V2 Chapter 2

(Not good, it become hard to live in reality)

PART 1

Today is the day I did my part time.

I as usual, went to work at a coffee shop ‘Roleplay’ in the shopping district.

After I enter from the front door---

Sitting behind the counter, a ponytail girl was giving me a nasty smile.

Looking younger than her age, she was this shop’s owner and I called her “Master”.

Anyhow, that creepy smile must be that she meant to immediately push her works to me. I know it because it’s a usual thing.

That severe RPG-lover master had a habit to confine herself in a game room with an excuse.

Properly do your work. You’re already an adult.

“What is that, that smile? Today, please do your job properly at the counter.”

Before she secluded herself, I took the initiative to tell her.

“Ara, ara ara ara, s-ca-ry.”

Master brought her two hands to her face and showed me her moist eyes. Furthermore, with upturned eyes. Oe-. (Puke sfx)

“Even if you do that, it’s not cute!”

“What is that~, you’re cruel! Moreover, I haven’t said anything.”

“Without saying it, I know. You gonna leave your work to me and play games, right.”

“Because I don’t want to work.”

“Easily revealed your true intention huh.”

“Aa, it’s because I didn’t get a lottery maybe? Although I can do an early retirement if I get it.”

“There are, aren’t there. The people who said that kind of thing.  Come to think of it, then why you opened a coffee lounge? You don’t want to work, right?”

“Somehow, because I think it’s fun.”

“Wow, a line from the sample of a useless person.”

“However, I’m relieved since I have found a good part timer. Now, without worrying I can pla-.”

“Do your job!!”

Because it’s like this, I became confused as who is the employer and the owner. Well, if the one who came are regular customers, it wouldn’t be too busy so I would also do my best today.

“Then, 30 minutes only.”

Master raised up her three fingers to my direction.

“……thirty minutes huh….. I’ve no choice, though I’m unwilling. Then, I will manage this shop by myself, though I‘m unwilling.”

Well, as game time, I would able to concede about 30 minutes. Because I felt indebted to her. Though, I’m unwilling.

“Yay!  You boy is a nice person. I love you ♡.”

“Uo!? D-disgusting! S-stop!”

I thrusted her away.

She pursed her lips, and innocently coming to hug me like a little girl.

Strange.

Until now, my FTDS hadn’t reacted to her, but for some reason, just now it came a bit? Perhaps, it’s because the unreasonable things in guild and reality, that made the condition worse, is it??

I became a little upset. She, who is oblivious to my feeling, had already returned here and now delightfully started to wear apron.

Oya? Even with only 30 minutes, suddenly she felt like working?

“H, huh? You don’t play games?”

“N? What?”

“….......You don’t say that 30 minutes……..”

Seeing her answering with face of full smiles, it hit me.

“You mean only work for 30 minutes, huh! Thiiiiis uselessss ownerrrr!!”

She raised a strangely cute voice “Kyuuun”.

I won’t forgive you, I won’t forgive youuuuuu!!

I took a hold at a knife with my right hand and swung it over her head.

“S, stop, T, timeout! O-only that please pardon meee”

Her sorrow scream was reverberating thorough the kitchen.

But I don’t care.

I grabbed her collar, and like that, I cut her blouse------

Without fighting back, she just breathed rapidly on my shoulder.

“…….Zeehaa, zehaa.”

“What’re you excited about?”

“Isn’t this your fault?”

This shop, is already doomed.

By the time I had already given up with this shop’s future.

Master handed me over a tray. On top of the tray, there are teapot, cup & a saucer. They gave off an aromatic fragrant.

“What is this?”

“This is customer’s order. That’s also your customer.”

Mine?

In the beginning, I didn’t know the meaning, but the fragrant of the milk tea in teapot soothe my mind.

When I set my sight to the window seat, there’s a petite girl looking my way. In her hands, there’s an A4 sized board and something is written there.

『I come to be your bride』

“Bu-!?”

I hastily drew close to her, and knock her board down.

“W-what’re you writing!!”

Even though I raised my voice, without fearing it, her cheek flushed in red.

She is Ayahane Shizuku. Shizuku（雫）in reality.

There’s a big gap in her personality, so I’m troubled as the usual I saw was a charming and slender figure also the exact opposite of her right now.

There were also parts that overlap with each other like her long black hair or big eyes.

Since she lived at the top of this building, as a regular customer, she frequently visited here.

Then, what?

As soon as we met, 『I come to be your bride』?

In this timing, as she said that…..

That mail at once came to my mind.

《It’s to the point that I want to marry you in the reality. 》

Then, that meant Shizuku is ------------ Hugues!?

No wait, wait, it can’t be. Maybe it’s that.

As the premise “Marrying with Knight-sama”, earlier than the other guild members, she wanted to appeal to me in reality. The so called ‘establish a claim’, that kind of feel.

There, my eyes met with hers.

While thinking that, I strangely became conscious of the reality before my eyes.

“H, hey….. perhaps Shizuku…. To me-“

『I come to take my husband』

“I didn’t say it’s okay if it’s the oppositeeeeee.”

It completely disturbed my pace.

※Business-like tone※ A, it’s a bit late but this time, I shall refer Shizuku-san’s board as 『』.

As I said “Please excuse me”, the words changed again.

『I come to ‘netori’』

“That’s even worse!”

『I come stickily (nettori)』

“Sometimes, a sticky feeling comes because one’s groveling?”

『I stir a boiling water up (nettou)』

“Wow there! Great there! S-stir it up is useless.”

『I stir a natto up』

(TL: Natto has a gooey consistency)

“Gooey huh, it’s related to stickiness again! But it’s delicious that I want it so much!”

『Will you form an engagement with me』

“I see, a word that subtly similar to natto, without thinking I want it more, but it’s wrongggg! Don’t secretly form an engagement with me!”

(TL: 納豆: natto,　結納: engagement)

Haa, haa, haa….. dangerous.

When I just relaxed, I almost had been done in.  In addition, if I was seen by master here….

“Huh, waa!?”

Before I realized it, master was already standing next to me so I unintentionally raised my voice. That’s also because, this shop is not wide enough that one can secretly do something.

As expected, Shizuku immediately erased the words on the board.

“Whaat? The talk is already proceeded to ‘engagement’ level?”

“N-no this isn’t like that.”

“What you’re talking about. Do it, do it, marry her with bang!”

“E, ue, ee!?”

Using her arms, master hold me onto her until our shoulders made contact.

As I saw my side, Shizuku’s face was really close that my heart felt like stopped. After all, it’s a distance where that crystal clear white cheek or that small glossy pink lips almost touched me.

Because I felt a serious danger, I escaped from master’s arms.

“It’s enough. You know, right? That I’m not good with 3D girls.”

“Ara, If you keep saying that, you can’t kiss kiss a girl, you know? It’s a good chance so how if I treat you with shock therapy? I thought it’s more fun than clearing sword of zodan.”

“No no, for clearing that, it’ll be impossible if you don’t work hard enough with preparedness of mental collapse while doing blood transfusion. Moreover, in my school life, that surreal zodan has been said to be one of four heavenly kings of shitty games so no one knows it! Though, I really want you to stop comparing anything to game.”

Did she understand that if she threw a strange comparing every time, I was also troubled? This person.

“Huh, on top of that, are you okay with it?”

“N? What?”

“It’s game, gaming. You want it, right? Today is special, I will manage the shop so it’s fine if you confine yourself.”

“E, really!? Don’t you say it’s a joke now?”

“I won’t”

“Yay, then I count on you.”

A reaction speed that amazed my eyes. That adult had impressively disappeared to the back of counter.

In general, I was also a useless person, but only that kind of adult, I didn’t want to be. At the moment I was thinking that.

Nevertheless, I’ve succeeded in driving away that troublesome person from here. As the price, all the works were entrusted to me, but it’s better than her staying here. Today, the customer is also only Shizuku.

There, I finally put the tray that I always hold down on the table. What’s on it was royal milk tea that was Shizuku’s order. It’s her usual order.

As I was putting the cup in front of Shizuku, who fixed her sitting posture, a book that was on top of table entered my sight.

【Everyday 10 minutes of voice training    Beginner】

It’s written largely on the front cover.

“This…. Is Shizuku’s?”

Even I asked, the reply wouldn’t come. Why? Because the real Shizuku completely didn’t speak. I heard she had a complex about her voice being the same as loli anime voice so ordinarily, she only spoke via board like just now.

That girl was doing voice training. There’s no way I wasn’t curious.

『Because it’s easy, I try it』

She embarrassedly raised the board from under the table.

“That’s a good thing, but I think it’s not a problem even if you don’t do voice training.”

Before, at the time I went to karaoke with guild members, an incident happened and she unintentionally let out her real voice, but it’s unexpectedly a beautiful voice.

However, since she had that complex, she became distressed that only her know what it felt, undoubtedly.

 『I will become voice actress』

“Haaaaaaaa!?”

I doubted my eyes for a second at the two words on board.

“V, voice actress?”

Koku, koku. (nod sfx)

Shizuku silently nodded.

“Shizuku will?”

Koku, koku.

What are you talking about!? I somehow resisted on saying that.

However, she who had never talked even one sentence, suddenly like skipping ten levels wanted to aim for voice-related job so it’s no wonder that my eyes became dots.

『Because, you praised my voice』

Shizuku’s cheek dyed in embarrassment.

Huh? Perhaps Shizuku wanted to be voice actress was my fault?

Because in karaoke previously, I said “Isn’t that a talent? Who knows if she one day will become a voice actress,” to the ones who ridiculed her loli anime voice?

Well, there’s not a shred of lie on those words.

Thinking back, maybe when I was in kindergarten? There’s a girl same like current Shizuku, I praised her and then she became enthusiastic about something.

As to what kind of subject it was, I entirely couldn’t remember because it’s already a distant memory.

Well, let’s leave it at that.

Certainly Shizuku’s voice was good. It was a very clear voice. Honestly, it’s not impossible for her to become voice actress if she did training….but.

“Hee, hee~……Isn’t it good for you? Then, do your best.”

After I gave my affirmation, she happily moved her marker on the board.

『See the result of my training』

“Result? It’s fine with me, what’re you gonna do?”

『See whether the shape of my mouth when I’m pronouncing is right or not』

“S, shape?”

No, there you should just speak normally. You aim for a voice-related job, right?

But, is that unexpectedly important? Well, regarding that, I’m also an amateur so I have no say in it. Perhaps it’s like the difference in seeing or not seeing text.

“O, okay come.”

What the heck will come? I was thinking so. In the first place, I didn’t know what the right one was.

Her state seems not to doubt me in the slightest. I sat on the opposite of Shizuku and waited for her to start.

Shizuku put aside the text and teaware and prepared a vacant spot.

Putting her two hands on the table, she stood up.

Her leg was tiptoeing.

Her upper half body inclined to the front and she raised her chin.

Closing her eyelids, she pursed her lips.

While maintain that posture, her face little by little came closer to my face-----------

Wait, wasn’t this voice training!?

Shizuku’s face with closed eyes looked a bit shy, and her mouth slightly quivered,

This was clearly a………  k-kissing position!?

The burdensome constitution in my body started to awaken.

For some reason, I felt dizzy? At the time I was thinking so.

GANN!!

As a loud voice like something was slammed reverberated, the astounded me and her hurriedly moved our body away from each other.

When I saw the window, there’s a person who pressed her face to window glass like a crushed frog.

A uniform and blonde twin-tail that I recognize.

That one is irrefutably my acquaintance.

 “H, Hime!?”

As she pressed her own cheek against the window, she stared at us with menacing look. It ruined her beauty.

As to why Hime knew this place, it’s because it had been discovered that I worked part time here when we’re on the way back from karaoke before. That’s why not only her, all members knew it.

Then, I’m back to my talk before, Hime, who separated her face from window, with a strong momentum ran to the shop entrance, and after violently hitting the doorbell, she invaded the shop.

“What the!? Now what are you doing!”

The girl was catching her breath with “Zehaa”. Her hair is a bit disheveled but she’s still the same as ever, a perfect beauty.

 『Etto, we’re doing some voice training』

“There’s no way it is! Somehow, your speaking style is refined! Besides, usually you never use polite language to me.”

Here, even if I said, “But, it’s really a voice training,” she wouldn’t have believed it. After all, no matter how you look at it, it didn’t look like that.

“Originally why are you doing voice training? Is there a need for that?”

“Aa it’s like this, Shizuku se-.”

(TL : se of seiyuu :voice actress)

When I look at Shizuku, she appealed to me with her eyes that embarrassedly told me “Don’t say it.” 

I think it was fine even if you revealed it, but I didn’t need to force her if she didn’t want to.

“Uh se, se, ze, zensoku (asthma)! Yes, that’s right. Shizuku recently get asthma so we are exercising her throat. That’s why we do voice training…..”

“Asthma huh….. fu~n.”

Hime didn’t seem convinced at my quick reply, but for some reason, she didn’t inquire further.

She sat down on the seat straight ahead to Shizuku and calmed herself down.

“More importantly, can you write your name here?”

As she sat, Hime quickly handed me over a clipboard attached with a piece of paper that appeared out of nowhere. Apparently, this was her purpose for coming here.

“What is this?”

“I think I want to make a record of guild members’ house address in reality. C’mon, if something happened, it’ll be convenient right?”

“House address huh….”

“Can you write somewhere around the top? Aa, a bit left. Yes, around there.”

Though I’m reluctant, I moved the pen tip to the place designated by her, and I without any doubt wrote my name. Following, when I was just about to write my address,

“Okay, it’s fine with only that. From here on, I’ll do something about it.”

“Ha? What do you mean by “do something about it”.”

“Ee!? N, no, it’s nothing. Just talking to myself.”

Very suspicious. Extremely suspicious.

To begin with, making a record of house addresses without me writing the address, what kind of record that is.

Somehow, I felt a really bad premonition and unintentionally dropped the clipboard from my hand for the first time. Then, when I see it properly, it looks like it’s not just one piece.

“I-Immediately return it to me.”

Perhaps she was aware that I’d realized it, she hastily tried to steal the clipboard from me.

My intuition told me that, “I shouldn’t hand it over to her,” and pulled my arm. After I dodged Hime’s extended hand, the front paper flipped.

What appeared beneath was something like a document.

PART 2

Moreover, the front paper seemed to be a carbonic paper. For some reason, beside my name which I’ve written on the top left earlier, there is a neatly written name “Kujiyou Kiri” that is Hime’s real name.

Naturally, my vision went towards the top of this document, and there was written---------

【Marriage Registration】

“Yes!? Tte-woa!!”

As I was just about to confirm it, the paperclip was stolen.

“Just now, ‘Marriage’ is in there!”

“Huh? What thing?”

“I’m certain it was there! ‘Marriage Registration’ was written there!”

No matter how I insisted on it, she just stood there with her cheeks dyed in crimson red.

“Well it is fine, anyhow because of my and Hime’s age, even if it submitted, it won’t be accepted.”

“Fu~n, I’ll tightly preserve it, and when the time has come, I’ll just give it to the appropriate place.”

“As expected, isn’t it marriage registration!!”

“Ha-!?”

Oh damn. I just blurted out the truth. Hime made a face like that.

Unexpectedly easy to trap.

“Th-this is that one! Just like a written oath! The draft that the person who invites the most guild members can marry Knight-sama had fallen to pieces, right? Then, I think I want to arrange a profitable terms faster than other guild members, it’s common, right?”

“It’s uncommon! What kind of profit!”

“Ee….That, y-you see, ‘If you don’t marry with me in online, I will submit this offline’, I can threaten you, right?”

“What a foul play!”

Whichever way the matter ended, what would await me was a scene of carnage.

Even Hime made an appeal to marry Knight-sama.

However, I somehow couldn’t get it.

U-n…..

Magnificently ignoring my resentment, while her face was brimming with triumphant smile, Hime packed the marriage registration into her bag.

“Fufufu, bark all you want. The trump card is already in my han- aaaaaaaaaa!?”

Suddenly, Hime uttered a high-pitched piercing scream.

I didn’t understand what happened for a moment, but when I set my sight on table, the teapot had collapsed and the flowing hot milk tea was dripping onto Hime’s skirt.

“Hot!”

Hime pinched her skirt hem and fluttered her skirt, but it’s a poison to my eyes.

“This, still hasn’t been used for even once.”

Saying that, I hurriedly handed her a new unit of cloth.

“Ee!? Aa, even though you’re Keita, aren’t you thoughtful. I’ll use it.”

Well, she wasn’t honest. After all, she had that troublesome personality.

Just now, did she call me Keita?

In offline, Hime usually called me Knight-sama. Why so sudden? It’s not like I care but what cause her change of heart?

Shizuku, who kind of saw our exchange, pouted a bit…..or rather stared at us with an envious face. Noticing it, Hime immediately vented her anger at Shizuku.

“Shizuku! You deliberately had it fell over right!”

Looks like the falling teapot was her deed. However, the person in question just made a disappointed look.

The hotness is not to the level of being burned, but still she was going too far.

There, Shizuku quickly raised her board.

『The target isn’t Hime. Just unluckily caught up in it』

“Ha? Target? What is that?”

The frowning Hime asked that, and Shizuku silently pointed her finger.

At the direction of her supple fingertip was a wet marriage registration which had become brown by milk tea.

“Aaaaaa!? Wait this, what do I do! Quickly something to wipe, something to wipe! Aa really, It’s already fine huh, It’s tornnnnnn kyaaaaaa!?”

As it was completely drenched with water, because she rub it too strongly with the cloth I gave, the marriage registration easily torn up.

When Hime impatiently tried to find a way to repair it, the marriage registration had already tattered to pieces like eraser remains.

『Mission complete』

“What the heck is mission complete! Even though I thought it’s going well, you ruined it. I’m pretty embarrassed since I received it from government office, okay?”

Aa, so she received it normally…..Hmm, I see.

Hime drooped her head like she was broken heart.

Which reminded me, as she too absorbed in thinking about the marriage registration, but her body was still drenched by milk tea. 

If I looked closely, the brown color was even splashed on her shirt. It’s not like she would catch a cold, but it should be uncomfortable for her. It even become stain on her clothes.

Then, I proposed.

“Hey, there’s a uniform for part timer in the backroom, if you’re fine with it, how about you wear it until yours dry? Because there are washing machine and dryer, we can also clean wet clothes.”

“E…. U, un.”

She made a surprised face for a second, but unusually and obediently nodded.

“Shizuku, we’re going inside a bit, if there’s a guest, please tell me. I will immediately go out.”

When I requested that, loneliness and displeasure mixed in her expression.

However, this was priority.

I and Hime hastily went towards the back of the shop.

Even though I said it’s a back room, it’s a building no different from a private house, consisted of a tatami (four and a half tatami mats) for mainly owner’s gaming and resting place, small bath, changing room, and a small closet. There weren’t especially conspicuous or amusing things.

I took out a uniform wrapped with vinyl from closet.

It’s prepared for a girl part timer but since this shop opened, there wasn’t any part timer other than me so it was unused.

As I was thinking the size was small (S) for Hime, since there wasn’t any other, I handed it over to Hime.

“Okay, this. Please change your clothes in changing room. The washing machine is also there so adequately use it.”

“….Un.”

While feeling discomfort at her obedience, I saw her off.

After a few minutes, as I was thinking it took too long, I went to changing room and knocked the door.

In here, I needed to be careful as to not end up like many rom-com’s situation. Mostly they inadvertently opened the door and ran into a girl in the middle of changing, theoretically like that.

Well, I’m not going to do that okay?

Because I also had a custom body constitution, I had an antenna that worked hard to avoid that situation.

“Already finished changing? Is it okay if I open the door?”

“I-It’s fine.”

After confirming it once again, I opened the door.

I gulped at Hime’s appearance that came from inside.

The one who was standing there, was a cute maid.

An orthodox maid clothes with basic black and white blouse. On top of her blonde hair, she demurely put on a hair dress.

Since I never confirm what it was in that vinyl, I never thought that it’ll be this kind of frilly maid uniform.

I mean, what did master think when she prepared this uniform? Was she going to open a maid café??

D, don’t tell me…… She was going to wear it herself!?

Burr..Burr..Burr…(cold sfx), I had an unpleasant delusion.

But still, that cloth maid really looked good at Hime. As expected, it’s a bit small for her as it looked cramped at the blouse front button, but it still looked good.

However, opposite to what I thought, she embarrassedly hugged her own body with her hands.

“So Keita has this hobby….”

“No, it’s not my hobby! I’ve also never seen this uniform, so I don’t have any ulterior motives, okay.”

“It’s okay, I understand. You want to see me in this uniform, right?”

“I never said that kind of thing.”

“I can look through what you’re thinking. Thinking this is a good opportunity, you brought me to this dim quiet place…… You must be thinking of r,r,r-raping me, right!”

“R,raping!? What are you saying suddenly, there’s no way I’m thinking like that!”

“No, those eyes are those of a beast that want to hunt his prey.”

“I get it. So you usually view me as a wild animal!”

“Because I said that, then that’s right.”

“What an unreasonable….”

I thought this. She had issued complaints from earlier and yet, she embarrassedly trying to hide her body, what is it? Hmm.

I also felt this before, but why Hime, her persecution complex towards ero was getting fiercer? 

“A-anyway, catching your prey, doing that deed to satisfy your desire was instinct as an animal. That’s why it can’t be helped.”

“What are you talking….”

“Yes, it can’t be helped. You can touch a bit, b-because that’s based on your instinct. That’s why…. If it’s just a bit…..it’s okay, you know?”

Saying that, she puffed up her bulging chest as her clothes tightly wrapped around her chest.

“Ofu!? What are you doing! I completely don’t demand it!”

“E, really?”

“Didn’t I say that from the beginning. What delusions you are having.”

Hime just stared blankly. Maybe she couldn’t afford to relax her mind.

The moment she sighed a relief,

Putsun.

A sound like that, the button in front of her chest was burst.

Of course, what appeared from the gap is a light blue bra and a bit of her white bulging chest that was covered by it.

“Hi!?”

Grasping the situation, Hime’s face was dyed in red from her neck like a thermometer.

However, I also couldn’t regain a calm composure after seeing all of those.

It had come in one stroke.

Even though I had kept in mind to be careful, this was just too much of a surprise attack!

As usual, I felt a hot sensation like something pierced through my soul.

And then today I once again, was invited to a white world.

×　×　×

“Somehow, I made it….”

The weekend had ended and school day started.

I gasped for breath in front of a bus stop that I usually didn’t use.

As to why I suddenly went here, the bike that I often used for going to school broke down and its chain was snapped, and I hadn’t still repaired it.

Since it seemed I was going to be late, I ran in full speed from my house, but now it looked like it’s alright.

Nevertheless, yesterday was terrible.

As master found the collapsed me in the backroom, I was brought to inner tatami room and I still hadn’t gotten any better even being given treatment.

After I woke up, somehow it became ‘on top of bringing her to changing room to wear the maid uniform, I attacked her, and forced her into that kind of play’, and getting stared by master and Shizuku.

Even though Hime could deny it, she didn’t and what the heck was going on!?

That’s why it only brought up an embarrassing memory.

Because of this, I hate reality.

Yes, that’s right. I should have despised reality from a long time ago. I forgot that.

Aa, not going to school, not going to part time, I wanted to be holed up in game!

Inside me, those things should have been an Eden for me. (Being a nekama)

However, reality was cruel, I needed money to pay for monthly flat rate in ZX, so I had to work part time, and I would inevitably bound to reality.

Haa…. A tough world.

In the middle of thinking that, a bus has arrived as to push me back into reality.

Via Minamiuraga station, I could go to Uraga School.

I heavily set my foot on the bus.

I had said it before that I usually didn’t go with bus, but I decided to ride it and there was a seat. It was a seat behind Mr. driver. It looked like the tires was protruding below my feet. I also didn’t get it but I liked it there.

Well, that’s only if the seat was vacant, and I saw that seat while thinking that.

Sure enough, someone had sit there.

The other seats were also occupied, almost everyone was from my school. I’ve no choice so I went towards the seat behind my favorite seat. And then,

“Sagimiya-kun, good morning!”

Suddenly I heard a voice.

It was a greeting from a girl that sat in front of me. It’s so abrupt that my eyes turned round. Perhaps she cared for me, she said, “Today, the weather is good,” and strike up a conversation with me.

I knew her. She was my classmate, Kudou Misaki.

A well-kept curled hair and a likeable natural make up. Even though she wore the same uniform with me, I felt that there was something different like it’s a different uniform from me, so strange. A being that I wouldn’t be able to be in my lifeti-……… Well, briefly saying, she’s a riajuu.

Now, I didn’t know why that person called out to the otaku me.

It wasn’t just today.

It always happened after the opening ceremony ended. Like every day, she always appeared before me and carelessly approached me. This was so frustrating for my body.

For quite a while, she had directed her smile to me. If I didn’t talk about something, it would be awkward.

Then, I fearfully tried to ask her.

“Y-you always use this bus?”

“Uun (no), I usually go by bike.”

“Aa….. so it’s like that.”

If it’s like this, the conversation was going nowhere. This was the disparity between riajuu and the NEET me.

“Because Sagimiya-kun is using bus today, Misaki also wants to try it.”

“Yes? W-why do you know that?”

“After all, your usual bike, its chain was broken, right. That’s why.”

“Ee!? Why the heck do you even know that!”

“If it’s about Sagimiya-kun, I know everything. When you went back from school before, your bike suddenly broke down in front of the tennis court at Seijo school. Come to think of it, on the day after opening ceremony, there’s a heavy rain and we went by bus together just like this. Aa, your dinner yesterday was curry, that’s so delicious, and you even add tomatoes.”

The chain was snapped, the heavy rain, the yesterday’s dinner was curry, everything was right. 

However, I never met her at the actual places. But even so, she talked like we had experienced them together.

Especially, to bring out fruity flavour in my family’s curry, we add tomatoes.

Why do you even know the flavour? Too scary!

Seeing that smiling girl, I felt a shiver down my spine.

“Don’t tell me…. You always see me until now?”

“Haha, there’s no way. I just coincidentally see you.”

“Haha, ohh--- so, it’s a coincidence.”

“Aa, this seat, it’s Sagimiya-kun’s favourite, right. I properly reserve it, so here you go.”

“Here you go huh, it’s not a coincidence at alllll!”

Furthermore, I sat down in reflex. In addition ….warm.

There was still a lingering body temperature of her buttoc-

Eh, it’s not that.

For my every behaviour and habit being leaked to her, it was scary and cruel. It’s to the level that it wasn’t strange for her to know my best 3 sushi topping in a conveyor-belt sushi.

No, it’s wrong. It’s more than that.

For example, it’s to the level that she could grasp the length of the toilet paper I used in my house’s toilet yesterday.

I thought she just approached me at school only. However in fact, she also quietly observed me outside school. At least after the ceremony ended and until now.

Moreover, I didn’t realize it.

This was, the so-called stalker?

“Kudou-san.”

“Please call me Misaki.”

“Ue? Mi, Misaki!?”

“If you want, “Misamisa” is also fine.”

“No, then I will go with Misaki. Hmm, I can’t believe it but…. Perhaps Misaki-san is s-stalker?”

“N?”

“Eh, no…”

PART 3

This was bad.

I asked, “Are you stalker” to a stalker? Even I asked, the reply shouldn’t had come. I didn’t know whether she had a subjective symptom or not.

I meant, why me? You won’t earn anything from stalking me, you know? I still had my Mic-donald’s coupon, though. Green onion burger, delicious.

Furthermore, this girl recently was strange in school.

Particularly since I met her in the karaoke, I thought her atmosphere had changed a little.

Somehow her tension became higher than before, but it’s still in a positive way.

Why did she suddenly come here?

Maybe she had something in her mind?

The moment my mind was dominated by those restless thought, maybe it’s a gift from God, the bus had arrived at the destination.

Thrusting other students aside, I hurriedly got down from bus and proceeded to run towards school gate.

For some reason, it became unbearable and insecure to be next to her.

“Sagimiya-kun, wait!”

I heard those sweet voice behind me, but without looking back, I just looked ahead and continued to walk.

As long as I entered the classroom, there are other people so since Misaki-san’s friends were also there, tentatively it’s safe at school.

Getting out from the wave of students, I approached the gate.

There, I found a creature who stared here attentively from bush beside the gate.

Two long white ears, they extended from below the bush. That was an electric mouse with a round eyes.

【Golchuu】

I’d seen that Golchuu parker before. Or rather, I’d seen it too much.

Her big black eyes under the hood locked eyes with mine.

Even though she should had realized me, she just stood still and stared at me.

After seeing that, I felt like I couldn’t let it be, and my legs naturally moved towards the bush.

As I stepped closer, she retracted her face back into the bush. Perhaps she planned to hide, but those long ears were still showing outside.

“Still, that golchuu really suits Shizuku.”

I used a sarcasm as I said that, but she suddenly stuck half of her head out of the bush with her cheeks flushed red.

“So, is it okay for a guardian(enemy) of a specific territory(excluder) to loaf around there?”

『I’m patrolling whether there are invasions in that area』

A white board appeared from the bush.

The usual Shizuku.

That shut-in aka enemy excluder Shizuku, couldn’t go outside without wearing her golchuu parker except in her territory, her house and role play café.

“Patrol huh…”

I glared at her because of her extremely unnatural response.

After a brief silence,

Maybe she couldn’t stand it, she took an initiative.

『What a coincidence』

“Really?”

『Of course』

“I’m assessing what you have in mind, but why I’m still unconvinced!”

I would be troubled if the count of stalkers increased anymore.

“Then, what is your actual reason for coming here?”

『This is my first step for becoming a voice actress』

“N? How so?”

Shizuku started to write a lo~ng sentence.

『Come back to school à Everyday go to school with Keita à Chat and giggle à Graduate from high school à Marry Keita à Voice actress』

“Wait a bit! There’re many strange things! How can you suddenly become a voice actress with that kind of flow!? And how can you put “marry” so nonchalantly!”

『Yay』

“Not yay! Don’t mislead thing any further! Well, I ‘m unwilling for the marry part but for now, I want to clarify this. Are you not going to stop aiming for voice actress halfway? Ordinarily, you should’ve gone through some development, right?”

『Don’t worry, I have a talent』

“Here it comes, her strange confidence.”

『The one who dig out my talent à』

“Yes, it’s my fault.”

『That why let's go to school once again together』

Shizuku lightly said that, but her body was honest.

Her petite body was slightly trembling.

It’s not like it was cold or anything. After all, now was summer.

That was perhaps, the reaction of being exposed to the whole school.

Originally, Shizuku should’ve been the same as me with her class beside of mine, but now she wasn’t going to school & became a shut-in.

Being like that, I was afraid that it had a relation with her miracle loli voice. It’s an anime voice that I couldn’t imagine coming from her outer appearance. Because of her voice, the surrounding’s reactions were like that. It made her recoil in fear, and it evolved to a trauma, right?

I remembered the karaoke a few days before. Being laughed at by her classmates, she seemed to want to cry even now, I have to engrave it firmly in my mind.

“Are you sure you’re fine?”

I was seriously worried about her and asked that.

It’s fine if she would not immediately go back to school, I thought it’s better if she gradually grew used to school once again. If that was impossible, then she didn’t have to go to school.

『What is?』

“Aren’t you trembling? Look, your hand is shaking.”

『What? I, don’t under-stand』*using katakana*

“Really, even if you write a broken Japanese like a foreigner, you can’t fake it.”

『It’s not good if I’m honest』

“E?”

『It’s not good if I breath』

“W, what? Breath?”

When I saw her, her face was deathly white before I knew it. She was holding her chest like she was in pain. Because it’s too sudden, I panicked.

“O-oi! Are you okay!?”

『M-my right eye…. whose power was sealed, was aching』

“What??”

Bending her body forward, she raised the board with one hand.

『Finally, my awakening time has come』

“Oi…..”

『M, my body, is eaten away by DG cells』(Gundam reference)

“Enough is enough!”

Raising her head, Shizuku’s face complexion has returned the same as always.

Really… made me worried there.

Well, this was not the first time…. Hmm.

But, I was really surprised and I became uneasy. I’d better make sure of it.

“Anyway, don’t do the impossible.”

As I said that, Shizuku became quiet and stared at me. Perhaps it’s just my imagination that her cheeks looked red.

By the way, since she planned to go to school, coming here meant did she properly wear the school uniform underneath that golchuu?

The moment I was thinking that.

“Finally I catch up. Because Sagimiya-kun goes first by himself, Misaki is exhausted~.”

That was Misaki-san whom I rode with on the bus. Right now, that smile seemed unpleasant.

After arriving, she realized the golchuu existence who was beside me.

As their eyes met, there was a moment of silence.

I knew that Misaki-san went to the same school as Shizuku, they were even together at the karaoke before.

That’s why they should be acquaintance but,

“Sagimiya-kun, quickly come. We will be late.”

She ignored Shizuku and started dragged me by pulling my arm.

‘E, oi!? W, wait!”

Surprisingly her power was strong, Misaki-san dragged me towards the school gate.

Or rather, suddenly grabbing my arm unhesitatingly like that really made me troubled! My body!

Anxiously seeing me who was getting further, she restlessly followed me. However, as she couldn’t step in from gate onwards no matter what, she just clung to the gate and sent me a sad look.

“Wait Misaki-san, wait! My talk with Shizuku is still--------“

“Shizuku? Where is that kind of person? Misaki doesn’t know. Or rather c’mon faster.”

“As if! Just now your eyes just met!”

When my hand was still grabbed near the gate, a passing student sent me a painful look of “What what? Is this a lover’s quarrel?”

From the wave of students, a familiar face appeared.

A long hair and a pair of black-edge glasses, a usual style with his open finger leather gloves.

Kamogawa Kyouya, my only otaku friend.

He looked at the three of us and,

“Oo Keita-shi, good morni- this isssssss!?”

Raised a strange voice.

“Is this a bloodbath!? The real bloodbath!? What the….. without me knowing, Keita-shi has become popular like in gal game. I’m jealous….. damnnnnn!”

After looking at three of us by turn, he hold his head with his hands and uttered an agonizing voice.

“Arghhhhh”

“O-oi calm down.”

“Furthermore, what is that child?”

“Huh?”

Whom he pointed at was Shizuku who clung to the gate.

“I like a little girl. I like a little girl.”

“You don’t need to say it twice!”

“Y, y, you are satisfied with little girl? Y, y, you are satisfied with little girl?”

“Shut up!!”

Then, Kyouya became silent, and slowly raised his head.

He weakly laughed.

“Ku,ku,ku…. Keita-shi, I, I…..”

“E, K-Kyouya-san?”

“….It’s already so long that I went nuts.”

“Don't you go nuts too fast!?”

“Fuu, we need a suitable punishment for the traitor. It’s a compensation to cease my anger. Piki-n.”

(Piki-n : image)

While chucking to himself, what he took out from his rucksack was 【Totocal Konoha-chan】figurine. That was a girl that I declared to be “My number one wife.”

Kyouya excitedly brought my wife closer to his mouth.

“You…. You don’t say..”

“Riajuu Keita-shi already, doesn’t need Konoha-chan anymore.”

“Why a Hakata dialect!?”

It’s not the time to stay idle. At this rate, Konoha-chan first kiss would be stolen by Kyouya.

“Like I’ll let you.”

To avoid the worst case, I reached out to Kyouya. But I completely forgot that one of my arm was being tightly grabbed by Misaki-san.

“Huh!?”

“Kyaa!?”

I barely recaptured Konoha-chan from Kyouya’s evil hand, but because I forcibly dragged my hand, Misaki-san lost her posture and got on top of me.

Just like that, we fell on the ground.

Usually, I should say, “It’s hurt….,” but it completely didn’t hurt. More importantly, I became curious to the thing that touched me from above.

My face slipped into the middle of something soft and moderately big.

Un, I could only think of something bad.

After I got out from something like a soft cushion, there was Misaki-san who looked at her two hills with exciting, embarrassing, and complicated expressions.

“Kyau-n ♪”

She groaned like that.

I didn’t need to explain what happened after this, right?

Just like yesterday, my vision went white.

Chi-n.

After that, what I heard was Misaki-san didn’t have any injury.

Shizuku also went back home.

However….. I’ve had enough, this kind of reality!

My feeling to want to hole up in ZX was increasing.

×××

[Subject] Invitation activity

[Sender] Hugues (kishisama666@motmail.co.jp)

[Recipient] Keita (wan_U-x-U@pocomoco.co.jp)

《Today, I’ll do my best at inviting guild members.

After all, our happy future depend on this.

Aa, talking about happiness,

Now, I felt very happy, it’s all thanks to you.

The “promise” that time.

That encouraged me.

That’s why, right now is my turn to make you happy.

I like you.

----------- truly like you》

After finishing the lessons in school, as I went back to home, I just realized something from the email.

What kind of “promise”?

Perhaps did I just raise a flag without me realizing it?

I felt like only unfortunate things came to me.

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