I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

"It's not a sugar daddy/sugar baby arrangement... okay, it might seem a bit like it, but we have real feelings for each other, and I'm earning my own money through my own abilities, okay?"

"Hosts also have their own skills. YouTube videos have shown that you can't become a male escort just because you're good-looking."

"I don't want to argue with you about this. In short, all I want to do is date!"

Qiong slammed her hand on the table and stood up, glaring at him fiercely: "What exactly are you unhappy about with me! You said you'd marry me when we were little, but now that you've seen so many wonderful things in the world, you're planning to abandon me and throw me into the cold palace, is that it?!"

"I never said anything like that! And it's one thing to watch anime about brother complexes, but don't watch those melodramatic palace dramas!"

Qiong completely ignored his complaints, crossed her tiny chest, and coldly looked down at him who was still sitting in the chair.

"In short, tell me about her. What's her name, how old is she, how big are her breasts, how far has your relationship progressed, what are your future plans... Does that person know you have a sister like me?"

"Is there a problem with a particularly strong personal agenda involved... Never mind."

Sky Temple sighed, rubbing her forehead, and waved for her to sit down. Then she picked up her bowl and chopsticks: "You don't need to be in such a hurry. Although we are willing, the other side's attitude is suddenly a bit strange..."

"Once everything is settled, feel free to ask me anything you want to know. I'll answer everything I know. So let's eat first, okay?"

Qiong blinked, asking with surprise and anticipation, "So, you're just having a one-sided crush right now?"

Yuu Tenkuji answered decisively: "We are mutually attracted, but we have a disagreement on the issue of meeting each other's parents."

"Tsk, really?" Kasugano Sora clicked her tongue in annoyance and returned to her seat, picking up her chopsticks and tapping her bowl. "I always suggest breaking up when it comes to relationship issues. Anyway, you still have me, there's no need for you to date someone else, and you might even get hurt in the process."

"What kind of younger sister would criticize her older brother's love life without saying a word?" Tenkuji Yu said irritably, putting a few green peppers on her plate, which were immediately thrown back at her.

"Besides, didn't you say before that I need to tell you and get your approval before I get a girlfriend? I told you before I even got one, so why are you still angry?"

"I'm not angry!" Qiong shoveled down a few mouthfuls of rice as if venting her anger, then pulled out a can of cola from below and gulped it down.

Yuu Tenkuji frowned as she looked at it—could cola be paired with rice? Had her sense of taste been ruined?

Then, before he could snatch the cola away, Qiong put the can between her legs and pressed it tightly against her skirt.

Just as Tenkuji Yu reluctantly withdrew his hand, intending to reprimand her, Sora suddenly lowered her head, her silver hair obscuring a gloomy shadow.

She spoke slowly in a low voice:

"Yu, I don't want you to have a girlfriend, nor do I want any other women to come into our house."

“…I know,” Yuu Tenkuji sighed softly.

"I thought you were joking before, trying to make me give up and stop being so obsessed with you. So even though I was a little scared, I didn't really care..."

"But the expression on your face when you told me about that this afternoon was the first time I'd ever seen it."

She bit her lip, her voice trembling as if she had been drenched in rain: "So, when you really fall for someone, you make that kind of face..."

I have never seen you like that, because you have never truly liked me.

For a young girl who harbored a small crush on her brother, such a blow was incredibly heavy, almost making her try to escape from here, escape from his side, hide somewhere where no one knew her, and lick her wounds alone.

The reason why Sora didn't actually do that was firstly because Yu hadn't really gotten a girlfriend yet, and secondly because...

He placed his palm on his head and gently stroked it.

"To me, Qiong is my most important family member."

Yu didn't refute what he said. Tenkuji just looked at her timidly raised eyes and smiled, "So, I won't fall in love with a girl who wants me to leave my family. Even if I do get a girlfriend, you don't have to worry about me leaving you."

"Our relationship cannot be defined by liking or disliking."

“I will never let you feel lonely—I recently met Xue Nong, and in the future I will introduce you to my girlfriend and even my sister-in-law. After we get married, you will have nephews and nieces to play with.”

"Even if you stay at home forever, your world will never consist of just you, understand?"

Kasugano Sora is different from Yukinoshita Haruno; she always gives him a strong impression of being delicate.

Of course, it's not that Yang Nai isn't delicate, it's just that her nature and direction are different—she's as light and fragile as a glass craft, and if she breaks, the shards will damage everything she touches.

As for Qiong, she is an illusion that will disappear at the slightest touch. If you turn away and stop looking at her, after this last act of willfulness, she will find a place and slowly disappear, as if she had never been in this world.

That's why Yuu Tenkuji was so patient in comforting her, even though the same scene had happened countless times before, he would still tell Kasugano Sora the same thing:

"For someone who's obsessed with their sister, their sister is way more important than their girlfriend. The only options are always their sister and both of them."

"..."

Kasugano Sora silently met his gaze. After a long while, the tears in her eyes slowly curved into two crescent moons, shining brightly and lovelyly upon him.

"You've said similar things so many times."

"Yes."

"I'm so sorry, but I'm just such a troublesome little sister."

"The more complicated, the cuter, right? I can say it as many times as I want, okay?"

"Including the phrase 'sister complex'? He actually made up his mind to harm his sister a long time ago, and he's so determined not to change it. He's truly worthy of being my Yu."

"Pfft...wait, don't misunderstand me!"

Raising her delicate chin, the silver-haired girl hummed twice, completely ignoring his protests, and continued speaking to herself:

"So, is Yu planning to build a harem? It seems a bit difficult to find a girlfriend who would agree to marry you along with your sister."

"Isn't that obvious?!"

"But if they disagree, I'll still win in the end, right? In that case, there's nothing to be afraid of!"

Kasugano Sora picked up her chopsticks again, raised an eyebrow at him with ease, and said in a provocative manner, "You can introduce your girlfriend to me whenever you want, but I can't guarantee that you won't break up after she meets me."

"What do you want to do to my girlfriend...?"

With the half-cold food placed in front of him, Tenkuji Yu pressed his temples, his head aching slightly.

But thinking about it, if Yukino Yukinoshita really met Sora... Sora, who stays at home all day and doesn't talk much to outsiders, would definitely be manipulated by that witch (who is also a twisted sister complex).

Seeing that Qiong seemed to be envisioning a future where she could defeat her future sister-in-law and become the mother of the family, a hint of smugness and lightheartedness appeared on her face.

Hiding the pity in his eyes, Yuu Tenkuji smiled and shook his head, then began to eat his dinner without saying a word.

△

After dinner, I returned to my room.

He opened the system, looked at the cleared one-time skills and status bar, and curled his lip.

"There's even a punishment... Just how much does this system want me to keep quiet about its existence?"

However, the money and permanent skills haven't been taken back; at most, it just means you can't synthesize them based on luck for the time being.

"What a stingy system." Sky Temple, who considered himself a European, scoffed and then scrolled down to look at the system panel.

Before leaving the manor, Yukinoshita gave him a permanent status.

"Injury time? What the heck is that?"

Frowning, Yuu Tenkuji closed his eyes, trying to sense the general meaning of this state.

After a long while, he opened his eyes with a strange expression and recited the answer the system had given him:

"Unavailable at present. Please wait for an opportunity..."

This damn system, why don't you just tell me I don't have enough permissions and that I should quickly win over the female lead to unlock them?

Chapter 83 The heavy snow will eventually stop, even if the sun has not yet peeked out from behind the clouds.

Because of this mysterious state, Yuu Tenkuji even looked up the meaning of injury time.

In a football match, whether it's a foul or a player being injured and leaving the field for treatment, the referee doesn't stop the clock. Instead, he accumulates these dead ball times and adds them back when the regular time of the first half runs out—this period is called "injury time".

The original meaning is fairly easy to understand, but if it becomes a state skill similar to "completely renewed" or "muscle manipulation"... without a system explanation and without being able to test it personally, Yuu Tenkuji really doesn't know what it can do.

"Forget it, the system won't let me use it anyway, let's just pretend it doesn't exist for now."

Reluctantly making this decision, Yuu Tenkuji closed the panel and picked up her phone to browse through the chat history.

The coffee shop where he used to work was almost finished with renovations, and he received a message asking about the work schedule after the start of the semester. He was considering whether to resign.

After all, Yukino Yukinoshita has given him so much that he no longer needs to work to save money. Wouldn't it be better to use this money and the free time from his part-time job to do something more valuable and profitable?

You can't get ahead if you're just an employee, unless you can get a barista license and participate in the World Barista Championship.

Chizuru Mizuhara, who had asked for his contact information and wanted to ask him for advice on acting, had not contacted him again except for sending him a sticker as a greeting.

After the family dinner ended, Koichiro Yuki sent a message.

First, she told him about the Yukinoshita family's noticeably negative attitude towards the arranged marriage after lunch, and secretly expressed her relief and congratulations; then she subtly asked him if he had superpowers, or if Stand abilities were related to eliminating one's presence, questions that made him reluctant to answer.

Finally, there's Yukinoshita.

After agreeing to meet the next day, their conversation remained at the level of saying goodnight to each other, without becoming particularly intimate despite the events of the day.

"That's true. After all, it's me who's changed my mindset. She probably still finds it a bit strange, right?"

Tenkuji Yu sighed, lay on the bed, propped his head up, and stared at the ceiling, lost in thought.

From her perspective, today's events can be summarized as follows:

Forced to attend a family dinner → Wanting to see my rented boyfriend, I texted him → My rented boyfriend actually came, wow, so happy → After talking with my mother, I decided I wanted to make our fake relationship real → We flirted a bit, but when I brought it up with him, he seemed reluctant → We talked in detail in the private room, and although he clearly said he liked me and was willing to make our fake relationship real, he said he wanted to drag it out for a while longer and continue being our rented lovers until then.

"Well……"

After reviewing the situation from her perspective, Tenkuji Yuu also felt that she was quite baffled and even a bit of a scumbag.

He was hesitant to make things clear, he was indecisive about dating her, it was like he was playing with her; no wonder her attitude became so lukewarm after they broke up.

"But it's really hard for me to explain..."

Scratching his head in frustration, Yuuto Tenkuji realized that after truly treating Yukino Yukinoshita as his girlfriend, he suddenly became clumsy and unable to handle various situations as flexibly as before, and was too concerned about everything related to her.

Is being in love really a debuff?

It lowers people's IQ and turns them into children—Yukinoshita Haruno has been affected, and it seems he hasn't escaped it either.

Tired of thinking, Yuu Tenkuji simply stopped thinking about it, got up and started her daily reading and exercise, then used "refreshing" to dry off the sweat.

Lying in bed scrolling through his phone, he looked up the taboos of gift-giving and found that he really shouldn't give a comb as a gift—because the Japanese word for comb, "Kushi," has the connotations of "cruelty" and "death." Giving it to someone could easily be interpreted as the subtext of "wanting you to suffer and die."

It's truly fortunate that Yukinoshita Haruno didn't slap him the moment she received the gift. Instead, she quickly realized that he didn't understand gift-giving customs at all and was just giving whatever he saw, so she accepted it nonchalantly...

I need to apologize tomorrow.

Thinking this, Yuu Tenkuji closed the query interface and planned her date for tomorrow while waiting for sleepiness to wash over her.