Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai:Volume 2 Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The season is summer, a certain July Saturday when finals exams are just ahead.

That day, I was in the one room in our house that lacked air conditioning (that's my room) since morning, I was sitting in front of my desk in desperation - or rather, agony is closer.

"Gu.... Grr..."

Studying for exams like a high school 2nd year student... is of course not what I was doing.

"Gr... Gah..."

I was conquering the newly released eroge "Siscalypse" (full title needs translation).

"...dah!"

Click click clickclickclick! I am bashing away at the buttons of the USB controller attached to the laptop.

On the screen is a battle with two girls with weird outfits, jumping around wildly. Punches and kicks are flying about, a staff and a gun are being swung, occasionally a blindling light is shot out too while using up a gauge, a tentacle attack that covers the whole screen also appears, time gets stopped, tens of thousands of sisters are summoned, etc - you get the idea.

"Siscalypse" (full title needed) - fans have already shortened it to "Siscaly" - has a different feel to it than any other ADV (adventure game) that I have played.

Read text, pick choices and collect events of the little sister heroine to conquer - there's a part with those elements but the main focus of "Siscaly" is the development part and the battle part. At the start you take your chosen little sister character and develop (customise) her, raising parameters and memorizing special moves. You battle in 3D against girls that were inserted into the storyline and win - that's the Siscaly game system. Note that there's an online mode for duels over the internet.

With tens of thousands of players, the Siscaly server is said to be a best-seller. The world is so wrong. Just then,

"Ah!"

The electroshock conjurer little sister took a direct hit from the enemy little sister's tentacle attack and went flying to the edge of the screen. The health bar instantly dropped to zero and her clothes are torn and scattered.

Whap! Uwa- uwa- uwa-... (<-- echo)

Game over. The black-caped enemy little sister is looking down at my character in torn clothing.

"Go home now, you have an onii-chan too"

"Damn~, I lost to this one again! Isn't this overpowered? How am I meant to beat this?"

On hearing the fully voiced victory line which strangely pissed me off, I threw the controller aside and smacked down on the desk out of frustration. And then,

"Oh shit"

I suddenly snapped back to normal again. With the sensation of having just broken some hypnosis I grabbed my head. What the fuck am I doing...?