Madam, believe me, how can I be a minotaur?

After listening to Yuta Yamada's explanation, Makoto Asano was completely speechless.

Putting aside Yuta Yamada's extremely absurd idea, he genuinely didn't know why Yuta Yamada would trust him so much, thinking he was such a good person who wouldn't even have the slightest thought about his girlfriend.

Makoto Asano even couldn't help but wonder if he himself didn't trust himself as much as Yamada Yuta did.

But no matter what, since he had already come, he had to find a way to resolve the matter.

So Makoto Asano began to think about what he should do now, whether to agree or refuse the other party's request.

However, before he could figure it out, Yuta Yamada directly stuffed two movie tickets into his hand and said at the same time.

"If Asano-kun doesn't want to accompany Eriko, it's okay, just pretend I didn't say that... I'll give you the movie tickets, invite your friends to watch it, after all, it's quite expensive, and it can't be refunded, it would be a waste."

Perhaps because he was in a hurry to go to work, Yuta Yamada turned around and left immediately after handing the tickets to Makoto Asano, not even giving him a chance to refuse.

Looking at the movie tickets in his hand, Makoto Asano hesitated for a while, and finally decided to reject Yuta Yamada's request.

No matter what, this request was too outrageous, so outrageous that Makoto Asano himself didn't dare to think about it.

And even if he agreed, Eriko Miyajima would definitely not agree.

After all, strictly speaking, his relationship with her hadn't been repaired yet.

So after thinking for a while, Makoto Asano decided to return the movie tickets to Eriko Miyajima, and by the way, see if he could take this opportunity to fix his relationship with Eriko.

Feigned indifference, after all, is for the sake of "capturing."

And he had been "indifferent" for almost a week, and even deliberately didn't "encounter" Eriko Miyajima in the morning.

So he couldn't keep being "indifferent", if he really let her give up and his relationship with her broke down to the point where it couldn't be repaired, then it wouldn't be fun.

Besides that, he was also very curious about what kind of reaction Eriko Miyajima, who had experienced the dream on Tuesday night, would have when she saw him.

Thinking of this, Makoto Asano didn't go back to his room for a second sleep, but went next door and rang the doorbell.

Chapter 57: The proactive her

After hearing the sound of the door closing, Eriko Miyajima slowly got out of bed.

She turned her head to look at the alarm clock on the bedside, the hands of which were pointing to 7:30 in the morning.

Usually at this time, she would have already gotten up to make breakfast for Yuta Yamada, and then sent him out to work.

But today she deliberately pretended to be asleep until Yuta Yamada left the house before getting up.

All of this was because of the quarrel with Yuta Yamada last night.

Yesterday evening, after Yuta Yamada came home from work, he said to Eriko Miyajima with an embarrassed expression that he had to work overtime this Saturday and couldn't go on a date with her.

Eriko Miyajima was, after all, a good girlfriend, she very much understood Yuta Yamada's idea of prioritizing work as a new member of society.

So although she was a little disappointed, she still very considerately told Yuta Yamada that it didn't matter, they could go next time when they had time.

However, what she didn't expect was that Yuta Yamada suddenly said at this time: "Why don't you let Asano-kun accompany you tomorrow, after all, the movie tickets are quite expensive, it would be a waste if they were wasted."

Eriko Miyajima was stunned for a moment when she heard this sentence.

She suddenly remembered the dream she had on Tuesday night, the dream of actively kissing Makoto Asano in front of Yuta Yamada's coffin.

She didn't know why she would have that dream, she didn't know why she would actively kiss Makoto Asano in the dream.

But she knew that she had made a mistake.

Perhaps it was because she had developed a good impression of Makoto Asano, perhaps it was because she realized she couldn't live without him after he distanced himself during the day, no matter what the reason was, Eriko Miyajima wasn't going to defend herself.

Because she knew that she had indeed done something wrong to her boyfriend in the dream.

Therefore, she made up her mind not to make the same mistake in reality.

So after hearing Yuta Yamada's suggestion, she refused sternly without even thinking about it.

Perhaps because her reaction was too drastic, Yuta Yamada suddenly became a little suspicious of her, asking her if something unpleasant had happened between her and Makoto Asano.

Because she had experienced that dream with an extremely tragic ending before, Eriko Miyajima naturally couldn't tell Yuta Yamada the truth, so she just perfunctorily said that she wasn't familiar with Makoto Asano and didn't want to go out with him.

But the more Eriko Miyajima said this, the more suspicious Yuta Yamada became, feeling that Eriko had misunderstood Makoto Asano, or had some prejudice against Makoto Asano.

The two quarreled over this.

Yuta Yamada didn't understand why Eriko Miyajima would have such a big prejudice against the "good person" Makoto Asano.

Eriko Miyajima also didn't understand Yuta Yamada's thought process, not understanding why he had to push his girlfriend towards Makoto Asano.

The two, who didn't come to a conclusion, eventually broke up unhappily, and didn't speak to each other all night.

Even until this morning, Eriko Miyajima rarely deliberately didn't get up to make breakfast for Yuta Yamada out of spite.

After getting up, Eriko Miyajima went directly to the living room.

The two slippers placed messily at the entrance indicated that Yuta Yamada had left.

Eriko Miyajima silently walked to the entrance and put away the slippers, then secretly sighed in her heart.

Just as she turned around to go back to the bedroom, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Yuta? Why did he suddenly come back? Did he forget to bring his keys?

Because Yuta Yamada had just left home not long ago, Eriko Miyajima subconsciously thought that the person ringing the doorbell was Yuta Yamada.

She didn't think much about it, just hesitated for a while and then directly opened the door.

Even though they had just quarreled last night, and even sulked at each other all night without speaking.

But the two were, after all, boyfriend and girlfriend, so Eriko Miyajima naturally wouldn't deliberately not open the door for Yuta Yamada.

And after a night, her gentle nature had already dissipated most of her anger.

However, what Eriko Miyajima didn't expect was that when she opened the door, the person who appeared at the door wasn't Yuta Yamada as she had imagined, but Makoto Asano, the landlord who lived next door.

Eh? Asano...kun? Why is he looking for me at this time?

At the moment of seeing Makoto Asano, Eriko Miyajima subconsciously froze slightly.

However, soon, after reacting, she opened her mouth with a puzzled expression and asked the question in her heart: "Asano-kun, is there something you need so early in the morning?"

Her tone wasn't as full of wariness and distance towards Makoto Asano as before.

Obviously, Makoto Asano's care for her, who had lost Yuta Yamada, without overstepping the boundaries in that dream that day, as well as Makoto Asano's feigned indifference during this period of time, had caused a very big change in Eriko Miyajima's perception of Makoto Asano.

She had already untied the knot in her heart from the previous quarrel with Makoto Asano, and no longer wanted to keep her distance from him like before.

The current Eriko Miyajima had completely understood that Makoto Asano didn't have any thoughts about her at all, he simply wanted to be friends with her.

Speaking of which, the last time I met Asano-kun seems to have been four days ago...

Thinking of this, Eriko Miyajima couldn't help but feel a hint of secret joy that Makoto Asano was able to take the initiative to come to her today.

However, even she herself didn't notice this.

Just as Eriko Miyajima's heart was filled with mixed feelings, Makoto Asano also began to explain the reason for his visit.

"Just now Yuta-kun came to me, stuffed two movie tickets into my hand, and said to let me accompany you to watch a movie today."

His tone was very calm, and there wasn't much distance, but the current him was still very different from the friendly appearance he had at the beginning.

For some reason, seeing that Makoto Asano was in this business-like attitude, Eriko Miyajima felt a burst of sadness in her heart for no reason.

However, what she was more concerned about at the moment was what Makoto Asano said.

"You said Yuta went to you just now? He also asked you to accompany me to watch a movie?"

"Yes."

After receiving Makoto Asano's affirmative answer, Eriko Miyajima suddenly felt a sense of stagnation in her breathing, and couldn't help but feel a burst of disappointment in her heart.

She didn't like Yuta Yamada not respecting her thoughts like this, and also making decisions for her without authorization.

Therefore, after learning of Yuta Yamada's actions, the anger in her heart that had already dissipated almost completely, resurfaced again.

However, because Makoto Asano was still in front of her, she didn't show it, just couldn't help but reveal a bitter smile, and asked with some self-abandonment: "Then Asano-kun, how did you answer?"

"Of course I refused."

Makoto Asano said in a somewhat exaggerated tone: "I don't know what Yuta-kun is thinking, to actually make such an unreasonable request, no matter how I think about it, I can't possibly agree."

At the end, his tone even carried a hint of anger and helplessness: "And he definitely didn't ask for your opinion, otherwise he definitely wouldn't have come to me, after all, between us..."

Hearing Makoto Asano's words that suddenly stopped halfway, as well as his protection of her in his words, Eriko Miyajima froze slightly.

I didn't expect that the person who respects my opinion the most isn't Yuta, but rather Asano-kun, whom I myself want to distance myself from...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, and at the same time felt a hint of guilt for misunderstanding Makoto Asano before.

Immediately afterwards, not knowing whether it was because of this hint of guilt, or because she was still sulking at Yuta Yamada's unauthorized actions in her heart.

She suddenly opened her mouth and said: "Then Asano-kun, would you like to go watch a movie with me?"

Chapter 58: The little wife

Hearing Eriko Miyajima's question, Makoto Asano subconsciously said "Huh?" and even failed to maintain the calm tone he had been pretending all along.

He really didn't expect Eriko Miyajima to say such a thing.

After all, the relationship between the two of them on the surface right now doesn't even count as friends.

However, Makoto Asano quickly reacted again, pretending to be troubled and replied: "Letting Eriko accompany me to watch a movie or something, is it a bit... and something happened between us... something like that happened."

He didn't say all of his words, but Eriko Miyajima, as one of the parties involved, still easily understood what he wanted to express.

Because of those things that happened before, coupled with Makoto Asano's deliberate distancing during this period of time, the two of them had never had effective communication, and their relationship hadn't been repaired at all.

If it were before, Eriko Miyajima might have been very happy to continue maintaining the current distant relationship.

But after experiencing Makoto Asano's distancing on Tuesday, and realizing that she didn't want to lose him as a friend, Eriko Miyajima suddenly figured it out.

Perhaps, I don't need to be so distant from Asano-kun.

As long as I can stick to my original intention and not make mistakes like I did in the dream, wouldn't that be okay?