I’m Not Even an Otome Game Mob Character - Chapter 32

I’ve had memories of my previous life since I was born.

But I didn’t remember them right away.

Once I was aware of my surroundings, I knew that I had those memories. But I was also born with so much magic power that I couldn’t control it. People worried because my magic would be invoked involuntarily like seizures. One by one, people started to fear me, and I could only approach a few people like her.

I was unhappy with myself. But before I came to hate myself it was onii-sama who saved me.

Onii-sama was always one of the people allowed to stay by my side. He was also another holder of the rare light magic, so he noticed my own magic and patiently helped me until I was able to control it. Of course I would come to love a big brother like that.

So I was happy that I had the same face as him. Everyone said so. And that was my pride.

Even when onii-sama was busy and I couldn’t come see him, I could see a face like his in the mirror. So I got into the habit of looking at the mirror.

Then I realized.

I knew this face.

Of course I knew it, it was my own face. But this was different. I realized that I knew this face as someone else’s.

I muttered my name.

“…Philine Erna Von Rozenhein.”

I knew this person. It was the little sister of one of my beloved capture targets from an Otome Game I played.

In order to get to the happy ending, your choices need to lead you not to Roy-sama himself, but to Philine, who you would then talk to in order to raise his flags. She told you things that Roy-sama himself wouldn’t, so she was my favorite character after Roy-sama.

“This is Your Star…!”

I realized that I had reincarnated into the world of the Otome Game I played in my previous life, Your Small Star – Dein einziger Sternchen. And I also noticed that I was very happy with the face I saw in the mirror.

“I see. No wonder Philine likes Roy-sama so much.”

I talk to myself in the mirror.

Philine is a princess. You’d think she wouldn’t go out of the castle that much, but she appears a lot in Your Small Star – Dein einziger Sternchen, also known as Your Star, even though it’s set in the Royal Magic Academy. She worried about her brother, Roy, and came periodically to check on him. In my previous life I thought it was natural because her big brother was hot. But if you think about it properly, no matter how well siblings get along, wanting to see him that much was kinda weird. She wasn’t a capture target herself so there wasn’t much information about her magic affinity or attribute. But I got it now. If her brother was the first to be kind with her from the beginning, when almost nobody else did, that was natural.

“Philine-sama, are you satisfied with looking at the mirror?”

As I was nodding to myself, Terese called out to me suspiciously. She’s also been with me ever since I was born. It’s scary when she scolds me, but I know that it’s because she really cares.

“Therese, look, look! I just noticed something amazing!”

I was happy with what I’d noticed. Tereze comes near me, a little bit confused.

“What have you noticed?”

“I’m a princess!”

How’s that? But now Therese was truly confused. I knew how confused she was from the way her eyebrows creased.

“That’s right.”

“But you see-”

I don’t mind her reaction and continue speaking. I have to let her know how determined I am.

“I’m gonna make onii-sama happy!”

“…Are you sure it’s not the other way around?”

Even with blood relatives, usually it was the men making the women happy. Terese was pointing out this world’s common sense. She doesn’t ask how I arrived at that conclusion. I know how I did, but from Terese’s point of view, she never really knows my thought process.

“It’s fine! I’m giving back the happiness onii-sama gave to me!”

In my previous life and in this life, onii-sama made me so happy. So I’m paying him back.

I won’t know if this world will follow the game’s timeline until big brother enters the magic academy. And I don’t really know what Philine was doing until that point since she’s a side character. She doesn’t appear in all of the routes, so I can only gather information and guess which route is being taken from there.

Then for now I’ll do my best in supporting onii in his happiness.

I decided my life’s purpose and pumped myself up while Therese sighed in a way that could’ve been taken as fed up.

“…Philine-sama’s thoughts are a little simplistic, but I think that in itself is wonderful.”

“I’m not good at thinking hard!”

She was too harsh and I got miffed, to which she smiles wryly.

“It’s a compliment. I’m saying it’s just like you, Philine-sama.”

“If you’re gonna compliment me then do it properly.”

I asked her to fix her compliments, but she easily let it slide.

After I decided to make big brother happy, my life stayed the exact same.

I tried mediating between big brother Roy and my other big brother, Klaus, but that was just because I didn’t want us siblings to be on edge around each other. Big brother seems to be becoming a workaholic even at this age. Inviting him to tea parties to deliberately get in the way of that is about all I can do.

How modest.

I thought as a princess I could do something with more boom boom to it. But I spend my days practicing stuff like manners and catching my breath in tea parties with my big brothers. It’s a real shame. I was looking forward to something more amazing, but there was no such thing.

It was such a shame that I tried a bunch of things with my magic while practicing to control it in order to see what I could do. Light magic in itself was rare. There were no resources on composite magic between light and wind even in textbooks. I had to practice it myself.

In my practice I made it possible to make a hologram and hold a conversation with my composite magic. It’s like science fiction, I said excitedly, but as soon as I showed it to them, Therese and big brother Roy forbade me from telling anyone about it. So I sat and pouted for hours.

The more I could bring out my magic, the more restricted I became from leaving the castle. Maybe it was because of my past life memories of playing and having fun outside. Or maybe it was just because I didn’t like the limitations placed on me. I wanted to go outside so much that I got gloomy.

Around that time, I started hearing a name from the game from big brother’s mouth.

“The Ernst house has a truly splendid garden. I want to show it to you too, Phil. I can see why Lady Lydia takes pride in it.”

“It’s that amazing, huh. So what kind of clothes does Lydia-sama usually wear?”

“She used to wear a rose color all the way down to the hem of her skirt, but now it’s white like a flower spirit.”

Big brother Roy seemed to think that I had an interest in fashion as a young girl, so when I asked, he answered with a broad smile. But the more I heard about Lydia, the more different she was from the game. I inwardly tilted my head.

In a childhood flashback, Lydia wore full red dresses. Even her plain outfits in the game were usually an offensive red. But the Lydia I hear about from big brother always wears pale colors. That childhood flashback is of their first meeting, where Lydia trips in a dance and Roy gives her his hand. Then love blossoms in between them… that’s what should have happened.

But her actual dress is blue, and far from tripping, onii-sama mentioned that she was the best dancer in the party.

What does this mean?

The Lydia I hear about from onii-sama is so different that I can’t even imagine her.

“Anyway, Roy onii-sama… you seem like you’ve been having a lot of fun lately.”

Big brother seems to be having fun even though I haven’t done anything. A part of me is happy to see that, but it’s also frustrating because I couldn’t do anything. It’s been like that ever since he met Lydia, so it might be because of her.

“Really? Yeah… maybe. This must also be because I’ve gained a good friend.”

Big brother’s sparkly smile is bright. Even though we’re related by blood I can’t do anything to become his friend. I’m happy for him, but on the other hand, the fact that his family’s affirmation isn’t enough for him to be happy makes me feel lonely.

Leaving those feelings aside, I get interested in something else.

“I’m glad. I would also like to meet Lydia-sama one day.”

What kind of person is she really? Does the fact that she’s different mean that she’s also reincarnated or something? If that’s true, then I have someone else who I can talk to about the previous world. Even if it’s not true, I’m curious about my brother’s potential fianccee.

Wanting to meet her also contributed to making me want to go outside.

Is that why? I couldn’t win against the temptation of that time…

“I’m beat…”

I squat in a corner of the castle town. I even felt like putting my hands on the ground, but my dress and my hands would get dirty so I couldn’t.

I’d heard that big brother was going to look around outside the castle so I went to his study to see him off. Then I saw his mantle placed unceremoniously at the sofa. Nobody was there so I sneakily put it on. When I did, big brother and his attendant entered the room. I was surprised to see them start talking as if they hadn’t noticed me.

Of course I would get excited if I had a mantle that could turn me transparent. It was the first time in my life I’d experienced such a magic item. It’s so exciting. So I ended up following big brother.

Getting lost was a mistake.

There were more people than I expected.

What will happen if nobody finds me and I go missing?

“No, I should be fine until the game’s story starts. Nobody will notice me as long as I have this on…”

If a princess like me goes missing, usually a large-scale search would be conducted, but I’m known for playing hide-and-seek within the castle so it’ll probably take some more time for them to notice. I was so excited since it was my first time going outside of the castle, but now I’m not excited at all. To top it all off, it was all my fault.

“Are you okay?”

I heard a voice from behind me. If they weren’t talking to me, their voice would’ve bounced off the wall since I have this mantle on.

I never thought I’d be seen. My heart felt like it was gonna fly out.

While I doubted if they were really calling out to me, I turned around fearfully and found a boy. He looked like a boy you could find anywhere, a bit older than me, and his eyes were definitely making contact with mine.

Who??

I was sorry for making him worry, but I didn’t know this person at all. In the first place, how could he see me?

“Are you Leo’s little sister?”

He said someone else’s name and I got even more confused. Then I was surprised when he corrected himself with my big brother’s real name. Indeed, his middle name was Leo.

As if he guessed that I was suspicious of him, he revealed his identity as one of Duke Ernst house’s people and explained how he was related to onii-sama. And when I told him about how I’d gotten lost, he stroked my head.

“It’s alright now. I’ll bring you to your brother.”

I can see big brother again. That thought made me so relieved I thought I’d cry. Because even if it was just for a second, the possibility of never seeing my family again flashed before me.

I somehow stopped myself from crying, got on the boy’s back and let him carry me. Then I copied onii-sama and gave him my middle name.

The boy Isaac was a strange boy who spoke normally with me even after learning that I was a princess. Maybe he didn’t feel like it was real since our worlds were so far apart. And he was the first person to tell me that I was like my big brother in something other than looks.

The only thing I was confident could identify me as big brother’s relative was my face. He thought we had different faces, but what he said still made me happy. Unlike my smart big brother, I act from feeling, so maybe somewhere inside I was scared. Scared that apart from my looks, I couldn’t really call myself his little sister.

The sway and warmth of his body calmed me down.

In my last life, when I was small, I didn’t like feeling left out so my big brother took me outside. I got so tired that I couldn’t walk. Then he complained at me. This is why I didn’t wanna bring you. I’m leaving you behind. But in the end, when I started crying, he gave me a piggyback ride back home.

I know that’s not me anymore but it’s still nostalgic.

Maybe that’s why I accidentally said it.

“…You sound like Yuuka.”

A huff of laughter.

My ears shouldn’t be used to hearing that name. But they were so used to it.

For a second I stopped thinking.

He called my name. From my previous life.

“…Taichi-?”

“Haa? Is that really you, Yuuka??”

The boy stops walking and calls me again. It looks like I’m not wrong.

Once I realized this was real, I looked back, confused at this situation.

Why is this random stranger my previous big brother?

If Taichi had become one of the capture targets I would’ve died from laughter or told him to become someone else. How the heck should I react when he’s reincarnated as someone who doesn’t even appear in Your Star?

I thought about it hard, but the only thing I could come up with was that I shouldn’t have talked to him like a stranger.

Taichi was my dummy big brother. He’d always fight with our stubborn dad and goof around with his friends. He was such a dummy that he went and got himself into an accident. I went home to see my mom put down the phone. I never would’ve thought something so common in dramas would happen to us. What’s more, only after that did I learn that he was sick…

And to apologize for that after getting reincarnated. He’s really a dummy.

What will I do with my big brother? No matter how many times I call him a dummy, it’s not enough.

Nothing like Roy onii-sama.

That’s right, Roy onii-sama. My brother now is Roy onii-sama.

Taichi – no, Isaac, isn’t even a mob. If he gets to do as he pleases, then don’t mind if I do the same.

After we met my big brother and said goodbye to Isaac, I declared war on him. He seemed to be on the rival lady, Lydia’s side. He accepted my declaration and we got competitive. But having onii-sama get suspicious of my relationship with Isaac was a mistake…

“Roy onii-sama.”

“What is it? Phil.”

I spoke out in the carriage on our way home while eating a souvenir cookie. These cookies tasted simple and reminded me of the okara cookies I kept on eating in my previous life.
(TN: Apparently okara is also known as soy pulp or tofu dregs)

“I don’t think you’ll do it, but I want to say this. I want you to consult me if something happens.”

“What’s this all of a sudden?”

“It’s not sudden. I know that big brother Roy is scheming something.”

“Scheming?”

Big brother’s honey-colored eyes widened and he smiled wryly. I know he’s just smiling and that he doesn’t actually intend on talking to me. He reacted just as I thought he would and that makes me mad, so I turn the other way.

“You probably won’t do it ‘cuz I can’t do anything though!”

The big brother doesnt’t consult the little sister. Taichi was like that too. I knew that.

“But I’ll keep worrying about you!”

I point my finger and declare. Big brother is surprised, then he clutches his stomach laughing.

“Hahahah, I can’t win against you, Phil.”

“Geez, I’m talking to you seriously here!!”

I’m listening seriously, onii-sama answers, but he’s totally not.

TN: I think this is the first time we see a first person POV aside from Taichi.

Just as Isaac calls Lydia Ojou, Phil will be calling Roy onii-sama(big brother with respect). I won’t be capitalizing it though because it’s not really a nickname.