By the time she got home, the sun had already set.
Akiha Sakura dragged her exhausted body back to the house.
“Welcome back!”
Akiha Shiori looked at her returning daughter with a smile, her eyes seeming to hold a trace of anticipation—
“How was it? Did you have fun with Yuuma today?”
“Yeah…”
Akiha Sakura untied her shoelaces in the entrance hall and placed her shoes in the shoe cabinet.
“It was okay, I guess?”
After thinking for a moment, Sakura answered Shiori.
After all, she herself wasn’t sure if today counted as having fun or not.
Her amusement park plan for today had included multiple attractions.
Things like the pirate ship, the haunted house, and the merry-go-round were still untouched, and the most important one, the Ferris wheel, hadn’t been ridden either.
Just riding the roller coaster twice had taken up most of the day because of the lines.
“Waiting in line for two or three hours, only to ride for a few minutes… sigh…”
Akiha Sakura let out a soft sigh, then stepped onto the wooden floor and walked down the hallway towards her room.
“Mom, I’m going to take a bath first.”
“Mhm, go ahead.”
Akiha Shiori nodded, watching her daughter go upstairs and enter her room.
‘My dear daughter, it seems your path in love isn’t an easy one. You’ll have to work hard in the future!’
Akiha Shiori smiled and shook her head, then went back into the kitchen to continue with her tasks.
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‘Should I start scouting for a Yellow Hair first?’
Akiha Sakura leaned on the edge of the bathtub, her lips slightly pursed, pondering her future ‘NTR Grand Enterprise’.
Although she had learned from Yuuma Tsugumu’s own mouth that he didn’t dislike her, it was a pity that even after today passed, there still seemed to be zero progress.
The Ferris wheel plan, which she had placed high hopes on, had also completely fallen through.
So now, Akiha Sakura was still troubled about how to catch up to schedule.
After all, besides conquering Yuuma Tsugumu, finding a suitable Yellow Hair was also a century-old problem.
She needed to conquer both the Yellow Hair and Yuuma Tsugumu.
Right now, just Yuuma Tsugumu alone was giving her a headache.
What if the Yellow Hair she carefully selected was also the difficult-to-conquer type?
The moment she thought of Yuuma Tsugumu, Akiha Sakura shook her head in irritation.
Because of him lately, her original plan had been delayed for quite a while, and the new plans and steps constantly added in the middle hadn’t yielded any results either.
‘Thinking about it now, maybe I should scout out the Yellow Hair first, then launch the conquest of the Yellow Hair based on the progress with Yuuma Tsugumu.’
Before, Sakura felt there was no need to scout for a Yellow Hair before conquering Yuuma Tsugumu.
But now, because of Yuuma Tsugumu’s various behaviors, she had no choice but to change the order.
Yuuma Tsugumu, as her ‘childhood friend’, was absolutely irreplaceable.
So, seeing the difficulty of conquering Yuuma Tsugumu was so high, Sakura started wondering if she should adjust her strategy first.
‘That being said, looking around the school, no one seems ‘qualified’…’
Even if she intended to adjust her plan and look for someone with yellow hair first, it was a pity that, as she looked around the school, none of the people she saw matched her ideal image of a “blonde-haired” person.
The good-looking ones had a lot of rumors and seemed to be mostly hormone-driven; they’d probably get inappropriate before long.
The not-so-good-looking ones had a higher cultivation cost, and since she wasn’t attracted to them, she couldn’t bring out her full skills either.
So finding a suitable Yellow Hair candidate was quite difficult.
At least for now, she couldn’t find one among the boys she knew.
Akiha Sakura sighed.
Just as she was thinking about putting this matter aside for a bit and focusing on attacking Yuuma Tsugumu, a ridiculous idea suddenly surfaced in her mind—
‘Wait, if I can’t find one in real life, can’t I just look online?’
Akiha Sakura suddenly smacked her own forehead, calling herself a genius.
‘Limiting the search to just the school is too restrictive, but if I look across the entire city, I’m sure I can find a suitable candidate! There’s a social app that’s been quite popular lately. I’ll download it after my bath.’
Thinking this, Akiha Sakura hurriedly started scrubbing her body, her mind solely focused on finishing her bath quickly so she could download that app on her phone.
‘I remember the name… it should be ‘O-Wei’, right?’
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“Yuuma, you’re back? How was your day with Sakura-chan?”
Seeing Yuuma Tsugumu take off his shoes in the entrance hall and head straight for his room, Yuuma Mariko quickly stood in the hallway and called out to him as he went upstairs.
“Just so-so. I’m going to my room now, Mom!”
Yuuma Tsugumu gave a perfunctory reply, then slipped into his room and closed the door.
“This child, why won’t he let people finish talking?”
Yuuma Mariko put her hands on her hips and shook her head helplessly, then turned and went back into the kitchen.
Meanwhile, Yuuma Tsugumu in his room plopped down at his desk and gulped down several mouthfuls of water.
“Phew… it’s over. Today ended just like that.”
Recalling the anxiety in his heart when he proposed ending the outing earlier, afraid the girl in front of him wouldn’t agree, he was relieved that Akiha Sakura only thought for a moment before agreeing, allowing him to escape the ‘sea of suffering’.
Because Yuuma Tsugumu felt the amusement park trip was becoming increasingly dangerous—not in a physical sense, but concerning himself.
He had underestimated the power of the ‘White Moonlight’. Although he wasn’t self-aware when answering Akiha Sakura’s question, after answering, he suddenly realized he hadn’t let go of his ‘White Moonlight’ at all.
‘Usually shouting about cutting ties with her, yet I still ended up going out to play with her everywhere, huh…’
Yuuma Tsugumu gave a self-deprecating laugh, then leaned back in his chair and looked up at the ceiling.
‘What should I do? This can’t go on. The ‘White Moonlight’ is still too authoritative.’
At this moment, Yuuma Tsugumu was in a difficult predicament, squeezed from both sides by the ‘Pure Love Law’ and the ‘White Moonlight’.
However, he had chosen ‘Pure Love’ from the start, intending to separate from the ‘White Moonlight’, but he never imagined that actively trying to forget the ‘White Moonlight’ would be so hard.
On top of that, Akiha Sakura’s recent actions were a bit strange, always managing to fluster him.
He might not show any flaws when facing her, but in private, Yuuma Tsugumu couldn’t help but think about Akiha Sakura.
‘Damn it! If this continues, I’ll never be able to resolve this!’
Yuuma Tsugumu couldn’t help but feel troubled—
‘What should I do? What should I do?’
When troubled, go ask Teacher Dou! Yuuma Tsugumu picked up his phone, opened the browser, and searched ‘how to forget a white moonlight’.
The first thing that caught his eye was a short sentence—
‘Divert your attention. Seek a new relationship.’
It sounded simple, but how could it be so easy to achieve?
‘This advice is practically useless for someone like me… I’m average-looking, I don’t know what to talk about with other girls, I’m a social terror online, but in real life, I’m almost completely socially anxious, sigh…’
Yuuma Tsugumu let out a long sigh, then planned to scroll down for more information.
Just then, a small ad window popped up at the bottom of the browser—an advertisement for the recently popular social app ‘O-Wei’.
‘This chat app has been really popular lately. I heard a lot of people have found girlfriends on it, so envious… Wait, online…?’
Yuuma Tsugumu suddenly thought, why couldn’t he look on O-Wei?
‘Right! If I can find a suitable girl in the same city on O-Wei to chat with, slowly build feelings, treat her as a girlfriend… once I slowly have a girlfriend, won’t I be able to forget ‘Akiha Sakura’?!’
That’s it!
Yuuma Tsugumu quickly opened the app store and clicked to download ‘O-Wei’.