Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 76 "The Pine Branch Dilemma"

Jun Matsueda was reading in the bedroom, and the girl was humming a song and jumping around in the living room, and her voice came through the door.

Kurusu Yoshi was in a good mood, firstly because the money she had received for her magazine modeling job had arrived, and secondly because she had just received a message from her favorite agency informing her that she had passed the interview.

She opened the door to Matsueda Jun's room and said, "Matsueda, I can be an idol again. Let's go out for dinner tonight to celebrate!"

Matsueda Jun took off his headphones and said, "Didn't I tell you to knock before coming in?"

"I forgot!" Lai Qi Yang Shi threw himself on the bed, "There's your scent on the quilt, it smells so good!"

"That's the smell of laundry detergent, and it's on your bed too." Matsueda Jun turned around and saw the girl's upper body buried in the quilt, with only her peach-shaped buttocks in home shorts swaying outside.

"Let's go out for dinner, Songzhi. I'll treat you!" The girl leaned forward, the hem of her short-sleeved shirt lifted up, revealing a belly without a trace of fat. Her waist was very thin, and her belly button was a clean and sexy depression that made people want to kiss it.

"Let's go." Matsueda Jun was already used to this level of perks. Kurusu Yoshi wasn't exactly stupid; at most, he'd show off his waist and legs, leaving his vital parts well protected. For him, going out for dinner was a bigger temptation.

"Is it necessary to come to Shinjuku for a meal?" Jun Matsueda asked Kurusu Yoshi who was sitting next to him on the subway.

"Hey, it's my treat anyway, why do you care so much!" The girl patted his shoulder impatiently.

Jun Matsueda shut up and looked at the office worker sleeping soundly in the chair across from him, clutching his briefcase. The sight of all sorts of people sleeping on the Tokyo subway was a constant reminder that this was the country where the term "death from overwork" was first coined.

When I got out of the subway, the city was already shrouded in darkness. The bright lights and bustling life of Shinjuku hit me in the face, which was completely different from the night life of the ordinary people in Mitaka.

"It's been a long time since I came back~" Kurusu Yoshi stretched at the exit of the subway station, and his elongated body curves attracted attention.

The girl took him around the corners and finally into an apartment building.

The two entered the elevator. Lai Qi Yangshi pressed the highest floor button. After getting out of the elevator, he entered the stairwell and walked towards the rooftop.

"Is this the way to eat?" Matsueda Jun's steps were a little hesitant. Although his suspicion that the girl possessed the system had weakened, it had not disappeared.

Is she going to reveal her true intentions?

The girl didn't say anything and pushed open the door to the rooftop. The iron door creaked, and the wind outside blew away the stale smell in the air. The aroma of barbecue drifted into the stairwell.

"Yangshi! Long time no see!" The girl who was busy in front of the grill greeted the two of them. She had blonde hair, a shiny tongue stud revealed when she opened her mouth, and a cross star tattoo on the back of her right hand.

"Barbecue set for two, two pitchers of lemon sour~" Kurusu Yoshi sat down at the wooden table at the edge of the rooftop, and the chairs were plastic.

Jun Matsueda sat opposite her. He could see the pedestrians on the ground by sticking his head outside, which felt very novel.

"The boss and the staff here used to be in the entertainment industry." The girl winked at him.

Jun Matsueda looked at the girl wiping the table next to him. She was prettier than most of the underground idols he had seen when he worked in Kichijoji.

"This shop only accepts regular customers. Most of those who come here have been idols or actors and have more or less been involved in the entertainment industry." The lemon soda has been served. Lai Qi Yang Shi held the large glass with both hands and took a big sip.

"This contains alcohol. By the way, can you drink?" The girl realized that the boy in front of her was younger than her.

Lemon sour is a sparkling drink made with shochu, lemon juice, sugar and carbonated water, and is popular in neon izakayas.

"Okay." It was obvious that this was not a place that cared about the "Law Prohibiting Drinking of Alcohol for Minors", so Jun Matsueda didn't care.

The girl took another sip of the clear wine, and a few lemon slices floated in the glass with the ice cubes. She exhaled, her eyes became more excited, and she stared at Matsueda Jun.

"I find you to be a very cunning man."

"I've been wanting to tell you a story these past few days, but you've been avoiding me in various ways! Isn't that right?"

Jun Matsueda took a sip of lemon sour and looked outside the rooftop. "There are so many people here, they look like garbage."

"Don't try to change the subject with my words!" The girl slammed her wine glass down in front of Matsueda Jun with a "thud!" Matsueda Jun could only look at Kurusu Yosei. Her hair had grown a bit longer, and the line between black and pink was gradually moving downwards, making the girl look like a sweet cherry blossom caramel pudding.

He doesn't want to hear other people's stories because it's too troublesome.

Listening to someone tell a story is no different from reading about her life, especially with alcohol as a truth serum.

After listening to her story, you will feel her emotions and you will establish a deeper connection with her. If it is a person of his level of appearance, others will have a better impression of him at least one or two levels after telling his story.

So if a girl starts to talk about her own experience when confessing to him, he will definitely try his best to interrupt her naturally. This can not only reduce the girl's wasted time, but also prevent her from investing unnecessary emotions in him.

If Jun Matsueda knew that he would meet the mysterious creature named Kurusu Yoshi again, he would definitely not say something like "I'll listen to his story if we're lucky enough to meet again."

Unfortunately, there is no if, and Jun Matsueda attaches great importance to promises, so he is now trapped in the "Matsueda dilemma".

The "Matsueda Dilemma" refers to the fact that Jun Matsueda always encounters some people who are familiar with him and want to talk to him, and he is forced to listen to other people's stories.

If Jun Matsueda enters the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo for further studies, he is confident that he can make the Matsueda Dilemma a philosophical problem on par with the trolley problem and the brain in a vat.

However, for now, Jun Matsueda had to listen to the story of the pink pudding-head across from him while enjoying the barbecue and lemon sour.

"Go ahead." He picked up a piece of roasted pork belly and put it in his mouth. It was not bad to have roasted meat and drink wine while listening to stories.

The girl didn't speak immediately, but stared intently at a certain spot on the ground.

"Hello?" Jun Matsueda waved in front of her.

"Wait." Kurusu Yoshi slapped his hand away, "It's almost time."

"Look at the residential building next to the traffic light." She pointed to an intersection and a woman walked out of the apartment door.

"Did you see her?"

Jun Matsueda nodded.

"She is my mother."

"Oh?"

Jun Matsueda thought the girl's story would begin with her father's early death and her mother's marriage far away, but she didn't expect her mother to be right in front of her.

"What do you think she's going to do?"

"Drinking? Gambling?"

"No, no, no." The girl shook her slender index finger, "She is going to meet her little idol now."

Well, Jun Matsueda is about to hear a story that has very distorted values, and he should have thought of it earlier.

"My mom has been in love with idols since she first started watching TV. She's been a fan of all kinds of idols. She's been chasing them!"

"After repeated attempts to follow Kimura Takuya and failing, my mother realized that pursuing a top idol is extremely difficult."

"So she started pursuing those little idols and trying to spend money to train them. During that time, she was spending money like crazy in the underground idol scene in Shinjuku. Everyone knew there was such a beautiful woman who was kind and generous."

"My mother has changed more than a dozen young and handsome idols after she passed her flowery age."

"I, Lai Qi Yang Shi, was born!"

A girl with a beer in her left hand and a barbecue in her right hand announced her arrival on the rooftop of Shinjuku with the tone of a hero.

(End of this chapter)