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Section 192
When he was with Konno Yuka, he felt his legs were so sore that he didn't want to walk another step.
But when he was really alone and could go home to rest, he wanted to go shopping for a while longer.
"Just two more rounds..."
Asano Makoto decided to go shopping alone.
No sooner said than done, he first returned to the parking lot, stuffed all the clothes he bought into the trunk, and then returned to this very large commercial street.
Because he wasn't very hungry yet, he didn't go to eat, but walked around aimlessly, turning down the endless stream of solicitations.
Halfway through, he suddenly saw a movie theater and had the whim to watch a movie.
Walking into the movie theater, he randomly selected a movie with the closest start time, bought two tickets and two popcorn套餐 in the ticket seller's surprised eyes, and then summoned Lilith, who no one but him could see, from the system space and took her into the theater.
The movie he casually picked was a not-too-long romance movie, but he couldn't watch it because the plot of the movie was too old-fashioned...
Oh no, he meant: classic.
Because the plot could be seen through at a glance, there was nothing to see.
Lilith, on the other hand, cried so hard while watching the movie that he felt a little speechless.
After enduring it for half an hour, he began to reflect on why he had to suddenly go crazy and do this aimless wandering.
Isn't it better to go home and play games?
But he had chosen the movie himself, so he had to finish it even on his knees, and Lilith was watching it with great interest, so he finally suppressed the idea of patting his butt and leaving, and sat there, but his mind was not on the movie at all.
After watching for another ten minutes or so, around 7:50 in the evening, the movie came to the second half, and the plot entered the climax.
His mind suddenly began to ring frantically with the prompt [Konno Yuka Stability -1].
But slowly, the rate of decline of Konno Yuka's stability slowed down, and it hovered between 65~68.
In the end, it stayed at 67 points, with no more fluctuations.
It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the expected changes in stability, Konno Yuka's favorability also inexplicably rose by several points, and even almost broke through the 70 mark, reaching 69 points.
The better-than-expected result made Asano Makoto couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
He took out his phone, turned the brightness to the lowest, and glanced at the chat software.
Konno Yuka did not send a message.
It seems that although things have been resolved smoothly and her mental state is fine, the breakup with her boyfriend of many years still makes her want to be alone for a while.
But no matter what, the problem is finally solved, and Asano Makoto is completely relieved.
With nothing to do, he began to watch the movie that had not yet finished.
Then he discovered that this was unexpectedly a very good movie.
Although not having seen the previous parts left him ignorant of the plot, he liked the ending very much.
The male and female protagonists went through all kinds of hardships to get together, and no one was harmed during the period. It was a gratifying and complete ending, very good.
At 8:30 in the evening, the movie, which was only 80 minutes long, ended.
When the staff credits began to play on the screen, Asano Makoto directly dragged Lilith, who was already crying messily, out of the movie theater.
After leaving the movie theater, he took out his phone again and glanced at it. Konno Yuka still had not sent him a message.
But he still didn't worry too much, because after watching a movie, Konno Yuka's stability had not dropped, but had even risen slightly.
He put away his phone and suddenly felt a little hungry, so he randomly found an izakaya and packed some food there.
He didn't plan to eat here, but planned to take it home, because there were still some leftovers from lunch at home. Adhering to the principle of not wasting, he had to deal with the leftovers.
Most importantly, looking at the crowd that had become many times larger than before entering the movie theater, he suddenly didn't want to stay here any longer.
The more it gets to night, the more people there are in Shinjuku, which is a well-known consensus.
The noisy sounds from the dense crowds around him made Asano Makoto feel a headache, so he just wanted to go home now.
He spent five minutes squeezing out of the crowd to the parking lot, and then drove for more than ten minutes on the somewhat congested road before finally returning home.
Taking the late-night snack and a bunch of clothes out of the car, he took the elevator back to the ninth floor.
Then, after getting out of the elevator, he suddenly saw a very familiar figure at the door of his house.
Because he didn't expect her to be here, Asano Makoto couldn't help but froze in place, looking over in disbelief.
She was sitting on the ground, next to the door, bending her straight and slender legs, hugging her knees with her hands, and burying her head with her disheveled gray hair in her knees, not knowing what she was thinking.
However, the sound of the elevator opening caused her to react.
She subconsciously raised her head and looked over.
Asano Makoto immediately noticed her expression.
Calm, as if nothing had happened.
But the next second, after seeing Asano Makoto walking out of the elevator, an awkward expression immediately appeared on her face.
She instantly jumped up from the ground, subconsciously opened her mouth to say something, but the words came to her lips, but she couldn't say them.
She didn't know how to explain why she was here.
In the end, because she really didn't know how to open her mouth, she had to scratch her head and show Asano Makoto a somewhat embarrassed, even very shy smile, and stood there awkwardly laughing.
"Long time no see, Asano-kun, ehehehehe..."
"Pfft—!"
Looking at her appearance, which was completely different from her previous bold and quick-witted appearance, silly and somewhat like a beautiful idiot, making people not know how to evaluate her, Asano Makoto finally couldn't help but laugh.
Chapter 260: A future with you in it must be a happy future (Bonus 9/69)
Although he didn't hold back his expression, he quickly coughed twice and adjusted his emotions.
Then, he sighed helplessly, and said as if talking to himself: "Speaking of which, don't I still owe this stupid woman a meal? Well, it seems that's true..."
After nodding to himself again, he looked back at the beautiful girl who was still standing there awkwardly laughing, raised the late-night snack in his hand, and said with a smile: "So, miss, would you like to come in and have a late-night snack together?"
He didn't ask how things were going, nor did he ask why she was here.
He didn't ask anything, just asked if she wanted to have dinner together.
"I bought some food, and there's still some leftover fried chicken from lunch at home, but considering that you probably haven't eaten dinner, it might not be enough, but you can also order takeout. I can also cook if you want, and if you're feeling tired, you can just rest at my house tonight, but..."
Saying that, he paused, and then a mischievous smile suddenly appeared on his face: "I heard that you are stupid, clumsy, and easy to fool, so I plan to trick you into staying at my house all day tomorrow, so that this single man can also have the chance to experience what it's like to have a beautiful woman living in his house."
Konno Yuka maintained the silly smile on her face and froze there.
Then, her eyes instantly turned red, and the next second tears couldn't stop flowing out.
The silly smile on her face also disappeared, replaced by an expression where her lips were slightly pouting and her whole face looked tangled together.
She cried.
This was probably the first time in so many years that she had cried like this.
At first, when she learned that her boyfriend was a complete scumbag and that she had been deceived and betrayed for several years.
Although she felt extremely wronged and sad in her heart, and even despaired to the point of wanting to leave this world directly, she did not cry.
Later, she was comforted by Asano Makoto for a long time, and she also ate the most delicious fried chicken in the world, but she still did not cry.
This morning, when Asano Makoto said he hated her, and she thought she was going to break off her relationship with Asano Makoto, she wanted to cry.
But she just wanted to cry.
Because before the tears could flow out, she was immediately coaxed by the sweet words of the person who made her want to cry, and she was so shocked by the comforting words that sounded like a confession that she forgot to cry.
As for the tears that flowed out of her eyes after being pushed down by Asano Makoto, that doesn't count as crying.
But only this time, at this time when there were clearly no sad emotions, and even a sense of liberation was generated in her heart because the shackles were untied, Asano Makoto's two sentences and an improper joke made her burst into tears in an instant.
She knew why this was.
When she told that scumbag, who was even late tonight, about the bastard things he had done, and then broke up with him, and finally splashed a cup of iced Americano on him when he became angry, Konno Yuka only felt relaxed in her heart.
After leaving the coffee shop, she walked on the road and carefully recalled the four years she had spent with that scumbag, which were also four years of being deceived, and gradually sorted everything out in her mind.
She suddenly realized that in the four years she had spent with this scumbag, Shida Yoichi, there didn't seem to be any happy memories worth mentioning, and it could even be said that she wasn't happy for a single second.
Not long after they got together, she went to the agency as a model to receive training, and occasionally when she had a holiday, he had to go to school, so they rarely had time to be together.
Later, when the two of them became independent and graduated, and both started working, she was still very busy. Even if she occasionally had a holiday and had time to meet him, the most frequent place they met was actually... the gym?
And after she went there, this scumbag was actually flirting with those women in front of her?
What's even more outrageous is that she actually stupidly believed what he said, thinking that he was really just trying to do a good job, and then obediently watched him mess around with those women?
Really, it's so stupid that it's laughable to say these things.
As for the feelings she had for this scumbag...
Perhaps when he suddenly confessed to her at the very beginning, on the day they just got together, there were more or less some, otherwise she wouldn't have agreed to his confession.
But thinking about it carefully, when he lied to her, who was not yet an adult, on the second day of their relationship, saying: "Do you want to go to a hotel and do something fun?", her already small amount of affection for him completely disappeared, right?
Really, how could she have been so stupid at the time? She clearly saw that he had bad intentions at that time, but she didn't break up with him directly? As a result, she wasted so many years with him.
Thinking of this, Konno Yuka couldn't help but regret the four years she had wasted.
In these four years, she wasted time and couldn't even see a trace of the future.
Therefore, when she broke off her relationship with this scumbag, Shida Yoichi, tonight, she didn't have any sad feelings.
And when she splashed that cup of iced Americano, she only felt relieved and relaxed in her heart, and even regretted why she didn't order a hot coffee.
But, she cried at this time.
The person who made her cry was Asano-kun, so it was very obvious that she was crying with joy.
Konno Yuka instantly defined the nature of this matter.
As for why she felt happy, she wasn't really sure.
But...
Perhaps it was because she finally saw her future.