I Was Reincarnated As the Hated Scummy Best Friend in a Gal Game and the Protagonist Is Useless

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5. Crimes of the Gifted

“So you’re saying! My sister wouldn’t just kill herself! It must have been you who did something, right!?”

“What do you mean by ‘something’, old man? Your baseless accusations are annoying.”

Lately, a weird old man claiming to be my aunt’s brother keeps showing up at our house.

Usually, he disappears as soon as we turn him away, but today he’s particularly persistent.

“My sister was afraid of you… She consulted me many times, scared that her husband might be killed! And now you’re telling me they both committed suicide!? That’s impossible! Hideyoshi, you killed them, didn’t you!?”

“I don’t know. I was at home when the two committed suicide. There are witnesses. Please stop making these baseless accusations and go home.”

“Enough with your flippant attitude!”

Sigh…

What a noisy siscon.

Is the world just full of siscons…?

I considered using “Command Domination” to make him leave or shut up, but that’s not fun.

I’ve thoroughly investigated every weakness this old man has.

“My sister was perhaps afraid that Hideyoshi might be Gifted.”

“Huh?”

The word ‘Gift’, and he instantly becomes more guarded.

That old hag, she blabbed too much.

“If you were Gifted, you wouldn’t need an alibi for murder, right!? There’s even a precedent for a ‘Suicide Inducing’ Gift.”

“Hmm…”

“A ‘Suicide Inducing’ Gift, huh…”

How salty.

It’s a complete downgrade of my Gift.

I’m strongly aware of how my Gift is an exceptional, ultimate cheat ability.

“Not the ‘make someone commit suicide’ kind of power, but how about it? Spot on for a Gift holder, right? I’ll be reporting you to the ‘Gift Management Bureau.’ Crimes committed by Gift holders are serious offenses.”

“…………”

“What are you… Why the smug smile?!”

He must think he’s won against me with just a report, the fool.

The aunt was incompetent.

And it turns out her brother, connected by blood, was just as incompetent.

“Just got a message from my buddy.”

“Buddy?”

“Yeah, my girlfriend’s coming over to hang out.”

As he says this, the entrance door swings open.

Startled by the sudden noise, the old man turns around.

“Ah, Hidetoshi-kun, hello.”

“Hey, I’ve been waiting for you, Emi.”

“Ehehe.”

With her short twin tails swaying, Emi enters the house, her face, hands, and legs smeared with blood, laughing.

—Dragging something along.

“Wait, wait! Hey!?”

“Hey, old man, stop the s*xual harassment.”

Emi brushes off the old man’s outstretched hand.

In her other hand, not brushed away, she’s holding a woman’s leg.

“Looks like she was waiting in the car. That’s not nice, old man. Locking up your cute daughter in the car, how pitiful.”

“Sakiya…?”

“I broke the car’s side window, sorry.”

Emi apologizes, bowing her head in seeming regret, but the old man’s eyes are fixed on the woman Emi is dragging.

“Hey, …did you kill her!? Sakiya!?”

“Ah… Well, your daughter was making a fuss. I just beat her half to death, that’s all.

With her face smeared with blood and tears, the girl turned to the middle-aged man.

He exploded in anger at Emi and me.

“You guys! Not only my sister but Sakuya too!?”

“Ah. We don’t need that kind of suffocating attitude. [Just stand there and watch in silence.]”

“!?”

Emi finally brought out the old man’s weakness.

This is when it’s most enjoyable to torment someone.

“Hehehe, from what you’ve deduced and experienced, I think you’ve figured it out, but this is my gift. No one can defy my orders.”

“Kyahaha! Even if Hideyori tells the old man to kill his daughter, he can’t defy it. You lose, old man.”

“————!”

He seems to want to say something, but he can’t open his mouth as long as I command.

I have secured victory in this place.