Volume 22: Chapter Chapter It only took one week to clear the level, and he died tragically in front of her
Unfortunately, this skill seems to be triggered.
Neither did he immediately stuff a bunch of maintenance knowledge into his head, nor did he directly give him the repair superpowers like in "Crazy Diamond".
Ming Hai looked around, but couldn't find an object in the room of this high-end apartment that could trigger the [Maintenance] skill.
——Even if there is something that can be fixed, he can't just shout "Hey, system~" and let it turn into a set of system magic tools, right?
As for dropping his own phone and then going downstairs to borrow tools to fix it... he would never do such a stupid thing.
So without much thought, Ming Hai immediately decided to leave it alone.
Anyway, there will be plenty of opportunities to experiment in the future, so just buy a toolbox now and keep it ready.
"As long as you can even repair musical instruments, this skill is worth the price of admission."
Thinking of this, Ming Hai opened Amazon again. Muting tapes, adjusters, string hooks, pliers... various repair tools for musical instruments, dazzling professional names flashed before his eyes one after another.
Then, click Add to Cart, and repeat this dozens of times.
Finally, clear with one click.
——Shopping, fun!
It was as if a lot of things (referring to money) were sprayed out in one breath. Minghai couldn't help but lie comfortably on the sofa cushion, and once again experienced the pleasure of treating money as dirt.
No matter whether you need it or not, just buy it first.
Even if his maintenance skills cannot repair musical instruments, for the sake of Toyokawa Shoko's dream of forming an orchestra, he will have to learn some skills in this area sooner or later, so it won't be a waste.
——So what if it’s wasted?
The system daddy is rich! It gives the task funds generously, and every day it will swipe the money in the bank card back to the integer.
You can’t spend it all, you can’t spend it all.
"Every time I reach this point, I can't help but sigh... In terms of self-control alone, the system really picked the right person."
Ming Hai shook his head with emotion, turned off the advertisement for realistic dolls worth hundreds of thousands of yen, and turned his attention back to the system panel.
[The second stage: fate. ]
What kind of fate is this?
Will there be a stage called "end of relationship" in the future?
Ming Hai thought about it, frowned slightly, and asked something that had been on his mind since then.
"System, how many stages are there between me and Toyokawa Shoko?"
The system did not answer.
However, on the achievement panel, three dim boxes suddenly appeared below the second stage.
If nothing unexpected happens, that should be the achievement to be unlocked later.
"Only five in total? Surprisingly, there aren't that many..."
Ming Hai rubbed the corners of his mouth, feeling that something was wrong, and his expression became weirder the more he thought about it.
"It only took me two days to reach the second stage. If I continue to calculate like this... I won't be able to defeat Teacher Xiaoxiang directly this week and then die miserably in front of her, right?!"
At first, I was still complaining that being someone's white moonlight was something I couldn't achieve in even three to five years, let alone a year.
He even thought about it. If the method of boiling a frog in warm water didn't work for his target, he would set a death date for himself in advance, spend seven days traveling around the world, and then exit gracefully. It would be worth the trip...
But now he said that this game was in simple mode, and he had pushed the progress bar to two-fifths within two days, and was almost halfway done.
——No, system, are you so anxious for me to reincarnate? !
I didn't cost you much money!
"Could it be that I should distance myself from Teacher Xiaoxiang in order to avoid dying too early? This is too much trouble..."
Ming Hai rubbed his face in frustration. He had been planning to enjoy himself for a year before dying, but he didn't expect to see the end so soon.
I don’t know if it’s because Teacher Xiaoxiang is so easy to win over, or if I’m actually very popular among little girls.
Anyway, from strangers to friends who made important promises in just two days, their relationship really changed as fast as a train...
I guess the system didn't expect it, right? The host, who had already prepared for failure, could be so powerful.
If someone else were to come, they might still be wondering how to meet their target after a week, and becoming the "white moonlight" would be even more distant. Therefore, it is understandable that a simple five-stage achievement is set.
After all, the host is a human, not a succubus, right?
"…So, now there are two questions."
After regaining his composure and thinking, Ming Hai bit the candy in his mouth and let the sweetness drive his thoughts to work faster.
——No matter what, there are five facts about the achievement that are on the table. Since they cannot be changed, we can only continue to do things according to the rules of the system.
So, first question:
What is the next stage? How can it be achieved? Will the difficulty increase exponentially compared to the current two stages?
If the second stage is an agreement, then the third stage is most likely the process of fulfilling the agreement - for example, Toyokawa Shoko encountered a crisis, and he stood in front of her without hesitation to protect her. He was seriously injured but fulfilled the agreement of "As long as I am here, no one can hurt you", so he achieved the third stage in the ICU.
The next step is to take Toyokawa Shoko to flee overseas, and fight wits and courage with the Toyokawa family who forced her to return to marry into the family. Finally, in a strange city, she exchanges the ring for a cheap metal pull ring and achieves the fourth stage of achievement.
The fifth stage... well, maybe it can only be completed after death?
Use your own belongings and last words to launch a final psychic attack, filling in the last piece of the puzzle that is cruel but necessary for "White Moonlight".
——To be honest, if the next three stages are of this difficulty, Ming Hai will not worry about the problem of progressing too quickly.
Just like in pure love comics, even if the hero and heroine have confessed their love to each other and decided to love each other for the rest of their lives, they still have to overcome many difficulties and obstacles to reach a happy ending without regrets.
The second stage is just the beginning for them now, and it is not so easy to reach the end.
...No matter what happened, after meeting him, Toyokawa Shoko was destined to never have a happy ending.
This leads to the second question:
Using death to facilitate the birth of Bai Yueguang is the setting given to itself by the system.
But how could he know when to die so that he could successfully become Toyokawa Shoko's white moonlight?
After all, he can only die once. If the timing of his death is wrong, or if the impact he brings to Toyokawa Shoko is not strong enough, wouldn't it be the same as his death in vain?
Since I have arranged five stages of achievements for myself, the system should have prepared the corresponding scripts for when I can die like a white moonlight and how I should die heroically.
You can't just let yourself improvise, right?
After asking these questions, Ming Hai waited for the system to give him feedback.
But all I got was a cold sentence on the panel:
[After Toyokawa Shoko's emotional energy accumulates to the expected level, the system will issue a reminder and provide a common sense way of death for the host to choose. ]
"It's the same whether you answer or not. Can't you give me a little more information? You have to leave me guessing."
Ming Hai curled his lips and directly closed the system panel, but he had a rough idea in his mind.
In any case, death is still far away for him now.
If I really want to worry about dying halfway through my enjoyment, that will happen after I complete the fourth stage...
Now, let alone becoming the most important person, he hasn’t even held Teacher Xiaoxiang’s hand yet. Why is there any need to control the sense of distance?
"So let's keep everything the same and continue to be good friends with Teacher Xiaoxiang~"
Ming Hai stretched hard, stood up from the sofa unsteadily, smelled the rice aroma coming from the kitchen, and his smile became more relaxed and lazy.
"After all, they are both two-fifths. There is still a big difference between '20 meters out of 50 meters' and '2,000 meters out of 5,000 meters'."
"The road ahead is long and arduous, but I will continue to search for it... Hmm? Is this sentence applicable to Teacher Xiaoxiang?"
Just as he walked into the kitchen and started preparing dinner.
As if the opportunity had been seized, the doorbell suddenly rang at the entrance.
Ming Hai felt a sense of déjà vu in his heart, and walked to the cat's eye and looked out -
Sure enough, it was her again.
The girl named Nagasaki Suyo, with a gentle and warm smile, once again stood in front of his door.
Volume 23: Chapter Chapter Nagasaki Suyo's Second Attack
"Good evening, Nagasaki-san."
"Good evening, Narumi-san~"
Compared to last night, Nagasaki Suyo was obviously more prepared today.
Long hair that was still wet, rosy and shiny skin, and pajamas that were dignified, conservative, yet cute.
——It doesn’t look like he’s here to chat with the downstairs resident at all, but rather it looks more like he’s secretly having a tryst with the neighbor’s wife next door.
She herself was troubled by this, and even took a shower before meeting him. Wasn't that a bit too much trouble?
It's not like I fell in love with him at first sight, so there's no need to go to this extent, right?
but……
Feelings are a very wonderful thing, and Nagasaki Suyo is a girl who is easily swayed by emotions.
When she came to her senses and looked in the mirror, she found that she was already fully prepared to go out - not wearing makeup was her last bit of modesty.
"Well, he is the one who saved me after all... It is only natural for me to be a little more serious in front of him, right?"
After finding a reason to convince herself, Nagasaki Suyo went downstairs with the hot food box and saw him opening the door.
There was a brief flash of surprise in the boy's eyes when he looked over.
Just because of this, she felt that this solemnity was not meaningless, and her mood unconsciously became excited.
"Well, I hope I didn't bother you?"
Smiling gently, Nagasaki Suyo looked at his current outfit nonchalantly, then her expression was obviously stunned and her eyes unconsciously widened slightly.
"It's not that I'm disturbing you. I was just about to cook... What's wrong?"
Ming Hai glanced down in confusion.
…The clothes fit her body properly, not exposing any area below her collarbone, and her pants zipper wasn’t undone.
Why did she look like she saw a naked man opening the door?
"No, it's nothing~"
Nagasaki Suyo quickly came to her senses, hid her hesitation behind a good-boy smile, put her hands behind her back, and chuckled a few times to cover it up.
However, the gaze that had quickly shifted away quickly returned to Ming Hai like iron filings attracted by a magnet, and he couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
"Is this the so-called househusband?"
Nagasaki Motoyo suddenly wanted to take out her cell phone, take a picture of him now and take it home to enjoy.
Of course, she is not the kind of frivolous woman who is attracted by handsome men... Wanting to take pictures of beautiful things is just one of human instincts.
Compared to appearance, what Nagasaki Suyo cares more about is the atmosphere and feeling that Ming Hai brings to her at the moment.
It was clearly a casual home outfit, but it was full of a unique charm that she had never seen before...
With his hair tied into a small braid, revealing his handsome face, he looked a little more sunny, cheerful, and unrestrained compared to his gentle and kind appearance last night.
The forearm with the sleeves rolled up is as white and slender as a girl's, but the slightly exposed blue veins and faintly tense muscles show the sense of strength and security that only boys have.
Under the thin Western-style school uniform, she has broad shoulders, narrow hips, and a slender waist. Her powerful arms push the shirt out to show her tall, straight lines like a model's. Her legs are in perfect proportion, and her figure does not look like that of a 15-year-old boy at all.
Even so, he still stood in front of him so realistically.
The faint aroma of rice lingers in the room, and the orange light warms the entrance.
He was holding the door handle with a smile on his face, opening the door to welcome me who was exhausted after a day of running around outside, and spoke gently:
"Welcome back, dinner is ready. Do you want to take a shower first, eat first, or..."
"Stop it! How can you fantasize about these things in front of others! It's too shameless!"
Before her entire face turned red, Nagasaki Motoyo quickly paused the images in her mind that were beginning to run wild, and vigorously dispelled the dreamy scenes that only appeared in girls' comics.
I shouldn't have read those comics if I had known. It's all my classmates' fault for recommending them to me...
