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"Um."

Horikita Suzune took two steps forward, her long hair flying in the snowy Christmas night:

"It's for you to see."

She confirmed her thoughts like this, and then said:

"Perhaps what I hold towards Ryo is not friendship."

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[Congratulations to the player for reaching the ending: Traveling Companion]

[Travel companion: Life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a traveler. I hope that when we first meet, we will be worthy of our sincerity. ]

ps: It's getting better, but not completely. Being sick is really troublesome. It took me another five hours to write this chapter. I'm sorry, but I hope you understand.

ps2: Thank you for reading and subscribing. In fact, this is probably the simulation that least fits the title of "Midwinter Fantasy", because there was a be in the initial outline. Basically, Horikita Suzune has not changed, and Kitagawa Ryo simply The ending of giving up on Horikita Suzune and transplanting the heart to Sakayanagi Yusu, but considering that the main plot is not going to happen, I won't write it.

Main plot: Kitagawa Ryo's strength supremacy classroom: I can't bear it anymore, so I take a day off

My body is already very old and I really can't bear it anymore. A few days ago, it took me about four or five hours to write a chapter. Today, I haven't finished writing it since this afternoon. Acute gastroenteritis is really fatal. I have a bad mouth now. It just smells like sour water.

I'm really sorry and hope you understand.

I wish every reader good health.

Main plot: Kitagawa Ryo's strength supremacy classroom: Chapter 29: End of simulation

[Chapter: Horikita Suzune's Midwinter Dream]

[Goal for clearing Chapter 3: Find Horikita Suzune's character weaknesses and correct them until she gets rid of the shadow of her brother Horikita Manabu. Completed. The final overall score is 100 points]

[Congratulations to the player for clearing the third chapter, the corresponding rating level rewards are being drawn for the player. ]

[Congratulations to the player for receiving the reward item: Horikita Suzune's Self]

[Hori Kita Suzune's Self: Before each simulation starts, you can actively choose a talent and upgrade its level to gold. ]

["Don't stand in front of me or behind me, please stand side by side with me."]

[The current highest score: 100 points]

[Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement "clearing the level in one life" and receiving the prop "Talent Stripping Card"]

[Clearance in one life: Achieve the clearance goal with a score of 90 or above in the first simulation of any chapter]

[Talent stripping card: You can solidify the knowledge and experience gained in this simulation into yourself in the form of "talent"]

[Analyzing player information in this simulation]

[The options for stripping talents are as follows]

[1. Complete medical knowledge and clinical surgical experience can be stripped off as a gifted "physician"]

[Doctor (purple): You have mastered the techniques of modern medicine and have rich clinical surgical experience. Your expertise is in cardiovascular medicine and surgery. ]

[2. The complete dessert shop management experience and industrial chain model can be separated into a talented "dessert family"]

[Dessert Family (Purple): As the sole heir of the dessert family, you control a total of thirty-three dessert shops passed down by the family, as well as the business philosophy and management experience. ]

[3. The proficient skills and strategies for interacting with the opposite sex can be stripped down to the talent "Tokyo Handsome Guy"]

[Tokyo Handsome Guy (Purple): Your personal charm is greatly improved (this talent has certain negative effects)]

[You have selected option one]

[The talent "physician" has been solidified]

"Just...a new achievement, huh?"

Kitagawa Ryo's consciousness browsed through the dense text. As the number of simulations increased, many achievements that were easier to trigger had already been unlocked. For example, the requirement for the achievement [Deep Love] was to gain the favor of two important characters in the plot at the same time. .

In this simulation, Kitagawa Ryo did achieve this achievement, but it is a pity that only those who are unlocked for the first time will be rewarded.

However, the achievement rewards given this time are quite novel. It is the first time that the experience and things in the simulation are stripped into talents and then solidified into one's own form.

As for why I chose [Doctor], the answer is obvious.

With the completion of "Horikita Suzune's Midwinter Dream", the last of the four chapters has finally changed from the gray unlocked state to color:

[Sakayanagi Arisu's long-cherished wish for spring].

The protagonist of the last chapter is indeed Sakayanagi Yusu.

[Players achieve perfect clearance in this simulation and retain all talents. ]

[All talents have been solidified. ]

[Currently, players have a total of solidified talents...]

[Currently, players have a total of props...]

(Because the character card is too long and the word count is too high, it will be released separately as a free single chapter later)

After the consciousness returned to the body, the first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a red dress. No, it should have been made deliberately. The skirt and hem were stained with a lot of blood red and white skirts.

He was dazed before he remembered that Karuizawa Megumi was probably practicing in a theater troupe today. This dress was also the classic costume of Lady Macbeth, and she chose to be an accomplice who was stained with the blood of regicide with her husband.

Since Kitagawa Ryo quit the troupe, Karuizawa Megumi has taken advantage of the trend and opened up a new acting path of her own on the grounds that she doesn't like other male actors. I heard that there is also a faint trend in the troupe to create exclusive dramas for her. After all, With Karuizawa Megumi's acting skills, she is fully qualified to be the protagonist of a drama.

The long skirt covered the soft curves of her calves and reached her round ankles.

Kitagawa Ryo subconsciously wanted to push himself up, but he did not notice that his right hand was being held by Karuizawa Megumi. The tremor caused by the movement was quickly noticed by Karuizawa Megumi, who had been standing beside him. She turned over slightly.

A few strands of honey-colored long hair naturally hang down from the ears due to gravity, and under the shallow air bangs are pupils as blue as the sea:

"are you awake?"

"How long have I been asleep?"

Letting out a heavy breath of turbid air in his chest, Kitagawa Ryo sat up with his arms to support him.

"Probably more than three hours."

"Um."

He felt that his body suddenly relaxed a lot, and every cell in his body seemed to be full of vitality. Kitagawa Ryo guessed that it was the effect of the newly solidified talent [Strength to Carrying the Cauldron].

If he were allowed to play against Ayanokouji Kiyotaka now, he should be able to establish an advantage faster than before.

"It should be fine."

Noticing the concerned look cast by Megumi Karuizawa on the side, Ryo Kitagawa nodded and replied.

"I'm very sorry for causing Hui and everyone to worry."

Kitagawa Ryo showed an apologetic smile, and Karuizawa Megumi also let go of the hand she had been holding tightly. She also responded with a smile:

"It's okay, and it's rare to see Ryo show such a vulnerable side."

"I don't hate the feeling of Ryo relying on me."

"Rather, if Liang still encounters difficulties in the future, I hope you can come to me as soon as possible."

"Is Hui the close sister from some children's show?"

Kitagawa Ryo complained while replying to various messages on his mobile phone. He had lost contact for a while, but there were quite a few people who sent text messages asking questions and expressing concerns.

"No, I used to be relied upon by my classmates when I was in elementary school. If any girl was bullied, she would come to me immediately."

Karuizawa Megumi pouted a little dissatisfiedly, even though she was still wearing a bloody dress, but in front of Kitagawa Ryo, she could not see the madness in her performance on the stage.

But I always feel like the coolness has changed a bit.

Holding her knees and looking at Kitagawa Ryo who was replying to a text message, Karuizawa Megumi also noticed his changes.

I always feel that some aspects of my temperament, or inner nature, have suddenly deepened a lot.

In other words, give her a more solid sense of reality.

During the two years that Karuizawa Megumi and Kitagawa Ryo spent together in the troupe, she always felt that Ryo carried a sense of alienation and vulnerability, as if he would be blown away by a gust of wind at any time and disappear like smoke.

That's why she always keeps the other person in her field of vision.

But now Kitagawa Ryo seems to have gotten rid of this feeling, and this change makes Karuizawa Megumi feel relieved.

"Is there such a thing? Megumi has never told me before."

After replying to all the messages, Kitagawa Ryo put the phone back. He sat there and turned his head, with a faint smile in his dark pupils.

"I didn't lie to Liang. The situation at that time was..."

Karuizawa Megumi moved her body towards Kitagawa Ryo, and bit by bit she began to talk about the past, that is, the elementary school events before she met Kitagawa Ryo.

She remembered that she once gave Kitagawa Ryo the image of a bullied person, but now, Karuizawa Megumi painted a different image.

["The bullied may become bullies, but they may also become protectors."]

This is the item description of [Karuizawa Megumi's Self].

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Horikita Suzune looked at herself in the mirror and lowered her head.

Her long hair flowed around her waist.

["Perhaps, what I hold for Liang is not friendship."]

For a moment, I couldn't tell whose voice it was, but later I realized it was me and Horikita Suzune speaking.

My heart—no, my whole soul seemed to be shaking suddenly at this moment.

There was a weird dull pain, like consciousness being torn apart by sharp claws.

But a faint sense of peace and contentment welled up deep in my soul.

The future, is it still the past, or is the memory of another world still echoing in my mind, as if I can hear the pulse of the earth coming from deep underground, or like the muffled thunder echoing in the blue sky, low, dark, and depressed, Heavy and heavy, like the cold sound of cracking permafrost.

Real, false or just pure imagination.

For the fourteen-year-old Horikita Suzune, this was definitely a supernatural phenomenon.

She obviously knew the male and female protagonists in the story, and one of them was even a girl named Horikita Suzune, who was 99% similar to her.

Regardless of personality or actions, the fourteen-year-old Horikita Suzune is almost exactly the same as the fourteen-year-old Horikita Suzune in the story.

She saw Horikita Manabu's denial of her, her own growth and...

Regardless of whether the Horikita Suzune he saw was his future self, what is certain is that this was not the so-called prophetic dream, nor was it a preview of the future.

Because the male protagonist in the story has only met him a few times, and the other person does not live under the same roof as him.

The most important thing now is to pass the final review and enter the drama club and then go to Tokyo Advanced Education High School to participate in the cultural festival with Ryo... Right.

——?

I went to the cultural festival to see my brother...but if I go to see my brother now, he will be disappointed.

No, no, it's wrong to have such an idea. What my brother should want to see is to get rid of his shadow.

If Liang hadn't appeared, I wouldn't have thought this way at this stage?

Wait, when did you start calling each other "Cool" naturally?

Horikita Suzune was completely confused.

But one thing she was sure of was that she probably, probably, definitely should try to change.

Because I don't want to disappoint myself, and I don't want to disappoint my brother.

Also, I don't want to disappoint Ryo.

So why on earth did the last idea come up so naturally?

Horikita Suzune covered her face.

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"What's wrong with Horikita-san asking me out?"

Kushida Kikyo looked with some confusion at Horikita Suzune, who suddenly texted her to ask her out. It was obvious that the other party had zero communication with others and would not send any private messages except for each rehearsal.

"——"