My love game with them that will lead to certain death

"…I also think so."

Yukinoshita Yukino, who was standing by, could only smile bitterly and hold her forehead with her hand. It was not a good feeling to have the guess she had held on to until now denied by the closest relatives of her lover.

"I even considered the possibility that there might be some supernatural phenomenon at work."

"Oh?"

"Ms. Yamada...your 'Xiao Hai' passed away a few years ago?"

"That guy has been gone for more than three years."

"Is that so...it seems we are not talking about the same person."

Besides, if her senior who disappeared more than ten years ago really knew Yamada Ryo, given the extent of his involvement in their lives, the possibility that they had never known each other before is extremely small.

"Besides, my guess has been completely denied."

Yukinoshita Yukino could only swallow the bitter feeling along with the drink, and had to admit the reality that she least wanted to face.

"I originally thought... maybe there really is such a thing as 'reincarnation of the soul' in the world."

"Ah, I feel the same way."

Unexpectedly, Yamada did not scoff at Yukino's idea like a normal person would, but nodded in agreement.

"Although I think the concept of reincarnation may not exist...but I can smell a scent that belongs only to Xiao Hai. If he had died a few years ago, maybe his soul really came to his look-alike."

And if that guy was there, he would definitely joke, "Yamada, are you a dog? Your sense of smell is so sensitive."

"Ah, I even went to a remote town to test this idea and consulted the local shrine maiden."

Yukinoshita Yukino smiled bitterly and shook her head. Although the answer given by the shrine maiden was obscure and difficult to understand, she thought she had to go home, but she met Toru Sawamura in the same place by chance - maybe this was God's guidance.

That's what she originally thought.

"It seems... the facts are really not as expected."

No matter how helpless you are, perhaps you have to accept the fact that the person is gone.

In tacit silence, Yukinoshita Yukino and Yamada Ryo reached this consensus at the same time.

On the other side, which they could not possibly know, in the restroom of the restaurant, the Sawamura siblings took advantage of the fact that no one was in the restroom and hid in the cubicle together, and under the leadership of Toru, they began the ceremony to end the body swap phenomenon.

Interlock your fingers, touch your foreheads together, and silently recite the name of the body where your soul should go.

When they opened their eyes again, their consciousness had returned to their original bodies.

"You improvised well just now, Eriri."

After returning to his own body, Narumi was very straightforward in giving his sister the praise she deserved.

Under the guidance of her brother, Eriri, who had regained her body in a daze, only confirmed in a trance that the body she was holding was indeed her own. Then, she looked at her brother with a somewhat uneasy look.

"Then Toru...what are you going to do next?"

"Hmm? What should I do?"

"Idiot, I'm not stupid. Everyone can see that those two people think of you as a substitute for someone else. They think you are the other person they have been thinking about, right? Don't you think this is okay?"

"Uh--"

"I don't really care... After all, I am the one they are upset about."

Of course, there's no way to explain this to Eriri.

And Eriri probably saw through the hesitation and avoidance on her brother's face, and the somewhat indignant expression just now gradually softened into another complex emotion.

"...Don't become the "Koukai" and "Achi" of those two people."

She lowered her head, and her voice, as thin as a thread, was particularly clear in the quiet bathroom.

Ming Hai vaguely felt that his sleeve was pulled by Eriri with very light force.

"Obviously... Toru is my brother, right?"

Chapter 46 My sister is not... so cute.

I was the one who came here first, why did it turn out like this?

Occasionally, when Eriri Sawamura suddenly looks back, she will feel this melancholy. Although her brother, who has been with her since childhood, is indeed an outstanding figure like a favored child of heaven in the eyes of the opposite sex, no other woman has ever approached him except herself.

She would only follow behind him, and someone as proud as Eriri would only let her brother walk in front of her.

As a result, two older sisters who were more mature, elegant and charming than her suddenly appeared from nowhere. They seemed to have an indissoluble bond with Toru. They lingered around him and almost took away the position that originally belonged to Eriri.

"I don't want to do this kind of thing."

Eriri, who had always been stubborn and quarreling with her brother, and who found it difficult to seriously express her feelings even though she was somewhat dissatisfied with it, gently pulled her brother's sleeve in the small toilet cubicle.

But at the same time, she still lowered her head, not daring to look up and look directly at the lake blue eyes that were the only difference in the face that was at least 70% similar to her own.

"Tetsu obviously just needs to be my brother."

Is it not?

She wanted to use this unquestionable statement to express her thoughts to the boy in front of her. Perhaps, in Eriri Sawamura's opinion, this was the most direct and passionate way other than stating the story in a straightforward manner.

"Well - I will indeed always be Eriri's brother."

In contrast to Eriri who looked serious and a little uneasy, Ming Hai looked exceptionally relaxed.

"But at the same time, I will have many other different identities. For example, I may be someone's boyfriend in five years, someone's husband in ten years, and someone's father in twenty years. A person will have many different identities on the social level, Eriri."

What this means is that he cannot be confined to the identity of "Eri's brother" forever.

Of course, if Ming Hai just regarded it as sweet talk to make a child happy, he would not feel any psychological burden if he agreed to it.

"But if I do this, I won't be able to see my lovely sister getting upset and having a headache because of me."

"It would be a bit unfair for me, as a brother, to keep this identity forever."

The curly-haired boy smiled with a bright curve on his lips. Eriri raised her head and rolled her eyes at him, then turned her head away with some embarrassment.

"What does it matter... What's unfair about that? Anyway, I won't be anyone's wife or mother in ten or even dozens of years. As long as we are together forever, that's fine... As long as we are together forever... well."

She hesitated and still couldn't say the words "It doesn't matter as long as I remain Toru's sister." Perhaps Eriri was still too embarrassed to express such frank feelings.

However, Ming Hai is not the kind of emotional wooden male protagonist in the romantic comedy light novels who is not good at observing words and expressions. When a girl blushes to her ears, he still knows what it means.

but.

It is indeed fun to tease Ying Lili, but you still have to pay attention to the strength and degree. After all, even a rabbit will bite when it is angry.

What's more, it is better not to make promises that cannot be fulfilled.

"Although we are twins born into this world together, it is difficult for us to accompany each other until the end of our lives. You actually know this, Eriri."

Although siblings of similar age spend more time with each other than others - one always leaves first, leaving the other behind.

To seek eternal companionship in a short life is itself a very futile thing.

"So I wouldn't dare to take the initiative to agree to you to stay together forever."

Besides, Ming Hai knew very well that one of them would definitely go first.

"I, I don't care about that! Even if you...always treat me as a worthless sister who needs help, it doesn't matter...!"

The curly-haired boy could feel the girl in front of him holding his sleeves with increasing force, and Eriri's beautiful clear eyes were also a little misty.

"I just……"

She just wanted to confirm.

She was very frightened when she suddenly realized that her brother occupied such an important position in her heart. She was able to abandon Aki Tomoya, who she originally thought was a very special existence, for her brother without any explanation - but she was not confident whether she occupied the same position in her brother's heart.

If there is any inconvenience, Eriri, who just keeps wagging her tail around her owner to try to attract attention, will probably become dejected.

Ming Hai knew all of this.

Including Eriri, because of his falling out with Aki Tomoya, he also learned the whole story through some small work.

He only needed to nod and admit that he had the same idea, and he could make his clumsy and silly sister depend on him from now on and obey his words - this was probably a deal that every brother who doted on his sister could not refuse.

[But you hesitated. Is it because you are too lazy to even give a perfunctory response? ]

"No, I just don't want her sick attachment to continue to spread."

Having abandoned her childhood best friend Tomoya Aki and denied her own self-worth, Sawamura Eriri is now wagging her tail at him and begging for mercy like an unclaimed stray puppy.

As the "brother" who should be the one to accept this fragility the most at this moment, Ming Hai shook his head and gently took off Eriri's hand that was holding his.

"I traveled all the way to such a remote town to seek the secret of body swapping because you, Eriri, said at the beginning that you wanted to end this relationship with me completely. Have you forgotten?"

It was not a distant sarcasm, he was explaining the logic of his actions in a straightforward manner.

"You are saying this now, which makes all our previous struggles meaningless."

"..."

Eriri probably didn't expect her brother to push her away and seek dependence. She stood there in a daze for a moment, and it took her a long time to react.

“…Even if I don’t resist, what’s the problem? I don’t reject continuing this kind of life with you, Toru. Even if we stay like this for the next ten or even dozens of years, it doesn’t matter, right? Anyway, we won’t be far away from each other—”

Her current thoughts are completely different from her initial attitude of wanting to keep her distance from Ming Hai.

If possible, Ming Hai wouldn't mind becoming Sawamura Eriri's new "lifeline".

"But it's a bit cruel to let her put all her emotions on a dying person."

[So you really tried to consider the characters in the simulation. ]

The exclamation from the system made Ming Hai feel a little helpless, but he was not really an inhuman and cold-blooded animal.

Chapter 47: The Broken Hearts Alliance

The brother who seems to be carefree and has no worries is actually a person who doesn't care much about what people around him think and maintains his own way of doing things.

Eriri had also thought about what could possibly make his lazy expression become serious - after all, to her brother, perhaps she, as a younger sister, was not that important, so Eriri never dared to use her own existence to measure her position in Toru's heart.

But now, it seems that the time has come to do so.

"We have been with each other since we were born... It doesn't matter if others think we are too weird, anyway, as long as Toru is always with me, that's enough..."

Her brother, who was so outstanding that he stole the attention of her teachers and parents, actually also shouldered a lot of heavy burdens for her that made her feel breathless.

Expectations, hopes, recognition, responsibilities - he even took on Eriri's share of the burden, while at the same time allowing Eriri to boss him around mischievously like a child who would never grow up.

Eriri just wants to stay in this position forever.

As a sister who has always been loved by her brother, she doesn't need to worry or consider anything else, nor does she need to worry about anything else.

"Every dream ends with waking up, Eriri."

But her beautiful vision of the future was shattered by her brother.

“…Why?”

"Because your mental condition will be very dangerous no matter whether you rely on me or Aki Tomoya."

Ming Hai didn't intend to deceive Eriri with lies.

"You are a smart child. I can't fool you. Even if you are fooled by what I said, it may take you a while to realize it. And you will definitely understand that what I said just now is not wrong."

Whether it was Tomoya Aki or him, they were actually held tightly in Eriri's hands as if they were a life-saving straw.

But the life-saving straw could never help her truly learn to swim.

"…Is it because of the sister from the Yukinoshita family? Or the bassist sister?"

“If you want to interpret it as me rejecting you because of their influence, it’s not impossible... By the way, Eriri, can’t you even remember Yamada’s name?”

It seems that she is still unwilling to face the fact that "even twins have independent personalities", and would rather regard all this as external resistance.

"Che, you've only known them for a dozen days, right? It's been less than a month. No matter how familiar you are with each other, you can't be so familiar with each other that you can surpass me, right?"

Eriri has already started comparing herself with them without thinking, and it seems that she really finds it difficult to accept the fact that "she is not the most special person to her brother."

"But it's precisely because you're special, Eriri, that I can't just brush you off like this - I wish I could say this right now."

Unfortunately, she definitely won't listen.

"You have to realize that we can't be bound together forever, Eriri. Only when you can become a truly "independent individual" can we--"

"What are you talking about? I don't want to hear it...!"