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PART 1

*Online*

I will only say this.

2D world is the best.

When the power that was sealed in my body suddenly awakened, I was like how strong I am.        

Abruptly, something unexpected occurred like surrounded by bunch of girls, then it became a harem situation.                                                                                                                

Writing and spelling a youth graffiti (harem) is an impossible situation in real life, while in manga and anime, those self-projected protagonists could be soaked in such a state.

Yes, in 2D world, there were full of dreams.

Including game. Especially the planning beforehand in the recent MMORPG is not half-hearted.

It’s like the world is incorporated like the real one.

I was born in another world, and raised in it. If only those illusions are real.

Also because the next gen gaming device [ESG] had the headgear which powered by artificial sense, it’s a lot of work to do.

When I stand on green field, the air felt so good that it’s strange.

From the people who walked on a not busy street and the commotion in bazaar, the scent of life is very rich.

Doing shopping, chatting, fishing on the entire day, laying myself on the prairie while gazing at the blue sky to spend time.

However, there were times where unfold a life threatening fight with demons and monsters ----- Well, it happened occasionally.

The life in this world, is more real than the reality.

This “ZX Welt Online” led to a very great sensation.

Affinity? I think it’s good.

“As expected ZX is very comforting…”

I, Sagamiya Keita, in my avatar [Riel] appearance nodded with relief.

The one who is projected on the water surface of fountain beside, is a girl with the neat impression nodding in admiration.

The cleric in priest clothes is my appearance in this world. The so-called “Nekama”.

Before this, there was a disturbance between the guild members. In offline meeting, being mistaken as the one who controlled [Knight-sama] character, and this Riel avatar account being stolen, then the embarrassing poem that I wrote was taken hostage, and so I became the one who controls that [Knight-sama]….

Those things happened and various problems came but, now it’s as usual, I continue to become a nekama.

Well, even the riot is over, everything was in those girls’ hand.

Aside from this Riel’s body.

I once again think that as expected this avatar is easy to handle. I don’t actually understand but it’s nicely created.

Today also with that appearance, as usual for idly chatting with the guild members, all members gathered in the guild house.

Putting my hands on the wooden door that I got used to see, I opened it with my usual posture but….

“Afternoon~……..tte, fuooooooo!?”

I have predicted it to some extent but I reflexively raised up my surprised voice.

Because, when I opened the door, in front of my eyes is---

A bride.

This also happened before, didn’t it?

What kind of déjà vu is this.

I flustered and then she lifted the veil.

What appeared from beneath it are tranquil eyes.

A slender good looking face, and a plump pink lips.

If she just skipped a step, her long black hair on the top of her ‘A’ line pure white dress will further sway on air.

“O-oi! What’s with that appearance!!”

Unintentionally, it became a boyish-like tone.

I sometimes lose my temper so please pardon me.

Since guild members already knew that I am the nekama, it’s not good to fuss over it but, I feel a strange discomfort about this avatar’s habit of mine until now.

So, I cleared my throat and once again spoke.

“W-what is it…? That kind of appearance”

As I inquired, my sight was being stolen by the beauty of the bride and my consciousness became slightly vague.

Seeing that reaction, the bride’s mouth let out a laugh.

To match it, a hairball-like monster [Suama] which was resting on her shoulder let out a cute voice “fukya”.

She’s not in her usual beast-tamer’s outfit but, she was our guild leader, Shizuku.

She placed her hands which was covered with white gloves on her waist and proudly puffed out her chest.

“Oya, you don’t know this? It’s obviously a wedding dress.”

“Un, I know that. What I want to ask is why you wear that here.”

“Sorry, I don’t know what you mean.”

“Eee!? Did I just ask a difficult question?”

“Fumu, Why I wear this kind of thing? An answer to that question maybe a very easy one. However, if you used a thing in versatile manner, it maybe will become a complicated and esoteric. But in the end, the truth perhaps will be an unexpectedly simple thing, maybe it’s like that.”

“I don’t understand the thing that Shizuku spoke more actually…”

As usual, a girl with strangely argumentative behaviour but in offline, she is a silent hikikomori girl so I don’t know her in society.

Maybe not satisfied with my reaction, Shizuka breathed out a deep sigh.

“If we talk about wedding dress, then it means wedding ceremony. A clothes for that purpose only, isn’t it?”

“W-wedding!? The bride is Shizuka?”

She silently nodded.

 I’m a bit surprised but, the one she talk about was not the wedding in real life, it’s a virtual wedding in this ZX Welt.

In the world of ZX, they also adopted a wedding system which is common in the other MMORPG games.

To the player who became husband and wife, there was a pair of rings which could be equipped by the two people and also a home for two people.

Well, in short, one could flirt as one likes.

Then, next to the name bar, one could add a notation like husband: OO or wife: AA.

Incidentally, if there happened various troubles after wedding, sometimes one could ask for divorce to ZX.

In society, there were also many people who mix reality and virtual. In offline, the same person mistake their relationship as the same one in virtual, so there are many cases that after offline meeting one being targeted by a stalker. So to prevent that from happening, many people has stopped doing that.

Those kind of dreadful things clung to the wedding system, you know? That’s just one example.

That’s why although I don’t know the feeling of a girl like Shizuku who is going to marry, I became curious to who her partner is.

I asked her because I was interested.

“So, whom are you going to marry?”

“You are going to make me say it? Really, even an idiot has its limit. He’s knight-sama.”

“Just now, I feel like I just heard something important, didn’t I?”

No way, this…… but, there’s no way. It’s impossible. Un.

“I say that I’m married with Knight-sama.”

Shizuku clearly stated.

E-tto…. If he’s Knight-sama, then it’s surely me, isn’t it? I played as Riel but, I also played as Knight-sama.

Originally, when I as cleric joined in the offline meeting, Knight-sama is an avatar prepared by them for me as to not worry about staying in guild but, suddenly it became like if you didn’t continue to play as Knight-sama then we won’t give Riel back----- It shifted to me being threatened….

As I unconditionally agreed, now I controlled two accounts.

So, that Knight-sama and Shizuku, are married??

It seemed that my thought had come to a stop in accordance to an intense heat which brings a recent calamity to my head. Let’s logout and drank something cold.

Thinking like that, I opened the status window and stretched my hand onto the air.

Inside the guild house, a light effect to indicate [Login] is shining.

From the scattered green light, what appeared was---------

Why a bride again!

Princess line wedding dress in which the skirt is fluffily spread out.  She’s an elf child which gives out tsundere vibe with an almond shaped eyes on her face.

One of the guild members, [White princess] or [Hime].

Different from her usual thief style, with a really fitting princess-like appearance, her entry made a good combination with my and Shizuku appearance. I got stuck in this amazing situation.

“Wait Shizuku!?  Why are you running away!?”

As her long elf ears perked up, her transparent blonde hair fluttered by wind.

However, I felt like Shizuku said “Yare yare”, it seemed like she didn’t care about her questioning. That’s why on her behalf, I asked her.

“Run away? What is?”

“I-It’s nothing! It's not related to you even a bit!”

“I heard that if you deny it thoroughly, then it means the opposite that it’s actually related to me…”

“He-!?”

Hime with her cheeks flushed in red began to be dismayed.

This…. For some reason, I felt a bad feeling about this.

“On top of that, why even Hime is in that appearance? Don’t say that Hime also have a plan to marry someone?”

“T-that…of course. Na-naturally. It’s impossible I’m behind Shizuku.”

“Hee-…. Incindentally, with whom?”

“T-that… K-Kni…”

Hime, while looking embarrassed, started to speak again.

“Knight-sama nya!”

“Fuboo!”

In a different place from Hime, I let out a voice, and then something clung around my neck. Two arms crawled from my back and then turned to the front. A shuddered cat ears and a brilliant silver hair entered my field of vision.

“Ricotta!?”

“Fufu- that’s right.”

“No no it’s not about right or anything, in the first place, I’m not hiding anything right?”

(Raw : そもそもなんも隠してないでしょー？)

“Riel-tan, you’re sharp nya.”

The girl who answered with her pure innocent smile is Ricotta. In ZX, she’s a beast alchemist. In reality, she’s my little sister, Sagamiya Rio.

So she also had this side of herself…, she wore a mini skirt wedding dress which I unintentionally admired.

Well that’s that but, I couldn’t afford to hear what she said next.

“Surely, Ricotta is here for…”

“Of course, to marry Knight-sama nya-!”

Ricotta answered that with full of smile.

I feel dizzy.

“Therefore, right now let’s go to that church with Ricotta to hold the ceremony nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?”

Suddenly Ricotta bent backwards and uttered a sound like a stepped cat.

The reason is Ricota’s foot. A few centimetre from her tiptoe, there is a single arrow pierced the ground.

“W-what are you doing!? Even though it’s a game, if it’s hit then it will hurt you know nyaa!?”

“Fuun, because you also escaped, didn’t you!”

The one who faced Ricotta’s anger, there is Hime who seems in bad mood holding a bow.

“Nyanyanya! Ricotta didn’t run away nya! Just want to marry knight-sama only nyan!”

“Only huh, that’s the reason you escaped! Really…. Speaking about Shizuku and you, you all are too selfish. Even I, want to “marry knight-sama”.”

“A… so it comes to that.”

“Ee!?”

As I was getting fed up with it, Hime just realized her own speech and she started fidgeting with her fingers while her elf ears tinted in red.

“T-that, that’s wro-…cho-gofgowthokyo££!?”

“Calm down.”

I talk to Hime who is like a boiling kettle. Shizuku’s cold gaze directed here.

“That’s why I told you beforehand, If you’re going to be like this, it’s better that you don’t take part.”

“I-It’s not like anything happened. I just bit my tongue there. Fu-n, Even if it’s marrying? I o-only want to know how it feels. There’s no deeper meaning.”

While saying this or that, Hime couldn’t hide her agitation. I muttered a long sigh as I casted a side glance on her.

“Iyaa- It’s not like I ever agree about marrying, don’t I?”

Saying that, Shizuku gazed here with a strange eyes.

“Then, it’s decided that this wedding party will be arranged.”

“I am ignored! My consent itself is being ignored!”

I know that I don’t have my human right in this guild but, this is too frank that I on the contrary felt refreshed.

As I dropped my shoulders in a defeated manner, Shizuku’s eyebrow moved slightly.

“Putting that aside, this is more natural and crucial. Today also, why doesn’t Riel play as Knight-sama?”

“E…?”

“If you’re in that appearance, we can’t hold the wedding. You should know that it’s systematically impossible between two girl avatars. For what reason you made me troubled?”

 “Yes nyan, yes nyan, I am troubled nyan!”

“Really cannot read the atmosphere ne-“

What an awful thing to say.

Everyone stared at me from down to top like they’re not satisfied with my current appearance.

Rather, why I should’ve been told these things because I just login as Riel.

Shizuku draw nearer with an inquiring tone.

“Even we had put considerable effort to prepare Knight-sama as the strongest avatar, you know. With that kind spec, are you still dissatisfied?”

“There’s no way I’m dissatisfied but….”

“Then what is your reason? If hereafter Knight-sama exist---that’s the condition for returning Riel, isn’t it? If you keep that manner of yours, then we also have another idea.”

“…idea?”

“You didn’t forget that we had trump card, right? Then, how about if we read aloud those shameful poem diary of yours?”

“O-wa-wa-!? Anything but that!”

It’s a poem diary which consist my thought about player [Meruruna]-chan that I yearned for.

It’s a very embarrassing poem diary that could make me faint in agony just by reading it again.

“Then, you’d better login as Knight-sama right now.”

“T-that…”

Since it came to this, I’ll say it.

Level 99 Paladin, while his ability value is top notch, his item and equipment also skill are all out of standard. A broken existence like an addicted game junkie.

For a ZX user, it must be a character that he wanted badly.

Or it should be like that but I didn’t feel like going to login as that avatar.

As for the reason… They will be too hyped up if I login as Knight-sama.

For example before this, when I come in the guild house as Knight-sama, all the guild members were waiting for me in swimsuits. That is….. a bit problematic.

In reality, my body has a special constitution which is Female Tolerance Deficiency Syndrome, a body where it’ll faint if I just remembered some stimulation from opposite sex.

However, that’s only in the reality and it’s never happened in online. Recently, I don’t know why they just keep doing those things and fatally, once this special body of mine almost triggered. Looking back, it was very dangerous.

If I faint in online, maybe it’s the same as falling asleep. If that thing happened, what would become of my avatar?

Maybe an exhibitionist.

Besides, the girls didn’t knew what effect those kind of pranks had to me.

I felt alarmed just by thinking about it.

However, it’ll bad for my body if they just kept continue to be like this. Eventually, I couldn’t come back from this world if I faint…. I wonder.

I, who suffered from FTDS in reality, sought for a substitute in ZX.

But, right now the truth that I as nekama had been revealed, it could…… not be the same as before.

Perhaps if this situation kept continuing, my body’s special constitution would began developing in ZX like reality. Then I, whose symptom is getting worse, would completely lose my only peaceful place.

If I lost my quiet place in reality and online, where should I go?

Somehow, I have to avoid those occurrence from happening.

Fortunately, I felt that as Riel, I had a little contact with those girls.

A bit gentle touch maybe?

As long as it’s like that, I could still resist them.

That’s why if possible I didn’t want to play as Knight-sama.

I casually thought.

Before, I was restrained in guild and pressed to become Knight-sama. Since that purpose has been achieved, there’s no need for me to play as Knight-sama again. Nevertheless, the girls persistently forced me to play as Knight-sama.

What on earth did they want to do?

“H-hey,….I always curious about this thing, why are you so cynical about Knight-sama? Moreover want to marry him…”

“That’s um that. That’s because we all are infected by “Princess Syndrome”.”

“P-Prin…cess…Syn…drome??”

Shizuku was strangely proud but, I inclined my head because of the word that I haven’t ever heard.

“If it’s a girl then, she must had a dream where she wanted to be protected by a strong prince-like existence with his white horse. That is the moment when a girl’s heart is satisfied. Addiction to keep seeking pleasure from those led to a symptom of “Princess Syndrome”. In other words, Princess Syndrome (in katakana).”

“I’ve never heard that disease though?”

“Of course. It’s something that we made.”

“It's fabricated, huh!”

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