When Dong Ma opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the blue sky outside the window.
"Oh, right... I'm..."
Dong Ma slowly sat up and looked to both sides. After seeing the obvious sci-fi style decoration in the bedroom, he was stunned for a moment and came to his senses.
By the way, I am already in another world...
Touma raised his hand, clenched it tightly, and then put it down.
Although it was not the first time, but almost every night before going to bed, Dong Ma would hope that this was just a dream, and maybe when he opened his eyes again, she would have returned to her home. But unfortunately, this was not a dream.
Dong Ma woke up, changed her clothes, and washed up. When she walked out of the bedroom and came to the hall, she saw Fang Zheng and several girls sitting there eating breakfast.
"Hey, Touma, you awake?"
Looking at Touma, Fang Zheng waved at her, and Touma nodded slightly before glancing at the table.
"Where's Qiong?"
"Still sleeping. I stayed up late again yesterday."
Fang Zheng spread his hands helplessly and sighed.
After converting Qiong into his follower, Qiong's weak constitution was indeed cured. However, Fang Zheng did not expect that Qiong would become even worse... You know, she used to go to bed on time, but now, after becoming the follower of the Time Dragon and discovering that her ability to stay up late has reached Max, Qiong has decisively become a night owl.
This made Fang Zheng speechless. Now he couldn't even get Qiong to go to bed and tell her that staying up late was bad for the body, because Qiong would ask Fang Zheng, "Is it bad for the dragon race to stay up late?"
Frankly speaking, Fang Zheng has never thought about this question.
Fang Zheng had no good solution for this, he could only let her do what she wanted. In Fang Zheng's opinion, Qiong would get tired of staying up late for too long and give up. He had similar experiences before. There was a time when Fang Zheng played online games so hard that he wanted to stay in front of the computer 24 hours a day. He even had a "glorious history" of playing in the Internet cafe for seven days and seven nights during holidays. Later, after he started working, perhaps because of the inevitable decline of things, he could not play for so long.
It's like a person who particularly likes to eat pork belly, but you eat it every day for a month, and he will probably feel sick at the sight of pork belly. Fang Zheng had a similar feeling at that time.
Since then, Fang Zheng rarely stayed up late.
Even now that he has become a god, Fang Zheng rarely stays up late, mainly because... there are many more interesting things to do than staying up late, right?
"Come on, come on, have breakfast first."
Fang Zheng waved his hand, and Dong Ma hesitated for a moment before sitting over. To be honest, Dong Ma was somewhat unfamiliar with the Fang Zheng in front of her. After all, the Fang Zheng in her memory was the same age as her, but the Fang Zheng in front of her was obviously in his early twenties. Although the appearance was not much different, Dong Ma still felt a little awkward. Even though she had learned from Qiong that this was Fang Zheng's true appearance, Dong Ma could not accept it immediately.
This is also normal.
After greeting the other girls, Touma sat down beside them and started eating breakfast. To be honest, seeing Fang Zheng again, Touma didn't know what to say. She was not an outgoing person. If it was Setsuna or Sekai who was here, they might have something to say to Fang Zheng, but Touma didn't know what to say.
Instead, Fang Zheng looked at Dong Ma after finishing his meal.
"By the way, Touma, how's your piano practice going lately?"
"Why?"
Dong Ma was stunned when she heard this question. For a moment, she felt as if she had returned to the past. Every day when they met, Fang Zheng's first question was "How is your piano practice going?"
And now it seems to be still the case.
"no problem."
However, Touma hesitated for a moment and gave an answer immediately. After all, she is no longer the same person she was before. After all, Touma has performed in the Vienna Golden Hall before, and she has the aura and confidence.
"oh?"
Hearing Dong Ma's answer, Fang Zheng glanced at her and then snapped his fingers.
Soon, a piano appeared out of nowhere next to the restaurant.
"Come on, play it for me."
In response to Fang Zheng's words, Dong Ma also hummed lightly, then took out a tissue to wipe his mouth, then sat down in front of the piano, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then began to play.
The clear and beautiful sound of the piano immediately attracted the girls' attention. Although they didn't know much about piano, they could hear that Touma's performance was quite beautiful.
Not only did Illya and Kuro start to listen to the performance quietly, but Chtholly and Nevlen also looked at Touma curiously - there was no such instrument as the piano in their world, so it was quite strange.
Soon, the song ended.
Dong Ma put down her hand and looked at Fang Zheng. Then she saw Fang Zheng stand up, walk to her side and pat her shoulder.
This startled Dong Ma. She knew Fang Zheng's habits. Generally speaking, if Fang Zheng was not satisfied with her performance, he would not criticize her directly, but would ask her to stand up and then play the piece again... She had to admit that this was a huge blow. She just couldn't play as well as him for the same piece of music, using the same technique. Nothing could make people lose confidence more easily than this.
However, Dong Ma was eventually trained by Fang Zheng, which is why she was very calm when participating in so many competitions afterwards. Although there were many powerful opponents, compared with Fang Zheng... they were not that powerful.
But now, Touma once again recalled the fear of being dominated by Fang Zheng.
However, she still gave up her seat out of habit, and Fang Zheng sat down without any hesitation, then extended his hand.
The next moment, the piano sound rang out again.
In just a moment, everyone's attention was immediately attracted by Fang Zheng's piano playing.
If Dong Ma's piano sound just made people feel "beautiful", then Fang Zheng's performance made them feel as if they were in the rough sea, violent waves, and howling hurricanes. However, the next moment, it was as if the clouds had cleared and the sun was shining, the storm quietly disappeared, and was replaced by the chirping of birds, the fragrance of flowers, and tender words.
Not long after, the song ended.
“Pah pah pah pah!!”
Coming back to their senses, the girls couldn't help but applaud loudly, while Dong Ma stood aside with an uncertain expression. To be honest, she seemed to be back in school. Every time she felt that she had made sufficient progress, Fang Zheng would slap her back to square one - this was a little wrong, she had indeed made progress, but... she still couldn't catch up with Fang Zheng.
"Brother, you can actually play the piano? How come I didn't know that?"
Xiao Hei was the first to speak. She had never heard Fang Zheng play the piano!
“Mr. Fang Zheng’s performance was indeed outstanding.”
At this point, Chtholly seemed to remember something.
"By the way, when we were in my world, Mr. Fang Zheng often sang for us. It was very nice."
"MASTER? You can sing too?"
At this moment, Illya couldn't sit still anymore.
"Why haven't we heard of it?"
As the earliest heroes summoned by Fang Zheng, the two little girls have been following Fang Zheng for quite some time. They are sure that even Xia Shi, Cui and Tina probably don’t know that Fang Zheng can actually sing and play!
"Kasugano-kun's singing voice is indeed beautiful."
At this moment, Dong Ma also interjected.
"He even formed a band with us."
"Why?!!!"
This time the little girls jumped up immediately and stared at Fang Zheng.
“Big brother!”
"MASTER!"
"Don't look at me, I'm busy too..."
Fang Zheng waved his hands. He could see that the two little guys were very unhappy.
"I don't care, I want to hear you sing, big brother!"
Illya is a good girl, but Xiao Hei is the type who would go against the rules and start to act like a spoiled brat.
"If you don't sing, I'll tell Xia Shi and the others about this when I get back!"
This is a blatant threat.
"Well, I'm free anyway..."
Facing Xiao Hei's threat, Fang Zheng didn't want to say anything more. If Xia Shi and the others knew about this, it would be even more troublesome. After all, the little girls had been with him for a longer time, but he had never sung a song for them... Well, after all, that time was different from now. Fang Zheng was so busy at that time that he didn't have the leisure to do such things. He just slacked off in the love world and formed a band to satisfy his craving.
If it wasn't for the fun of forming a band in the love world, Fang Zheng wouldn't have sung to kill time in Chtholly's world... Of course, there's no point in saying all this now.
Finally, under the coaxing of Illya and Xiao Hei, Fang Zheng reluctantly sang to them the songs he had sung to Chtholly and Nevlen before. With the cooperation of Touma, he sang his songs from School Days again, and finally calmed the two little ones.
After the group of people happily dispersed, Fang Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and went to the balcony to breathe some fresh air.
And at this moment, Dong Ma also came to his side.
"Kasugano..."
"Call me Fang Zheng... That name is just a pseudonym..."
"But for me, I'm more used to this name."
"Really? It's up to you then."
Facing Dong Ma's answer, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more. Dong Ma was silent for a moment before asking.
"Kasugano...will you meet Setsuna and the others after you return?"
"Of course, but then again, how are they doing now?"
"Everyone is doing well. SchoolDays will often perform at LIVE shows. We have also made a few new songs. A producer has come to discuss with us about packaging SchoolDays as an idol group to debut..."
"oh?"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng was stunned.
"How did you answer?"
“We refused.”
"Including the world?"
"Yes."
"It really surprised me..."
To be honest, Fang Zheng had always thought that Shijie was the type who liked to be in the spotlight. Xuecai and Setsuna might not like the attention, but Shijie was obviously the type of girl with ideas. He didn't expect that Shijie would choose to refuse. But it was okay this way, after all, the entertainment industry was not a good thing. Idols like this might look glamorous on the surface, but they were full of troubles inside.
Therefore, this is also a good choice.
"Kasugano..."
However, at this moment, suddenly, Touma spoke again, but the difference from before was that this time her voice was a little trembling.
"I……"
"Um?"
"……nothing."
In the end, Dong Ma opened his mouth, but lowered his head and didn't say anything more.
Seeing the whole scene, Qiong, who was hiding not far away, frowned.
It seems that Touma can no longer be relied upon. Now... I can only rely on Setsuna and Sekai and the others!