Didn’t you say you were just using me as a substitute?

"Okay."

Seeing that Kitahara Tsun didn't deliberately avoid that, Shijo Shinki inadvertently curved her frowning brows.

Looking straight ahead, this shows that Kitahara Tsutomu has truly let it go.

The two walked over together.

A middle-aged woman who looked like a shop assistant appeared in front.

I don’t know if it was his first time hosting or he was not familiar with the event, but the clerk took about five minutes to explain the boring precautions. Then the partition inside the venue opened, and the teacher who was holding the book signing event today appeared to the applause.

Kitahara Takashi was tall and he saw Kasumigaoka Utaha wearing a white summer jumpsuit at a glance.

She looked no different from before, except that she seemed to have lost a lot of weight and her temperament looked a little decadent.

She was accompanied by a man and a woman.

The girl is Machida Sonoko and the boy is Aki Tomoya.

'It seems she has let it go.'

Kitahara Takashi stared at the place where Aki Tomoya was standing now and felt a little dazed, because he was the one standing there before.

Just as Kasumigaoka Utaha's position would be replaced by Katsura Kotonoha, his position has now been replaced by someone else.

No, using the word "replacement" is not very rigorous. Kitahara Tsutomu thinks it is better to return the item to its original owner.

That was originally the position where Tomoya Aki should have stood, and he should have replaced him.

Kitahara Tsutomu's mood did not fluctuate much. He quickly withdrew his gaze and continued to talk to Shijo Shinki with his head down.

*

Kasumigaoka Utaha sat on the chair where she signed autographs. Her face looked calm or expressionless. She was like a robot, shaking hands, signing, and signing each copy of "Love Metronome" with beautiful handwriting.

Machida Sonoko and Aki Tomoya stood on both sides, maintaining order at the scene to prevent any fanatical fans from approaching.

Because of her beautiful appearance, Kasumigaoka Utaha was almost kissed by a male fan at a book signing event.

Fortunately, Kitahara Tsutomu was quick-witted and gave the male fan a big slap in the face the moment he stretched his head towards Kasumigaoka Shiyu.

From then on, Kasumigaoka Utaha would always keep Watanabe Takashi by her side at every book signing event.

But now things have changed.

"Zun, I'm thirsty, water."

The beautiful writer is extremely talented and sold 500,000 copies on her debut. With all these positive factors, a lot of people came to the book signing event today.

After signing for half an hour, Kasumigaoka Utaha's hands were tired, and her mouth was dry from saying "thank you". She shouted to the person behind her without even turning her head.

Machida Sonoko subconsciously looked in the direction of Aki Tomoya.

Aki Tomoya's face didn't look very good.

"Zun, I said I was thirsty."

Kasumigaoka Utaha looked back at Aki Tomoya, but the name she called out was not his, but another person's name.

Aki Tomoya's expression changed several times, but he finally handed over a bottle of water.

"Senior, here you go."

Kasumigaoka Utaha stared down at the bottle of water and didn't take it.

After a while, she tilted her head in confusion like a machine with a delayed reaction, and her black hair flowed down like a waterfall.

"Zun, I'm on my period today, don't you know?"

"Why did you give me mineral water?"

"Have you been too busy lately? Never mind. I'll forgive you this time and be more careful next time."

The flesh on Aki Tomoya's face twitched, his expression was uncertain, and his palm tightly grasped the mineral water bottle: "Senior, my name is Aki Tomoya, not Watanabe Takashi."

He has repeated this sentence countless times this week.

For some reason, Kasumigaoka Utaha always mistook him for the boy named Watanabe Takashi.

He heard Machida Sonoko talk about Watanabe Takashi.

It was not until this moment that he realized that he was being replaced by another person little by little without his knowledge.

He was extremely angry, but that was all he could do.

He couldn't blame anyone.

Can we blame Kasumigaoka Utaha?

If he had not refused at the beginning, Watanabe Takashi would never have had the chance to take advantage of the situation.

After realizing that it was his original rejection that gave Watanabe Takashi this opportunity, Aki Tomoya felt guilty.

During this period, he even stopped playing games, wanting to accompany Kasumigaoka Utaha to get out of this situation.

He thought that since that person was just his substitute, the time was short, and he had left now, it should be easy to make the senior sister completely forget about him.

After all, I am the real boss.

But he was wrong.

He found that he had no way to drive Kitahara Tsutomu away.

He seemed to have taken root in Kasumigaoka Utaha's heart. Whenever he wanted to get rid of anything related to Watanabe Takashi, out of sight and out of mind, Kasumigaoka Utaha would stare at him with those biting, wine-colored eyes.

Aki Tomoya had no doubt that if he really threw away or hid Watanabe Takashi's things, Kasumigaoka Utaha would fight him to the death without hesitation.

"The patient's mental state is very unstable right now. He might do anything impulsive. It's best not to stimulate him too much."

This is what Kasumigaoka Utaha's parents said after they discovered that something was wrong with their daughter recently and after diagnosis.

Even if it was Tomoya Aki, he didn't dare to provoke Kasumigaoka Utaha too much at this moment.

Even if the other party mistook him for Watanabe Takashi, he had no choice but to remind the other party again and again that he was Aki Tomoya, not Watanabe Takashi.

"Oh, Aki."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's unfocused wine-red eyes recovered a little, and her tone suddenly became very cold.

She glanced at the bottle of water in Tomoya Aki's hand: "If it were Zun, he would remember that I'm on my period and prepare some brown sugar water for me instead of just buying a bottle of water from a vending machine."

After saying that, she ignored her gloomy expression, tried to suppress a glance at Tomoya Aki's anger, and continued to sign autographs for fans.

If Kitahara Takashi were here, he would definitely feel familiar when hearing this.

Because similar words had once been said to him by Kasumigaoka Utaha.

But the original words were not like this, but "If it was Ren Ye, he wouldn't have specially prepared these things for me. He can't even pretend to be like him. As expected, you only look like him in the face."

It was not long after Kitahara Takashi and Kasumigaoka Utaha started dating. Kitahara Takashi noticed that she had her period, and she said these words to him when he prepared something for her the next day.

If Kitahara Takashi heard this, he would definitely find it ironic.

Bai Yueguang, who used to defend even his shortcomings, can she now speak ill of him?

He used similar rhetoric to that which had hurt him before.

Of course, he couldn't hear any of this.

Because he was still in the queue, his position was still far away from Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Except for the glance at Kasumigaoka Utaha at the beginning, he didn't look at her again afterwards.

*

The signing will proceed in an orderly manner.

Watanabe Takashi and Shijo Shinki will arrive soon.

They each bought a copy, and yes, Kitahara Takashi also bought one.

No matter what, the other party has invested so much in me, so I should buy a book to support him.

Although he already has two sets, they were not bought by him, but given to him by Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Zun, do you want to go to the Mori Arts Center later?"

"I don't have any artistic talent."

"I can't appreciate those works either, so I just treat them as a way to pass the time."

"To kill time, I suggest going to the game hall."

"A game room? Can we go into that kind of place?"

"Of course. You haven't been there yet, right? Why not give it a try?"

"That's okay."

The two of them were bored waiting, so they just started chatting.

Hearing the conversation between the two, Kasumigaoka Utaha suddenly stopped signing with her pen. There seemed to be a light in her eyes and she looked up suddenly.

148

Chapter 148 You expect everything to go as you wish.

Same height, same build, but the faces don't match.

Not seeing the face she remembered, Kasumigaoka Utaha was very disappointed.

She was just wondering if Watanabe Takashi had heard that she was having a book signing event and came to the scene.

"Kasumigaoka Utaha, what are you expecting without permission? How could Tsutomu come again?"

"Aren't you the one who hurt him the most?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha laughed at herself inwardly.

After leaving Watanabe Takashi, she thought that she would just be alone for a while and her life would not be affected too much.

Since I don't like him anyway, I might as well just leave. Can't I live without him?

At first, she thought so.

It's just that some people are like clear water, colorless and tasteless, clean and simple, with an inconspicuous presence. When you have them, you don't think they are anything special, but when you lose them, you realize what precious things you have lost and begin to regret it.

This is the case with Utaha Kasumigaoka.

Now every day when she wakes up, she will unconsciously open Line to see if there is any message from Watanabe Takashi, even though he has deleted her.

Whenever a relative comes to visit and has a stomachache, she will instinctively call Watanabe Takashi, even though the call has not been connected so far.

Whenever she saw the word "zun" in a book, she would stare at it for a long time.

Every night when I go to bed and close my eyes, the scene that comes to my mind is Watanabe Tsuyoshi begging me to let him go.

I always thought that Kasumigaoka Utaha thought that Watanabe Takashi couldn't live without her.

But in fact, it is not that Watanabe Takashi can't live without Kasumigaoka Utaha, but that Kasumigaoka Utaha can't live without Watanabe Takashi.

"Teacher Kasumi Shiko, Teacher Kasumi Shiko?"

Machida Sonoko noticed that Kasumigaoka Utaha was distracted, so she hurriedly reminded her in a low voice.

After coming to her senses, Kasumigaoka Utaha apologized to the book fans who had been waiting in front of her for a long time, and continued signing autographs.

After signing a few more people, they soon arrived at Kitahara Tsutomu.

Kitahara Takashi said nothing and quietly handed over the brand new "Love Metronome".

Even though she knew that the person in front of her was not Watanabe Takashi, Kasumigaoka Utaha still kept looking at him.

I don’t know why, but the boy in front of me always gives me a sense of familiarity and intimacy.

She took the book and asked casually, "What do you think of this book?"

Kitahara Tsutomu was stunned.

He really didn't expect that Kasumigaoka Utaha would suddenly talk to her.

Not only he was surprised, but Shijo Maki, Aki Tomoya, and Machida Sonoko were all stunned.

Kitahara Takashi said casually: "It's good."

Kasumigaoka Utaha signed her name carefully, writing it carefully while continuing to ask, "What's good about it?"