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Vol 05 Chapter 177-2: Kurosaki Mari I

「Hey, Airi Onee-chan, what kind of person do you want to marry?」

Mea suddenly asked Airi Onee-chan a strange question. Airi Onee-chan tilted her head.

「Why do you ask?」

「I get confessed to by boys about three times a month… but I don’t understand romance…」

I get that feeling. I also receive love letters and confession emails multiple times a month.

But I don’t really understand romance, so I turn them all down.

「Ha ha ha, both Mari and Mea are as popular as me. I also get asked out about ten times a month since I started university, but I turned them all down.」

「Why?」

「Are you not interested in romance either, Onee-chan?」

Airi Onee-chan answered our questions.

「I’m only interested in hero-like men. I want someone who leads soldiers to victory and instantly gains public support with his speeches. Outwardly, he might appear virtuous, but inside he is full of vanity and ambition… I want such a person. I want to be that kind of man’s woman…」

The look in Airi Onee-chan’s eyes as she spoke was completely dreamy.

Hmm, she’ll never get married at this rate.

「Where are you going to find such a person?」

「But if you look through history, there have been people like that. Sigh… I thought I’d meet someone interesting at Japan’s top university, but… Japan is too peaceful. There’s no ground for such people to emerge. I wish I had been born in a time or place where such people existed, whether in the past or another world.」

What is she talking about? Is she crazy?

「Airi Onee-chan, if you keep saying things like that, you’ll stay a virgin forever.」

「You’re right… Well, worst case, I’ll raise the perfect man myself.」

I looked Airi Onee-chan straight in the eyes. Her eyes were beautiful and clear.

Oh no, she’s serious. I’ve got to do something about this.

「What about you, Mea?」

「Me? Hmm, I don’t really have a specific type… Maybe I’ll try dating to see how it goes?」

Mea started to ponder. Seeing Airi Onee-chan’s pursuit of a too-far-fetched ideal, she probably thought she didn’t want to become someone unable to compromise.

「And you, Mari?」

「I… I’m not sure?」

But… I’d prefer not to have premarital relations… maybe? I want to lose my virginity as romantically as possible… I mean…

「Aha, Mari Onee-chan’s face is turning red. You were thinking about something naughty, weren’t you? Haha, closet pervert!」

Ugh, shut up!!

After arguing with Mea for a while, I glanced over and saw Airi Onee-chan with her arms crossed, eyes closed. Mea and I exchanged looks.

「It looks like Airi Onee-chan is ‘reading’ again.」

「Seriously, how is her brain structured? She’s more of a cheat than the protagonists of lame manga or novels.」

We shrugged. Apparently, Airi Onee-chan can remember everything she sees like a photograph…

After a while, the train started to slow down. We were nearing our destination.

When the train stopped, Airi Onee-chan opened her eyes and stood up.

「Oh, the train has stopped. Let’s go, you two.」

Airi Onee-chan grabbed my right hand. I took Mea’s hand with my left.

Mea, me, and Airi Onee-chan formed a line. As the three of us got off the train and headed towards the ticket gate…

It happened.

The world twisted.

The world warped and wavered, undulating strangely.

I feel nauseous…

「W-what’s happening? Onee-chan, I’m scared…」

Mea’s voice trembled, almost in tears.

I don’t understand either. But I have a terrible feeling about this…

「Don’t let go of my hand.」

Airi Onee-chan’s voice was unusually tense as she gripped my hand tightly. I squeezed Mea’s hand firmly in return.

Before I knew it, my vision went dark. The people who had been around us were gone.

W-where is this… Ugh, everything’s spinning… I’m going to lose my mind…

―Another guest?―

―Who called this time? Was it you again?―

―Not me, must be you, right?―

―No way, if it wasn’t you…―

―Hey, stop treating me like the mastermind every time, it’s not me―

Voices like those of children echoed in my head. Something bad was happening.

But!

「If the three of us are together, we can face anything!」

The moment I shouted… My arms felt hot.

「…Huh?」

My hands were gone from the wrists down. The world spun, pain arriving late.

「It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!!!」

When I came to, I was in a forest. I looked up at the sky.

There, a gigantic full moon, far larger than the one I knew, shone brightly.

Where is this…?

―Welcome, uninvited guest. I don’t know what happened, but let me fix that injury for you―

A child’s voice echoed. When I looked down, my wrists were back to normal.

I somehow managed to stand up. The pain was gone, but the shock of having lost my wrists lingered.

「Where am I… Airi Onee-chan!! Mea!!!」

My shout was swallowed by the dark night.

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―However, it really puzzles me that your arms were severed. Normally, when you travel between worlds, everything attached to your body comes with you―

「Are we back to that topic again?」

Mari grumbled into the void. She was in a bad mood because of the nightmare she had.

Yes, the dream of the moment when her happiness was shattered into despair right after the transfer…

「I’ve heard that story a million times. You still don’t know where Airi Onee-chan is, or where Mea is.」

―That’s true. But I can deduce they were transferred to a different timeline than you from the fluctuations in space-time, I can also roughly predict how much the timelines differ. They were probably transferred to a timeline different from yours by several hundred to a thousand years. It’s fortunate it’s not millions or billions of years; you can still find them if you appeared in this world only several hundred years apart.―

「That doesn’t help at all.」

Mari sighed. This fairy was useless when it really mattered.

―But really, it’s a mystery. According to both the conservative faction and the pleasure faction, this was an unintended transfer. We are usually the final push for the transfer to happen, but this time we did nothing. Plus, the severed wrist…―

―Maybe an entity from another dimension, one beyond our observation, interfered―

「If you can’t interfere, then it’s definitely beyond me.」

―No, no, if you are able to use Arcana, it’s a different story―

The fairy laughed cheerfully.

「…That’s why I’m heading to the southern continent now. We set sail tomorrow. Are you ready?」

―Absolutely, ready and waiting!―

AN: Airi-san is a pervert who wants to be utterly dominated and sexually devoured by someone like Caesar or Napoleon, she has a twisted fetish (rape fantasy).

In other words, Airi-san’s decision to attend a prestigious university was driven by her desire to be thoroughly dominated by an ‘interesting person’ like that. Considering that figures like Caesar and Napoleon are the types of individuals you’d prefer not to have around in peaceful times, it’s actually fortunate they don’t exist in our world.

Despite being a woman with a brain driven by her lower half, Airi-san is incredibly smart, ranking among the top five in both ancient and modern times in the story. However, given her inclinations, her aptitude for politics is questionable. Almus would likely be a far superior politician. Her true calling might be as a teacher or a lawyer. Regardless, her intelligence and quick adaptability mean she would likely thrive if she ended up in a civilized society after the teleportation.

Mea-chi, with her chūnibyō tendencies, is surprisingly well-suited for a different world. As for Marilyn… she used to be an ordinary high school girl, so her adjustment would be more challenging. But she seems to be doing well now.

Given that they’re Airi-san’s sisters, Marilyn and Mea-chi are also quite intelligent. They were known locally as talented and beautiful sisters. For those curious, the three sisters’ largest bra sizes are Airi-san, Marilyn, and Mea in the order of C, B, and D. Additionally, their parents are divorced. Their maiden name was Kurosu. The reason for their excellence lies in their father’s (Mr. Kurosu) superior genes. Marilyn prefers her mother’s side, hence she uses the surname Kurosaki, but it’s unclear which surname Airi-san and Mea-chi prefer.

So, will the three sisters be able to reunite? (Playing dumb)

Marilyn’s past is gruesome, gory, and utterly unpleasant, not to mention long, so we’ll save that for a future chapter. After all, no one enjoys long, drawn-out backstories for antagonists.

With that said, the next chapter is Chapter 6. The title is undecided, but it will likely be something along the lines of ‘Nation Building and Something Something.’ There are expected to be around eleven chapters in total, so we’re at the halfway point. Thank you for sticking with the story this far, and I hope you’ll stay until the end.