Tokyo: Love Begins with Controlling the Rich Girl

It's clearly a local specialty, not some high-end product.

"That, that is..."

Upon seeing his actions, Nozomi Sasaki, sitting opposite him, was startled, and her voice became tense.

Shimada Sho looked up at her. "What's this?"

The girl's face flushed crimson, and she stammered an explanation, "It...it's mine. I originally wanted to...but then..."

Her lips trembled for a long time as she tried to explain.

Her voice was so soft that even she couldn't hear it, let alone Shimada Sho.

However, seeing her embarrassed appearance, Shimada Sho probably guessed what was going on.

He smiled faintly, opened the box, took out a cookie, and took a small bite.

Sasaki Nozomi, who was about to explain, froze on the spot, looking incredulous.

Seeing that the young lady was about to finish the small square cookie, he realized what had happened.

So she struggled to lift her head and asked cautiously, "Is it...delicious?"

"So-so," Shimada Sho commented as he ate.

"Eh?"

After finishing the cookie, he complained, "Ordinary people's food is really not good."

“This…” Nozomi Sasaki’s expectation disappeared.

Instead, there was a deep sense of inferiority and shame.

As expected, milk biscuits are simply not good enough for the young lady.

Even if it was sent by her grandmother, in the young lady's eyes it was just commoner's food.

I was so stupid to even think of giving this as a return gift!

"However..."

As Nozomi Sasaki wallowed in self-pity, Sho Shimada's voice rang out again.

She looked up at the sound and saw the young lady close the cookie box, put it beside her, and say, "Since this is a gift from you, Xiao Ximei, then I will reluctantly accept it."

"Huh?" The reversal came too fast, and Sasaki didn't react for a moment.

Shimada Sho pointed to the box. "Isn't this it?"

"Ah! Yes...yes!" After hearing this, she nodded quickly.

A hint of relief crept into his eyes.

My return gift was accepted!

While he was still thinking, he heard the young lady speak again and ask, "What is it?"

"Huh?" Nozomi Sasaki was dumbfounded again.

Shimada Sho pointed at the cookies, frowned, and asked, "What's this?"

"Yes, yes, yes...it's a cookie..."

"anything else?"

"A gift..." Nozomi Sasaki was unsure.

The young lady asked again, "The gift, for whom?"

"For...for Kamishiro-kun."

"Who's giving this to Kamishiro-kun?"

"I……"

Shimada Sho narrowed his eyes slightly. "Who are you?"

"I... Nozomi Sasaki, the cookies are a return gift for Kamishiro-kun, as a return gift for the box of chocolates from yesterday!"

Realizing what the young lady wanted to hear, Sasaki Nozomi blurted out her thoughts in one breath.

Because it was the first time I had spoken such a long sentence, I was a little out of breath by the end.

Shimada Sho watched this scene with a mocking smile.

He certainly wasn't just looking for fun out of boredom, using female classmates as the female protagonist in erotic novels.

All this talk is actually for the little princess in my head to hear.

After saying this, he asked in his mind, "Did you hear that?"

"Mmm," Yukine Kamishiro replied softly.

Shimada Sho sighed, "Is that all you have?"

“Yesterday, Mr. Thug gave Sasaki chocolate, and today she brought something of her own as a thank you.”

As if knowing what Shimada Sho wanted to hear, Kamishiro Yukine blurted it all out this time.

"What did you do?" Shimada Sho asked again.

This time, there was no silence. Yukine Kamishiro replied, "Take her to the lounge and threaten her to eat..."

"If Yukine, you prepared a gift, but I completely ignored it and forced you to do something you didn't like, how would you feel?" Shimada Sho set an example, determined to make the young lady understand the meaning of the word "friend."

Yukine Kamishiro seemed to think for a moment, "The feeling of being ignored is strange, it makes me want to cry, just like how Mr. Thug was only focused on chatting with Sasaki-kun, but if it was Mr. Thug forcing me..."

"Alright, alright!" Shimada Sho said, embarrassed, and quickly interrupted.

This little girl's thought process is a bit different from normal people.

This kind of verbal guidance will only lead to increasingly strange directions.

After thinking for a moment, he simply said, "Would you like to receive gifts from your friends, just like Mr. Thug?"

"Yes." This time, Yukine Kamishiro answered without any hesitation.

Shimada Sho instructed, "Then after I leave, give Sasaki a gift yourself. It can be snacks or ordinary stationery, anything that isn't too expensive."

“Okay,” Yukine Kamishiro replied.

She didn't want Mr. Thug to become friends with anyone other than herself.

But if it were me, having a friend like Mr. Thug would be really fun, right?

Hearing her reply, Shimada Sho breathed a sigh of relief.

My painstaking demonstration was worthwhile.

Saying you don't want friends is just a manifestation of possessiveness, and that should be something you can change.

As long as she experiences the feeling of friends caring for each other.

Like Sasaki, after receiving a gift, he would then share the gift with the recipient.

Once Yukine Kamishiro has personally experienced this feeling and understood the meaning of friendship, she will be able to let go of it.

This was the thought that came to Shimada Sho's mind after he couldn't persuade the young lady.

As long as it can be executed, there will definitely be no problem.

Having settled this matter, Shimada Sho raised his fair wrist and glanced at the exquisite ladies' watch on it.

Fifteen minutes have passed since then.

Judging from the length of yesterday's connection, he still has a lot of time to do activities.

But sitting here, there's definitely nothing we can do.

He then said goodbye to Nozomi Sasaki, got up and headed out of the school. "We still have some time, let's go pick out a gift for Nozomi!"

“Okay,” Yukine Kamishiro replied softly.

Shimada Sho took her out, and they soon arrived downstairs.

As he walked along, he realized that this was not a teaching building, but a club activity building.

The room we just left must have been a club activity room.

The luxurious interior and the impressive-looking decorations suggest it's a special kind of club.

However, Shimada Sho asked curiously, "Did Kamishiro join the club too?"

There was no response; it seemed the young lady had gone into standby mode again.

"Miss?"

"Yukine?"

"It's not the club building."

Expecting only silence in response, Shimada Sho called out several times in succession.

As soon as I called out to Yukine, there was an immediate response.

"So you want me to call you by your name..." Shimada Sho was speechless.

However, she accepted it and then asked, "What was that room just now?"

Nothing's happening again.

"Yukine?"

That's my private lounge.

"..."

They really are damn rich people. I should have known better than to ask.

Feeling indignant, Shimada Sho carefully chose his words before asking, "Why is there exercise equipment in Yukine's rest room?"

"Because I wanted to become as powerful as Mr. Thug, I had the butler make some changes to the opposite side."

"..."

I still have to go for a run and exercise first thing in the morning.

With just a word from Miss Ren, the matter was settled right there at the school.

Rich people deserve to die!

Chapter Twenty-Four: The Young Lady's Secret

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Just as the school bell was about to ring, a familiar light screen appeared in front of Shimada Sho's eyes.

The countdown reminded him that the connection was about to end.

"It's alright."

Shimada Sho muttered to himself, glancing up at Sasaki Nozomi sitting in front of him.

Before that, he took the young lady to buy a gift outside the school.

I tried all sorts of methods on the road, hoping to trigger more tasks.

Regardless of whether Shimada Sho took the initiative to suggest seeking excitement and invited Kamishiro Yukine to the amusement park.

Even when deliberately performing dangerous actions, the system remains completely unresponsive.

After buying the gift, Shimada Sho even controlled this body and went to a red-light district more than 20 kilometers away. He allowed the young lady to observe the sexy hostesses and male escorts up close for the first time.

The result was nothing but whistles and teasing.

The clueless young lady didn't understand the meaning at all.

She doesn't even know what sexual harassment is.

Pure as a blank sheet of paper, knowing nothing.

If this applies to bound characters, then it goes without saying that systems that passively trigger tasks based solely on character status are even more problematic.

There was absolutely no reaction throughout the entire process.

Helpless, Shimada Sho could only return and sit idly in the classroom, killing time.

The only gain during this period was probably learning about Sasaki Nozomi's true situation through conversations with her.