I live my life in Tokyo

Leno flowers were floating outside the window. Sakakibara Feng picked up an egg dumpling, put it down again, and looked out the window in a daze.

"I feel like you've been feeling a little empty lately, Sakakibara." Doma Ohira was struggling with the hamburger meat in his lunch box. "I always feel like I've accomplished everything, and the next moment I'm retired."

"That's about it. I just finished filming Kamen Rider, and I feel like my acting career has been fulfilled. There's nothing more I can ask for."

"Isn't there Ultraman?"

"Hiss... You're stirring up my fighting spirit, that's not good."

Doma Ohira shrugged and said with a smile, "You seem to be in low spirits, but now you can properly arrange your work and rest time, and even start playing games. I am very happy about this. That's great, very good."

"I'm sorry to have made you worry, Mother Doma."

The two men were joking when they were surrounded by ministers and military officials. They surrounded the two men who were eating their lunch boxes.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty issued an order, and for his meritorious service in filming Kamen Rider, Captain Sakaki Atomyuu was promoted to General of Cavalry with an imperial decree.

The first General of Cavalry was the young genius Huo Qubing, which shows the expectations that the Han emperor had for him.

The appearance of the two women immediately caused all the officials and military officials to whisper to each other. A sharp-eyed censor recognized them at a glance and whispered a few words to the guards standing guard in front of the hall door, who let the two women in.

"Ah, can we do it here?"

Sakakibara Kaede and Doma Ohira looked up and saw Asakura Toru standing in front of the table with a lunch box in her hand, followed by Higuchi Madoka, who had a strange look on her face.

"Of course you can. You must be Sakakibara's acquaintances, right?" Doma Ohira wiped his mouth. "I'm done eating. You guys can chat slowly. Sakakibara, I'm going to work this afternoon. Please take care of the club door."

"Okay, walk slowly."

Asakura Toru let out a "whoosh" and sat down opposite Sakakibara Kaede, while Higuchi Madoka frowned slightly and sat next to the young man.

She just vaguely heard these seniors calling them family, and wanted to refute, but it was not convenient for her to say it in front of the seniors she didn't know.

Higuchi Madoka is a person who keeps a distance very well. If you oppose them, you will only receive strange looks. Besides, when Asakura and I came to the open day last year and had the honor of displaying Professor Kimura, these seniors were indeed present.

Well, that must be the reason why she didn't want to object.

"Interesting." Asakura Toru couldn't take his eyes off it. He followed Wenwu's every word and action, with a gleam of curiosity and exploration in his eyes.

Higuchi Madoka did not behave like her childhood sweetheart. She opened the lunch box and put the omelette into her mouth silently.

"How is Professor Kimura's class? Is it difficult?"

"It's just so-so. I took notes, but I didn't understand some parts of it." Higuchi Madoka frowned and said softly, "I can understand the data part, but I don't understand the part about the economic conclusion."

"Do you need me to explain it to you?"

"Is it convenient for you?"

"Well... Next I'm going to the software department. As you know, there shouldn't be many people there. I should go over to your homework there, or I'll go downstairs tonight..."

Higuchi Yuanxiang picked up a fried dumpling and put it into Sakakibara Kaede's lunch box.

"Hiss, what's the matter? I'm not someone who can be seduced by food!"

"You ate the most fried dumplings the night before last," Higuchi Yuanxiang said expressionlessly.

"This is force majeure. You also know that the plate of fried dumplings is closest to me."

"Hey--"

The two of them raised their heads at the same time, and Asakura Toru put the fried dumplings in his lunch box into the young man's lunch box.

Higuchi Madoka's eyes moved, and she looked at Asakura Toru quietly. She seemed to have found the answer.

"Happiness, share it with you."

Asakura Toru said with a faint smile.

Higuchi Madoka glanced at the young man sideways. At that time, the expression on Sakakibara Kaede's face when she was eating this dish was indeed one of nostalgia and happiness.

It was just that while eating the fried dumplings, he remembered his mother who used to make fried dumplings for him when she was hungry. Sakakibara Kaede was stunned and let out a helpless smile.

"Thank you."

The censors standing by saw that General Wei was not at all confused when surrounded by two beauties. He even chatted with them about the course in an orderly manner. They all marveled at General Wei's profound attainments.

The software department is still empty as always, although for Kaede Sakakibara, adding members is a top priority, because if there are not enough people, the software department may be completely abolished next year.

But Sakakibara Kaede doesn't need to worry about this for the time being. He just needs to help with the recruitment posters.

He opened the door with the key, and sure enough, there was no one inside. He turned on the light and turned on the computer.

"Asakura-san, if you have any questions, you can ask me."

"...Oh, it's Sakakibara-san in teacher state." Asakura Toru took a step back with lingering fear.

“Here are my notes from last year. I hope they can help you.”

Sakakibara opened his laptop, sent the scanned version of last year's class notes to the two of them, and then began to explain the difficult points.

Professor Kimura's teaching materials and courses have not generally changed. Sakakibara Kaede had nothing to do at the moment, so he began to analyze the content of the class in detail for the two of them, and he would immediately explain any parts they didn't understand.

Asakura Toru was able to be admitted to the University of Tokyo. According to Mrs. Asakura, it was because their ancestors of the Asakura family prayed to the gods, or one of Asakura's ancestors possessed Toru Asakura during the exam, allowing her to get the score to enter the University of Tokyo.

To enter the Department of Economics, it is not enough to just have interest. There are obviously many things that Asakura Toru does not understand. At this moment, he is holding a pen in his mouth, looking at his notes, frowning and thinking silently, his mind has already flown to what to eat for dinner today.

The knock on the door made Sakakibara Kaede, who was immersed in her tutoring, raise her head. Higuchi Madoka came to her senses, stood up and opened the door.

"what."

"what..."

It was a girl she had met once before, and Higuchi Madoka nodded silently and made way for her. Although they had only met once in real life, she had seen her many times on TV, and she was a very popular freshman among the freshmen.

"Isn't this Kasumigaoka-san? What brings you here?" Sakakibara Kaede moved the notes on the touchpad with her fingers and turned her head to greet him.

The arrival of Kasumigaoka Utaha broke the balance of one man and two women, and also broke the strong learning atmosphere here.

"Did Sakakibara-senpai forget?"

"I don't think I remember what I promised?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha's beautiful eyes turned, and when she saw the looks from Higuchi Madoka and Asakura Toru, she was not prepared to say any ambiguous and trap-filled dirty talk.

"Let's make a game. Let's make a game. I hope Sakakibara-senpai won't forget it."

"Oh, so that's it. I told you, I only provide the final software operation. Have you guys finished the rest of the story, illustrations, and music?"

"The female protagonist's storyline is almost complete."

"I remember you were the four female protagonists."

Higuchi Madoka sat next to Asakura Toru, and the two of them were silent, or perhaps they could not interrupt the conversation between Sakakibara Kaede and Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Asakura Toru, on the other hand, looked nonchalant, completely lacking the audacity of picking up food for the young man while eating. Higuchi Madoka listened attentively for a while, but the topic gradually turned to a conversation that only experienced galgame players could understand, so she gave up on continuing to listen to Overheard and started writing down her thoughts after reading the book, just like Asakura Toru.

"Senior Sakakibara, can I join your software club?" After Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sakakibara Kaede agreed to send the collection version of the female lead tonight, they asked with a smile.

Sakakibara leaned back in his chair. "It's not worth it just to make a game."

"Let's not talk about other things. To join our club, you must have a few unique skills, such as coding, programming, and designing. Kasumigaoka-san, you are a novelist, so you really don't want to join the popular literature club of Tokyo University?"

"There are too few seniors in the literature club who are truly interested in literature. Most of them are just hungry male seniors who want to hunt women." Kasumigaoka Utaha did not hesitate to use her venomous tongue to criticize the current situation of the literature club.

Although it is poisonous, that's what it is.

"I think I can let this junior sister try--"

The senior student with glasses walked in hoarsely from outside the door. His eyes were bloodshot from staying up late. He pushed his glasses and looked at Sakakibara Kaede, "Literature, to some extent, is code."

"President, please don't confuse right and wrong just because we don't have any new students joining the club, okay?"

Chapter 4 Chestnut-haired Angel

Kasumigaoka Utaha's joining the club was just a small episode. As the club's president, he naturally would not relax the admission conditions just because the other party was a beautiful girl.

He also turned a blind eye to Kaede Sakakibara using the club as a place for remedial lessons. There are simply no people in the club now, and it would be too annoying to emphasize the rules.

After the two left, Higuchi Madoka had almost finished organizing her notes. She stood beside Sakakibara Kaede and handed him the notebook.

"Sit down, it's useless anyway." Sakakibara Kaede stopped reading for a while and pulled a chair for Higuchi Yuanxiang to sit down. "By the way, this seat was originally mine."

"This sentence is a bit redundant."

"It's not intentional, it's just that after the seniors graduated, all that was left was a chair." Sakakibara Kaede blinked. He was now sitting in the seat that was once occupied by Koichiro Yuki.

"Only seniors? Aren't there any seniors in the club?"

"Well... no girl would be interested in coding." Sakakibara hesitated for a moment and shrugged. "It's similar to choosing civil engineering."

"But I think programming is actually a very romantic thing. Although the process is boring and takes a lot of time, the results of programming are as dazzling as the stars in the sky."

The young man looked at the potted plants by the window. These were succulents planted by the seniors themselves, and there were also his children in them. "Although the seniors have left, their traces are still there. Those lines of seemingly disorganized code are all their hard work and growth."

“They graduate, but the creations are there.”

Sakakibara Kaede's voice carries a hint of longing and appreciation. Creating something is an enjoyable thing. Even if a person leaves this world one day, the thing he created exists on the Internet. As long as someone uses it, they can remember the creator. Isn't this a kind of romance?

Higuchi Madoka quietly stared at the young man's profile.

“Is this the same reason why you chose to become an actor?”

"Ah."

Sakakibara Kaede did not avoid this question. It was not something difficult to get angry about, especially since he had said this to all the viewers in front of the TV on a reality show.

"My image is forever recorded on screen tapes, recorded on TV networks, and engraved in the hearts of viewers. Even if one day I..."

“—Don’t say any more.”

Higuchi Yuanxiang frowned and glared at the young man, "We have already wasted five minutes while you were talking nonsense."

"Sorry, sorry. I'll show you right away."

Toru Asakura was holding a pen in his mouth, and he seemed to be lost in thought when he saw this scene. The slanting sunlight shone obliquely on the two of them, and his clear eyes, as their name suggests, throbbed slightly.

This is just a daily routine for the first few days of school.

The room gradually turned red. The young man pinched his temples and said, "Why does it feel like my life now is no different from before?"

"If you mean tutoring, yes."

"Ah... I don't want to make up lessons."

"Asakura, don't you want to study hard?"

"These are two things, okay."

Kaede Sakakibara glanced at the two people waiting for him in front of the club building, turned the key on his finger twice, and then locked the door.

Then he quickly followed the two of them.

"Ah, I didn't see Sakurajima-san next to Sakakibara-san today." Asakura Toru said unintentionally.

"Sakurajima-san went to shoot a commercial today. I'd like to know how she's doing in the literature department." Sakakibara Kaede received a text message from Sakurajima Mai in the morning, so naturally she had some idea of ​​where she was going.

Higuchi Yuanka glanced at the young man and turned to Asakura Toru who had spoken shockingly. The latter was now standing with his hands behind his head, watching the seniors from the club laughing and playing in the distance.

Was it intentional or unintentional?

Higuchi Enka didn't know.

They took the train back to the central district and said goodbye downstairs. Sakakibara Kaede was no longer their teacher, and he could not continue to stay in their world to cook. As for dinner today, he planned to order takeout.

Although it’s a bit expensive... He, who rents a tower block, actually also thinks it’s expensive. This is actually not the same thing.

It's okay to live in a better place, but there are people who should save money when necessary, right? Although he has savings, he just lives a simple life. There's no need to make a big fuss about everything. It's not that he can't afford a Michelin restaurant Kaiseki meal every week, but he thinks it's a bit of a waste of money.

Stepping on the soft floor and changing into home slippers, Sakakibara Feng said softly, "I'm back."

No one responded with a smile and welcomed home, but Sakakibara Kaede had to tiptoe.

The ladies' leather shoes placed in front of the door meant that Yuuki Asuna had arrived home, but there were no shoes for Yuuki Koichiro. I learned from the group that he was working in the company together with the other employees, and I could only express my admiration for him.

The chandelier in the living room was lighting up with a warm yellow glow. The young man came to the refrigerator and poured himself a cup of iced black tea. He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window admiring the Tokyo Skytree, feeling like a high-end successful person.

This mentality is wrong. Fame and fortune are like clouds to me.

Sakakibara Kaede clicked his tongue and walked towards his room with the cup.

Yuuki Asuna's room was next to his, at the end of the corridor, with the door closed. She was probably reviewing for the exam.

This is Yuuki Asuna's last year of high school, and Sakakibara Kaede naturally understands and tries not to make any noise.