Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 107

Congregating Comrades

「It’s the seaaaa!」

A while after the summer vacation started.

Akito punched his hands toward the sky while yelling loudly when facing the sea that he had been greatly looking forward to.

Blue sky, white sand.

The beach looked pretty after the cleaning work on it had finally  finished. There were also several facilities floating at the sea far  away.

The facilities were placed there in order to regain the beautiful  sea. They were operating even now, making the sea safe for swimming in  for a limited time.

Akito arrived here with Yakumo on train. On their way here they  caught sight of many buildings that had gotten swallowed by forest.

Yakumo looked slightly exasperated.

「You’re really energetic even after riding on train since early  morning. Well, I can understand the feeling of wanting to yell though.」

The other visitors that had exited the station and reached this  position where the sea was visible was also looking at the sea  emotionally just like Akito.

It took dozens of years and a lot of facilities until mankind was able to regain this beautiful sight.

The resort area was opened at the same time with the summer vacation.  Because of that among the visitors there were also reporters coming to  gather materials for news.

There were TV reporters and also internet news reporter.

There were also people who came to shoot the scenery for themselves.

Yakumo looked around.

「……Isn’t there too few people here? Even though the place has just opened, I thought that this place would be really crowded.」

Akito also looked around.

Certainly it had fewer people than he expected.

It wasn’t deserted by any means, but the number of people was simply fewer than he imagined.

Akito found a girl he knew while he was looking around like that.

「That girl.」

「What? Don’t tell me you’re already planning to hit on girl?」

Yakumo teased him, so Akito smiled awkwardly to dodge the question while continuing the talk.

(I also want to try hitting on girls but, it’s not the time right now.)

「That’s not it. She is a junior in my school.」

「Do you know her?」

Akito returned his gaze toward――Ikari Kanaho.

「She’s a scholarship student for sports club. I heard that she’s  really talented and she is famous at our school. Even I know her face  and name.」

Since enrolling, Kanaho had been doing well in her club activity and produced good result.

She also gave a good showing in practice match and produced better  than expected result even in tournament. He remembered how the teachers  were getting excited about that.

「That girl is cute. Somehow she reminds me of Inaho-chan.」

Yakumo too belonged to sports club in the past. She had experienced giving up on it.

Because of that, perhaps she felt slightly envious when looking at an athlete like Kanaho. Her expression looked a bit lonely.

「Err, our pick up should be here soon――wait!?」

Akito tried to change the topic, but then he found an expensive car stopped near them to pick them up.

The president――Maya came out of the expensive car wearing a dress.

Unlike when in school, she was wearing an outfit that displayed her shoulders. Her atmosphere felt different than usual.

「Sorry. I came a bit late.」

Akito shook his head.

「We’re the one troubling you for being unable to rent a car. Even so this car is amazing.」

It was a long car that was rarely seen, a limousine.

For Maya it was something normal so she tilted her head.

「Is that so? More importantly, if you want to rent a car then you can  rent from here. A lot of people from other places come here riding car,  but few of the locals rent car, so there are still many left over.」

Akito couldn’t get a car no matter what when he tried before coming here.

He was told that a lot of people used car for the summer vacation.

Yakumo put her hand on her waist and picked up her baggage.

「Is there a place to rent a car to look around here?」

Maya talked to Yakumo with a smile.

「Just going around looking at places that you normally can’t visit is  fun you know? If you want Akito, we can drive around with just the two  of us.」

Akito’s face suddenly reddened.

He thought that it was surely because of the piercingly hot sunlight and wiped his sweat.

「E-err, that sounds great. Then let’s rent a car for one day and drive around with all of us.」

In this era, it was possible to obtain license starting since high school.

All the cars were fundamentally equipped with automatic driving system. People could travel easily just by getting into car.

It was still necessary for people to get license just in case the worst happened.

That was what the government said, but the number of traffic accident was extremely few.

Akito moved to place his baggage into the car, but a man in suit got out of the car and took care of the baggage.

Akito and Yakumo were bewildered even while they got into the car.

They headed toward the high class hotel where they would be lodging.

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Inside the high class hotel.

Within a room, Lighter……Hiragi Jun was talking with the hotel’s manager.

「President, the planning this time is a big hit. I never expected for there to be this much difference with other place.」

The man was wearing a suit with well groomed moustache. His back is straight and he looked like a gentleman.

Jun was sitting on a chair in front of that manager while reading the report in his tablet.

There, an advertisement about event that provided rare item of  Pandora’s Box Garden by lodging in this hotel was being displayed.

Jun got the idea for this event because he himself wanted the rare  item, so he used his company and formed a plan to give rare item to  anyone who used the hotel.

The item would be sent after the large scale update finished.

The number of customer who came to this hotel just for the rare item was beyond counting.

「It’s great that we managed to prepare VR facility here. The  customers can get health care while sleeping. After that there are also a  lot of entertainments like beauty treatment or pool. It’s great that we  went all out with all those things.」

The manager looked relieved.

「Even though this area had just opened, it’s striking how the other  hotels are very empty. I’m glad for your instruction before this  president.」

Jun felt slightly hurt in his conscience.

The truth was he just wanted to get his hands on rare item.

「Y-yeah. After all Pandora is especially popular recently.」

The manager nodded.

「Indeed. I have heard that recently the number of players that  completely clear away their real world hobby and get completely absorbed  into game is increasing. A part of the business circle is starting to  raise their voice because of this problem……」

But even though people complained, their voices somehow got crushed.

It was amidst such situation, Jun gambled by collaborating with Pandora.

Jun pretended to read the report while focusing on the rare item’s information.

(……You can get three rare items by staying a night. That’s too few. I  want a bit more. But, I’ll have to increase the lodging fee in that  case.)

Seeing Jun thinking so seriously made the manager thought that he was  being troubled by management problem, so the manager bowed and left the  room.

(Let’s get more rare items from now on by collaborating with Pandora  in future events, but it’ll also be problematic if I’m doing it too  much.)

Jun was troubled by a lot of things as a businessman――no, as a player, but he was actually having a lot of fun.

「Now then, it’ll be great if Maya-chan’s problem can also get resolved with this.」

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In the first day.

Akito placed his luggage in the hotel before going to sea.

「Hot! The beach is hotter than I thought!」

He experienced how hot the sandy beach before entering the sea. The unexpected heat took the wind out of his sails.

Thinking carefully the sand had been exposed the whole time under the blazing sun.

There was no way it wasn’t hot.

And then when he tried entering the sea, this time it smelled much more than he expected.

He was still not used to the scent of sea water. At short distance  there was some women in university student age playing around happily.

Then some men came hitting on them before the university female students went away with them.

Akito thought when he saw that scene.

(Yosh, I’ll do my best too.)

He came here with two girls, but as expected there was no way he would be together with them around the clock.

He wanted to hit on girl when he was alone.

He was looking forward to that.

Akito was feeling interested to the act of hitting on girl itself rather than the development after that.

「Even so those two are taking their time.」

Akito went out alone because it looked like the two girls would still  take some time to finish, but then he got a thought when the two still  hadn’t appeared.

「Could it be……they are getting hit on by other men?」

That made him felt a bit unpleasant, but in the first place it wasn’t like he was going out with either of them.

But, he became concerned so he tried going back to the hotel.

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「Don’t screw with me!」

「You’re the one screwing around!」

Inside a hotel room.

Yakumo and Maya were quarreling with each other. They had worn their swimsuits.

They were wearing jacket, but underneath it was swimsuit.

They were about to go to the beach originally, but a suggestion from Maya caused Yakumo to turn angry.

「Why do I have to yield the first day to you!?」

「Because I’m the one who prepared this hotel!」

「I can still move to other hotel right now if I want!」

Maya’s suggestion was,

『We only have two days so, for now let’s invite him for a night by  turn. That will prevent any trouble from cropping up in the future. But,  I’ll be first.』

The two had decided to go all in at summer.

However, they were arguing about who would go first.

「We can just try inviting normally on our own! Why do I have to be at the second day rather than you!?」

「……Haa, you don’t get it. Have you forgotten about the Christmas last time?」

The Christmas last time.

They both drugged the other with sleeping drug.

But, for some reason all three of them drank the drug and fell asleep till morning.

They failed because they got in each other’s way.

「L-last time it was because you used drug.」

「You also did the same. Doing it with the other is also present will  just make the other snap, and Akito will get disillusioned if we drag  each other down in front of him.」

As expected the two of them couldn’t act like in game when they were in real life.

Some outrageous acts in game could be dismissed as just a joke, but that wouldn’t be the case in real world.

Akito was fundamentally kind, but the two of them wouldn’t be able to  go on living if that Akito got disillusioned with them. They literally  wouldn’t be able to go on living.

Yakumo’s gaze darted around.

「T-the second turn is more disadvantageous!」

「Stupid. It depends on how you look at it. It’s also possible that I  might fail. At that time I’ll watch over you two without doing  anything.」

And yet inside Maya was thinking,

(She’s hesitating. But, any man will fall easily when a woman seduce  them. The internet said so. Besides, Akito is sincere, so it’s  unthinkable that he’ll run to other woman right after he laid his hand  on one. Even if my confession to him failed, I know that he’s the type  who will get a bit weighed down by it later on! In this match, the first  one has the overwhelming advantage!)

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Yakumo made a thinking pose.

(This girl, she’s definitely planning to lay her hand on him first  before running away with the win. But, I won’t let that happen.)

Yakumo was pretending to be in a loss while calmly deliberating about the future development.

(I need to make her promise now that she absolutely won’t lay her hand on him. And then I’ll have her sleep like a baby today.)

There was a sleep inducing drug that she had prepared in her bag.

She had confirmed its effectiveness from the last time.

She would put both Maya and Akito into sleep for the first day, and then she could seduce him at the second day.

Maya continued giving concession when she saw Yakumo hesitating.

She was convinced of her victory, so she wanted to make a time for just Akito and her in the first day no matter what.

(……She’s losing her cool from being convinced of her win. You’re also like that inside game.)

Yakumo knew very were of Maya’s character.

Maya was also the same, but she got too focused on the bait called Akito and didn’t take Yakumo into her consideration.

(I’ll be the last one laughing. Too bad for you, Alfie.)

Maneuvering was already starting inside the hotel.

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At the beach.

Akito walked back toward the hotel, but before that he headed first toward the shower in order to clean his feet.

Then he found a group of middle school students.

「Eh?」

But, the group was strange.

He knew the three of them.

However, all three of them were wearing female swimsuits.

One of them was Nanako――Nanami.

Another one was Yukine who previously worked part-time in the same store with him.

Accompanying the two of them was someone wearing pareo swimsuit.

The person had black hair and tearful eyes. Akito called out to them when he saw that.

「Y-you three, what’s wrong!?」

They were his acquaintances and he thought that perhaps the boy was  crying because he was dressed in female outfit again, so he called out.

The boy called Saeki Kira once got dressed in female outfit by his friends. He lifted up his face and saw Akito.

Nanami and Yukine also turned around in surprise.

「――N-Naruse-san」

「Senpai, why are you here?」

He explained shortly to the two surprised girls that he got invited here by his acquaintance.

And then he looked at Kira.

「Don’t tell me you got forced to wear female clothing again? Why didn’t you tell me?」

Akito thought that Kira got forced to wear female clothing by his  friends again and placed his hands on Kira’s shoulders. From there he  felt just how dainty and feminine his body was. The unexpected sensation  bewildered him.

(Eh? This kid, is really Saeki-kun right?)

The swimsuit suited him far more than expected.

His lower body was hidden by his pareo, so he looked completely like a girl.

Akito felt anxious and looked at Nanami and Yukine. The two of them were also looking troubled.

Nanami explained the situation.

「Actually, we coincidentally ran into each other here. But, at that time Kira-kun was…」

Yukine was also making a troubled look.

「We thought that his friends surely forced him again. But, Kira-kun  ran away from us……and then, we just found him again after escaping us.」

The crying Kira spoke.

「Scary. It was really scary. Nii-chan, getting hit on was scary.」

Akito could only look dumbfounded.

「……Getting hit on?」

Nanami nodded.

「Kira-kun, got hit on by some men. There were three of them, looking like high schoolers and also very tall.」

Yukine’s shoulders dropped in dejection.

Perhaps it was just Akito’s imagination, but it also looked like she was depressed that Kira looked really good in his swimsuit.

「……It was lucky we could drag her away after we told them he is our  friend. But, when we asked Kira-kun about his situation……he said that it  was he himself who bought the female swimsuit.」

Akito didn’t know what to say.

(As expected that’s just come out of the left field.)

He completely thought that Kira was forced by his male friends again,  but for the person himself to be interested with such thing…….

「I-I don’t have any right to say anything about other person’s hobby,  and it’s not like you’re causing trouble so there’s nothing wrong with  it.」

Yukine narrowed her eyes seeing Akito being troubled of how to answer.

「Senpai, the first thing you do is just making vague statement huh.」

Akito coughed in respond to the sharp remark of his junior, then he decided to invite the three to go buy drinks or something.

「Ahaha~, even so coincidence is really scary. The chance of us  meeting during summer holiday, what’s more in a place like this should  be really small.」

Akito tried to somehow change the topic which Nanami supported.

「Yeah! I too thought that it’s really a big coincidence when I  learned that other than me there are also my acquaintances who come  here.」

「It’s amazing!」

For now Akito pondered of how he should behave with Kira while getting heated up talking with Nanami.

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