CH 93

Suddenly the screen of my phone seems to light up, but nothing in particular has changed.

Mari and Fiana are still by my side, so nothing unrealistic like being transported somewhere has happened.

“…What was that?”

I hold the two of them in my arms so that I can deal with anything that happens.

“Kai, and Fiana, did anything strange happen to your body?”

“No, I’m fine.”

I nodded that I was fine, too.

We then sat there for a while, but then we started walking as we had no choice but to do this.

“Hey, hey, is nothing happening here? I, you know, I feel a bit different from usual.”

“…Actually, I’m the same, I wonder what this is.”

I certainly feel something different, too.

The view in front of me hasn’t changed at all from earlier, and even if I look a little further away, the very city we live in is still there… but I guess our instincts are telling us that something is wrong.

“So let’s just go to my place for now, shall we?”

“Yeah.”

“Okay.”

I don’t know why I’m feeling so scared or intimidated to go back to my own house… God, what’s this feeling really like?

“Both of you, stay close to me.”

It’s really strange.

I’m full of anxiety because I don’t know what’s happening to me, but thinking that my precious girls are by my side gives me courage.

They both nodded their heads strongly and hugged my arms against their ample bosoms.

(Well, maybe it’s a sign that my heart is at ease with the softness of the girls at times like this.)

Carefully observing the area, we headed for home… on the way, we met someone we didn’t expect.

“…What?”

“Is that…?”

The two figures walking in front of us were Emu and Saika.

However, their expressions were so far removed from the two I knew… if I had to say it, they both had such dark expressions that they looked as if they were about to disappear at any moment.

Not only me, but also Mari and Fiana couldn’t resist calling out to them… but they ignored us and walked away, as if they didn’t hear us.

“Oh, hey!”

“What’s wrong!”

“…Wait!”

Fiana reached out her hand and tried to touch Emu’s shoulder, but it slipped through Emu’s body as if nothing had been there from the beginning.

“…What?”

“… slipped through?”

“……”

Fianna was stunned as she stared at her own hand, and needless to say, Mari and I were also surprised as we opened our mouths.

“Hey you two, it looks like there’s definitely something awful going on here.”

“… isn’t it?”

“…Is there such a thing as an anime or manga?”

It sounds like there’s no way it could be, but when the hypnosis app already exists, in a sense, an anime or manga-like development is happening… However, both of them are relatively calm even though such an unusual thing has happened.

When I asked them why they were so calm, they both replied with smiles that put me at ease.

“Maybe we’ve built up a tolerance through your buddy.”

“Yeah, umm. Besides, this kind of thing might be a bit exciting…”

That’s something I can rely on, and I’m almost encouraged by their bravado.

The two’s smiles inject me with energy, and once again we start walking.

The two’s words earlier were not a bluff, and Fiana seems to be really excited about this unbelievable phenomenon… Of course, as expected she’s still on the lookout carefully.

“The closer we get to the house, the darker the clouds are… or rather, the darker it’s getting.”

“…It’s as if someone is waiting for Kai-kun?”

I’m sorry, but I’m afraid I don’t want to be part of such an obvious event….

The darkening scenery as my house gets closer, and now Aika and Fianna are walking from the other side.

“So now it’s me…”

“I mean… you can’t touch it, can you?”

This time, Mari reached out her hands to the girls, but naturally, her hands slipped through.

The fact that this is the second time, I wasn’t as surprised as I was earlier, but it still feels a little creepy.

Taking our eyes off them as they passed by, we finally reached the front of the house.

There are two women standing in front of the front door, both of whom I know, of course.

“…me here?”

“And you must be Miyako-san.”

It was Mari and my sister who were in front of the doorway.

Both of them had dark expressions, and Sis suddenly bowed her head to Mari and started speaking in a voice that sounded like she was holding back tears.

“I’m really sorry…I’m sorry. I don’t think my apology will make you less angry from your point of view… but still, let me apologise… I’m sorry.”

“……”

Mari maintains a blank expression in response to my sister’s apology.

She is indifferent to the point of indifference, but her eyes seem to be filled with a combination of unbearable anger and humiliation.

Both Mari and Sis have expressions I have never seen on their faces, and looking at their expressions, I had a thought that I never expected.

“Could this be… the world he was in?”

“Kai?”

“What’s wrong?”

The world he was in… in other words, the world I saw in that dream in which another me lived.

To the two girls who appealed to me with their eyes to tell me, I moved out of the place and told them about the dream.

“…You mean, this is the world where Kai-kun did terrible things to us?”

“Terrible things… well, what do you mean, it’s the same thing… a world where you couldn’t communicate with Mari and the others like I did? I can’t be sure, but from the expressions on the girls’ faces I’ve seen so far, I’m wondering if that’s the case.”

Well, I don’t really understand it myself.

I don’t know why this is happening in the first place, or if there is a meaning to this supernatural phenomenon… I thought my buddy had something to do with it when my phone lit up, but now I have a feeling that’s not the case.

“A world where Kai-kun is doing terrible things to us… I can’t imagine what it’s like…”

“Fiana?”

She put her hand on her chin and looked at me, staring at me, thinking for a long time.

It must not have been pleasant if you compare my story with the scene earlier, and yet Fiana had kind eyes as she looked at me.

“Because, you know, we only know Kai-kun now, don’t we? One thing we all have in common is that we have full trust in Kai-kun… no, there’s nothing to be worried about. So when I hear about Kai-kun from other worlds, I honestly can’t imagine it, and I don’t really care.”

“That’s…”

“Of course, we in other worlds might have had a terrible time. It might be cold, but no matter how far we go, we have our own world. I don’t think we need to worry about another world. We only met Kai-kun in front of us, that’s the only truth for us.”

Saying this, Fiana moves closer and kisses my cheek.

She looks embarrassed, but I nodded my head and said that she was right… and Mari kissed me in the same way as Fiana, making kissing sounds.

“Yes, that’s right. We have our own world… it doesn’t matter who we are from another world, we have our own world.”

I honestly thought they were really strong girls.

In this current situation, where I still don’t know what to do, I embraced them in a sense of relief, as if they were telling me that it’s useless to even worry about it.

“Well… you’re absolutely right. I have my thoughts about what happened in this world, but what I want to take care of is you in my arms and my girlfriends in our world who are waiting for me.”

Even if they look like me, I know they’re important to me.

That’s why I kissed Mari and Fiana on the lips, to show them that this kind of scene doesn’t bother me and that it’s useless, and then I spoke to them.

“So? It’s not my buddy, it’s you, isn’t it? What the f*ck do you want now, man?”

As I asked this, the space in front of me distorted and a man appeared.

The figure was, indeed, the figure of myself that I had seen in my dream.

“F*ck you… why are you doing so well in life… this is so damn unfair! Why aren’t you letting the f*cking app ruin your life!!!!”

“… whoa.”

“This… this isn’t Kai-kun, I’m sure of it.”

The being in front of me is indeed me from another world. but Mari and Fianna are looking at him as if they were looking at a filthy person, which is completely different from the look they had been giving me.

Chuckling at the difference in the way they responded to me and him, I answered him leisurely, receiving a look of hatred from him.

“I’m sorry, I’ve been enjoying a romantic life with these girls. Can I just say one thing?”

There was one thing in his words that I couldn’t miss.

“You weren’t ruined, you ruined yourself. Don’t take the liberty of blaming my buddy… don’t you dare put the fact that you did something stupid on the shelf and call my precious buddy like that.”

Well, it’s really just a case of a different button that changed his fate like this.

So I don’t think I’m qualified to give him a sermon, and since I was trying to do the same thing in the beginning, I guess I’m just as guilty as anyone else.

Still, as Mari and Fiana told me, me and him are different.

“Me and you are different. Can you stop pretending we’re the same person? It’s so annoying – right, buddy?”

With a flash, I felt the screen of the phone Mari was holding for me light up.