I’ve Been Reincarnated as a Scumbag, Prickly Best Friend Who Collects Hate in a Gal Game. And the Main Character Is Too Incompetent To Be Useful… - Volume 2

After I arrived home, I headed out to join Emi and walk to the playground together.

I’ve been talking and playing with Emi a lot these days. It made me wonder if people around us might be thinking that we are dating.

……guess not huh, we are still in elementary school after all.

Besides, Emi seems to be aiming for Takeru too.

“So, what are we going to do at the playground? Playing the slide?”

“That’s right! Hideyori-kun!”

“Eh?”

“The slide!”

“Eh?”

Is there something wrong with the slide?

“Huh…..!?”

No way, is Emi going to get mad at me for how I looked up her skirt that day!?

She might have actually noticed but she forgot to get angry at me back then right.

Let’s admit it like a man here.

“That was unavoidable you know…..it really was a coincidence I swear……you don’t have to get angry.”

“You’re too mean! Hmph! You normally sit and slide down right! I ran down the whole thing back then!”

“Y, Yeah…..”

The day I met Emi, I certainly remember how she just ran down the slide.

So that’s what she’s mad about huh. Well, that’s a hundred times better than her noticing that I looked up her skirt.

“Back then Hideyori-kun also ran down the slide but you actually knew how to play it right!?”

“I, I knew but……since you ran down it so confidently so I was trying to protect Emi’s pride……..”

“That’s too much consideration!”

I think Emi has recently grown to be able to honestly speak her mind.

I feel like the innocent girl who would happily shout [FU~~N] at each and everything has disappeared.

Just whose influence it is that makes her this way I wonder…….?

“Yes, yes, can you two quit the lover quarrel now?”

“Ah?”

When I was being scolded by Emi, an unexpected person showed up.

“Takeru’s little sister…..?”

It seems Risa has some kind of business with me and Emi huh.

“Un! It was actually Juumonji-san who called us here you know.”

“Calling me Juumonji-san would make you confuse me with Nii-san right, you can call me Risa. Please stop with the Takeru’s little sister too.”

Have Emi and Risa always been this close?

Have they been meeting in private all this time? There’s just too much I don’t know.

Noticing my puzzlement, Risa hurriedly explained.

“I was talking with Sasaki-san today–.”

“Call me by my name too!”

“Okay, I was talking with Emi-san about Niisan today.”

Risa is consulting us about her brother, Takeru.

In summary, [I just love my brother too much. Isn’t it strange to feel this way toward my own brother? If I can love someone normal then wouldn’t that be better? If I can then I want you to teach me how I can come to love someone else].

That’s the gist of it.

“I see……”

If Takeru reaches the Risa route, the two of us here will meet our ruins.

It’s not like there’s a guarantee that the future me wouldn’t use [Dominating Decree] on others after all…….

“Since you are a lot closer to Juumonji-kun than I am, I thought that Hideyori-kun would be able to give Risa-chan some advice.”

“You didn’t think anything and just want to include me right?”

Emi turns her eyes away.

Bullseye huh…..

“Hmm……”

While I ponder what to tell her, I also realize that this is my first love talk since I was reincarnated.

“I think putting a lid on your feelings is way harder you know.”

To be honest, since we are still in elementary school, I don’t think that I should think so hard about it.

That’s why I will just give her some advice based on my own experience.

“I’m sure you have worries like what would you do If he hates you or that he might have hated you already or what would happen if you lose the relationship you have with him now. But I’m sure that you will regret it forever if you don’t do anything.”

When I died, I have nothing but regrets…….

“So, it’s fine if you don’t forcibly hold back your feelings for Takeru right? You might even find a boy you like someday after all?”

In the first game, Risa came off as a brocon but I think she changed in the second game (Though that might be because she was demoted from the heroine status, and her scenes were reduced by devs…….)

“Just, don’t leave things undone…….I couldn’t tell her how much I like her after all……. Life really is messed up don’t you think.”

No one would expect to be reborn as a scumbag best friend character like this right……

“Eh? ……Hi, Hideyori-kun, you have someone you like…..?”

“……”

I talked too much about my past life…….

Emi looks a little sad now.

“No……well, I saw something like that from a game I played.”

“THAT WAS FROM A GAME!?”

Risa gave me a strong retort.

It would be weird for someone who isn’t even 10 years old yet to have that kind of experience after all.

“There’s no need to put a lid on my feelings huh. I think that’s nice. Thank you.”

“Yeah.”

“I’ve come to like you some more now you know.”

“Eh? I have a chance?”

Seriously!?

She said some more but it’s a heroine saying that she likes me you know!

I’m so happy!

“Ri, Risa-chan!?”

“Hahaha, your reaction is so cute Emi-san. Well, Akechi-san is still next to Nii-san though.”

As I thought, I still stand no chance against the real Galge protagonist huh.

“Don’t hold back our feelings he said, Emi-san.”

“Muuh…..”

Emi puffed her cheeks up as Risa started teasing her.

Girls sure do get along very quickly huh.

“Gyuu!”

Suddenly, I was hugged by Emi.

“Haha, hahaha!”

Seeing her like that, Risa started laughing.

“Emi, what are you doing……?”

“I’m not holding back my feeling!”

“Ha…….?”

I don’t really get it but I just let her do whatever she wants.

After giving out my advice, the memory of my own trouble with love came back to me a little too