Chapter 2

Chapter 1, Childhood Friend And I — Episode 2 : Delete

Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV

I opened the window without even checking the floor number of the love hotel and just jumped down.

「Kaname-chaaaaaaaaannn!!!」

「Kirishimaaaaaaaaaa!!!」

Two voices echoed from above, but my body was already in the air and there was nothing I could do about it. In an instant the earth would be upon me and my body would be smashed. But time passed strangely slowly in my mind.

All I can recall are the good memories of when I first started dating Kaori…

『I’ve liked Kaori… for a long time now.』

『Yeah… me too』

Confession in my room, where I was in a stutter and there was no atmosphere or anything. But Kaori was just happy that she said yes. She was such a simplistic girl, but she is gone now. It was just a mere stranger holding hands with her classmate and shaking her hips.

Beautiful memories flowed through my mind like a running light, but when I thought of what had just happened in front of me, I was pulled back so forcefully that I thought I was suspended by a crane in reality, and a tremendous shock hit my leg and my body rumbled and rolled on the asphalt of the parking lot.

I jumped down, but I couldn’t die. I was so burned out that I jumped out the window without looking down. But if I saw something like that, I wouldn’t be able to keep my sanity.

I should be dead, but I’m only grazed. I looked up and saw Kaori and Yamazaki on the third floor watching me jump down. I guess I can’t die from that height…

They were saying something, but I don’t even want to look at them anymore! After a little while, the pain eased and I left the love hotel grounds and found myself in front of a familiar train station.

Heartbroken and alone, I returned to my home, relying on my memories of before the transfer.

Neither the Passive Skill Air Walk nor Shock Absorber would have been activated. If I hadn’t learned the five-point landing from Shirakaba-san, I would have broken my bones. I can’t believe I survived the bluntness and that man died…

But I survived and made it back in one piece, and now I’m in this mess. The truth is, that person should have come back. I thought back to the person who had been my leader in the other world.

* * *

They went to the trouble of having uniform-like clothes made for me in another world, but they were a bit torn. Marielle said she wanted them all silk, but I asked her to use cotton. If a commoner like me were to wear such a garment, it would be an extravagance.

「I’m home…」

「!?」

All of my belongings were lost when I was transferred, so I didn’t even have the keys to the house. So I pressed the intercom and told my mom it was me, and the moment the door opened, she hugged me.

「Where the hell have you been…?」

「Ahh~ uhm… I don’t know…」

If I told her I was in another world, she wouldn’t believe me. Mom was surprised, but after she calmed down, she called Dad, who left work early or came home right away.

「Kanameeeeeee!!!」

「Don’t hug me like that, it’s too hot.」

「What are you talking about? I don’t know if I can do this without a hug.」

When I asked my parents about it, they told me that a missing persons report was filed and accepted six months after I was gone.

So they got the insurance money and it’s even in my grave… There was no trace of me, I disappeared and my parents were apparently overcome with despair.

That night, they spoiled me by telling me that they had the insurance money to buy me whatever I wanted. No, the insurance money… I was alive, I have to pay it back.

Mom, apron on, hand mixer in hand, ready to bake a cake. After that, all my favorite dishes were served, and I felt like something was about to be born from my full stomach. Well, there was a story about that in another world. I don’t even want to remember…

——The next day…

My parents and the police asked me a lot of questions, but I answered that I had been wandering around in a dreamlike world or something like that.

Clearly, I was more concerned about Kaori than such things. I couldn’t stand the fact that the scene of Kaori being cuckolded directly over and over again was unbearable.

To be clear, the scene of Kaori being happily poked by her partner Yamazaki kept repeating itself, and I didn’t sleep properly last night. The reason I was able to survive through all the hardships and suffering in the other world was because I was always looking forward to seeing Kaori again…

Six months, if you’d only waited six months… why couldn’t you do that!!!

I had been a virgin for so long, and I had been seduced by a princess, a female knight, and a demon lord, but Kaori had easily given her virginity to a man other than me.

Every minute, that goddamn cuckold scene… No, I had the urge to scrape the existence of my childhood friend out of my brain, to disconnect and separate and erase the recorded pieces of flesh.

【Delete!】

I put my fingers to my temples, as I did in other worlds, and mimicked a pistol shot.

What the hell.

In another world, the status bar would show up properly.

【Do you want to delete this memory?】

Yes ⟨———

No

I was asked something like that. Over there, there were a lot of summoners who went berserk with nostalgia or lost their friends in the line of death and became demented or suffered PTSD.

To ease the sick minds of such summoners, a skill jointly created by summoners and otherworldly people, it was Delete…

I was going through a lot of hard times in the second half of my life, so I had to rely on them to keep my mental health in check. Well, it came back to life when I got back here, but…

I knew from jumping down that there was no way my skills from the other world would have survived. Still, I felt somewhat relieved from the bad mood.

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