I live my life in Tokyo

Asakura Toru laughed when he saw this, which made Higuchi Madoka even more angry. Ichinose Chizuru opened her mouth, obviously not knowing that Higuchi Madoka was so bold. Yuuki Asuna forced herself not to watch the play, which was a little too early for her.

Sakurajima Mai... She also stretched out her foot and stepped on the young man's back.

Chapter 15: Girlfriends Are Twins Again

Kaede Sakakibara just wants some peace and quiet now.

It is unheard of to promote galgame while being watched by others like this. It would be fine if it was a one-on-one promotion, after all, there was only one woman around, and Sakakibara Kaede could still chat and laugh, so it wasn't too awkward.

But there were five people sitting behind him, five people, sitting on his bed, some of them hugging pillows, some burrowing into the quilt, and occasionally stretching out their legs to rub his back for a while, which really made Sakakibara Feng have the urge to moisten it as soon as the door opened.

At the end of the common line, the five girls in the galgame all had their own story with the male protagonist Feng. If it were a normal galgame, choosing a different female protagonist in the common line would undoubtedly result in a bad end. The male protagonist continued to be single, and he was just a simple friend with the girls. The story he spent with them was not enough to become a boyfriend and girlfriend.

But the harem plot is so tricky that other female characters appear in each personal story that originally belonged to a different female character.

For example, the protagonist Feng and the class monitor work hard for the school festival and help make decorations that need to be displayed in the class. Classmates and the silent student council members naturally participate in this plot. The three female characters sit together and talk and laugh, while the protagonist sits aside and concentrates on making decorations.

Another example is when the protagonist Feng and his classmates went shopping in the shopping street to buy materials needed for the school festival. Here they met a school girl who was also buying materials and a part-time worker who worked multiple jobs. They waited for the part-time workers to finish work and then took the protagonist Feng to sing KTV, eat and watch the snow. It was very lively.

Sakakibara Kaede nodded secretly. This really linked all the characters' plots together. He did go through the personal plots of all the female characters, but other female characters also appeared in these plots, which invisibly boosted their favorability.

On the night of the school festival, everyone was dancing and playing around a bonfire in the campus playground. The male protagonist Feng was sitting nearby chatting with a few male classmates who he was on good terms with. Halfway through the conversation, a beautiful female classmate suddenly appeared and reached out her hand to the male protagonist Feng.

The hand that invites him to dance under the bonfire.

The male protagonist Feng did not refuse.

On the eve of the summer festival, the male protagonist received a threatening invitation from the class monitor. When he came in a yukata, she was also wearing a yukata under the fireworks. Instead of watching the fireworks, the male protagonist Feng was looking at her.

On a holiday weekend, the worker and the male protagonist Feng went to visit the grandmother who lived in a nursing home. The grandmother held the male protagonist's hand and solemnly entrusted the worker to him.

Every night of the week, the schoolgirl would play games with the male protagonist Feng. The two would chat via microphone, talking and laughing, and they had a perfect understanding. One day, the schoolgirl proposed to the male protagonist Feng to marry her in the game.

The silent student union member came to his house on her own and asked the male protagonist Feng to tutor her. The male protagonist had no choice but to let the student union member lean on his shoulder and explain the questions seriously.

After pushing here, Sakakibara Kaede was stunned. When he wanted to turn back and complain and didn't want to push anymore, he was greeted by five women who used their hands and feet.

“Keep pushing!”

When Sakurajima Mai said this, her face had been red for a long time, and there was a hint of gritted teeth in her words. Beside her, Yuuki Asuna had already covered her eyes with the quilt, and her earlobes were already red.

Chizuru Ichinose kept her mouth open, in a hahaha state, and looked like it was broken.

Higuchi Madoka's eyes became more and more ferocious, and it looked like she wanted to bite off a piece of flesh from Sakakibara Kaede's body. Asakura Toru, who was hugging a pillow, was the most indifferent one. He actually laughed out loud while watching the plot.

On the night of the school trip, the hero slept a little groggily. He propped himself up, his body covered in sweat. Now he just wanted to go to the hot spring to take a bath to relieve his fatigue.

After entering the bathtub wearing a yukata, the voice of the girl in the bathtub suddenly woke him up. He blinked and found five girls with whom he had had interactions sitting under a rockery not far away, wrapped in bath towels and taking a bath. When they saw the male protagonist, their faces flushed, some looked away, some were ashamed and angry, and some laughed out loud.

"abnormal."

"Scumbag."

"You're actually enjoying it, Feng-san, I misjudged you."

Hearing the three consecutive comments of Chizuru Ichinose, Madoka Higuchi and Mai Sakurajima, Kaede Sakakibara sighed and felt exhausted both physically and mentally. He could be called a scumbag for promoting a game. This world was really unreasonable.

"Well, although the male protagonist is called Feng, I want to clarify that it's not me."

Sakakibara Kaede coughed and said calmly, "At least I won't make the stupid mistake of going to the wrong bathhouse because I'm too tired at night."

"Do you have a good strategy? It clearly says that the hotel will only open one mixed bathing hot spring after late at night." Sakurajima Mai said bluntly.

The young man was stunned. Okay, that’s true.

However, if he had night sweats, he would probably take a hot shower instead of taking a hot spring bath. After all, after taking a hot spring bath, there is a certain period of excitement, and then he would not be able to sleep.

This doesn't make sense.

"Well, we like you, Feng."

In the bath, five characters lined up in front of the screen, and the classmate standing in the middle blushed and spoke softly.

The male protagonist Feng was stunned for a moment, "You guys?"

"Well... us."

"Yes, it's us!"

"Huh, you still look unsatisfied."

"Haha, there are five of them."

The male protagonist Feng's eyes swept across the faces of the female characters one by one, and finally he felt dizzy, and the screen went black.

Sakakibara Kaede clicked his tongue, thinking that this young man was just inexperienced. He must have fainted after soaking in the bathtub for too long.

As he sighed, he noticed someone tapping his shoulder and turned around to ask, "What's wrong?"

There was a familiar scene in his eyes. Five girls occupied his bed, their faces were a little red. However, unlike the character portraits of the heroines in the galgame just now, he could only see Sakurajima Mai with a raised mouth, Higuchi Madoka who looked away with dissatisfaction, and Asakura Toru who was lying on the pillow with a smile. Chizuru Ichinose and Asuna Yuuki buried their heads in the quilts and could not see their faces.

"Feng, we like you."

Sakakibara Kaede was stunned for a moment, the corners of his mouth twitched for a moment, and then a trace of helplessness flashed across his face, "I know."

"Hey, I thought Feng-senpai would faint on the ground like the male protagonist Feng in the galgame."

“That’s really irresponsible.”

Sakakibara Kaede smiled bitterly and shrugged. He took a deep breath and nodded slowly, "I know, I know everything. Now... I can guess what you are thinking since we started playing the harem line."

"I want to say thank you. I am lucky to like me. Really, I believe no one in the world is luckier than me. I used to think that life is hard and everyone is just a tiny speck of dust in the world, but now I feel like I have become my own leading man. Being liked by you is really luckier than buying a lottery ticket."

Sakakibara Kaede's words were a little fragmented, but he still tried hard to organize the awkward words and spoke sentences he had never said before.

"I like you guys too, I like every one of you. I know it sounds a bit scumbag to say this, but it's unavoidable. At first I thought of you as reliable friends, but after I confessed my love to you, I discovered the feminine charm in you, which made me feel... a little moved."

"I want to give each of you equal love, but I have to start a harem. This is unfair to you, and I'm ready. Although it may sound a bit overbearing, at this point, none of you want to let her go."

The room was quiet for a moment. Even Chizuru Ichinose and Asuna Yuuki poked their heads out from under the quilt and listened to the young man's words in a daze.

"Senior Feng, is this what you think?"

Sakurajima Mai laughed, not knowing whether it was because she was delighted to discover a new side of the young man, or because she was simply happy that he had said this. "So you are so overbearing. If we had known this, we would have confessed to you two months ago."

"what?"

"Because I like you, there's nothing I can do!" Chizuru Ichinose buried her head in the quilt in self-abandonment.

Higuchi Madoka spat, "It sounds nice, but it depends on your actions, Mr. Playboy."

Yuuki Asuna murmured weakly: "Senior Feng has always been very gentle, but I didn't expect to see his domineering side today."

Asakura Toru tilted his head and said, "Now that we've finished talking, let's kiss."

"Hey!"

Higuchi Madoka gave her a dissatisfied look, but Asakura Toru got up from the bed on his own and said, "Well... you've been lying there for too long, go lie down outside for a while."

After saying that, he leaned over and touched the young man.

"I, I want to take a rest too. The quilt is a bit too hot." Chizuru Ichinose turned over, her face was as red as a fire cloud. Kaede Sakakibara even suspected that her brain had stopped functioning.

She glanced at the blinking young man, leaned over quickly, covered her lips, pushed the door open and left.

"There's another guild raid in the afternoon..." Yuuki Asuna stammered as she got out of bed. She put on her slippers and tiptoed to Sakakibara Kaede.

He put his hands behind his back, bent over, and then left the bedroom with brisk steps.

"Tsk, you're really a scumbag. I hate scumbags like this the most." Higuchi Yuanxiang had a look of disgust on her face, and her face was strangely red. "It's still the probation period. If you don't take responsibility, I won't forgive you!"

She made a "Pooh" sound, held Sakakibara Kaede's face firmly, lowered her head, slammed the door and left.

Sakurajima Mai held her belly and laughed on the bed, "How about it, are you surprised, Feng-san~ Now you can legitimately be a scumbag~"

“I always feel sorry for you.”

She noticed that Sakakibara Kaede's eyes were a little dim, and realized that he was serious. She got off the bed gently, then sat on Sakakibara Kaede's legs, held up his head, and forced the young man to look at her.

"Of course we feel unwilling, and we are also jealous," Sakurajima Mai said calmly, "but compared to these, our desire to be with you is more important."

"You have changed our lives in real life, Feng-san. Just like what the male protagonist Feng-san has done in the galgame, you have done more for us in real life."

"Without you, Madoka-chan would not have been able to find her own singing voice, nor would she be able to show her true smile in front of the camera. Without you, Chizuru-san would have been just an ordinary actress, with no chance of getting a leading female role. Without you, Asuna-chan would still be a canary locked in a cage, unaware of the colors of the world outside the cage. Without you, Toru-san...would definitely not have been able to get into the University of Tokyo."

Sakakibara Kaede couldn't keep his serious expression anymore and it broke down in an instant.

Mai Sakurajima also laughed, and her face moved closer and closer.

"If it weren't for you, Mai-chan would never be able to forget the fear and betrayal her mother brought her in the past, and she might even quit the entertainment industry."

"Mai-san, you..."

"I didn't lie to you."

Sakurajima Mai smiled and exhaled softly, "Originally I thought that the daily life of a high school student would be my last work in the entertainment industry, but I met Feng-san... He made me find the joy of becoming an actor in the beginning and helped me find my original intention."

"I used to have nightmares at night, but since I met you, I think about you every day and night. Gradually, I no longer have nightmares, and I only have beautiful dreams."

"Originally I would have thought that becoming an actor would be something I would regret, but thanks to Feng-san being by my side."

"I should be the one to say thank you."

Sakakibara Kaede sighed softly and held Sakurajima Mai's hand. If he had not met her after traveling through time, his life might still be up and down, unable to find his goal, unable to see the future, and unable to go back to the past, like a lonely soul in another world.

Only now, he had found home, a place to return to.

He found his place.

This might be what Mai Sakurajima jokingly referred to before, the mutual rescue between him and Madoka Higuchi. At that time, she commented that both of them were somewhat afraid of loss, afraid of time, and did not want to change. This kind of mutual rescue was very similar to the plot in a TV drama.

But now he understood Sakurajima Mai's feelings. Wasn't the relationship between him and her another kind of mutual salvation?

He originally thought that he was the one falling in the water, and Sakurajima Mai was the one pulling him to the surface. It was not until now that he realized that the two of them had always maintained the same height, kicking their legs at the same time trying to send the other to the surface, but as time accumulated, they both breathed in the fresh sea breeze at the same time.

Mai Sakurajima's lips are a little sweet and a little salty.

He knew that this was the taste of tears.

Chapter 16 Be careful of night attacks

It's already dark outside the window.

Only then did Sakakibara Kaede realize that he had been playing this galgame for several hours without realizing it, but considering the length of the common lines in galgames, it could be explained.

The kitchen is not small, but it can't accommodate five girls.

Asakura Toru can't cook, so she just sat on the sofa and watched TV naturally. She hugged her knees with her hands and looked in a good mood.

Sakurajima Mai and Higuchi Madoka were wearing aprons and adjusting the temperature, while Ichinose Chizuru and Yuuki Asuna were cutting vegetables and meat. They all looked very busy and in harmony.

Is this considered a legitimate harem? Sakakibara Kaede felt unreal.

More importantly, there was a feeling in his heart. At this point, he had already confessed his love and had done intimate actions. He would not be foolish enough to say something like "I am not worthy of you". All Sakakibara Kaede could do now was to keep moving forward, carrying the hearts of the five girls and responding to their feelings and keep moving forward.

You also need to consider where to live in the future. It would be best to live outside Tokyo. Although the paparazzi are not so rampant now, it is better to be safe than sorry. They are together willingly, but people outside may not think so.

"We are planning to hold a pajama party here today. Senior Feng, are you interested in staying here?" Mai Sakurajima asked from the side, with a hint of teasing in her tone.

Sakakibara Feng naturally shook her head, "It's not convenient, and it's not okay for me to join your girls' club without permission."

A more intuitive reason is that there are not enough beds. If he really joins, he will probably have to sleep on the sofa in the living room.

"Tch, it's boring."

Sakurajima Mai whispered, she originally wanted to tease Feng senior, but saw that he was shy.

"Do you want Feng-san to stay?" Higuchi Yuanxiang asked with a frown.

"Don't you want to, Yuan Xiang-chan?"

Higuchi Madoka glared at Sakakibara Kaede, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV with Asakura Toru, and said insincerely, "I don't want to."

"Eh... I don't believe it."

Higuchi Yuanxiang snorted with a blush on her face. She didn't want to pay any attention to Sakurajima Mai anymore.

Chizuru Ichinose saw that Yuuki Asuna was absent-minded and almost cut her finger with the knife, so she quickly reminded her quietly. Yuuki Asuna came back to her senses and thanked her softly.

Seeing Yuuki Asuna's nostalgic look, Ichinose Chizuru also felt a little shy. She touched her lips, then pulled away as if she had been electrocuted, coughed lightly, and began to concentrate on cutting the meat.

"Hey, the first episode of Sword Art Online is about to air."

Asakura Toru pointed at the screen and said that the four people who were cooking wanted to sit in front of the sofa to watch. Seeing this, Sakakibara Kaede joined the cooking and helped them. With one more person, the efficiency was naturally much higher. In less than half an hour, the table was filled with a sumptuous meal.