、それは本当なのか?」
俺に向けられた険しい視線が、眼鏡の奥でキラリと光る。
って顔立ちが整ってる分、鋭い目付きになると冷たい印象を人に与えるんだよなぁ。クラスの女子がちょっと近付き難いけど、涼しい表情がたまらないよね! とか、遠目でキャーキャー言っている事を俺は知っている。
まぁ本当は、冷徹とは程遠く、ちょっと暑苦しいぐらいの漢気を発する奴なんだけどな。
それに、そんな晃夜の涼しい魅力? も、家族に
「うん、相当つらいクエストだったよ」
「ご、ご令嬢の護衛クエストね......」
俺の答えに穏やかな笑みを浮かべ、神妙な顔つきで相槌を打つ
爽やか好青年と言えば爽やかなのだが、こいつの内心は常に俺か晃夜をいじるという腹黒い狙いが潜んでいるので、女子達がとろけるイケメンスマイルも、俺にとっては悪魔の嘲笑に他ならない。
そんな夕輝の油断ならない笑顔も、身内に怒ると鬼や般若に豹変する姉がいるから可愛いものだ、ぐらいにしか思わない。他に感じるモノと言えば、俺にだって女子に騒がれる含み笑い的なものを、一度でいいからしてみたかった。
「クリアした後の演出はけっこう意味深だった。イグニトール令嬢を雪国ポーンセントの街に入れて、領主館まで連れて行ったんだけど......」
俺は現在、『ゲームが現実に浸透している』という現象について話し合い兼、遊びに来ている。クラン・クラン内で会議するというのもありなのだけど、どこで聞かれているかわからないという問題点に気付き、なるべくこの件については
「令嬢どころか、どこかの国の王位継承権を持ってる人物だったらしいんだよ......年齢の重ねを感じさせないピシッとした老執事と、数人の騎士っぽいNPCが感極まった様子でお出迎えに現れて、盛大に令嬢の存命を大喜びしてた」
「は、早い話、お姫様だったってわけか」
「う、うーん。で、でも、報酬とかしょっぱいよね?」
報酬金は2000エソで、正直言えば働きに見合わない量だと思ったのも束の間、老執事から特別報酬として『
性能はそこまで高くない、というかぶっちゃけると低い。それでも装飾品的な価値は高いようで、道具屋での売却値が4万エソを超える壊れ物だった。説明文にはイグニトールの家紋が施された高価な短剣、としか表記されていなかったけど、『鑑定眼』や『知識眼』での詳細をまだ調べていないので、売らずに取っておいてある。
「にしてもよ、い、いろいろ
「そ、それね。仮にも一国の主に連なる血筋の人物だったのに......ご、護衛にしろクエスト発注にしろ、不自然だよね」
「は、早い話、ほんとに支配者なのか?」
イグニトール家の者たちも姫の所在地を正確に掴んでなく、戦力を分散して捜索するしかなかったようだ。ポーンセントにはその内の一団が到着したばかりで、まさにそれが老執事を代表とした200騎あまりの精鋭騎士団だったのだ。
「その辺は色々とあっちにも事情があるっぽかった」
「は、早い話、政変とかに巻き込まれたのか? そ、それとも権力闘争の類か?」
「そ、その線もあるけど......け、継承者が狙われてたって事は、その令嬢の国を敵視する勢力の暗殺計画って線も......あるよね」
「......戦争をしている敵対国とか、か」
「そ、そうか......じ、訊太郎の方は概ね問題なさ、そうだな」
「うん、多分」
「お、俺らの方も特に現実に浸食した、ゲームの内容は、な、ないな......」
「そ、そうだね......ない、ね......」
いつにも増して、二人は真剣そのものだ。
というかさっきから、微妙にぎこちない。
「それにしても、太郎が受けたというそのクエスト。何らかの人為的な意思が明らかに感じられるわね。難易度が不自然に高過ぎるわ」
親友二人が硬くなっている原因とも言える人物が腕を組み、堂々と意見を言い放つ。
むの、やめてくれない? というか、ここは晃夜の家なんだけど......」
そう、余程のヒマ人なのか、俺の姉もわざわざ晃夜の家まで来てお邪魔させてもらっている。
というか、俺が晃夜の家に行くって言ったら、ついて来ると言って譲らなかったのだ。『浸食加減を話し合うなら、私も出席しなければならないでしょう』という姉の意見も
「悪いな、太郎。お前も知っての通り、私の目付きは生まれつき細いんだ」
いやいや、ちょっと切れ長なタイプではあるけど、二重だし一般的に大きい方だよ。家じゃすっごく、ほにゃってしてる時もあるのに、何でそんなに釣り上がってるんだろう。トイレとか我慢してるのかな、だったら姉弟のよしみで言っておくけど、早めに行った方がいいよ。俺みたいに
「トイレ? 何だそれは。私がここにいるのはな、弟が日頃からお世話になっている......こ、う、や、君、だっけ?」
『こうや』と発する姉の声音がやけに低く、ニコッと
「ひぃっ! は、はい!」
そんな姉の動作一つに、眼鏡イケメンは正座しながら背筋を正す。
隣に座る夕輝は顔が青くなってるし、話をふられた晃夜は青を通り越して白くなっていた。
「そう、晃夜くんの家に姉である私がご挨拶に伺う、なんて自然な事だろう? ちゃんと手土産も、ほら持ってきているわ」
そう言ってお茶菓子の入った袋を持ちあげる姉。チョイスが渋い。
「で、話を戻すけれど。太郎が受けたクエスト、そもそもクリアさせる気がないってぐらいのハードさがあるわ」
「うん、まぁ......最後、400人近くの敵がいたときは、絶対に無理だって思った」
「そ、それを訊太郎は突破したわけだ」
夕輝、やけに姉にごまをするな。
って、姉よ。どうして夕輝に顔を近づけてるんだ?
「ゆ、う、き、くんだっけ?」
おいおい、息が吹きかかるんじゃないのか? そんなに接近してキスでもしちゃうのか!? いや、俺的に夕輝はいい奴だけどさ、姉が友達に惚れるってなんか、こう......複雑というか......あ! そうか、姉はツンデレなのか!
俺は姉の恋愛話を聞いた事がない。正直、姉が過去にどんな恋をしたのかなんて想像もつかなかったけど、そうかそうか......姉はツンデレなタイプなのか。
もイケメンだし、姉としては緊張やら異性的な意識やらがあったわけで、ついつい好みのタイプには冷たく当たっちゃうってお年頃なのか。
ふぅーん、なんだかそう考えると姉って可愛いな。
さん、だなんて言われる筋合いはないわ。次に言ったら......」
女性って年齢には敏感って聞くし、姉も好きなタイプには神経質になるのかもな。
。お前ら、本当に
姉弟
ぎこちなく硬い笑みを浮かべ、親友二人はポソポソと言う。
夕輝は一人っ子だからな、兄弟とか憧れるのかもしれない。というか、
なんとなく気になったので聞いてみる。
「おう? あぁ、あいつな。大好きな昆虫採集に行ってるぞ。中学の夏休みになっても、小学校の時とやることは何ら変わってないんだ」
「そういえば純君は、虫の標本を作るのが好きだったね。ボクもあんな可愛い弟がいたら、家でも楽しそうだなぁ」
「笑えるだろ。でも、あいつの作る標本って割と本格的でよ。そろそろ戻って来るんじゃないか?」
なんだかゲーム内のジュンヤ君を思いだすな。
「お、噂をすればってやつだな」
が反応する。
「わるいな、すぐにリビングに行くと思うが、採集した虫だけでもここに置かせてやってくれ」
「あぁ、キャラクリをガッツリいじっての......な」
それなら......純くんはゲームが現実に浸食しているとの認識がないのか。
の複雑そうに歪む表情が、家族と共有の認識を抱けない苦悩を物語っていた。
少し沈んでしまった空気が俺達の間に流れる。
「失礼します」
晃夜の弟、純くんはおずおずと頭を下げながら部屋に入って来た。
兄が涼やかな美男子なら、弟は保護欲を駆り立てられるイケメン予備軍、って感じだ。晃夜よりもつぶらな瞳は愛嬌があり、ほんのりと癖のある柔らかそうな髪の毛はちょっと子犬っぽい。
前に見た時よりもずいぶんと身長が伸びていて、少年といっても今の俺より高さがある......。
「ボクは晃夜兄さんの弟、純夜です。朝比奈くん、久しぶりです。えっと、それではみなさん、ごゆっく......り......」
そう言って、俺達に礼儀正しい素振りを見せた純くんだが。
夕輝、姉、そして俺へと視線が移ったところで、動きを完全に停止させた。
彼は時が止まってしまったかのように、俺を凝視し始めた。
「え、あ......え?」
そしてポトリと、持っていた虫カゴを床に落としてしまう。
俺の知っている純くんにしては、尋常じゃない程の驚きようで、ほんのちょっとだけ傷付く。やっぱり、俺の見た目は外国人だし、ビックリするんだろうなぁ。
彼のそんな反応に、どうしても自分が変わってしまったと実感せざるを得ない。けれども今は、こんな事でウジウジする俺でもない。純くんはまだ中学一年生で、俺は年上なのだから先輩らしい振舞いと気遣いを見せるべきなのだ。
そう言えば、俺は
「あの、虫カゴ......落としたよ?」
とりあえず、俺のせいで落としてしまったカゴを拾ってあげ、手渡そうと差し出す。
すると純くんはそのまま数秒が経過しても、ただただ俺を見つめるばかり。
「じゅっ!? はっ、はい!」
そして何故か照れくさそうに頬をかいた。
乙女かよ! と突っ込みたくなるようないじらしい目付きで、おずおずと遠慮がちに何か言おうとする純くんの姿は微笑ましい。
「あ、の......お名前を聞いても、いいですか?」
そんな純くんが所望したのは俺の名前だった。
「ほぉーう、いい度胸だな、少年?」
するとなぜかズイッと姉が前に出て、俺と純くんを遮る壁になった。腕を固く組み、泣く子も黙る鬼の形相で純くんを見下ろしたのだ。
ナンパはお断り、とでも言いたそうな凍てつく眼光を放ち、これに純くんは『ヒクッ』と
そもそも中学生の男子にツンデレを発動するとか、そりゃあ純くんはしばらく見ない内に可愛らしい少年というか、さすがは晃夜の弟なだけあって系統は違えど、悔しいかな将来を約束された有望株だわ。
そんな少年にツンデレとか、姉はショタコンですか!
「はぁ、姉よ。がちでやめてくれ」
思わず溜息がこぼれ、俺は姉を押しのけた。
"Shintaro, is that true?
The rugged gaze directed at me sparkles in the back of my glasses.
Hmm, shaking nights gives people a cold impression when they have a sharp eye for being neat. The class girls are a little hard to get close to, but you can't wait to look cool! I know what you're talking about in the distance.
Well, the truth is, he's a guy who's far from cold, and he's a little hot and bitter.
Besides, such a cool charm of a shaky night? also, i don't feel anything about having a sister in my family who is super cool on the outside (and so on) and i'd rather have a long relationship, so chip i just want her to split that handsome index a little bit too.
"Yeah, it was a pretty tough quest."
"Your Lady's Escort Quest..."
Evening glow with a gentle grin on my answer and a gavel with a strange face.
When it comes to refreshing good youth, it's refreshing, but the inside of this guy is always lurking with the belly-black aim of messing with me or shaking the night, so the handsome smiles that the girls melt are nothing more than a satanic mockery to me.
Such an uninterrupted smile of Evening Fai is also a cute thing because I have a sister who turns into a ghost or a leopard at a young age when angry within me, I only think about it. Speaking of other things that I feel, I wanted to try something inclusive and hilarious that would make a scene even for me.
"The performance after I cleared it was so meaningful. I took Miss Ignitore into the city of Pawn St, the snowland, to the Lordship Hall..."
I am currently here to discuss and play with the phenomenon of 'the game is pervasive in reality'. Sometimes we meet within the clan clan, but we notice the problem of not knowing where they are asking us, and we come to the conclusion that we should report and consult each other face-to-face (in real life) on this matter as much as possible.
"Instead of a courtier, he was the one who had the right to inherit the throne of some country... a pissy old butler who didn't make me feel older and a few knightly NPCs showed up to greet you in such a way that I was greatly delighted with the life of the courtier"
"Are you saying she was a princess?"
"Ugh, hmm. So, but it's full of rewards and stuff, right?
While the reward was 2,000 eso and I honestly thought it was not worth the work, all PTs received a weapon called the "Fire Saint (Ignis) Dagger" as a special reward from the old butler.
Performance is not that high, and the blanket is low. Still, the ornamental value appeared to be high, with a broken item with a selling value of over 40,000 eso at the tool store. Expensive dagger with Ignitol family crest in the description, but I haven't looked into the details in "Appraisal Eye" or "Knowledge Eye" yet, so I keep it without selling it.
"Even so, yes, a lot of explanations."
"Oh, yeah. Assuming he was one of the main bloodlines in a country... make him an escort, make him a quest order, it's unnatural."
"Is it a quick story, really a ruler?
Neither did the Ignithol family know exactly where the princess was, and they seemed to have to disperse their power and search. A group of them had just arrived at Pawn St., and that was exactly what the 200 or so elite Knights represented the old Deacon.
"There seemed to be a lot of things going on around there."
"Was he caught up in an early story, a coup d 'etat or something? Or is it like a power struggle?
"Well, there's that line... and the line that the heir was after is the assassination plot of the forces hostile to that lady's country..."
"... a hostile country at war or something"
"Well... Shintaro is generally fine, right?"
"Yeah, maybe"
"Oh, we've especially eroded reality, the content of the game, there's no..."
"Oh yeah... no, you don't..."
Always more, the two of them are serious themselves.
Or just now, it's not subtle.
"Nevertheless, that quest that Taro received. You obviously feel some kind of artificial will. The difficulty is unnaturally high."
A person, arguably the cause of the stiffness of the two best friends, arms up and speaks out his opinion with dignity.
"Sister... will you stop staring at us? I mean, this is a shaky night home..."
Yes, you're an extra hippo, and my sister is bothering me to come all the way to the shaky house at night.
Or when I said I was going to the shaky house, I said I was coming with me and I didn't give in. "If we're going to discuss erosion additions and subtractions, I'll have to attend too," both my sister's opinions and yours (more)... but my sister takes an intimidating attitude towards these two for some reason.
"Sorry, Taro. As you know, I was born thin."
No, no, it's a bit of a long cut type, but it's a double and generally the bigger one. I wonder why you're so caught at home when you're so, so cheeky sometimes. I wonder if you're putting up with the bathroom or something, then I'll say it at the behest of my sister and brother, but you should go early. It could be as tragic as I am.
"Bathroom? What is that? What am I doing here, my brother is taking care of me from day to day... this, uh-huh, you, huh?
My sister's voice was slightly lower when she said, "This way," and her face laughing at Nico at night (this way) felt something impatient.
"Hih! Yes!
One such sister's behavior is that the glasses handsome correct her spine while sitting upright.
Evening Fai sitting next to me was turning blue in her face, and the shaky night she was told the story was turning white through blue.
"Well, what a natural thing for me to say hello, my sister, to the house of Shaky Night? I brought you some souvenirs."
That's what I say. My sister holds a bag with tea treats. The choice is sinister.
"So, though I'll get back to it. The quest Taro took is so hard that he doesn't feel like completing it in the first place."
"Yeah, well... the last time I had nearly 400 enemies, I never thought I could"
"That's why Shintaro broke through"
Evening Fai, don't sesame your sister.
That's my sister. Why are you keeping your face close to Evening Fai?
"Yu, uh, come on, are you?
Oh, come on, isn't that breathtaking? What if you get so close and kiss me!? No, I'm a good guy for Evening Fai, but my sister falls in love with her friends, like this... complicated... ah! Right, is my sister a tundra!
I've never heard of my sister's romance. Honestly, I couldn't imagine what kind of love my sister has had in the past, but yes or no... is my sister the tundra type?
Are you old enough to feel cold for the type of person you prefer to stick with because you are handsome at night and have a nervously heterosexual consciousness as a sister?
Phew, that's kind of cute thinking about my sister.
"You don't have the guts to tell your sister-in-law. Next time I say..."
I hear women are sensitive to age, and maybe my sister gets nervous for the type she likes.
"Ji, Shintaro. You guys are really good friends today."
"Hey, I envy you for having a sister and brother."
He smiles hard and his two best friends say poso poso.
Evening Fai is my only son, so maybe he admires brothers or something. I mean, you have brothers at night.
I'm kind of curious, so I'll ask.
"Whoa? Oh, that's him. I'm going to my favorite insect collection. It's summer vacation in junior high school, but it's not any different from what I did in elementary school."
"Speaking of which, Jun, you liked to make insect specimens. If I had a little brother like that, I'd have fun at home."
"You're hilarious. But the specimens he makes are genuine. Isn't it time to come back?
Kind of don't think of Junya in the game.
He said, "Rumor has it."
A shaking night (or so) reacts to the sound of the front door opening.
"Damn, I think I'll be in the living room soon, but just let the collected bugs put him here"
"Oh, I'm messing with Calacri..."
Then... doesn't Jun-kun realize that the game is eroding reality?
The complex and distorted look of the night was telling the story of the anguish of not having a shared perception with the family.
There's a little bit of sunken air flowing between us.
"Excuse me."
Jing-night's brother, Jun-kun, walked into the room with his head bowed.
If my brother is a cool beautiful man, my brother feels like a handsome reserve who can drive his protective appetite. The crushed eyes are adorable more than the shaky night, and the slightly habitual soft looking hair is a bit puppy.
He's a lot taller than I've seen before, and he's taller than I am now, even when it comes to boys...
"I am the younger brother of Shaking Night, pure night. It's been a long time, Asahina. Well, then, ladies and gentlemen, please... Ri..."
That's what I said, and I showed you a polite gesture.
Yuehui, my sister, and my gaze shifted to me, and I stopped the movement completely.
He started staring at me, as if time had stopped.
"Oh... eh?
And Potri and I drop the bug basket I had on the floor.
For what I know, it seems so surprising that it's not normal, it only scratches a little bit. After all, I look like a foreigner, and I guess I'd be surprised.
I can't help but realise that I've really changed myself to his reaction. But right now, I'm not the one who's gonna let this happen. Jun-kun is only in junior high and I'm older, so I should behave like a senior and show care.
With that said, what shall I call you? [M]
"Um, bug basket... I dropped it, didn't I?
In the meantime, pick up the basket you dropped because of me, and I'll give it to you to give it to you.
Then Jun-kun just stares at me, even after a few seconds as it is.
"Ju!? Ha, yes!
And for some reason I cheeked lightly.
You're a maiden! and a nasty glance that makes me want to penetrate, and the appearance of Jun-kun trying to say something naughty and reluctant is smiling.
"Oh, of... may I ask your name, please?
It was my name that pure kun wanted.
"Ho ho, nice work, boy?
Then somehow Zui and my sister came forward and became the wall that blocked me and Jun-kun. He put his arms together, and the crying child looked down at him in the shape of a silent ghost.
Napa refuses, but he gives off such a frozen glance that he says, and Jun-kun is frightened by the sound of 'hiccups' and throats.
In the first place, he activates a tundelle on a junior high boy, so Ajin-kun is a cute boy within a while, and that's a promising stock that promised him a regrettable future, much less a different pedigree just because he's a shaky brother.
Tundele to such a boy, is my sister a shotacon!
"Ha, my sister. Stop it, please."
The sigh spilled unexpectedly, and I pushed my sister away.
I Became a Beautiful Girl, but I’m still an MMO Junkie
美少女になったけど、ネトゲ廃人やってます。
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