Tokyo, there are too many beautiful girls imitating me

Holding Chika Tachibana's warm hand, you ran quickly, pulling her into the school gate and out of the crowd at the school gate, which was not very crowded in the early morning, in order to prevent others from peeping at this beautiful sight.

Ding~ Your possessiveness towards Chika Tachibana has increased.】

"..."

It was unknown whether the "ding~" sound was the simulator's malicious taste in describing the text or whether such a sound really rang out in Mitsuki Manrin's mind, but the words "increased possessiveness" made her feel somewhat uneasy.

People always change, and the same is true for the host avatar in the simulator. It is very likely that due to different events encountered, it will become an "independent person" with a completely different personality from the original host.

Being able to step outside of this prompt and take this deliberate reminder must be a pretty big emotional change.

The increase in possessiveness seems to be quite bad from various perspectives.

However, since it's Kanzuki Marin, there shouldn't be any problem?

After all, even if the little white rabbit wears a princess crown and a steel duckbill, it still cannot change the fact that she is harmless.

So, suppressing the strangeness in her heart, Chika Tachibana continued to watch the simulation.

Because I was lost in thought, some of the simulation content was lost and I couldn't get the specific content. Time in the simulator passed quickly and it was afternoon when school was over.

You agreed to join the club together after school. When you went to Class 2, you saw Chika Tachibana rejecting the classmates who tried to take her to visit the club together.

"Sorry, I already have an appointment."

Standing at the door of the classroom and looking at the obvious disappointment on the faces of the rejected boys and girls, your heart is filled with joy.

Compared to your classmates, Chika Tachibana values ​​you as a friendly neighbor more. You are the chosen one.

We got married at the Kimpton Shinjuku Hotel, honeymooned in Venice, and our wedding house is in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Our daughters are named Kanzuki Aika, Kanzuki Renka, and Kanzuki...

The joy of being chosen by her is so inspiring. When you think of your senior from the previous simulation, Miki Matsuoka, who lives in such happiness, your desire to fall in love with Chika Tachibana, get married, have a daughter, and spend the rest of your life with her becomes even stronger.

"I've inquired about the music-related clubs on campus. There are the music club, the choir club, the wind instrument club, and the death metal club. Which one would you like to visit first, Guanyue?"

Chika Tachibana asked for your opinion on the order of visiting the various departments. It seemed like she was doing some research after learning about your interest in the music club, and it was a gesture of consideration for you, but in reality, you knew—

This is a rare weakness in the heart of Chika Tachibana, who is still in the first year of high school. She yearns for the path of music but is too timid to take the first step. Hidden beneath her calm gaze is the glimmer of hope, and she is waiting for someone to give her a push.

In the past, you missed this great opportunity to enter her heart because you joined the painting club. This time, you will never let it slip away.

And with the memory of the last simulation, you know even more deeply that this is the key event that determines whether Chika Tachibana will meet her senior Miki Matsuoka.

To this, you replied...】

Chapter 5: Escape is shameful, but useful

The apartment I currently live in is only about a quarter of an hour's walk from the school. School ends at 3:30 and club activities end at about 6 o'clock. I still have enough time to make dinner and take care of my cousin who lives with me and stays at home.

Indeed, the simulator is right. It allows one to restart youth in a relaxed era and go back to high school in a relaxed educational environment with past memories. Chika Tachibana is willing to participate in club activities.

But waiting for someone to give her a push...

After asking herself this question, Chika Tachibana finally smiled with relief.

Yes, in the dating simulation, she would ask Mizuki Marin if she wanted to join the club. After learning that she intended to join the music department club, she invited her to experience joining the club together. This was probably her plan.

Born in the 1990s in China when material conditions were not very affluent, I have depended on my mother since childhood and lived a life that was barely enough to make ends meet.

Fortunately, her mother's ideas were much more advanced than those of the country people of that era, and she also worked hard. With the money her mother borrowed from everywhere, she finally managed to go to college and got a good diploma. She became what others called "the child of other people's family", and settled down in the big city and lived a life that her neighbors envied.

"Look at your xx sister, how capable she is!"

"Yes, after all the hardships I suffered as a child, happiness finally comes to me."

Whenever she met with relatives during the holidays, Chika Tachibana had heard countless compliments, but she never felt happy and could only smile perfunctorily.

The words she spoke were always frivolous, but only someone like her who had experienced it personally could understand the true bitterness in them.

Due to financial constraints, she had no choice in life but to study.

She had to endure ten years of hard study and then find a job that made money but she didn't like, struggle for life, work hard for money, and spend a mediocre but stable life in a busy manner. This was her only choice at that time.

But is a life that goes on and on like this, without any ripples and almost like a stagnant pool, really meaningful?

When working overtime in the company and looking at her tired self reflected in the window in the dead of night, Chika Tachibana always has such doubts in her mind. After her biological mother passed away in her previous life, every time she returned to the cold rental house, the doubts in her heart became deeper.

If possible, I would like to devote myself to what I love and fight for what I love all my life.

But it was too late. She had already lost the best time of pursuing her dreams.

But now, everything starts over again. She is no longer the white-collar worker in her thirties wandering in the big city, but a young and beautiful sixteen-year-old high school girl in Tokyo.

In this era of material abundance, advanced information, and various channels and opportunities to show oneself, Chika Tachibana wants to choose what she loves, immerse herself in the music she likes, burn her light and heat, and waste her youth.

However, after sticking to the old ways for too long, it seems difficult to change or be willful.

"Do it, do it, if you like it, try to do it!"

She wanted someone to say something like this to her, and give her a small, gentle push from behind.

Ever since the school clubs started recruiting new members, and ever since she saw the seniors from the music department club handing flyers to her, Chika Tachibana has been secretly looking forward to it.

She had been secretly looking forward to it in her heart for a long time, but she herself had not yet "realized" it and did not have the courage to take that first step.

But now, the simulator has made that feeling clear to her.

Yes, she wants to be willful and want her youth to keep ringing.

In a sense, time has not yet entered tomorrow, but Chika Tachibana has already taken that step in her heart.

[In response to Chika Tachibana's question, you choose—]

[1. I just won't accept it. I'm going to go head-to-head with the senior student, Miki Matsuo, who stole Chika Tachibana from me in the last simulation!] "There's actually a light music club in the music club. It's on the second floor of the old teaching building. Let's go there first."

[Second, this is just a strategic retreat, a temporary concession to avoid the enemy's attack! "Let's start with the music club and experience them one by one."]

[3. Music? Even dogs don't play it! Chika Tachibana? Not worth mentioning! "I'm only saying I'm interested because I feel sorry for you. I hope you don't take it seriously, Tachibana-san."]

【4. Free simulation】

Another critical turning point, options appeared on the simulator panel.

Not only was Kanzuki Manrin analyzing, but Chika Tachibana was also doing the same as she became interested.

Each option seems to correspond to a different future, and if you pay attention, you can deduce a lot of future information from it.

Option three is a purely funny statement made by the little female ghost, which means giving up the future of further relationship with her. If Mitsuki Marin really chooses this option, not only will the simulation end quickly, but the relationship between her and Chika Tachibana in reality will also end quickly.

Even though it's just a dating simulation, if you make random choices with a playful mindset, Chika Tachibana will still be genuinely disappointed. She always attaches great importance to "attitude".

Then, the simulator has clearly indicated the difference between options one and two.

Option one is to return to a route similar to the previous simulation, which was the one in which Mizuki Marin ended up losing, and directly compete with senior Matsushima Miki in the same department.

The second option is to avoid the competition with senior Matsuoka Miki, and use the experience of joining the club to prevent her from joining the light music club. With less contact, it is naturally difficult to develop feelings, while Kanzuki Marin can get the upper hand by being close to the water.

To be fair, from a normal perspective, option two must be the most suitable, least risky, and easiest route to capture her.

But if possible, Chika Tachibana still hopes that Marin Kanzuki can choose one.

Rather, if Chikayo Tachibana were to be placed in Marin Mitsuki's position, she would choose one.

The person you like may get married to someone else. Unless you defeat the other person head-on and win the battle of love, Chika Tachibana will not feel at ease.

I am trying to win my lover's heart by escaping him/her. In fact, am I really better than him/her and more suitable for him/her?

Am I a clumsy thief? If I had competed fairly, would I have ended up like this?

Even if they have already confirmed their relationship, if Miki Matsunami jumps out at this time, will her lover leave her?

With Chika Tachibana's personality, these problems would trouble her for the rest of her life. She felt uncomfortable all over, as if ants were crawling on her, and couldn't feel at ease just by fantasizing about it.

Love is war. If there is a snatcher, you must fight him fairly!

She always seems gentle in what she says and does, but actually, beneath the gentle surface, Chika Tachibana's heart, wrapped in softness, is more resolute than anyone else's.

But this is only the case for Chika Tachibana.

"Let's start with the music club and experience them one by one."

Pink light flickered on the panel, and Kanzuki Manrin clicked option two.

Then, new content emerged.

[Seeing Chika Tachibana, who is outstanding in appearance and has already gained considerable fame in the school despite only being enrolled for a week, and you, the princess of the Guanyue Group, the seniors from various clubs are very enthusiastic.

With their careful introduction and earnest encouragement, we spent two hours just experiencing the three clubs: music department, choir department, and wind instrumental department.

As a result, Chika Tachibana doesn't like the choir and wind band clubs, which focus on competition results and have almost no freedom. If nothing goes wrong, she will submit her application to join the music club tomorrow.

However, before that, when she was about to leave school, Chika Tachibana discovered the light music club, which was facing the crisis of being disbanded and located in the innermost room on the second floor of the old teaching building.

You tried to stop her but it was too late. Chika Tachibana had already opened the door. There was no one inside. Miki Matsuoka, the senior who had defeated you, was not in the room.

"Great."

You subconsciously let out a long sigh of relief, but your heart tightened as you finished speaking.

It's clear that there was no real confrontation, yet you feel a sense of loss, as if you have sensed it.

You lost again. 】

Chapter 6: Choosing to Change

[It's shameful to escape, but it really works.]

Due to the time difference, Chika Tachibana did not have any intersection with senior Miki Matsuoka, who defeated you in the previous simulation.

So the next day, Chika Tachibana and you both submitted your application to join the music club, and you were secretly delighted.

[In the choice of musical instruments, you have the advantage of analog memory, so you chose the guitar first, which made Chika Tachibana, who has a special liking for guitar, look at you with a different eye. The friendship between you two has thus warmed up, and you agreed to go to and from school together every day to practice guitar techniques.

You may say "I'm just doing these things with you because I'm bored", but your heart is already bursting with joy.

Seeing your genuine joy, Chika Tachibana gently rubbed your fluffy golden fur, her eyes smiling as if she was looking at her adorable, beloved younger sister.

[After deciding on the instrument, you need to purchase the instrument and related introductory books.

Although Chika Tachibana's parents would not be stingy with such a large sum of money to support their daughter's hobby, out of a strange sense of guilt and inferiority that is difficult for ordinary people to understand, Chika Tachibana does not intend to ask her family for it.

"Nightclub hostess, 3 yen a night..."

"This is obviously a scam. If you get fooled, I won't come to your rescue. I'd be considered kind to patronize your business and order a few beers for you."

After you discovered that Chika Tachibana was searching for various job postings online, you quickly guessed her thoughts. After preventing her from joining a nightclub as a hostess and embarking on another unknown path, you bought a second-hand guitar for yourself that showed signs of years of use.

"I have a beat-up old guitar that the previous owner left behind when I bought the apartment. I don't like it. If you dislike it, I'll just throw it away."

Subconsciously catching the second-hand guitar you threw to her, Chika Tachibana, who saw through your poor acting skills at a glance, was stunned for a long time, and finally revealed a gentle smile that made your heart beat like it was about to burst out of your body. It was extremely beautiful, but the charm that captured your soul.

"Thank you."

Her words of thanks were soft, and apart from that one sentence, she didn't do anything else to express her gratitude, but you could immediately sense the depth of her meaning.

[The next day, you received a handmade bento from Chika Tachibana. The dishes were homely yet exquisite, and the taste was ordinary, surprisingly similar to the dishes your mother made.

Memories flood back, and you pretend that the sunlight is shining in your eyes as you secretly wipe away the tears that have overflowed from the corners of your eyes.

"If you like it, I'll take your portion every day."

"This cheap... delicious."

You subconsciously want to be tough, but your desire for lunch strangely overcomes your own proud nature. With a blushing face, you speak your true feelings.

The girl beside him giggled as clear as a silver bell.

Sensing the teasing implication, you shyly lowered your head, your blonde hair falling down and covering your hot pink ears.

Blushing, the corners of your mouth curled up uncontrollably, and you found yourself liking Chika Tachibana even more.

"What a cute and clumsy girl."

When emotions are transformed into words and descriptions, it seems too easy to peek into a person's heart.

Just as the simulator points out her inner fear of enjoying youth, Chika Tachibana also realizes the many thoughtful and lovely aspects of the clumsy girl Mizuki Marin.

She seems rough and careless, and seems to be outspoken, but inside she is still as delicate and sensitive as many girls of her age.

In order to save her face and emotions, he bought a second-hand guitar and gave it to her by lying. Although it was a shallow lie that she saw through at a glance, Chika Tachibana did receive the kindness.

As for the interaction during the lunch box gifting process, the young girl's innocent and shy attitude was portrayed...

Belatedly realizing it, she touched her hot and rosy cheeks and sighed with a smile.