I was streaming on my phone late at night at home, asking the viewers about the finale of Nana’s fight against the Moon Wolf, which had ended about three hours before I got home.
Today I was supposed to still be away on a business trip, but due to various changes in my schedule, I came back later that day, and I found Nana asleep on the sofa. Not wanting to waste this chance, I immediately started streaming.
Nana is the most attractive girl in all of humanity, but she’s basically the cooler than cute type. She would only show her most adorable appearance is when she sleeps defenselessly in front of me.
That’s right. She is sleeping in front of me defenselessly. It is my privilege to be able to be near Nana when she is like this.
Well, the exception is when her parents were still alive, she would sometimes sleep in like this in their presence…
<What with the sudden silence?>
<You look sentimental. Lol.>
<↑Not a good place to retort lol.>
<↑That comeback is hurt.>
<Even Rinne might make a serious face once in a while.>
“Hold it. You guys make it sound like I’m never serious.”
<Mmm?>
<Eh?>
<What do you mean?>
“Wanna fight?”
<Huh?>
<I’m done, I’m done.>
<I don’t care. Show me more Nana.>
<If you look carefully like this, I can see she really does have nice faces.>
<Nana’s skin looks so shiny and glowing.>
<The high quality of the image shows how fair her skin is.>
<Is this really human skin?>
“It’s annoying if you know the fact that she didn’t do anything to make her skin like this. But yeah.”
“M-mm….”
“So squishy…”
<It looks really nice.>
<It looks like some spongy cake.>
<Ooh, it’s growing!.>
<Not happening.>
<I love how defenseless she is.>
<Yeah.>
“hya…”
As I was playing with her cheeks, Nana suddenly turned her head because she was feeling ticklish.
She can endure a lot of pain but is so weak against tickling.\n
“See what I mean? This cuteness is all mine.”
<Stop your smug face.>
<I’m pissed.>
<LOL>
<She really looks like a different person when she’s asleep.>
<Cute~~>
“She used to be like this all the time when she was awake, so absent-minded that she wouldn’t do anything unless I called her. If I left her alone, she wouldn’t even eat. Nana can survive without food for about a month, though.”
<You’re putting too much weight into the “without” part.>
<I can’t imagine.>
<Huh.>
<One month without what…?>
<Basic biology is running out of the window!!!>
<Nana is becoming more inhuman.>
<Every time a new setting is revealed, this woman keeps moving further away from humanity.>
“Indeed, she’s not normal. And because she was born that way, a lot of problems came up when she was a child. Despite her carefree attitude, she had a heavy past behind her.”
<I see.>
<Her parents have passed away.>
<I hate to be the one who says it, but if you see a girl with an only high-school degree nowadays, you can almost tell that there’s something wrong with her.>
<Couldn’t Rinne have helped?>
“She didn’t want my help. She said it clearly. That’s also why I just watched her for a long time.”
That was the first time Nana refused to listen to me. I still remember the shock I felt at that moment.
[“You can’t… stay with me, you can’t….”]
[“You should work in your Takajou group.”] What Nana said has also left trauma in me.
In the beginning, she wouldn’t even see me, sometimes only for a year or two or so at a time.
And before I knew it, the stress of not being able to see her has pushed me to win the world championship…
That said, the past six years have helped Nana’s mind to grow, a mind that has been in constant stagnation ever since she was a child.
I felt a bit sad when I saw how Nana, who used to be so dependent on me, could live on her own. But thanks to it, Nana’s heart has become strong enough to accept her parents’ death.
Indeed, both Nana and I had been too dependent on each other.
But I don’t think our bond is weaker than it used to be. In terms of living together, our relationship is probably much healthier now.
“……n……?”
As I was playing with Nana’s hair on my thigh while talking to a viewer, she began to move restlessly.
“Nana, are you awake?”
“…… Mmmmm……is it you Rin-chan.”
“Yup.”
“Mmm-hmm ……”
While holding back the urge to spoil the sweet, happy Nana, I combed her hair as I let her sleep. And Nana was quite happy to have her hair touched like this.
<Precious ……>
<Precious ……>
<She’s definitely not the same person.>\n“Then it’s not my face, is it ……?”
I was somewhat happy to see her chatting with viewers happily while saying, “Then what do you mean ……?”
And I wanted to hear again the words that I heard from Nana on the first day of her stream.
“Say, Nana.”
“Hmm?”
“I asked this a long time ago… are you having fun now?”
It was a turbulent month and a half, totally different from the daily routine she had of the past six years.
A lot of things have happened in a little time.
Maybe I don’t need to ask.
Still, I really wanted to.
Nana was a little puzzled and then let out a chuckle.
She said this with a big smile on her face, “Streaming and playing games is… a lot of fun!”
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This is the end of chapter 4, “Oni Village”!
I’ve purposely left out the post-battle aftermath!
Of course, I’ll write about it later, but I plan to look back at the beginning of chapter 5. I wanted to write RiNana. Please forgive me.
The rest of the story will be a few quiet episodes on the forums, and then I’ll move on to chapter 5, “My First Tournament”!