Chapter 7: Falling asleep in a dream?

...Is it too much to say that I really love you?

That's how I felt about it, but maybe I shouldn't have sent it via RINE.

Well, I'm in a dream, so I guess It should be fine.

“Haah… Something like this. So this is what it feels like to RINE with your crush”

In the real world, I never had a crush.

There are girls that I think are cute or beautiful, but I've never really liked them.

So, to be honest, my first love is Sei-chan from "Ojojama".

It might be a little painful for my first love to be someone who's 2D, but I guess it can't be helped.

I'm so happy to be able to RINE like this in such a realistic dream with such a girl.

Seriously, this dream, I hope I never wake up...

PomPom~

Whoa, she replied!

“Well, I'm very flattered, but please don't praise me too much. I'm dying of embarrassment.”

Ku…!

The message alone is so cute it's killing me...!

I'll take another screenshot of it. Haha, so precious.

I really do love Sei-chan, after all.

I want to stay in this world forever and make her happy.

In the original, Sei-chan would almost certainly never end up with Yuichi Shigemoto. Sei-chan is in a position where she hides her feelings and helps Shiho Fujise instead.

In the process, she finds herself alone with Yuichi Shigemoto, which makes her a little nervous.

It’s probably due to Sei-chan's personality. She’ll keep her feelings for Shigemoto hidden for a long time until they get together. [TLN: they probably refers to either the Shiho x Yuichi ship or Kaori x Yuichi ship]

I'd rather make Sei-chan happy than have her go down that route.

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“He-Hey, this message is fine, right?”

“Yeah, I think It’ll be fine. In my opinion it's less agonizing than the previous message.”

"What was the degree of agony before? Is it less than before?”

“Of course it was agonizing, I'm dying of embarrassment. But the Sei-chan right now is too cute not to take a picture of...”

“W-Why?”

“I'm glad I was able to see Sei-chan be this cute, it's thanks to Hisamura-kun.

“It’s not like I belong to him or anything, Besides I showed Shiho many things that I can’t show to Hisamura.”

“....Sei-chan, Why don’t you just pick me over Hisamura-kun” [TLN: WOAHH YURI] [ED:yooo]

"What do you mean? I mean, Shiho already has Shigemoto, right?”

“I’m not going out with Shigemoto-kun.”

“We-Well I’m also not dating Hisamura….yet”

"Oh, that's a very funny way of putting it. “We're not together ‘yet’.”

“Ah... NO! You’re wrong, I don’t have any plans to go out with him- Eh? I just got a reply from him”

“Fufu… Good timing, so what did he say?”

“Uuu…  What’s with this guy, why’s he doing this again?”

“Come on Sei-chan, tell me what’d he say.”

"Kuu... “I'd be very happy to go out with you, Sei-chan. I'll make you happy for sure.”...”

“Uwaaaaa~ You guys should just get married already.”

"N-No, that's too soon! We don't know each other at all yet, and maybe after we went on a few more dates, then maybe we could...!”

"Fufu, So you’re going to go out with him?”

"Noooo! Shiho, don't tease me too much! I'll get angry too!”

"Haha, sorry. You're just too cute right now.”

“Damn it… this guy… How does he go ahead and say such embarrassing things.”

"Sei-chan also said some embarrassing things, so both of you are about the same.”

“I-I haven’t said anything too embarrassing!”

"Hmm, well, I guess it depends on how you look at it?”

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I sent that message to her, hoping that the dream would continue.

Haah... this is making me feel sleepy.

Wait, no. How can I be sleepy in a dream?

If I fall asleep like this, I might be back to reality in the morning.

I don’t want that to happen.

I'd be lying if I said I had no lingering regrets about the real world, but this world is definitely more fun.

What can I say. After all, I'm in the world of my favorite manga, and my favorite character, Sei-chan, is here too.

So I don't want to go back to the real world yet.

If I fall asleep like this, I might have to go back...

PomPom~

Oh, that sound, I think I got another reply from Sei-chan.

I lay down on my bed and struggled to open my heavy eyelids to look at the screen of my phone.

“All right, don't be so embarrassing. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.”

…Haah~ I knew Sei-chan was cute.

I can already picture Sei-chan typing that message with a red face.

I still want to go out with you, Sei-chan…

I want to stay in this world forever, and keep watching cute little Sei-chan up close, and make her happy.

Ahh… But I’m already feeling sleepy

“Please let me stay in this dream forever...”

I mutter the last of my desires, as I close my eyelids and fall asleep in my dream. 

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"Shiho, I've been stuck on read for thirty minutes and I haven't gotten a response...!”

"It's late and he probably went to bed.”

“It's only about eleven o'clock. I think it's a little early for a high school student to go to bed at this time....”

"It's a little early, but it's not like you can’t go to bed at this time..”

“WAH!… Maybe he didn’t like my response and that’s why he’s not replying to my message.”

“Sei-chan, please calm down. There's no way Hisamura-kun, who's been making such an affectionate appeal towards you, would suddenly think that way about Sei-chan's reply."

“Yea-Yeah, I doubt that.”

"He probably fell asleep with his phone screen on.”

“I hope so... No, I think he might have been involved in some sort of incident...!

“Sei-chan, Calm down.”

Sei-chan was a little imaginative, and Shiho knew about it, but she had never seen her go this far before, so it was quite hard to calm her down. She can’t say she's not amused though...

(I think Sei-chan’s worrying a bit too much about Hisamura. Well, I guess it's unreasonable to say that I shouldn't be concerned after being told so much. Since Sei-chan has done so much for me with Shigemoto-kun, I have to help her out too. It's definitely not because it looks interesting... yeah of course not…)

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TLN: Alright so I'm back I know I said id do double releases but I was stuck in a hospital for half a day so sorry about that. I would also like to thank another kind sould that donated $12 dollars for me, Im really grateful.  That pretty much gets me to double release sei-chan till the last chapter. Big thanks to Spynine01 for editing this. There's not much to say so as usual, If you see any typos or mistranslations feel free to put it down in the comments or join Hamlet's discord and if you like my translations and want to support me here's my ko-fi link

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