ーHAYUNー

A gust of wind under the night sky comes through your window, bringing with it leaves from the nearest trees, and as one of it falls right on top of your forehead, you open your eyes in confusion, taking that leaf out of your face. A deep breath you inhale as you raise yourself from the bed, glancing at your own reflection in the mirror. The corner of your lips raises in amusement at how much your face changed in this world, yet your hair and eye color remain the same.

You turn around and examine the room you are in out of curiosity. If you weren't mistaken, this should be your dorm room, quite a pity that the interior design looks kinda empty and plain, but you guess, the developers want the players to spend their money if they want a room according to their preferences.

As you are about to check out the bathroom, the sound of vibration causes you to stop dead on your track. You turn around, a smartphone lying on top of the drawer near you, and a sense of nostalgia invades your mind as you recall a game that you once played in the past that gave each of the players a phone to help them with their tasks. You are now sure that this game is the same as the one that you played. After all, they were made by the same company and both of them are dating simulations, except this one is a yandere version and that one is mostly vanilla.

Picking up the phone, you unlock it with your fingerprint and aren't surprised to see message boards pop up.

『we welcome you to the world of yandere dating simulator! here you can romance any npcs that took your fancy, but beware, depending on their setting, some of them might not react positively upon being cheated on』

『players can see the schedules of the climate and temperature within the game on our website, and the time in the game will not stop even after you exit the game. please noted that npcs that have their love meters lower than 90% will have them reset if the players log out for more than three days』

『once an npc has their love meter reach 100%, that npc will solely belong to their player, and a duplicate of that npc will be created so that other players would have their chances to pursue the said npc. of course, players can also pay to make certain npcs exclusively theirs』

『attention! players who got their avatar killed will have to pay to create a new avatar, so please play in moderation and make sure not to test the yandere too much. also, a friendly reminder for those who didn't want to spend money on this game, forming a harem might not be the best idea :)』

Clicking the『x』buttons several times after skimming through the message boards, you finally see the home screen of your phone, and there are several apps installed for the players to check out.

||Inbox|| ||Calendar|| ||Camera|| ||Gallery|| ||Coin Shop|| ||World Chat|| ||Daily Quests|| ||Contacts|| ||Conquer|| ||LINE|| ||Map|| ||Setting||

Clicking on the inbox then the gallery, obviously all of them are empty. You then proceed to click on the coin shop, and unsurprisingly, almost everything could be bought in it, even the types of furniture to decorate the players' rooms. Not wanting to spend coins so soon, you go back and click on the world chat.

#1723: why does no one tell me that the headmaster is a hardcore yandere 😭

#1723: i made a mistake by raising his love to 20% and now hes out there abusing his authority by threatening me to come to his office every time i log in!!!

#3101: for research purposes, what did you do in his office 👀

#1723: absolutely nothing really other than warming up his thighs and listening to his hobby

#1723: i mean, what do you expect???

#1723: we can only fuck npcs whose loves are above 60%. dont you know that?

#2302: then which part of that "warming up his thighs and listening to his hobby" hardcore 🙄

#1723: you dont understand 😭

#1723: its torturing me to spend my time with npcs i couldnt care less about

#1723: not to mention that i already have someone else that i set my eyes on

#1723: but if i reject the headmaster i will probably be killed

#1723: i dont want to die 😭

#0220: you can stop playing for three days. that way the 20% love meter will be reset and he will no longer bother you

#1723: 😢😢😢

#1723: thank youuuu

#1723: you're a godsend

Chuckling to yourself as you read the chat, you're now excited to see what kind of NPC you will first see when you get out of this room, so looking at the door, you decide to continue this later as you put the phone in your pocket. You take a deep breath, walk out of the room, and are surprised to see how beautiful and luxurious the hallway is as if this place isn't a school dormitory but a five-star hotel.

Must have been a prestigious school for rich NPCs, you thought, fishing out the phone in your pocket to look at the map.

『you are now on the fourth floor of the carnation building. below is a list you can teleport to. tap the destination you want to go to;

headmaster's office

classrooms [tap to see the list]

cafeteria

gymnasium

athletic fields [tap to see the list]

agriculture fields [tap to see the list]

dormitories [tap to see the list]

garden

[go to the next page ー>]』

Since you don't even know where to go, you decide to take a look at the garden, but soon after you arrived, you find out that they are many players and NPCs flirting around here at this time.

"I- Is this really necessary?"

You glance at the man who looks embarrassed to be out with a collar wrapped around his neck. His cheeks are dyed in red as he averts his eyes away from the female who was cupping his cheeks with a seductive smile. Looking at the username floating above his head, it is obvious that the man is a player and the woman is an NPC.

"Is my little kitten shy?" She tilts her head and wraps her arms around his waist, resting her chin on his shoulder.

At that moment, your eyes accidentally meet hers and the woman grins at you, tip-toeing as she nibbles on his ear all while staring at you. It's as if she was telling you, "look all you want, but this man is mine. He will never be yours and you can never do to him what I did."

"I- Iara...!" The man whimpers, trying to make her stop.

Since you don't have any voyeurism kink, you quickly avert your eyes, only to see a scene of a man slapping another man.

"I wasted $47 to woo you and yet what the hell is wrong with your love meter?" The male player who slapped the male NPC seethes in anger. "Why does it stuck at 18!"

This place sure is lively huh, you think. By the way, slapping a yandere, is that player an idiot?

As expected, the player seems to realize the danger he's in after the male NPC starts to laugh. The former takes a step back, mumbling a few apologies as he starts spouting nonsense about let's forgive and forget, alright? You notice that the other NPCs don't seem to care but players like you are obviously intrigued by this scene, some even stop whatever they are doing to take a look.

"Is my love not enough?" The male NPC tilts his head, probably with a smile since you couldn't really see his face in the dark as he takes a step forward.

"No, it's enough! It's more than enough" The male player who you could vaguely see his username as Zwen trips over a rock and pathetically falls on his butts.

Why during such a crucial time, you sigh.

"I make sure to guard you against any sluts and whores that might come to steal you away from me. I also make sure to properly shower you with my love so tell me," the NPC squats down to match the height of his player. "Why do you insist to raise my love meter that you don't even sure if it's accurate or not? Are my actions not enough to show you that I am deeply and madly in love with you, sweetheart?"

At that moment, you see something floating on the male NPC's head; it is his love meter, and you are surprised to see it rising from 18% to 57% in the blink of an eye. You don't know what kind of face the NPC is making but you did hear Zwen gasps, probably in surprise at the sudden rise in the love meter.

The player dumbfoundedly reaches out his hand to touch the male NPC and the latter obediently leans closer to his touch. It's quite a heart-thumping moment and you can hear them saying something to each other but couldn't quite make out what it was since their voices were too low.

Suddenly, the NPC's love meter which stops at 57% raises abruptly to 78% and the player cries out for help when the NPC starts to strangle him.

"Those players never seem to learn, huh." You hear the NPCs mutter to themselves.

Since other players didn't look like they want to intervene, you didn't either, and you see how his love meter steadily raised as the player struggles to get away from the iron grip on his throat. Zwen's HP bar appeared out of thin air and it started to turn red while the love meter stops at 89%. You thought that it was going to end like this, with the player dying, until you see the male NPC's face from one of the spectators' phone lighting.

He looks like... Before you could even finish your thought, your body had moved by itself, grabbing the male NPC's shoulder to take a closer look at his face, causing him to lessen his grip around the male player's throat. You hear whispers and murmurs from the crowd, no doubt surprised at your intervention, and the male NPC narrows his eyes at you while the player Zwen looks at you with hope.

They do look the same, now that your curiosity is sate, what now?

"Are you... stopping me?" The male NPC sneers, as if daring you to admit it.

"No, not at all," you take your hand away from his shoulder. "I want to pursue you, can't I?"

At that moment, cheers erupt from the excited spectators, and the pitiful male player was left forgotten.

zwen: help (QAQ)

reader: cant you just log out???

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