Tokyo: My Girlfriend

Although Shinichi Kitagawa wasn't worried about having no one to take care of him if he had a heart attack, since he had the system to rely on, his parents were just making a mountain out of a molehill today.

But at her parents' insistence, Kitagawa Rena still went back to Kabasaki Town with him.

The airport where I boarded my flight back to Japan.

My parents told me, "When you get to Kabasaki, Shinichi, if you and Rena have any trouble, you can call us. We'll come back to see you in a while."

Shinichi Kitagawa grunted in agreement, grabbed his suitcase, and waved to his parents, "Okay, Mom and Dad, Rena and I are boarding the plane now!"

Rena Kitagawa waved her little hand, her voice still carrying a hint of coldness: "Goodbye, Uncle and Auntie."

"You two too, goodbye, and take care on your journey."

As the plane flew from Finland to Japan, the passengers couldn't help but look out at the blue sky and white clouds outside the windows.

Shinichi Kitagawa sat in a chair, looking at his younger sister who was already asleep with her eyes closed. His phone rang a few times. He took it out and saw that it was a message from his online friend, Haruna.

Haruna-nee's real name is Haruna Kasuga. She is a pen pal that Shinichi Kitagawa met online over the past three years.

You could even say she was half an online girlfriend.

Three years ago, when Shinichi Kitagawa transmigrated to this world, the voice of the Single Cultivation System also rang out.

By nurturing selected single women (excluding romantic relationships with the host), you can earn corresponding money and unlock the system shop.

The shop offers talents, items, and some surreal abilities.

Such supernatural abilities include things like repairing congenital heart disease; it's just that the rarer something is, the more valuable it is.

Hina was one of the people Shinichi Kitagawa found online.

[Name: Kasuga Hina]

Occupation: Novelist

[Potential: ss]

Current Level: Advanced (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite, Master, Perfect)

[Unlocking the next level will grant you 2 million yen and unlock the level 2 shop.]

Although the system is quite capable, it turns out that it's not easy to find someone with good potential. For example, Shinichi Kitagawa spent three years in Finland and still couldn't find a single person with SS potential. The circle here is just too small, and there are too few people.

And there's also a bizarre condition that it's only applicable to single women.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to cast a wide net online, but even online, finding potential partners who are genuinely willing to learn from them is rare.

Shinichi Kitagawa met Haruna by chance three years ago in a novel promotional post.

The two then became friends and started contacting each other to exchange experiences.

As they talked more and more, their conversation became increasingly ambiguous, and they even talked about meeting up sometime in the future.

Upon returning to Japan, Shinichi Kitagawa naturally informed the other party immediately.

Hina (Haruhi Hina): "Have you boarded the plane yet?"

Sora (Shinichi Kitagawa): "Yeah, I'm already on the plane. I should arrive in Tokyo this afternoon. I'll have to transfer several times to get to my hometown."

Hina (Haruhi Hina): "I'm free tomorrow. Where are you going by bus tomorrow? We can arrange a meeting place."

Sora (Shinichi Kitagawa): "Of course! I'll calculate the time later and send you the location. See you tomorrow!"

Haruna-nee (Haruhi Haruna): "I'm so excited! I wonder what Shinichi looks like. My heart is already racing, and I'm already feeling nervous. I hope Shinichi won't run away when he sees me tomorrow. I might not be that pretty."

Shinichi Kitagawa and Hina Kasuga had exchanged some photos of their daily lives and made many phone calls, but they never showed their faces.

Because Haruhi Hina said she didn't like to put her first impression on a virtual photo, and wanted to save that precious first impression for when they met in person.

Shinichi Kitagawa didn't care about this kind of thing, because even if they exchanged photos, with the internet so developed now, who could be sure that the other person wasn't sending a picture from the internet?

"To die in the light" is not just a saying.

Just as he was about to send a message to respond to the other person's emotions, a slender, snow-white arm suddenly came over and snatched Kitagawa Shinichi's phone.

That familiar arm naturally belonged to Rena Kitagawa, who was sitting next to her.

Rena Kitagawa stared coldly at Nobuyuki Kasuga with her icy, peach-blossom eyes: "Don't you know you can't use your phone on a plane? It will interfere with the plane's signal."

Shinichi Kitagawa explained, "This is the airplane's built-in WLAN. Didn't you see everyone else using their phones? It's not just me."

Rena Kitagawa glanced briefly at the chat interface, her expression growing even colder. She switched his phone to airplane mode and turned off the screen.

"Even so, there's no guarantee that accidents won't happen. Besides, the high-altitude environment isn't good for your heart. It's just chatting with a female netizen. You can chat after you get off the plane. It's not like you're in a hurry."

She tossed the phone back to Shinichi Kitagawa, then turned away to complain:

"Someone actually talks about having a girlfriend online? They're just teasing you. They don't even know if it's a man or a woman behind the phone. Only an idiot like you would take it seriously." She raised her voice: "Even if they did make a phone call, there's no rule out the possibility of a voice changer."

Shinichi Kitagawa ignored her, picked up his phone, turned off airplane mode, typed a reply to Haruna Kasuga, and joked with Rena Kitagawa, "It's okay even if it's a boy, I'm not picky."

If it were a man, the system wouldn't activate, and Haruhi Hina might not necessarily end up with him. Online flirting is different from real-life flirting; it doesn't necessarily lead to anything.

However, upon hearing this, Kitagawa Rena clicked her tongue in disbelief: "Pervert, disgusting, trash, damn it!"

The person involved said that Japanese insults sound like coquetry and have no offensive power at all.

"Rena is so cute."

"Tsk! Don't say such disgusting things."

At the same time, in a rented room in Tokyo, a long-haired girl wearing high-heeled sandals and a white shirt bit her red lips, taking a break from her busy schedule to look at the chat history on her phone, nervously anticipating their meeting the next day.

She barely turned a few pages of the book about teacher certification that was in her hands in half an hour.

"We're finally going to meet, Shinichi-kun..."

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After the plane landed, Shinichi Kitagawa and Rena Kitagawa continued their journey by car to Kabasaki Town, as they would have to transfer several times to reach their final destination.

After traveling until dark, Shinichi Kitagawa arrived at the entrance of a hotel with his suitcase.

"Rena, shall we stay here tonight? We can continue our journey tomorrow, and we should arrive the day after tomorrow."

"The day after tomorrow?" Rena Kitagawa stared coldly at Shinichi Kitagawa. "If you had just traveled diligently, you could have reached Kabasaki-cho by tomorrow night. Why did you drag it out until the day after tomorrow? Is it because you're meeting that mysterious female online friend?"

"You peeked at my phone's chat history?" Xin looked at her with disdain.

"Peeping? I just saw it by chance on the plane. If you think it's peeping, then go ahead and call the police and arrest me as a peeping tom."

Shinichi Kitagawa was used to this guy's sarcastic remarks, so he joked around without batting an eye:

"Yes, yes, but how could I bear to call the police to arrest my sister? That's right, it's because I'm going to meet a female online friend that I'm only coming home the day after tomorrow. But unless we both get up early tomorrow, we definitely won't be able to get to Kabasaki Town in one day. We finally have a few days off, there's no need to rush like that."

Rena Kitagawa scoffed dismissively, "If you want to see him, then see him. What excuse do you need? You'll be quiet when you see he's a thirty-year-old man tomorrow." With that, she strode into the hotel.