I, Who Was Reincarnated as an Evil Character With Cheat-Level Stats in an Eroge, Will Live Freely in This Life
●Nanashima Tsubasa (side)
“Huh…”
I stayed up late and woke up at 4:00 p.m.
Yesterday, I played an FPS game with five people, and it was really fun.
After all, if you’re going to play FPS, you need a full party.
Thinking about that, I went to the living room and found Kana lying on the sofa, playing with her smartphone.
Kana is cute no matter when I see her.
I can’t even count how many times my friends have envied me for living with her.
Even though Kana is so cute, she seems to have a lot of friends, but there’s never been any hint of a boyfriend. Yet she does chores for me and takes care of me.
I’m not sure exactly how Kana feels, but at least I know she likes me more than any other guy.
Luckily, Kana is my step-sister, so we’re not related by blood.
If there’s no blood relation, then even if we’re family, marriage is possible.
Kana probably doesn’t dislike me either, so I hope that someday we can become lovers instead of siblings.
My father and stepmother would probably be happy too…
Besides, I have two childhood friends who are just as cute as Kana.
They are Suzukaze Miku and Hiiragi Saki.
They’re incredibly popular. They’ve been confessed to dozens of times by classmates and seniors… I’m nervous about it, but they’ve turned everyone down. Some of the people who confessed were good-looking or rich, too.
Not only that, but they don’t even try to be friends with other guys besides me, yet they chat with me happily.
Seeing them like that, I wonder if they might feel the same way about me… but I can’t be sure.
Of course, I want to be lovers someday, but when I think about the risk of failure, I can’t help but hesitate.
Right now, if I have to take that risk, it’s definitely better to keep things as they are.
Also, when people ask me if I’m dating anyone, I give a vague answer, but then some people misunderstand, and their reactions make me feel pretty good.
I’m too scared to lie and say we’re definitely dating, but it’s not a big deal, right? It’s just that the other person is misunderstanding.
“Good morning, Kana.”
“Oh, good morning, onii san. You finally woke up.”
“Hmm, is there any food?”
“There’s a bento box. Do you want it?”
“Hmm, sure.”
“Sure… but it’s just heating up, so you can do it yourself, right?”
Usually, she would do it without saying anything, but today’s response surprised me.
Come to think of it, Kana has been spending more time happily playing with her smartphone lately. What on earth is she doing?
I thought so and tried to peek at Kana’s smartphone…
“Hey!! Don’t look at my smartphone, nii san!!!”
Saying that, Kana jumped up from the sofa and hid her smartphone.
In the end, I couldn’t see the screen of her smartphone, but was it something to get so angry about?
I thought so and felt a little irritated.
“Is it something to get so angry about? Were you looking at something you shouldn’t have been?”
“No, I wasn’t. I was just chatting with my friends on LINE.”
Just then, Kana’s smartphone rang.
“I’ll just take this call.”
“Okay.”
While Kana was on the phone, I warmed up some food.
“Ugh… I’m still sleepy.”
I did manage to sleep a little, but I’m still sleepy…
“Maybe I’ll eat this and then go back to sleep?”
Tomorrow is school, but if I go back to sleep now, I’ll probably wake up at night, so it would be easier to adjust if I just went to school without sleeping.
Thinking about such things, I took my lunch box to the table and started eating, but…
(Bang!)
Kana burst through the door.
“Nii san!!!!”
“Cough… What is it? Could you call me a little more quietly…”
“This isn’t the time for that!! You had an appointment today, didn’t you!!??”
“Huh? An appointment?”
“Are you kidding? Did you really forget!!??”
An appointment… An appointment… An appointment?
Yesterday, I was so excited about the game that I didn’t think about anything else… An appointment.
Oh! That’s right, I talked about going to see a movie with Saki!
“…Did you finally remember?”
“Yeah…”
“What time was the appointment?”
“One o’clock…”
“What time is it now?”
“Four o’clock…”
What’s more, it was my idea to go see the movie today.
I wanted to see an anime movie, but Seiya said he wouldn’t go because it was outside his area of expertise, so I gave up and invited Saki, Kana, and Miku instead.
But in the end, Miku and Kana said they didn’t watch anime at all, so they wouldn’t be able to give their opinions even if they went, so they said they wouldn’t go.
The only one who said she would go was Saki.
It was just a movie that I was a little interested in, so it was completely overshadowed by yesterday’s game…
“If I go now…”
Before I could ask if I could make it in time, she interrupted me.
“You won’t make it. It wasn’t Saki nee who called me, it was Miku nee.”
“Why Miku?”
“Apparently, they happened to meet a little before the call came in… Miku nee was out shopping with her family and she was waiting for her near the movie theater. It seems that Saki nee couldn’t charge her phone before going to bed, so she sent a message to nii san and then her phone died… She stayed there because she didn’t want to run into him on her way home. And now they’re going out together.”
Damn it… I should have made the meeting place closer to home.
My plan was to meet up after playing coin games near the movie theater in the morning.
Huh? But if Miku is there, maybe I don’t need to go?
I didn’t buy tickets for the movie theater in advance, so it won’t be a waste.
Then there’s no need to rush.
“Is that so? Then that’s good. It seems like I don’t need to go after all. I’ll apologize later.”
“Do you really think so?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Check your phone notifications…”
When she said that, I looked at my phone, which I had brought with me to play with while eating.
There were two calls and eight messages from Saki. Moreover, I hadn’t noticed them yesterday because I was concentrating on the game, but it seemed that there had been two messages from her last night as well.
In addition, there were five consecutive calls from Miku just before I woke up.
“There have been so many calls…”
“Don’t you feel anything when you see that?”
No, I feel bad about it, but I can’t respond to calls that come while I’m sleeping… Last night, I was hanging out with other people, so it wasn’t on purpose…
Besides, I’ll apologize later and it’ll be fine.
If it had been Miku, it would have been really bad, but Saki is very kind to me, and we’ve never even had an argument before.
Actually, Miku can be a bit naggy, so that part is pretty troublesome.
When I think about it, Saki basically helps me with everything, so she’s really a big help.
“Nii san you don’t think Saki nee will forgive you, do you?”
“…How did you know?”
When I replied like that, she sighed.
“Haaa.. Well, never mind. Just make sure to apologize properly later, okay?”
“I know… I know I was wrong too.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
And with that, Kana left.
“If Saki was angry, I’d understand, but why is Kana angry?”
She would forgive me, but I don’t understand why Kana, who isn’t involved, is angry.
Well, no matter what, Miku, Kana, and Saki have been together for nearly ten years, so I’m sure they’ll forgive me soon.
I panicked for a moment, but then I calmed down.
I thought about that as I ate dinner and sent Saki an apology message.
Maiban
Another Insensitive Protagonist.