I Got Reincarnated as a Minor Character and I Won’t Give Up on TS – Chapter 545: The Most Magnificent Magician in This World 1-10
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Kei had laid the groundwork perfectly for this day.
She had prepared distractions tailored to the tastes of everyone who might come to her place and had a spare key.
For Nameless, Toa, and the others, it was simple: she’d handed over info on a new all-you-can-eat place and even opening coupons.
That way, she had planned everything perfectly so that this dead-drunk sweet-little-sister time wouldn’t be interrupted.
But, sadly, it seemed her predictive ability and caution had been lost over the past few years.
“Ah, n-no... (despair)”
“All three of you, what exactly is this situation...?”
Who would have guessed that this was the Sorciera who had once shaken society and even saved the world?
With her midriff showing and not even caring, Kei lay in a slovenly heap with her head on Miroku’s lap.
Anyone who saw her would probably faint.
“Th-this isn’t what it looks like.”
“What isn’t? ...Wait, actually, are you drunk?”
“I’m not drunk!”
Kei sat up and stared at Toa, denying it.
But her face was flushed, and after a few seconds of staring, Kei’s body went limp and she sank right back onto Miroku’s lap.
“Ugh... Miroku-senpai, I’m done for... It’s all over...”
“Oh my, for now please call me Miroku-onee-chan.”
“Ugh... Miroku-onee-chan...”
“Seriously, what is this situation...”
Toa was less shocked than completely put off.
She never imagined that the girl she’d thought was the most serious of anyone their age would be having a drunk sweet-little-sister time with her childhood friend.
“...It’s a good thing it was just me. If the other me had been here, Kei-chan probably would have lost all sorts of things today.”
“I’m scared, Miroku-onee-chan, Mizuhi-onee-chan.”
“I’ll protect you, okay? Rules, rules.”
“You’re not so weak you need protecting. Fight.”
“Ugh, protect me.”
“Mm.”
This time, Kei pressed toward Mizuhi, who had pushed her away.
With teary eyes, Kei crawled over on all fours and then lay down right onto Mizuhi’s lap.
“Nn...”
“I see. So this is what Kei’s like when she drinks.”
“She’s such a sweet little cuddler, isn’t she...”
“She’s absolutely going to be writhing in embarrassment tomorrow. Actually, you forced her to drink, didn’t you! Jeez, Kei-chan doesn’t drink!”
“That’s not true. She said she wanted to try it herself. Right?”
“Nn...”
“Which one was that?”
Kei turned away from Toa as if rolling over.
She seemed to want to escape reality by keeping Toa out of her sight.
“...Kei-chan was apparently scared of getting drunk. So she wanted to try it somewhere with older people first, don’t you think?”
“Jeez.”
When she was with people her own age, Kei always paid attention to everyone and made sure they all had fun.
Maybe that was exactly why she’d wanted to cut loose. Thinking about it, Toa felt a little lonely.
“At times like that, she could at least rely on us.”
“Toa-chan aside, I heard Nameless-chan caused a super huge blunder at a drinking party? And Miyume-chan drank all the alcohol in the store. Maybe seeing that made her afraid of alcohol?”
“At least talk to me about it! I’m the only one who’s fine, you know!?”
Toa, who considered herself the most decent one, pointed at herself.
Then Kei immediately spoke up.
“Toa-chan is also scary when she drinks... Sometimes, don’t you look at me with the same eyes you use for food?”
“I don’t!?”
“B-but before, when we had a party in Miyume-chan’s room, you went for my ear— "
"Kei-chan!"
" ...Huh?”
Toa sat up straight on the spot and patted her own thighs.
A smile was plastered on her face.
“Today I’m going to be your onee-chan too, so come here.”
“Eh? Eh?”
“See, it’s Toa-onee-chan, okay? You don’t have to be shy with your onee-chan, right?”
“????”
Confused, but with her brain pickled by alcohol, Kei approached with an incomprehensible acceptance, saying, “Well, if it’s onee-chan...”
And at last, unable to resist the allure of Toa’s thighs, Kei simply laid her head down on them.
“See, it’s Toa-onee-chan’s lap pillow~”
“Toa-onee-chan...”
(Ah! This is definitely maybe cute. But... I’ve got one foot in scary territory here. Way too cute.)
To put it simply, she was too cute.
Her flushed face and teary eyes created a gap unthinkable from the usual Kei.
If Nameless were here, it would be far too terrifying.
“Mizuhi-chan, is this really normal alcohol? She doesn’t seem sane with how drunk she is.”
“Yeah, it’s normal. I just had her drink it on the rocks.”
Mizuhi held up the bottle.
Toa froze in shock at the sight.
“Th-that... wasn’t that the one that costs 800,000 a bottle?”
“Is it? Ryuuko gave it to me, so I don’t know.”
“Also, that’s way too high in alcohol for a first-timer. Wait, on the rocks? Was this a plan to socially kill Kei-chan?”
“It was not.”
Unlike Kei, Miroku and Mizuhi looked perfectly calm.
The only one making a spectacle in this room was Kei, mumbling something on the lap pillow.
(Th-this is going to hurt Kei-chan’s dignity if it goes on! If she keeps calling me onee-chan and clinging to me like this, once she comes to her senses Kei-chan will die!)
Miroku and Mizuhi watched as if it were something heartwarming and made no move to stop it.
They probably didn’t grasp how serious this was.
“Now that Toa-chan is here, shall we make a few more snacks?”
“Then I’ll help too.”
Miroku and Mizuhi leisurely headed to the kitchen.
Toa was left with Kei’s head on her lap.
“...Th-this is... I have to do something about this fast.”
“Toa-onee-chan... ehehe... pat my head.”
“Don’t kill yourself any more than this!”
Toa desperately racked her brain.
And at last she found a solution.
“That’s it, I’ll use this...!”
It was something Miyume had given her just recently.
Apparently, in exchange for a truly horrible nightmare the next night, it would sober someone up in an instant.
She’d kept it in case Nameless went berserk, but Toa reluctantly played this trump card here.
“If I slap this Sober-Up Sheet 【Calamity】 on you—”
“Nkyu!?”
With a loud smack, something small and purple, shaped like a rectangle, was stuck to her forehead.
Giving off a faint, eerie light, it stole the drunkenness from Kei’s body and, in its place, booked a nightmare.
And five minutes later.
“...Ah. (despair)”
“Morning, Kei-chan.”
“T-Toa-chan...”
“What?”
“Kill me.”
“No way.”
Kei squeezed her eyes shut, her face bright red.
The back of her head still clearly felt the touch of Toa’s thighs.
“Wh-what have I done—?”
A terrifying embarrassment denied this reality itself.
And so one dream came to an end, and one girl was saved.
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“(A smile like flowers blooming across her face)”
“Th-this is what saved her? All I got was being shown Kei-chan’s humiliation play, though?”
“Don’t ever say that in front of her, okay? We’re pretending we didn’t see anything, got it?”
“Ah, yeah.”
After the big screening of Kei’s humiliation play in front of the wall ended, one of them looked satisfied, and the other two looked awkward.
This was a different kind of awkwardness from that with Miroku or Lusciera.
“It was an adorable dream, wasn’t it? Yes, truly. I want you to call me onee-chan too.”
“I’ll absolutely stop that.”
“We’re going to say we didn’t see anything, so please!”
“(A beautiful smile that said neither YES nor NO)”
“You’re absolutely going to say it!”
“Now, I wonder. You see, I have the Insignia trait, so I can only speak honestly.”
“That’s a lie, isn’t it!?”
“Oh my, have you learned to see through me already?”
Conductor smiled brightly, walked over to Kei, and gently stroked her hair.
(Still... in my scenario, she was supposed to be found by Toa-san mid-stream, broadcast live to the whole world, and then wake up to a worldwide humiliation play...)
There was a clear moment when something seized the initiative in the harmony.
It was an instantaneous, invisible battle that only the Conductor could perceive.
But in the end, it closed with the Conductor’s victory.
(This is the first time I’ve contested control that much in the world of consciousness. It’s not as if this child’s awareness was being picky about the content of the humiliation play... So does that mean the angels have finally strengthened their resistance?)
Conductor calmly considered.
The opponent was an angel, so she couldn’t afford to be careless.
And above all.
(I need to figure out how much we can all play together.)
If possible, she wanted this fever time to continue until Rakka awakened.
With a clear heart, she wished for that.
『Heh heh, I ain’t lettin’ you do whatever you want in my dream! Conductor, this content battle is my win!』
『Will of Heaven, you got greedy, didn’t you. To think you’d want a lap pillow from everyone.』
『As I thought, that Toa is the best. So thick, so good. I have to give this full marks.』
『Ah, could this be the start of the limited-time event 【Dear You in the Far Future】!?』
『Get serious, Temuko.』
『Huh?』
-Thank you DCRangeRange, Dean Dexter and Cannedbread
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