Chapter 126 The Second Player

It seemed that Saikai Haruto was completely unaware of Geto's actions.

"Although I am a little moved, and Haruna-san also fits my aesthetic taste, but I don't seem to like Haruna-san that much! It sounds like it should be understandable, right?"

Facing Geto's hesitant look, Nishimi Haruto spoke carelessly with a refreshing and sunny smile on his face.

“Does falling in love mean love?”

The answer to this question is not definite. There are many kinds of liking and many kinds of being moved. Not all being moved is liking, and liking is not just being moved.

But of course the answer to this question is not important.

Because if Saikai Haruto himself were to answer this question, he could speak endlessly for a long time to patiently and carefully prove the relationship between the two; if it was "Hagen Chiaki" standing here, he would complain a few words "What a boring question", and then smile with ease and use a bunch of seemingly improper and perverse words to fool Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru; if it was "Mochizuki Kaoru", he could also use simple and concise academic language to simply explain the unnecessary relationship between the two...

——Anyway, no matter what, even if it’s “yes”, he can lead these two underage, innocent DKs who have never been in love into the ditch in a minute.

Anyway, most of the boys in boys' comics are naive and easy to fool as long as they are not adults.

Unfortunately, the one standing in front of the two DKs now is neither "Sekai Haruto", nor "Habuchi Chiaki" or "Mochizuki Kaoru", but the pure DK "Igarashi Yuuki" who is also young and has never been in love, and is also "half-baked" and "ignorant" about "emotions", and is only able to talk about them on paper.

For "Igarashi Yuuki", the answer to this question is also unclear, so Saikai Haruto can only change a new angle to coax, no, discuss it with his two friends.

Student Geto Suguru's attitude was very clear from the beginning to the end. He "liked" Hanayamain Haruna, at least - that's what he thought in his heart.

Of course, in the heart of Geto Suguru, this is also an "unspeakable secret", because everyone knows that "Haruna Hanayamain is Gojo Satoru's fiancée, and she likes Gojo Satoru". As Gojo Satoru's best friend and a common best friend of both, Geto Suguru, who is introverted and very good at self-restraint in morality and emotions, will not easily break through the distance and interval he has set for himself even if Gojo Satoru says that he doesn't like Haruna Hanayamain, not to mention that - in Geto Suguru's heart, he has always firmly believed that Gojo Satoru just "likes Haruna Hanayamain without knowing it" and "can't tell his own feelings because he has never encountered love problems".

In this case, he will not tell this "secret" to anyone, but will take the initiative to suppress himself continuously until one day he suppresses himself to a certain point, and then explodes through some, any event, and then it is out of control.

Xi Haiqingdou thought that Getsu's emotions were like a spring: the greater the pressure applied, the more elasticity would increase exponentially once the pressure was released; it was also like a flood: seemingly calm and increasing little by little, but in fact it was surging in invisible places, and when it accumulated to a certain critical point, it would break through all boundaries in one fell swoop, with overwhelming force and unstoppable momentum.

There is a saying that goes "Either perish in silence or explode in silence", and the second half of the sentence is a true portrayal of classmate Geto Suguru.

——This is not just Saikai Haruto's random guess, wasn't the situation in the "previous round" exactly like this?

As for Gojo Satoru...to be honest, Saikai Haruto really wasn't sure what his situation was.

In the previous week, the situation between him and Hanayamain Haruna was a bit like the "I don't love you when you love me, and you love me instead when I don't love you" kind of youth pain novel movie that makes people feel tangled and upset... Gojo Satoru probably got the script of "loving without knowing it", "arrogant but never opening his mouth", "chasing his wife to the crematorium".

When he "has" her, he doesn't care or cherish her, he denies it verbally and acts awkwardly, in short, he is unwilling to admit that he "likes Hanayamain Haruna", but after "losing" her, he suddenly "comes to his senses and regrets pursuing his wife", but the main theme from beginning to end is "unwavering" - in the early stage, if he says he doesn't want to admit it, he will never admit it, and in the later stage, if he says he "likes" her, he will pursue her with all his strength and determination. In short, he "hits the wall and turns back".

...Honestly, I don't really understand why I can't tell my own emotions apart. Can't I even tell the difference between "like" and "hate"? If I can't tell the difference between "love" and "hate", isn't it a bit too sad and ridiculous? Especially when I and the people around me can't tell the difference.

But this was indeed the case in the previous round. In this case... it's hard to say how Gojo Satoru feels about Hanayamain Haruna right now.

If this happened to anyone else, they would at most be called a "scumbag" or have their actions be so disjointed that people would wonder if they were possessed by a ghost. But with Gojo Satoru, he acted so naturally, so confidently, and without any guilt at all, that people would feel, "If this were Gojo Satoru, then everything he did would make sense and everything would be normal."

As a result, Saikai Haruto is now unable to tell whether Gojo Satoru "likes Hanayamain Haruna without realizing it and mistakes it for dislike" or "has absolutely no affection for her and only dislikes her" - because even Gojo Satoru's own judgment may not be completely accurate.

Who lets the player have a "plug-in" - a buff bonus similar to "Tomie Kawakami", although it is a mildly weakened version. In the early stage, the impact on Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru is almost zero, but the damage it can cause later is not "mild" at all.

In the previous week, whether it was the self-suppression of classmate Geto, which resulted in a stronger backlash and eventually turned "black", or the stronger rejection of classmate Gojo Satoru in the early stage, the stronger the backlash in the later stage, and even turned "black" in the later stage, and there was even a "vassal" of a certain Hanayamain Haruna whom he has not met yet... Anyway, the killing power of these people is so overwhelming that the world can only be forced to "restart", and Saikai Haruto is not surprised at all.

At the same time, it is difficult to say whether their "darkness" is due to the repression being too deep, or the influence of Hanayamain Haruna's buff, or both.

——There is a reason why Xi Haiqing Dou didn't just take action to kill the player cleanly and swiftly. Who knows if he can really kill her in one go? Without a 100% certainty, he dare not act so easily. If the player fails to kill her by accident, he might be the one to be killed.

We have gone off topic, let's get back to the topic - in short, Saikai Haruto is not going to let Gojo Satoru repeat the same mistake as in the previous round, and he is not going to think about what kind of "heartbeat" Gojo Satoru feels for Hanayamain Haruna this time. Anyway, it's not important.

The important thing is to find a way to trick these two people in front of you.

The thoughts in the brain seem complicated, but they are just a matter of one thought. Saikai Haruto blinked and asked Gojo Satoru: "What about Satoru? What kind of 'heartbeat' is Satoru?"

"Me?" Gojo Satoru raised his eyebrows. With Saikai Haruto as a "supporter", he instantly looked very happy: "I don't know, but of course I'm the same as you, Yuuki, I'm not that excited!"

——How should I put it? Compared with the situation where Geto Suguru has always firmly believed that he likes "Hanayamain Haruna" without knowing it, and has mixed up his emotions, which has led to him now even deliberately "rebellious" and thinking that he must "dislike" her, Gojo Satoru simply can't be more pleasing to Saikai Haruto, who has the same "argument" as him.

"I said, you two..."

Xia Yujie twitched his lips, because their conversation and expressions were too frank, making him feel powerless and not knowing what to say.

"Do you two know what heartbeat is?"

He pressed his brows, but there was no force.

Gojo Satoru and Saikai Haruto looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

"But I definitely don't like Haruna..." Saikai Haruto said, "Because if I look into Satoru's eyes, I sometimes get a little 'heart-beating'. I can't possibly like both Satoru and Haruna at the same time, right?"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Xia Yujie was hit directly by his words: "Yuuki, what are you talking about?!"

"Alas!"

Gojo Satoru's eyes widened, and he immediately jumped three feet high and moved far away from Saikai Haruto, like a cat with all its fur standing on end, with a look of shock that could not be more shocking: "I didn't expect that you still have that kind of feelings for me, Yuuki!"

"Is it really that surprising?"

Xi Haiqingdou's expression was innocent but also a bit puzzled, as if he thought they were surprised: "Satoru's face and eyes are indeed very beautiful, right? It's normal to be moved, right? Don't you have the same feeling, Jie? And Satoru, don't you think you look good when you look in the mirror?"

"So I said that I don't 'like' either Satoru or Haruna." He emphasized.