Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard-Chapter 773 - 462 The Rules of the Love Game_2

"Hanabi, don’t, Hanabi, don’t misunderstand."

Uesugi Sakura noticed the tenderness in her voice and quickly explained to her, "This is a way we came up with to improve our relationship."

"Hanabi... Hanabi doesn’t want to hear it..." Hanamaru Hanabi tightened his stomach, just wanting to hold on and not let go.

Uesugi Sakura hurriedly stopped the car, supported the car, and got off the seat: "It’s true."

"Hanabi doesn’t..." Hanamaru Hanabi seemed to want to repeat what she just said, but in the end, couldn’t say it.

She suddenly fell silent.

"What’s wrong?" Uesugi Sakura noticed something was off with her and asked with concern.

"N-nothing..."

"Hanabi." Uesugi Sakura softened his voice to remind her as he called her name.

Only then did Hanamaru Hanabi bow her head slightly and stammer out, "Earlier... Hanabi reached out to hold Sakura’s hand... but Sakura didn’t even look at Hanabi... just walked ahead..."

"..."

Uesugi Sakura was stunned for a few seconds, then relaxed, smiling at her and said, "I thought something else had upset you, turns out it was this."

"This thing... this thing... is also very important!" Hanamaru Hanabi tried to make her weak voice sound serious, but even with courage, she finally just muttered with her face buried, "Reaching out to someone you like and being ignored... it makes you feel empty inside, like you’ve lost everything."

Uesugi Sakura put his arm around her shoulder and said with a smile, "It’s okay, I was just checking my phone and didn’t notice you reaching out. I’m sorry."

"Uh... Hanabi knows... but always... Sakura, is Hanabi being too sensitive?"

"What’s wrong with being sensitive? It’s precisely because you’re sensitive that you care about everything and pay attention to every detail." As he said this, Uesugi Sakura remembered the time when she blushed over something he said, and by the next day, she was wearing white stockings because of it.

It’s precisely her sensitivity that makes her so considerate and caring.

"Okay, okay," Uesugi Sakura patted her shoulder, then let go of her after a while and faced her, saying, "Hanabi, do you remember what I said this afternoon?"

"Uh... Sakura said... to rekindle the love with a youth romance battle... such a strange name."

Hanamaru Hanabi whispered while looking at his face.

"This..." In hindsight, it was indeed a bit awkward, "Never mind the name, but these are steps we need to experience something even more wonderful!"

"What’s so wonderful...?"

"Love."

"Sakura said..."

"First, we can’t be so casually intimate anymore, like hugging, holding hands, kissing, everything is forbidden."

"These... these are... are bad things that Sakura likes to initiate..."

"Second, we’ll sleep in separate beds every night."

"..."

"Third, every morning, you only make breakfast for yourself."

"What about Sakura’s breakfast...?"

"I’ll figure it out, but anyway, we need to follow these three points, keeping a certain distance while having a love affair between a couple! A love that starts from a confession and moves towards the initial stage of being in love."

"All, can’t even make breakfast for Sakura... how can we date..."

"Don’t worry about that, love is definitely not just about making lunch boxes, nor is it just simple things but more wonderful exchanges of feelings. Occasionally maintaining a small distance will deepen our relationship."

The air was silent for a long time.

It seemed Hanamaru Hanabi accepted his explanation and raised her bright eyes: "What if one of us breaks the game rules, Sakura or Hanabi?"

Uesugi Sakura: "Punishment."

"Okay." Hanamaru Hanabi nodded, expecting him to continue.

"The punishment is not being able to see each other at home for a whole day; then we can move to our parents’ place." Uesugi Sakura said, "How about it? Because of being too dependent on each other, the love gets deeper, and intimate contact arises, only to be forcibly separated by breaking the game rules."

"So that’s how it is."

"How about it? Do you agree?"

"I agree, of course, Hanabi agrees."

"Alright, then from tomorrow, this plan will be officially implemented!" Uesugi Sakura happily wanted to hug the girl in front of him.

Unexpectedly, Hanamaru Hanabi immediately took several steps back and said to him:

"Not tomorrow."

"Start today?" Uesugi Sakura asked in surprise, his hands that wanted to hug her catching only air.

"Yes."

"Isn’t tomorrow... okay?" Uesugi Sakura asked with a very forced smile.

Hanamaru Hanabi wore semi-transparent black stockings today, and coupled with her perfect leg shape, it was quite eye-catching.

Uesugi Sakura had been looking at Hanabi’s slender legs all day, especially in the morning when they were at the hot springs, she didn’t let him...

Uesugi Sakura had planned to go home and enjoy with Hanabi-chan before starting this love game.

But it seems that once the game rules were spoken, they started to become uncontrollable.

"No." Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head and said, "Since it’s a game, it has to start now."

At this moment, Uesugi Sakura felt like he was... shooting himself in the foot?

Shouldn’t have told her now?

His mouth opened for a long while, finally, he could only sigh: "Alright then, get on, I’ll take you home."

"That’s not allowed either!" Hanamaru Hanabi reminded, looking at the back seat of the self-driving car, then said to Uesugi Sakura, "Riding on a boy’s bicycle is also considered intimate behavior, which is absolutely not allowed in the early stages of a relationship because the relationship isn’t that close yet."

"..."

Uesugi Sakura looked at Hanamaru Hanabi’s cute little face for a long time, unable to say a word, and said helplessly: "Then how do you plan to get home, Hanabi?"

"Take a taxi."

Just as Hanamaru Hanabi finished speaking, a taxi appeared behind her, and she happened to see it, so she reached out her hand.

The taxi stopped by the roadside.

"Goodbye, Sakura."

She left only this sentence echoing in the air, and her whole person disappeared along with the taxi into the traffic flow.

Beech leaves swayed by the ear, Uesugi Sakura watched as her car completely disappeared at the end of the street.

When he first started dating her, was it this awkward?

Uesugi Sakura shook his head and got back on his bicycle.

He started riding down the street toward home.

In fact... this little game isn’t quite mature yet, Uesugi Sakura had thought of referring to the intimacy system from galgames, dating, choosing favorites, thoughtful little gifts.

The higher the intimacy, the more things get unlocked.

But these were unnecessary, Uesugi Sakura thought they were too dependent on each other, always tangled up together every day, and if they didn’t separate consciously, the reliance would only become habitual.

A little separation makes the heart grow fonder.

A little distance can enhance feelings.

That’s how Uesugi Sakura saw it, he raised his head.

The light in the sky proclaimed the beauty of the clouds and colors. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Beep... beep...

Uesugi Sakura stopped his bicycle again, took out the phone from his pants pocket, glanced at the screen, and immediately connected the call and held it to his ear:

"Hello."

"Uesugi." The same clear voice as in the afternoon, "No problem, your matter has been handled."

"Thank you, I didn’t expect it to be so quick."

The roar of cars passing by noisily rang in his ears, Uesugi Sakura thanked the other end of the phone, "Do I need to do anything? Like... report in advance or something?"

"No," said the other end of the line, "although it’s quite strange... but it is within permissible range... "

"I’m still curious, why did you suddenly want to come to learn this?"

Uesugi Sakura lowered his head with a smile, "It’s nothing, just a bit of a personal matter."

"Well, in that case, I won’t ask more. You can come in tomorrow morning, but remember to come early, you need to prepare some paperwork, okay, goodbye."

Uesugi Sakura smiled at the end of the street in front: "Okay, goodbye."