I'm Going to Get Involved with a Guy in a Few Years...?

[…I-it's nothing. I'm only giving it to you because I had some left over. Don't get any weird ideas.]

“There she goes getting involved again….”

As always, I turned on my computer and started up the dating sim. At the sight of that girl showing up again, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, I couldn't help sighing.

Kim Siyeon.

The heroine who gets involved with the protagonist in almost every route, and a tsundere to boot.

[…I-I see. Yeah, I’m rooting for your love.]

Maybe it was because she was a tsundere, or maybe because she was a heroine who got conquered no matter what, but outside her own route I had to watch her become the losing heroine again and again.

And it wasn't as if Kim Siyeon's route was difficult, either. Her affection went up twice as fast as the other heroines' just from talking, so after a few conversations and a single event, she'd be completely conquered. She was the easiest heroine to win over.

Sometimes, even when I was pursuing another heroine, Siyeon's affection would end up higher than the target's.

‘This is so annoying.’

It wasn't that the character herself annoyed me.

Kim Siyeon's design was so beautiful that I thought she was the prettiest girl in the game. I loved her so much that she was my number-one pick.

And that's why. That's why it annoyed me.

“What route can I take where Kim Siyeon doesn't get involved?”

Except for the harem route—which was really just the womanizer route—there was some way to avoid getting involved with the other heroines. So why was there nothing like that for her?

And even in the harem route, she was the first one to get involved, yet her tsundere nature meant she couldn't say anything about it and couldn't even join the harem. Watching that made my blood boil.

You made her hotter than the other characters, so why are you treating her like this…!

Her short blonde hair, fair skin, cute expressions, and the way she tried so hard to look cool, and so on.

And she wasn't even a nasty tsundere! At most, she'd give him homemade chocolates while pretending she'd bought them, or say she hated him and try to push him away, only to get disappointed and tell him he could come a little closer as she edged toward him herself. She was the absolute peak of sexiness…!

…Yeah, even setting her personality and looks aside, the game was promoted using Kim Siyeon in the first place, so why did they treat her so terribly in the actual game?!

I hate the game company…!

Of course, since she got involved no matter which route you took, she had far more screen time than any of the other heroines.

The problem was that she had barely any content in her own route, while they piled on losing-heroine scenes until they were practically overflowing.

“…Maybe I'll stop.”

I'd lost the will to play.

I'd kept digging through the game, thinking, ‘I'll find a route where Kim Siyeon isn't the losing heroine!’ But now that I'd struck out again, I genuinely didn't want to play anymore.

She was going to keep being the losing heroine anyway.

It felt like everything I'd done up to that point had been for nothing. I was hit with a wave of disillusionment….

I liked her so much because she was exactly my type, and I'd done my best to find some way to save her. But maybe it was time to let her go.

“Sigh… I should just go to sleep.”

In the end, I gave up, deleted the game, and headed straight to bed.

…If I'd known I'd wake up the next day staring at an unfamiliar ceiling, I would've stopped myself from going to sleep, even if I had to bash myself over the head.

==========

“An unfamiliar ceiling.”

As I stared blankly at the ceiling and said those words, I heard a pleasant, higher-pitched voice that sounded nothing like my own.

…In other words.

‘Is this what they call being possessed or something…?’

Was this one of those regression, possession, or reincarnation scenarios you often saw in novels?

—Though, honestly, where in real life did regression, possession, or reincarnation even happen?

No matter how I looked at it, the only conclusion I could reach was that I was dreaming, so I just accepted it and moved on.

‘So it's a lucid dream….’

Usually, even when I dreamed, I was in my own body. This was the first time I'd ever dreamed in the body of a complete stranger, so it was kind of fascinating….

I got out of a bed I'd never seen before and struggled to climb onto a chair at the vanity, a little less than half my height, so I could look in the mirror. A little girl was staring back at me.

A girl with blonde hair, golden eyes, and a wavy bob.

…A certain character came to mind, but I shook my head, thinking there was no way it could be her.

Kim Siyeon couldn't possibly be this young.

‘Kim Siyeon isn't this little.’

In the dating sim where Kim Siyeon was a heroine, [Red Bouquet], she was, what, seventeen in the story? There was no way she could be a tiny little kid who looked like she was just about to start kindergarten, right?

“Would a status window actually appear if I called for it? Hehe….”

If I yelled “Status Window!” like in all those novels I'd read, would there be a flash, and then a transparent blue window that only I could see would pop up?

…….

“What am I even saying… Pfft.”

It was so absurd that I laughed to myself. After that, I kept yelling “Status Window! Status Window!” and laughing on my own, over and over, until—

“Mommy's home~”

“…!”

At the sudden appearance of a woman who opened the door and announced she was Mom, I flinched and immediately shut my mouth, which had been about to yell for a status window again.

…I mean, even if this was a dream, I was far too shy to start shouting “Status Window” in front of someone else.

I didn't know if it was just my innate personality or because I'd spent so much of my life as a loner, but whenever someone was right in front of me, I got embarrassed and wanted to avoid them….

‘It's not like I want to stand out that much just because I'm in a dream….’

Right, right. I only started yelling for a status window a moment ago because I was a little excited.

“Y-you're back…?”

“Yep, I'm home!”

She wasn't really my mother, but she seemed to be the mother of the body I was moving around in right now.

Even an idiot wouldn't ask “Who are you?” when someone came in saying “Mommy's home~”

“Here you go, Siyeon~”

“Y-yes….”

The ‘Mom’ who looked about twice my size crouched down and spread her arms wide, so I hesitantly went over to her.

…H-honestly, who could say no when a beautiful blonde woman with a huge chest spread her arms and told them to hug her?

Of course, the problem was that the daughter this ‘Mom’ was hugging had a guy in his twenties inside her. But there was also such a thing as the placebo effect.

‘…Wait, Siyeon?’

My name was Lee Siyeon, but this body looked nothing like me and was a different sex, so there was no way ‘Mom’ could know who I really was.

…Could I really be Kim Siyeon?

N-no way. There was no chance this little kid was the short-haired, busty, tsundere beauty Kim Siyeon I knew—

“There we go.”

“…U-ugh….”

As ‘Mom’ stroked my back and cooed, I immediately got so embarrassed that my thoughts ground to a halt.

O-of course, being hugged by such a beautiful woman was part of it, but now that it was actually happening, I felt like my pride as a man was crumbling….

‘I-it's a dream. It's a dream, so this can happen… right?’

Well, maybe I'd been that shocked by all my efforts to make Kim Siyeon happy in the dating sim coming to nothing.

I'd wake up eventually, and it would all be reality again. For now, I should just be content with being hugged by a pretty woman….

==========

Why hadn't I woken up from the dream?

The day I started moving around in this body had definitely been Saturday, and I'd closed and opened my eyes twice since then. So why couldn't I get out of this dream?

After being hugged by ‘Mom,’ eating had felt strangely realistic, and falling asleep in ‘Mom's’ arms had made me miss sleeping with my own mom when I was six.

…Then I woke up, still in the same body, and started to feel like something was wrong.

Honestly, now that another day had gone by…

‘I-is this really possession…?’

I had no choice but to reach a conclusion that was nearly resignation.

No, seriously, possession?

Was the possession I'd only half-believed in actually real?

Even pinching my cheek hurt, which seemed to tell me this was reality. And aside from being way before the dating sim's timeline, the name of ‘Mom,’ who called me Siyeon, was Han Sua, just like in Kim Siyeon's backstory….

The more certain it seemed that this was Kim Siyeon's childhood in the dating sim, the more resigned I became….

‘I'm going to get involved with a guy in a few years…?’

It was a complete disaster.

A few years from now, I was going to get involved with a guy and become a heroine who could only masturbate in defeat whenever I didn't pursue Kim Siyeon's route…?

‘Absolutely not! I absolutely refuse!’

You might wonder who would want to get involved with a guy, but I hated the idea so much that I could honestly say I hated it more than anyone else in the world.

I only play dating sims because the girls are pretty, not because I want to get involved with the male characters…!

I hate the game company so fucking much…!

“Siyeon, the daycare bus is here!”

“Y-yes!”

Whether I liked it or not, now that I'd become a little kid, I had to go to daycare.

Riding the daycare bus felt like I was on my way to the execution grounds….

‘…R-right. I still have plenty of time, don't I?’

The dating sim wouldn't start for a long time yet, and I had plenty of time before then. If I worked hard to prepare before it started—

“Hi! Wanna sit here?”

“…Huh.”

—I thought there'd be no way I'd ever get involved with him.

A boy with a face that was handsome by anyone's standards asked me to sit beside him, and I froze on the spot.

What kind of ridiculous plot contrivance is that?

That's obviously the protagonist, isn't it…?

“No.”

I was on high alert, knowing I absolutely couldn't get involved with him, so I refused immediately and went to look for another seat.

…But there were no seats left, so I ended up sitting next to the boy who was probably the protagonist.

I should've just kept my mouth shut….

‘This is so embarrassing….’

I wished I could hear, ‘Ta-da, it was all a dream!’ and go back to being Lee Siyeon, the twenty-year-old man.

I really meant it.