My love game with them that will lead to certain death

No, for him in this "future", it was indeed something he had experienced personally.

"Forget about being kept. It seems to be common for writers to run out of inspiration and get stuck in a bottleneck period."

Yono's intriguing tone seemed to be trying to steer the conversation in a certain direction, and Narumi noticed this very easily.

"Yes, writing novels is a dead end, and making money is not easy. Miss Yang Nao, you said so much, do you want to support me?"

"cough--!"

The butler sitting in the driver's seat was frightened by his sudden question and choked, but fortunately his hands holding the steering wheel did not shake.

"Oh, Archer, what are you talking about? I thought young men your age would want to get down to earth and do practical things."

Yukinoshita Haruno's eyebrows just twitched, but the smile on her face remained the same as always.

"No, the high-end prey will come to the table on its own. If I hesitate for a second, I will be disrespectful to the life of the kept gigolo."

"...You are still very eloquent."

Miss Yukinoshita Haruno's perseverance in maintaining her aura even though she was clearly unable to hold it back is something that everyone should learn from.

"If you don't tell me your intentions, I will think you are secretly in love with me and you are here to confess your love and get back together."

Ming Hai curled his lips in noncommittal. In his memory, he was called by Yukinoshita Haruno, whom he had not seen for a long time, to go to their former common high school, Sobu High School.

The reason for being called was.

"…Yeah, it's my sister, Yukino. Archer, you must have met her once or twice before, right? When we were dating."

Having said this, the smile on Yang No's face gradually faded into tranquility.

"But I didn't ask you to go to school to look for her, Archer? Yukino isn't in class at this hour."

She leaned her body gently against the soft car seat, her unfathomable gaze looking out the window at the roadside scenery that was receding.

Yukinoshita Haruno finally revealed the information that Toru Narumi was concerned about.

"She is still recuperating in the hospital, which is also our destination."

It was obvious that Yukinoshita Yukino seemed to be suffering from some disease. This was contrary to the facts that Toru Narumi knew in reality.

In real life, Yukinoshita Yukino does have an excellent sister named Yukinoshita Haruno, but in the eyes of her peers, she has always been an unattainable beauty. She treats others coldly and distantly, making it difficult for many people to approach her - this is the general impression that Toru Narumi has of her in real life.

In this simulation, Toru Narumi, who was born three years earlier, has no special memories of Yukinoshita Yukino, who is no longer the same age as him.

He racked his brain and searched through the boxes and drawers in his mind, which was full of memories, but he could only remember the vague outline of a black-haired junior high school girl who hid in the corner of the window and peeked at him and his sister when he and Haruno were on a date at a family restaurant in high school, and the unfamiliar look of Yukino who sat quietly and dignified at the dining table when he first visited Yukinoshita's house, but secretly glanced at him out of the corner of her eyes.

Occasionally, the child would say something shocking, asking him some overly tricky or even sharp questions in a calm tone, but in Minghai's opinion, this was probably just a test of "Who are you to be worthy of my sister?"

In any case, Toru Narumi once stood in the same position as Haruno and treated Yukino as a younger sister.

And this child, who has not been seen for some time, is most likely sick.

A normal person would probably say something comforting at this time.

The curly-haired young man pursed his lips, raised his eyebrows, and looked up at Yang Nai.

"You just said you were going to help me. Could it be related to your sister?"

Among so many ways to express comfort, he chose to say the most irrelevant words.

"You really are a person who never says polite words. Can you at least symbolically ask what's wrong with Yukino?"

"My polite words won't make your sister's illness suddenly get better. After all, this is something that even the Yukinoshita family can't solve."

Of course, this behavior is blunt at best and inhumane at worst.

It’s just that Ming Hai Toru will still pretend when facing others, but there is no need to hide anything in front of his ex-girlfriend who knows him well.

"Hmph... Now that I think about it, part of the reason I wanted to break up with you was because of your sometimes ruthless personality."

Yang Nai put his hand on the car window and supported his chin with his palm, and his tone sounded a little disappointed.

"Aren't you curious about what disease Yukino has?"

"According to this process, you should tell me the next sentence."

However, Ming Hai was indeed very curious about this. At least in the reality outside the simulation, Yukinoshita Yukino looked very healthy and did not seem to have any hidden illness.

"It was just recently diagnosed. It's a pancreatic disease."

Yukinoshita Haruno still smiled calmly when talking about her sister's illness.

"Archer, just think of it as an autoimmune disease. Anyway, the situation is very serious. If things go well, it may be cured. If not, we may only have one or two years left."

But her voice was obviously not as calm and composed as it usually sounded.

"But that child...is not even an adult yet."

"…hard to understand."

"Really? I don't understand. How come Yukino, who has always been in good health, suddenly got diagnosed with this disease? Mom and Dad are so worried about it."

"I don't understand. Is this a variable that happened to her in this simulation? What does it have to do with the purpose of my simulation this time?"

Ming Hai Toru, with a cold expression, was thinking about something that had nothing to do with "sympathy".

The black car slowly drove into the hospital parking lot, and the two people, who looked natural, entered the hospital's inpatient department from the elevator with mixed feelings.

"We were also shocked at first, but to be honest, we have gradually accepted this fact recently, so Archer, you don't have to feel too heavy-hearted."

Yukinoshita Haruno patted the silent curly-haired young man on the shoulder, even though she completely misunderstood the reason why Ming Hai remained silent.

"Aren't you stuck in your novel writing? Meeting Yukino, a patient, might inspire some ideas for writing about terminal illnesses. Just treat it as material."

"You are such a horrible sister."

Ming Hai responded without thinking, even though he knew that there were definitely other needs hidden behind Yukinoshita Haruno's seemingly excessive words.

"Well, people who write novels must have good expressive abilities. You can talk to Yukino and make her happy. It would also help cheer her up to see someone other than her family, wouldn't it?"

The two walked out of the elevator one after the other. The silent hospital corridor was filled with the unpleasant smell of medicine, and the people who passed by had solemn expressions on their faces.

They stood at the door of a ward, which was ajar but not completely closed.

Yukinoshita Haruno smiled without saying anything, and motioned for Ming Hai to go in first.

The curly-haired young man hesitated for a moment before reaching out and pushing open the door. Bright light poured in from the blinds facing him.

In the warm sunlight, a figure facing the door naturally caught Ming Hai's sight. In the white halo environment, the girl's long black hair with a faint luster and the red bow tied at her temples were extremely conspicuous.

The girl sitting by the window was quietly reading a library book. Apart from her smooth and fair skin, her flawless face, as delicate as a baby's, was even more eye-catching - if it weren't for the uniform hospital gown she was wearing, it would have been more conspicuous.

If he could ignore her slightly haggard look, Ming Hai would definitely regard the person in front of him as the real-life Yukinoshita Yukino, and would hold his breath and admire this scene for a long time.

But unfortunately, soon after Ming Hai entered the room, the girl who noticed the arrival shifted her gaze from the pages of the library to him, and he broke this picture-like scene with his own hands.

The moment Minghai's eyes met Yukinoshita Yukino's ice-blue eyes, a thought flashed through his mind without warning.

"...Have we met somewhere before?"

After a long silence, the black-haired girl with a suspicious look on her face broke the silence.

Yukino Yukinoshita, who is seriously ill, is the key figure in this simulation.

This seemed to come from Ming Hai Toru's intuition, but also seemed like a whisper from the system.

Chapter 4: Don’t Go Crazy with Your Sister-in-Law (Part 1)

If she could go back in time, when the [Simulation Game] pop-up window appeared on her mobile phone screen, Yukinoshita Yukino, who was studying hard in her room, would never put down her pen and click on the x mark in the upper right corner.

Sometimes the x sign on an ad isn’t really a close button, but just an icon. Clicking on it will lead you to the horror of being dominated by pop-up games all over the screen - those who understand will understand.

But unfortunately, Yukinoshita Yukino didn't understand.

【Thank you for choosing to play this game. I hope this future simulation can bring you a new and real gaming experience. 】

"Simulating... the future?"

[Yes. The tiny movement of a butterfly flapping its wings can change things on the other side of the earth - aren't you curious about what kind of life you will have in the future with so many possibilities? ]

"........."

Yukinoshita Yukino looked around the large but empty high-end apartment where she lived. She had the impression that her parents had never visited this place where she had moved in and lived alone since she started high school.

Will the future be different from the present, or worse?

[By the way, once you enter this game, you cannot exit until the game is over. ]

"...I will report this forced buying and selling experience to the relevant departments."

Of course, this would have to wait until you had completely exited the simulation.

Just like that, Yukino Yukinoshita accidentally entered the game world of "Future Simulation".

This world was not significantly different from real life, and nothing around her had changed in any specific way.

Until one day, she felt a subtle but persistent pain in her body.

After being "visited" by the disease, Yukino Yukinoshita soon realized that her future self was not lucky.

Suffering from acute pancreatitis, her real life was turned upside down. The double torture of hospitalization that gradually squeezed her daily space and the pain from the illness was so real that it didn't seem like an experience from a game.

These sensory and psychological shocks all remind Yukinoshita Yukino that this is real and may happen in the future.

Therefore, after finishing this nightmare-like future simulation, she decided to go for a physical examination as soon as she returned to reality.

Just as she was sitting beside the bed, staring out the window in a daze, someone walked into her ward.

The young man's arrival attracted her attention - even though the latter appeared like an NPC in a game.

But his face seemed familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere, yet familiar and strange.

Yukinoshita Yukino was slightly stunned. This unprecedented feeling could only be accurately described by one word.

A sense of fatalism.

----

I wonder what everyone’s playing habits are when playing games with multiple endings and branching choices.

Ming Hai Toru's habit is to try out all the endings that seem to be wrong options first.

Therefore, he still had a gaming mentality in this simulation, and after opening the door of the hospital room and meeting Yukinoshita Yukino's eyes -

Then he slammed the door shut again.

"?"

This also made the smile on Yukinoshita Haruno's face freeze.

Oh, no matter how you think about it, the next step will definitely be to enter the main storyline.

"Think about it carefully. This is the family affair of your Yukinoshita family."

The curly-haired young man yawned out of boredom and looked quite uninterested.

"Yang Nao and you are just exes, okay? We are not related, so it's not appropriate to interfere. If your mother, who is not easy to mess with, is here, I will have a hard time getting away, so I'll just leave now—"

"Archer? Wait—"

After Ming Hai waved his hand, he turned around and left without looking back, leaving Yukinoshita Haruno, who had not expected such a development at all, standing there.

It was normal that she didn't expect it to turn out like this.

Because this was just Toru Narumi's "test" of the simulation.

According to the normal process, Ming Hai should start to contact Yukinoshita Yukino. But if an illogical choice is made, what will happen next?

With such curiosity, Ming Hai raised the corners of his mouth and quickened his pace.

The personality of Toru Narumi in this world seemed to have been extended to him as well - or perhaps this was just Narumi developing a certain personality of his own to a certain stage.

[You rejected Yukinoshita Haruno's invitation and chose to ignore Yukinoshita Yukino who was seriously ill. 】

Everything around him began to become increasingly illusory, and the system's voice became clearer as Ming Hai moved forward.

[You rejected the suggestion and returned to your rutted life. Your novel writing did not improve, and your university life was still boring.]

[On the day you graduated from university, you received the news that Yukinoshita Yukino had passed away. ]

[You attended the funeral of this young girl. Yukinoshita's parents looked sad and tired. Yukinoshita Haruno, who was also standing in the family line, did not look at you the whole time. She just stared blankly at her sister's portrait.]

[You learned from Yuigahama Yui, a classmate of Yukinoshita who also attended the funeral, that the relationship in Yukinoshita's family was a bit complicated. Even with the encouragement of her friends, Yukino did not cheer up and actively participate in rehabilitation treatment. The negative thoughts about life may be an important reason why she lost to acute pancreatitis. ]

[After graduation, you had trouble writing novels, so you stopped writing and lived a normal life of working from nine to five. You had planned to continue to work like a slave for your boss for 40 to 50 years, but you died suddenly in your twenties on an ordinary night playing games, and you didn't even live to the age of receiving a pension.]