The real reason I didn’t show the game to my sisters at first isn’t just because I had glimpses of the future from my past playthroughs. I was also worried it might leave trauma on players like Claire or Alice.
Of course, the game itself wasn’t a full-on adult-rated game. In fact, it had never received an adult rating even from the strict Korean rating committee.
Honestly, considering the graphics, it was impossible to portray realistic violence anyway. Plus, if we think about it, Japan’s game censorship is stricter than Korea’s, so console games like this had to be careful not to go overboard with sexual depictions.
The series before my entry into the game, which was released on classic PC, had much more explicit content. Later remakes and console ports cut out tons of those scenes due to censorship and requests from console manufacturers.
But still, Claire’s past was pretty clearly depicted, yet just like I didn’t see myself as Sylvia from the game, Claire doesn’t seem to think of that character as herself, despite feeling a bit embarrassed.
It’s somewhat like treating it as a possibility.
But—
“Okay, Claire, call me big sister.”
The depictions of characters in the game had quite an influence on both Claire and Alice in different ways.
“No way! No way! I’m not that Claire! The only big sister I had when I was little was Sylvia! I won’t call you big sister!”
“Thinking back, you seemed similar in that world too. You were friends with Bella, right?”
“Sure, I was friends with Bella! But I never inherited a sword!? I’ve never dressed like that! I didn’t walk around with my hair down like that, nor did I wear a corset that barely covered my chest!”
As a side note, Claire’s figure was quite popular thanks to that corset that showed off her assets. It might look nice and soft, but if you touched it, it was just hard plastic.
Actually, when that figure launched, I couldn’t pre-order it because I was broke, but honestly, if I had the money, I would have bought it outright.
If I had, Claire’s mental state would probably have shattered even more than it is now.
“You two, did you fight like this even in the fantasy world?”
“Of course, Alice started it first!”
“You were always irritable! You were the one who started it!”
Hah!
I thought Claire’s personality in the fantasy world wouldn’t be much different except for her hairstyle, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
“No way! No way!? I’ve never dressed that shamelessly!?”
Claire immediately retorted against my gaze. Well, I hadn’t even said anything.
“I haven’t asked, so you don’t need to react that way.”
“Right? Big sister believes me, right?”
“……Of course. I believe you.”
Only after I answered did Claire calm down a bit. Of course, she didn’t forget to glare at Alice.
“And in the game, I’m not the only one with shameless moments, you know? You’re really working Leo hard! He helps you out, and you still throw words at him.”
“……I didn’t actually do that, so it doesn’t matter!”
Alice’s face was a bit flushed as she answered.
Yeah, she probably hadn’t done that to ‘Leo’. Her behavior must have gotten corrected before she met him in this world.
“You didn’t treat him like that before entering the academy, did you?”
“…….”
Alice seemed to want to deny it in many ways, but since I was right next to her, she couldn’t quite bring herself to say it.
“See! You felt guilty about something!”
“Guilt? Did you just say guilt? Well, that means you felt guilty too, right? If that were the case, it means you wore those clothes!”
“No, I’m talking about what you did now, so why is the conversation going that way?”
……
This is chaotic.
But both of them look quite friendly. Back in the day, if I wasn’t in the middle, things felt awkward, but now they talk as if nothing’s wrong without me around.
Were they really quite close back then? After all, they reconciled in the game too.
Claire sacrificed herself for Alice, and Alice grew mentally after witnessing Claire’s act.
In the end, they reconciled in that last moment.
…… Though in the latest installment I’m playing, all of that has been erased.
Will I remember it later?
“Both of you, while it’s good to see you getting along, can you lower your voices a bit? The soundproofing isn’t that great here, and if you keep fighting like that, the people downstairs might come up.”
“Getting along? Who is getting along?”
“Do you have a vision problem or something?”
When both of them turned to me at once and said that, I almost burst out laughing.
How would Claire and Alice react if they saw the last scene in the game?
I’m already curious.
*
I don’t know much about Internet streams, but I do know that the people who do those ‘internet broadcasts’ are indeed ‘people’.
Unless you’re a serious iron man, if you broadcast until late at night, even if it’s just sitting down playing games, it can harm your health. Especially those streamers who have to manage videos while broadcasting well into the night might end up flipping their day and night schedules upside down.
That’s why you need rest days.
Of course, I’ve never stayed up late to broadcast or missed sleep, but still, it’s a rule that humans need to rest when they work, right?
If I had even one person to interact with in this world, I would have scheduled the rest days on the weekend, but since the only ones I interact with are Alice and Claire who live with me, we decided our rest days are Monday and Tuesday.
…… Right. After broadcasting for two weeks straight, someone suggested, “When are you resting?”, and we hastily set Monday and Tuesday as the rest days.
And today is Monday.
Thinking back, I don’t think I’ve walked the night streets with those two at all since coming here, so today we went out together at night.
“Is it safe for girls to be walking around at midnight?”
Claire, who made that suggestion, seemed to admire the bright night streets a bit.
…… If I write it this way, it seems like one of those ‘fantastic countries where girls can walk alone at night’ national pride content seen in broadcasts and such, but actually, the Empire of Azernar isn’t so safe for women to wander the night alone.
Well, it’s obvious since it’s modeled after industrial revolution England.
Still, it was a bit funny that Claire would be saying that. After all, she woke up at dawn to run around solving quests with Leo just the two of them.
I struggled to keep up with those two for a while.
As I was walking in between Claire and Alice, lost in thought without a specific goal—
“……?”
Suddenly, I felt something weird on my left arm, and when I turned my head, Claire had wrapped her arm around mine.
“I heard that it’s not considered strange for girls to have this level of physical contact in this country.”
Claire said, slightly blushing, but smiling as she looked up at me.
…… Ah, did she hear that it’s common for girls to link arms?
“…….”
Then Alice, watching this, slyly linked her left arm with my right.
It was cute how she acted all shy while blushing, but…
How should I put it, both of them act like real sisters too much, so it doesn’t feel like there’s anything particularly special about it. They were definitely beautiful and had nice figures, so I felt it on my arm, but— well, if I reacted to this, there would have been some kind of incident when Alice was wearing a bunny girl outfit. I probably would have confessed and gotten turned down or something.
In that sense, I guess it’s a good thing.
“How about we go have some ice cream?”
I proposed that opinion.
Thinking about it, I haven’t had ice cream since I got here. Especially the ice cream from that brand where you can choose your own flavors and pour them into a container while adhering to the pound law feels like ages ago.
The handmade parfait I had in Azernar was delicious, but— usually, those kinds of pleasure foods have a taste that can only be recreated with mass production.
“……Big sister, couldn’t you at least be a little shy?”
I know that’s the purpose, but do I really have to play along?
Dragging my grumbling sisters along, I headed to the ice cream shop.
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