I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

Looking at the silver-haired woman in front of him who was speaking eloquently, Tenkuji Yu's lips twitched slightly. He unconsciously rubbed his temples, his head aching so badly that it was hard to concentrate.

The video I just watched was so packed with information that he looked completely bewildered throughout...

Chapter Sixty-Six: Hundreds of Ways for Yuu Tenkuji to Die

"In other words, I initially obtained the 'Girlfriend Training System' and dated Tachibana Kanade, peacefully completing the system's tasks... until the day I graduated from high school, Tachibana Kanade died of a heart attack. I couldn't bear the blow and became completely useless, letting the system kill me as it left. Tachibana Kanade, who became a ghost and stayed by my side, refused to accept this outcome and used the system items I had given her to turn into a ball of light and fly away?"

After pondering for a long time while pressing his brow, Yuu Tenkuji finally shared his conclusion with Kasugano Sora, his expression slightly subtle.

"So I'm such a fragile person... Even though the person in the video is me, I still really want to rush over and punch him to make him come to his senses and not break down so easily."

With a slightly upset sigh, Yuu rubbed her cheeks, trying to compose herself after watching the video.

To be fair, his girlfriend isn't the only pillar of his life.

Even though Mingqiong was taking care of her and she matured quickly under his influence, and even tried to overcome her social anxiety in order to take him to the hospital for treatment of his mental illness, she still looked like a half-dead ghost in the video...

This useless, despicable brother, shouldn't your sister be your most precious treasure?!

Show her tears, you bastard!

Yuu Tenkuji really wanted to yell at the other person, but after thinking about it carefully, what if something happened to Iroha Isshiki in real life...

Although he thought he would only be depressed for a week at most and would soon cheer up so as not to worry Qiong, his original confidence had unknowingly dissipated.

After all, he knew himself well. To put it nicely, he was sentimental; to put it bluntly, he was fragile. If no one could be his support, he would have no attachment to this second life.

So, if Tachibana Kanade in the video were replaced by Kasugano Sora, she would probably have followed her in death after taking care of her funeral arrangements.

The video clearly shows that his love for Tachibana Kanade is no less than that for his sister, so his reaction of feeling like he's living a life worse than death is not surprising to Tenkuji Yu, and he can even inexplicably empathize with it...

Because he only chose to face death calmly when the system threatened his life—this can at most be considered homicide.

Despite losing his loved one, he never considered suicide because he had his sister by his side.

Perhaps in a few days, Yuu Tenkuji will be able to move on from the sadness of the past and start a new life so as not to worry her family?

Unfortunately, the system robbed us of that future, bringing everything to an abrupt end.

For Yuu Tenkuji in that world, a story of only sadness and regret was written.

"...Qiong, I have a few questions."

Composing himself, Tenkuji Yu asked Kasugano Sora, who was waiting quietly beside him, giving him time to think.

"First, there's the system. In reality, I use the 'Boyfriend System,' right? But here, it's the 'Life Achievement System,' and in the initial timeline, it was the 'Girlfriend Development System'... Does this mean that in every timeline, I'll be approached by different types of systems?"

What exactly is this theorem?

Is a system truly a standard cheat code for transmigrators? Or does he have a constitution that "easily attracts systems"?

"That's not the case."

Kasugano Sora shook her head, denying his idea, and calmly pushed up her glasses: "No matter how the world line changes, on the summer of his seventeenth birthday, Yu will be possessed by the same system—it's like the physical law of this world. No matter how many times we start over, we can't affect this rule."

"Really...?" Feeling that things were getting inexplicably serious, Tenkuji Yu clicked her tongue in surprise. "Then why is there such a difference in the system? Is it because of you?"

"You'll understand when you see the rest." With a slightly mysterious smile, Kasugano Sora seemed determined to be the riddle teller, and directly changed the subject.

Are there any other questions? Although I may not be able to answer them.

"Hmm..." He wanted to ask what the ball of light was, but thinking that his sister from another world would probably just brush him off with "you'll understand after you see it," Yuu Tenkuji finally shrugged helplessly.

"Never mind, I'll ask after I've watched them all... By the way, how many more videos are there?"

Kasugano Sora casually replied, "There are hundreds of uncut versions, but only two or three are edited."

"You've really had a hard time..."

"It's not hard work. Anyway, for me, having something to do to pass the time is better than anything else."

Her gaze suddenly became distant, and Kasugano Sora said with deep emotion, "If you had played all the games in this room thousands of times, you would understand how I feel."

"..."

How much human suffering did she endure for herself?

Yuu Tenkuji reflexively felt sorry for her, but seeing her dressed in a white coat and waving her wand around wildly, he inexplicably couldn't feel sorry for her.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's move on to the next video."

As the words fell, the dark projection screen lit up again.

It was that very first summer afternoon again, but this time it started from an overhead perspective, and there was an ethereal, melodious, and gentle voice as narration.

"I am Tachibana Kanade."

“My partner once told me that, apart from committing crimes, it’s best to keep a record of important things you do in case of unforeseen circumstances.”

"So from now on, before I actually change his future, I will record all of this and store it in this system."

"I will always remember everything about him, just as he still lives in my heart."

"Yu, I love you."

As Yuu Tenkuji stared blankly, the opening credits officially ended, and the screen came to life again.

"First, let me explain my current situation."

"After using the items left behind by Yu to 'upgrade' myself, I don't know why, but I turned into a ball of light... 'Light Orb' sounds better, doesn't it?"

"As a being of light, I possess immense power... I don't know how to describe it, but with a single thought, I can return to the past, more than a year ago, before I met him, without feeling any loss of energy."

"But this seems to be the limit. Actually, I wanted to go back to Yu's childhood and see if I could save him and Xiaoqiong's parents... but unfortunately I can't. And I can't influence reality either; I can't even lift a small pebble."

"What can I do? If I don't know for now, I'll just stay by Yu's side."

"I took some time to go back home and checked, and I found that the version of me in this world doesn't exist. Maybe it's because I turned into a luminous jade? What's the principle behind this... Hmm, but it's fine this way."

"They won't have to worry about my condition every day, they can save on medical expenses and travel around, and they won't cry themselves to death when I die... Thinking about it this way, maybe it would be better if I didn't exist."

"Although I've gotten used to it... it's really unpleasant to be ignored by everyone."

She sighed softly, but quickly cheered up again.

"Found it, it's You."

The view gradually descends, arriving at a familiar street corner and a familiar road.

The handsome young man named Yuu Tenkuji had just finished a part-time job. Wiping away his sweat, he put his meager wages into his pocket. Although he looked a little tired, his eyes were full of expectations for life and the future, as bright and ardent as the rising sun.

"Today, I can buy more meat for Qiong!"

His encouraging self-motivation made the girl, who was now just a single sphere, chuckle softly.

"So, before we met, Yu had this side to her..."

"In my memory, he was always omnipotent, never bothered by material life, and only worked at the coffee shop to repay favors. I never expected him to be so happy because he could buy more meat... I feel like he's kind of cute."

After a pause, the girl sighed, "If only I could have met him a long, long time ago..."

At the same time, Yuu Tenkuji, who was about to enter his home, suddenly stopped and showed an expression that was a mixture of surprise and delight.

The girl keenly sensed something was wrong, accelerated and flew into his body, where she discovered a glowing sphere in his head that looked very much like herself.

"Is this the 'system' that Yu was talking about? It was this that ultimately killed Yu..."

Although she wanted to get angry, the girl felt it was a waste of time to get angry at an object that had no consciousness and only acted according to rules.

After failing to remove it from Yu's head with his own power, Tachibana Kanade decided to temporarily cease his efforts, coexist with it for a while, and see if an opportunity arose to eliminate it.

Before her death, Tenkuji Yuuya had taught her that when she realized she had no chance of winning, it was best to conserve her strength to gather information and wait for the opportunity to strike decisively. She should never recklessly attack based on her emotions.

As Sun Tzu's Art of War states, "It is as difficult to know as the shadows, and as swift as thunder."

Following his past instructions, Tachibana Kanade decided to stay in his "soul space" with the system, slowly gathering information about it while becoming the spirit behind Tenkuji Yuu, watching over his newly started life with warm eyes.

Things took similar yet different paths.

It's also a girlfriend-raising system, and he also met a girl he really liked not long after. He started doing tasks while being affectionate with his girlfriend, and the process was not much different from when they first met.

Tachibana Kanade watched all of this unfold from behind him. Although she felt a pang of jealousy, as if her treasure had been stolen by someone else, she did not look away.

Because it had been a long time since I had seen him with a genuinely happy smile and a tender, doting look in his eyes.

Even though the object of her affections wasn't herself, Kanade Tachibana felt incredibly gratified—because that was the future she longed for, the goal for which she was willing to turn back time and perform miracles as a ghost.

"Yu...you must become happier than anyone else."

With such a wish in mind, the young woman couldn't help but look forward to a future where he would marry a woman other than himself, have children, and grow old together.

Time flies, and a year has passed peacefully.

As the strongest light orb after its evolution, Tachibana Kanade quickly used her power to penetrate most of the system in his mind, and soon obtained a lot of useful information and skills.

First of all, the system's origin, composition, and principles are unknown. It's like a gift casually created by a deity, simply giving some lucky mortals the opportunity to ascend to heaven in one step.

Furthermore, its operational basis is somewhat like computer programming, a code structure composed of zeros, ones, and several hieroglyphs. It is also a perfect creation combining technology and mystery, which modern people's knowledge is simply insufficient to deconstruct or control.

Unfortunately, Tachibana Kanade is not only a modern person, but also a tiny light egg that can control mysterious powers and turn back time.

She temporarily gave up on being his spirit guide and instead began to devote herself to studying the system. Using the perfect programming skills that Tenkuji Yu had taught her in the past, along with the omnipotent power inherent in the Light Orb, she spent a year working hard and finally succeeded in deciphering most of the system's functions.

Naturally, she created an administrator account for herself and removed all options related to eliminating the host, making the system a truly benevolent and virtuous system that cared for the host, giving out all kinds of benefits without hesitation, almost like a pie falling from the sky.

After finishing these things, Tachibana suddenly remembered that it seemed to be graduation season in the real world, and he wondered if Tachibana had successfully passed the university entrance exam.

Furthermore, even if he couldn't hear her, she wanted to tell him immediately that she had successfully changed his fate and saved him from an unfortunate future!

"I did it, Yuu—"

However, all that hope and excitement was poured cold water on them by the long-awaited reality, freezing their consciousness into a glacier.

The source of this incident was his beloved younger sister and former friend, Kasugano Sora.

It seems that he accidentally got pregnant with his current girlfriend's child. After learning about this, Qiong's mentality completely collapsed. It's unclear whether she was trying to escape reality or if the resentment she had accumulated in the past was finally erupting at this moment.

While Tenkuji Yu accompanied his girlfriend to the hospital for a check-up, she ran away to her hometown of Okumo-zome and planned to commit suicide by drowning herself in a lake. Her suicide note contained the words, "Yu needs other family members, so he doesn't need me anymore."

It was raining heavily that day, and there were flood and typhoon warnings all over the country. The girl's body was quickly swallowed up by the surging lake water.

The train stopped, and the town was isolated in the distant suburbs; darkness fell, and the world seemed to be about to end at that moment.

Even so, Yuu Tenkuji still used all his skills to save Kasugano Sora from the brink of death at the most critical moment, and after waking her up with artificial respiration, he successfully reconciled with her.

The brother and sister embraced tightly in the heavy rain, tearfully expressing their feelings for each other.