Chapter 01

“I’m not sure, Chinatsu-chan.” I remarked with uncertainty. Chinatsu nodded and smiled.

“Well, well… okay.” She smiled widely. “You follow your dreams.”

I had met Chinatsu at the beginning of the school year. I was high school student now. It was a new start, spring. The sakura trees had bloomed, I surely would have to go and see them. I wonder if I could go with Umiko… That’s what I would certainly wish.

“Yushiko-chan!” Chinatsu-chan smiled at me while I was spacing out, I widened my eyes and looked at her.

“Umm… what is it?” I asked curious.

“Nothing.” She smiled and then laughed happily, after she just left running. “I’m going to buy a sandwich.” She said and left. I stayed in class and took out a book to read, I had just finished my bento. I wonder if Umiko would like it if I made a bento for her someday… I wish she would.

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Chapter 15 [End]

Emotionless Videogames: Chapter 15.

It was the day of the Hanabi festival, feelings of insecurity invaded my mind as I was putting on my yukata. Surprisingly enough, those feelings were not owned to my meeting new people, but rather, too my lack of self-confidence. I have been experiencing these feelings the whole summer, I can’t figure out why, but I don’t find myself likeable. At that moment I thought that I should better follow Umiko-san’s advice: Don’t try to find the root of the problem, just replace it with a positive feeling. So, after putting my yukata on, I took my keys and left.

I waited at the area we had agreed and then, I saw it, Umiko-san was walking towards me with two other girls.  I stood there, paralyzed; I was starting to regret coming here.

-          Hi, Yushiko-chan. – Umiko-san smiled. – This is Ichigawa Yushiko. – She presented me to her friends.

Chapter 14

Emotionless Videogames: Chapter 14.

“The man with the knife”… “The girl with the knife”…

There was just one day left for the Hanabi festival and I was suddenly feeling like talking to Yushiko-chan, I don’t know why but I, out of the blue, felt very sentimental and I wanted to talk to her no matter what.

-          This little girl must always be on-line… – I though, it surely wasn’t a fact that made me happy, but at the moment it was quite convenient for me, so I couldn’t help but be slightly glad… Also at least she spend her time on the doing worthy things, I suppose, well, even if she did make friends, I don’t think that she would be able to stop this habit. That’s probably because most of her hobbies are indoors, and with our technology, she can perform most of the using her computer, even drawing. I know quite a lot about that myself since I am an aspiring fashion designer.

Chapter 13

Emotionless Videogames: Chapter 13.

First of all I have to state that this chapter is special, Yushiko doesn’t appear in it at all. In this chapter Umiko tells us the story from her point of view, I have already done this before but this time I will introduce Umiko’s two friends and her parents! Takeshita Ayano and Sone Kotone are Umiko’s best friends. She will later meet more people at the university but she just has two friends for them moment. Her parents: Mishima Ken and Mishima Hiroko, father and mother respectively.

The most important part of the summer vacations was about to start: the Hanabi * (*the Hanabi is a summer festival held every summer in Japan, it has fireworks and various stands with food and sweets and other events where you can gain prices, people wear Yukata which is an attire just like kimono but it’s instead worn in summer). I had to tell my friends that Yushiko-chan (since she finally agreed to do so) was coming with us so I invited them for lunch to my home.

Chapter 12

Emotionless Videogames: Chapter 12.

Five days had already passed since we arrived to Okinawa, we mostly went to the beach and there weren’t other things we could apart from that and… visiting the aquarium. So Umiko-san proposed to have cruise with the boat, Watanabe-san agreed and so at night we conducted our plan.

-          Yushiko-chan… – said Umiko-san in a kind of serious tone.

-          Wh… what is it?

-          Come here.

-          Y… yes.

-          Tell me… were you always so shy?

Chapter 11

Emotionless Videogames: Chapter 11.

It had already been two days since we visited the aquarium. Today I woke up early, ready to go to the beach and explore. I put on my swimsuit, drank milk and got out of the boat with Umiko-san. After being on the water for some time I got out and went towards the rocks to look for sea animals, I finally found a sea urchin and got it out of the water to look at it, it was moving!

-          Yushiko-chan? Is that a sea urchin?

-          Yes! – I said happy. – I’m examining it. – Umiko-san giggled.

-          Really? – She smiled. – And what it’s doing?

-          It’s moving a bit… – I turned it upside down. – Oh! It’s mouth!

Chapter 10

Emotionless Videogames: Chapter 10.

Comments:

Well, I was thinking that before continuing with the story I should comment a bit on it. I know it might not be that interesting now, it mainly focuses on building up the relationship between Umiko and Yushiko and making Yushiko open up to her. It might take a long time before the story gets interesting so please be patient with me ^^; Also this is the 10th Chapter! Finally! ~Sigh~ I can’t wait to make the story dramatic… but that will need to wake a few chapters more TT.TT… it might even be 20 more!!! I know it might seem a bit romantic, however there is a term for this: it’s called romantic friendship ^^.

 

I woke up early in the morning, of course I didn’t feel like getting up though and I closed my eyes once again thinking about Umiko-san’s words last night, I was surprised at how much I thought about her…

-          Yushiko-chan, are you awake? – I instantly forgot about falling asleep again as I heard Umiko-san’s voice.

-          Oh! Yes I am! – I said in a surprised tone.

-          We actually are… going to an aquarium today… – Umiko-san said half asleep.