Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 158 The Last Night Sky, Escaping Hokkaido

The major power outage in Hokkaido lasted for two full days.

"I wonder how the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Hokkaido Electric Power Company will apologize this time." Sushan said while lying on the bed.

"I just know that public transportation will resume tomorrow." Matsueda Jun stretched. "Finally, I'm going back to Tokyo."

"I haven't yet encountered a beautiful girl wearing a white scarf in the heavy snow of Hokkaido," Suyama said wistfully.

"Think about it from another perspective. You can go back to Tokyo, wear a black scarf, and become a beautiful Tokyo boy that girls want to meet in the snow." Jun Matsueda opened the door, leaving the resentment of the young man in love in the room.

Next to the vending machine in the lobby, a girl holding two cans of banana milk was waiting for him.

"Here you go~" Natsumi Imokawa handed him a can of banana milk.

The two stood under the eaves at the entrance of the hotel. Jun Matsueda imitated the girl's posture, put one hand on his waist, tilted his head back and drank the milk in one gulp.

"Let's go and take pictures of the night sky!" The girl exhaled hot air with a milky scent and raised the camera to her chest.

Otaru has adapted to the long-lost darkness. There are not many people on the streets. Maybe they all want to go to bed early and quickly spend the last night without electricity.

The hotel is near Otaru Park. The cold winter wind was blowing through the woods. Fortunately, they were all dressed warmly and did not join the shivering trees.

Arriving at the baseball field in the park, the view suddenly opened up. Natsumi Imokawa sat on the green grass and looked up at the starry sky above her head.

"The stars are as numerous as snowflakes."

Matsueda Jun sat next to the girl. "Today's weather is the best since the power outage, right? Even the Milky Way is so clear."

Natsumi Imokawa took a few photos with his camera on the grass, then stood up to set up the tripod and began to adjust the camera angle and other equipment.

"Polaris, Polaris," she chanted as she swayed her body around Jun Matsueda.

"Are you looking for the North Star?"

"Yeah." The girl nodded. "I want to take pictures of star trails. I need to use the North Star for positioning."

"Eureka!" She set up the camera and sat down again.

"This way, you let the camera automatically shoot for three to four hours, and after post-processing, you can see the star trails."

Natsumi Imokawa looked around and could vaguely see the shadows of other people on the lawn under the starlight. Everyone was looking up at the starry sky above their heads, and no one noticed their presence.

"Matsueda, um, thank you during the day."

In the afternoon, the girls pestered Natsumi Imokawa to take photos again. The girl wanted to refuse but found it difficult to say it. Fortunately, Jun Matsueda called her away in the middle of the process, saving the battery for taking photos at night.

"You'd better learn to say no to others as soon as possible." Jun Matsueda lay down, and the grass leaves scratched his hair, making it a little itchy.

"That was the first time I'd ever been so popular," the girl said, hugging her knees, her breasts flattened against her thighs.

"But it's not you they like, it's just the camera in your hand."

“I know that too,” she said, drawing circles on the grass with her right hand. “One day, I’ll use my own photos to attract everyone to my side.”

"So, Imokawa also wants to be recognized and understood by others? I thought you were the type of person who just wanted to have fun taking photos."

"How could that be?" The girl turned to look at him. "I'd be very happy if you liked what I took."

"Don't you have any other spectators? Like Yumi?" Matsueda Jun sat up and brushed off the grass leaves on his body.
"Even though Yumi always tells me 'it's beautiful' and 'I like it', I can tell she's not really interested."

"Only Songzhi smiled so sincerely every time he looked through the camera with me."

Jun Matsueda was her first fan besides her parents. Natsumi Imokawa turned around as well. "Don't you find me annoying? I'm always bothering you?" the girl asked cautiously.

"No, it's quite interesting to be with Imokawa. You took me to see the crows, the snowy plains of Tengu Mountain, and now the starry sky."

"Perhaps I should say thank you?"

"No, no, no!" The girl waved her hands hurriedly, "As long as you don't mind me being a bother!"

The two naturally fell silent and looked at the starry sky above their heads.

This is the last night without lights in Hokkaido. In the coming decades, whenever the neon lights of the city overshadow the Milky Way in the sky, there will always be people who recall the sea-like starry sky that night.

The next morning, when Matsueda Jun left the room with his luggage, Mochizuki Haruka was already sitting on the sofa in the hall waiting for him.

Jun Matsueda almost thought that the girl had returned to normal, but when he saw her making a doll-like expression towards the group of girls approaching, he realized that it was an illusion.

"Why are you up so early today?" He walked up to the girl.

"Because you said you had to get up early today." Mochizuki Haruka handed over a bottle of milk, which was his favorite brand when he was in Hokkaido.

As soon as he walked into the hall, Natsumi Imokawa looked at the two bottles of banana milk in his hand and hid them in his backpack.

"Matsueda-chan, Mochizuki-chan, I'll leave it to you~" The hot girls waved to him, their manicures on their nails shining. They pulled their suitcases past the two of them and walked towards Otaru Station.

"Rion is a nice person. You should learn to cherish people like her." Matsueda Jun said to the girl while looking at the hot girl's back.

"I understand." Mochizuki Haruka nodded, then took out a small notebook from her pocket and wrote a sentence on the blank first page.

"1. Songzhi likes kind people."

After everyone in Group 2 arrived, Xiaominato Shengzi led them out of the hotel.

"Is Tomatsu-san okay with her injury?" Matsueda Jun walked up to the girl and asked.

"It's almost healed. The bruises should disappear in a few days."

Tomatsu Tomoka glanced at Mochizuki Haruka who was following the boy, took out a coat from her handbag and handed it to him, "This is the clothes I borrowed before, thank you, Matsueda-san."

The girl behind Matsueda Jun naturally took a step forward, wanting to take the coat from her hand and put it on herself.

It took Tomatsu Tomoka two seconds to let go of her hand, handed the coat to Mochizuki Haruka, and walked towards the girls on the other side.

After entering Otaru Station, snow skirts fell from the sky again. People stood on the platform of the Hakodate Main Line, watching the snow accumulate on the iron-gray tracks again.

Once again passing by the snowy seaside, the scenery outside the window is still beautiful, but it can no longer move people's hearts like when they first saw the sunrise.

They rode all the way to New Chitose Airport with only two changes. When Jun Matsueda went to the mall in the terminal to buy souvenirs, Tomatsu Tomoka sat next to the lonely Haruka Mochizuki.

"Why don't you go with him?"

"He's going to buy a gift for another woman, and I don't want to see it."

Tomatsu Tomoka's smile was cold and heartless. "I knew you would fall for her."

Mochizuki Haruka's expression did not change. The girl licked the ice cream that Matsueda Jun bought for her before he left, watching the planes taking off and landing outside the window in the white sky.

"The feeling of having your joys and sorrows tied to others is such a blissful experience."

(End of this chapter)