"Hei!!! Don't you dare touch my brother! You homewrecker! He's Mine!"
"Eee~ but your brother isn't stopping me, do you Kai~"
Risa got more pouty as she tugged Kai to her side more, while that young woman, Reva, with her wide teasing grins also tugged Kai on her side. Yeah, she sure enjoyed seeing Kai's little sister's reaction, as she kept giggling.
Meanwhile Kai, who was in the middle and kept getting pulled, could only think about why this was happening.
Dear my Ladies... Could you please let me enjoy my weekends.
Well, it all happened probably about 10 minutes ago.
Kai stopped after he and Risa came out of the bookstore. Looking for the source of the voice calling him, Kai saw a familiar figure, who of course was very coincidentally the type of woman he liked.
Reva, the older woman who worked at the school cafeteria, appeared before him wearing a dark green turtleneck sweater with a black high-waisted skirt. Simple and covered clothing, without any excessive accessories, but that actually made Reva's appearance truly elegant and very charming.
Reva smiled and walked closer to Kai. Her eyes widened slightly before turning into a teasing glint; she put her palm over her mouth. "Hee... someone's on a date, huh~"
"She's my little sister."
"Hahaha just kidding~ of course I know she's your little sister..." Reva looked toward Risa who had a confused look on her face. Reva then bent down a little to match her level with Risa. "Hmm~ she really looks like you."
"Don't scare her like that." Kai glanced beside him, looking at Risa who was staring at him confused because she didn't know who the woman talking to them was.
"Risa, this is Reva. She's the... staff maybe who works at my school cafeteria." Kai shifted his gaze to Reva now, "Big Sister Reva, this is my little sister, her name is Risa."
Risa nodded, still hugging Kai's arm. "The name is Risa."
Reva smiled, letting out a giggling sound as she saw Risa being very cautious around her.
"Hee~ don't worry, I won't steal your brother~" She pulled back slightly, but her teasing vibe was still around her, "... Of course I need three more years to wait for doing 'that' you know, make sure everything is legal~"
"Huh! What are you saying," asked Risa with her eyebrows raised higher, and she gritted her teeth. "...He's Mine."
Oi oi oi, isn't this type of conversation is too dangerous...
Kai stroked Risa's head, like calming a cat that was sulking. "Reva, don't tease my little sister like that... we just made up a few days ago, so yeah as you can see it... she's really clingy like this right now."
"Hihihi~ you spoil her rotten, you know that." Reva then reached for Kai's hand that was stroking Risa's head and linked her arm on it, matching what Risa was doing as she tugged Kai. "...want to accompany me on a 'date', darling~"
Risa turned red, getting heated hearing this 'homewrecker' who acted like she knew and was so close to her brother. "LET GO, HE'S MINE."
"Hihihi~ yeah, he's your. But he's just a brother and nothing will change," Reva said while winking one eye and sticking out her tongue, teasing Risa even more. "Hihi~ you've already 'lost' from the start~"
Lose? What does she even mean, don't tell me Reva mean, Risa being my sister is just like a nerf stat on this kind of situation.
Kai let go of his arm from Reva, and stroked Risa's head again to calm his little sister who was very, very sulky and in a bad mood. "So why you even here, Isn't school still open even during weekends?"
Reva gave a wink to Risa, before stepping back a little to give space to these siblings.
"I'm just taking a walk, enjoying the city. Besides, it's a holiday, you know even adults is need days off." She looked at Kai and Risa with a mysterious gaze, before smiling again. "...and just 'checking' on something too."
Checking... what do you want to confirm.
Kai looked at the cafeteria lady, Reva. Honestly, in his eyes, Reva seemed like an ordinary, he mean normal young woman. However, there was something he had realized recently when he thought about her.
Reva... for some reason, her name is similar to the name of Mimi's friend.
Yeah, looking at Reva's appearance, she really resembled the 'Reva' he met in his previous worlds. A coincidence? Kai thought maybe... but the feeling of something off about her was really there for some reason whenever they talked.
As if, she isn't part of 'this' world either.
That can't be, right...
"Big Brother... let's go home." Risa hugged her brother's arm. Kai noticed it, nodded, then looked at Reva again.
"Ah... sorry Reva, it seems Risa wants to go home and I see you also want to go somewhere."
"Hmm~ of course, sorry for disturbing your sibling time~" Reva smirked at Risa, which made Risa huff and tug her brother to leave. It was so cute that Reva chuckled. "Hahaha~ your little sister is really cute, Kai. Oh yeah, I have a present for you two~"
Reva then reached into her small bag, gripping something in both hands. Opening her clenched hands, Kai and Risa could see small objects, they were brooches.
Brooches again?
"Another one? Didn't you already give me one," Kai said with a slightly surprised tone.
"Hmm... that one's different. The one I gave you before was a poppy flower shoe brooch~" Reva showed the brooch to Kai. "This time it's a chrysanthemum flower shoe brooch~"
Reva then handed one flower shoe brooch to Kai and one to Risa. Even though Risa felt reluctant to accept a gift from a woman who acted like she knew and was so close to her brother, well since her brother also accepted it, she went along and accepted it too.
"So why did you give me two brooches, a pair? Didn't you say 'not everything needs to be in pairs'? So why are these brooches given as a pair?"
Kai asked Reva, but as usual, he didn't get a definite answer, only the sweet voice of this young woman.
"Hmm~ because you two are together now~" Reva moved closer and whispered into Kai's ear, "Oh yes... good luck with the 'others' too~"
"BROTHER, LET'S GO HOME!!!"
Risa pulled with a bit of force after seeing Reva teasing her brother. Reva stepped back with a giggle, looking amused at Risa because she was so easily jealous.
"Yeah, yeah, let's go home."
Kai then said goodbye to Reva, before Risa's mood got worse again.
The trip home was really exhausting. Along the whole way, Risa kept asking this and that, she really became a cop interrogating a criminal.
Kai only half-heard what Risa was chirping about; it went in one ear and out the other.
Long day... But at least I have a book to read later.
•°•(⊙_⊙?)•°•
Night had fallen. After dinner ended, Kai returned to his room, reading the novel he had just bought, but his mind was still remembering some strange words that came out of Reva's lips.
Is she the same as me? A reincarnator?
That was the logical answer from Kai's deduction. Reva... in the game, there was never a character named "Reva," but on the other hand, this world and its people weren't just game characters.
"Ahh... maybe I'm just too much thinking." Kai closed the novel he was reading and picked up the two brooches Reva had given him. "Shoes... two different flowers."
Kai stared at the small brooches, One was a red poppy flower, and the second, the one he just got, was a chrysanthemum flower.
Kai then took a random clean book and a pen, making a route diagram of the four capture targets and the steps that would be taken by the true protagonist, Ren.
The draw is not too detailed as Kai could only make illustrations that were honestly so badbecause he wasn't good at drawing things. But as long as he himself understood, that was enough.
"First, my own little sister, Risa. She meets Ren after a big fight with Kai; they meet at the riverbank." Kai continued drawing a line to the Ren character illustration and then crossed it out. "This is impossible now... Risa and I have made up, so there's no reason for Risa to run away from home and fight with me anymore."
"Second, Chloe. She meets Ren when she does her small debut during summer break." Kai put a question mark on the connection line between Chloe and Ren. "The villain of Risa's route, no other than her manager and..."
Kai thought for a moment. There was one problem that felt like a big wall, he didn't know all the heroines and had no connections in this world. Lily, Chloe, and Daisy. They were just strangers, and "Kai" had no ties to them. So he should have no reason to get to know them further.
This situation was different from Risa's case. In Risa's case, the two of them were siblings, and Kai was someone who always loved his sister. Another important thing was, Kai's fate depended heavily on his relationship with Risa, that was the reason of why Kai (Ryan) wanted to fix this sibling relationship as soon as possible because if he not, he's death.
But with the other three capture targets besides Risa? He had no problem because each capture target had a different villain character.
I am the villain character of Risa's route... It's not like I would suddenly mess up other people's routes that have nothing to do with me.
Bad endings, Kai remembered again. Each character would have bad ends if the main character, in this case "Ren," failed to be on the right route and the heroines also possibly have ill relationship with the 'villain' character.
Lily with her fiance; Chloe with her manager; and Daisy with her childhood friend...
Kai tilted his head up, looking at the ceiling, before he closed his eyes. "Ren" will come in the second school year, which is just a few months away. Maybe... I could try that route...
Kai opened his eyes and looked at the two brooches given by Reva. If Reva truly was a reincarnator... then she would know the steps he was going to take.
The start of the school year, the student council president election would begin, and in the game's storyline, "Kai" would become student council president. Even though it wasn't mentioned clearly compared to the third year, the person who became student council president on the game was Kai.
"Risa's route, no need to think about it anymore..." Kai muttered. In his mind, becoming student council president would certainly be very useful and make it easy to build relationships with other students. "...Before that main character lead arrives, I'll already be ready to move behind the scenes and can focus my time on observing Reva more closely..."
And if somehow Reva isn't a reincarnator... well, that means this world doesn't work like the story in the game, and I can enjoy this life...
Kai smiled to himself. "Hehehe... maybe I can get a girlfriend and enjoy my youth a little bit again, if this world is very peaceful~"