Vol 1 Chapter 1 (1/2)

Mr Two Dimensions Special

Standing in the ure

Her waving hair was silver

Her eyes were deep blue

'Takaya nothing's even happening, and I' you!'

By the light reflected in her unsheathed blade, her sooty cheeks were revealed Those ar to be sent into the battlefield, and too soft

In those wide open blue eyes, though, the power of her heart had becoht that shone intensely

'If you want to know my name, I will tell you My name is---'

”---'VJ', that's what I' you”

Vee, Jay

As if he were thinking he had to suck his chin into his ht, Tada Banri was repeating the lovely VJ's na unknown co

”Indeed, indeed, has it come to that fill us in, Mr Two Dimensions”

To that side was Yanagisawa Mitsuo His nickna for an answer, he was silent, not saying anything more

Looking at the two of them, friends as they were, seated across the table from Satou Takaya (aka Mr Two Dimensions), he hesitantly continued

”VJ's real naitte Jeomillia She's a natural born soldier However, she's actually the daughter of a legitimate royal family”

The name of his heart's bride resounded around the student cafeteria, which was already closing down for the afternoon Nevertheless, there was much more to the story

”Because of which, VJ's got a sword It's for protecting me She uses a japanese katana By the way, that sword, it wasan ancient dooh it will soht now?”

”No, that sounds dull right now I'd rather listen to a bit round, myself”

At Banri's words, Yana-ssan also nodded, saying ”for sure”

”Understood Well then, first of all some basic data VJ is fourteen years old She's four foot nine, and weighs eighty-four pounds That she's really small chested, honestly, I secretly don't mind”

”He's a loli, a loli a loli, he's a loli”, the two friends hispering between the birds

”Though perfectly under control, without emotion, in the typical voice of a soldier, she has a weakness for her favorite cookie If I say 'Look, look VJ, it's your favorite~! Eat up~!', then she says 'Ah, Takaya, what're you doing!? Those are my favorite!? Meoo!' So cute! Like a cat for catnip, for VJ her cookies were so to speak up for”

”Mmm, I see, I see”

Banri, a notepad in the pal with a pen in his right hand While affecting a frown and acting as if he etting the tip of his pen,

”Well then, just what does Bri wear, normally?”

He'd heard what he wanted to hear Right this moment it was just what he wanted to talk about

”It's a sailor suit”

”Yes, she's wearing it She's wearing a sailor suit”

Into the notepad in his pal down

”For some reason, VJ ca over to visit ever since She said things like, 'In this world, if you're a girl oflike this nor out in situations like, I have to prepare ' and then innocently wore her sailor suit Well, though, the first time she came over it was in military uniform”

”Hmm, ho ho ho ho, as a flat-chested loli in a sailor suit carrying a japanese katana and fighting at fourteen years of age, and well, excuse us, but here it's time for deliberations Hey, Yana-ssan!”

Banri ible in Yana-ssan's ear, and then Yana-ssan's brows knitted too while he whispered back There was a bad feeling as ofsecretly for a while,

”Mr Two Dimensions, we cannot condone this!”

”Ah, this is regrettable, Mr Two Dimensions”

The two of theht at the face of Takaya (aka Mr Two Dimensions)

”Why? What's the problem?”

So his head sadly from side to side, Banri pronounced the verdict

”Though it's deplorable ere thinking that it is entirely a sickness Come back already, to reality!”

”Reality? How is this a problem!?”

In a flash, answering back clearly, Takaya stared back at the two of them severely

”I have no attachment to three dimensions! Ever since, naturally, I've been saddled with the name 'Mr Two Dimensions' Real women I don't even notice, and characters drawn by other people in other places are not enough! Through and through, I ainal! Byand loving VJ!”

However,

”In other words, though for soinal? This character, it didn't already exist? Though I'a, it is absolutely so I've seen”

What Yana-ssan said was not so It was not impossible

”Hey, hold on!”

Unconsciously, he was beginning tosomehile,

”What're you saying, Yana-ssan!? VJ is coinal to me! She's the only one for me! That, I think, in part, is perhaps where one's taste coh, but that's the way the world is, isn't!? How many thousands, tens of thousands of so-called characters are being created today, right this h I think that if you were to listen to this, you would have to adinal, and I still have super i!? Or rather, listen to ood for you to listen!”

When he noticed, he was half-standing; so tone of voice he faced Yana-ssan and took his hand Yana-ssan nodded as if he were overwhelmed

”For VJ a heart-lock that's a ter!”

Heart-lock--- that was an awfully clu at it honestly, it was painful

To VJ's heart, no--- to her spirit, which had previously been e h it was understood to be a th, no--- it was a psychic device to restrain VJ's immeasurable power Incidentally, the 'key', well--- it was lost, its whereabouts as yet unknown According to one theory, that as a hu as a freshman of this school--- no That is yet another story

”Ha haa A heart-lock”

In spite of his voice showing that he did not understood perfectly, Banri could be seen nodding,

”A lock, you see, or handcuffs, or a padlock A lock especially for the heart”

”Ah, that way eh What happens when it comes off?”

”Her eyes they go violet!”

With fingers raised in a V, he struck a pose which enature-like pose hinted at VJ's harsh fate

”Eh, what's so special about that? That's enough now, Yana-ssan”

”Ah, it seems kinda cool to me, rather”

Without thinking he sighed What were these a?

”Hey now, not at all, no way You aren't understanding at all When it comes to my VJ, you two cannot understand at all What, what is with you? Even though fro, 'We want to know about Mr 2-D's beloved', but fro to understand Especially Yana-ssan, more so you, your inability to do so is truly unbelievable You cannot feel it That being so, VJ's starting to say 'I don't think I want you to knowto where she wants to turn her back on you!”

”Eh?”, Yana-ssan's well ordered face showed a frown

”If that's the case, then I apologize Of course I, since I don't have the rest of the otaku background but, after just the one piece, would it be all right if I offered an opinion? From the point of view of this brand new not-otaku”

”Though that's OK”

”You called VJ 'Brigitte Jeomillia', didn't you?”

”That's what I said”

”I've been thinking, 'Isn't that BJ?'”

There was a moment of silence

”What did you say?”

Every last drop had been wrung out fro his nose with the back of his hand, glancing accidentally towards hiy, but unable to co

”BJ hahahaha! It can't be, BJ! Isn't that 'Black Jack'!”

Eventually, even Yana-ssan wound up laughing together with hi at the table in astonishment

”B? Brigitte Is that a 'B'? You're kidding, aren't you? No way myself, by nature I mean BJ it was BJ?”

No way, but--- no! It can't be that way!

”Th that's enough! She's fine as VJ! Because I decided myself, for myself, VJ is VJ! This naht about it, the ht for VJ! B isn't cute, V it is, absolutely!”

Seeing Takaya's hardened determination to race to VJ's aid, Banri and Yana-ssan, while still sot it”

'Takaya'

What now, VJ?

'Wasn't there nothing but lecture fro? You must be really tired'

I suppose Though I'm a little sleepy, I don't have to work today on top of it, so I'll be able to take it easy back home

'That should be good But, ah, that what is it not that I want to do anything more, but if Takaya doesn't mind, that usually, what'

I know, I know, you want your favorite? I'll go and buy soh

'What you're saying to a soldier! D, did I make any particular request of you!? Ta, Takaya arbitrarily, that, gah, I hate that! Anyhow, you'll be back quickly!'

Huh? So, you won't be lonely while I'one?

'No, no way!'

VJ's face went red, and her cheeks bulged Platinureen eyes flashi+ng the color of a coral reef She wore a baggyher to about half-way down herNothing else 'Is my rear covered by this T-shi+rt? Why do other people have to wear clothing? Indeed, the hus ah, hyaa! How did a banana peel fall in a place like this!? Ta, Takayaa! My feet are slipping'

VJ~~~~~~~! You can't go sliding around without panties~~~~~~!

---Such was the conversation in his iination Naturally

He snickered, but at that very moment, he quickly stiffened his slackened jaw: he realized there was an aged for hi a handrail

In the oppositeof the train, the all too fa houses were lined up along the tracks Profusely blooed as if they were in a coroups of condons A brand new shopping ain There was a lot of noise fro off to the side Their eyes reeted by ”Why don't you take a break?”, and the old ave up his seat He couldn't breathe: it s ho about Hoshi+no Aki Since waaayy back

And then, inside his head,

'O, hat are you looking at!?'

Bah! Her rue pulled down, the e VJ had sat down

His beloved, Brigitte Jeomillia

HavingTakaya had declared his love of nothing but two-diirls

Originally, it was a small, privatehih he loved aniaazines and take up the paintbrush He even had notebooks full of notes about characters Rather than worrying about the et his ith, he preferred to build up experience in the world of his made-up creations For him, that was fun

And then this spring, as far as Takaya was concerned, was the last straw

At the welcome party for the Tea Cerereeted him, and had been coh, twice trying to deal with three-di to live in two dimensions! He remembered quite clearly he had been drunk to the point of obscenities at the ti on to the university, so to speak, felt like the proper tie, a new life Would he finally let his character stand forth?

Fro new friends, he was called ”Mr Two Dimensions”

Still, he wouldn't be able to be Mr Two Di stubborn, he tried with all his heart to love two-diled, it didn't quite go as he wished Up to a certain point, since he'd decided to love, even though he wanted to fill his thoughts to perfection, in spite of it all, every now and then the created characters didn't live up to his hopes It ell and good for a fan, but they were not good enough to be his bride for life

That being the case, he had no choice but to create his own character Despite having arrived at that conclusion, he hesitated Making hi, entirely ideal, unabashedly projected to becoirl in detail, created over a lifetiood if he loved her

So it was, and now to that extent,

'Takaya, you idiot You're mean You don't care anymore'

Definitely a woman

He loved VJ

'Hurry up lend me a hand I fell down It hurts'

Snohite beneath his hand, the platinuirl from a parallel universe

Tell us about Mr Two Di the encounter with friends at college, he daydreamed about his perfect lover

Well, when at long last he'd finally introduced thehed

'What's not good? Such things don't botherbad was said It was laughed at as if it were a joke, but it wasn't the laughter of ridicule It wasn't denial either Weren't they laughingwith you? Don't you think you would like to be closer to those guys?'

Well, I guess I would certainly agree Really, they weren’t trying to hurt me

Having answered VJ's words in his head, he stepped down through the open door to the platform of the train station closest to where he lived He recalled conversations he had with a classle public university far away fro to draw closer to his friend, he'd been texting his like ”I can'tto do?”, ”I'o home already”

Going out through the ticket gate, as he walked out into the Tokyo he'd lived in all his life, he thought about his future Cohborhood with nothing but friends froetting to know guys he could call friends in college

'And then, you've got me too'

Ah, that's so I've got VJ too

Froh a busy shopping district full of people walking, and then entered a narrow alleyway between a mixture of houses and workshops While he walked slowly down his accusto about what he had not yet done this spring

Separated fro home even, it was the season to make new acquaintances He wasn't off to the best of starts, but, the start is so that always has its ups and downs anyway It's all about the future, he thought

'But, our relationshi+p is for ever It started well, and will continue like that There haven't been any problems Isn't that so? Tell me it wasn't'

Of course not, VJ What are you talking about? Man

He approached the entrance to a s thickly Inside his head, ently, and then continued

'Because, if you and I were separated it'd be such a shock, I don't think I could deal with it'

If she were separated from her senior, it'd be such a shock, she didn't think she could deal with it

That was unexpected

””

To bring back VJ's absent and dearly aze from the park He ran away, so to speak, but not too fast: an obviously hurried trot He turned and crossed at the traffic light, going to the other side of the road Putting his back to the park, he headed towards ho strides, ”Hey, VJ”, he tried to talk to her But VJ was completely silent, and he couldn't hear any answer

Far behind him in the middle of the children's park, there was a concrete slide osaurus In the entrance of a hollowed out cavity--- was it still there, like that? It was four years ago

Four years ago, graduation cere before a class irl's words

So it was But, he heard them

That was the only thing he did that day And not just that day Since then, he hadmore

And since then a lot of tih he had intended to coet about it, his ht back to life

He had a hunch thatto him

He opened the door to his twenty-five year old house If soht have burst into laughter from how small it was

Taken off and scattered violently, shocking pink, really tall, really sli, size 7½ women's sandals That meant, namely---

”Eh”

He was blinking in shock, easily as

'What's going on, Takaya! What happened!? Sh~, did a gang make it in here!?'

VJ's fingers were creeping to the hilt of her katana, suddenly switching to coaze like a wild animal, she quickly looked around the area

”You, you're mistaken, VJ Th, this this sandal, a demon's”

'A demon, you say!? Sh~!'

”My demon older sister's Mai's ah, my room! Oh no!”

Fro you find are three doors in different directions: straight ahead is a coht is the parent's roo off his sneakers in a rush, as if to throw them away, he pushed open the door to the left-hand room and,

”Yannnn!”

A really bad preot to where he wanted to scratch his brain off

”Ah?”, wheeling towards him, the elder one, the older sister the demon, Mai

Whether it was real or fake, anyhow, blonde hair reached to her waist Sitting with her bare, sunburned back pointing towards the bathroom, her jersey pulled down to her low-risers, the T portion of her deep blue T-back panties was visible, and about half her rear exposed

”Aren't you a noisy jerk? What were you shouting, scu?”

Looking up at her younger brother, scowling like a battle-demon, she threatened him in a deep, low voice What'son but a leopard print bra Her well burnt skin exposed to the fluorescent lighting, she skillfully took a drag of her cigarette as it remained on her lips A sneer on her face, what her hand was playing around as,

”You are such a pain, you e What an ero-idiot you are!”

”Heyyy!!”

It was a laptop computer Takaya's, of course With all sorts of secret stuff Traced from three dimensions to two

And of all things, she was launching Media Player, and was surely breaking into the treasure trove of three dimensional animation he'd saved

”You say you were going to college, but you're doing such foolishness after all? Eh? Youeven ”

”St, Stop! A person's PC is private! You don't just touch it whenever you feel like it!”

<ohh! that!=”” there!=””>

”You're collecting such stupid perverted garbage, you uber-geek!”

'What's going on Takaya! Sh, just settle down, VJ will protect you!'

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”Mai-chan ive it back! Stop touching it! G, give it back!”

”Hey Mom! Look at the kind of stuff Takaya has!”

”Aargh! Stop it!”

'Takayaa! Sh! Hold on a bit, I'll be right there to help you!'

Mai--- the one year older sister-de apart=”” overboard=”” here=””> stood up with the co off her little brother's resistance, burst into the living room

”Stooopppp ittt! VJ-! Mai! Mom! Kyaa!”

Right in front of his mother's nose, turned to look towards the uproar froered colared at his older sister She laughed back at him scornfully And then,

”Hey mom, is this one's room free? I kicked him out”

She breathed out a strong cloud of s the accounts for Father's slasses and waved the smoke away from her with her hands as if in shock

”Don't fight, after all you two are already grown up More importantly, what about your appearance as an older sister, aren't you without clothes?”

”I aood? Look here, no extra fat”

Mai triu to look at, a well-defined six-pack The handsoht think was nothing ht, but Mai as afour years as an interior designer She possessed such strength, she even hauled a bathtub eighteen floors up the stairway of an apartment tower Barely as tall as her skinny little brother, she had about five tith

”Since you understood, go put so on”

”Jeez, you're such a pain, go write a reflection essay”

Cigarette still held in her lips, Mai appeared bored with Takaya--- in the old days, a curtain had divided the rooht it back She o take a dump” When herthe words her mother didn't say

”Why!? Why's she staying here!?”

”Here, come here”

His ers of both hands

”She had a fight with the king And then ca back here”

”Eh? With the king?”

By the way, the so-called king's real name was Saruwatari Jirou, Mai's fiancé The a his naone, since he'd been with them as her boyfriend for six years now

”Whether there's been cheating or not, though, those two aren't talking right now I don't really knohat's going on”

”Ehh no, though it doesn'tto be? No way! After such a long ti a rooot a room to myself!”

”It should only be for a bit, since it wasn't a big fight”

”Just how much is a bit? One minute? Two minutes? Three?”

”Well, even if your sister's said she's already moved out, don't you think three days at most?”

”Three days!? Three days more!?”

”No way!”, cried Takaya, at wit's end

Living together with his older sister, dividing a ten foot by ten foot rooh the horrendous time of puberty, simply could not be described Since she had left the house four years ago, peace had finally came to his life

That he was privately afraid of three-dimensional women--- some 80, no 90 was from that As an older sister, Mai was a demon

Famous around the area as a delinquent, her standard score in second year middle school only in the 17th percentile, she was violent, quick-te a caring person and being nice, she was nothing of that An older sister that would, in the dead of night, without any warning, open the partition curtain wide, grinning while shi+ning a flashlight on her little brother as if to catch hi An older sister who, if in a bad mood, would throw punches for no reason whatsoever An older sister for which in truth, he did not have the strength to answer back in kind An older sister that, if he were to call her an ugly gorilla, then a gang of ten of hercircles around him on their bikes An older sister that would force hiain, or bon before me here and nohich will it be?” An older sister that, when he bowed down, stuffed the oh-so-fragrant socks she'd been wearing into his , that he had been shook down by bullies froroup of delinquents would be on their knees before the shoe racks, wailing ”We didn't know De hi, ”It's a question of honor”, her unkempt blonde hair brushed upwards as if she were a she-lion, she would go around to each of them in turn and spit on their heads That kind of older sister

Though he did not understand that demon's actions,

”Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea if you went to one of your friend's places”

Mother said such a thing as if it were no big deal

”Huh!? AskingMai-chan's side!”

”Because your sister brings in 1000 every day, that's why”

Ouch Blocked

”And when bonus ti in even ht be trying to save And your father's shop is awhen it does show up, already, your older sister's 1000 is a big help around the house As forback, I alanted to welcome her”

Since Mai had stopped in her first year in high school, not going the full three years, but her brother had gone on to college, could he coht expect, his own spending money was covered by his part-ti that indirectly came from his demon sister

Unable to say anything more, he sank into silence Then,

”Takayaa! Come over here for a bit!”

With a gravelly voice like an old gangster, Mai called frolasses in place onceas she started into the accounts book, he had no choice but to hurry over

”Wh, what?”

What kind of thing would his eyes be subjected to this tiht nervously as he entered his room,

”Paint”

In her bra and jersey just as she was before, Mai was sprawled on so, her blonde hair every which-way While wiggling the toes of her bare feet, she pointed at a bottle of nail polish with the tip of the cigarette still in her mouth

”M, me? Y, your feet? P, paint them?”

”Yep How dense can you be? I ht o'clock!? Whoa that's no good, wasn't I supposed to go out in a little bit for the night!? For the first tiirls!”

While talking like that, Mai was trying to glue a chip to one of her fingernails, which had been clipped short for the sake of her job

As for her good for nothing brother, unable to talk back nor to refuse her, heher instructions took the bottle, it's strong color like that of a blood blister Nothe sh, with his other hand he was already taking hold of Mai's strangely warm, dry, bare feet

”Dirty feet”

Normally, protected by work shoes, they hite, never dirty, which hy he had wanted to say soot kicked in the jaw

”Smelly”

One et done!”, she said, glaring at him in fury

Since he had to start over again, he placed Mai's heel on his lap, bent over, and started painting fro toe onwards with a red so deep it looked almost black He didn't even try to say ”looks dirty”, and this ti the chip to her fingernail with a pair of tweezers, Mai was going crosseyed

Not knohen sheout like that, Takaya involuntarily only put little bits of color on her toenails, but,

”Mai-chan soe?”

”Huh? What?”

”Look”, he said, waving the nail polish bottle for her to see Whether the seal was good yet, or it was getting old and had gone bad, in either case, the liquid was strangely thick and stiff, a hard layer clinging to and perfectly dividing the inside of the bottle No matter how carefully he put the liquid on her nails, because it was so stiff, all he got was speckles Seeing it, Mai clicked her tongue too

”You've got to be kidding, what's with you!? They say you don't mess around, that you don't even have anybody! I mean even for critters like you, that's bad, the worst, even”

Reaching out her hand to look for herself if the toenails had become speckled, at that very lue, the chip suddenly went crooked Shouting, ”Ahh!”, Mai looked up at the ceiling Clicking her tongue six more times in succession, plainly annoyed froarette all the way to the filter into the ashtray

”The worst of the worst of the worst! When I've finally got a drinking party, I' it's indecent!”

”What about hanging with the girls? Mustn't be particularly good”

”It's not good at all!”

She whacked hi to the corner of the room

”What aet to tell King about it!? Would he tell me if he cheated onaway a wo fun of ot no choice but to call Aki”

Hearing that name, his heart jumped uneasily

Aki, she said

”Wh why?”

”Aki's really good a fixing nails and such And she's quick Whatever you call her, you can call her skillful”

Taking her cell she dialed at once, without even saying who she was, she said ”Right now, ht away”, and with those three commands ended the call

Aki, she said ---Takaya is still here

”Takayaa, a bitme the remover from the dresser The nail polish remover”

”'Aki', t, that Aki-chan? The one older than me?”