In the anime series, Goto Ichiri is actually my childhood sweetheart?

"Have some confidence in yourself~, are there any boys pursuing you in school? When I was in junior high school, the prettiest girl in the class had people handing her love letters almost every day. If she wanted, she could change boyfriends every day without any problem."

Among the relatively young student groups in junior high and high schools, the idea of ​​money supremacy is not yet very serious, but everyone has to have a standard to judge people, and that standard is appearance.

"We haven't even started middle school yet, and I won't accept this kind of casual relationship!"

Ying Lili said with a blushing face, people who change boyfriends like changing clothes are the same people she drew in her book!

Most of the endings are bad.

"Surprisingly, he's a very conservative person! I thought foreigners would be more open-minded."

Nao Kamizaki picked up the wine glass, took a sip with a smile, leaving a faint lipstick mark on the wall of the glass.

"I'll tell you a secret. Ichiro Matsuo and I are actually a fake couple~"

"Puff!" Ichiro Matsuo was already reserved, and when he heard Nao Kamizaki suddenly explode, he couldn't help himself.

“Nao, why did you say that? Didn’t we agree to act it out when we got to my place? If someone we know in the restaurant heard it, I’d be screwed!”

He wanted to say it was a waiter in the restaurant, but suddenly changed his mind.

Nao Kamizaki supported her face with her hands in a depressed look, raised her fair hands, and the light from the chandelier emitted a charming halo through her manicure.

"I'm so bored. Your family members are always asking questions. It's so troublesome for me to deal with them. Now I can finally have a good rest. Don't be so strict~"

She explained the situation to Takahashi Kaede and others.

It turned out that the two of them lived in another city and were colleagues working in the same company. The girl often went to the izakaya to drink alone, while the boy's daily life was to stay at home. One day, he suddenly had the idea of ​​trying the feeling of going to the izakaya, and then he ran into Nao Kamisaki.

Since then, the two of them often met up for drinks and naturally became familiar with each other.

This time, it was Ichiro Matsushima's family who urged him to get married, saying that if he didn't bring a girlfriend home from outside, they would force him to find one. Ichiro Matsushima was used to living alone, and he simply couldn't accept his second half of life being controlled by his family, so he came up with the idea of ​​letting Nao Kamizaki pretend to be his girlfriend to deal with his family.

"What a classic scene. I feel like I see it often on TV." Goto Ichiri couldn't help but complain.

"Yes, although it's classic, it's useful. He can't think of any good solution with his stubborn mind. If he had packaged his circle of friends, his family wouldn't be so anxious. But he posts things like 'Long live singleness!' and 'Girls in anime are ten thousand times better than girls in real life!' on the Internet every day. If I were his parent, I would have caught him and kept him company.

"...Don't say that to me."

Nao poked him as she spoke, and he shrank back a little with each poke.

"You're still shy! The day you asked me to pretend to be your girlfriend, you yelled louder than ever before."

Ichiro Matsuo's face turned red, just like a... young otaku.

He must be a naive otaku.

"Well, well, there's nothing we can do about it. It's because my family is so strict!"

Moreover, his father put pressure on him. When he was a child, he never dared to look his father in the eye. If he went home alone, he would be glared to death by his family.

"If you're pushed too hard, won't you be a little tougher? You're all adults now, you should have the right to decide your own life. It's not like you're not working. Only those who rely on their parents for support don't have the right to say this. You definitely have the right."

Ichiro Matsuo can't be said to be working hard in the company, but he is not slacking off at all and he still completes the tasks he is supposed to do.

"That's because...Oh, you don't understand the situation in my family!" Matsuo Ichiro said sullenly.

The waiters brought everyone's meals one after another. The grilled beef tongue was neatly presented, served with fresh broccoli and cucumber to counteract the greasiness of the tongue. There was also the fragrant oxtail soup, served with plump wheat rice. It was very novel and whetted everyone's appetite.

"Everyone else ordered the special set meal, but you ordered the beef tongue hamburger set meal. You can't walk just because you see the hamburger, right?"

Looking at the dish of Goto Ichiri's half beef tongue and half hamburger patty, Takahashi Kaede didn't know whether to praise Goto Ichiri for her devotion to hamburger patty, or criticize her for coming all the way out to order hamburger patty.

"If beef tongue doesn't taste good, I can still eat hamburger meat~"

Goto Ichiri was quite open-minded about this, which left Takahashi Kaede speechless. She could only secretly admire her casualness.

He had never seen many large tables of food in Japan, everyone ate their own food, and the same was true for this Sendai specialty beef tongue restaurant.

Pick up a piece of beef tongue with a fork. Although the tongue is also made of muscle tissue, both the appearance and the feeling when the knife and fork pierce the meat of moderate thickness are completely different from ordinary beef. Lift it up and take a closer look. The degree of frying in the pan is just right. While both sides are browned, the texture of the beef itself is slightly retained in the middle. Even if you squeeze it slightly with a knife and fork, the sweet gravy will overflow from the shredded meat.

Takahashi Feng's eating manners were not as elegant as Eriri's. He swallowed a whole piece in one bite and chewed it vigorously in his mouth. The meat was not tough at all and had just the right amount of saltiness. Also, because it was tongue meat, it didn't feel tangled when eaten. This might be because there was less connective tissue in it, so it tasted better than ordinary meat.

And because the beef tongue is big enough, the meat is of good thickness. Takahashi Feng has only eaten pig tongue, which is very flavorful and delicious, but in terms of meat thickness and juiciness, it is far inferior to beef tongue.

For a short while, everyone was immersed in the delicious food, and the air was filled with the sounds of chewing and exclamations.

"Xiao Feng, can you have some of yours? How about I give you my hamburger meat~"

Obviously, Goto Ichiri regretted eating the tongue meat that she originally couldn't accept with a frown. Apart from a few slices of beef tongue on the plate, most of it was hamburger meat that she had tasted countless times. This was a dish that Takahashi Kaede had made for her almost every time in different ways. It was stable, but it didn't surprise her like the beef tongue.

After tasting the beef tongue, she naturally turned her eyes to Takahashi Feng's plate. After all, she usually did the same thing at school, eating her own lunch box but always keeping an eye on what Takahashi Feng had cooked last night.

"I say, you are a little willful, aren't you? I just told you, but now you regret it and want to eat my food. It's not good to develop such a bad habit."

"Hey, just this once. I won't be so willful next time, okay?"

Goto Ichiri raised his green fingers and made a sign of one. Although he was still wearing a hat indoors, his face under the brim was smiling like a little flower.

"You are really at my mercy."

In the end, Goto Ichiri ate it happily, and fed a piece to Takahashi Kaede while eating. Takahashi Kaede simply forked all the beef tongue in her bowl into Goto Ichiri's bowl, and then took all her hamburger patties.

He himself doesn't care about these things, because if he wants to eat it back home, he can make it himself. The feelings of the people around him are what matter most.

Ichiro Matsuo's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

"Um, are you all junior high school students?" This was the first time he communicated directly with Takahashi Feng and the others.

"In the second half of the year, after the summer vacation, we will be in the first grade of junior high school. What's wrong?"

He seemed to have come into contact with anime when he was in junior high school. At that time, he felt that his classmates were stupid and girls were unreasonable creatures. So until now, the only girlfriend he had was his fake girlfriend Nao Kamisaki.

By the time he figured it out and started trying to look for someone, he was surprised to find that almost everyone was more experienced than him. Falling in love with those adult women was like a suburban black iron sneaking into the King's Game in District 1. He was simply being manipulated, so he almost gave up.

"What is your relationship?"

"You can say that we are childhood sweethearts. After all, we grew up together." Eriri answered helpfully.

“So, that’s how it is.”

Although I can't see Goto Ichiri's face clearly, I can tell from her hands that she must be very white and must be good-looking. Next to her is a mixed-race girl named Eriri.

Damn it! Why don’t I have such a cute and good childhood sweetheart? Two of them!

Ichiro Matsuo beat his chest and stamped his feet, feeling that life was boring. The distribution of resources in this world was too unbalanced, and there was really no point in living for a otaku like him.

After saying hello to everyone, he went to the toilet trembling, leaving the four people feeling a little confused.

"He may be too much of a homebody, but he is a nice guy. Don't take it too seriously~" Nao Kamizaki said with a smile.

Chapter 91: The tacit understanding between adults

"You two always go to the pub together to drink after get off work, so you must be very close."

Looking at Nao Zaki's various behaviors, I always feel that he is Ichiro Matsuo's good brother, not anything else.

"In fact, I always asked him to accompany me. I don't like men with too many tricks, and I don't have any sisters who can hang out with me. Yilang is honest and easy to talk to, so I always call him to accompany me after get off work."

"This idiot can't drink alcohol at all. He'll have a big problem if he drinks even a little bit. He once stood on the table and yelled, 'I like Oosaka Taiga the best!' At that moment, I didn't want anyone to know that I knew him. It was really ridiculous."

Uezaki Nao complained.

What a socially dead scene. I wonder what Ichiro Matsuo was thinking when he sobered up and realized what he had done. In fact, if you put yourself in his shoes, he might not care about what he did after being drunk, unless you put a video of him going crazy in front of his face, then he might feel a little embarrassed.

Speaking of which, she feels quite similar to Ryoko. In the same way, she becomes bold and reckless after a little bit of exposure.

"How did he get home drunk?" asked Gao Qiaofeng.

"Of course he lives in my house. I carried him all the way back. Fortunately, he is rather thin, otherwise I really couldn't have carried him."

Wearing light makeup and with long pointed fingernails, Nao Kamizaki made a gesture of carrying a person, looking quite rough and wild, with no regard for her personal image at all, which was totally inconsistent with her cool outfit with high heels.

"He kept vomiting when I was taking care of him at night. It was so troublesome. The next morning, he woke up with a red face and wanted to leave, saying something like 'I can't trouble you too much'. Really, getting drunk when drinking with others is already very troublesome, okay?"

Nao Kamizaki tapped her head, looking like she had a headache.

Gao Qiaofeng looked at her thoughtfully. He didn't expect that the two people he met by chance would be so interesting.

There should be a lot of such people in Japan. They do everything to please themselves and do not care about the opinions of others. They have their own code of conduct and moral standards, abide by the law and are friendly to others. They will not listen to others' requests or force themselves to squeeze into the already crowded and seriously inward-looking marriage market. They go with the flow in love and would rather be single all their lives unless they meet someone who is a perfect match for their soul.

It is estimated that there will be more and more "beautiful mice" in the future who will change due to social pressure and finally adapt to society.

"If you have such a good relationship, why don't you consider just being together?" Gao Qiao Feng asked a heavy question.

"Hey, hey, Feng, is it really okay for you to ask so directly?"

Eriri widened her eyes and looked at Takahashi Kaede in disbelief.

Revealing the truth and asking questions so directly is like talking to netizens, showing complete trust and absolute belief that the other party has no bad intentions.

"It's okay. I also want to hear the opinions of you young middle school students. After all, Ichiro and I only have a small social circle. There is no one who can give us advice. All kinds of ideas basically come from our own wishes. It's not a bad thing to have more people give opinions. After all, it's better to listen to both sides."

Nao Kamizaki smiled gently, lifted her not-so-natural golden curly hair, and then supported her head with her hands.

"Ichiro is actually pursuing me." Nao Kamizaki sighed and said this.

“Eh——??!”

The three people sitting opposite shouted in surprise at the same time, with the tail end of the sound drawn out very long, and it could be heard that they were really surprised.

"Since I met him, I always get all kinds of small surprises when I'm at work, such as putting snacks in my desk, anonymously sending me true love chocolates on Valentine's Day, flowers, gifts and so on. He thinks I don't know. Every time he sends me gifts, he will shyly knock on my side when we drink together that night and ask me if I have encountered any happy things today. Of course I say no, how can I let him get away with it~"

Nao Kamizaki blinked her eyes, her eyelashes were long and thin, and she had eyeliner on the corners of her eyes, like a cunning nurse.

"Aren't you worried..." Takahashi Feng was about to ask a question, but was immediately interrupted by her outstretched hand.

"I definitely won't do such an overly self-conscious thing! This has happened many times. I realized something was wrong and thought there was a weird pervert, so I lied and said something was stolen. I checked the surveillance footage of our company's security department and finally found out it was this kid Ichiro." Although Nao Kamizaki's tone was disdainful, her expression seemed to be filled with a smile.

"how romantic!"

"Like a galgame!"

Eriri and Goto Ichiri looked at each other and could see the excitement in each other's eyes.

The love hidden beneath the paper, the two people who are unaware of each other but care about each other, when the opportunity comes, the most beautiful love blossoms!

Isn’t this the most romantic plot in the game!

For those who love deeply, great love is love in secret, and small love is love in the open.

Only the most subtle, most imperceptible, and most humble love hidden in life is the love that can last and be beautiful!

It is completely different from the love in school that wants everyone to know about it, which is extremely ostentatious but short-lived like a mayfly!

"This situation has actually been going on for quite a while. Ichiro is too timid and has never dared to confess his feelings to me. Although the gifts he gave me were not expensive, I didn't feel comfortable accepting them, so I would always take care of him at the company and listen to his chatter in the pub."

There is a tone in Nao Kamizaki's voice that suggests she feels sorry for the person for not being angry, and resents the person for not fighting.

"But in fact, even if he confessed to me, I wouldn't accept it..." Her tone changed, and Nao Kamisaki took a sip of the wine in the glass, becoming visibly sad.

“Hey hey hey! Why?”

The three were surprised again. They thought the story would start with the girlfriend who worked overtime, but why would Uesaki Nao be unwilling to accept Matsuo Ichiro's confession? Judging from the tone of her words just now, they were clearly in love!

"Confused? I'm actually also confused as to whether my way of thinking is correct."

"I feel that Ichiro is...too cowardly. We have such a good relationship that I can't bear to be cruel to him. But the fact is that he is always the weaker party in life and work. He also told me that he was the one who was bullied in school when he was a child, so he became addicted to virtual things like anime."

Although Nao Kamisaki's face was painted with rouge, the expression she revealed was more sincere than anyone else's.

"I am not a strong enough person to protect a weak person. Don't think I am so enthusiastic and bold when talking to you. That's because you are junior high school students. I am naturally very casual when talking to people younger than me. The key is that I feel pressure just facing those adults like me in society. If I agree to be with him, it will definitely not do him any good. He will think I am very strong at first, and then realize that I am not as perfect as he thinks in his mind in the process of getting along with me, and then he will gradually hate me."

"I can't give Ichiro what he wants, and it's not like he hates me, so I never planned to agree to his pursuit. Haha, when I put it this way, I'm quite like a bad woman, keeping others hanging, not taking the initiative and not expressing my feelings."

Nao Kamizaki smiled self-deprecatingly and subconsciously wanted to take a cigarette from her pocket, but withdrew her hand after realizing there were minors at the table.

"It's so awkward. You refuse to be with him because you're afraid that he won't be able to get better with you. Why do you think that? Shouldn't love only consider feelings?"

Eriri doesn't quite understand. She is a pure believer in love supremacy. As long as there is love between two people, all difficulties are not difficult for her.

"Too naive. Even if you live alone, you still have to consider a lot of things. A single woman like me at home has to be extremely vigilant even when facing a plumber or a courier."

Society is a jungle, and in the jungle, the weaker people are, the more potential dangers they face.

Gao Qiaofeng gradually understood her thoughts.

After all, she came to the conclusion that she could not agree to it after considering two aspects: herself and Ichiro Matsuo.

As for herself, she has obvious behaviors that show a lack of security, such as going to the izakaya after get off work and making herself as rough as a man, but she also learns to put on makeup in an attempt to fit in with the girls. Therefore, her requirement for her partner must be at least better than her and able to gain her recognition. However, through her observation of Matsuo Ichiro just now, he obviously does not look like a strong person, but rather the one who needs care.

She also took Ichiro Matsuo into consideration, whose position in the company was lower than Nao Kamizaki's. As his friend, Nao Kamizaki certainly hoped that Ichiro Matsuo could grow up and become independent, but now the way they get along is an attachment relationship. Ichiro Matsuo gets the opportunity to stay with Nao Kamizaki by giving gifts and satisfying her emotional needs, which is of no benefit to his spiritual expansion. If the two of them are together, this situation will only become more serious. The boy will be like a girl, and the girl will be like a boy.

The key is that this girl doesn't want to play the role of a man.

"Why don't we work hard together? There is still so much time in the future, and there are more opportunities than raindrops!"