Tokyo, there are too many beautiful girls imitating me

At least for now, you are still the one closest to Chika Tachibana.

You are determined to hold on to this position for one year, three years, five years, until the day when change occurs.

[Having made up your mind, you looked up and happened to find Chika Tachibana whispering on her soft, crystal-clear lips. When your eyes met, she completely shut her mouth.

You have read Chika Tachibana's heart in a rare way.

There were only two things she wanted to say.

"Minasuzu, are you going to try to chase me? I won't stop, but I will always hope that one day you can walk by my side."

Or, "Masuzu, you don't have to worry so much about me. I can handle everything. You should work hard for your own life. We will always be good friends no matter what."

One was forcing her to work harder, and the other was erasing and denying everything she had done before.

Chika Tachibana was as gentle as ever, but she gave up the idea of ​​speaking after noticing the twinkle in your eyes.

Or maybe she's a little indecisive? Or maybe she has a rare soft spot in her heart.

She cherishes you as a friend, so she is afraid of losing you. Even though she knows that you love her, she dare not easily speak up and make everything clear.

She is waiting for you to become more mature, waiting for the day when you can let go and accept the fact that she likes you but does not love you.

But you are still naive. You know it clearly but you still hold on to her tightly.

So, in the following days, she continued to wait quietly.

[Time slipped away quietly, and soon another year passed.

During this year, you continued with your previous plan, studying, cheering, and restoring contact with your family, while Chika Tachibana continued to maintain her top three ranking in the liberal arts department of the school and shined in off-campus live performances.

Thanks to the development of the information network, after several performance clips were broadcast online, the fame of the band, especially the lead singer Chika Tachibana, spread among more people. Before she graduated, many artist agencies had extended olive branches to her.

"Deviation value 68, great!"

"That's amazing! This is the result of your hard work, Manabu. Shall we go have a nice meal?"

"Okay, okay, but what's your deviation score this time, Qianhua? Hiss... 71? You can maintain this score even with intense piano practice every day and so many live performances...Are you really not an alien?"

"It's just that I have special wisdom."

You were confused by Chika Tachibana's answer, but it didn't matter. The joy of getting good grades in the University Entrance Examination (similar to the college entrance examination) had already filled your heart.

After hard work, you finally improved your grades to the point where you can easily catch up with Chika Tachibana in any university she goes to. Chika Tachibana, on the other hand, maintained a very high deviation value while being active on Live, and only needed to calm down and make a sprint at the end to be able to enter any university and any liberal arts major.

You marvel at her superb time management skills and learning talent, but Chika Tachibana doesn't seem that happy to get such excellent results.

With her brows lowered and looking towards her toes, she kicked the snow under her feet impatiently, an inappropriate sadness appearing on her tranquil face.

"Chika?"

"Masuzu!"

Chika Tachibana suddenly raised her head, looked straight into your eyes and called out your name. For a moment, you even thought she was going to confess her love to you.

But even daydreaming requires lying in bed, and now you are walking on a snowy road.

However, even if it wasn't a confession, it was still something as important as a confession, an important issue.

"Masuzu, someone from the Kenon Artist Agency contacted me."

"Oh, oh, that's a good thing, uh..."

As you were speaking, Chika Tachibana pulled your sleeve. You looked away from her cheek and suddenly realized that the two of you were walking at a fork in the road.

On one side is the road leading to the bustling business district, while on the other side is the road leading to the apartment and home.

"Where are we going?"

Prayingly, with eyes as wet as a deer's, Chika Tachibana asked for your opinion.

Normally, her emotions weren't so apparent, but in this moment, her vulnerability was palpable.

In response to her question, you choose——】

1. Pretend you didn't understand her question and reply, "Let's go have a barbecue tonight."

[2. Make the choice for her and say what she wants you to say. "Go ahead, go ahead! If you like her, pursue her to the end. If you're Qianhua, you won't regret it!"]

3. Speak your mind. "Don't choose either side. Put down your guitar, put down your university, and be my lover!"

【4. Free simulation】

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Chapter 11: "Seeing Myself Clearly"

As expected, I would hesitate at this point.

Although people often say that those who are involved in the situation are often confused, Chika Tachibana feels that she is the kind of person who can see about 70% of herself clearly.

She had anticipated this difficult period when she had seen herself in the dating simulator studying and engaging in band activities at the same time.

Playing music is a happy thing, but it is also an uncertain and insecure thing.

It's like using one's meager magic power to float thousands of feet in the sky, not knowing whether one will land safely or be smashed to pieces in the end.

Should I play in a band while attending college and waste four years of my musical life, or should I move forward headfirst, burning my youth without regard for the consequences and betting my future life on this choice.

Having lived a stable life for nearly thirty years in her previous life, Chika Tachibana's personality does not support her doing such an uncertain thing. At the same time, her new body must be carrying the expectations of her parents, and she always hopes not to disappoint them.

It's not just one person's life. She always looks ahead and behind when doing various things and making various decisions. She always unconsciously picks up many responsibilities on her shoulders, compromises with the environment, and is influenced by her family.

She is a little weak like this, but she hopes she can always remain weak like this.

However, even so...

"Is it really too cunning to leave the choice to Guanyue-san? Or maybe even though I haven't shown it in action, my heart in the simulator is already quite close to you..."

While Chika Tachibana was muttering to herself, in the simulation, Kanzuki Shinrin had already made her choice.

[The mature and steady Chika Tachibana who always looks down on you as an elder sister or even a loving mother, the overly smart and capable Chika Tachibana who seems like an alien, also has times when she is too weak to make decisions, and too foolish to get lost and wander on the road of life.

There is no doubt that this is a choice that will affect the trajectory of her life, and you are the only one who is qualified to influence her in this most important choice.

There was a hint of water in her bright eyes, and her delicate body was twisting restlessly.

With both hands tightly grasping the hem of her school uniform, her weakness has been revealed to you. Everything she shows at this moment seems to be telling you:

“Please take responsibility for my life.”

Leaving such an important event in life to be decided by someone else... Surprisingly, you don't think she is cunning even though she is under such great pressure.

Because you know that even if you choose the wrong one, Chika Tachibana will never blame you. You know that she already has the answer to this question in her heart.

She just lacked that final push, she just wanted someone to give her a push from behind, just like when she was choosing whether to join the club and picked up the guitar three years ago, she hoped someone would say to her -

"Go ahead, do it! If you like it, pursue it to the end. If you're Qianhua, you won't regret it!"

"What? I won't regret what I said. Mansuzu, you're really..."

The girl wants to smile happily but shyly purses her lips. She strokes her cheek, which is so sore from trying so hard to hold back her laughter, with one hand, and hits your shoulder with the other hand in a feigned anger.

It turns out that Chika Tachibana also has her tsundere moments, and she looks so beautiful when she is tsundere.

You couldn't help but stare at her in a daze at her fresh look, almost like a fool. At this moment, she had already grasped your hand and pulled you to run quickly towards the fork in the road leading to the bustling business district. Her silver bell-like laughter floated past your ears on the wind and remained in your heart.

Her youth is ringing non-stop, and only at this moment do you realize that you have always been the one ringing the bell, ringing her youth.

"Chihua!"

"Ok?"

Will the confession succeed at this time? Running hand in hand, your eyes fixed on the intertwined hands, your heart suddenly ignited with unrealistic fantasies.

You called her name, she turned around and smiled sweetly, looking so beautiful and gentle in the afterglow of the setting sun.

When she raised her eyebrows and said "hmm", you suppressed all the distracting thoughts in your heart.

Just maintain the status quo, just maintain the status quo!

Impatience will only make you lose this gentle girl who seems strong but is actually weak at heart. You tell yourself to cook this frog lady in the pot more gently.

But even so, you still feel it.

The relationship between you, which has been stagnant for three years, seems to be showing signs of change at this moment.

No, it must have changed. 】

"Great!"

Tossing the little yellow duck pillow in her hand into the air, Chika Tachibana, who had been watching Love Simulator until this point, suddenly jumped onto the sofa, threw her arms high and shouted "Great!" Then she excitedly pumped her fist into the air.

Boom!

The next second after the howl, a muffled sound came from the direction of my cousin Akizuki Aino's room, like the sound of a chair falling to the ground.

Realizing that her howl, which was a release of her emotions, might have scared her timid cousin who was cowering in the room and caused her to bump into something, Chika Tachibana quickly stopped and covered her mouth to muffle the sound.

But even though the sound could be suppressed, the joy in my heart still couldn't be stopped from being released.

Picking up the little yellow duck that had fallen to the ground and holding it in her arms, Chika Tachibana twisted and turned like a maggot on the large sofa, grinning foolishly, her soft body almost twisted into a pretzel.

Great, great! It seems that Guanyue Zhenling has finally reached a certain point!

"Hehehe...Ah? Ahhhh?"

A joyful laugh burst out from her throat, and after laughing like this, Tachibana Chika's twisting body suddenly stopped, and the smile on her face disappeared in an instant, just like the face-changing in Sichuan Opera, and she let out a surprised cry of "Ah, ah, ah".

Looking at the text that had stayed on the panel for a long time without scrolling, it seemed as if through these stagnant words one could outline the lovely face of Kanzuki Manrin, who was sitting in the room opposite, surprised, smiling but unable to stop crying. Chika Tachibana blinked her eyes, and a charming blush suddenly appeared on her pretty face.

The relationship between the two people in the love simulation has finally made progress. It’s okay for Mitsuki Marin to be happy, but what does it mean that she, the straight woman, is also happy?

Because of the arrival of Mizuki Manrin's period, my heart would surge, and I couldn't suppress my joy and shouted loudly, twisting and turning on the bed...

Sitting up straight, Chika Tachibana slapped her red and hot cheeks.

"It's okay, Chika Tachibana, you're a proper straight woman!"

Yes, she is not a lesbian. She just likes sweet love like many normal girls and always wants her love story to have a perfect and sweet ending.

She was happy for the story and for the happiness of the characters in the story, just like when she accidentally saw a yuri manga a long time ago. She would smile, but it did not mean that she could accept this kind of minority love. She just resonated with the beautiful feelings.

"Yes, that's it!"

"Strong, Intelligent, and Rational," the psychological construction was completed in a moment. Even though she is still an iron wall, Chika Tachibana is still full of confidence tonight.

Really, she is really not a lesbian!

Text: Chapter 12. One step further?

After silently repeating "I am not a lesbian" several times to strengthen her resolve, Chika Tachibana was finally able to face herself in the simulator with a relatively calm attitude.

After watching the love story till now, she is looking forward to the final choice of "herself" in the simulator, and she can even accept it if she really becomes gay in the end.

Mizuki Manrin is a clumsy girl, and her efforts along the way are also quite clumsy, and many times they don't have any effect. It is better to say that she is not mature enough and often does bad things.

But her feelings can always be conveyed, and her desperate efforts for the person she loves must have been seen and remembered by the "her" in the simulator.

Even she, who was just reading the text story, was moved by Mizuki Marin. In the story, "she" who spent every day with Mizuki Marin and received countless warmth and joy, must have had that vague figure already living in her soft heart.

Next comes the fork in the road to adulthood, which is Mizuki Malin’s university chapter and “her” social chapter.

What kind of results will the two girls who have to separate and pursue their dreams eventually produce?

Is it sour or bitter? Is it sweet or spicy?

Chika Tachibana was looking forward to it, and as if sensing her anticipation, Marin Kanzuki, who was happy on the other side, finally continued her simulation.

[As time passed, after April, the university entrance examination was finally settled.

The hard work and sweat you put into studying day and night have borne fruit, and you have been admitted to the Department of Business Administration at Waseda University to study business management as you wished.

Compared to you who are having everything going smoothly, Chika Tachibana who has always had smooth sailing has had some setbacks.

They are all in the same grade, and various realistic factors such as further studies, living in different places, family affairs, and career aspirations are intertwined. In a short period of time, the band that originally got along well has been pushed to the brink of collapse.

Chika Tachibana was the only one who received an olive branch from Ken-On Artist Agency. So, even though she had spent a fantastic time in the band with other friends who shared the same love for music, it was time for everyone to go their separate ways.

Fortunately, everyone understands Chika Tachibana's choice, and wishes her well, hoping that she can carry everyone's dreams to go further on the road of music.

After the final live performance, the band members celebrated the band's disbandment together.

Yes, they celebrated. Although they felt a little regretful that they were not able to fulfill their initial ambitions and step onto the stage of the Budokan, everyone had already made their own choice without regrets. They would not mourn for it, but would only feel fortunate and relieved that they had shone and burned their youth.