Who Can Steal Her Away From the Curse?

* Pure game, no merging with other worlds / multiple playthroughs, deaths, and bad endings / the game ending is the story's ending

* Third-person narration

You play a life-simulation game and even try dating someone. But no matter how many times you restart, your boyfriend is either eaten by a monster or suddenly disappears!

In the first playthrough, the monster that ate your boyfriend even reaches out a tentacle toward you, grinning horribly as it says, "Don't be afraid. We're here to save you."

But wasn't it the one that killed your boyfriend?

You're bewildered, but to survive and clear the game, and to keep the promise you made with your boyfriend to "stay alive," you act like a lost little lamb: pitiful and frightened, yet forced to be docile and ingratiating. You place your hands on the monsters' tentacles, obey their every whim, and beg them to let you live.

And yet...

"Why are you holding him?"

As usual, you timidly hold a monster and soothe him to sleep. Then another monster appears, its already terrifying expression becoming even more unsettling.

But the monster in your arms tightens its grip around your neck. "I should be asking you that. Why did you break into her room?"

The monsters trap you between them. You're like the cream in a cream puff, ready to burst at the slightest squeeze. But you can't fight back, so all you can do is wait in despair for these capricious executioners to bring down the blade.

But to your surprise, their "blades" don't seem to be aimed at you.

But is this really a life-simulation game?

Here's an upcoming short novel I'd like to write. Please check it out! I'll start once it reaches 700 saves:

[Title] Geto's Little Sister Is Having the Time of Her Life in Haikyuu Players' Dreams

[Blurb] Recently, my brother has been eating very little. Dad says he must be sneaking snacks outside.

Geto Makiko wants to eat delicious things just like her brother.

She imitates him, taking a big chomp at the strange thing that suddenly appears by her pillow at night, which is probably called a "curse."

Seven-year-old Makiko discovers she can travel through other people's dreams.

*

Who hasn't dreamed of being able to fly?

Makiko is still growing, so of course she's had that dream too. Then, right in front of the boy who seems to be her brother in this world, she floats up into the air.

The orange-haired, orange-eyed kid is stunned: "..."

The orange-haired kid: "Mom! My little sister's a bird person!! She can fly!!!"

Makiko, who has been called as cute as an angel since she was little, tilts her head: "...?"

*

His little sister has sleeping beauty syndrome.

Geto Suguru has always thought it was just a misfortune that affected ordinary people.

Until a friend who came over with him says something shocking with great enthusiasm: "Suguru, did you know your little sister is about to become a curse?"

The two high school boys investigate for a while, then decide to see what his little sister does in her dreams.

And then they see her.

A youthful beauty with black hair and purple eyes

1. Pressing her white wings against a gloomy orange-haired kid: "Don't be down, Shoyo. You're the best big brother."

2. Shading a white-haired boy working in the fields with her fluffy nine tails: "Akaashi, you have to brush my fur when you get back."

3. Lowering her vine-like hair down to a cat-eared hero at the bottom of a tower: "Congratulations on defeating the demon king, Paws! The princess will grant you one wish!"

The friend: "Wow, can I invite your little sister into my dream?"

Geto Suguru accidentally crushes the curse orb in his hand: "Dream on!"

The friend: "Great! You said yes!"

Geto Suguru: [Expletive*]

Theme: The courage to survive is an unerasable song of praise.