I live my life in Tokyo

Here, he met a girl of the same age from another high school in the town.

When they met for the first time, a customer who looked like a senior student approached the girl. When she was in trouble, the male protagonist stepped forward and used clever words to resolve the crisis of being approached in the convenience store.

The two met because of a small incident.

She wasn't particularly good at studying, but she was considered to be in the upper middle level in school. The further the common line went on, the more scenes she appeared in.

Whether it's the unspoken understanding during work, or sipping juice outside a convenience store after work while chatting about irrelevant topics under the sun.

It is impossible for people to be destined to be open-hearted when they meet each other from the very beginning.

Why does she work part-time? Why does she work so hard? Why does she still quietly...practice what?

Feng found that the girl always liked to arrive at the convenience store early, and she liked to be alone in the lounge. When he couldn't help but ask curiously, the girl just smiled and said it was her secret.

As expected of a common thread, it fully creates the mystery of this girl who attends another school and only interacts with Kaede Sakakibara while working part-time, which really whets the appetite of players.

Compared to her, the class monitor's performance in the common line is obviously hard to describe. No wonder so many players on the forum are criticizing the character creation in the common line.

"Chizuru-san, we have completed the common quest. It is almost dawn now. Are you tired? How about... we continue tomorrow?"

"I'm not tired at all. On the contrary, I'm very energetic now. Push it quickly!"

Chapter 16: Confession as a Game

Sakakibara Kaede was very hurt when he was urged to promote galgame again. What sin had he committed?

It is wonderful to put on headphones on a quiet night, listen to the soothing music of galgame, slowly advance the plot, and witness the heroine showing a shy face in front of him. When you are alone, keep this feeling to yourself.

This is a process of self-touching and self-healing, which allows people to temporarily escape from the sorrow and pain in real life and immerse themselves in the virtual but beautiful world of the game, where they can taste the sour but sweet love.

But it’s different with an audience.

Sakakibara Kaede felt that Chizuru Ichinose's gaze lingered on his profile from time to time, and then turned to the screen. He suddenly felt like he was in prison.

Is there anything more embarrassing than having a beautiful girl sitting next to you and staring at you playing a beautiful girl game?

"I feel that this heroine is a bit like you, Chizuru-san." Amid the soothing music and the female character's voice, Sakakibara Kaede said with energy. He felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, so he had to interrupt to make the air less quiet.

What scares me most is that the air suddenly becomes quiet.

"W-How does it look like me?"

Ichinose Chizuru rolled up her long hair that fell to her chest and said with a slightly red face and frowned.

"Look, it's exactly the same tone." Sakakibara Kaede pointed at Chizuru Ichinose and argued. He pressed the mouse, and the beautiful girl who was working part-time outside the school and was chatted up by the protagonist on the computer frowned.

"I don't care about you at all!"

Sakakibara Kaede raised her eyebrows, shrugged, and looked at Ichinose Chizuru.

The girl's face turned red and she looked like a fresh tomato sold in a supermarket.

In addition to the difference in voice, which is unavoidable, after all, Feng Lai Xue Guo invited some well-known voice actors with beautiful voices. It is still a bit unrealistic to compare the voices of the second dimension with those of the third dimension.

Chizuru Ichinose was itching with hatred. She now wished she could bite Feng hard twice like the female character in the game, leaving deep marks on his body.

But what made her blush even more was the female character line mentioned by Senior Feng.

The female character in the game seems to be her substitute, with a similar personality to her, and the way she first met Senior Feng is also very similar.

She really looks a bit like her, Chizuru Ichinose sighed softly in distress. To be honest, she was a little jealous of the female character in the game - although they were not in the same high school, they could meet in a convenience store as a part-time job after school every day.

In this small town, the distance between people is not as cold as in the city. It is common to bump into classmates when shopping on weekends.

By chance, the male protagonist ran into the girl who was at a loss in front of the game console in a shopping mall. She was not wearing her usual school uniform or the convenience store uniform she wore when working part-time. Now, she looked casually and simply dressed, wearing glasses, and did not look like the girl who showed a perfect smile in front of outsiders.

Discovering the girl's secret was just one of the reasons. The relationship between the two became a little awkward.

When the male protagonist was trying hard to make amends, he accidentally ran into the girl again in the lounge, reading the textbook in her hand with great emotion and rich body movements.

He was peeking outside the door and when he wanted to slip away he accidentally kicked the shelf next to the door. The noise made the girl frown and open the door to check.

"..."

"See?"

"Ah, that..." The male protagonist wanted to explain something, but in the end he lowered his head with a wry smile, "I'm sorry, I saw it all."

"..."

The girl said nothing, and after a moment she said softly, "I actually want to be an actor."

Sakakibara Kaede's eyes sparkled, she clicked her tongue slightly, pointed at the female character on the screen, looked at Chizuru Ichinose and said confidently, "Tell me, doesn't this look like you?"

Ichinose Chizuru snorted twice. She felt a serious sense of disharmony. Why did this character look more and more like herself? ! ! !

Moreover, this two-way perspective writing style describes the gradual changes in the female character's heart. How come this idea is exactly the same as mine!

Chizuru Ichinose pursed her lips. She now seriously doubted why Toru Asakura recommended her to play this game, and why there was a female character in this game who was almost identical to her.

What's more, there is a lot of text describing how such a character falls in love with the male protagonist.

The other female characters also look more and more familiar. Chizuru Ichinose holds her chin and frowns. For a moment, she can only recognize the classmates who are very kind to the male protagonist in the common line... Like Mai Sakurajima, the silent female classmate who appears and disappears mysteriously in the student union... Isn't it Toru Asakura?

Who made this game and what was their intention? Chizuru Ichinose watched as "she" on the computer screen gradually revealed her inner thoughts to the male protagonist Feng, and she suddenly had the urge to dig a hole and escape.

Sakakibara Kaede's occasional glances also made her feel like she was seen through. She regretted why she listened to Asakura Toru's instigation. Tonight, she stared at Sakakibara Kaede as he pushed the line. She didn't know what Sakakibara Kaede thought about this. Ichinose Chizuru blushed and turned pale, and had wild thoughts.

If I use this kind of strategy, Senior Feng... wouldn't I have already defeated him?

If I usually acted a little less arrogant, if I could speak my true feelings, would the atmosphere between us be more ambiguous?

If the young man knew that Chizuru Ichinose was in a state of anxiety at the moment, he would turn off the computer on the spot and let Chizuru Ichinose go back to her room, and the two of them would go back to their respective homes, find their own mothers and go to sleep separately.

She felt embarrassed, oh, wasn't he embarrassed?

Fortunately, the people around me are not people like Mai Sakurajima, otherwise I would be ridiculed for promoting such a sacred thing as galgame, and I would be so angry that I would want to throw my fists.

As the music changed, Sakakibara Kaede's expression changed slightly. He coughed twice and said, "Well."

"Ah? What's wrong?"

When Chizuru Ichinose saw that Kaede Sakakibara broke the silence, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and asked quickly.

"Well, hs is coming."

"What is HS?"

Sakakibara Kaede had a gloomy face. How could he explain this? He had no way to explain it. Like Higuchi Madoka, although Chizuru Ichinose was an adult, she was also a pure girl. She might have seen kissing scenes in TV dramas, but she might have never seen the following plot, which might be a bit explosive for her.

"Chizuru-san, I want to ask you a question." The young man paused, coughed twice and asked, "How are children born?"

Ichinose Chizuru blushed immediately after being attacked by Sakakibara Kaede. She said angrily, "Why are you asking this question? Is Senior Kaede a pervert?"

"No, I thought you were going to say something like kissing would lead to pregnancy."

Sakakibara Kaede nodded. It seemed that Chizuru Ichinose was not the kind of innocent young lady in the two-dimensional world who never left the house. She still had some common sense, so the next step would be easy.

"The next scene is what you just mentioned, Chizuru-san."

The young man explained, "In the process of conquering layers of beautiful girls' games, the combination of man and woman is a necessary means to increase the distance. We need to regard this step as a means to bring the relationship closer and increase the bond, rather than a CG that can turn into a demon with a single thought."

After a moment, the music became smooth.

Chizuru Ichinose hugged the pillow tightly, her voice was dull, she huddled behind the pillow and peeked at the fast-forwarded hs with her eyes, "Pervert!"

Sakakibara Kaede opened his mouth, but no matter how he explained it, it didn't make sense.

The place where the girl in Fenglai Snow Country confessed her love was not at the summer festival like the class monitor did. If the class monitor gave him a stunning feeling, then the working girl gave him a warm feeling.

In the migrant worker's rental house, the male protagonist ate the food she cooked and praised it highly.

I don't know when it started, but he would frequently visit her home, hold study sessions for each other, and he also met the girl's only parent, her grandmother.

When night fell, there was a sudden rainstorm. The male protagonist did not bring an umbrella. He stood in the living room and looked at the rain outside. He missed the last tram tonight. There was no such thing as a taxi in this small town. He had no chance of going home tonight.

As luck would have it, there was a power outage.

Thunder was accompanied by bursts of rain. The girl who was afraid of the dark pretended to be calm, but the male protagonist with high emotional intelligence saw through it. He stretched out his hand and wanted to comfort her head, but was hugged by the girl.

The male protagonist fell on the sofa, the girl spread her legs and rode on him, there was a thunderstorm outside the window, and a faint fragrance filled the room.

"..."

"Chizuru-san, you—"

The gaming chair the young man was sitting in had wheels that allowed him to move around, or he could turn around and tap his feet on the bed to relax.

His chair was pulled back a few steps, and when Sakakibara Kaede looked up, he found that Chizuru Ichinose stood up in the dim light - she was holding her pillow in her hands.

Kaede Sakakibara felt her knees tighten, and what came towards her was her pillow and the weight of Chizuru Ichinose.

From the perspective of others, it looks like a sandwich between two people with the pillow in the middle.

"Chi...Chizuru-san?"

Chizuru Ichinose bit her teeth through the pillow, her face was incredibly hot, luckily the pillow blocked her view so the young man couldn't see the expression on her face.

"Senior Feng, you... don't you think this character is very similar to me?"

"Yes, it's very similar, and then what?" Sakakibara Kaede sighed. It is indeed very similar, and then what?

Ichinose Chizuru immediately shrank back as if she had been hurt, but then she seemed to have given it her all, "Then why is it impossible for me to fall in love with him, that Kaede, like she did in the game?"

"Chizuru-san..."

Chizuru Ichinose moved the pillow away in despair. She crossed her legs and sat on Kaede Sakakibara's waist. Her eyes were wandering away, and she didn't dare to look at the young man's face.

The scent of young man filling her nose made Chizuru Ichinose's eyes circle. She was indeed not the heroine in the game - the her in the game was kissed at this moment, but her mouth opened and closed, and no one knew what to say next.

Not hearing the young man's response, Chizuru Ichinose felt a slight soreness in her nose. She lowered her head, not wanting him to see her current expression.

As expected, I was too far away from him and the distance was not enough, so this result was reasonable.

It's just that all this time of love is going to go down the drain. At this moment, Chizuru Ichinose is really envious of the girl in the game. Her daily life with the male protagonist Kaede is so close and sweet.

That makes people jealous.

"what..."

Chizuru Ichinose felt a pair of hands hugging her tightly from behind her waist. Her face suddenly turned pink and there were some tears in the corners of her eyes.

"What an unexpected sneak attack." Sakakibara Kaede's voice sounded like a wry smile. Chizuru Ichinose looked up and found that the young man's eyes that could speak were staring at her steadily. Chizuru Ichinose felt her face burning and her gaze fled again, not daring to look at him.

But she leaned all her body weight on the young man.

"I... I'm already very satisfied, really." Chizuru Ichinose leaned on his shoulder and said softly.

The young man felt a small wet spot on the shoulder of his pajamas and smiled, "I am actually very happy to hear Chizuru-san clearly express herself for the first time. It's just that I originally thought that you would clearly express what you like to eat and what you hate in front of your friends and seniors."

"Senior Feng, do you have a place for me in your heart?"

The girl's almost humble question made Sakakibara Kaede sigh, and his arms tightened, causing Ichinose Chizuru to breathe a sigh of relief.

"I am already satisfied, because I know that Senior Feng has a place for me in his heart."

The girl leaned close to Sakakibara Kaede's ear and said coquettishly, "Mai-san should have told Senior Kaede about this."

Sakakibara Kaede's heart tightened, and he looked at Ichinose Chizuru, who looked like a smug person. Seeing that the young man didn't look fake, she couldn't help but chuckle, "It would be great if Senior Feng could learn from the Kaede in the Snow Country."

What I am referring to, of course, is emotional intelligence.

Naturally loosening her arms, Ichinose Chizuru sniffed her sleeves, which were already stained with his and her scent. The girl sighed, "Well, I'm a little tired today. I'm going to bed first."

"...good."

Sakakibara Kaede looked at Ichinose Chizuru with a smile. She turned her head away shyly when the young man looked at her again. After looking back at Sakakibara Kaede hesitantly, she closed the door for Sakakibara Kaede in her slippers.

As soon as she returned to the room, Chizuru Ichinose threw herself on the quilt. Her brain was completely burned out by the self-explosion just now. She needed to cool down at this moment. She didn't want to think about anything. She just wanted to let the happiness in her heart flow slowly through every corner of her body. Occasionally, she felt an electric shock, making her twist her body with happiness.

After twisting for ten minutes, she couldn't sleep because of the excitement. Chizuru Ichinose heard the news of the five-member strategy group and quickly edited a message and sent it out.

Mai Sakurajima: "Congratulations Chizuru-chan~"

Yuuki Asuna: "Chizuru-senpai is so brave."

Higuchi Enka: “…”

Chapter 17 Orchestra and Rock Intertwined

For Kaede Sakakibara, walking into the office during non-working hours to listen to work details is one of the few experiences she has had other than eating at a buffet.

Taking advantage of the weekend break, Sakakibara Kaede, wearing sunglasses, followed the instructions on the map on her phone and took the train to the Kyoto branch of STARS.