The cherry grove of Purple Sakura Academy is located southwest of the teaching building, and the most famous one is the tallest Oshima cherry tree in the center of the cherry grove.
There is a rumor in the school: Confessing love here can increase the success rate by half.
But Izumi Toru didn't know where this data came from.
After seeing someone holding hands and leaving after successfully confessing their love, he came over.
Maybe the rumors are not false?
Surrounded by petals all over the ground, the slowly falling cherry blossoms, and the fragrance of flowers filling the air can indeed make people want to fall in love.
He thought uncertainly.
"Izumi-senpai!"
Behind me, a girl called.
Turn around and look.
The visitor has bright golden waist-length hair, slightly curly at the ends, and a round face with a few freckles. He looks very cute.
The girl's big brown eyes were looking at him without blinking.
Looking at the girl who was almost the same height as himself, Izumi Toru subconsciously wanted to stand on tiptoes to increase his height, but after thinking about it, he held back.
"Manano Ayumi-kun?"
"Yes, it's me!"
Mano Ayumi's voice sounded a little nervous.
"Invite me here, what can you do?"
"I want to solve Narumi Amakusa's mental illness. So, please, senior, be my temporary fake boyfriend!"
Izumi Tetsu, who had already guessed the answer, refused without thinking.
"Sorry, I refuse. Is there anything else?"
There was uncontrollable disappointment on the girl's face.
"Why? Senior, aren't you his best friend? I, I just want to help him solve his psychological problems..."
"I think you got two things wrong."
"What?"
Izumi Toru held out two fingers and said:
“First, g, I would not make such a mistake;
Second, if Narumi knows that you are my girlfriend, no matter whether the relationship is true or not, no matter whether he has liked you before, he will never care about you at all.
Do you understand what this means?"
Hearing the last sentence, Mano Ayumi was stunned.
Then what I just proposed...
"So, before negotiating, first, don't play all your cards, and second, try to understand your opponent's cards as much as possible. Junior, your cards are too easy to see through."
Izumi Tetsu sighed softly, looking very regretful.
After a moment of silence, Mano Ayumi asked: "So, how can senior help me? His problem will be easier to solve if I am here, isn't it?"
Seeing that she recovered from the shock of the failure of the plan so quickly and started to use her only advantage to bargain, Izumi Toru admired her a little.
Knowing how to use wisdom, even if the plan is rough, is still a plus point. Narumi is not suitable for girls who are too smart. A little shrewdness like this is just right, and he is also the girl he liked when he was a child. In other words,
The only first love I ever had...
Wait! Why do I feel more and more that I worry too much?
Izumi Tetsu remained silent, which made Mano Ayumi a little uneasy.
"Senior?"
Izumi Toru, whose mentality finally switched back from the old father mode, raised his head and smiled at her.
"So, can you let me know about what happened between you and Narumi? I'm very interested in this."
There was deep curiosity in his eyes.
"Huh?!" Upon hearing this, Ayumi Mano took a few steps back in panic, "Wha, what?"
"Sorry, my request was too much. Please treat it as if I didn't say it. Goodbye."
Izumi Toru turned around and counted silently in his heart:
three,
two,
one.
"etc!"
Izumi Tetsu paused in his steps and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Excuse me, is there anything else?" he asked pretending to be confused.
Mano Ayumi gritted her teeth and asked: "Then, that... just, as long as I say it..., will that be all right?"
We shouldn't explore his past without his friend's permission, but Izumi Tetsu still carries the trust of Amakusa Chinatsu.
She wants to help her silly son solve his single problem to ensure that there is someone to take care of him in his future old age (Izumi Toru has reservations about whether his starting point is true).
So, even though he saw that the girl was a little reluctant to tell the dark history of her past, he had no choice but to say sorry in his heart.
After waiting for a long time, the girl took a deep breath and made up her mind.
She organized her thoughts and began to speak.
Izumi Toru listened quietly.
As he learned more and more, the smile on his face could no longer be maintained.
When she was a child, Amakusa Narumi noticed that Ayumi Mano looked cute, so she took the initiative to play with her.
At the same time, he didn’t know which anime he was poisoned by, and he believed that beautiful girls don’t know how to go to the toilet. So, Ayumi Mano, who is so cute, must not go to the toilet.
He also argued and fought with other boys over this matter.
After Ayumi Mano learned about this, she specially comforted him and said: She didn't know how to go to the toilet.
The stupid Amakusa Narumi really took it seriously.
As time goes by, the relationship between the two people becomes closer and closer.
Originally, if this continued, when the two of them grew up and got along with each other, these lies would naturally fall apart.
However, no one expected that the emergency would come so quickly.
When the two were playing in the children's park, Ayumi Mano suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom.
However, she didn't dare to go with Amakusa Narumi by her side.
Because she was afraid that Amakusa Narumi would hate her and alienate herself because of this incident.
But some things cannot be suppressed.
In Amakusa Narumi's sluggishness, Mano Ayumi's dress...
This scene also became a shadow in his heart.
Not long after, Ayumi Mano moved with her mother who remarried. (After remarrying, the woman and her children will also take the husband's surname.)
It wasn't until yesterday that Narumi Amakusa confessed her love to Ayumi Mano that she knew she was that girl.
…
No matter how you look at it, that guy Narumi should be beaten!
Although the girl's lying in the first place also played a part in the reason.
but……
I just really want to beat him!
Such a good girl, if you don't remember her goodness, you will remember the scene where she made a fool of herself?
For example, Shiratori-san is...
Ahem, the appearance of making a fool of oneself is indeed more impressive.
But isn’t it also pretty cute!
"Um..." The girl, who was blushing because she had told something embarrassing about her childhood, asked anxiously, "But, is it okay?"
"call--"
After taking a long breath, Izumi Toru asked: "You know Narumi is going to compete on Saturday, right?"
"Um."
"That was the first time he played in a formal game since he entered high school. I don't want to see him perform abnormally because of this incident. Narumi needs a crushing victory to vent the depression of the past year. Do you understand?"
Mano Ayumi nodded vigorously.
"I, I understand. But, how can senior help me?"
"Did you know? The Baigei system has withdrawn from the environment."
Mano Ayumi: "???"
She blinked her confused eyes, hesitated for a while, and then asked cautiously: "Um...senior? Can you say something that I can understand?"
"To put it simply: you are a childhood sweetheart you haven't seen for many years. When you appear, you express your love. Your favorability level is immediately increased. In light novels, you are simply a loser. No matter how you think about it, what you did is wrong."
After barely understanding, Ayumi Mano asked humbly: "Senior, what should I do?"