177 Episode 177: Mari Kurosaki I




 Wake up, Mari. Everyone's awake now.
 ...Sis?

 
 My sister was attending a certain famous university in Tokyo and must have been living in a different place than us.......

 Why are you here, Lisa?
 What are you talking about? You came here yesterday to visit.

 Yeah, I was....
 It was August, and my sister's college was on summer break.

 So I came to Tokyo to visit her.

 Mea is already awake. It's just you, and you're the only one who can't get up in the morning.
 Hmm ... I'm getting up now...

 I rub my eyes as I head to the sink and brush my teeth.
 I grab some facial soap and a face wash net and lather it up.

 It's a pain in the ass to be honest, but Aili Sis says I should wash my face thoroughly because if I'm not careful, I'll get pimples.
 I don't have any pimples on my face, and I rarely have them.
 I think it's just a constitutional problem.

 When I finished washing my face, I felt clearer and more conscious.
 Yeah, I'm fine.

 I walked out of the sink and headed to the dining room.
 My sister Aili and her sister Mea were already sitting at the table.

 'Big sister Mari! Too late! You have thirty seconds to get ready!

 Mea puffs out her cheeks.
 Mea is in eighth grade. It's the tightest time of her life.

 Maybe that's why she often uses words she's learned from anime, manga, light novels and internet novels.
 To be honest, I have no idea.

 I'm sure my sister understands a few of them, but I'm not sure.

 "I'm done getting ready. I'm coming.

 I sat down in my seat.
 The three of us clasped our hands together.

 ""I'll take it!"






 'Ah! Hey, mea! That's my wiener! Give it back!
 No, I've already eaten it.

 Mare opened her mouth wide to indicate that the wiener had gone into her stomach.

 I don't know how many times this has happened.
 To have Mea take food away from me.

 This girl will snatch people's food off the side if she likes.
 It must be because she was spoiled because she is the third daughter.

 "Mea, how many times do you have to take something from someone to make them feel better? Stop taking my food off the side!

 Then Mea stood up and stood up in a chair, in a human position.
 Then he pointed to his own mouth with his finger and shouted.

 'Do you remember how many pieces of bread you ate!
 Bu....

 Aili sister gushed for some reason.
 I'm the only one who doesn't know the original story I'll ask her to lend it to me next time.

 ''........That's enough. Have it your way.
 We won! Part 3 complete!

 Aili's sister burst out laughing.





 After we finished breakfast, we headed to the arcade.
 The plan was to play out until noon.

 'Eat!' The Final Flash!

 Mair threw a green shell at me from behind.
 Three consecutive shots, and it wasn't thrown at random either.

 It's a calculated attack that even incorporated reflexes.

 ''Ugh........''

 I manage to avoid it.
 Hmmm, I can't help but move my body when I play these types of games where I control the car.

 'Ahhhh!'

 Mare screamed.
 It looks like she slipped and fell on the banana I had placed behind her.

 You have to watch the screen.

 "You're a hundred years too young for Mare to beat me.
 "What the.... Blue Explosion!

 It's nothing.
 It's just a blue flame that comes out when drifting.

 ''But you're good ... my sister. You can do it.
 ''Hmph, I'll show you that the difference in age is not the decisive difference in strength. ........Well, my tits are going to overtake big sister Mari's as soon as possible, though!

 Jeez, you cheeky kitchen.
 I'll show you how it's done.

 I'm going to crash my car into the item box, hoping for the best.

 Come on!

 'Ugh ... another banana ...'
 Hey, Banana Girl!

 A red shell flies in from behind.
 Ugh, it's a pain in the ass.

 But my bananas are the three-connected type. Let's show them how to defend themselves!

 ''Huh, you're very good at this, Mari-sister. You prevented the first one but I have two more shots. Sis loses her banana and she's naked! We won! Part 3 complete!

 At that moment, me and Mari's car blew up.
 What, what........

 That's what happens when you use the same story twice.

 To my surprise, big sister Aili, who turned into a missile, pulled us away!
 Aili, you're lucky every time....

 After that, Aili's sister won by a huge margin over us and was the first to win.

 'The finish line! We won!

 Despite being twenty years old, Aili's sister raised her arms and gutted her guts.

 The first one is Aili Sis.
 Next is the battle for second and third........

 I mean, me and Mare are going at it!

 I say a prayer and touch the item box.
 Come on! No bananas! Come on! Don't come the banana I'm here!

 We've won!

 Okay, we won! 
 We won!

 At the same time, Mea also raised her voice.
 Mmm, Mea also drew a good one.

 ''Hmm, are you ready, Mari-sister?

 Mair keeps drifting and getting closer and closer.
 I keep drifting and increasing my speed too - but to my chagrin, Mair is better at dribbling than me.

 Before I knew it, Mea was right behind me.

 'Eat my ripples!

 At that moment, the character Mea was controlling changed to rainbow colors.
 Nah, if it hits you, you'll die.

 Ora-o-rama-o-rama-oa!

 Mare is moving left and right, trying to blow me away.
 d*mn it, hold on, avoid it somehow, me! 

 'Waste, waste, waste, waste! Die quietly!
 'Mea, your character is not stable.

 Aili's sister is making a strange lunge while looking at the high ground, but it doesn't matter.
 I'll just focus on avoiding them now!

 d*mn you're alive!

 He manages to avoid the onslaught of Mea.
 Mea is nowhere to be found.

 "So mea. I hope you don't die.

 I used the star without reservation and without mercy.

 "Ki, you can wear a ripple...

 Mea blowing away. Me at the finish line.
 I won!

  Compared to not finishing, it's not that big of a deal.

 I can hear the loser's line!





 Where do you want to go next?
 'I want to go to Harajuku! I want to buy clothes!

 Aili is a perverted girl who recites the entire Six Laws and the Japanese Constitution, and reads the Communist Manifesto and My Struggle in the original text.
 Mea is an itty bitty girl, in the midst of a mid-life crisis.

 But I'm just a normal high school girl who likes to dress up in a normal way. At least I think I'm normal.
 So I want to go to Harajuku!

 'Yes! Let's go to Akihabara. Akiba! Akiva! Akiva!

 No! You were there yesterday!

 We haven't gone all the way around. Besides, Mari-chan was going nuts in her magical girl costume.

 No, that's because Aili and Mea forced me to...

 Puella Magi Aylin, Merlin and Marylin come to my mind.
 I forcefully erased the black history from my mind.

 'Anyway! Harajuku!
 Okay, Harajuku then. Mea, let's go to Akihabara tomorrow.
 Hmmm, I don't blame you...

 Mea easily backed off.
 She knew from the beginning that her demands wouldn't be met today. Mea is that kind of girl.

 She'll complain about it for no reason, but when she realizes it's no good, she'll back off easily.
 I envy her for being so handy like that.

 Okay, let's go. 
 Hi!





 Hey, what kind of man do you want to marry, Aili?

 Mea suddenly asked big sister Aili.
 Aili Sis nodded her head.

 ''Why do you ask that?''
 'I get confessed to about three times a month by boys but I don't know what love is...'

 I know the feeling.
 I get many love letters and confession emails a month.

 But I don't really understand what love is, so I turn them all down.

 Haha, Mari and Mea are just as popular as I am. I've been asked out about 10 times a month since I came to university. I've turned them all down.
 Why?
 Aren't you interested in relationships, too?

 'My sister Aili answered me and Mea's question.

 I prefer heroes. ─ I like heroes, because they always win when they lead their soldiers, and when they make a speech, the people immediately support them. Outwardly I want a snob who is a good man, but deep down inside he is full of vanity and ambition. I want to be that kind of person's woman....

 Aili sister's eyes were completely maiden as she spoke like that.
 Hmm, I guess this is the all-time virgin type.

 ''That kind of person doesn't come along very often.
 But if you open up the history, it's true that he was there in the past. Oh, I thought there would be interesting people in Japan's highest school, but I knew it would not work in a peaceful Japan. A peaceful Japan is no good. I wish I could have been born in the past, in a different world, or in any other place where people like that could emerge.

 What is he talking about?

 'Sis, you'll be a virgin for life if you talk like that?
 Yeah well, the worst part is I'll raise them myself.

 I stared firmly into Aili's sister's eyes.
 Those eyes are beautiful and clear. Oh no, I'm serious. I have to do something about this guy.

 "What about Mea?
 Me? Hmm, I don't know if there's a particular type I like. ...Maybe I should give it a try and fall in love?

 Mea begins to worry.
 I guess she saw big sister Aili pursuing her ideals and decided she didn't want to be this high-minded woman.

 'What about Mari?'
 I don't know if I can do this.

 But I don't want to have premarital s*x, do I?
 I'd like to graduate as romantically as possible.........................

 "You're blushing, Mari-chan. You were thinking naughty thoughts, weren't you? Yeah, you're a horny little slut.

 Ugh, May!

 After a few moments of arguing with Mea, I look next to her and see that Aili's sister has her arms crossed and her eyes are closed.
 I turn to face Mea.

 ''Aili sis, it looks like you're 'reading'.
 'Really, what kind of head structure do you have? Your sister is more of a cheat than the protagonist of a bad comic or novel.

 We cowered our shoulders.
 According to them, everything you see once can be remembered like a photograph, but...

 A short time later, the train begins to slow down. 
 We are close to our destination.

 When the train stopped, Aili opened her eyes and stood up.

 'Oh, the train has stopped. Let's go, you two.

 Aili sister takes my right hand in hers.
 I take Mea's hand with my left hand.

 It's Mea, me, and Aili Sis, in a row.
 When the three of us got off the train and were about to head to the ticket gate....


 It happened.



 Squishy.


 The world bent.
 The world undulates and the world warps. Swaying.

 Disgusting....

 Hey, what's going on? Oh, sis, you're scaring me....

 Mea makes a sound like she's about to cry.
 I don't know either.

 I just have a feeling that something is incredibly bad...

 Don't ever speak to me.

 With an unusually nervous voice, Aili's sister squeezes my hand tightly. 
 I also gripped Mea's hand tightly.

 Before I knew it, my vision had gone dark.
 The people who had been walking around us until now have disappeared before I knew it.

 This, this place........
 Ugh, I'm shaking ... I'm losing my mind ...


 -Our guest again? -

 -Who called you? You again? -

 -It wasn't me, wasn't it you? -

 -It couldn't be me. If it's not you then it's not me.

 -Hey, hey, hey. Would you stop always putting me in the dark? It wasn't me.

 A childlike voice runs through my head.
 Something not good is happening.

 But!

 You know, the three of us won't be afraid of anything!

 The moment I screamed...
 Both arms felt hot.

 '....Huh?

 My wrists and beyond were gone.
 My vision wavered, the pain coming late.

 'Ouch, ouch, ouch!

 The next thing I knew, I was in the woods.
 I looked up at the sky.

 There was a full moon shining there, far more massive than the moon I knew.

 Where am I ... where?

 -Welcome back, uninvited guest. I don't know about this, but I'll take care of the injury for now.

 The child's voice echoes.
 The next thing I know, my wrists are back to normal.

 I manage to get up.
 The pain is gone. Still, I can't get out of the shock of losing my wrist once it's gone.

 'This is........big sister Aili! Mea!!!

 My screams faded into the dark night.







 -But the question is the point at which my arm was cut off. Normally, in transition, things that are attached to the body follow you.

 Again?

 Mari speaks to the void in a sour mood.
 She's feeling bad because of the nightmare she had.

 Yes, the dream right after the transition, when her happiness was knocked down to despair...

 I've heard it a thousand times. After all, you don't know. You don't know where your sister Aili is, or where Mare is.

 -Well, yeah. But the time line you were transported to can be deduced to some extent from the fluctuations in space-time. You can tell that there's been a gap of a few hundred to a thousand years or more since Mari's transfer. Good for you, because if you're 10,000,000 years apart, it would have been very difficult to meet...

 It doesn't matter, then.

 Mari sighed.
 She's a useless elf at a crucial moment.

 -But hey, it's really a mystery. If you believe the conservatives and the amused, this is a transition that no one intended. We're the last ones to push the terms of the transference. But we didn't do anything about it this time. That, plus the severed wrists...

 -Maybe there's some kind of interference from another dimension that we can't observe.

 If you can't interfere, I'm even less likely to do it.

 -No, no, no, no, no. It's a different story when you have the magic. -

 The fairy laughs happily.

 ''I'm on my way to the southern continent right now for a hint of that. Our sailing is tomorrow, are you ready?

 Hi-hi-hi, I'm ready! -