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“Nice to meet you, Yu. I am… a reincarnator.”
The figure wearing a coat with its hood pulled low over their eyes introduced themselves thus.
“A reincarnator… huh. You were the one who told me to wish for it strongly, right?”
She gave a small nod.
“Why did you save me?”
“…Because I’d be in trouble if you just broke down normally.”
She answered with a sigh.
“I simply came to see you, but when I arrived, you were unconscious. And after hearing from this girl, it seems you tried to… violently force back all your memories at once? So… I had no choice but to help you.”
“R-reckless…?”
“Yes, that’s right! Reckless! Utterly reckless! Why try to get all your memories back at once when you could just wait for them to come back naturally, bit by bit? Are you stupid?! If I hadn’t been there, you’d have been in a vegetative state forever?!”
She fired off a barrage of angry words.
“I-is it really that bad…?”
“Yes, of course it is! What you did was suicide! Suicide!”
After that, she continued ranting about various things.
She was worried about me… right?
Several minutes later, she finally calmed down.
“Anyway… it’s a good thing I happened to be here this time.”
“Yeah, you really saved me… By the way, what did that advice mean? Why did the car slow down?”
“That, huh…”
She touched her chin, deep in thought—
“Destiny exists in this world… You understand that too, right, Yu?”
She asked me that.
“Yeah, like a car ignoring the laws of physics and changing direction… Destiny clearly exists.”
“At first glance, fate seems unavoidable… but not in this world. In this world, a strong ‘ego’ or ‘will’ can overcome fate.”
What kind of sports club mentality is that…
“I don’t fully understand the reason myself… but it’s probably related to this world being a game world.”
“…?”
I tilted my head, not understanding what she meant.
“Originally, ‘ego’ and ‘will’ don’t exist in game worlds. Everyone moves exactly as programmed. In other words—‘ego’ and ‘will’ are foreign elements in this world. So, I think it’s possible to resist this world’s fate using those foreign elements: ‘ego’ and ‘will’.”
“Uh, well… I kind of get it, but kind of don’t…?”
“Well, this part is just speculation, so don’t worry about it… More importantly, don’t you have something else you want to ask?”
“Ah, yeah. That’s right.”
I cleared my throat, then looked straight at her—
“Why… are you hiding your face?”
I asked.
Reincarnated individuals who want to cooperate wouldn’t normally hide their faces.
Then, she let out a small chuckle.
“Hehe, well…”
And then, she reached for her hood—and pulled it off.
Revealed beneath the hood was a girl with fiery red hair.
At first glance, she looked like an ordinary high school student…
“…Hm?”
I felt a slight sense of unease.
Somehow… I felt like I’d seen her before…?
—At that moment, a possibility flashed through my mind.
“Huh…!? N-no, that can’t be…”
There was no way.
Because—this world is the world of a gal game, right?
“No way… right? I was shocked too right after I reincarnated. Because—”
She stared at her own body—
“…not only did I reincarnate as the protagonist… but the protagonist had become a girl.”
She said that.
The gal game protagonist—Nagisa Akiba.
She had reincarnated as Nagisa Akiba.
And on top of that… she’d been feminized?
“W-wait… I get the part about reincarnating as the protagonist, but… I can’t wrap my head around this feminization thing…”
“It’s not that strange, really? A female soul entered the protagonist’s body, so the body feminized too… that’s all.”
W-what the hell is that…?
N-no, is that even possible…?
Even if she looks like the protagonist, it’d make more sense if she was the protagonist’s sister, right?
“I have proof.”
“…What is it?”
When I asked… she shifted her gaze to Karen.
Then, she slowly opened her mouth.
“—The All Heroines Death End. …You know the conditions for triggering it, right, Yu?”
“I think… it was something like if all heroines’ affection ratings were below 50% at game end…?!?”
Wait, is that what it means?
The ‘All Heroines Death End’ isn’t an ending that occurs easily.
Then… why did the ‘All Heroines Death End’ happen in this world?
It was because—
“Because the protagonist was female… the heroines’ affection didn’t rise…”
“…That’s why.”
She—no, Akiba answered, lowering her eyes apologetically.
“So… I came here today to apologize. For causing the All Heroines Death End—for trapping you in hell… I’m truly sorry.”
Akiba bowed at the waist at a 90-degree angle, apologizing in a serious tone.
“…It’s not really something you need to apologize for, Akiba.”
“Eh…?”
“Because you didn’t choose to be reincarnated, right? You just happened to be reincarnated as the protagonist… and as a result, I happened to suffer… That’s all it is, isn’t it?”
“H-huh… I-is that so?”
Akiba looked surprised…
“…You really are kind, aren’t you?”
She narrowed her eyes faintly and smiled.
After that, Akiha and I talked a little more… and exchanged contact information.
As fellow reincarnated individuals, we agreed to help each other if any problems arose in the future.
I agreed with that idea.
This world… still holds too many mysteries.
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After that, Akiba went back to her own home… leaving only Karen and me behind in the room.
“Senpai… I’m so glad. That you regained consciousness… I’m truly glad…”
Karen had been clinging to me the whole time.
“Karen… um, maybe it’s about time you let go?”
“Mmm… I don’t want to. I haven’t had enough Senpai yet…!”
Saying that, Karen tightened her embrace even more.
Honestly… what a handful.
I… gently stroked Karen’s head.
“…But thank you, Karen. Back then… if you hadn’t called out to me, I… would’ve broken down mentally again… Maybe I would’ve ended up in a vegetative state like Akiba said.”
“Huh…! I… I didn’t do anything… The one who worked hard, both then and now… is you, Senpai.”
Karen said this in a trembling voice.
“I… ended up just pushing Senpai too hard… and yet I’m useless… I’m sorry, Senpai.”
“Karen…”
Karen lifted her face, looking frightened.
Then, as if opening Pandora’s box, she timidly… asked.
“Senpai… knowing everything now, what do you think of someone like me?”
“…Hmm…”
What did I think of Karen?
After thinking for a while, I began to speak.
“Karen… you didn’t help me when I was suffering from my death loop.”
“Y-Yeah…”
“—But that doesn’t mean I resent Karen. There must have been some unavoidable reason she didn’t help me, right? Then it can’t be helped.”
That hellish suffering… wasn’t anyone’s fault.
If I had to blame someone, it was this world.
So I don’t resent Karen… in fact, I want to become closer to her.
“—But—”
I stared intently into Karen’s eyes.
She… was trembling like a frightened puppy.
Feeling sorry for Karen like that—
“Sorry, Karen. Right now, I can’t—”
I slowly, deliberately, chose my words.
“—date you.”
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