My name is Ainuoxi. Due to a machine malfunction, I was pulled into a game. There was something wrong with the game's graphics: everything had turned into chibi characters. I clicked Exit, and the game displayed a message:
[The game is not complete. You cannot exit.]
As a mech warrior with SSS-level mental strength, I figured beating the game wouldn't be hard.
I began my journey to clear the game, but things got off to a bad start. I accidentally stumbled into a fight between two people.
One of them was piloting a blue mech, and the other a wooden one. I happened to be right in the middle of their crossfire.
Just as their attacks were about to hit me, I summoned my own mech.
[Helpful hint: The player has overused their mech. Your ocular power is declining. Find yourself a brother before you go blind.]
[A: Uchiha]
[B: Senju]
Me: ???
Using a mech in the game actually drains my ocular power?!
To avoid going blind, I chose A from the options provided by the game.
[The player was accidentally hit by the attacks of the Uchiha Clan Head and the Senju Clan Head. Feeling guilty, the Uchiha Clan Head picked you up and took you home...]
I was surrounded by a group of NPCs with black hair and red eyes. The game displayed another message:
[Please choose an NPC and treat him as your brother. If you go blind, you can have your brother's eyes transplanted and see again.]
I have trouble making decisions. More importantly, I couldn't help feeling that the Uchiha Clan Head was looking at me strangely. I felt like I wasn't choosing a spare pair of eyes, but becoming the spare pair of eyes myself.
I used up my chance to reload and made a different choice.
[B: Senju]
[The player was accidentally hit by the attacks of the Senju Clan Head and the Uchiha Clan Head. Feeling guilty, the Senju Clan Head picked you up and took you home...]
[Please choose an NPC and treat him as your brother. A good brother will find a way for you to see again.]
I thought this was the right choice, because this time I didn't have to choose. There was only one white-haired, red-eyed NPC in front of me. His name was listed as Tobirama Senju.
I immediately spoke up: "Little brother Tobirama."
Tobirama Senju: ...
Tobirama Senju: "What are you doing, sneaking into the Senju?"
Me: "Little brother Tobirama, I've finally found you!"
Tobirama Senju: "Did Madara Uchiha send you?"
Me: "You're my real little brother!"
Tobirama Senju: ...
Tobirama Senju: "Don't call me that. I'm not your little brother!"
The NPC refused to acknowledge me. I thought about it, and figured it must be because we didn't look alike.
I studied the game's power system and developed a ninjutsu that changed my hair color, turning myself from black-haired and red-eyed to white-haired and red-eyed, just like Tobirama.
Me: "I, Ainuoxi Penachisi, swear here and now that you really are my long-lost little brother!"
Tobirama Senju: ...
Later, Tobirama finally agreed to acknowledge me, but only as his younger brother, with himself as the older one. The information did say he was older, but I wanted a little brother, so I lied about my age.
Later still, Tobirama exposed my lie. I told him that good brothers shouldn't stand on ceremony, and we could call each other little brother.
Tobirama Senju: ...
*
Tobirama's perspective:
His older brother picked up a mentally unstable Uchiha. Tobirama suspected it was an Uchiha plot. Later, he decided to play along and accepted this little brother.
Tobirama on the outside: I want to study your Susanoo.
Tobirama on the inside: If you refuse, that proves you're hiding something. I'll expose you.
Ainuoxi: "My mech isn't called Susanoo. It's called Silver-Winged Archangel."
Tobirama on the outside: ...
Tobirama on the inside: ...
*
Ainuoxi's summary of the game's problems:
1. The NPCs' mechs in the game are all called their factory model names. Anyone who treats their mech like that is clearly an amateur.
2. For some reason, all the NPCs say I used a fake name. I thought about it and changed my name from Ainuoxi Penachisi to Ainuoxi Senju Penachisi.
3. I suspect the NPCs remember what happened before I reloaded. I clearly chose the Senju as my brother, but the Uchiha still come looking for me, saying I'm one of theirs.
Luckily, the Senju Clan Head and the Uchiha Clan Head later swore brotherhood. Otherwise, I would have been in a real bind.
The main story should be in third person.
2023-4-25
Theme: Keep moving forward bravely