I live my life in Tokyo

"Eh..."

Mrs. Higuchi narrowed her eyes and smiled, "Yuuka is so lucky, that's great."

"Ah, wait a minute, I made some tea for you."

Mrs. Higuchi returned to the kitchen with a smile on her face. This habit was similar to that of Higuchi Madoka. Higuchi Madoka also liked to pay attention to various small rituals in his daily life. For example, when he lived in a tower in the central district, every time he went downstairs to place Higuchi Madoka and Asakura Toru, Higuchi Madoka would always prepare drinks for him.

Sakakibara Kaede glanced upstairs and saw that Higuchi Madoka seemed to have locked herself in the room, and he couldn't help feeling speechless.

"Here, tea. You must be thirsty after walking for a while." Mrs. Higuchi leaned over with a tray and placed the teacup on the table. "We still have some time for dinner. Feng-kun, why don't you go upstairs and chat with Yuanxiang? Are you going to make up lessons today?"

"Well... let's talk about work."

Sakakibara Kaede did not give a positive answer. Although academic topics were bound to be involved in the conversation, their focus today was not on studying. He needed to teach Higuchi Madoka how to play MMO.

He had never dreamed of such a scene. He never thought that one day he would teach Higuchi Madoka how to play games. The world is really wonderful.

"Ah, then I'll prepare the snacks. Fengjun, could you please serve them? Don't you guys need to study? Mom won't disturb you~"

Sakakibara Kaede looked at Mrs. Higuchi's expression and felt inexplicably confused. He scratched his head and wondered why he didn't disturb her. Didn't he also push the door and deliver snacks when he was having a study session upstairs with Asakura Toru and Higuchi Madoka?

But he finally took the tray from Mrs. Higuchi and went upstairs.

Higuchi Yuanxiang's room was at the end of the corridor. He was also an old acquaintance, so he knocked on the door, "Yuanxiang, can I come in?"

"Come in, the door is unlocked."

Higuchi Madoka surprisingly didn't say anything sarcastic. Sakakibara held the plate in one hand and opened the door with the other. She found that the color of Higuchi Madoka's bedroom had changed, a bit like the change of the dome ceiling in the cafeteria in Harry Potter. Originally, the colors used in Higuchi Madoka's bedroom were mostly light colors, cold colors, or simply gray and white.

But not long after entering Higuchi Madoka's bedroom again, Sakakibara discovered that the unicorn they had caught in the game hall was placed on her bed, and the sheets had turned into a dreamy purple. Not only that, there were several books with brighter covers on the bookshelf. Sakakibara took a glance and vaguely saw the name of one of the books: One Hundred Secrets of Men. He suddenly couldn't hold it back.

"Wow, what a nasty guy." Higuchi Madoka noticed the look in Sakakibara Kaede's eyes and looked at him as if he were trash, but her face couldn't help but turn slightly red. She took the books from the bookshelf and covered the books that contained the girl's secrets.

"Hehe, it wasn't intentional, it was just unintentional." Sakakibara Kaede quickly clarified.

"Heh, man."

Higuchi Madoka snorted, motioned for Sakakibara Kaede to sit down, and said, "For someone as curious and nosy as you, it's not surprising that you would do something like this."

"If I'm not curious, how can I have the chance to understand Yuanxiang's inner world?" Sakakibara Feng said with a smile, "It's better to be curious, otherwise I will be scared away by Yuanxiang's cold face when we meet for the first time."

"If I had known, I should have bullied you harshly the first time we met. I should have bullied you as a senior."

Higuchi Madoka looked at the young man unfriendlyly. She stood up and looked down at him.

"Eh?" Sakakibara Kaede coughed lightly. Higuchi Madoka had returned home and naturally changed into home clothes. At this time, she was wearing a loose top and only a pair of cool summer shorts on the lower body. The health contained in her body made Sakakibara Kaede turn his eyes away.

"Yuanxiang, what do you want to do?"

"Bully you."

Higuchi Yuanxiang sat down without any hesitation. The young man grinned, but the next moment his mouth was blocked.

After a long hug and kiss, Higuchi Madoka returned to her seat and said, "Not bad."

"Yuan Xiang is so proactive..."

Sakakibara Kaede sighed with a faint smile on her face, "Is it because I came to Yuanxiang's house?"

"You think too much."

Higuchi Yuanka stood up. She sat in front of the desk, pulled over a chair and patted it.

"Sword Art Online work..."

"Let me take a look."

Sakakibara Kaede knew that Higuchi Madoka couldn't bring herself to talk to him with a cold face, so he gave her a way out and sat on the chair. Higuchi Madoka rarely touched the computer, and spent more time on her mobile phone, but after entering university, she inevitably carried it to and from get out of class.

Her computer was the model that Kaede Sakakibara had chosen for her in the store.

Although it is not a high-end gaming laptop, Sword Art Online does not have high requirements for computer configuration. It is nothing more than lowering the special effects and distant views.

Sakakibara took out his laptop. He was more accustomed to playing on a desktop computer. After all, he was used to it. It would be a little uncomfortable to stare at a small screen after being used to the big screen.

The function of guiding new players in Sword Art Online is still not perfect. Previously, it existed in the form of instructors. This form was developed by Sword Art Online and other strategy group guilds. An instructor is in charge of teaching a team of eight people, responsible for their skills training and pioneering - it takes a lot of time and energy, so only players who really love this game will volunteer to become instructors.

Now it is much more convenient with the master-apprentice system.

Glancing at Higuchi Madoka who was controlling her character beside him, Sakakibara Kaede felt like they were all in an Internet cafe together. He didn't expect that his first time would be to play games with Madoka.

Kaede Sakakibara rushed all the way from her and Asuna's sweet home to the main city. The new version was about to be launched, which naturally attracted a lot of new players. Most of them gathered in the main city. There were naturally many guild members here. They would promote their own guilds and entertain newcomers. Higuchi Madoka's character had been standing here for less than five minutes, and characters from three different guilds had come to talk to her.

"Feng, where are you?"

"I am coming."

The wolf girl with the game ID "Dreaming of Birds" looked around, her face calm but a little confused in her heart. She felt two columns of rough air suddenly hit her head. Her wolf ears moved and she raised her head. What caught her eye was a sturdy character wearing blood-red and silver-white armor. The other person's face was black and white in the sunlight, and looked particularly hideous, like a demon crawling out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood. He slowly lowered his head, and his pair of red eyes reflected the blood-red setting sun.

The Minotaur once again blew out a thick gas from its nostrils, scaring the little wolf girl's tail so much that it jumped up.

In real life, Higuchi Madoka punched Sakakibara Kaede on the shoulders. She blushed with shame and even grabbed his arm and bit it.

"Ouch, what are you doing?"

"I didn't expect you have a hobby of scaring girls, MR Minotaur." Higuchi Madoka said while gritting her teeth. She was actually scared. After being scared, she realized that this was a game. The realization that this was a game and the fact that she was still scared made her feel ashamed and angry for a while.

Sakakibara Kaede sighed. He couldn't explain why Higuchi Madoka's perspective was changed to the first-person mode. He must have been scared by his Minotaur.

On the battlefield of the guild war, it has become the norm for players from other guilds to see the burly and ferocious-looking Minotaur from afar and their fingers tremble and they become unable to utter a word. They all flee in fear. This is the Minotaur!

"Kaede's ID is... Harukaze. It sounds like a name an old man would use."

"I will become an old man one day, and Yuanxiang will become a beautiful old lady by then."

"Humph."

Higuchi Yuuka opened the Minotaur's personal profile. She looked at the equipment values ​​and the title above the character's head, but she didn't understand it.

"Wait a minute, let me bind the master and the disciple."

Sakakibara Kaede operated the interface, and Higuchi Madoka soon received the invitation. After clicking to agree, the level of the Minotaur immediately dropped. He opened the equipment bar and changed to low-level equipment, and added Higuchi Madoka to the team.

"Yuuka chose the archer profession." Sakakibara nodded, "That's perfect. I'm a tank. Yuuka can just stay behind me and deal damage."

“Is the output good?”

Higuchi Madoka was not such an idiot about the game. She had read the description of each skill before and tried to go out of the main city to fight monsters by herself, but she ended up attracting the hatred of a lot of monsters and died.

It's not her fault, it's a common mistake made by newbies.

After the two of them went down the dungeon, everything went smoothly. Naturally, Sakakibara Kaede's command was indispensable during the process. Higuchi Madoka also learned very quickly. After practicing with the monsters, her output methods naturally became much more normal.

After playing two dungeons, Mrs. Higuchi called them to eat. Seeing this, Sakakibara moved his character to the safe zone. He glanced at Higuchi Madoka and said, "Let's eat first. We can talk about the next mission after we finish eating."

"Ah."

Higuchi Yuuka controlled her character to sit down next to the Minotaur and walked down the stairs.

Mrs. Higuchi prepared a sumptuous meal. Kaede Sakakibara had come to the Higuchi family so many times, but he felt that this was the most luxurious dinner ever. Mrs. Higuchi even poured him a glass of champagne. It looked... like a holiday.

"?"

Higuchi Yuanxiang looked at her mother with a strange look in her eyes. Mrs. Higuchi smiled without saying a word and urged the two to take a seat.

"What are Fengjun and Yuanxiang busy with? Well, they look very busy, and they didn't even come down to pour water." Mrs. Higuchi took a sip of champagne and smiled in a way that made people feel a little flustered.

This is indeed the norm when playing games, you forget to pour water while playing.

Sakakibara Kaede coughed lightly, "Yuuka and I were discussing work. We have a very important audition this Friday..."

"But hasn't Feng-san been named the male lead a long time ago?" Higuchi Yuanxiang picked up a piece of dish and put it in the bowl. She took a bite and felt the sweetness of the staple food. She took a look in the bowl and found that it was red bean rice.

"Mom, why are we having red bean rice today?"

"Ah, why is that?"

Mrs. Higuchi smiled and picked up a piece of meat for Sakakibara Kaede. "Hey, Kaede-kun, I heard from Yuanxiang that you like ribs very much, so I prepared it specially for you today."

The young man hurriedly thanked her. He felt Mrs. Higuchi's kindness. Before he met his current family, he had already regarded the Higuchi family as his second home, a corner where he could rest temporarily.

Sakakibara Kaede thinks red bean rice is very delicious, and the key is that it has a sweet red bean aroma that makes people intoxicated. Mrs. Higuchi smiled and said, "If Kaede likes it, let Yuanxiang prepare it for you next time."

"...Mother."

Higuchi Madoka was speechless again.

The meal was very joyful. Mrs. Higuchi chatted with Sakakibara Kaede as she did in the past, and naturally talked about Sakakibara Kaede's new family. Seeing the warmth and satisfaction in Sakakibara Kaede's eyes, Mrs. Higuchi said, "That's great, Kaede-kun."

After the meal, he said he would clean up the dishes and wash them. Mrs. Higuchi just smiled and said nothing, which was her consent. Higuchi Madoka and her mother sat on the sofa and watched the celebrities on TV laughing exaggeratedly.

Kaede Sakakibara bent down and started cleaning the pots and pans. He was used to this kind of behavior.

However, this behavior always gave him a sense of déjà vu.

In a family, it is usually the mother who cooks and the father who washes the dishes. . .

Chapter 5 Flip Audition

"Well, mom is going to rest now. I'll leave Yuanxiang to Feng-kun."

Mrs. Higuchi looked tired, perhaps because she had been busy all day at home, or perhaps because she drank champagne at dinner. Although Sakakibara Kaede had a few drinks with his aunt, he was obviously a much better alcoholic than Mrs. Higuchi.

"do you need my help?"

"Ah, no need." Mrs. Higuchi held onto the stairs, turned around and said with a smile, "If it's too late today, Feng-kun might as well sleep here. The guest room mom has already tidied it up this morning. You can wear the child's father's clothes for replacement..."

"Mom..." Higuchi Yuanka looked at her mother helplessly. Mrs. Higuchi smiled and didn't say much. She walked up the stairs and went into the bathroom to wash up.

"Really? Why is mom like this today?"

Higuchi Yuanxiang frowned and muttered to herself. She glanced at the confused Sakakibara Kaede and snorted coldly, "You have the intention but not the courage to do it?"

"What is this nonsense?"

The young man scratched his head.

"Nothing." Higuchi Madoka turned her face away coldly. She turned off the TV, stood up, looked at Sakakibara Kaede and said, "The main storyline is not over yet."

"Okay, got it."

The young man stretched his arms and said. After going upstairs, he continued to carry out the main mission with Higuchi Madoka. When it came to the less important side quests of the main storyline, Sakakibara Kaede would talk to Higuchi Madoka about the plot and character settings. Of course, a lot of terminology had to be said on the day of the audition. Not only were the staff of Toei Co., Ltd. present that day, some senior executives of RECT would also give instructions behind the scenes. They were investors, and this was basic operation.

"By the way, I received an invitation from a guild again." Higuchi Yuuka controlled the wolf girl and clicked to cancel the small box that appeared in the middle of the screen. She glanced at Sakakibara Kaede and saw that he had no reaction but just looked at her in confusion. Her mood suddenly became bad again.

"what?"

"No, Yuanxiang wants to join my guild, right?" Sakakibara Kaede smiled. When he saw Higuchi Yuanxiang's expression, he knew what she was thinking about writing. When he smiled, Higuchi Yuanxiang's face gradually turned pink, and she glared at the young man angrily.

However, Sakakibara Kaede pushed the class monitor line and knew that these looks and cold words were just tools for girls to cover up their shyness. It would be interesting if they encountered them in normal times.

"Yuan Xiang is really not candid."

"Tsk." Higuchi Madoka felt that nothing could be hidden in front of Sakakibara Kaede. She could not hide anything because he had already touched upon Higuchi Madoka's true self.

"So, are you staying here?" Higuchi Madoka silently watched Sakakibara Kaede help her operate the interface, then she put her legs together and gently leaned her head on them, "Tonight, here."

"Yuan Xiang really likes me."

"You!" Higuchi Madoka could no longer maintain that cold expression. She spat with a pink face. She didn't dare to look at Sakakibara Kaede, but just stared blankly out the window.

After a while, Sakakibara Feng heard a soft "hmm" coming from beside him.

"I'm not alone now." Sakakibara Kaede twisted her fingers around Higuchi Madoka's short hair and whispered, "I have a family now, and I have you too. If I don't go home, they'll worry. If I don't reply to your message one day, will Madoka be worried too?"

"Who, who will worry?"

Higuchi Madoka turned to look at Sakakibara Kaede again. This time her eyes were much calmer. "Don't miss the evening train."

"Well, I can still control this amount of time." Sakakibara Kaede smiled.

Following Sakakibara Kaede's steps, Higuchi Madoka learned a lot of information about Sword Art Online and also understood some jargon, which was very important for her audition.

Everybody wants to be the heroine, everybody wants to be the best.

Sakakibara Kaede stayed for a few hours, and when Higuchi Madoka's main storyline passed level 30, she waved her hand and left without taking a single snowflake with her. She retired with a nonchalant look as if she didn't care about the praise at all.

Higuchi Madoka sent him to the door. She was a little disappointed. When she was playing games before, she hoped that there would be a heavy rain outside the window that would flood the whole Tokyo. However, the night sky was clear and surprisingly beautiful, which made her quite resentful.

The young man and the girl stood in front of the door and smiled. He took a step forward and saw a faint blush on Higuchi Madoka's face. He couldn't help but smile. He leaned over and took Higuchi Madoka's hand.

"What?"

"Goodbye."

Sakakibara Kaede glanced at Higuchi Madoka, who was hesitant to speak, and he coughed lightly, "If we live together, there will always be opportunities in the future."