I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

Such fragments of words surfaced in my mind in an instant—

"You gave me so many nourishing medicinal meals? 'That's certainly true,' Yu."

Kasugano Sora's gentle voice reached my ears.

As if the snow that had settled in her mind had been swept away instantly, Tenkuji Yu suddenly came to her senses, looking somewhat caught off guard at her sister's calm expression, unsure of what to say for a moment: "Um, Sora..."

"Although I don't know what you're thinking, I was just kidding you, you idiot." Kasugano Sora raised her hand and lightly flicked his forehead.

Only now did a mischievous smile appear on her usually calm and expressionless face.

The gray eyes behind the glasses blinked, revealing a reassuring and warm emotion.

"I only wore the glasses for fun. Thanks to you, my eyes will never break down no matter how long I wear them."

"Is that so?" Tenkuji Yu was still somewhat unconvinced. "Is my medicinal cuisine really that powerful? It's not some kind of life-saving elixir that can make people live to be a hundred years old and be immune to all diseases."

Kasugano Sora shook her head, her lips twitching slightly. "It's not that amazing, but can't I use a more exaggerated way of putting it? If you're so nitpicky, you'll go bald very quickly, you know?"

As she said this, she looked up at the top of his head, her eyes filled with a complex mix of emotions—remembering, regretting, and sorrow—and whispered with deep feeling, as if mourning the passing of something:

"Yu, actually I'm from the future... Back then you were only thirty-five, but you turned into a balding old man with a receding hairline..."

"Don't predict that terrible future!"

Yuu Tenkuji clutched her head in terror: "Then I might as well just kill myself right now! Besides, going bald at such a young age... I'm not a web novel author, I can't possibly be that dramatic, right?!"

"It's hard to say."

She shrugged, her tone seemingly joking, but the lingering sigh in her eyes behind her glasses made one's heart clench: "If you don't want to really go bald, stop worrying all the time... You have to do everything first to know if you can do it well, right?"

Soraji Yu was slightly taken aback, and slowly lowered his hand from his thick head of hair: "Sora... I don't know what I'm worried about, yet you can still say such things. When did you become so mature?"

"Don't look down on your sister!" Kasugano Sora kicked his shin and turned to go back to her room.

Tenkuji Yu subconsciously wanted to follow, but was stopped by her unpleasant glance back.

Why are you following me?

"...I didn't do anything." He looked completely innocent, never expecting his usually close sister to react this way.

But thinking about it, this makes sense—it's precisely because it contradicts her reality that we can be certain that this is just a trial world created by the system.

"Don't peek into a young girl's room without permission! Otherwise, I'll sneak into your room when you're not here and do things you don't usually let me do."

Kasugano Sora grinned and pulled out a key in a threatening manner: "See this? I made ten spare keys for your room."

Yuu Tenkuji was speechless for a moment: "Are you forcing me to change the locks?"

"Go ahead and change it, there are plenty of chances to play again!" She puffed out her cheeks and snorted softly, as if she really didn't want him to see the scene in the room. She opened the small crack in the door and squeezed in, then quickly closed the door.

"Anyway, without my permission, You are forbidden from entering my room from now on. We need to learn to respect each other, understand?"

"Okay, okay," Tenkuji Yuu shrugged and replied indifferently.

It wasn't surprising that she acted strangely during the trial, and he was too lazy to care. He just assumed she was watching BL and didn't want to be discovered. Anyway, he wasn't interested in his sister's room.

"That's good." As if leaning against the door, Qiong's voice paused for a moment before rising softly and muffledly, "Also, although almost two months have passed, I only just remembered to tell you this..."

"As expected, I'm just a stupid little sister who can't do anything without you, Yu."

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Asuna Yuuki's Visit

reality.

After going downstairs to the entrance hall, Kasugano Sora looked through the peephole and saw a rather unfamiliar chestnut-haired beauty holding a square box. She stood there looking a little nervous, yet trying to appear calm.

Who is this? A deliveryman?

Are delivery drivers really this good these days? If You knew, he'd definitely come up with all sorts of weird ideas, like a gender-swapped version of a plumber coming to your door...

Kasugano Sora shook her head, banishing the strange thoughts from her mind, pressed the doorknob to open the door, and peeked out with only a wary head.

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

"Uh, hello... You must be Tenkuji-kun's sister?" The chestnut-haired beauty seemed a little surprised to see her, but quickly gave her a gentle and kind smile. "Is your brother here? I don't think I've formally greeted you before. I'm his friend, Yuuki Asuna..."

"Asuna Yuuki?"

After she said that, Kasugano Sora suddenly remembered—this guy, isn't he the one who supposedly fought with his brother in the game, whose fighting skills were terrifyingly high, and who even won the fencing championship in the national competition?

They had met at the cultural festival, but Yuuki Asuna used feeling unwell as an excuse not to talk to anyone. The two only glanced at each other from a distance, without exchanging a single word or formally getting to know each other. Given Kasugano Sora's personality, how could she possibly remember such a person?

That's why I didn't recognize it at first glance.

"Wait, does that mean all of Yu's girlfriends are gathered here...?"

Suddenly realizing this, Kasugano Sora couldn't help but murmur to herself, her eyes filled with complex emotions.

"Is this just a coincidence, or is there really a mastermind behind all this...?"

After giving the other person a strange look, she suddenly sighed heavily and opened the door a crack.

"You're looking for You... what do you need my brother for? If it's for a Christmas party, you seem to be a bit early."

Although somewhat puzzled by her constantly changing expressions, Asuna Yuuki politely refrained from asking further questions and went straight to the point: "Excuse me, I'm not here for the Christmas party. I just wanted to confirm something with him... Is Tenkuji-kun home right now?"

"I am at home..."

Kasugano Sora frowned slightly, revealing a subtle expression of unspoken difficulty, as if she didn't know where to begin explaining, or perhaps she didn't know whether to add another "trouble" by letting a stranger into her home.

However, upon further reflection, setting aside the possibility that the other party's involvement might be part of their destiny, forcibly refusing could lead to unpredictable consequences—anyway, the more mosquitoes there are, the less it itches. The only one to blame is You for provoking these girls and then falling into a coma on her own, leaving her, as the younger sister, in a difficult position of not being able to refuse but also feeling unhappy about agreeing. In the end, she could only helplessly accept the reality.

While more people might increase the chaos, the chances of waking up one's older brother sooner should also be higher...

Kasugano Sora couldn't help but sigh, rubbed her face, and calmly opened the door.

"If you have time now, please come in and have a seat... I'll explain what happened to you."

Most importantly, Yu had originally planned to gather these "girlfriends" together for a talk anyway, and it's just a few hours earlier now—

What's wrong with being able to see these women fighting each other and causing bloodshed a few hours in advance?

As Kasugano Sora turned around, a wicked smile, typical of a bad woman, gradually appeared on her usually indifferent and calm, cute face.

"Huh? W-w, it feels like something big has happened..."

Instinctively clutching the box in her hands, Asuna Yuuki followed after them with trepidation.

……

"Huh—!?"

"You...you said that Tenkuji-kun fell into a coma because of a trial given by the gods, and you are trying to complete a task in a notebook in order to wake him up as soon as possible while he is being tormented in his dreams?"

Looking at the boy sleeping peacefully on the sofa opposite her, his younger sister's lap as a pillow, Asuna Yuuki's exclamation was suppressed as if her neck had been grabbed, her face full of astonishment and disbelief.

The sheer volume of information made her head throb. She instinctively covered her forehead, deep lines furrowing between her brows. Her rosy lips were pressed tightly together, and after a long while, a muffled breath, almost a groan, escaped from between her lips.

"Haaah—this is too unusual...Although almost nothing we encounter conforms to common sense, how can it keep going beyond this..."

If I hadn't already overheard him at the coffee shop about his womanizing and womanizing ways, I probably would have been quite surprised that all his "girlfriends" had gathered to help him...

Haha, let's not even bother restoring his memories! Let's take this opportunity to finish off the unconscious Yu-kun and show him what happens to a womanizer!

Or we could just cut off Yu-kun altogether!

Thinking this with a sense of self-abandonment, Yuuki Asuna took a deep breath, barely managing to regain her composure from the chaos, and looked firmly at Kasugano Sora opposite her.

"I won't ask any more questions. Xiao Qiong, you should have heard about me from him, right?"

While stroking her older brother's hair, Kasugano Sora nodded casually: "I've heard of him. You're one of his girlfriends... just like Natsukawa Masuzu. Although your memories haven't fully returned, you remember the last mission, right?"

“I also received his help,” Asuna Yuuki said crisply. “So, is there anything I can do to help? Or would it be better to meet with other people first?”

"I'll go call them down. If all the parties involved are here, we can start a new meeting." Kasugano Sora left the sofa, carefully placed his head on the cushion, and turned to leave the living room.

However, before going upstairs, she turned back and gave Yuuki Asuna a warning look.

"I'll be down soon, please don't touch him... not even with your mouth."

"I would never do that! That would be so rude!" Asuna Yuuki protested, her face flushed, then she seemed to realize something, "You seem so worried... Could it be that someone has actually done that before?"

"I hope that Yu won't have another infatuated woman among his girlfriends." With a weary sigh, Kasugano Sora quickly went upstairs.

Asuna Yuuki was left alone in the living room, watching over Yuu Tenkuji, whose breathing was even and whose face was peaceful as he slept.

She maintained a proper posture for a few seconds, then suddenly looked around nervously, and peeked out the door towards the stairs. After sitting there uneasily, taking deep breaths of the air in his house, she suddenly stood up like a fierce general determined to conquer territory, walked to the sofa where Sky Temple was lounging, and squatted down, gathering her skirt.

"Tenkuji-kun, wake up... Yu-kun, can you hear me? I've come to find you..."

As if she were breathing on his face, her delicate, flawless face was very close, and her jade-like, smooth hands were placed on his shoulders, rocking him and calling out softly.

Despite her cheeks being flushed red as if they were about to bleed, Asuna Yuuki looked serious and worried as she tried to wake him up.

With no one around, and not even able to see his own expression, his voice naturally sounded full of longing and tenderness.

Unfortunately, despite calling out several times, he couldn't even make him twitch his eyelids.

Even though he was just sleeping, it gave people the feeling that his spirit had left this world and would never return.

"Honestly, they were so lively and energetic not long ago, spouting all sorts of scumbag remarks, but now they're so well-behaved..."

Rubbing her nose, which was inexplicably sore, Asuna Yuuki smiled helplessly and mustered up the courage to steal a kiss from him when no one was around.

The fleeting kiss stirred strange waves in my heart, and memories, like the surface of a lake, vaguely flashed through my mind, revealing several familiar scenes.

My fingers gently caressed my tingling, burning lips. I was sure I wasn't experiencing that sensation for the first time, nor was I feeling that my heart was racing for the first time.

Asuna Yuuki is his girlfriend—without realizing it, he had come to accept this view, or rather, he didn't want to deny this identity from the bottom of his heart.

All that's left is to retrieve those missing memories and openly demand that he take responsibility.

Gazing intently at his face, Asuna Yuuki pursed her lips and said softly, "So, if you don't wake up soon, even if I recover my memories as quickly as possible, won't it only make me feel worse...?"

A series of hurried footsteps echoed from upstairs.

As the girls, led by Kasugano Sora, filed into the living room, Yuuki Asuna was already sitting upright in her original seat. Her slightly awkward posture and slightly embarrassed wry smile perfectly concealed the lingering blush on her face, making her look like an introverted child trying to fit in, rather than a daring little sly cat.

"Good afternoon, everyone..."

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With Kasugano Sora and Yukino Yukinoshita acting as mediators, the first meeting of "Girls" was a great success.

After exchanging information, not only did Asuna Yuuki gain a deeper understanding of the current situation and the people in front of her, but they also learned about the various things between her and Yuu Tenkuji.