A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

The Sawamura family mansion was located in the center of this area; it was a typical English mansion.

"I am back."

The door was pushed open, and Eriri kicked aside her rain-soaked uniform shoes, too lazy to even change into slippers, and shuffled into the living room.

Her pigtails looked a bit droopy today, and her usual confident stride was gone. She looked like a golden retriever with its fur soaked in the rain, exuding an undeniable sense of dejection.

"Oh, welcome back, my little princess."

The voice of her mother, Sayuri Sawamura, came from the living room.

She was sitting on a Victorian-style sofa.

Although she is over thirty, this former doujinshi master still looks like a girl in her early twenties. Standing next to Eriri, they look like sisters.

Sayuri lifted her eyelids and saw her blonde twin-tailed daughter dragging her heavy steps toward the stairs, radiating an aura of utter despair.

This doesn't seem right.

She put down the light novel in her hand and followed her daughter's back with her gaze.

"Why are you so down? Were you bullied at school? Or is that woman named Kasumigaoka pointing fingers at your paintings again?"

"No."

Eriri replied sullenly.

"Where's Dad? I can't see him."

She asked casually, not because she was really concerned, but just out of habit to check on things.

"Your dad? He went to a dinner party."

Little Lily covered half of her face with a fan, revealing only her smiling, curved eyes.

"I heard it was to host some business partner... or perhaps a fellow countryman from his hometown in England?"

"Anyway, it's one of those boring high society gatherings, full of business flattery and fake smiles, which I hate the most, so I turned it down."

"Oh."

Eriri gave a perfunctory reply.

She didn't really care where her father went; her mind was completely occupied with the rumors she'd heard at school that morning.

Kazama Chiba goes to school in a Maybach? And she even has a foreign butler to pick her up?

Are you kidding me?

How could that idiot suddenly become a rich kid? Those bored guys must have misread it.

"I want to go back to my room to draw. Don't call me for dinner."

After saying that, she started to run up the stairs.

"Wait a minute, Eriri!"

Sayuri put away her fan, and her laziness disappeared, replaced by an earnestness that was impossible to ignore.

"Come and sit down."

"Although I don't want to disturb your creative enthusiasm... as a mother, there are some things I still care about."

"I...I haven't finished my homework yet..."

"You can do your homework later."

Little Lily patted the sofa cushion next to her, "Let's chat with Mom first."

Eriri stood frozen in place, caught in a dilemma.

She knew her mother all too well; this seemingly gentle and virtuous woman, once she got serious, was more difficult than anyone else.

"...We'll just chat for a little while."

She compromised.

He dragged his feet to the sofa and plopped down on the single sofa opposite his mother.

Her blonde twin ponytails hung down her chest, and her deep blue eyes were fixed on her knees, refusing to look her mother in the eye.

"so--"

Little Lily got straight to the point.

"Has something happened between you and Qianyu-kun?"

Upon hearing this, Eriri's body reacted like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, with all the fur on her body standing on end in an instant.

"N-nothing!"

"Why would I care about that idiot! Let him do whatever he wants, it's none of my business!"

"is it?"

Sayuri raised an eyebrow, her expression as if she were watching a poorly executed one-woman show.

"I don't care."

"But my little princess has been acting very strangely lately."

"Before, the first thing someone would say when they got home every day was, 'That idiot Qianyu did this or that today,' or 'How dare that guy not reply to my messages?'"

"But in the last few days since you came back, you haven't mentioned his name even once."

Chapter 97 A Conversation Between Mother and Daughter

"Mom!! You're so annoying!"

Eriri covered her ears, trying to cover up her guilt with the volume.

"That's that idiot's own problem, what does it have to do with me!"

"and……"

Eriri bit her lip, her eyes starting to dart around, unable to look her mother in the eye.

"And...that guy...has been acting really strange lately."

"strangeness?"

Sayuri put down her teacup, her smile fading slightly, replaced by an expression of attentive listening.

"How is it strange?"

"that is……"

Eriri gripped the hem of her skirt tightly with her fingers.

She didn't want to admit it.

Even now, she still doesn't want to admit that her childhood sweetheart, who always followed her around and obeyed her every word, will really leave her.

But the sense of panic, like the rising tide, crept up little by little, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

"Ugh……"

Seeing her daughter's blustering yet cowardly demeanor, Xiaobaihe's smile faded, and she sighed softly.

"Yinglili."

She reached out and tidied her daughter's slightly messy bangs, her tone becoming serious.

“Look me in the eyes. What I want to say is that you talk about ‘Qianyu’ all the time, but now you’re pretending that you have nothing to do with him.”

"So I'm asking you, have you really broken up?"

Eriri opened her mouth, wanting to continue refuting, wanting to say "No way," wanting to say "He's ungrateful."

But when I think about what happened that day—

Eriri, please stop looking for me.

I am not your servant.

That unprecedented sense of fear surged back into my heart.

That's true.

He was serious.

The girl, Qianyu, who had always followed her since childhood and always smiled and tolerated her no matter how willful she was, no longer wanted her.

"Waaah..."

After a long time, Eriri managed to squeeze out a weak sound from her throat.

She lowered her head, her two golden pigtails hanging limply over her shoulders.

"it is true."

"That idiot really doesn't want to talk to me this time."

A tear fell onto the carpet with a soft thud.

He said... I'm a problem.

He said... I should never contact him again.

Seeing her daughter looking so wronged, like an abandoned puppy, Xiaobaihe sighed inwardly.

really.

Although I had already guessed what was going on, hearing it with my own ears still felt a bit unbelievable.

Although she usually enjoys watching entertainment, she has, after all, watched these two children grow up.

She had always had a good impression of Qianyu; she was sensible, polite, and had endless tolerance for her willful daughter.

To drive that gentle boy to say such heartless words...

What heinous thing did my daughter do?

"This is really..."

Xiaobaihe rubbed her temples, feeling a bit of a headache.