I have a life simulator.

"Since you still have the ring from back then... then all the time we spent together can't just be left as simple memories, right?"

Faced with this situation, Kitagawa Ryo subtly nudged Hotaru, who was lying at the foot of the bed, with his toe. He remembered that Hotaru had a treasure trove of such trinkets.

As her brother's strong support, Hotaru pointed with her paw at a certain shelf on the bedside table, indicating that what he was looking for was there.

In fact, those four items were not so much treasures that she actively collected from various simulations, but rather items that Kitagawa Ryo already possessed from the beginning. He could even find them in the inventory of the simulator panel now.

Kitagawa Ryo turned over and, following Hotaru's instructions, opened the second shelf of his bedside table, where he found the group photo he had seen before under a book.

That was the first photo he took with Karuizawa Kei after returning home from her first mock exam, after several years apart. At that time, she had fallen into an abyss called school bullying, becoming a fragile paper rose that still had to irrigate herself with blood to make herself bright red in front of him.

Kitagawa Ryo reached out and took the photo of the two faces pressed tightly together, taken under a dim streetlamp.

The name of the photograph suddenly flashed into his field of vision:

【Karuizawa Megumi's Self】.

It shares the same name as the reward he received after completing the Karuizawa Kei chapter, or rather, this is the true form of the reward item whose effect is to 'randomly upgrade one talent to the highest gold level before each simulation begins'.

Because the back of the photo has the exact same description:

A victim of bullying may become a bully, but they may also become a protector.

Kitagawa Ryo handed it to Karuizawa Megumi beside him, then smiled and added his own answer:

“I’m glad that Hui is the latter.”

Chapter 382: A Tribute to the High Value of the Longest-Running Cover Actress (4k5)

"Wow, it really exists... Let me see."

With a hint of surprise, Karuizawa Kei took the old photo of the two of them from Kitagawa Ryo's hand. Her tone was involuntarily filled with nostalgia and emotion as she carefully examined both sides of the photo several times.

"Although it doesn't quite compare to Hiyori's ring, it's still a nice keepsake, so I'll reluctantly accept it."

Faced with Karuizawa Kei's sudden display of arrogance despite her contradictory words, Hotaru, perched at the foot of the bed, couldn't help but roll her eyes again. It was as if she could pull out something even better from those two simulations as a real-world reward item. Did she expect her to show off Kitagawa Ryo and Horikita Suzune's wedding invitation?

After receiving the gift from Kitagawa Ryo with great satisfaction—a gift that proved those past times were not false or imagined—Karuizawa Megumi carefully and cautiously placed the photo inside the deepest part of her wallet before pulling Kitagawa Ryo up from the bed.

"Let's go, let's go, it's about time now."

"Hmm, I remember we were supposed to meet at the entrance on the first floor of the Beech Tree Shopping Center. Have you made a restaurant reservation?"

"Don't worry about Liang. The homeroom teacher, Xingzhigong, has already taken care of everything through internal staff channels. She will also cover all the expenses for this dinner."

"That's quite generous."

"After all, she has always been lusting after Ryo... Ugh, that adjective is disgusting. Anyway, Ryo should be able to sense it too. Just remember to stay away from her in the future. As a teacher, you shouldn't be openly harassing Ryo."

Faced with almost identical instructions from Karuizawa Megumi and Majima Tomoya, Kitagawa Ryo nodded quite sincerely, but he knew very well that if he wanted to continue to hold onto the Chabashira Sae line, contact with Hoshinomiya Chie would be unavoidable. This was mainly because the two women shared a great deal of commonality in their inner logic of action, since their fates and experiences over the past ten years had been intertwined.

"Although I have thought about changing homeroom teachers, Ryo should know that homeroom teachers like Hoshinomiya and Chahashi are naturally popular in their classes, and there is no suitable way for them to do so. It doesn't sound good to say that students are targeting their homeroom teachers. Wasn't Totsuka just kicked out of Class C for this reason?"

"Indeed, so for now we can only make do. After all, as Hui said, the other party is a teacher, and as long as they are of sound mind, they are unlikely to do anything too outrageous... Although I myself have doubts about whether Hoshinomiya and Chabashira are of sound mind."

"I remember Ryo told me that their relationship changed because of a very important special exam at the end of their third year. They were best friends who lived together for three years, but it all turned out like this because of a special exam."

"Actually, it's normal. Rather, it's precisely because it was a special exam at the end of the third year that we, as first-year students, may not feel it very deeply now. But when it comes to that crucial moment where the future is just a matter of a single thought, everything could get out of control."

As a witness who personally witnessed the entire incident in Sakayanagi Arisu's simulation, Kitagawa Ryo also showed a somewhat self-deprecating smile:

"Does Hui know? In that unanimous vote during the exam, the one who ultimately decided to step forward and sacrifice was the leader who had led Class B to catch up with Class A by only a few dozen class points. Faced with the initiative of this class's greatest contributor, almost all the Class B students, except for Chabashira, chose to vote for him. This situation alone can illustrate the psychological and mental state of the Class B students at that time."

"After all, that wasn't the third-year graduation exam; it was only the penultimate one. Even if Chabashira hadn't stubbornly opposed it, and the students of Class B had actually voted out their class leader, would they really have had any chance of defeating Class A in the final graduation exam?"

At this point, Kitagawa Ryo also paused. Although he was able to discuss several better solutions with Sakayanagi Arisu afterward, he felt somewhat disheartened after this special exam. He was now unsure whether Class A could deliver a better performance if they were placed in this situation.

Karuizawa Kei keenly captured Kitagawa Ryo's subtle emotions. In fact, from the time they entered school until now, even though they were not assigned to the same class, her delicate and sensitive nature has always enabled her to perceive every subtle psychological change and emotional journey of the other person.

Unlike Arisu Sakayanagi and the others, Kei Karuizawa had not only seen the fragile and vulnerable Ryo Kitagawa in simulations, but more accurately, she was the only girl in reality who had personally witnessed and felt the confusion and even self-destructive tendencies that he once possessed deep within his heart.

Karuizawa Kei was of course unaware that Kitagawa Ryo's crazy act of self-justification stemmed from his reactivation of the simulator a few years after his rebirth, which led him to doubt the authenticity of the world he was in and even himself. However, it is undeniable that even years later, she could not forget the image of Kitagawa Ryo, who was extremely weak both mentally and physically, when she saw him back then.

Perhaps that is why, throughout their long careers as theatrical actors, the most acclaimed performance was always Macbeth.

What was Kitagawa Ryo's initial mindset when he enrolled here? Karuizawa Megumi couldn't describe it clearly, but at that time, he definitely had a more free and easygoing style of doing things.

Although Horikita Suzune and Sakayanagi Arisu are currently labeled as completely unsocial, Kitagawa Ryo in the first semester was honestly not much better than them. This can be seen from the fact that he created a drama club, but all the members were girls he knew and was close to. He was definitely not concerned about class affairs either.

According to Karuizawa Kei, the turning point for Kitagawa Ryo's mindset was precisely when Class D's class points plummeted to zero. His homeroom teacher, Majima Tomoya, truly moved him with his moral standards and actions befitting a teacher. The gears of fate began to turn from that summer vacation until Class D became Class A.

'Put aside your desire to help others and respect their fate,' 'Why promote students like this to Class A? Do they really deserve to graduate from Class A?' 'But there are many others who haven't done anything wrong, aren't they also working hard for the class?'...

Based on Karuizawa Megumi's understanding of Kitagawa Ryo, all sorts of thoughts must still be swirling in the other's mind at this moment. This is perhaps a kind of dilemma where those involved are blinded by their own perspective, especially after listening to him recount the story of the Chabashira Sae class again, which further solidified this belief.

"If Liang thinks this way, he has actually fallen into the same misconception as the class teacher Chazhu and many other students. That is, he has already placed too much importance on this school and the final graduation result. Individuals form a group, but the achievements of the group can never be attributed to the individual. People who mistake the platform for ability will definitely run into obstacles."

This is actually caused by the different positions of the homeroom teacher and the students. As the homeroom teacher, Majima Tomoya will definitely focus on the whole class, that is, the so-called collective. This idea has subtly influenced Kitagawa Ryo's cognition over the past period of time, which is why he has fallen into this kind of dead-end thinking dilemma.

“I still think that Ryo had the best understanding of Tokyo Advanced Educational High School when he first entered the school. In fact, there are only two types of students who only have eyes for Class A and those who only have eyes for themselves. This is our perspective as students.”

"That's why the collective achievement is not the only standard for measuring an individual's progress. For example, even if the current Class A graduates with the grades of Class D, many of them will not necessarily have a worse life than the students who graduated from Class A."

As she spoke, Karuizawa Megumi also took the initiative to open her heart to Kitagawa Ryo, saying some things that she, as the class representative of Class B, should never have said:

"Just like how I don't particularly approve of the current atmosphere in Class B, and the almost overt style of doing things that makes it easy for others to see through me, I don't want to take the initiative to try to change it before the other students act on their own."

"Because I know very well that no matter what grades this class graduates with, the result will not have the slightest impact on my future life plans."

"Similarly, I have never had any obsession with graduating from Class A, because students who graduate from there may not necessarily achieve the same level of success as I have now."

While she can't compare to Kitagawa Ryo, the heir to a conglomerate who has essentially completed life's challenges, Karuizawa Kei, as one of the most well-known new generation drama actresses in the industry today, has long since had her life set to an easy mode.

The girl's clear blue eyes held no trace of confusion. Facing the disoriented Kitagawa Ryo, she simply stated matter-of-factly her unwavering wish since entering the academy:

"I enrolled here so that I could be with Ryo and create all the memories of our youth that will make me smile every time I think of them in the long years to come."

If you put her and Kitagawa Ryo into the situation that Chabashira Sae was in, Karuizawa Megumi definitely wouldn't have stubbornly opposed it to the end, because she would have chosen to drop out of school with him.

This isn't a question of whether someone is "love-obsessed" or not.

On the contrary, she knew very well that even if the two of them dropped out of school here, their future paths would not change in any way.

Like a player who has played through multiple playthroughs, Karuizawa Kei has laid the groundwork for herself over the past decade or so.

She found herself a job she now loves, with a good salary and a bright future; she made friends with whom she can share pride and boast, but will also stay with each other until old age; she fulfilled a long-cherished wish that spanned many years; she erased the hideous scar on her abdomen; and she abandoned all lies and cowardice, transforming herself from the bullied and the bullied into the protector.

Everything is ready.

Her future depends entirely on him.

So all that's left to do is fill the countless hours she's finally managed to carve out with memories of the two of them—

Only.

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"Oh wow wow wow wow, I've found my target, and we've already held hands!"

In front of the Beech Tree Shopping Center, a large number of Class B students had already crowded the roadside. At this moment, the one standing on tiptoe with his right palm on his forehead, playing the role of a scout, was none other than Shibata Hayate, the class's athletic star. His personality was quite similar to Ichinose Honami's, but he also had some of the eccentricity typical of boys his age. As soon as Kitagawa Ryo and Karuizawa Megumi appeared, he couldn't wait to shout and then rushed to the two of them, taking the initiative to greet Kitagawa Ryo first.

"You've finally arrived! Welcome to Class B. We'll be classmates from now on, so please take care of me!"

"Yes, I look forward to your guidance, Shibata."

Because of Karuizawa Megumi, and because the students in Class B were among the most popular in the entire grade, Kitagawa Ryo was quite familiar with many of the students in Class B, even though he was in Class A before. Shibata Hayate was one of them, and he had even sparred with him many times during the special exam on the deserted island. He remembered being asked by Shibata Hayate with envy how he trained his waist and how his explosive power was so amazing.

However, contrary to his outstanding physical abilities, this Shibata might be a bit stubborn. Otherwise, when Kanzaki Ryuji came to negotiate with him, he wouldn't have only brought Himeno Yuki and Amakura Asako, but didn't ask him to come along.

As soon as he was mentioned, Kitagawa Ryo had just thought of Kanzaki Ryuji when the man himself strolled up to him. Unlike his usual gloomy and taciturn demeanor, the vice-class representative of Class 1-B had a rare, faint smile on his face. He proactively shook hands with Kitagawa Ryoji and said self-deprecatingly:

"Since you've come to this, it seems I can finally officially retire as the deputy squad leader."

As the student in Class 1-B who, besides their homeroom teacher Hoshinomiya Chie, was most dedicated to pushing Kitagawa Ryo to transfer to another class, he had also put in a lot of effort. However, after seeing this fact confirmed before his eyes, Kanzaki Ryuji immediately felt that all his past plans had been worthwhile. He even started to think about whether he should add a clause saying "Kitagawa Ryo and Karuizawa Kei were in the same class when they attended Tokyo Advanced Educational High School" when he routinely maintained and edited their encyclopedia entries.

"It's okay, we can just add another vice class monitor. The student council has two vice presidents."

Karuizawa Kei obviously wasn't going to let such a capable worker like Palu go so easily. She rejected Kanzaki Ryuji's suggestion in just a few words. She had already discussed this matter with Kitagawa Ryo before they came over.

Kitagawa Ryo was transferred here from elsewhere, and even if the students in Class B recognized his abilities, he certainly couldn't replace Karuizawa Megumi as class president right away. So, he and Kanzaki Ryuji will temporarily serve as vice class presidents in the meantime.

Moreover, when the time really comes...

Who will be promoted and who will be demoted, who will command whom, is not necessarily certain.

"Right, it's cold?"

Facing Megumi, who turned her head to ask her a question, Kitagawa Ryo simply gave a relaxed smile:

"Yeah, no problem."

The little frustrations in his heart had been gently soothed and melted away by Karuizawa Kei's words, which was only to be expected.

After all, even Macbeth, the executioner who had just carried out the assassination of the king, could fall asleep peacefully again with the gentle comfort of his wife.

Zhang Tui's article, "A Teacher at a Real Estate School, His Future Daughter Provides a Helping Hand," discusses this

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The allure of free tuition and all-inclusive accommodation convinced Baiyin Yuxing to enroll in Yucheng High School. However, from the day he enrolled, a different voice appeared in his mind:

[Take off! Take off! You have arrived at a school tailor-made for you.]

Tailor-made? In school, we can see many seniors who have lived a hard life due to poverty.

And they said living expenses were free, but in the end I had to pay for everything.

[Here are some of the most beautiful girls you can choose from.]

[There are aloof and arrogant women, gentle and charming women, two-faced women who are white lotuses, introverted female idols, and sickly girls with walking sticks.]

[You begin to feel that your future life is full of hope. You can find a girlfriend in high school!]

[Here I strongly recommend the Sickly Cane Girl, it's easy to conquer because of her weakness and helplessness!]

[You start to feel motivated!]

I have absolutely no motivation… Wait, is it really polite to attack a sickly girl?

[First Grade Class C, starting from the starting point, start charging upwards!]

[Defeat the super genius Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, defeat the Tyrannosaurus Rex, win the beautiful and rich girl, strength is supreme!]

Ok.

Shirogane Miyuki immediately realized that there was definitely something wrong with the narration.

Chapter 383: Welcome Party (4k5)

With a group of thirty or forty students, even in the most densely populated area of ​​the Tokyo Advanced Educational Middle School campus, such as the Keyaki Shopping Center, the actions of the first-year B students were undoubtedly conspicuous. As a result, many other upperclassmen quickly recognized Kitagawa Ryo, the first-year student who had been making waves on campus in recent months. They cast curious and prying glances at them with interest, while quietly explaining the ins and outs of his transfer to his companions who were not very familiar with the inside story.

On the surface, Kitagawa Ryo has indeed gone from being a student in Class A of the first year to a student in Class B. However, considering that he personally guided the current Class A all the way up from Class D, most of the senior students are quite confident that he will one day lead the current Class B back to Class A. After all, no matter how you look at it, the difficulty in doing so is no greater than bringing Class D, which previously had zero points, to Class A, which now has 850 points. The difference between Class A and Class B in the first year is only 300 points.

Besides, if Kitagawa Ryo didn't have the ability, why would Class B have spent all their savings, and even the class advisor's share, to scrape together 20 million personal points to transfer him over? It couldn't be that everyone wanted to see the other person dating their class president while simultaneously putting an end to the forum discussions about 'how many girlfriends Kitagawa actually has,' could it?

"Alright, alright, stop crowding around here and making everyone watch the show. I've already booked all the seats. Class B has the whole place booked tonight. Let's go up there."

Seeing this, Hoshinomiya Chie, the homeroom teacher of Class 1-B, clapped her hands and greeted him with a somewhat helpless tone. Then, she walked over to Kitagawa Ryo's side, smiled, and reached out to push his shoulder from behind to lead him inside.

"Of course, Kitagawa too. You're the main character today, let's go."

Because Hoshinomiya Chie had always had this easygoing and carefree personality in class, the other students in Class B didn't think much of it at first. However, Karuizawa Megumi, who had been watching her closely, quietly stepped forward and earnestly took her arm:

"This time, we really troubled our class advisor again with money. Booking the entire venue and reserving seats must have cost a lot of personal points. Liang told me on the way here that he felt a little bad about asking us to cover the whole cost, since he still has some savings."

When Karuizawa Kei spoke up, Kitagawa Ryo readily chimed in, casually turning around to free himself from Hoshinomiya Chie's hands on his shoulders, while simultaneously smiling and taking his phone out of his down jacket pocket.

"Yes, I know that today's dinner party was specially organized by everyone to welcome me to join Class B, but it's not fair for you, the class advisor, to pay for it all. After all, we'll be classmates who will advance and retreat together in the future. Let me treat you today. Class advisor Hoshinomiya, can you tell me how much it cost in total?"

Seeing that Kitagawa Ryo had no intention of owing her this favor, Hoshinomiya Chie had no choice but to take out her phone and accept the face-to-face transfer. She glanced at her class president with some concern, feeling a little itchy in her teeth.

However, this little incident didn't attract much attention from the other students in Class B. In any case, it didn't matter to them who paid for the meal. But Kitagawa Ryo's explanation was quite pleasing to the ear. After all, no one wanted their class's ace student, who had gone to great lengths to transfer from another class, to be disloyal.

To be honest, Kitagawa Ryo felt that the timing of his transfer was quite opportune. It was right at the end of the semester and the beginning of the winter break, giving him a full month to get to know the B class and some of its members. In terms of time, it was quite ample.

At this stage, there aren't many students in Class 1-B who have left an impression on Kitagawa Ryo. There's the vice class president and the shaman of the mysterious organization K&K, Kanzaki Ryuji; Karuizawa Megumi's best friend and the guardian spirit, Amakura Asako, who was tricked by Kanzaki Ryuji; Himeno Yuki, who inexplicably kept running into him since the summer vacation and even witnessed their class advisor, Hoshinomiya Chie, vomiting on the deck while drunk on a cruise ship, and who also happens to share a name with Yuki; and then there's Shibata Hayate, the athletic star of Class 1-B who's known as the male version of Ichinose Honami and Hirata Yosuke, and belongs to the soccer club.

Actually, from the perspective of exceptional talents, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji's assessment of Class B as mediocre is not entirely wrong. Class B, whose student quality is second only to Class A, actually has fewer students who leave a lasting impression than Class D, which is at the bottom. Compared to Class C, they might be a bit better, but Class C, led by Sho Ryuen, completely counters Class B in their style of doing things. It's a case of good students simply not being able to compete with delinquents.

The OAA system launched by Nan Yunya is indeed a good system. In the short few minutes it took to go upstairs, Kitagawa Ryo had already matched the names of the B-class students with their real faces based on the information he had seen in advance on the OAA system. At least there would be no more embarrassing situations like the one where he remembered the wrong name after being classmates for several months.

Kitagawa Ryo had been to the restaurant that Hoshinomiya Chie had booked before. After all, the Keyaki Shopping Center is only so big, and apart from a few shops with obviously high prices per person, most of the students had been there before and were very familiar with the environment. They quickly took their seats, chatting and laughing.

Since it wasn't a spacious outdoor area, the restaurant naturally didn't have tables large enough for thirty or forty people to sit together. The students from Class B tacitly agreed to sit with their friends, leaving the central seats for Hoshinomiya Chie, Karuizawa Megumi, and Kitagawa Ryo.

"Okay, before we officially begin today's dinner, let me just say a few words.