Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 648 Ochanomizu Women's University, how far away is it?
At six o'clock in the evening, as I walked out of the unassuming gate of the University of Tokyo, the scorching sunlight had almost burned away, and the remaining heat dyed half of the sky fiery red.

Jun Matsue stopped and looked back at the school gate, which had no markings or words on it.

"I didn't expect the University of Tokyo's main campus to be right next to Ueno Park... I should have come here to visit when I went cherry blossom viewing last time."

Tomatsu Yuka stood beside him, the girl without an umbrella, letting her face be tinged with an ambiguous blush.

“There are several universities around Ueno Park.” She looked at her phone screen. “Ueno Gakuen University, the University of Tokyo, and Tokyo University of the Arts are all there.”

"Tokyo University of the Arts?" The boy leaned closer to her cheek. "It's even closer than Tokyo University."

"This is the place that Imokawa wants to apply to. I wonder if she has ever visited it."

"...Tsun-kun, would you like to go take a look?" Tomatsu Tomoka smiled.

It was a miscalculation; it made Jun-kun think of other women...

"Hmm..." Jun Matsueda glanced at the time on the screen. "Never mind, we still have to eat dinner."

If I get back too late, Mochizuki will probably ask me all sorts of questions.

"Let's go then." The girl gently took his arm.

"I've already decided what to eat tonight!"

The two ate at Kasuga Station, just one stop away from the University of Tokyo. To the boy's surprise, Tomatsu Tomohana chose a Thai restaurant.

Sitting down facing the floor-to-ceiling window, Jun Matsueda turned his head to look at the store's furnishings.

The rattan chairs, decorative flowers and trees, and the elephant head wood carving on the wall do indeed have a Thai style.

The girl sitting next to him observed his expression. "Tsun-kun, aren't you interested in Thai food?"

"No, that's not it." The boy turned around and placed the lemonade that the clerk had brought between the two of them. "It just doesn't feel like your style."

"I don't really have any particular style," Tomatsu Yuka smiled. "As long as it's delicious, I just want to try it with you. It's that simple!"

"But this wasn't the shop I was originally considering. Tsun-kun really knows me."

Jun Matsue nodded, looking at the dark skin of the shop assistant behind him reflected in the glass in front of him. "So why did you choose it in the end?"

"It's a secret." The girl winked playfully. "I'll tell you later~"

The two looked at the menu together and ordered basil rice, avocado salad, stir-fried rice noodles, satay chicken skewers, and two glasses of ginger ale.

The food was served quickly. The first dish to arrive was the men's basil rice—minced meat stir-fried with special basil leaves and chili peppers was poured over rice, with a wobbly fried egg lying next to it.

Under the girl's gaze, Jun Matsue gently poked the yolk with a spoon, then scooped up half a spoonful of minced meat and half a spoonful of rice mixed with the yolk.

"...The taste is not bad." He chewed and nodded slightly.

"I've never had Thai food before, but this basil rice is quite delicious."

"The aroma comes from these holy basil leaves~" Tomatsu Yuka stretched out her index finger and poked at the green bits mixed in with the minced meat. "It seems to be a specialty of Thailand."

"I wonder if I can buy it online." The boy was somewhat tempted.

The two ate their dinner for more than twenty minutes. Jun Matsue ate the last skewer of chicken that the girl had left for him, drank a strong ginger-flavored soda, and admired the street scene outside the window.

"What do you think of this meal, Jun-kun?" Tomatsu Tomoka asked with a smile.

"I'm quite satisfied." The boy looked at the empty plate in front of him. "Although not every dish was delicious, for this price, it's good enough as long as it's not bad."

"Actually, I originally wanted to take you to a famous Western restaurant nearby." The girl held a large glass and took small sips of soda through a straw. "But that place is a bit pricey, with set meals starting at 2,800 yen."

Jun Matsue blinked; his basil rice bowl only cost 800 yen on a à la carte.

"Then I thought about eating Chinese food, but the Dan Dan noodles and Mapo tofu seemed quite spicy. I felt that eating them in the summer would make me sweat a lot, so it wasn't suitable."

"I finally chose this place because I saw online reviews saying that many students from the University of Tokyo come here to eat."

The boy turned around. There had been a lot of noise behind him while he was eating. It was a group of young people drinking and talking about the protest at the Komaba campus.

"I was thinking, this is a perfect opportunity for us to experience what daily life will be like in the future together." The girl's eyes were filled with affection, and she looked incredibly gentle under the lamplight.

"In the morning at school, we sat in the back row, wearing the same headphones and listening to the same song. We didn't care about the teacher on the stage and showed each other our textbooks."

"At noon, I would go out with an umbrella, walk for a few minutes, and order a basil rice set meal or curry at a nearby shop, drinking ginger ale to pass the listless midday."

"In the evening, if I don't have to work, I can go out for a nice meal with Tsun-kun—there are quite a few restaurants around here! Like the Western-style restaurant I just mentioned, as well as eel dishes and Italian restaurants."

“We can try them one by one. Anyway, four years of university is a long time, and we have plenty of time.”

"What does Chun-kun think?"

"...That sounds tempting." Jun Matsueda laughed. "If I ate like you for four years of university, I feel like I'd gain a lot of weight."

"Then I can train with Tsun-kun too~" The girl winked.

The boy raised his cup and gulped down two large mouthfuls of soda. "I absolutely have to get into Tokyo University now."

The spiciness of ginger, combined with the stimulation of carbonation, goes straight into the throat, making one involuntarily close their eyes.

Since that day, whenever he was tempted by girls, he would always think of Mochizuki's ultimatum, and his once beating heart would feel as if it were being strangled by a net, only able to beat weakly and slowly.

He had just asked Tomatsu Yuka this afternoon, and judging from the girl's subconscious reaction, it seemed unlikely that she would be willing to get along peacefully with Mochizuki Haruka.

So the final result... can still only be a multiple-choice question?

The taste of ginger ale was strangely similar to alcohol, and Jun Matsueda felt like he was drunk.

The two then ordered a mango ice cream and sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, sharing it with each other, spoonful by spoonful.

Looking at the boy's somewhat dazed profile, Tomatsu Yuka pointed out the window.

"Tsun-kun, would you like to check out the dessert shop across the street later? That was also one of last year's top 100 shops!"

“Sure.” Jun Matsueda looked out the window; he was going back to his apartment to bring back some desserts.

However, when the boy looked at the dessert shop across the street, his gaze froze.

The girl, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, pushed open the door of the dessert shop with her back to him, and her swaying matcha-colored skirt disappeared behind the shop window.

Jun Matsueda suspected he had mistaken her for someone else, but the various amulets flashing on the girl's handbag told him it was impossible.

A gift given by him personally is absolutely genuine.

Jun Matsue took out his phone and glanced at the map.

It turns out that Myoga Valley Station, where Ochanomizu University is located, is only two stops away from the University of Tokyo.

(End of this chapter)