Am I being simulated by their love affair?

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“Right!” Miyamura Aya smiled at her and covered the square fire pit with the wire mesh next to her.

"This can also be used for brewing tea and grilling meat!"

"Where did the tea come from? Where did the meat come from?" Jun Matsueda glanced at her. "I think you're missing camping trips from school."

The girl stood up, puffed out her cheeks, and glared at him.

"I want it baked!"

"Brother Chun, go to the convenience store and buy me a bag of cotton candy as a reward for starting the fire!"

"That's fine." The boy took a step forward and then turned around.

"Is there anything you need to buy, senior?"

Yamami Maki thought for a moment, "How about I go with Jun-kun?"

"..." Jun Matsue took out his phone. "I wanted to make a call."

The girl smiled considerately, "Then I don't need anything else."

"Then be careful when you're warming yourself by the fire." The boy walked towards the door.

The brightly lit activity room was just a few steps away. He walked past the door, his profile illuminated by the laughter and chatter inside—after greeting the children through the glass door, Jun Matsue continued forward.

"Let me call Mochizuki first," he said, picking up his phone.

It's not that Mochizuki is more important—Tomatsu will definitely have the biggest reaction to his senior coming to the orphanage, so by calling Mochizuki first, he can give Tomatsu all the time.

Holding the phone to my ear, I approached the bright white light at the entrance of the orphanage, and soon a sweet, slightly cool girl's voice rang in my ears.

"Does Songzhi need something from me?" Mochizuki Haruka asked lazily.

There were crackling sounds around her, mixed with the rustling of the wind. The boy walked out of the orphanage, but didn't get straight to the point.

What is Wangyue doing?

"Watching my aunt set off incense stick fireworks at the beach, and taking beautiful photos of her~"

Jun Matsue smiled and continued forward along the alleyway under the streetlights.

"I'll come to your place the day after tomorrow?"

"The day after tomorrow..." The girl held her phone away, seemingly talking to her aunt.

"No problem, a car will pick you up from the welfare home the day after tomorrow morning."

"Are we going to pick you up from the orphanage?" she asked.

"It should be..."

Mochizuki Haruka gave a soft hum, "Does Matsue have something else to say?"

"Hmm." The boy looked at the old-fashioned private convenience store not far away.

"I brought my senior to the orphanage."

The girl on the other end of the phone made a questioning nasal sound, but it didn't sound particularly surprising.

"what happened?"

Jun Matsue walked into the convenience store, greeted the old lady sitting behind the counter with her eyes half-closed, and went straight to the counter where the cotton candy was placed.

"I was walking home with my senior this afternoon, and she started arguing with her father as soon as she walked in the door—"

He was interrupted by his aunt's gloating laughter coming from the other end of the phone.

"Eavesdropping and then laughing!"

Mochizuki Haruka slapped her aunt, and the woman let out a cry of pain that wasn't actually painful.

"Pine branch, continue. I've already punished her."

"...In short, the senior was very angry. She decided not to go home before the New Year to show her firm attitude."

“I didn’t want her to spend the New Year alone, so I brought her to the welfare home.”

"So she's really going to leave the Yami family?" asked Mochizuki Hana, who was standing nearby.

"...Probably." Jun Matsueda returned to the convenience store counter with a large bag of cotton candy and grabbed a few small snacks as well.

Given the current situation, he doesn't think his senior will obediently return to her family and become the young lady of the Moji family.

"That's quite surprising," the woman remarked.

"I don't find it surprising at all." Mochizuki Haruka took back her phone.

"Because pine branches have that kind of magic."

“If he could educate me back then into what I am now, I’m not surprised at all that Yamami Maki has become like him.”

"Hey, don't use such a strange way of saying it." The boy walked out of the convenience store with a plastic bag in his hand.

"I think it's only a matter of time," the girl snorted forcefully.

"That's it then," she concluded casually.

"Anyway, as I said before, as long as Songzhi doesn't change her feelings for me, it doesn't matter whether you talk to one more or a hundred more."

"That won't do!"

Before Jun Matsue could speak, his aunt on the other end of the phone protested—but Haruka Mochizuki didn't give her a chance to say anything more and hung up the phone directly.

"..."

Looking at his phone screen, the boy exhaled a puff of warm mist on the roadside, shrouded in the cold night, and dialed a second number.

"Hello?" Tomatsu Yuka's voice was noticeably sweeter than the previous girl's.

"Is Jun-kun looking for me tonight because he's lonely?"

Matsueda Jun suddenly felt a pang of pity.

Perhaps his brief silence made the girl realize something, because when Tomatsu Yuka spoke again, her tone became clear and soft.

"Is there something you need to say, Chun-kun?"

"Hmm..." The boy's steps faltered slightly under the lamplight. "I took my senior back to the orphanage."

The silence on the other end of the phone made him feel uneasy.

"Youhua?"

"Have you done it?" the girl asked bluntly.

"What?" Jun Matsueda was mentally prepared, but he was still taken aback by the question.

"I just took her back to the orphanage, that's all."

"Really?" Tomatsu Yuka breathed a sigh of relief. "You didn't do anything?"

"I didn't do it." The boy looked at the gate of the orphanage not far away.

"My senior and I just arrived at the orphanage this afternoon—"

"Let's talk about it when we meet tomorrow," the girl interrupted him.

"I don't want to talk about these things on the phone. It's been two days since we last met. Are you free, Jun-kun?"

“Of course I’m free.” Jun Matsue felt relieved—it was good that Tomatsu was willing to meet.

“Then let’s meet tomorrow morning,” Tomatsu Tomoka added. “Don’t bring Maki up the mountain.”

"it is good."

Her distinct breathing came through the receiver, as if she had breathed a sigh of relief.

Where is Yuka now? In her own bedroom?

“…Yes.” The girl tried to recall the feeling from their earlier conversation. “I was planning to take a bath.”

"Could you leave me some bathwater? The orphanage only has a public bathhouse."

Tomatsu Tomoka couldn't help but laugh, "Then, Jun-kun, would you like to come to my house for a bath?"

“Let’s wait until we move in together before we take a bath together.” Jun Matsueda said as he walked through the gate of the orphanage. “I don’t want to get a dirty look from Ms. Totomatsu right now.”

"That's a pity." The girl's words carried a hint of her usual allure.

"I bought a really pretty new set of pajamas!"

There was a pause on both sides of the phone call. Jun Matsue walked around the front of the building and looked at the flickering firelight on the side eaves.

"Our relationship won't change, will it?" Tomatsu Yuka asked him on the phone.

"How will it change?" the boy replied softly.

"I haven't gotten back together with my senior yet. Do you really think I would dump you, Mochizuki, and Kurusu to be with her?"

The girl smiled. "I feel much more at ease now that you say that, Chun-kun."

"What Youhua needs to do now is take a nice, relaxing bath, then change into your new pajamas and send me some new photos. Finally, before you go to sleep, call me and ask me to stay with you."

"Okay~" The voice on the other end of the line softened. "Then I'll go take a bath first."

See you later.

Putting down my phone, the two girls under the eaves were already right in front of me—

Miyamura Aya and Yamami Maki sat on either side of the fire pit. Aya was sitting in a rocking chair, while Maki sat in a folding recliner with a cushion and laptop on her lap, comfortably watching the screen.

"Brother Chun is so slow!" the girl complained, reaching out to take the bag from the boy's hand.

"Any other snacks? Then we won't be slow~"

Yamami Maki smiled as she watched her beloved pull over a chair between them and sit down facing the fire pit.

"Did Tsunku's phone call go smoothly?"

"It's alright." Jun Matsue fanned the flames in the square basin, watching them drift away.

"Senior, you don't need to worry about that. Just relax and enjoy these last few days before the New Year."

The girls' worlds are all different, and there's no need to expose them to each other—that's always been his thinking.

"Good~"

The boy watched as Caijiang opened the bag, licked her lips, and skewered pieces of marshmallow onto wooden sticks, placing them on the wire mesh of the brazier.

"..."

Before me lay a courtyard shrouded in night, with scattered lights of fire blending into the dim darkness, and the outlines of clouds visible in the sky.

Behind him, the sounds of children playing loudly like a curtain, and in his ears, the firewood crackling in the stove, Jun Matsuoka felt his heart, which had been gradually agitated on the way, slowly calm down again.

He looked at Miyamura Aya, who was squatting by the fire pit, and the girl blinked expectantly.

"The roasted marshmallows will take a while to arrive~"

The boy's gaze shifted to the other side.

The senior student was nestled in a folding chair, gently tapping on her laptop, her face flushed with a warm blush, looking extremely relaxed.

Noticing his gaze, the girl turned her head and blinked gently.

"Does Chunjun have something to ask me?"

Jun Matsue shook his head, then nodded.

"What is the senior student writing now?"

"..." Yami Maki looked slightly surprised and turned the computer screen toward him.

"It's a holiday survey for the course. Are you interested, Tsun-kun?"

"Does university students have homework even during holidays?" Cai Jiang, who was roasting marshmallows nearby, looked up.

"Of course there are, and they're really troublesome assignments..."

Listening to the girl's explanation, Jun Matsue leaned back in his chair, gazing at the night and the fire, and gently inhaling the sweet scent of cotton candy that drifted to his nose.

While there's still time, let's learn more about her now.

Chapter 838 Discussion on Reconciliation

The next morning, Jun Matsueda met Maki Yamami by the cafeteria window.