Chapter 5: Easily Pulling the Plot Back on Track!

As the main character of a power fantasy light novel, Aikawa Ritsuki’s early-game performance was exceptionally stellar.

Face-slapping early on at the hall, serving as the freshman representative, earning the title of “Honorary Citizen,” and showing off her ice-element power—a total flex of S-rank talent.

Once formal classes started, she ran into friction in the classroom with two beauties of totally different styles, including an accidental collision at a hallway corner that knocked them to the ground and pressed them together, triggering a classic, dough-kneading lucky-pervert event!

Naturally, she ate a classic slap from a heroine!

During class, her outstanding talent caught the eye of a devilishly voluptuous teacher.

A absolute classic among classics, top-tier trope!

Perfectly following the golden three chapters of online web novels, firmly hooking the minds of degenerate readers.

Yet…

the one remaining regret was: why did the male protagonist of this power fantasy turn into a female protagonist?

——Could it be that the people of this world preferred girls getting cute and intimate with each other even more?

Due to feedback from numerous players, we ultimately decided to alter the protagonist’s background story, cutting off his junk (laughs).

…

The peaceful hours of school quickly moved along to lunch break.

Aikawa Yoji sat by the railing of the teaching building’s rooftop, crossing his legs, resting his chin on one hand, while holding a bottle of iced milk in the other.

He quietly listened as the black-haired girl slowly narrated her experiences since the start of school.

As she talked, her lovely eyebrows would occasionally knit together in frustration, then relax into joy, only to furrow again in distress.

Seeing her throat get dry from talking, Yoji unscrewed the cap of the green tea and handed it over to her.

Hearing her spill every single detail about the first two days of school without holding anything back, Yoji’s mood, however, wasn’t entirely great.

“…And the most infuriating thing of all!

I really don’t get it!

Why do the classmates—and even some teachers—insidiously talk bad about Onii-chan behind his back?!

What do they know?!

What gives them the right to slander a person’s character so nonchalantly?!”

‘This isn’t something you should be concerned about, little sister-chan.

No, no, you can hold a younger sibling’s goodwill toward your brother early on, but you can’t be overly concerned, okay?’

‘Right now, your internal monologue should be curiosity toward that cold, aloof girl—Kurosawa-san, who shares a similar setting to yours!

Why are you worrying about a brother who has bullied you since childhood?’

Aikawa Yoji pondered for a moment and decisively stood up.

Having lounged on the ground for so long, this sudden stand caused his vision to spin, and a temporary lack of blood flow to his brain even left him dazed for two or three seconds.

“Brother!”

“Pak.”

Yoji slapped away Ritsuki’s hand as she tried to support him, using a considerable amount of force that easily left a red mark on her arm.

“Ugh…

B-Brother.”

Raising one eyebrow while letting one eyelid droop, Yoji’s very core exuded utter disdain: “Aikawa Ritsuki, tell me, did you get something wrong?

Just when did you ever get the delusion that your brother is a good person?

Huh?

HUH?!”

He wanted to kick Ritsuki, but thinking that his shoe would dirty her clothes and delay her from making dinner for him later, he shifted to roughly shoving her shoulder instead: “Huh?!

What?!”

“I don’t need to be validated by a hypocritical woman like you, got it?

I, Aikawa Yoji, never change my name in public or private, and I’ve been this kind of scumbag from start to finish!

Stop putting on that worried face to disgust me, alright?

Get lost, get far away!

I’m telling you to get lost!”

“B-Brother, I…

I didn’t, I don’t, I…”

Shoved by his sudden aggression, the girl stumbled backward several steps, her whole body tilting at a 40-degree angle, nearly falling onto the ground.

Her cold, aloof composure dissolved into a wronged, pitiful expression.

She lightly bit her lower lip, her eyes grew moist, and her body trembled uncontrollably—looking just like an abandoned puppy inside a cardboard box by the roadside under a pouring rainstorm, completely pathetic and helpless.

Yet Yoji was no kind-hearted passerby coming to rescue her future.

Because he had walked through the rain as a child, when he grew up, he would go out of his way to kick away other people’s umbrellas!

Leaving the little puppy to be drenched even worse by the rain, the small cardboard box easily soaked through and bloated by water: “B-Brother…”

“Ah, wait, no.

Being so harsh toward my own sister seems a bit excessive, doesn’t it?”

The villainous Yoji suddenly thought of something and chuckled maliciously, pacing several circles around the black-haired girl.

“No, no, no, I shouldn’t treat my one and only little sister like this.

Hypocrisy is a skill you should really learn to utilize properly.

You do have a few merit points after all, Aikawa Ritsuki.”

“Speaking of which, I remember there’s a very pretty freshman in your class, right?

What was her name again…

Kurosawa Shizuku, was it?

Are you friends with her?”

“We…

just met.”

Yoji nodded to himself: “Met, huh?

Well, knowing her is good enough.

Make sure to build a good relationship with that classmate from now on.”

“Brother?”

Seeing the confusion in the girl’s eyes made Yoji feel quite disappointed.

He pressed a finger against his own lips.

“You know!

Uh, I’m quite interested in that girl.

Get close to her, whisper some good words about me in her ear, introduce her to me, and act as my wingman or something.”

“Brother…

are you saying you…

you like that Kurosawa classmate?!”

“I wouldn’t call it ‘like’ just yet, but I’m definitely a bit interested.

Kurosawa Shizuku is really pretty, isn’t she?”

Yoji curled his lips into one last contemptuous smirk, reaching out to pat the girl’s shoulder.

“Ah, your brother’s future happiness depends on you, Ritsuki-chan~”

Enough said.

With another bout of arrogant laughter: “Alright, scram!

Go play somewhere else!”

He slowly strode off the rooftop, leaving Aikawa Ritsuki standing bewildered in the wind.

“Huh?”

Slipping past the rooftop door and out of Aikawa Ritsuki’s sight, Yoji rushed down several flights of stairs.

After looking around and ensuring no one else was present, he jumped up in joy!

“Hell yeah!

As expected of me!”

‘With just one or two provocative lines, I forced the protagonist back onto the right path!

As expected of you, Luo Xiao!

You truly are the savior of the plot!

The god of this light novel!’

“Yay!”

Hopping and skipping, taking advantage of the empty hallway, Aikawa Yoji wildly released his excitement, dancing and bouncing all the way back toward his class.

As the old saying goes: As long as little sister’s plot goes well, the villain will have plenty of ways to survive!

However, Yoji, who hadn’t activated his superpower vision, obviously failed to notice a woman coming up the stairs around the corner below.

Glowing bright like an autumn moon, carrying a stack of teaching materials in her arms—Teacher Shimizu.

Passing by and happening to catch Aikawa Yoji hopping around like that, she froze on the stairs for a few seconds.

“My…

Yoji-kun is actually this cute?”

Teacher Shimizu lowered her eyelids, revealing a soft smile.

Only, for some unknown reason, this smile looked more eerie the longer one stared at it.

“Mainly though, why do you keep disguising yourself?

It really makes one curious.”

Having just kicked away a ‘little puppy’s’ umbrella on the front foot, did he get locked onto by a big grey wolf on the back foot?

“Teacher Shimizu!

I-I’ll help you carry those materials!”

“Oh my, Sasaki-kun?

Thank you.”

‘Where the hell did this 45-degree voice come from!?’

…

…

…

“You’re back, Ritsuki-chan!

You’re finally back!

Spending so much time with that bas—cough, did your brother do anything bad to you?!

Your arm…

why is it so red?!

Don’t tell me it was…”

The moment Aikawa Ritsuki walked back into Class A of the freshman superpower department, Miyatsubaki Keiko pounced over from her seat, anxiously circling her while checking everywhere.

Ultimately, she spotted the red imprint on her right arm, feeling immensely distressed.

“This is way too much!

How can he do this?!

Ritsuki, you really can’t keep spoiling him like this!

It’s only going to make that big villain more and more arrogant!”

“No, Keiko, this was my own…”

Aikawa Ritsuki was about to explain when her peripheral vision caught sight of her desk partner—that black-haired girl, Kurosawa Shizuku, whose personality was indeed as cold and quiet as she had imagined.

Ritsuki’s small lips pouted right up.

“…”

“…That bastard did it.”

Miyatsubaki Keiko: “?”

Aikawa Ritsuki kept a cold face and raised her hand with the red imprint: “It was my brother, Aikawa Yoji, who did it!”

Miyatsubaki Keiko: “???”

“You…

you finally figured it out?

You finally recognized that big villain’s true nature?”

Aikawa Ritsuki didn’t answer, silently sitting back down in her seat.

After a brief silence, she raised her hand in front of Kurosawa Shizuku’s eyes again: “He did it!”

Kurosawa Shizuku: “?”

“HE DID IT!!!”

“???”

Kurosawa Shizuku politely replied: “Ah…

that must…

must hurt a lot, right?”

“No—cough, it hurts a lot!”

Kurosawa Shizuku: “…”

Miyatsubaki Keiko’s head was filled with total confusion.

Her childhood friend went out to meet that bastard once, so why did she come back looking so strange?

Where did that cool, aloof image go?

Why did she seem a bit foolish and dorky now?

——Well, it was actually kinda cute.

Miyatsubaki Keiko immediately sat in front of Ritsuki: “It’s good that you’ve opened your mind, Ritsuki-chan!

You really can’t let yourself be oppressed anymore!

Even if he’s your brother, he’s never done a single thing a brother ought to do, okay?”

“Uh, isn’t that bottle of milk almost finished?

Aren’t you going to throw it away?”

Aikawa Ritsuki unscrewed the cap, opened her mouth, and her pink, tender tongue licked around the rim of the bottle several times.

“…I want to taste it a bit more.”

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