Chapter 13

Chapter 13

【Player Bound: Minami Yuuki】

【Remaining Simulations: 2 (Simulations can be restored over time or actively obtained)】

【Available Simulation Targets: Minami Ruri, Minami Airi, Minami Kotori, Asano Nao】

Minami Yuuki selected Asano Nao.

【Load the previously experienced simulated life?】

Loading the previous simulated life, setting the time point to just before the last choice.

Minami Yuuki didn’t choose to start over because he wanted to verify something. He wanted to understand why, in the last simulated life, despite their happy family life, Asano Nao ended up depressed and passed away.

The last option in the simulator must be an important turning point. Maybe by choosing a different option, he could understand Asano Nao’s situation better.

【Simulation Start】

【Remaining Simulations: 1】

【Simulation Target: Asano Nao】

【Loading Time Point: End of Dating Period】

【Summary: You used borrowing manga as an excuse to approach Asano Nao, catering to her interests. Your relationship progressed smoothly, and at 22, you married her. However, Asano Nao’s social anxiety made your family dislike her. That year, on New Year’s Eve, you brought your wife back home, and her efforts finally earned your family’s blessing.】

Minami Yuuki looked at the options.

【Your family wants you to stay in Ino County, by their side. You choose...】

【1. Stay in Ino County; 2. Return to Misaki City; 3. Move Abroad; 4. Free Simulation】

Previously, considering Asano Nao’s personality, he thought returning to Misaki and continuing their life as a couple was the right choice.

Now, he chose the first option.

【You heeded your family’s advice and stayed in Ino County.】

【Your father, mother, and sister were all very happy. Your parents tidied up your grandmother’s house for you to live in. They knew to give you space and only invited you for meals on weekends, which made you relieved.】

【Moving into the new house, Asano Nao felt uneasy, and you comforted her. Knowing you were back, your childhood friends came to see you. After discussing with Asano Nao, you hosted them at home.】

Minami Yuuki closed his eyes and looked at the memory scene in his mind.

【Amid your parents and sister’s objections and your colleagues’ attempts to keep you, you quit your job. You didn’t tell Asano Nao, only saying the company was renovating and gave you a break.】

【Asano Nao soon discovered the truth. She urged you to return, but you claimed you were too tired from work and wanted her to support you.】

【Asano Nao’s smile faded. With no strangers at home and you always by her side, she wasn’t stimulated by the outside world. However, she was also plagued by guilt, feeling she was holding you back from a normal life.】

【You realized it wasn’t just outsiders that made Asano Nao anxious. Anything that made her feel she was a burden would torment her.】

Pausing the simulation, Minami Yuuki pinched his nose.

So that’s how it was. The tragedy in the last simulation could be explained now.

In the simulated life, their child was the product of their love, but also a death sentence for Asano Nao, a mirror. This mirror was too young to know how to hide the reflection. Through the child, Asano Nao saw herself as an inadequate wife and mother every day.

This exhausted her, leading to her depression and death.

In other words, to achieve a happy ending, they couldn’t have a child. The simulated version of himself should have known this.

Minami Yuuki continued to look at the panel.

【You left Ino County and returned to Misaki City with her.】

【There were too many friends and relatives in Ino County. It was hard to refuse their visits, and each visit was a wound to Asano Nao.】

【In Misaki City, you could stay on an island of solitude with no third person. Asano Nao’s mental state gradually recovered.】

【You secretly used contraception. You forged an infertility report and acted extremely depressed.】

【Your plan worked. To take care of your emotions, Asano Nao never brought up having children again.】

【You grew old together in the Asano household, only leaving for family funerals. Asano Nao never stepped out of the house again.】

【You were happy but with some regrets.】

【In the year you realized you would lose your ability to care for yourself, you chose a day when the cherry blossoms bloomed and ended your life.】

【Simulation End】



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