The favorability system is broken, I decided to put on a vest

When Sawada Tsunayoshi sat in the classroom in a trance, he was still thinking about this question:

What exactly is your wish?

Why did the witch clearly realize her wish, but she was still not satisfied?

What kind of world do you want? !

He didn't understand.

Afterwards, the day's classes quickly came to an end.

Tsunayoshi Sawada also spent the day surrounded by friends and classmates.

But Tsunayoshi Sawada felt that he was not happy, because even if everyone surrounded him, the sense of incompatibility and rejection that he felt when he belonged to "Waste Wood Tsuna" came again.

"The newly released "Brave OOO" is really difficult!"

"Yeah, yeah, I got stuck on the sixth level of No.30, and I can't pass it no matter what!"

"I'm a little better than you. I got stuck at level 42."

"By the way, Sawada, have you ever played this game? How many levels have you reached?"

"Uh..." The conversation came to Sawada Tsunayoshi's side abruptly, he was startled, and laughed awkwardly, "Actually, I haven't played this game much..."

This is a lie.

"Brave OOO" is the most popular game among students recently, of course he has played it, but he got stuck on the No.12 level, which made him really embarrassed to tell anyone.

Just... just pretend that he has never played this game!

Everyone believed what he said, and changed the subject empathetically.

"What does Sawada-san usually like to do? Do you like sports?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi became more and more embarrassed: "This... this..."

"Where's baseball? Do you like baseball?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi: "Also, okay?"

"Today's club activity happens to be a baseball game, shall we go and see it?! I heard that we also have a chance to play!"

Sawada Tsunayoshi suddenly turned pale with shock: "No, no, this, this is fine...I, I, I have to go home early after school today..."

"That's it..." The voice was disappointed.

"Then let's go home together!" Someone suggested, "It just so happens that there are no club activities today, why don't we go to Sawada's home and review the last test paper?"

When Tsunayoshi Sawada thought of the zero-point test paper at home, his face became paler and his head shook like a rattle: "No, no, no... this, no, it's not good..."

"Oh, okay……"

This is the sound of growing disappointment.

So, in the end, Sawada Tsunayoshi almost escaped from the school in embarrassment.

With his head down, he ignored the calls of his "friends" behind him, quickly left the school, rushed into the house, closed the bedroom, and hid again in the last safe place—his bed.

He huddled under the covers, curling himself up like a suffocated caterpillar.

And just before he was about to suffocate himself to death, he lifted the quilt and sat up.

At this moment, he seems to have returned to the night when the shooting star passed by, the characteristics of a defeated dog are particularly striking, and the confusion in his eyes is hard to ignore.

After sitting for an unknown amount of time, the familiar lines and swirls reappeared outside the window of the room, and then the witch leaned out and sat by his window with a smile.

"What's the matter, why do you have such a depressed face?" The witch smiled, "This time, I built the world exactly according to your wishes!" She counted down her fingers, "Everyone They will sincerely regard you as a friend, everyone will value you and accommodate you, everyone will put your wishes first, everyone will listen to your opinions after you speak, and no one will ignore you Your existence...isn't this your wish?"

"That's right... isn't this my wish?" Tsunayoshi Sawada was stunned and smiled wryly.

But why, he is still so unwilling in his heart?

He couldn't figure it out, so he fell back on the bed again and pulled the quilt over his head.

On the second day, Tsunayoshi Sawada came to school surrounded by friends again, and once again spent a day of being watched by teachers and classmates.

But this time, most of the joy in his heart has faded, replaced by an indescribable emotion——

Even though he couldn't answer the teacher's question, everyone didn't care, and instead they all comforted and encouraged him;

Obviously his performance in physical education was a mess, and he kept dragging the students in the same group, but everyone never spoke ill of him because of this;

Obviously he couldn't even do a good job on duty, and he was always doing everyone a disservice, but in the end, the classmates on duty in the same group didn't blame him, they just let him rest aside...

So what is the emotion surging in his heart at this moment?

Is it disappointment and unwillingness?

But why is he disappointed, and what is he unwilling to do? !

Tsunayoshi Sawada couldn't tell.

The third day... no, there is no third day.

On the night of the second day, Tsunayoshi Sawada made a third wish with little interest.

"A world like this...doesn't make sense at all."

He huddled under the quilt and muffled: "Let everything return to normal... This is my third wish."

At this moment, the witch appeared again from the vortex.

She turned into a palm-sized cat doll and squatted on Sawada Tsunayoshi's desk. Although she looked so cute and cute, even a guy like Sawada Tsunayoshi who didn't like small animals was instantly stunned by the cuteness, but when she met her When she looked at her strange and powerful purple pupils, Tsunayoshi Sawada woke up instantly, realizing that this witch is definitely not a cute kitten.

The witch wagged her tail and said leisurely: "If this is your third wish, you haven't achieved anything after such a toss! Do you really think this is enough?"

"What if it's not enough..." Tsunayoshi Sawada subconsciously hid back, a little afraid of this witch, and muttered in a low voice, "Anyway... anyway, I'm such a good-for-nothing... I'm not good at anything, I'm not the same as everyone I can't talk to anyone... Even those 'friends' who gather around me are not friends at all. They are not people who really like me, and they are not people who really want to be my friends... ..." The more he said, the more pessimistic and depressed he became, "This kind of fake friend game has no meaning at all..."

"So in the final analysis, do you think you are unworthy?" The witch tilted her head curiously, "In this case, why don't you continue to make wishes?"

"Wish what?"

"Make a wish to make you a real smart and strong person, make a wish to make you a real worthy of the friendship of these people."

"But that's not me!" Sawada Tsunayoshi's answer was taken for granted. "Is there any essential difference between a fake popular game and a fake friend game? It's so boring..."

The 13-year-old boy looked extremely depressed.

What he didn't notice was that at this moment, the cat doll on the desk looked sideways at him, and for the first time showed an uncontrollable smile.

"What an interesting kid." The witch doll landed on Sawada Tsunayoshi's quilt, and the cat sat in a polite and cute posture, "It's so smart to see things so clearly! But why didn't you think about it? Cheer up and try to make yourself a truly popular person, but you just resigned to your fate so easily?"

"You don't understand anything." Tsunayoshi Sawada wrapped his quilt a little tighter, only his head was exposed, "Do you think I haven't tried it?!"

In this world, how could there be a person who is willing to fail, to be ridiculed, and to be judged as useless by everyone?

But there is a kind of effort in the world called futility.

Study hard, but see no progress; exercise hard, but get no feedback.

For Sawada Tsunayoshi, life is a huge vortex of negative feedback. No matter where he struggles, what awaits him is a deeper and deeper quagmire.

Therefore, up to now, Sawada Tsunayoshi has almost abandoned himself to accept such a mediocre and failed self... because if he does not accept it, what awaits him is just another endless negative feedback.

——As a human being, the most important thing is to be happy and learn to let go of yourself.

Tsunayoshi Sawada, who is only 13 years old now, has understood this truth with joy.

"So... Anyway, I just can't be popular... Anyway, I just can't talk to everyone... Then... Let's forget it..."

He whispered, his expression became more and more aggrieved, like a bully rabbit.

"Always asking everyone to accommodate me...it really doesn't make any sense..."

Might as well let everyone blame him for being a good-for-nothing like they always have.

At least this will make him feel more confident about his own good-for-nothing, because——you've already scolded him, what else do you want? !

The witch's smile grew more interested.

She tilted her head and looked at the young boy in front of her, as if she saw something novel, and teased, "I didn't expect you to be such a person."

"Yes, yes." Tsunayoshi Sawada gave up on himself, "I am such an ugly human being, I have let you down, Ms. Witch!"

"That's not true." The witch laughed, "I just think you're a bit amazing."

"……what?"

The little boy in the quilt moved his head, and looked at the witch with a little confusion and a little vigilance, more and more like a rabbit that would run away at the slightest sign of trouble.

The witch doll said with a smile: "I mean, most of the troubles that human beings encounter in this world are nothing more than thinking too much and doing too little. Because they don't want to accept themselves at the moment, but at the same time they don't want to Willing to act and unwilling to make effort, so you can only be helpless and furious in endless unwillingness, this is an ordinary person...but you are different."

The witch played with idols because she sensed the vague vigilance in the boy's heart, and jumped back to the desk.

She said slowly: "You, Sawada Tsunayoshi, you are neither a genius nor an ordinary person. Strictly speaking, your life can even be called a failure. But unexpectedly, you completely accepted your failure, Although still depressed, he managed to reach a reconciliation with himself, and accepted the fact that he was just the most ordinary ordinary person at the most arrogant age in his life... To tell you the truth, this is a very rare talent! I still This is the first time I've seen someone like you!"

"..." the boy said sullenly, "Aren't you really beating me around and scolding me?"

"How could it be?" the witch said calmly, "I accept all of human beings, and naturally I also accept all of you. Whether you are good or bad, a genius or a loser, it is just one aspect of your life as Sawada Tsunayoshi That's all. No matter what your choice is, it has its meaning in my opinion, so why would I scold you for such an ordinary thing?"

The witch's answer was not "don't care", but "totally accept".

This caused a subtle feeling in the heart of the 13-year-old boy.

"Is...is that so?" He hesitated, "Even if I've been an ordinary scum all my life...do you think this is normal? Don't you think I study hard? Don't you think I need Are you trying to make yourself better? That... I mean... Mommy keeps saying that she wants me to live a meaningful life, but I... Ms. Witch, what about you? Don't you think I don't need to do something Don't you think I'm... not good like this?"

The witch looked at him quietly, and replied softly: "All your choices are meaningful. All the lives you choose are meaningful lives."

At this moment, for some unknown reason, the boy pulled the blanket over his head again.

He crouched under the quilt, like a little snail shrinking back into its shell after being frightened, or like an idiot trying to hide his last bite of "manhood".

The witch looked at such a boy, and didn't do bad things like before, such as pulling this idiot out of his snail shell.

She just walked back to the window and left the room.

"Your second wish, I take it back." She said, "But your third wish, I will keep it for you. When you need to make a wish, just call me."

She turned and left, disappearing into the vortex of the void.

"If you want, you can go downstairs and have a look. There may be answers you want downstairs."

After dropping these two sentences, the witch's aura completely disappeared.

After a while, Tsunayoshi Sawada, who was hiding under the quilt, heard laughter and noise from outside.

So familiar, it seems like a lifetime away.

He lifted the quilt and lay down by the window in astonishment, realizing that everything just now seemed to be just a dream on his bed, and after waking up from the dream, the sky outside the window was still dark, the summer festival was still going on, and even the firework festival Haven't started yet!

Sawada Tsunayoshi stared blankly at all this, a little at a loss.

He wondered if he was really just having a dream, but everything in the dream was too real...

Or, is this the power of a witch? !

At a loss, Tsunayoshi Sawada thought of what the witch said.

—If you want, you can go downstairs and have a look.Downstairs may have the answer you want.

Sawada Tsunayoshi hesitated for a moment, then opened the bedroom and came to the corridor.

He tentatively moved forward in the dimly lit room, but before he could go downstairs, he saw someone sitting quietly in the living room.

That was his mother, Nana Sawada.

It was the person he thought had already left home to go to the summer festival.

Sawada Tsunayoshi was stunned: "Mom...Mom?"

In the living room, Nana Sawada was startled. She turned her head to look at him and smiled as usual: "It's Gang. Are you feeling better? Are you ready to go?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi seemed ashamed at this moment.

He lowered his head and murmured: "Mom...you...why didn't you go to the festival?"

Sawada Nana shook her head helplessly: "This child, what are you talking about. How can there be a mother who leaves her crying child at home and goes out to play by herself!"

Sawada Tsunayoshi's face was red, and his eyes were also a little red.

"I didn't cry!!" He shouted, snorted angrily, and ran back to the bedroom.

But when he reappeared, he had already changed into clothes, and with a puffed face, he came to Sawada Nana's side sullenly.

"Then...let's go..."

He spoke uncomfortably.

Sawada Nana couldn't help laughing, pushed her son, and left the house happily.

"Alright, alright, let's enjoy the festival!"

……

That night, the figures of Sawada Nana and Sawada Tsunayoshi slowly moved away and gradually merged into the lively crowd of the summer festival.

And in a place where no one saw, Mori Miyuki was sitting quietly at the top, looking at the sky quietly.

[Hey, host... are you deliberately dehumanizing your image? ] The system asked hesitantly, [Why did you choose to appear in front of him with this appearance? I thought you came to end your fate with him? ]

But after all the troubles just now, it is very rare for the 13-year-old Tsunayoshi Sawada not to be afraid of her, so how could he like her like the future in his destiny?

Just as it is difficult for human beings to fall in love with AI, for the 13-year-old Tsunayoshi Sawada, the powerful, unknown, mysterious and impersonal Mori Miyuki is like a mechanical computer AI. For such a guy, ordinary It is impossible for people to put love on it anyway, right? !

Mori Shenxue said lightly: [The future I choose is the future I want. ]

The system is a little anxious: [But if he is really scared away by you, it means that the time link cannot be tied!If you can't buckle up... you may die! ]

Time is an eternal proposition.

No one knows what the consequences will be if a paradox occurs in time.

Especially the reverse timelines like Mori Miyuki and Sawada Tsunayoshi are beyond the scope of ordinary observation.

Sen Shenxue smiled, laying down on the roof in a relaxed manner, and said in a loud voice: [So what?My life is long enough that it doesn't matter if I die immediately.What's more, I didn't come here to fulfill this fate with A Gang. ]

The system is puzzled: [Then why do you have to come? ]

Mori Shen Xue paused: [In order to change fate. ]

She came to rewrite the fate of "Sawada Tsunayoshi loves Mori Miyuki", and also came to change the fate of Sawada Tsunayoshi's death.

She doesn't need Tsunayoshi Sawada to like her.

She just wanted him to live.

That's it.

However, what Mori Miyuki didn't expect was that on the night of this day, at the climax of the firework festival, she heard Sawada Tsunayoshi's call.

"The third wish... still counts?"

The boy's voice seemed to tremble a little.

Mori Miyuki appeared from the vortex, came to him in an instant, and looked at him sideways.

"What is your wish?"

Under the brilliant fireworks, the young man's eyes flickered, as if he had warned himself countless times not to have hope, but he still wanted to struggle.

"I hope..." his voice trembled slightly, "I hope...that when I work hard, I can be rewarded...I hope that my life will no longer be 'in vain'...I hope...that I can be a mother A proud person...to be the person who makes others willing to make friends with me...to be the person who can protect everyone and let everyone rely on..."

His eye sockets were a little red when he looked at Mori Miyuki, as if he had been hurt by the wind.

And his voice was full of uncertain longing.

"Can I?"

Mori Miyuki looked at this young face, and suddenly stood there. The dusty memories of many years were opened, and the person who would smile and tell her "everything will be fine" no matter what happened to her seemed to appear in front of her again. clear and distinct.

Mori Shenxue stared blankly at him, for some reason, couldn't help reaching out her hand, breaking the boundary between human and non-human, and gently patted the boy's hair.

"If that's what you wish—of course you can."

She smiled slightly.

"Trust me, everything will be fine."