ALL NOVEL chapter 10
10
3. Risa Jumonji
School has started.
Time flies by so quickly.
With that feeling deeply ingrained, I headed to school.
“We’re in the same class, Hideyoshi-kun.”
“Yeah, we are in the same class.”
My class list has the name “Takeru Jumonji” on it.
So, we were in the same class after all…
Fate really is something else…
“By the way, Emi.”
“Hmm?”
“What class are you in?”
“Didn’t I tell you we’re in the same class!? We just talked about it!”
“Eh?”
Emi Sasaki’s name was listed right above Takeru Juumonji’s.
Our attendance numbers are next to each other…
And with “Akechi” as my number, I’m the first one…
“It feels like there’s some intentional element to this… Like fate really does exist.”
“Fate!”
“Yes, fate.”
“Right?! Right?!”
Takeru and Hidetada.
I can feel the iron will trying to forcibly connect the dots between the protagonist and his scumbag best friend.
“Alright, to avoid any connection with Takeru, maybe I should sneak off to the classroom.”
Checking to make sure Takeru isn’t around, I start to move away from this place where the class list is posted.
“Class 1-1, huh, 1-1.”
The drop in energy in Class 1-1 is abnormal.
I mean, writing something like “Year 1 Class 1” makes it sound like a school in the countryside, which I don’t really like.
It was when I was walking alone in the hallway.
“Don’t worry too much, big bro!”
“Hey, wait!”
“Huh?”
I thought I heard a familiar voice and turned around.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”
“Eh?”
Bam! A student’s figure crashed into me.
While thinking it hurt, I was touching my behind.
“I’m so, so sorry…”
“Ah, ah… It’s okay, don’t worry about it…”
It seems a female student bumped into me, and she had fallen to the floor.
As I reach out to the girl, she says “Thank you” in response.
When I saw the girl’s face, a bad feeling passed through me.
“Hey, are you okay, Risa?”
“That’s why you’re such a busybody, brother!”
“……”
I stealthily turn my back before he can recognize me.
That’s someone you shouldn’t get involved with, I tell myself as I turn away.
…But then I hear a voice calling, “Wait.”
“Sorry, sorry. My sister must have caused you trouble.”
“No, don’t worry about it…”
I try to leave, giving off an air of ‘it’s nothing.’
“Please wait. Let me apologize properly. I’m Risa Tojumonji. This is my brother, Takeru. And you are?”
“……”
It’s the protagonist and the heroine, Risa, aaah!!
I’ve gone mad from the original work, but now there’s a connection, aaah…
“I’m Hidetada Akechi…”
“I’m really sorry, Mr. Akechi.”
“It’s because Risa was in a panic.”
“It’s because my brother is meddlesome!”
It must be that.
“Don’t you have anything you forgot? Are you okay without me?” That’s the kind of brother complex Takeru, who must have had a spat with Risa, was showing off.
After all, Takeru Tojumonji has a brother complex attribute.
Takeru Tojumonji.
The protagonist of “Breaking the Chains of Sorrow.”
A typical black-haired protagonist, he has the look of a sincere and handsome man.
And then there’s his sister, Risa Tojumonji.
The heroine of “Breaking the Chains of Sorrow.”
She also has black hair.
Still quite young, with semi-long hair, she’s like a female version of Takeru in character design.
She also seems sincere and is a heroine who will grow up to be busty.
She finds her brother annoying, but in reality, she wants his attention, a manifestation of her hidden brother complex.
They are not twins; Takeru was born in April, and Risa in March, making them real siblings.
The original work also includes a route for the real sister, which was supposed to be quite a heavy story.
She was the original heroine, and in the second and final seasons, she settled into the role of a supporting character.
Well, it’s not like she was the main heroine anyway, and a real sister route is just that, I suppose.
I feel like Risa’s popularity was on the lower end too…
“Is Hideyoshi fine?”
“Ah, yes. Call me whatever you like.”
My sneaky plan to take refuge in the classroom was a spectacular failure.
In an unexpected turn, I ended up getting acquainted with the Juumonji siblings.
“Now that we’ve met, I might as well ask, which class are you in, Hideyoshi?”
“Class 1.”
“Then you’re in the same class as Akechi’s brother.”
“Hmm… Hideyoshi seems trustworthy, but are there any reliable people in Risa’s class?”
“I wouldn’t know about that.”
Such a noisy pair of siblings.
Even after entering high school, they were like this, but I wonder if they had the same closeness even when they were in elementary school.
But, to think I seem trustworthy…
It really came across how incompetent I am.
All of me cried at the protagonist who lacks any discernment in people…
“Well, whatever! Nice to meet you, Hideyoshi.”
“Ah, yeah…”
“My brother can be suffocating and troublesome, so feel free to call him a nuisance.”
“Ahaha…”
Risa insists on this, but I already know from the game’s development that she actually harbors a wicked desire to monopolize her brother.
“Alright, let’s go, best friend!”
“You’re too familiar…”
“My brother is sick, so it’s okay to say he’s annoying when he is, Akechi.”
“Sure thing.”
That’s the result of being annoying and driving him away, just like in the original work.
I realized that once Takeru recognizes me, there’s no escaping it.
“Sigh…”
Of course, on Risa’s route, Hideyoshi and Emi will do their utmost to interfere…
Takeru can pair up with anyone he wants, just don’t drag me into it…
By the way, where did Emi go, the one who kept interrupting our intense collaboration?
“Of course, Shurei-kun and I are bound by the red string of fate! Eek! …Huh? Shurei-kun disappeared? …Is this some kind of gift…?”