Chapter 250 Chapter 250

Another game.

“Rosarin, is there something you’d like to say?”

“… Please be gentle.”

“… You are not going to resist? It was a long time ago, and aside from the hug, it was the guy’s fault.”

He held my hands as he spoke on top of me. No, resistance is futile, isn’t it? I don’t feel like I can win. And I don’t even want to resist in the first place.

“Rather than see you make a teary-eyed face, I better let you do as you please. I’m yours anyway. Well… I’m glad you are jealous… it let me know that you really love me…”

“Rosarin…”

He hugged me a little tighter. Well, it’s a difficult to explain. It would be difficult to understand what being a ‘waifu’ in a game is.

Huh? That game’s name… the temperature dropped immediately. NPC, mob character… why didn’t I remember earlier!? It was connected! Shit, I don’t know if it’s because I got into the Otome game later, but my impressions of it are faint!

“Rosarin?”

Dirk clung to me. I wanna say it’s just my imagination, but… there are no coincidences such as this.

“Dirk, you might dislike it, but I have to talk to Kanata-san. We need to talk about the future…”

I tried to get up, but my shoulders were pushed, and I returned to my earlier position.

“Not yet. You haven’t been punished yet, right?”

“… Oof.”

Damn it. These are the eyes of a cat… no, a panther, who wants to torment its prey. How is he going to punish me? I don’t feel good about this.

I felt a stinging pain in my neck. It’s not a big deal, but is it what they call a hickey?

“N!?”

He stroked my neck.

“I’m glad, it turned out well. Rosarin, I will make lots of these on your neck, Rosarin.”

“… Eh?”

“Humans don’t have a good sense of smell, so they can’t sense the markings, but they can see them, so people can recognize that you are already mine, no?”

Hmm… Mr. Dirk went mad!! Eh? You were in the dejected mode earlier, right? When was your switch was turned uppppp!?

Yeah, it was terrible. I had it terrible. Dense markings + hickeys on my neck… I even have a bite mark. What kind of shame play would this be if I healed it?

Kanata-san, whom I met again, was in a similar situation. His bite marks looked more painful than mine, though.

“… Somehow, sorry.”

“No… I understand you meant no harm. I would like to clear out the room and talk to you again. We should compare our information. Shushu-san, we will borrow a room. Dirk should be present.”

“Drik too?”

“Yes. It’s for the mate jealousy prevention… like I said before, he knows about the ‘game’.ů

“… I see.”

“Kanata, me too…”

“Shushu, you have things you hide from me too, right? You were going to die without telling me, right? As a punishment, go do your work. I don’t want you to hear this.”

“Kanata?”

“… Ojousama, it cannot be helped. Please return to your work.”

Shusuh-san is pitiful, but this is a problem between the two of them. Kanata-san saw off the teary-eyed Shushu-san.

So we were in the reception room again, but I was sitting on Dirk’s lap. He’s totally wary of you, Kanata-san. Let me cast a soundproofing barrier just in case…

Huh? It hit something. When I opened the door, Shushu-san stood there.

“Shushu, work.”

“B, but!”

“You can’t.”

“Ugh~”

“I told you so, didn’t I?”

No, you are not convincing, Andre-san. You were ready to eavesdrop with that cup, weren’t you?

“Shushu-san, Kanata-san and I need to talk about Gods and the future. We will tell you the important stuff later. Please bear with it for now. You can now understand how bad he felt when you didn’t tell him about your situation by comparing it to what you feel now, right? So please bear with it for now.”

“… Understood. I will abide by your words, Lord.”

This time, Shushu-san seemed to go straight to work. I activated the soundproofing barrier.

“Well, let me get right to the point. In Runark Online, Shushu-san appeared… as a ghost.”

“Yeah.”

“I thought this world was a different game.”

“……… Huh?”

“Rosalia, who called Rin over, was a certain game’s villainess.”

“V, villainess!?”

“Yes, she was a villaines who was harassing and aiming for the heroine’s life in a Otome game called ‘Let’s Make a Wonderful Love☆Heart-throbbing Magical Academy☆A Wish-fullfiling Beneficiary☆’”

“… Se. Ri. Ously?”

“Se. Ri. Ously. By the way, Dirk was a minor character. The key character that you cannot get no matter how many times you clear the game.”

“Seriously… You are serious. However, isn’t that game’s title quite embarrassing?”

“I bought it in a bundle, and later regretted it when I saw the title.”

“… Minor character?”

Dirk tilted his head in puzzlement, cute. It’s fine, you don’t have to know. That’s not important.

“By the way, my Elder brother was a capture target. And also, Jash… my servant, and my cousin who is currently not here, as well. I’ve already confirmed all the targets except for the last one. I’m not sure if I’ve overdone it or not, but some of the targets are far from their original form… or rather, they have become someone else.”

“………… What did you do!?”

“One of them has been dyed black.”

“… Yeah.”

“One has become black-heartedly pitch dark.”

“How many more people did you turn dark!?”

“One of them turned pure white from a selfish prick… or rather, he became a shining white prince.”

“You did something right! What do you mean by white, though! Decolorization!?”

“I made three assassins stop.”

“Wait! We are talking about an Otome game, right!? Isn’t this too dangerous for a game that is supposed to give you an enjoyable romance!? On top of that, don’t sweet-talk it like it’s nothing!”

“One of them was probably able to prevent his parents from dying of overwork and avoided living in a brothel after being abused.”

“This setting is too heavy!”

“… Eh? Is that Jend!?”

“Keep it a secret from him.”

“… Yeah. You really did a lot, Rosarin.”

Dirk hugged me tightly.

“Yes, I’ve been working on it since I was little. That’s why I was certain that this world was that of the Otome game.”

“Well, I think you got almost all of the capture targets.”

“It seems that Runark Online is even further ahead, though.”

“… Is that so?”

In Runark Online, players are sent as Beneficiaries to a world that has been devastated for some reason. It is a game with a high degree of freedom, where you can either restore the world, travel at your leisure, or search for the reason why the world was devastated.

And it’s there that Shushu-san, Cidar-kun and Milfi appeared. And Dirk’s cousins, the pipsqueak twins most likely too!

I didn’t recognize them because they were originally all older, in their late twenties as I recall, and Cidar-kun in particular was in a rough spot. But I guess it’s understandable. The Cidar-kun of the game didn’t have a family. If you don’t have one, you’re going to have a rough time. They are called NPCs, and they assist solo players and act as substitutes for party members.

“I was mainly a farmer and a dairy farmer, so I didn’t get into the mysteries.”

“Yeah, you were really much into raising Alpacas, Rin-chan.”

“Right. Bunnies, sheep, Alpacas… it was the mofu farm of my dreams.”

“Now this is the mystery… the story seemed to be about a hero and Evil or something…”

It had been at least five years since Kanata-san came here, and his memory seemed to be a bit hazy. He promised to tell me when he remembered. Now I might know a little bit about the Evil.

Furthermore, if we could identify the ruins we explored in Runark Online, we might be able to find new clues. That’s what I thought.