I live my life in Tokyo

Yuuki Asuna stammered as she opened the door. The young man turned around and found that she was only wearing a thin nightgown. He quickly took the quilt beside her and covered her body with it.

"I just took a shower and my hair is still a little wet. Be careful not to catch a cold." Yuuki Asuna's hair is smooth and soft. I don't know if it's because she used a famous brand shampoo or conditioner, but her long hair has a faint fragrance, which makes people want to admire the beauty of youth.

"Senior Feng will also catch a cold, so please come in quickly." Yuuki Asuna patted the empty space beside her and said with a smile.

"Are you trying to imitate the cavemen?"

The young man squeezed next to Yuuki Asuna, who naturally leaned on his shoulder, her hair hanging down, and the scent of youth filled his face.

"Hurry up, I want to see Feng Senior's strategy for conquering the school girl!"

Chapter 40: Pushing the School Girl Line

The junior school girl comes from a well-off family and has excellent family education. Her demeanor on campus is so impressive that people can’t help but praise her. She is truly a lady from a noble family.

Such a lady from a noble family is naturally the target of admiration from the first-year high school students. Her every move is as gentle and meticulous as that of a Yamato Nadeshiko. One is just short of calling her an angel.

But this Yamato Nadeshiko is not like the cute school girl in the usual stories, who is like a little animal, making people want to protect her at a glance. The well-educated young lady showed a generous side. She could clearly control the distance between herself and her classmates, so that no one would get hurt, and no boys would suddenly jump out and think that she might have a crush on me.

It is impossible to treat everyone the same, but the schoolgirl has done a great job in keeping a subtle distance. In the eyes of male and female classmates, sometimes she is very close, which makes people feel warm, but in certain occasions, she will keep a distance, allowing people to watch from a distance but not to touch them.

The first time Feng saw the junior schoolmate was when he was looking for a place to have lunch after class. He unexpectedly saw her eating her lunch box alone on the lawn behind the college.

There were many male and female students sitting not far from her, but she stood out in the crowd.

"Isn't this meeting a little too bland?" Yuuki Asuna leaned on Sakakibara Kaede's shoulder and pointed at the portrait of the school girl on the monitor, "It's impossible to show the charm of the female character in a place like this."

"When do you think is a good time to meet for the first time?"

"It's really the popular thing in anime to bump into each other while biting bread in the morning."

Yuuki Asuna analyzed seriously that Sakakibara Kaede didn't know that the girl actually watched the two-dimensional world. He blinked, and Yuuki Asuna noticed his gaze and raised his orange eyes upwards, "Huh? Did I say something wrong?"

Although the words sounded like a question, Yuuki Asuna's tone was soft, as if she was asking for advice.

Sakakibara shook his head. This is a galgame after all, not a youth romance show about a man and a woman. Besides, the bread-biting and collision operation that Yuuki Asuna mentioned seems to have been eliminated by the market now? Sakakibara recalled several popular harem shows or stock trading shows recently. Either the male protagonist was walking on the road and was stepped on by the female protagonist who came down from the sky. Or he traveled to another world and was directly teleported into a female bathhouse.

Ahem, biting bread is still romantic after all, but now the two-dimensional world thinks these things are not exciting enough. People always strive for higher goals. If anime wants to be popular, it must innovate. Even if the attributes and positioning of female characters in harem animations are similar, the routines can be different.

The story that happened next made Sakakibara Kaede feel unexpectedly uncomfortable. In the game, Kaede was playing the online game happily, and then he brutally defeated another character in the game. The other party once suspected that he was cheating, which made Kaede feel happy. After all, being accused of cheating is the best compliment.

As they played games, they got to know each other better. Gradually, they started to team up to do some tasks. Although they would sometimes have small quarrels, such as cutting down on output or rolling a certain amount of money, but between the lines, Kaede Sakakibara could read happiness.

"By the way, when I started playing the closed beta of Sword Art Online, wasn't Senior Feng already playing it?"

"I didn't run into it. I was filming at that time." Sakakibara Kaede was reminded by Yuuki Asuna and remembered the grand occasion when Yuuki Koichiro held the closed beta test. She nodded and agreed with Yuuki Asuna's point of view. "I only participated in the first closed beta test, which was an internal closed beta test. I remember that they invited more than 300 game broadcasters and distributed closed beta test codes. I also received one."

"You are participating in the second closed beta test."

Yuuki Asuna said "oh" and muttered quietly, "I wonder if I can defeat Harukaze in a one-on-one duel in Sword Art Online."

"I'm a tank, and you, a rapier user, are too much of a bully."

Sakakibara felt the warmth on his shoulder and cursed with a smile. In PVP, the role of the tank is decisive, but in one-on-one, it is another story. The tank cannot display his skills and level. Jumping into the crowd and roaring to position is the romance of the tank.

In the galgame, Kaede still doesn't know who the player on the other side of the game is, but Sakakibara Kaede and Yuuki Asuna have already guessed it. After all, this is something they have experienced personally, and now it is presented in the form of a game, which surprisingly has a hint of sweetness. There are also hints in the game, such as the school girl and the male protagonist Kaede fighting in the game all night and not getting enough sleep the next day, and sometimes she uses her mobile phone to check the information on the strategy website, which is directly pointed out.

For gamers, calling each other "Dad" is secondary. Once the topic of meeting in person is discussed, the topic becomes heavy. People with the same interests are friends. Only the closest friends will ask each other, "Son, do you want to meet in person?"

Feng in the game did this. When he saw a school girl wearing high-end casual clothes in the mall, the phone in his hand fell directly to the ground.

In real life, Kaede Sakakibara glanced at the time next to the computer and coughed twice. Asuna Yuuki looked at him in confusion. She hadn't had enough tonight yet. Wouldn't it be a whet to stop at this time?

"It's getting late. If we keep fighting, we'll have to stay up all night. Asuna, you're still a student. It's wise for you to go to bed early and get up early to develop a healthy schedule."

"Senior Feng is also a student. I know that Senior Feng used to stay up late every day for a while~"

"Go away, you are going to take the college entrance examination. You can only do this kind of adult thing after you take the college entrance examination and become an adult." Sakakibara Kaede snorted. Yuuki Asuna is now a senior high school student waiting to take exams. Yuuki Koichiro entrusted her to herself, so she can't let him lead her astray!

"Well...how about putting it off until the confession?"

Yuuki Asuna grabbed his arm and asked in a low voice.

"Uh, okay."

"Great!"

Asuna Yuuki almost jumped up, but the movement of her body still caused the quilt to fly in the air for a moment and cover their heads again.

Sakakibara Kaede smiled, a lady from a noble family with the gentleness and childishness that belonged to her age. It was very comfortable to spend time with her. He never had to think about anything himself. If he had something to say, he could say it calmly. The last person who gave him this feeling was only Mai Sakurajima.

When he was with Higuchi Madoka, he had to guess her mood, which made him feel like he was playing a galgame based on reality, and Higuchi Madoka was the most difficult character to play in the game. Although it was a galgame, it was a pity that there were no options that were already prepared in the real world.

As for Asakura Toru, he needs to understand the deeper meaning of the other party's words. Sometimes Asakura Toru only says half of the words, and sometimes he is extremely straightforward, making Sakakibara Kaede unclear about what Asakura Toru is thinking.

Getting along with Chizuru Ichinose is quite pleasant, no, it should be said that it is extremely joyful. The girl possesses the most common tsundere attribute in the two-dimensional world. After a process of teasing her and comforting her, their relationship is further improved and they can both feel the joy of intimacy at the same time. This is killing two birds with one stone.

But speaking of tsundere, Sakakibara Kaede remembered the girl with golden hair and twin ponytails in Toyonotsaki Academy who, at the request of the director, said, "Huh, just because actress Sakakibara is the lead, do I have to play the female lead?" "Well, after all, actress Sakakibara also thinks I have good looks, so it's not impossible." I wonder how she will do in the college entrance examination this year.

Back to the game, the turning point of the plot is still the school festival that appeared in the previous heroines. However, this time the protagonist Feng did not trigger other lines. Instead, she joined the coordinating department of the school festival to survey and count the projects that different classes in the school were responsible for, which naturally included the expenses of each class.

The junior girl's class held a cat cafe. It was not the kind of cat cafe where the female students had to wear cat ears and headdresses, but cat dolls were placed in the classroom and the snacks and coffee were also related to cats, such as drawing a cat on the omelette rice and adding cream with cat prints on the coffee.

The relationship between the male protagonist and the schoolgirl gradually warmed up because of this opportunity. She invited Feng to eat his favorite omelette rice and cream stew in the kitchen - the cream stew was not on the menu, but the protagonist often peeked into the schoolgirl's lunch box when he was eating his lunch box.

"It feels like a familiar plot." Sakakibara Kaede scratched his head. Which game production company is this from? How could it be so amazing that the female characters they created have prototypes around them, and even the plot is similar to the stories between him and them.

The young man was totally confused as to who had been lurking beside him and secretly providing him with materials.

"Well, at that time I just felt that Feng Senior was more like a brother." Yuuki Asuna nodded her chin and shook her head cutely, "But the moment Feng Senior invited me to dance, I was still a little moved."

“Hey, is this true?”

"Of course it's true. Senior Feng was shooting a commercial at the academy at that time. He had also filmed that TV series that everyone talks about. All the classmates and seniors admired him very much. Senior Feng was a shining star in everyone's eyes at that time. But, I didn't expect him to invite me to dance. To be honest, I felt a little overwhelmed at that time, and I felt that I was out of my league."

"Climbing up? It's obviously me who's climbing up, okay?"

Sakakibara Kaede squeezed the girl's hand. He was just a commoner in Chiba. How could he be favored by a well-off young lady with a family and status in the big city of Tokyo?

"I'm talking about fame, Senior Feng, please don't mess with me." Yuuki Asuna couldn't help but laugh. She gently hit Sakakibara Feng's shoulder and used it as her pillow.

It was getting late, but Asuna Yuuki still obediently said that this was enough for today and it wouldn't be too late to continue tomorrow.

After Sakakibara turned off the computer, he found that Asuna Yuuki had made the quilt and left the bedroom, so he said good night. Asuna Yuuki did not respond. He yawned, and he guessed that the girl was also very tired. He sat on the edge of the bed, canceled the alarm on his mobile phone, leaned on the pillow, looked at the ceiling, and wanted to lie down for a while, not thinking about anything, and go to sleep after a while.

"Deng Deng Deng Deng."

The light footsteps returned to Sakakibara Kaede's room. The next moment, Yuuki Asuna pushed the door open with a quilt in her arms. Sakakibara Kaede was startled when she saw this. "Asuina, what do you mean?"

"Well... It's my first time sleeping alone in a new bed, so I'm a little uncomfortable." Asuna Yuuki picked up the quilt to cover her face, causing her words to sound muffled and inaudible.

"...Senior Feng?"

Sakakibara Feng couldn't help but laugh. He patted the empty space on the bed next to him and said, "Fortunately, a double bed was prepared."

"Hehe, thank you, Senior Feng."

After seeing Yuuki Asuna quickly spread the quilt in her slippers, Sakakibara Kaede obediently crawled into the quilt. It was summer and the air conditioner was on indoors. In this situation, crawling into the quilt was the most enjoyable, just as comfortable as turning on the air conditioner in winter and sleeping without a quilt. However, if you do the latter, you will probably be woken up by the cold at night.

Seeing that Yuuki Asuna had fallen asleep, the young man sat on the edge of the bed and read the newly distributed script by Yuuki Koichiro for a while under the lamp, repeatedly confirming the attributes of the female characters - in addition to the only female character designated by Yuuki Koichiro who looked 100% or even 90% like Yuuki Asuna, there were many other female characters who had a bond with the male protagonist in the game, and their casting was also a problem. However, he was not the main force in casting after all, and he was confident that he could perform any plot with any female protagonist, even if it was a lifelong regret, after all, he was used to making female characters regret their lives.

Putting the manuscript aside and deciding to read it when she gets up tomorrow morning, Sakakibara Kaede glanced at the next room. The desk lamp in Yuuki Asuna's room had been turned off long ago. Yuuki Asuna was sleeping on her stomach facing her with a faint smile on her lips, as if she was thinking of something wonderful.

The young man turned off the desk lamp and slowly closed his eyes, letting the tiredness of the darkness wash over his body like a tide. His hands outside the quilt felt a little cold under the air-conditioning. He subconsciously wanted to pull them back into the quilt, but the next moment he was held by another hand.

"Asuina..."

"Ah."

“It’s so warm.”

“Because it’s been warmed up in advance.”

Sakakibara turned sideways, and in the dim light, he found that Yuuki Asuna narrowed her eyes slightly and held his hand tightly without letting go.

"I really hope the schoolgirl in the game can confess her true feelings soon."

"Is Asuna so anxious?"

"Well, I've had this idea in my heart for a long time, but I couldn't help myself that day and confessed it on impulse." Yuuki Asuna's laughter was a little shy, "It would be better if it could be more formal."

The corners of Sakakibara Kaede's mouth curled up, and he reached out his hand to stroke the girl's hair.

"Asuina has already sparkled in my eyes."

Chapter 41: Original Heart

I haven't slept so comfortably in a long time.

On a normal morning, I struggled to get up with the sound of the alarm, washed up hastily, and hurriedly ate the cold milk and bread in the refrigerator, then took Miss Nanakusa's car or the train to work. After work, I had no energy or physical strength left, only emptiness and the only desire to fall on the bed and close my eyes to sleep.

Sakakibara Kaede is a sophomore this year. His friend Doma Ohira has already started his part-time job like him. The part-time job here does not mean doing odd jobs in convenience stores in the afternoons and evenings, but internships in formal companies. Most of the sophomore courses start in the afternoon, and the morning time is enough for Doma Ohira to accept the company culture and listen to the guidance of his seniors.

Sakakibara Kaede doesn't have to experience the miserable workplace. It's okay during working hours, but sometimes he is not free after get off work. If the boss comes to go to an izakaya, he has to drink with him.

The preparations for the performance made the young man's nerves tense, and he dared not relax. This time the time was even tighter than the last performance in Yokohama. In addition to this, he was also worried about the rehearsal after the Kansai Competition. There was only a short three weeks of running-in time, and the wind band that won the gold medal in the Kansai Competition was waiting for the performance. To be honest, Sakakibara Kaede still felt that it was a bit too rushed.

He could only suppress the burden in his heart and throw himself into practice every day. Fortunately, he didn't have any so-called summer homework, and he didn't have to take the college entrance examination next year, so he didn't have any academic pressure.

Sakakibara stretched his body and felt his chest warm, like a hot water bottle. After opening his eyes, he glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table. The electronic screen showed eleven o'clock.

It’s okay to sleep until this time on weekends, Sakakibara Kaede convinced himself. He once slept until 2pm and then got up to order takeout.

"Um..."

The girl next to him groaned, and Sakakibara Kaede came back to his senses. What caught his eyes was the long chestnut hair that looked like a waterfall.

"Well..."

Sakakibara Kaede blinked his eyes and felt unprecedentedly calm. Nothing happened last night that was beyond his imagination. The two of them just slept in the same bed. Even if Yuki Koichiro asked him, he could tell the truth without changing his expression.

But if you put yourself in his shoes, if he were Yuuki-senpai, after hearing such words...

Well, the fist is hard.

Seeing Yuuki Asuna leaning on his shoulder, Sakakibara Kaede lifted her forehead to let her sleep more comfortably, put on slippers, went into the bathroom and started washing.

He went downstairs and opened the refrigerator as usual. There were only soft drinks and beer in the refrigerator, and no food at all. Sakakibara Kaede pondered for a moment, took out the barley tea he bought last night and poured himself a cup.

The plan to make a loving breakfast for Yuuki Asuna was shelved. Sakakibara Kaede checked and found that there was not even any bread. Considering that Yuuki's family might just hire a cleaning lady to clean the house, but there was no history of anyone living in the house, this explanation made sense.

As for the drinks and beer in the refrigerator, they might have been prepared for the movers.

Sakakibara Kaede stretched lazily. The sun outside the floor-to-ceiling window shone obliquely into the room, making him squint his eyes. He had no plans for today, no work, no entertainment activities, no one he wanted to see, and no occasions or remote meetings he had to attend.

However, although there is no work today, there are some activities that are worth Sakakibara Kaede's attention.

The beginning and the end of the Kansai Conference.

I glanced at the address in the news on my phone. It wasn't far from my home and I could get there by changing trains. At this time, they should have entered the venue one by one. Maybe some schools had already finished performing in the morning?

Kaede Sakakibara left the living room and came to the bedroom door. Through the crack in the door, he saw Yuuki Asuna shyly covering her face with her ears already red. He was also a little embarrassed. Yesterday's behavior seemed to be too stimulating for this junior schoolmate with a good family background.

"are you awake?"

"what!"

Yuuki Asuna quickly got under the quilt. Sakakibara Kaede coughed and looked away. "It's just in time to go out for lunch at this time. I have a place I want to go this afternoon. Can Asuna accompany me?"

"Is this an invitation for a date?"

"Yes."

"it is good."

Yuuki Asuna smiled. She got up from the bed and gently pushed Sakakibara Kaede out of the bedroom. "I'm going to change my clothes next. Senior Kaede, please don't peek!"

At the end of her speech, Yuuki Asuna had some of the spirit of the cool swordsman in the game voice, and Sakakibara Kaede nodded obediently and said yes repeatedly.

Seeing this side of Kaede, Yuuki Asuna suddenly felt particularly fresh. In real life, she was like a little bird, always resting on his shoulder, allowing him to take her to appreciate the countless beautiful scenery in the world. In the game, compared with the leader, the leader's wife has more say and is more serious when commanding. This is related to the fact that Kaede Sakakibara is not convenient to participate in the PVP of other guilds in the team as the guild leader, and it is also related to Yuuki Asuna's own personality.

If you travel to another world, will your personality change?

In novels, comics, and anime, there are so-called dark plots, which sometimes happen to the protagonist and sometimes to the supporting characters. Their original personalities are gentle at best and cowardly at worst, but after experiencing a series of heart-wrenching events, the character's personality will change quietly.

Whether it is good or bad, their personalities will eventually change after arriving in a new environment and experiencing a series of things. This is a certainty.

Yuuki Asuna found another self in Sword Art Online, a lively and cheerful swordsman who loves to play and happily conquers strategies with his companions.

Maybe, without the game Sword Art Online, she would still be the obedient daughter of the Yuuki family... Maybe she could never express her love for the game, hiding it in her heart forever. Yuuki Asuna looked at herself in the mirror and smiled softly. She was very grateful to her brother who made the game, but she was even more grateful to Kaede who brought her into the game.

In real life, she might have been infected by the swordsman from another world... Or maybe, at least before that, she would not have dared to be so bold last night.

"Senior Feng, where are we going to play today?"