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After persuading Shizuru san, I came in front of Rinne’s room.
…… there. It’s also …… clear that she’s crying.
I take one breath and then tap on the door of the room.
Knock-knock.
“Who……?”
“It’s me.”
I can feel Rinne tense up at the sound of my voice.
Haha,……, even in a place like this, I can feel ten years have passed.
“……What are you doing here? You don’t want to talk to me, you don’t want to see me, go and say hello to Kitajima Towa.”
“It was none other than Kitajima Towa who made me come here.”
Rinne seemed surprised by those words.
“Enter …….”
“Okay.”
I said and opened the door to go inside.
“….!!”
There, Rinne was sitting on the bed, even more battered than before. There were many …… crying marks on her face.
“Stupid …… stupid …… stupid …… stupid …… if you ignore me, you can’t tell me anything …… nothing You can’t tell …… anything. ……”
“Sorry.”
Really, what the hell am I doing?
Rinne ‘cries’ This is a really serious thing.
Rinne was abused by her own parents.
If she laughed, she was beaten.
If she cried, she was beaten.
If she showed emotion, she was beaten.
She was subjected to such abuse until she was five years old.
It was a one-night stand. Rinne was the result of a serious attempt at contraception.
Rinne’s birth mother had no choice but to marry Rinne’s father, Masaki san.
However, Rinne’s birth mother, who still wanted to play, abused Rinne, the cause of their marriage, every day when Masaki went out for work.
And she herself was repeatedly unfaithful.
Then one day. Masaki san, who was a workaholic, happened to finish work in half a day and went home to do family service.
He saw Rinne tied up with a rope and Rinne’s birth mother who was having sexual intercourse on his bed.
Afterwards, he found many marks on Rinne’s clothes from being beaten and tied up.
Rinne’s mother did not allow Masaki san to see her skin because she was a girl.
She was also bathed with her.
There were times when she was almost drowned in the bathtub.
Because of this, when she was little, Rinne was a child who could not get into the bathtub.
Masaki san then divorced with evidence of abuse and cheating.
He says he was lucky that he was able to secure custody of his children. Although he lost half of his property, he had no regrets.
Masaki san was living in an apartment while working and raising his children, but he felt he had reached his limits. He asked Shizuru san, a colleague at his work, to take care of Rinne for one day since the kindergarten where he was taking her was closed. He told her so.
Then, Shizuru san, who had been unable to express her emotions due to the abuse she had suffered, took one look at Rinne and said to Masaki san
[I will be her mother.]
She hugged Rinne and married Masaki san after zero days of dating, which I think is a heroic story.
And then there was Shizuru san’s
[It’s pitiful to make her live in a room with memories of abuse forever.]
With those words, they moved in together next door to my house.
When I first met Rinne, she was a girl who did not show her emotions.
Honestly speaking. It was like having two younger sisters.
[I felt like it was my mission to make her laugh.]
That feeling grew in me.
And that feeling grew into a feeling of.
[I want to make her happy with my own hands.]
That was the beginning of my love.
This was the beginning of my love affair.
And in order to show Rinne a new world, my family and Rinne’s family went camping in the summer and skiing in the winter.
Rinne, who is afraid of the dark because she was locked in a closet or something, wants me to come to the bathroom in the middle of the night. What she woke me up with was a memory of me and this guy that we didn’t talk about at the family restaurant.
But one day. A strange thing happened.
It was in the third grade of elementary school.
Suddenly. Rinne’s personality changed.
She became the person she is today.
I wondered why, but I thought optimistically, “If she’s fine now, it doesn’t matter.”
My love for Rinne was not affected by her change, but grew and grew, leading me to confess my love to her that day.
She is strong-willed and selfish. The Rinne of today, from my point of view who knew her in the past…
I could only think, “Well, she’s finally starting to show her feelings.”
That’s all I could think of.
“Hey, Rinne. I understand what you mean by ‘blood family’. But, why are you so obsessed with me and ‘sister and brother’?”
Rinne’s eyes were downcast at my words.
“I want to be with you for the rest of my life,…….”
“…… Eh?”
Rinne looks away slightly. Looking beyond it, she sees…
“A picture of me, Rinne and Misuzu together.”
was on the desk
The same thing is also on my desk.
“I didn’t want to be your girlfriend. I didn’t want to be your lover, because if we broke up, it would be the end. I wanted to be a family.”
“It’s not just a family. I wanted a family that would be together forever. I wanted to have a ‘family bond’ that would last for the rest of my life and until my death.”
“I thought about becoming a ‘married couple’ with you. However, a married couple is only married once they divorce. It’s not just my father and the woman who gave birth to me. There are thousands of divorces.”
“But not siblings. Whether you are married or divorced, Misuzu is your sister. She is your family.”
“And whether Misuzu gets married or divorced, you are her brother. You are family.”
“The bond between brother and sister is unbreakable until death, eternal and immortal. That is why I wanted to be a brother and sister with you. But you already had Misuzu as your little sister. So I had no choice but to become …… your older sister.”
“I realized that when I was in …… the third grade of elementary school, I guess. and as your ‘big sister,’ I would never show you my weakness. Furthermore, an [older sister]” is someone to be feared. When I heard that, I acted out my best imitation of the one I was most in awe of.”
“I thought I was acting, but I think I’m becoming more and more like that.”
“This is why I wanted to be your ‘older sister.’”
I told Rinne when I heard those words.
“I see. I understand your reason.”
Then I continued.
“Now will you listen to me?”
(TL/N : Aww man I totally have a thing for her kind of ‘reason not to become lovers’)
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She has a reason….though she didn’t see the bigger picture….