CH 24

A Dream That Becomes Another Title If You Don’t Pay Attention to the Remaining Bullets

Get a good night’s sleep… It’s one of the most luxurious and righteous ways to spend a holiday.

It’s Saturday morning, the sun has long since risen, and I’m still in bed enjoying life with my lifelong friend, the futon.

This drowsy time is irresistible… I even wish it could go on forever.

I had a dream last night that was a bit~ extreme.

The lucid dream request, a regular event every night lately, has become a certain gun shooting game with Amane’s rough opinion of “the one that defeats the enemy with a gun”.

Well, these days, gun shooters are always accompanied by zombies, and the one chosen yesterday was the most famous zombie game in the world.

In the genre of dreams, it is said that “being chased by something unidentifiable” is a symbol of stress and a mental picture of being trapped…. The zombie almost had the face of “the guy”…. Was it a coincidence?

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Gagagaga ………… Dodo Dodo Dodo ………… Bang Bang Bang Bang ……

“ORAORAORA! Your self-talk is not interesting!! Don’t come into our talk!!!”

“You feel good and look down on me, but… No one is jealous of you!! I just don’t want to get involved because it’s too much trouble, takosuke*!!!” (TLN: a word kind of ridicule)

“” “” A, AAAAAAA ……… “” “”

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Un, it’s a coincidence.

In the middle of the wiped-out zombie hordes, we were just sweating it out with great smiles on our faces and heavy weapons in our hands.

But… there was a slight negative effect.

It was a dream, but there was a bit of a real problem… It was out of bullets.

As soon as we got the powerful weapon, we both had the urge to shoot it once and fired it at the shallow playboy zombie in vain.

The consumption of the shotgun and grenade launcher was particularly heavy, and when we were taking pleasure in the zombies being wiped out at once… We found out that it had been unusable before the boss battle.

It’s a situation that seems to happen a lot in real games.

“Normally the first person to get into a situation like that would be killed~.”

“If it’s a zombie movie, the first one they’re going to eat is the one with the gun and the cocky guy who thinks he’s good…”

I raise myself up from the bed and mutter to myself, and Amane replies with a wry smile of agreement.

“When you get a powerful weapon, you just say, “Only once!!” And then you’ll fire it at the zombies…”

“Aa~, you’re also saying, “Let me do it, too!” You were so excited that you threw grenades at him. You even used up your precious fire bombs…”

Un, it’s futile… Let’s stop this conversation.

As a result, the second half of yesterday’s dream was not a gun-shooting game, but a “Warriors-type” game.

Wielding iron rods by using the terrain and steel frame, creating traps using available tools and materials, knocking down enemies into blast furnaces that you don’t know what they are, and so on.

“Ahaha, that’s not B〇o*, it’s De〇D R〇si〇ng**, isn’t it?” (TLN: *I think she means Biohazard/Resident Evil, **Dead Rising)

I’ve been talking about it so naturally… I finally realized what I should have realized at the very beginning.

“…Eh? Why is Amane in my room?”

This is my room and I was still sleeping.

Normally, her being in this room would be an unnatural incident…

But she didn’t seem to feel bad, sitting on the window frame of my room and swinging her feet.

Her childish gestures are a little cute.

“Good morning… I said but it’s lunchtime. Just because you’re on the second floor if you don’t lock your window you’re being careless.”

…In other words, Amane has once again managed to invade my room through the roof.

But while I should be angry at her for entering without permission, I was also happy to think that Amane had come to see me in a casual way, just like she did when I was a child… It’s hard to complain.

“…Or rather, what’s wrong? This early in the morning… not, yesterday’s dream reflection meeting?”

Last night’s dream had a lot of problems, but in the end, Amane was wielding a fire extinguisher and happily crushing zombie’s heads, and she looked so excited and happy… I was even a little scared.

I regained my composure and said, and Amane shook her head with a wry smile.

“A little consultation… wrong. I have a report…”

“Hmm?”

Then Amane stepped off the window sill and sat down on the floor.

“A while ago, Shindo-san came to my house with her parents. It was about the stairs the other day…”

“…………Eh?”

While I was enjoying my nap, the Kanzaki family was receiving a very unexpected visitor.

To cut a long story short, Shindo-san had come to politely apologize after confessing that she had pushed Amane down the stairs the other day out of jealousy and presumption.

And to my surprise, she was accompanied by her parents.

That meant that she had reported her sin to her parents last night.

……Last night, we had the pleasure of destroying the “shallow playboy zombie”.

“Her brown hair, which was so soft and fluffy, had been cut and dyed black, so at first I thought, “Who!?””

“That’s… awesome…”

It woke me up all at once… That’s how shocked I was.

Personally, I thought that even if she had apologized, it would have been at least by herself at school, and Amane would have definitely forgiven her for that.

Telling your parents about your crimes is an action that, if they are sensible parents, they would be prepared to punish you.

I’m sure she was prepared to not only pay the compensation fee but even be expelled from school… That’s not easy to do.

In short……

“Seriously, she’s really sorry and has come to make a formal apology…”

“Her parents both got down on their knees… I didn’t mind that much anymore, but when they do that…”

Amane scratched her cheek as if in trouble.

They were so sincere and said they would be fine if she will be filing a lawsuit, the uncle and aunt (Amane’s parents), who heard about the incident for the first time today, instead of getting angry, said, “She seems to be remorseful and we received her apology. Fortunately, my daughter didn’t seem to be injured”.

It would’ve been different if she’d been injured in this…

“…That’s why Yumeji-kun. Would you like to go somewhere with me from now on?”

“…………Ha?”

Without any context, Amane said that with a very nice smile, and I could only reply in a dumb voice.

Going out? With Amane? Go out with a girl on holiday???

That is … that is so-called …

In spite of my confusion, Amane began to stretch and say, “Mmm~”.

“Some~how, even though it’s a holiday, because there is a bit of a stiff ritual to start with, so I want to loosen up a bit.”

“Ritual…”

I know what you mean…

While I was confused, Amane just said, “I’ll see you later, then,” and went back through the window and along the roof to her room.

Going out with a girl on a holiday…

It’s what society calls a date, isn’t it…?