My Wife in The Web Game is a Popular Idol Chapter 1 Episode 11

Chapter 1

Episode 11

TLed by: TanoshiKara

The time now is 2124. It is about time for Mizuki-san to give me a call.

"......"

I restlessly walk around in circles in this cramped room of mine.

Is there a way to hide the events with Kurumizaka-san while convincing Mizuki-san? In the first place, I do not want to lie to Mizuki-san. I should have turned Kurumizaka-san down if it would become like this. Well, no one could have predicted that it would have this sort of outcome though......

"Why am I panicking this much......?"

Even I do not know myself. However, I do not want Mizuki-san to interpret things the wrong way.

Perplexed, I was walking around restlessly when my smartphone on the desk rang. It was a call from Mizuki-san. I picked up my smartphone after a moment of hesitation. Tapping on the Accept button, I picked up the call.

"Good evening Kazuto-kun"

"G-Good evening......"

It was Mizuki-san with her usual tone.

I focus on the conversation in this completely silent room of mine.

"Regarding today......I am sorry for my harsh tone"

"Eh, well......"

I was surprised by her sudden apology. It was unexpected. I was expecting to be accused in a way more aggressive manner.

"I cannot help but get interested in Kazuto-kun's actions. Who you are with, what you are doing, and where you are...... I, of course, trust Kazuto-kun, but I just cannot dispel this uncertainty...... Do you understand?"

"Eeerm, probably"

"Kazuto-kun is a wonderful guy, so I understand that various females would be attracted to you. That is why I feel anxious"

"Anxious?"

"Indeed. Of whether you will run off with another woman"

Run off with another woman? That way of putting it is as if Mizuki-san and I are dating.

"I do understand. Kazuto-kun is most likely popular so many women are attracted to you yes?"

"No, no, I am not popular at all! If anything, I have never talked to a female student up until now!"

I became dejected even as I was the one who said it. Looking back at my life, I realize that Mizuki-san was the first girl I exchanged contact information with. The second was Kurumizaka-san.

......Is this not amazing in itself?

"Really? I find it hard to believe. Kazuto-kun not being popular is a 

"That sure is a common situation. I am just a gamer after all......"

"So that is the case. Then I guess it cannot be helped"

"Cannot be helped?"

"Indeed. In this era, besides living your life, there is too much unnecessary information. Most likely due to the popularization of the Internet and the increase in the number of societal rules, I guess. Being an idol, it might be weird for me to say this but people who mask themselves and appeal to others are accepted by others over people who behave like themselves. ......Such is Human Society"

"This is......something I might be able to understand"

This is something that I felt even as I go about my school life. This is fiction but as a result of behaving like themself, they get labeled by others as......a loner or a gloomy person. I was also in a similar situation.

It might be so in the past as well, but in the current era, there is a tendency to view well-behaved people as inferior to extroverts. That is why there are young people who force themselves to act like extroverts and, sometimes, this will lead them to suffer from mental illnesses.

If I think about it like this, it is as Mizuki-san says, the online game world is more sincere than real life and is probably a world where you can behave as yourself.

"I think of this especially when working as a school idol. About how Humans are living things filled with desire......"

"......"

I could not even backchannel. That is because I felt unimaginable hardships from that melodious voice of hers.

"Of course, if a bad person exists, there exists also a good person...... In that regard, Kazuto-kun is a wonderful boy even among good people"

"You sure are able to assert that. Even though it has not even been a week since we started having exchanges in real life"

"We have been together for about four years online. A sincere relationship, not bound by unnecessary information, one with our thoughts laid bare to each other"

"......"

I felt a sudden surge of something welling up in my chest. This is because Mizuki-san's cherishing our online game life came across to me.

"And Kazuto-kun and I are even married. I would like you to stop nonchalantly talking to girls except me"

"......That is in an online game right?"

"Indeed, that is the case. Since we are married in a world where no impure information gets mixed in, we are a couple that is even more wonderful than those in real life"

"......"

..................Hm?

"We went off-topic, huh. Let us go back to the main topic. Just what were you doing with that girl?"

"No, wait a minute. It was a topic that is more important to me than the main topic though?"

"What are you saying? Are there any other topics, besides Infidelity, that should be viewed as a problem between couples?"

"Okay, that is weird! Eh, what do you mean by between couples? Mizuki-san and I are just online game friends right?"

"Yes. We are online game friends and, as we are married, a couple as well"

"Ah, uh-huh. That is right, that is right. But is that not different in real life?"

The discomfort I felt up until now quickly welled up in my chest. Gulping my saliva down, I waited for Mizuki-san's words.

"Kazuto-kun"

"......Yes"

"I did say it, no? That I would not marry just anyone even if it is in an online game"

"That you did"

"Online games do not involve information in real life, which is precisely why I think that a true heart-to-heart relationship can be established"

"Uh-huh. That, I do not disagree with as well"

"We are married in such a world you know?"

—I am Kazuto-kun's wife in real life as well right?

That was so shocking that I could not say anything. Standing in a daze in the center of my room, I freeze up while gripping my smartphone.

Saitou and Tachibana said that Mizuki-san likes me. However, it is different in reality. No. It easily went way past that in reality. She is......

The idol known as Rinka Mizuki means to—be my wife.

"What is wrong, Kazuto-kun? Did I say something weird?"

"......E-Erm......marriage is...a little"

That is too heavy of a responsibility for me. Think about it. This is between an extremely popular idol and an Online Game Goner you know. This is a level of difference that even the phrase "Day and Night" cannot express.

"Marriage is, what? You do not mean to tell me, after all this time, that it is a mistake right?"

"......What would you do if I said that?"

"I guess there is no choice but to die"

"Eh-!"

"Together with Kazuto-kun"

"Whua!?"

To think that Miss Popular Idol would commit a lovers' suicide, or should I say, forcefully taking me down along with her!

"I cannot think of life after losing Kazuto-kun. Even I can tell that my love for Kazuto-kun has deepened after knowing you in real life"

"L-love......you say......"

I went past feeling joy and embarrassment straight to being astonished, feeling that the word known as Love was so far removed from my reality as an Online Game Goner High Schooler.

"Tell me honestly Kazuto-kun. There is no helping it if you have cheated on me. From the start, I never did think that I could keep an attractive boy like Kazuto-kun to myself. It is honestly very sad and I dislike this but......I am willing to overlook some cheating"

"Wai-Wait, can you not move forward with the conversation on your own!? I do not understand the slightest bit of this conversation after all!"

I retorted, seeking a break from the conversation. However, Mizuki-san changes her melodious tone to one that is fragile.

"S-So that is it I see"

"......What is?"

"I heard of it before. That men who cheat are adept at playing dumb"

"That is not it! I am seriously not following the conversation!"

"It is alright, Kazuto-kun. As long as you leave me by your side and do not abandon me...... I will not ask for anything too absurd"

"Mizuki-san!? Have the brakes in your system come loose!?"

I have a feeling that this conversation is heading in an increasingly horrible direction. One that is not on the level of brakes being broken. One that is akin to a train going off its rails and going on a rampage around town.

"Please remember this one thing, Kazuto-kun. Your legal wife is......me"

"Wai-, Mizuki-sa—"

*Tuhdedu*♪......She cut the call.

The words that came out from Mizuki-san's mouth one after another, much like the raging waves, had my head spinning.

"H-Haha...... Da' world's...tis'"

There is only one thing I understand. She, a cool girl, means to be my wife even in reality—.

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