Am I being simulated by their love affair?

"So you're from Tokyo!" The girl's eyes lit up. "I heard that girls in Tokyo wear full makeup to school every day. Is that true?"

Matsueda Jun glanced at Yue Yao and shook her head.

"Then I heard that you often run into reporters interviewing you on the streets of Tokyo?"

Matsueda Jun nodded. "Indeed, I have encountered this before. It was from TV Tokyo and NHK."

The girl's bright eyes began to twinkle again. "That's great! I really want to study in Tokyo. I want to dress up beautifully and stand in front of the TV camera every day!"

"Our high school's name is so ugly, like Fisheries High School. I don't even want to say it out loud..."

"Then go apply to a university in Tokyo and become a shining Tokyo beauty." Matsueda Jun smiled and handed her the book in his hand.

The girl skipped back to the counter and paid for Jun Matsueda. "Wouldn't this super cute girl like to buy something?"

Haruka Mochizuki walked to the children's book section, found "The Little Prince", handed it to Jun Matsueda, and turned to leave the bookstore.

It took a while for Matsueda Jun to walk out of the door. Mochizuki Haruka turned around and asked him, "Why did you stay so long?"

"I asked her if there was anywhere nearby where I could spend the afternoon."

"Then where are we going now?"

"seaside."

Jun Matsueda and Haruka Mochizuki sat together on the shore where the tide was rising and falling, with the sand under their feet and the snow behind them.

"The wind is a bit strong." Jun Matsueda looked at the deep blue sea in front of him. The white waves made it difficult to distinguish between snow and sea.

Mochizuki Haruka stood up, took off the white scarf around her neck, walked behind Matsueda Jun and tied it around his neck.

"Then what are you going to do?" Jun Matsueda, who was lying on a beach chair, looked up at her.

Even at this unreasonable angle, Mochizuki Haruka's face is still flawless, making people want to dive into the cold sea to suppress their youthful and restless hearts.

The girl tilted her head and thought for a while, then moved her chair closer to Matsueda Jun. She first tied one end of the scarf around Matsueda Jun's neck, then sat down with the other end and tied it around her own neck.

Luckily the scarf was long enough.

Jun Matsueda opened the book in his hand and saw this written on the first page.

Why does the sun still shine so golden?

Why do the birds keep singing?

Don't they know?

The world has come to an end.

Jun Matsueda looked up at the clear sun in the sky, and then looked at the seagulls circling low in the sky.

"It turns out we have reached the end of the world."

The scarf around his neck moved, and Mochizuki Yao turned her head and looked at the man who was speaking incomprehensibly.

The idle afternoon officially began.

The girl closed her eyes and listened to the sound of the waves. Every time Jun Matsueda turned a page of the book, the scarf connecting the two of them would tremble slightly.

The tide gradually moved away from the two of them, and after three o'clock, it quietly approached the shore.

Mochizuki Haruka woke up from a cradle-like light dream. She didn't know when she changed her posture, and in front of her was the profile of Matsueda Jun.

Matsueda Jun was reading a book with his head down. There was a slight shadow on his face and he took a long time to blink. Every time he blinked, Mochizuki Haruka's heart would beat.

Looking at the boy in front of her, the girl began to believe that this was the end of the world and that there were only the two of them left in the world.

"Pine branches." Wangyue Yao called him.

"Hmm?" Jun Matsueda looked up at her, and the statue-like beauty was broken by the girl's own hands.

"Where were you reading last time?" Mochizuki Yao picked up her book.

"The ninth period, I think." He recalled.

She turned to the corresponding page, which contained the rose's farewell to the little prince.

"Goodbye!" the little prince said to the flower.

But the flower did not answer him.

"Goodbye!" he said again.

After reading a few sentences, Wang Yueyao's eyes were stung by the sea breeze. The girl hurriedly turned over the tear-stained pages and closed the book.

She couldn't imagine how Jun Matsueda said goodbye to her.

"Songzhi, when are we leaving?" She tugged at her scarf.

"Feeling cold?" Matsueda Jun put down the book in his hand, took off his scarf, and wrapped it around the girl's neck a few more times. "Let's go."

Mochizuki Haruka stood up and followed him out of the beach. The two crossed the railway tracks of the Hakodate Main Line. Now that there was no electricity, the traffic lights and trains would not appear.

The sea water and the snow line met together, and a few seagulls landed on the beach chairs that were left there, watching the backs of the two people go away.

The cold winter wind was blowing through the town. Mochizuki Haruka was walking on the road holding a book. Half of the girl's face was covered by a piled scarf. She glanced at Matsueda Jun out of the corner of her eye. Her shy look made the houses on the roadside that were strong enough to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake so soft that they kept shaking.

The girl's heart began to beat lively again, just like it did last night before going to bed and at the beach.

This heart had once been so heavy and so dark, but at this moment, it had become as light as a bird, enough for her to stand on the street by the sea and boldly gaze at eternity.

Chapter 157: The Last Night Sky, Escape from Hokkaido

The major power outage in Hokkaido lasted for two full days.

"I wonder how the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Hokkaido Electric Power Company will apologize this time." Sushan said while lying on the bed.

"I just know that public transportation will resume tomorrow." Matsueda Jun stretched. "Finally, I'm going back to Tokyo."

"I haven't encountered a beautiful girl wearing a white scarf in the heavy snow in Hokkaido yet..." Sushan said sadly.

"Think about it from another perspective. You can go back to Tokyo, wear a black scarf, and become a beautiful Tokyo boy that girls want to meet in the snow." Jun Matsueda opened the door, leaving the resentment of the young man in love in the room.

Next to the vending machine in the lobby, a girl holding two cans of banana milk was waiting for him.

"Here you go~" Natsumi Imokawa handed him a can of banana milk.

The two stood under the eaves at the entrance of the hotel. Jun Matsueda imitated the girl's posture, put one hand on his waist, tilted his head back and drank the milk in one gulp.

"Let's go and take pictures of the night sky!" The girl exhaled hot air with a milky scent and raised the camera to her chest.

Otaru has adapted to the long-lost darkness. There are not many people on the streets. Maybe they all want to go to bed early and quickly spend the last night without electricity.

The hotel is near Otaru Park. The cold winter wind was blowing through the woods. Fortunately, they were all dressed warmly and did not join the shivering trees.

Arriving at the baseball field in the park, the view suddenly opened up. Natsumi Imokawa sat on the green grass and looked up at the starry sky above her head.

"There are so many stars as snow..."

Matsueda Jun sat next to the girl. "Today's weather is the best since the power outage, right? Even the Milky Way is so clear."

Natsumi Imokawa took a few photos with his camera on the grass, then stood up to set up the tripod and began to adjust the camera angle and other equipment.

"North Star, North Star..." She muttered as she twisted her body, swaying around Matsueda Jun.

"Are you looking for the North Star?"

"Yeah." The girl nodded. "I want to take pictures of star trails. I need to use the North Star for positioning."

"Eureka!" She set up the camera and sat down again.

"This way, you let the camera automatically shoot for three to four hours, and after post-processing, you can see the star trails."

Natsumi Imokawa looked around and could vaguely see the shadows of other people on the lawn under the starlight. Everyone was looking up at the starry sky above their heads, and no one noticed their presence.

"Matsueda, um, thank you during the day."

In the afternoon, the girls pestered Natsumi Imokawa to take photos again. The girl wanted to refuse but found it difficult to say it. Fortunately, Jun Matsueda called her away in the middle of the process, saving the battery for taking photos at night.

"You'd better learn to say no to others as soon as possible." Jun Matsueda lay down, and the grass leaves scratched his hair, making it a little itchy.

"That's the first time I've been so popular..." The girl hugged her knees with her hands, and her breasts were flattened on her legs.

"But it's not you they like, it's just the camera in your hand."

“I know that too…” She drew circles on the grass with her right hand. “One day, I want to make everyone gather around me with the things I shoot.”

"So, Imokawa also wants to be recognized and understood by others? I thought you were the type of person who just wanted to have fun taking photos."

"How could that be?" The girl turned to look at him. "I'd be very happy if you liked what I took."

"Don't you have any other spectators? Like Yumi?" Matsueda Jun sat up and brushed off the grass leaves on his body.

"Even though Yumi always tells me 'it's beautiful' and 'I like it', I can tell she's not really interested."

"Only Songzhi smiled so sincerely every time he looked through the camera with me."

Jun Matsueda was her first fan besides her parents.

Natsumi Imokawa also turned around, "Do you find me annoying? I always bother you?" the girl asked cautiously.

"No, it's quite interesting to be with Imokawa. You took me to see the crows, the snowy plains of Tengu Mountain, and now the starry sky."

"Perhaps I should say thank you?"

"No, no, no!" The girl waved her hands hurriedly, "As long as you don't mind me being a bother!"

The two naturally fell silent and looked at the starry sky above their heads.

This is the last night without lights in Hokkaido. In the coming decades, whenever the neon lights of the city overshadow the Milky Way in the sky, there will always be people who recall the sea-like starry sky that night.

The next morning, when Matsueda Jun left the room with his luggage, Mochizuki Haruka was already sitting on the sofa in the hall waiting for him.

Jun Matsueda almost thought that the girl had returned to normal, but when he saw her making a doll-like expression towards the group of girls approaching, he realized that it was an illusion.

"Why are you up so early today?" He walked up to the girl.

"Because you said you had to get up early today." Mochizuki Haruka handed over a bottle of milk, which was his favorite brand when he was in Hokkaido.

As soon as he walked into the hall, Natsumi Imokawa looked at the two bottles of banana milk in his hand and hid them in his backpack.

"Matsueda-chan, Mochizuki-chan, I'll leave it to you~" The hot girls waved to him, their manicures on their nails shining. They pulled their suitcases past the two of them and walked towards Otaru Station.

"Rion is a nice person. You should learn to cherish people like her." Matsueda Jun said to the girl while looking at the hot girl's back.

"I understand." Mochizuki Haruka nodded, then took out a small notebook from her pocket and wrote a sentence on the blank first page.

"1. Songzhi likes kind people."

After everyone in Group 2 arrived, Xiaominato Shengzi led them out of the hotel.

"Is Tomatsu-san okay with her injury?" Matsueda Jun walked up to the girl and asked.

"It's almost healed. The bruises should disappear in a few days."

Tomatsu Tomoka glanced at Mochizuki Haruka who was following the boy, took out a coat from her handbag and handed it to him, "This is the clothes I borrowed before, thank you, Matsueda-san."

The girl behind Matsueda Jun naturally took a step forward, wanting to take the coat from her hand and put it on herself.

It took Tomatsu Tomoka two seconds to let go of her hand, handed the coat to Mochizuki Haruka, and walked towards the girls on the other side.

After entering Otaru Station, snow skirts fell from the sky again. People stood on the platform of the Hakodate Main Line, watching the snow accumulate on the iron-gray tracks again.

Once again passing by the snowy seaside, the scenery outside the window is still beautiful, but it can no longer move people's hearts like when they first saw the sunrise.

They rode all the way to New Chitose Airport with only two changes. When Jun Matsueda went to the mall in the terminal to buy souvenirs, Tomatsu Tomoka sat next to the lonely Haruka Mochizuki.

"Why don't you go with him?"

"He's going to buy a gift for another woman, and I don't want to see it."

Tomatsu Tomoka's smile was cold and heartless. "I knew you would fall for her."

Mochizuki Haruka's expression did not change. The girl licked the ice cream that Matsueda Jun bought for her before he left, watching the planes taking off and landing outside the window in the white sky.

"It's so blissful to have all your joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness tied to someone else..."

Chapter 158 Gifts

"With such heavy snow, only the airport in Hokkaido dares to take off..."

Jun Matsueda sat in the Mochizuki family's ride, breathing in the dry air that poured into the car.

He looked back at Haneda Airport behind him. The heavy snow in Hokkaido, the late rising and early setting sun, and the turbulent air currents along the way had all disappeared.

"What have you been writing with your head down all the way?" Matsueda Jun turned his head and looked at the girl beside him.

Wang Yueyao looked up at him and immediately put away the small notebook in her hand, "I can't show it to you."