My love game with them that will lead to certain death

Ming Hai was not surprised by Eriri's sudden outburst. After all, he could tell why she was unhappy as soon as her face sank.

"Tetsu, you obviously felt it, right? Why would I be unhappy?"

"Ah."

"Then why don't you take my feelings into consideration...!"

"Because you said some harsh words to Yamada and didn't apologize to her. If I had coaxed you at that time, it would have been unfair to Yamada."

"In your eyes, Toru, is someone you just met more important than your sister?"

"You know there's no comparison, Eriri."

“…I’m so fed up.”

After a long silence, Eriri silently shook off her brother's hand.

"Let's quickly find a way to stop the body swap phenomenon. I don't want to swap bodies with you, Toru, ever again."

Ying Lili turned her face away, and one could vaguely see that her eyes were a little red when she turned her head away.

"Then, I will definitely confess to Renye."

"…You told me this, hoping I would have some comment on it."

Ming Hai was actually a little speechless.

As an older brother, he tries his best to tolerate Eriri's willfulness and stubbornness, but there must be a limit to her ignorance.

"No, I didn't expect anything. Anyway, Toru, you have so many cute and quirky older sisters around you, and you don't seem to need me that much. Wouldn't it be great if we just return to the half-baked model brother and sister relationship we had before?"

"If you insist on confessing to Amai, I won't stop you. You are an adult now, just be responsible for your own actions."

"........."

This is not what Eriri wants to hear.

Couldn't he show more concern? Couldn't he put aside his rational appearance and feel angry and furious at her for trying to get close to Aki Tomoya again without her permission?

"Then I'll leave it to you to find a way for us to get our bodies back, 'Brother'."

Leaving behind these awkward words spoken in a fit of anger, Sawamura Eriri blended into the crowd walking on the road as the green light came on and walked towards the opposite street.

Ming Hai stood there, watching his sister leave coldly, until she gradually faded out of his sight, then he withdrew his gaze and turned away.

This is the beginning of a new round of Cold War between the Sawamura siblings.

Chapter 28 Sister's Feelings

Before entering this simulation, Ming Hai, who had spent the first ten years of his life as an only child, actually had a headache about Eriri, the extra twin sister.

However, although she is proud and complacent and always takes advantage of her pampering, she is generally a child who lacks love and has no bad intentions. She is like a naughty child who always shouts loudly to attract attention, just hoping to get the attention of others.

However, if a naughty child gets too carried away sometimes, it can also make people unhappy.

"I think it's because of puberty. The child is talking more and more irreverently."

On the third day of the cold war between the Sawamura siblings, Ming Hai, who had an appointment with Yukinoshita Yukino to go out for coffee and chat, sat at the long table with a frown on his brows, his hands crossed in front of his chest, and his fingers rhythmically tapping his elbows.

Yukinoshita Yukino stared at his slight movements without saying much, but she also listened to his sighs thoughtfully.

"This is the first time I see you so angry."

And then came to this conclusion.

"Angry? Not really. I just think that Eriri's way of speaking is very rude. It offends others and makes the conversation awkward... I don't think I'm angry."

"Hmm...but it sounds like a good reason to be angry."

Yukinoshita Yukino stared at the boy in front of her who was unusually nervous, her eyes slightly dazed.

This was the first time she saw the curly-haired boy being moved by other people's emotions. If the weird novelist in her memory encountered the same thing, he would probably react the same way.

But the difference is that the person in front of him only cares about his sister, and even when facing Yukino, he still looks lazy and at ease.

Yukinoshita Yukino has always disliked this about him, as if her emotions are just childish play to him - but she is irresistibly attracted to this unique temperament.

"...Sister-kun is really lucky to have a brother who cares about her."

After a long while, she could only force out this smile.

More than a decade of experience has made her no longer the outspoken, outspoken little girl who didn't hide her thoughts. It would be better to say that if the boy in front of her really has the "soul" of the guy from the past, their positions are completely reversed.

In that case, it was her turn to help him to the best of her ability.

"If you think from my perspective, maybe Eriri is just a sister who has always been protected by her brother, and she wants to monopolize you, her brother."

As Yukinoshita Yukino is also someone else's "sister", her words seem particularly convincing.

"Of course, this emotion is also mixed with a little bit of admiration and jealousy towards the older brother... It is normal for siblings to quarrel and have cold wars due to competition and dependence."

What's more, this is basically based on her own personal experience.

"I know this, so no matter how she behaves, I can help her clean up the mess."

Ming Hai's expression did not change, and he did not brag. During the three days of the cold war between the Sawamura brothers and sisters, the phenomenon of body swapping still occurred from time to time. Although the relationship between the two did not ease, they still tacitly abided by the guidelines of the body swap code.

After that unpleasant parting, the daily life of the Sawamura family actually went on as usual.

When it's time for dinner, Ming Hai will still ask Eriri what she wants to eat for three meals a day, and Eriri will say "whatever" with a cold face and angrily. But after her brother has prepared the meal, she will go to the dining table and sit down obediently without saying a word.

After waking up and finding that their bodies had been swapped, the two of them would look at each other in silence tacitly. After a simple exchange of glances, they would begin to play each other's campus life. Everything was still going on in an orderly manner - except that Miss Eriri would always mess up during the body swap, such as falling over during the long jump in physical education class, being very embarrassed when answering questions incorrectly in class, oversleeping in during her nap and missing the first class in the afternoon, and other bad things.

Ming Hai still played her role perfectly, and that luck also descended on Eriri's body along with his soul. From studying to sports to interpersonal relationships, it was simply a smooth straight line.

However, he would not let the tension between him and his sister get worse. After much thought, he went to Yukinoshita Yukino, who had a similar relationship with him as a brother and sister, to confide in her and seek help.

Even though she has nothing to do with her in this simulation, she will definitely lend a helping hand to Ming Hai.

He uses women's affection and care to solve his own problems, and pretends to be unaware of it - Ming Hai knows that according to universal moral standards, he can be considered a scumbag.

However, when the day comes when this bad reputation is exposed, he will not evade or make excuses.

"And Eriri's hostility towards older women is a bit too strong. I don't dislike any decent adult male that much - well, women are really the most difficult creatures to understand in the world."

Women are mysteries that are as difficult to solve as math problems. However, some women are full of mystery that makes people want to find out the truth, while some women are just troublesome and make people feel that "it's better not to get close to them."

For the time being, it is difficult to clearly classify Eriri into either of these two categories.

"But the most puzzling thing is that she suddenly said she wanted to confess her love to her childhood sweetheart, with whom she had a falling out."

Yukino took over his words and repeated the whole story that Ming Hai had told her before - of course, this was the version that deleted the phenomenon of body swapping.

"As the older brother, Archer...do you have any clues?"

"This time" in the simulation, Yukino calls him "Archie", just like her sister Yukinoshita Haruno did the first time.

Ming Hai knew what she was thinking, but in the current situation it was best to pretend to be ignorant.

"Ah, I know. Just something a child says in anger to get attention. A very poor way of provoking someone."

He wasn't some blockhead who knew nothing about emotions. Of course he knew that was Eriri's awkward way of expressing "I care about you very much, and I hope you care about me to the same extent."

"But sometimes blindly forgiving and understanding will only make her push her limits. As her brother, I can't let her go on like this. Otherwise, in the future -"

Having said that, the originally logical conversation has become difficult to continue.

No matter how you look at it, the word "later" doesn't quite suit Sawamura Eriri.

Even if he had this consideration, he probably wouldn't be able to see what she would look like in the future.

Chapter 29: Antidote for Body Exchange

This was the first time Ming Hai thought of this question.

If one's life is about to come to an end soon, what should the "remaining people" do?

Perhaps it was because the people he came into contact with in the previous two simulations were either Yukinoshita Yukino or Pochi, strangers he had never met before, and only the appearance of Yamada, his friend, made him feel somewhat close to him - but the situation this time was a little special.

The object of simulation is his real twin sister, Eriri Sawamura.

Even though they had never met each other in real life, the fact that they had been inseparable in the simulation for this period of time made him subconsciously think of this girl as his own sister.

This is not good.

In order to ensure that everything in his real life can continue as planned, Minghai made a rule for himself: "Everything that happens in the simulation should stay in the simulation."

He did it the first two times and implemented his ideas perfectly - but this time he will start to consider what will happen "in the future" for the people in the simulation.

Is this a good sign, or is it a sign of a gradual loss of rationality?

[Isn't this a good thing? You start to try to treat other people in this simulation as real people, rather than NPCs who hand in tasks and propose tasks.]

"If you want to tell me something like 'be kind to everyone around you, even if they are NPCs', forget it. Drinking too much of the right chicken soup can easily kill you."

Although there is nothing wrong with what he said, Ming Hai will not pour extra kindness on people he thinks are unimportant. Everyone should just be polite and restrained - after all, the most important energy must be given to the most important people.

It has been mentioned before that Ming Hai is a person who likes to make his own rules and hates things getting out of control.

In any case, let's put the important matters first.

The random body-swapping phenomenon that plagues the Sawamura siblings cannot be completely unsolvable, and the system is unlikely to arrange this endless extraordinary phenomenon in the simulation and allow it to bother the two of them.

[Indeed, your logical reasoning is not without reason. There are certainly ways to crack extraordinary phenomena, and your intuition is very accurate.]

"But isn't it a bit too difficult for me to rely on my intuition alone without any other clues? System--"

[Of course I have given you some clues. Please rest assured. Try to recall carefully. Regarding your sister Eriri, has she said anything worth noting? Or has she concealed anything from you?]

“Hmm… That’s true.”

Such a strange phenomenon occurred, and this simulation took place around Eriri, so the breakthrough point should naturally be with her.

"In that case, how about taking this opportunity to have a good exchange with your sister? Even if there is any grudge between us, it is because of our blood relationship, right?"

Yukinoshita Yukino gave very reliable advice, and no matter how you listen to it, it sounds like advice from someone who has experienced it. I have to say that the mature form of Miss Yukino is really very attractive. Reliable adult women are such a fascinating existence.

Ming Hai made up his mind and decided to get some information from his sister Eriri, who had been treating him coldly for almost a week.

Although the troublesome situation of body swapping still exists, fortunately they still have the opportunity to return to their original bodies, which also allows them to relax their originally tense campus life.

One evening, after dinner.

After leaving the task of clearing the table and washing the dishes to the housekeeper, Ming Hai knocked on his sister's door.

"It's not locked."

Two short and cold words came from inside the door. After getting permission, he pushed open the door and walked into Eriri's room.

"What's the matter?"

The blonde girl took off her headphones. She was wearing black-framed glasses that she only wore at home, and a loose green sportswear. She curled up in a computer chair, greeting her brother's sudden arrival with the attitude of a small animal that had encountered its natural enemy.

The brother and sister relationship that had finally become familiar seemed to have returned to the familiar yet unfamiliar situation at the beginning of the simulation - and Ming Hai knew that this was Eriri's way of getting angry with him.

"It seems like you haven't been doing well lately."

Ming Hai leaned against the door and raised his eyebrows, not taking Eriri's cold look too seriously.

"You have to explain this to me."

He lifted up his trouser legs, and there were scars of varying sizes on his calves, including injuries from falls, scrapes, and even a wound that was almost cut by a sharp weapon.

"They should all be what happened when you were in charge of my body, right?"

He was careful not to make his tone sound too aggressive, and just asked a routine question like a greeting.

“…Um, sorry.”

Feeling a little embarrassed, Eriri shrank back and avoided Minghai's sight, and also covered her exposed wrists with her sleeves - it seemed that she herself had some injuries.

"I'm always clumsy, there's nothing I can do... Tooru, you know I've always been unlucky, I didn't mean to get your body hurt."

I always encounter bad things, big and small, as if my luck has never been good.

"I'm not blaming you for injuring my body. You were the one who suffered the pain. I just care about whether you are okay and whether you are feeling uncomfortable."

The curly-haired boy's nonchalant response made Eriri blink in surprise. She really thought that Ming Hai came to cause trouble because of the wounds on his body.

Sometimes two people who are in a cold war don’t need a serious apology or reconciliation to continue communicating, especially family members. Caring for each other is as common as your mother calling you to eat. Even if you were angry with your mother just now, you will pout and sit at the table obediently with your chopsticks in the next second.

"I, I'm fine..."

"Really? Apart from being a little unlucky all the time, there's nothing wrong with you?"