Chapter 51: Prologue Ch 2
"Was she a reborn?"
A thought of doubt ran wild in my mind as I began to speculate something extraordinary. Since I had traveled to this world, the possibility of her being reborn has been available. 'Perhaps, she was the Hoshiyuki Suiri from the 'Bad Ending'' I thought so. Looking at the situation again, this Suiri didn't immediately reject Shinonawa Charlotte mercilessly unlike what I had remembered. I could say that the possibility of Suiri being together with Charlotte was 0%. She had shamelessly harassed Suiri since middle school. Even if I were put into Suiri's shoes, I would have felt extremely annoyed by that half-French. However, if she returns from the bad ending, everything will have its explanations.
First, why did she jump to the Rock & Roll field? Was she trying to escape from her previous life? Or was she just influenced by the side character Shimori Akari? I thought the former would be more possible...Just one or a few words couldn't change another person completely. Honestly, the song with lyrics was harder to plagiarize than a single smooth piece of piano because the foundation was just simpler, not even complicated, blending with the melody from the instrument run by food...I meant vocal...
Second, with her popularity, her teacher could reach the sky but the music field didn't even have such a character. It meant she was completely on her own. I just found out that she didn't have a private musical teacher like me in my previous life. This possibility completely was within my logical reasoning.
Finally, Shinonawa Charlotte, if I remember correctly in the original plot, Charlotte doesn't have a single chance to enter this iceberg Heroine's heart. Her supposed confession should have been rejected mercilessly and come back with the family pressure. However, I couldn't deny her heavy love.
And...She was the only one who stood by Suiri's side in the bad ending.
So what?
Could it be that it was her turn to chase after Charlotte?
I was the only one noticing this for now. If it were true according to my guess, I would support her wholeheartedly.
Looking at the blond smiling foolishly on the sofa, I couldn't help but sigh. The new album 'Plagiarism' was released in the form of a trailer on many social platforms. The album consisted of 7 songs. As a natural matter of course, Plagiarism was the main theme of the album. Other songs were also written and performed with different styles such as jazz, heavy rock, or simply guitar acoustics, each lasting for only 10 seconds to catch a glimpse of the melody. The common point between them was 'NTR'...I meant English has 4 terms 'Thief, Robber, Steal, Burglar'. She used all of it to name her songs. Plagiarism, Youth Thief, Flower and Robbery, Heart Stealer, Spring Burglar, Dream Fraudster, and Moral Hijacker.
By looking at the names of those songs, I understood the hidden meaning behind those harmless words. They were actually her exclusive seven sins. Plagiarism...No need to debate. My teacher was an example. When it came to Suiri's style, I could smell the spring and summer with her naming preferences Youth Thief and Spring Burglar. Heart stealer...I didn't know which meaning she would prefer so I could only wait for the official debut. Spring Burglar, what a good phrase to replace the unpleasant word 'Prostitution'. As for the two last songs, the name was quite obvious.
I didn't know the relationship between flowers and robbery. Anyway, it shouldn't be positive either. However, I couldn't imagine the only positive song among 'NTR' songs...
With the mind of an adult, I knew them very well. Dream Fraudster. Just seeing this name, my heart was stabbed through to my conscience. As a big boss in my previous life, the trick of drawing a pie was quite common in adult society. 'Just do it, do that, you can get a huge reward'. As an example, I drew a pie for my subordinate to fix those annoying bugs in the program. Let's forget it, anyway. Lastly, Moral Hijacker was a problem of the current society. With the banner 'I'm doing it for your good', 'you must do it, do that so it can be considered good'. To be more precise, the moment you gave the money to the beggars, your morality had been hijacked by them. The protagonists of many fictions also have this kind of thing as their innate. They stood highly on the moral line so that they could have the qualification to point at those villains and villainesses.
I could only say that Suiri's brain was quite good. Deep down in my heart, I really admired this girl's talent.
Geez~
Hoshiyuki Suiri was currently abroad now. The house was quite empty. I together with Shinonawa Charlotte was the only one at home. Suiri should come back tonight because tomorrow is the school entrance ceremony.
"Hey, can stop your action now, please? My ears get calluses"
I reminded the blond sitting comfortably on the sofa but it was annoying when she just repeated the trailer more than 10 times. No matter how brilliant the songs were, if you kept only listening too many times, it would become annoying.
"Hmm, sometimes I doubt your love toward her. Just a basic thing is to earn more views and you've complained already"
Charlotte-san scolded harshly. Well, what could you expect from the hopeless simp?
"Do you think that with her current popularity, she needs a small amount of your view?"
Just watching one time would be enough. I retorted.
"Why do you act like my 'mother'? Do you like me, Otonashi-san?"
She immediately fought back, not wanting to lose. She gave me a meaningful look. Damm, she must have heard about the common symptoms of the Otonashi family. If I didn't inherit any memory, I would have suffered worse than the current me. 'Genderless', the common symptom of the Otonashi family had been co-existed for more than a thousand years. They were easily confused about their sexual orientation because of their reproductive organs.
Therefore, the Government granted the exclusive right to the Otonashi's members to have a harem. Her partners might be variable, alpha, omega, and beta with male and female respectively. In exchange, that individual had to contribute to the country's financial income, and create more jobs for civilians to stabilize the society. It didn't matter if you had more than three or six wives. As long as you played a huge role in the country, they would turn a blind eye to you. For example, the predecessor was the Mizuno family. A huge red-haired army, by the way, my red-haired also inherited from them. My mother took a fancy to one of those attendants but she was unlike other members as she only took one concubine. In short, Sasaki and I were somehow related because of the same bloodline family.
In this society, with the rainbow-haired color, people couldn't identify a family just by looking at the haired color. No wonder Sasaki didn't even realize I had her half-blood flowing in my body. I should have called her 'Aunt' if you looked at the family tree.
In the original novel's story, the author was thrown with bricks by her readers because Hinata wasn't different from a slut. However, the amount of bricks that could build a villa couldn't even stop her from creating this game. Unlikely, she was even bolder in designing the current me to taste women from different genders.
My bending originated from this symptom. It wasn't like I loved women from the beginning.
"Don't get ahead of yourself, Simp lord"
Scartistically speaking, my eyes were full of provocation.
"What did you call me? What a joke. It's obvious love!!"
She jumped out of the sofa as if she wanted to summon her fist in attack position.
"Is that so? By the way, yesterday, the shipper not only delivered my uniforms but also...a pile of thin books package"
Of course, I had no choice but to open my reverse card!!
"..."
The blond immediately shut up her aggressive mouth and her eyes grew panicked.
"Did you open it!?"
She pointed her finger at me tremblingly.
"You guess?"
What I loved the most was riddling others but I was not too fond of other riddlers. You could call me a double-standard person.
"Gunununu~"
The blond's face turned bright red as if she wanted to dig a hole to hide herself. If I were an Alpha, it would be no problem when she discussed those 18+ materials together.
In my previous life, boys at the age of adolescence often gathered a group to discuss 'boys talk'. However, girls didn't lose to boys either as they talked about their sexual experience like a natural conversation. I didn't know whether I was too conservative or society was too open. When I hadn't shown any illness, my circle of friends asked me whether I had sex with anyone as she complained about her boyfriend being too bad in their bed. I could only wear a business smile to hide my abnormality.
In the crowd of 'normal people', she or he stood out meant weirdos. Like myself being surrounded by open-minded people, the idea of getting married and then having sex became a weird way of thinking. I didn't understand...
"Hmm, please, keep it a secret~"
Charlotte suddenly knelt and performed a dogeza. Geez~, fortunately, you met me. Otherwise, you'd be blackmailed by some NTR antagonists that I had read in my previous life.
Sorry for reading that kind of thing, I read it as a reference to steal my teacher away from the scumbag childhood friend.
Seeing her pleading eyes, I began to worry about her.
"I'm just joking. You should have your need at this age already"
I said lightly. Honestly, in this current era, who dared to order those materials online? Why didn't you order it on Online Ebook? I complained about this girl's IQ.
"Really?"
Her smile came back to her face but you begged your rival in love like this.
"Yeah, but why don't order it on Ebook?"
I asked curiously. As soon as I said that, her face dropped a little bit.
"I know what you're thinking. Actually, I used the same account with Sui-chan..."
"..."
She spoke but somehow I could see her smug smile as she showed off the connection with Suiri. So adorable~ What was I thinking?
"New account?"
What was wrong with you? There was a policy of one person per account with their identity card number. With her family background, a new account was just a matter of money.
"What!? I didn't dare to open a new one. My mom will ask me this and that. Plus, she knew my password and used my account as well"
"There are some 16+ mangas so I have to ask Suiri to share because she also read it"
"..."
Woa~woa~woa~What did you do to my heroine? An innocent and pure as white as a paper heroine had been degenerated by you!!! Hiding my shocked state behind the calm mask, I asked.
"Was it your active or passive?"
I asked to confirm again.
However, her face began to show some guilt, giving my brain an answer.
"It couldn't be help. That girl didn't understand anything about love so I recommended and bought them for her to read..."
Her voice lowered at the end of the sentence.
"But 16+"
What could you find in the tags of those mangas? Harem, Heavy Ecchi, Girl Love, Romance, etc...Don't pump into her head those strange things!
"No, I wasn't wrong...It's just the cover deceiving both of us"
She continued to quibble.
"..."
"I also didn't expect Sui-chan to be addicted to it"
"..."
Anyway...A person couldn't be too innocent. Sooner or later, Suiri would know it. This girl liked girls for sure.
In the blink of an eye, I had progressed through Chapter 1. Tomorrow would be the beginning of chapter 2.
I needed to prepare for the future...
Hello, everyone. My former name was Minazuki Haruka, and my current name is Sato Hinata. I have been living in this world for more than two years. Ever since the original body was differentiated into Omega, I got injected with a videotape of a certain person from another world.
Although my gender was slightly modified, I was still basically a 'female'.
Hahaha~...God must have played a joke on me. I needed to be reborn, not a transmigrator!!! Instead of letting me rewind to the past, God sent me to another familiar but also unfamiliar world.
*sigh*. Looking at my situation, I had hijacked the body of a mob character. For more than 2 years, I had been myself but more mature. My sister Sato Megumi was a gyaru but she was naive and pure. The outside was a fierce Gyaru but inside just a little girl trying to change herself to be better.
The worst was that I had disappointed her. Like I said before, the outside had been changed, but the inside remained rotten.
Hanging the uniform of Stardust Academy, I, the mob character, would attend the same school as the heroine. We had no intersection with each other. Just a commoner stepped into the aristocratic society. I didn't even get a childhood friend position. When it came to Suiri, my psychological defense went berserk and lost control. Just like that night, I skipped my dinner to seek external relief.
Geez~, my mouth suddenly went itchy again but the cigarette pack had been confiscated. The pack that I sneakingly bought was lost because of 'Plagiarism' from Suiri's mouth.
I wondered if I could approach her and ask whether she was my brother's reborn.
"Hinata-chan, do you have a minute?"
A cold female voice together with the knocking sound came from my room's door. She was my childhood friend, Shiratani Himeki.
"Come in"
I yelled.
*Click*
The door opened, revealing the dark silver-haired girl who was staring at me with a pair of crimson-blooded eyes. Hearing my approval, she walked in like her home in the past. Her eyes kept scrutinizing me as if I was a criminal.
*Click* The door was sealed away to keep our conversation more private.
"So, Hinata, you'd finally shown your true self or I should say who the hell are you?"
*Slurp*
She took a sip of tea placing on the table and looked at me coldly. It wasn't strange that she noticed her childhood friend's difference. Since my differentiation, she might have already suspected me. From an innocent, cheerful, and positive child went mature like a mini adult. Moreover, Himeki was a child suffering malice since childhood so she had a special talent like sixth sense to judge other people. And the former original body was her savior. It would be strange if she didn't notice it.
I knew she would discover it sooner or later.
Was I Haruka or Hinata?
"Hime-ch..I meant Himeki-san...Do you believe in 'Isekai'?"
If I were a genuine Hinata, I would have called her Hime-chan. Unfortunately, It seemed that I suffered from both identities. If the matter would be exposed soon, just let it be exposed. I was deeply afraid of hiding and causing misunderstandings.
"..."
She didn't say anything but closed her blood-red eyes.
*Hugh*
She took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly. Her pair of crimson eyes slowly revealed their sight and hooked me in to evaluate my words.
"I believe you"
She said softly.
"..."
"What!?"
I exclaimed in shock.
"What's with your reaction?"
She asked back.
"I meant it's 'Isekai' and you just believe me?"
I was confused as hell. I thought she would tie me to the cross and burn me to get back the original Hinata.
"And that's it?..."
I was almost speechless as I couldn't find any words to describe my mood at that moment.
She just calmly took a sip of her tea and her eyes made contact with mine.
"If I don't believe you, who I will believe then? You're my closest person...after all"
Himeki explained and her eyes were full of sincerity. It was so ironic...If I could be like her in my previous life, I wouldn't be reduced to what I am today.
My eyes went wet again and I couldn't hold back the tears built for more than 2 years.
*Ugh*
Just a simple matter of believing others, I had failed miserably...On the contrary, I hated myself so much. This 'Isekai' matter was even harder to believe than Plagiarism. Yet, she...She was too good~ She just nodded and believed me...Damn, I hated it, I hated it.
This should be what I should have done in the first place!!
A pair of slender hands patted my shoulders and rubbed my back to smoothen my emotions.
"Himeki-san..."
I called her name desperately...
"Hime-chan is enough..."
She comforted
"Hime-chan, I don't know what to do, I don't know how to deal with the memories from another world!!"
I cried out loud like a baby just had been born.
"..."
She didn't say anything. For a while, her voice raised.
"Perhaps, it's from the moment of your differentiation, isn't it?"
I nodded my head.
"*sigh*, it must be unpleasant for you to be injected another person's life into your brain..."
She complained slightly.
"Then, can you tell me about that person's life? Whose life could make you from the positive person going opposite?"
She asked it out of curiosity. Human was like that then I obeyed. I didn't have anything to hide anyway.
After a long time of story-telling, the story of an adult woman who died because of abusing alcohol and cigarettes showed a bad ending. Without achieving anything and having someone to save her, she died because of depression and extreme regret. Nobody disappeared from a society that no one cared about. If someone remembered her, they would constantly come up with the term 'Scumbag sister', and 'gold-worshipper'.
"..."
Perhaps, she was too shocked because of the tragic life of 'Minazuki Haruka'. She kept silent as if she was pondering for something.
"Deserve it"
Finally, she spoke.
*Stab*
*Ugh*!!! It was hurt. She stabbed straight into my sore spot. Because Hime-chan was a strong woman from the beginning, compared to Haruka, was like comparing an elephant and an ant.
"I'm sorry"
I unconsciously apologized.
"You don't need to say sorry to me. Hinata is Hinata, Haruka is Haruka. It's obviously Haruka's fault, not Hinata's fault"
"Don't bear the burden of the other-worlder"
She comforted.
"I like the energetic, innocent, and lively Hinata"
Sorry for being tainted...
"But I don't expect the world I have been living to be the product of someone's imagination"
"And Hoshiyuki Suiri is the darling of heaven in this world"
"Now, I understand why you react strangely when it comes to her"
She expressed her opinions after listening to my narrated story.
"Yeah, every time I see her, I can't forget that girl's brother"
I lowered my head and muttered.
"Since you suspected she might be him, why don't you go and ask to resolve the heart knot?
She recommended.
"Sorry, Hime-chan, if she were, I wouldn't know how to use which identity to face him. For Haruka, her crime had already been unforgivable"
I expressed my cowardice.
"Looking at her now, without the 'plagiarism', she shines like an angel, like a fish swimming in the water, like a kite meeting the strong wind. She's so dazzling"
"That's the life Haruto was supposed to have if Haruka could stand up for her own brother"
I explained.
"If I showed up, wouldn't I ruin him again?"
I asked in a trembling tone.
"It's okay to have your self-awareness"
Himeki spoke but I suddenly had an urge to punch this calm face. I didn't know whether she made sarcasm out of me or comforted me.
"..."
"Okay, I'm joking. I'll help you...As for the next 3 years, you will be able to reconcile your heart with him or just to seek comfort from his incarnation. I don't care about the result...The most important thing is you, Hinata. Whether you can move on or not is your decision"
She let out a smile and encouraged.
"Just like you saved me back then..."
Himeki softly murmured but I could feel her security and gentleness. How could I forget when I said the same thing to her?
I let out a smile and reassured her.
"Thank you, Hime-chan"