Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 270 Unseen Dreams and the Road Home
After the physical examination, the women in white nurse uniforms walked out of the ward one after another.

The young nurses glanced at Jun Matsueda as they passed by, only to be met with a cold glare from Haruka Mochizuki, and could only shrink back, lower their heads, and slink away.

The young lady of the Mochizuki family was standing in front of doctors holding a large stack of forms. Jun Matsueda originally intended to give them some space to talk, but the girl's gaze seemed to be telling him not to leave.

So he had no choice but to stand there and be surrounded by the doctors along with the girl.

"Miss Mochizuki, based on the brainwaves and reflexes..."

If Jun Matsueda had aspired to study medicine, he might have listened more attentively to the conversations around him, but since he didn't intend to pursue a degree in medicine at the University of Tokyo, he simply listened absentmindedly to the melodious sound of Toki no Toki flowing like lake water while glancing out of the ward window.

Wang Yuehua sat on the hospital bed against the wall, looking somewhat bored, much like him. The woman noticed his gaze, blinked, and placed her slender right index finger beside her head.

"Is my head all better?" Matsueda Jun inexplicably understood what she meant. He moved closer to Mochizuki Haruka, looked at the data in her hand, and recalled the conversation that had entered his mind.

Jun Matsue nodded and shook his head at the woman in the ward, indicating that it was difficult to say.

The aunt pursed her lips and pointed to the girl next to the boy, urging him to take a closer look.

Just as Jun Matsue was about to turn his head, he met the gaze of Haruka Mochizuki, who had put down her documents. The girl looked at him, then at the woman pretending to be stupid in the ward.

What are you doing here, making faces at each other?

The doctors who had surrounded the two had left. Jun Matsue shrugged. "Your aunt is waiting for you to tell her the results. She must be tired of staying in bed."

The girl pushed open the door to the ward and placed a stack of reports on the bedside table. "Currently, all the data are improving, but she is not fully recovered yet, and there is still a possibility of sudden coma."

"Does this mean I have to stay in the ward?" The woman put on a pitiful expression, secretly glancing at Jun Matsuoka a few times, hoping he could change his niece's mind.

Mochizuki Haruka hesitated for a moment, then shook her head. "We were planning to take you home today, but you woke up suddenly, a week earlier than the medical team expected."

"Then let's go quickly!" The woman happily threw back the covers. "I'm waiting to go home for dinner!"

"Do I still have to carry you?" Jun Matsue looked at the woman with her arms outstretched to him. "Why do I feel like you're full of energy now?"

"Matsueda-kun really has no tact," Mochizuki Kaori said, finally displaying a bit of her aristocratic lady's languid air. "A physical exam is really tiring, you know. I'm too exhausted to move."

Jun Matsue glanced at the girl beside him, but she didn't react. So he picked up his aunt and placed her neatly in the wheelchair.

"Let's go!" Wang Yuehua spun her wheelchair towards the sun-drenched hospital room door. "Freedom is right there!"

The girl walked behind her and pushed the wheelchair out the door. "Even after you go home, you still need to take medicine and receive treatment regularly until your aunt is fully recovered."

"Okay, I understand." The aunt seemed a little uncomfortable with her niece taking the lead. "But Xiaoyao, don't forget, I'm the aunt who takes care of you!"

Mochizuki Haruka pushed the woman and the wheelchair into the extended black sedan before noticing the boy walking towards the bicycle behind her.

"what are you up to?"

“Let’s go back to the apartment.” Jun Matsueda took out his keys to unlock the door. “You guys are going home, so I have to go home too, right?”

"I'll bring your bike back to your apartment building later." Mochizuki Haruka pressed down on his bicycle. "Let's go to my place for dinner first."

"Anyway, you won't want anything else, so I'll treat you to a meal as a thank you for your help today."

Did he help in any way? Jun Matsueda recalled that he had only moved the noisy Sleeping Beauty twice.

"What are you doing out there? Hurry up and come in!" Back in her car, Auntie seemed to have regained her former authority, shouting at the two through the car window.

Matsueda Jun had no choice but to put the keys back in his pocket. "Remember to take me home after you finish eating." The black sedan started smoothly and headed toward the Mochizuki family's manor, a journey that had been long overdue.

Matsueda Jun and Mochizuki Haruka sat at opposite ends of a long bench, while their aunt lay in the middle, holding her adorable niece, her legs swinging restlessly next to Matsueda Jun.

The girl pushed away the woman who was rubbing against her and radiating pleasure. "What did it feel like when you were unconscious, Auntie? Were you still conscious?"

During the days when her aunt was in a coma, this was what Mochizuki Haruka was most worried about and most curious about. If she knew now that the woman was struggling painfully deep in her consciousness, she would probably be too sad to eat.

"Hmm, how should I put it?" Wang Yuehua fell into thought. "Actually, most of the time I feel like I'm sleeping and don't feel anything. I occasionally have dreams."

"dream?"

The golden cat sitting in the front row poked its head out, yawned, and looked like it had just woken up.

"Hmm." The woman grabbed Jinzhi and pulled her close, tormenting her as a substitute for her niece. "All sorts of dreams."

The car drove towards the setting sun, and the dazzling, dim yellow light gradually painted the street, landing in the back seats and turning the faces of the three people and the cat into the color of a soft-boiled egg yolk.

"My dream of becoming a high school girl again."

"To travel to another world with Haruka and become a magical girl."

"Leave your job at the company, take the money and travel the world to see volcanoes and glaciers."

"Looking at the valleys and hills on the water, the blue sky and white clouds, the dream slowly sinks to the bottom of the water."

"But after having so many dreams, I've come to believe one thing: people can't dream about things they haven't experienced."

"Is that necessarily true?" Jun Matsueda couldn't help but interject. "Didn't you dream about becoming a magical girl?"

"Of course I have my reasons!" Auntie rolled her eyes at him, a hint of natural charm in her eyes, and whispered a few words in the girl's ear.

Mochizuki Haruka's face quickly turned the color of the sunset as she glared at the woman with shame and indignation.

"So," Wang Yuehua's gaze lingered between the boy and girl, "what is your relationship now?"

"Just friends," Jun Matsueda answered decisively.

"Hmph." Mochizuki Haruka sneered, her tone carrying a hint of cute sarcasm.

"In someone's eyes, anything below lovers is just ordinary friends, and there is absolutely no middle ground."

"So, you're not lovers anymore?" the woman asked disappointedly. "I'm so sad, so sad I'm going to fall asleep again."

As soon as she finished speaking, Auntie closed her eyes, resting her head on the cat on the seat. The carriage fell silent, with only the sound of the wind whistling outside the half-open window.

"..." The girl grabbed the cat's tail and twirled it in front of the woman's nose, and then the woman, who was pretending to be asleep, started giggling again.

Jun Matsue sighed, "Has your aunt been sleeping too long and has some energy to burn?"

“It seems that’s true.” Mochizuki Haruka nodded seriously. “I will supervise her rehabilitation.”

The cat, which had been pinned down, let out a lazy meow—at least this Golden Week holiday had one more thing to celebrate.

(End of this chapter)