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I confidently made that suggestion to Kirito that if he and I became ‘lovers’, we could legally become a family.
I knew he would cry and rejoice!
B-but what …… he said to me was so unexpected. ……
“Can you please not talk to me anymore?”
“…… Eh?”
[Can you please not talk to me anymore?]
W-What do you mean?
No more going to school with me. You’ve been making a lot of comments lately that don’t make any sense!
“Don’t talk to me until you realize your mistake.”
Haa!? My mistake!? What am I doing wrong!?
Ignoring my feelings, Kirito tried to go home! I’m not going to let you get away with this!
“W-Wait a minute!!”
But Kirito ignored my voice.
And slammed the front door.
Batan
What’s the matter with him? ……
A-As if to seriously reject my bewilderment, the door slammed shut.
Gachari
and even locked the front door, as if seriously rejecting my bewilderment: ……
I was stunned for a few moments, but then I grabbed my phone and called him!
Reason!!! Tell me why!!!!
But it seems he was pretty ‘serious’ when he said it…..
“The number you have dialed has been disconnected.”
Putsu…….
Tsutsutsu (SFX)
“….Ha?”
Denied???!!!!!!
W-what have you done to me!!!!
I immediately opened up my messaging app and sent him a message!
“What the hell are you doing blocking my calls! You need to unblock me right now!”
But no matter how long it took, I couldn’t get a read.
I tried using the call function in the message app, but there’s no …….
No way, I’m blocked!?
W-why! Why is this happening to me!
In my bewilderment, I called the person who had caused this situation.
It was right that I had asked for her contact information!
“Yes, hello. This is Fujisaki. Minamino-san, how may I help you? ……”
“Fu, Fujisaki Akari! It’s your fault!”
I called the culprit, Fujisaki Akari.
I don’t need to call her senpai!
“Good grief. Call me senpai! I don’t know if you’ve called me like this, but did you say something to Sakurai-kun like, ‘Be my boyfriend’ or something?”
“Y-Yes, I did. …… because you said it! You told me that in order to be a family, I had to become his girlfriend! Take responsibility!”
“Eh…………, why don’t you just apologize to him? like ’sorry, let’s pretend that what happened earlier didn’t happen’”
I said back to the woman who said that to me so carefreely.
“I-I said I can’t do that, so take responsibility! My phone is blocked, my messaging app is blocked for this! I can’t reach him! He’s in front of my house but he even locked the door! What the hell is this? Why is this happening!”
“Wow, seriously? Sakurai kun is furious. …… Aah, This might be a little impossible. ..”
“…………Eh?”
W-What do you mean it’s impossible……
“Minamino san, I’ve had enough for today. I’m not sure if you’ll be able to sleep, but you should go to bed. You may not be able to sleep, but go to bed.
Fujisaki Akari said as if advising.
“Tomorrow. First thing in the morning, apologize to Sakurai kun. You live next door, don’t you? There must be a way to meet him, even if it’s by force, right?”
“Well, yes. ……”
I just have to try my best to get up early like I did today and wait for him in front of his house. It’s really hard to get up early, but it can’t be helped. ……
“B-but …… Fujisaki Akari.”
“Haaa, put on the ‘senpai’. So, what?”
I asked the sighing woman.
“….. it wasn’t my fault in the first place. I don’t know what in the world to apologize for.”
“Hey, Minamino-san?”
She spoke to me in a very calm voice, and I was terrified. ……
“W-what ……”
“I’m sure if it’s a good idea to apologize to someone who is angry with you, even if you don’t know what you did wrong. Then they will tell you ‘why they are angry’.”
T-that’s right. ……
“I-I understand. I’ll apologize to Kirito first thing in the morning.”
“Minamino san? Please don’t apologize ‘normally,’ okay? ‘I’m not happy about it, but I’m going to apologize!’ you can’t say that, okay?”
I-I was just about to say that!
“O-Okay, okay. ……”
“Okay. Then do your best to make it up to him.”
Psst.
I just got off the phone with Fujisaki Akari.
A-anyway. Shall we go into the house?
I open the front door with my duplicate key and enter my own house.
“Welcome home, Rinne. You were late today. I’m was worried about you.”
My “mother” greeted me.
“I’m home. I’m tired after everything that happened today.”
I took off my leather shoes and went up to the house.
“I see. And I’m sorry about yesterday. I was busy with work and your father was late getting home.”
“Hmmm. It’s okay, I’m not a child anymore. I’m not going to be happy or sad when my parents come home.”
When I said that, my mother laughed and said
“I know, Rinne is always happy or sad only about Kirito-kun, isn’t she?”
“……Whaaa?!!”
I am at a loss for words when a timely name comes up.
“I was running low on barley tea for Kirito kun, he came yesterday, didn’t he? Ummm…. I’m relieved to hear that you two are still close even though you’re in high school.”
I twisted my face at my mother saying such a thing.
“…… Eh. Rinne-chan. What’s wrong?”
To the mother with a slightly quizzical look on her face.
“No, it’s nothing. What’s for dinner tonight, mom? I’m hungry.”
I said, trying to hide the fact that I was hungry.
“Talk to me.”
“…… Eh?”
I was a little surprised to hear her tone of voice.
“Do you think you can hide it from me? It’s been ten years since I’ve lived with Rinne chan. I can see through that much.”
“…..M-mom”
“Come to the living room and sit in the chair.”
I followed her as she said this.
Dad hadn’t come home yet.
She had probably already prepared dinner. I could smell the good smell of curry coming from the kitchen.
And then I let out a resigned sigh and said to mom
“Kirito and I…… had a fight.”
“I see. But isn’t fighting always a thing?”
I shook my head at that.
“I don’t know why. It’s not my fault. “
She smiles at my words.
“What are you talking about, Rinne chan? Rinne chan is always the one at fault in your fights. Even so, things were going well because Kirito-kun said he was sorry, right?”
“T-that kind of thing……”
“There is. So, why did you fight?”
I told my mom that I had an idea what she was talking about.
“Kirito confessed his feelings to me.”
“……eh?”
“He asked me to be his girlfriend.”
“Oh my God! I knew it was Kirito-kun who would put it into words! Of course, Rinne chan…”
“Of course, I told him off.”
“………… what?”
My mom looked stunned at my words.
Why is that?
“R-Rinne chan. Mom …… didn’t hear you well. I’m sure you’ve heard that Kirito-kun has asked you to be his girlfriend, right?”
“Yes, he did. And I rejected it.:
“W-Why?!!?!?!”
Mom banged on the desk and got up to interrogate me.
“B-Because you guys are …….”
“Yes, we’re family.”
“…… what?”
What? What, are you going to say weird things about my me too?
“We’ve grown up together since kindergarten. We do everything together. We even bathe together. Kirito is my blood family. There is no way I can be his girlfriend now.”
“R-Rinne. Kirito-kun has been brought up like a family member, but he is not ‘blood related’.”
………..
Mom…..
The only thing I didn’t want my mother…. to tell me ….
“……Why, why does everyone say that……?”
“…… what?”
“Why do you say ‘I’m not blood related’! I didn’t want my mother to be the one to say that!”
“R-Rinne chan!?”
I continued to the surprised mother.
“Not like that woman who just had me! Mother raised me well! You loved me! The time you spent with me! I loved you so, so, so much! It was a happy time! That’s why I consider mom as my ‘blood mother’!!!”
“….!!!”
“And so Kirito and Misuzu, who grew up in the same way, are equally ‘blood family’ to me! For me! They are more important to me than ‘blood family’! They are more important to me than anything else!”
“And you all say we’re strangers! You say we’re not family because we’re not blood related! Why do you say that!”
“Don’t be ridiculous! Don’t deny my ‘family’ !!!!!!!!”
“Rinne chan!”
I run out of the living room and run to my room.
Batan!!
I shut the door behind me and crawled into bed and covered myself with the futon.
No! I can’t stand it! I don’t understand! It’s not my fault! It’s not my fault! It’s not my fault!!!!
It’s everyone else’s fault! All of you who deny me my ‘family’!!!!
A marriage certificate? How can that piece of paper be a proof of family!
You’ve got to be kidding me! All you need to be a family is time! It’s about memories! An act that makes you feel loved! All of it! All of it! All of it! My “mother” and father. I have nurtured with Kirito and Misuzu!
The woman who just gave birth to me is not my “blood mother” or even a “family member”!
Why! Why! Why! You all deny me my family!
I won’t allow it! I won’t allow it! I will not allow it!!!
I will not! I will not allow anyone to deny my ‘family’ !!!
…… tomorrow. I’ll go see Kirito first thing in the morning.
I’m sure he’ll understand how I feel.
He was just in a bad mood today. ……
Because …… he’s always been next to me …… and he’s my ‘precious family member’… …
(TL/N : For once…I feel sad)
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This is the one female character I absolutely hate just for the sole reason she doesn’t even understand what she done has essentially severed any chance of getting together with the guy she likes, even if she doesn’t realize it. She plays the victim, she butchers the man’s confession calling him essentially worthless as a marriage partner, and refuses to see him as anything else. Like her skull is so damn THICK that not even 50BMG could go through it. Her own little world of staying together forever with the MC was shattered by her own hand. She doesn’t realize the importance of “making a family” and rather relies heavily on her status of staying as siblings. She ruined her future, she belittled her love of her life without knowing, and she played the victim for mocking a man. Like I hate this lady more than Melty from shield hero, and she’s a heinous bastard.
I had a hunch, but did not expect this coming at all. Her line of thinking was too weird (or distorted) if she was written simply as a “dense and dumb” character, but alas. Gg author, well played. Thx for the translations too!
If Rinne would be on an episode of World’s Dumbest, I’m pretty sure she’d easily win first place. She sits there wonders and asks what she did wrong, but when everyone fucking tells her what she did wrong she just gets salt mad and plays the victim. She is dangerously deluded, she has no right being anywhere near Kirito if she’s lacks so much common sense.
When she gets her head out of her ass she better not interfere with him and Towa. She needs to stew and reflect in her failure.
I… I can’t even comprehend this… It would be one thing if she was just like “We’re like family” or “We’re family” and was stuck on that, but nooooo she even adds in the “blood” family. Like, she’s in high school, she has to have the common sense to know that that’s just literally wrong or at least that any human being besides her would be confused. Her own mom wasn’t aware of her thought process, so has she just been silently calling them all “blood” family and then getting upset when they’re confused???
I can’t feel bad for her when she shot herself in the foot twice and once a 3rd party told her what she did wrong (again), she loaded the gun yet again just to go for the head.