Am I being simulated by their love affair?

The girl suddenly felt a little uneasy as she thought about what Tomatsu Tomoka said in the restaurant.

"Stop reading." This was the first time she took the initiative to stop the story, and Matsueda Jun's voice disappeared into the darkness.

"Pine branches?"

"what happened?"

"Shall we skip the Rose story?"

"it is good."

Although she only heard his submissive answers, Mochizuki Haruka still felt uneasy.

"Matsueda, I'm not like that..." the girl stammered, "I'm not thinking of taking advantage of you..."

Mochizuki Haruka was unable to speak and began to choke up.

"real......"

"I know." Matsueda Jun's voice sounded in the darkness. Mochizuki Haruka tried hard to open her eyes but couldn't see his expression.

"There's no need to be uneasy. There's nothing shameful about taking advantage of others. In the final analysis, I'm just using you. You need me, and I need money. It's that simple."

No, Mochizuki wanted to say that, but she couldn't open her mouth because that was the fact.

She felt something was wrong. The room was silent in the darkness, and Matsueda Jun listened to the girl's dazed breathing.

"If there's nothing else, I'll go back." He opened the door of the room, light leaked in, and then quickly closed it.

She lay in bed, listening to the footsteps outside the door fading away.

What went wrong?

In a dream all night long, Mochizuki Yao questioned the pain in her chest.

Chapter 147: Edo Period: Hugging for Warmth

On the morning of the first day of the school trip, Jun Matsueda was sitting in the hotel restaurant.

"Even ordinary toast with milk is extraordinarily delicious. Are Hokkaido cows really that magical?"

The woman who brought the breakfast smiled gently, bowed, and left.

Jun Matsueda took another sip of the milk in the cup, and it tasted indeed more fragrant than the one in Tokyo.

If Kurusu Yoshi were to experience this, would she buy a cow from Hokkaido and keep it at home when she has money?

He chewed the toast and thought, feeling that if he were to come to the world of the living, he might really do the same.

"What is Matsueda-san thinking about?" Tomatsu Tomoka, who was sitting opposite him, asked curiously.

"Thinking about my roommate who loves drinking milk." He stuffed the last big bite of toast into his mouth.

The girl ate her breakfast in silence.

Before leaving the hotel, Matsueda Jun went upstairs to take a look and saw that Mochizuki Haruka was sleeping soundly. It seemed that she had no plans to go out.

The morning itinerary started with the Hokkaido Museum and then the pioneer village.

Jun Matsueda and Natsumi Imokawa were walking in the museum's exhibition hall, with a mammoth skeleton beside them.

"Why haven't I seen you, Imokawa, taking any pictures?" The camera on the girl's chest was never taken up, and Matsueda Jun was a little confused.

She looked listless, her head drooping. "The museum is full of dead things. There's nothing beautiful about it."

Natsumi Imokawa only likes to record things that are alive and in front of her.

The Hokkaido Museum and the Development Village are very close to each other, both next to Nopporo Forest Park, and the students can get there by walking.

"Qili~" This is the exclamation of the girls when they saw the village in front of them.

Post offices, inns, soba shops, Hokkaido in the Edo period appears before people's eyes.

The pioneer village records the development of various industries during the development of Hokkaido - old buildings such as textiles, brewing, and animal husbandry have been preserved.

Jun Matsueda was walking in a retro Japanese-style house. Natsumi Imokawa had already separated from him. They were not in the same class, so their movements would deviate.

"Hokkaido was also beautiful in the past." Tomatsu Tomoka said behind him.

"Although it looks beautiful, the actual living experience might not be very good." Jun Matsueda looked around the bedroom in front of him. "It's a thatched wooden house. It's hard to imagine how poor people survive the Hokkaido winter. Sleeping on this kind of tatami, you can imagine the cold air coming up from the ground."

The girl was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Matsueda-san, this is the couple's room."

"So what?" Jun Matsueda turned around and asked her.

It is a sunny day today. It seems that Yamami Maki's prayer has worked. The bright sunlight outside shines through the shoji paper on the doors and windows of the Japanese-style room and falls on Tomatsu Tomoka's face, leaving only a soft layer.

"If you sleep alone, you might feel cold," she said with a smile. "But if you sleep with someone, no matter how cold the winter is, as long as you can hug each other, you'll always feel a little warmth."

The girl's gaze enveloped him speechlessly in soft light.

There are more than fifty buildings on the map of the pioneer village. If you are interested, you can spend a whole day looking at them. When Jun Matsueda met Sushan, he was shouting "Golden Kamuy". This seems to be the filming location of the comics.

There was still half an hour left before the gathering. Jun Matsueda had already returned to the village entrance. There was a small sled on the side of the road, and Tomatsu Tomoka was sitting on it to rest.

He pulled his phone out of his pocket, and a message from Yamami Moki just came through, "Did you get the crab pot?"

"It's delicious, I forgot to take a picture." At the dinner table last night, Jun Matsueda was probably the one who enjoyed the meal the most.

"That's good. Before you left, Youhua specifically asked me if I had any restaurant recommendations."

He raised his head to glance at the girl sitting in a daze on the sled, and continued to send messages to his senior.

"It was snowing when we arrived in Sapporo yesterday, but the weather is beautiful today. I think it's thanks to the prayers you gave at the shrine."

Yamami Mochi sent an emoji of a bird spinning in circles, revealing a little bit of pride.

When Tomatsu Tomoka came over, Matsueda Jun naturally put away his phone.

"Is Matsueda-san chatting with someone?"

"A friend." He looked at the two teachers walking towards him from a distance. Since Yamami Maki didn't want her juniors to know, Matsueda Jun would of course respect her idea.

After leaving the pioneer village, everyone boarded a bus to Susukino for lunch. After confirming that the girl staying at the inn had eaten well, Matsueda Jun declined Tomatsu Tomoka's offer of sea urchin sashimi and instead enjoyed soup curry with Sakamuro and Suyama.

There are no cockroaches in Hokkaido, this is what Sushan told him at the dinner table.

The next time I saw Tomatsu Tomoka was at the Shiroi Koibito factory in the afternoon. Shiroi Koibito is a famous Hokkaido specialty, a sandwich cookie. Matsueda Jun had tried it at his ex-girlfriend's place and it was indeed delicious.

Yuqiu High School arranged for students to enter the Shiroi Koibito factory to experience the cookie-making process on the assembly line, but everyone can freely choose what kind of cookies to make.

Jun Matsueda watched as Tomoka Tomatsu beside him took out a large heart-shaped cookie that she had baked, and then used a piping bag to write "Jun-kun, I like it" on the cookie.

After making the cookies, you can spend some money to customize your own cookie tin and refrigerator magnet. Jun Matsueda looked at Tomatsu Tomoka holding the tin box with his photo printed on it, and showed a happy expression.

There was a subtle feeling, as if he were already dead.

The girls walked out of the factory gate in twos and threes, bought a White Lover ice cream from the ice cream truck at the door, and then returned to the bus. By the time they finished the ice cream, the bus had stopped at the foot of Mt. Moiwa.

It was already past 3:30 in the afternoon and the sun was about to set in Sapporo. Whether it was to watch the sunset or the night view, the top of Mount Moiwa was the best place.

Matsueda Jun, Tomatsu Tomoka, Mizushima Miya, and Imokawa Natsumi were sitting in the cable car. Tomatsu Tomoka sat across from him, while the other two sat far away, looking as if they were ready to open the door and jump out at any moment.

"Look how scared you made Imokawa." said Jun Matsueda.

Tomatsu Tomoka blinked innocently and said, "I didn't do anything."

Natsumi Imokawa accidentally entered this cable car. She just didn't want to miss the sunset, so she rushed in from the crowd of Class 4 with her camera.

After hearing the girl's words, Natsumi Imokawa leaned towards Jun Matsueda. "Sapporo's night view has been rated as one of the new three major night views of Neon. It is definitely not to be missed." She whispered.

The girl meant that she hoped Jun Matsueda could stay with her on the top of the mountain and wait for the night view after sunset.

Mizushima Miya looked out the window, looking for the sunset.

The carriage naturally became quiet. They had been traveling on the road all day and now lay at everyone's feet.

The cable car disappeared into the mountains and forests, and the scattered buildings with snow-capped tops disappeared into the distance. The urban cluster turned into a miniature landscape under the gradient blue and white sky.

The black cable continues to extend, as if reaching the sky.

The anticipation for reaching the top of the mountain arises naturally in people's hearts.

Chapter 148: Mount Moiwa, the sunset witnessed her first love

The four people on the cable car are about to reach the top of the mountain.

"I think hiking would be quite interesting." Mizushima Miya looked at the dead trees under his feet.

The trees on the entire mountain were left with only bare branches. Looking towards the foot of the mountain, one could only see a dry brown ocean. The path under the cable seemed to be split apart by a great force, but the white snow could still be seen.

"It's easy to encounter bears in Hokkaido, so you have to be careful when hiking." Jun Matsueda said slowly.

"Really?!" Natsumi Imokawa looked at him, and the girl's tone didn't seem to be as scared as it should be.

"That's possible. We met some people preparing to climb the mountain at the bus stop at the foot of the mountain," Tomatsu Tomoka echoed him. "They all had bear bells."

Natsumi Imokawa pointed his camera at the woods below, hoping that a large creature would jump out immediately.

"Aren't they supposed to hibernate?" Mizushima Miya thought seriously. She was half a mountaineering enthusiast, so she had to take precautions before anything happened.

"Yeah," Matsueda Jun continued in a ghost story tone, "If there wasn't enough food... they'd run away."

The three girls in the car all looked over and he gestured to them to shut up.

With a slight shake, the cable car stopped indoors, and Natsumi Imokawa was the first to jump out of the car.

"The sun hasn't set yet, there's still time!" She hurriedly ran to the observation deck with her camera.

"Be careful not to slip—" As soon as Matsueda Jun's voice fell, the girl rushed towards the snow pile in front of her.

"Are you okay?" He trotted over and helped the fallen girl up. Tomatsu Tomoka walked behind the two of them and began to think about how to make the fake fall more reasonable.

Natsumi Imokawa was not wearing snow boots, and the girl staggered again when she stood up. Her soft body wrapped in her coat fell into his arms, like a ball of soft snow about to melt, with the aroma of butter.

Mizushima Miya looked at her best friend walking beside her. Tomatsu Tomoka's face was so ferocious that she would rather go down the mountain to look for the bear.

Natsumi Imokawa was leaning against Jun Matsueda's chest to check the camera. This was the girl's top priority, and she didn't even notice when Tomoka Tomatsu walked between them.

"Fortunately, the camera is fine!" She raised her head and smiled thankfully at Matsueda Jun, but what she saw was Tomatsu Tomoka's face.

"Imokawa-san, please watch your step next time."

She could only nod timidly and move sideways step by step to keep some distance between herself and Tomatsu Tomoka.

Today's sunset had two colors: the western sky carried the last traces of the sun's orange-red glow, while the eastern sky was a pale blue. On a clear day, visibility was high, allowing for the sight of the snow-capped mountains behind the city and the pink clouds above.

Natsumi Imokawa had already turned on the camera and started recording. The city in the picture began to be dyed with light pink, and the voices of boys and girls were heard outside the screen.

"I'm so lucky today. I can see two kinds of sunsets at once~" Tomatsu Tomoka's voice was filled with smiles and emotions that were hard to hide.

No adolescent girl could remain sober in such a romantic blues moment.

Matsueda Jun's voice softened. "It was probably this kind of sunset that made people in the past go up the mountain, even at the risk of fighting bears."

The warm laughter of the people around surrounded the pink city in the camera lens.

"Which color does Matsueda like better?" Tomatsu Tomoka asked expectantly.

"It's the light blue color in the east. I feel like if I've seen such a color before, I can have a good dream at night." Matsueda Jun thought for a while.

"Oh, I like the colors of the east, too." Tomatsu Tomoka said against her will.

In fact, she prefers the orange-red color in the west, which is closer to the sun and gives people a warmer feeling.

But the girl's own preferences are not important. Tomatsu Tomoka is like a pool of weak water in front of Matsueda Jun. In order to fit into his container, she can change into any shape.

Natsumi Imokawa's camera was aimed at two people who were chatting while leaning on the railing. The sunset gave their profiles a hint of pink, like an unconscious blush.

The picture was beautiful, the composition was harmonious, the colors were natural, and even the sound of the wind was so gentle - but she was not as happy as she thought.

Maybe it's because there was a second person in the frame filming him.

She twisted the camera so that only Jun Matsueda was in the frame. The boy, lazily leaning against the railing, noticed the girl's gaze and turned to smile at the camera, appearing shy because of the blush of the sunset.

Natsumi Imokawa nodded with satisfaction. Since her parents wanted to see her good friend Matsueda, there was no need to allow irrelevant people to show up.

After the sun sets completely, the whole world is immersed in deep blue liquid, and the lights of the city light up one by one, making people realize that they are not at the bottom of the sea.

Tomatsu Tomoka tied her red scarf tightly around her neck and walked to the center of the observatory. A sign read "Lovers' Sanctuary," a bell hung from a central support, and love locks were densely tied to the ropes surrounding it.

The girl also bought a lock. She walked up to Jun Matsueda and handed him the key.

Jun Matsueda did not take it. In Natsumi Imokawa's camera, the small, golden key was quietly hanging above the city, looking so huge.

The girl put away the key, wrote a few words on the lock with a marker, and then handed it to him to see.

"My first love."