The Player is a Part-Timer

Chapter 4: Code: Prey Denied!

"It was perfect, Ise-kun!" a young pair walked on the paved road, making their way through the park. For an outsider, they looked like every teen in their age — a cute girl with raven black hair, and a boy with a messy brown one on a date.

Aside from the girl's otherworldly appearance, she and the boy made a lovely couple. The only strange thing was, why the two walked in this gloomy park in this mysterious time?

"Thank you for escorting me home, Ise-kun! It is terrifying at night!" she snuggled on his shoulder, making the boy's face redden even more.

"Ah...! It is nothing, Yuuma-chan! It is the least!" or, this is what he learned from those animes he watched so often. Yeah, if not those things, movies, and date simulators this boy played under his life, he would have no idea how to treat a girl.

"After all! I can't let a pretty girl like you walk home in this late time of night!"

"Th-thank you!" Yuuma's face seemingly turned redder, turning her head away embarrassed.

Slowly, the two reached an open square, in the middle with a beautiful fountain and several benches surrounding it.

"Oh! It is so romantic!" squealed the girl, dragging the boy close to the water. And indeed, with the dimly lit place around, the whole square had an eerie romantic atmosphere.

"Ise-kun, can I have a question?"

The boy's eyes widened for a moment. This is it! It is his chance! Finally, he will lose it!

Even in this dimly lit place, he perfectly saw the girl, adrenalin pumped through his veins, making his pupil focus on the utmost limit. And at the moment she leaned closer; her cute pink lips were perfectly visible as she pursed them.

"This is it! Mom! Dad! Your son will have his first kiss! From a girl!" Issei could barely hold back his tears. He never thought he would live long enough to say it, but "That's it!"

Day after day, he and his friends faced mockery and rejection! Day after day, he imagined his death as a miserable loser!

...

Balding, found dead in his dark apartment. Around him, his room filled with empty pizza boxes, cans, and dirty material — porn magazines, videos, and H-games. From the still live screen, a cute animated girl pleading: "Onee-chan, are you here? Please punish me, nyaaan! Punish this dirty princess!" endlessly begging to his now drooling dead body.

...

Yeah, a genuinely miserable picture. And Issei almost immersed himself too long, just to in the next moment, with a mental slap, come back to reality, celebrating his closing kiss.

"Finally!"

"Ise-kun, can I have a request? Just to celebrate our first date."

"Yes, Yuuma-chan! For you, anything!" and he just grinned like an idiot, nothing can ruin this moment.

"There is something I want you to do. Can you listen to my wish?"

"Wha-What is the wi-wish you want?"

And the boy obliged, nodding continuous, grinning like no tomorrow. His heart like a hammer, almost jumping out from his chest.

"This is it! This is it!"

"Would you please die for me?"

"Eh?" Isei was confused and was like he didn't get what she just said. Why his "girlfriend" would say such a thing?

"Excuse me, Yuuma-chan, what did you just say? Can you repeat it, please? I think there is something wrong with my ears."

"Will you die for me?"