Chapter 141 - The Most Relaxing Place
In the end, after the update live stream, the main activity became showing Mashiro-nee Mion’s past live streams, in other words, the videos of me starting on the uninhabited island and doing various things.
Additionally, there were videos of Majo Bell, where Miki was active as Seth.
I felt a little sorry for Mion, but after putting on her VR HMD, she started speaking normally—though it was a synthetic voice—and seemed to open up to Mashiro-nee and Miki?
“Alright, Shou, Miki. It’s almost time to head home.”
“Ah, is it that late already?”
“Time flies, doesn’t it?”
Mion looked a little downcast, but we couldn’t stay until dinner after all.
We still had quite a lot of lunch ingredients left, so I probably could have made something if asked, but Mashiro-nee wouldn’t allow it.
“Well then, I suppose it’s time to take our leave.”
“Yeah.”
Saying that, we took off our VR HMDs.
Mion looked a bit lonely as she slowly removed her VR HMD.
“Mm…”
“Yes. Everyone, I will escort you home.”
Tsubaki-san was there before we knew it.
I thought she’d take us to the station, but she said she’d take us all the way home.
…I did get a dangerous card, so that might be safer.
When I get home, I’ll register it to my PC (Personal Core) immediately and lock it…
*
The car came to a silent stop, and the sound of the door unlocking was heard.
Before Mashiro-nee could open the door, Tsubaki-san was already there, opening it for her.
“Well then, see you tonight… Hm?”
As I was about to get out, Mion firmly grabbed my wrist.
She placed her other hand on her chest, took a deep breath, and then…
“Shou-kun, thank you for today. Please come again…”
“U-un.”
As always, or rather, it was a really spine-tingling husky voice.
Mashiro-nee and Miki were wide-eyed with surprise too…
“Ahem.”
Tsubaki-san’s pointed cough reset the mood, and we got out of the car.
Tsubaki-san closed the door, bowed, and got into the driver’s seat. The car slowly pulled away and disappeared.
“Haa… Gah!?”
“Shou~?”
Mashiro-nee’s headlock was firmly applied, and I was dragged to the front door.
“But I am surprised. To possess such a beautiful voice, yet be poor at speaking.”
Miki opened the front door for me, and I was thrown inside, still in a headlock.
With a click, the front door closed, and I was finally released. Mashiro-nee stood imposingly.
“Now, explain from the beginning.”
“Didn’t you listen?!”
“Now, now, Sister. This is not the place for that, and Brother must have something he needs to do first.”
As Miki said, first, I needed to register myself as a user for the card I was entrusted with.
Since it was entrusted to me, there should be an open user registration slot, and it would be bad if I didn’t fill it with my registration.
“Sorry, Miki. Can you explain everything again first?”
“Understood!”
She really is a reliable younger sister.
*
I registered myself to the card and carefully stored it deep in my desk.
I guess the first time I’d use it would probably be for the summer training camp expenses.
Mashiro-nee’s interrogation happened during an early dinner.
Since lunch was heavy, a light ochazuke with pickles satisfied them both, which was a relief.
After that… it wasn’t much of an interrogation, I guess.
In the end, it mostly revolved around whether I knew from the beginning that Mion—Izumo-san—was a young lady?
In short, “You weren’t trying to trick her for money, were you?”
Even if I had known, there was no option not to help her on the train that day, and joining the Cybernetics Club was by chance, and before that, Mion finding my live stream was also by chance.
…How did it come to this?
“Bawassu.”
“Shou-kun!”
I felt relieved to be greeted by Mion’s usual smile.
“Oh, you’re early.”
It was good that Bell-buchou was there, but… was she doing homework?
Yata-sensei probably told her, “You can play games once you finish that.”
“Yata-sensei isn’t here, huh…”
“Is Seth-chan playing IRO with your sister-in-law?”
“Ah, no, I’m waiting for her, or rather, Bell-buchou. Is it okay if I invite my sister here?”
I don’t think Miki could come but Mashiro-nee couldn’t.
If Yata-sensei were here, it would be a quick conversation, but he’s off today, so it can’t be helped.
“Yes, that’s fine. She’s a senior who graduated this March, right?”
“That’s right. Then, I’ll send a message right away.”
After I sent a message to Miki, a little while later,
“Sorry to keep you waiting.”
“Yo.”
The two entered.
“Seth-chan and your sister-in-law.”
“Oh! Ohh?”
Mashiro-nee was about to hug Mion but was stopped.
She forgot that full-dive generally has body contact disabled…
“Uhm, I’m Katori Suzuya, a second-year and the club president.”
“I’m Ise Mashiro. Oh, wait, names are bad, right? Call me Marie, please.”
“Y-yes.”
Bell-buchou seemed confused by Mashiro-nee’s character, perhaps because of the image she had of me and Miki.
Just then,
“Good evening~. Ah, Mashiro-san~, it’s been a while~.”
“Sensei. It has been a long time.”
Mashiro-nee bowed her head properly to Yata-sensei, perhaps out of respect. Well, she was thorough about such things, a stickler for etiquette, so it wasn’t out of place.
“Uhm, by any chance, you were the Vice Disciplinary Committee Chair…”
“Heh, you remember that well!”
Huh? Mashiro-nee was the Vice Disciplinary Committee Chair?
“Mashiro-san was quite famous, you see~.”
“I wish to hear my sister’s heroic tales!”
Somehow, Yata-sensei and Marie (Mashiro-nee) got excited over old stories (?), and Bell-buchou and Seth (Miki) joined in… I was a little surprised how smoothly it went.
“Shou-kun, please check the video to be uploaded tomorrow.”
“Ah, that’s right!”
The content to be uploaded Thursday evening was me going north through the Ancient Ruins passage, then climbing the stairs on the left from the dead end to reach the basin.
From there, it transitions to me circling the spring, then switches again to me circling the mountain cabin.
“Looks good. Should we save the Fairies’ story for when things settle down a bit more?”
“Yes. But we will absolutely keep it a secret that you can reach the island through the Divine Tree!”
She smiled.
It was a little scary, but there was no way I could object to that.
“Yeah, that’s also erased from my memory. That incident was completely unexpected, but I have no intention of leaving the island anymore.”
“Yes!”
The island is the most relaxing place, after all…