Genocide Online ~Playtime Diary of an Evil Young Girl~

to be in disbelief at first, but then she shouted, “Stupid Yuu!”

It wasn’t something that she hadn’t done before, but this time it felt different.
It didn’t feel like banter, it felt like she was really angry at me.

I didn’t quite get her reaction, and I didn’t like how she started shouting at me, so I replied by saying, “Why are you suddenly yelling at me!?”

“Isn’t it alright!? You’re so tired of being with the same person each time, so at the very least I have the right to reply in whatever way I want!” She exclaimed.

I didn’t understand why she was so worked up, but I didn’t feel like staying silent once she said that, so I started arguing back, “Huh? You say that, but you’re the one who always avoid me at school because you’re scared of being seen together with the otakus!”

“Yeah, because I don’t wanna be seen with the people that say stuff like ‘I just love seeing girls in swimsuits’ in public!” She replied.

“Stop making things up! I never said anything like that!” I answered.

“But the things you say give off this same disgusting feeling to the people on the surroundings!” She exclaimed.

Things really went downhill from that point on.
Neither of us wanted to step back, and we just kept on dragging things further down…

“But you’re also an otaku!” I told her.

“But I’m a sensible one!” She replied.

“And how am I not sensible!?” I asked her.

“Because you hide magical girl doujinshis behind your shelves!” She told me.

“J-just how do you know those things?!” I asked her.

“And you also get all prideful and full of yourself each time miss Ichijouji talks to you! How is that sensible!?” She then told me.

I really did get angry at this last one.
I just couldn’t help getting happy when a popular girl talked to a nobody like me, okay? Mai should know enough about my own self-view to understand this much.

And yet, instead of trying to calm things down, I just made it all worse, “Yeah? Because unlike Mai, miss Ichijouji is a beautiful and charming girl that everyone can’t help paying attention to!” I told her.

“I’m also charming!” She replied.

“If someone thinks you’re charming, Mai, then that person is a criminal.” I really shouldn’t have said this one.

“Y-y-you’re so stupid, Yuu!” She said as she kicked me between the legs…

“Agh… T-that was a bit too much…” I told her.

“Ah… I-it’s Yuu’s fault! You’re too stupid!” She said.

I was the one attacked, and it was my fault… I just couldn’t get where she was coming from… And now we can’t even look at each other, nor refer to each other by name… It started from something so trivial, yet neither of us are trying to make amends now.

“What a wonderful event…” Mai grumbled out loud as she carried the NPC on her back.

“Well, if you aren’t enjoying it, then wouldn’t you have been happier if you had been paired up with someone else?” I told her, bringing back what started our fight.

“Oh, but of course it comes back to this! Oda, you really can’t endure playing with a tiny kid like me, do you!?” She said.

“… Weren’t you the one who said it was such a bother to deal with an otaku like me!?” I ended up replying.

We were still quarreling.
I didn’t even know if I meant what I said anymore, but I just couldn’t bring myself to reply normally when we were like that… This really felt horrible.

After another small while of silence, Mai ended up saying, “Just try not getting in my way… Oda.”

“That’s my line… Miss Hagiwara.” I replied.

We went silent once more… Eventually we both said, “Stupid” at the same time though.

We were really close to one another, yet we weren’t talking.
We weren’t even looking at each other… She always has such gentle smile when talking to others, but she’s always annoyed or complaining when talking to me… I really felt like playing with others could have been more fun… I really felt that it could have been more fun for her at least.

I didn’t really know how to make up with her, we just kept on silently walking, ignoring the NPCs that we were carrying, who were clearly uncomfortable with the situation… Not nearly as uncomfortable as I was though.