How can my simulation be a real love?

Goto Ichiri, who had just been trembling with nervousness, miraculously stopped. She stared blankly at Takamatsu Akari in front of her with her mouth slightly open, her delicate and beautiful fair face full of an expression of 'I am gradually understanding everything'.

The topic was so shocking that she forgot how to speak.

"Pochi-chan?"

"Ah, that..."

Goto Ichiri felt her back was covered in cold sweat. She didn't know how to answer such a question that had suddenly been thrown at her.

She had no idea that the girls from Mygo's side also liked Naruto. Although it wasn't strange that they liked Naruto-san when she thought about it, now that she looked at it this way, there seemed to be too many of them.

Including those who have ended their band activities, isn't there almost ten people left now?

Are we trying to gather a table of Knights of the Round Table?

"I'd like to hear Poch's opinion."

Gao Songdeng gently clenched her fists and pressed them against her chest. Boqi was practically the only person she could ask for help now. If that didn't work, she would have to rely on herself.

"Tomori means that if Naru-san marries someone, it will hurt everyone and cause the band to break up, right? ...I hadn't thought about this kind of problem before."

"……Yeah?"

Takamatsu Akari seemed somewhat disappointed upon hearing Goto Ichiri's answer. She pursed her thin cherry lips and stood there, somewhat at a loss. Helplessness and disappointment were like a bucket of cold water extinguishing a flame, diminishing her courage.

Goto Ichiri suddenly felt the guitar on her shoulder become heavier. She had carried this big black card for many years, so why did it suddenly feel so unfamiliar? This sudden feeling gave her an urge to run away.

"Ah...that's not what I meant! There must be, there must be some other way!"

"Yes, there is another way."

Immediately regaining her courage, Akari nodded seriously. Feeling her brain working too fast and struggling to think, Goto Ichiri took a deep breath and, in a flustered manner, gestured wildly as she spoke—

"Ming Sang is such a serious person, she can't just marry everyone, right? So we still need to think of other ways..."

"?"

Gao Songdeng blinked slightly upon hearing this, then frowned slightly and stood still. After a brief moment of thought, she raised her head with a hint of joy on her usually sad face.

"Pochi! Thank you for helping me!"

Goto Ichiri: ?

No, what did I help with?

Before she could react, Goto Ichiri had already been grabbed by Takamatsu Akari's hand. Feeling completely bewildered, she shook her head slightly. Although she didn't know what was going on, Akari seemed to have calmed down...

"But how am I supposed to do this all by myself?"

Takamatsu felt that this goal seemed too far away, and it seemed too difficult for him to achieve it on his own, but it was so that everyone could be together for 'a lifetime'!

"...Poch-chan, I'd like to ask you for help."

"what?"

Goto Ichiri blinked again, her small mouth agape, completely at a loss for what to do.

Could it be that Takamatsu Akari wants her to help her pursue Naru-san? No way! Being a wingman is just too painful! Besides, she already agreed to become Kita-chan's 'partner' before this!

No, we still have to refuse here!

"Um... I think—"

Keep it up, Bochi! You're a 'guitar hero'!

It was just that she seriously said "no." Didn't she just muster up the courage to let Ming go home? She's not the same person she used to be; she's completely grown up now!

“…Yes, I’m sorry.”

"Hmm, I think I've put you in a bit too much of a difficult position..."

The gray-haired girl's eyes welled up with tears, but in an instant, Goto Ichiri took a deep breath and then spoke in trembling, hesitant words—

"I think... there shouldn't be any problem."

I'm a super big idiot!

Suffering a huge blow and suddenly shouldering a terrifying burden, Pochi felt his stomach churning. The next second, he began to foam at the mouth and collapsed to the ground as if his soul had been ripped out.

Goto Ichiri died at the age of sixteen.

22

Chapter Twenty-Two: Great, so great.

This summer vacation, full of youthful energy, has unknowingly passed by more than halfway.

However, this rare holiday was not comfortable for Mitsumi Hatsuka, who is an idol of [Sumimi]. On the contrary, her workload began to increase rapidly during the holiday, and she was filled with a lot of schedules and work from morning to night.

This unchanging job had probably become a habit for her in the past.

However, recently, due to some unknown factor, she has become increasingly weary and tired of this tedious work.

hum-

The vibration of the Line message caught the blonde girl's attention, causing her to squint as she lay in bed in her pajamas, her beautiful pale purple eyes, as vibrant as butterflies, fixed on the message on the screen.

Her fair, delicate shoulders, which were unconsciously revealed, shone with a delicate luster, yet she lay on the bed, not wanting to move an inch.

However, upon hearing the news, Miss Chuhua instinctively gripped her phone and glanced at it with weary eyes.

[Junka Mana: Hatsuka-chan, Hatsuka-chan~ Our manager said we can both have some free time tomorrow. Since we don't have to practice tomorrow, how about we go shopping together? I just found a newly opened trendy dessert shop I'm planning to check out; I heard their donuts are super delicious!]

"Mana?"

It was as if saying those words had drained all her strength.

Hatsuka, who was completely exhausted and didn't want to move, admired Mana Junda's energetic demeanor every day. No matter how heavy her idol work was, she could quickly adjust. Perhaps she was more like a real 'idol' than herself.

However, shopping, something that high school girls would enjoy, wasn't really suitable for her. Feeling physically and mentally exhausted, Mikasa just smiled helplessly and then picked up her phone and gently tapped the glass screen.

[Hatsuka Misaki: Sorry, Mana-chan, I have other things to do tomorrow, so I can't go shopping with you.]

[Junka Mana: Eh!? But summer vacation is almost over! Hatsuka-chan, as a high school girl, hasn't even had a proper couple of days of fun yet, has she?]

[Mana Junda: Ah—I see, Hatsuka-chan probably already has plans with 'someone else,' right? In that case, I won't disturb Hatsuka-chan's rare date~]

[Mana Junda: Cat Grinning JPG]

"I already said no..."

With her delicately furrowed brows, Chu Hua couldn't help but sigh softly.

Even though she had explained many times before, the other party hadn't listened at all. She could only explain a few more times before slowly turning off her phone screen. Completely exhausted, she collapsed onto the large bed in the luxury apartment.

"Date...?"

These words don't quite suit her.

However, it was because Junda Mana, who was a bit love-struck, suddenly brought up this matter that Mika Mika, whose mind was originally occupied by fatigue, became a little more energetic.

She began to recall her conversation with a certain black-haired boy, whose thin, perfect cherry lips curved into a beautiful arc.

"I really want to eat braised pork."

Thinking of this, Misaka Chuka narrowed her beautiful purple eyes and opened her phone again. Before she knew it, she had scrolled to her Line chat with someone. Her eyes were fixed on the few thin messages in the chat box, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up.

My mood gradually lightened, and it seemed that the fatigue surging through my body was beginning to subtly overpower me.

Perhaps her mind hadn't quite caught up with her thoughts, because the girl's slender, fair fingertips began to tap on the screen unconsciously.

Da da da……

But the moment she realized what she was doing, her pupils contracted and she immediately deleted all the messages she had typed.

"Shall we go somewhere else tomorrow?"

……

After the celebration party for the summer festival live, Kazami Naruto finally had some free time. Neither the band that had just ended nor Mygo, which had just decided on its band name, seemed to have any plans to cram for training at the end of the summer vacation.

However, his good friend Li Xi seems to be sending him more and more sheet music files lately, and he also asks him on Line from time to time how to revise the sheet music more appropriately.

How could Kazami Mei possibly know how to make a more suitable change?

The combination of his simulated music arrangement experience and real-world skills has given him a newfound ability to suddenly compose music, which he can probably come up with in his head while eating or taking a walk.

The really troublesome part for him was simply transferring the sheet music from his mind to the music production software.

buzzing...

Messages from Shiina Tatsuki kept coming to her phone, which made Kazami Mei, who was strolling around the supermarket with a shopping basket, click her tongue in amazement.

"I guess the last live performance was a bit of a shock to her? It seems like Mygo's next live performance isn't far off."

However, Li Xi's passion for arranging music is like a sponge that absorbs water. When the band is not practicing, he hides at home and writes music, relentlessly and earnestly squeezing out his essence.

If this continues, the other party will eventually drain him completely.

After replying to the message, Kazami Mei continued to stroll around the supermarket.

As he passed by the freezer where drinks were stored again, he 'coincidentally' saw the familiar cream puff-flavored oolong tea. It was here that he had last met his great idol, Ms. Hatsuka. This made Kazami Mei unable to help but look around.

Fortunately, his 'natural intuition' hasn't triggered yet.

After buying a large amount of groceries as inventory, Kazami Naruto paid and walked straight out of the supermarket. However, before his left foot had even stepped out of the supermarket door, he suddenly felt a strong sense of being watched from behind.

Sensing something was wrong, he immediately turned to look behind him.

The blonde girl wearing a baseball cap was holding a bottle of light pink cream puff oolong tea in her hands. When she noticed Kazami looking over, she seemed to freeze for a moment, then quickly came to her senses and waved gently in his direction.

Today, Sanjiao Chuhua wore her usual beige baseball cap to cover her face, but this time she wore a pure white off-shoulder jacket with a light brown long skirt, which added a touch of casual playfulness to her charm.

"Chuhua?"

A strange look immediately appeared on Kazami's face.

I was just thinking about Miss Chu Hua, and then I ran into her in less than two minutes?

How many times has he run into Misaka Hatsuka?

If you include today, that's covering all three time slots: morning, noon, and evening. The blonde idol is practically a Pokémon leaping out of the bushes, or an Assassin capable of concealing herself—

I always feel like she could appear at any moment.

"...I really didn't expect to run into Naruto all of a sudden. What a 'coincidence'."

Holding the oolong tea in her hands, Misaka Hatsuka's face showed only a slight change in expression, but if you looked closely, you could see that her fingers were gripping the beverage bottle so tightly that they turned white, and her violet eyes hidden under the brim of her hat trembled slightly.

Clearly, her inner world was not as calm as it appeared.

In fact, this cannot be considered a 'coincidence', as Misaka Hatsuka had been wandering the nearby streets for some time.

When she saw Kazami Naruto in the supermarket, she considered that he was very wary of being followed, so she did not go up to greet him directly. Instead, she chose to let the two of them "bump into each other" at the entrance, which seemed more natural.

"Chuhua, you should still be busy with work at this time, why are you here?"

"My manager gave me a day off today, but I usually have to practice dancing at this time, so I naturally woke up. Since I was bored, I thought I'd wander around a bit... and I suddenly felt like trying this flavor of oolong tea, so I just ended up at this supermarket~"

Wearing a baseball cap, Ms. Hatsuka revealed a gentle smile befitting an 'idol,' and as she spoke, she gently shook the 'cream puff flavor' oolong tea in her hand toward Kazami Mei.

Because the taste was so strange, the nearby supermarkets didn't stock it much, so Chu Hua made a special trip here to buy it without any problem.

However, he always felt something was off.

There's a strange feeling, like the Magma alien deliberately disguised himself as Ultra Seven, only to be casually killed by Leo with a single punch.

"Is Ming-kun here to buy groceries today too?"

Before Kazami Mei even had a chance to think, Ms. Hatsuka, with her hands behind her back, had already looked at the shopping bag in his hand.

"Pretty much~ We've been using up our food too quickly lately."

Kazami Mei answered in a somewhat subtle tone.

He had just treated the great Miss Chu Hua to a meal not long ago, and immediately afterwards, three girls, Mu Xiang Liang and Mu Xiang Liang, had a dinner party at his house. The leftover ingredients weren't even enough to feed him for a few days.

Such rapid spending made him sigh, realizing that he would soon be back to being penniless.

"That's it..."

The beautiful young woman, whose beauty could rival that of a fish sinking and a goose falling from the sky, smiled faintly. As they talked, a hint of joy appeared on her face. She walked over with her hands behind her back as if she were taking light, dance-like steps.

By deliberately removing her sunglasses, she fully revealed the perfect face of a top 'idol,' which made Kazami Mei sigh inwardly once again, feeling that every time he saw Hatsuka-san's face, he felt it was truly magnificent.

It feels like Mikasa is like the "Announcer of Divine Light," as if no matter what move he uses, it will be countered.