I live my life in Tokyo

"Like her in what way?" Sakurajima Mai was not jealous because Higuchi Madoka's name appeared here, but continued to ask.

"She doesn't want to change herself, and I don't want to change this routine."

The young man smiled, but his smile was unclear in the darkness. Sakurajima Mai thought it was a faint smile of self-mockery, and her heart ached.

"On the one hand, I want to shine brighter and use my abilities to influence my fans. On the other hand, I want to stay where I am and not move forward. Is this complicated?"

"Do you like this kind of life, Fengsang?"

"If you ask me whether I like it or not, I definitely like it."

"I will always be by Fengsang's side, until the end of time."

Sakurajima Mai smiled, turned around, took a few steps away and turned in a circle. Her long skirt swayed slightly, as if she was dancing.

Like a noble swan.

She extended her hand to Sakakibara Kaede, "Feng-san, do you like the short story I recommended to you?"

"I saw the chapter about going to see the sea. Although it had a tragic ending, it was very meaningful."

"I don't like tragic endings either."

"At the seaside in the neon night and among the twinkling stars, there is no need for too many words. As soon as I looked at it, I sank into the unreal gray void, and suddenly I was gently pulled up by you." Sakurajima Mai said softly, and stretched out her hand to Sakakibara Kaede again.

The latter smiled and took the girl's hand.

Sakurajima Mai smiled with satisfaction, and completely gave her back to the young man, leaning on his chest. She could feel his strong heartbeat through his clothes.

"Some people say that listening to the heartbeat and waves of the person you love is the most beautiful symphony. What do you think, Feng-san?"

"I haven't heard of that."

"It's really unromantic."

Mai Sakurajima turned around and looked up at the latter.

"After reading so many short stories and essays about love, have you found any inspiration?"

Sakakibara Kaede loosened his grip on Mai Sakurajima's hand. He chuckled and looked out the window again. "I actually really like a line in Kanhai's short story. She said goodnight to you as usual, and you suddenly realized that she was a miracle in your life. Mai-san, you are a miracle that appeared in my life."

The girl blinked, and the young man in her eyes gave her a smile she had never seen before, a shy smile with a hint of youthful spirit.

Then she stepped forward, held up the young man's face, and stood on tiptoe.

Under the starlight, the girl's dream came true, and she felt at ease. Although she closed her eyes, she could sense the young man's presence. He was right in front of her, no longer so far away. At least, she had a firm grasp on him now.

That was the warmth she had longed for.

However, this warmth was fleeting.

In the darkness, Sakurajima Mai blushed slightly, and touched her lips lightly with her fingers. After a moment, she smiled and said, "This is my first kiss, Feng-senpai, you have to take responsibility."

"It was my first kiss too."

"I will take responsibility, don't worry, Senior Feng."

Neither of them spoke for a while.

Sakakibara Kaede sighed in his heart and pursed his lips. How lucky he was.

"What will life be like in the future?"

"Isn't Feng-san aware of himself?" Sakurajima Mai opened her mouth, and then couldn't help but burst out laughing. Feng-san really has no awareness of himself at all. He can't even notice that a girl likes him, so how could he notice that Asakura Toru and Higuchi Madoka are deliberately trying to get closer to him?

"Feng Sang is not good at this. Please leave part of your future life to me." She said softly, "I will let Feng Sang get the perfect ending that Feng Sang wants."

"If I let you say this, it would make me look like a scumbag."

"Ah, Feng-san may not be a scumbag now, but he will definitely be a scumbag in the future."

"?"

Mai Sakurajima chuckled. She only felt the warmth created by the sense of distance. This night was the eve of the young man's trip to Yokohama to bloom his own colors.

She also found her own touch of color.

Chapter 26 Call me Asuna, not Asuna

After washing his face with cold water, the young man raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror.

The person in the mirror is my ordinary self.

Meeting his current friends is the luckiest thing in his life.

He stood there blankly for a moment, then wiped the water droplets off his face with a towel.

The first kiss of Mai Sakurajima left a deep impression in his mind, but the girl said after the kiss that it would be a good thing for both parties to back off a little. This might mean that they were not a couple in love. Kaede Sakakibara's mind was a little fuzzy and he needed some time to think about things related to love.

The love between students is so simple and crude, from writing love letters and shouting confessions downstairs of the dormitory in the past to the current quick and easy way of confessing through text messages on mobile phones.

This may be the sense of form.

In the golden age of the past, when school was over, the girl would sit on the young man’s bicycle, hug the young man’s waist on the back seat, and smile in the wind.

He suddenly envied the simple and beautiful love that his parents had in his previous life.

After the kiss, Sakurajima Mai continued to maintain a distance like that of a friend, and what made Sakakibara Kaede feel ashamed was that he actually felt relieved.

Because he didn't know how to adjust his mindset to give an answer to the miracle that appeared in his life, the girl who sometimes smiled and sometimes acted like a little devil.

This kind of evasion made the young man feel a little bit of self-loathing. It was the disgust in his heart that Sakurajima Mai was so considerate of him, but he could not give her a response.

"Let's continue to be friends from now on."

Under the starry sky, Sakurajima Mai smiled softly. She did not dare to stay close to the young man, but stepped back a few steps, standing at a distance, the distance between good friends, and looked at him gently.

"Feng-san and I are both actors, and we are also public figures." Sakurajima Mai said, counting on her fingers, "Feng-san is also a singer in a band. I don't want to affect Feng-san because of me..."

"Feng, you want to shine brighter than anyone else, right?"

"Besides me..."

Sakurajima Mai paused for a moment, then laughed, "Forget it, let them tell you in person."

"they?"

Sakakibara Kaede looked into the mirror, with a hint of confusion in her blue eyes. What did she mean by "they"?

After washing up and returning to the room, Sakakibara Kaede breathed a sigh of relief and put on his headphones. Now that Sakurajima Mai moved in, the noise of him and Yuuki Asuna playing games suddenly became much quieter. Playing games is playing games, and it is not good to disturb others.

The two of them have long lost the recklessness they had when Koichiro Yuki was still around.

"Hey, hey, can you hear me?"

The team in the headset was filled with a lot of chatter. Tonight was the 24-player high-difficulty dungeon opening day for Sword Art Online. Many people had already fought the boss before, but they didn't know the boss's attack pattern. As for the strategy... they were currently part of the strategy group. Without them, how could there be a strategy?

All the members present had good equipment and no problems with their output methods. Sakakibara Kaede took a look around and started forming a team.

"Asuna, how is the equipment?"

Switching to the private chat, Sakakibara opened Asuna's equipment column and said, "Hey, not bad. Besides the rapier I helped you get, where did you get this blue quality leather armor?"

"Hehe, this was dropped by Mitt when he was accompanying me in the exploration. It has good attributes, and I have been using it until now."

Yuuki Asuna's cheerful voice came from the other end, but then her tone dropped slightly, revealing a little worry, "But is it really okay for Sakakibara-senpai to play so late? Although it's the weekend, Sakakibara-senpai will go out to Yokohama tomorrow to make final preparations, right?"

"It's just a small matter. Besides, the office has scheduled an afternoon trip for tomorrow... And here, you should call me Harukaze, right?"

"Ah... I'm sorry, I suddenly forgot, because Harukaze kept calling me Asuna (Asumina)... I thought..." Yuuki Asuna's voice suddenly became softer, and she said in a whisper.

"Ah, Asuna, do you mind if I call you that? Or is it better to call you Asuna-san from now on?" Sakakibara paused, "In real life, do you think I should call you Yuuki-kun or Asuna-kun?"

There was a sudden silence on the other end of the voice.

Asuna Yuuki hugged her knees. She now understood the inconvenience of using her name as the game ID.

Every time Sakakibara Kaede called her, it was Asuna with a different tone of voice.

Harukaze called out Asuna when she was worried, Harukaze said Asuna in a cheerful tone when she was resting, and Harukaze said Asuna's name seriously when she was conquering a boss...

This made her think that it was the most normal thing for Sakakibara Kaede to call her name without her noticing. . .

Until she took off her headphones and was no longer the swordsman named Asuna, but a senior high school student named Yuuki Asuna. When she heard Sakakibara-senpai call her "Yuuki-kun" in the same gentle tone, she felt a sense of alienation.

The content in the game is so wonderful, as if it is another different world, especially online games. When you create your own character, work hard to level up, gain skill points, and get equipment and food, everything makes people extremely engaged, as if it is all real. The active person in the game is your own avatar in another world.

But games are not reality.

The person who gently called her name Asuna in the game always maintained a politeness and distance towards her in real life, which she didn't want.

"I want you... In real life, call me Asuna too."

"Forehead..."

"Really? You clearly invited me to dance at the beginning, have you forgotten now?" Yuuki Asuna said in a pretentious manner.

Kaede Sakakibara broke out in cold sweat because Yuki Koichiro would talk about this matter every few days. Every time the two of them bickered with each other, the science guy would always bring up the sentence "You danced with my sister."

Fortunately, Koichiro Yuki is not here now. If he heard this, he would not be able to sleep tonight.

"Then... Asuna."

"..."

Asuna Yuuki nodded quietly. She knew that Kaede Sakakibara was not calling her by her game ID at this time, but was just calling her by her name in real life.

The strange ambiguity lasted for an unknown amount of time. After Mitt jumped up and down in front of the two of them, Sakakibara Kaede coughed and said, "Asuna, let's go back to the team chat. Let's try to defeat the boss's second stage tonight."

Looking at the IDs of the team, there were people he knew, as well as new faces who had just joined the guild and wanted to give it a try in the strategy group. Sakakibara Kaede coughed lightly and sorted out his emotions. "According to the information from Yuuki and Naotsugu, as well as the chairman of the strategy group guild DDD, Crasti—"

Mai Sakurajima looked at the phone screen with a smile on her face.

"I confessed to Feng-san today, and his reaction was better than I expected. I'll wait for you guys from now on."

"...Ha, what do you mean by an imagined reaction?" Higuchi Madoka replied coldly, with a hint of anger between the lines.

"Ah... I think Feng-san is likely to run away, because we agreed to watch a movie together that night, but Feng-san still ran away."

There were three people in the discussion group, Mai Sakurajima, Toru Asakura and Madoka Higuchi.

This discussion group was just created by Mai Sakurajima.

"He seemed to accept it very calmly." Sakurajima Mai typed. As smart as she was, she naturally didn't tell anyone about the kiss. This was a secret that she and the young man kept in their hearts. "But I still kept a proper distance from Feng Sang. I was afraid that if I pushed him too much, he would just run away."

Higuchi Madoka did not reply, so Asakura Toru typed three ellipsis marks and then posted an emoticon of several cats making an OK gesture.

Mai Sakurajima knew that they understood what she meant.

Senior Feng, wait for the attack.

Well, that being said, Mai Sakurajima was still looking forward to seeing the expression on Kaede Sakakibara's face when he saw the girls coming up to him one after another to confess their love to her.

downstairs.

Asakura Toru looked at Higuchi Madoka, who was sitting on the sofa eating snacks in a depressed mood, and put his arms around her neck from behind and put his head close to Higuchi Madoka's face.

"...What's wrong?"

"nothing."

"Ah... are you jealous? Hehe."

"No."

Higuchi Madoka glared at Asakura Toru and pursed her lips. The pain in her heart slowly broke out again. She originally wanted to say that she was the one who came first... But it seemed that Sakurajima Mai was the one who came first.

If she could not express the words in her heart, and she lost him, the two of them would remain good friends until the end.

She had already imagined that ten years later, Higuchi Yuanka would meet Sakakibara Kaede on the street. By then, the two had grown up. They exchanged a friendly smile, said hello, chatted for a few words, and finally passed each other.

If it were a director, he would definitely write a plot that would make people regret for the rest of their lives.

This kind of plot is indeed very suitable for me.

Higuchi Yuanka hugged Asakura Toru's warm arms and glanced to the side.

Change?

"Well... Higuchi, come on."

Asakura Toru moved to the sofa, leaned on Higuchi Madoka's shoulder, and fell asleep quickly as if he had let go of a worry.

Higuchi Madoka gently pushed Asakura Toru to wake him up. Now she couldn't fall asleep at night. She turned on the screen of her phone again and watched Mai Sakurajima type in the characters. After a long time, she typed in the characters.