I.W.B.A.L

I won't be a loser.

Author: Fragments of the Sky

Introduction:

Sayuri Sawamura: You don't like my daughter, you like me?

Sawamura Eriri: You don't like me, you like my mom?!

Saionji World: If Setsuna can do it, why can't I?!

Takasu Ryuji: I'll leave my mother to you, buddy!

Fuji and Nunu: When will you come back? Elliot said she missed her father. You don't need to be responsible, but please come back to see your daughter.

Prologue. Start: 0. Forget your life... start over.

　　"I'm back."

　　Looking at the innocent face of his youth, there was a hint of surprise on Miyamizu Kento's face, but more of a sense of relief.

　　"Now that I'm back to my youth, I can make new choices and change what happened. Maybe there are some regrets, but compared to what happened... it's better not to happen again."

　　The young man standing in front of the mirror whispered softly.

　　Recalling what he had experienced and what would happen in the future, his expression became full of sighs and depression.

　　It clearly had a similar beginning to that of the male protagonist in a cool novel, but due to his choices, his life was forcibly turned into a tragic and depressing literary youth ending!

　　If destiny is really written by someone, then he will definitely look for the person who wrote his destiny. There is no other meaning, he just wants to thank the other person with his fist full of gratitude.

　　"So, the 'time travel' was triggered, but I didn't go back to my childhood. Instead, I went back from my 27-year-old decadent youth who had accomplished nothing to my teenage years when everything was just beginning."

　　Before starting his life as 'Kento Miyamizu', he made a choice.

　　It's a choice similar to the game 'Restart Your Life'.

　　Ten different talents, and twenty attribute points that can be allocated to four different attributes.

　　Because he had just come into contact with this game, and knowing that most of the ten randomly given talent points were weird, Miyamizu Kento could only choose talents that looked more normal.

　　One is to become the 'eldest child in the family', a rare talent 'consecrated fetus' that can increase one attribute point, and the other is 'time travel', which is completely a matter of luck and may be triggered, or may never be triggered until death.

　　Afterwards, when it came to increasing attribute points, Miyamizu Kento hesitated for just a moment and refused to let his life become mediocre again.

　　Relying on the one attribute point granted by the 'consecrated fetus' and the points that should have been allocated to other attributes, two more points were added to 'appearance'. The family background can be poor, but the person must be handsome!

　　As for the beginning of life, at first he had no memory of the past, until he was about five years old, he gradually recalled the memories of his previous life, looking at his sisters named Mitsuha Miyamizu and Yotsuha Miyamizu, he raised his head and looked at the sky...

　　The Miyamizu family controls the local religious beliefs in the Itomori region, and because they are the former local lords, they have a considerable say. But no matter how much say they have, it is just a backward small town in the countryside, which is inferior to Miyamizu Kento's original life, which is in line with his "family background" of only four points.

　　However, when he was in elementary school, his father was suddenly inspired by something and decided to change the town of Itomori. He used the influence of the Miyamizu family and participated in the election. He was initially the mayor and later became the city mayor.

　　Miyamizu Kento once doubted the origins of his father. He was slightly different from the person he had imagined.

　　His mother, Futaba Miyamizu, who should have died of an immune disease during childbirth, did not die as he remembered. She lived a healthy life in Itomori.

　　Having inherited his mother's delicate and intelligent face, as well as his father's handsomeness when he was young, Kento appearance can be considered outstanding among ordinary people. He is the type that people think is good-looking at first glance, and even more pleasing to the eye and the heart after a long time of getting along with others. In his life, Itomori received many confessions of love from girls, and there was no shortage of confession letters when he was in school in Tokyo. Every Valentine's Day, his shoe cabinet was filled with chocolates.

　　His academic performance as a teenager was good because of the knowledge he already had, so even if he had forgotten some of it, it was easy after he picked it up again. Even though he was not always the first in the class, he was always in the top ten in the grade. That was why he got permission from his parents to come to Tokyo to study alone.

　　This kind of life should be considered perfect...

　　Even if he did nothing, relying on his parents, he could already live a life that could be described as easy and affluent.

　　But fate likes to play jokes on people. During his high school years, he met a woman that he shouldn't... no, it should be said that his father didn't allow him to like, which led to all the tragedies.

　　"Sayuri...she probably doesn't know anything now. Since time has gone back, her original memories probably no longer exist. To her now, I am just a stranger."

　　Recalling the memories that had already become a little fuzzy in his mind, Miyamizu Kento couldn't help but sigh.

　　Falling in love with a girl older than yourself is not a strange thing in this progressive and liberated society. However, it is not strange and acceptable only when the age difference between the two parties is within five years and both are single and unmarried.

　　For example, there is a more than ten-year age difference between him and Sayuri Sawamura, which may be a bit old, but for Kento's family, it is not something that is unacceptable. At the beginning, there was also a twelve-year age difference between Miyamizu Toshiki and Miyamizu Futaba.

　　For the sake of his wife, Miyamizu Toshiki gave up everything he had in the Mizoguchi family, including his position as a university professor. He even voluntarily married into the Miyamizu family in a society where women had a relatively low status. It was not that he was unable to accept this relationship with a large age gap.

　　But when there is such an age difference, and the other party is already a widow with a daughter as old as his son, that is beyond what Miyamizu Toshiki can accept. He firmly opposes the love between Kento and Sayuri!

　　Similarly, as Sayuri's daughter, Eriri, who is the same age as Kento, could not understand her mother's choice and could not accept that he was the same age as her and was the 'father' of her former classmate.

　　The strong opposition from both sides' families became the biggest obstacle for Kento and Sayuri to be together, but they could not abandon their families simply for their own sake.

　　Therefore, as their relationship had never been acknowledged by their families, the two could only keep it secret and communicate secretly without their families noticing. This continued until the accident happened - his tryst with Sayuri was caught by his daughter Eriri.

　　Originally, Eriri had already made an appointment to go out with her friends that day, leaving Sayuri alone at home, so she contacted Kento, who was also free at home, and made an appointment to meet at Sayuri's home.

　　There is no need to elaborate on the rest of the story. When Eriri suddenly returned home halfway, she saw a scene that she shouldn't have seen...

　　As a result, what happened next caused things to gradually get out of control and eventually become irreversible.

　　When things calmed down, Kento lost his lover, and Eriri lost her mother and hated him.

　　Hated by the girl and misunderstood by his own father, he began his downward spiral from that point on.

　　I stayed alone in Tokyo, eating whatever I wanted, earning a tiny amount of money by contributing short stories to various magazines, and then at night, I hid in the izakayas that were everywhere to drink away my sorrows, lingering on in this corner of the bustling city where there was no light...

　　His mother and sister, who kept in touch with him, often came to Tokyo from Itomori to visit him because they were worried about him, trying to persuade him to move on. Mitsuha even stayed in Tokyo to take care of his daily life.

　　As for his father, who had always denied his relationship with Sayuri, his mother said that he seemed to feel a little regretful. But he would occasionally call him, either to scold him for his cowardice or to encourage him to stand up again and return to Itomori to start his life anew.

　　With a father who is the mayor, it might be a simple thing for him to go back to the well-established Itomori and start his life anew. However, he could not get out of the shadow of losing Sayuri. He attributed Sayuri's suicide to himself, which became an unsolvable knot in his heart and made him hang up his father's phone again and again.

　　The beautiful memories turned into a cage that he couldn't escape from. The smile that was as bright as fireworks and the hug that was as warm as spring were followed by those dark and painful scenes that he didn't want to remember...

　　Now I am back to my teenage years, and nothing has happened yet.

　　Even though he felt a little sad, he didn't want Sayuri to suffer that kind of torture and pain again. His heart might ache, but not contacting her was the best option.

　　Looking at the calendar on the desk beside him, he slowly let out a sigh of relief, raised his head, and looked at the vast blue sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

　　"Let me start my life again, a life without pain and regret."

　　"This time, I won't end up like a depressed intellectual!"

　　Image: "Miyazu Futaba", Location: "Images/1634783269-100277911-107848145.jpg"

Cherry Blossom Season: 1. A beautiful new life starts with helping your neighbors

　　There was a person lying on Kento's bed. It was the person he met at the door of the apartment when he woke up in the early morning and was about to go out to buy things.

　　A woman.

　　Looking at the drunken woman lying on his bed and not waking up, Kento knew her identity.

　　She was a neighbor who lived on the same street as him, in a nearby apartment. He could no longer remember her name because it had been so long and he had not had any contact with her in the past. He only vaguely remembered that her last name seemed to be 'Takasu', and that she was a single mother with a son who was about his age.

　　The other person was wearing a hot and revealing tank top and leather jacket. Because she was drunk, Kento took off her leather jacket temporarily and placed it on a chair beside her so that she would not feel uncomfortable when lying on the bed.

　　I originally wanted to send her back to her own home nearby, but because she was too drunk, I couldn't get any effective answer when I asked her about her address.

　　For example, when asked "Where is your home?", she would answer "I'm a handsome guy, come and have a drink with me", which is completely inappropriate.

　　Unfortunately, Kento, who had no impression of the area, was not sure where her home was.

　　Kento, who was not so indifferent as to sit idly by and watch someone pass out drunk on the street, struggled a little in his heart, and decided to temporarily carry her back to his apartment, lay her on his bed, and wait for her to sober up naturally.

　　During this time, he also left a piece of paper at home, writing that he could leave on his own if he sobered up, and went out to buy some daily necessities and food.

　　But when he returned home from outside, the other party was still lying on his bed, mumbling something incomprehensible, immersed in sleep and not waking up. In this regard, Kento could only throw the remaining papers into the wastebasket he had just bought. He never thought that the wastebasket would come in handy so soon.

　　At first, he would pay attention to Ms. Takasu who was lying on the bed, but when she didn't wake up for a long time, Kento no longer paid attention to her and began to clean up and rearrange the entire room.

　　Even the room itself is only 1DK, about 8 pings. With the restroom and bathroom separated into dry and wet areas, which already occupy a part of the space, there is not much space left and not enough space for too many things. Kento just placed the green plants he bought in the corner next to his desk.

　　When it was noon, he began to prepare his lunch. He was so absorbed in it that he had forgotten how long it had been since he had cooked.

　　Using the semi-finished products purchased from the supermarket, Kento only needs to heat and cook the ingredients himself.

　　Cut the kelp and carrots into small pieces, and gradually put the ingredients into the cooked broth. A faint fragrance filled the air, and the lid of the pot was put back on. Kento also prepared other dishes...

　　There was a buzzing in her head, and Takasu Yasuko felt her mouth was dry. The subtle sounds in her ears were like needles, which were difficult to accept due to the aftereffects of being drunk. Due to various factors, she was immersed in her dream and just when she was dreaming that she was about to taste the miso soup made by her son, she opened her eyes and saw the white wall.

　　"Walls? White walls?"

　　It should have been an ordinary white wall, but to Takasu Yasuko, it looked so strange.

　　Neither the apartment where she and her son lived nor the place where she worked could see such soothing pure white walls. Moreover, she also noticed that the bed she was lying on had an unfamiliar, quiet and fragrant smell.

　　"Hmm—"

　　Covering her forehead and gently rubbing her temples with her wrist, Takasu Yasuko's confused expression gradually cleared up. There was still some haziness in her eyes, but she was alertly observing the surrounding environment. Takasu Yasuko gradually sat up.

　　It was a strange environment, a tidy room, his leather jacket placed on a chair not far away, a simple desk, and a cactus next to it. Apart from that, there was nothing else.

　　Looking out the window, she could vaguely see the familiar street scene. She got up from the bed little by little and sat on the edge of the bed. When she wanted to get up, she couldn't find her shoes. She could only step on the floor and walk slowly towards the room where there was movement.

　　When she opened the door, she saw a clean and handsome young man standing in front of the kitchen counter, seemingly preparing food. His handsome face and the unexpectedly glimpsed vicissitudes of life immediately attracted Takasu Taiko's attention, and she couldn't help but be stunned. The scene in front of her was engraved deep in her heart. She opened her mouth, and her heartbeat gradually accelerated——

　　She didn't know him, but she wanted to know him!

　　At the moment the door opened, Kento, who was preparing lunch, noticed that Ms. Takasu, who was lying on his bed, had woken up.

　　Turning down the gas temporarily, Kento looked at the woman wearing a leopard print tank top and long golden curly hair.

　　"You seem to be awake now, do you need a glass of water?"

　　Kento stopped cooking, poured water from a newly bought bottle into a clean cup, and handed it to Ms. Takasu.

　　Staring at the young man in a trance, Takasu Yasuko blinked, looked down at the water cup in front of her, subconsciously stretched out her hand and took the cup, but she didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional that the hand that took the cup held the young man's hand.

　　When Kento saw his hand being held, he was stunned for a moment, and his hand trembled slightly, as if he had been electrocuted. When he saw that the other person was holding the water cup, he was stunned for a moment, and then calmly withdrew his hand.

　　"Thank you. I must have been drunk last night. Why am I here? Where is this place?"

　　Noticing that her behavior just now was indeed somewhat rude, but seeing that the other party didn't seem to care, Takasu Yasuko just pretended that nothing had happened. After drinking a sip of water to relieve the dryness from her drunkenness, she asked about the reason for her appearance here.

　　"Fuji Highland Apartment, next to Horizaka. When I was getting ready to go out this morning, I found you sleeping at the door of the apartment. I didn't know where you lived, so I carried you back. Your clothes are in the room."

　　After taking his hand back, Kento continued with his cooking and calmly answered the other party's questions.

　　What happened just now was a little unexpected, but it was not enough to shake Kento, and he did not take it to heart.

　　"I see. Sorry to have caused you trouble."

　　Takasu Yasuko placed the cup of water on the kitchen counter and bowed to thank Kento.

　　He looked at Takasu Yasuko standing beside him, and wanted to ask her not to take it to heart. However, when he looked at her, he saw the surging waves and the deep, invisible ravines. Kento mind went blank for a moment, and he quickly withdrew his gaze, turned his head away, and pretended that he saw nothing.

　　"Nothing, I just saw someone who needed help and couldn't just sit there and watch. Now that you're awake, you should go home early."

　　He unceremoniously ordered the guest to leave. Kento felt that it was a little inappropriate to let the guest stay here any longer. It was hard for him not to think too much about the other party's action of holding his hand just now.

　　"Ah... um, my name is Takasu Yasuko, I live nearby, if you need any help, please feel free to ask, then..."

　　Yasuko Takasu returned to the room, picked up her leather jacket, put it on, went back to the kitchen counter, and thanked Kento.

　　"Thank you very much again! Goodbye!"

　　He put his hands together and thanked Kento again. Then he left the room and closed the door.

　　Kento, standing in front of the kitchen counter, looked at the closed door and breathed a long sigh of relief. The air was still filled with the strong smell of the other person's perfume and alcohol, but what impressed Kento the most was the other person's apology just now.

　　"It's a little shocking...ah!"

　　He smelled a slight burnt smell and looked down. While he was still immersed in the shock, the food in his hand was burnt because of his distraction...

　　"....."

　　Image: "Takasu Yasuko", Location: "Images/1634700002-100277911-107852539.jpg"

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　　I got up at six in the morning and started writing. I wrote three thousand words, but I felt it was not good enough, so I deleted it and rewrote a chapter.

　　Thanks to Keshe Fengyu for the monthly ticket! Thanks to everyone for the recommendation votes!

The season when cherry blossoms bloom: 2. I copied myself, isn't that embarrassing?

　　"I have to go buy curtains later. They haven't been installed yet. Such a transparent environment is really unpleasant."

　　Looking at the floor-to-ceiling window leading to the balcony and the small window next to it, the curtains that should have been used for sunshade and privacy protection were nowhere to be seen. Perhaps the previous tenant removed them and took them away when he moved out.