Tokyo, there are too many beautiful girls imitating me

"A gift that's thoughtful is the most valuable thing. Now that you put it that way, I'm at a loss as to what to get you."

Mizuki Marin was too clumsy. No, she probably had never considered the possibility that Chika Tachibana could see everything in her love simulation.

When asking for a gift, she practically repeated the request given by the simulator to Chika Tachibana.

[Handcrafted, thoughtful gifts from the simulated object can increase the number of simulations. The number of restorations will fluctuate depending on the level of thoughtfulness, and the maximum number of restorations for a single gift is two. Receiving multiple gifts within a short period of time will reduce the restoration efficiency.]

It seems that the host is strongly encouraged to have positive interactions with the simulated person. The conditions for the natural recovery of the simulation times are relatively strict. After the initial three gift times are used up, the simulation times will only be restored once every two weeks. However, by asking for gifts, the number of simulations can be restored up to two times in an instant.

Chika Tachibana had already seen through this setting when Kanzuki Marin first conducted the simulation, so now, as soon as she spoke, Chika Tachibana understood what she was thinking.

The gifts are really wanted, and the number of simulations is also strongly needed.

Still brooding over the last failure, Guanyue Zhenling is probably eager to avenge her previous defeat.

Chika Tachibana is the same in this regard.

It doesn't matter whether it's straight or not, it's just that the CP that I supported ended up in a BE, and Chika Tachibana also wants to push a good ending out as soon as possible.

This doesn't mean that she has been turned gay by Mizuki Malin or something, it's just -

The "she" in the dating simulation is her yesterday, not her today, so even if "she" is bent, pushed, and bent, it does not mean that she is really a lesbian!

Chika Tachibana knows all about these things.

It can even be said that if there was really no way to teach Mizuki Marin how to make choices, Chika Tachibana would have wanted to do it herself and control the player character "Mizuki Marin" to conquer herself.

Do you understand the joy of playing a love gal and getting a perfect ending?

"Just give it as you like. I just suddenly wanted a small gift in return. I'm not really looking forward to it."

Still tsundere, still tsundere! Mizuki Manabu is still tsundere!

If the person Kanzuki Malin liked was someone else instead of her, she would definitely be destined to be alone.

Thinking about it this way, for the future happiness of a lovely girl like Kanzuki Manrin, she might really have to take responsibility and marry...

Ah ah ah ah ah!

Clapping her hands on her face, Chika Tachibana suddenly shook her head wildly.

Such thoughts came to her mind. Her thoughts have really gone downhill in the past two days.

You are straight, you are straight, you are straight!

She frantically repeated these words to herself to calm herself down. Under the puzzled and worried gaze of Kanzuki Marin, Tachibana Chika forced a smile, slapped her hands on the table, and responded solemnly.

"I can't just give it casually. For the gift for someone important to me, I will definitely put my heart into it!"

Please take this, my last ripple!

Staring at the frightened Kanzuki Marin, Chika Tachibana breathed heavily and roared in her heart.

The number of simulations is up to you, please, get a perfect ending!

Chapter 33: Intertwined Feelings

"Masuzu, you must come to dinner tomorrow night too!"

After dinner, they chatted for a while. During the conversation, they knew a little more about Kanzuki Marin's life experience, and Chika Tachibana also knew that her mother had died of illness at an early age.

It's really pitiful. As her best friend, since Mizuki Marin has lost the maternal love she misses most, it is up to Chika Tachibana to fill this gap!

After sending Kanzuki Marin out, Chika Tachibana deliberately shouted out the promise they had made to her in a voice so loud that it could be heard even in the innermost room of the house.

After doing all this, she closed the door, leaned against it and took a deep breath. Then she opened her eyes, with a sharp light flashing in her eyes. Chika Tachibana was ready to carry out her evil idea.

She was ready to torture her cousin Aino Akizuki in various ways, and the love that did not disappear but was transferred from her to Marin Mizuki was one of them.

I scooped some soup from the pot and tasted it. While I was eating and chatting with Guanyue Zhenling, the stewed meat had already become a little cold and the rice was only warm.

Resisting the urge to reheat the dishes and rice, Chika Tachibana put the cold meal on a plate and brought it to her cousin's room with a note attached.

[I've reduced the salt content as you requested, cousin. Is today's meal to your liking? If there's anything wrong, please let me know and I'll work hard to improve it!]

After knocking on the door and putting down the tray, Chika Tachibana walked away, but stopped after taking only two steps.

He returned and stood in front of the door with a frown for a long time, reaching out his hand and then retracting it. Finally, Chika Tachibana picked up the note on the plate.

Afterwards, she folded it silently, suppressing the urge to put it back on the plate, and then Chika Tachibana returned to the living room.

From last night to tonight, he ignored his cousin Akizuki Aino's requests and repeatedly brought "another woman" Kanzuki Mansuzu into his home, laughing and talking loudly with her, deliberately and loudly inviting her to his home every night, and only served her cold meals and no longer wrote notes to express his concern...

Chika Tachibana is trying to use the cold shoulder to coerce Aino Akizuki into making corresponding changes. She is trying to pua her shut-in cousin who has been hiding in the innermost room for more than a year without speaking to anyone face to face.

At least communicate with her, even if it leaves a bad impression on her.

If boiling a frog in warm water doesn't work, you have to use stronger medicine. In order to receive favors and trust from others, Chika Tachibana always wanted to help her cousin Akizuki Aino leave home and establish basic connections with other people in society during the three years she lived in this house.

She has to be cruel!

Patting her cheeks to suppress the strong guilt in her heart for doing something bad, Chika Tachibana reached out and held the guitar in her arms.

In the dating simulation, she always chooses to practice the piano in an open space outside, always avoiding disturbing her cousin who is staying in the room.

But now that she had decided to "no longer be gentle", she did the opposite and decided to practice the piano at home without restraint, until Akizuki Aino could not help but protest to her, and even rushed out of the house to scold and beat her.

While plucking the strings, thinking that Kanzuki Malin was not around, Chika Tachibana decided to play and practice seriously.

It would be difficult to tell to what extent the experience gained from the simulator had improved her playing skills unless she actually played the guitar. So she turned on the recording function on her phone and played the introductory guitar pieces one by one.

The results were unexpectedly encouraging.

It is clear that he has never learned it, but for many entry-level guitar pieces, although he cannot play them perfectly, he can still play them fluently.

As for the flaws, most of the relatively simple finger techniques are engraved in her body as if by instinct, and she understands them and can perform them.

However, her fingers were too weak to move, which caused her to miss the beat sometimes. Her fingers would become stiff and sore after only a short time in one position, causing her to frown in pain.

But all these aches and pains are the difficulties that need to be overcome in practicing guitar. With a strong will, Chika Tachibana does not back down. She still tirelessly repeats the practice of the pieces to make her body get used to them as quickly as possible, so that the experience and body can match as quickly as possible and perform at the expected level.

No longer restricted by economic pressure and growing environment, she can freely devote herself to her hobbies. Such practice makes Chika Tachibana tired and her hands sore, but her heart is happy.

Song after song, in the middle there was the sound of a door being pushed open, and another voice joined in, but she didn't care. With a smile on her lips, Chikako Tachibana's mind was completely immersed in playing the song, and her ears were filled with only the increasingly beautiful music and the other low music that perfectly matched the rhythm of her string playing.

"With the addition of the bass harmony, the music immediately becomes much more beautiful. I'm happy to be able to play guitar, but it's still more fun to play together. I think it's because of this that Song Sheng-senpai..."

The light guitar sound is supported by the steady bass, which makes people feel more cheerful.

After a break from the song, she had a good playing experience and stopped playing. Chika Tachibana more or less understood the idea of ​​Matsunami Miki's persistence in playing with others. However, as she was thinking about it, she suddenly got stuck, and a big doubt flashed in her big eyes.

Why is there a bass sound?

She looked down at her guitar, strummed it a few times, and was sure that it could not produce the same dull sound as the bass. She was also sure that it could not produce the sounds of two instruments at the same time. Chika Tachibana tilted her head.

Blinking her eyes, she moved lightly to a position where she could see the corridor. She looked into the deepest part and saw that her cousin's door, which was usually tightly closed, was now ajar, just like the door of Qiuyue Aino's heart that was finally opened.

Tentatively, Chika Tachibana began to play the introductory piece again, while listening with her ears perked up, hoping to hear the steady, warm, mature bass sound that perfectly supported her immature performance.

"heard it."

The light in her eyes gathered, her hands were playing, and her ears were alert. When the sound of the guitar rang out, Chika Tachibana was finally able to confirm that the bass sound came from her cousin's room!

Her cousin was playing with much more mature playing skills than hers, following and accommodating her rhythm which was disordered due to her unfamiliar skills, trying her best to support her music and make it more three-dimensional and perceptible.

In an instant, the corners of her lips curled up in a joyful and relieved arc, and Chika Tachibana lowered her eyebrows, her face soft.

For the first time, she heard her cousin's voice, which was so beautiful, so steady, and full of strange magic that soothed her heart and conveyed the strength to support her.

She searched for him everywhere, but in the end, she found that the method of communication had already been in her hands and held in her arms.

The smile could not be stopped, just like the music, once again, Chika Tachibana played the guitar even harder.

Communicate through music and express your feelings to each other through music.

Playing the introductory piece, she seemed to have inadvertently entered the door of her cousin.

Chapter 34: One sentence made Chika Tachibana...

My cousin who usually stays at home and hides in the deepest part of her room is actually a hidden bassist!?

Experience does not match the body, the music is unfamiliar, and the fingers are not flexible and coordinated.

It was precisely because she knew how bad her own guitar playing was that Chika Tachibana could better understand how superb the bass skills of her cousin Akina Akizuki were, who was able to completely follow her already somewhat messed up beat and support her poor performance.

It takes three years, five years, or even longer, just like my senior classmate Miki Matsuo, to immerse oneself in the world of music for a long time and unremittingly hone one's skills to be able to play to such a level.

"Amazing......"

Gazing at the still dark gap in her cousin's door, Chika Tachibana was impressed by her cousin's superb skills, but at the same time she couldn't help but fantasize.

What would my cousin Aino Akizuki look like behind the door, holding a bass and strumming the strings?

My aunt once emailed me a photo of Aino Akizuki taken two years ago. Her long black hair reached her waist and hips, and she was holding her junior high school graduation certificate and shielding the camera with her hands. In the only photo left, my cousin's face was not shown, and she had a petite figure, a perfect lolita type.

I wonder if my cousin has grown a bit in the past two years. If she were still holding a bass with that thick neck with that loli figure, it would definitely be quite awkward...

Maybe it's quite cute.

Firmly believing in the beautiful genes of the Tachibana family, Chika Tachibana imagined a shrunken version of herself holding Bess in her mind, and the quality of the resulting picture is extremely cute in every aspect.

I wouldn’t say that everyone loves her, but at least when Guanyue Zhenling sees her, she will definitely not be able to help but hug her in her arms and kiss her madly while saying “it’s just so-so”.

Huhuhu~

The more she fantasized, the brighter her mood became, and Chikako Tachibana couldn't suppress her laughter.

It turns out that the key to opening my cousin's door and communicating with her heart has always been in her hand. The beauty of music lies in this kind of communication that touches the heart through melody without the need for words, which is really refreshing.

Just like that, I rushed into my cousin's room tonight and rapped... cough, talked to her gently and established a good connection. Even if I couldn't pull her out, at least I could get the right to enter!

With this in mind, Chika Tachibana put down her guitar and walked deeper into the room.

Then, bang!

I had just stepped into the corridor when I heard a door knock from the back. My cousin Akizuki Aino once again sealed her lonely bass along with her heart.

"My cousin plays the bass so well. We had such a great time playing together just now. Can we have such a pleasant performance together again like today?"

"Cousin, I still don't quite understand the guitar music. Can you let me in and ask you for some advice?"

"It doesn't matter if I can't open the door. At least add me as a LINE friend. I'm going to live here for the next three years. Even if we can't meet, I always want to chat with you, cousin."

“No need to start a video call or answer a voice call, just sending a message is enough!”

Being able to communicate through music does not mean being able to communicate through words. Chika Tachibana was willing to use the bass to support her clumsy performance. She thought that the care she gave her in the previous week had finally worked, and her cousin Akizuki Aino always had some good feelings towards her.

But perhaps the goodwill was not enough. No matter how much Tachibana Chika begged, no matter how she lowered her requirements step by step, let alone knocking on the door, in the end she failed to get even a little response.

Helplessly, thinking that there would be no breakthrough today, Chika Tachibana could only bend down to prepare to clean up the plates her cousin had left outside the house.

"This is......"

Under the clean plate, Chika Tachibana found a note.

[The dinner was too cold, but it tasted good, but I was very angry. Don't bring a strange woman into the house.]

Not only is it a good move to open my cousin's heart with music, but deliberately ignoring her and doing things she hates is also a way to establish communication. It may not be a good move, and whether it is a natural move or a common move may depend on the effectiveness of the subsequent communication.

"I'm sorry, I was so happy chatting with Zhenling that I forgot to bring you dinner. I hope you are not hungry."

I don't care about my cousin, I only care about my sister Manabu!

Through the door, she didn't hide her evil smile at all, and spoke loudly to the inside of the house with a strong smell of tea.

[At least heat it up before sending it]

It can be said that she is a foodie. In most matters, cousin Akizuki Aino will not respond to Chika Tachibana. However, when it comes to the taste and hotness of the food, she responds quite diligently and strives for Chika Tachibana to be perfect.

Not long after the words were spoken, the note was pushed out from the gap between the door and the floor.

But this will not have any positive effect. Seeing that it works, Chika Tachibana, who has already turned completely evil, will only become more evil.

"Oh, I didn't think much of it. I only realized when I was washing the dishes that I didn't bring you any food today, so I just brought some over. Actually, it's all Manling's fault. If I hadn't been thinking about the weekend shopping appointment with her, I wouldn't have forgotten it."

Love does not disappear, it only shifts. Compared to the cousin who lives with her but whom she cannot even see or talk to, the cute and energetic sister Zhenling next door who is always happy and close to her is better and more popular with her. She forgets all your joys and sorrows when she thinks about her.

Confident that she could convey such hurtful words effectively, Chika Tachibana continued to drop some explosive news.

"As for asking Zhenling to come over for dinner, I've already agreed with her that she'll come over for dinner every day. Since you won't be leaving this room anyway, I can use the rest of the room as I please. I can only ask you to speak as quietly as possible so as not to disturb your peace."

Respond to me again, respond to me again, respond to me again!

He kept reciting in his mind, and after a moment another piece of paper slipped out from the gap.