Netoge Chapter 1

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" Sorry-nya, Lucian."

[Nekohime : Sorry-nya, Lucian.]

" I can't accept your marriage proposal-nya... "

" Nekohime-san! Wh- Why? "

A certain man's dark history!!

Netoge no yome wa onna no ko janai to omotta?

" Because I... "

" U- Uwa- Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaa "

" This bastard... Damn, damn! "

" You liar! You've betrayed me! "

" Damn, damn! I'll never ever "

" believe in a girl in an online gaaaaaame! "

" ...Is what happened before. "

" So that's why- "

" Yes! "

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" Please marry me! "

(in green circles:) New series !!

Netoge no yome wa onna no ko janai to omotta? EXP.1

Story : Kineko Shibai

Art : Ishigami Kazui

Character Design : Hisasi

Funny everyday life with bad luck = Online game life

Start of a grand series!

" Did you listen to what I said!? "

" Then after listenning to you! "

" What do you mean by "then"? "

" It is definitely obvious that marrying me is fun ! "

" I don't know where your confidence come from, but anyway it's impossible! "

" So when will we marry ?

Right now, isn't it!"

" Not now! Listen to me! "

This is the story of my wife and me

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" News flash : I finally got a wife. "

" Huu? How many times does that make this year, Nishimura? "

" Or rather, what's this wife thing? "

" The wife he's talking about is just his favourite character. "

" That's right! He's the kind of guy to say "my waifu" "

" Uwa! So disgusting... "

" Stop! It hurts when you say it so honestly! "

" Nishimura, you're really a total otaku... "

" My life is more enjoyable like that, leave me alone! "

" Gross...... "

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" You're having that disgusting talk agaaain. Otakus are really gross. "

" Seriously, don't come close to me. "

" What's with you, Segawa? Don't talk like all otakus are disgusting!

There are also wine otakus or flower otakus who dress themselves stylishly in society, You're mean to these people."

" Or rather, you're the disgusting one, Nishimura. "

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" I'm not even hurt so please stop! "

" Aah Nishimura, poor thing, the truth hurts. "

" Even though he's really disgusting, you don't need to clearly state it. "

" You guys are much more cruel! "

" But Sagawa would be cuter if it wasn't for a bad mouth. "

" Do you know? It seems that my neighbor Maeda's confession was smashed. "

" What a hero! "

" By the way, guys like Nishimura seem to like Sagawa.

Look! Her face is pretty in its way, she's small and she got twintails.

" Hmm, it would be fine if she was a tsundere,

but she's only tsun so...... Oops...... "

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" ......I'll really kill you! "

" Sorry! "

" Please, please forgive Nishimura! "

" He just love twintails! "

" You're really gross...... Could you stop breathing the same air I do? "

" So cruel! "

" Kyaa...... "

" Ah, sorry, Are you alright? "

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" Ah, it's nothing......"

[ Did I scare her? ]

" The assembly will start soon... Please all be quiet. "

" Good morning, everyone. I'm the student council president Goshouin. Form now on, the school-wide assembly will start. " [UPDATED]

[ No, I really don't have a chance with a real girl. ]

[ Really, really not at all. ]

[ But. But! ]

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[ It's the very truth that I got a wife. ]

" Aah, crap...... What a pain. "

[ I would usually never do such mistakes in a very easy game. ]

[ In fact, I kept doing mistakes for a while. ]

[ And I know the reason. ]

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[ The chat window is continuously flooded by the conversation of the guild members. ]

[ It's without a doubt all its fault. ]

[ I'm not at fault! I'm not at fault! ]

" And I had Lucian come to the place we first met, and I confessed there. "

" Finally? I was wondering when is it going to happen, but to think it would come from Ako. "

" From the point of view of the Great Me, he's too slow. Yes, he's a coward lol. "

" Actually, Lucian rejected me once...... "

" He rejected Ako's confession once? Does he have a mental illness? "

" It would be inthinkable if it was the Great Me lol. He's an extreme moron lol. "

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" I suffered an inimaginable sadness...... "

" These guys...... "

[ MMMORPG
Legendary Age

A japanese medium-sized MMORPG that welcomes a moderate amount of players, with moderate action and cute graphics,

aka "LA". About 3 years have passed since its llaunch. ]

" When I prepared an enchant to put in a ring, "

" Lucian said : "you don't have to buy such wasteful thing", but the ring he gave me has an all-resistance

enhancement that worths about 20 million. "

" Uoowaaaaaa hurryyyyyyy "

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" Hey, I brought the preys, you guys! "

" Isn't this gloomy guy quite talkative and in high spirits? lololol. "

" In that case, isn't calling him a male tsundere fine? "

" Don't chat when people attract mobs! Take care of some of them, Shuu! "

" The Great Me doesn't want to be told off by a gloomy husband lol. "

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" Do you want me to stick all these enemies to you, you bastard? "

" Yes, do you think the Great Me would die from that amount of scums? " [UPDATED]

" Welcome back, Lucian. "

" It's fine so heal! Heal me Ako! "

" Sorry, Lucian. I'll do it soon so wait a little! "

[ In the time when you've been typing it, you could have already used several skills! ][is what i want to say!!]

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[Ako has casted Heal!
Orc fighter has been healed!
Orc mage 1 has been healed!
Orc mage 2 has been healed!
Orc master has been healed! [UPDATED]
Reaper has been healed!]

" What are you doing!? "

" So- Sorry, Lucian! "

" Hahaha, no need to worry. "

" Guild master! " [UPDATED]

" Look! "

" It's a staff that has been enhanced with 150 000 yen. "

" And it has a fee-based magic booster, 300 yen!

" What's with that user-ridiculing pay item! "

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" Amaaazing! The mobs were like trash! "

" Hahaha, that's the power of the legendary staff. "

[ In other words, the power of money. ]

[ That's an detestable legend. ]

" I think I used 30 of these meteorites. "

" 1 is 10 yen so 30 are...... "

" That means that one shot worths more than Lucian? lol. "

" Isn't my value too slow? "

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" Sorry, I was in the middle of talking, so I was late. "

[ This is my wife Ako. ]

[ Although it's good that we didn't end up dead, it didn’t proceed well at all. ]

"  It's because you were going nuts in the chat during the hunt earlier. "

" Anyhow, there's no problem if it isn't the Great Me but Lucian who dies. "

" Shouldn't you show the broad-mindness of husbands? [UPDATED]

Next time, you should take it easy. "

" I see. Then Lucian, please take it easy. "

" I won't! I'll go to hunt enemies again! "

" For the time being, Ako, don't force yourself, please just don't let me die. "

" Yeees, I'll do my best. "

" Thanks, Lucian. "

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" I love you! "

[ The point is, I didn't reject her. ]

[ I've a trauma so getting married is impossible!

As the result of pressing me with her enthousiasm that pushed aside my complaint, ]

[ She had even overcame my cowardice. ]

[ I got a wife inside the game]

" Aah, I'm tired...... "

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" Lucian, have your XP increased? "

" Well, a little. "

" Thanks for your hard work. You were killed many times, sorry. "

Luciaaan!!

Ding...

" It's true that today was more dangerous than usual. "

" Bu- But... "

[ A whisper chat from Ako has appeared. ]

[ Whisper or wis-tell is a conversation window between just us two that others can see. ]

" But "

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" But I wanted to talk more with Lucian. "

[ She's saying that again, huh. ]

[ Ako was a close friend inside the game since almost a year.

She's my wife. ]

[ We met about a year ago, I think. ]

[ After I gave simple advice to the beginner Ako, we got along. Since then, we often played together. ]

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[ Well, she's a person who force her own pace. But, she's not an uninteresting person to be with. ]

[ Worrying about things, becoming interested in things, talks that seemed like a joke,

and first of all, setting jokes up for me. She was that kind of female character. ]

[ Not a "woman" but a "female character". ]

[ To be frank, I'm wondering if she isn't a man. ]

[ Or rather, I'm thinking there aren't women in online games. ]

[ No, do I know one somewhere in this large online game world, ]

[ With a very low probability, could Ako be a woman?]

[But, it doesn't matter to me ]

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[ I'm "Lucian" inside the game, and Ako is "Ako". ]

[ Here, we're a "male character" and a "female character", not a man and a woman. ]

[ But Online games and reality are different things, so I don't care. ]

" However, she's clinging to you today too. "

" It's as always. "

" Isn't that a proof of love?

It has been almost a year since we met, but Lucian and Ako got along together before then. "

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" It's the natural course of things. "

" It's not like that. "

" What's with this modesty? Hmpf, damn normalfags. "

" Where do you see normalfags, at most, we're netfags. "

" That's true, but... "

" No, wait a second. Come to think about it, the normalfag is the Great Me. "

" Someone confessed to the Great Me recently IRL. "

" Hoo, that's amazing! "

" Seriously!? Shuu, are you an ikemen? "

[ Uwa, I'm jealous, or rather, I've always been jealous of him.

Shit, ikemen should die... ]

" Wa... "

" I wish you could die, Shuu-chan. " [UPDATED]

" Huh? "

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" Normalfags should die already. Confessed people should leave games. I'm feeling unhappy by being close to you,

aah, can't these kind of people die? They are the evil of the world. Hehehehehehehehehehe "

" Ako, calm down, calm down! "

" I've turned them down, I've turned them down! The Great Me doesn't have interest in love! "

" Hehihehihehihihi "

" Come back to us! "

" I also hate normalfags, but you can't vent your anger on your friends. " [UPDATED]

" Y- Yes. Please forgive my rudeness. "

" About that, the Great Me has also the same opinion lol. "

" I also understand your feelings. "

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[ Why are we in sync in our envy towards normalfags? ]

[ This guild is too distorted. ]

[ But we got along for this reason, there are only very good guys. ]

[ We're a guild of just 4 people, but I think it's thanks to them that I can have fun games. ]

" In that way, Ako and Lucian are the most fulfilled ones. "

" That's not the case! Please listen to me! "

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" This Lucian, he has rejected my confession full of love many, many times.

My lifespan has already flew away at mach speed! "

" In the end, I accepted it. "

" The journey hold more importance than the destination. "

" Yosh, I got it! Then let's reset once, and let's start all over again from our first conversation. "

" That was a lie, sorry! Anything but the divorce. Please don't throw me away! "

" Right, that's the problem. "

" You've once refused a marriage proposal from Ako? is that true? "

" I'm also curious. Was there something you didn't like, Lucian? "

" It's not like I didn't like Ako or anything, but the marriage inside a game in itself.

Even for you, reality and games are different things, isn't it? "

" What's different from IRL? At any rate, guys like you can't get married IRL.

You can always experience it here. right? "

" There's a line you must not step over!! "

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Ah, that's right! Lucian has said it.

In the past, he confessed to a man. "

" Wh- "

" What! "

" Hoo lol. "

" An unexpected homosexual love? lololol. The Great Me doesn't mind and understand lololol. "

" Aah, wait! Don't come any further! Or you'll be banned from the guild. "

" Aah, Me too. It's alright Lucian. You don't need to worry, we're friends. "

" I won't forgive you! "

" It wasn't like that. It's just a little... Look...

It's really not a big deal. "

" We won't laugh, look. "

" It's alright, you don't need to worry. have faith on your guild master. "

" It's alright Lucian. Because everyone will properly listen. "

" Hmm well... "

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" In the past, I seriously confessed to a nekama, and I was magnificently turned down...... " [ TN : nekama is a

word formed from net and okama, japanese word for a travestite. ]

" lololololololololol "

" lololololololololol "

" I knew it! Don't laugh! "

" The stomach of the Great Me, of all people, is seriously hurting lololol.

I'm laughing too much that it's even difficult to type lololol. "

" It's the first time that I've spit out coffee IRL. "

" Good job Lucian! You've been concealing such a fun story ! "

" You guys are far too sensitive! "

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" But you confessed to a nekama, right? That's too much of a dark history. "

" That's a youth's memories. "

" Forget it, please forget it! "

" There's no way we could forget it. "

" I've already took a screenshot. "

[ You guys are really rotten! ]

[ However, in reality, this honorable death was painful. ]

[ That day from 2 years ago, the shock from seriously confessing to the nekama Nekohime-san was too big.

Right after that incident, I, who dropped out from Nekohima-san's guild, kept solo-playing for nearly a year. ]

[ In that year, one truth was the reason of my recovery. ]

[ It's... ]

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[ "Isn't that fine if she's cute!" ]

[ Even if she's a man IRL, if her play inside the game is cute, isn't that fine?

I love her cuteness inside the game. ]

[ Right. I'm not being deceived, I'm seeing see truth inside the game! ]

[ Game and reality are separate things that aren't connected at all. It's the principle of the current me. ]

" Lucian, are you angry? As I thought, would it have been better not tell anyone? "

" Ah... Don't worry. I'm fully aware I'm being manipuled "

" Thanks Lucian. "

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" I love you. "

[ ............ Ca- Calm down. Calm down, me. ]

[ I've already experienced being fooled and regretted it......! ]

" I see. That's why you've been reluctant. "

[ I don't really care that much. It doesn't matter what she is IRL. [UPDATED]

But it's true thatI think it would be nice if she's a girl. ]

[ But she really is a man if you think normally. ]

[ But I'm a girl though? ]

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" I'm a cleric in L.A., because I'm a literature girl-type IRL. "

" Hey wait! Declaring that in an open chart is the greatest taboo in online games, you know? "

" Is that so? "

" That's right. You shouldn't do it anymore. "

" Taboos are trivial, because I'm a normal high-school girl IRL. "

[ The guild master is a high-school girl IRL. ]

[ He's stuffed with purchased equipments and he uses pay power boosters,

when he's about to die, he consumes pay healing items. This paying super warrior says he's a high-school girl? ]

" You can't be serious, guild master. "

" Even though I've summoned courage and have broken a taboo, with this treatment, it's rather a somewhat good

thing. "

" Guild master, that's impossible. "

" You too, Schwein? "

" Guild master, you can't be serious. "

" Am I surrounded by enemies? "

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" Hmm hmm, I got it! "

" In that case, let's do that! "

Alley Cats Guild
First offline meeting has been set up!!

" ........Huh? "

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[ And at the day of the offline metting. ]

[ Ermm...... "I'm here", sent. ]

[ I'll finally meet IRl. ]

[ The comrades in arms with who I fought together for a year. ]

[ And my wife, no, my (male) wife. ]

[ That surprised me... A message from Ako... ]

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[ Erm...... Lucian? ]

" E......uwa! "

[ It- It's a girl. A girl's voice. ]

[ U- Uuuuh, There was a girl in our guild!? Who's it!? ]

[ Rather, that's terrible. Being called by game's nickname is very embarassing! ]

" Y- Yes. I'm that Lucian...... "

" He- Hello. "

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" Ermm. I- I'm Ako. "

[ Ako. AAAko? Heeh, I was wondering if there was a girl in the guild, but Ako of all people. ]

[ That sure surprised me. She's my wife. ]

[ Or rather, isn't Ako my wife?! ]

" Ako? Ako!? Eeeh!? "

- I'm here.
- I'm coming with a white shirt on a black tunic and a white skirt.

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[ O- Oooh. After that, it's not a middle-aged man with female cloths who came but this girl. ]

" ...... Are- Are you the real Ako? "

" Y- Yes. "

[ Are you serious? It's really a real girl!? ]

[ Wooah, she's extremely cute. ]

[ This girl ]

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[ Is my wife? ]

It's really...... A girl!?