I have a life simulator.

"Then I'll help you remember now."

"I forgot to remind you, ever since that incident, I've been diagnosed with some kind of illness. I don't know what it is, but hitting people doesn't seem to be illegal."

A man's voice suddenly appeared in the air, so abrupt that the girl's hand seemed to freeze in place by this magical force.

"Emi Jiangpu".

"A 16-year-old from Toshima Ward, Tokyo. His father, Tadashi Eura, was a former worker at Toshima Chiba Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., and is currently unemployed. His mother, Yuko Eura, is a housewife. The family has a total debt of 31 million yen. He attended Shutsu Junior High School, but was expelled in his first year for intentionally injuring someone."

The man's voice paused, and in the background, one could clearly hear his panting and thumping.

"If I'm right, please stop the series of actions you're about to take that could be detrimental to Hui."

The sound in the wind was sharp and dangerous, like a silent threat.

It was only then that Emi Jiangpu noticed the source of the voice was the speakerphone in Karuizawa Megumi's hand. The fact that she had been so casually threatened by someone she didn't know inexplicably infuriated her. Just as she took a step forward to continue, another sound came from the receiver:

“If you hurt her, I swear, whatever your medical report says that helps you evade responsibility—”

"I will make you pay the price for everything."

"Also, I'll be there soon."

"Hui, turn off the speakerphone."

"oh oh."

Upon hearing Kitagawa Ryo's words, Karuizawa Megumi quickly turned off the speakerphone and put the phone back to her ear:

"Is this all you need?"

"I'm not sure either, as long as we can hold them off, that's good."

The voice on the other end was slightly panting, and the tone was short:

"I'll be there in three minutes, just hang in there a little longer."

"believe……"

"I believe you."

"it is good."

Karuizawa Kei heard the other person sigh softly, and then hang up the phone.

Kitagawa Ryo hung up the phone, double-checked the location and direction, and accelerated further as he ran through the forest at a considerable pace. A deep, powerful old man's voice came through the white earpiece in his right ear:

"five minutes."

To be honest, running in the forest is not a good choice, but if you run on the mountain trails, you will definitely be stopped if the staff sees you.

Adjusting his center of gravity to avoid a rock in front of him, Kitagawa Ryo began to calm his disordered breathing. He had been walking through the forest for seven or eight minutes after receiving Karuizawa Megumi's distress signal, and the final distance was about six hundred meters.

If Kitagawa Ryo were to run 600 meters on a proper track, it wouldn't take him three minutes at all. However, considering the environment and his physical condition, three minutes is the limit he can promise.

Kitagawa Ryo doesn't make promises lightly, but he just promised to be by Karuizawa Megumi's side in three minutes.

My lungs felt like they were on fire, and my throat was groaning in agony, as if it had solidified into a dehydrated riverbed.

The sound of breathing grew heavier and heavier, the heart pounded wildly in the chest, sweat appeared from the pores and dried quickly, and the clothes clung tightly to the body.

"Hey……"

Just as Kitagawa Ryo was about to see the two figures from behind, he suddenly received a call from Ichinose Honami.

"Liang, I've already contacted the景区 staff. They'll be here in about ten minutes. Don't act rashly, just focus on Maki..."

The voice on the other end of the phone was also breathless. Ichinose Honami said:

"Anyway, Liang, don't hang up the phone, or I won't feel at ease."

"understood."

It took about twenty seconds, but it was still enough time.

He reached out and pushed Jiangpu Huimei's arm away. The arm that was raised high and never dared to come down was like an antenna pointing to the clouds, stiff and unwilling to be lowered.

The boy stood in front of Karuizawa Kei as if he was meant to be there.

He stuck out his tongue to moisten his dry lips, stepped forward with his right foot onto the upper step, and leaned slightly forward, a gesture that made him look dangerous and provocative.

"Boy, who are you?"

"Kitagawa Ryo."

Kitagawa Ryo glanced at his phone in his pocket; the green call button was still lit up.

"He's Karuizawa Kei's boyfriend, the one you've been blocking here with."

"Are you here to pay for her losses? Alone?"

The man known as Jian Ge seemed to feel embarrassed by being provoked by a high school kid, so he stepped forward, spat out the cigarette butt, and then stomped it out.

"No."

Kitagawa Ryo looked at Karuizawa Megumi, who was almost crying because of his arrival, and Ichinose Maki, who was hiding behind him and looked terrified. His tone became colder.

The barely suppressed anger and slightly neurotic tone sent chills down Jian Ge's spine.

He slapped Emi Jiangpu across the face, the force so great that Kitagawa Ryo's palm turned slightly red.

"I'm here to stand up for my girlfriend."

"Are you looking for death?"

Although Ken and Jiangpu Huimei's relationship wasn't that deep, as the boss, he couldn't turn a blind eye to his girlfriend being beaten up, so the delinquents behind him immediately came over.

But just as the group was about to teach this arrogant brat a lesson, they suddenly heard a series of footsteps. It seemed that people were coming down the mountain, and there seemed to be quite a few of them.

Jian Ge's face was rather grim. Whether it was a tourist or a staff member, if someone witnessed him beating someone on the spot, even if he had some influence in this area, it would still take him a lot of effort to smooth things over.

"Kid, you're in luck today, get out of the way!"

With a grim face, he led his men to try and break through Kitagawa Ryo's path, which was blocking the mountain trail.

"I was really lucky today."

Kitagawa Ryo smiled easily:

“Our family happens to have a project contracted on this mountaintop, so it’s very convenient to send people here.”

A dark mass of about twenty people rushed down from above. Apart from the old man leading them, they were all strong middle-aged men wearing matching black tight-fitting short-sleeved shirts. What made Jian Ge's throat ache was that they were all holding batons about forty centimeters long in their hands.

Kitagawa Ryo took a baton from his butler and pointed it directly at one of the delinquents, a man with dyed yellow hair.

The approaching sunset cast a vast and dazzling crimson light behind him.

"I remember your mouth was the dirtiest."

"Come out."

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"Aren't you going up?"

"There should still be enough time."

After the staff took away the group of delinquents who had "accidentally" fallen and ended up with bruises and swelling, Kitagawa Ryo sat on the stone steps and smiled at Ichinose Honami who had rushed over. Unlike his previous slightly ferocious expression, he only showed this kind of smile when looking at Ichinose Honami.

“I didn’t expect something like this to happen.”

Honami Ichinose pressed her skirt down and sat down next to Ryo Kitagawa. Maki Ichinose and Megumi Karuizawa, as witnesses to the "accident," were being questioned as usual. Since the other party was so obedient that they dared not say anything, they could just make up whatever they wanted about what happened.

"Is this what the Liang family does?"

Kitagawa Ryo scratched his head and quickly denied it:

"Our family runs a legitimate business. We're only temporarily stationed here because we've contracted a construction project on the mountaintop. I heard they're building a huge observation deck where we can watch the fireworks festival in Tokyo directly from here..."

"I think I should take Maki home. She's probably terrified by what happened today."

Ichinose Maki interrupted Kitagawa Ryo somewhat wearily. She looked towards the mountaintop, which was actually not far away, and forced a smile:

"Next time we come, let's go to the top of the mountain."

"Feel sorry."

Noticing that the girl wasn't very interested, Kitagawa Ryo stopped talking.

"Well, there's no need to apologize. Besides, Karuizawa-san must have been frightened today too, so Ryo should thank her for me."

"Honan could do this himself, right?"

As Ichinose Honami watched the setting sun slowly sink behind the mountains, glancing sideways at her own shadow, she replied in a low voice:

"Isn't she Liang's girlfriend?"

Kitagawa Ryo stared at Ichinose Honami for a few seconds as if he didn't recognize her at all, before casually teasing her:

"What? It seems our acting was pretty convincing, even Fanbo thinks so."

"Hmm, in that case, Hui's friends shouldn't be able to spot anything wrong."

"Actually, I've also been considering when to bring it up with Hui..."

"Maki has come out."

Honami Ichinose suddenly stood up, and even she realized that her tone sounded pleading:

"She and I went down the mountain first."

"Well, it's okay."

Kitagawa Ryo suddenly felt that his answer sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember when he had said it to Ichinose Honami.

He simply watched in silence as Honami Ichinose and Maki Ichinose walked down the mountain. Maki seemed to glance back at him twice, and he looked up, waved, and smiled at her.

Kitagawa Ryo felt as if he were floating on the surface of a sea, like a loose and fragile duckweed in a desolate and boundless ocean. His past was like a reef, and every now and then, he would collide with these reefs, and then he would feel waves of pain.

If one person's memories are missing, then all of the other person's past will fall into the black hole of time. Every word and every sentence, the memories you cherished, will be nothing more than the bones left by time when only you remember them, worthless.

"Senior Kitagawa."

He didn't know how much time had passed until the girl behind him called out to him, and Kitagawa Ryo groggily woke up. It was already getting dark, and it was almost six o'clock.

"I'm sorry about what happened today."

Kitagawa Ryo looked at the girl standing there, her honey-colored long hair dancing in the air like an elf.

"I didn't expect that group of people."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Karuizawa Kei quickly waved her hand in denial, nervously fiddling with the ends of her hair:

"My senior just told me to help by not refusing Maki's request, and then to have a good time here today. Nobody knew that something like this would happen."

"Hui should know, right?"

Kitagawa Ryo gave a bitter smile and reached out to grasp a fallen leaf.

"Yes, I'm here today to help Kitagawa-senpai with his confession plan."

Karuizawa Megumi nodded and held up three fingers:

"Actually, my senior had planned this date in advance from the very beginning. The so-called random bus route was a lie, because my senior had already investigated the bus order and arrival time. As for the park, we just needed to suggest getting off there when we realized we were almost at our stop."

"Although I don't know what arrangements you made, I'm sure you and Ichinose will arrive at the temple around noon and make your first attempt there. Based on the information I noticed at noon, it should be related to the fortune slips for marriage, because the rule about fortune slips for marriage is so intriguing."

"Then the mountaintop should be the final location for the confession, but because of this incident I haven't had a chance to go up there yet, so I can't guess."

Karuizawa Megumi gave an embarrassed smile, then pointed to herself and said:

"As for my role, it's just to break up with my senior there."

"Judging from the result, I, the actor handpicked by my seniors, messed up the performance. I should have become the audience in the end."

"No."

Kitagawa Ryo suddenly laughed, but there was no trace of happiness in it:

"Fanbo's acting was the worst, so bad that I couldn't even act with her, so bad that I couldn't catch any of the jokes, so bad that she couldn't even deliver her lines or make a poker face."

"senior……"

Karuizawa Kei looked at Kitagawa Ryo with some concern.

"Ah, I'm fine."