I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

"Take it all off? Don't be ridiculous, just imagining it makes me want to vomit! If love is so wonderful that it can turn into reality, then why are there murders caused by relationship disputes? Why are there so many couples who get married and then immediately divorce? Why are there always children abandoned by their parents?"

"No, we can't generalize from a single instance..."

"So what? We can't generalize from a few cases. Does that mean we should ignore the ugliness that may exist? Just because many people haven't been hurt, does that mean we should ignore those who have been hurt?"

"..."

After leaving Yui Yuigahama speechless, as if spitting out a foreign object that had been mistakenly swallowed, Natsukawa Masuzu continued in a rapid-fire manner, her tone filled with disgust, loathing, and contempt:

"Loving and falling in love like an idiot, making irresponsible vows, laughing and joking while only having the present moment for happiness, bewitching people into depravity like drugs or religion—ha! That's hilarious, what reason do I have to accept such garbage as love?"

"Those who wish to wallow in self-pity are welcome to do so, but I respectfully decline. Please don't try to impose your hypocritical ideals on me; it will only make me want to vomit... So, rest assured, Yuihama-san."

Gradually suppressing her excitement, Natsukawa Masaki calmly raised her gaze, her tone as firm as steel.

"What's fake will always be fake. I absolutely cannot, even if it kills me, make it real!"

"..."

The air itself seemed to fall silent.

As if stunned by this unquestionable voice filled with strong will, Yui Yuigahama opened her mouth but couldn't speak. In the end, she could only look at Yuu Tenkuji for help.

"Xiao You, this kind of thing..."

"I already told you it's just a fake boyfriend, why are you getting so worked up? Don't act like I'd actually fall for him."

Yuu Tenkuji casually waved her hand, gesturing for her to sit down: "Anyway, I'm not planning on dating right now. Since she made the request, as a proud member of the Service Club, I'll naturally help her within the limits of what's permissible."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at the girl by the window.

"Aren't you right, Minister?"

"……snort."

Yukino Yukinoshita scoffed coldly, making no attempt to lift her gaze from her book.

"...Well then, let's leave it at that."

Yui Yuigahama stared silently at Yuu Tenkuji for a long while before managing to force a helpless, bitter smile and awkwardly scratching her cheek.

She sat back down in the seat next to him, looking down at her pink-painted fingertips, as if trying to minimize her presence and hide herself in the clubroom.

However, Tuanzi's hairstyle still looked flat and lifeless, with strands of pink hair falling down, concealing her involuntary act of biting her lip.

"...You know perfectly well why I was so agitated."

A lonely cry echoes through the empty valley.

There has been no response since three years ago.

The new year begins, and the January bounty begins!

After about two months, I've finally finished paying off the bounty for Chapter Twenty-Seven!

You can see my integrity!

Although I'm clumsy, although I take all my leave, although my update times are irregular, although I sometimes get accused of padding my posts, although I once thought I could write twenty-seven chapters in seven days plus two regular updates...

Despite all these "althoughs," in the end, I proved that I did not let everyone down and diligently paid off the last reward!

Then, there's still a long way to go before the book is finished, so how can this level of update be enough?

There will be a next time after the last one, and of course there will be no limit, all to stimulate everyone's desire to tip, so feel free to whip the author Ji!

Anyway, it's already 600,000 words long. Most readers are either waiting for the book to finish or dropping it, so the response probably won't be as enthusiastic as when it was first released. I can handle around ten chapters a day.

Let's go then!

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Happy New Year! Let's witness how this story unfolds together in 2021!

Chapter Thirteen: This is a Lie

That's roughly how it happened.

Yukino Yukinoshita entrusted the "request" to Yuu Soraji, and since Yui Yuigahama did not offer any opinions, Yuu Soraji officially became Masuzu Natsukawa's fake boyfriend.

"He was supposed to be a fake boyfriend, but it was really just about walking home together after school."

Leaving the Service Department, Natsukawa Masuzu leisurely followed beside him, smoothing her long, silvery hair and saying casually, "Don't put too much pressure on yourself, and don't have any unnecessary thoughts. Just relax and go!"

"You don't need to tell me, I have much more experience with this kind of thing than you do."

Yuu Tenkuji was calmer than she had imagined, showing no excitement whatsoever about having a beautiful girl as her girlfriend.

This undoubtedly pleased Natsukawa Masaki very much.

"That's true, I had forgotten that you're a 'professional'."

Natsukawa Masaki nodded, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, are you still working as a rent-a-boyfriend?"

"It's gone now; I just forgot to cancel the registration."

Just thinking about it made Yuu Tenkuji angry, and he couldn't help but grit his teeth inwardly—Damn system, why aren't you cleaning up my mess yet?!

System: "Confirmed. Currently processing 'Rent-a-Boyfriend' data..."

Hearing this notification, Yuu Tenkuji finally felt relieved and prepared to go back and check again.

Haha, after being betrayed for so long, he must be out of his mind to trust the system.

"Then hurry back and cancel it, be careful not to let anyone else find out~"

Natsukawa Masuzu laughed happily, stretched out her fair and slender arm, and hooked it around him very naturally: "Even if I can't get anything out of you, I don't want to share the secret of my 'boyfriend' with anyone else."

"You're really that kind?" Tenkuji Yu looked incredulous.

Natsukawa Masuzu tilted her head slightly and asked in a simple and cute tone, "Huh~ Isn't it normal for a girlfriend to care about her boyfriend?"

Tenkuji Yu immediately understood and couldn't help but find it amusing: "You hate romance so much, yet you get into it so quickly."

“Of course.” With an instant change in expression, Natsukawa Masaki proudly puffed out her chest and said with a radiant smile, “Only a lie performed with all your might is a lie; otherwise, it’s just a clumsy deception. A counterfeit should have the self-awareness of a counterfeit. Doesn’t ambiguity mean that you still have expectations for love?”

"So, Tenkuji-kun, you can just call me Shinryu from now on. In return, I will call you by your name directly... Only by getting used to calling each other like this will we avoid being noticed by those dating enthusiasts."

She looked up and stared intently into Tenkuji Yu's eyes.

Despite their intimate actions and sweet voices, there was no shyness, affection, tenderness, or allure in their blue eyes.

Only a heavy, dark gray emotion, like ruins, disguised a warm, summery smile.

"Then let's get along well from today until the day we part ways amicably..."

"I love you, Ayu."

【Jeong-yeon 言。】

That was a cold confession that didn't match her delicate and beautiful appearance at all, and that she loathed to the extreme from the bottom of her heart.

Let alone being moved, an average man would probably have his heart stop and tremble upon hearing this.

Looking at her like this, Yuu Tenkuji felt pathetic for her own energetic "love declaration" that morning.

Enjoy the process of dating her? Create beautiful memories you won't regret?

That's incredibly naive.

If renting a boyfriend isn't going smoothly, then pretending to be someone's boyfriend at school will definitely bring even more trouble.

Furthermore, this girlfriend is a seasoned member of the "Go Die, Go Die" group, who for some reason intensely hates love, like a high school sophomore who keeps saying "Youth is a lie, it's evil."

To fill the "empty space" in this kind of person's heart, like the previous two targets, and finally successfully complete the mission... isn't that a bit too difficult?

Tenkuji Yu couldn't help but feel that the road ahead was fraught with difficulties and the future was uncertain.

Even so, he never considered giving up.

This time, Yuu Tenkuji will faithfully play along with the lie from beginning to end.

"Let's forget about insincere confessions." He smiled, took her small hand, and said gently with an expression that was clearly an act, "I'll need your guidance until the end of this commission, Zhenliang."

"Congratulations, host, you have received a reward of 5 yen."

5 yen? ? ?

You think you can get rid of Noragami?!

Tenkuji Yu's expression remained unchanged, but he was internally ranting.

"Is this what professional-level cheesiness looks like?"

Not knowing what he was thinking, Natsukawa Masaki blinked and sincerely exclaimed, "This is truly an eye-opener. The goosebumps I got at that moment are probably comparable to the bread rolls DIO ate."

"You want me to treat you like Jotaro?"

Coming to her senses, Yuu Tenkuji's smile instantly turned into impatience and coldness, and she used beatboxing to imitate Invincible's voice.

"Shut up, you old hag! Just come with me and stop talking nonsense!"

"..."