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 - Prologue at Dawn — Your story begins now.
The sound of the deck ejecting the tape seemed unnaturally loud.
There was no light in the room. Outside the window, it was still dark, and only a thin sliver of orange from the streetlights slipped through the gap in the curtains. Sitting on the sofa, Takafumi rubbed his eyelids with his fingertips.
He was exhausted.
He had watched four, then five tapes, and with each one, the faces of those three women had burned themselves into his mind. The weight of the emotions they had directed solely at his uncle sat heavy in the depths of his chest.
"This is the last one."
On the bed, his uncle held out his hand. On the label of the tape pinched between his fingers, written in ink, were just the words: *To Takafumi*.
"...The last one?"
"This is all the ones I hadn't opened."
Takafumi took the tape. The plastic case was cold, its chill settling familiarly against his fingertips.
(A tape addressed... to me.)
He pushed it into the deck. The finger he pressed the play button with trembled, just a little.
The footage began.
The first person to appear was a silver-haired elf.
Elysia Fortesia. Her long silver hair flowed behind her, and her jade-colored eyes stared straight into the camera. She had her arms crossed, her chin raised just slightly.
"Tell the next person who comes."
Her voice was low and cold.
"I'm not going to wait. I don't care about some elven law. If you're not coming, then don't. Do whatever you want."
Her words were sharp, but they grew a little quieter towards the end.
She suddenly fell silent and averted her eyes from the camera.
Her pointed ears had turned red.
"...But."
For just a moment, her gaze returned to the camera. Her jade eyes wavered, looking as if she were about to cry.
The screen changed.
(That just now...)
Takafumi clenched his fist tightly. He couldn't get the image of Elysia's red ears out of his head.
The next person to appear was a pale-skinned magic user.
Noel Milkfield. She had light blue hair that reached her shoulders and clear, silver eyes. Expressionless, she slowly began to move her lips.
"Whoever you are, watching this footage..."
Her voice was quiet, almost as if she were talking to herself.
"I... don't really understand emotions. I've always been that way."
She placed a hand on her own chest.
"But someone taught me. That this place... can grow warm."
Takafumi's chest tightened painfully. He already knew who the "someone" Noel mentioned in the footage was.
Noel's recording ended there.
The last person to fill the screen was a small, red-haired warrior woman.
Siena Delphia. She brought her face right up close to the camera and showed an innocent smile.
"I want to meet the person who's important to my dear uncle!"
Her voice was bouncing with energy. It was as if she were actually talking to someone on the other side of the camera.
"I'll be waiting forever, you know! I'll come pick you up anytime!"
At the edge of the screen, he could see her clutching something. A keyholder. The same small, Sega Saturn-shaped piece of plastic that was now in Takafumi's hand.
The footage turned to static.
Silence returned to the room.
Takafumi couldn't move. He leaned back against the sofa and stared at the TV static. The back of his eyes burned. Something welled up inside him, and he bit down hard on his lip.
(I've never even met them.)
Elysia's red ears. Noel's quiet confession. Siena's smile. All three of them were people who had lived before Takafumi was even born. And yet—right now, in this six-tatami room, he had definitely heard their voices.
Before he knew it, tears were spilling from his eyes.
He didn't even feel like wiping them away.
"My story is over."
His uncle's voice rang out, straight and true.
When Takafumi looked up, his uncle was standing in front of the window. The eastern sky was beginning to lighten. The light of dawn was quietly spreading beyond the curtain.
"Next—it's your turn to be the main character, Takafumi."
His uncle turned around.
His face wasn't wearing its usual smirk. It was the face of a man who understood everything and had been guiding him all along.
Takafumi couldn't say anything and hung his head.
(There's no way I can do that.)
The inferiority complex he had always felt swirled around in his chest. His admiration for his uncle. The resignation that it was impossible for him. It all mixed together, forming a heavy lump in his throat.
But—.
In the footage, Elysia had averted her eyes, her ears red. Noel had said, "Whoever you are." Siena had smiled and said, "I want to meet them."
The three of them had left a message for the next person to come—someone who might be him. That "someone" might just be me.
(I can't deny it.)
That feeling was driven into his chest like a nail, and he couldn't pull it out.
In the silence, Takafumi's right hand grew warm.
"...Huh?"
He opened his hand and looked. The keyholder he had been unknowingly clutching was glowing with a faint golden light. The surface of the plastic was gently warm.
"What is this?"
"It's proof that a dimensional rift is nearby."
His uncle's voice was calm.
"When the conditions are met, that keyholder reacts—the moment its owner resolves to go of their own free will."
Takafumi's fingers tightened around the keyholder.
"It wasn't just my memories of the Sega Saturn that I brought to the other world. I've known for a long time that you would go to Granbahamal, carrying that keyholder."
"...Why did you keep quiet about it?"
His voice came out sullen.
"If you'd known, you wouldn't have come, right?"
His uncle grinned.
The moment he saw that smile, Takafumi's chest grew hot. This wasn't the weird uncle he'd always watched. It was the smile of a man who understood everything and had guided him this far.
(I'm—)
The keyholder continued to emit a warm light in his hand.
Takafumi stood up. His knees were shaking. His voice seemed ready to shake, too. But—.
"...I'm going."
He said just that one thing.
His uncle said nothing, just raised the corner of his mouth.
Immediately after, the air in the six-tatami room warped.
In one corner of the wall, a hazy rift of light was born. The air grew steadily warmer, and a faint breeze blew through the room.
The door to the other world had opened.
"If you get scared,"
His uncle quietly walked up and placed a hand on Takafumi's shoulder.
"Just tell Elysia my name. That'll be enough."
"...They all absolutely love your name, don't they?"
Takafumi said it with a half-exasperated look.
"That's right."
His uncle just answered that and laughed.
Then he took the tape out of the deck and handed it to Takafumi. It was the tape they had just played, the one with *To Takafumi* written on the label.
"This is the prologue for you."
The tape was already blank. All the footage had been played back.
(So he means I should write on it myself from now on.)
Takafumi understood. This tape was for his own story, from here on out.
The light of the rift intensified.
Takafumi gripped the keyholder tightly and took a step forward.
His uncle stood at the entrance of the six-tatami room, watching with his arms crossed. The light of dawn filtered through the curtains, and the room was gradually turning white.
Takafumi's body melted into the light and vanished.
The last thing he saw was his uncle's quiet smile, and the morning sun beginning to rise in the eastern sky.
In the now-silent six-tatami room, only the power light on the deck blinked red.
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