Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 179: The First Shrine Visit Did Not Go Smoothly
"Matsueda-san, we're finally meeting officially. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time."

The woman pulled her sunglasses to the top of her head, revealing her mature and bright eyes. She extended her right hand towards Matsueda Jun.

"I'm Imokawa Natsumi's mother, Imokawa Reimi. Nice to meet you. Please take care of me."

Aya Miyamura, Natsumi Imokawa, and the middle-aged man beside Jun Matsueda all looked at her outstretched hand.

"I'm sorry, the work at the station is quite formal, and I haven't adjusted to it even after the holiday." The woman smiled and retracted her outstretched hand, and the three people's eyes shifted elsewhere.

"Don't worry about her." The man said lazily, "I'm Xia Shi's father, Imokawa Akira, a director."

It seems that Mr. Imokawa is very proud of his profession.

Matsueda Jun bowed to the two elders, "Hello, uncle and aunt, I am Matsueda Jun, a friend of Imokawa-san."

He noticed the expectant look in Natsumi Imokawa's eyes and added another sentence.

"good friend."

The three members of the Imokawa family nodded in satisfaction, while the girl next to Matsueda Jun muttered under her breath, "It feels like meeting the parents."

"No need to be so formal. My daughter is under your care at school."

The woman smiled and put on her sunglasses again. Unlike her daughter, Ms. Imokawa seemed to be a cheerful and cheerful person.

"No, Yuchuan is very good in school and is the pillar of our department. I am the one who wants to thank Yuchuan for all the help he has given me before."

Natsumi Imokawa blushed, and the girl looked down at her chest. Aya Miyamura looked at her twice.

This wasn't Chun Ge's standard answer template.
"By the way, Matsueda, who is the girl next to you?" Mr. Imokawa's tone had become inexplicably familiar.

"Hello, uncle and aunt! I am Jun Matsueda's sister, you can just call me Aya-chan!" Aya Miyamura stood beside Jun Matsueda with a harmless sweet smile.

Immersed in joy, Natsumi Imokawa looked up at her. Why didn't Matsueda ever tell her that he had a younger sister?
"So we have to queue now?" the man pointed at the swirling crowd. "So many people?"

The women of the Imokawa family looked embarrassed and said, "If we had known there would be so many people, we would not have come to Sensoji Temple." The woman put on her sunglasses again and took her daughter's hand.

"What did Xia Shi say? Do you want to go in and pay your respects?"

Natsumi Imokawa, clutching her camera, shook her head rapidly, "There are just too many people."

Matsueda Jun looked at Miyamura Aya, and the girl's expression was a little unwilling. "I want to see how fast the queue is. I heard that the fortune-telling at Sensoji Temple is the most effective."

"Indeed." The middle-aged man nodded. "Before the last action movie I directed was released, I got smoked three times in a row at Sensoji Temple. That's when I knew I had to change my career."

Cai-chan blinked at Matsueda Jun, as if asking about the background of this uncle. Matsueda Jun whispered a few words in her ear, and the girl's eyes became surprised, looking left and right at the middle-aged man.

"How about we go sit in the cafe upstairs first?" The woman pointed to the building on the side of the road.

The man sat by the window and put down his coffee. "I suddenly remembered that Xia Shi hasn't explained why he called out Matsueda-kun first and then me."

"Has Dad become unimportant so quickly?" the man sighed.

Natsumi Imokawa, who was drinking coffee, immediately choked. Aya Miyamura looked at Jun Matsueda with an ambiguous look. He calmly picked up the tissue on the table and wiped off the coffee splashed on the back of his hand.

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Mrs. Imokawa slapped her husband hard on the back, and the director also started coughing.

"Ahem, no, ahem, it's just that pine branches stand out more in a crowd."

Natsumi Imokawa said hurriedly, the girl's face turned red, and coffee flowed from the corner of her mouth, which was wiped away by her mother with a tissue.

The man looked at Jun Matsueda, who was sitting across from him drinking coffee, then looked at his own reflection in the gleaming window glass. "Well, it's understandable."

The time for a cup of coffee passed quickly as the five people chatted aimlessly, but the flow of people downstairs did not move much.

Ms. Imokawa alternately looked at her daughter and then at the boy sitting across from her. She was a broadcaster for Fuji TV and had previously watched the Winter Cup live from her colleague's workroom next door.

"This is just the Kaminarimon Gate of Sensō-ji Temple. After you go in, you have to walk through a commercial street before you can see the main hall." The woman said with a smile, but she was thinking about other things.

He was academically excellent, physically strong, and handsome. He shared similar interests with his daughter, and they got along very naturally.
She looked at Natsumi Imokawa who was busy drinking coffee and sighed inwardly. It seemed impossible to expect her daughter to take the initiative, so she decided to just let things take their course.

"Forget it, Jun-ge, let's come another day." Hearing the woman's words, Miyamura Aya finally let go of her remaining expectations. She didn't want to waste her precious New Year's Day holiday queuing.

"Then we'll take our leave now. We have relatives to visit next."

Ms. Igawa stood up and took out the car keys. Her husband's driving skills were average, so it was usually the women who drove in the Igawa family.

"Does Natsumi want to go play with Matsueda-san?"

The socially anxious girl certainly had no such intentions. She shook her head and waved to the two of them, "Goodbye Songzhi, and um, goodbye to my sister too."

Jun Matsueda and Aya Miyamura sat in their seats, watching the girl follow the lazy man and the dignified woman down the stairs.

He drank the last sip of his cold coffee and was about to speak when he heard the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs again.

The girl ran back to Jun Matsueda, panting, holding a can of yellow drink in her hand, which reminded him of the limited edition banana milk in Hokkaido.

"Oh, I forgot to wish you a Happy New Year. I couldn't find a gift to give you, so I just bought a can of banana milk."

This was something she hadn't given away when she was staying at the Otaru Hotel.

"Happy New Year!"

The girl stuffed the banana milk into Matsueda Jun's arms and went downstairs again.

Jun Matsueda looked at the drink in his arms, Aya Miyamura looked at him, and the girl gave him a thumbs up.

"The feeling of a good woman!"

"Besides, Sister Yuchuan's family is quite interesting, so life will not be boring in the future!"

"You think too much." Songzhi Jun rolled his eyes at her. "We're just friends. Can't I tell the difference between friendship and love?"

"We can develop this a little bit." The girl put down her coffee cup with a smile. "Where should we go next?"

"Since we're already out, we might as well find a shrine or temple to visit for the first time."

Jun Matsueda took out his cell phone and started looking for a suitable place, when a message in the class group popped up.

"Is anyone at Sensoji Temple? Is it crowded right now? I want to go to Hatsumode."

"Don't come." He sent a message. "There are too many people here. It's better to drink coffee on the street than to come here for the first time."

"You can go to the nearby Imado Shrine. It shouldn't be crowded there." Tomatsu Tomoka quickly followed him and spoke.

"Imado Shrine?" Jun Matsueda opened the map navigation and found that the distance was indeed very close.

"Would you like to visit the nearby shrine?"

Miyamura Aya stood up and said, "Let's go!"

Kongojinja Shrine is only one kilometer away from Sensoji Temple, so the two decided to walk there.

The weather on New Year's Day was beautiful, with ample sunshine. The leaves of the trees along the road shone, swaying in the breeze. Matsueda Jun closed his eyes slightly, feeling the warm light caressing his eyelids.

The sunlight traveled a long way to reach this tiny planet, caressing the eyelids of every human being with one end of it - thinking of this, an inexplicable emotion welled up in his chest.

Perhaps this is the limited blessing given to a limited life.

"Brother Jun, we're here!" said Aya Miyamura excitedly, walking in front. "There are two beautiful sisters at the door~"

Jun Matsueda looked at the torii gate that appeared in front of him. Tomatsu Tomoka and Yamami Maki were standing under the white torii gate. Both girls were wearing white scarves and looked like sisters standing together.

"Happy New Year, Matsueda-san~"

Only then did he realize that this was just another little trick of the cunning girl.

　Thank you to "Kōji Kawajiri" for the generous donation! With the donation, I can add two more chapters, so I'm already five chapters behind since the beginning of October...

　　
　
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