I have a life simulator.

Amused by Kitagawa Ryo's teasing remark, Sakayanagi Arisu also slightly raised the corners of her mouth. Having intentionally grown her hair long since her student days ten years ago, it had now successfully reached shoulder length, and her demeanor seemed to have softened considerably. However, the stubborn competitive spirit she once possessed still lingered in her eyes.

"There's nothing I can do. The White Room didn't end with me, so all I can do now is run Dongyu well. If possible, I hope that in another ten or twenty years, it can become the number one high school in the country, and that the 99.9% college entrance rate and employment rate of the students after graduation will no longer be entirely due to the school's resource allocation, but will truly be due to the students' own abilities and qualities."

"Of course, the second half of the above is a direct copy of the second half of the speech I used at the opening ceremony not long ago."

As she spoke, Sakayanagi Arisu feinted again before smilingly asking Kitagawa Ryo:

"Liang should know my true thoughts."

"I know, but I'm too lazy to say it."

"Hey, what's so hard to talk about?"

It was as if a punch that had been prepared for a long time had landed on cotton. Sakayanagi Arisu, who had finally managed to build up the atmosphere, almost couldn't hold her breath. She ran up to Kitagawa Ryo and glared at him with her little face slightly raised in dissatisfaction.

Incidentally, this is also the second thing that Kitagawa Ryo wanted to say but didn't, that Arisu can do better than Sakayanagi Narumi. After all, the latter has to deliberately bend over or half-squat when talking to children to keep their eyes level in order to express his attitude, while Arisu's height perfectly avoids this difficulty from the beginning.

Sigh, I can only say that I've been corrupted by Hiyori. There's nothing I can do about it. Ever since she first made fun of Arisu's height during the special exam on the deserted island back then, I've become quite adept at thinking about things like that now.

However, on the other hand, some poses are really only suitable for Arisu, which is another perfect example of how anyone can become the first as long as there are enough prefixes and modifiers.

Seeing that Sakayanagi Arisu seemed genuinely about to get angry, Kitagawa Ryo abandoned his plan to tease her any further. After all, she had dragged him in and launched into a long tirade about things related to Dongyu. If Arisu was behind many of Sakayanagi Narimori's initiatives over the years, then many of Arisu's ideas were actually the result of their collaboration.

He didn't come here today to hear Arisu talk about work again. After all, this isn't the kind of occasion where we should talk about work. So, teasing him like this is just a small act of revenge. In a sense, it's a habit he learned from Ichika.

"Because Arisu has indeed told me this many times before. In fact, Mashima-sensei talked to me about this topic last year."

Kitagawa Ryo reached out and rubbed Sakayanagi Arisu's face. Although both of them were in their late twenties, thanks to their usual skincare and natural good looks, they could still pass for high school students. So it didn't seem particularly strange for them to do such intimate things occasionally, especially since there was no one else around.

"As educators, we often find ourselves particularly troubled by our own children's education. Although it is generally believed that teachers' children grow up in a more privileged and comfortable environment than those from ordinary families, both statistics from my own circle and more authoritative reports show that parents in the education industry are more likely to encounter problems in family education and child development."

“Having stayed at Dongyu for so long and interacted with so many faculty and staff, You should have realized this by now, right?”

"……Um."

With practiced ease, she pressed her head against Kitagawa Ryo's chest, resulting in a slightly muffled, nasal sound as Sakayanagi Arisu responded with a soft "yes," before continuing:

"The more I hear about this kind of thing, the less confidence I have in this area, because it's not something you can try again if it doesn't work the first time."

Just as Honami Ichinose seeks to have children only after everything is in place and she feels at ease, Arisu Sakayanagi also has her worries and hesitations.

"Although it sounds a bit strange, the child I want most is probably Liang when she was little. I want to be her mother and accompany her as she grows up, to make up for the time when I wasn't there for her."

"...This is beyond just sounding a little strange."

Kitagawa Ryo twitched his lips upon hearing this, but soon noticed that Sakayanagi Arisu had also raised her head, a sly smile appearing on her lips in unison.

Okay, this time it's his turn to get tricked.

"But as parents, we always want to do our best, so we hope that when our child comes to Tokyo Advanced Educational High School one day, the school will have become the kind of school I just described. Then I can tell her that this is a school that Dad and Mom created just for you... Hmm, is that a bit much? I feel like that would put a lot of pressure on her."

"I think so, eh? So, Arisu was just saying, why did you suddenly start drawing the curtains?"

"That's because if you can't say it that way, you have to say it another way—"

Sakayanagi Arisu swiftly closed all the curtains in the room, then expertly reached out towards Kitagawa Ryo:

"Just tell him then, 'Mom and Dad had their baby right here.' That should put less pressure on him..."

"Didn't you just mutter something like, 'So I have to beat so-and-so and so-and-so's kid'?"

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