.｡.:✧ Chapter 13 ✧:.｡.

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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After Erica’s lengthy lecture ended, the three of us headed to the dining hall together. Of course, it was only a lecture and reprimand from Erica’s perspective. Lizé had her face buried in the pillow and didn’t even pretend to listen.

Surprisingly, she didn’t say anything to me. Perhaps it was because Lizé had the upper hand in the situation, and I couldn’t have shaken her off with my own strength anyway.

It was a fairly accurate judgment.

Lizé seemed to regret having her moment interrupted, so she kept grumbling loudly at Erica the entire way to the dining hall, as if asking her to listen.

On the other hand, Erica growled at her, asking what kind of nonsense she was up to from the very first day a newcomer arrived. I was caught in between and couldn’t do anything.

Honestly, I didn’t particularly dislike the situation of a voluptuous beauty like Lizé straddling me and seducing me. I was also a physically healthy man with normal preferences, so how could I possibly dislike that?

However, I feared the butterfly effect that would occur afterwards.

‘I should refrain from needlessly altering the storyline as much as possible.’

If I carelessly messed with this and that from the beginning and ended up twisting the storyline, rendering my background knowledge useless, it would be a terrible experience. I’d rather endure the temptation a little and leave it at that.

Moreover, this was the first time I had experienced such a thing, so I wasn’t confident about how to react properly. There was no way a situation where an NPC would approach a player like this could occur in the game.

Brightest Darkness 4 wasn’t even an eroge, and if mods weren’t separately installed, the default player character was male, and the vast majority of NPCs were also male.

If there had been a male NPC making advances on a male player, the fans would have hung the developers by their necks before anything else.

Later on, a patch added the ability to choose the player’s gender on the character creation screen, but even if you chose female, the story didn’t particularly change.

The world of the Brightest Darkness series wasn’t really a world for romance either.

“Newbie!”

With a smack, a hand firmly grasped my back. It didn’t seem like they put much force into it, but it hurt like hell. Enduring the pain in my back, I turned around.

Lizé was looking at me with her signature mischievous smile.

“What now?”

“Be honest with me. You liked it too, right?”

“You’re dragging me into this too?”

“Hey, don’t be like that. Honestly, you liked it, didn’t you? There’s no way you didn’t like having a beauty like me straddle you. Yes, yes. How could that be possible? We were having such a good time, but that immoral Erica interrupted us. You didn’t like that, right? Right?”

As she spoke, Lizé grabbed my wrist, swinging it like a villain while lightly slapping Erica with it. I tried to break free from her grip, but it didn’t work at all.

“Sister, are you starting again? Stop bothering Mr. Newbie and just walk. And what’s with that vulgar talk about straddling him? Where did you pick up such obscene language?”

“Hey, I’m an adult, you know? What’s wrong with an adult saying naughty things?”

Her actions were at the level of a childish kid, not an adult. I muttered that inwardly, of course not saying it out loud.

“I’m telling you to choose the time and place! It’s one thing if it’s just between us, but do you have to act so undignified in front of the newbie?!”

“Erica, why are you always so uptight with him? It’s so unlike you. Try being like this with the other knight commanders. Wasn’t your nickname the Ice Princess because you use fire?”

“Nobody called me that except you, Sister! Who else would call someone by such a cringeworthy nickname?!”

‘Don’t these two ever get tired?’

Lizé and Erica’s argument lasted for a surprisingly long time.

Erica seemed like the type who greatly disliked pointless arguments, but she unexpectedly retorted against Lizé’s words without backing down an inch. They were indeed biological sisters.

Thanks to them, the way to the dining hall wasn’t boring.

Lizé was arguing with Erica, but at some point, she gradually clung to my side and even linked arms with me. My arm was deeply buried between two mounds of overwhelming softness and size.

I had to do my best not to react to the squishy sensation on my arm. Not only the sensation but also the outfit itself blatantly exposed her body, which made it even more challenging.

The people wearing such outfits themselves seemed to have no awareness that their attire was insanely revealing due to the change in common sense caused by the mods.

After that, Erica would give a lengthy speech, telling Lizé to maintain some decorum, and Lizé would cling to me even more as if to tease Erica. It was a repetition of that.

‘This is fucking intense, seriously.’

My mental strength was rapidly depleting in proportion to that.

Not only did I have to try hard not to be conscious of the sensation of breasts being blatantly pressed against my arm, but due to our posture, Lizé and Erica also inevitably ended up fighting near me.

On top of that, as the two of them bickered, Erica’s body would also rub against my back, which had a tremendous destructive power in its own right. Her breasts might be small, but they weren’t entirely nonexistent.

She was also a beautiful girl with a stunning figure.

“We’re here, Mr. Newbie. This is the dining hall,” Erica said.

The sibling fight, which seemed like it would never end, finally concluded with Erica backing down once we arrived in front of the dining hall door. Lizé had a triumphant expression for some reason.

As we approached the dining hall, Lizé also unlinked her arm. It seemed she had no intention of doing this in front of other people. Or maybe she just did it to tease me and Erica.

Lizé whispered in my ear with a smirk.

“If you’re disappointed, just tell me. I’ll do more for you as much as you want. Of course, you’ll have to pay the proper price.”

“I don’t need that.”

What was she trying to demand in return?

The dining hall door was enormous. It was wide enough for three people to easily stand side by side with my arms fully extended, and its height was twice my own.

It was a size that could be believed to be a castle gate rather than a dining hall door.

Erica grabbed and pulled the door with one hand without showing any signs of effort despite its tremendous size. With a heavy sound of clanking, the closed door slowly began to open.

The thickness of the cross-section was at least a hand’s width, no matter how conservatively estimated. I wasn’t confident I could open it even if I pulled or pushed with all my might.

Lizé was already opening the other side. Seeing her easily pushing open the door with those slender arms reminded me of her words about controlling her strength during the duel.

“What are you staring at so intently? Did you fall for me?”

“I was looking at the door’s thickness. It’s a dining hall, you say? Does the dining hall door need to be this thick?”

“Ah, this? This castle was originally used by that lord bastard. Maybe this place also served as a shelter in case of unforeseen circumstances. That’s why the door is so thick. It’s a meaningless feature for us, so you can ignore it.”

The answer was unexpectedly simple. I stared intently at Lizé. Receiving my gaze, Lizé tilted her head.

“Hmm… That’s quite surprising.”

“What is?”

“I thought you would answer that you didn’t know about such things.”

“Look at this guy?”

With a smirking smile, my cheeks were grabbed. Just before they were stretched left and right, a voice intervened from right next to us.

“Stop messing around and let’s go in, Sister. And what’s wrong with Mr. Newbie seeing it correctly?”

“You’re taking the side of the newbie you’ve only known for 2 hours over your sister whom you’ve known for over 20 years? I’m so sad. You’re just crazy about menㅡ”

“If you say one more word, I’ll shove your head into the furnace first. Shut that mouth of yours.”

As soon as we entered the dining hall, following Lizé who was getting on Erica’s nerves, the first thing that caught my eye was a long rectangular table.

There was only one chair placed in the vertical direction, and in the horizontal direction, there were enough chairs to easily seat over twenty people at a glance. With just that one table, it seemed like it could accommodate over 50 people.

With four tables of that size, naturally, the dining hall was also incredibly spacious. Exaggerating a bit, it looked like it wouldn’t be out of place to use this as a training ground instead of the outside.

“You’re here.”

Iris, who was having a meal alone at one of those tables, greeted us.

“What, you started eating first?”

“I waited for 10 minutes.”

“Ah, right. We were a bit late.”

“I’m sure Erica wouldn’t have neglected her duties… It seems Lizé was up to something again.”

“You’re exactly right, Iris. It was Sister causing trouble again.”

Iris made an accurate deduction just from the fact that we were a little late.

Lizé blurted out that it was too much, but she seemed to have enough conscience not to deny the statement itself.

Leaving the three of them to start their conversation, I took a careful look around the dining hall.

“…?”

In this spacious dining hall, the only people were the four of us.

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