My Reality is a Romance Game

Why the study all of a sudden? I chose number 2. A choice for the study was way too extra. Completing my choice, my body regained its freedom. Holding a gla.s.s of orange juice in her hands, Sakurai started to ask me a bunch of stuff.

“You seem quite wealthy.”

Her gaze was exceedingly bewitching, full of shine and shimmer. Looks like she"s indeed greatly attached to money.

“No, no, it"s actually just money I was entrusted with. You could say it"s something a friend and I collected to fool around with… Haha!” 

Sakurai clicked her tongue as she listened to what I said. And then, handed me the gla.s.s, followed by her gently pressing her own lips against mine. A kiss. Her plump lips felt incredibly soft to the touch. And then… she naturally shoved her tongue into my mouth. I had let my lips part for the time being since we were in the middle of kissing, and as she withdrew her lips back, a fine thread of saliva was left dangling between us.

“Shall I do something even nicer~? How about you finish the drink for now and then I let you into my bedroom, hmm?”

What is she up to?

I had left the bundle on the table. And her gaze had veered towards it as expected. But just what should I do right now? I can"t understand what qualifies as a capture at all! If this game is advocating the whole eroge thing then it means I"d have to go sleep with her, doesn"t it?

The arousal of being left unsatisfied with a kiss.

Leaving the gla.s.s near the bundle, I pulled her hand in. However, Sakurai shook her head and handed me the gla.s.s again.

“I went so far as to pour this juice for you, and you won"t be drinking it?”

Even as she said so, her gaze veered off to the roll of notes again as usual.

It"s quite pathetic that a woman like her would go that far, but either way, I chugged down a gulp for the time being. Followed by pulling her hand close again for the capture. No, I had attempted to.

However, Sakurai shook my hands off and started grinning intensely.

And at the same time, I was a.s.saulted by the pain of having my internal organs boil up. It was as if my blood started to flow in reverse, or that my stomach was about to burst open. The excruciating pain made the contents inside my chest cavity turn over. And then something spurted out my oesophagus. I instinctively grasped my neck and fell over. Stemming from my subconscious will to live, I forced myself to move my hand. It was a miracle that could even read the ‘Load" window.

And so the world turned white.

That crazy b.i.t.c.h tried to kill me by poisoning the drink! I never even imagined she"d go that far to steal 500,000 Yen! Isn"t this murder?! Now I"m sweating buckets in terror! If she used some of those pota.s.sium cyanides that come up in dramas for instant death, then I wouldn"t even have time to load! I was really lucky to only have one gulp! Seriously, a miracle!

Now that I think about it, I heard her call me wealthy that time. She still had the gla.s.s in her hand back then. If I had answered yes, then it"s possible she might"ve put the poisoning on hold to extort more money out of me. The more I thought about it, the more I was astonished.

What should I do?

Guess there"s no choice but to keep going for the time being. It should be fine as long as I don"t put anything she brings out into my mouth. As long as I get that, then I should be able to stay cautious of anything. She"s a woman. She can"t win against me in strength. However, the actual capture has already begun to direct towards a different kind of concern. The choices that appeared. Go to the study. The reason for the appearance of such a ludicrous choice.

I thought that it was this option that had something to do with the capture.

And thus once again, I ran towards her house and acted in the exact same way, leading to the same choices appearing once more.

[Choice 1: Barge into the study.]
[Choice 2: Chat with her.]

That"s right. This is exactly it.

The second choice was already a death flag.

If I choose the first choice, then I"d get closer to the capture. That"s what sparked in me.

I immediately chose number 1 and ran towards the study. When I did, Sakurai, suddenly startled, called out to me.

“Please wait a minute! Don"t go there!”

She was obviously acting strange. Let"s try opening the door, shall we? Last time I checked, it was just a room full of dust. Just what has changed since then?

The study that entered my vision hadn"t really changed. But that was only what was in front of me.

When I unintentionally dropped my line of sight to the floor, I saw the man sprawled across it. His body lying there and his mouth foaming, he looked exactly like I did right before I clicked ‘Load".

s.h.i.t.

So it wasn"t just me, but she had also killed her lover who refused to give her more money? Turns out there was already a reason for why I never saw him go back home even though I had my eyes on her entryway the whole time! Because he was dead!

As I was busy thinking this and that, before I even noticed, Sakurai had grabbed a kitchen knife and was on her way to pounce at me.

“DIEEEEEE!”

Though I had been startled stiff, even if she was a woman, the story is completely different if she"s with a lethal weapon like that. I mean, it"s not like I knew martial arts. I panicked and slammed the door, locking it from the inside of the study.

My mind was a mess. I"m currently in this messed up situation where I"m locked up inside a room with a dead man beside me. What to do… report her? It was then, I thought of an even better idea. Even if I do report her, it would still take time for them to dispatch their units.

Wasn"t this a situation why the ‘Sleep Spray" existed? Rather than using it to a.s.sault women, it was an ‘Item" prepared for the sake of self-defense.

Thinking that, I immediately entered the ‘Game Window", and then, a message appeared before me.

[Would you like to verify the photos?]

[Image file 1]
[Image file 2]

Now that I think about it, before I loaded back, I had only verified the first file before I got rid of the ‘Game Window" from view. I had saved after that, so it seems these haven"t been reset. But wait, shouldn"t the opening screen come up again since I had gotten rid of the ‘Game Window"?

That"s where I decided to click on the bottommost ‘Return" b.u.t.ton, resulting in the ‘Game Window" minimizing back to the corner. What? Taken aback, I opened the screen again.

And once more… 

[Would you like to verify the photos?]

[Image file 1]
[Image file 2]

… the same message appeared. Is this that? This thing would only leave once I"ve verified everything including the second image file too?

What a pain in the a.s.s. I don"t even need the photos anymore.

Having no choice, I clicked on [Image file 2], resulting in it appearing.

It was of the s.p.a.ce beside the table. I had clearly gotten both her and her lover in the first picture but only their hands in the second.

But what surprised me was the fact that I could even see into the refrigerator in the photo. What was in the fridge was some kind of person.

It can"t be, was this her husband?!

I thought that they were living apart, but to think he was killed.

I suddenly felt the surge of the whole puzzle coming together.

She was a money craving homicidal maniac!

Meanwhile, Sakurai kept banging the door repeatedly. I wonder if she had brought the keys since I could hear jingling noises. My heart became restless. Having already verified the images, the opening screen finally appeared.

Entering ‘Item", I clicked on ‘Item Shop", and purchased the ‘Sleep Spray".

[Would you like to use the Sleep Spray?]

As I stood there having opened the message, Sakurai wrenched open the door and entered. Gripping the kitchen knife tight, she came pouncing at me. The range of the ‘Sleep Spray" was 1 meter.

My palms were sweaty. Little by little, the distance between us shrunk. Thinking ‘Now"s the time!" when the distance reached that point, I immediately clicked on the message and stared at her. Like that, she fell asleep amidst her pounce and fell on top of the man"s corpse.

I don"t know about capturing or whatever, but Sakurai was a woman with whom it was impossible to coexist with. Trembling, I left the study. When I entered the kitchen, I found the medicine capsule that was left at the corner of the sink. Was she already prepared to poison that man back then? I inadvertently started laughing.

And then, I stood before the long awaited refrigerator. The eerie feeling of seeing this fridge that seemed too large for the room engraved itself into my heart. I had never even thought of looking in it by thinking there was a corpse inside.

Resolving myself about reporting her, I opened it, and out blew the chilly breeze. Just as the photo showed, the body lay there in exactly the same way. Unable to see this cruel scene anymore, I closed the door shut; and after reporting to the police using the nearby telephone, I returned back home.

It was quite the eventful day[1]. This wouldn"t be what a capture was, was it? Capture didn"t refer to s.e.x, but to uncover all the mysteries spread across this world?

Thinking, perhaps that might be it, I decided to open the ‘Game Window" and check the current ‘Status".

And when I did, a message immediately appeared.

[Hidden mystery ‘Money Crazed Married Woman" has been cleared.]

[Congratulations. A bonus of 5,000,000 Yen has been deposited.]

[EXP +35]

Translator: AngryMidget

TL Note: Ayyyy! Finally caught up to the previous translator! Can"t wait to do the rest! Ciao!

[1]スペクタルな1日だった。 : It was a ‘spectal" (supekutaru) day? The h.e.l.l is spectal? Or was it supposed to be ‘special" (supessharu)? Well, whatever.

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