Am I being simulated by their love affair.

Chapter 371 Departure, Kyoto

On the afternoon of August 12th, inside the film crew of "Things Have Come to This".

Jun Matsue unpacked the popsicle in his hand and handed it to the girl next to him. Natsumi Imokawa stood under the shade of a tree, her face flushed with a mixture of excitement and heat.

"Imokawa, I'm going to Kyoto tomorrow and won't be coming to the set for the next few days."

"Huh?" Natsumi Imokawa, who was taking stills, looked up. "Is Matsueda going to Kyoto?"

"I'm going with Aya and the others, and we'll probably stay for three or four days."

"I see." The girl nodded blankly. "If you have more time, you can go to Nara. My grandfather's house is in Nara."

"Nara?" Jun Matsueda opened his phone's map and looked at it. "I might want to go check it out if I have the chance. The deer in Nara are quite famous, aren't they?"

"Yes!" the girl exclaimed, a little more excited. "You can even see deer on the street!"

She talked about Nara and deer for a while until the melted sweet water fell to the ground, then she lowered her head and ate her popsicle.

"Speaking of which, does that mean there's no time left for the music video we talked about making for the band?" Natsumi Imokawa suddenly remembered this question.

"I guess we'll have to wait until after school starts." Jun Matsueda glanced at his phone. "Izumi's arrangement is finished, but she's still not satisfied with the lyrics she wrote."

"Oh," the girl nodded again, her expression somewhat regretful, as she realized she had one less chance to see Songzhi.

As the sun began to set, Jun Matsue left the film crew first. The girl looked up, raised her camera, and the boy's back gradually disappeared into the distance in the viewfinder.

"So what Songzhi was talking about last time was indeed himself, wasn't it?"

Although he said he wanted to give Yami Maki a surprise, Matsueda Jun still called his senior the night before he left.

"What does Matsue-san want to tell me?"

Listening to the girl's soft and gentle voice, Jun Matsueda stood on the balcony of his apartment, with the neon lights flashing and the restless night scene before him.

"Senior, I'm leaving for Kyoto tomorrow."

"Huh?" The female voice on the other end of the line echoed, seemingly coming from the bathroom.

"Is Matsueda-kun coming to Kyoto? Alone? How long will he/she be staying?"

"Yes. Aya wants to come to Kyoto, and Kurusu and Mochizuki will come with us too."

Four people? Yami Maki breathed a sigh of relief. If Matsueda had come alone, the girl would have felt truly flattered.

“It’s great.” The girl’s tone became a little more lively. “Kyoto is quite different from Tokyo. It’s definitely worth a visit. People here don’t use honorifics much, and the locals are quite interesting.”

"However, I've been accompanying my parents to various events, so I probably won't have many opportunities to meet with Songzhi-kun."

Matsueda Jun thought for a moment, "What about the day of the Five Mountains Fire Offering?"

The girl blinked. "That day, it should be at an outdoor viewing spot."

"So we can meet up?"

"Hmm," Yami Maki said as she stepped out of the bathroom and looked out at the night sky. "I'll find an excuse to go somewhere far away, and I should be able to meet Matsueda-san."

"Then I'll try to break away from the main group and meet up with my senior."

"But it might not go that smoothly," the girl said cautiously.

“We’ll talk about that later.” Jun Matsueda turned around, leaning against the railing, and met the gaze of Yosei Kurusu, who was observing him from the living room.

"Just traveling to Kyoto would be nice, and if I could meet my senior, that would be a wonderful surprise." The girl smiled. She wanted to chat with the boy about her experiences in Kyoto over the past two days, but a new message on her phone forced her to abandon that idea.

"Is it convenient for you to call now, senior?" Tomatsu Yuka asked in a message.

"Um, Matsueda-kun, I have to hang up now."

"See you in Kyoto after that."

"Good~"

Yamami Maki hung up the phone, looked at the night sky for a few seconds, took a deep breath, and then clicked on the rabbit avatar in her message list.

"Hello? It's been so long since I heard Yuka's voice—"

Ten minutes later, Tomatsu Yuka hung up the phone, walked out of the hotel, and brushed past her colleagues in the corridor.

The nights in Ome City were much cooler than in Tokyo, and there were more stars in the sky. She sat on a bench in the green space by the roadside, scrolling through the chat history on her phone.

Tomatsu Yuka has never forgotten the scent she caught on her senior at the train station.

Even though her rational mind clearly told her that the scent was different, as her memory began to fade, it inevitably overlapped with the scent from Jun Matsueda.

As a result, after Tomatsu Yuka arrived in Ome City, she called her senior classmate almost every two days, and kept her updated on everything until Yamami Maki went to Kyoto, at which point she felt a little relieved.

"I should just focus on practicing," the girl sighed, leaving the bench to go back to her room to get her instrument.

"Let's chat with Songzhi before practice to recharge."

At nine o'clock the next morning, Jun Matsueda appeared in front of Shinagawa Station in the Minato Ward, dragging two large suitcases.

Neither of these suitcases belonged to him; one belonged to Mochizuki Haruka, and the other to Miyamura Aya and Kurusu Yosei.

"Where did you girls get so much luggage?" Jun Matsueda asked, looking at the girls behind him.

Boys usually wear lightweight clothing in the summer, and all their belongings are in the backpacks they carry.

Yosei raised an eyebrow. "We dressed up all nicely just for you."

"That's right!" Miyamura Aya was as happy as a large dog on her first long trip with her friends.

"What am I looking at?" The boy turned his head back and walked towards the turnstiles inside the station with his suitcase. "I wish you guys were just wearing short sleeves and shorts, so I wouldn't have to carry such a big suitcase."

"You have no sense of romance." Mochizuki Haruka pouted, but her body language betrayed her words as she followed behind him.

After getting their reserved seats on the Tokaido Shinkansen, the four of them boarded the blue and white train. The three girls sat in a three-seater row, while Jun Matsueda sat in a two-seater next to him. There seemed to be no other passengers around him.

If Iogawa were to be brought along, the seats would seem perfect, a thought suddenly flashed through Jun Matsueda's mind as the train departed.

The journey from Tokyo to Kyoto by Shinkansen takes just over two hours, and the four-person team successfully arrived in Tokyo before lunchtime.

Tomatsu Yuka saw Miyamura Ayaka's post after her afternoon practice session.

The dynamic content is a picture of Jun Matsue sitting on a train, resting his head on his hand and staring blankly, with Mount Fuji surrounded by a sea of ​​clouds outside the train window.

"Off we go, Kyoto!" The girl's caption was very simple.

But this made Tomatsu Tomoka's heart, which had finally relaxed, begin to tighten again.

(End of this chapter)