Chapter 34: Changing Relationship(6)

“……”

An awkward silence flowed in the closed room.

Yu-ah had really let go and was just watching me play.

I kept shooting without saying a word.

The only sound that filled the room was the sound of me clicking the controller alone.

Playing a two-player game alone didn’t make any progress.

I couldn’t just abandon Yu-ah, so I had to kill all of her parts.

… If it was going to be like this, it would have been better to play alone.

It would have been better if I had played alone.

At least the number of zombies rushing at me would have been reduced.

I came to the arcade to have fun, but I felt uneasy about it.

I wondered if it was my fault for bringing Yu-ah here so recklessly…

In the end, I decided to break the awkward atmosphere first.

“Miss. There’s no one here. It’s really annoying.”

“…”

“Hey, are you really going to let go? I’m going to die. I told you it’d be hard without you?”

“…. Huh.”

Oh. That rascal.

Yu-ah was listening to me with her ears, but her head was turned away.

Anyway, it was a situation that could be calmed down enough because the device hadn’t jumped out.

If I was really angry, I might have just gone outside and left.

Right now, I was just a little offended.

“Ah~~~ If someone who’s really good at shooting games could help me out a little bit, it would be really comfortable—”

“…”

“Aren’t you really not going to help me? You’re getting upset because I said one thing? Was Na Yu-ah really that narrow-minded? Of course not?”

“Ahem.”

I was starting to get a reaction.

I thought something would happen if I just kept going.

“I thought a great person would forgive this kind of thing first.

A great person with a pretty face, a great body, and a good gamer, and a perfect high school-level S-class beauty like Na Yu-ah, wouldn’t you be able to forgive this much?”

“Pfft.”

Yu-ah, who had been making a pouty face at my nonsense, let out a small laugh.

When I turned my head and looked at Yu-ah with a face asking for help, she watched that expression for a moment.

Then, she let out a sigh and put her hands back on the controller as if she had no other choice.

“Okay. Stop it. I’ll do it.”

Did she not want to keep hearing this from me?

Or did she think that she was petty when she thought about herself getting upset over something like this?

I don’t know which, but Yu-ah said that.

However, she didn’t just listen to me.

“Instead, I’m really scared. My hands are shaking so I can’t shoot, so you come next to me.”

“What?”

I looked at her, wondering what she meant.

Yu-ah tapped the seat next to her with a slightly red face.

“Come here… I’ll be less scared if I feel someone’s body heat… you idiot.”

It was fortunate that the seats weren’t separated.

If I just lifted my butt a little, I could stick to her side.

I’m going crazy… What the? Are you flirting with me?

You’re so cute.

I thought her actions were bad for my heart and asked her back.

“Seriously?”

“Then who would joke about something like this? You idiot.”

Wow. I can’t stand it.

Even her shallow breathing felt like it was amplifying the tension in the air.

If it was on air, I think I would have alternated between [Illuwait!] and [Ria’s belly button burur].

It was a big deal because I felt like Yu-ah was getting cuter and cuter.

No, honestly, isn’t this cute no matter who looks at it?

It was clear that Na Yu-ah herself was cute.

It couldn’t be just because I had a crush on her.

“…I understand.”

I answered her, barely holding back my trembling voice buried in cuteness.

Then I moved my body slightly and leaned closer to Yu-ah.

Yu-ah also carefully moved her body closer to me.

We moved each other like that, and at some point, our thighs touched each other.

“Ah…”

Yu-ah let out a strange exclamation for some reason.

I couldn’t really feel her body temperature because her lower body was covered by thick clothes.

But the problem was her upper body.

Her shoulders and forearms pressed against mine.

And her sides that touched slightly and then fell apart felt slightly fast because she was scared.

In a dark, narrow, closed room, this kind of stimulation was a little dangerous.

There was something that somehow stimulated the sinister desires and imagination of humans.

I erased the nonsensical thoughts coming to my mind and asked her.

“…Is this enough?”

“Euuum.”

However, Yu-ah let out a sound as if something was ambiguous.

Then, she boldly lifted the arm closest to me.

She put it through my arm.

So it was what you would call a lovers’ arm-link.

I was flustered by her sudden attack.

“What, what? All of a sudden…?”

She stammered as if embarrassed by my question.

“I told you…that you should feel my body temperature…but this much is enough for me to feel your body temperature.”

Her voice grew louder at the end, perhaps to hide her embarrassment.

Everything was fine, but was it even possible to play a game like this?

That was my question.

Of course, it was not that I couldn’t reach the controller with my arms crossed.

It was quite an uncomfortable and awkward position.

“No matter what, this is a little… uncomfortable.”

“T-That’s because we’re too far apart! Wouldn’t it be less uncomfortable if we were closer together?”

Yu-ah said that and really did as she said, her body pressed against me tightly.

There was no space between her and me.

Then, the part of my arm that was stuck went inward, making it much easier to control.

Of course, it still felt like a two-person three-legged game.

“…But this is a little better.”

“Right?”

“Then let’s do it. Let’s proceed?”

“Uh, yeah. I think I can do it now. At this level.”

So I played the game while linking arms with Yu-ah.

“Huh…”

“Huh… Gross…”

Every time a ghost or zombie appeared, I heard a sob from the side, and my arms tightened.

Every time, Yu-ah’s hair fluttered and tickled my shoulders and ears.

Yu-ah’s fragrant scent lingered in my nose.

And as I linked arms, her chest naturally pressed against my forearm.

“Ahh… Gross… Get out of here! Die! Die!”

But did this really work?

Yu-ah, who was trembling, continued to shoot despite being scared.

She was now hunting more zombies than me.

On the contrary, I was losing concentration because of her soft body and dizzying scent.

“Hey! What are you doing! Focus! You’re losing all your blood!”

I was now being reprimanded by Yu-ah in reverse.

All I did was link arms, but I felt like my intelligence was falling.

What was making me tremble so much?

What was making my heart beat so fast?

It’s just because I’m scared of this game.

I wanted to make excuses, but I knew it wasn’t true.

“I can tell right away that this is the boss room.”

“Yeah. I guess so.”

Eventually, we somehow reached the first boss room on the 5th floor.

As soon as we stood in front of the boss room, the characters’ lines and scenes began again.

[You have to go through here to get to the elevator to the 4th floor.]

Saying that, Jack and Chris carefully open the door.

Then Jack quickly slams the door open, but unlike the tension, there is nothing in the room.

You can only see the elevator far away.

Jack says strangely, [What? There is nothing?]

That’s suspicious.

Normally, in games like this, you have to be more careful when there are no enemies.

Jack and Chris slowly enter the room and say, [What? Did they kill all the zombies on the 5th floor with this?]

[Don’t let your guard down, Jack. First, carefully approach the elevator.]

That’s when.

A sound like a drop of water is heard from above.

Chris, who was hit on the head by the drop, looks up at the ceiling.

Exactly.

Kwaaaaah!

A lump of human limbs crawls down from the ceiling with a bizarre and loud scream.

“Kwaaaaah!”

Yu-ah is startled by the sudden appearance and takes her hands off the controller again.

And she hugs me tightly, who had been linking arms with her.

“Huh… huh…”

The intensity was completely different from when we had linked arms just now.

She shut her eyes tightly and trembled as she completely embraced me.

I asked her, worried about her.

“Hey. Are you okay?”

“No no no no no it’s annoying it’s annoying it’s annoying.”

She kept repeating “no” as if she were under some kind of spell and wouldn’t let go of my back and waist.

I could feel her chest and even her bra through her thin t-shirt.

The sweet scent of Yu-ah’s body seemed to dazzle my mind.

In the end, I let go of the controller without realizing it.

And so that Yu-ah could be held comfortably, I stretched out my arms and hugged her.

On the screen, there was a thud thud sound, and our characters were dying.

But that wasn’t important to me right now…

How cute. This kid.

It was more important to sneak a peek at her face as she was so scared and sniffling while holding me.

The gap created by her appearance, which was different from usual, like a woman full of anger, really made me want to hit her hard.

It made me want to go oh-gu-oh-gu.

I gently hugged her and patted her on the back, as if to say that it was okay.

After a while, Yu-ah came out of her Menhera state.

“…Ugh.”

“Are you coming to your senses?”

“……Yeah. It’s embarrassing. Sorry.”

She took her hand off me and fell away with a creaking movement.

The game screen had already shown [Game Over] a long time ago, and I missed the timing to continue the coin, so I had to start over from the beginning.

I guess that’s about it.

It was impossible to continue the game with Yu-ah in this state in the first place.

“Ah, because of me…sorry.”

But Yu-ah apologized to me while looking at the initialized screen.

I sat up from my chair and said to her, “It’s okay. It’s my fault. I guess I dragged you in for no reason. Let’s go.”

“Yeah.”

I lost the game.

But I saw something cuter than that, so I guess it’s okay.

I thought that and left the game attraction with Yu-ah.