Vol. 2 Chapter 1.5

Translated by SoundDestiny Edited by SoundDestiny

“Why did I kiss her?……”

My own behaviour made me question myself.

Thanks to this, I had a hard time on the way home because Fujiwara-san was so excited.

She was even more pretentious than usual about her being my girlfriend. She told me about her horribly detailed future plans and called me to come by her house more enthusiastically than usual.

Well, I never go there.

If I do that, it is obvious that I will be put on the bullet train to the graveyard wedding of my life.

“Haa…… I’m home!ー”

When I stepped into the room with a sigh, Lili, who was wearing headphones in front of my PC, turned to me.

The monitor is displaying a unique erotic game of the most bizarre kind.

“FumiFumi, do you want to try growing tentacles or something from your crotch, Devi?”

“As if I want that!!”

It’s a problem because with these guys, it looks like it could be done for real.

I don’t want to venture into the realm of the non-human, either.

“I mean, don’t just casually open someone’s computer! It was locked! How did you manage to figure out the password?!”

“You think that’s going to stop the devil?”

“Don’t look so smug!”

“Well, I’ve already analysed the contents of FumiFumi’s computer, Devi. I know your proclivities better than you. Anyway, let’s get on with what we did yesterday.”

“Wa,O–Oi”

After a quick dismissal of the absurd comment, Lili enters the room on her own.

Inside the log cabin-style room I followed her into, on the bed at the far end, was the naked figure of Masaki, and in front of her was a chest containing foodstuffs.

“I reloaded the chest with three meals of pastries and bottled water, Devi”

“Umm, yeah, that’s fine, but my PC analysis….”

“Come, FumiFumi! When you’re ready, I’ll pull the pin, Devi!”

‘It’s useless…… this devil ain’t gonna talk!’

Giving up, I took off my clothes and threw them outside the door. I closed the door and sat down in the darkened room, in the position I was in yesterday. Masaki-chan’s brainwashing programme continued.

“Well then, I’ll pull the pin Devi!”

As soon as Lili uttered this, there was a sign of someone moving across the darkness.

“Fuaa…..”

“Are you awake? Good morning, Masaki.”

“《Aa,Aree……Oh, I see, I’m still trapped.》”

The function I got when I enslaved Ryoko -『Monologue』.

When I activated this function, I immediately heard Masaki’s voice from her mind. There is a restriction that it can only function in the dark, but it is a rather heinous function that allows me to hear the voice of the other person’s mind.

“…..Oh, good morning. Kijima-kun. I……fell asleep yesterday while we were talking, didn’t I? I’m sorry.”

“No need to apologise.”

“《….What!?……It’s not safe to sleep unprotected in a room with a boy! I’m naked!》”

“Um, Kijima-kun. That ……, you didn’t do anything, did you?”

“I didn’t, I didn’t. It’s pitch-black and I promised you wouldn’t go near you.”

“W-well, that’s right. I’m sorry I was so weird.”

“《I’m glad–that’s right. Kijima-kun, you’re so serious. I’m an idiot, it’s rude to doubt him!》”

“I found some pastries and bottled water for breakfast, so I’ll throw them that way for now. I’m sorry if it hit you. The plastic bottle is dangerous, so I’ll roll it away.”

“Uh-huh, thank you.”

After a while, a small sound of eating pastries could be heard from the darkness.

“Hey, Kijima-kun, could you sleep?”

“Yes, at least. Though the stone floor was hard and my body is all aching up”

“《I see…Kijima-kun doesn’t have a bed or anything… …..What should I do, if I can’t get out of here tonight, I’d better switch places with him…》”

“You know…..Kijima-kun. There’s a bed on my side, so let’s change places. We’ll take turns one day at a time, okay?”

“Oh, there’s a bed over there!? I’m glad. But we don’t have to take turns.”

“No, you can’t refuse!”

“No……even if you say that, I don’t think there’s any guy who would let the girl he loves sleep on the floor and sleep in his own bed, right?”

“《The girl he loves sleep!??》”

I heard a gasp, a gurgling sound, like something bouncing on the bed.

“P-please don’t say you love me or anything like that, please. It’s embarrassing…..”

‘Oh…Surprisingly, a simple step seems to have worked’

“I’m not sure what you mean by that. See, I’ve already told Masaki–chan everything, and it would be weird to pretend I don’t like her now.”

“Well, that may be so, but! I’m embarrassed…..”

“But I love what I love, and to be honest, I think you’re the cutest thing in the world”

《Hawawawa…..W-waitt, wait! Kijima-kun, you’re exaggerating! Exaggerating!》

“Kijima-kun, you’re mistaken! It’s a misunderstanding!”

I wonder if this kind of thing is called praise killing. Masaki-chan’s surging heart is too funny and I’m on a roll.

“Masaki-chan is an angel, she’s pure, she’s kind, she’s cute, she’s the perfect girl for me.”

But after that statement of mine…

“《Pure?……where. What is it?….In the end, Kijima-kun doesn’t see anything either, does he?》”

Her mental voice turned chillingly cold. Apparently I had unintentionally stepped on a landmine with all my might.

“….. Kijima-kun.”

“What?”

“I have something I need to apologise to Kijima-kun.”

In the darkness, her awfully low voice echoed.

When I was silent because I did not know how to respond, Masaki–chan continued.

“I confessed to Jun–kun……Kasuya–kun. I asked him to go out with me, I asked him to make me his girlfriend,it doesn’t matter if I was treated as a convenient woman.”

Surprised. I honestly felt surprised that she was the one to bring it up.

However, I had to turn the conversation around. I pretend to know nothing about it and make a puzzled sound.

“Eh….B-but you said you’re not going out with anyone….”

“I’m sorry I lied.”

“《It’s not a lie, but …… it’s just an excuse.》”

‘Eh…..? Not a lie? What do you mean?’

Her words and the voice in her mind are at odds.

Of course, the voice of her heart is right. In other words, she meant what she said, 『I’m not going out with anyone』. At least at that point in time.

She now feels guilty. To get her to talk further, she needs to be made to feel even more guilty. Her mind needs to be rippled.

So don’t blame or get angry here. Giving a penalty is no different from giving forgiveness for it. I have to behave as a good person so that she blames herself more.

“I see……sorry. Masaki-chan liked…Kasuya-kun, didn’t you? I’m sorry too. I couldn’t read the air….”

“No, don’t do that! Don’t apologise! It’s me, I’m the one who’s at fault!”

“《I’m just a nasty little girl, that’s all!》”

The voice in her heart became louder.

“《Stop it, Kijima-kun, why are you such a good person? I’m not going to tell you.》”

Yup, It’s honestly frustrating.

‘Why, because I’m hearing your heart. It’s not because I’m a good person. Traitor. It’s a pain in the ass, so get on with it.’

“I don’t despise Masaki–chan, no matter what she tells me. I don’t know…..if talking about it would make things a little easier.””

‘I can’t despise you any more, you know. You bitch.’

Because there’s nothing more to increase my hatred.

“《R-really?…. is it okay to talk about it?》”

“I said it’s okay.”

I replied to the voice in my mind and I coughed hurriedly.

“O-okay. Since kindergarten, I’ve been friends with Misuzu-chan……”

“Yeah, you said that yesterday”

“You see…… Because I’m like this, Misuzu-chan has always protected me. I think she’s overprotective”

‘So that’s why I was bullied, just for sending out a love letter!’

I felt humiliated when I remember. Next time I hold Kurosawa-san, I’m going to push her with all my might.

“Misuzu-chan is beautiful, she can study, she can do sports, she’s perfect, so she’s always thought of me…. like a troublesome little sister.”

“Perfect…”

Involuntarily, the thought of Kurosawa–san’s pathetic ahegao face flashed through my mind, and I giggled.

‘No……Well, that was perfect in a different way.’

“When I was in….junior high school, Kasuya-kun was in my class. He looked just like the main character in a novel I was reading at the time, and I….suddenly became very excited. I think that was probably my first love…..”

‘I see… .you’ve liked him from the start…’

“I talked to Misuzu-chan about it, and I plucked up the courage to confess……my feelings, but I was easily rejected because he had someone else he liked. And the person Kasuya-kun likes is actually Misuzu-chan……”

‘Hmm? Something is not right. This was in junior high school, right? Didn’t those two start dating around the end of last year? I remember Kasuya-kun declaring his love for her in front of a bunch of mediocre people during lunch break, and I was like, 『Who cares?』’

“I didn’t know it either, but……Misuzu-chan kept rejecting Kasuya-kun’s confession over and over again because of me. But you know, last year before Christmas. Misuzu-chan looked really bitter and said.”

There, her voice trembled.

“『I can’t keep saying no to him anymore….. Masaki. Can I go out with him?　Can I be Jun-kun’s girlfriend?』She said. So, I can’t say no to that, can I?”

I see, that’s tough.

But even if I felt sorry for her, that’s no excuse for betraying me.

“…..It made me realise. I knew I couldn’t win against Misuzu-chan.”

And with this one word, I saw the answer.

The important thing for Masaki–chan is not the existence of Kasuya-kun, but to win over Kurosawa Misuzu–san, to overtake her.

“I thought I’d gotten over Kasuya-kun too,……but you know what? When Misuzu–chan went missing, Teruya–san and other girls started to gather around Kasuya-kun,……I thought I could win Kasuya–kun now ……I thought I could take Misuzu’s boyfriend away from her. It’s terrible, isn’t it? It’s a bummer though…In the end I was rejected. Haha……I couldn’t win against Misuzu after all.”

Before starting this brainwashing plan, Lili had this to say.

When girls confess their problems and sins, it is not constructive opinions they are looking for. That’s why men and women don’t understand each other. That’s why, even if I think hard for her and give her an opinion, it will never strike her. Because the answer is already in her mind.

She just wanted to be acknowledged. She wants me to empathise with her. She just wants me to affirm it.

So I give her the words she wants. I just affirm everything about her.

“I think it’s Kasuya-kun, who doesn’t have the eyes to see it. I didn’t send a love letter to Kurosawa-san,  did I?”

“Eh?”

“《Does that mean you like me more than Misuzu-chan?　But that’s because Misuzu–chan has a boyfriend, so you made a compromise and went for me, didn’t you?》”

‘You don’t have to have such a twisted view of things….’

Masaki-chan’s complex is more deeply rooted than I thought.

“So, then ……what do you like about me, Kijima-kun?”

“Firstly, you face.”

“Yeah….”

“Ican’t help it, you’re lovely. You are just right up my alley. And the next thing I know, we’re having fun together.”

“……Fun? Together.”

“Yes, I do. I’m still having fun now despite the situation.”

“《I see…… But actually my breasts, isn’t it?》”

‘So, you are aware of that’

I chuckle involuntarily. Well, I can’t deny it. She’s not fat, her height in the 140s and a chest circumference of over 100cm can only be described as a miraculous body shape.

“Boys only look at my breasts, so I thought….. Kijima-kun was the same way.”

“Aaa…..I held back a little bit. Masaki-chan is an angel, so I told myself not to look at her like that….”

“A-angel!?”

There, she sounded hysterical.

“Bu–but I! I tried to betray my friends!　I’m a terrible girl!　I don’t even know what I should look like if I see Misuzu-chan!　The reason I’m like this now is because I wanted to disappear!”

Her voice was moist.

Surely this is the tipping point. It’s time to turn the tide.

In the darkness, I walk towards her, killing the sound of my footsteps.

Show some sympathy. She is coated in many complexes. She is suffering from a sense of inferiority to Kurosawa-san.

I can understand that.

But it doesn’t change the fact that she betrayed me. It doesn’t change the fact that she hurt me.

So I’m going to make her fall madly in love with me and scar her so badly she’ll never fall in love again.

“Sure, you may be a terrible girl. I love you so much, I can’t stand it. If you want to disappear, I’ll disappear with you”

“……!!!”

I hear her gasp in the darkness.

I embrace her from the front. I feel her ample breasts against my breastplate.

I held back my cheeks from loosening involuntarily – I covered her lips with mine.

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