Source
https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16817330665155777948/episodes/16817330669174873928
The night before my first day in a travel circle.
I was fiddling with my phone on my bed before going to sleep.
“I promised Sakimiya-san that tomorrow I’ll meet her in front of the university and we’ll go to the meeting room together, and I’m …… looking forward to it.”
It’s my first time at a club and I’m nervous.
Before I entered university, my plan was to join a cheerful group and join the same circle as my cheerful friends. …… Well, I guess it’s going well in one way or another?
“Well, Suzuki and Sato also joined circles at their respective universities, didn’t they?”
I heard that Suzuki joined the same dance club as his friends he met at the welcome party, and I saw a post on social media saying that Sato joined the same science club as her girlfriend.
They’re both in pretty good-looking circles. ……
I was inspired by those guys who had successfully made their university debut and decided to become a cheerful guy.
At first, I felt defeated and frustrated, but now I think I’ve gotten closer to being a positive person, and those two who are doing well may already be the same.
So let’s not worry about my weird pride and let those two tell me about the circle.
“It’s not even nine o’clock yet, I should ask them to join the group call.”
I’ll ask my high school otaku group, ‘Hey, we haven’t call in awhile right?’ I sent it to them and they immediately read it and the group call started.
“Long time no see Kazakiri.”
“Oh, Sato.”
I hear Sato’s voice, who used to be a glasses otaku.
Compared to our high school days, his voice tone had become awfully cool.
“Long time no see, Yuya~”
“Suzuki!”
Suzuki’s voice, who used to be a fat pizza guy, was heard next.
Suzuki is …… the same as ever.
“It’s been a long time, both of you. Well, you’ve been reading the messages too fast.”
“Of course! Because me and Sato were playing netoge together”
“N-netoge?”
“It’s Virigi Online. you did playe this well in high school right?”
“Ah, yeah.”
The game is an addictive game where you go back and forth between 3D worlds with Western, Japanese and Chinese tastes, defeat boss monsters from different countries and make equipment from the materials they drop.
But recently the environment has become such that only those who are willing to pay can survive, and the number of players is on the decline.
That’s why I got bored of it too. ……
“Why are you playing Virigi Online now? you two got bored of it back in high school.”
“No, …… actually, we joined the same circle.”
“That’s right, Yuya!”
The same circle?”
Suzuki and Sato went to university in Kanagawa, and their universities are close, so it wouldn’t be strange if they were in the same circle, but …….
But Suzuki must have joined a dance circle, and Sato joined a science circle right. ……?
“We joined the Virigi Online circle! There’s a clan-forming circle at Sato’s university!”
“H-heee,…… but you each have your own clubs, don’t you? Isn’t it difficult to carry on?”
“Oh, I quit long ago if that’s the case, Kazakiri.”
“Eh!? quit!?”
Suddenly they say ‘I quit’ and I am surprised.
“I quit too, Yuya!”
“Even Suzuki! Why, you were having fun in the dance circle!”
“Yuya has been with me for a long time, so you know my personality well, right? If I could really love pizza, I would eat it every day, but dancing is a little weird.”
“Haaa?”
“I knew the culture of the cheerful was too fast for us former shady types! The dance club is a drinking club in name only, and all they do is have blind dates with girls from other universities, and the cute girls go to the older guys and we juniors have to deal with all the older, ugly girls, and the membership fees are too high, so I gave up.”
“T-that……, Sato! Why did you quit the circle?”
“The reason is that Sato broke up with his girlfriend, right?”
“B-Broke up!?”
“Yeah. After all, you can’t trust women. Because that woman…is with another man without my knowledge…”
“Oh, stop it already, Sato~! Let’s not go dark, let’s play in a game circle like we’re shady people!”
like a shady people…….
If you ask me, their promotions on SNS for real students stopped within a few days of entering the school.
I had thought that it was normal to live like a Riajuu every day, so much so that they didn’t even bother to post about it, and that they were quite content. …… I didn’t think that the Riajuu life itself had come to an end.
“Yuyaa, you too, let’s join the Virigi Online circle!”
“That’s right, Kazakiri. Let’s make another vow of virginity between the three of us.”
What’s up with …… these guys?
I didn’t want to be a loser, I was so disappointed to lose to you guys, I was worried, struggling, crying and desperately trying to be a cheerful person.
I can’t believe these guys were the biggest losers of all.
“…… sorry you two. I’ve got to go to bed now. It was nice to hear from you both, even if it was brief. Enjoy the game, you two.”
I summed up the conversation well and hung up the call.
What’s with the game circle?
Looking at those two guys, if they go back to being shady, there’s no coming back from that.
You cannot be hurt by beceming cheerful people, once you get to know the shady greenhouse, you can no longer go back from there. ……
So once you fail at being a cheerful person, you can’t get back up again.
If I fail like those two, I can’t.
“I’m not going back to …… being a shady person.”
That’s why tomorrow, I can’t run away.
“I’ll do my best. I’ve already changed.”
–
–
If you enjoy our content, feel free to donate, Thank you in advance !
These guys really only deal in absolutes huh. You can play video games and have a social life, it’s not that hard