The Boy Who Died Protecting the Party Is Resurrected 10 Years Later and Is Doted On – The Companion He Thought Was a Boy Had Become an Overprotective Big Sister - Episode 2: The Boy and the Mysterious Older Girls

Episode 2: The Boy and the Mysterious Older Girls

“Are you Beruda and Raika’s older sisters?”

At Phil’s question, the two women twitched in reaction.

Seeing that, Phil became certain that his assumption was correct.

“I knew it…!”

He didn’t remember ever hearing that Beruda and Raika had older sisters. But their faces and overall atmosphere were so similar that it could only be true.

“Um, why am I here? Actually, I don’t really remember…”

Phil asked as he stepped out of the stone box he had been lying in.

“Um, hello…?”

However, for some reason, the older girls didn’t answer. They just looked at him with tearful expressions.

Seeing this, Phil started to get a bad feeling.

“Are they… Beruda and Raika… are they safe…?”

—His party was supposed to be getting ready to head into the dungeon, just like usual.

If his memory from that point on was missing, it probably meant something terrible had happened inside the dungeon. He might have taken serious damage to his body.

“They’re safe… right? There’s no way those two would just die…!”

Cold sweat wouldn’t stop. And Phil could feel his fingertips going cold.

“D-Don’t tell me—”

“Listen. Stay calm and hear me out.”

One of the women had tanned skin and sharp eyes just like Beruda’s. She firmly placed her hands on Phil’s shoulders and looked him straight in the eyes.

“Your party member… Beruda is…”

Phil gulped and waited for her next words.

“That’s me.”

“…Huh?”

“Phil, I *am* Beruda.”

“??????????”

But the answer that came was one that far surpassed his worst expectations.

“Eh? Huh? What?”

The reply was so incomprehensible that Phil let out a dumbfounded voice.

“And I’m Raika, the one next to her~”

“Huh?”

“I’ve wanted to see you for so long, Phil…!”

“?!?!?!?!”

Phil fell into a light state of confusion.

“N-No way! Beruda and Raika are guys around my age who are my adventurer friends!”

“Yeah, I know. Back then, I was pretending to be a guy. As long as I was an adventurer, I thought it’d be more convenient that way…”

Saying that, the woman who called herself Beruda slowly patted Phil’s head.

“As for me~… ever since we first met, I thought it was funny how you and Beruda both thought I was a boy. So I just kept quiet… But since Beruda was also a girl, it turned into something really messy… Sorry about that~”

The one claiming to be Raika said incomprehensible things while moving behind Phil.

—These people are weird…! Probably perverts…!

At that moment, Phil was sure of it.

“N-No matter what… that’s just too much…!”

Different in age, gender, and body type—trying to forcibly pretend to be Beruda and Raika was completely unreasonable.

Did they seriously think such an obvious lie would work?

Phil shifted his body. He was trying to distance himself from the suspicious women claiming to be Beruda and Raika.

But—

“Ahh… It really is Phil…! You’re really Phil…!”

“We’ve missed you so much, Phil…!”

Suddenly, both women hugged Phil tightly from the front and back.

“Mgh?!”

Pressed from both sides by large, soft br3asts, Phil was completely immobilized.

From them came a sweet, perfume-like scent—a scent of grown women.

But mixed in with that, he could faintly smell the familiar scent of Beruda and Raika. Which only made his head more confused.

Phil felt like something important inside him was about to be destroyed.

“Ugh… guh…!”

“Thank goodness… really…”

“We’re never letting you go again…!”

…Come to think of it, those two always stubbornly refused to bathe or wash together.

Even though communal bathing is normal among adventurers, they always lost the vote and ended up bathing separately—Phil had found that a little strange.

The sense of discomfort he’d had until now—if Beruda and Raika were actually girls, it would explain everything.

Phil was starting to realize that.

—While being smothered by soft br3asts.

“Puh—! B-But! Even if you are girls… Beruda and Raika are my age! They wouldn’t look like *that*! Stop teasing me already!”

Finally escaping the suffocating embrace, Phil pulled his face free and protested to the two indecent women.

“…It took us ten years to bring you back to life.”

“We’re really sorry… We just… couldn’t do anything without you, Phil…!”

“Wha—bring me back to life…? Huh?!”

Then came another incomprehensible answer.

“There wasn’t a single day we didn’t remember… that day, ten years ago… In front of that massive monster we’d never seen before… you were the only one who could move…!”

Beruda, the self-proclaimed one, spoke with large tears falling from her eyes and a trembling voice.

“Raika and I were just too scared to do anything…! Even though the job of the front line is to act as a shield…! Hic, ughhh…!”

Saying that, the one claiming to be Raika shook her shoulders and sobbed.

“Umm… so, in other words?”

Phil was completely left behind. Being told about some intense experience he had no memory of didn’t feel real at all.

“Phil. You fought the monster so that we could escape… and you died.”

“……………………”

The confession was too shocking to comprehend. Phil froze with wide-open eyes.

“I… died…?”

—But, the story did make sense. It explained why he had memory loss. And although bringing someone back from the dead was nearly impossible, if relics from the mysterious dungeon were involved, maybe it wasn’t entirely out of the question.

Phil didn’t have enough evidence to completely deny their story.

“…R-Really… are you really… Beruda and Raika…?”

Phil barely managed to squeeze out those words.

“Yes… we are,”

The woman—Beruda—said firmly. She once again hugged Phil.

“Mgh.”

His face was inevitably buried in her chest. And Phil was completely suffocated.

“Even Menou is waiting. She has a lot to tell you.”

“Menou too?! —Ugh!”

As Phil struggled for breath, Beruda continued. She was holding him tight.

“Let’s go home together, Phil.”