Chapter 4:

Double Love, Double Feelings (Part 2)

If You Really Love Me, Then You Should Love Yourself First!


“We’re back, Sou-chan.” Say Rina when I opened the door for them.

“I’m going to the room first, you can sit first, Rin-san.”

“OK.”

I know something was off, but back in the mall, Rina realize it for me.

Why I easily differentiate myself so fast?

Rina, sit in the sofa and sip a tea I prepare earlier. It’s a refill of course. I’m not gonna let people to drinking the drink that already sit for 3+ hours.

“Sou-chan, I want to ask that you’ve already know the questions.”

“Yeah, I also want to talk about it.”

But Immediately I say, “How!!??”

It’s startled Rina a little bit, but I think, Rina also want to ask the same thing.

“Umm……That’s what I want to ask too. But that’s my second questions.”

“Huh?”

Wait, she has two question for me!?

“Umm, the question I want to ask, no. I want to check something out. Do you really controlling yourself and Touka-chan herself?”

Oh!?

“Yes, I do. Even now as Touka, I changed into my comfiest cloth I had.”

“Not that detailed.”

Rina’s face is getting red, Rina calm herself and ask me, “So you know already my answer. What do you think?”

Wait, did she still not sure, or just want to confirmed it to myself?

“I…I…I think it’s a congratulate mo….moment to me. Fi….finally I had someone I loved for so long, to become my girlfriend.”

Rina’s face is getting redder and redder once I finished my stuttered answer.

Rina touching her own face, I think is because she’s too embarrassed. But from this perspective, I know she also happy as well.

As Touka, I get out from the room, and sit beside myself.

Because of that, Rina is distracted from her embarrassment.

She clear her throat, and say the important question to this

“Ugghhmmm……. That can be asked later after this. Now, you already know my second question.”

“Yeah, about that, to be honest, I don’t know how to explain it. It feels natural to me as Touka to refer myself as Onii-chan, instead to call directly by my own name.”

“Just like you are a different person from the beginning.”

We’re paused for a second. I drink up the tea that I prepared earlier.

“Hold on, maybe I know the answer.”

“Really!?” Ask Rina flat.

“Yeah.”

I speak as Touka this time to make it understandable.

“So, right now I’ve got two bodies that I control at the same time.”

“Yeah, we know this already.”

“So, automatically I had a set of brain. Two different brains in two bodies separately.”

“So?”

“So, I had two brains that I control. Even if it’s me in the control, doesn’t mean the two brain will be one-by-one comparison. There’s must be a different in sort of ways.”

Seeing Rin-san still a little bit confused, I continue my explanation.

“It’s like a different console or PC, Rin-san. Even if you’ve had a same programs or games inside, it still behave differently when you using it, because the device is different from the beginning.”

“Ah, so that’s why. Now I can make it sure right now.”

“So that’s why I start calling you Rin-san and calling myself as Onii-chan. Well, even though my mannerism is like a copy-paste from Onii-chan but with my own style as well.”

I ending up my own explaination with, “See, I call myself again as Onii-chan. But other than that, I don’t know how I’m already think or behave like this.”

“So, it’s like a,…….a nature for you, I understand. So, as we know, I know we had a same class in the school, four of us are. But, my real question is, are you ready?”

“What in the, why do you asking Rin-san, of course I ready to go to school tomorrow. I can’t skip class, after knowing that I too, had my own life.”

Rina is smiling to me.

“I see. If that is your will, that I need to support it as well. Because I also your dear Onii-chan new girlfriend.”

I blushed both as Touka and myself.

“Haha, you’re both is blushing, how cute.”

“Leave it!” “Leave it!”

I half scream to Rina.

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Now it’s the time. After Rina back to her apartment, I want to do this so bad and this needed to be me alone, well, I mean, me and Touka technically.

“IT’S GAMING TIME!!!” “IT’S GAMING TIME!!!”

I shouted together.

“Oh, I hope it’s not getting out, otherwise I’m in trouble with other neighbor.”

“You started it first Onii-chan.”

“I know, sorry.”

I already finished my own dishes, and I want check it once again.

“OK, eat done, dishes done, hours is good, PC is ready to use.”

“Snack?”

I think about the snack in the room.

“Nah, we’re not snacking in the room.” “Nah, we’re not snacking in the room.”

As I say it, I, both go to our respective room, turn on our PC, and play co-op game.

I open my communication app, and call Touka.

“Come on, we’re in the same house, why you took so long?”

Touka is not answering for a while, and 10 seconds since I called, she finally answer it.

“Finally. What took you so long?”

“Oh, you know, girls stuff.”

“What do you mean? You don’t have to do anything beside open the app.”

“There’s a girl stuff that I need to do, you know. Anyway, what’s the game today?”

“How about, RPG game?”

“That again? We’ve playing it a thousand times. But sure, OK. I’ll open it.”

“OK, I just login. I’ll wait in the lobby as usual.”

Oh my god! It’s already thrilling.

Sometimes, I don’t have a friend to play together, especially when tomorrow a school day. But now, I had my own sister.

‘Study’ you say? We’re already did, you know. Me and Touka already studying for class tomorrow before we eat dinner.

“Alright, I’m in the lobby where are you?”

“The usual.”

“The second pillar? OK.”

Touka found my avatar in the second pillar. Wow, even though in this world Touka’s account we’re already exist, but wow. Touka’s avatar, is really beautiful.

“Wow. Your avatar, is reaaaaallyyy beautiful.”

“I know right! Once I logged in, I mesmerized by it. But I customize it a little.”

“Ah, so that was your ‘girls stuff’.”

“You should know it too, you know. Since you’ve already got Rin-san.”

I cut Touka real quick, “Anyway, what do you want to do right now?”

“Let’s take this quest.”

“OK, You started it, you should host it.”

“Fine by me.”

We started the quest and the games night is officially begin.

Mid game I realize that I didn’t say much when I play the game, either Touka who’s becoming my support. I mean, technically we don’t have to communicate because both me and Touka are the same person.

But, earlier conversation is making the game session for a little is livelier rather than I say nothing on either side.

*Quest Cleared*

“Finally it done. I want to do that quest so badly since 2 months ago.” I say that while stretching my body for a little.

“But we can’t, since no one want to join. Especially at this hour.”

I look at the clock, and it say ’10.10 PM’

“Wow, nice gaming. OK, let’s get back to the guild associate, so we can claim the prize.”

“And get to school tomorrow.”

“That too.”

We rushed ourself to the guild associate and get the quest reward. Then we logged off from the game, turn our PC off, and rushing to the bed.

When we’re in our bed, we’re remembering what happened in just two days.

I confess to Rina, got split + have a twin younger sister, and continuing lives as nothing happened.

That’s about it, maybe.

Wait, there is one more. How on earth Kai is not remembering the ‘original’ me? And how everyone else believe that Touka is my twin from the beginning.

OK, that’s two, but you’ve get the point.

Ah, let’s think about it tomorrow. I want to sleep.

I close my eyes, and let myself drifting into the land of dream.

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I watch him from his rooftop because I was curious. I grinning a lot, because they are my personal amusement. I mean, of course it’s because of me, but it’s also Souta and Rina’s wish. How can I let a good wish being forgotten? Of course I need to fulfill it. But if I fulfill it in usual way, it’s gonna be boring. I don’t want that.

“So, what are you gonna do next, Souta, Rina. I expecting something from both of you.”

I say that while I fly away from Souta’s roof, and heading back to my own shrine.

“I hope you’ve make your own stories, for my amusement of course.”

I laughed a little because I know, their story, is just about to begin.


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