Friday, February 21, 2025

Higankoi Gakuen (彼岸恋学園)

One day, after getting over a nasty breakup with her abusive ex-boyfriend by blocking him everywhere on the day before the Ramadan vacations, Yara was lying on her bed all by herself. 

She then thought to herself "I'm glad that my ex is now gone from my life.", before grabbing her phone in order to download a game.

There, she saw an attractive male character with pink hair and brownish-pink eyes, who she can relate, and throughout her experience in the game, she later realized that he was not just a tiny pixel, but rather an actual young man with a story of his own and introduced himself to her as Kamal, who is 9 months older than her.

To her surprise, Kamal had several things in common with her, like anime, manga, drawing and video games, which got them along very well through her phone screen, to the point she truly cared about him more than her ex.

"Wow, what a fun game.", she said, before exiting the game and focusing on other things. 

The next morning, it was the first day of the Ramadan vacations.

Just as she was about to uninstall the game from her phone for good, his right hand grabbed her left wrist, in horror.

Little did she know that Kamal has a surprise for her: turns out, he is a yandere man who has a crush on her.

"Even if you uninstall the game, I'll still be looking for a way to find you, Yara.", he told her, in a threatening aura.

She got scared and instantly uninstalled the game for good.

"I never thought that Kamal would be like this.", she said to herself, before going back to take a nap, like as if nothing had happened the previous day.

Suddenly, Yara heard someone knocking on the entrance door of the house, and immediately showed up to the entrance, holding a machete.

She then opened the door, and saw him walking closer to her, who tried to walk away upon dropping her machete to the ground, with a bouquet of spider lilies, before he pinned her to the wall.

"You can't be kidding, Kamal... How the hell did you get into my house, on the first day of Ramadan?", she asked him.

"That's because I came here to be with you instead of spending my time alone without you.", he answered back.

She then manages to escape from him by sneaking away from the scene and making a run for her life before hiding under a blanket, like as if she never saw him again.

Just as she thought he was already gone by then, he appeared next to her, and it was then she realized the truth behind his yandere personality.

Turns out, he was a wholesome man who truly loved her more than her ex and will never hurt her in the same way her ex did.

Upon realizing his true intentions, Yara apologized to him for the whole ordeal that happened earlier that day, and he forgave her too.

"Starting from now, I'll be your right-hand man and we'll be together, forever.", he said to her, with a sweet tone.

"Thank you, Kamal. You're way better than I thought.", she replied.

And so, Yara introduced Kamal to her native Mahoran culture, before parting ways with each other at a beach near a supermarket located a few minutes away from her house 2 days later.

"Now, I can at least spend more time on my own.", she said.

That is, until she wakes up in an abandoned high school in a mobile simulation, wearing a school uniform, for some sinister reasons.

"Is it me or is it the fact that I'm now back at school once again...?” she thought to herself, before exploring the area surrounding that mysterious school, before she entered an empty classroom and started reading a book in a way to distract herself and forget everything that happened on the first 2 days.

A few moments later, Kamal showed up, also wearing the school uniform, and asks her about the book she's reading, to which she told him that it was a French-language book, before closing the book and standing up from her seat.

She stared at him in shock, to which he told her "Why are you even shocked at me, even though it's just the two of us in this school?"

"I don't know, but woah, you scared the hell out of me, Kamal. Thank you for always looking out for me.", she said back, before walking out of the classroom and heading towards the shoe lockers to put her outdoor shoes on and put her indoor shoes in the locker.

He then approached and asked her if he could walk her home, to which she agreed to let him do so, and the two of them left the school, before they arrived at his house.

Upon arriving in his room, Yara saw several photos of her plastered on every wall and even on picture frames.

"Kamal, are you crazy or something?! I mean bro, what's with all of these pictures of me in your room!?", she says to him, in complete shock.

He explains to her the context behind the suspicious pictures, and it was then that her hair and eyes started turning blue from her usual black hair and brown eyes, activating her inner form and summoning her glowing dual swords.

"It’s over for you, Kamal.", she spoke to him in French, with a threatening aura.

"Bring it on, ma belle. I'm sure that you won't escape from me or my game ever again.", he replied, while also activating his inner form, turning his hair and eye color to white and pink, summoning a glowing knife at the same time.

The two of them began fighting with each other to the point she immediately ended the fight, by opening a portal back to the real world, detransforming her back to her normal form, and fainting afterwards.

Upon seeing her unconscious, Kamal held her in his arms and began crying, to the point where he told her "Yara, I'm sorry that I had hurt your feelings like this...! Please... Come back!".

Back in the real world, she woke up to Kamal, now back in his normal form, smiling at her.

"Phew, I'm glad that you're awake.", he said to her.

"Me too, but I never thought you were that kind and caring towards me in both the real and virtual world.", she replied.

"It's my pleasure. By the way, can I tell you something?", he asked.

"Of course, go ahead.", she answered back.

"Can I be... your boyfriend, for real...?", he told her, who then said yes to him.

And so, they became more than friends, as they began dating, with the intention of marrying each other within 5 years.

By then, he was already used to the lifestyle in her home island, having completely forgotten about his origins in the game world. 

Later that afternoon, they found a guitar and went to the rooftop, where he listened to her singing and playing the guitar at the same time, to the point he began singing with her as well.

After she was done playing the guitar and singing, she put the guitar to the ground and walked towards the front corner of the rooftop.

While being far away from him, she looks at him, with lifeless eyes.

“Kamal, there’s something I truly want to tell you.”, she said to him, with a deathly stare.

“Okay.”, he replied.

“Actually, the truth is… I don’t think that I can be with you any longer in that world.”, she told him, who then realized that she was in danger.

Upon realizing this, the two men saved her from doing the act by holding her from behind and they were lying down on the ground, before they started getting up.

The latter of two then puts her on his thighs, and said “Are you okay, Yara?”

“I’m okay. Thank you, but who are you…? I don’t remember seeing you for a while.”, she asked.

“It’s me, your best friend Elsword! I really missed you so much, so your man summoned me to save you alongside him, you know?”, he replied.

“Wait a second, but Kamal is not my man and we’re not dating. Is there something you guys want from me?”, she said back to him.

“We both want to be with you forever.”, the two men told her.

Yara got stunned and told them “No way.”, before she vanished into thin air.

Later, she wakes up, only to find out that the two men weren’t even real and that they were fictional characters from completely different games, and she was now back in the real world.

There, Lael came over to see her, and she explained to him all about the entire story, which was a dream the entire time.

Upon realizing that it was all a dream, she came up with the idea of inviting her two friends Bruno and Yatomi to come join them in a library, where they would talk about and draw themselves using the crayons provided by the librarians like as if Kamal had never existed to them.

Suddenly, just as they were leaving the library and heading towards their respective homes, he was secretly hiding in the bushes before he followed them along.

After parting ways with Bruno and Yatomi, who headed home respectively on their own, it was just Yara and Lael at the entrance of her house.

The latter asked her if he could stay at her house to be with her, to which she agreed to let him do so.

Later that evening, they woke up at the same mysterious abandoned school in the mobile game she was playing after getting over her ex-boyfriend, wearing nothing but school uniforms.

“Welcome to Higankoi Gakuen.”, a mysterious voice told them.

Lael said “Wait, who’s that voice…?”

Yara replied to him, saying “I don’t know, but I don’t think that it’s Kamal either.”

“There you are, Yara!”, Elsword said to her, while showing up along with Kamal, also wearing the same school uniform as them.

“Oh hey!”, she told him.

Eventually, this led to a heated fight between him and Kamal, to the point Lael told Yara to go upstairs with him and grabbed her right wrist with him to where they can find peace.

As they arrived at the school rooftop, Lael and Yara were all alone by themselves, and just as he was about to confess his feelings for her, Kamal showed up and began revealing his true colors.

“Yara, would you like to be more than just friends with me?”, Lael asked.

“Of course, I would love to!”, she answered him.

Just as they were about to kiss, Kamal yelled in a loud voice “Lael, what are you doing with my Yara?!”

Yara got furious and told him “Hey Kamal, who the hell do you think you are to Lael, huh? Why are you screaming at him like that?!”

“I just want you to be with me instead of that guy!”, he replied.

Little did Kamal knew he was done for, as Lael was the guy who he should not mess up with, due to the latter’s military experience.

Elsword showed up and told the two men “Guys, stop fighting over her! If you really want to be her boyfriends that badly, stop fighting!”

“Thank you for telling them right in their face, bestie!”, Yara said to him.

Kamal and Lael offered her roses.

Several minutes later, Yara made the choice to dump Kamal and chose Lael instead of him.

“Thank you Yara! I knew you were right to choose me instead of him!”, the latter said to her, to Kamal’s disappointment that he said to himself “Damn it! I can’t believe that she chose him over me… I’ll make sure that she’ll be mine in my own world forever.”

“It’s okay Kamal, but you can be one of my friends if you’d like.”, Yara told him.

“In that case, I’d love to be your friend of course!”, he replied.

Ultimately, everything turned out well for the three of them, as Yara and Lael became close friends with Kamal.

5 years later, after she parted ways with Lael due to them not being on the same page as a couple that ultimately led to her breaking up with him and becoming friends with him instead, Yara was now back in the mobile simulation, sitting next to a table, facing Kamal for the last time.

“Yara, I’m sorry for everything that happened throughout these past 5 years. I was so crazy for you to the point I went too far as to almost ruining your relationship with your friend Lael. Remember the day I made a promise to marry each other within 5 years and to never betray you.”, he told her.

“Of course, I remember that from the very beginning.”, she replied.

“So Yara, for once and for all, will you marry me?”, he asked, holding a wedding ring.

“Yes, I do!”, she answered.

In the end, Yara and Kamal had a small wedding ceremony, and are now happily married to each other, as they now head on a honeymoon towards a faraway island located somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

THE END

Saturday, February 15, 2025

February Character Introductions

Hello.

A lot has changed since the first post we made upon our return on January 27th and the resumption of our doujinshi activities on February 5th of the same year.

3 days after the first post was written, I was able to go back to school for the first time in 7 weeks, except that its main building and school library remained inaccessible to everyone at school, teachers and students involved.

Since today is a prolonged weekend, I'll be introducing two new characters that were made between last week and this week.

1) Sugikura Yumiri (杉倉ゆみり) (February 4th, 2025)

"Nice to meet you all!"

An average high school student that you can find anywhere, who is actually from Erebus, the same dimension as Fumirin, the sole living member of a fallen royal family, 9 months her senior.

She's actually a skilled gamer and artist, who's very passionate about art and video games to the point where she is a ghost member of the game club, although a bad cook and has a sweet tooth, especially when it comes to things like kompeito, which are considered actual gifts in her dimension.

Additionally, she is a mutual friend of Fumirin, Riho and their former friend Ayaho, who stabbed the three of them in the back after it was revealed that the latter sided with the former's nephew, who is one of the reasons why Erebus is in ruins following  the murder of Fumirin's royal family.

2) Kamal (February 11th, 2025)
"Yara, if I can't have you, no one else will..."

A wholesome yandere man, 9 months Yara's senior.

He falls in love with her at first sight in an alternative timeline, during the events of a separate story from One Night in Helsinki, where she ends up with him, who she truly loved instead of her two lovers-turned-friends Lael and Niels.

Despite their difference, with him being a human and her being a reincarnated mysterious entity, he has several things in common with her, as they are both on the spectrum and are very passionate about anime, manga, drawing and video games. 

He's close friends with Lael and Kaden, who she hangs out with in the human world. 

However, Kaden, the latter of the two, doesn't look too fondly on him, as Kamal himself would often chase after Yara even though the two of them coincidentally happened to have a crush on her at the same time.

That's all I have to say about these 2 new characters for today. 

Stay tuned for more updates from us, as I'll continue to update you all on the details, be it regarding the story of how Yara met Kamal or not.

Monday, February 3, 2025

One Night in Helsinki Part 2

 


Original date: February 3rd, 2025

November 29th, 2025.

One day, upon arriving in his home country all by himself, Lael was now at his apartment in Helsinki and began to study, until he finished them all for the day that he grabbed his phone to call his girlfriend Yara, who had just turned 18 last week and was living somewhere in France, an hour ahead of him, all by herself, through video chat.

She then picks up the phone, only for him to tell her “Hey Yara. I’ve been thinking about you the whole time, and I have something to tell you.”

“Tchini? (What?)”, she asked, in one of her native languages.

“Apparently, my parents… they own a land near a lake in a secluded forest near Rovaniemi, and I would love it if you just came with me there. Can I show you a picture of what it looks like?”

“Ok.”, she replied.

He then shows her a picture of his parents’ land, to her amusement that she wanted to go there as well.

And then, to her surprise, since his parents wasn’t there at their land that day, he offered to take her by the time she arrived in Helsinki so that he can show her what it’s like to live in the northern part of the country.

3 weeks later, upon arriving in Helsinki on her own, she saw him with a smile and hugs him in return.

“I’m back, Lael! I miss you very much.”, she said to him.

“Me too, Yara.”, he replied in return, and they kissed each other on the lips for a short while before letting go of each other and holding their hands.

And so, they started heading to the café whom they went to 4 months prior, where they had a great time drinking coffee before they headed outside after she paid the bills, until they arrived at the land, which was in a secluded forest near Rovaniemi, where it was snowing.

“Wow, what an amazing place.”, Yara said.

“I know, right?”, Lael replied.

He tells her a story about the place, dating all the way back to the 19th century, when his great-great-grandfather built two houses and a sauna for his family, including his future descendants, to live in for the years to come.

Upon entering the main house, they saw a frame of his great-great-grandfather, his great-great-grandmother and his great-grandmother.

“Who are these people?”, she asked him, to which he told her that they were his great-great-grandparents and his great-grandmother, who had passed away a long time ago along with hers, way before they were born.

“I see.”, she said.

After having a conversation, they left the main house to go to the second house, which was a summer cottage.

Inside the cottage, she gives him some of the licorice candy she had brought from France, and this eventually led to the two of them enjoying it, until he asked her if she can go take a sauna with him, and she agreed.

The two of them took a shower with each other, before heading for the sauna room.

While in the room, he grabbed a vihta to gently massage her back and this continued for several minutes, until she exited the sauna to take a shower before going back to the main house, wearing nothing but a towel on her body, with him following suit, although with nothing on himself.

Meanwhile, they were now in the master bedroom, with her towel now on the ground and the two of them facing each other.

Yara then tells Lael about a dream she had 10 months prior, which turned him on, to the point he wanted to spend the night with her.

To his surprise, she then tells him that she’s on her period that day and can’t do it with him.

Upon realizing what she was going through, he hugged and kissed her, reassuring her that it’s safe to do it during the time of the month.

They ended up spending time in the shower, with him putting a black towel on the bed after they were done showering, and the two of them cuddled each other that night.

The next day, the two of them headed to Rovaniemi, where he bought menstrual pads and chocolate for her and while on their way, they decided to stop by a nearby café to eat something for lunch.

Soon after, they went to a ski resort, where they began skiing for the first time, only for an hour, before they got out of the resort and headed south to the forest.

Arriving in the forest, they saw a camping van, and she asks him if she can drive the van, only for him to listen to her.

And so, Yara grabbed the keys to the van and Lael followed her to the van, before they drove off from the forest and left Rovaniemi in the middle of the night, in a long road trip, where they both ate their snacks while listening to metal music at the same time.

4 hours later, they arrived in Inari, where they saw the northern lights while sitting in front of a lake, which was what they both dreamed of the whole time, before they kissed each other on the lips.

Little did they knew, they would spend the next 5 days there, and within the next 5 days, she showed him some of the drawings she made about them being together and they went fishing and hiking as well.

Later, upon their return to Rovaniemi, while walking in the downtown, they ran into his friend Maksim, and he introduced her to him, as his girlfriend, before they parted ways with each other, as the couple headed back to the forest with the van.

There, they went to a sauna to forget about what happened during the past 5 days, before going back to the main house.

While in the house, he cooked dinner for the two of them.

After eating dinner, they headed for the shower, before heading towards the summer cottage.

While in bed, he told her “Remember our promise?”

“Of course, I remember our promise.”, she replied.

“Okay.”, he said back, and continued with “I’ll show you what it’s like to Netflix and chill.”

From that night on, she saw him as the love of her life, as they spent the night with each other every single day for the next 2 weeks.

2 weeks later, it was now time for Yara to go back to her home country, and Lael was sad to see her go again.

While at the airport, she hugged him for the last time, before parting ways with each other for a few years, as she was headed towards her plane to Paris.

Upon her return to her home island, she received a text from him, saying “It was great.”, along with a photo of the two of them standing next to each other, wearing winter coats.

2 months later, in January 2026, he was drafted to the military, and just like he had promised her 6 months prior, she received letters from him about how he’s doing every few days.

6 months later, he got discharged from the military and reunited with her over the phone.

In the end, several years later, they were now facing each other at a nearby mosque, wearing their wedding outfits and kissing each other, eventually having several children of their own.

Turns out, it was all a VR experience, as Yara removed her headset, realizing that she was now back in the real world, in February 2025.

“Wow, that was a roller coaster from the beginning to the end.”, she said to herself, and continued with “Only if I could find the love of my life, it’d be great. Oh well, I wish I could’ve travelled to Finland someday.”, before going to bed and starting a new day, like as if the events of the VR game she was playing the whole time never existed in real life.

The next day, after she got out of school that day, since her bus driver was late, Yara was sitting in front of the stairways, when her schoolmates Bruno and Yatomi noticed her and asked if they can accompany her to her house, and she agreed to their offer.

Little did they knew, while they were walking towards her home, they saw a man wearing black clothing and a black face mask, along with a black cap and sunglasses.

“Wawe de mbani? Wami cavu tsi ona wawe avant. (Who are you? I don’t remember seeing you before.)”, Yara said to the man in Shimaoré.

“Hé Yara, c'est moi Taneli, mais les gens m'appelle Lael à la place, donc appelle-moi par cette surnom au lieu de mon prénom actuel si te plait. (Hey Yara, it’s me Taneli, but people call me Lael instead, so please call me by that nickname instead of my actual name.)”, the man said back in French, before continuing with “Remember the game we played before, where we were lovers living in my country, right?”

Soon enough, she remembered the game and was shocked to find that the love of her life existed in the real world and wanted to be with her the whole time.

Eventually, while heading back home after her last class, an English teacher walked up to Lael and she asked him “Hello, what brings you here?”

“I just came here to be with the love of my life.”, he replied to her, who pointed her fingers at Yara and told him “You mean that girl over there?”

“Yes.”, he responded.

He then stared and smiled at Yara, who did the same to him, before telling Bruno and Yatomi if he can join them as well and they agreed to let him join.

Several minutes later, after parting ways with the two of them, it was now just the two of them walking in the stairs, headed for the entrance to her house.

Upon arriving at her house, the two of them exchanged their numbers, before kissing each other on the forehead and parting ways with each other.

Later that evening, she went back to the VR game she was playing the whole time, and she was now back in Helsinki, in the middle of the night.

She went to a nearby café to rest and drink coffee on her own, like as if nothing happened between her and the love of her life.

Just as she was about to forget everything that happened throughout the past several days, Lael walked and sat next to her table, putting his cup of coffee opposite hers.

“Hey, is that you, Lael?”, she asked him.

“Yes, it’s me, Yara. How is it going today?”, he replied.

“It was great, thank you.”, she said back.

After they were done drinking their coffee, the two of them paid their bills separately, and went outside of the café.

There, they went for a walk in the city.

As they stopped a few minutes away from a nearby bench, she removed her headscarf, revealing her black hair, while at the same time her own butterfly hairpin, turning her eyes from her usual dark brown to blue.

Lael then held Yara in his arms, before they danced with each other and smiled at the camera.

Later, she grabbed her headscarf and butterfly hairpin, before she sat next to him at the nearby bench, where they were now holding hands and facing each other.

“Yara, voinko... suudella sinua...? (Yara, can I… kiss you…?)”, he asked her in Finnish, while blushing.

“Okay, Lael.”, she answered, before putting her butterfly hairpin on her right hair, turning her eyes back to dark brown.

He kissed her, who then put her headscarf over them to avoid them getting caught, before eventually making out with her.

Turns out, it was all a dream the whole time, as she woke up in the middle of the night, in her bed, all alone, and she had no idea how it’s like to date someone outside of her dreams and VR experiences.

That is, until she heard someone knocking on the entrance door to her house, that she ran to the kitchen to grab a machete and headed towards the entrance of her house, in which she opened the door of her house, only to saw Lael waiting for her outside, calming her anger down.

“Oh, hey Lael, what brings you outside of my house?”, she told him.

“Since I missed seeing you a lot, I came here just for you.”, he responded to her.

Upon realizing his true intentions, which was to be with her, she ended up dropping the machete to the ground before heading back to her house, without saying a single word, throwing one of her slippers away.

He then grabs one of her slippers, before chasing after her, saying “Wait! You forgot this!”

Yara stopped by and he gave her one of her slippers back.

“Thank you, Lael.”, she said back to him.

“You’re welcome, Yara.”, he replied.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you about this, but the truth is… Rather than spending one night in Helsinki all by myself, I want to spend more time with you, not only in the VR world, but rather in the real world. Would you like to be my girlfriend for real…?”, he continued.

She changed her mind, and said “Of course, I would love to.”, to his excitement that the two of them hugged each other.

The next day, just as she got out of school, he grabbed her hands, with her telling him “Wait, Lael, where are we going next?!”, while running at the same time as him.

“We’re going somewhere else, my love!”, he replied.

And so, the story of Yara’s misadventures with her male friends in the VR world has come to an end, as she somehow managed to hit it off with Lael in the real world, starting a new chapter in her life.