In response to Rinka's question, Mayu did not answer immediately. She lay on the table, her eyes looking towards the sky outside the window. Her sight seemed to fall on the thick clouds, but also seemed to fall on somewhere else.
The two were now in Rinka's bedroom. Unlike the Asagiri family's old house, the Ryugu family lived in a two-story one-family house. Rinka's room was at the edge of the second floor, and the view from the window was not very good. Most of it was blocked by the two houses in front, and the sky and clouds showed a narrow strip between the two walls.
There were birds singing outside the window, cars rolling on the road, and voices coming from the first floor. It was Rinka's younger sister who was in junior high school shouting.
"Rinka has asked this question many times," Mayu said.
"Because I don't understand every time." Rinka Ryuugu frowned. Every time her friend's answer was vague. This vagueness was not Moyu's problem. Moyu was already trying hard to explain.
She thought that just as it was difficult for her to explain math problems to her sister, there were some things that could not be explained or understood by the other party no matter how hard they tried if the other party did not have the relevant qualifications.
Mayu tapped her head in annoyance and found another way to explain: "Is there something that Rinka has always missed?"
"No. Why should I miss it? Happy days are still to come." Rinka Ryuuguu answered without hesitation. She never missed the past.
Her present and conceivable future were more comfortable than her past.
Because pocket money is increasing.
"I've finally found a separate way to explain it, Rinka, can't you just cooperate with me?" Mayu looked at her friend with dissatisfaction. Only when facing Rinka and Yuki would she show some willfulness.
Ryuguya Rinka thought carefully for a while and said, "But there is a game that I miss. I played it five times and it still feels not enough."
"Ah, that's all!" Mayu saw the hope of making things clear, and stood up happily: "Later, when Rinka plays other games, she will also want to look for the shadow of that game, right?"
"That's impossible." Rinka Ryuuguu didn't deny it completely. She added some conditions: "I only feel nostalgic when I play a game that is somewhat similar. I only played that game for two weeks at first, and then I missed it so much that I played it for three more weeks."
“That’s how it feels!” Mayu gave a thumbs up, praising her friend’s associative ability: “To me, Yuuki is a bit like Rinka’s favorite game.”
"Oh, I see." Rinka Ryuuguu was still a little confused, but she vaguely understood something.
Feelings do not need a program, nor do they need strict reasoning and proof. If you feel something, you feel it, and if you don't feel something, you don't feel it. You can't go into details, and you don't need to analyze it. Reason will only disturb emotions, making the real become false, and the false become real.
She muttered, "Yuuki is the Green Elves Legend. Xiaoyou played it when she was a child and couldn't forget it. However, before she finished it, the game disc was taken away, so Xiaoyou wanted to go back to the game disc and continue the original feeling."
"It seems a little off, but it should be about right." Moyu had no preference for games and didn't quite understand what her friend was saying.
She continued to look at the clouds outside the window. Her friend's mention reminded her of the past again. She thought about when she first arrived on the island.
The neighbors on the island are friendly and the classmates are enthusiastic. Far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, the slow pace of Uta Island makes her feel warm. Such a life should be a happy scene in the story.
However, as Rinka said, when playing similar games, she would miss the perfect feeling of the first time and think of the perfect game of the first time. In her wonderful life in this small town, she kept thinking of the original Yuuki who brought her the first happiness.
Rinka can play the game again at any time, but she cannot take it out of the plastic box and insert it into the card slot of the game console.
"Hey, Rinka." Mayu's memory returned to a more distant place.
"Hmm?" Ryuuguu Rinka responded to her.
"I rarely talk about the things before I met my brother, right?"
Ryuuguu Rinka thought, now he is the elder brother, not Yuuki? What does the change of address mean
She thought for a moment and answered her friend: "I have never heard you describe it directly. You only mentioned it a little in your Yuuki's story."
"Rinka will think back to the shitty work she played... ah, too harsh!" Moyu was a little flustered and quickly changed the topic: "Rinka will think back to the mediocre work she played?"
Rinka Ryuuguu thought of a sentence or two that Mayu had mentioned when she was a child. In the tone of her friend, it was not the housework that was difficult for children that was sad, but loneliness.
Linhua has a happy family, but her mother is too clingy to her, which once made her feel very troubled. It was not until she had a younger sister that things got better, and she longed to be alone. But even though she longed to be alone, she knew that being alone was a terrible thing for a child.
She said hesitantly, "Based on what you told me, it's pretty... mediocre."
She didn't answer directly, but tacitly agreed with Mayu's words. The only things she could recall were the extremely excellent games, and ordinary works were not worthy of being preserved in her precious brain cells.
She understood what Mayu meant. To use the popular game plot, Mayu was a wild samurai who traveled around Japan. The cruel reality made her a ronin with superb swordsmanship, but also made her tired. After a battle, the wounded Mayu was picked up by a villager. It was a peaceful and harmonious village. There was no blood and fire, no neighing of horses, no striking of swords and spears. She felt the initial happiness here.
Later, due to bandits or war, the village collapsed, and the gentle elder sister died. She continued her journey of wandering. Although she met companions and made friends later, the image of that small mountain village will always remain in her heart. When she is about to lose the boss battle or feel tired from the journey, the game will insert a memory killing, using the image of the small mountain village to boost her spirit, strengthen her will, and relieve her stress.
Thinking of this, Rinka Ryuuguu was deeply moved, and she hugged Mayu tightly.
"After we defeat the demon king, we will return to the ruins of the village and rebuild it!" she said seriously.
"Huh?" Moyu was confused.
"I will support you!" Rinka Ryuuguu patted her friend's back hard.
"I don't quite understand." Moyu smelled the floral scent on her friend and felt the touch of her body against hers, feeling a bit embarrassed.
"It's nothing, Xiaoyou, just know that I will support you." Ryuugu Rinka let go of Mayu and grabbed the girl's shoulders: "So, what Mayu wants is to continue the feeling of childhood, right?"
"Yeah." Mayu nodded vigorously.
She knew that her feelings were a little strange, so she had kept them in her heart and only told Rinka. Before, Rinka couldn't understand, and she felt lost for a long time, wondering if she was a little strange. Now, Rinka finally understood and expressed her support, which made her very happy, although she felt that what moved Rinka was not her feelings, but the feelings that Rinka associated and imagined.
"What exactly is going to happen?" Ryuguyu Rinka continued to ask.
"I want to stay with my brother and take care of Yuxi."
Rinka Ryuuguu recalled a management game she played. She felt very happy and interesting when taking care of livestock such as horses and calves that could be sold for money and produce materials.
She thought about the NPCs in the business game again. Although she had no interest in them, in that game, she could give NPCs gifts or complete commissions to improve their favorability and then get married. After getting married, there would be no real benefits except that there would be an extra NPC in the house, so she was not interested.
However, this gameplay is also highly discussed on the forum.
"Want to get married?"
Rinka's sudden question made Mayu blush, she threw herself on her friend and pulled her cheek: "What are you talking about!"
"Because after you get married, he will stay by your side!" Rinka Ryuuguu leaned back, trying to avoid Mayu's palm, and they fell to the ground together.
Mayu placed her hands on both sides of Ryuguya Rinka's neck, stared into her eyes for a few seconds, and then lowered her head.
“I tried,” she said.
"Ah? What did you try? How did you try it?" Rinka Ryuuguu was shocked.
"That would be easier, at least there's still one route." Mayu sighed and looked up, looking at her friend with frustration in her eyes.
“So…?” Rinka Ryuuguu responded cautiously, allowing Mayu to continue.
"I don't feel like I'm in love." Moyou got up and sat on the floor with her legs hugged. "Sleeping next to him, eating the cream on his face, washing and cooking for him, and having him see my indecent clothes, it doesn't feel like what they describe in TV dramas and novels."
"Bad girl?" Rinka Ryuuguu was even more shocked.
"Pinch you!"
"I'm gonna pinch you!"
Putting aside her fake emotions, Ryuguya Rinka said seriously: "I completely understand."
"What do you understand?" Moyu turned to look at her.
"You are an orphan who was adopted after your family was destroyed in the war in the samurai game!"
"Eh?"
"You are a villain who regards the man who adopted you as your adoptive father. You can't forget him. When you grow up, you change your job to a ninja or a samurai, and devote your life to his rebellion! After the protagonist kills you, your face lying in the mud will open a pair of lifeless eyes and look at the sky. Then the scene will change and start playing the happy memories of your childhood with your adoptive father!"
"Please explain it more clearly." Moyu was very distressed. She only played all-age games on handheld game consoles and had never seen this kind of game plot.
"In short, you want to be his daughter."
"is that so?"
"Your reaction is so calm. You must have noticed it a long time ago! If you had said so at the beginning, I wouldn't have had to guess for so long!"
Mayu patted her friend's head to calm her down.
"I have a feeling, but I can't be sure." She stuck out her tongue, trying to get away with it.
"Why are you still worrying about this? Just go and ask him to adopt you as his adopted daughter!"
Ryuguya Rinka slapped Mayu's hand away. She felt very tired. She had spent so much effort to help her friend sort out the situation, but she had already known about it and just didn't say it on purpose.
"I'll treat you to a meal at Mizhuting tomorrow." Moyou smiled apologetically, "But it's still a little different."
"What else is different?" Ryuugu Rinka continued to ask, staring at Mayu with an unfriendly look. If the girl couldn't give a clear answer, she would get angry and want to eat at Mizhuting twice.
"When I was little, my brother would sometimes blurt out and call me Mozi." Moyu's eyes wandered, "I want to be Mozi for the rest of my life."
Rinka Ryuuguu interpreted her friend's words as meaning that she wanted to stay with the other person for the rest of her life.
She then transformed this idea into an area where she could experience feelings.
She also wants to stay at home and play games all her life.
But it's too difficult.
She lay flat on the floor: "I support you mentally, come on!"
"Don't even mention cheering up, now Yuuki won't even reply to me on LINE!"
Moyu looked at her phone, feeling melancholy.
How can I stay with Yuki forever
Ryuuguu Rinka looked at the shelf where she placed her game boxes and felt very melancholy.
How can I play games for a lifetime
The two girls fell into deep thought due to similar feelings.
Moyu's cell phone suddenly rang, startling the two thinkers.
Moyu quickly pressed the answer button and put the phone to her ear.
"Hello... um... OK... where did it come from... maybe in an hour."
After hanging up the phone, Moyu frowned.
"What's wrong? Who's calling?" Rinka Ryuuguu sat next to her friend and asked curiously.
One phone call wasn't strange, but a phone call that made Mayu frown after answering it was very strange.
In her impression, Mayu has the ability to deal with everything perfectly.
Yes, just like the perfect maid in the game!
If you think about it carefully, Mayu's feelings for Yuuki are a bit like a little maid's feelings for her master!
Tsk, emotions are such a complicated thing, like this and like that.
Maybe these are all the same feelings, but they are given different names in different identities.
Friendship, family affection, and love, these are all manifested as emotions of companionship in reality. What are the essential differences between them
"It's the courier calling, saying I have a package." Moyu looked at the phone with a dazed look in her eyes.
Ryuguya Rinka became even more curious, wondering what kind of express delivery caused the girl to react so strongly.
She thought back to the conversation Moyou had just had and asked, "You asked for the address the courier sent. Was it given to you by someone else?"
Moyou nodded: "It was sent by Misaki."
"Ah? Mayu doesn't have any family in Misaki now, right?" Ryuugu Rinka thought of a possibility.
"Yeah." Mo Youdian nodded, her brows relaxed and a smile appeared on her face.
They thought of the same thing, looked at each other, and expressed their guesses together.
"That guy/Yuuki sent it!"
"Sure enough, Yuxi saw my LINE message!" Mayu raised her phone.
"No, we're not sure it was him. Why didn't you ask the sender?"
"I forgot."
Did you really forget? Or... were you afraid of shattering your own fantasy
"I'm going back." Moyou stood up, "I'll make up with you at Mizhu Pavilion tomorrow."
"What do you mean tomorrow? Come back to me in the afternoon and we'll go to Mizhu Pavilion to talk in detail. You can sleep at my house at night!" Ryuguya Rinka was happy for her friend.
However, unlike Mayu who ignored her uneasiness, Rinka was clearly confused.
Why not send it via LINE instead of express delivery
(End of this chapter)