Uneasy daily life

Where did Azusagawa-senpai find this devil?!

Bai Ying had already started reviewing how to be a father, muttering things like, "How's your studying?", "Is your allowance enough lately?", "Girls need to protect themselves, kill any boy who gets close!", "So you're the one who's going to confess to my daughter?", "Oh! Isn't this my future mother-in-law?" and so on.

"No, we don't need to, do we?"

Koga Tomoe glanced at Azusagawa Sakuta and stammered, "Something unexpected happened today. I think things have been resolved. It's not like time has reversed, is it?"

"Accident?"

The white figure scratched his head, looking at Sakuta Azusagawa suspiciously: "The Lucky Pervert Incident?"

“No, not at all.” Sakuta Azusagawa sighed. “When I was looking for Koga, the guy who got stood up was also looking for Koga. As a result, when Koga and I accidentally fell together, he happened to come to the classroom and witnessed it with his own eyes.”

"Well, it's a good thing." Koga Tomoe sighed and said easily, "Thanks to my senior for coming to find me, this will avoid the problems caused by being confessed to."

As she spoke with a complex and strange feeling, she suddenly saw the white figure whispering to Angelina in a voice that others could just hear.

"Hey, did you hear? That first-year high school student, Tomoe Koga, and that second-year high school student, Sakuta Azusagawa, were in the classroom..."

"Wow--!"

"#!" Koga Tomoe was devastated. "What are you guys talking about?!"

"Ah, I didn't say that." Angelina quickly moved her stool away, distancing herself and pointing the finger at the murderer. "He's good at imitating other people's voices, so it was all him talking. It has nothing to do with me!"

"I was just stating a possibility," Bai Ying said matter-of-factly. "So? Now, do you want to turn back time?"

Tomoe Koga chuckled dryly, "Heh... I feel even less inclined to."

If time could turn back, this guy would show up at the confession site tomorrow...

Because I don't know what will happen, I don't want to know what will happen at all!

"Really? Really?" Bai Ying asked darkly. "Are you sure that senior is a good person? That he wouldn't embellish the story to others out of resentment?"

Koga Tomoe stammered, "N-no way?"

"If I were your senior—humph! You had a boyfriend but didn't tell me, you lied to me, what a bad girl! I was full of anticipation, I asked you out to confess, but you were hugging and kissing other boys in the classroom, what a bad girl!"

Koga Tomoe's eyes widened: "Huh? That's not how it is, is it? It was clearly my senior who inexplicably confessed to me! To be honest, on the first day, when he asked me to go over, I never expected it to be a confession scene or anything like that..."

"Really? What does this have to do with your senior being unhappy?" Bai Ying shrugged. "That's a perfectly legitimate reason to speak ill of you."

Tomoe Koga wavered, wavered in the face of the darkness of human nature. If only that situation could happen again, if she were so concerned with her reputation...

"No, he wouldn't dare!"

Koga Tomoe firmly stated, "Azusagawa-senpai is a man of the underworld! He certainly wouldn't dare to speak ill of Azusagawa-senpai like that!"

People from the underworld?

Bai Ying and Angelina both turned to look at Azusagawa Sakuta.

"Hmm... I think there have been such rumors." Sakuta Azusagawa shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Because in my third year of junior high, I was sent to the hospital with an injury caused by puberty syndrome. Somehow, this story got around to high school, and then there were rumors that I was in the hospital because I was involved in a gang fight, that I was wielding a large machete and slashing from one end of the street to the other, that I started slashing people into the hospital in elementary school, and that I was slashed into the hospital in junior high, and so on."

“Oh,” Bai Ying said suddenly, “It’s like how I was rumored to be a pervert, an expatriate from a mental hospital, or something like that, right? Rumors are really amazing.”

"In short! Everything is resolved! There are no problems!"

Koga Tomoe put her hands on her hips and emphasized loudly.

Bai Ying leaned back in her chair and spoke with great interest.

"So what you want isn't a fake dad, but a fake boyfriend?"

Tomoe Koga was petrified on the spot.

Chapter 79 Give me time back!

Who is this person!

Koga Tomoe sat blankly in the chair, her face alternating between pale and flushed. Her lips moved slightly, but she didn't know what to say, so she pretended to be silent. She couldn't help but clench her fists tightly, but then she felt that it would be too impolite to lay a hand on someone just because they were telling the truth...

The most striking thing is that he's going crazy.

"You feel like you have nowhere to go, like you want to explode and go with the wind, right?"

Angelina shook her head with a sigh, reached out and patted the other person's shoulder, comforting her, "Don't worry, it's okay, you'll get used to it."

"?" Koga Tomoe was utterly bewildered. "Are you trying to comfort me, or tell me to just bear with it? You're talking nonsense..."

Angelina blinked: "Beep?"

"Beep." The white figure nodded.

"It's a dialect from Kyushu, isn't it?" Sakuta Azusagawa analyzed seriously. "I didn't expect you to be so conscious of your speech habits."

"..." Koga Tomoe froze again, offering a disorganized explanation, "Suddenly throwing out words that others can't understand is not conducive to communication!"

"Are you preparing a speech to garner votes, or are you going to hold a political meeting?" Bai Ying complained. "Shouldn't a true master of dialects be corrupting everyone else's accents? But trying hard to speak standard Mandarin while inadvertently letting out a little accent is also a kind of cute contrast."

Bai Ying exclaimed, "You're really a master at acting cute!"

What the hell are you talking about?! What the hell are you talking about?! What the hell are you talking about?!

With immense willpower, Koga Tomoe swallowed back all three curses and slammed her hand on the table, emphasizing, "Anyway! This matter is settled, no problem. Now you can go back to where you came from!"

"Resolved?" Bai Ying turned and asked, "Zichuan, what do you think?"

Sakuta Azusagawa murmured ambiguously, "A fake boyfriend...?"

Ugh! I almost forgot about my senior's attitude! My plan was to find a suitable opportunity to ask him to pretend to be my boyfriend, to wrap things up, and to avoid encountering such an incredibly awkward situation again...

Koga Tomoe snapped out of her tirade against Shirokage and quickly turned to Azusagawa Sakuta, clasping her hands together in a sincere plea: "Senpai! Could you please pretend to be my boyfriend for a moment? Uh... Senpai doesn't seem to have a girlfriend, does he?"

"Not yet." Sakuta Azusagawa scratched his head. "Although I really want to help you, I've been quite busy lately..."

"It's okay! As long as people get the impression that we're a couple, that's enough!" Tomoe Koga said earnestly. "Just walk around once and let everyone know that my senior and I are a couple, and that will solve the problem!"

Sakuta Azusagawa didn't immediately agree, but turned to ask, "Shiro, do you think this method will work?"

Koga Tomoe's cheek twitched, and she asked quietly, "Senpai, why are you asking this guy's opinion?"

"Because my favorability rating is higher than yours," Bai Ying said matter-of-factly.

Tomoe Koga: "..."

"I have to say, this kind of pretend boyfriend plot is a classic storyline—since it's fake, there's not much psychological pressure, and it's easy to agree... If you want to know how this method works, let's rehearse it!"

Before Koga Tomoe could react, the strange helper that her senior had found suddenly moved her chair next to her senior excitedly and spoke in a girl's voice!

"Since you don't have a girlfriend, senior, how about being my boyfriend for now?" Bai Ying clasped her hands together, pleading with him, her tone lively. "I'm quite cute, you know, senior, you won't refuse, right?"

Sakuta Azusagawa listlessly chimed in, "Yes, yes, yes... are you going to say something like, 'It's just feeding her, it's normal for couples to do that,' 'It's just holding hands, are you shy, senpai?' 'When your girlfriend is tired from walking, the boyfriend should carry her on his back,' or something like that?"

"Eh." The white-clad figure leaned back slightly, teasingly smiling, "It's just pretending to be your boyfriend, why do you look like I'd like you?"

"That's not the reason," Sakuta Azusagawa said solemnly. "I'm sorry, I already have someone I like."

"They say it's just a fake relationship, not a real one, so you don't need to worry about it, senior." Bai Ying pressed on, trying to persuade him. "Once this matter is over and the time is right, we can naturally break up! Maybe I can even help you pursue the girl you like!"

Azusagawa Sakuta perked up and said, "How to chase after him?"

"0 points!" Bai Ying suddenly crossed her hands, feigning disgust, and said, "At least act like a boyfriend! How can someone be so inconsiderate of their girlfriend? I really feel sorry for the girl that you like, senior. Your behavior as a boyfriend is disgusting!"

"No, your voice is disgusting!" Koga Tomoe couldn't hold back any longer and said angrily, "This isn't the attitude of someone pretending to be a couple; you're clearly using the guise of being a couple to pursue someone else!"

Sakuta Azusagawa and Angelina both wore strange expressions, which then turned into sighs of indifference. Tomoe Koga was puzzled. Was there something wrong with what she just said? Surely her senpai didn't actually think I liked him?

“That’s right!” Bai Ying nodded repeatedly, regaining her original voice, “Using the guise of being a couple to pursue someone, trying to turn a fake relationship into a real one, is just too wicked!”

“That’s right! That’s so mean, not keeping any promises!” Koga Tomoe agreed, then rolled her eyes. “You make it sound like I have feelings for you, senpai! I already said I was just helping out and solving a problem.”

"Have you thought about this?" Bai Ying said solemnly, "Because of our fake relationship, the girl Zichuan likes might lose interest in him. So Zichuan loses a girlfriend he could have in the future, and will be heartbroken and devastated..."

Koga Tomoe paused, then looked at Azusagawa Sakuta with a conflicted expression: "Um... how about I talk to the girl you like? Is she from our school? If you're too shy to ask, I'll try to ask her... She shouldn't be mean, right?"

“She’s already graduated, and given her personality, she probably won’t care. If she does care, she’ll come and ask me, and I’d be really happy for her.” Sakuta Azusagawa sighed. “If I don’t help you solve this problem, won’t time just go backwards again?”

"To be honest, I don't know why time went backward, and I didn't do anything on my own initiative..."

Koga Tomoe sighed in annoyance, then quickly perked up: "Anyway! Senpai, it shouldn't be a problem to pretend to be my boyfriend for now, right?"

"Alright."

Sakuta Azusagawa shrugged and laughed, "We're at least friends who kick each other's butts."

"Ah—! Senior! Let's not talk about that anymore!"

Koga Tomoe was extremely embarrassed. Noticing Angelina's strange gaze, she quickly emphasized, "It's all a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding! I moved my foot first, and you kicked me back!"

Bai Ying asked with interest, "Playing it so elaborately?"

"It's so-so," Sakuta Azusagawa said casually. "According to Futaba, the kick that caused us to kick each other's butts directly triggered quantum entanglement, pulling me into an endless Wednesday."

"In any case, if the matter has been resolved, time cannot be reversed, right?"

Koga Tomoe breathed a sigh of relief, finally having achieved her goal: "Maezawa-senpai's confession is resolved. I have my senpai as a shield, so I don't have to worry about Rena getting angry..."

Solution? Judging from this junior's personality—lively, energetic, afraid of being ostracized, and lacking a sense of security—the problem isn't that she can't handle complex interpersonal relationships, but rather that she simply lacks relevant experience and the courage to make decisions…a Mimi version of Chef?

Honestly, in terms of personality, Azusagawa is calm, independent, helpful, and has strong initiative. If this pair were to pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend, it would seem like the younger girl would unconsciously stick to him, right? Not to mention that the two had contact outside of school.

They didn't meet at school, but rather by chance off-campus. The younger girl didn't need to be overly concerned with her actions off-campus; she could simply be herself and bump into Azusagawa. This first impression had a huge impact. It's no wonder she suggested pretending to be a couple; it shows she already considered Azusagawa someone she could rely on and had placed a certain level of trust in him.

I trust them more than my 'good friends' or 'seniors' at school.

If you say so...

"Die-hard Chef Mimi," Bai Ying suddenly suggested, "Words aren't enough, you need to put it in writing!"

"What kind of agreement?" Koga Tomoe asked in surprise. "And what's this 'Deadly Chef Mimi' thing? Don't give me weird nicknames."

“Just write, ‘Koga Tomoe won’t fall in love with Azusagawa because of pretending to be his girlfriend. She’s not a bad woman who turns a fake relationship into a real one. She will definitely break up with Azusagawa Sakuta in the end.’” Shirakage explained her reasoning first. “If you draw up a written agreement, Azusagawa can explain it to the girl he likes, right?”

"This is ridiculous. It's as if I have ulterior motives."

Despite saying that, Koga Tomoe still took out paper and pen from her bag and started writing the agreement in a huff.

Sakuta Azusagawa found it rather strange: "Does Shiro have an odd amount of confidence in me?"

"No, I'm just interested in these classic storylines," Bai Ying said with interest. "Stories are based on real life, after all."

This guy is absolutely inexplicable! What do you mean by "classic plot"? He's read too many novels and is completely out of touch with reality! He just rambles on and on about a bunch of weird stuff, it's infuriating!

With a heart full of indignation, Koga Tomoe's powerful strokes penetrated the paper!

[First: Sakuta Azusagawa will not fall for Tomoe Koga because of their fake relationship, and neither will Tomoe Koga!]

[Secondly: Sakuta Azusagawa isn't the bad guy who turns a fake couple into a real one, and neither is Tomoe Koga!]

[Third: Sakuta Azusagawa will definitely break up with Tomoe Koga, and Tomoe Koga will too!]

[Neither party may violate the agreement; otherwise, they must shout "I'm an idiot!" three times in public, repeating it if no one else hears them!]

The written agreement is done, but the content is a bit strange.

The white figure exclaimed in astonishment, "What a ruthless oath, a path to certain death!"

Sakuta Azusagawa remarked, "You really do have a strange penchant for arguing."

"Hmph~ I'm not competing with my senior." Koga Tomoe glanced smugly at the white shadow. "Let's make a written agreement. I was worried that my senior would become someone who inexplicably confesses to me."

Bai Ying, with a solemn and authoritative expression, said, "Alright, both parties have signed and sealed this document. I, the fair and honest official, will keep it safe."

He carefully put the document away.

Angelina blinked, feeling that this junior wasn't just making a written agreement, but setting a trap. She didn't see any romantic feelings between Koga Tomoe and Azusagawa Sakuta; they seemed more like good friends. But that was Bai Ying—it would be strange if she didn't set a trap for them…

Forget it, I'll just quietly observe from the sidelines.

Koga Tomoe and Azusagawa Sakuta discussed how to post something on campus, around the school where many students frequent, to use Azusagawa Sakuta as a shield and help Koga Tomoe resolve her interpersonal troubles.

As Angelina listened, she quickly noted down the dessert shops around Minegahara High School where groups of girls frequently appeared, planning to explore them later and sample the local delicacies.

If I invite my superior to come along, does that count as a date?

Huh? Why does the officer look so lost in thought, like he's scrambling to figure something out?

Ah, Bai Ying suddenly came to her senses.

"Is this really the result? I've really made a fool of myself."

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