Am I being simulated by their love affair?

What should he do if Mochizuki Haruka wanted him to be his adopted son-in-law? Matsueda Jun started to prepare for it.

To put it bluntly, an adopted son-in-law is a son-in-law. Considering that the Mochizuki family sponsors the Mitaka City Welfare Institute, he seems to have no way to resist.

He could only endure and wait for an opportunity to seize power in the Mochizuki family. Matsueda Jun was already prepared to make a comeback as a son-in-law.

"Hey, young man, what are you doing here?" someone spoke to him.

"Think about how to secretly transfer the property of the Mochizuki family." Matsueda Jun took a bite of the cooled fried tofu, and the pale white soup splashed onto the wall of the cup.

He turned around and the person in front of him looked familiar. He had seen him an hour ago.

"Aren't you that idol?" Jun Matsueda pointed at her with a wooden stick.

"Hey, hey, even though you're my type, this behavior is very rude. Points will be deducted!" The idol girl snatched the stick from his hand and threw it into the trash can.

"How dare you say that? I lost my job because of you." Jun Matsueda bit a juicy squid ball hard and put it into his mouth.

"Oh, then we're the same. I'm no longer an idol now." Kurusu Yangshi gave a businesslike smile.

"You don't want to say that it was my fault, do you? You were the one who got in the venue." Jun Matsueda was very vigilant. He had seen many people who tried to get in under various pretexts.

"I didn't say that. Actually, I didn't want to do it anymore. If you had agreed at that time, we would have really dated. If you didn't agree, I would have found a chance to quit the team later." Her smile was faint, but much more real than before.

Jun Matsueda was not interested in asking her why. It was probably because of absent fathers or materialistic mothers. He had seen many of these in the welfare home.

The silence at the back door of the supermarket is particularly conspicuous amid the surrounding izakayas, large LCD screens and endless streams of people.

Lai Qi Yang Shi left without saying a word.

Jun Matsueda stood there, finished his oden, and didn't throw away the cup because there was still soup in it.

A man with a camera came over and asked if he was a model and wanted to take a picture.

"You are really suitable to be a model. Standing here with a cup of coffee and not saying anything, you are the best spokesperson for Kichijoji." What the man wanted to express was that Jun Matsueda standing in Kichijoji perfectly combined the humanistic atmosphere with the modern city.

Jun Matsueda chuckled and shook the cup in his hand, "This is oden." He never buys coffee himself, it is much more expensive than oden.

"Oden?" The man paused, racking his brains to think, "Oden is better. It has a sense of life!"

In the end, the man got his wish and took the photo. He thanked Matsueda Jun and left.

Kurusu Yoshi came back with a cup of oden: "It seems you are more suitable to be an idol than me."

"Impossible." Jun Matsueda's ticket checking job tonight turned into receiving customers, which was already a great mental torture for him.

The back door of the supermarket became quiet again. Jun Matsueda sipped his soup while Kurusu Yoshi ate oden. The two looked like characters from a late-night TV drama.

"Do you like Kichijoji?" the girl suddenly asked him.

"Kichijoji is pretty good. It has convenient commuting, complete supporting facilities, and beautiful scenery." Matsueda Jun didn't know why she asked this question.

"I'm asking if you like it." The former idol girl suddenly approached him and looked into his eyes.

"Does it matter whether I like it or not?" Matsueda Jun did not avoid her gaze, but looked into her eyes.

"It's very important to me." There were stars in the girl's eyes.

"I don't like it. Although it's nice, I feel like I don't belong here." Jun Matsueda felt that everything in Kichijoji was too refined and too fast.

"Great! I don't like it either!" The girl jumped up, spilling the oden soup on the ground. "I knew we were meant to be! My name is Lai Qi Yang Shi!"

"Isn't it a bit late to introduce myself now? Nice to meet you, Miss Kurusu Yoshi." Matsueda Jun drank the last sip of soup, threw the paper cup into the trash can, and prepared to leave.

"Wait, wait!" The girl stuffed the remaining oden into her mouth and ran to Matsueda Jun to stop him. "Are you really not considering dating me?"

"I'm not interested in frivolous girls, sorry." Matsueda Jun walked around her.

"Mmmm!" Lai Qi Yang Shi's mouth was puffed up, and he didn't know what he was saying. He ran to him again.

After swallowing her food with difficulty, she finally spoke, "I'm not some frivolous girl! I'm still holding hands for the first time!"

"It's really unconvincing for someone who comes right up and asks if you want to be in a relationship to say something like that." Jun Matsueda suspected that she wanted to rely on him.

"Actually, I have my reasons," the girl sighed. "My mom said I either have to become the most dazzling idol or marry the most handsome man in Japan."

"Then you can continue to be an idol." Matsueda Jun turned and left without questioning whether he met the latter's standards.

"Wait, wait!" Matsueda Jun quickened his pace, and Kurusu Yoshi couldn't catch up with him.

"At least leave your name and contact information!" the girl shouted at his back.

"Didn't you say we were destined to meet? Then let's meet again. If we meet again next time, I'll consider listening to your story."

The railways in the Tokyo area usually stop operating at midnight, and Jun Matsueda was waiting on the platform for the arrival of the night train.

"In that case, I can only consider the job that the director's grandmother introduced me to."

Jun Matsueda took out a business card with this written on it.

"Night Escape House TSC Moving Company."

There are two more sentences on the business card.

Disappear from the face of the earth and restart your life.

"I really don't want to do this weird job..."

Chapter 31: Escape from the City

"TSC Moving Company, the night escape house, can help you disappear from the world and restart your life!"

Jun Matsueda looked at the slogan on the website's homepage.

Disappear from the face of the earth and restart your life?

Isn't this just me? Matsueda Jun felt like he was a surprisingly good fit for this company.

Escape Room, a moving company that emerged in response to rising incidents of hidden violence in Japan, offers services to those seeking to escape their current situation. They eliminate their daily travel history, provide accommodations, and ensure no one can track them during their move. They offer a complete, one-stop service from departure to arrival. At least 100,000 Japanese have used this service.

This was the job that the director's grandmother introduced to Jun Matsueda before he left the welfare home last time. The president of the company was someone she knew.

There's no other work to do anyway, so I might as well give it a try.

The woman that Matsueda Jun met was a very kind woman who looked to be in her thirties or forties.

"Nice to meet you. You must be Matsueda-kun, right? I'm Tamaki Okuhara. I've also received a lot of care from Grandma Miko. In my heart, she's no different from my mother. You can just call me Aunt Okuhara."

After Matsueda Jun introduced himself, Okuhara Tamaki did not ask any other questions and her face became serious.

"Matsueda-kun, I just have one question. Our work carries certain risks. During operations, we might encounter unreasonable or even violent behavior from the client's family or friends. Can you accept that?"

"No problem." He was just kidding. He also made great efforts to improve the security environment around the Mitaka City Welfare Home.

"Although it may seem arrogant to ask this, but isn't there a need for an ability assessment or something like that?" Matsueda Jun was a little confused.

"Hmm..." Okuhara Tamaki smiled and thought, "Is Matsueda-kun strong?"

Jun Matsueda didn't say anything, but just hugged the desk with his arms and lifted it slightly.

"It's more than enough." The woman was very surprised. The furniture store had sent two people to move this desk in.

"Our salaries aren't high, and male employees are also responsible for carrying and security duties. Some male employees resigned a while ago, and we're desperately short of male employees. And with Grandma Miko's guarantee, Matsueda-kun is the perfect fit for us."

"Then where did they go?" Matsueda Jun was a little curious.

"Brick moving, carpentry, decoration... they all earn more than us anyway, and there is no need to worry about any other risks." President Okuhara sighed.

"Well, although it's a bit sudden, could you please join us now, Matsueda-kun?"

Jun Matsueda, an employee of TSC, who runs the night escape house, takes up his post urgently.

"He ran away from home at night, but he was working during the day." Jun Matsueda sat in the passenger seat of the white truck.

To reduce the company's expenses, Okuhara Tamaki drove the car herself. She stopped at a traffic light. "Let Xia Shi explain the reason to you. You two go to the same school, right?"

Yes, Natsumi Imokawa is also in this car.

Jun Matsueda turned around and saw the girl sitting in the back seat of the truck, fiddling with her camera. She looked very calm, with no trace of her previous flustered and silly look.

Imokawa Natsumi didn't say anything. Matsueda Jun waved his hand in front of her, "Imokawa-san?"

"Eh hey?" She looked at Matsueda Jun as if she had just woken up from a dream, and the familiar red color spread across her face again.

Right.

"That's what happens when Natsumi picks up the camera~" Okuhara Tamaki smiled.

"Well, I want to ask why you are escaping from the house during the day when you should be at night?" Matsueda Jun looked at the girl who had turned into a silly penguin again.

"Because sometimes the client is at home during the day, so it's easier to escape because there's no one at home..." Whenever Natsumi Imokawa sees Jun Matsueda's face, he'll think of the embarrassing moment in the news department.

"Our service purpose is to facilitate a more effective escape," added Tamaki Okuhara.

The two white vans rented by the night escape house stopped at the door of a single-family house, but they did not get out directly.

"As for the 'daytime escape' requirement, everyone must act very naturally and must not arouse the neighbors' suspicion. Just pretend that a friend is visiting or helping with the move, and don't leave any clues." Okuhara Tamaki explained to Matsueda Jun.

"get off!"

A total of five people got out of the two cars, all with a relaxed and leisurely look as if they were taking a walk. They came to the door of the house and knocked.

"Here it comes..." Behind the door was a weak and frightened face. The woman looked around nervously, with purple marks on her forehead.

After the door closed, everyone quickly dispersed, silently sorting and packing their luggage. Matsueda Jun was participating for the first time, and he was only responsible for carrying the luggage. He stood at the door, not wanting to disturb the focused and nervous people.

Natsumi Imokawa was also standing at the door. She took out the camera hidden in her arms and started recording. Her expression became calm again. Noticing the puzzled look of Jun Matsueda, she said.

"Indoor work needs to be recorded and archived. In case a client is sued or their family members come to harass the company and accuse us of human trafficking or burglary, these will be evidence."

The girl's demeanor completely changed the moment she picked up the camera. Although Matsueda Jun was surprised, now was not a good time to ask questions.

After all the luggage was packed, Jun Matsueda and another man loaded the things into the car.

At the last moment, everyone got into the car. This time, Jun Matsueda and the two men sat in the back car. After the client got into the front car, he quickly changed his clothes and put on a wig and hat.

The car drove non-stop all the way out of the city before stopping in the wilderness. Everyone got off the car to rest. It was a desolate open space. Imokawa Natsumi took out his camera again and continued to record.

"There's no problem for now. The next step is to move to a new place, cut off all previous ties, and say goodbye to my previous life."

Tamaki Okuhara said to the woman wearing a wig, and the woman nodded.

"Next, let's finalize the cost. The woman has no ties to the mafia; she's just an ordinary employee. A single woman with standard luggage will cost 150,000 yen. Our quote doesn't include accommodation. I've already asked you to contact the landlord in advance."

The women had no questions, as these were all informed in advance when the contract was signed before any action was taken.

"Finally, a few things to keep in mind: please resign from the company, cut off all contact with your mutual acquaintances, and remove all channels of communication with them—phone numbers, bank cards, family accounts on consumer platforms, etc. I recommend severing all contact within two years."

It sounds a bit scary, Jun Matsueda thought, and it seems to be no different from the so-called social death.

This can be considered as a chance to survive from death.

"Can't we contact mutual acquaintances? I have some good friends. If they hadn't stayed with me, I would have given up the idea of ​​escaping long ago..." The woman was a little hesitant.

"This is the price of disappearing from the face of the earth." Okuhara Tamaki sighed. "We won't force you to do this, but please think about whether you have ever encountered a situation in which your friends, with good intentions, did something bad."

The woman was stunned for a moment, then took out her cell phone and started deleting contact information. As she was deleting, tears suddenly welled up from her eyes and quickly gathered into a river.

"Why... I just wanted to find someone and live a peaceful life with him, why did everything turn out like this? Why should I pay such a huge price when I am the victim, just to make him stop hurting me?" The woman sobbed.

"I gave up my job, lost my friends, and alienated my family, just to escape the city where I grew up and go to another completely unfamiliar and distant city to start a new life..."

"I'm so scared... Can I really do it alone? Will he find out? Will I get hurt again in the future?" The woman looked up and looked at others, trying to seek strength.

Jun Matsueda was surprised to find that no one responded, and he didn't understand.

It wasn't until he met the woman's gaze that he discovered why.

You can't bear the weight of her life.

Natsumi Imokawa stood outside the crowd, looking at the crying woman. Her face flushed again, and the camera in her hand flashed as she faithfully recorded everything.

Chapter 32: Strange Tales of Girls

Amidst the silence, Tamaki Okuhara spoke.

"We won't tell you for sure that you've successfully restarted your life and have no worries. But we believe that all of this is for the opportunity to live a better life. We can't always help you, everything depends on you. For a new life, please make your own determination."

The woman was a little surprised that she didn't get the support she expected, and she started sobbing.

"It's so scary... Would it be better to go back now? I can pretend nothing happened. I feel like he's been gentler towards me lately..."

The unknown is always the most frightening thing, especially when you become numb to your current life, you will begin to fear the unknown, not only because everything may get worse, but also because change requires unparalleled courage and determination.

Jun Matsueda didn't expect things to turn out this way. He looked at his colleagues around him, and they didn't seem surprised.

Okuhara Tamaki held the woman's shoulders and said, "Don't be afraid. I also chose to escape from my husband."

"Huh?" The woman was surprised and stopped crying for a moment.