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That was truly...exciting!
This idea is full of teenage delusions and perverse pleasures.
However, as she left the room, she heard a soft tapping sound coming from the music room.
It's not surprising that such a villa would have a dedicated music room, filled with all sorts of musical instruments.
Driven by curiosity, Mitsumi Hatsuka gently pushed open the door to the music room. A short-haired girl was in front of the drum set, striking the drumsticks sharply and producing a crisp sound.
The girl sweating under the sun looked incredibly cool.
But after she came in, Yutenji Wakana stopped what she was doing.
Misaka Hatsuka said somewhat apologetically, "I'm sorry, did I disturb you?"
She hadn't expected that anyone would start practicing so early.
"It's nothing, just 'rehabilitation'."
After all, she hadn't practiced the drums for a long time and had originally wanted to give up, but that performance in Kumamoto rekindled her passion.
At the very least, she couldn't let Toyokawa Shoko laugh at her, and she couldn't become someone who held her back; that was her current thought.
"I see. But to a layman like you, your skills are already quite advanced," Chu Hua couldn't help but praise softly.
"There's a guitar here, would you like to play a duet? Triangle First Blossom," Miao Mengqin asked.
Chu Hua paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I don't have the talent to play musical instruments like my sister. I just have a slight interest in singing."
Yutenji Wakana looked at the blonde girl in front of her and said, "Sanka Hatsuka, how long are you going to keep up this act?"
Chu Hua gently turned her head and asked, "I'm sorry, Miss Yutenji, I don't understand."
"I'm not like those two naive fools. I don't believe in coincidences in this world, no matter how much evidence you provide, such as childhood photo albums or memories of disliking your sister."
I don't believe it at all; there can't be two sisters who are exactly alike, and it just so happens that we met them during our visit.
The name itself has no meaning; you are simply the Misaka Hatsuka I knew from them, nothing more.
Hearing the other party's confident tone, Misaka Hatsuka didn't know how to refute for a moment, and simply shook her head gently and said, "Miss Yutenji, you misunderstand, I am indeed not the older sister."
Yutenji Wakana ignored what the other person said and continued, "I don't care why you're putting on this show."
Since those two guys are so naive and trusting of you, I'll just play along with their naivety.
But there's one thing: if you dare to hurt them, I, Yutenji Wakanagi, will absolutely not forgive you.
There was a faint smell of gunpowder in the air.
Chu Hua paused slightly, then smiled and said, "You can rest assured about that, Miss Yutenji. I am not familiar enough with Hanami-kun and Miss Shoko to the point of liking or disliking them."
Chapter Eleven: Chu Hua: I was the one who did it first!
As Misaka Chuka once again declined Miss Shoko's breakfast invitation and prepared to leave, she overheard that the other party planned to stay for two more days.
Mikasa Hatsuka had no objection to this. In other words, after all, the other party was the master of the house, and it would be strange for a servant like herself to have any opinion about the master's departure.
For her, it was just a matter of preparing a few more meals and some bedding. She had been slacking off at this job for too long, so she had to at least do something worth the pay.
However, Misaki Hatsuka knew what Shoko was thinking, and she still held onto hope that her older sister Hatsune would return to this island.
But Chu Hua thought to herself that this was a waste of effort and there was no way it was possible.
Because... Hatsune knows that she hates her.
After the three of them finished breakfast and Chu Hua cleaned up the dishes, she heard Miss Xiangzi's slightly cheerful voice.
"Chuhua, let's go out and play!"
The girl was slightly touched. After wiping her hands clean with a scarf, she arrived at the villa's entrance and saw a girl with light blue twin ponytails wearing a fisherman's hat and holding an insect net waving gently at her.
Beside her was Hanami, who was wearing the same bucket hat and casual clothes.
“Miss Xiangzi…” Chu Hua’s eyes widened slightly.
"We bought this at the shopping street. What do you think? Isn't it nice?" Xiangzi said with a happy smile, and he seemed quite excited.
“Uh, that’s not what I meant…” Chu Hua seemed a little slow to react.
“Can’t you tell? Xiangzi and I are going to catch rhinoceros beetles,” said Banami.
But no sooner had he finished speaking than a lazy voice came from the second-floor balcony: "Are you two kids, playing with bugs?"
"Does Miaomeng want to go?" Xiangzi continued to invite.
Miao Meng rolled her eyes and said, "What I hate most is being casually invited to join in. It makes me feel like a supporting character. Besides, my skin is very delicate, and I won't ruin it like you do."
"And the truth?" Banami asked.
"I have to practice drums in the morning, I don't have time to mess around with you guys." After saying that, Miaomeng turned around and left.
"What a pity," said Banami with slight disappointment.
"Indeed." Xiangzi had the same expression.
Misaka Hatsuka couldn't help but think to herself, "You two have such synchronized expressions."
"Um, I..." Actually, Chu Hua didn't really want to go.
“We’re not very familiar with the island, could you come with us?” Banami changed her approach.
Chu Hua pursed her lips slightly and said, "Hanami-kun, your way of putting it is too cunning."
Because of her responsibilities, Chu Hua, as the island's manager and "guide," had an obligation to accompany them.
Soon, Chu Hua, wearing a baseball cap, followed the two out.
"Why would Miss Xiangzi be interested in catching rhinoceros beetles?" Misaka Hatsuka asked curiously.
Xiangzi waved the insect net haphazardly through the forest, his movements looking rather pathetic.
"Hey, Xiangzi, look what I caught!" Soon, Banami, who had walked to the other side, ran over with a worm about half the size of her palm in her hand.
Chu Hua's eyes widened slightly as she said, "Where... did you find it? It's rare to find such a large rhinoceros beetle this season."
"Ah, this isn't fair! Why is it so easy for you to find Xi?" Xiangzi seemed a little annoyed.
“Don’t talk nonsense, this is not a rhinoceros beetle,” said Banami.
"Then what else could it be?" Chu Hua was slightly taken aback, because living on an island, she was quite familiar with insects.
Banami raised the rhinoceros beetle in her hand and said, "Grandma once said that this is the driver for Kamen Rider."
After finishing his monologue, he placed the rhinoceros beetle on his waist and shouted, "Henshin!"
But after he shouted, only a cool breeze gently blew by.
"Hahahaha..." To avoid making the situation too awkward, Chu Hua chuckled twice.
"Hmm, that move was pretty cool." But Xiangzi started thinking seriously.
“Right, right?” Banami said happily.
Chu Hua's eyes widened slightly.
Then, Xiangzi took the rhinoceros beetle from Hanami's hand, and mimicked Hanami's actions, shouting, "Henshin!"
"Wow, Xiao Xiang is so handsome!" Banami quickly clapped.
The scene was so ridiculous that Chu Hua couldn't bear to watch. What was wrong with this stupid couple?
"Please, please don't play with insects," Chu Hua said gently.
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Next, under Chu Hua's guidance, the two found many different kinds of rhinoceros beetles.
"Look at this rhinoceros beetle. Its shell is dark, and its horns look long and straight. This is a very healthy rhinoceros beetle."
There is another type of rhinoceros beetle that is very rare. The edges of its shell gleam with a golden sheen in the sunlight, much like a scarab beetle. I've only seen that type of rhinoceros beetle once in my life, and it flew away very quickly.
As expected of an island resident, Mikasa Hatsuka speaks fluently about insects, far more so than the two city kids, Hachimi and Shoko.
This was the first time Xiangzi had ever seen Chuhua's natural and cheerful smile, which made her seem like a girl her own age.
It seems she really loves everything about the forest.
Xiangzi stopped what she was doing, a light sheen of sweat on her forehead. She said, "When we were little, did we really never meet? Chuhua."
At that time, your sister also invited me to catch rhinoceros beetles, which left a very deep impression on me.
Our friendship was formed around that time.
"Huh? Really? But Hatsune, you're afraid of bugs, aren't you?" Suddenly, Yana said.
Xiangzi slightly widened his eyes and looked at Yana beside him: "Xi, what nonsense are you talking about..."
Banami said, "I'm not lying. When I went on a date with her before..."
"Huh?! When did you ever go on a date with Hatsune Miku?!" Xiangzi immediately found the flaw in Banami's words.
"Oh, Xiao Xiang, that's not the point. The point is, a butterfly landed on Hatsune Miku's shoulder at that time, and she turned pale with fright."
The two fell silent. Banai had been wondering why "Hatsuka" was afraid of butterflies when they were little, since she used to take a box to catch bugs.
But I didn't think much of it, since age changes a lot of things.
But now it seems...
Xiangzi probably had the same thought in his mind.
Chu Hua lowered her head slightly, looking at the bright sunshine, and said softly, "Miss Xiangzi, it's about time I went back to prepare dinner."
However, Xiangzi quickly grabbed the other person's hand, but Chuhua subconsciously pushed it away.
Chu Hua's expression became somewhat flustered, but Xiangzi didn't care at all and continued to ask questions.
"Hey, Chuhua, when we were little... we really never met?"
Xiangzi's childhood sweetheart was someone he would catch bugs with.
But Banami said that Hatsune Miku is afraid of insects, and even butterflies.
The younger sister, Chu Hua, seems to know a great deal about insects, and this contradiction easily leads to an answer...
After taking a few quick breaths, Chu Hua placed her hand on her chest, took a deep breath, and then said softly, "Miss Xiangzi, what kind of answer do you want?"
"I don't want answers, I just... want to find out what happened when I was a child?" Xiangzi's expression was somewhat anxious.
"Wouldn't it be better if Hatsune were Miss Xiangzi's childhood sweetheart?" Chu Hua asked again.
Xiangzi was slightly taken aback. Just then, the boy gently tightened his grip on her hand, calming her down a bit.
She had a gut feeling that if the two of them wanted to find Hatsune Miku, then... they needed to understand her and her past better in order to find her whereabouts.
"I just... want the truth. You, are you really forgetting things from your childhood because of a fever?" Xiangzi held the boy's hand tightly and repeated herself.
Chu Hua lowered her head slightly, and sighed as if helpless.
When they looked up again, the two found that Chu Hua's expression was even somewhat... ferocious.
"Since Miss Xiangzi is so eager to know, then I'll tell you."
"Ah, you guessed right. When you were little, the person who first met you when you came to the island was me, not your older sister Hatsune."
When the guess was confirmed, Xiangzi's body swayed slightly, as if he had been shocked.
However, Chu Hua's 'output' continued: "I was the one who met you first, Xiao Xiang. I was the one who took you to catch rhinoceros beetles first. I was the one who took you to the beach. I was the one who... I was the one who did everything first."
But Miku Miku, while I had a fever, took my place, secretly came out to see you, went to see the stars with you, and made a promise to go to Tokyo someday.
At this point, Hatsuka glanced at Banami and said with a somewhat malicious expression, "Banami-kun, you're right. It's true that I hate stars so much because my sister likes them."
"Ugh, even my childhood friend Hatsune Miku is trying to steal away!"
"I...I..." Xiangzi panicked for a moment. She hadn't expected the answer to be like this.
Is the Chu Hua standing before me... my very first childhood sweetheart?
"But why did you pretend not to know Xiangzi when we first arrived on the island?" Banami quickly asked.
He even used a fever as an excuse, saying that he didn't remember anything from his childhood.
Chu Hua took a deep breath and said softly, "I'm fed up with sharing the same feelings as Misaki Miku, whether it's my father... or my childhood friendship."
Since... if Hatsune really wants you, her childhood friend Xiangzi, then just give it to her.
"Clearly, I wanted to ignore it, but Xiao Xiang, you're so cruel to make me relive all of this."
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