I Got Reincarnated as the Scummy Dude Who Sends NTR Video Letters to Otaku Guys in Erotic Manga, But When I Tried to Steal His Girlfriend, I Accidentally Hooked Up with Her Twin Sister Instead - Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Side Futaba Yui

In manga and anime, there’s always the heroine and the one who isn’t the heroine.

I’ve been on the “not the heroine” side ever since I was born.

My big sister is the type who handles everything perfectly, she’s got a bright personality, and there’s always people gathering around her.

The popular girl in class. Loved by guys and girls alike. One of the chosen ones.

Meanwhile I’m gloomy, bad at pretty much everything, and nobody needs me.

No friends, no boyfriend, nobody I can really open up to.

But that’s not unfair or anything. It’s just how it is. It makes sense.

Because my big sister is like the sun, and I’ve always been stuck in her shadow.

In the end, I think the real problem wasn’t my natural abilities—it was my personality.

I’ve lived in a way that makes people not like me, and that just showed up in my relationships.

Even though I understood that, there are still feelings that logic can’t fix.

I was just so done with it. Going to school felt like such a drag.

We’re twin sisters. Same elementary school, same middle school, same high school. For some reason we kept ending up in the same class a lot, and every time I got compared to her.

――Aoi can do it, but Yui can’t?

――You guys are sisters but you don’t look alike at all except your faces.

――Why don’t you try being cheerful like your big sister?

Stuff like that happened every single day.

But it’s not the comparisons themselves that bothered me. People said that kind of thing at home too, so I was already used to it.

What I hated was when people mistook me for my big sister, then got disappointed once they realized I wasn’t her.

――Oh. It’s just Yui-chan.

――I thought you were Aoi.

――Sorry, my bad, I got you mixed up.

Nobody was actually looking at me.

They were peeking at my big sister through the filter of me. That fact hurt more than anything.

I’m just a stand-in for my big sister. But I’m not good enough to even be a proper replacement. A replacement who can’t replace her.

Every time I got made to feel that so painfully, my mental state got shaky.

I barely managed to hold it together through middle school, but it kept going even after starting high school.

I’m gonna live this miserable life forever. The moment I really accepted that, something in me broke. I gave up on everything.

And that’s when I stopped going to school.

I think it was third term of first year. After that I didn’t go back even when I became a second-year.

I haven’t been expelled or held back only because my attendance from first year was just barely enough.

But there’s no way I can advance to third year from second. I’ve got no intention of going back to school anymore.

I just can’t stand being in the same place as my big sister any longer.

Still, my parents couldn’t accept that I was truant.

They’d scold me hard, force me into my uniform, kick me out of the house in the morning.

And they wouldn’t let me come back until evening.

So every day I stayed at the park in my uniform.

Just sitting there alone, staring blankly off into the distance, wishing time would just pass already.

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That’s how my days were going when

――I met the guy who’d become my destined person.

That day some delinquents were bothering me.

I was zoning out on the usual park bench when three guys who looked like total troublemakers showed up—uniforms all messed up on purpose.

As soon as they saw me they grinned these ugly grins and walked straight over.

“Hey, you a truant or something?”

“You definitely don’t go to school, right? That’s against school rules, y’know?”

“Pretty bold rule-breaking. Hey, why don’t we have some fun together?”

Looks like they were trying to hit on me.

I kinda got that they were inviting me, but I didn’t care anymore.

They’re obviously just seeing my big sister through me anyway.

So I didn’t say anything. Didn’t even show any resistance—just planned to let whatever happen.

Maybe they’d drag me somewhere, I had no idea what they’d do, maybe it’d get so bad I’d rather die, but whatever. I didn’t care.

“Uoh?”

But right then I heard a voice from far away.

It got closer and closer, and then

“Yo, can you guys stop with the pickup lines?”

He said it straight to the delinquents surrounding me.

So someone’s actually coming to save me from getting hit on, I thought for a second.

But the guy had bright blond hair—you could tell even without looking.

Oh. One of their buddies, huh.

Sure enough they seemed to know each other, and the four of them started talking about something. Probably deciding what to do with me.

“……………”

Either way I didn’t care. Nothing mattered anymore.

I lowered my face again and just stared blankly at the ground.

The moment I gave up thinking—

“っ⁉︎”

Someone sat down right next to me. It was the blond guy.

He flashed a bright smile, then declared to the delinquents,

“I’m not letting you lay a hand on her. ’Cause she’s the girl I’m planning to steal away.”

That instant, confusion hit me harder than surprise.

“Steal?”

“Huh?”

The delinquents looked just as confused.

But I get it. Nobody had any idea what he was talking about.

“You making fun of us?”

“Nah, dead serious. Look, I’m kinda a player, y’know? So I started doing NTR stuff at school.”

“Huh? Nedori’s doing NTR now?”

“Yeah yeah. There’s this Otaku-kun in my class, and she’s his childhood friend, but look how cute she is? No way I’m not stealing her, right?”

Otaku? Who?

He’s probably talking about the Otaku family next door. He’s our childhood friend—mine and my big sister’s—and he’s in love with my big sister. Probably she feels the same.

So those two are mutual crushes.

Being stuck between them was painful, but whatever.

Right now the situation in front of me was more important.

I didn’t understand the “steal” part he just said.

Steal? Like take away? From who to who? Wait… me? Taking me?

While I was thinking that, he suddenly grabbed my hand.

“…………Huh?”

My eyes widened in shock for a second, but then I got it. My body understood instinctively.

――I’m about to get taken by him.

“っ……”

What is this. My heart started pounding like crazy.

The second I realized I was gonna get taken, this intense wave of joy rushed up inside me.

What? What is this? What’s happening?

This is the first time. Never felt anything like it before. Totally new sensation.

Like something’s filling me up, like rain falling on dry sand, this overwhelming feeling.

I didn’t even know what it was. But I didn’t wanna shake his hand off.

Instead I squeezed his hand back and stood up with him.

“C’mon, let’s go.”

He smiled and took me away. Just like a prince from a story.

Seeing him like that, I realized it right away.

――I fell in love with him.

I know it sounds simple as hell, and I know expecting anything is pointless, but he took me anyway so oh well.

――He stole my heart.

Took it so easily it’s ridiculous.

In the end he started walking while still holding my hand. We left the park with the delinquents watching us go.

After walking through the neighborhood for a bit, he suddenly looked back.

Probably checking if those three were following us.

After a moment he let out a relieved breath and let go of my hand real quick.

“Alright, I’m out. It’s dangerous for a girl to be out alone at night, y’know? Be more careful next time, okay?”

With that he turned to leave.

Right then something fierce welled up inside me.

――I don’t wanna let him go.

I didn’t want him to leave like this.

I felt so anxious, so lonely, like I was gonna lose it.

No way I could stay sane. No way I could let him walk away.

Absolutely not.

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

“――Wait!”

Before I knew it I said it out loud.

And then, driven by all that overflowing passion, I forced my lips onto his.

This time I was the one taking action. Like I was carving my existence into him. Just pouring all these feelings out.

That’s how I kissed Nedori Ren-kun.