Whether it was about alcohol tolerance or not, Shin felt a little tipsy, but not more than a certain degree of loss of awareness. He wasn’t slurring and didn’t stagger around either. When he thought about the alcohol percentage, he himself would certainly be down for the night if this was in the real world, and it was a good thing that it became difficult to expose shameful behavior with alcohol. There was no need to be troubled by some strong alcohol, even though he normally should be.
“Though I’ve had this body for one year, what’s happened to my real body… Well, now might not be the time to think about it.”
While Schnee took Tiera to her room, Shin tidied up the tableware. Shin suddenly thought of these kind of things while wiping the table. He didn’t know whether it was possible to return either, so it was no use even if he thought about it.
After the tidying-up was finished, Schnee returned.
“That was quick.”
“Because I’m used to doing this.”
Since he lived alone in the real world, he had to do the dishes on his own. Certainly he didn’t do it during the game, but he remembered how to unexpectedly.
“Yuzuha is sleepy…”
Yuzuha was falling into a doze on top of the desk.
“That’s right. We too, should go to sleep soon.”
“Let’s do so. Since Shin’s room was left as it is, it can be used immediately.”
“I appreciate it.”
After leaving the living room, Shin headed toward his own room while carrying Yuzuha. It was the room for Shin and the other support characters in Tsuki no Hokora, though there was also an extra room for more guests and customers to use. Even though a guest or customer room and the like was not needed, it was the result of the obsession from Cain and Shin; which could be said to have made useless additions in that construct, the Tsuki no Hokora. The place was thoroughly discussed about and they fussed over such pointless things; as it was the expected outcome when Japanese people get excited.
“It really hasn’t changed.”
He entered his own room and looked around inside. The inside area of the room was approximately 16 tatami mats big, with a bed and a desk. There were multiple shelves where trophies and items obtained from various events were displayed. Not many things were there. It was a plain room. The room might have been cleaned regularly, as dust hadn’t accumulated.
Moonlight entered naturally from the window, but the light that night was terribly weak. He proceed to change his clothes without turning on the light, because he had the skill 【Night Vision】. Because there were no such things like pajamas in this world, he chose equipment with a jersey-like material.
Yuzuha had jumped onto the bed the moment they entered the room and it was already curled up next to the pillows.
“Somehow here is the best place to let myself relax.”
Was it because he had lived here since the game time? He could relax his mind and didn’t have to set up barriers because it was already fully equipped with a very powerful security system. He didn’t have to consider the possibility of a guy attacking him while he was sleeping, quite unlike the time during the death game; so he was able to genuinely relax for the first time since he came into this world again.
Of course, when there was an assailant, he would deal a serious blow, for it was deserved.
“Yuzuha…did you fall asleep? That won’t do, I should sleep too.”
As the alcohol set in, he lay down on the bed with a good feeling enveloping him.
When he closed his eyes and gradually felt his consciousness getting blurry, something soft suddenly clung around his right arm. Normally, he would jump up to his feet and shake it off in that situation. However, Shin’s body’s awareness told him that he didn’t feel any danger at all.
“?”
Was it embracing him rather than twining around? There were only two people in the Tsuki no Hokora who could do such a thing, and one person was already down for the count.
There was no reaction from the continuous activated skill for an anti surprise attack. Shin’s own intuition didn’t signal it as an enemy either.
Because it somehow had no particular movement, he turned his neck and looked at his right arm.
Beside him lay the figure of Schnee, who was already asleep, clinging to Shin’s arm. His right arm was wedged in between Schnee’s breasts. The identity of the softness he first felt was this.
(Seriously…is such a development even possible?)
With a different meaning from the time in front of the dishes, a gulping sound resounded in the room.
Even Shin was a man. He didn’t know about NPCs, but the Schnee in this world was undoubtedly the real deal. As a matter of course, there was no way he didn’t feel anything.
And frankly speaking, Schnee was created by combining Shin’s preferences. If he had picked her up, taken her into the room, and laid her on the bed, then he could lie down next to her with a gentleman’s behaviour. However, Schnee’s body-temperature was transmitted to his right arm, which was currently embraced closely, and the softness of her breasts put a hold on his reasoning power. His left hand stretched toward Schnee unconsciously, even though he was aware of it.
(This is…bad.)
He didn’t mean to do it, but due to the influence of the alcohol, by any means, he couldn’t take his eyes off of the defenseless sleeping face.
He understood it. Yes, he understood this was not good.
He desperately tried to cool down his head that was overheating, but his reasoning didn’t act like he expected.
He was entranced by her.
Her extremely defenseless face, innocent, and seemingly sad somewhere.
It was just by a little, but he wanted to leave his arm there a bit longer before excusing himself from Schnee.
It was at that moment. When the moon that was obscured by the clouds finally appeared.
The moonlight that was obstructed until now shone inside the room gracefully. It reached the edge of the bed, the place where Schnee just lay down.
“…!?”
When illuminated by the moonlight, Schnee’s body faintly shone. The silvery hair, which was spread on top of the bed, reflected the moonlight and emitted a mysterious shine. And then, a stream of bright sparkles from her closed eyes slammed into Shin’s eyes.
“Schnee…”
The flowing sparkles were tears that she shed.
It was flowing from the closed eyes in a straight line and dampened Shin’s clothes.
“…………”