"You couldn't possibly have gone and charmed girls again, could you?"
Yukino crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him suspiciously.
"Tenya-kun's basic operation. There definitely are some, I just don't know how many." Utaha was feeling a bit annoyed.
"Oh my! Everyone, don't worry too much about it..."
"Anyway, it's just something in the game, no need to take it too seriously." Michiru waved her hand.
"I don't think so."
"As far as I know, many games have a marriage system."
"As Aincrad is currently the largest full-dive game, it will certainly have a marriage setting."
Ruri said with a serious expression.
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"How can such a sacred matter be treated as child's play?"
Alisa hugged her chest with both hands, lecturing with a serious face.
"Alya, don't worry..."
"Tenya-kun just woke up, he must be very hungry, right?"
Maria was as gentle and considerate as ever.
"Just right, I brought some homemade cookies..."
Yui was carrying a cute pink gift bag.
"Yui, I appreciate your kindness. But right now, I want to eat something else..."
Tenya returned a polite yet awkward smile.
Yui said, "...This is mom's cooking!"
"Then I'll eat it."
"He actually agreed instantly!" Yui immediately felt like crying.
But she also knew the level of her own cooking, so it was fortunate that her mom made it for her.
"When I have time, I will personally visit and properly thank Yuigahama-san." Tenya smiled happily.
"I feel like when such a normal sentence comes out of your mouth, it suddenly becomes not normal?"
Eriri's eyes flickered, seemingly imagining some incredible plot.
"Stop your mother-daughter happiness fantasy. What if he takes it seriously?" Utaha fiercely hit Eriri.
"I heard that, you know. Eriri, I will personally visit on a chosen day." Tenya nodded seriously.
"Tenya-kun, my mom misses you too." Miko said seriously.
"Tenya, Saint Chef also said she misses you." Rikka refused to be outdone, sacrificing her own sister.
The Aincrad death game incident resulted in a total of 3000 players being brain-dead, which is considered a major casualty event.
Kayaba, the mastermind, committed suicide and died.
Tomoya, a major accomplice, was also backfired upon by the strange and died.
The survivors were centrally arranged to receive physical and psychological treatment.
Tenya expressed that he also needed healing, so he successively went to the homes of Miko, Rikka, Utaha, Mafuyu, and Yui to engage in activities beneficial to physical and mental health.
[Aincrad Friendship Chat Group]
Asuna: Sorry, Tenya-kun, mom is keeping a close eye on me, I can't go out. 😭
Mito (Tozawa Misumi): My family is also watching me very strictly, I can't go out for now.
Silica (Ayano Keiko): Preparing for the junior high entrance exam. Ugh... Why does reality feel even more cruel than Aincrad?!
Tenya: No matter. Let's arrange the offline meeting slowly later.
...
The four of them spent over one hundred and fifty days together in Aincrad, and they lived under the same roof, so their relationship was very close.
The four exchanged contact information and agreed to meet again after returning to reality.
However, due to various reasons, the date for the agreed-upon offline meeting could only be postponed.
Returning to School life.
After class.
Utaha and Eriri, one busy writing novels and the other busy drawing manuscripts, thus suspended club activities.
By the way, Michiru, who originally boarded at Tenya's house, finally reconciled with her parents and returned home recently, without Tomoya interfering.
Before leaving, Michiru gave him a farewell hug and kiss.
+ 700 points!
(Favorability 90%)
The only thing worth noting is that Yukino hasn't returned to her apartment for a long time, and recently hasn't even been going to school, as a major change occurred in her family.
Tenya had sent her several messages, but the other party did not reply.
So, Tenya went to Class A's homeroom teacher Shizuka.
"Hiratsuka-sensei, do you know what happened to Yukino recently?"
"It's confidential. This involves the student's family privacy."
Shizuka habitually pulled out a... chocolate bar from her pocket.
Ever since she was teased by Tenya snatching her cigarette last time, Shizuka quit smoking.
I am already obedient now, please let me go!
"Let me taste it."
Tenya reached out and snatched the chocolate bar that Shizuka had bitten half of, took a bite, and praised, "It's so sweet."
"This is sugar-free dark chocolate, where did the sweetness come from?"
Shizuka feigned anger and glared at him fiercely, her cheeks slightly flushed.
"I'm talking about Hiratsuka-sensei's..."
"Stop! You brat, shut up!!"
Shizuka quickly interrupted him, sighing helplessly, "Fine! Consider me afraid of you, won't it do if I tell you about Yukinoshita's matter?"
Forced by Tenya's might, Shizuka had no choice but to reveal information about the Yukinoshita family.
It turned out that a real estate project recently invested in by the Yukinoshita Family encountered a supernatural incident, where multiple construction workers died mysteriously, and the luxury residential complex developed with heavy investment became a haunted house.
Facing the death compensation for the workers, plus the bank's loan collection, the Yukinoshita family's company fell into a broken capital chain and was forced to enter the bankruptcy liquidation stage.
"So that's the reason."
A hint of understanding flashed in Tenya's eyes. He didn't seem to feel too surprised.
When he had attended the Yukinoshita family's dinner party back then, he had encountered a large number of strange entities sweeping across the sky.
However, at that time, these strange entities did not provoke him, so he did not intervene.
However, he hadn't expected that the place where that group of strange entities gathered happened to be the residential complex invested in and developed by the Yukinoshita family.
"Give me Yukino's home address." Tenya said.
"Isn't that inappropriate? You're an outsider..." Shizuka frowned.
Their family is undergoing bankruptcy liquidation, what help can you, an ordinary high school student, provide?
"I'm just going to visit a friend. Maybe Yukino will be homeless due to debt collection, I can take her in." Tenya said jokingly.
"You brat, your intentions are impure."
Shizuka subconsciously clenched her fist, but after thinking about it, she couldn't beat him, so she could only relax it.
"Hiratsuka-sensei, I'm going to save a down-and-out high school girl, what's wrong with doing good deeds?" Tenya had a righteous look on his face.
"Heh heh!" Shizuka sneered.
She thought that with Haruno, the "sister protection fanatic," watching over Yukino, there shouldn't be any opportunity for Tenya, so she gave him Yukino's home address.
...
Chiba City center high-end residential area.
"Stop! You are trespassing!!"
Haruno sternly rebuked the unwelcome guests in front of her.
"Save it, do you still think you're the young lady of the Yukinoshita family?"
"All the properties of your Yukinoshita family have been seized."
The people who had come were a group of members from a professional debt collection company, with unified tattoo patterns, looking like thugs.
Haruno was suddenly speechless, because everything the other party said was true.
"Yukino, have you still not contacted dad?"
"No, dad's phone has been busy..." Yukino shook her head.
"No need to call anymore, that man has already run away." Kiyomi was expressionless.
Her marriage to her husband was a marriage of benefit, and the two of them didn't have much affection for each other to begin with.
After giving birth to two daughters, the two maintained a tacit distance.
As a company executive, her husband, upon sensing the impending investment collapse of the Yukinoshita family, decisively absconded with the company's limited liquid funds and fled abroad.