Reincarnated Into The World Of A Rape Erotic Game ~ Since The Game World Has Become Reality... I Want To Save The Heroines~

“Today was really… so much fun… Hey… did you have fun too… Toyo-chan?”

I murmured this to the photograph in the picture frame displayed on my desk. Toyo-chan in the photo was smiling… and I felt as if he had responded to my murmur with an “I had fun too”…

Kindergarten, elementary school, middle school… and high school… I’ve continued to harbor feelings for Toyo-chan, my childhood friend who lived next door to my house… The trigger for my feelings was in kindergarten… I was shy and couldn’t ask even kids in my class to play together. He always looked out for me… stayed by my side… I became friends with Yuuka-chan and Ai-chan through Toyo-chan too…

I often heard that childhood friend relationships didn’t become romantic interests like in manga and novels… but I was naturally drawn to him. His cool side, his smart side, his mature side, and conversely his childish side too. If I listed all the parts of him I had feelings for, there’d be no end.

“If I could honestly say ‘I like you’… to Toyo-chan… if I could be more proactive… would we be dating by now?”

I really hated this personality of mine that lacked courage and my inability to take action. In that regard, Yuuka-chan and Ai-chan, who were both my best friends and romantic rivals, were more proactive than me, which made me envious.

“Yuuka-chan also… can’t honestly convey her feelings… so that’s why we’re in this current situation… Ai-chan has conveyed hers but… it doesn’t seem to get through…”

If Yuuka-chan and Ai-chan seriously conveyed their feelings and took action…

“He’d choose Yuuka-chan or Ai-chan, wouldn’t he… they’re both cute after all…”

That’s exactly why… today… I had steeled myself and asked him on a date… right? Yeah, I think it was a date. It was definitely a date!

That’s why I invited him on a date…

Ping! Ping!

While I was thinking about such things, a message arrived on my phone. Probably… from Yuuka-chan? Or maybe Ai-chan? They must have somehow sniffed out that I went on a date with Toyo-chan today and want to hear the details…

“Hmm? It’s not from Yuuka-chan. Not from Ai-chan either. Who could it be? Ah… this is… from the game center we went to today. They said they’d send game center event announcements and such… so probably that?”

I opened the messaging app to check the content.

Thank you very much for visiting our game center! Thank you so much for the friend registration as well! We are contacting you today because we have something to inform our customer about. We are keeping the keychain shown in the attached photo at our store. If this looks familiar to you, please reply directly to this message. Thank you for visiting our store today (≧▽≦)

The message said this, so I opened the attached photo to look…

“This keychain… it’s the same one Toyo-chan gave me today!? The one I attached to my bag!?”

I hurriedly checked my bag.

“It’s not there!?”

Indeed, the keychain that should have been attached was nowhere to be found. Getting carried away by the date and dropping something I received right on the spot… and moreover… not even noticing it… I was really stupid. Too stupid… It was depressing…

“A-anyway, I have to reply!”

Probably… I had dropped it at that time… when I had bumped into that male staff member. If I had checked my bag at that time…

While thinking such things, I sent a reply and immediately got a response back.

“Th-thank goodness~”

I felt relieved for the moment seeing that reply. It said they would keep it safe and to mention it when I came to the reception.

I replied again stating that I would come to pick it up first thing tomorrow. Then I received a final message saying they’d be waiting, and after seeing that, I closed the app.

And then…

For just a moment… I wondered if I could invite Toyo-chan again. But I definitely couldn’t say “come with me to pick it up” because I had dropped something Toyo-chan had given me, right…?

“Tomorrow… I have to go pick it up first thing in the morning…”

That day, I decided to go to bed early… because I wanted tomorrow to come quickly. But at times like this, for some reason I couldn’t fall asleep.

“I can’t sleep… Toyo-chan…? And… sorry? For dropping what you gave me…”

I wanted to sleep but kept thinking about various things… no, not various things… I kept thinking only about Toyo-chan…

“I like you… I’ve always liked you… Toyo-chan…”

Being hugged from behind like that… it was warm… and I was so happy…

“Toyo-chan… mmm~”

When you thought about someone you liked, it was inevitable that your body got hot…

“…Mm…♡ Toyo-chan…♡ Mmm~~~♡”

I ended up having to take care of myself before sleeping… I was such an idiot…

A-anyway… after taking care of my needs, it didn’t take long to fall asleep, so I prepared as soon as I woke up and headed to the game center first thing in the morning…

At that time, I had no idea… couldn’t imagine… that this would lead to something terrible…