The peaceful daily life of the heroine in the other world

After Sudo Rinka opened her eyes, he held her quietly until she turned over gently. Then she let go of her hand and quietly got out of bed.

After letting go of my mother, I realized that the morning was actually a bit cold, but I didn't feel much when I was holding her just now.

He carefully covered her with the quilt, took off her high heels and placed them in front of the bed. Then, Rinka Sudo put on thick sportswear and big round-frame glasses to cover up her beautiful figure, and tiptoed out of the room.

It’s just another long dream after all.

Everything in the dream is so vague, I don’t know to whom it belongs.

In the early morning, everything is quiet. A ray of light emerges from the eastern horizon, carefully soaking the light blue sky. A new day gradually moves from afar, and an insignificant little gear in the cold steel city quietly begins to turn.

No matter how fast the small gear turns, the temperature it produces is not actually hot, but it is enough to warm a mother who comes home drunk at night.

Looking away from the window, Sudo Rinka held a bowl of light yam and meat porridge, gently pushed open the door with her toes, and placed it in front of the bed.

Steaming hot yam porridge with fresh honey bread is my mother's favorite breakfast.

"You get up at 5:30 in the morning to cook. You are so filial to your mother." said a cold and familiar voice.

"...My mother raised me all by herself, working hard for me every day." Sudo Rinka shook her head and replied, "I just did my part..."

"There are not many people in this world who can fulfill their duties and responsibilities. I admire those who can do what they should do, without overstepping or getting tired, and persevere. I also hate those who say they will do something but give up halfway and fail to achieve anything."

"Miss Ichiri..." Sudo Rinka smiled slightly, "It's rare for you to praise me."

"Who praised you?!"

In his mind, the pale girl who was resting on the tatami in the dojo, rubbing her belly, immediately became angry and said, "Haven't you figured out that I'm playing dirty tricks on you?"

"Huh?" Sudo Rinka tilted her head blankly.

"Eh what? How many days have passed since I saw you?"

"Isn't it...only three or four days?" Sudo Rinka was confused.

"What do you mean by only three or four days? Do you know that a game's most crucial aspect is its early stages?" the girl said, frustrated. "Have you made any progress with the girl you like yet? Did you know the kid next door is practically sleeping with her? Do you still want to be with Amamiya? Why are you still dithering here?!"

Although what he said is pretty much the same, why does it sound weird?

....It's like they're urging me to get married.

"Yes, I'm sorry..."

Being suddenly scolded early in the morning, Sudo Rinka was a little overwhelmed and had to apologize humbly.

As for what went wrong?

To be honest, she herself didn't know what she did wrong...

Study hard every day, do housework when she comes home, do odd jobs outside, and take care of her tired mother... These simple things have occupied most of her time.

Life is not as easy as in anime and games, and life is not a series of romantic comedies where you only need to think about how to pursue the girl you like.

In reality, there are always many things to consider and worry about.

For Sudo Rinka, what she cares about most now is not whether she can pursue Amemiya-san.

Of course, she liked the girl who had saved her life twice, and she also hoped that she could be with her and make her care about her more.

But... before working hard to pursue the person she likes, Sudo Rinka wants to take care of her family first.

"Amamiya-san is very outstanding. Even without me, you can still be happy."

"But... Mom is different."

Sudo Rinka lowered her head and whispered in her heart, "...I am the only one she has left."

"My father died in a fire when I was very young. My mother refused to remarry and raised me alone."

"In my 'previous life,' my mother spent a lot of money on my private tutoring, hoping that I could get into a good university, get a good job, and be able to take care of myself in the future. She always said, 'As long as I can see Rinka grow up, I will have no regrets in this life.'"

"But... Mom died before she saw me grow up, so I think... she must be very regretful."

The pale girl was silent.

Rinka Sudo's mother is named Kazuko Sudo.

She passed away at the age of 35.

The cause of death was cardiac arrest due to overwork.

She was undoubtedly a good mother. She worked hard for half her life, just hoping that her daughter would be happy and healthy, but she overdrew her body and did not even see her daughter for the last time. She collapsed without any warning on the way home late at night.

"At that time... I was still in my second year of high school, serving as the captain of the Kendo Club and about to represent it in the Kendo Tournament."

Rinka Sudo sat at the head of the bed, looking at her sleeping mother, and said in her heart.

"My mother always said that she worked so hard because of me... So I felt that she died because of me, that I killed her..."

"Because of this, I thought about committing suicide and wanted to give up. Some people around me understood my reasons for giving up the competition, while others advised me not to be too sad and to cheer up and continue competing."

"Amamiya-san...she didn't say anything, but just took me to the hospital and showed me a patient with severe burns."

"That patient was a firefighter who nearly died trying to save a child trapped in the fire... Amamiya-san was just passing by and called the fire department and the hospital, helping out quite a bit."

Sudo Rinka said softly.

"He said he had been in a fire before and had to be rescued, so that's why he wanted to be a firefighter."

"If I die saving someone, I might feel some regret, but I hope my family won't be too sad. I also hope that the child I saved with my life can grow up healthy and live well in my place..."

"After that, Amamiya-san didn't say much, just told me to do what I think is right."

"Later, I competed again and won."

"..."

Yili couldn't help but smile, "So you fell in love with her then? You felt that she saved you again?"

"No... probably earlier, when she picked me up from the river... or maybe when Amamiya-san helped me beat up Sato with the bamboo sword... well..."

Sudo Rinka was somewhat helpless, "...Amamiya-san has really helped me so many times. Now that I think about it, I have so many reasons to like her, and so many favors that I can never repay..."

"Unfortunately...less than a year later, Amamiya-san suddenly fell seriously ill and passed away in the hospital."

"The two people who were most important to me passed away one after another within just one year, and I was powerless to do anything about it."

"If I had to do it all over again, I would take good care of my mother first and not let her suffer too much."

"The mystery surrounding Amemiya-san... I still can't solve it, and Ichiri-san can't tell you, so I want to wait a little longer before pursuing her..."

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PPS: School has started and I'm up early every day, so I'm a bit tired of typing. But I don't play games much now. It's just that I have a lot of professional exams and classes to prepare for make-up exams, so I try to keep updating at 4k. I wrote yesterday, but I accidentally fell asleep at :. Smith Marseille...

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"Mom...get up and have breakfast."

"Uh...uh..."

Sudo Kazuko rubbed her head and sat up from the bed in a daze. Her eyes were still sleepy and she looked like she was not awake at all. Her face was full of alcohol and her pale cheeks were warmly red.

It's strange... She is obviously over 30 years old and will be almost 35 after the Chinese New Year, but because she is only a little over 1.5 meters tall and has a baby face, she still looks very young.

If she didn't wear a lot of makeup to look mature, she would even look like a college girl when she just woke up without makeup. However, her fair skin was a little rough. After all, she often worked overtime and didn't have much time to take care of herself.

Many middle-aged women envy her youthful and cute baby face, but Sudo Kazuko herself is always dissatisfied and wishes she could be more old-fashioned. This is because her business ability is often doubted because she looks too young. She is also teased by unsuspecting customers from time to time, who feel that her current position is not the result of her own efforts.

"Um... Rinka, why are you here..."

The woman, still reeking of alcohol, mumbled half-consciously, scratching her head with her hand, messing up her usually neatly groomed short hair. "..Want to sleep with Mom? Ugh...I really can't do anything about you..."

"Mom, this is my room. You've had too much to drink."

Sudo Rinka took a comb and silently combed her mother's hair.

It was not known whether she was really drunk or pretending to be drunk. The woman just smiled blankly and rubbed her palms. After a while, she smelled something and stretched out her little hands, holding the hot yam porridge and drinking it in small sips.

After seeing her mother finish her breakfast, Sudo Rinka quietly walked out the door, sat in the living room, and quietly looked out the window at the hazy morning sun.

In the cold street scene, she saw a little girl carrying a small schoolbag and walking home holding a woman's hand. She saw the woman making faces to amuse the girl and running and jumping outside with the girl.

That is a shadow of the past.

Her mother was already shorter than her when they were in junior high school. If they went out together, outsiders would probably mistake them for sisters. And her mother was probably the younger one, so she always tried to find ways to make her happy whenever they went out.

She is very energetic and positive. Although she is already a mother, sometimes she is even more childish than her.

Sudo Rinka gently closed her eyes and saw a dojo.

According to Miss Yili, this is a spiritual world constructed by humans with unconscious thoughts. Everyone's experience is different, so the constructed world is also different, corresponding to a person's state of mind and memory.

Ever since I agreed to cooperate with the other party, this spiritual world deep in my consciousness has changed from being accessible only during sleep to a rest area that I can easily enter by just closing my eyes and feeling carefully.

Looking at the girl lying on the tatami with a bored expression, her whole body covered in white, and her gorgeous face gently supported by one hand, Sudo Rinka smiled slightly.

"...My mom is a very good... very lovely person. After my dad passed away, she didn't want me to be sad, so every time after school, she wanted to take me out to play... We ran around outside the house and had a lot of fun."

"So... I don't want Mom to have the same ending as last time."

Having experienced the sadness of her mother's death in her previous life, Sudo Rinka naturally did not want to watch her mother suffer so much in this life, so she studied hard, worked part-time in her spare time, and used scholarships and the money saved from private school tuition to reduce her mother's pressure so that she didn't have to work so hard and desperately to make money.

But despite this...my mother still couldn't avoid working overtime and socializing every few days. After repeated persuasion, she just smiled and nodded. She would still work after a few days, but she would not have to take care of housework and three meals a day after returning home like in her previous life.

Her mother's health condition was really worrying, so Rinka Sudo naturally didn't have much time to think about falling in love at school.

"Being worried about your family is one reason, but...how does that have to do with you not even daring to invite her?"

Amemiya Ichiri raised an eyebrow and asked, "From what I've observed, you don't seem to be extremely busy at school. Don't you spend a lot of time peeping during class every day..."

"I wasn't peeping... I just... I just wanted to see her..."

The girl frowned: "Isn't that just voyeurism?"

"?"

"You're as lustful as your body, so there are plenty of ways for you to make money..."

"Wait! What are you talking about?!"

Sudo Rinka couldn't help blushing and quickly interrupted the girl's further explosive remarks.

This kind of topic is a bit too embarrassing for the class monitor who is even less innocent than the junior high school boys.

However, what Miss Yili said was indeed partly correct.

During her free time at school, Sudo Rinka had indeed thought carefully about how to get closer to Amemiya Yi and listened carefully to her suggestions. However, every time she wanted to take action, she backed off and did not dare to make an invitation.

For example, the day before yesterday, Sudo Rinka originally wanted to invite Amamiya Yi to visit temples and aquariums together during their school trip in Kyoto.

I had already said it, and everyone was invited, but for some reason, the words were on the tip of my tongue, but in the end, I couldn't say them...

...and it's not because of shyness.

That Amamiya Yi had helped her correct her stuttering problem when meeting people, so now she is not so introverted...

The real reason why those expressions of affection fall on deaf ears is...

"Fear...?"

Some fragments flashed before the girl's eyes.

"Are you afraid?"

"...I, I didn't..."

The girl lowered her eyes and looked at the slightly shaking ground.

Human words could deceive her, but the trembling of their souls at that moment could not deceive her.

The girl shook her head. "You may not feel that way, but deep down you're afraid of being rejected. You just want to stay in your comfort zone and maintain the status quo. That's why you can't say anything."

“…”

Sudo Rinka bit her lip.

The girl said calmly, "I don't want to sound too utilitarian, but your pursuits... seem much lower than I imagined."

"I can't understand it... I watched in silence at school as the girl I liked got closer and closer to someone else, secretly watched her put on a forced smile, and then went home to work part-time as a convenience store clerk, watching the days pass by..."

"Why would you settle for that?"