It wasn't until yesterday, through Kotori's reminder, that he suddenly realized that there seemed to be an invisible wall around Miku, who was very affectionate towards him.
Miku never opened her heart from the beginning.
Perhaps, as long as he confesses to her about her problem can he come closer.
… …
Looking around the huge and spacious space in the house, Katsu imagined in his mind that Miku would come back here alone every night, return to this big house without even a nanny, and live alone similar to him in the past. So much of the disgust he had towards Miku because of the first encounter has dissipated.
"Mitsu-chan? What are you looking at? Let's quickly sing, we haven't decided which song to sing yet~~" Miku's voice came from behind.
Katsu, whose thoughts were interrupted, shook his head, then turned to look at Miku, and chuckled: "Just thinking about something."
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When Katsu walked into the singing room, he was quite surprised. Because the whole house was very big, Katsu thought that Miku's singing room should also be very spacious. But now, standing inside, he felt I found that this place is very small, at least compared to other rooms in the house, the area of the singing room is quite small.
At that moment, Miku didn't understand the reason for this, so he just thought it was Miku's personal preference.
"Do you have any songs that Katsu-chan likes or is good at?" Miku looked at Katsu and asked with a chuckle.
Looking at Miku's smile, Katsu's eyes couldn't help but tremble slightly. He hadn't noticed it before because he didn't bother to turn his Kenbunshoku Haki. Now that Katsu had turned on to feel her emotions to understand her. At this moment, he could clearly feel the smile was fake.
She had been faking a smile from the moment she met him, and Katsu felt a little chill in his heart. The wall she forms around her heart is much deeper than he imagines even if he dresses as a girl he can't reach that place.
"Mitsu-chan? What are you staring at?"
Miku's voice sounded again, and Katsu came back to his senses and shook his head slightly: "Sorry, I was distracted, but I do like the song "My Treasure."
""My Treasure"?" Miku's expression changed a bit before changing into her fake smile again.
"It's a song by a has-been singer. Your taste is very good Mitsu~chan I quite like it." Miku smiled but Katsu could feel this wasn't fake she was truly happy
With his extraordinary memory, Katsu only hummed a few times and had memorized all the lyrics.
After hearing Katsu sing it alone, Miku couldn't help but chuckle and said, "It sounds very good. Mitsu-chan's musical talent is really amazing."
"No ---" Katsu scratched his cheek in embarrassment.
"Hehe, don't be too modest. Next, let's try to sing a chorus?"
"OK."
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Adjust the microphone, prepare pure music, --- play.
"Ever seen I was a child ---I always pictured myself standing on the glimmering stage" Miku sang the beginning with her clear and melodious voice.
Katsu immediately answered: "As I hold the shower head, pretending was a microphone. My voice echoed throughout the bathroom, singing 'la la la, la la la'"
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"Let me sing you a song and let's sing along. What I was given by God, was nothing more than a miracle..." As the two people's overlapping voices fell, the song ended.
Katsu looked at Miku, and Miku looked at Katsu and then smiled at each other. Katsu could detect that the other person was smiling and was extremely happy this time. It was indeed a smile from the heart.
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On September 15th, starting from the daytime class, Katsu's behavior was the same as before, without any change, even when chatting with Miku during the break, it was the same.
After school in the afternoon, Katsu took the initiative to find Miku and told her about going to her house to practice singing later.
Miku, of course, agreed.
It was the third time he visited Miku's residence. Katsu was already very familiar with the place. After drinking a cup of tea in the living room, he accompanied Miku to the singing room again.
Looking at Katsu sitting on the resting chair aside, Miku said with a smile: "Shall we start the chorus directly?"
"...No." Katsu shook his head slightly, rejecting Miku's proposal for the first time, and then for the first time, he showed a gentle smile in front of Miku: "Let's chat."
"Chat...?" Miku glanced at Katsu strangely, quite puzzled that the other party would suggest chatting at this time.
"Yeah, chatting... Miku, you are actually very lonely, right?"
"Ah?" As if she didn't expect Katsu to say this at all, Miku couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Mitsu-chan, what are you talking about? Everyone likes me so much, how can I be lonely? "Okay? Okay, don't talk about this, come and practice singing."
"You can practice singing later. I want to talk to you now..." Katsu lowered his eyes and looked at Miku with a complicated expression, including pity and sympathy.
Miku saw all these emotions, and her smile suddenly couldn't be maintained, and her face became slightly gloomy: "Mitsu-chan? If you look at me like that again, I will be angry."
"Miku... No, Yoimachi..."
"Don't call me by that name!!!" The moment Katsu said her former stage name, Miku screamed like a cat with explosive fur.
At this moment, Katsu's earphones heard Kotori's serious voice: "Brother Katsu, Miku's mood is very unstable, and her favorability continues to decline--"
"Ah, but if we don't untie the knot in her heart, then we will never be able to seal her spiritual power," Katsu responded to Kotori in a low voice, but his eyes remained at Miky who had a gloomy face.
"I know, but, Brother Katsu, be careful."
"Um… …"
After ending the conversation with Kotori, Katsu's attention returned to Miku again: "Miku, can you tell me why you hate men so much?"
"What... pretending to know me very well... what do you know? It's just some abuse on the internet, what? Do you want to denounce me too?" At this time, Miku's voice was quite low.
When she refused to sleep with a hotshot TV producer. Before Miku knew it, false scandals about her began to appear, and she soon fell out of favor with her agency along with her supposedly loyal fans beginning to despise her. Miku thought that she could reconnect everything back with her singing, but her attempted performance was ruined by psychogenic aphonia. She lost her voice
"..." Katsu looked at Miku and couldn't help but sigh: "It's not what you think. I believe you. After spending the past few days with you, I know that you are not the person you say on the Internet, and I also know that you are being maliciously smeared..."
"Shut up..." Miku said with her lips moving as if Katsu's words brought back some terrible memories.
Seeing this, Katsu couldn't help but frown a little, but he had no intention of giving up.
"Miku! I know you are disappointed with men... and even all human beings, but not everyone is the same..."
"Shut up…"
"I know you don't want to trust other people anymore, and you don't want to open your heart anymore..."
[Shut up!! ! ]This time, Miku didn't even shout out, but directly used her spiritual power to activate her angel - the ability of the "Army-Breaking Songstress - [Solo], through her voice, to achieve the purpose of making the other party completely obey her.
At this moment, Katsu only felt a strong sense of dizziness but his power burst out quickly relieving him from this state.
"It's useless to escape..." Katsu's voice sounded again.
"What!?" Miku, who had no idea that her ability had no effect, suddenly widened her eyes, and her eyes suddenly changed when she looked at Katsu: "You are not a human? Could it be that you are also a spirit!? Or maybe it's someone outside? Those [Wizards]!?"
"I...I'm human."
"Impossible! It's impossible for humans to disobey my orders."
"..." Katsu remained silent and didn't say anything else, while Miku stared at him, her pretty face flushed red, not knowing whether she was angry or something else.
The atmosphere became so eerily silent.
After a while, Miku was the first to speak out. At this moment, her face had softened a lot, and her tone had returned to its usual gentleness, but with a little more alienation: "Forget it, I'm tired. Let's practice singing together next time. ." The implication is to tell Katsu to get lost...
"Okay, I think we all need to calm down." Katsu nodded slightly, turned around, and left the door. Before stepping out of the room, he looked back at Miku and said softly: " We'll always be friends."