[You pretended to be worried about your final grades, and induced Ibuki Honoka to suggest that your daughter give you extra lessons, and then you readily agreed.]
[The night you came back from the pub, Ibuki Honoka took you home. ]
[Yuko Ibuki is sitting at the low table in the living room, reading a book with headphones on. Honoka takes her phone and books away and asks her to teach you. Honoka is sitting on the sofa behind the low table, half sitting and half lying, staring at you.]
[Ibuki Yuko did not show any impatience or disgust towards her mother's sudden request and your sudden arrival. She took out the first-grade textbooks from the cabinet and taught you your homework.]
[The low table is small, and the girl is right in front of you. Her clear voice surrounds you, explaining to you the knowledge points that you already know.]
[If you raise your chin slightly, you can see her white palms and her delicate face under her long black hair.]
[The girl sits upright, her posture and expression are normal. Your arrival does not shake her in the slightest. She exudes an elegance that remains unchanged even when facing a mountain collapse. This elegance is a rejection. Her calmness is a kind of resistance, a resistance to you, a refusal to let you influence her heart.]
[You know your plan has failed.]
[Even if this happened suddenly to the girl's home, it couldn't affect her mood. You can't think of any other way to break the ice around her.]
[Faced with this dilemma, you choose...]
[1. “Let nature take its course and act when the time is right.”]
[2. "Come to think of it, Honoka is pretty too."]
[3. "You can only use more radical contact methods. Go buy a rope and a utility knife."]
[4. Free simulation]
Nan Youxi took a look at the options and found that all of them looked weird except one and four.
What does "Honoka is pretty too" mean? If I can't be husband and wife with Yuko, then we can be father and daughter, right
What is the purpose of "buying rope and utility knife"? This is a crime!
He clicked option one.
[You decide to wait for the opportunity. You believe that no one can remain elegant and calm forever. One day, Ibuki Yuko's inner heart will be revealed. She will be flustered, afraid, happy, and shy. When that time comes, you will take advantage of it.]
[An hour later, you finished your tutoring and returned home. From then on, you came to Ibuki's house for half an hour every day to ask Ibuki Yuko for help with her homework.]
[Occasionally, when Ibuki Honoka is not at home, you would expect to see some changes in Ibuki Yuko, but the girl's attitude remains the same.]
[In the final exam, you were ranked in the top ten in the class. On the night you got your ranking, you expressed your gratitude to Ibuki Yuko. As you expected, the girl just politely congratulated you.]
[On the afternoon of the first day of summer vacation, you sit at the head of the bed, thinking about your next plan. ]
[Simulation ends]
"…?"
Nan Youxi looked at the words "Simulation Ended" in astonishment. He stretched out his finger and slid down the simulator interface, but the interface did not move. The simulation had ended and there was no text below.
"Why is it over now?"
He sat up from the bed, looking at the simulation interface that came to a sudden stop, his heart full of confusion.
In the previous line, you are still thinking about the next plan, but in the next line, the simulation is over
This feeling is like reading an online novel. The author says on the first day that he will start to update the book frequently, but on the second day there is no news at all and the book is finished.
Could it be that he missed something
Nan Youxi pulled up the simulator interface and re-read the simulated text.
His eyes were not mistaken, the simulation just came to an abrupt end.
Next to the simulation interface, a pop-up window of this summary has popped up.
[Summary of this article]
[Phase of experience: pursuit period]
[Rating: 6]
[Comment: She hid her heart behind a solid iron door, and you failed to break through the iron door's protection.]
[Settlement: You gained a small amount of learning experience]
There are no clues in the interface of this summary.
Nan Youxi swiped it away and looked at the simulation interface again.
What happened, what made The Sims suddenly stop
He thought back to the times he had simulated things with Nao Asano. Even though their relationship didn't progress, the simulations continued until he graduated from high school.
This simulation only lasted until the summer vacation of the first year of high school.
Did his actions disgust Ibuki Yuko? Did the girl already consider him a potential partner, so the dating simulation ended immediately
Moreover, this summary only mentioned that he failed to get into Ibuki Yuko's heart. If Ibuki Yuko hated him to the extent that the dating simulation ended, it should be explained in the summary. If not, then it is not.
"In other words, the end of the love simulation was not caused by our emotions." Minami Youxi murmured to herself.
His eyes gradually widened, and a possibility emerged in his mind.
"Since it's not the emotions that are the problem, then it's the body that's the problem."
He looked back at the simulated text, staring at the last line.
[On the afternoon of the first day of summer vacation, you sit at the head of the bed, thinking about your next plan. ]
"Before the simulation ended, I was sitting at the head of the bed in my apartment, so it's not my body that has a problem, but Ibuki Yuko's."
There is no moon tonight, and the pitch-black night can be seen through the gaps in the curtains. Nan Youxi rubbed her cold arms and shrank back into the quilt.
In order to verify his guess, he started the simulation again.
[Simulation starts]
[Number of simulations remaining: 1]
[Simulation object: Yuko Ibuki]
[Initial relationship: acquaintance]
[Five days have passed since you came into this world. You became good friends with Asano Nao and asked her to take care of your meals. You became good friends with Chizu Kazumi and helped relieve the boredom of school life. You changed your classmates' impression of you and developed from a marginal person to a popular person.]
Nan Youxi slid the interface and skipped the repetitive parts.
In this simulation, he basically continued his previous actions.
He became friends with Ibuki Honoka, and went in and out of Ibuki's house on the pretext of tutoring. He ranked in the top ten in the class in the final exam, and when he expressed his gratitude to Ibuki Yuko, he was met with awkward courtesy.
Changes in summer vacation.
[On the first day of summer vacation, you woke up early and stood by the elevator of your apartment, watching the floors it stopped at. Every time you saw one coming down from the eleventh floor, you pressed the button to check if Ibuki Yuko was inside.]
[At noon, you waited for your target.]
[You greeted Ibuki Yuko normally, walked into the elevator, and after going downstairs, you followed behind her.]
[You don't know how to follow. Fortunately, Ibuki Yuko doesn't mind you following her. ]
[Ibuki Yuko went to the library, returned the books she had, picked and chose, and borrowed a new stack of books. ]
[It was already afternoon when you came out of the library. You were concentrating on watching the figure of the girl in front of you.]
[The library is located in a remote area, and the driveway in front is wide. There are not many pedestrians here, but there are many vehicles.]
[The scorching sun in summer makes it hard to open your eyes. It takes a lot of effort to even glance at the traffic light on the other side. There are many cars at the intersection, and there is not a single green plant around. You feel anxious and uneasy.]
[You met the murderer who brought your last simulation to an abrupt end.]
[On the road dazzled by the sun, a green truck ignored the red light above and rushed straight to where you and Ibuki Yuko were standing.]
[The vehicles next to him honked their horns to alert pedestrians at the intersection and try to wake up the truck driver.]
[Ibuki Yuko saw the huge iron block whistling towards her. She seemed to be dazzled by the scorching summer sun, and seemed to be captivated by the huge black shadow. She stood at the intersection, unable to move.]
[You pull her and run to the side.]
The truck rushed past you and her, crashing into the library wall, and the wind stung the back of your neck.
[After you regain your balance, you turn around and look at her. She is unharmed, and you breathe a sigh of relief.]
[But soon, under the scorching summer sun, a cold wind suddenly appeared, invading your chest and making you shudder.]
[A question lingers in your mind—was the girl really frightened just now? ]
[Will Ibuki Yuko, who is able to remain calm and elegant under your attack, really be frightened by an ordinary truck that is not very fast? ]
(End of this chapter)