“How’s ‘Fortune Lover’ going? Did you beat it?”
During a break, my otaku friend A-chan asked me that with a smirk on her face.
“I was able to capture the self-important prince, but I still haven’t captured the evil sadistic prince…… The villainess rival’s quite amazing at getting in the way……”
As I sighed and said so, A-chan’s smirk became even larger.
“Hehe, I’ve already cleared all of it.”
“Ehh, you’ve already cleared it all!?”
“Mmm, not only the four capture targets, I’ve also cleared all the hidden ones too.”
As she said so, I looked at my otaku friend who was dauntlessly smiling with admiring eyes.
“As expected of A-chan~, so fast~. I guess there are hidden capture targets after all.”
“Yep, after you clear all four capture targets you’ll be able to go on their routes. By the way, do you want to know which characters they are?”
“Wait a minute, stop~~ spoilers are prohibited~~”
I said so and covered my ears, as A-chan’s smile was looking rather sinister.
“The hidden characters are~”
“No~ I don’t want to listen~~”
“Katarina-sama, it’s morning. Please wake up.”
“Mmm~, nooo, I don’t want to listen~”
“Katarina-sama, stop being half-asleep, and if you don’t get up soon, you’ll be late for classes.”
“……Mmm.”
When I finally opened my eyes, I saw my maid Anne standing there next to me.
“……Anne, morning.”
“Yes, good morning. Since you’re awake now, please prepare quickly.”
Anne was already briskly moving about, while my head still wasn’t working quite yet and I just stared blankly…… I tried to remember the dream I was having just up until now……
“Somehow…… I feel like that was a rather important dream……”
“……Dream?”
Anne replied to my muttering.
“Yeah, the dream I was having just up until now…… For some reason, I feel like it was a really important dream, but…… After waking up, I’ve forgotten it all~.”
“……Is that so…… You did seem to be saying something in your sleep…… But it didn’t sound like anything important……”
“Eh? Was that the case?”
Is that it, was it just my imagination? What kind of dream it was, I can’t remember at all…… Since Anne is saying so, that must be it.
Thinking that it was an important dream was probably just my imagination. And so I reached a conclusion, and began preparing to go to school.
It’s already been more than half a year since I’ve enrolled in school, and it’s just about to turn from fall to winter.
I’m already getting along really well with the game’s heroine Maria. Also, I’ve been able to become friends with students outside the student council as well. The field is going well, and I’m getting really good at throwing the toy snake.
I’m completely prepared for all oncoming destruction flags.
However, the only part I’m troubled about is, that I’m completely clueless about how love between the all-important Maria and the capture targets is progressing.
No matter how many times I asked Maria if she has anyone that she really likes, she would always reply with “I look up to and admire Katarina-sama” and dodge the issue. What’s more, Maria seems to have no self-awareness at all about how popular she is.
“I’m sure that all the boys in the student council are head over heels in love with you after being charmed by you, Maria” is what I enlightened her with.
“That’s definitely impossible. Everyone already has someone else that they’re head over heels in love with.”
Maria had a very surprised look on her face as she said that.
As for these capture targets, other than the heroine Maria who’s simply so charming, they shouldn’t have anyone else that they’d be head over heels in love with……
I think Maria really needs to pull herself together, it seems that her traits as an otome game heroine “denseness” and “misinterpretation” are activating……
Just recently, Maria and Keith also explored this topic together, and Keith had said “the person I’m always thinking about is incredibly dense” and he sighed as I accidentally overheard the conversation, I think that Maria’s denseness must really be quite something.
The capture targets probably have quite a lot of hard work ahead of them, eh……
And so, even though I didn’t know how everyone’s love was progressing, everything else was going really well, and I was having a calm and peaceful school life. It suddenly ended.
The game’s finally started its movements, eh……
During lunch break on a day that was quite cold, I was heading to the cafeteria with several of my classmates.
Usually, I would be together with my friends and stepbrother in the student council, but on that day, everyone else said that they had something else to do and would be there later.
Now that I think back on it, something around me seemed to be different that day. While the student council members are quite busy, and would sometimes have to work during lunch break, but…… Even so, for all of them to be missing, it’s never happened before.
However, at that time I didn’t suspect a thing at all, and my head was filled with thinking abo