Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 478 Rag
After the graduation ceremony, Jun Matsueda was stopped by Haruka Mochizuki, who had a blank expression.

He was stopped by the girl on his way back to the classroom. The two stood by the cherry blossom grove behind the teaching building. The tender green buds had not yet opened and did not attract much attention from the students.

The weather hasn't warmed up yet, but the sun is shining brightly today, giving the cherry blossom grove a refreshing scent that blends with the sounds of people outside the auditorium in the distance, creating a pleasant atmosphere.

However, Mochizuki Haruka's gloomy expression ruined everything. The girl's eyes still radiated coldness in the sunlight, as if her anger had been frozen into ice, making her awe-inspiring.

"Did you really kiss Tomatsu Yuka?" she asked, enunciating each word clearly.

When Jun Matsue and Yuka Tomatsu embraced and kissed, Haruka Mochizuki was not even there.

She was taking graduation photos with her seniors outside the auditorium at the time. She learned about the two of them from the hot girls—photos of the young man and woman kissing in the crowd had gone viral in various group chats at Yuukoka High School.

Upon hearing the girl's question, Jun Matsueda glanced towards the auditorium. He had barely managed to escape from the crowd of onlookers, while Tomatsu Yuka was now in a different place, surrounded by her friends again.

"It's true." The boy turned around. "I kissed Tomatsu Yuka."

"In the auditorium, in front of so many people?" The girl's tone grew colder.

“Yes.” Jun Matsue nodded without the slightest hesitation.

"..." Mochizuki Haruka stared straight at the boy in front of her without saying a word, while Matsueda Jun lowered his eyes and stared at the ground between the two of them.

He's already done it, so he's not going to offer any explanation.

A gust of wind blew by, and the branches of the cherry blossom tree next to it swayed, the buds on them trembling slightly, as if they could not bear the suffocating silence.

"What are you thinking about?" The girl's voice was flat. "I don't think you would fall for someone else so quickly, except for me."

Mochizuki Haruka crossed her arms, her scrutinizing gaze like that of a teacher standing on a podium.

"I was just annoyed by my senior's attitude." Jun Matsueda recalled Maki Yami's expression in the auditorium.

The little pity he had left was like a bruise on his skin, and a stream of pleasure flowed freely over it, without filtering out a trace of pain.

Perhaps this is the true taste of "revenge" that Tomatsu mentioned.

"Are you angry?" The girl frowned her delicate eyebrows; she quickly came to the answer.

"So you kissed Tomatsu Tomori to vent your anger on Yamami Maki."

"Mm." The boy nodded again.

Mochizuki Haruka's expression brightened slightly. "You can do such an ugly thing too?"

This selfish and willful behavior truly deserves the label of "ugly".

Her words carried a familiar barb, and Jun Matsue smiled. "I thought I wouldn't either, but it seems I don't understand myself well enough."

"So when will you announce the breakup?" Mochizuki Haruka breathed a sigh of relief. "Everyone's talking about your relationship right now."

However, the boy fell silent, and the girl's heart sank once again.

"What do you mean?" Her expression grew impatient. "You don't actually want to date her, do you?"

“We won’t be breaking up anytime soon,” Jun Matsueda said again.

"Firstly, it will affect the image of Tomatsu and me in everyone's mind. Getting together suddenly and breaking up after only a few days is too frivolous."

"Secondly, a quick breakup wouldn't be enough to hurt Yamami Maki."

"I don't want to end it so easily and then let her get back into the self-pity of clinging to love even after leaving."

This is what angers boys the most—it's a choice between two options: family or love.

Once you've made your choice, don't regret it. That way, even if you're on different paths, you can still offer each other blessings and support each other through life.

However, Yamami Maki chose family, yet she was unwilling to let go of love, still wanting to continue loving and remembering him unilaterally, continuing down this path with a self-destructive mentality. This was irresponsible, both to him and to herself.

"Then so be it," Jun Matsue thought.

Use your new relationship to make her suffer to the very end.

"Then talk to me!" Mochizuki Haruka walked up to Matsueda Jun, her eyes urgent. "You just want to spite her, right? Dating me is just as good!"

"You've got one thing wrong, Mochizuki." The boy looked at her apologetically.

"I don't want to be in a relationship right now, or rather, I can't be in a relationship with this mindset."

Dating in this way is just as irresponsible, no different from Yamami Maki.

"Then why is Tomatsu Tomohana allowed?" The girl grabbed the boy's sleeve, her head down, her tone no longer cold and hard, but somewhat aggrieved.

Jun Matsue sighed, suppressing his guilt.

"Because we weren't really in a relationship; we were just acting. Our only purpose was to get revenge on my senior, nothing more."

Perhaps Tomatsu Tomoka's purpose was not limited to this, but he didn't mind.

"Tomatsu is just a tool for me to get revenge on my senior. Even if it's a 'relationship' like this, do you still want to date me?"

Mochizuki Haruka fell silent.

She was the eldest daughter of the Mochizuki family. Although the girl had lowered her guard a lot in front of Matsueda Jun, she was not without self-respect.

She could be a tool for Jun Matsuoka to vent his frustrations, but she couldn't accept becoming a prop for him to vent his frustrations on other women.

Mochizuki Haruka raised her head and carefully traced the face of the boy in front of her with her gaze, as if confirming something.

"How did you become like this?" the girl asked him with her eyes, and Matsueda Jun could only turn his face away.

"Have you made up your mind?" she asked as a final question.

“Hmm.” Jun Matsue looked up at the sky held up by the gnarled branches of the cherry trees. “Actually, Tomatsu had suggested it to me a long time ago.”

"You cunning thing!" the girl cursed angrily, like a farmer discovering a crow stealing his crops.

"Matsugi." Mochizuki Haruka then called out the boy's name, her tone serious.

“I don’t care what you become, you have to be that pine branch that says ‘I won’t watch you die in front of me.’”

"Ah."

Jun Matsue had lost count of how many times he had hummed in agreement.

The girl remained expressionless; this was only the most basic requirement, and she was not satisfied with Matsueda Jun today.

"Remember to break up with that guy as soon as possible."

Because she was extremely unwilling to accept this reality, Mochizuki Haruka spoke these words quickly, and then turned and walked towards the auditorium.

"Otherwise I'll really get angry with you."

As she passed the edge of the cherry blossom grove, she encountered a girl who had been waiting there for a long time—Tomatsu Tomomi smiled and nodded at her, looking completely harmless.

Mochizuki Haruka glanced at her disdainfully, then brushed past the girl.

"Just be a good rag and recognize your own value."

(End of this chapter)