If I don't capture the girl, I will die

I don't have the courage, nor the heart.

I know in my heart what the clearest option is, but I don’t have the courage to choose it.

He likes the other person as well.

There is still a glimmer of fantasy in my heart.

Maybe things will turn around?

Maybe the penalty for failure next time won't be that severe, so there's no need to go through the strategy?

Maybe there is a choice that can make everyone happy?

Thoughts like these kept popping up in his mind, constantly undermining his already tiny courage.

……

On the tram, which seemed neither crowded nor empty, Ji Qi's expression kept changing.

No one cared about this slightly weird young man, except the girl sitting next to him.

The delicate girl next to him, Utaha Kasumigaoka, keenly noticed the drastic mood swings hidden beneath his calm face.

It should be said that I noticed something was wrong from the moment I got there.

Although she didn't quite understand what was happening all of a sudden, she still considerately stretched out her slender, not hot, hand and gently held his clenched hand.

Ah, it's all sweat.

Now she was even more confused.

Aren’t you still happy in the morning and at noon?

Could it be that his uncle has come too?

A certain sinister girl was making malicious guesses in her heart, because the expressions were so similar.

She was not as stupid as Ji Qi who would sometimes whisper what she was thinking without even knowing it.

Saying that other people can read your mind or something.

What an idiot.

If she's not there to take care of him personally, Ji Qi's life safety might be in danger?

So, from now on, you will leave your life to me, senior?

In the shaky tram.

Feeling the warm touch in his hands, Ji Qi came back to his senses.

Looking at Kasumigaoka Utaha who took the initiative to hold his hand and pretended nothing had happened but was actually blushing secretly, he felt even more bitter in his heart.

He opened his dry mouth but said nothing.

Please.

Don't be so gentle to me anymore.

At this moment, he wished that Kasumigaoka Utaha would say something harsh to him, so that he would feel better.

Ji Qi, who has a positive outlook on life and no problems with moral ethics, is constantly suffering from inner condemnation.

He checked the new mission in his head that had just appeared when Shiyu's strategy was finished.

Strategy for Yukinoshita Yukino.

Favorability 90.

As for the punishment, it is still a question mark. As for the reward, Ji Qi is too lazy to look at it now.

I'm not in the mood.

"Are you feeling unwell?"

Seeing that Ji Qi looked very bad, Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't mind the sweat oozing from someone's palm at all. Instead, she tightened her palms and asked with concern.

"No……"

Ji Qi shook his head.

He can still maintain the superficial disguise for now.

"That's it."

Seeing that Ji Qi didn't want to say more, she didn't ask any more questions, and just maintained this ambiguous posture between lovers, looking at the scenery that was constantly flowing back outside the transparent window with a vague look.

"Well, it's nothing, don't worry." Ji Qi repeated it again, confused.

"Dear passengers, please note that Tokyo has arrived at the station. Tokyo has arrived at the station..."

Soon, this mechanized female voice was heard throughout the tram.

Along the way, Ji Qi did not try to break free from her hand.

Hope this time can continue.

I hope their relationship can go further than it is now.

I don’t want to hurt the heart of a girl who likes me and whom I also like.

I don't want her to appear strong on the surface but secretly cry.

That’s why I don’t want to make a choice.

That's why I pretended I knew nothing.

It's really terrible.

In every sense.

……

Chapter 108 Choice

The sky is a little gloomy.

Ji Qi let out a gloomy breath.

Now, the two people are standing at a fork in the road where their respective homes are located.

Holding hands intimately.

Just like the choice Ji Qi is facing now.

"Well... Junior, do you have anything to say to me?"

Suddenly she stopped, stood on tiptoe, put her delicate little face close to someone's big face, and smiled sweetly.

Ji Qi has walked all the way with this state of wanting to say something but hesitating.

Even a fool who couldn't understand the atmosphere could sense that he was not in a normal state today.

What will you say?

Somehow, Kasumigaoka Utaha had a very bad premonition in her heart.

This premonition was so strong.

A chilling feeling even colder than yesterday when I felt the worst came over my entire body.

It made her shiver all over.

"I……"

Looking at Kasumigaoka Utaha who suddenly became uneasy, Ji Qi pulled the corners of his mouth but ultimately failed to force a smile.

What a joke.

What a joke.

The extremely proud and tsundere Utaha Kasumigaoka, the extremely proud Utaha Kasumigaoka, the one with a strong self-esteem, the one who can sacrifice a lot for her work.

She actually showed this expression for him.

does it worth.

Ji Qi looked up at the gloomy weather today which had darkened particularly quickly for some reason, and felt a little confused.

In fact, there is another way besides cutting it off completely.

That's being honest.

That's right, be honest. Except for not telling her about the system, tell Kasumigaoka Utaha everything else truthfully.

As for the results...

Ha ha.

I can only laugh at it.

This is simply too much. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a fantasy.

It's easy to tell that the other person is kind-hearted if he doesn't call him a retard.

Even the last bit of warmth in Kasumigaoka Utaha's hands began to cool down.

That's nothing.

He broke into her life inexplicably, showed her kindness inexplicably, touched her heart inexplicably, and finally seemed to leave her inexplicably.

Not allowed.

She would not allow the other party to act on his own without caring about her feelings.

"It's getting late today... Let's go home."

After pondering for a moment and going through an intense inner struggle, Ji Qi spoke calmly but with great difficulty, as if squeezing out the words one by one from between his teeth.

It was such a simple sentence, but when I said it, my throat felt sore, as if it was burning.

After saying that, he let out a sigh of relief.

He knew clearly that if he missed this best opportunity, it would be even more difficult to speak it out again in the future.

But he no longer wanted to think about it.

Let’s talk about the future in the future.

Since he learned that the mission was over, his brain has been almost at its limit...

"Hmm? Go home? Which home?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha was tactful enough not to dwell on that topic any further. It might be said that she was a little afraid that Ji Qi would say something irreversible.

That looks a bit scary.

Now that the initiative is in the hands of the other party, she feels helpless.

——The one who falls in love first is destined to be the loser.

She was the one who took the initiative before, but now with her fall and the other party's inexplicable distant attitude, the positions of the two have completely reversed.

What a hateful man...

Ji Qi tried to speak in his usual nonchalant tone: "Of course, we will go back to our own homes."

What is he doing and saying?

What about the solemn promises made at the beginning?

"What a heartless man... Let's leave it at that for today.

Kasumigaoka Utaha tilted her head, lowered her eyes, stood at the corner and waved weakly to someone.

"Ah, see you tomorrow."

Walking silently on the way home, Ji Qi's expression became even more gloomy without any concealment.

The slight joy and relief I felt for retreating just now turned into deeper and sad guilt after I calmed down.

what……