"Amamiya, what do you pn to do iure?"

  As they ehe peaceful atmosphere, Sonoko shifted the versation toward the future.

  "What are yoals?"

  "I haven't really thought about it."

  Ren had never beeo pn too far ahead.

  Maybe it was because of his indifferent personality, but he had always lived in the moment, taking things oep at a time.

  He had no crete vision for the future.

  "What about you, Suzuki?"

  "What do you want to do iure?"

  "If you'd asked me before, I would have said I'd find a boyfriend aually take over the Suzuki family business."

  Even though she didn't seem like the type to say something so serious, Sonoko still repeated what her parents had always expected of her.

  "Iing the family business, huh? That makes sense."

  Ren wasn't surprised.

  Sonoko might seem carefree on the surface, but she had her reliable side too.

  She uood her responsibilities.

  That wasn't something he had gathered from the story, it was something he had e to realize from spending just two days with her.

  This girl isn't as frivolous as she seems.

  That was the impression he had formed over the past couple of days.

  Hearialk about iing the family business only firmed what he had already suspected.

  It was a natural result of her upbringing in the Suzuki family.

  "The Suzuki family's business is massive. Managing it alone would be a huge challenge."

  "Finding the right partner would definitely help share the burden."

  "I think you're more responsible than you let on, Suzuki."

  Sonoko's eyes curved into a smile.

  "Thanks."

  "I thought you'd just brush it off as a joke."

  "Why would I?"

  Ren shook his head, dismissing the idea.

  "My uanding of you before was based oory."

  "Because you're so obsessed with appearances, I assumed you were just a fangirl."

  "But after getting to know you, I realized you actually keep a certain distance from people."

  "You're not a fangirl, you just have a preference food-looking faces."

  "If you were a fangirl, you'd be chasing after celebrities or elites from high society."

  A true fangirl or a socialite would naturally gravitate toward the wealthy and powerful.

  But Sonoko was different. She had a clear distin between what she liked and what she chased after.

  Otherwise, with her status and pyful personality, she would have already been involved in all sorts of extravagant social circles.

  Ren had learhis lesson in his previous life, never uimate how wild the upper css could be.

  They really knew how to indulge themselves.

  "Hehe~ No one's ever told me that before. You're the first."

  Sonoko stared at him with amusement.

  "Then tell me, do I seem like the type to flirt with every guy I meet?"

  "Well… not really. Iory, you're just someone who really likes good-looking people."

  "In that case, the me from the story must be way worse than I am in real life."

  Sonoko ughed, not particurly ed about how she ortrayed iory.

  "She's probably different from the way I actually am."

  "More reckless. More idealistic."

  She could make an educated guess about what her character iory was like.

  Overall, they weren't too different, but the story version of her seemed far more impulsive, while she herself was more rational.

  Just look at what was written about her future.

  The idea of a hero resg her? That alone showed how unrealistic the story could be.

  "Yeah, she's definitely more willful."

  Thinking back to Sonoko iory, Ren agreed that there was a noticeable difference.

  The real Sonoko was also willful, but she always stayed withiain boundaries.

  "You said that was before, so what about now?"

  "Now? I want to step into the world of the extraordinary."

  Sonoko didn't avoid the question.

  "A world of mysteries?"

  "Yeah, something like that."

  It wasn't surprising.

  Ren himself was already deeply involved in that world.

  And as an ordinary person, he uood that curiosity better than anyone.

  There's a saying, If I hear the truth in the m, I could die tent by evening.

  "It's not pletely impossible."

  "But I 't say when it'll happen."

  "After all, the diary doesn't choose its owners based on my opinion."

  "Yeah, I figured as much."

  Sonoko nodded.

  "But still, I'll be looking forward to the day luck finally falls on me."

  She took a deep breath, feeling a rush of excitement.

  But she mao keep her emotions in check.

  "Since we're talking about it, what about you, Amamiya? What do you want to do iure?"

  "Whether it's something long-term or just a short-term goal."

  "If it's just a short-term goal, I do have a few things in mind."

  Ren had hought much about his long-term future.

  But if he were to talk about immediate objectives, thehere were a few.

  "I want to reach Sequence 0 in three paths, climb to the peak of the Sequence Road, and search for a way forward."

  "Then, I want to visit another world a a certain iing man."

  "I want to say hello, see his rea, and watch his face twist in shock."

  "But that's a distant goal."

  "In the near future, I just want to keep advang on the Sequence Road."

  "And I want to observe the paths taken by various characters iory."

  "This is something I never imagined being able to do before, but now it's right in front of me. I want to experience more iing things firsthand."

  "No Game No Life?"

  Sonoko immediately caught onto what Ren was thinking.

  "That fits your current situation perfectly."

  "Accumuting strength, ying the foundation, seeing more of the world through your own eyes—"

  "And little by little, w your way to the top."

  "Sounds pretty iing, doesn't it?"

  At that moment, she realized the real reason behind Ren's seemingly id-back attitude.

  It wasn't that he was zy, he simply didn't have a grand life goal.

  He didn't like rigid pnning.

  He preferred taking things oep at a time, ag only after he had a strategy in pce.

  A pletely free-spirited approach.

  "But, Amamiya, there's no one else in your life goal."

  "You're used to being alone, aren't you?"

  Sonoko caught onto that detail immediately.

  She smiled.

  "Amamiya, take a guess—"

  "Do you think the diary responds to people with strong desires?"

  "If I were one of the characters iory, would it reay wishes?"

  Would it?

  Ren fell silent for a moment.

  "It probably would."

  "Amamiya, that's the wrong answer."

  "You should've said no—"

  "Otherwise, how I pce a bet with you?"

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