Tokyo, there are too many beautiful girls imitating me

Her heart ached, and as she held her chest, she felt a lump in her throat, unable to breathe in or out. Chika Tachibana sympathized with her cousin Akizuki Aino's bad mood.

Living alone for a long time will gradually make people close their hearts, become less sensitive to external stimuli, and feel that life is boring.

In her previous life, when her mother passed away and she lived alone in a rented house, she was in the same mental state. She was like a machine, mechanically repeating her daily routine. Although she would not practice it, she would still think about this when she was staring at the bright moon outside the window late at night, unable to fall asleep.

Since life is so boring, will death bring relief?

"Am I saving her?"

After asking herself honestly, Chika Tachibana seemed to have found the reason why she was so obsessed with Akizuki Aino.

After living her life over again and getting a chance to start over, she picked herself up again, but still saw her own shadow in Aino Akizuki.

My heart seemed to be a little closer to Qiuyue Aino.

Realizing this, Chika Tachibana puffed out her lips.

The simulator is both a good civilization and a bad civilization.

While shaking the simulator host, Akizuki Aino, the mood of her, the bystander, was also being constantly "corroded".

The more she understood Qiuyue Ai, the more she loved her.

Bad thoughts occupied your heart, and your mood did not improve until you opened the sealed lunch box.

Fried pork cutlet, tempura, octopus sausages, salad with celery and tomatoes. In a few days, Chika Tachibana has completely mastered your preferences, and all the dishes she puts in her lunch box are your favorites.

When you wake up at six o'clock every day, you can hear the clinking sound coming from the kitchen. She is busy all the time to make such exquisite and delicious lunch boxes. You know very well that her full love is contained in them.

You pick up the fried egg in the shape of a heart and spread it on the rice, facing the sun. The sunlight shines through the yellow heart, printing a warmer color. You suddenly smile foolishly.

Just because you are Chika Tachibana's cousin, you can enjoy such preferential treatment and such gentle gifts. As the daughter of the Akizuki family and the cousin of the Tachibana family, you are really lucky.

But...you are just Chika Tachibana's cousin, there is no other connection between you.

Want to see her? Want to build a deeper, more intimate connection with her?

Last night, Chika Tachibana's pleading voice with tears in her eyes once again rang in your ears.

You want to try to respond! You even forget to pick up the food, chewing the slightly cold rice, and a surge of courage arises in your chest.

If you want to see her, you should see her! Face her, hug her, and even... kiss her!

"Yeah~"

Such an embarrassing thought suddenly popped up in your mind, and your chopsticks fell to the ground. You covered your red face and screamed in shame.

Just meet her, just meet her, thinking of this, you can't wait to take action.

You are too sloppy. You haven't been out for a long time and don't pay attention to your image. Your hair has reached your calves, with messy strands and tangled ends. The hair on your forehead covers most of your already small face, which makes you look unattractive.

You don't look like an eighteen-year-old girl, but more like a homeless crazy woman picking up trash on the street.

If you go to see Chika Tachibana with this look, she will definitely dislike you. She will definitely look at you with great disgust, and fan her nose to try to dispel the unpleasant stench on you and drive you away.

Even though you shower regularly, you still feel like you're surrounded by a foul odor.

You are convinced that others can smell this spiritual stench.

Your thoughts flash back to the day of graduation. You can't help but tremble when you think of everyone's cold gazes, mocking and scolding you as if you were a monster.

Do...it.

Slowly, one step at a time, you move to the bathroom and try to tidy up your appearance.

However, looking at yourself in the mirror with disheveled hair and dejected look, you were silent for a moment before running out quickly, stumbling into the wall and sitting down.

You hugged your knees with your arms, hid your head in them and curled up, tears welling up in your eyes, and you spent the whole afternoon crying silently.

Changes have to happen, and you should make them.

At 4:47 in the afternoon, sensing that Chika Tachibana was about to return and that you didn't have much time left, you grabbed a pair of scissors and finally went into the bathroom again.

You lifted up your long hair that was covering your face. You had been crying for too long, and your eyes were now swollen and red, which made your already "ugly" appearance even more "ugly".

Biting your lower lip so hard that it almost draws blood, you take a deep breath and wield the scissors to cut off your forehead hair.

You are not very brave, but today you seem to be especially brave. As your hair falls, a sense of joy wells up in your heart.

That's it, that's it!

Abandon your weakness and make changes, Aino Akizuki!

You shouted in your heart, and at this moment, your phone rang.

Although you are no longer in contact with your friends in the light music club, you still follow their LINE accounts and peek into their lives. Whenever they share some updates, you are always the first to know.

Someone has posted an update again. You, who already lack courage, feel relieved when you hear the "ding" sound.

Let me finish reading the message first and then continue to clean myself up. Thinking so, you clicked on the screen and found the person who posted the update on LINE - Miki Matsuo.

She rarely posts updates, but every time she does, it's when she's particularly happy and excited. Therefore, her updates are always filled with an enviable and even jealous sense of happiness.

Is this another photo with her seniors from the light music club? You thought about it, but then you suddenly remembered that her seniors should have graduated this year. So this time...

"I had a delicious parfait with my lovely juniors and the beautiful advisor!"

After writing these words, Miki Matsuo attached a photo she had taken, which was a group photo of four people.

The four people in the photo are all rare beauties, and with good composition and shooting techniques, they are quite pleasing to the eye.

Staring at the beautiful girl with shoulder-length black hair, whose temperament was very similar to Miki Matsuo and whose appearance was too delicate, her face was filled with a smile more brilliant than the sunlight, and her youthful vitality made her stand out even among the crowd of beauties, attracting all people's attention and making it impossible to escape.

As you caress this incredibly beautiful girl through the screen, your heart starts pounding, and then drops heavily.

You looked at yourself in the mirror again, feeling dejected, and murmured as you lowered your eyes.

"Well, forget it."]

Chapter 41: Broken String

[She had been avoiding meeting other people until today, when you saw the current Chika Tachibana for the first time in the photos released by Miki Matsuoka. It was the first time that you replaced the cute and pretty image of her from two years ago in your mind with the more beautiful and charming image of her today.

She has grown a lot taller, almost twenty centimeters taller than you, her cousin. Her chest has become much bigger, now out of control. Her temperament has also changed a lot. While her smile is bright, she also has a gentleness and maturity that was not there before.

She is more beautiful and charming than you can imagine, with more outstanding temperament. In addition, she has a cheerful personality and a gentle aura that emanates from her inside out. I believe that Chika Tachibana must have many, many friends in school.

In the photo, her good friend Miki Matsuo is holding her phone and holding Chika Tachibana's shoulders, leaving her the most conspicuous position in the center. At the same time, her peripheral vision can't help but turn to the side, with a hint of joy between her eyebrows. The slightly more mature-looking female teacher in her early twenties is leaning on her shoulder with a smirk.

Behind the three of them, the girl with golden twintails standing up and eyes blazing with anger was trying to push the female teacher away from Chika Tachibana. It was obvious at first glance that she was the loser, and that girl was none other than Kanzuki Marin.

I had sensed something from the bits and pieces of conversation I overheard in the room, and after seeing this photo, I was even more certain that she must have special feelings for Chika Tachibana.

It is inevitable that the gentle and beautiful Chika Tachibana is liked by others, and it is also inevitable that people who love beautiful things gather around her.

Each girl in the photo would be the bright moon surrounded by stars, but these girls are only a part of her friends, the tip of the iceberg of her social relationships.

Do you really have a special meaning to Chika Tachibana?

She is just gentle to everyone. To her, you are just one of the objects of her pity because your situation is too tragic and ridiculous.

Even if you meet, she won't fall in love with you, and she won't be the only one for you.

After all, you are nothing but a stinking stench, worthy of being confined to the dark, slow-crawling maggots of your room.

Take a good look in the mirror. Look at yourself, with your red and swollen eyes, messy hair, and dejection all over your body, like a ghost. Are you worthy of telling her your feelings? Will she accept you?

If you don't keep a good distance and reveal your inner feelings without authorization and self-righteousness, it will only happen again, just like what happened on graduation day, where all your feelings will be ruthlessly trampled underfoot, and you will be thrown into the bottomless abyss by the contemptuous gazes of those around you and the people you care about.

The pain is already engraved in your heart. Do you want to experience that pain again?

I'm afraid that by then, after meeting Chika Tachibana and seeing your disgusting face, she wouldn't feel sad even if you really died.

"Ugh, ugh—"

Dark emotions are constantly rampaging through your body, your abdomen is churning, and the depressed energy in your chest has condensed into a thousand-pound boulder that is pressing you down and making it impossible for you to get up.

Holding your abdomen in pain, you uncontrollably vomited at the sink.

"No, if my cousin sees this dirty stuff and smells it, she will definitely dislike me. I have to clean it up quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly... quickly!"

Your vision was blank, as if you were in a nightmare. You muttered these words as you hurriedly cleaned up, wiping the sink clean again and again, spraying air freshener several times before you dared to stumble back to your room.

[Chika Tachibana is so gentle, how could she possibly dislike you?

You return to your room and throw yourself on the bed, burying your face in the pillow. The soft touch makes you feel better, and only then do your thoughts change.

You finally woke up.

Ah, even if Chika Tachibana hates you, she will never let you know. She is so gentle, she will just treat you as usual and bury her disgust deep in her heart.

So, does she actually hate you now?

After all, you are the one who made her so lonely that she had to invite the neighbors to your house for dinner.

Disgusting, evil, disgusting!

Dark emotions envelope you, and just like that, you sink into the boundless darkness. When you wake up again, the world outside the window is already pitch black.

"Cousin, dinner is ready. I made your second favorite dish, ginger-grilled pork and chikuzen-niboshi."

Outside the house, your cousin's voice is as bright and pleasant as usual. Your heart, which was originally blocked by depression, feels a little relieved by her gentle words. You open your mouth, ready to speak to her, but no sound comes out.

In the morning, you were still thinking about what to say to Chika Tachibana after she came back, but now, Chika Tachibana was right outside the door, with only a thin wooden door between you. But no matter how wide you opened your mouth, your throat always felt like a fishbone was stuck, stinging and blocked, and you couldn't make any response.

In the end, you just handed over a note.

[Thanks].】

"Cousin, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? Is there anything wrong with your body? I... if possible, I still want to hear you talk. Didn't we already do that this morning?"

Just because you have done it doesn’t mean you can do it in the future.

You covered your ears, and only when Chika Tachibana finally walked away in disappointment and the concerned voice of the girl next door, Kanzuki Marin, came from the living room did you finally stop trembling.

You ate up all the dinner that Chika Tachibana brought you with tears in your eyes, and put the plate outside the house, waiting quietly.

Finally, when the sound of the guitar rang out, you immediately picked up the bass in the house, which had not been maintained for a long time due to the shortage of tools, and played with her.

However, halfway through the performance, the bass string suddenly broke.

"Cousin? That discordant voice just now was..."

You ignored Chika Tachibana's puzzled voice coming from outside the house, and just stared blankly at the broken strings.

For two years, apart from Spider Solitaire, your biggest entertainment was playing the bass. You played it for nearly six hours almost every day, but you never changed the strings after playing for a long time, and the taut strings finally broke.

It should have broken long ago, but it broke at this moment...

You think this is a foreshadowing.

"Cousin, can you come out and see me? I'm always worried about your health."

Seeing that you didn't respond for a long time, Chika Tachibana once again begged with tears in her eyes. Your heart was shaken violently. At this moment, you chose -

[1. How could you possibly meet Chika Tachibana? Beisi has already made a prophecy that you will be hated and abandoned. You are not worthy of playing with her. No, you are not even worthy of having any connection with her life!]

Remain silent and do not contact her again in the future.

[2. The bass strings broke because it had not been maintained for a long time. It was just a coincidence. Yes, it must be a coincidence, it must be!

So, even if he didn't meet or talk to Chika Tachibana, he could at least give her a note saying that he was fine, so that she could rest assured.

[3. It took a lot of effort to establish a connection with Chika Tachibana, and it took a lot of effort to finally have the courage to communicate with her. Don't give up!

If you don’t have the courage to meet her today, then just wait, and continue to wait with the desire to meet her, waiting for the moment when your courage is filled again.

Explain the situation to her and ask her to help you take the bass to the shop for repairs. You can play with her again later.

【4. Free simulation】

Still, still, there is still no option to go out in Akizuki Aino's love simulation.

Body: Leave

I have something urgent to do today, so I'll take a day off and continue updating tomorrow!

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Text: Chapter 42. Cousin, come out and see the God of War!

[Option 3]