CH 25

“So…what were we talking about again? Ahh~♪”

“Is everything alright? You seem a little off.”

“No, everything’s fine. I’m perfectly normal, as always.”

I was currently lost in the moment, my hands exploring Shirayuki’s body. 

Despite the fact that she was talking to Yosuke, a childhood friend and the protagonist of this world, I had not only removed her clothes but also her underwear, my hands now resting on her ample curves.

“…Fuhe”

I couldn’t stop myself from laughing creepily, but Shirayuki didn’t resist at all. In fact, she was clinging to me, telling me that she had been waiting for me.

“I’ve been waiting for you, Touma-kun.”

The moment she whispered my name from my past life, something within me changed. It was like a raging fire that grew hotter with each word of Yosuke’s voice on the other end of the call.

“Shirayuki…Shirayuki…!”

“Huh? Are you with someone?”

I wanted to scream at him that I was with the girl he liked, and that I was doing things to her that he could only dream of. 

But I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I was too consumed with the desire to drown myself in Shirayuki.

“I’m not sure. Anyway, Koizumi-kun, I’m quite busy so I should end this call soon.”

“Wait a minute…”

And then Yosuke’s voice was cut off. Shirayuki turned off her phone and pushed me down onto the table, straddling me.

“… Pufu~”

“Why are you laughing?”

I couldn’t help but chuckle. 

It was kind of hard not to when Shirayuki was straddling me like a balance ball. 

For a moment, all of my jealousy towards Yosuke and my excitement for Shirayuki disappeared, replaced with a sense of calm.

“Muu, I’ll make you lose that composure again!”

She said as she leaned in to kiss me passionately. 

As she showered me with kisses, demanding more, I responded by parting her lips with my tongue.

“Mmm~♪♪”

After that, it was like a sweet honey-like time. 

Shirayuki and I exchanged kisses over and over again, as if melting into each other, intertwining our tongues until we were breathless… and even when we had to take a break to catch our breath, we would quickly resume kissing.

“Touma-kun…”

“Shirayuki…”

Even though my body was called Arashi, I no longer recognized myself as Arashi. 

Shirayuki called out my true name, which I would never be called in this world, and she was the only one I could see.

“I know you probably have many questions.”

Shirayuki took a small box out of her pocket. 

She opened the lid and held something pink in her hand, which I immediately recognized.

“But for now, why don’t you follow your emotions? Touma-kun, what do you want to do right now?”

“I want to… be with Shirayuki. I’ve always wanted that.”

“Me too. I’ve always wanted to be with you like this… not with Koizumi-kun, but with you yourself!”

I want to do many things with her… but for now, I’ll follow those words and be honest with my feelings. 

Otherwise… I might explode.

“I’ll put this on, okay? I know how much you need from our previous encounter with the special cream… cough, so I know it will fit perfectly.” 

“Did I just hear something I shouldn’t have?”

“Don’t worry about it. You don’t have to put it on if you don’t want to, but I think it might make you feel pressured.”

The pressure might be referring to what would happen if we did it.

“We’ve always had to start from scratch every time, but my mother and I believed in miracles and kept moving forward. Now that we’re together with you, we don’t have to do anything but to make you love us, and to be loved by us, with our inexhaustible and overflowing financial resources.”

“That’s…”

“This is just the beginning. So, Touma-kun, shall we love each other?”

▼▽

After that, for several tens of minutes… no, how many hours had passed, I don’t know. 

I connected with Shirayuki as if the dream had become reality, loving each other to our hearts’ content. 

My body was not as light as in the dream, so I quickly ran out of breath… but when that happened, Shirayuki relentlessly attacked me.

“…Fufu♪”

And after everything was over, Shirayuki lay next to me. 

We were both naked, with nothing to hide, and we were pressed against each other’s skin just like when we were born.

“Did it feel good?”

“…Yeah. It felt like a dream.”

“Me too. Even if that body wasn’t the real one, I can feel your presence there with me. So I won’t ever think that I hate it anymore.”

I asked Shirayuki, “Hey, did it really happen?” 

She nodded and told me everything. It was an unbelievable story that I couldn’t even imagine.

“Every time you started over, both my mother and I went back to zero. Even though we knew you were there, we had to keep repeating it with someone we didn’t like or care about. But sometimes, hearing your voice was what kept us going.”

When I played Everlasting-Love, I don’t know how it happened, but it seems like they had their own consciousness… Even though they knew I was the player, they had to follow the original storyline.

“To be honest, I don’t think I can believe this story just like that. After all, it’s so unrealistic.”

“That’s… true.”

“So—”

I interrupted Shirayuki who was about to continue speaking.

“But… regardless, I’m happy. I always wondered why I came to this world as Arashi. Arashi is the villain in this world and can never be in a relationship with Shirayuki or Hisui.”

“That’s…”

“I always wondered why I wasn’t Yosuke, the main character.”

At first, I thought that way, and even when I was attracted to Shirayuki or Hisui, I tried not to think about it, but I couldn’t help it.

“Despite that, I thought you would hate me as Arashi, but for some reason we became close… and then we started working out together, going to the gym, and you even came to my house… just spending time together made me feel more and more reluctant to give up.”

“Perhaps as a result of my attempts to get close to you, I ended up making you feel uneasy, didn’t I?”

That might be true… but if I said that, it would be blaming her. But… I was surprised by what happened to me again.

“Did you always hate the idea of being with Yosuke…”

“Well, yes. I thought of killing him countless times. Even though I understand that following a predetermined path is inevitable, it’s disgusting to me that he still thinks of me as his possession in a world that is trying to change.”

By the way, it seems that Yosuke doesn’t remember things like Shirayuki does.

But it was a confirmation that not only Shirayuki but also Hisui felt the same way, that they treated me well.

“Touma-kun, please let me call you that when we’re alone.”

“Huh? That’s fine, but…”

“You don’t want to forget it either, don’t you, Touma-kun? Even though we have no choice but to live in this world, we don’t want you to lose your true self. We want to accept all of you, both as Touma and as Arashi.”

“…Shirayuki.”

This is bad… I was happy just being connected to her, but her saying that she wants to accept not only Arashi but also me as Touma-kun made me even happier.

In this world where nobody knows about me, her words that she wants to accept the me who should be forgotten made me so happy.

“We’ll accept the confusion. We’ll accept your hesitation… So please, will you let us influence you? We won’t leave you, so please stay with us, forever.”

“…”

“Both me and my mother will always be by your side… We love you, Touma-kun.”

That day, everything changed.