The Winner Wasn't Really the Winner, and the Loser Was Even Less So...

A strategy guide could mean "taking someone down," so it could mean dating the heroine, or it could mean killing her. Just like how other games talked about "strategizing against the boss"—that couldn't possibly mean dating the boss, could it? So there was absolutely nothing wrong with saying that taking out the heroine counted as conquering her! "So that's the kind of Eriri you are?" Still, strategy guides aside, this was downright horrifying. Sogo Doma couldn't help saying it. Eriri Sawamura: "..." She seemed to have won, yet somehow also hadn't. As a GALGAME enthusiast, she only wanted to ask one question—why was such a pure, beautiful romance GALGAME so terrifying? Either the male protagonist got killed, or the heroine got killed. Were relationships between boys really that scary? The heroine clearly knew nothing; she had merely become engaged to one of them, yet she was now facing death. This was no longer just ruining someone's childhood—it was destroying her longing for all beautiful things! "W-Why..." Especially when the poisoned heroine in the game looked at the male protagonist in confusion and asked, "H-Has the spirit of the samurai really d-disappeared?" To that, Sogo Doma and Utaha Kasumigaoka only wanted to say: What right did someone who treated others like suckers have to talk about the spirit of the samurai? But Eriri was different. After all, the character she controlled had never been treated as a sucker by the other party and was still friends with her. So she had simply betrayed her friend in order to be with her childhood friend. How could kind-hearted Eriri accept that? Listen, even Sogo Doma had said, "So that's the kind of Eriri you are..." Her reputation was ruined! Relationships between boys really were terrifying. Yet just as she was thinking that, the