A Volleyball Dating Sim, but Make It Manzai!

Early Miyoi got hooked on the next-generation otome game [Haikyuu!!: Falling in Love].

Normally, of course, you would follow otome game conventions and pursue the male leads, enjoying sweet romances with sporty high school boys of all sorts.

But.

Hayami Mio: Hehe, actually, I’m not romance-brained. I’m career-driven.

Hayami Mio: So, can I test out my manzai comedian persona in the game?

*

Ever since the virus-like otome game System invaded the world, the boys’ lives have become a repeating, fixed program. Aside from being forced to accept the heroine’s advances, they have no free will at all.

Their minds are stripped away again and again as they spout clichéd words of love, their hearts fall for someone against their will time and again, and they become immersed in an illusory romance. Their dreams and original aspirations are either gradually forgotten or turned into obsessions and nightmares.

Until Hayami Mio appeared.

[It should have been a gentle, healing romance

But she’s a face-blind junior who claims to be his fraternal twin sister]

Mio: Fujiwara-senpai, I’m your fraternal twin sister!

Mio: Yasuhara-senpai, I’m your fraternal twin sister!

Mio: Sugawara-senpai, I

She got kabedon-ed.

Sugawara: First, I’m not your brother. And second... you should at least remember my name.

Mio: Sorry, Azumane-senpai... Mm.

Hayami Mio: Does kissing me count as sexual harassment, Daichi-senpai?

Sugawara: ...?

[It should have been a bickering couple romance

But she’s a broke honor student who works every job under the sun]

Mio: What a coincidence, Kuroo. I work part-time at the convenience store / coffee shop / sporting goods store.

Mio: What a coincidence, Kuroo. I’m also a hairdresser / masseuse / convention volunteer.

Mio: What a coincidence, Kuroo. I’m at Kozume’s house... Hey, hey, why are you running away?

Kuroo: (Hiding in the corner of his bedroom, praying) Don’t show up, don’t show up, don’t show up... (quietly falling apart)

Mio: (Knocking) (Opening the door) What a coincidence, Kuroo. I just became your private tutor. (smiles)

Kuroo: Aaaah?!

[It should have been a trendy, fashionable influencer couple

But she’s a dark-skinned gyaru with the absolute worst fashion sense]

Mio: (Looking herself up and down) (Confused) Fluorescent orange with fluorescent green and bright red looks so healthy. What’s the problem?

Suna: (Gasping in horror)

[It should have been a listless boy saving a bullied girl

But she’s an author of absolutely no-holds-barred adult fiction]

Mio: (Staring darkly) You read it, didn’t you...

Kuniya: Confinement, gender-swapping, touching... (His frown deepens) What exactly are you thinking?

[It should have been an unexpected courtship with an eccentric girl

But she’s an uncommunicative robot]

Love interest: ??

[It should have been a story about winning over a volleyball idiot with persistence and kindness

But she can’t take care of anyone and forcibly puts on a motherly persona to look after him]

Love interest: ??

[It should have been a supreme childhood-friends romance

But she’s a gloomy, possessive second heroine who keeps him under surveillance twenty-four hours a day]

Love interest: ??

Male leads: (Waking up in the middle of the night) (Thinking it over)

Male leads: Seriously, is something wrong with her?!

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[Detect■d char■cter corruption value, ]

[Failure to clear lost target■■???]

[Forced separ■tion and restart sequ■nce init■ated]

[Separation successful]

[Corruption?■■ received■, Hay?mi M■o]

[Hayami M■o liar??■ heroine female■ lead heroine lie■ pursue■■ Hayami Mio Mio I love■ you my■ beloved I like■ you love?■ liar liar where are you■■, ]

[■?■■, ]

[, System permanently shut down]

[We will? find■ you]

[I will find you]

Hayami Mio only wants to become a manzai comedian.

Mio: What, save the world? Me...? (blank stare)

Please note:

1. [Everyone becomes corrupted]. Some are affected more severely than others, but they are all fundamentally kind, sporty high school students. There are no truly bad people.

2. There are many depictions of apparent deaths, but [everyone survives, and it absolutely has a happy ending].

3. Every character gets a romance arc at some point, with separate endings in the extras.

4. I won’t write about characters already featured in the column or characters I plan to give their own books.

5. After each character’s part ends, it’s all romantic rivalry.

In short, this is an absurd, out-of-character, outrageous story full of wild ideas and characters being put through the wringer. There’s only one heroine, but she has a wide variety of secret identities. Please don’t take it too seriously. If it’s not for you, feel free to leave.

About the update schedule: If I write something, I’ll post it. If I haven’t posted, I haven’t written.

Theme: Love can’t be forced. It can only be chosen freely