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Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai

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Part I

Huh?

What laid before was a vaguely familiar sight.

A pink and white startup screen with Japanese writing scribbled in the middle in black red and yellow writing.

Behind said writing was a group of five girls. Who all seemed very familiar.

Yukie, Miyako, Momoyo, Kazuko and Chris.

Majkoi- Samurai girls I think the name of the anime was, though I ended up playing the visual novel before I even knew an anime existed.

That was years ago though… Maybe three? When I was sixteen?

Am I dreaming? I have to be. I'm viewing this anime start screen as if it's virtual reality or something.

I continued to examine the screen.

In the white portion, there were many things written in pink. Such as "Start, load tutorial config, and end." To my knowledge, these were always there, but now there's a 6th option. "Create a character."

Create a character?

Didn't make any sense.

In the visual novel, you read the story through the eyes of Naoe Yamato and makes decisions for him. There's no real need to make a character.

So why is that an option?

Out of what seemed to be a mixture of curiosity and instinct I reached out for the option with my hand, touching it.

The choice was soft to the touch.

When I touched it, it lit up and the screen completely changed. In front of me was an anime character that, almost resembles me.

Brown skin, black short dreaded hair, brown eyes. Yep, that was me all right.

"Hair, skin, eyes, torso, legs," were all options lined up next to the appropriate body part.

Could really edit my own character?

Reaching out to hair I tried to click it. I was able to pick through multiple styles or even make my own hair longer.

Well, let me think. I don't really want to change my hairstyle so maybe I'll just make it longer.

And as such, I made my hair about an inch longer than it was.

After that, I edited my body a little. Didn't change much, made myself an inch taller to stand firmly at six foot and that was about it.

Okay? Am I done now?

On the bottom right-hand corner of the "Screen", I saw a finish button to which I confirmed.

Once it loaded in I was once again in front of the Majikoi start screen.

Okay, now, what's really going on here?

At first, I just wrote this off as a stupid dream, but I've been here for a couple of minutes now and it's already the most consistent "dream" I've ever been through.

Also, it's way too vivid. Everything seems way too… real. And now that I am lucid I should be able to control and contort the dream even a little bit if I want to but nothing is changing at all.

It's a bit concerning.

What's even more concerning though is how I can't remember what I did before this. I can't remember if I went to bed or was knocked out somehow or anything. At most I can remember what I ate for breakfast this morning but that's about it.

What to do, what to do?

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Well, I guess there's not much I can do besides stay here in the main menu and press "Start".

So despite my lack of judgment I reached forward and pressed the start button.

I had no idea what laid ahead of me.

But I'm sure of one thing.

It ain't gonna be boring.

Part II

April 20th, 2009

Monday

Unknown Location.

When I came to I… uh… Had no idea where I was at.

Looking around I realized I had been standing idly on the sidewalk near a somewhat busy street. People gave me dirty looks as the were forced to walk around me.

"Sorry, Sorry," I put my hands up in defense as I backed up towards a building, so the flow of people could come through as I collect my thoughts.

Just a moment ago, I was in a white a pink void and now I'm in the middle of a city?

Could I explain it any other way besides a dream?

But the sounds of the cars, the brightness of the sun blinding my eyes along with the warm feeling of it on my skin… All of it was way too vivid to be some kind of dream.

Looking down at my body I was surprised by what I was wearing, as I instantly knew what it was. It was the school uniform from the school that everyone went to in Majikoi. What was it called again?

Just as I thought that A bright blue yet partially transparent box popped up in my face.

[Quest added:

"I'm Late!"

Description:

You're now a student of the famous Kawakami Academy and your classes start soon. Make sure you arrive on time for the full experience.

Reward:

Arriving on time: 100 Exp

Arriving late: 50 Exp

No Show: 0 Exp]

What in the hell is this?

It almost looked like a pop-up from a video game or something. "Quest added"? What in the hell is that supposed to mean?

Though that wasn't the only thing on the message. Under it was two choices. Accept or Decline.

Well… I'm still not completely sure if this is a video game or not… and I have nothing else to do. So…

Reaching out I tap the small "accept" button.

Wait a minute… I just realized… if this is a cool ass dream why am I wasting it going to school?

I let out a sigh, there was nothing I could do about it now though…

I looked down the street where most of the people were waking. It seemed to lead to an open square area.

There's one problem…

I look down the other way which seemed to lead to a train station.

I have no idea how to get to this damn school!

[Would you like a waypoint to be set up for your quest?]

Damn, I really thought of everything huh? This dream is amazing.

I click the accept button relatively fast this time, compared to the last one.

That's when a bright blue neon arrow appeared on the sidewalk. Pointing in the same direction as all the other people are heading.

Well, even I could have guessed this was the general direction I had to go.

So when does school start anyways? The name of the quest is called "I'm late."

I shrug and start walking in that direction of the school. That's when I noticed in the bottom right-hand corner of my vision I noticed that I was walking about 3 miles an hour.

Oh, that's a nice feature.

It also told me how far my destination was.

6 miles away.

So... two hours?

Looking up, I tap the menu button and observe my quest. Reading the description I press on the "expand" button.

[School starts at 9:00 sharp! Don't be late!]

Luckily the time for me was in the top right-hand corner.

8:30.

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I have thirty minutes?

Well, looks like walking isn't going to cut it!

With that, I took off running, sliding in between the people in my way on the street.