How can my simulation be a real love?

9

Chapter Nine: Could she be some newlywed wife from who-knows-where?

Toyokawa Shoko is very happy today.

It should be said that her mood has been very high ever since she said goodbye to Kazami Naruto last time.

This heightened emotion transformed into pure joy on this "promised day," giving Toyokawa Shoko even more motivation to go to work at the customer service company, and making her walk as light as if she were stepping on a gentle breeze.

The fatigue and irritability that usually come from watching "Black Company: Overtime" seem to be dispelled by the constant sense of anticipation at this moment!

Today is the day we've agreed to have dinner at his house!

"..."

As she walked down the street, Toyokawa Shoko's eyes darted around, and she noticed her heart starting to race...

No matter how good her relationship with Kazami Mei is, they are currently just 'ordinary friends'. Now that she, as an 'ordinary friend', has been invited to his house for dinner, it is actually a big step forward in their relationship.

This is a chance for the two of them to be alone!

Just thinking about it made her quicken her pace again.

"What should I say when I see Ming later?"

Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but smile faintly. She used to stand below the stage, envying the lights, but now Ming was a member of her band, and they had become a community of shared destiny.

With her increasingly quickened pace, Toyokawa Shoko unknowingly arrived near an unfamiliar residential street.

Upon arriving, she immediately noticed the old apartment building in the very center of the street. The outer stone bricks bore varying degrees of wear and tear over the years, and the weeds around the apartment building were of different lengths, but at least it looked like someone was still repairing it.

The wooden sign above the apartment was somewhat worn and had a name that was hard to decipher.

"【Chicken and Dog Chaos】?"

"This should be the place, right...?"

Miss Xiangzi, carrying a lot of groceries, frowned slightly. The name of this apartment was so strange that she shouldn't have mistaken it.

Just to be on the safe side, she took out her phone again to check the message on Line. Only after confirming that it was this apartment building did she boldly step upstairs and stand at the door of Kazami Naruto's house in the blink of an eye.

After hesitating for a moment, the girl suddenly raised her fair and slender fingers.

The next second, she timidly shrank back.

"call……"

Toyokawa Shoko gently raised her amber eyes, stared at the iron gate in front of her, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Calm down, calm down.

Standing here is none other than Toyokawa Shoko!

This is just a meal at Kazami Naruto's house, and a little time alone with him!

This was much simpler than her usual work. Thinking about it carefully, she had nothing to be nervous about. Instead, she should take this opportunity to take the initiative.

dong dong.

Having made up her mind, Toyokawa Shoko gently knocked on the security door. At the same time, she began to adjust her bangs somewhat uncomfortably, and checked her collar from time to time to make sure she was in the best possible condition.

Click!

Hearing the sound of the door lock being opened, Toyokawa Shoko suppressed her tension and excitement, her head, as stubborn as a bellflower, slightly raised, revealing the elegant smile of a noblewoman.

"Ming! It's evening..."

Before Toyokawa Shoko could even finish her sentence, she suddenly stopped, as if she had seen something unbelievable.

Standing in front of Toyokawa Shoko was a petite doll-like girl.

She wore a dark blue dress over a clean, pure white apron. Her exquisitely beautiful face, sculpted like a doll, was expressionless. Her long, light green hair, as clear as jade, was tied into a neat high ponytail with a light-colored hair tie.

His warm and bright golden eyes met Toyokawa Shoko's gaze calmly.

"..."

The moment the green-haired girl saw Toyokawa Shoko, no surprise appeared on her delicate face. Her calm demeanor contrasted sharply with the bewildered Shoko who stood there dumbfounded.

"Xiangzi, welcome."

Wearing an apron, Wakaba Mutsumi spoke expressionlessly.

A single, plain sentence caused Toyokawa Shoko's brain to shut down as if a CPU had been burned out.

Toyokawa Shoko:?

"M.Mutsumi? You...why are you at Ming's house?!"

"It calls me to come over for dinner."

Ruo Yemu opened her eyes and spoke in a cool and indifferent tone.

She seemed to be saying something perfectly natural, but it was precisely because of her 'natural' answer that Toyokawa Shoko became even more confused.

A jumble of chaotic thoughts forcefully flooded her mind, leaving Toyokawa Shoko completely unable to think straight. In her dazed state, she became somewhat flustered while carrying the bag of groceries.

"Has Xiangzi arrived yet? Then could you please bring the ingredients over for me, Xiao Mu?"

From the kitchen came Kazami Mei's soft call. Hearing this, Toyokawa Shoko snapped out of her daze and looked at Wakaba Mutsu reaching out to her expressionlessly for ingredients, feeling inexplicably resentful.

Despite her mixed feelings, Toyokawa Shoko could only hand over the item with a slightly stiff expression.

"Xiangzi, there are disposable slippers in the shoe cabinet over there."

After saying those words expressionlessly, Ruoye Mutsu carried the ingredients with some difficulty toward the kitchen, leaving Toyokawa Shoko standing there alone, at a loss.

She stood there stunned for a long time before taking a deep breath, her amber eyes instantly turning sharp.

What exactly is going on?

You said you'd give me 328 RMB and let me become the Monkey King, but you sent me "Shining Handsome Girl" and told me to become the Keeper of the Heavenly Horses.

Toyokawa Shoko had only heard that Kazemi Naruto had invited her to his house for dinner, but she never expected that he would not only invite her alone, but also invite her 'other half', Wakaba Mutsu.

If it were just that simple, Toyokawa Shoko would at most be a little disappointed, but it wouldn't have turned into the chaotic state she is in now.

What truly confused her was the way Wakaba Mutsu acted like a mistress of the house.

High ponytail? White apron?

Is she some newlywed wife from who-knows-where?!

……

"Ming, I've brought it."

A soft, cotton-like voice came from the cucumber fairy's ear. Kazami Mei turned her head and saw Komaki, with her hair tied in a high ponytail, walking over and somewhat laboriously placing the ingredients that Teacher Daisho had brought on the kitchen table.

While busy cooking, Kazami Mei couldn't help but lean back strategically. Suddenly, he turned his head and saw that Mutsu's current outfit was still too powerful for him. He was a genius when he came up with the idea of ​​having her tie her hair in a high ponytail!

"Thank you so much, Xiaomu. You've really gone to a lot of trouble."

"Xiao Mu, why don't you go watch some TV and relax with Xiangzi? You can leave the rest to me."

Kazami Mei smiled gently at Wakaba Mutsu beside her.

"Ah."

Ruoye Mu nodded obediently, then turned and walked towards the living room.

Kazami Mei never expected that the little blockhead would come to her house so early.

The little wooden girl who had just arrived became very proactive, especially after she heard that Miss Xiangzi was coming soon. She ran to the kitchen with a blank expression and asked to help him with the work.

Most importantly, this time Xiao Mutou was quite stubborn, and took the initiative to ask if he could help him no matter what.

Unable to refuse her request, Kazami Naruto could only ask Komaki to help prepare the seasonings and wash the dishes.

However, even though she is a cute little wooden girl, she is indeed the eldest daughter of the Wakaba family. Just watching her prepare the seasonings made him a little nervous, not to mention that he would inevitably come into contact with water when he helped wash the dishes later.

Unable to bear watching any longer, Kazami immediately used her hair tie to tie her hair into a ponytail. At the same time, to prevent the seasonings from accidentally staining her super expensive designer dress, Kazami specially found a brand new pure white apron for her to wear.

For some reason, after her 'Super Transformation', her entire demeanor changed completely.

"However, Xiao Mu's high ponytail is indeed very cute."

"It's truly worthy of being tied by my own hands, it's incredibly well done!"

Kazami Mei couldn't help but reveal a slightly smug expression.

Because the cucumber fairy wearing an apron was just too adorable, he had to struggle internally for a long time before finally suppressing his damn urge to hug the little wooden figure.

Unlike Kazami Naru in the kitchen, Toyokawa Shoko, sitting on the living room sofa, began to have a wandering gaze.

The television in front of her was playing a program, but she couldn't concentrate at all. The reason was that her 'half-body' Ruoye Mu was sitting calmly next to her. This unprecedentedly awkward atmosphere left her completely at a loss for what to do!

Before coming here, Toyokawa Shoko had already prepared what she was going to do, but the sudden appearance of her 'half-body' Wakaba Mutsu completely disrupted her schedule for the day.

Of course, what attracted her attention the most was—

"Mutsumi, what's with this outfit?"

After holding back for a long time, Toyokawa Shoko finally couldn't help but speak to the cucumber fairy beside him.

When she first entered, Ruoye Mu's attire almost made her think she had entered some parallel world. Even now, she can't shake her attention from Xiao Huanggua.

Toyokawa Shoko knew that Komu and Kazami Mei seemed to have a good relationship, but at this moment she suddenly realized that something was not quite right.

She felt that the relationship between the two was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

“I wanted to help Ming, so he helped me prepare.”

"Ming prepared this for you? Even the way you tied your hair was prepared this way?"

"Ah."

When questioned by Xiangzi, Ruoye Mutsu simply answered truthfully with a blank expression.

Whether it was Toyokawa Shoko's imagination or not, she felt that the "half-body" she had known since childhood seemed somewhat unfamiliar today, and seemed to reveal a hint of smugness when he spoke.

But perhaps it was just because Wakaba Mutsumi suddenly changed her hairstyle that she felt a little uncomfortable?

"So this is ah……"

Hearing that this was the reason, Toyokawa Shoko's tense nerves relaxed slightly. Fortunately, it wasn't the most troublesome outcome she had imagined. However, as she relaxed, she couldn't help but feel envious when she saw Wakaba Mutsu's appearance.

If she had arrived earlier than Mu, would she have been the one to enjoy this treatment?

Shoko Toyokawa, feeling somewhat resentful, pursed her lips slightly, straightened her back a little, and asked towards the kitchen, "Ning, is there anything I can help you with?"

"...Not for now, Xiangzi, just wait patiently with Mu."

Kazami Mei's hand holding the kitchen knife stiffened slightly at those words. He seemed to have just heard something quite shocking from Miss Xiangzi's mouth, and to be on the safe side, he chose to refuse Miss Xiangzi's request for help.

Toyokawa Shoko slightly furrowed her delicate brows, her sharp amber eyes fixed on Kazami Mei's back. She had a feeling that Kazami Mei's words just now seemed to have a hint of 'distrust'.

This made her, with her extremely strong sense of pride, inevitably speak up somewhat angrily—

"I always feel like Ming is underestimating me a bit, but I'm still quite confident when it comes to cooking!"

"..."

Kazami Mei looked in Toyokawa Shoko's direction with a meaningful gaze, and the movement of chopping vegetables in her hand suddenly stopped.

Teacher Da Xiang, who couldn't even use a beverage machine a year ago, is now offering to help him prepare dishes?

Oh my god...

It's like Conan Edogawa saying he can sing, or Sanae Furukawa saying she can bake bread.

This is certainly not because Kazami Mei is looking down on Daisho-sensei's abilities, but the problem is that Toyokawa Shoko usually eats very 'simple' bean sprout and white rice bento boxes at school.

Even though she has endured a year of hardship, Kazami Mei still doesn't quite trust his cooking skills.

"In short, just let me give it a try, okay?"

With her beautiful eyes wide open, Toyokawa Shoko pursed her lips, revealing a stubborn expression.

Seeing her like this, Kazami knew that she wouldn't give up until she tried, so he could only rub his temples in exasperation and then give way so that Teacher Daisho could stand in front of the cutting board.

"Can I cut the cucumber?"

"no problem!"

The blue-haired girl carefully picked up the kitchen knife and made a cut. Then, under Kazami Mei's watchful gaze, the thickness of her subsequent cut was noticeably different from the first. Teacher Daisho seemed to realize she was being a bit embarrassing, so she blushed slightly and explained—

"I'm not very good at chopping vegetables, but in other areas..."