Chapter 359
The reason I hadn’t shown my sisters the game at first wasn’t just because I’d used memories from playing it to predict the future—it was also because I was worried the game might leave some kind of trauma for Claire or Alice.
Of course, the game itself wasn’t rated for adults. In fact, it had never once received an adult rating, even from the notoriously strict Korean ratings board.
Well, considering the graphics, there wasn’t really room for realistic portrayals of violence anyway. And in some ways, Japan’s rating standards were even stricter than Korea’s. With console releases like these, excessive sexual content would be a problem.
Apparently, the earlier PC-only titles in the series, released before I got into it, had much more explicit scenes. Later remakes and console ports had most of that content removed due to censorship issues and demands from console manufacturers.
Still, the game portrayed Claire’s past quite explicitly. But just like I didn’t see the in-game Sylvia as myself, Claire—though maybe a little embarrassed—didn’t seem to view that version of Claire as her either.
I guess you could say she treated it as a kind of hypothetical version of herself.
But—
“Come on, Claire. Call me big sister.”
The way the characters were portrayed in the game definitely affected Claire and Alice—just in a different way.
“No way! No way! I’m not that Claire, okay!? The only sister I had growing up was Sylvia. There's no reason for me to call you ‘big sister’!”
“Now that I think about it, even in that world you had kind of the same image. You were close with Bella, right?”
“I was close with Bella, sure! But I didn’t inherit her sword! I never dressed like her either! I never walked around with my hair down or wore a corset that exposed half my chest and called it a top!”