the boy came in while commenting, “So cool~”
“I-I’ll do my best, then.”
I said to Haruka, who was still all fired-up, and closed the door.
“Umm, I will now explain the rules! In a moment, you’ll be challenging me in the game that’s there in the center. The one that takes down the most enemies is the winner! Simple, right?”
I tried to give a big sister-like explanation with a desperately forced smile.
This time, the customer seemed quite normal. No, it was probably only because the first customer had been too much of a different species that made me think this ….
“Ohh~ Seems like fun! Even though they don’t seem to be here …. How about it? Do you want to try, Kido?”
“Doesn’t it? ….. Hm? Kido? Who—eeek!!”
Although the boy had been facing me and grinning while listening to my explanation, he suddenly started talking to the empty space beside him.
For a second, I didn’t understand what he was doing, but the moment I looked where he was looking, an unbelievable sight jumped out at me.
Up until a moment ago, I was sure that there had only been that one boy.
But now, standing beside him was hooded girl of about the same height.
It was dark, so I couldn’t see her expression very well, but the voice that muttered, “Yeah,” was definitely a girl’s.
“Ah, wh-wh-wh-what ….”
I was so shocked that I could barely keep standing. I was so certain that this girl had not been here when we’d talked in the hallway earlier, or even when he’d been let into the classroom.
There hadn’t been any opportunity to enter the room in the one second that the door had been open. If I thought about it, she must have come in together with the boy, but …. I couldn’t get away from the feeling that she had just suddenly appeared.
“Onee-san, are you okay? Ah, if it’s her you’re wondering about, she’s been here the whole time. She kind of has a weak presence, so people often don’t notice her …. —Ouch!!”
The girl seemed to take offense to being called a “weak presence,” and hit the boy in the ribs.
But even if she did have a weak presence, was it really so weak that she’d go completely unnoticed like this?
—Could she possibly be some kind of ghost? This thought crossed my mind, but that was completely unrealistic. For someone like me, who had absolutely no belief in extreme supernatural things like the cognitive body of a ghost, it definitely made more sense that she was “occasionally overlooked.”
“…. Could we hurry up and start already?”
“Eek …! Y-yes, of course! Please, make your way to the seats in the back ….!”
Putting the girl’s true identity aside, it would be a good idea to end this as soon as possible.
But suppose she was a ghost, it wasn’t like she’d intentionally do me any harm. Most likely.
…. I didn’t think there would be any curses or anything, either. Probably.
But, if instead of picking up the controller with her own hand, she made it float in midair and started manipulating it, that’s when I would run. Persuading myself in a manner that I didn’t really understand, I made my way towards the seats.
I arrived at the seats together with the girl, but even now, my heart was still beating at a quickened pace.
Slowly glancing over at the girl, I could faintly catch a glimpse of the girl’s face from the glow of the monitor in front of her.
She had a fair complexion and long, pretty hair. Although her eyes were rather unpleasant, she had a nice, even face, and would no doubt grow up to be a beauty.
However, with the way the light was hitting it right now, it looked very much like the face of a girl straight out of a horror movie.
I quickly started the game before I began to lose my mind.
“Ah, u-umm, as I explained earlier, it’s a shooting game with a point system! If you score a higher number of points than me, you will be presented with a fabulous prize! A-and, so, about the difficulty level of the game
“I-I’ll do my best, then.”
I said to Haruka, who was still all fired-up, and closed the door.
“Umm, I will now explain the rules! In a moment, you’ll be challenging me in the game that’s there in the center. The one that takes down the most enemies is the winner! Simple, right?”
I tried to give a big sister-like explanation with a desperately forced smile.
This time, the customer seemed quite normal. No, it was probably only because the first customer had been too much of a different species that made me think this ….
“Ohh~ Seems like fun! Even though they don’t seem to be here …. How about it? Do you want to try, Kido?”
“Doesn’t it? ….. Hm? Kido? Who—eeek!!”
Although the boy had been facing me and grinning while listening to my explanation, he suddenly started talking to the empty space beside him.
For a second, I didn’t understand what he was doing, but the moment I looked where he was looking, an unbelievable sight jumped out at me.
Up until a moment ago, I was sure that there had only been that one boy.
But now, standing beside him was hooded girl of about the same height.
It was dark, so I couldn’t see her expression very well, but the voice that muttered, “Yeah,” was definitely a girl’s.
“Ah, wh-wh-wh-what ….”
I was so shocked that I could barely keep standing. I was so certain that this girl had not been here when we’d talked in the hallway earlier, or even when he’d been let into the classroom.
There hadn’t been any opportunity to enter the room in the one second that the door had been open. If I thought about it, she must have come in together with the boy, but …. I couldn’t get away from the feeling that she had just suddenly appeared.
“Onee-san, are you okay? Ah, if it’s her you’re wondering about, she’s been here the whole time. She kind of has a weak presence, so people often don’t notice her …. —Ouch!!”
The girl seemed to take offense to being called a “weak presence,” and hit the boy in the ribs.
But even if she did have a weak presence, was it really so weak that she’d go completely unnoticed like this?
—Could she possibly be some kind of ghost? This thought crossed my mind, but that was completely unrealistic. For someone like me, who had absolutely no belief in extreme supernatural things like the cognitive body of a ghost, it definitely made more sense that she was “occasionally overlooked.”
“…. Could we hurry up and start already?”
“Eek …! Y-yes, of course! Please, make your way to the seats in the back ….!”
Putting the girl’s true identity aside, it would be a good idea to end this as soon as possible.
But suppose she was a ghost, it wasn’t like she’d intentionally do me any harm. Most likely.
…. I didn’t think there would be any curses or anything, either. Probably.
But, if instead of picking up the controller with her own hand, she made it float in midair and started manipulating it, that’s when I would run. Persuading myself in a manner that I didn’t really understand, I made my way towards the seats.
I arrived at the seats together with the girl, but even now, my heart was still beating at a quickened pace.
Slowly glancing over at the girl, I could faintly catch a glimpse of the girl’s face from the glow of the monitor in front of her.
She had a fair complexion and long, pretty hair. Although her eyes were rather unpleasant, she had a nice, even face, and would no doubt grow up to be a beauty.
However, with the way the light was hitting it right now, it looked very much like the face of a girl straight out of a horror movie.
I quickly started the game before I began to lose my mind.
“Ah, u-umm, as I explained earlier, it’s a shooting game with a point system! If you score a higher number of points than me, you will be presented with a fabulous prize! A-and, so, about the difficulty level of the game
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