Volume 1 – A Man Who Gets Sandwiched by Yuri Does Not Want to Die
Chapter 1 – Yuri Game is Made of Sugar, Spices, And Something Nice
“Ha, ha, ha…!”
The sound of breaths echoed in a back alley.
A girl was desperately running while looking back many times, trying to shake off her chaser.
“…!!”
However, her expression soon turns into despair.
Because in front of her stood a towering wall, blocking her.
The wall stood at about three and a half meters, which wasn’t the height that her slender arms and physical abilities can overcome.
“…Miko.”
Hearing the voice, the girl stiffened and slowly turned her head.
There stood a beautiful girl. Illuminated by the pale moonlight, the girl who has beautiful black hair approached her.
The retreating girl leans her back against the wall and grit her teeth in frustration.
“L-let me tell you! I don’t intend to go out with you–nn…”
Without letting her finish her words, the black haired girl kissed the cornered girl.
Like a spotlight, the moonlight illuminated the two beautiful girls, as if it was the light of blessing.
The two quietly separated their lips. And the cornered girl had her cheeks dyed red and looked away.
“S-stop it…Stupid…Even though I already said I don’t want to…”
“Shhh, just, close your eyes.”
With that, the two started to bring their lips closer once again.
Yes, this is a beautiful love story between the two girls… not.
“….”
In the dark corner of the back alley. A man was staring at them while squatting like a slav1, with a hamburger in hand.
“…As expected, Yuri is the best.”
This is actually the story of me, Hiiro.
Yuri game is a game that depicts the process of relationships between girls.
Why is it called the ‘Yuri’ game?
There are various theories about that, but the most popular one is because the love relationship between women is likened to a lily2 flower. Since then, a genre about relationships between women was called Yuri.
『Everything for the Score』 is a Yuri game.
Many Yuri games are called novel games, where the story progresses by reading the text. However, this game is a rare type of Yuri game where there are plenty of simulation elements inside the game. And as for the world, it is a fantasy world with modern Japan elements where magic exists as the setting.
What made this game unique is the existence of the scores given by the government, which comes from evaluation of many aspects from behavior, accomplishments, and even small things such as how someone folds their futon.
The objective of the player is to earn scores while raising various parameters in the magic school, and to enjoy a blissful life with one of the four heroines.
Although this game is a popular game that can even be called a must-have game for Yuri lovers, its general popularity is honestly low.
Perhaps because of that, a while after its release, it already has a premium price3.
And as a Yuri lover, I just found the difficulty to obtain the game when resellers began to dominate the market when the game got a premium price.
If I could say some excuse, it was because at that time, I was extremely busy moving to a new home, which made me not have enough information.
“…Please help.”
“Yes?”
“Please help meeeeeeeeeee!”
“You’re noisy!! Eh, what?!”
Thus, with voice chat, I asked a friend who is also a Yuri lover to buy it for me and finally got the game about two years after its release.
My motivation towards Yuri is just that high. I couldn’t even wait for it to arrive at my house, to the point that when it arrived at the local delivery service, I mounted my bicycle and grabbed the handlebars right away.
“Yama* delivery service-san?! This is Tachibana, but my thing has arrived, right?!”
“Eh, ah, what?”
“May I have you send it right away to the address I’m about to tell you with express delivery?!”
“Eh? Ah, ha?! It’s out of the service area, you know?!”
“That’s fine!! I believe in your shoulders!!”
“Eh, no, it’s impo–”
“Just do itttttttttttttttttttttt!”
“Eh, wa-, I won’t do it, you know?! Can you not get excited by yourself?!”
In the end, I normally went to the delivery office to take it. After I had calmed down, I bowed down to the delivery brother, asking for his forgiveness.
Regardless, just like that, I finally got the Yuri game I wanted.
In my eyes, 『Everything for the Score』 seemed to shine brilliantly, and by the time I started playing, my vision was clouded.
“I can’t see…anything…!”
Because tears flowed down from my eyes as I saw the beautiful illustration and enjoyed the OP opening song.
It was truly a blissful Sunday. Even my exhausted body in this troublesome real world seemed to be revitalized.
“Demn, all the heroines are so cute. I’m so looking forward to seeing them flirting with the main character.”
Actually, my dream is to become a houseplant in an apartment where a Yuri couple lives together, get water and Yuri every day4.
So basically, I’m not the type of person who empathizes with the main character.
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I just want to help them a little as an outsider from outside the screen.
“The parameters are more subdivided than I expected…Looks like it’s best to raise one first… This system called a magic device is so damn detailed…Regarding the score, since it is going to be increased from anything I do, it looks like I don’t have to worry about it.”
Even for just one magic, the parameters are divided by attribute. Which means, the range of freedom in choosing attributes is wider than I expected.
Basically, what players can do is just set a schedule for the day. An orthodox way where the player has the right to choose what the main character does in the morning and the afternoon. And the result of the action selected by the player will be displayed at the end.
Some of those actions are training magic, capturing a dungeon, or going to meet one of the heroines, and all of them will increase some parameters and scores.
Occasionally, events that could increase or decrease one’s parameters could also occur…To put it simply, it could easily raise one’s parameters and scores, and also raise the favorability of the heroines.
“Quite easy.”
This game is almost non-stressful to play. However, this game has a broad range of freedom.
Not only five types for each heroine, the game even have some different endings such as 『Adventurer Ending』 where the main character makes a name as an adventurer, 『School Principal Ending』 where the main character becomes the school director of the magic school, or 『Evil Ending』 where the main character rejects all the heroines and becomes evil.
In other words, although this game isn’t stressful, the volume of the story is very good.
Maybe this game could even be popular even if it wasn’t a Yuri game… that’s what I thought, but even such a game has one annoying thing that exists in the game.
『Are~, what are you two doing~? How about count me in too~?』
“As expected you appeared, bastard!!”
It was the one and only male annoyance in the game, 『Hiiro』.
As expected of the only male annoyance, he always takes actions that disturb the main character’s time with the heroine. Most of the negative events in this game involve this annoying blonde guy.
『Eh, you two are going to the dungeon? Just you two? Then, count me in too~』
“Don’t follow me you bastardddddddddddddddd! Just dieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”
To make matters worse, this guy frequently interrupts the main character’s dungeon crawling and joins the party without permission.
Moreover, while this guy is present, no event with the heroine will occur. What’s more, this guy also takes the party’s experience points that were already divided.
『What’s up? What are you two doing? Suspicious, don’t leave me out please~』
“Can you read the atmosphereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?! The damn atmosphereeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Fuck it, just dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”
I finally understand why this work is not so popular. It’s because of this guy. The existence of this guy gets on everyone’s nerves.
He is so irritating that I want to get rid of him from this game even if it costs half of my lifespan. This guy is like the epitome of the concept ‘A man who gets sandwiched by Yuri can just go to hell.’
Of course, the protagonists also hate him like a mortal enemy, but the guy himself doesn’t seem to care, as if he is a mentally strong person.
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As might be expected from a game with relationships between women as the theme, basically, no man appears in the Yuri game. Even if they did appear, they’re just annoyances, mobs, a part of the background, or so on.
Basically, not only in the Yuri games, most of the men who appear in Yuri’s works are landmines…And among them, this Hiiro is an oversized large land mine.
“T-this is bad…playing more than this is life-threatening…if I don’t cleanse my heart with Yuri…I will stop being a human…”
Because of this guy, I had to play another Yuri game once in a while.
My only salvation is that Hiiro will die in a tragic death at any ending, which made my heart feel refreshed.
At any rate, 『Everything for the Score』 is a very interesting game. Thanks to the huge number of events, there is always something fresh that I haven’t seen, which makes the new game plus still fascinating.
Just like that, without me noticing, the night is over. Not only that, the next day is also over, and the morning of the day after comes. Every day, I cut down my sleeping time to the last minute and continue to play like crazy.
I conquered all kinds of endings, finished collecting the CG, got 100% completion, and even read every part of the setting collection data…After that, I finally decided to sleep.
“Nn?”
However, at that moment, I noticed the poor condition of my body.
“Are…my body feels so heavy…Did I cut my sleeping time too much… Uh, I think, this is a bit…bad…”
Just like that, my vision becomes dark. But when everything became dark–I awakened.
“Whoa?! What a dream?! I was so terrified!! I thought I was dead–”
Suddenly, I stopped. Because there was a mirror right in front of me. And my face was reflected there.
Golden hair, frivolous expression, and a strangely well-proportioned face that made me irritated…Yes, it was the face that I have cursed many times that was reflected there.
“Huh?”
I blinked repeatedly and stroked my face.
“I…became Hiiro…?”
And a few hours later, I found out that I was reincarnated in the world of 『Everything for the Score』, as Hiiro the annoyance.