Chapter 60. [The World 5 Minutes Before]

When I opened the door to my room, there stood Angu Ogu, who was supposed to be in America.

“Eh ….. What? Why is Ogu here?

Confused by the unexpected situation, I stopped thinking.

While I was still thinking, Ah-nee gave me a command, “Come on!” I was confused by the unexpected situation and stopped to think.

“Sorry! Iroha-chan!”

“Oops, Mai!? You, stop ……..!

Mai pushed me down.

The three push me into the room like an avalanche.

“Wait, wait! Please explain this to me. What’s going on? Mai, Ah-nee, Ogu? I’m sorry, my mind hasn’t caught up with the situation. Don’t you have to stay in the US?”

“Yeah, I took a day off.”

“Why? Why? Because if you do that, you’ll lose your viewers!”

“Minna, I told them I’m trying to help people I care about.”

“Why did you go to all that trouble ……..?”

This is my problem. It’s my problem alone. It has nothing to do with anyone else. It should be.

“Heh heh heh~. I’m sure it’s because Mai herself wants to help Iroha-chan.”

“No matter what kind of Iroha-chan you are, she’s my precious little sister.”

“I said I’ll save you, didn’t I?”

I stopped resisting.

I had always had a weak body, to begin with. Now it was even weaker.

I didn’t even have the strength to shake Mai off.

So I rationalized that it was a futile resistance.

That’s when the tension snapped.

“…. Ah.”

A grain of emotion spilled out in the form of a teardrop.

From there it was a flash.

Emotions began to overflow like a dam.

Rags and rags of them ran down my cheeks and fell.

Between sobs, a voice escaped.

The truth is …… I’ve been asking for help for a long, long time.

“I’m scared, yo.”

“Yeah!”

“It’s hard, yeah.”

“Yeah.”

“No. yo.”

“Ow.”

“—Help me!”

“Leave it to me!”, “Leave it to me”, “Leave it to me”

Their voices overlapped.

And I told them everything.

“My guess… All the VTubers I liked might be different people~~~~!!!! Biee〜〜〜〜n!!!!”

“””………….. nn!!!?!?????”””

Gusu…… Oh, what?

I told you because you asked me to talk, but your reaction is different.

“Iroha-chan ………”

“Oh, okay. I’ll leave the rest to you.”

“…… Iroha, you!

I’ll take care of the rest. I mean, Ogu, your face is so scary!”

The three of them looked at me with dismay and anger.

Don’t tell me they don’t understand the gravity of the situation.

“Can you believe that the world of yesterday and the world of today are the same? Or do you think today and tomorrow are two different worlds?”

“What are you talking about?”

“I’m talking about, for example.”

“In Japanese, it’s…  Well, how should I put it? <<Like the five-minute ago hypothetical?>>”

“No, no, it’s not like that. Suddenly the world is something else. The world looks like what I know, but it’s not real. Everything is fake.”

“N~~~?”

I’m not getting through to you. Then I had no choice.

I went one step further. I would have preferred not to reveal this if I could have, but…

“I was able to decipher the Voynich Manuscript.”

“!!!?!???”

“Yeah.”

“Voy …. What’s that? Is that amazing?”

Angu Ogu froze with a look of surprise on his face.

Mai and Ah-nee seemed to have no idea what was going on and tilted their heads.

“Iiii, Iroha. As expected, I won’t be fooled by such a joke.

“By the way, what’s in it?”

“Ah, ah! I don’t understand Japaneze!”

Angu Ogu shivered and sat down, covering her ears.

She was mumbling something in English.

<<You’ve got to be kidding, right? But she’s that Iroha. I don’t think she was joking. I mean, don’t you get it? …… Okay, I didn’t ask any questions!>>

“Well, it’s all right, but I don’t care.”

“No matter how you look at it, it’s a big deal!?”

Angu Ogu is very excited.

Then she fainted in agony, <<Nuguuuuu, Ooh, I’ve admitted it>>.

Don’t be in a hurry to make a lot of faces by yourself.

I hadn’t even gotten to the point yet.

“Well, I won’t go into details, but in a nutshell, the author woke up one day in a different world. The vegetation, culture, location of the stars, and even the language were different. He wrote it down before he forgot it.”

I added, “If what is written in this book is true, that is.”

But I had a hunch that it was true.

“So here’s the thing. –I’ve had a similar, but not quite as bad, experience.”

“….. What!”

Mai was the first to react.

She expressed inarticulate surprise. I’m sure she had an idea of what I was talking about.

I thought so, too.

If anyone was going to notice my reincarnation, it would be Mai.

Maybe it was finally time to face the truth.

Who on earth am I?

I slowly opened my mouth.