Game On!

New Game

As I stepped out of my room, I heard distant laughter and chattering coming from my right, a lot of people seemed to be talking in the living room. I looked to my left to see that the hallway didn't seem to have any sort of restroom in it.

I guess I have no choice...

I walked to my right and slowly went into the living room. Nine different people were talking to each other in separate groups. I frantically looked around as everyone was scattered, until I saw someone notice me and slightly gasp. As soon as someone noticed their reaction, everyone's eyes suddenly turned towards me, and a very scary silence filled the room. I stopped dead on my tracks.

Why is everyone looking at me like that?!

"Oh... y-you must be the new guy we've been expecting!" A female voice said.

I looked over to see the source of the voice, and I saw a crimson-haired girl stand up and walk over to me. Her outfit was a bit unusual, as she was wearing a red wizard hat and a jumper of the same color along with what looked like a chest plate, she was also wearing a skirt with a darker shade of red to go with her outfit's color scheme. She's even wearing a sword hilt, that has something that looks like a sword stored in it!

She nervously walked up to me and looked a bit towards my direction before looking down, avoiding eye contact. She looked around, looking anxious, she was trying to build her sentence.

"Well uhh... I guess we should all present ourselves to you, just walk up to someone and introduce yourself first, you know... just like in the dating sims." She said, letting out a small awkward laugh.

I could hear slight chuckles coming from a few people. Everyone was looking at me with either a serious gaze or a relaxed look. Well, what now? Do I just... walk up to her and say hi?

Confused as to what I could do next, I took a step forward and gave her my hand.

"I-I'm Seizon Eien... the Survivalist... nice... to meet you...?" I said, hesitating on each word.

She took my hand and shook it.

"You're a bit nervous too..." She said.

"Yeah, sorry about that..." I apologized.

"You don't... have to apologize y'know..." She said.

She let go of my hand and backed off a bit.

"I'm Yakuwari Chiyo. The Role-Player, nice to meet you too..." She said.

I nodded with a smile, and then everyone slowly started talking to each other again.

"Sorry for scaring you... We kinda do this as a tradition... We don't really want it to die off." Yakuwari said.

"I see... It's fine, I still liked it quite a bit!" I replied with a small nervous laugh.

"Alright... Well, feel free to introduce yourself to everyone... I'll stay here in case you have any questions..." Yakuwari said.

"Gotcha." I replied.

I couldn't help but notice the hilt on her back, a sword handle was poking out of it. Surely that's a prop, right...?

I decided to ignore it for now, and I looked around for people to introduce myself to. I spotted the boy I walked past earlier when I first entered the establishment. He always had that weird serious expression on his face, slightly accentuated by his semi-long dark blue hair. He was wearing a grey scarf along with a dark blue jacket, with a striped black and white shirt under, he was wearing black pants that matched his shirt. I decided to walk up to him. He noticed my approach and looked at me with an unusual stare.