AN: For Hakumei, three chapters are "short story".
「Wele! This is the church of "AAAAAAA" village. Will you carry out a confession? Or else will you carry out a confession? I also won't mind if you want to carry out a confession you know?」
Yue finally calmed down, and while Kaori was talking with Yue in order to grasp their current situation, the priest-san was smilingly inviting a confession standing in the middle of the wreckage of the collapsed church. As expected perhaps he was holding a grudge.
Kaori was making confirmation to Yue while her cheeks were twitching at the priest-san who was earnestly throwing words confession, confession at them.
「As I thought, this place is really inside that game device isn't it?」
「……Nn. Based on the situation there is no doubt. Furthermore, there is a big possibility that it's broken somewhere.」
「Broken?」
「……Nn. It's indeed true that the first position we appeared at is set randomly, but the speech of the NPC shouldn't be this strange. I was taught a bit about the content and the system so there is no doubt about that.」
「I, I see, indeed. There is no way Hajime-kun will make the default setting to be "regrettable" or "screw loose" even though this is a game created for Myuu-chan's sake.」(TN: Sorry, I changed the deplorable into regrettable)
Kaori nodded in prehension. At the same time she let out a sigh that sounded a bit uneasy. She imagined something a little bit unpleasant, that perhaps by any chance Hajime was thinking that she was regrettable.
「……Anyway, we should logout but……」
「……That function doesn't broke right?」
Kaori was feeling something ominous from Yue's voice with her gaze turning toward Yue, while Yue called out the individual information screen using a game gesture just like what she was taught before. She was whispering「Open」while her hand was waved as though stroking the empty air in front of her.
As the result a blue shining window materialized in front of Yue's eyes. A unique sound *von* resounded, and then window fragments gathered from up, down, right, and left as though it was a block game, and in the blink of eye a screen the size of a 24 inch television was pleted. It was Hajime's fixation that took all night to finish.
Anyway, Yue let out a sigh of relieve that the individual information screen was opened normally, next she clicked on the button "return to home" at the right bottom of the screen while feeling a bit nervous.
――Why are you giving up here! Do your best, do your best! You can do it, you can do it!
A voice of heaven descended. It seemed they couldn't go home. It appeared that more passion and guts were necessary.
「……」
「……」
Yue clicked the button wordlessly once more.
――If you give up, that will be the end of your adventure! Now, dash toward that sunset!
As expected, it seemed the voice of heaven wouldn't allow returning to home. And then, what should be rising right now was the morning sun, telling them to dash toward the sunset was just…
「I, I'll give it a try.」
While Kaori's cheeks were twitching seeing Yue throwing a dreadfully scornful gaze at empty air with her usual stare having advanced until the third stage, Kaori imitated Yue and called out her individual information screen, and she clicked the button "return to home".
――You shitty maggot-. What are you doing trying to go home as you damn please-. The destination of you bastard is only to hell or to hell-. If you don't want me to "pii―* you then return to your squad! That's your one and only home you bastard!
「Hiih!?」
Having suddenly poured with the angry yell of Hajime, Kaori spontaneously held her head with both hands and she became unable to stand up from surprise.
「……e to think of it, it seems that the program for Hauria use was also included separately.」
「The, the training for mass producing those berserk rabbits? Hajime-kun, how far she is planning to evolve those people?」
Yue shrugged toward Kaori who was trembling all over.
In the end their bad premonition hit the bull's eye and they couldn't logout from the game. It was unclear why when it was Yue, Hajime's voice had the tone of Matsuoka ○zo, while when it was Kaori, Hajime's voice had a tone like Sergeant Hartma○, but surely this too was the adverse effect from the broken device. (TN: Matsuoka Shuzo is a retired tennis player who is currently hosting a TV show. He is known for his energetic and passionate character)
「What will we do, Yue. How are we going home……ah, that's right! Yue, use soul magic!」
「Mu, there is that method.」
This game device was created by applying soul magic. The highly precise sensation where there was almost no difference with reality was because of that. In that case, it could be thought that for an expert of soul magic it should be possible to logout even without relying on the system.
Yue wasted no time trying to use soul magic.
――Insufficient level
「Mu? ……Mumuh」
「Yue?」
Each time Yue persisted with something while mumbling「Mumuh」, the heavenly voice "insufficient level" descended down. At the end a hypocritically courteous words "let's understand your standing" descended.
Kaori who somehow guessed the situation asked.
「It looks no good isn't it?」
「Muu. Even though it absorbed us because it's broken, but I cannot accept it at all that only this system is perfectly working.」
According to Yue, Yue herself was also participating at the creation of this bodily sensation system that applied soul magic. And then, the "binding" of the game system that was directly affecting the soul was operating effectively even at Yue herself who was a cooperator in the artifact's creation.
If this effect was purely due to Yue's own magic, then she would only need to break that restriction, but if Hajime's artifact was involved there then it would be next to impossible for Yue to cancel it.
Yue who was unable to release her "binding" no matter how many times she tried dropped her shoulders dejectedly.
「……As expected from Hajime's artifact. And then my magic. We have done a good work.」
「This is not the time for singing your own praise, Yue……what to do. Is there no other way to logout?」
「……Nn. It's not that there is none. If I remember correctly, there is a safe point at each village, we should be able to logout from there too. Myuu can go home anytime she want, but Hajime said that he won't let Hauria to escape as they please, and he said that he picked base logout method for them.」
「Hajime-kun, he is merciless to the people of Hauria isn't he……」
They couldn't stop even if they wanted to stop. If they wanted to stop then they could only progress inside the game. And what's more that too surely would be a game scenario with an extraordinarily lovely hard mode, no, hell mode in Hajime style.
Thinking about the people of Hauria who someday would be thrown in here, Kaori quietly prayed for their happiness in the next world.
「And Yue. If there is save point in each village, then what about this village? Let's quickly try out that save point.」
「……………………………………There is none in this village.」
「Eh? Why? You said just now that each village has one.」
「……Be, because this is the village of beginning. So it's not needed.」
「………………Yue?」
Kaori quickly asked Yue about the save point of this village, but for some reason Yue was answering with her gaze subtly looking away. It felt like her tone was also subtly strange.
Kaori turned a suspicious gaze at Yue, but Yue was muttering to herself「……Well then, we have to go to the next village now that we have decided」with a subtly strange tone as expected.
Kaori turned her gaze. Toward the direction of the priest-san who was still eloquently urging for confession in the middle of the wreckage.
「Excuse me Father. Can you please tell me where is the save point of this village?」
「……Kaori! You doubt me? That's crue――」
「Village chief's regrettable daughter-san. You are regrettable as usual. You know don't you? It's right here in this church!」
The church, was no more.
Kaori turned her face calmly toward Yue still with a smiling face. Yue calmly turned toward the direction of the far beyond.
A time of silence flowed for a while. The gaze was also flowing from Kaori=>Yue=>brilliantly shining sun.
A beat later.
「YUE YOU IDIOOOOOOOOT!!」
「……Ka, KAORI YOU STUPIID――mugyuh!?」
Kaori's yell resounded.
Yue talked back in reflex, but her words sounded unusually frailer. In addition, her cheeks were swiftly stretched out *mugyuuuu* and her words were cut off.
「Idiot idiot idiot idiot-, Yue you idiot! Why was the first thing you do after the game started was destroying the save point!? This screw loose sister-saN-!!」
「Re, rerause――」
「Don't say because!」
「Fho, fhovefer――」
「Don't say however! Geez-, you are really-! The way of thinking of blowing away everything the first thing if there is something that you cannot stomach, I think that's pletely no good! I think, that's really no good!」
Kaori preached while inflicting *mugyuuuuu* at Yue's cheeks. Perhaps she was using a lot of strength, Yue's soft cheeks were stretching and stretching and her eyes turned delicately teary.
As expected it seemed Yue recognized that she had been rash, at first she was obediently letting herself treated like that and listened meekly, but right after Yue heard「In the first place Yue is~」and she felt the atmosphere that the preaching would bee long, first thing first she counterattacked. Her index fingers poked *dosu-* at both sides of Kaori's stomach.
「Hehyah!?」
Kaori-san's body bent stra――ight backward stiffly. Seeing such Kaori, Yue-san laughed「You said 'hehyah'. It was 'hehyah'. Puh, giggle giggle」.
The oute was obvious.
――Nyah―nyaah! Mui muih, fushaa――――!!
The gong of the usual cat fight rang. Both of them scuffled with each other while rolling around on the church that was transformed into a mountain of rubble and in front of the priest whose suggestion of sin confession was being forceful.
But, there several villagers were passing by.
「Okaa-san, those people……」
「Shih. You must not stare at the screw loose sister and village chief's regrettable daughter!」
When a young child pointed his finger, his mother hurriedly covered her child's eyes and they quickly left as though they had just witnessed something terrifying.
「Those two did that to the church……the hell with them.」
「I thought that someday they would actually do it. After all, they are the village chief's regrettable daughter-san and the sister-san with a screw loose.」
A young man shouldering farming tool was looking at the destroyed church and said that pitifully, while the uncle beside him sighed while saying that.
「A really good person, has left us.」
「How sad this incident is.」
An uncle pushing a cart looked at the church with an anguished expression, and another uncle who was similarly carrying a baggage faced the church and offered words of prayer. The priest was still alive despite the destruction of the church though……
The air of the surrounding villagers felt somewhat strange, or rather their atmosphere was dark. Yue and Kaori who were covered with dust from rolling around finally noticed. Both of them stood up feeling unable to stay there longer from being surrounded at a distance while being seen with a gaze as though they were dangerous character.
「……Err, Yue. For now there is nothing that can be done for what is broken, about what should we do from here on……」
「……Nn. I am Yue. A woman who won't look back to the past.」
「How about you look back? The next time you do another destructive activity irresponsibly, I'll seriously make you eat disintegration bombardment okay?」
Yue averted her gaze from Kaori whose blood vein was emerging on her forehead still with a smiling face, and she called out her individual information screen once more.
「……Cough-. Just like I said before, if it's save point, the next village also has it. And so, for now we should aim to go there.」
「I guess. Our body might be in the real world I think, and when Hajime-kun go home he will surely do something somehow, but if there is anything we can do then it's better to give it a try.」
「……Nn. But, look here.」
The two easily progressed their talk so smoothly to the degree that would make anyone wonder just what was with the quarrel just now.
Yue pointed at her status screen, so Kaori got close to Yue's shoulder and peered in with her body glued close on Yue. The content that was projected there was,
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Name : Yue-pon
Rank : 1 / 50 remaining until the next liberation
Job : Apprentice Sister
Title : Sister With a Screw Loose
Skill : No Chant Imagination Configuration
Magic : Flame Magic [Fireball]
Equipment : A set of apprentice sister outfit
Special mention : Has criminal record
Money : 1,000
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Other than those there were also items at hand and also playing time recorded, but there was no list for specs that were quantified into number like in Tortus's status plate. It was made like this with the reason so the player wouldn't misunderstand the number as their own strength in real battle and so that the player couldn't overwhelm the enemy using the difference in status amount.
HP gauge that was mon for RPG also didn't exist with similar reasons. Conforming to reality, no matter how strong someone was they would get instant game over if their head was cut off, but in reverse no matter what kind of strong enemy could possibly be defeated depending on the method.
Kaori who saw Yue's status nodded and said「I see」.
「As expected you have a criminal record.」
「……Oi, Kaori. What do you mean by as expected? I am always obeying law――」
「Nn」
Kaori replied just like Yue while her finger was pointing toward the destroyed church. A beat after Yue turned her gaze there.
「……I'm generally obeying law in the real world.」
「You nonchalantly ranked down "always" into "generally" even in the real world there.」
Yue-sama wouldn't look back to the past! She also wouldn't accept Kaori's straight-man retort!
「……Rather than that, the problem is this "rank" and "money".」
「Before that, let me ask a little bit more, Yue-pon. See here, about my individual information screen, Yue-pon. In my special mention the word 'acplice' is written. Yue-pon, why is this I wonder? I didn't really do anything but now I have criminal record, Yue-pon. Tell me Yue-pon. Heey, heey, Yue-pon. Yue-pon, sheesh Yue-pon-」
Very unusually Yue was covering her face with both hands and her ears were bright red for some reason while she crouched down on the spot. She whispered with a small voice「……uu, because of a passing fancy I unconsciously」while trembling in shame.
The expression of Kaori who was crouching down beside such Yue was truly a really wide grin. She was showing her friendly smile that always charmed the surrounding while poking Yue's cheek with her index finger. Kaori was enjoying the squishy sensation that might became a habit while intently speaking piercing words.
「Well, it doesn't matter now, Yue-pon. I still cannot accept it but, we won't finish anything like this Yue-pon. And? What is this "rank" and "money" about, Yue-pon?」
「……Kaori, what nerve. This sister with a screw loose Yue-pon will turn the village girl into cinder for the peaceful life of the village.」
「Wawawah, calm down Yue! I'm sorry! I won't say it anymore!」
A ball of flame lit up on Yue's fingertip. Its appearance was shabby but the pressure that it gave off was a bad news. It seemed that even the most basic of elementary magic could be filled with high class power by the way one controlled the amount of magic power and the pression rate.
The sister with a screw loose Yue-pon pointed finger gun gesture at Kaori and mercilessly shot a lot of that. That magic that was shot wildly like the sweeping of a gatling gun was somehow evaded by Kaori even while her face was going pale.
In exchange, from behind Kaori countless explosions and screams were……
「Aah!? The shoemaker Rodriguez is blown away!」
「What!? What is happening!? My house is gone!?」
「Kuu! Everyone-, I'll hold them back here! Run while you all still can!」
「Village chief! That's reckless! Your opponent is that sister-san with a screw loose you know!? Even for you that's rash!」
「Hah, don't worry about me. Even like this when I was young I did quite much as an adventurer. I'll just take her on a bit and then I'll catch up to you later.」
「Chief, someone like you is……」
For some reason Kaori's father was being the hero of the village, but seeing that the daughter of that hero was involved with the turmoil, in a sense this was like a family scandal, or even like stirring up trouble to get credit from solving it.
After that, Yue who mercilessly turned the village chief into something like a ragged cloth and destroyed Rodriguez and the shoe shop mistaken the remaining amount of her magic power that was restrained more than she imagined by the system, and she collapsed face first from her magic power running dry. Similarly, Kaori whose physical ability was restrained and now not only she couldn't transform into apostle, she couldn't even use magic was also ran out of stamina and collapsed face first.
「Ju, just what are, we doing, in this time of emergency……zee, zee」
「……Haa haa. Uu, certainly」
While feeling the intense gazes of the villagers who were surrounding the two from a distance, Yue and Kaori got up somehow and they sat down side by side.
「Le, let's return to our talk. And, what is this "rank" and "money" about?」
「……Nn. About this "rank
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