Reincarnated Into The World Of A Rape Erotic Game ~ Since The Game World Has Become Reality... I Want To Save The Heroines~ - Chapter 17: Lunch Break

“…Well then… will you follow me?”

“Understood.”

It was lunch break after we had finished eating. Since Shoka Hiyori had said that to me on this early summer day, I agreed and decided to follow her. Well, she had already mentioned this morning that she seemed to have something to talk about with me.

“Wait, Toyokazu-kun.”

“What’s wrong?”

“If you lay a hand on her… as your childhood friend, I’ll kill you and then kill myself, okay?”

“I won’t lay a hand on her! What are you saying!? If you’re my childhood friend, I’d want you to understand me even more! Is that the kind of person you think I am, Yuuka!?”

“B-but…”

No, no… there’s no “but” about it. What did Yuuka think I was? Did she think I was some kind of sex beast? I’d have to question her about this next time too.

“Toyokazu-sama.”

“…What is it, Ai?”

“Please make sure to use protection with anyone other than me ♡.”

“There’s no ‘anyone other than you’ because I don’t do that kind of thing! Please don’t say such weird things in the classroom!”

“It’s also meant as a warning, so don’t mind it ♡.”

Geez… what kind of warning was that…? And of course I’d mind that! It made my character seem like trash! Though it might already be too late…

“Toyo-chan… you shouldn’t stare at Shoka-san’s breasts too much, okay?”

“I’m not staring!”

“And you can’t grope them either, okay?”

“I won’t grope them!”

Really, what did they think I was…? Anyway, I followed Shoka Hiyori. It seemed like we were heading to the rooftop. Now… What could she want to talk about? I had asked Yusuke-san and Shoka Hiyori’s parents to keep quiet about me.

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This school’s rooftop wasn’t locked. It was open to everyone. Because it was that kind of rooftop, there were people who spent their lunch break or ate their meals here. Well, it was typical that most of them were couples. We kept our distance so as not to disturb them and headed to one of the four corners of the rooftop. And… I was the first to speak.

“Ah~ Sorry about earlier. My childhood friends kept saying strange things and took up your time…”

“Y-you don’t need to apologize. I was the one who called you out here… More importantly… you’re childhood friends with those three? I thought you seemed close, but…”

“Yeah. That’s right, but?”

“Um… you know. Is one of those three… your girlfriend?”

“No, no… of course not. It’s nothing like that. They’re just childhood friends… well, precious childhood friends, I guess.”

“…Precious…?”

“Well, yeah. They’re like precious little sisters, I suppose. Yuuka, Ai, and Rin are all troublesome…”

“Then… does Shirosaki himself have romantic feelings for those three…?”

“That’s not the case.”

“Hmm… I see… so that’s how it is…”

“Well, setting aside the three of them for now… you wanted to talk to me about something, right?”

“Huh? Oh, yeah, that’s right, that’s right. I called you out here because I had something to talk about… I’ll say it straight out…”

“Yeah.”

“Then please go out with me…”

“…Huh?”

“Ah!? Oh no!? N-no, that’s not… forget what I just said!”

“O-oh… yeah.”

That really surprised me just now. I thought I was suddenly being confessed to. Well, something like that couldn’t be possible though.

“Um… you’re Shirosaki, right?”

“Huh? Oh, well. My surname is Shirosaki, but…”

“S-stupid! That’s not what I mean! I mean, you’re the one who did various things for me!”

Ah… so it was about that after all… I wondered if she’d heard it from her parents? I hid it because I didn’t want her to feel unnecessarily indebted to me.

“…What do you mean? (…even if I say that…)”

“…I’ve heard all about that stuff! So don’t try to dodge it and answer me! I just want to hear it from your own mouth!”

It was useless… Hiyori’s eyes became sharp. It wasn’t an atmosphere where I could joke around or lie.

“…Well… I did do various things, but you don’t need to worry about that…” 

“How can I not worry after being treated like that!?”

Hiyori suddenly raised her voice. Everyone looked our way wondering what was happening. It seemed like Hiyori herself had unconsciously raised her voice. She noticed this and apologized.

Though if I could say one thing, wasn’t her way of putting it problematic? When she said “being treated like that”, it sounded like it might cause bad rumors…

“…Ah… sorry… I accidentally raised my voice…”

“No…”

“…A-anyway… what I did was a crime, you know? No matter what reason there was, it was something I shouldn’t have done… but… even that was made to disappear… when I was about to be attacked… when I thought it was all over… you saved me… and most importantly… you restored my family… yet you kept quiet about all that, which is strange, isn’t it?”

“That’s because, you know… I didn’t want to make you feel indebted… and besides, Shoka-san, you understood that what you did was wrong, right? I just lent a hand with things that you couldn’t handle yourself, so you really don’t need to worry about it.”

“…Then… at least let me say thank you. Thank you… Really, thank you… for doing so much for me…”

“…Yeah. I’ve received your thanks. So on top of that, you don’t need to worry about it.”

“…Wait a minute!? Aren’t words alone not enough? You should be taking advantage of this!”

“No, that’s why I said I wouldn’t take advantage!”

“Since we have this opportunity, you can ask for anything! If it’s what Shirosaki wants… anything…”

A girl shouldn’t say “anything”… Especially in this world, you never knew what might happen.

“S-so… if you told me to go out with you… I-I would go out with you… and like your childhood friends mentioned… if you wanted to grope these breasts… I-I’d let you grope them a little…”

“Whoa!? What are you saying, Shoka-san!?”

“Ah… call me Hiyori, okay? You were calling your three childhood friends by their first names, right? You can call me by my first name too!”

“…Your tone and way of talking keeps changing too much, doesn’t it?”

“I-it can’t be helped, right? This is my first time with this kind of thing, I’m not used to it, and of course I’d be nervous, right?”

“Well…”

Now that she mentioned it… I supposed she would indeed be nervous. If a stranger of the opposite sex had been doing various things for you without your knowledge, you’d suspect they had ulterior motives. That’s why I called out to her like this.

“Well, you can tell me anytime if something comes up. I won’t use that to make you feel indebted, and I’ll do various things I can for Hiyori’s sake as many times as needed.”

Then Hiyori suddenly turned her back to me and stayed quiet for a while… Did I say something that made her angry? Well, before I could ask about the reason, Yuuka and the others came and the situation became chaotic, so I couldn’t ask.