[Katekyo Hitman Reborn! BG] My Great Singles' Campaign with Sawada

[Free, updated whenever inspiration strikes] No content warnings Also known as: The Rival Company's Heiress Wants Me to Break Up with Her / When Will the Rival Company's CEO Break Up with Me? I am an orphan who was adopted by my current parents. My adoptive parents run a jewelry company, while I teach children at the orphanage where I grew up. Being abandoned as a child left me with no expectations of getting married or having children. This is the only thing my family and I disagree about. They are afraid I'll grow old and die alone. I tell them I have a whole bunch of kids at the orphanage who can take care of me when I'm old and see me off when I die. But they don't think that's reliable, so they had someone introduce me to a potential match. My match is Japanese, good-looking, and gentle. From our conversation, I learn that he's from Tokyo, and his mother is a traditional housewife. He's also a poor soul forced into a blind date. I can't find a single flaw in him. The only thing that gives me pause is his job. He runs a seafood company and a jewelry company in Italy, and his jewelry business is planning to expand into China. In short, he's a competitor of my family's company. I'm puzzled by my parents' arrangement. I suspect he wants to seduce me, the heiress of a rival company, into revealing our trade secrets. After our first meeting, we don't keep in touch. But my mother often asks how my love life is going, and I always put her off by saying he's too busy with work to meet. Then one day, while I'm out shopping, my mother suddenly tells me to go straight to a fancy hotel. There, I see him again. That's when I learn that our mothers were college classmates who lost touch for many years after graduating. And just as I'd suspected, he'd been using work as an excuse to avoid being set up. Worried about their children's futures, our parents leave us, two kindred spirits, afraid to refuse outright. So we rack our brains for excuses to placate them, while trying every possible way to get the other person to call off the relationship so we can be single again. The things I say most often to my boyfriend in name are: "What's our excuse this time? Let's get our stories straight." "If you xxxxx, we're breaking up." But he never asks to break up. I'm exhausted, and I can't understand how, among Earth's seven billion people and countless parallel worlds, I ended up meeting him. * Chihori, who has no intention of getting married because of her childhood: If I ever fall in love, I'll be a dog. Tsuyoshi, who agrees because he plans to stay single for life due to work. In the end, they both become dogs. Being a dog is pretty nice. * Couple: 270 (Blurb saved on 2022.5.6; first revised on 2022.8.3, screenshot saved.) [Completed] Katekyo Hitman Reborn! | 27BG, "Sawada, Please Study Hard," set in a single-manga continuity Everything else updates whenever inspiration strikes Theme: All encounters in this world are miracles.