"Well, if you watch, you might understand how fun it is, right?"
I regretted even slightly believing my senior's words.
"Where should we drop?"
My senior asked, looking at the screen.
He probably didn't even see me. It wasn't because I was wearing the fake glasses he had half-forced me to buy... or anything.
"The high ground looks safe."
"Too many Loba, lol."
From my senior's headset, I could hear Tetsuya-san's voice and Chuunibyou-senpai's voice. I sighed, wishing they could hear it.
It was already June, and almost no progress had been made with my senior. This was the third time I'd seen my senior playing games at home like this.
The first time I saw them playing FPS? I asked a lot of questions, pretending to be interested, saying, "Oh, wow, that's amazing!" I think that was a mistake.
"Is there no option to use the Havoc here?"
"We don't know the safe zone, right?"
"Agreed."
I asked a lot of questions, but what my seniors were saying still made no sense. They said they were talking on Discord, but that also made no sense. There was no disco ball anywhere. And it's irrelevant, but Chuunibyou-senpai should stop talking; it reduces the senior's turn to speak.
"Zaimokuza, you're the tank."
"Understood. Tremble behind my back!"
"But we won't win like that, you know."
Anyway, what was so fun about this? People flying, shooting guns, and the constantly changing perspective made me dizzy just watching. Also, their occasional screaming was annoying.
Even if the room next door was empty, I thought they were being too careless. And I'd never seen my senior so hyped up when I was with him. That was what bothered me the most.
"Ohh, Tetchi, a triple kill~!"
As I was thinking that, I suddenly heard a familiar voice. It was Chuunibyou-senpai's older sister and Tetsuya-san's girlfriend, Nene-san.
"Nene-san, are you here too?"
"I am~. Just watching Tetchi, though."
I leaned my face closer to my senior's headset and spoke, and Nene-san's voice came back through the open earcups. My senior seemed to flinch the moment I spoke, but I didn't mind. In fact, I wanted him to mind more.
"Nene-san, do you understand the game content?"
"Nope. I just said what they told me~"
I see. It seemed like the same situation on their end. Her boyfriend was engrossed in the game and she was bored. Well, we weren't dating yet, though. Not yet.
Having found a fellow spectator, an idea began to swell within me. If my senior was engrossed in the game, I'd just have to make a move to get his attention.
"It looks like you seniors are working hard~. Why don't we give you a reward when you defeat an enemy?"
"That's a good idea~!" Then for every kill, it's a prank!"
Nene-san and I might be thinking quite similarly. When she hit the nail on the head with what I was planning, I felt a little happy. I felt my senior's shoulder twitch again, but I didn't care.
"Oh, good job, Hikigaya-kun."
"It was thanks to Tetsuya-san's support."
While we were talking, my senior seemed to have defeated an enemy. I went behind my senior and, after a breath, touched his shoulder. His body stiffened slightly.
"Senpai~. I'll give you a shoulder rub~."
"Whoa, hey..."
He tried to twist his body to escape, but I wouldn't let him. There was no way I would.
I pressed my body close to his back, as if molding myself to him. I whispered into his ear, so close that my fake glasses touched his temple—
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"Next, I'll clean your ears for you ♪"
The moment that voice was sucked into my auditory organs, my body involuntarily shivered in response.
A sweet voice that seemed to melt my eardrums. A hot breath on my ear.
What's up with this girl all of a sudden...? She's never bothered me before.
"Oh, Brother's bow is truly impressive."
"Because they were fortified in a strong position."
While we were talking, Tetsuya-san also got a kill. Nene-san said something similar to Iroha earlier, but what exactly were they planning to do?
"Oh, Tetchi achieved a kill~! So, one special head spa coming right up!"
"Gyaaaaaaaahhhhh!!"
It sounded twice as bad as I imagined. I've never heard a scream like that even when playing Apex. And Tetsuya-san's dead.
Honestly, this is bad. Losing the strong player Tetsuya-san puts us at a huge disadvantage. And yet.
"Oh, Senpai, are you panicking?"
Iroha said something completely oblivious, with her mouth still close to my ear.
That's all your fault! Don't interfere!
...I wanted to shout. It was practically at my throat, about to come out.
"Ah, look, Senpai. That enemy is showing their back. Isn't that a chance?"
Saying that, Iroha pointed at the screen from behind me. And then, the sensation of something pressing against my back. A definite softness, even through clothes—
C-calm down. In times like these, count prime numbers. One prime, two prime, three prime! (Idiot)
"Ah!"
And then, I died. I died so quickly it was pathetic.
It wasn't the enemy that killed me. It was Iroha's curves. There's no way I could win.
And now, it was just Zaimokuza alone. We were overwhelmingly disadvantaged.
"Tsk, these normies. Well, just you wait and see."
However—our last hope had not yet given up.
Go, Zaimokuza...! Miracles happen. We can make them happen, if it's us...!
"Ah!"
And then, he died. He died in seconds, if anything.
Or rather, he was chipped down to the point where one hit would kill him.
"...Shall we disband for today?"
"Yeah..."
In this situation, we couldn't play properly anymore.
Saying that, I took off my headset and finally turned to Iroha, who had moved away from my back.
"You, you..."
"What is it?"
Iroha tilted her head, smiling, but her eyes weren't smiling.
Eh, what's with that expression, it's scary... Or rather, yeah, oh, um...
"...No, I apologize for something."
"As long as you understand."
Iroha said that, and the flame in her eyes extinguished.
My relief was short-lived, as Iroha sat upright and patted her knees.
"Alright. Now, I'll clean your ears."
"No, but we already lost..."
"I'm going to clean your ears, okay?"
I thought, "Ear cleaning on a lap pillow, that's a bit much." The bar was too high, and directly touching her thigh was too dangerous. However—
"Ear cleaning, o-kay?"
"Ah, yes..."
There was no way to win against Iroha, who had entered "villager conversation mode."
And so, I rolled my head onto the white thigh that awaited me...
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