My love index is at its maximum.

He made a decision in his heart: whatever connection the tuna girl had with the person in his father's photo, he didn't want to ask anymore. Now, all he had to do was move on.

A dilapidated little station, two carriages with peeling paint.

The moment the tram started moving, he looked out the window.

The final scene of the promotional video shows the tuna girl chasing after the train on the platform.

"Even once a year is fine, please come. When I'm here, please be sure to visit me at least once a year."

That's it?

I cannot accept this ending!

Where does the director live? I want to send him razor blades.

[Damn it, let them be together!!!]

The male protagonist is a scumbag who plays with the feelings of a country girl.

The screenwriter has no heart.

"Please come visit me at least once a year." Such a simple, desperate voice—it brought me to tears…

I no longer believe in love.

[A sequel, a crowdfunded sequel! I want to see them together!!!]

After the promotional video ended, the staff list began to scroll, with a background photo of a girl holding a tuna.

The classroom was as quiet as a stagnant pool, with the faint sound of a girl's suppressed sobs.

not right...

Tazaki Tsukasa pinched his chin, increasingly feeling that something was very wrong with the script.

I didn't feel anything while filming, but now that I've seen the finished product, it's like the male and female leads are subtly alluding to myself and my sweetheart. There's no way that Yui Kichikawa could have such delicate emotions…

Could it be that the minister intervened?

Tsukasa Tazaki shifted his gaze back to the screen, staring intently at the scrolling list.

[Special Sponsor: Sony Authorized Camera Store Shinjuku]

[Sources: Tokyo Metropolitan Government Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Department, Kitagawa Private School, Kitagawa Private School ATF Club, Omacho Fisheries Association, Omacho Tourism Association, Omacho Remom Guesthouse, Omacho Deep Blue Tuna Farm]

General Director: Yui Kikawa

[Photography: Yui Kichikawa]

[Screenplay: Sakura Kuriyama]

[Music: Yui Kikawa]

Among the series of characters named Yui Kuriyama, only Sakura Kuriyama appears in the role of screenwriter.

Tsukasa Tazaki covered his forehead and sighed helplessly.

Sure enough, that dear Minister of the Flat Panel was no pushover; she wouldn't miss any opportunity to mock him as a scumbag. As for her intention in doing so, it was simply to use this promotional video to warn herself—not to toy with Ninomiya Shiori's feelings.

Being too smart and too meticulous isn't necessarily a good thing.

Tazaki Tsukasa secretly prayed that the system shop would have the item "Intelligence-Degrading Drug" next month, so he would feed the minister the drug as soon as possible.

In the following days, with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries secretly buying publicity and fueling the hype, the promotional video unexpectedly went viral on major Japanese social media forums.

On Twitter, the hashtag "#SaveTunaGirl" remained in the top ten for two days. On 2ch, a notorious forum, discussions about whether or not a "Tuna Girl" actually existed in Omacho dominated the thread, overshadowing all other information and becoming the most popular topic of the week.

As for Instagram, people check in at Omacho every day, posting photos while eating tuna.

[Daily tuna challenge! If I eat enough, the tuna girl can go to university in Tokyo!]

The video garnered over 3000 million views on YouTube in just five days.

Some people, who were simply bored and had nothing better to do, even went to the fisheries department to protest, with one person writing a petition in blood requesting a sequel.

This has led to a very serious consequence.

Every day, people block the school gates to see Tsukasa Tazaki and Shiori Ninomiya.

The fans who came to check it out were fine; they just took a photo and got an autograph, and that was it. But the talent scouts from the agencies were like sharks smelling blood, baring their sharp fangs at the two high school students.

Chapter 172 Life's persecution of Hoshino Shikami goes far beyond this.

November 5th, Monday.

Starting today, Kitagawa Private Academy enters its traditional "final exam preparation week." Apart from a few hopeless students who choose to let loose, everyone else has voluntarily suspended club activities and devoted themselves entirely to exam preparation.

Even the overly narcissistic Kuriyama Sakura has started to work hard to catch up on her weak science subjects.

The purpose, of course, was to avoid having to wear a maid outfit for Tsukasa Tazaki.

At 3:30 p.m., the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

Tazaki Tsukasa grabbed his already packed schoolbag, took his Italian dictionary, and quickly left the classroom.

"Ah~ Tazaki-san is out."

"Could you please take a picture with me?"

"Don't push, don't cut in line!"

Tsukasa Tazaki sighed, feeling a headache coming on.

These past few days, girls have been frequently waiting outside the classroom, asking to take photos with him so they can post them on Instagram to show off. No matter how fast he runs, he can't escape them; there are always some girls who don't have to attend the last class, waiting for him there early in the morning.

"One, two, three, cheese!"

After taking the photo, the girls all stepped back, cupped their hands to their mouths like megaphones, and said, "Tazaki-san, we like you~"

After making their half-joking confessions, they scattered in a flurry of laughter.

Tsukasa Tazaki smoothed out the wrinkles in his school uniform shirt and walked towards the door of Class D.

Someone is confessing their love over there.

"Ninomiya-kun, I've liked you for a long time."

"Please go out with me!"

The girl took a small step back, avoiding the pink envelope handed to her, then frowned seriously, thinking about how to reject the confession of this strange male classmate in a way that wouldn't hurt his feelings.

A pair of hands reached out and took the love letter away.

Then, the owner of those hands said, "Go back, she rejected you."

Shiori Ninomiya looked up at Tsukasa Tazaki, who was looking impatient, and her eyebrows and eyes immediately curved into a pair of beautiful crescent moons.

"Sorry, but I'm his concubine."

The little cutie bypassed the boy and followed Tsukasa Tazaki towards the stairs.

"Fake……"

Behind them, the boy who had been rejected became extremely agitated, shouting loudly in the corridor, "That's a rumor! You two haven't even held hands! I won't give up!"

Tsukasa Tazaki turned around and gave him a cold glance.

The man shuddered and quickly turned around to look at the Yotsuya street scene outside the corridor.

"Wow, Kiki's gaze just now was so cool!"

"It's alright, but people might say I'm arrogant behind my back."

I don't think so.

"In your eyes, am I handsome even if I spit anywhere?"

“That won’t do.” Shiori Ninomiya shook her head. “How could someone as cool as Kiki do something like that?”

The two walked together up to the fifth floor, through the elevated corridor bathed in the golden light of the twilight. The sun was about to set, and the cooing of the pigeons in the courtyard grew languid, as if they were ready to go home for dinner at any moment.

"Recently, a lot of people have confessed their feelings to me."

"The promotional video is to blame."

Ninomiya Shiori, stepping on her own shadow, sighed, "It's a good thing I met Kiki first, otherwise I might have agreed to one of them."

Tsukasa Tazaki turned to look at her profile, outlined in the sunlight: "Is this lucky or unlucky?"

"Of course it's luck."

The little cutie tilted her head and smiled with inexplicable pride: "Didn't I tell you before? Pure and simple luck is like a timely rain during the rice planting season."

Arriving at the ATF department, I pushed open the door and entered.

Kuriyama Sakura was engrossed in her studies by the window, and the slightly distorted sunlight refracted onto her through the glass.

Today she was wearing black mid-calf socks, the length ending in mid-calf. The exposed half of her calf had skin so smooth it looked like two freshly peeled scallions.

Tsukasa Tazaki glanced at it a couple more times and decided to buy some scallions to peel that evening.

Shiori Ninomiya waved and greeted, "Sakura, nice to meet you~"

“Shiori, all right.” Kuriyama Sakura replied without looking up from her mathematical calculations, “There are drinks, fruits and snacks in the refrigerator, and coffee and tea in the tea cabinet. You’re practically a part of the owner, so just ask for whatever you want.”

"I'll go boil water to make coffee, Kiki, wait a moment."

"Make another cup, some idiot is coming later."

"Okay~"

Tsukasa Tazaki sat opposite Sakura Kuriyama and took out his textbook from his bag.

While the little cutie was boiling water and making coffee, Kuriyama Sakura looked up at him, constantly trying to convey a message.

It was something like, "I'm definitely going to get first place in the final exams," or "You'll be my servant for a day." Tazaki Tsukasa thought she was overthinking it, so he gave her a look that said, "Department Head, you'll be humiliated!"

Kuriyama Sakura snorted and ignored him.

"I am coming."

A series of reluctant footsteps came from the doorway. The three of them turned around and saw Hoshino Shikami walking in carrying a large bundle of exercise books.

Her listless expression clearly showed that she had been forced to come.

"Come sit here." Tazaki Tsukasa pointed to the stool next to him. "For the next week, I will be your comrade-in-arms in the massive and difficult sea of ​​questions."