….?”
“…. Normal.”
“Ah, right! Of course! My apologies! Now then~ les’sart!”
As I accidentally slurred my words at the end, the boy who was standing behind the girl snickered.
I became instantly embarrassed just hearing that.
There were various thoughts swirling around in my head, but at any rate, I focused on ending this as quickly as possible.
Setting the difficulty to “normal,” I pressed start at the title screen, and enemies began appearing in groups.
Compared to the extra mode that I had played earlier, in this mode, there were significantly fewer enemies, and a much lower number of possible points.
And, this was just a feeling I had, but compared to the extra mode, there was also an overwhelming number of pig enemies; they seemed to be this mode’s characteristic feature.
It had been one minute since the game started.
The girl’s playing style wasn’t particularly characteristic, and was generally fairly ordinary.
It was a slightly unsatisfactory fight for me, who had played the extra mode against that kind of veteran during the first round, but this was probably to be expected from a normal girl.
Although I could hear occasional cries of “Kyah!” in a cute voice, she was playing indifferently.
Suppose she started off her days going, “Ughh, this is sooo hard, it’s so annoying~” and “Haha, guess it can’t be helped, oh well,” and then later threw away her forced smile and put on that Hannya Mask. Just thinking about it seemed easy to do.
However, with thirty second remaining on the clock, a sudden disaster occurred on my screen.
A strange bug caused both the pig enemies and the aiming crosshairs for my gun to disappear.
“H-huh …..!? Some kind of malfunction ….?”
Behind the girl, the boy was snickering, “Do your best without getting scared, Kido!”
I desperately tried to keep hitting the enemies, but without knowing where I was aiming, it was no use.
And in that time, the point difference between us was quickly reducing. I’d held back early on so that there wouldn’t be a huge difference between us, but to think that it would turn against me …!
Just as it was getting bad, the buzzer for the end of the game sounded.
Since I’d played so desperately, I didn’t know what had become of the points. I closed my eyes in prayer before the results screen showed.
If I lost here, the prize would be lost to the second customer.
It was an unavoidable situation that couldn’t have been dealt with.
As the fanfare sounded, the results screen pulled up. I opened my eyes very slowly to confirm it, and by only a meager 100 point difference, the word “WIN” was shown on my side of the points.
Sweat dripped down. To think that an error in the game would cause us to fall into this kind of pinch ….
Either way, was it possible that that stupid teacher had pulled something at this crucial part?
Just as I was thinking this, I heard the boy chuckling from beside me.
“Hahaha, looks like you lost, Kido. But it’d be wrong even if you won by cheating, right? Come on, you have to apologize to Onee-san.”
As she was told this by the boy, the girl’s expression looked like she was suppressing tears of mortification.
“ ….. I’m sorry.”
She said in a slightly shaky voice, rose from her chair and headed towards the door with quick steps.
“Wait, cheating ….? But that was an error with the game, so it wasn’t her fault at all.”
No matter how you looked at it, that phenomenon just now couldn’t have been cheating. She hadn’t hacked the computer or directly interfered, so there had been no foul play.
Even as I said this, the boy continued to grin.
“Sorry, Onee-san. You may not believe me, but earlier, that girl used a psychic ability. You’ll know if you check, but the machine’s not broken, and the game is fine, too. It should work without any problems next time, so don’t worry.”
After saying this, the boy headed after the
“…. Normal.”
“Ah, right! Of course! My apologies! Now then~ les’sart!”
As I accidentally slurred my words at the end, the boy who was standing behind the girl snickered.
I became instantly embarrassed just hearing that.
There were various thoughts swirling around in my head, but at any rate, I focused on ending this as quickly as possible.
Setting the difficulty to “normal,” I pressed start at the title screen, and enemies began appearing in groups.
Compared to the extra mode that I had played earlier, in this mode, there were significantly fewer enemies, and a much lower number of possible points.
And, this was just a feeling I had, but compared to the extra mode, there was also an overwhelming number of pig enemies; they seemed to be this mode’s characteristic feature.
It had been one minute since the game started.
The girl’s playing style wasn’t particularly characteristic, and was generally fairly ordinary.
It was a slightly unsatisfactory fight for me, who had played the extra mode against that kind of veteran during the first round, but this was probably to be expected from a normal girl.
Although I could hear occasional cries of “Kyah!” in a cute voice, she was playing indifferently.
Suppose she started off her days going, “Ughh, this is sooo hard, it’s so annoying~” and “Haha, guess it can’t be helped, oh well,” and then later threw away her forced smile and put on that Hannya Mask. Just thinking about it seemed easy to do.
However, with thirty second remaining on the clock, a sudden disaster occurred on my screen.
A strange bug caused both the pig enemies and the aiming crosshairs for my gun to disappear.
“H-huh …..!? Some kind of malfunction ….?”
Behind the girl, the boy was snickering, “Do your best without getting scared, Kido!”
I desperately tried to keep hitting the enemies, but without knowing where I was aiming, it was no use.
And in that time, the point difference between us was quickly reducing. I’d held back early on so that there wouldn’t be a huge difference between us, but to think that it would turn against me …!
Just as it was getting bad, the buzzer for the end of the game sounded.
Since I’d played so desperately, I didn’t know what had become of the points. I closed my eyes in prayer before the results screen showed.
If I lost here, the prize would be lost to the second customer.
It was an unavoidable situation that couldn’t have been dealt with.
As the fanfare sounded, the results screen pulled up. I opened my eyes very slowly to confirm it, and by only a meager 100 point difference, the word “WIN” was shown on my side of the points.
Sweat dripped down. To think that an error in the game would cause us to fall into this kind of pinch ….
Either way, was it possible that that stupid teacher had pulled something at this crucial part?
Just as I was thinking this, I heard the boy chuckling from beside me.
“Hahaha, looks like you lost, Kido. But it’d be wrong even if you won by cheating, right? Come on, you have to apologize to Onee-san.”
As she was told this by the boy, the girl’s expression looked like she was suppressing tears of mortification.
“ ….. I’m sorry.”
She said in a slightly shaky voice, rose from her chair and headed towards the door with quick steps.
“Wait, cheating ….? But that was an error with the game, so it wasn’t her fault at all.”
No matter how you looked at it, that phenomenon just now couldn’t have been cheating. She hadn’t hacked the computer or directly interfered, so there had been no foul play.
Even as I said this, the boy continued to grin.
“Sorry, Onee-san. You may not believe me, but earlier, that girl used a psychic ability. You’ll know if you check, but the machine’s not broken, and the game is fine, too. It should work without any problems next time, so don’t worry.”
After saying this, the boy headed after the
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