I have a life simulator.

Chapter 475: What kind of mischief could a kitten possibly have?

Compared to the bustling scene in the gymnasium and Beechwood Shopping Center, the student council offices, or rather the entire club building, were eerily quiet today. After all, all the clubs had specially canceled their training and other activities for this rare celebration, so much so that when Horikita Suzune walked through the long corridor on the top floor, she could hear the sound of her footsteps with perfect clarity.

As always, she used her key to open the door to the student council office, and sure enough, it was empty. Holding a lunchbox, Horikita Suzune hesitated for a moment before choosing not to sit down as usual, but instead continued walking in and entered the student council president's office.

Due to the preparations for the festival, Kitagawa Ryo, as the acting student council president, has devoted almost all of his extracurricular time and energy to this place. If we only consider the time spent, he probably spends just as much time in this room as he does in his dormitory room.

Perhaps that is why, even though Kitagawa Ryo herself doesn't deliberately treat this office as her private territory and add a lot of personal touches like the previous student council president, Nagumo Masa, after more than half a month, many of Kitagawa Ryo's personal elements still inevitably remain here.

Compared to Kitagawa Ryo's dormitory room, which she had seen and entered many times, Horikita Suzune preferred this simpler and more unpretentious place, where only minor details and arrangements revealed Kitagawa Ryo's personal touch. After all, although the former was only a small area, it was filled with the colors and scents of various girls, like a territory that had already been developed.

Instead of choosing the sofa, Horikita Suzune sat down in the office chair that Kitagawa Ryo usually used, placed the lunchbox in her hand on the desk, and began to unwrap the furoshiki to prepare her lunch for the day.

After assisting the school with maintaining order and management as the vice president of the student council in the morning, it was almost noon in the blink of an eye. Compared to the dormitory building, which was farther away from the gymnasium and no longer on campus, Horikita Suzune finally chose to have lunch at the student council office. The lunch was still her own homemade bento, and she still habitually made a portion for Kitagawa Ryo.

After picking up the top one from the stacked lunch boxes, Horikita Suzune took out another beautifully packaged small box from it, which was the birthday gift that Amasawa Ichika had given her that morning.

I subconsciously weighed it in my hand; it wasn't very heavy. I shook it slightly, but I couldn't hear any particular noise.

So, after thinking for a while, Horikita Suzune put down her chopsticks and unwrapped the ribbon on the box to see what birthday present Amasawa Ichika had given her.

To be honest, given Amazusa's overly eccentric personality, Horikita Suzune even wondered if this was another prank by him. However, the contents were surprisingly serious: a brand-new little tie and a bag of handmade chocolates.

Because the two had been getting quite close during this time, Amazuki Ichika naturally had the advantage of being close to Horikita Suzune and crammed some baking skills at the last minute. However, compared to the other girls who weren't even half-baked, Amazuki Ichika's skills were at least at a professional level. It can only be said that the students from the White Room really didn't have any problems with their learning ability.

As for the small tie...

Horikita Suzune picked it up with some confusion, unsure of the other party's intention in giving it to her.

While the uniforms at Tokyo Advanced Educational Junior High School are the same for both boys and girls, there are subtle differences. For example, boys wear ties while girls wear bow ties, and the colors differ from year one to year three.

However, Horikita Suzune quickly understood Amasawa Ichika's intention.

Because just after she picked up the tie and chocolates from the box, the note that had been hidden at the bottom was finally revealed.

"I think Rinne can just wear this and socks then—also, I recommend booth number fourteen in area B."

As a student council member who, like Kitagawa Ryo, had basically devoted herself entirely to this festival, Horikita Suzune barely needed to look up any information. The basic information about booth number fourteen in area B, which Amasawa Ichika had mentioned, immediately came to mind. Then, she looked at the slightly disheveled red tie in her hand and fell into deep thought.

Because that stall was selling items that were definitely needed for Valentine's Day, essential items for starting a game.

It can only be said that this is something that Tianze Yixia would do.

With mixed feelings, Horikita Suzune carefully put the birthday present away again and then continued eating her lunch.

Although Amazusa Ichika did mention it twice in the past few days, including this morning, to be honest, Horikita Suzune still didn't really feel anything about it.

Or to put it more simply, she didn't have such an image in her mind.

Just as humans cannot imagine in their dreams images that they have not experienced and have no basis in reality, and some people's erotic dreams fall into the predicament of 'module loading error, no relevant information found' at the last step, Horikita Suzune really had not thought about the next step for her and Kitagawa Ryo.

If the other three female protagonists all experienced a period of transition from one extreme to another in their respective chapters, then Horikita Suzune is probably the only one who broke free from her rut and became a normal human being.

Even though her simulation spanned a full ten years, it mainly involved changes in her own mindset and behavior. Her relationship with Kitagawa Ryo progressed only to the point where she was willing to travel across the ocean to confess her feelings to him at the very end.

So, haven't they now followed the same path as back then and become a couple who support each other, take care of each other, and gain emotional value from each other?

That's how normal relationships are.

Horikita Suzune was satisfied with this.

"After I become the student council president, then..."

She muttered to herself unconsciously, completely unaware of the cute, pure white creature that suddenly slipped in through the crack in the open window.

It's actually here!

When Hotaru saw Horikita Suzune sitting there eating lunch alone, she felt a little helpless. But when she heard Suzune talking to herself, that feeling of helplessness turned into speechlessness.

If the circumstances allowed, she would have loved to play a highlight reel of Horikita Suzune's first simulation for her right there in front of everyone. It's safe to say that Horikita Suzune's actions that time, even with the same engagement, were something Sakayanagi Arisu could learn from for a lifetime.

If Ying had to summarize that chaotic simulation in one sentence, it would probably be like this:

The fake carnivorous talent holder, Kitagawa Ryo, the real carnivorous talent holder, Shiina Hiyori, and Horikita Suzune, who only reveals her carnivorous nature at the very end (see the side story 'Taming and Being Tamed' for details).

As for the female protagonist Karuizawa Megumi from that simulation, Hotaru could only awkwardly look away. Anyway, it wasn't the first or second time that the female protagonists had been brutally defeated by others in their own chapters. She didn't know if Kitagawa Ryo had gotten used to it, but Hotaru herself had.

After reminiscing about the past, Hotaru remembered her mission again. She then laboriously put the bag she was carrying in her mouth onto the floor under the desk and prepared to tug at Horikita Suzune's trouser leg as a gesture.

That's right. Since Kitagawa Ryo has already made a reservation to attend all the Valentine's Day events with Ichinose Honami today, the task of delivering some of the Valentine's Day gifts will inevitably fall to Hotaru. After all, the groundwork laid by Chabashira Sae has been completed, and the identity issue has been temporarily resolved. It's fine for her to show her face on campus a few times now, as long as she doesn't get caught on the spot.

Say Cao Cao and Cao Cao will arrive.

Just as Hotaru was about to meow a reminder to Horikita Suzune to receive her 'Shun Cat Express', her fluffy ears twitched nimbly, and she immediately noticed a series of hurried footsteps approaching from afar. She quickly shrank back and hid under the desk with the gift in her hiding place.

Is anyone there? Is anyone in the student council?

Hearing someone calling from outside the door, Horikita Suzune put down her chopsticks and came out of the student council president's office to open the door for the visitor.

"That's great! Horikita-kun is indeed in the student council. I even saw you helping to maintain order this morning. You've worked so hard!"

Waiting outside was a male teacher who looked quite rushed. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, he immediately got to the point:

"By the way, I'd like to ask Horikita-san to help me check if any students have submitted any strange cat-related incidents to your student council in the last month or two, such as seeing a lost kitten somewhere on campus."

Upon hearing the mention of kittens, Horikita Suzune instinctively thought of the one Kitagawa Ryo kept in his dorm room, but she remained outwardly calm, pondered for a moment, and then earnestly replied:

"The student council has not received any similar reports or applications during this period. Did you lose your pet cat, teacher?"

"No, it's not that. It's a bit complicated, but I just need to ask Horikita-kun to keep an eye out for me. I'm Ota from the Security Department. You should have my contact information in your student council's address book. If you can help me, please let me know if there's anything we can do to help you later."

"Oh right, it's a kitten with pure white fur and fluorescent pupils."

Upon hearing Horikita Suzune's reply, Oda visibly showed disappointment, but he still made that promise before hurriedly taking his leave, just as he had come.

Its fur is pure white, and its pupils are fluorescent...

Does this sound like it's describing a firefly?

Surely you can't find another kitten in Tokyo Advanced Nurturing Junior High School that meets both of these conditions, right?

Horikita Suzune closed the door to the student council office again with some confusion. As she walked back to the student council president's office, still pondering what was going on, she immediately saw the cat standing proudly on the desk. It was Hotaru, whom she had just been thinking about.

"How did you end up here? Did Liang specifically let you out?"

Although she knew the kitten wouldn't answer questions, Horikita Suzune still asked it twice on her own before going over to pat Hotaru's little head as she leaned in, and then familiarly scratching her chin.

Hotaru is no ordinary cat, at least not in terms of intelligence. Horikita Suzune has no doubt that Hotaru can understand her and Kitagawa Ryo's conversation, otherwise she really can't imagine that a cat could hide in Higashi Yuri for so long without being discovered.

Following this line of reasoning, and connecting it with the words of the teacher who had suddenly come to their door, Horikita Suzune basically guessed that this must be Kitagawa Ryo's intention and arrangement.

With that thought in mind, Horikita Suzune felt relieved again, turned around and sat down in her office chair to focus on playing with the kitten she hadn't seen for quite some time.

As the one who will always be number one on her list of pet owners (excluding Kitagawa Ryo), Hotaru herself also cooperated quite well and lay down on the spot, seemingly having forgotten her identity as a delivery person once again.

Unfortunately, although she followed Kitagawa Ryo through the entire simulation of the four heroines and witnessed everything, and knew that their positions in her brother's heart were quite similar, it did not prevent Hotaru from showing slight differences in attitude based on her own experiences and preferences.

In fact, if you look at it from Hotaru's perspective, each chapter's story has a completely different style.

Honami Ichinose is a troublesome female protagonist who lived through more than ten years of her cat's life from birth to death without ever seeing the ending, only witnessing how the other person stood at the finish line and ran wildly in the opposite direction.

Karuizawa Kei was the only one of the three female guests who didn't get to eat meat. Following Ichinose Honami, she added another shameful defeat to the childhood friend attribute. She was ambushed twice by Shiina Hiyori, and the other party could say the absurd female protagonist, "I simulated with her twice and never lost."

Sakayanagi Arisu... well, that's a past that's best left unsaid. It's just that being treated as someone's only keepsake is something Hotaru herself can't get over. As a result, the second time, she had to repay evil with kindness by having the Cat Team lead the enemy into the white room to rescue them.

Therefore, compared to that, the time I spent running a dessert shop with Horikita Suzune, where I was the mascot and she was the waiter and he was the head chef, seemed quite peaceful and relaxing. Moreover, there were no earth-shattering incidents that followed, and the peaceful and joyful atmosphere made it a perfect success.

Thinking of this, Ying subconsciously shook the tip of her tail.

Sure enough!

Another person Hotaru likes the most, Ichinose Honami, is already on the final step of ascending to godhood. How could the one she favors be relegated to the end?

Hotaru's gaze swept over the gift box that was supposed to be given away, and a new idea suddenly came to her mind.

Chapter 476: About how I made my brother the Lord of the Rings (4k5)

Tokyo Advanced Educational High School, Chairman's Office.

For most Dongyu students, the chairman's office on the top floor of the faculty building is a rather mysterious place. On the one hand, students generally have no reason or opportunity to set foot there. On the other hand, the reason is simpler: they are not really interested in the position of chairman.

After all, a local official is never as powerful as a distant one. There are plenty of high school and college students who don't even know the name of their school's chairman after three or four years of study. If we only consider how closely related it is to their studies and life, they would go to the student council office on the top floor of the club building much more often.

That is why the fact that Tsukishiro Tsuneshige replaced Sakayanagi Narumi as the new acting chairman last year was not taken seriously by many students. After all, it didn't seem to have anything to do with them. Apart from a small number of relatively perceptive students who realized that the newly appointed acting chairman had shown quite bold ideas for change in many aspects, most students remained indifferent.

Of course, the faculty and staff are different from the students. Although in the eyes of the latter, these teachers and class advisors are equivalent to the school administration, in fact they are just employees working for the Dongyu Group.

The direct supervisor was suddenly and inexplicably replaced, and the new one was the kind who immediately and ostentatiously changed all the old rules after taking office, arbitrarily adjusting the types of special exams according to his own preferences. As a result, all sorts of conspiracy theories have never stopped, and the core argument among them is that the former chairman, Sakayanagi Shigemori, was framed and removed from office, and Tsukishiro Tsuneshige is the despicable mastermind and beneficiary behind the scenes.

After all, the more senior faculty members at Tokyo Advanced Educational High School are generally aware that the school, or rather the business, is actually the private property of the Sakayanagi family, who have been deeply involved in the education sector for generations. Sakayanagi Narimori himself took over the position of chairman from his father, and now that an outsider has suddenly taken over, it's hard not to have some reservations.

But in reality, that's never the case.

"Mr. Sakayanagi, please have some tea."

"Mr. Yuecheng, please have a seat."

In the minds of many teachers, Tsukishiro Tsuneshige and Sakayanagi Narumi, who were supposed to be irreconcilable enemies vying for the position of chairman, were actually sitting harmoniously together in the chairman's office, smiling at each other as they sipped their tea.

"Unbeknownst to me, I have already been in this position of acting chairman for more than half a year. If I am not mistaken, I should temporarily say goodbye to Dongyu again when the new semester begins in April."

Yuecheng Changcheng lifted the tea lid, gently blowing away the foam on the surface of the tea, and said with some emotion.

He took over as acting chairman of Sakayanagi Shigemori after the special exam on the deserted island last July. At that time, Kitagawa Ryo led Class D to achieve the most amazing reversal, rising to Class B and knocking Ayanokoji Kiyotaka's original Class A down to Class D.

It was under these circumstances that he was pushed into the spotlight by those behind-the-scenes players who were somewhat dissatisfied with the development of the situation. Under the pretext of "this will better ensure fairness," he began his career as acting chairman, playing both sides effectively.

Now that Ayanokouji Kiyotaka has finally risen to prominence, leading his class back to Class C, and Kitagawa Ryo has transferred to Class B, the score difference between the two sides is no longer as significant as it once was. Moreover, a new batch of first-year students will be enrolling in April, which means that Tsukishiro Tsuneaki's mission is basically complete, and he can temporarily put down his burden.

"I am very grateful for Mr. Yuecheng's efforts during this period."

"Not at all, I'm just glad Mr. Sakayanagi doesn't mind the mess I've made of Dongyu these past few months."

"Novelty is not always good, but it is always necessary to try. Mr. Yuecheng's ideas are worth affirming and learning from for our future operation of Dongyu."

Sakayanagi Shigemori's answer was impeccable. He calmly took a sip of his tea and then placed the teacup back on the table.

"Although it sounds like there's only a month and a half left until April, I still hope that Mr. Yuecheng can do his best in this last shift. After all, the time is short, but there are many important things to do."

"Of course."

Tsukishiro Tsuneshige simply smiled at this, though he knew perfectly well what the other party was referring to.

As Sakayanagi Shigemori said, although there is only a month and a half left before he steps down, there are still many matters to be dealt with during his term, including the student council president election, the end-of-year exams for all grades, including the third-year graduation exams, and so on. These are all matters that will have a profound impact on his two years of school life.

"In fact, the last special test during the mixed training camp resulted in an unexpected and dangerous situation."

Faced with Tsukishiro Tsuneshige's readily agreed expression, Sakayanagi Narimori simply shook his head:

"No matter what, the safety of students is always the top priority for Dongyu. It's fortunate that neither of the two wild boar attacks resulted in particularly serious consequences; otherwise, Dongyu's reputation would have been severely affected."

"This is indeed my dereliction of duty."

Tsukishiro Tsuneshige immediately bowed his head and apologized sincerely. After all, he was just a temporary acting chairman. Although there is a saying that "a son sells his father's land without feeling the pain," his relationship with the Sakayanagi family was not that of a son and a father. If the Dongyu brand industry was really negatively affected during his term, then it would really be a situation where even selling him would not be enough to repay the debt.

"We will avoid all such situations in the future, including special exams at the end of the school year, and we will never let students fall into similar dangerous situations again."

"Ah."

After discussing matters related to job handover and school affairs, the atmosphere between the two relaxed again, and they began to chat casually about many everyday topics, just like middle-aged and elderly people of their age.

"Speaking of which, today is Valentine's Day."

Tsukishiro Tsuneo suddenly brought up this topic.

In the past, he would never have talked about this with Sakayanagi Narimori. Firstly, they were both past the age of celebrating such holidays, and secondly, Sakayanagi Narimori himself was widowed and living alone. Talking about this would be like reopening old wounds, showing a complete lack of tact.

But things are different now.

"Yes, Valentine's Day."

Sakayanagi Shigemori repeated this in a somewhat detached tone, then unconsciously shifted his gaze to the window, looking down at the stadium area where the tops and parts of the buildings could be seen in the distance. Naturally, he thought of his daughter, Sakayanagi Arisu, and the check-up she had asked him to do some time ago.

To be honest, Sakayanagi Narumi initially felt quite conflicted when his daughter, who had just turned seventeen, made a righteous and stern request for a premarital checkup. However, upon reflection, he realized that his precious genius had already demonstrated adult-like thinking abilities when she was six or seven years old ten years ago, so it didn't seem so difficult to accept.

Moreover, if he treats it as just a simple physical examination, the final result will undoubtedly bring him, as a father, a long-lost sense of peace.

Because of a pre-existing condition, even though Arisu was completely cured with the most advanced medical technology, in Sakayanagi Narumori's mind, she was still a child in a sub-healthy state, someone who made him worry.

But the test results clearly showed him that Sakayanagi Arisu was very healthy, extremely healthy, and his physical condition was even among the best of his peers.

This means she will be a mother who is different from her mother, healthier and safer to bring the next generation into the world.

Oh, the above sentence was Sakayanagi Arisu's own statement at the time.

Aside from his physical condition, Sakayanagi Narumi was also delighted that his daughter had found a partner with whom he truly wanted to spend the rest of his life.

From a father's perspective, whether considering their background, appearance, abilities, or feelings for each other, Sakayanagi Shigemori felt that Kitagawa Ryo was an excellent choice, a match made in heaven.