Defy Fate : The Shattered Game

　A deafening roar was preceded by an explosion of blinding light.

　When I opened my eyes to see what all the fuss was about, I saw a scene that was no different than the scramble crossing in Shibuya where I was sweating and walking in the summer heat.

　A place that can only be described as a classic coffee shop, illuminated by faint warm lights, appears in my eyes.

"Chihaya-senpai, what happened? In a daze."

　Chihaya. Who is that?

　The platinum blonde girl in front of me, holding a tray behind her back, asked a question, her mouth hanging loose as if she had just seen something unusual.

　"Do you have a fever?" the child continued, but who are you asking that? And I'm the one who wants to ask what happened.

　If I remember correctly, I bought a lottery ticket thinking that I wouldn't win anyway, but I was so excited to have won 700 million yen in total between the prizes before and after my dream that I went to a certain mega bank to cash it out.

　No matter how much I dig through my head, that's all I remember after leaving the house today.

　Besides, I'm not strong enough to kill time by stopping at a coffee shop on the way to get a lot of money.

"Chihaya-senpai, are you really okay? If you're that bad, can I call Mayu?"

"So, Chihaya."

　The girl in front of me, dressed in a classic maid outfit, kept asking questions while pouting her lips, and I tried to say what I was thinking.

　Then, what came out of my throat was a dignified, clear, high-tone voice.

"What...? What happened...?"

"That's what I want to ask you."

　"Did the screw in your head come loose?" the girl in the maid costume said in a voice that made it hard to tell whether she was joking or seriously worried.

　If I looked closely, I felt like I had seen this child's face somewhere before. No, she didn't feel like it, or rather she saw it often on a daily basis.

　As my confused brain regained its composure, I looked over the situation and noticed that I remembered the interior of this coffee shop-like place.

　When I picked up the hem of the dress I was wearing, I saw that it was a long skirt that looked very similar to the one the girl in front of me was wearing.

　Also, the high-pitched voice that came out of her throat kept calling me the name "Chihaya".

　As I pick up the fragments of memories and facts one by one and piece them together in my head, I have no proof, but a bad feeling emerges.

"What is it, Senpai? Is there something strange on my face?"

``Maybe your name is...Kitami Yukina isn't it? "

"Chihaya-senpai, did you hit your head? Are you sure you're okay? If I'm not Yukina Kitami, then who in the world am I?"

　It's not like the "enemy" has changed.

　The girl in front of her, Yukina Kitami, pouted her lips and looked like she was about to call someone with her smartphone.

　Oh, good. It would be better if they didn't have guns pointed at them because they suspected that the ``enemy'' had changed.

　First of all, I need to clear up a misunderstanding.

　I cleared my throat and calmed my voice.

　Remember. How did "I" speak?

"I'm sorry, Yukina.It was a little confusing."

"Lunch time was unusually busy for our family. I wonder if Chihaya-senpai is the type of people that easily sick."

"Yeah, let's leave it at that."

　With this, the bad feeling I had was completely confirmed.

　A girl named Yukina Kitami. A coffee shop where the uniform is a classic maid uniform. And my name is "Chihaya".

　There is only one conclusion that can be drawn from this.

　This isn't the world I lived in.

　Unless I'm dreaming, I can say with 100% certainty that it's true.

　Because it is.

"Sorry, I'm going to go to the bathroom and wash my face."

"I don't really understand, but it's better if you do that. Well, I'm going to take a break."

　After a short exchange, I quickly headed to the employee bathroom, keeping an eye on Yukina, who was taking a break.

　When I looked into the mirror in the washroom, what I saw was not the face of a 25-year-old part-time worker with dead eyes and no ambition.

　A cool beauty with a harmonious balance, Yamato Nadeshiko, there are many ways to describe it, but a face that is familiar to me, although not mine, is reflected in the mirror.

"...Saijo Chihaya"

　I mutter.

　no doubt. Her belief was confirmed after her interaction with Yukina and the fact that she had just looked in the mirror.

　This is what you call it, reincarnation into another world. It must be so.

　There is one reason why I can say that. This face, Saijo Chihaya, and Kitami Yukina are all so familiar to me.

　Yuri action ADV game "Magical Girl Magica Dragoon".

　I don't know if you can call it during my lifetime, but before I was reincarnated into this world, it was the name of a game that I was addicted to to the point of rottenness.

　The characters that appear there do indeed have the names ``Chihaya Saijo'' and ``Yukina Kitami,'' and their appearance and voice match the characters that appear in the game.

　I thought reincarnation into a game world like this was something that happened in manga or juvenile novels, but I never thought it would happen to me like this.

　I don't know why, but the events have happened so suddenly that I feel like I've come full circle and calmed down.

　And just like that, the vague memory regains its clear form.

"…I see, I…died?"

　The reason why that light exploded was because a huge meteorite fell into the scramble crossing in Shibuya.

　And, sadly, I turned to dust without ever getting my dream of 700 million yen, but in exchange, some god or something had the mercy of sending me to the world of the game I was so into when I was alive. It might have been.

　If I were to be reincarnated into the world of a game that I was so immersed in that I forgot to sleep or eat, and if I were to be reincarnated as the main character, a beautiful girl, I would normally be in a situation where I would burst into tears and have a runny nose.

　--Yes, if it was "normal".

"I don't know if you're a god or a goddess, but you're doing something unnecessary!"

　I don't know if it was God or Goddess who made me do this unnecessary thing, but as I screamed this into the mirror, I was devastated.

　In this game called ``Puella Magi Magica Dragoon,'' the world I was reincarnated into is, to put it bluntly, at a dead end the moment I was born.

　If the mob's life was easy, the heroine would die over something small. In the end, the main character also dies. A super shitty game that was ridiculed for having a lot of dead bodies and multiple bad endings. That's what "Puella Magi Magica Dragoon" is all about.

"And Chihaya Saijo is the character who dies in the tutorial! This is no joke!"

　In other words, if I didn't do anything, I would be doomed to die for the second time in my second life.

　My second life RTA, I think this is probably the quickest, but it's not.

　I can ask Yukina and others about what month and day it is later, but if things go as planned, I'm destined to die protecting the protagonist from the "enemy".

　This is no joke, why should I be forced to reincarnate and die early?

　So why not just ignore the main character and let her die? If that happens, it will get clogged.

　Quick story is game over. In any case, being a protagonist means that you are in an extremely important position in this world. That's right, the main character.

"In other words, there's only one thing I have to do...!"

　Protect the protagonist, and protect your own life as well.

　There is no problem if you can do both. Even if you aren't ready yet, you have no choice but to do it, because if you can't do it, you'll die.

　However, I've been playing this shitty game with multiple bad endings to the point of rottenness, and I've read so much of the setting material that it leaves a hole in my mouth.

　Why did I bother to do that? I simply wanted help.

　The conditional branching was so unnecessarily complicated that I was frantic, wondering if there was even a true ending.

　Well, there was nothing like that.

　Regardless, being reincarnated in this world as ``Saijo Chihaya'' may have been unfortunate, but at the same time it was a blessing.

　Because this girl named Chihaya Saijo...

"According to the setting, she is the strongest magical girl...!"

　In the original work, she is a senior character who died protecting the protagonist from a surprise attack by the enemy, but she is the strongest magical girl in terms of her versatility in abilities and combat power.

　If it's as written in the setting materials, and if I can use my experience of playing the game to death trying to find an ending that isn't bad, I might not die.

　But for now.

"...I guess I have to get used to this body."

　When I touch the bulge that slightly pushes up the maid's uniform, I can feel the soft sensation of a core remaining on my fingertips, and even though I'm wearing it under a skirt, the pants feel tight.

　And the feel of the skirt, which is long but smooth.

　From now on, I have to live my life as a part-time magical girl, so I have to start by getting used to my body.