“…Phew.”
Now then, after having done with talking in my head about stuff to no one in particular, I let out a big sigh.
Where I was standing right now was the route to school, and as for what I was doing, I was simply waiting for someone.
As I was killing time for a while with my phone on one hand, the sight of a girl and guy appeared on the edge of my vision.
“There they are.”
Those two were the people I’d been waiting for, and the moment they saw me standing there waiting for them, they ran here.
“Sorry we made you wait!”
The first one to speak up was a guy with a feeble impression, and as for his name, it was Sasaki Shuu.
And the other person, the girl standing side by side with Shuu, was an exceedingly beautiful girl.
“We have arrived late. I’m sorry, Towa-kun.”
This would make it the second time, but that girl was beautiful.
Her long, black, lustrous hair without a single split end of hair rustled by the wind. Although the same for her well-featured face, her exceedingly kind gaze was striking.
She also got a figure unlike that of a high schooler, which you could even tell—even over her clothes—from the voluptuous bulges that would make you naturally shift your gaze there.
And that girl’s name was Otonashi Ayana, that’s right, that Otonashi Ayana.
…Guess so. I wonder why it ended up like this, I muttered tiredly in my heart as those two’s gazes were on me.
Otonashi Ayana—it was surprising that it was a name totally the same as the heroine that would show up in the eroge I had lengthily talked about earlier, but to add further, she also looked totally the same.
It was unbelievable, but I was experiencing the oh-so unbelievable thing called reincarnation.
Although it might be more fitting to call it possession rather than reincarnation for this situation, I had been in this body when I had woken up a little earlier.
Of course at first I’d been extremely confused, but that confusion had frighteningly settled down immediately, and my brain had accepted the current situation.
It was enough to make me think like the will of the world itself had interfered—telling me there was nothing to worry about—and thus, I was spending my time as the owner of this body.
Luckily, there was a reasonable amount left behind for the memories as the owner of this body, making me strangely understand how I should go about my everyday life, so there was no trouble.
Well, it wasn’t like I remembered everything, and I still couldn’t recall in detail how deep my relationship with the two in front of me was either.
But despite all that, I did understand clearly that this world was the world of Everything Was Stolen Away From Me, and I also understood who and what kind of an existence I was.
“Let’s go, Towa-kun.”
“…Yeah.”
Urged by Ayana, I moved my legs.
Like she said, Towa was my current name.
…Shuu and Ayana, and then Towa.
Sasaki Shuu was this world’s protagonist, and Otonashi Ayana was the heroine.
And then me; Yukishiro Towa got the so-called position of Shuu’s close friend, and as for what could that mean—that meant a man who’d steal Ayana from Shuu.
I unintentionally stared at Ayana’s face.
“What is the matter?”
“Nah, it’s nothing. Let’s hurry.”
She ended up making a curious look because of me staring, but I started walking, saying we should hurry.
“…Haaah.”
I sighed, wondering why it’d gotten like this.
Hey, God, be it a reincarnation or possession, it’s whatever either way, but there’s gotta be something more fitting for something like this.
The so-called another world fantasy, a world with swords and magic so to speak should be the classic one, and yet into the world eroge of netorare genre, and moreover as the guy who’d steal someone’s girl, just what did you want from me?
“Towa~? You’re being left behind, y’know~?”
“…Could it be that something really did happen?”
I caused worry to the two walking ahead of me again.
Setting aside Shuu who knew a lot about me as a close friend, Ayana was sending glances at me who was walking slightly behind.
That’s a heroine, for you, it seemed that kindness wasn’t directed to just Shuu, but also to me in no small amount.
“I’m alright. I’m surely following you guys, so don’t worry.”
Then Shuu faced forward, but Ayana seemed to still worry about me.
When I conveyed, mouthed that I was really alright, Ayana finally nodded her head, faced forward and walked.
“…For the time being, I already know that this world is the world of an eroge. If that’s the case, there’s just one thing I’ve gotta do.”
I got no intention at all to become a hindrance to the two in front of me chatting harmoniously.
Chronologically, the story would begin a year from now, in other words, there was still a little bit of time until the world would start to move.
“I got no hobby of NTRing someone. Got no hobby of getting NTRed either, though.”
As for buying the game in my previous life, it simply had been no more than because of it being a hot topic.
I got so much confidence in this, so let me say this in advance: I don’t like NTRing someone or getting NTRed in any way either, and I hate it instead.
“Speaking of which, what’re you gonna do after school?”
“Hmmm~, I don’t think I have any errands to take care of, but…”
“ I see. Towa~!”
On the way to school, it was mainly Shuu and Ayana having a chat, and I’d join in every now and then.
As we were repeating that, Shuu rushed into a convenience store nearby, apparently wanting to go to the toilet.
“…That’s gotta be poop.”
Well, no need to be embarrassed about it. That’s something everyone does.
But now that it came to this, it seemed we would have to wait a little bit.
“It seems we would have to wait for a bit, wouldn’t we?”
“I guess… so!?”
Because I heard Ayana’s voice so close to me, I got surprised.
Before I knew it, Ayana had come close beside me and went to take and hold my hand.
Skipping a beat at the lovers hand holding that felt like a couple would often do, I accidentally forgot my position as well and had my gaze stolen away by Ayana.
“…Fufu♪.”
“!!…”
She had a beautiful smile that would stimulate a male instinct, a 180 degree change from when Shuu had been here.
Not sure what she was thinking, but for some reason, by coming into contact with her like this right now, I felt relieved in some way.
“It’s warm, Towa-kun. Your hand,” releasing my hand for a moment and wrapping it with both of her hands, Ayana murmured.
“Hnn… Hey, Ayana, I’m gonna go buy a soft drink for a bit.”
“Ah… I’m going, too.”
Not able to withstand the indescribable embarrassing atmosphere despite it being incomprehensible, I took my hand off Ayana’s and went into the convenience store.
As I put away the soft drink into my bag after buying it, it was around the time Shuu came out of the toilet as well.
“You bought a soft drink?”
“Yeah. I’m gonna drink sometime during recess.”
“Then I guess I’ll get myself one, too.”
All three of us bought drinks harmoniously, and then exited the convenience store and once again walked the road to school.
“…What the heck was that earlier.”
I was still bewildered at Ayana’s sudden change, at suddenly closing the distance.
Shuu was here at the moment, so Ayana was walking next to him and having a friendly chat, totally the same like earlier.
In the end, I decided to head to school while still bewildered about the stuff earlier.
As I entered the classroom following behind them, Shuu sat and fell prostrate on his desk, and Ayana was having a conversation at the center of the conspicuous group.
“Morning, Yukishiro-kun.”
“Sup.”
I returned a greeting to my classmate and sat on my seat.
I thought back upon it as I took out studying supplies out of my bag, but compared to Ayana who was surrounded by many friends, Shuu, if pushed to say, would often be by himself.
If I were to say it in an easy way, I guess Ayana was an extrovert, and Shuu was an introvert.
Ayana was a beauty with a nice and kind nature, so precisely why she wouldn’t not be popular person. As for Shuu who was in close terms with her, he wasn’t thought of very pleasantly.
And while criticizing the other party, Ayana would help Shuu who’d get tangled up in that several times.
Precisely because he was an important childhood friend that Ayana would help Shuu repeatedly.
At the same time of saving him, Ayana would sincerely ask for them to stop doing any of that, so until now Shuu hadn’t been particularly isolated either.
Well, even those guys who’d see Ayana criticizing them like that would turn envious eyes from seeing Shuu getting his school lunch and such made by Ayana, though…
“!!”
At that time, I suddenly recalled something.
…Nah, Towa did criticize them too, didn’t he?
In the game’s flashback scene, there certainly was also a scene where Towa stood together with Ayana to deal with the harassment directed towards Shuu.
And yet, the close friend that Shuu could rely on had a sexual relationship with Ayana. I had been really surprised at this back when playing the game.
‘It has to be you, Towa-kun♡. I don’t need a pathetic, wishy-washy childhood friend like that♡.’
These were the words Shuu got when witnessing Ayana and Towa doing the deed.
Hearing these words, Shuu fell to despair. And in a shocked state, he left that place and finally walked towards the game’s ending.
I didn’t know what happened to Shuu after that after being told by the childhood friend he’d loved and trusted that he wasn’t needed, but well, it probably wasn’t a good ending.
“But being wishy-washy sure is right on the mark.”
Like Ayana said, Shuu was undoubtedly wishy-washy.
Despite getting affections from a lot of women and never thinking deeply about it, Shuu simply and only was getting swept away by his surroundings. I was doubtful why Shuu would be that popular, but since it was the setting in the game, it couldn’t be helped even if you didn’t delve deep into it.
“?”
As I was pondering, comparing reality and the game, I made eye contact with Ayana.
At meeting eyes, she happily waved her hand to me, so I waved back while feeling my mouth relaxing a little.
Not just Ayana, I saw the group around her also waving their hands. Then I took my eyes off them, but it seemed that wasn’t really the response Ayana wished for.
“Towa-kun.”
“Ayana?”
Ayana had left her seat and came to my side.
“Is something the matter? Usually you would come over, Towa-kun, but recently you don’t at all. I thought that this kind of day does happen, but as expected, I didn’t think it would continue this way.”
“…Aah~.”
I see, it seemed Towa was in that group.
I’d said there was no problem in spending my life after becoming Towa like this, but of course there were also many more I couldn’t remember.
Unlike Shuu the protagonist, the game practically never touched on the personal relationships Towa had. There should be no text saying Towa slipping out of the group either, so I hadn’t noticed.
“How should I put it, I thought it’s nice occasionally spending my time quietly like this. You too, Ayana, you don’t have to care about me, y’know?”
Currently I was the one inside Towa, so it also wouldn’t be weird to not act like Towa had been so far.
Well, Ayana got no way of knowing that, so it’s complicated.
Rather than caring about me, use that time for Shuu—I’d spoken filled with such a meaning, but Ayana’s response was slightly strange.
“Eh? What do you mean by ‘don’t care about me’…? Why are you saying something like that!?”
“A-Ayana?”
Speaking in a slightly louder voice, Ayana grabbed my shoulders.
She also brought her face closer at once, so now we looked at each other in a pretty close range. The surroundings were also sending their gazes over here, wondering what was happening.
“I hate it… Please don’t say something like that. Something like not caring about you, Towa-kun, it’s impossible to do something like that…!!”
“…Err.”
Ayana’s expression looked so painful she seemed like she could burst out crying at any moment.
I couldn’t understand why Ayana ended up making an expression like that, but seeing that Shuu was also in the same classroom, I thought it’d give a groundless misunderstanding if we were to stare at each other at this distance, so I decided to calm Ayana down.
“Aah, my bad. I was just kinda not in the mood. I do like liveliness, but it’s also hard to cast away quietness. If you like, would you come over here, Ayana? I’d also be able to spend my time quietly in that case.”
Then Ayana immediately showed a smile.
“Please please, please don’t say anything like ‘don’t worry about me’ as if you are trying to detach yourself away. I have almost accidentally forgotten about myself and gone crazy, you know?”
“…My bad.”
I sighed in relief after seeing Ayana’s smile, but just what kind of feelings did she actually have for Towa, I wonder?
The story itself was still not starting, and Towa should haven’t done anything to Ayana. For this reason, I couldn’t really get the feelings of Ayana who’d gotten frantic like that, and about the stuff this morning included.
“But it really is important to socialize with your classmates. If you feel inclined, please do come over, okay? Towa-kun.”
“Got it.”
Satisfied at my response, Ayana turned around and headed back.
Weird as someone who’d said something like that, but for whatever reason, I ended up reaching my hand towards Ayana who was walking away.
The feeling was as if this body was desiring Ayana, but I shook my head and took my eyes off her.
“…It sure is kinda tiring,” I muttered and rested my back to the back of the chair to the fullest.
As I was like that, exhausted, a hand was placed on my shoulder.
“Yo! Sure is rare you’re by yourself.”
“…Aisaka, huh.”
The one who put his hand on my shoulder and started talking to me was Aisaka Takashi, a student in the same class. His seat was also close, so he was a friend I’d talk to fairly.
Aisaka’s most distinct trait was his buzz cut head. He belonged to the baseball club, and was apparently pretty active and good at it.
In addition, he was considerably trained and muscular, and I felt like I’d asked this guy to let me touch his stomach several times… sheesh, I sighed again at all the messy memories with Towa.
“…Uh-huh.”
“What?”
Looking at me and nodding his head, Aisaka turned a curious gaze.
After thinking for a while with his hand on his jaws, while looking at me straight in the eyes, he said, “You sure changed a little, huh? Dunno what changed, though.”
Although Aisaka got a baseball-idiot part in him, he got this kind of sharp part also.
Shrugging and smiling wryly at those words, I retorted, “It could be that the inside’s totally a different person, eh?”
“AHAHA! Even you sure can say about stuff that’s happening only in manga! Ain’t no way stuff like that’s here in reality, right?”
“I guess that’s also true.” I nodded to Aisaka’s words.
Well, that stuff that would no way can happen in reality was now happening to my body, but that wasn’t something I could explain to anyone other than me either.
Supposing I tried to explain it to someone, the moment I did I’d probably get acknowledged as the guy with a crazy head and that would be the end of me.
“…Oh, she’s sure still getting involved with Sasaki, that Otonashi-san,” Aisaka said after taking his gaze off me.
“Yeah?” I also looked where he was looking.
Ayana should’ve been inside her circle of friends a moment ago, but before I knew it, she was on Shuu’s side, taking care of him.
Maybe because Shuu had been sleeping with his face lying on the desk, there was a clear trace on his cheek. And he seemed embarrassed when Ayana pointed that out.
“Like, man, it’s just so beyond me. Why’s Otonashi-san looking after someone like Sasaki?”
“It’s ‘cause they’re childhood friends, no? It’s a good thing they’re on good terms.
Precisely because they were a childhood friend couple for years, and then precisely because those two got a destiny to be tied in a marriage if the existence called me didn’t get involved, it was impossible for them to be on bad terms.
“Well, it’s not for us outsiders to talk bull about their relationship.”
“Well yeah. But unlike Sasaki, no one’s saying anything if you’re around Otonashi-san, so a good-looking guy sure got an advantage.”
“Good-looking?”
“…You kiddin’ now?”
When I unintentionally asked back, Aisaka turned an astounded look at me.
“…Ah, so that’s how it is.”
I clapped my hands in understanding.
My current body belonged to a character named Yukishiro Towa, and that Yukishiro Towa was a pretty good-looking guy even in my opinion.
I had never thought about that ever since getting into this body, but it seemed they were okay with it since the current me was a good-looking guy.
“…Hmm?”
It was something that suddenly caught my eyes.
As I was talking with Aisaka, I was looking at Ayana taking care of Shuu, but… just now for an instant, really just for an instant, Ayana’s eyes looked awfully cold.
It wasn’t eyes that seemed to be directed at me at all. For a while I titled my head, puzzled at Ayana who seemed clearly different.
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TL notes:
This shit’s 3k words. Time to do back seat gyaru again.
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Hey, just to inform you that in novelupdates, it seems soafp had translated the same amount of chapters as you did
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