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“Yuuto Onii chan….Yuuto san, have you grown taller…….?”
It was only after the ordered food arrived that the third daughter, Kokono, called out to me in her own voice.
“I think I grew a lot from middle school to high school. I think I’m about 176cm now.”
“You’re really tall. You’re more than 10 centimeters away from me.”
“And 20cm away from me….”
“I think about 25 centimeters from me……”
“Still, you’ve all grown up since the last time we’ve seen each other.”
“Well…yeah.”
“I see…..”
Miyu and Kokorono reacted slightly to Yuuto’s words.
The two of them were looking at their eldest daughter, Mashiro.
“W-what is it? What’s with those eyes?”
“MAshiro Nee, I don’t think it’s right to exaggerate your height by five centimeters. You’ve even gained height because of your thick-soled boots.”
“Mashiro Onee chan is 145 centimeters tall, so there’s a 30 centimeter difference.”
“You don’t have to correct me on that ! !”
“It’s worse to lie.”
“Yeah.”
“Ahaha.”
“Don’t laugh at me, Yuuto Onii san !”
This cheerful conversation is very enjoyable for me because I live alone.
But I understand her complex.
I firmly follow up Mashiro, who is getting teased and taking a big bite of the steak in front of her.
This is a natural thing for a step brother to do.
“I still think Mashiro san is very mature. She dresses nicely, and the way she sprays her perfume is very feminine.”
I don’t mention her cute childish face. No, I can’t mention it because it only makes things worse.
When he praises her for anything else, Mashiro’s mouth, which had been munching food, stops.
Her eyes widen and her blue eyes shine like jewels.
“The way he praises her is……. That was too much.”
“Yeah……”
Miyu and Kokono’s whispering reached the front, but the eldest daughter didn’t hear them.
She still keeps looking at him with sparkling eyes.
“Um, it’s kind of embarrassing to be stared at, you know?”
“!”
She blinked as if coming back to herself.
And then, in order to swallow the meat in her cheeks, she is busily moving it around, munching it more and more.
“Hey, Yuuto Nii, I bet you have a girlfriend, don’t you?”
“Eh? I don’t have one, okay !?”
“That’s definitely a lie…..”
“You’ve received many confessions, haven’t you?”
Mashiro who’s come to her senses also joins.
“That’s too bad…..I’m really not popular.”
“No, no, that can’t be true ! You’re a player, Yuuto Nii !”
“Player !?. No, no, seriously. If it were true, I’d like to show off.”
“It’s impossible that you’re not popular. The reason you didn’t realize it was because the women misunderstood that you had a girlfriend……”
“I-I don’t think so……”
“Well I think so ! !”
Mashiro, who’s backing me up blindly, is probably thanking me for what I said earlier.
I feel a sense of righteousness.
“Well, speaking of this sort of thing, isn’t everyone’s the same? Don’t all three of you have a boyfriend or something? You must have been popular in middle school and high school, right?”
“Well, I guess I was popular in general, but…it was the worst, you know? If they get rejected by me, they will aim for Kokono or Mashiro Nee next time. In middle school and high school, we had to go through a disciplinary test and we all had the same haircut, so there were a lot of similarities in our looks.”
“I see… That’s tough…”
It’s probably a unique problem for the three sisters.
If they were treated like that, it would violate their dignity.
Even Yuuto feels disgusted just by hearing that story.
“…….There were no mature people either.”
“Ahaha, in middle and high school, that might not be possible. I was immature then, too.”
“Even you……Yuuto Onii san?”
“The people around don’t think that way. I can’t imagine Yuuto Nii being immature.”
“You’ve always taken care of us, and you’ve always been mature, you know…..? I remember that.”
“Oh? Then I guess you could say that.”
“That’s not what I’m saying. You’re always been mature !”
“Thank you for saying that.”
“Y-you don’t need to thank me for that….. Even smiling…..seriously.”
“……Miyu Onee chan is embarrassed.”
“Huh? I’m not embarrassed at all.”
Just like Yuuto, the three sisters must have memories of the past. It makes him happy to see them believe that and not doubt it.
“Then Kokono san’s favorite type is someone who looks mature?”
“! I-i-i-it’s not just me….. Mashiro Onee chan and miyu Onee chan also have the same type. We’re triplets, so we’re similar in that way…..”
“Even though Kokono ikes that type the most.”
“I’m not. About the same as everyone else. Normal. I’m serious…”
“If you say it like that, you’re just proving my point, Kokone.”
“Haha, that’s right. I heard good information.”
“Geez…….”
Kokono is tapping the table while expressing her dissatisfaction.
Even though she’s annoyed, I don’t feel the slightest pressure. It was very heartwarming for her to adjust the sound so as not to disturb the surroundings.
“Fufu, I’m going to get a little cliche here, but I’m glad I got to meet you all today. Thank you so much for giving me a chance to meet again.”
“No problem ! It was really nice to meet you too. I also found out that the senior who helped me at that time was Yuuto Onii san !”
“It’s really like a story with a good ending. Hey, let’s have another drink now. I’m not sure if there’s anything left for Kokono, but would you like me to pour you something?”
“I’m fine for now.”
“Okay. Then, excuse me, Yuuto Nii.”
“Of course.”
Yuuto is sitting on the aisle side, not the window side. Once he gets up from his seat, he makes room for her to get out.
After confirming that Miyu is gone–
Kokono quietly lowered her posture and disappeared from sight.
Yuuto, who is in the front, immediately notices the action and peeks under the table, and a cute face comes out from next to him.
“Yuuto Onii chan’s….I mean Yuuto san’s seat, I took it.”
Saying this, she took up a position next to Yuuto and started replacing Miyu’s food on the table, changing the seating order in a very skillful way.
I don’t think it’s just my imagination that I’m ignoring the gaze from Mashiro saying [What a bad manner].
“From now on, I’ll move to the window side, okay? I think it’ll be easier for everyone to change seats.”
“Thank you very much ! Kokono, it’s my turn next, okay?”
“…….Keep it like this.”
“You can’t have him all to yourself.”
Kokono’s mistake was that she didn’t have a drink because she wanted to be next to him.
“Kokono san, can you lend me your ear for a minute?”
“Y-yeah……?”
When she came next to him, Yuuto changed his voice to a whisper so that she could lend him her ear and tell her what he had wanted to say for a long time.
“You can call yourself whatever you want. I won’t make fun of you.”
“Tsu.”
When Yuuto narrows his eyes and gently tells Kokono so, she quickly turns away.
Then, a little while later–.
“Huh !? Kokono, I’m really going to get angry !?”
“….First come first serve.”
Yuuto and Mashiro listen to this exchange.
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