Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 342 My Sister is Too Perceptive
"So how did Matsueda-kun and Maki meet?"

Ikuka Yamami looked at the boy sitting in front of the drum set, "Are you in the same club as her?"

“My classmate and senior Yamami are in the same club, and I’m in the journalism club.”

Jun Matsueda put down his drumsticks. He had just played a humorous jazz tune for his older sister—before she appeared, he had been playing a wild, chaotic rock-bottom style, the kind with a beat denser than raindrops.

"At the time, the school planned to shoot a promotional video for the new year's admissions. The news department was in charge of the filming, and I was involved in the part about the brass band. In addition, my classmate had a good relationship with senior student Yamami, so I got to know her."

The woman looked on with a reminiscing expression, as if she had remembered something, and clapped her hands vigorously. "I think I've seen your school's promotional video. You were in it too, weren't you?"

"Yes."

Ikuka Yamami took out her phone, and music filled the quiet room—it was the background music that Natsumi Imokawa had carefully selected for her recruitment video. The woman watched it with great interest.

Jun Matsue sat in a chair and heard his own voice coming through someone else's phone: "Don't think about qualifying for the international competition, just get a gold medal."

Uh... His toes were scratching the ground through the soles of his shoes. It was a little embarrassing to have someone watch him showing off.

A few minutes later, the woman looked up at him in surprise. "Two national competition gold medals, the Winter Basketball Cup, and your drumming skills are pretty good too. Matsueda-kun is amazing!"

She recalled their casual chat in the corridor, and how kind and composed he was, showing no arrogance whatsoever.

Matsueda Jun, Yamami Ikuka searched her network of relationships, but there seemed to be no such name among the families entrenched in Tokyo, suggesting that he came from an ordinary family.

Just as the woman was about to speak again, the boy's phone rang. Jun Matsueda glanced at it and saw that it was his senior calling.

"Sorry, I'll take a call."

"Go ahead, go ahead." Yami Ikuka waved her hand, becoming more casual in her demeanor.

Jun Matsue reached the end of the corridor and, after confirming that his older sister was not behind him, answered the phone.

"Senior?"

"Matsueda-san saw my sister?" The girl's side was quiet. Yamami Maki had separated from Tomatsu Yuka under the pretext of going to the restroom.

“I think I’m right.” He glanced behind him again. “I saw Yami Ikuka at the front desk. She was wearing a mask, so I couldn’t see her face at all.”

"How did she become 'Big Sister'?" the other half of the girl asked with a smile. "And then she came looking for you?"

"Yes, I was reading in the hallway at the time, and she poured me a cup of tea."

Fortunately, he did compliment the tea, and Matsueda Jun thought to himself that he had made a pretty good first impression on his older sister.

"She's in the practice room right now. I'm calling you from the hallway."

Yamami Maki was silent for a moment, then asked cautiously, "You didn't say anything strange to her, did you?"

“I was much more cautious when I met her than when I first met you, senior.” Jun Matsueda smiled. “I just told her we were friends.”

"It wouldn't hurt for my sister to say a little more," the girl thought to herself, "but not now. They're only meeting for the first time."

"Then relax and chat with your sister, she has a good personality."

"But don't ask about her husband, and don't mention our relationship yet. I'll find a chance to tell her later," she finally instructed.

“I understand.” Jun Matsueda nodded. “But aren’t we just ordinary friends?”

The girl huffed in embarrassment and hung up the phone.

When Jun Matsueda returned to the practice room, Ikuka Yamami didn't say anything. She just leaned back in her chair, facing the boy, and looked at him with a smile.

"Um, I need to continue practicing. Will that bother Miss Yuxiang?" He didn't choose to address her as "Sister Yuxiang." The woman didn't answer his question, but simply smiled and said, "You and Moji are quite close, aren't you?"

The boy picked up the drumsticks and put them down again. In just the time it takes to make a phone call, how come the older sister has already started her attack?

Ikuka Yamami waved her phone. "When you were making that call, I also called Maki, and she said the call was busy."

"He's definitely calling you, isn't he?" She rode her chair closer to the drum set, observing the boy's expression up close.

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Matsueda Jun sighed inwardly. His aunt was like this, and his older sister was like this too. How could they all be so perceptive?
"I do have a pretty good relationship with my senior."

Lying is unnecessary; the call logs will give you away. It's better to admit it.

The woman's smile widened even more. "That's more like it."

The phone rang again in the room, playing rock music. Ikuka Yamami answered the phone; it was her younger sister calling.

"Hello? Moji?"

"It's nothing, I just wanted to say I saw your friend."

"Okay, got it. Where are you playing now? It's very hot today, remember to wear sunscreen!"

"Daikanyama? Could you get me a dress? I ordered one from that shop we went to last week, and it should be finished by now."

"Okay, I'm going home for dinner tonight. See you then!"

Ikuka Yamami put down her phone, and the room fell silent for a while, with only the ticking of the metronome breaking the silence.

"Aren't you a couple?" she asked with a smile.

Matsueda Jun shook his head sincerely, "I'm still working on it."

Although they had held hands and hugged, the senior student personally confirmed that they were not a couple, and Matsueda Jun was not lying.

"Oh?" The woman leaned closer. "I feel like Moji really likes you. She mentioned you to me before."

"You're the first guy she's ever been interested in. If you're not a couple, does that mean you don't like her?"

The boy shook his head again. "We have our reasons."

In fact, Matsueda Jun could say that his senior had her own considerations, but that sounds like he's pushing all the responsibility onto Yami Maki, and he would never do that.

"It seems you're serious." Yami Ikuka's smile faded slightly. "Becoming a son-in-law of the Yami family isn't an easy thing."

"But you can rest assured, girls from the Yami family can fall in love freely and won't be involved in arranged marriages. As long as you work hard enough, the chances are still very high."

Matsuo Jun's biggest worry was finally lifted; there was no arranged marriage, so everything was fine.

"I have high hopes for you, Matsueda-kun."

The woman's final smile was no longer frivolous; she gazed at the metronome's hands swinging back and forth, her expression complex.

Jun Matsueda is undoubtedly an all-around excellent person, and Ikuka Yamami rarely makes mistakes in judging people; she trusts her own judgment.

But for such people, "giving up" is actually more difficult than "doing it".

Ikuka Yamami looked at the boy waving drumsticks in front of her, and in his movements, she recalled the essence of her own youth.

How much are you willing to give up for her?
(End of this chapter)