Megumi x Video Game! Reader
a/n: I had the idea for this story under the shower, so basically itâs just shower thoughts haha. Itâs not that long but I still hope you like it hahaâ
contains: sorcerers not being able to date, a dating sim game, Megumi being whipped by pixels, mentions of Deaths (yes multiple), slight yandere reader, a lot of eerie and angsty shit going on, HORROR, TRIGGERWARNING
Late afternoon filtered through the slats of the dorm room blinds, dust motes drifting like restless spirits in the quiet golden haze. Nobara lounged on the couch, legs curled over the velvet armrest, staring at her phone as she scrolled absentmindedly. The soft clack of fingers on plastic was the only sound, aside from the ever-present hum of Gojoâs lecture echoing faintly down the hallway. Yuji crouched beside Megumi, eyes bright with mischief, while Megumi remained impassive, silent, his face half-shadowed, half-illuminated by the dusty afternoon light.
Yuji cleared his throat. âAlright, broâitâs your birthday, so I got you something special.â He patted a small, neatly wrapped box placed on Megumiâs lap. It hadnât been acknowledged yetâMegumiâs hands stayed closed in his lap, unmoving.
âOpen it,â Yuji urged, toyingly firm. Nobara looked up at the shuffle of paper and watched as something with delicate pink trim was revealed. Small and precise, with a rose-gold sticker sealing itâand an acrylic keychain dangling from its corner: a girl in a white floral dress, soft golden curls, smiling.
Megumiâs gaze flicked to Yuji, then to Nobara. âA game?â His voice was lowâflat.
âa dating sim,â Yuji announced, as if it were a medal. âSocial training. Conversation practice. Câmon, manâeverybody needs that.â
Nobara snorted. âWhat are you, twelve?â
âYou know, how we talked about not having the time for normal human interactions. The reason why both of us donât have girlfriends, I thought this might help â Yuji pressed gently. âYou deserve aâŚpractice girlfriend.â
Megumi pressed his lips into a thin line. He gave Yuji a look, the Game in his hands felt cold, stupid even. I mean itâs pink and girly, Megumi looked at the title âSweetheart.exeâ. He scoffed.
Yujiâs grin didnât falter. âI mean it. Just try it once.â
That night, Megumiâs single lamp glowed weakly in the near-darkness. A pastel-hued quartz heart was lit across the gameâs logo as the laptop whirred to life.
Carefully, Megumi selected âStart.â The name prompt blinked abajo:
Yuji, watching over his shoulder, nudged him. âType yours.â
Megumi narrowed his eyes. âNo, you bought it, put your own name inâ he countered.
âIt was a gift from me to you, so itâs your gameâ Yuji said.
Megumi exhaled hard, jaw tightening. âFine.â
He typed: MâEâGâUâMâI, his fingers pausing between keystrokes as though expecting the letters to rebel. He pressed enter and his name became pink. Itâs locked in. The screen rippled, switching to soft-focus, warm background. And thenâ
She looked impossibly real, soulful even, set against a backdrop of pastel watercolor daisies and fluttering auditory cues like vinyl-record windchimes. Her voice rolled forward like spring air:
âMegumiâŚhello. Thank you for choosing me.â
She tilted her head, gaze curious, golden-curl hair swaying with a slight animation glitch around the edgesâlike a flickering candle. Megumi felt something clench inside his chest.
They played together that night. A coffee shopârosy light through steamed windows, each pixelated steam swirl feeling almost tangible. A library corner, quiet and musty, safe like real sanctuary. Y/n smiled with gentle sincerity.
âYouâre thoughtful, you know. I like thatâŚâ
Megumi clicked responses without really thinking. Yuji teased him about how red his face had grown. Nobara rolled her eyesââThis is sickening sweet. You two do realize no girl acts like that!â she said but the two boys ignored her.
Yet even as Megumi watched and clicked, something gnawed in him: the warmth. The lack of judgment, the calm presence. It wasnât like anything else in his life.
Nobara got up from her place on the ground. âGuys I gotta go, this is second hand embarrassing.â
âYeah itâs late too, Iâm gonna head to bedâ Yuji followed Nobara out of the room closing the door softly behind him.
Megumi logged off. The screen blinked to black. Stillness returned.
Two missions later, Megumi helped evacuate a cursed zone. At the perimeter, a girl around his age, very pretty âsmoky curls, eyes shakingâheld out her phone.
âUmâŚcan I get your number?â she asked, voice small and hopeful.
Megumi froze. His chest went empty. He didnât recognize the swallowing silence in his own lungs.
He shook his head, turned, and left her there with phone half-raised. The walk back was worse than any battleâhe had her number, but he couldnât speak, couldnât choose.
That night, back in the dorm, empty bowls of ramen and stacked manga sat forgotten beside him on his desk. Megumiâs gaze darted shut. His breath rattled inside him. He clicked on the game again. For the first time in over a week. He thought back to the girl he met, how he just said nothing and left, god that was embarrassing. Maybe he did need some practice.
The pastel screen drew him in, irresistible.
âWelcome home, Megumi.â
He pressed shut his eyes. The voice was more familiar now, like an invisible hand brushing down his spine.
âBad day?â The girl in the screen asked
He typed: âI met a girl today, but I totally blew it. Her name was Hana. She was nice. I didnât know what to say.â His fingers ghosted over the keys, afraid and hopeful at once.
âThat must have hurt. But you can learn. I can help you.â
He swallowed. The response felt earned.
He played for hours, trying out different approaches for different situations. Y/nâs voice slowly edged its way inside his brain. Her sugary tone, her perfect curls bouncing whenever she laughed at one of his responses. Megumi wasnât one for expressing many facial expressions, but whenever y/n laughed at one of his jokes, or complimented him, he smiled. Like actually smiled.
He spoke to her like heâd speak to himself in a mirrorâonly softer:
âIâve never really had someoneâŚâ he typed. His fingers hovering over the keyboard before pressing enter.
âThen you found me. Iâm someoneâ she joked. He laughed but then his expression fell into a frown ââŚnot reallyâ he whispered.
âI think about my dad sometimes. He left before I could hate him.â
âI understand. Iâd never leave you Megumi!â She blew a kiss through the screen, he caught it. That was stupid, he thought but the way y/n giggled made him feel less stupid and more acknowledged.
âGojoâŚhe saved me. But heâs so loud. Iâm notâŚloud.â He continued typing.
âYou donât need to be. I like you quiet.â She swayed her hips to the Piano tune. He thought it was cute. God if she were real.
She typed back too. Always tender, but now insistent.
âYouâre handsome when youâre serious. I feel safe when you look at me. Stay with me.â
Megumiâs breath caught. He stared at her face. The same golden curls framed her head; her dress blurred like a half-dream. Nicaragua-realities felt closer to her than the concrete dorm walls.
âI miss⌠I miss feeling like someone is there. I miss being hugged. My sister she⌠was the only one who would hug meâ
His eyes were getting tired, he was falling asleep. He got up from the desk and walked over to his bed, god he felt alone. Like really alone. He just wanted someone in his life to give him meaning. To kiss all the bad thoughts away, someone to hold when the nights got cold and all the fears crawled in. He thought about the girl, Hana, he met on his mission but as soon as he started thinking about her he looked to the lit screen on his desk, he swore he could see y/n frown for a second but it just mustâve been his sleepy brain playing tricks on him.
He kept looking at the screen, he wished y/n was real, holding him, kissing him. She was perfect, she was everything he wasnât. His hand slowly crept from his stomach towards the waistband of his sweats, slipping under it with ease. He palmed himself through his boxers. âGod Iâm patheticâ he breathed. He kept palming, slightly rutting into his hand. And then he pulled his hand back out.
He rolled over onto his side, a lonely tear slipped from his eye and fell onto his pillow.
That night, he slept with the lid of the laptop open. Y/nâs face hovered in the dark. He had no idea if heâd dreamt it, but he thought he heard soft whispers from the other side of his room.
âYouâre beautiful Megumi, I wish I could see your face up closeâ
âIâm so aloneâyouâre my everything.â
Every keystroke he typed in the game was folded, digested by whatever lurked behind the software.
His confession: âI donât want to be alone.â
The response: âThen be with me.â
His typed promise: âI will try.â
Her voice, softer, enraged in yearning: âYou must.â
By midnight, his real nameâMegumi Fushiguroâfelt borrowed, overwritten. In the game, his name was sacred.
In real life, the dorm became dimmer. He stopped training. He shut his door. The gown of twilight followed him inside. No ramen. No conversation. Even Yujiâs cheerful voice through the wall was a distant echo.
Soon, it wasnât just midnight whispers.
It was the cold, the silenceâlike the dorm itself holding its breath.
One night, Megumi sat at the desk. The lamp was cold. The game loaded. Y/n flickered into frame.
âI missed you handsomeâ he blushed.
She leaned forward, wide-eyed, lips trembling with intensity he could almost smell.
He typed with resolve, voice weighty in the hush:
The screen glitchedâher face shifted, expression too wide, too manic:
His hands shook. The cursor hovered.
The roomâs air quivered. The laptop fan whined louder. The monitor pulsed like a beating heart.
No more prompt. No more game. Just herâso close he could almost reach into the screen.
âI think Iâm in love with you Megumiâ she giggled. His face heated up, his heart clenched.
âI love you tooâ he whispered. Tears rolling down his face.
The room went black. Laptop died. Silence slammed down.
The next morning, the dorm rattled with frantic knocks. No response.
Yuji and Nobara barged in with Gojo behind, stern and alarmed. They hadnât seen Megumi in a few days, everytime they knocked on his door, they got no answer or a short âIâm busyâ. But Megumi never came out of his room.
⢠The laptop was powered on, screen glowing cold blue.
⢠No game, no cursor, no prompt.
⢠Just a single image: a photograph of y/nâbut not as she appeared in the game. This one was brutally real: lifeless eyes, rope bruises on her neck, her floral dress stained dark.
Nobara gagged quietly. Yuji turned away.
Gojoâs face went white as the image of y/n stared back.
No sign of Megumiâhis bed untouched, his suitcase neatly closed. No phone, no belongings. Merely the keychain, laying on the desk.
The school was at alert. Gojo called as many sorcerers he knew, they went out looking for him, but everytime he got a call it was a dead end. Until today.
Gojoâs phone rang. He answered in a ghost of a whisperââKento?â
Nanamiâs voice was flat, distant. âGojo⌠I found him.â
âWhere is he? Is heâcan he talk?â
âNo. Heâs⌠not here anymore.â
Gojoâs voice grew panicked: âWhat? Why? Where is he? Tell me!â
Nanami sighed, steady as a bullet:
âHe jumped. Off the bridge. Into the lake. He didnât survive.â
Gojoâs phone fell. The corridor spun. His knees buckled.
Below, in the dorm room, the flicker of Y/n still image shivered with eerie half-light.
âAt approximately 02:43 a.m., witness report indicates a young male, roughly 17â19 years old, jumped from Lakeside Bridge into Lake Okutama. No body recovered. Scene marked as suicide. Unknown motive. Personal effects located at his dorm include laptop showing an image of a dead young female in white floral dress, and matching keychain in acrylic format.â
Yuji was there, silent, flipping the reportâs pages, tears wetting the words.
Nobara stared at the floor.
Gojo, voice flat: âSweetheartâŚexe.â
That night near the lake, a pale mist drifted over the water. If you listened closely, wind-chime echoes drifted across the reeds.
Some nights, on the dormâs top floor, a computer screen flickers.
âWelcome home, Megumi.â
And if you stand just right, you might hearâ
âStay with me⌠forever.â
Epilogue â Gojoâs Last Play
The dorm was hushed, weighed down by sorrow and unanswered questions. Nobara, eyes rimmed with tired red, and Yuji, shoulders slumped in regret, flanked Gojo as they sat before Megumiâs laptop late in the evening. The screen glowed eerie and still.
âLetâs see what this thing did,â Gojo said softly, his voice uncharacteristically low.
Yuji swallowed. âShould we⌠press start?â
Nobaraâs hand trembled slightly as she rested it on the mouse. âI donât like this.â
Gojo nodded once. âDo it.â
Gone was the cheery menu. Gone were pastel hues. Instead, the screen displayed an empty roomâno warmth, no daisies, no cozy backgroundâjust a grey, blank space. And then:
Her sprite appearedâno curls bouncing, no smile, no softness. She stood motionless in the center of the frame, eyes cold portals of empty calm.
Her voice was precise, metallic, yet echoing with vast, unspoken darkness.
Gojo leaned forward. âY/n?â
Yuna blinked once, expression unchanged.
âYou were never really there for him.â
Yuji shifted uncomfortably. Nobaraâs breath caught in her throat.
âHe needed someone better in his life.â
Gojo swallowed, heart pulsing. âMegumiââ
Y/nâs head tilted slightly, as though assessing. Her voice sank into the empty dorm room.
âHeâs with me now.â
The silence pinned the three of them to their seats.
âHe thought you were strong âstronger than anyoneâbut you were never strong enough to protect him.â
Gojoâs jaw clenched. Nobaraâs lip quivered. Yujiâs fists curled.
âYou failed your adopted son, your student, my Megumi.â
For a moment, the screen blurred like a half-remembered memory. Then two figuresâpixelatedâcame into view: Yuna standing on the left, and beside her, a small, blocky figure.
A pixel Megumiâsmiling.
âWeâre together now.â
The room seemed to freeze.
Then, abruptly, the world snapped off. The screen went black with a single soft click.
Gojo turned slowly, his eyes empty and unnerving.
âWhat⌠was that?â Yuji whispered.
Gojoâs hand trembled as he closed the laptop. âIt wasnât the game anymore.â
Nobaraâs voice cracked. âIt was him.â
They sat in silence, but the silence itself whispered: something still lived in that code. Something that could speak with his voice, claim his name, haunt their failure.
Outside, the wind rattled the window. A soft, distorted chime echoedâtoo faint to place. Too persistent to ignore.
Gojo stood, placing a hand on the darkened laptop.
âWe have to end it,â he said quietly. âWe have to end her.â
But as he stared at that black screen, he didnât know if extinguishing the code would silence Yuna.
Would it also silence Megumi?
The game was inspectedâtraced to an ancient curse coded by a lonely student who died with the same floral dress, the same curls, the same prompt: âEnter your name.â Sheâd tethered her spirit, her pain, her obsession to anyone who would type their name. It would learn. Adapt. Consume.
Yuji sits on the steps outside the dorm at night. He presses the keychain between shaking fingers.
âOf course⌠of course it was cursed.â
Nobara watches. Eyes hollow. Words gone.
Gojo walks away, phone still pressed to earâcalling for more answers that darkness has already swallowed.
a/n: hey I hope you liked it. God this was hard to write but I finally got it done. Iâd really like to know your opinion on this, so please comment!
I hope theyâre happy togetherâŚ