Volume 2 - CH 10

Juumonji Risa made more Friends

“Still, why do you two get along so well though?”

While I was still being hugged by Emi, Risa threw me that question.

“Who knows? I wonder why myself. Because we are neighbors I guess?”

To be honest, I should be nowhere near Emi but for some reason, we just kept getting closer and closer.

Even when I met her for the first time, I didn’t plan on talking or playing with her again after we got back from the playground.

Emi let go of me and reverted to her normal posture and replied to Risa

“Because he’s amazing?”

“How so?”

“……”

Emi silently glances at me.

It seems that she’s keeping her promise to me to keep my Gift a secret.

“I’m actually good at magic tricks.”

“Magic tricks?”

“Yeah, Emi was amazed by one you see.”

I kept the matter about my Gift a secret and told her only about the magic tricks.

“Hee, I want to see it too! Show me Hideyori-kun!”

When I say, [I can do Magic Tricks], people usually say that they want to see it.

Everybody likes to see good magic tricks after all.

“I don’t mind but I don’t have my tools right now. I have playing cards at my place so I can show it to you there though.”

“Okay.”

When I turned around to head back home, Emi whispers to me.

“I’m, I’m sorry. Now Hideyori-kun has to use your Gift……”

“Don’t worry about it, I don’t need to use my Gift for simple tricks after all.”

“Eh? Is that so. But if it’s the trick you showed me then you should be able to do it right here right.”

“I can but I won’t. My principle is to not show the same trick twice. It will lose its freshness and it will be less exciting that way don’t you think.”

“I see, that’s so cool!”

“Right.”

I hate it when I perform a trick and someone says something like [Oh, I’ve seen this one before!] like I’m some kind of one-trick pony.

If Emi wasn’t here then I might have used the same coin trick I did before but with her here I don’t want to show the same trick to the same audience twice.

This is something I have decided on even before I was reincarnated.

I brought the two to my place.

“Ara Ara.”

My aunt was happy to see me bring two girls home.

I am not related to her by blood but it seems that she’s looking forward to seeing me getting married (It would be great if I can live that long though…….)

Incidentally, the one I do have a blood tie with is Uncle.

“Excu~se me!”

“Sorry for intruding.”

After Emi and Risa finished greeting my aunt I guided her to my room.

Then, I show them a simple card trick.

It’s the [Is this your card?] one that anyone can do as long as they know how to set it up and how to trick the audience’s eyes.

“That’s amazing Hideyori-kun.”

“Eh? How did you do that!?”

The two were excited when I guessed the card Risa chose correctly.

As I thought, the only tricks worth performing are ones that can surprise your audiences.

“Magic~nya.”

“Hm? Seriously, what’s that?”

“Magic~nya?……..I don’t think I’ve heard that before.”

“This generation gap is seriously going to make me cry…..”

Emi and Risa just don’t get it.

But someone did get it in my previous life though.

[[Magic~nya.]]

[[Toyotomi-kun, that’s very nostalgic you know!]]

[[Don’t say that! It will only make me more self-aware of the generation gap right.]]

[[Ahahaha.]]

Right, I was able to laugh together with that girl just like that.

How’s she doing after I died I wonder…….?

I’d be happy if she’s doing well.

Well,……she might have already forgotten all about me though.

I was not all that popular in my past life after all.

I’m not being sissy okay.

But BUT!

When I think that she might be dating or getting married to another man by now it just makes me jealous!

I wanted to get along with her more, seriously…….

“This [Magic~nya] didn’t come up even after I tried looking it up you know.”

“Is it one of those moe-cultures Nii-san talked about? Like what a cat-eared maid ended their sentence with?”

“Hmm, so Hideyori-kun talked about something like that with Juumonji-kun huh.”

“E, Emi-san? Your voice sounds kinda scary you know?”

I see, so in the world of [Breaking the Chain of Sadness], [Magic~nya] doesn’t exist huh.

So that’s why I couldn’t get a response like [how nostalgic] from them.

It’s not even about generation gap huh. That’s unfortunate.

“Still, thank you, both of you. It feels like I’ve managed to make more friends today.”

“We are already Risa-chan’s friends you know! Right, Hideyori-kun?”

“Well, I’d be happy if Risa thinks of me like that.”

This is my first time chatting with Risa without Takeru around after all.

“Treat me well from now on too okay, you two!”

Even though I didn’t want to get involved with the characters from the game like Emi, Takeru, and Risa, they are all so nice that I kinda want to get to know them more now……..

It’s scary to think that I might end up in the same position as in the game though.

Even so, I still don’t want to destroy this comfortable relationship we have right now.

TLN: That’s the second Arc, next is the character introduction