Tokyo: Love Begins with Controlling the Rich Girl

These past two days, Youyue has been bringing him food every morning.

While taking out his lunchbox, Shimada Sho glanced back out of the corner of his eye.

Yukine Kamishiro sat quietly in her seat, looking at the geography book open in front of her.

She didn't leave her seat or talk to anyone during the entire break, and her posture didn't even change much.

Just as he started eating, Kiryu Ichiyo walked into the classroom with a beautifully presented bento box.

But Yukine Kamishiro simply put the bento aside and continued reading with her head down.

She didn't seem to have much of an appetite.

Seeing this, Shimada Sho quickly finished his bento.

After taking a sip of water, he leaned on the table and opened the character panel.

[Do you want to log in as the character "Kamishiro Yukine"?]

"Yes"

[Enable smart managed mode?]

"no."

Chapter 145 I Don't Want to Play Hide-and-Seek Anymore

Because of what happened yesterday, Shimada Sho has decided to temporarily stop the childcare service.

I'll figure out the hosting logic in the next couple of days before using it.

After confirming his login, his vision blurred and his consciousness left his body.

But just like last time, the wait wasn't too long.

In the blink of an eye, his gaze shifted from in front to behind.

I could see myself lying on the desk in front of me at a glance.

He's already inside the young lady's body.

Having successfully logged in, Shimada Sho didn't rush to speak.

He was waiting for the young lady to speak first.

In the past, she would always greet me whenever I logged in.

But this time, after waiting for a long time, no sound came to my mind.

"Yukine?" Shimada Sho couldn't wait any longer.

Then a familiar voice echoed in his mind: "Mr. Thug".

Her voice betrayed no emotion, but rather carried a deep weariness.

Shimada Sho felt a little sorry for him and took the initiative to start a conversation: "Why is there a bento box here? Haven't you had lunch yet?"

"I do not want to eat."

"...Are you getting used to school?"

"Ah."

How are you getting along with your classmates?

"Fortunately."

Each sentence has an answer, but they are all very brief.

His tone was calm, revealing no emotional fluctuation.

She wasn't very talkative before.

But at least when she speaks, Shimada Sho can hear her emotions and understand whether she is happy or angry.

When she's happy, her voice will be louder; when she's shy or trying to avoid something, she'll fall silent.

If someone is planning to do something bad, they may try to appear calm, but they can't hide the excitement in their words.

And now...

Her voice was just like a glass of plain water, without any impurities.

There was only pure blankness.

Feeling the hunger emanating from this body, Shimada Sho sat up straight and took the bento box from the table in front of him.

"Yukine," he said, opening the app as he spoke in his most authoritative tone, "I want to talk to you about what happened yesterday."

The young lady did not respond; her mind was completely silent.

Shimada Sho knew she could hear him, so he didn't dwell on it and said directly, "The boy we saw together in the activity room yesterday... Ayase Yuki, you don't seem very happy?"

"No," Yukine Kamishiro responded calmly. "He's just an ordinary classmate. Who he's with is none of my business."

"..." Shimada Sho felt as if his heart had been stabbed.

Although this was the result of his own actions.

Using smart hosting dispelled her doubts and convinced her that Shimada Sho and Mr. Thug were not the same person.

But when he heard her say in such a flat tone that he had nothing to do with her, he couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest.

Suppressing the inexplicable emotional turmoil within him, Shimada Sho refocused his attention on his initial goal.

He tried asking, "Why do you seem so listless? Are you feeling unwell, or has something happened?"

no respond.

Yukine Kamishiro remained silent for a long time.

It was only when Shimada Sho thought she wasn't going to answer that he heard her voice again.

"Mr. Thug".

"What's wrong?" Shimada Sho immediately responded.

As long as we can still communicate, that's fine.

But then, Yukine Kamishiro asked in a weak voice, "Do you find it tiring to look for people?"

"what?"

"Looking for someone," Yukine Kamishiro repeated calmly. "Looking for someone. I don't know what he looks like or what his name is, I only know that he's also in Tokyo..."

Her voice paused for a moment, then continued: "He's probably in school too, and happens to be a high school student."

"..."

"But you have to find him among countless people, and you can't just ask him directly. You have to observe, guess, and probe little by little..."

Shimada Sho didn't know what to say.

The young lady remained silent for a long time.

But once he opened his mouth, he stopped trying to tug and probe.

“I searched for a long time, from the first time he crawled into my body and helped me drive away those kidnappers, to later helping me shoo away the flies around me and taking me to the Kanda River…”

Shimada Sho had mixed feelings.

These words were all said to him.

"I checked many schools and asked Yuki to help me find out. Later I found out that he might know Nozomi Sasaki, who lives in the Tohno area, and might even make Chinese fried rice..."

Shimada Sho was speechless for a moment.

It turns out she had been looking for him for a long time.

At that time, he thought he had hidden it very well.

“I carefully wrote down every clue in my notebook, hoping to piece together a complete person from these fragments.”

Her voice rang out again, as if she were telling a story.

But as he spoke, a hint of helplessness crept into his voice. "Later, I found someone whose tone of voice was like his, whose way of doing things was like his, and even the way he looked at people was somewhat like his. Every clue matched up, and every guess was confirmed."

I thought I had found it, so I transferred schools, moved to a new house, and came to a completely unfamiliar school.

I sat behind this man, watching him every day, testing him, waiting for evidence to prove he was the one.

Shimada Sho: "..."

The young lady has already made it clear.

She didn't even hide the reason why she transferred schools.

It wasn't a sudden urge to change environments; it was to find him.

Following one clue after another.

"But you've got the wrong person, haven't you?" After a long silence, Shimada Sho said against his will.

"Yes." Yukine Kamishiro did not deny it.

She muttered bitterly to herself, "When Yuki was holding that person yesterday, Mr. Thug was online on my end, so he couldn't possibly be Mr. Thug. He's just an ordinary classmate who gets good grades and is a decent person."

Shimada Sho felt he couldn't sit still any longer.

For a fleeting moment, he felt an urge to refute that statement.

Tell her directly that you are that person and can control two bodies at the same time.

Her guess was right!

He confessed directly and regretted it.

Seeing her now so disheartened, all of Shimada Sho's previous worries seemed to have become irrelevant.

If honesty can help her recover and regain her mental strength, he is willing to tell the truth and bear all the possible consequences of being honest.

After a long while, his impulse subsided somewhat.

In my mind, the young lady's voice echoed again: "So, Mr. Thug."

"Ok?"

Who exactly are you?

"..."

Shimada Sho fell silent again.

He wasn't ready to answer, so he changed the subject and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Yukine Kamishiro's voice was unusually calm. "I just don't want to play hide-and-seek like this anymore. I'm so tired."

tired.

The words uttered with such weariness seemed to weigh a ton.

It weighed heavily on Shimada Sho's heart.

He recalled the scene in her mind when she curiously asked him if he was possessed by a spirit when he first logged in.

And under the cherry blossom tree by the Kanda River, I used her body to make fried rice for her.

She tutored him at the shrine, and took a bath in the bathroom...

Memories flooded back, and Shimada Sho let out a sigh. "Yukine, do you really want to know?"

Chapter 146 Cloudy Turning Partly Cloudy

During lunch break, most students go out to eat.

Although some people chose to stay in the classroom, only a few did.

The students were all busy with their own things, mostly eating, so it was unusually quiet.

Shimada Sho sat at the back, his gaze sweeping across the classroom before finally settling on the login countdown in front of him.

【00:03:12】

There are three minutes left.

He decided to use this last bit of time to reveal his identity.

It's simply to tell Yukine Kamishiro that she hasn't made a mistake.