36 Chapter 36
◎You are a princess? Then I am a time traveler◎
Chapter 36 [You are a princess? Then I am a time traveler]
"We can't really let Sayuri be stranded outside alone, penniless and with amnesia." Kawakami Mika replied with a smile.
Apparently, the Agatsuma family had some backup plans to protect Agatsuma Sayuri from starving to death on the streets. Unexpectedly, Agatsuma Sayuri had already used the knowledge from her past life to save herself.
To keep her company, Kawakami Mika had no choice but to join the milk tea shop. In other words, this shop is also owned by my wife's family; the manager rents the space from them.
The landlord wanted to hire someone else, offering them the same salary as regular employees. The person was hardworking and had a good personality, and they were even offering a rent discount. The store manager couldn't find a reason to refuse. In a world with labor shortages, hiring a stable employee actually saved the store manager a lot of trouble.
I have talked about all the advantages, there is no disadvantage at all. It would be a pity if there were more of these good things where you can get something for nothing.
The coffee shop was transformed into a milk tea shop, and all the employees were newbies. My wife Sayuri couldn't tell who was a newcomer and who was a veteran in the industry.
As long as there are no explicit scenes in the original work, their lives are free. That's why Kawakami Mika can go to work at a milk tea shop, Hagiwara Kenji can "resurrect from the dead", and Miyano Akemi can join the Agatsuma family under the organization's nose.
My wife Sayuri complained in her head: [So you guys also know that I'm helpless with my amnesia and I don't have any money.]
No wonder it was so easy for my wife Sayuri to apply for a new ID and mobile phone number. Normally, she would have to provide other proof.
It now seemed she had no memory of it, but it was in the system. Perhaps someone on the processing staff had her ID, or perhaps the police officer who helped her with the application had it, or perhaps even the reissue was just a show-off procedure.
No, that's not right.
This process is not only intended to deceive him, but also to deceive the police and organizations that come to investigate later.
Reissuing the document is true, but losing the document may not be so true.
While she was recalling the starting point of her memory, she was frantically analyzing whether she and the original owner were the same person.
If they are not the same person, then how would the original owner know what the personality of the next "Sayuri Agatsuma" would be, and how to judge how she would react when she comes into contact with Kagemitsu Morofushi?
If it is the same person, then what did she want to do in the past, and how far has she achieved it now? And why did she lose her past memories, and which memories did she lose?
After all, only a few people can speak at the table. My wife's family also has their own work to do. Some of them support the family business, some run the hospital, and some maintain my wife's family's external image.
The surname "Azuma" is likely a surname passed down from the wives of warriors or nobles in ancient times. While her ancestral wealth may not be comparable to that of the rich and powerful, she still ranks among the wealthy.
Most of the people who join my wife’s family now have to give up their own properties. Some of these properties have legitimate heirs, while others can be transferred to my wife’s family through some means.
As the industry increases, talented people who are not suitable to show up can manipulate the direction of the business through other family members. In the past decade or so, my wife's family has gradually stepped onto the industrial, economic and political stage of Japan.
I don't know when this world started to have the so-called original plot, which led to many meaningless deaths.
When the first person who survived such an incident appeared, the establishment of the "Victims' Self-Help Association" had already entered the course of history.
At a banquet, my wife Sayuri's mind was full of doubts.
My wife's host said: "According to the plan, you still need to return to your rental house to live."
There was no need for him to explain the reason. Agatsuma Sayuri understood just by thinking about Morofushi Kagemitsu's vigilance. If she stayed in Agatsuma's family, Morofushi Kagemitsu would only destroy the dangerous dolls and other things, and then disappear from her world.
Although it was unfair to destroy the surrounding area, that was the style of the Japanese public security. At most, out of guilt, Morofushi Kagemitsu would leave her some money or something else, but nothing else that could be directly connected to him.
"You already know enough. More information won't help you, but will instead reveal your flaws."
In fact, even Agatsuma Sayuri felt that she knew too much. The original plot was a prophecy, and the world was heading in that direction, but a third party hidden in the dark (the Agatsuma family) was operating without changing the content of the prophecy.
These are things that she, an ordinary civilian, should not know.
Now let her go back to the environment before today, does that mean letting her perform in front of ordinary people, my wife's family members, the public security and the organization with so many secrets?
You should explain clearly how she should strike the right balance, telling Zhu Fu Jingguang that she actually knows your true identity, while not letting the organization know that she knows about them. Besides that, she has to diligently shake milk tea like an ordinary worker, and write novels and draw comics at night?
Just trying not to show an expression like "I know you know your childhood friend is not dead" in front of Jinpei Matsuda, and pretending to be unfamiliar with Miyano Akemi and investigating her, Agatsuma Sayuri felt that her acting skills were greatly challenged.
After the whole plot is over, will she be able to directly enter the film and television industry and win the title of Best Actress?
It was rare that she sighed and looked a little tired when she was wearing formal clothes.
Kawakami Mika smiled and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, Xiaoshayuri, I'm here with you. We can go to the milk tea shop together later."
At this point, my wife Sayuri was too lazy to complain about having to go back to shake milk tea together, and couldn't help but ask: "What kind of case did Sister Kawakami encounter? Is there no way to go back to your previous life?"
"Ah, about that." Kawakami Mika brushed her hair and said with a hint of nostalgia, "Actually, I didn't encounter any cases. It's better to say that the self-help group uncovered my family's dusty past in advance."
Agatsuma Sayuri still doesn't know how the people in the self-help group learned about the plot, but one thing is obvious: many people's cases should have happened three years later.
This seems to be the situation that Kawakami Mika encountered.
According to what she knew, in the original work, she should have followed Edogawa Conan and his group to the house managed by her great-grandmother, and found evidence that her great-grandparents were in love. At the same time, her hidden life experience was also revealed.
"My real name is Natsumi Kosaka, and Mika Kawakami is just my flower name. Like other members of the Agatsuma family who can't use their real names, I changed my name a little bit."
"I'm a pastry chef in Paris. After the Self-Help Association contacted me, I asked for leave from the shop, saying I was going to Japan to learn about beverage making."
It just so happened that Agatsuma Sayuri used her memories from before her rebirth to transform the coffee shop into a milk tea shop, so it actually matched up.
Because of this coincidence, Kawakami Mika's stay in Japan was extended.
"Is it okay to keep taking leave in Paris?"
"It's okay. It's our family's shop... and the housekeeper is helping me look after it. Actually, before I came to Japan, I was planning to give the shop to my wife's family, but they said 'don't put all your eggs in one basket,' so I kept it."
She tilted her head and smiled, then jokingly said, "Maybe it has something to do with other people not wanting to work in Paris."
It was at this time that Agatsuma Sayuri noticed that Kawakami Mika's gray eyes were not the effect of cosmetic contact lenses, but the natural color of her eyes.
"Sister Kawakami, I've been meaning to tell you that your hair is a light milk tea color. Did you dye it?"
"No," the young woman said, lifting the ends of her hair and letting it catch the light from the corridor at different angles. "That's my natural hair color. Sayuri-chan might not remember the plot, but I'm of mixed descent."
She counted on her fingers, "The known ones are Russian, German, Japanese, and French. Since my great-grandmother was a member of the Russian royal family, there may also be mixed blood from other countries..."
In Europe, intermarriage between royal families was a common phenomenon, as they sought to secure powerful wives' families. It was common for a princess from one country to marry the crown prince of another. After the crown prince ascended the throne, their children would marry princesses from other countries. After several generations, it became impossible to tell which country's bloodline belonged to which family.
Just looking at Kawakami Mika's appearance, she does have some Germanic and Slavic features. Because of the Japanese genes mixed in, her appearance is more gentle than that of the average European.
Due to the effects of the war, there were many mixed-race people in Japan during this period, but neither Sayuri nor anyone else took her mixed-race features seriously. In fact, because Sayuri often wore exaggerated makeup, more people asked if she was mixed-race than asked Kawakami Mika.
As expected, makeup is the real magic of changing one's head①, and changing one's race is not a dream.
With the help of props, changing gender isn't difficult. My wife, Sayuri, has cosplayed as a man. This was the case in China in her previous life, and it's even easier in Japan, where men are generally shorter. She doesn't even need 20cm high shoes.
"Wow—it turns out Kawakami-san's great-grandmother was a member of the royal family~" Agatsuma Sayuri sighed subconsciously, then realized, "Huh? A member of the royal family? Then wouldn't Kawakami-san be a princess?"
This is just like when you suddenly hear someone in modern society say that their great-grandmother was a princess of the Aisin-Gioro clan. There is no respect, only curiosity.
"We are no longer an absolute monarchy, but a democratic federal republic. There is no such thing as a royal family anymore."
"Wow, I feel like I'm hearing technical terms that I only hear in politics or history classes..."
My wife Sayuri sighed and changed her clothes with Kawakami Mika - not pajamas and slippers, nor cloaks, but left my wife's ancestral home wearing clothes that were too ordinary for my wife Sayuri.
【Author’s words】
① The four major evil arts in Asia, a term on the Internet in 2015, refers to Thailand's sex change surgery, South Korea's plastic surgery, Japan's makeup and China's PS.
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Without looking up any information, does anyone remember Kawakami Mika (originally named Kosaka Natsumi)? Take a guess at who she is.
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