Love Is Like a Bubble

"One o'clock direction..."

Fujino was driving when he heard the system notification. He raised his wrist to glance at his watch, then looked toward the indicated direction.

Then he spotted a familiar person by the roadside.

It was the unicorn girl.

Mori Ran was standing at the counter of a butcher shop, dressed in simple casual clothes. She wore a white long-sleeved shirt underneath a light-purple hoodie, with brown pants wrapped around her legs.

Although it was only a plain outfit, her lovely figure made it seem anything but simple, even giving her the air of a model.

With Ran appearing alongside the task, Fujino was not surprised in the least.

Everything was exactly as expected.

"Well, Ran is basically a death magnet. It's only natural for her to run into something deadly when she goes out alone."

"Perfect. Someone in Beika was going to die again today!"

"I just wondered who today's lucky bystander would be..."

Fujino mused to himself before turning his gaze toward the system interface in front of him.

A task briefing immediately appeared before his eyes:

System Task: Love Is Like a Bubble

Task Overview: Lovers were like bubbles—fragile memories that shattered at a touch... A woman separated from her lover by life and death, a date on their anniversary, a deranged pursuer—this chain of circumstances led to the final tragedy.

Task Objective: None for now

Basic Task Reward: ???

"Love... a bubble?"

Fujino could not quite make heads or tails of this System Task.

There was no objective, and the reward was a question mark. What the hell was he supposed to do with that?

Although the system had become a little more user-friendly after its upgrade, the lack of a specific objective gave someone as indecisive as him a headache.

"I'll