My love game with them that will lead to certain death

Seeing Eriri's expression becoming increasingly worried, Ming Hai finally seized the opportunity and continued asking questions.

"It's... not a big deal, it's just... I keep having the same dream lately."

Eriri's voice was a little trembling, and it seemed that the content of the dream was not a good one.

"I... always dream of a shrine. There are strong winds, thunder and lightning, and even earthquakes... and... no, I can't escape no matter how hard I try. Every time I think I can escape..."

Meteorites would fall from the sky without warning and wake her up directly from her dreams.

Chapter 30: Natural disaster? Man-made disaster?

Meteorites falling from the sky? It sounds like something that only happens in fantasy novels. But since Eriri has such a weird dream, maybe this is really a clue to the body swap phenomenon.

As a movie enthusiast, Ming Hai had previously watched a youth romance movie about body swapping - and there was indeed a plot in it about a meteorite falling and hitting a small town.

It is a story about a boy and a girl who exchanged identities and fell in love with each other, and they did this in order to see each other again and to save lives.

"Hmm... From the character setting to the story development, no matter how I think about it, it has nothing to do with me and Eriri."

The only similarities are probably the two elements of "body swap" and "meteorite". At worst, Eriri's dream also had a shrine, and in that movie, the heroine briefly dressed up as a witch in the shrine...

Thinking alone will definitely not help you find a solution to a problem. In this case, we have to turn to the most knowledgeable and comprehensive source of knowledge in the world - the Internet.

Confused by a problem? Confused by a difficult problem? Just Google it and you will know.

[Take this shortcut? You are really lazy. 】

The system's voice sounded when he opened the computer's search engine, and Minghai had some complaints about the system.

"How can this be called laziness? It's clearly the most efficient way to achieve great results with little effort."

Ming Hai integrated these keywords containing important information and entered them into the engine, and then began to screen the news that might be in line with the current situation.

As expected, once you type in the term "body swap", what pops up are links to imaginative novels and urban legends, or people with delusional disorder who have obviously never seen a woman talking about the erotic experiences they had after swapping bodies with beautiful women in the forum - in short, the amount of useful information that can be extracted is very low.

After blocking out as much irrelevant information as possible, Ming Hai replaced the word "body swap" with general concepts such as "paranormal phenomenon" and "strange phenomenon" and associated it with words such as "shrine" and "meteorite".

He probably spent at least an hour browsing like this, scanning the entire page, and finally Minghai's mouse stopped on a piece of news related to a shrine.

"In a remote town that has been neglected for many years, there is a shrine with mysterious power and bound spirits lurking here... It is a must-see spot for those who have experienced paranormal phenomena... Oh?"

I always feel that earthbound spirits, mysterious powers, and so on are just the writers' deliberate mystification. After all, in order to attract news views, this is the only way to attract attention.

But unfortunately, his efforts were of little use. The report received only a few hundred clicks, and Ming Hai had to scroll back at least several hundred times before he saw this news.

The shrine is located in a remote town in Gunma Prefecture. There is very little information related to this town on the Internet. Ming Hai actually has no way of making up his mind whether such a place really exists in real life.

But all in all, it's a breakthrough.

"I have to go on a long trip for something, and I've already asked for leave from school. If I travel overnight, I'll be back in two days. Eriri, take good care of yourself at home."

One morning, the sleepy blonde girl woke up from her half-asleep state in an instant as she watched her brother pick up his suitcase and say these words before leaving the house.

"So sudden? Tetsu, have you told mom and the others about this?"

"Of course, my parents have already told me about it."

"Where are you going? Why did you leave so suddenly without consulting me first? We can—"

"We can go together" - before she could even utter this sentence, she was stared at by the boy's calm and steady eyes.

"Didn't you say, Eriri, that you wanted to end our body-swapping relationship as soon as possible? I found some clues that might actually help eradicate this phenomenon. If I succeed, you can confess to Tomoya Aki as you wish."

"Well…………"

Eriri hung her head and looked away, the coquettish words that were about to slip out of her lips were swallowed back because of Minghai's last words.

Yes, that should have been what she had always longed for - but for some reason she was not happy about it, and an indescribable feeling of annoyance was rising in her heart bit by bit.

"Ah, then Toru, just work hard. After you successfully untie yourself from a sister like me who is holding you back, you can happily go on a date with those older sisters, right?"

Then, he spoke in a stiff and cold tone, words that were against his will.

"That's right. I want to hang out with mature, steady, considerate and gentle older sisters. Well, Kasumigaoka-senpai is actually quite attractive as well - I wonder if the beautiful girls in Toyosaki Academy would be interested in accompanying me for a meal and chatting."

"........."

The sarcastic taunt received an equally effective response, and Eriri began tapping her elbows with her crossed fingers in front of her body, becoming a little agitated.

The cold war between the Sawamura siblings seems to be slowly being resolved silently, but things that are not talked about openly will always leave a knot in their hearts.

"Who cares about you? Just be happy."

Eriri did not change her arrogant look. She raised her chin and turned to leave, without any intention of seeing her brother off. Ming Hai did not have much opinion on his sister's willful behavior. After all, he knew his sister's temper too well. So he turned around, handed the suitcase to the housekeeper, got in the car and set off.

Although she did not see her brother off in person, Eriri stood on the second-floor balcony and watched the car slowly drive away from the manor. She only withdrew her gaze reluctantly until the small black dot disappeared at the end of her sight.

"……idiot."

In fact, I just want him to take me with him no matter what he does.

Didn't we agree to be inseparable twins? What if that strange body swapping phenomenon suddenly happened again? Should we rely on Eriri to clean up the mess?

"Forget it. Tooru will just think I'm holding him back anyway."

Putting these complicated thoughts aside, Eriri returned to her empty bedroom with a depressed face.

After opening the door, there is still a long and narrow corridor that seems to have no end. After passing through the corridor, there is a deserted and silent hall.

She was the only one left in the house again.

"..."

Eriri Sawamura watched all this with indifference. In fact, this was her real life from childhood to adulthood.

The company of her twin brother... was just a creation in this unreal life, which was a dream woven by God for her, in order to prevent her from being lonely and pitiful.

Why do you have to rely on such a person who does not exist in real life at all? Born lonely and alienated by your childhood sweetheart Renye is Eriri's true life trajectory.

She calmed herself down and spent two days and one night at home without her brother.

This period of time unexpectedly felt like a year.

Chapter 31 Sayuri's mother's class is open

When she just fell into this extremely unreal future simulation, Eriri Sawamura didn't actually have any good feelings towards the twin brothers who suddenly appeared beside her - it was more like a bit of hostility and hatred.

This guy who showed up out of nowhere and snatched away half of her life was even more loved and appreciated by her parents than she was before. Why should she be nice to him?

But the past memories that were so clear that they seemed to have really happened to her kept telling Eriri that this was her "brother", a real twin brother who was connected by blood.

Under this subtle influence, Eriri actually gradually accepted the fact that there was such a person in her life.

Besides, although her brother had a strange and hard-to-understand personality, he was really good to her.

When she encountered difficulties when they were young, she would help her sister solve them. When there were classmates with bad intentions gossiping about her behind her back, she would be the first to protect her sister. Even when Eriri and Tomoya Aki broke up, she knew that Eriri was in the wrong, but she still stood on her sister's side without hesitation.

He has never been absent from Eriri's growth journey, and even when the siblings were somewhat alienated from each other during adolescence, he was still a solid supporter for both of them.

It was precisely because she knew this very well that Eriri, who had been separated from her brother for the first time for more than a day, stayed alone at home, bored and barely getting by by clearing dungeons in the game. Even though the deadline was tomorrow, she still had no interest in writing.

She found that because of her brother's departure, she felt a little lonely staying at home alone.

"How is it possible... "Before" when mom and dad were busy with work, I always stayed at home alone like this."

The "before" she referred to was probably the dozen years of her life before she was inexplicably drawn into this "future simulation."

I go to school alone, eat breakfast alone, go home alone, play games alone until dark and go to bed alone... There is no so-called brother to occupy my private space. It is so comfortable.

But the more she thought about it, the clearer the feeling of loneliness became, and it even made it impossible for her to deceive herself anymore.

“………I’m so annoyed.”

Ying Lili slammed the mouse on the mouse pad, pressed the Esc key to exit the copy, turned off the game, turned over and lay on the bed, burying her head in the soft bedding.

During their body swap, in order to prevent the brother and sister from intruding on each other's private space, if the bodies were not switched back by night, they could control each other's bodies and return to their own rooms to rest - and because of this, Eriri's bed would inevitably be tainted with a little bit of Toru's scent.

"..."

Eriri first subconsciously wrinkled her nose in resistance, then slowly moved closer like a little animal that was gradually letting down its guard, and finally buried her entire head in the bed sheet that still had the scent of her brother on it.

Although she knew that this was not her own scent, this trace belonging to someone else still made her feel particularly at ease.

After all, that was the smell she was most familiar with, the one that had always been around her since she was a child.

Even though her brother may be traveling thousands of miles to another place, if his scent still exists around her, it will give Eriri the illusion that he has never left.

This is also her only source of security in this empty villa estate.

Well, no matter how nasty the words she said, Eriri had to admit that she depended on her brother more than she thought.

"...Why haven't you come back yet, idiot?"

The blonde girl lying on the bed raised her head slightly and moved her listless gaze toward the floor-to-ceiling window with a very wide field of vision.

As dusk fell, darkness invaded the outside of the house. Only the street lights that illuminated the street were still struggling against the silence that enveloped the entire earth. There was not even a trace of traffic on the wide road.

Until at the end of the field of vision, there was a little flash of car lights.

"?"

A little light suddenly appeared in Eriri's pupils.

She watched the car gradually approaching her home, then watched it slow down and stop by the roadside near her home.

Ying Lili immediately sat up from the bed, put on her slippers and ran, running through the corridor, turning through the stairwell and going straight to the hall with excitement, and finally stopped at the door before the person outside was about to open the door and go home.

She tidied up her messy hair and clothes, and even though she was feeling anxious inside, she still put on a nonchalant expression, waiting for the moment when the door would be opened by the person returning home.

Click.

Sure enough, there was the sound of a key turning in the door in front of me.

At the moment when the person outside the door was about to come in, Ying Lili spoke with a sullen face.

"...You're so slow. Where are you going to be so carefree after disappearing for so long... Hmm?"

But before she finished her words, she couldn't help but slowly lower her voice - because the person who pushed open the door was somewhat unexpected to her.

"Hmm? Eriri, why are you still awake so late?"

The woman in front of her looked to be in her early thirties. Even though her age was not consistent with her actual age, she still had a delicate temperament. She blinked her innocent eyes, and her face, which was at least 70% similar to Eriri, was full of confusion and astonishment.

"I feel a little sorry for you and Toru-chan for not being home for such a long time, but you don't have to tease me like this~"

Eriri's mother - and also the mistress of the Sawamura family, Ms. Sayuri Sawamura, showed a somewhat ashamed expression.

"Oh~ But mom and dad are not at home all year round because of work. I believe that the considerate Eriri will understand~ If you are really angry, mom will find a way to make it up to you, okay? Do you want a Gundam figure or the hottest new anime peripherals this season? Or Bandai?"

She gave her daughter, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, a big bear hug, and then tilted her head like a girl and stuck out her tongue at Eriri. Although Eriri was a little surprised by her mother's sudden appearance, she was already used to her mother's playfulness, so she came back to her senses after a brief surprise.

"I'm not angry, Mom... I just didn't expect you to come home so suddenly. I thought..."

"Oh, Eriri, did you think it was Toru-chan?"

Sayuri blinked and saw through her daughter's little thoughts in a second.

"snort………"

And Eriri responded with speechless silence and lips pursed up enough to hang a kettle on.

"Oh~ My lovely baby, you still like to act like a spoiled child with your brother~ Cute baby kiss~!"

Ms. Sayuri held her baby daughter's face with an auntie smile on her face, ignoring the latter's blushing face and resistance and dissatisfaction, "Mom, I'm sixteen years old! Don't treat me as if I'm still six years old!"

"But your attitude just now was a little bit bad. Although everyone in the family knows that you were just acting like a spoiled brat, even so, Toru-chan is still hurt."

Sayuri loosened her hand and let Eriri go, then she carried her luggage into the house while giving her daughter these earnest instructions.

"It's true that you two siblings have your own way of getting along with each other, but as a mother, you still have to do something!"

The more serious her tone became, the more uneasy Eriri felt.

I understand now. It turns out that my mother came back to hold a seminar on how to get along with siblings.

Chapter 32: A Guide to Getting Along with Brothers and Sisters

Although they are siblings who grew up together, Eriri and Toru are not super model siblings who have no friction at all.

It is for this reason that Ms. Sayuri Sawamura has her own unique insights into parenting.

"Listen carefully, Eriri. Your brother, Toru-chan, is an excellent person in every aspect, but he's actually a little indifferent to everything. You should be able to sense that, right?"