She simply couldn't tell the difference between the game and reality.
Or rather... later on, she no longer wanted to distinguish between them.
Thanks to the male protagonist's gentle care during her newbie days,
she finally made up her mind to confess to him in the game.
And in the game, she even became his wife.
That was where the problem arose.
She believed that since they were already husband and wife in the game, their marital relationship was real. So they were husband and wife in reality, too.
Therefore, the male protagonist was her husband.
But the male protagonist didn't see it that way.
In fact, that was how any normal person would see it.
It was fortunate that the male protagonist had inherited the ever-gentle, easygoing style common to Japanese light novels.
Otherwise,
if he had been replaced by some ruthless harem protagonist,
then let alone Tamaki Ako,
even Mrs. Tamaki would have been effortlessly manipulated in a matter of minutes.
"Ma'am~ You wouldn't want your daughter to..."
Something like that?
In short, the entire main storyline was about the male protagonist gradually falling for the heroine under the assault of her matter-of-fact yet bizarre understanding of things.
As a side note,
the other characters in his guild all had their own reversals as well.
The male protagonist honestly used a male avatar.
As a result, every single male friend she knew was actually using a female avatar.
But because his first love in the game—the female player—claimed that she was cross-playing and was actually a boy in real life,
it dealt a tremendous blow to the male protagonist's young heart.
That was why he insisted on separating the game from reality no matter what.
But in truth,
the audience all knew...
that the female player had only