After Hearing Sakusa's Thoughts

[Updates weekly] ▎Blurb After I started hearing Sakusa's thoughts, I decided to live separately from him. It wasn't because of some melodramatic plot twist. The stuff in his head was simply too chaotic and wicked. Can you imagine a germaphobe in the kitchen, thinking about what positions to do it in? And it wasn't with someone else. He was turning me over and over! Well... I'm his girlfriend, so maybe I'm the one with the problem. But I really couldn't take it anymore. Whenever our eyes met, things I couldn't possibly say out loud would pop into my mind, and I kept stumbling over my words. He even worried that I might have developed a speech disorder. Worry about yourself, pro athlete Sakusa! That said, I couldn't exactly tell him, "Could you stop constantly thinking about how to get with me?" Living apart was a last resort, and secretly moving out while he was away at a match was an even worse idea... How do I avoid my boyfriend? Urgent, waiting for advice online. Sakusa cornered me. To be precise, after the hearing ended, my coworker and I weren't surprised to see Mr. Sakusa waiting outside, where he shouldn't have been. Coworker: "Ah~ Is that the blind date you mentioned? He's not like you described him." Sakusa's thoughts rang out at just the right moment: What did you tell them about me? Me: Please don't say anything else. After watching my coworker leave, I was about to have a proper talk with him when I heard a thought that made my scalp tingle: [You can hear me, can't you?] He didn't give me time to think. He stepped toward me and gripped my wrist tightly. His words rang out beside my ear, clearer than his thoughts: "You can hear me." Coworker: So you mean you hooked up with Ruda while he was at work? Me: Yeah. Coworker: You didn't think about the consequences, did you? Me: Okay, stop talking. The professional knowledge in this story is based on the local context and AI. Please don't scrutinize it too closely. The upcoming story, The Bratty NPC: The Tyrannical Pudding-Head Falls for Me, is linked in the announcement! ▎Blurb (thanks to my friend for the title) Shuri is the protagonist of a farming game, and she loves this life. The only thing she hates is the player character. When the player isn't in the game, she can chat with the villagers, soak her feet in the creek, and lounge inside her house to keep cool... But as soon as the player logs in, even nighttime is instantly turned into daytime. Shuri gets pulled out of bed, dragged to the fields, and changed into farming clothes. Come on! This is an idle game! You can't harvest crops just by talking to the seedlings! Shuri put up with it when her pajamas were forcibly changed once again. The game was extremely boring, and Shuri was the only thing worth playing. Countless players had quit out of boredom, so she only had to endure a few days. She put up with the succulents she'd raised being picked as gifts for villagers she wasn't close to. She put up with the crops she'd worked hard to grow being exchanged for gifts to give to other people. She put up with freshly hatched chicks being turned into crispy fried chicken with a single tap and fed to someone. Unable to sleep in the middle of the night, Shuri thought: Is this guy sick in the head or what? If you're going to farm, then farm properly. Why give gifts every day? She endured it for a few days. Not only did the player fail to quit, but that pudding-head even started streaming. Now Shuri had to farm every day and listen to him explain to his livestream audience which gifts each crop could be exchanged for, and whose favorability those gifts could raise... The nth time she was shaken awake and changed out of her pajamas to work in the fields, Shuri finally couldn't take listening to the player prattle on any longer. She tossed aside the watering can and demanded: "Could you let me get a good night's sleep?" * After NPC Shuri escaped the game, Pudding-Head received a reply from the game company: [Thank you for promoting our game. The technical department has checked the user data and found no problems. Shuri's escape may be due to other factors. Our company will assign someone to handle this matter. Could you arrange a time to hand Shuri over?] Hand her over? Shuri? Pudding-Head fell silent. Shuri, sitting on the bed, suddenly sat up. "Kenma! I want ice cream." As if she'd already anticipated him refusing with reasons like "I don't have enough allowance," "You can't eat ice cream in winter," or "You'll be taken away for research if you eat ice cream," Shuri was already sulking. But when she turned around, she saw her player character staring at her. That look This was clearly his Shuri. He didn't need to hand her over to anyone. Pudding-Head lowered his eyes and quietly deleted the email. "Come on. I'll take you to buy ice cream." Theme: The evil forces lurking in the darkness will be defeated