play dumb, feign ignorance / (slang) evade one's responsibilities, especially by failing to appear to perform a duty

wake up / stay up, stay awake / get up, sit up / occur, happen

to feign ignorance, to play dumb, to pretend to not know or understand something

直ぐに: immediately

直ぐ: immediately, right away, soon / 直ぐ: quick to / 直ぐ: right next to, right close by

straight, not bent

(obsolete) 過ぐ: classical form of modern 過ぎる (sugiru, “to go through, to go past; to exceed”)

(obsolete) 挿ぐ: classical form of modern 挿げる (sugeru, “to connect or affix one thing to another, especially by passing something through something else”)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

rapidly