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

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26, Miyamura Eternity invites you

Lunch break.

I was walking out of the classroom and down the hallway, thinking of going to the library, when it happened.

“Ah, ah, Akechi-san!”

“Hm?”

I turned around at the familiar voice to see a woman with long, light purple hair fluttering in the air.

“Mi, Miyamura-san!? What’s up?”

“Um… uh… Are you free this Saturday?”

“Saturday? Oh, I’m not busy with club activities or anything. I’m free.”

“Really…! Would you… show me around town…? I still don’t really get the area around the station… if you don’t mind.”

“Yeah, sure! I’m looking forward to Saturday.”

A lie…!?

Eh, eh, eh, I got invited by Eternity-chan.

Is such a thing even allowed…?

But wait.

In the original work, there was a depiction that she had a slight fondness for Hideyori, who was the first to speak to her when she was troubled with wanting someone to interact with because she had no friends.

In the end, even though her romantic interest shifts to Takeru, I must have a self-assumed favorability rating of about 1 to 10 (assuming the max is 1000).

“Thank you so much, Akechi-san! I-I’m also looking forward to it. I’m glad you invited me.”

She flashes me a bright, cheerful smile.

It feels like it’s purifying my tainted heart.

As expected of Eien-chan, the honor student who’s kind to everyone.

Even to a piece of trash like me (as the future Eien-chan would say), she shows a certain kindness. Is she an angel?

We then exchange a few words about the time and place to meet.

She’s the type of girl who makes virgins misunderstand!

She’s just too perfect!

Knowing the broken Eien-chan from the original work after her parents’ death, I understand how precious her smile is.

“I’m sorry for holding you up. Then, if you’ll excuse me.”

With a slight bow, Eien-chan disappears.

I could have chatted until the end of lunch break since I have nothing else to do, but it was cut short after about three minutes. Maybe she dislikes me or keeps her distance for some reason.

Still, going out with Eien-chan, huh.

It reminds me of the time I went to karaoke with Kurusu-san.

Huh?

Wait, what?

In the end, isn’t this, in essence, a date?

I thought dates between boys and girls were just urban legends.

“Whoa, seriously!? For real!?”

Eien-chan might not think of it as a date, but for me, it’s a date!

I’ll call it a date!

Dazed, I head towards the library.

At the start of the original work, “Breaking the Chains of Sorrow,” Eien-chan was at rock bottom too.

Misfortune and happiness.

The contrast in her expressions could easily make her a top contender in the history of dating sims.

———-

“Yo, good afternoon, Miyamura! We’re in the same class again, let’s get along!”

“…Who were you again?”

“Takuma Takeru. We were in the same class in the first year of middle school.”

“…I don’t remember. Sorry, you’re disturbing my studies.”

“You’re always studying, huh? Do you really like it that much?”

“I have to study. Without it, I’m worthless. If I don’t study, study, study, study, study, study, study. So, you’re in the way.”

——–

Convinced that her parents died because she didn’t study, Eien-chan became obsessed with studying, her eyes as lifeless as a dead fish, the highlight gone.

The sight of Eien-chan muttering to herself while moving her pencil is painfully pitiful.

I, too, have a past where I destroyed my shoulder and can no longer practice Kendo. I deeply empathize with Eien-chan, and I’m completely absorbed in her character.

Moreover, the scumbag Hideyoshi erases all memories of friends from Eien-chan, turning her into a girl who, shattered like a broken birdcage, can only cling to studying in her loneliness as she gets involved in the game.

It’s a distasteful game that seems to revel in the cloudy faces of its heroines.

All of this is due to the true devil, Sakuramatsuri, who is the main producer of the game company “Sky Blue” and also the scenario writer.

I curse you, Sakuramatsuri…