Uncle from Another World: Our Secret Nights – An Adult IF Route
One day, Takafumi finds an old videotape in his uncle Yusuke's room while he's unconscious. Playing it back, he discovers it contains explicit records of his uncle's 'secret relationships' with three heroines from the other world of Gran Bahamul—relationships no one else knows about.
The first to appear is the tsundere elf. Initially cold, she is drawn to his love for the Sega Saturn. On a stormy night, alone with him at an inn, she clings to him with a sweet voice, saying, 'Just for tonight, l
Uncle from Another World: Our Secret Nights – An Adult IF Route - Beyond the Videotape: Uncle's Other World and the Silver-Haired Elf
A heavy thud echoed through the room.
Takafumi had been staring blankly at a stain on the ceiling, but the sound snapped him back to reality. One of the cardboard boxes piled in the middle of the six-tatami room had toppled over.
"...I need to clean this up."
His own voice resonated strangely in the room.
His uncle—Yuusuke—slept on the bed, oblivious. He'd been like this ever since the traffic accident three weeks ago.
Rubbing the dark circles under his eyes with his fingers, Takafumi stood up. His short black hair clung slightly to his forehead with sweat. His white shirt was faintly soiled with dust from the closet.
"Uncle, all you ever did was play games, and yet you hoarded all this junk..."
He grumbled as he reached for the closet door.
His mother had asked him yesterday. "That boy still hasn't regained consciousness, so could you tidy up his room a bit?"
It was his day off from his convenience store job, and it served as a good excuse to skip his university lectures. That was the only reason he'd come here.
—Or at least, that was all it was supposed to be.
"Whoa!?"
The moment he slid open the closet's fusuma door, the contents packed inside came crashing down in an avalanche at his feet.
Black rectangular blocks.
They scattered across the floor, crawling outward.
"What the heck are these..."
He picked one up and examined it closely.
VHS video tapes.
And not just one or two. More kept tumbling out from the depths of the closet. There had to be at least a hundred of them. Along with them, a dusty heap of game consoles and software cartridges came crashing down too.
"Sega Saturn..."
Takafumi picked up the console with an exasperated look.
He remembered how, when he was a kid, this uncle of his used to talk about it so passionately. Back then, Takafumi was still small and barely understood half of what he was saying.
But he remembered the way his uncle's eyes would sparkle, insisting it was just incredible, the absolute best.
It was hard to imagine, looking at the unshaven man sleeping before him now.
He reached down to the floor and picked up one of the tapes. The label had writing scrawled on it in marker.
"Gran Bahamur - Elf Arc"
"...Gran, Bahamur?"
It made no sense.
He looked at the other tapes. "Hot Spring Arc," "Cave Arc," "The Day of Farewell"... All of them were in the same handwriting.
"Uncle, you were recording stuff like this? Were you messing around making home movies or something?"
But the writing on the labels felt strangely vivid, somehow. It didn't feel like something written as a joke.
His gaze drifted to the corner of the room.
A small CRT television, and beneath it, an old VCR.
Takafumi fiddled with the tape in his hands for a moment.
(There's no point in watching the delusional recordings of a weird uncle like him.)
Even as he thought that, before he knew it, he found himself turning on the VCR and inserting the tape.
Curiosity had won out over reason.
The static cleared.
What spread across the screen was a forest unlike any he had ever seen.
"Huh..."
Takafumi instinctively leaned closer to the television.
Enormous trees. Their trunks were so thick that even several adults holding hands couldn't encircle them. Branches filled the sky, and sunlight filtering through the leaves fell to the ground in golden bands.
The air felt different.
It was far too beautiful to be real footage. But to call it CG... it didn't feel artificial, somehow.
Then, a person appeared on screen.
"Uncle...?"
A man in his mid-twenties.
His back was straight, his eyes full of vitality. It was hard to believe this was the same person as the unshaven man sleeping in the bed now.
The Yuusuke in the footage grinned.
"This is Gran Bahamur. The Great Forest of Fortesia."
He whispered toward the camera, his voice brimming with excitement.
"I'm currently 17... no, I'm going to live here until I'm 36. The flow of time here is different from reality, you see."
"The flow of time... is different?"
Takafumi furrowed his brow.
What did that mean?
But before he could fully ponder the meaning of those words, a new figure appeared in the footage.
Silver.
Long silver hair, reaching down to her waist, swayed in the wind.
Pointed, elongated ears.
She was about 165 centimeters tall. Her slender frame was clad in deep green clothing, and a longbow was slung across her back.
But most striking of all were her eyes.
Jade-colored pupils. Cold, sharp, with a gaze that seemed to appraise him.
(An elf...?)
Sitting on the sofa, Takafumi leaned forward.
"Yo, Miss Elf."
At Yuusuke's casual tone, the elf woman raised one eyebrow slightly.
"Foolish human. Do you understand the punishment for trespassing in this forest?"
Her voice, though clear and resonant, was utterly cold.
She was looking down on him completely.
"Uncle, you're just getting scolded like normal..."
But even so.
The Yuusuke in the footage didn't seem bothered in the slightest.
"Hey, do you know about the Sega Saturn? It's the best, seriously."
"...Huh?"
Takafumi's exclamation and the slight twitch of Elysia's eyebrow in the footage happened at the exact same moment.
"...Sega, Saturn?"
Her tone was clearly different from the cold rejection she'd shown just moments before.
Not rejection, but curiosity.
More than that—just a tiny hint of interest.
"Ah, this girl..."
Takafumi swallowed hard.
The footage skipped ahead several minutes.
The scene changed. It was night now.
A campfire crackled and popped.
Yuusuke and Elysia sat side by side on a log.
There was still some distance between them. But it was closer than before.
"The Hadouken in Virtua Fighter, that realistic movement, it's just truly amazing!"
Yuusuke spoke, his eyes sparkling.
He gestured with his hands, his voice growing louder and louder.
"And Panzer Dragoon! You fly, riding a dragon! In 3D!"
Elysia listened with an exasperated expression.
But Takafumi could tell.
Her body was turned ever so slightly toward Yuusuke.
Even the tips of her feet had shifted in his direction.
"...Is it interesting? That thing."
Her voice was still curt, but her gaze was different.
"It's the best!"
Yuusuke answered instantly.
"You're like an idiot."
Saying that, Elysia turned her face away.
—But for just a moment, the corners of her mouth relaxed.
Takafumi didn't miss it.
"Ah... she's falling for him, isn't she?"
The words slipped out naturally.
A sharp pang struck deep in his chest.
(...What is this?)
Jealousy.
It was an emotion he'd hardly ever felt before. But now, he definitely felt envious.
The footage skipped further ahead.
A small, stone-built room.
Outside the window, the sound of violent rain could be heard. The wind howled, and the trees rustled.
A storm.
Elysia sat across from Yuusuke, pushing her damp silver hair back with her hand.
The coldness from before was gone.
Her cheeks were faintly flushed.
(...No way.)
Unconsciously, Takafumi tightened his grip on the remote control.
"...Just for tonight. Look only at me."
Elysia's voice, small yet clear, flowed from the speakers.
She slowly stood up.
Her silver hair spilled over her shoulders.
And then, she took a single step toward Yuusuke.
—Stop.
The screen went black.
Takafumi had pressed the stop button on the remote.
His finger had moved before he even realized it.
"Haaah........"
All the strength drained from his body.
His face felt hot. His heart was pounding loudly.
"Did this... really happen...?"
His voice was hoarse.
He looked back at Yuusuke, sleeping on the bed.
His comatose uncle breathed slowly, his sleeping face peaceful.
Did this weird uncle really go to another world and have that kind of relationship with that standoffish elf—?
(No, wait.)
Takafumi took a deep breath.
Cool your head.
He recalled what Yuusuke himself had said in the footage.
"Gran Bahamur" was another world where the flow of time was different from reality. It was inhabited by elf tribes who used magic, and Yuusuke claimed that he had been sent there at the age of 17, passing through a dimensional rift caused by the impact of the traffic accident. He then spent 19 years there and returned here as a 36-year-old—or so he insisted.
Elves were a race with lifespans exceeding 400 years, a proud people who protected the forest. They looked down on other races, especially humans—that was something he'd mentioned in the footage too.
"...Sega Saturn."
A game console from the real world. Something that absolutely did not exist in that other world.
Was that why curiosity about something impossible had moved Elysia's heart?
(I feel like I get it, but also like I don't...)
Takafumi's gaze drifted to the mountain of tapes scattered on the floor.
Among them, something glinted.
Hidden in the shadow of the tapes, he found a silver emblem. It was small, fitting in the palm of his hand. Circular, with a pattern like ice crystals carved into its surface.
"Is this Uncle's...?"
It was something Yuusuke had been holding preciously in the footage of the other world.
An object from another world, found in the real world.
(Physical evidence... huh.)
The television screen still displayed static.
The VCR made a soft whirring sound as it began rewinding the tape.
Takafumi stood up and surveyed the pile of tapes on the floor.
The label "Hot Spring Arc" caught his eye.
If the first tape was truly a record of real events...
What was recorded on the second one?
Curiosity, far stronger than before, slowly filled the depths of his chest.
The Sega Saturn his uncle loved.
That elf girl who gradually thawed in the forest.
And that single phrase: "Just for tonight."
"...I wonder why."
Takafumi clenched his hand tightly in his pocket.
He felt like he understood why that elf had chosen Yuusuke.
And for some reason, he was incredibly envious of it.
He was also certain that he himself could never have an experience like that.
Takafumi's hand, trembling slightly, reached for the "Hot Spring Arc" tape.
On the bed, Yuusuke let out a small breath in his sleep.
Outside the window, the afternoon sun shone white on the apartment parking lot.
Reality was simply quiet.
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