Believing She Has Been Reincarnated into a Baseball Game, My Little Sister Is Aiming for the Koshien, While I Give It My All to Keep Her from Finding out That It’s Actually an Ntr Game - Chapter 57

“…Hey. Can you get your act together already? There’s no point in sulking like this forever.”

“Ugh… But… But Riko…!”

It’s 10:50 PM.

I was curled up on the living room sofa, clutching my head in my hands. Sitting next to me, Maika sighed with exasperation.

—The entire conversation between Nomo and me had been overheard by Riko and Maika, who were hiding in the shadows. In other words, the retort I yelled at Nomo reached Riko’s ears loud and clear.

Well, thanks to Riko being such a pure-hearted little sister, she didn’t understand the meaning of the word NTR right away! Phew, crisis averted—yeah, right. Not even close.

After all, we live in an age of smartphones. And even squishy Riko has one of those Banana-brand squishy waterproof smartphones. Of course, she looked it up on the spot.

With a face full of confusion, she muttered,

“What does… huh? Oh, I see… huh? Being on the side that loses their partner… huh? Why would there be a demand for a genre like this…? Huh? This clueless little sister… doesn’t quite understand… huh? Huh? Huh?”

She kept glancing back and forth between her phone and me.

“Onii-san… you’re into… games… like that…?”

“Do you… get excited by that kind of… stuff… Are you a… pervert…?”

Noooooooo!!!

“Arrrrrrrrrrghhh!!!”

“Be quiet.”

“How can I be quiet!? Riko found out! She found out that I’m a hardcore pervert who’s into NTR stuff! She found out I was desecrating baseball with NTR! She found out I was dragging her into this NTR world!”

“Well, for the last two things, it wasn’t your choice, was it? Your dad made it without your input and just gave it to you as a present.”

“Just the first one alone is an immediate red card!”

“Stick to baseball metaphors, please. That’s disrespectful to soccer.”

“Immediate out! Triple play! No, it’s game over! Just finding out that her respectable onii-san is a fan of NTR is 27 outs by itself!”

“True.”

“Right!? That’s a twent—wait, uh, twenty-sevenfold kill…”

“You don’t have to correct yourself.”

“Why are you so calm, anyway!? Do you even understand the situation!?”

“I get it, but when you’re freaking out, I want to stay calm for you. That’s the image I have of a couple. It’s my duty as your wife.”

“Maika… no, wait. This wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t brought Riko to that park in the first place. What were you thinking, you idiot wife!? I was trying to look cool and handle the demon alone without you finding out, and yet, you just had to notice something and be all in sync with me!?”

“Well, I wasn’t really being all in sync or anything. I was just sleeping, but then I got a call from Sakura Miyakotona-senpai. She was crying hysterically. She said Kyugo asked her to wake up Nomo-kun, but he snapped at her, and she got super down about it. So, in the flow of things, she mentioned Kyugo and Nomo-kun were meeting at that park. Naturally, I wanted to go see. And if I tried to sneak out, of course Riko wouldn’t let it slide.”

“Damn that crumbling main heroine, always stirring things up…!”

Thinking about it more, Nomo was planning to disappear from this world for Riko’s sake. From Sakura Miyakotona’s perspective, that’s probably the ultimate form of NTR. If Nomo returns to being the original Nomo Makoto, he’d lose all memories from these past four months. That’s way too cruel for that crumbling main heroine.

“But realistically speaking, what’s done is done. For today, leave Riko to me. You should go to bed and get ready for tomorrow.”

“There’s no way I can sleep in this situation!”

For the record, Riko, still in shock, had gone back to take another bath.

The bathroom in this house is right next to the living room. That’s why we usually held our meetings in my room, but since my most important secret was out now, talking here wasn’t much of an issue anymore.

“There’s no point in playing baseball anymore… Even if I took her to Koshien in an NTR game, there’s no way it would make Riko happy… I mean, she only wanted to go to Koshien to die there in the first place…”

I don’t even know what’s going on anymore… There’s no way I can sleep with my mind in such a mess.

“Sigh… well, let’s just organize our thoughts for now. Calm your mind a bit, and maybe you’ll manage to sleep?”

“Maika…”

Maika’s hand gently stroked my head, her touch soft and warm, seeping into my heart.

It had always been this way, ever since long ago.

In our previous world, I couldn’t let her casually pat my head like this, not without resistance. Even so, I could never escape the comfort of her touch, and while I complained with my words, I’d end up letting her do it. Maika, too, used to tease me with her words while blushing slightly.

Now, I find those times endearing. And in this world, where we’ve expressed our feelings for each other, this time of openly patting and being patted is irreplaceable.

I really do love this world.

I want to live in this world with Riko. I want her to be happy here…!

But if Riko starts to hate me, I won’t be able to be happy either!!

――――

“So, in other words, the possibility of Souta Yogi, the protagonist of this world, being NTR’d by the student council president—the main heroine of this world—has been eliminated. Even if the theory of ‘the world ending when the game reaches its ending’ is true, the game shouldn’t be able to reach a clear state.”

As Maika said, I need to calm down and sort out the situation.

Riko’s safety is the top priority.

Whether or not she hates me should be something to think about later… Ugh… Yeah, let’s just set it aside for now! I can’t even bear to think about it.

“…But, you know,” Maika said, frowning.

“Isn’t that kind of overly optimistic?”

“Huh? Is it? If we assume that NTR games have a clear condition, isn’t it typically that the protagonist gets NTR’d?”

“Yeah, but are you sure the person getting NTR’d has to be the main heroine? Are you just assuming it’s only the student council president?”

“…”

“If the protagonist gets involved with someone else, and that person gets NTR’d, wouldn’t that still count as ‘the protagonist being NTR’d’?”

“If you put it like that…”

“After all, ‘clearing the game’ is determined from the player’s perspective, which aligns with the protagonist’s perspective. What the protagonist experiences is what’s judged as the game’s condition, right? So if that’s the case… hmm? But then, maybe it doesn’t matter if it’s not the main heroine being NTR’d…?”

“…I don’t know… I have no idea at this point…”

Even Maika, who brought up the point, was tilting her head in confusion.

Yeah, of course it’s confusing.

Her idea seems a bit extreme… but I can’t completely dismiss the possibility. It’s an NTR game, after all. Being NTR’d is the core of its judgment system.

Obviously, NTR that doesn’t involve the protagonist has no relevance. After all, someone in this world is always getting NTR’d. It’s constantly happening, yet the world keeps going. That’s already been proven.

But can we definitively say that only the main heroine is targeted for the protagonist’s NTR condition…? Well, isn’t it fair to say it’s only the main heroine? After all, the gods like Dad and Mom set that as the game’s ending condition—

“Oh, wait! Come to think of it, didn’t Souta Yogi get his childhood girlfriend NTR’d right at the beginning of the game? That was the starting point of the game! NTR outside of the main heroine doesn’t matter!”

“Now that you mention it, your dad bragged about that… But, still. Doesn’t that at least imply that side heroines, or whatever, being NTR’d could also lead to the game’s ending?”

“…Maybe.”

I remember that the ending of BokuKae involved the student council members getting NTR’d in a depraved orgy, while the protagonist was forced to film it and secretly getting aroused despite the misery.

That suggests, in all likelihood, that multiple instances of NTR were revealed simultaneously. It’s hard to say that only a specific person—like the main heroine—is the clear condition.

“Then again, it’s also possible that the game won’t clear as long as not all the heroines are NTR’d, right!?”

“Yeah. Well, still…”

“Exactly! It’s all just wishful thinking!”

That’s it, there’s no clear answer to this!

But the highest probability is, undoubtedly, “as long as the main heroine doesn’t get NTR’d, the game won’t clear!” And if not that, then the next most likely case is, “the game only clears if all the student council heroines get NTR’d!”

No, in fact! The fundamental assumption that “the world ends if the game is cleared” could be completely wrong to begin with!

This world isn’t going to end!

These scenarios alone account for over 99% of the possibilities!

But. But… but!!

Even if there’s a 1% chance that this world could end, that Riko could die, I have to eliminate that risk completely!

“Alright, I’ve decided. Let’s kidnap and confine Souta Yogi. Or send him to a monastery. Sorry, Yogi, Yogi-Papa, Yogi-Mama.”

“What are you talking about…? If you get caught, it’s all over.”

“But what else can I do!? If that idiot falls for one of the side heroines and they get NTR’d, the game might clear! Damn it! Why can’t I get in touch with that old pervert, that twisted scriptwriter, at a time like this!?”

“Well, even if you did reach out to your dad, it’s not like he could tell you whether the world is going to end or not.”

True, but he’s still a valuable source of information. He may not know if the world ends when the game clears, but he could at least give a clear definition of what the game’s clear condition is.

“Ah, I see. So that’s the gist of it. Even an airheaded little sister like me can understand your easy-to-follow explanation. As expected of Onii-san…♪”

“Oh, Riko. How was your bath?”

“♪ It was great♪ It really soaked in the flavor of Onii-san’s broth, and it’s thoroughly permeated my squishy skin♪ Now I’m even squishier♪ Here you go♪ Enjoy Riko’s squishiness (infused with onii-broth) to your heart’s content♪”

Riko, fresh out of the bath and smiling brightly, leaned her elbows and chin on the backrest of the sofa where Maika and I were sitting. Then, this squishy little sister of mine hopped over the backrest and squirmed her way in between Maika and me, spreading her arms open with a “Here you go♪,” inviting me to squeeze her.

I’m genuinely relieved she’s back to being so energetic…!

Yeah. Really, yeah.

“I never learn from my mistakes, do I…!”

I couldn’t help but hold my head again. Once more, Riko had overheard us.

Even though there’s no point in hiding anything now that she knows about the NTR game, letting her hear our discussion about how we’re planning to thwart her goal of ending the game is the worst-case scenario.

Though, in my defense, her sneaky eavesdropping skills are just way too good!