Volume 8 - CH 37

Wait, where are we…….?

Toyotomi Mitsuhide

“Wake up….., Wake up ■■■■-kun.”

.

.

A voice is calling me.

There’s a touch of someone on my body.

.

.

“Hey, ……..Wake up ■■■■-kun.”

.

.

That name sounds nostalgic.

It’s the name I’ve already lost.

.

.

“Come on, wake up, ■■■■-kun.”

.

.

The voice was very sweet.

It belongs to someone I can never meet again.

.

.

“Toyotomi-kun!?”

“Woah!?”

.

.

The sudden loud void brought me back to consciousness.

Eh?

What was I doing?

I think I was helping Mishima practice her control of [Energy Drain]……..

.

……Nn?

Then what about that sweet and nostalgic voice…….?

.

.

“Good morning, Toyotomi-kun.”

“Uwah!? Kurusu-san!?”

.

.

It seems I was sleeping in the classroom and I woke up in my seat.

I was surprised by Kurusu-san who was sitting in the seat in front of me and started giggling.

Does that mean I’m Toyotomi Mitsuhide again?

Conveniently, I’m wearing my old uniform, and perhaps because my right shoulder is still broken, it feels weird to move it.

Well, it doesn’t matter.

This is the body of a dead man after all.

What I’m more interested in is Kurusu-san in front of me.

.

.

“It’s, it’s been a while, Kurusu-san! Has it been 15 years?”

“15 years…..ahh, now I want to die…….”

“Hey!? Don’t suddenly get so [Negative], Kurusu-san!?” (TLN: Foreign spelling)

“I mean, Toyotomi-kun just made me face reality out of the blue after all…….also, unrelated but, that [Negative] surprised me you know.”

“Yeah, foreign words are NG right.”

.

.

Kurusu-san came back to me with our usual gag.

Before I knew it, I felt like I have been doing that with Madoka way more than I ever did with Kurusu-san.

Realizing that, it became very awkward when Kurusu-san did it.

.

.

“Ahh……., if you’re going to visit me you should have told me first, Kurusu-san.”

“Kurusu, coming.”

“Not now!?”

.

.

With the appearance of Kurusu-san, who I’ve always wanted to meet, my heart was pounding.

This might be a dream but if I can see Kurusu-san, I would obviously get worked up.

.

.

“KuruKuru.” (TLN: JP pun, Kuru means coming so, Kuru(su)Kuru)

“What’s that!? Kurusu-GAG!?”

“Wait, what’s Kurusu-GAG!?”

“Yoshida told me that you always make a spontaneous joke like that, she called it Kurusu-GAG…….”

“MINAKO~! That girl……I will give her a punch!”

“Considering how physically weak you’re, let’s not, okay?”

.

.

Kurusu-san’s anger suddenly turned toward Yoshida but I felt bad for her so I stopped Kurusu-san.

Kurusu-san is still eccentric as always so I unintentionally started smiling wryly at her.

That side of her is so cute.

Even with her weak body, I still envy how energetic she is every day.

.

.

“By the way, why are you here today?”

“I came to visit you, Toyotomi-kun.”

“Me?”

“Yes! I wanted to talk a lot with you so I came. I wanted to meet you, Toyotomi-kun.”

.

.

Kurusu-san’s bright reply is so cute that I can’t help but smile at her.

She’s such a weird and clumsy girl.

It was so rude of me to think that Madoka is in any way similar to her…….

.

That’s right, Kurusu-san is a lovely and clumsy girl who has nothing to do with that foul-mouthed Madoka after all.

.

.

“What have you been doing lately, Toyotomi-kun.”

“I’ve been reincarnated as the hated scumbag best friend character in a Galge.”

“…..come again?”

“And the protagonist is too incompetent to be useful…..”

“You are not making any sense you know…….”

(TLN: I so want to change the title from the first TL era, nothing’s wrong with GoogleTL but damn…….)

.

.

I wouldn’t get it either.

But Kurusu-san probably hasn’t played [Breaking the Chain of Sadness], so she probably won’t understand even if I told her that I was reincarnated as Akechi Hideyori……

.

.

“What about you, Kurusu-san? Did you already graduate from the university and become a teacher like you always wanted to?”

“Eh? How do you know that, Toyotomi-kun?”

“Yoshida.”

“Minako again!? What is she, a thieving cat!? I need to give her the hammer of justice!!”

“Alright, Kurusu-san! Let’s hit her with Nekosuke Missile!”

“Eh? What’s what?”

“…….sorry.”

.

.

Let alone the game, Nekosuke only appeared in the novelization of Mishima Haruka’s route so it’s no wonder why she wouldn’t get it…..

In the first place, why did I talk about [Breaking the Chain of Sadness] to someone who has never played it?

Let’s stop doing that.

.

.

“Yeah. See…..I actually died about a year after Toyotomi-kun passed away.”

“Eh, EHH!?”

“My illness finally got to me……”

“I, I see……..”

.

.

The thought that Kurusu-san would be dating some random guy, have a child, and start a happy family with him after I died got me so depressed that I chose not to think about it. I’ve never expected her to die right after I did……..

.

.

“What have you been doing since you died, Kurusu-san? Did you also reincarnate? Did you become a cat or a penguin instead of a human?”

“Why do my options only limited to a cat or a penguin though…….?”

“I mean, cats and penguins are cute right!”

“Kyah, so Toyotomi-kun likes cats and penguins! (Toyotomi-kun) so cute!”

“Yeah, they’re cute right.”

.

.

Cats and penguins are really cute.

I just want to squish them.

I love them so much that I even tried to beg Oba-san to let me keep a cat and a penguin at our house.

.

.

“Ah, that’s right! Since you like hamsters, you must have been reincarnated as a hamster right!?”

“I do like hamsters but I never wanted to be reborn as one though……”

“You like Pi**chu too right? Yoshida told me.”

“Hey, hasn’t she been running her mouth a bit too much!? That Minako! I will challenge her to a kendo match later!”

“Yoshida is not with us you know…….”

.

.

Most of my information about Kurusu-san came from Yoshida after all.

In the first place, It’s already frustrating that I didn’t have the chance to talk about these kinds of things with Kurusu-san herself.