Chapter 79

Chapter 79

【You stayed in your hometown longer than planned, deciding to return on the eighth day after the New Year.】

【Your father had a case to handle, and your mother and sister saw you off at the station. The snow that fell on the second day of the New Year had not yet melted completely; it had been swept into dirty piles of ice in the corners by the cleaning staff.】

【At the ticket gate, you and Ibuki Yuko waved goodbye to them and boarded the train back to Misaki.】

【Honoka told her daughter that she would return in three days. You thought returning three days early was a very prudent decision, but you didn’t expect Ibuki Honoka to come back earlier than anticipated.】

【Upon arriving at the apartment, Ibuki Yuko parted ways with you and went back to her own home, where she found her mother sitting on the sofa watching TV.】

A brief memory scene appears,

Showing a conversation between the mother and daughter in the living room.

“Where did you go?”

“Ino Prefecture.”

“As expected of my blood. I went home with a man, and you also went home with a man. I was wondering why you’ve been getting up so early recently. Who is he?”

“......”

“If you don’t tell me, don’t even think about seeing him again.”

“...... He said you would know.”

“I would know? Oh, is it that boy living on the sixth floor? No wonder he was so enthusiastic when we met; I thought I might develop something with him.”

“......”

“Did you do it?”

“No.”

“Didn’t? At your age, that’s unusual. How did it go at his house? What did his parents think about their son bringing a woman home out of the blue?”

“It went well, I think.”

“‘I think’ isn’t a very reassuring phrase. Do you think he’ll marry you?”

“I don’t know.”

【Ibuki Honoka’s relationship failed again, so she returned home early. She asked her daughter about your existence, recognizing you.】Ne/w novel chapters are p/u/blished on no/vel(/bin(.)c/o/m

【Over the past year, even though you didn’t need Honoka to get close to Yuko, you still built a relationship with her.】

【Honoka greeted you with a smile, teasing your intimacy with Yuko. You couldn’t read the woman’s mind, so you responded ordinarily.】

【Together, you went to the Ibuki home for a meal. This was at Honoka’s request.】

【You weren’t surprised; you knew Honoka was very fond of you and liked having you around.】

【At first, during the few days you dined at the Ibuki home, you restrained yourself. After getting to know Honoka better, you gradually became more audacious, even flirting with her daughter in front of her.】

【After winter break came the third term, and after the third term was spring break.】

【Your relationship with the Ibuki mother and daughter progressed smoothly. At night, you would occasionally drink some beer with Honoka. In these conversations, you subtly hinted at Honoka to entrust her daughter to you.】

【What made you uneasy was that while Honoka didn’t oppose, she also didn’t readily agree. Each time, she either evaded the topic or changed the subject.】

Not readily agreeing?

Minami Yuuki paused his reading and touched his chin, feeling the fine stubble that had not yet grown into a beard brush against his fingertip.

In previous simulated lives, didn’t Honoka easily promise Yuko to him?

Why hasn’t she agreed after so many hints this time? He looked back at Honoka’s initial reaction, feeling a chill in his heart.

Could Ibuki Honoka be—jealous of her daughter?

The simulated version of me, realize this quickly!

No more flaunting affection in front of the mother-in-law!

Through the simulation text, the real Minami Yuuki could read Honoka’s inner thoughts, but the simulated Minami Yuuki did not have this ability. Honoka hid it well, and it would take some time for him to grasp her emotional core.

Could something be going wrong?

Minami Yuuki quickly glanced down, his brow twitching. Something did happen, but... it seemed not?

【You guessed that your relationship with Honoka wasn’t intimate enough, so she was unwilling to give her daughter to you. During spring break, you spent more time with Honoka, but by the time you realized the wrong direction, it was too late.】

【The cherry blossoms at the subway entrance bloomed, and Honoka said she had landed an important order and received a substantial bonus, inviting you to her house to celebrate.】

【From the start, you felt something was off. Sure enough, shortly after dinner began, Yuko became unusually sleepy and went to bed, leaving only you and Honoka in the living room. The woman, who had been sitting across from you, slowly moved to your diagonal, and finally sat beside you.】



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