In this crossover anime, I've been bound to two systems.

Kasumigaoka Utaha opened the door and took out a pair of slippers, neatly placing them in front of Suzumiya Chisato.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome. You can put your backpack on the sofa. Sit here for a while, and I'll make you some coffee."

Suzumiya Chisato wanted to say that there was no need to trouble himself, but Kasumigaoka Utaha had already gone into the kitchen first, so he didn't say anything more and obediently did his duty as a guest, sitting quietly on the sofa and waiting.

In The Sims, Suzumiya Chisato once visited Kasumigaoka Utaha's house, but the interior layout he saw then was completely different from what he sees now.

He could understand it, since he could start the simulation with a different identity each time in The Sims, so it was natural that most situations in The Sims were not quite the same as real-life situations.

Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly brought over the coffee. She saw Suzumiya Senri hold the coffee with both hands, ignore the scalding heat, blow on it, take a small sip, and then her lips curl into a slight smile.

"Speaking of which, I haven't introduced myself yet."

"Yes, but now that we're sitting face to face, I think we can just skip this kind of thing, right?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha crossed her legs, leaned forward, and rested her chin on her left hand.

Ever since the coffee was served, she had maintained this languid posture, her gaze fixed intently on Suzumiya Chisato.

She seemed afraid of missing a particular expression or movement from him.

"That's true, but in reality, this is still the first time we've met."

“Alright, my name is Kasumigaoka Utaha, Suzumiya Sensato-kun. Nice to meet you.”

Kasumigaoka Utaha extended her right hand familiarly.

"..."

She unilaterally led the atmosphere, and Suzumiya Chisato reached out and shook hands with her.

As they parted, the other person's little finger gently scratched his palm.

"How old is Suzumiya-kun this year?"

"Seventeen?"

"Really? I'm a year older than you. If you'd like, you can call me 'older sister' in private."

"...Is this your hobby?"

"No, this should be something you like."

"I do not have……"

Suzumiya Chisato averted her gaze when she answered.

"Strange, isn't there anything?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha lowered her head in confusion, her fingers hooking the top of her over-the-knee socks, then releasing them to let them pinch and flick her soft thigh flesh.

"What about this one? Don't you like it either?"

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Chapter 86 The Simulation You See Is Their Life

"What about this one? Don't you like it either?"

Kasumigaoka Shi asked with amusement, and with her increasingly obvious smile, Suzumiya Chisato finally found some of the familiarity she felt when she was with her in The Sims.

The feeling of unfamiliarity disappeared, and I was no longer so restrained.

"Aren't you afraid I'll pounce on you right now? There's no one else in your house."

Suzumiya Chisato put down her coffee.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's smile deepened.

"I brought you home precisely because I knew you wouldn't do that. Oh, by the way, I've never brought any woman home before. You're the first."

"They really are quite confident in their judgment, but what's with that explanation they specifically added later?"

"Stop pretending. You're clearly smiling happily. Do you need me to get you a mirror?"

"Ahem... Getting back to the point, I came here today to talk to you about something important, but seeing you like this has confirmed some of my thoughts."

"That... unusual dream?"

Chisato Suzumiya nodded.

"kindness……"

Kasumigaoka Utaha changed her posture, placing her hands crossed on her thighs, her fingertips occasionally lifting and falling.

“We really need to talk about the unnatural events that happened to us. Could you tell me about the general course of your dream?”

"Nothing is wrong."

Just as planned, Suzumiya Chisato concealed the fact that she possessed the system, appearing as innocent and bewildered as Kasumigaoka Utaha Sawamura Eriri.

He briefly described the plot of his dream a few days ago, and then briefly mentioned that he learned about the school where Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Eriri were from other classmates, and that he took the initiative to go there today to verify it.

Twenty minutes later, after she finished speaking, Balabala finished.

As Kasumigaoka Utaha listened to the experiences described by the other person, which were similar to those in her own dream, the last trace of wariness in her heart completely dissipated.

Just as she had imagined, he, like herself, still remembered the things in her dream.

The coffee had gone cold, and Suzumiya Senri drank it all in one gulp.

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Suzumiya Chisato, whose coffee-drinking habits and posture were exactly like his in her dreams, and her eyes were full of tenderness.

"If that's not enough, you can have mine too. I haven't drunk any yet."

"no need."

"I understand. Do you really have to drink what I leave behind? That's fine too."

"Kasumigaoka, you..."

"Call me Shiyu."

"..."

"Just call me Shiyu."

Meeting the other person's smiling eyes, Ryougu Senri was momentarily flustered.

He had prepared himself mentally before coming today, thinking that they might get too caught up in the dream and behave in ways that he couldn't handle.

But no matter how he anticipated it, he never expected the situation to be this serious.

The girl's legs, encased in over-the-knee stockings, were tiptoeing rapidly. Her cheeks were flushed beyond her control, and her gaze, which had been fixed on her face ever since she sat down, was extremely focused.

The seemingly harmless girl with an exceptionally good figure in front of me, at this moment, is more like a mother wolf eyeing her prey than a restless house cat.

In a sense, she is now very aggressive.

It goes without saying who she wants to attack.

"Kasumigaoka-kun, this is the first time we've met."

Suzumiya Chisato took a deep breath, put on the most serious expression, and spoke those words in the most solemn voice.

Hopefully, she can correct her attitude, face the facts, realize that the two of them have only just officially met, and distinguish between dreams and reality.

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked displeased, but she managed to restrain her heightened emotions somewhat.

"I see."

"That's good. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this matter."

“I don’t have any particular opinion. The specific content of my dream is almost exactly the same as yours, which means that we have the same dream. The only difference is our different identities and perspectives.”

She expressed her speculation.

“The circumstances around us in our dreams, our living places, schools, and interpersonal relationships are very different from reality. So I guess that such unnatural dreams have nothing to do with time, the past, or the future. They may be things that we have experienced in other dimensions, and now they are projected into our minds for some reason and revealed to us in the form of dreams.”

Are they parallel universe counterparts?

That's actually a fairly reasonable explanation.

However, this was not the answer that Chisato Suzumiya had hoped for.

If possible, he still wanted to guide the girls addicted to dreams back to reality and make them consider issues from a realistic perspective.

Therefore, Chisato Suzumiya offered a different perspective.

"Have you ever considered that the dreams we have might all be illusions, fabricated ones?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Suzumiya Chisato quite seriously.

"Are you saying that the things we experience in our dreams don't actually happen?"

"I just want to think about more possibilities."

"There is no such possibility. Everything is real, without a doubt."

Why are you so sure?

"Because I can cook now."

Kasumigaoka Utaha stood up and sat down next to him.

Their eyes met at extremely close range, and their warm breaths overlapped.

"Three days ago, I didn't even know how to hold a kitchen knife, but now I can make three dishes and a soup in forty minutes if I have enough ingredients."

I've also learned various common sense tips for taking care of a baby, such as using the back of my hand to test the temperature of the formula, and knowing the best way to hold a baby so that she can drink breast milk without burping. Now, even if I get pregnant right away, I'm confident that I can be a good mother.

If you say that my ability to instantly grasp these things is merely a rare case of exceptional talent, then the fact that Eriri, that idiot, also grasped them, and that we both simultaneously mastered these techniques and knowledge in our dreams, is enough to prove that the dreams we experienced weren't fictional or fabricated, as you claim.

"..."

"Besides that, you have a black mole below your right shoulder blade on your back, right? Also, if I'm not mistaken, you're currently positioned slightly to the left, right?"

"..."

Suzumiya Chisato swallowed hard, then quietly moved a little to the right to avoid Kasumigaoka Utaha's hand that was about to reach between his legs.

Facing this woman in black stockings, he broke out in a cold sweat, feeling utterly powerless to resist.

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