Are you reluctant to let her go? Normally, you're just an international student. According to you, your family isn't wealthy. Even with the government subsidy, it's still hardship. You should be happy that she's back. Besides, it's impossible for her and you to be together. After all, you shouldn't be able to mate with her in that body."

Chaoyang was surprised that Xueshita could say such a thing without blushing or beating her heart. Was this really just Yu Yu's cool and aloof personality?

"After all, we've been together for a while, and I actually like the sandwich sauce."

Yukinoshita immediately took a step back, straightened her neatly-tied collar, and glanced at Chaoyang warily.

"If you really think that living in your house means being a member of your harem, I suggest you go to the hospital for a check-up."

"It's just a friendship! After she left, there was really no chance for us to meet again. Maybe it will be the same with you and Pochi in the future..."

"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty. I can't control Miss Goto. I will definitely leave here and return to my own world."

Because Chaoyang's choice of words was inappropriate, Yukinoshita glanced at him unhappily, but her cheeks turned slightly red under the sunlight.

39.Another task release?

After asking Yukinoshita in the park, the two of them didn't linger and headed straight home. "Although it's a little late to ask now, is it really okay for you to live with me? You're fundamentally different from Pochi and Sandwich. Pochi can't live on his own and has to rely on me, while Sandwich isn't even human anymore. And you, Yukinoshita, a good, normal person, if you think about it, it seems like there's no need for you to live with me. Do you want me to find those people and get you a place to live? I can't guarantee I can get one, though."

On the way, Chaoyang thought about every detail of his sleep over the past two nights. In order to prevent Xuexia from thinking that he was going to attack her when he made his bed at the door, he started not to drink water at night to avoid having to go to the toilet, but he still felt a little uncomfortable.

Furthermore, considering that Yukinoshita herself wouldn't be very comfortable living with a boy, having no identity and no money before, and still having none now, she still thought it was worth a try considering there might be an ATM that could help her with the money, though it probably wouldn't allow her to live in the luxury apartment she lived in in her old world. However, Yukinoshita wasn't the type of spoiled young lady, otherwise she would have been physically ill living in this old, poorly-housed apartment.

"If I really want to live in this world for a long time, I do plan to do so... But if possible, I want to earn my own money to rent a house and don't want to rely on others."

Chaoyang naturally would not persuade Yukinoshita. This was Yukinoshita's arrogance, so there was no need to stop her.

Yukinoshita looked at Chaoyang and continued speaking.

"Also, for the care you've given me during this time, I will repay you in full before I return."

"Nothing... maybe living with a beautiful girl like you is its own reward."

As they were talking, the two of them walked back to the apartment and took the old stairs to the second floor.

"Hmm? A guest?"

Chaoyang saw a person standing at the door of his house.

At this time, Yukinoshita unexpectedly made a joke and insulted Chaoyang.

"So you have friends?"

Judging from her experience of living with Chaoyang, Chaoyang is obviously not the kind of Japanese who doesn't play with friends during vacations, nor does he have nothing to do and chat with friends on the phone.