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Chapter 77: Five Centimeters Per Second
🕑 Added 2025-11-01 15:40:32 +0000 UTC[You have given up blindly following in his footsteps.]
[What is about to separate you is a distance of ten thousand kilometers, and a time difference of fourteen hours.]
[The final six months.]
[Your attentive boyfriend noticed your loneliness and dedicated a large amount of time to you, even pausing the AI project he was personally developing for this purpose.]
AI?
Kitahara-kun is amazing.
Hitori didn't understand, but the words AI sounded full of science fiction.
Oh no, if things go on like this, we're definitely going to go our separate ways.
Just like the first simulation, the boyfriend goes abroad, and then contact is lost...
Hitori truly does not want this kind of future.
But the simulation's development would not let her control it.
After feeling so loved and cared for, suddenly being thrown into this lonely situation felt pretty unfair. I just wanted a little more comfort before everything changed.
[Do you wish to enter full simulation again?]
Enter.
Before we break up, I want Kitahara-kun to comfort me a little more.
__________
Half an hour later.
"Mediocre."
Hitori panted, her face red, squeezing her thighs together.
A second round.
Soon after, she went to the restroom again.
The pleasure of the full simulation was exactly the same as reality. It's... it's going to be addictive.
Kitahara-kun's thing is really amazing.
Although she had only experienced it with her boyfriend, Hitori felt that most people probably couldn't last that long.
After all, this isn't a manga or an adult film where the male lead can charge continuously for tens of minutes.
[Do you wish to enter full simulation again?]
This damnable romance simulator, I won't be fooled again.
I'm not some lewd woman.
"En...Enter?" (Whispering)
A few seconds later.
Hitori uncontrollably swallowed her saliva.
"...Enter."
Another half an hour later.
Hitori lay on the floor, breathing heavily, her chest heaving.
In the sage time, her mind blank, she no longer cared about the long-distance relationship.
Even if her boyfriend dumped her in the future, it wouldn't matter; she had already won massively.
Con-continue the simulation.
Hitori regained her senses and looked down.
[Toru knows you are demanding so much from him because you are afraid of being lonely.]
[Your boyfriend comforts you, saying going abroad doesn't mean farewell, he can return to Japan every summer and winter break.]
[If you miss him, you can call him or video chat with him too.]
[Toru knows a long-distance relationship is difficult, but he hopes you can believe that his feelings for you will not easily change!]
Waaah, Kitahara-kun, I...
Hitori instantly displayed a look of aggrieved cuteness. She was both happy and sad right now.
Such a wonderful boyfriend, yet she could only experience him in the simulation; there was no possibility in reality...
Thinking of this, Hitori felt incredibly heartbroken.
She could no longer be satisfied with dating in the simulation. If possible, she wanted to win in reality.
Chase away all the girls who like Toru.
Perhaps...
This is a girl's ugly possessiveness?
But Hitori truly liked him the most, the most in the entire world.
[That summer.]
[Toru crossed the ocean, preparing to go to a foreign land.]
[Before leaving, you saw him off at the airport.]
[Accompanying you were Kita and Ryo, as well as Ryo's friend Nijika.]
[Ryo rubbed the corners of her reddened eyes, tearfully hugged Toru, burying her face in his chest, and said that with him leaving, there was one less person she could freeload meals from.]
Hitori: "..."
You better truly be saying that because of the meals.
[Seeing Ryo do that, Kita cheerfully walked up to your boyfriend, stood on her toes, kissed his cheek, and said that now that he's going abroad, he might encounter greetings like this, so he shouldn't be shy.]
Kita-san.
You better truly just be greeting him.
[Nijika handed over a bouquet of flowers she had just bought that day, a cluster of sunflowers, wishing that his future would be as bright and sunny as the sunflowers.]
[Later, you learned that the meaning of the sunflower is: silent love.]
You all...
That's too much.
That's my husband!
[Toru boarded the plane amidst your farewell.]
[Years pass, and it seems the good times are set up in vain. Even if there are a thousand kinds of charm, who is it to be shared with? After losing your boyfriend, your daily life became very inconvenient...]
[You have to wake up alone in the morning, you can't eat his loving breakfast, you can't ask him to carry you when you're tired, he can't help carry things when you go out, and you can't be hugged and kissed after acting spoiled...]
Wait, when did... I become such a useless person?
[Because your boyfriend spoiled you too much, you have recently shown a tendency to become a lazy slob.]
[However, all couples in the passionate phase are like this. Toru was also very happy to take care of you; turning you into a useless woman who couldn't live without him was his lifelong pursuit.]
Wha- what a scary Kitahara-kun.
[The story proceeds as usual.]
[Toru went abroad, and without your restrictions, his pent-up desires quickly drew him into a crowd of women. Relying on his excellent looks and strong physique, he gained more than a dozen beautiful lovers.]
[He is very accomplished now, it's hard to even talk to him. Toru deleted your contact information and tossed aside you, his girlfriend who has no merits...]
[Things like that did not happen, sadly.]
You're playing with me.
Keep playing, then.
Hitori wanted to hit someone with her small fists. This bad simulator bullied her every day.
How could Kitahara-kun possibly cut off contact with her?
It's a good thing she was smart and didn't believe the simulator's nonsense.
[Although contact wasn't completely cut, your communication did decrease.]
Hitori: "..."
Is it over?
[The simplest reasons are as follows: ]
[You face time difference issues; the daytime node in California, USA, is still nighttime in Japan.]
[When you are in class, Toru is sleeping, and vice versa.]
[In order not to disturb Toru's rest, the gentle you had no thought of waking him up.]
[Secondly~]
[The pressure of advancing in your studies left you unable to attend to much else.]
[You could only bury your head in studying.]
[The following winter, you took the national unified college entrance examination as scheduled.]
[It was a cold day with no snow falling. Your parents saw you off as you entered the examination hall.]
[When the exam scores came out, no miracle happened. You were not admitted to a prestigious university, only entering a very ordinary public university with a not-so-popular major.]
[In your first year of university, you heard many things, for example, Toru finished the entire undergraduate curriculum in one year. With his genius mind, he was even granted special entry into a high-end laboratory researching artificial intelligence. His goal seemed to be the Turing Award.]
[A chasm had formed between you.]
[Realizing this, a vision flashed before your eyes.]
[The piercing sound of a police siren filled the air. Toru brushed past you near a set of tram tracks.]
[Like two parallel lines that would never intersect.]
[The tram rumbled past, and when we both turned to look, all I could see was the blur of the tracks, his face lost in the crowd.]
[Spring came, and cherry blossoms drifted down at five centimeters per second.]
[But you could never go back to how things were before.]
