Am I being simulated by their love affair?

"Oh." The girl reached into her arms and felt around, then took out a tissue and handed it to the teachers.

Kominato Shoko was a little slow to take the tissue, so Hirouchi Aya asked the question on her behalf: "How did Matsueda know?"

"That's my coat." Jun Matsueda said as a matter of course. He lowered his head to eat and didn't notice the change in the eyes of the two adults.

The two teachers watched the boy and girl leave the restaurant.

"They really didn't have any problems last night?"

After breakfast, Matsueda Jun first went back to look at Yueyao's room. The girl was still sleeping. He crossed out the words on the note on the bedside table and added another line.

Walking out of the hotel door, "The power is really out."

Language turned into water vapor and rose into the air. The snowy streets were devoid of passing trams and indoor lights, and the scene became much more monotonous both visually and auditorily.

The girl holding an umbrella walked beside him. "The teachers didn't mention the next arrangements just now."

Even the buses stopped running, and there were noticeably more pedestrians on the road, making the usually peaceful atmosphere of the snowy town a little tense.

"I guess the school is in a state of chaos too. Both New Chitose Airport and Okadama Airport are closed. Now even if I want to go back to Tokyo, I can't."

Tomatsu Tomoka, who was walking in front, turned around to look at him, and her tone became excited.

"We're stuck in Hokkaido~"

The girl holding a black umbrella has snow falling in front of her and people coming and going behind her.

A sudden cell phone ring rang between the two of them, and Matsueda Jun took out his cell phone.

"Matsuzhi! Was there an earthquake there? I just opened my eyes and saw your message, and I woke up all of a sudden!" Lai Qi Yangshi's voice was louder than usual.

"Yes, there was an earthquake." Matsueda Jun walked past Tomatsu Tomoka and headed towards the nearest pharmacy. "I'm in Otaru, and this area wasn't affected much."

"I saw on the news that the whole of Hokkaido has a power outage?" The sound of water splashing was heard on the phone.

"I even have my phone on power saving mode right now."

Tomatsu Tomoka walked beside the boy, she wrapped her down jacket tightly around her body, guessing the identity of the girl on the other end of the phone.

"Then you can't even enjoy a hot shower?" The girl who was taking a shower thought of this question.

"Not to mention hot water for washing, even hot water for drinking is a problem."

"Then come back to Tokyo as soon as possible. I live alone every day now and I'm so bored that I don't even wear clothes in the living room."

Jun Matsueda did not ask about the mysterious relationship between boredom and streaking.

"Since you want to save electricity, hang up now. When you come back, tell me about Hokkaido."

The girl hung up the phone amid the sound of showering.

"Is it your roommate?" Tomatsu Tomoka asked cautiously.

Matsueda Jun nodded, "I told her I was safe last night."

The two walked into the pharmacy. Unlike the convenience store next door and the supermarket on the road where many people were rushing to buy things, there were not so many people in the pharmacy.

"Can't pay with mobile phone anymore?!" the two people who bought medicine heard the customers in line say.

When checking out, Jun Matsueda took out some banknotes from his brand new coin purse and left smoothly with two bags of medicine.

On the way back, he sent a message to Yamami Maki, "Thanks to the wisdom of my senior, I have overcome another difficulty in Hokkaido."

The girl replied with a jumping parrot emoji. "I don't know what happened, but I'm glad you're okay!"

When they returned to the hotel, there were many students gathered around the teachers in the lobby. Jun Matsueda saw Natsumi Imokawa waving to him in the corner.

"I'll go back to my room to apply the medicine first." Tomatsu Tomoka said goodbye to Matsueda Jun and took away his coat.

"Songzhi, I took a picture of the beautiful starry sky last night!"

Even at this time, Natsumi Imokawa still held her camera in her hand.

"After the earthquake last night?"

The two sat on the sofa next to the vending machine, and Jun Matsueda fed the girl a can of banana milk. The vending machine was no longer working, so he bought this on the way.

"Yes! Because there's a power outage, there's no light pollution at all. I've never seen such a clean night sky in Tokyo!" The girl rested her chest against the carton of banana milk and showed him the photos in her camera.

Jun Matsueda suddenly laughed. He was a little panicked at first. The whole of Hokkaido was experiencing a power outage on such a large scale, which had never happened in the history of Japan.

But when he saw that Natsumi Imokawa was still able to show him the night sky after the power outage with an excited look on his face, his panic disappeared quietly.

“It’s really beautiful.”

Pushing open the door to the top floor, the girl who was sitting by the window eating breakfast turned around and looked at him.

Even if there is an earthquake and a power outage, you can still enjoy breakfast service at your door. This is the power of money.

"It seems you slept well last night." Matsueda Jun looked at the girl's eyes, which seemed particularly bright compared to yesterday.

"Maybe it's because I'm sleeping next to you." Mochizuki Haruka smiled at him.

Jun Matsueda was stunned. She had never said such words before when she slept in the bedroom of 507 or read bedtime fairy tales.

what happened?

The girl turned her head and ate the last bite of her breakfast.

"I called Mitaka this morning and asked them to prepare a new welfare home education and medical preferential plan."

Jun Matsueda walked to the window and turned the girl's body in front of him.

"Didn't I tell you not to keep doing things like making a will?"

"I'm not making a will." Mochizuki Haruka stared into his eyes. "I just did what I wanted to do."

"Just think of it as an advance payment from me to you."

"...Do you trust me so much? What if I can't make you back to normal?"

"That's okay. Just consider it as a huge loss. The Mochizuki family has already given away enough money anyway."

Mochizuki Yao walked into the bathroom, and soon the sound of a shower was heard.

"What are you thinking?" asked Jun Matsueda from outside.

The sound of running water was still hitting the glass, and it stopped after a while. The girl began to apply shower gel.

"I don't want you to feel like I'm tying you up, that's all."

"You can leave me any time now."

Mochizuki Yao looked at the foam covering her chest. She had a lot to say but couldn't.

Last night the girl had a dream. She was sitting in front of a horizon, looking at the empty ends.

She didn't know who she was dealing with, she only knew that she was prepared.

She will not let the scale tilt, and she will put whatever is put on the other side.

Money, proof of contract, hair, teeth, eyes.

Even your whole heart.

She didn't know how long she had been dreaming, but she kept looking cautiously at the other side of the thick fog, waiting for the other party's chips.

But there was nothing.

After waking up, Wang Yueyao looked at the snow outside the window with a sense of loss, and then realized what he had done wrong.

That's not a trade, that's a gamble.

A lasting relationship, an unwavering love, cannot be achieved by simply agreeing on a price and shaking hands.

This is true for family ties and love. Blood ties are a gamble, and marriage is even more of a gamble.

Only because Haruka Mochizuki was willing to abandon everyone and come to Otaru could she hear Jun Matsueda say, "I won't watch you die in front of me."

Go place your bet, Mochizuki Haruka said to herself after she sobered up, and be the one who takes the initiative to pay.

In the simulated dreams, she was never the one who took the initiative to give, perhaps that was why the ending was so tragic.

The girl clasped her hands tightly against her chest, waiting for Matsueda Jun's response.

Even if she was 99% sure that Matsueda Jun would not turn around and leave, Mochizuki Haruka would still be nervous because of that 1% possibility.

".......Why are you always so extreme?" the boy outside the bathroom asked helplessly.

"Either you refuse to believe anything I say, or you let it go completely. Can't you find a compromise?"

Jun Matsueda sat on the edge of the chair and looked at the girl's clean plate.

"I said I would support you through this most painful time. You may have forgotten, but I still remember."

The sound of showering came from the bathroom again. The girl raised her head and happily washed off the foam on her body.

Even a little bit of sweetness would be infinitely interpreted and magnified by love, and she didn't even realize that the water on her body was gradually getting colder.

"Songzhi, there's no water!" The girl in the bathroom exclaimed a few minutes after the sound of water disappeared.

Matsueda Jun looked at the girl sitting on the bed, wiping her hair awkwardly. "Mr. Kominato said that the hotel uses an electric water pump, and there's no water supply to the top floor. The water in the tank just ran out."

"What should we do then?" Wangyue Yao looked at him with wet eyes.

"You live downstairs, what else can you do? Come down after your hair is dry."

"It can't be wiped dry..." This kind of work used to be done by her maid.

Jun Matsueda took the towel from the girl's hand and wiped her hair vigorously.

“It hurts! Be gentle…”

"It won't dry if you wipe it gently. It's zero degrees outside now. Do you want your hair to freeze?"

Mochizuki Haruka stepped on the stairs in her slippers, wiping off the remaining bloodstains.

"Songzhi, I didn't hear what you said before you went to bed last night. Can you say it again?"

"Which sentence?"

"The last sentence."

"Anyway, I won't watch you die in front of me."

The girl released the recording button on her phone and followed him downstairs.

It seemed like life without electricity wasn't so bad, and it seemed she wasn't the only one who thought so.

Chapter 156 The End of the World is a Light Heart

"The subsequent arrangements for the original school trip have to be temporarily cancelled."

After lunch, Mr. Kominato announced the depressing news in the hall.

"But we can't go back to school now. Public transportation hasn't resumed yet. Everyone can only move around in downtown Otaru. Everyone should conserve their phone battery and absolutely don't run around."

"I know—" the students responded lazily at the door. They brought chairs from indoors and sat at the door to bask in the sun, like a group of wild cats running out of the mountains.

Matsueda Jun said to the girl walking behind him, "If you haven't gotten enough sleep, you can go back to the hotel and sleep."

Mochizuki Haruka shook her head. "I've slept enough this morning. Where are you going?"

"Go see if the bookstore is still open, buy a book, and then find a nice place to while away the afternoon."

Jun Matsueda didn't want to sunbathe in front of the hotel with other people, as that would make him feel like he was already in his seventies or eighties.

Tomatsu Touka was taken to the clinic next door by Kominato Shoko because of bruises. The teacher was afraid that she might have any joint problems or hidden injuries.

Natsumi Imokawa, who was carrying a camera, became the center of attention among the girls. Everyone kept pestering her to take pictures, and the girl, unable to refuse, had to take out the spare batteries.

The two-person exploration team led by Jun Matsueda walked into the bookstore, and many people could be seen in the deep bookshelves.

After the loss of electricity, human entertainment activities began to become retro again, and citizens went into bookstores again to pick up paper books.

The girl behind the counter greeted them warmly, "Which high school are you from? Yingyang, Chaoling, or Mingfeng? We have all the textbooks~"

Jun Matsueda shook his head and walked towards the nearby bookshelf.

"Eh? None of them?" The girl walked out of the counter and looked at the two of them closely. "Then the only one left is Shuichan Gao. If there was such a good-looking person in our school, there's no way I wouldn't have remembered him!"

Wangyue Yao looked down at the girl's thighs. They were white and straight, with a bit of plump flesh. Most importantly, in such cold weather, the girl was not wearing anything on her legs.

"We are not locals. We are here in Hokkaido for a school trip." Jun Matsueda took a book titled "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" from the bookshelf, feeling that the title was quite suitable for Hokkaido.

"Hey, which school is this?" The girl came closer to Matsueda Jun, completely unaware of Mochizuki Haruka's dissatisfied gaze.

"Tokyo."