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Her reaction would probably be stronger.

As Hayakawa was thinking, Umaru next to him waved her hand in front of his eyes.

"What?"

Hayakawa's thoughts were interrupted, and he looked up at her.

"This is my problem," Xiaomai said irritably. "I was talking to you just now, what were you thinking about?"

"Uh…"

Hayakawa was a little embarrassed, then replied perfunctorily, "It's nothing, go ahead and say it."

Chapter 406 Playing with the Hamster...

“Cough cough Bashan zero (nine) * wife then covered the dam,”

Xiaomai perked up, cleared her throat lightly, and asked demurely, "What's the next game?"

"Oh, you're still playing?"

Hayakawa was stunned by what Doma said. He had been tormented for half an hour and could still continue playing the game without changing his expression. His perseverance in games was no less than his perseverance in studying. Why don't you just give up studying and drop out of school to become a professional e-sports player? It would definitely be more promising than going to university.

"No, no, I'm not playing that awful game anymore. I'll never touch that game again in my life."

Umaru slammed her hand on the low table and said irritably, "I meant play other games, play something else!"

Hayakawa frowned upon hearing this, clasped his hands together, and said in a heavy tone, "I... I've only ever focused on playing that game in my entire life."

"If you say another word, I'll unleash Hamtaro and Hamjiro to bite you!"

Umaru was so angry that her face turned red, and she grabbed the hamster cage from the bedside table, ready to kill Hayakawa.

"Oh, you also keep hamsters?" Hayakawa was slightly taken aback when he saw the hamster in the cage. "This is the first time I've known that."

"Oh, I forgot to show it to you before."

Umaru was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized, and smiled as she opened the hamster cage, placing the two hamsters in her palm to show Hayakawa. She first pointed to the larger hamster: "This is Hamdarou."

He then pointed to the smaller one: "This is Hamjiro."

"Your name..."

Hayakawa was somewhat speechless. He reached out and poked the hamster's soft body, and the hamster twitched slightly and shook its head, as if it had just woken up from its slumber.

"How about it? Aren't they cute? My brother and I bought them at the pet store. I've had them for a year now. They're my most important family members. They keep my brother company when he goes to work."

Xiaomai cupped her chin in her hands and approached the hamsters, her beautiful eyes fixed on them without blinking. The next second, however, her expression changed as if she had suddenly remembered something: "Oh, right! I was so busy playing games that I forgot to feed them sunflower seeds."

After saying that, she stood up in a panic and frantically started rummaging through the drawers.

My most important family...

Hayakawa watched the hamster Umaru rummaging through drawers with a blank expression: "I just hope you don't starve your most important family member to death someday."

"Ah, I found it."

Umaru pulled a bag of sunflower seeds from the deepest part of the drawer, then took out a small handful and placed them on the table, pushing them towards the two hamsters.

The two poor little guys immediately rushed to the pile of sunflower seeds as soon as they smelled them, stuffing them into their mouths, clearly starving.

"Eat up, eat up!"

Umaru stared at them with wide eyes, a gentle smile on her face.

Hayakawa watched this scene silently from the side and suddenly realized that he wasn't in such a hurry to leave.

He sat down next to Umaru and reached out a finger to touch one of the hamsters' furry buttocks, which bounced up and down.

"Be a little gentler," Umaru whispered, "They're very fragile."

"know."

Hayakawa nodded.

"How is it? The pet is great, isn't it?"

Umaru looked at Hayakawa with a big smile and couldn't help but recommend, "Why don't you go buy a pet or something, like a cat or a dog? You only live alone, so it can keep you company. If you'd like, I'll go shopping with you on my day off and give you some advice."

"No.

Hayakawa made her decision in just 0.01 seconds and refused without hesitation: "I don't have much time."

"Does raising animals take time? It's not troublesome," Umaru asked, somewhat puzzled.

"need."

Hayakawa nodded.

Taking good care of a pet takes time and is quite troublesome. In a fair exchange, if you want to gain emotional value from your pet, you also have to pay the price in terms of time and money.

Feeding, cleaning up trash, bathing pets, taking them to the vet when they're sick, comforting them... there's so much more. It's actually a really troublesome thing. If you want to raise a pet properly, you have to be prepared to treat it with care. For example, Xiaomai, although at first glance it seems like she's neglecting to feed the hamster because she's playing games, she actually does a lot of chores like cleaning the hamster cage and bathing the hamster.

Hayakawa clearly didn't have the time or energy to keep a pet. He had to study hard every day, teach Furuhashi and Ogata, and occasionally listen to Minami Aizumi's tutoring at home. He also had a lot of time to mentally exhaust himself and torture himself (I examine myself three times a day). Where would he find the time to keep an animal?

Hayakawa believed that if you feel you can't do something well from the start, you shouldn't even bother with it.

"Ok."

Umaru was a little disappointed, but she still nodded.

The disappointment wasn't just because Hayakawa didn't keep pets and they had less in common to talk about, but also because they couldn't go out together.

Since they met again, it seems like I haven't had a chance to go out alone with Hayakawa yet.

Well, I just helped him buy a pet and gave him some advice; it wasn't that I sent him a date invitation and got rejected.

"..."

As Xiaomai thought about this, she felt her neck getting slightly hot, as if she was starting to have a fever again.

"Um,"

Hayakawa turned her gaze away from the hamster and said to Umaru beside her, "Let's play games."

Xiaomai's expression brightened slightly: "Didn't you just say you weren't going to play anymore?"

"I didn't say I wasn't going to play,"

Hayakawa shook his head helplessly: "Anyway, I'll have to rest when I get home. I'm just idling around anyway, so I might as well play games."

"Oh, alright."

Xiaomai nodded repeatedly, immediately clicked to return to the homepage, and said, "I'm not playing that game anymore. This time I'll recommend one to you. You've been recommending things before, now it's my turn."

Hayakawa said indifferently, "Do as you please."

So Umaru frantically tapped the screen, entered a game, and clicked "start" before Hayakawa could even see the homepage.

"Hey, I haven't even seen the name yet."

Hayakawa said with displeasure, "What are you yelling for?"

Doma Umaru: "Don't worry about the details."

"??"

That line sounds so familiar! Isn't that what I just said? And you're even worse than me when I downloaded it. At least you let me see the cover, rating, and comments, but you couldn't see anything and just clicked "start".

I'd like to see what game you recommended.

Hayakawa, feeling confident and unconcerned, calmly watched the dark screen.

Shortly after, a line of text in the center of the screen slowly appeared.

"Love in the Rain Melody"

"Ok?"

Hayakawa frowned. This name... could it be...?

"That's right!"

Umaru smiled slightly and said proudly, "This is the legendary galgame!"

"..."

Chapter 407 Sanae, the Girl in Love

Why would a young girl like you play this kind of game with such enthusiasm? And why are you so proud of playing it?

Hayakawa stared blankly at Doma, his mind filled with doubt.

"Is that what you call a Galgame...?"

Hayakawa paused for a moment, then gestured with his hands in the air before saying with a slightly cold expression, "It's the kind where a boy and a girl are together..."

"Yeah,"

Umaru nodded repeatedly, affirming, "It's the kind where boys and girls are together!"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Hayakawa's expression gradually changed, and he looked at Umaru with a strange gaze, his eyes filled with incomprehension and confusion.

He didn't really know anything about visual novels. His only source of knowledge was the excited, suppressed discussions among the male students around him during breaks at school, and the content of their discussions was clearly not serious.

Male student A: Hey, my parents are away on a business trip, so I've been playing the latest visual novels at home. Have you guys bought them?

Male student B: Need I say more?! Of course!

Male student C wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth: Me too, Hanayo-chan is so cute, and her figure is just too irresistible!

Student A: oioi, you shameless bastard, don't go and use up all the toilet paper at home!

"Hahaha, hahahaha"

The three of them burst into laughter in unison, their smiles as joyful as if they had found kindred spirits in spring. The girls around them instinctively kept their distance, their eyes filled with disgust as they stared at them.

Hayakawa, who was studying nearby: Ah, so this is what visual novels are like...

That's disgusting.

Now, Hayakawa has received an invitation from Umaru to play a visual novel together.

"..."

After a brief moment of confusion, Hayakawa fell into deep thought. Why would she invite him like this? What was her true intention? Could she have been planning this all along?

After hesitating for a long time, Hayakawa looked at Umaru expressionlessly and said cautiously, "Then you go first, I'll watch from the side."

"Okay, then you can just watch me play from the side!"

Umaru nodded vigorously, and then clicked on the homepage with its anime-style graphics without hesitation. As the screen changed, an ordinary two-story house in Tokyo appeared in front of Hayakawa and Umaru. The next moment, a beautiful girl appeared at the door, and subtitles appeared below.

My name is Sanae Shikahara, I am 17 years old, and I am currently a first-year student at Ninosai High School.

Today is the start of the new semester. Ah, I wonder what I'll encounter? I'm really looking forward to it!

As the credits rolled, the scene shifted to a young girl running joyfully towards the end of the road, facing the wall. Sunlight and the shade of the trees in the yard fell on her, and the contrast between light and shadow created a strong sense of youth. It was immediately apparent how much more expensive this production was compared to some low-budget works.

"Uh…"

Hayakawa was initially confused by what he saw, then suddenly slapped his hand and said to Umaru beside him, "Is this the protagonist? Does that mean this game is a visual novel with a female protagonist?"

“Of course,” Umaru glanced at Hayakawa and rolled her eyes in annoyance. “Please, I’m a girl! If I don’t play school galgames with female protagonists, am I supposed to control boys to build a harem? What are you thinking?”

"Uh…"

Hayakawa couldn't refute it, but his expression became increasingly strange.

According to his view, visual novels are basically eroge (adult games), or at least feature various attractive anime girls in revealing clothing. In short, they're all about fan service and aren't anything serious. And for guys, it's naturally about a male protagonist having sex with multiple girls. But now it's female-oriented, which means…

It's a story about a female protagonist and several handsome young men...

"..."

This feels even more wrong now, it's even more disgusting than the last one.

As he pondered this, the female protagonist was also on her way to school. She had been walking for an unknown amount of time, which was quite strange. The setting was Tokyo, a top-tier developed city in all of Asia. She had walked so far but hadn't reached school yet, and she didn't take the train to school. The train is the most common and favorite mode of transportation for ordinary people in Japan.

The family owns a two-story house in Tokyo, yet they are reluctant to even take the train when going out. This is obviously unreasonable, and this kind of unreasonableness is a characteristic of visual novels.

Visual novels don't need realistic logic; whether it's reasonable or normal is unimportant. What matters is the plot. As long as the plot is sweet enough, touching enough, and can make people cry, things like whether or not to take the train are completely irrelevant. The plot can require the protagonist to not take the train, take the train, or even take a rocket to outer space.

The reason why the female protagonist "Sanae" did not take the train at this time was naturally to make contact with her first target.

"Ah, good morning, Sanae."