Chapter 1 (2/2)

With her mother being the daughter of a fairly large enterprise, her grandfather and uncle, who very much regretted that they gave Tsubaki’s mother and the ungrateful man the permission to get married, raised and spoiled Tsubaki as recompense for their mistake. As she grew up, with the authority that was given to her by her grandfather and uncle, she used this authority to torment Mio’s everyday life again and again.

For some reason, Tsubaki was always present at the meeting place for capturable characters. She used her followers to splash water on Mio and damaged any of Mio’s belongings as she pleased. There were also more persistent and malignant things that she had done such as abducting and confining Mio, and won’t let her go to the place where capturable characters can be met with, and so on.

Also, she believed that she can make her father’s new family feel guilty towards her by using the family name Kurahashi, and she stubbornly refuses to use the Mizushima family name, even though the family had already taken her in.

Eventually, Tsubaki asked her grandfather and made the company that her father was in go bankrupt, and successfully made Mio’s family suffer out in the cold after knowing the death of Mio’s mother.

Especially mentioning Tsubaki, who always appears at the meeting place with the capturable characters. “What, you think it’s the capturable character? Too bad, it’s Tsubaki~”. It was a surprisingly bad joke where one can feel the production team’s intent of annoying the player. What’s more is that this scene was randomly generated so it can’t be predicted at all.

Tsubaki could not allow for Mio to experience the feeling of happiness, and that obsession had become her reason to live. That’s why, no matter who it was, Tsubaki will always appear when you pick a character that you want to capture, and they were thorough enough to change the content of harassment by the change of the capture character. There was also that time where she had put a tsukkomi, Just where the hell do these production teams get their motivation from!? In front of the TV screen.

What’s more is that which any of the characters that you try to capture, the ending scene will always be Tsubaki committing suicide

I believe that there are no other games like this which truly is bad for heart.

After watching all of the endings, Tsubaki thought, Why don’t you lot might as well make a Tsubaki Capture ending too! She would always think like this back in her previous life.

Furthermore, if Mio is not in any sort of romantic relationship with any of the capturable characters at the end, Tsubaki will appear suddenly while Mio was recollecting the fleeting memories of the three years that she spent in the academy on the rooftop on the day of the graduation ceremony. When this scene occurs, a conversation will begin.

“I hate you who took away the place where I rightfully belong to! That is why now, I will take everything from you!”

After saying that, she tackled Mio off the the ground and pushed her along with her off to the edge of the rooftop where they both plummet down to the ground rapidly and came the Double Suicide ending.

Even the normal ending had no hope at all, or rather, it was a bad ending! It’s not normal at all!

Tsubaki remembered the game’s content from her previous life and started to tuckered out because she kept put on the tsukkomi in her head. But when she remembered something, she began calming down. If I’m not wrong, then there should be a more safer route– to which, she began digging up her memories once more.

In there, she remembered that [Koi Hana] was a Double Heroine system where there was the half-sister Kurahashi Mio and the scholarship student from a normal household Natsume Touko, the second heroine that can be selected. Mio’s gameplay started in middle school, because there were plenty of valuable events many of the players played Mio as their first heroine, and after they had a taste of how irritating Tsubaki can be, after the ending, players who started to become serious in playing the game began to pop-up one after another.

In contrast to Natsume Touko, she started out in high school and the difficulties were remarkably much lower than Mio’s.

Touko, who dreamed of becoming a painting restorer, enrolled at Takamine Academy’s high school division as a scholarship student. She wanted to enter Takamine Academy’s Art Department where the more famous restorationist teachers, it’s history, and various connections pertaining to the field of restoration. Especially with the Art Department’s high pass rate, when it comes to the general examination test, people without talent or ability can not pass. That’s why she came and took the high school examinations test with the aim of entering the Art Department as an internal student.

Although Touko’s family came from a humble background, her father was a director of a listed company so they were more prosperous than any of the ordinary salaryman household. But as expected, it was impossible to pay the tuition fee for Takamine’s high school division and the university department so she persuaded her parents to enrolling as a scholarship student, and that was Touko’s background and setting for the game.

Actually, Touko had met with Kyousuke when she was in her third year of middle school, and she also had that feeling of meeting him again.

Thus, if Touko were to be chosen as the Protagonist, Tsubaki wouldn’t make her appearance except in a specific route, and the game can be cleared relatively peacefully with the other capture targets. That specific route was called Mizushima Kyousuke’s Route, Tsubaki’s cousin from her mother’s side of the family.

Kyousuke too was the same as Tsubaki, he lost his mother when he was still a child. Growing up without much exchange with his father, he distracted himself by sharing his loneliness with Tsubaki, who was the same as him. Putting it simply, it was codependency.

After losing his mother, the adults only showed mourning on the surface, and because of the fact that his father was so obsessed with his work to the point that he didn’t have his family in mind, Kyousuke began having a feeling of distrust with other people and got spoilt by the servants who had pitied him. He grew up with a great arrogance Ore-sama bastard personality, and the only one who he trusted the most was Tsubaki, who was also similar to him in a sense.

In the first place, the one who had deeply influenced the negative changes of Kyousuke’s personality was Tsubaki herself. There was a side where he was being dragged down by Tsubaki’s negative emotions. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Tsubaki had brainwashed Kyousuke.

And the one who had managed to do something about it was none other than Touko. Kyousuke slowly opened his heart towards Touko because of her cheerfulness and somewhat airheaded personality. After this, they later on became lovers, and that’s when Tsubaki began on making an appearance.

She really is a Yanderu. No it’s not a typo, she’s clearly a Yanderu. Not a Yandere.

Calling Kyousuke a betrayer, Tsubaki pointed a knife to Kyouse and Touko. When seeing Tsubaki swing the knife– Tsubaki remembered how she barraged the skip button in her previous life at that part.

At the end, covering Kyousuke, Touko was stabbed and died, and that was Kyousuke Ending 1. There were also other alternate endings. When Kyousuke was the one who got stabbed and died, that was Kyousuke Ending 2, and in the case that both Kyousuke and Touko escaped and ran away, and that Tsubaki realized that she can’t kill him, filled with despair from Kyousuke’s betrayal, she ender her own life, and that was Kyousuke Ending 3.

After seeing all of these endings, it’s finally the true ending.

Touko, who was stabbed, was saved and was rushed towards the hospital. When she opened her eyes, she looked at her hand and can see Kyousuke grasping her hand. After she had regained consciousness, he told her about Tsubaki’s suicide. By the way, in Ending 1 and 2 Tsubaki will suicide too, no matter what. She didn’t have an ending where she could survive. Tsubaki could not help but think that the productions staff were way too thorough.

By the way Tsubaki is not coming out in any of the other routes. Naturally it’s because she didn’t have any hatred towards Touko.

That’s why, when choosing Touko as the protagonist and clear a route besides the Kyousuke’s Route, it was really peaceful. “Ah, this was a Shoujo Game.” This is became the natural reaction when players remember the game’s concept.

By the way about the Kyousuke’s Route in Mio’s part. In that part, Kyousuke sees Mio as an enemy at the start and has no other feeling towards her other than hatred.

Who would blame him? His attitude towards her was justified seeing that she was the child of the woman who caused the death of her aunt.

However, after some exposure, Kyousuke gradually became attracted by Mio’s natural kindness and was moved by her strong will. But he knows that she is from the family that can also be said as an enemy of the Mizushima family, and his cousin Tsubaki’s half-sister.

After Mio and Kyousuke got together, and as result of worry after worry, the two decided to elope as soon as they graduated.

And while Tsubaki tried to stop the two from eloping, she couldn’t do anything. She was shook off and the two lovers ran away. With the rejection from Kyousuke, Tsubaki was in despair and had cut her own life away.

This was the rough content of [Koi Hana] which Tsubaki had played in her previous life.

Tsubaki wanted to cry, but there were no tears, when she realized that she was reincarnated as Kurahashi Tsubaki, the one who had no choice but commit suicide in the end of every path the player takes.

But, Tsubaki herself doesn’t have any will to acting for Mio’s sake.

Here, Tsubaki wondered why the setting in the game was different from the present, and asked Mio who was still had a gleeful expression on her face.

“What do you mean by this being a detached place?”

Hearing this question, its as if Mio had heard an idiotic question asked by an idiotic person. She had a condescending look upon he face as she smugly answered Tsubaki’s question.

“Isn’t that obvious? Because me and my mother are living inside the main house. Who Father loves are only me and my mother you know. And the proof is that you lot got chased away in this distant and remote place. Also, all the servants are taking care of us in the main house.”

Mio told Tsubaki as if it everything that she had said were right and was very obvious.

However, Tsubaki felt something was amiss there. Why did Mio and her mother lived in the main house while in the game she previously played, they lived inconspicuously?

In spite the game’s setting being different, Tsubaki wasn’t able to understand Mio’s attitude, which she looked like everything that had happened were a given.

Looking at Tsubaki who kept silent, Mio has misunderstood and thought that Tsubaki was in shock because she wasn’t loved by her own father. Satisfied when looking at Tsubaki, she returned to the main house after saying what she had wanted to say.

Quietly watching Mio’s retreating figure, Tsubaki was in bewilderment because of the differences in the game’s setting.

But, Tsubaki began to calm down when she remembered that she was still 4 years old.

Tsubaki remembered that in the game, her mother died when she was at 5 years old.

It is a fact and no doubt that this world is [Koi Hana]’s world. Nonetheless, because of the setting differences, she began to catch sight of odd things.

First, Mio and her mother who stayed inconspicuously in the game, for some reason, lived comfortably in the main house. Furthermore, Tsubaki and her mother got driven to a distance place. And above all, she can’t imagine her fragile beauty mother to change to became the raging woman like in the game.

Also, about her being reincarnated, it was very likely that Mio was also a reincarnated person.

And the most important point from all of that, is that there was almost no possibility for Tsubaki to become the crazy, psychopathic Tsubaki that was introduced in the game, also Tsubaki doesn’t have any will to die at all.

Based on those, she considered that this world would not always progress forward like it was in the game.

If so, then there is no mandatory power and it is possible to change the future, maybe the game’s essential parts did not change, but if there are possibilities then there is worth in trying it.

What’s more, from the conversation before, Tsubaki felt that she would never can come to like Mio.

She thought that because she is the Heroine, everything will go as she wants. Because she is the Heroine, she looked down on others.

Like hell I’m going to let my cousin (not met yet) to be taken away with a woman like that! I won’t let you take away my peace! Tsubaki determinedly thought and grasped her fists strongly.