SWNOVELXO Chapter 17 - Guardian of Jinta's Legacy
“Nice to meet you, Mom, and little sister! I’m Charlotte Stanley! Um, I’m French, and… I’m Jinta’s classmate! I’m a bit shy, but please be kind to me!”
“……….”
“……….”
Charlotte, who had been shown into the living room, bowed her head with a slightly nervous expression.
No matter how many times you looked, she seemed like she had just jumped out of an anime.
And when they saw her like that, the mother and sister were clearly flustered.
“Uh, um… B-Bonjour!
“What is this, some kind of prank…? Is a celebrity in disguise?”
Sakura, the mother, smiled nervously, clasping her hands together.
Ami, the sister, was busy shaking her neatly arranged short hair and searching for a camera.
“So, is it okay if we let Charlotte stay with us?”
“Of course! I’ve even made dinner, so please join us!”
“What’s this about? I’ll give you a cardboard box, so you can sleep in the park tonight.
You have no heart, do you?”
Ami hugged Charlotte tightly and glared at me.
Weren’t you the one trying to kick her out? Your flip-flopping is giving me whiplash.
“Charlotte-chan, you don’t have to listen to the words of this sadistic introvert.”
“No, rather than sadistic, Jinta is more like an M—”
“Mom! I’m hungry! Let’s eat already!”
I interrupted Charlotte when it seemed like she was about to say something outrageous.
My body is covered in bruises, so I don’t want her to get the wrong idea about my preferences.
“Yes, yes, I’ll prepare it right away. Charlotte-chan, please wait too.”
Sakura started preparing dinner in the kitchen.
“Charlotte-chan, your face is so small! Your skin is so fair; it’s too cute!”
“T-Thank you… Ami-san is cute too, you know?”
“Kyaa! I love you!”
Ami hugged Charlotte and rubbed her cheek against hers. Charlotte was maintaining a polite facade around my family.
She must be doing it to blend in. She’s surprisingly skilled at this.
“How did you get to know Jinta, Charlotte-chan?”
Don’t phrase it like it’s some kind of accident. Plus, you’re younger, you know?
“Um, well…”
Charlotte, who seemed like she hadn’t thought about it at all, looked at me with a troubled expression.
“…It’s because of a game. You know, the game I occasionally play, ‘Battle Royale’?”
It was a full-dive game that Fushimi remembered.
Where players put on a headset and their senses are fully linked to the game, and they can fight real-life opponents as mercenaries in the game.
Since this is a game where players are matched up and fight against each other, it’s not unnatural for me to have met Charlotte through the game.
“Oh, that shooting game, right? Jinta, I thought you quit because you were so bad at it.”
“I actually played it a bit recently. And that’s when I teamed up with Charlotte.”
“Yeah, that’s right! Jinta saved my life then!”
Charlotte also chimed in.
“The part about saving my life wasn’t a lie.”
Hearing that, Ami sighed heavily.
“Hmm, so were you disappointed? After all, he’s such an unremarkable introvert.”
“N-No, not at all. Jinta is reliable.”
“Pfft, hahaha! You’re reliable! Jinta, do your best!”
Ami patted my shoulder vigorously and laughed down at me.
Of course, it was a mocking laugh, suggesting that someone as weak and bullied as me couldn’t possibly be reliable.
(Dammit, this…)
One problem that arose from me becoming Jinta is that I have memories of Ami that shouldn’t exist in my head.
“That’s why the mission to ‘become the best brother’ is etched in my heart—a terrifying Siscon grudge.”
There’s no other way.
Ami is Jinta’s legacy.
If something happens to her, I’ll do my best to protect her.
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