Volume 1 - CH 4

The Girl’s Having Fun

Getting off the swing, I and the girl headed over to the slide.

The girl happily climbs up its ladder.

“Be careful oka~y”

Since she might misstep and fall, I kept my eyes on her and warned her to be careful.

“……..”

And I immediately regretted my action.

A white piece of cloth was visible from underneath her skirt.

It was there right at the center of my vision in all its glory.

“Fuuu……”

I’ve always longed to see one that belongs to a young Onee-san.

(TLN: Reminder, the dude was in High School)

I mean, as expected, she’s too young for me to look at her that way……

It would still be safe to stare if my eyes are so bad that they require glasses though.

No, I can’t, I have to draw a line here……..

“What’s wrong? You are not coming?”

“I will climb up once you get on top. We have to take turns for a thing like this you know.”

“Is that so.”

I’m filled with regret from seeing under such an innocent girl’s skirt.

I never knew that there would be this much difference in the guilt levels between seeing one belong to a cosplayer and a natural like this……

I have never been the type that can tell the difference between the taste of wild tunas and bred tunas but it still felt like I just did something very rude to the girl.

I’m also disgusted with myself for how I compared a situation in which I saw a girl’s underwear with the types of tunas like there was some strange deep meaning behind it.

“This is Fu~~n!”

“Again, why are you already having fun before you even play it!”

The joy of a slide is when you slide down one right.

Why is she having fun when she just finished climbing it?

Her head is just filled with too much Fun I guess.

“Come on, Come on.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

With a bitter smile, I put my hands on the slide’s ladder and climbed up.

“What’s next?”

“All that’s left is to go down the slides isn’t it.”

“I see!”

From my conversation with her so far, it feels like this is her first time at a playground.

I wonder what it felt like when I first visited one.

Let’s try recalling it.

“Will my uncle die if I push him down from here I wonder……..”

I said that as I was looking down from atop the slide.

“I will kill him. I will make sure that he suffers for what he’s done.”

Fufu, small laughter escaped my mouth.

“Ahhh, That would be so much FUN!”

Strangely, although it was not the normal kind of joy, I did think that it was fun just by climbing up the slide…….

TOO MUCH!

You are saying that this is just Akechi Hideyori before his Gift manifested!?

Me before I recalled the memories from my previous life is too scary!

“What’s wrong……?”

“It seems I don’t have the right to comment on others huh……….”

“?”

The girl seems to not understand what I was talking about but I don’t feel like explaining it either.

“Come on, let’s go down.”

“Un!”

The girl nodded as though she had been waiting to try it and stood up.

“WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”

With her voice filled with joy, the girl ran straight down the slide.

“Phew, this is fun! It felt really nice.”

“Good for you……”

I mean, people usually just sit and slide down right? I retorted in my head but to be considerate, I ran down the slide just like her.

When I reached the ground, the girl said [Let’s do it one more time] and climbed up the slide again.

“So fu~~~~n!”

She ran down the slide again but I’ve already given up on retorting.

After that, I sat down on a nearby bench.

The sweltering heat of the sun made beads of sweat form on my forehead.

“Something troublesome sure has awakened in me huh……”

Even when compared to celebrities, people who possess a Gift can easily go viral.

Recently, someone who has the Gift of [Perfectly copying another person’s voice] has become a celebrity overnight after they filmed their Gift and posted the footage on a video site.

It’s a Gift that can easily make the Impersonator Artists and those who worked in the video industry cry tears of envy.

Maybe I can make use of my Gift and make some money too huh…….

Well, Hideyori pretty much did whatever he wanted in the original work but my morals are preventing me from acting like that.

The way the original Akechi Hideyori used his Gift was truly horrifying.

For example, there was this heroine who [Doesn’t Get Along with Her Family]. Hideyori grabbed hold of her weakness, made her murder both her parents, and covered it all up…….

With his only good point being his handsome face, and the ability of his Gift that allows him to outright control others, even [Hideyori’s Girlfriend] was subjected to his control and abuse.

If I recall correctly, he made his girlfriend befriend the heroine and tricked her to spill out her discontent with her parents and stuff like that, anyway, his method was simply vulgar.

Hideyori’s Girlfriend was also super hated too, wasn’t she……

Just like Hideyori, she was in a role where she was also destined to die, some even leave a comment like [They both died? Good riddance] on the game forum.

In the [Breaking the Chain of Sadness]’s Most Hated Couple Poll with a total of 7556 votes submitted, this pair alone occupied 60% of those votes.

[[Honestly, the fact that Hideyori has a girlfriend is friggin irritating.]],

[[They are both trash so they are perfect for each other right LOL.]], [Those two really are the only stain on this masterpiece], such comments were common in the forum…..

On the other hand, there were also comments such as [[This is still a hundred times better than shipping any of the heroines with Hideyori LOL.]], or [[That damn scumbag wouldn’t bat an eye to NTR so it’s better that he’s already with someone right.]] as well.

“Haa……I have to seal this Gift so that I won’t start using it all willy-nilly huh.”

I didn’t have any choice but to use it against my family yesterday though…….

“Hmm? You can use a Gift?”

“Eh?”

It was the girl.

I’ve done it now…..

Should I erase her memory with my Gift?

Erasing all her memory about what happened today is also an option?

“Is Gift fun?”

“Heck no…….”

In the game, I was having a lot of fun abusing my Gift.

……..Right, if using such a Gift becomes a habit then it’s obvious that Hideoyori would develop such a horrible personality when he grows up.

Still, let’s stop, thinking about how to seal the Gift before even trying to learn how to use it properly. That would be like putting a cart before a horse after all.

“You can’t tell other people that I can use a Gift okay.”

“Un! I got it!”

I still wonder if she truly understands what I asked but since she’s agreed I will just have to put my trust in her.

“In exchange, show me what kind of Gift it is!”

“………”

That’s her angle huh…..

I think it should be okay if I tell a child how I can use my word to control others but once she grew up she might start to think [Eh? Isn’t that guy kinda scary?] and that wouldn’t be good for me.

I guess I should hide it for the time being huh.

“It’s just a [Magic] Gift though.”

“I want to see it! Show me, Show me!”

Kids do love magic tricks and the likes after all huh.

Let’s just perform some harmless trick for her then.

“Alright, I have a 10-yen coin right here. I will make it teleport to your hand without you noticing alright.”

“Eh? That’s impossible you know? I would definitely notice it after all.”

“That’s a nice reaction you have there. I like it. Clench both your hands into a fist okay.”

Saying so, I tightly hold the 10-yen coin I got from my aunt as my allowance in my left hand.

The curious eye of the young girl was fixated on my tightly clenched left hand.

“[Take this 10-yen coin I’m about to give you and hold it in your hand. After you take the coin, you will erase this moment from your memory.]”

Under my control, the girl received the 10-yen coin I gave her and put it in her fist.

I also kept my left hand clenched in a fist like it was before I handed her the coin.

Alright, her memory should have been erased now.

“Okay, that’s it. The 10-yen coin has already disappeared from my hand.”

When I laid my palm bare, the 10-yen coin was nowhere to be seen.

“Amazing.”

The girl immediately raised her voice in surprise.

“Now try opening your hands.”

“Eh!? No way!?”

The 10-yen coin that I had ‘teleported’ away from my clenched fist was already in her hand.

“Magic~nya.”*

“Nn? What’s what?”

“Swing and a miss…….”

I guess this is the so-called generation gap huh.

“That was amazing! Can I have this!?”

“Sure.”

“I will make it my treasure!”

If deceiving her about my Gift only cost me a 10-yen coin then that’s a cheap price to pay.

This is nice. I might not be able to do it on TV but if it’s face-to-face, I might be able to make my debut as Hideyori the Magician huh.

“Nee, Nee, Onii-chan, what’s your name?”

“Me? I’m Akechi Hideyori. What about you?”

Come to think of it, we haven’t even introduced ourselves huh.

Thinking so, I tried asking for the girl’s name.

“Sasaki Emi.”

“I see, Sasaki Emi huh……Nn? Emi?”

Eh?

Why does that name sound so familiar to me?

No, it’s a name that you can find just about anywhere though….

Then, suddenly I remembered.

In the [Breaking the Chain of Sadness] Trilogy, there were lots and lots of heroines.

Among those heroines, there was not a single heroine named [Sasaki Emi].

In the first place, I have already made sure that I didn’t make contact with a heroine by confirming that she has a mole under her eye, a trait that no heroine has.

……Eh? A mole under her eye?

I think I’ve just recalled something important.

Now I just want to punch my past self in the face for forgetting such a crucial detail like that……..

TLN : *Magic~Nya, is a direct translation from てじなーにゃ(Tejinanya), . It came from the name and cute ending phrase of the Yamagami Brothers’ magic show, Magical Magical Tejinanya.

Also, to be more precise, they called themselves Illusionists.