Reborn in a Dating Sim:

Life as a Mob is hard in an Equestria Girl’s Dating Game!

Chapter Introduction

“Becca, what the hell are you doing here?” Nathan asked as he looked at his younger sister, “Why aren’t you at home?”

The shorter redheaded she-devil pushed past her older brother and stepped into his meager apartment. He could see the way she was looking around that the gloating was about to begin. That was the one constant he could depend on. If there was something to be bragged about then his little sister would brag about it. She constantly wanted to rub it in his face that she was the younger sibling, and she got away with murder.

“So, I got this new game, and everybody’s playing it. The problem is that I’m getting stuck. So, I kinda need you to finish it for me.”

Nathan blinked his bleary eyes. He studied her for a moment, and then shook his head, “Absolutely not,” he replied as he studied her, “I’m finally off for four days. I get a chance to get some rest, relax, and not do anything other than just chill out. Why would I spend that time trying to beat a game for you?”

He watched as she turned toward him. He couldn’t lie. If she never talked then Becca would be cute. She had a little button nose, her green eyes had slight glitter like freckles, and she was even something of a short-stack. She stood at a whopping four feet and ten inches. One of his friends had called her fun sized. Of course that was before she ripped said friend a new one for looking at her too long.

“Because, my dear brother, you think that I’m adorable, and you’re going to do it because you love me,” she said, her voice the normal snide and sarcastic pitch it was when she was certain she was getting exactly what she wanted, “And also, I know about the collection of porn that’s still in your room at the house. You know, the stuff under the floorboard, on the right side of the bed, right where it pulls up easily?”

He froze for a moment, “Okay,” he said as he studied her, “So, you found a couple of magazines, so what?”

She laughed, “Magazines?” she asked, her voice faking disbelief, “My dear brother I found more than a couple of issues of Hustler. I found the vhs tapes. You know, the collection, the stuff that you were buying off of some guy at the school. I made it through the first one, and I was surprised that there was a tape of Ms. Underwood getting pounded hard.”

He breathed out, “That’s still not bad,” he replied, “Those tapes could have come from anywhere.”

She studied him, “Sure, they could have come from anywhere, and I know that. You know that too, but I also know that if Mom and Dad find out then they’re going to go nuclear on you,” she said, her voice brimming with confidence, “So nuclear that it’s likely you’ll never even be able to come back over and do laundry for free anymore. So nuclear that Dad will likely call your boss and have a long discussion about your employment there.”

Nathan felt his entire will crack. The laundry was bad, the possibility of his dad calling his boss and somehow talking him out of a job was worse, “Fine,” he said as he took the game, “Give me the stupid thing.”

She grinned at him, “Here’s my console, play it on it, and get me a hundred percent. I want to be able to brag about one hundred precenting it at school. Don’t skip anything, and thanks bro!”

She started to leave, “Oh, I’ll tell mom that you can’t come visit us and go to Olive Garden because you’re busy!”

He watched as she left, and he felt his blood pressure rising. He breathed out, knowing that it did absolutely no good to be upset right now. Sure, she’d won for the moment, but it wasn’t the end of the world. He walked into his meager living room and took her console out. A moment of checking it revealed exactly what he thought. It was still a PS5, but it was the pro edition.

“Mom had to get you the better one, huh?” he asked as he plugged it up to his television, “Not that it matters mine does just fine.”

He turned the console on, and let it load before moving to the games. He saw the title, “Love beyond Worlds! A dating sim!”

He rolled his eyes, and clicked on the icon. A moment passed and he watched as what looked like a lavender skinned girl walked up toward a huge looking school. Other brightly colored individuals were around, all of them moving in various directions, “Okay, so this girl must be the protagonist. That’s fine, I can do this. It’s just a dumb game.”

The first two hours were him working through a completely different save file from the one his sister had worked on. He’d tried to play it on her save file, but from what he could see she had skipped some key dialogue with some of the NPCs. That had landed her in what looked to be a no win situation. As he played he noticed a few similarities to this and Doki Doki Literature Club. Well, similarities in the idea of the protagonist being able to have about five different love interests.

The very things that made Doki Doki Literature Club the phenomenon that it was seemed to be missing. Instead this stupid dating sim was horribly unbalanced. It was based in a world with magic, but that magic was actually some kind of strange energy that was able to be used by new humans. This energy was called magic, and the new humans had long since taken the place of the original humans that once ruled the land.

There was airships, all of which seemed to be zeppelins, except for some that required micro-transactions. Two attempts through a pirate raid, which he wanted to punch the designers for throwing a pirate raid into a dating sim, and he bought the premium airship. It cost him twenty-five bucks, something he would never see again, and used that to win the skirmish with the pirates.

The first day was gone and he was about a quarter of the way through the game. He groaned, knowing that if he wanted at least a single day to relax he had to go ahead and pull a couple of all nighters. So, instead of stopping, like a sensible human being, he kept playing. He kept grinding forward, building the stats of the protagonist, and watching as she climbed to the levels of magic. She went from beginner to witch, from witch to Arch Witch, from Arch Witch to Sage, and finally from Sage to Saint.

Every single possible conversation he could have, he had, every possible romance he could get her into he did. It was a push forward, and he hated the game with every passing moment. He wanted to desperately quit, tell Becca to take her console, her game, and shove them both straight up her ass. The one thing that kept him from doing just that was the fact that she would keep her promise.

The second day came and went, and he had done forty-eight hours on the damned game. He was so close, the percentage was now at ninety-eight percent. He just had to do two more things. One of them was an easily missable side quest at the very beginning of the game. When entering into the school there was an area to sign up clubs. He’d missed it, and by not signing up he didn’t get the full skill tree.

It wasn’t much, just a couple of skills in wordless casting, but Becca wanted one hundred percent. He went back to the beginning of the school, found the stupid girl waving around a flier for the newspaper club. He joined it, followed her, and form there met the mentor for the club Ms. Matilda. Which the older witch taught the protagonist wordless casting right off the bat.

“Finally,” he said as the percentage read one hundred, “Finally, I can relax the next two days, and she can go fuck off.”

He got up, his head feeling fuzzy, “Ugh, I’m going to go down to the convenience store and get something. Man, Olive Garden would have been nice,” he complained as he walked toward his door. He opened it, stepped out, and looked at the steps, “Woah, had these steps always been so steep?”

He took a step, felt his foot slip, and he began falling down the steps toward the sidewalk, “No, not like this, not after wasting two days on a stupid dating sim!”

He hit, and the world went black.

Author's Note

AN: So, this has been a hot minute huh? A new story from RJP. Well, I got some inspiration, and I thought that I'd share. I will come back and work on the other stories here as well, but mostly I've been doing a normal 9-5 gig and of course working on some original stories as well. But working on something fun like this is nice.

So, I hope you enjoy.