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“What? Are you hitting on her?”
“Hey, don’t say things like that.”
“Uwaa〜Unbelievable〜 I can’t have a family member like this〜”
“Get your act together ! I don’t want to—.”
When he was talking to her, his tone of voice was not the one I knew.
It was not a gentle tone of voice, but a harsh one.
But I was jealous of their unreserved relationship.
(They’re close.)
“Ah, I’m so sorry for making a fuss. Are you hurt?”
“Oh, y-yes ! I-I’m fine.”
Suddenly, the conversation came back to me, and my voice trailed off.
“…That pamphlet…by any chance, did you go to Koshin?”
I titled my head as he asked, pointing to the Koshin High School pamphlet in my hand.
“Actually, I’m planning on doing that too ! Maybe we can become classmates.”
(We’re going to the same high school?)
I really thought it was fate.
The day might come when I would attend the same high school as him, whom I had grown apart from.
Just imagining that view made my heart dance.
“Oh, um–”
“Oh, there you are ! I’ve been looking for you, couple of siblings.”
The next time I was about to say their names, another boy came in and interrupted me again.
However, what the boy said filled my head with it.
“…..Siblings?”
“Eh?”
I just said it out loud and my step brother looked at me.
“Ah, sorry ! You heard me……”
“Oh, we don’t look alike, do we? She’s my stepsister.”
His eyes were somewhat vacant when he said that, but at the time, I didn’t see anything wrong with that.
We were so different, even though we were the same stepsister.
The more they fight, the better they get along.
He seemed to embody that phrase.
I ran as if to escape.
I ran to my house.
I entered the house and ran to my room.
Then I looked at myself in the mirror.
“…Not cute at all.”
My long bangs hid my face, my roots were dark, I was not tall, and my legs were not thin.
That girl next to him was as pretty as if she came out of a picture book.
I was intensely jealous of her.
She had something that I didn’t have.
At the same time, I had an answer in my mind.
“…Change. Don’t lose to her !”
The next day, I slashed my bangs and switched to contacts.
I tried to look up as much as possible and interacted actively with my classmates at school.
Over the course of the year leading up to graduation, I worked hard to improve myself.
Thanks to my efforts, by the time I graduated from junior high school, I was called an honor student and a goddess.
It was embarrassing to be called a goddess, but I was happy that I had changed.
I was also accepted into Koshin High School.
As a special student.
And then the time came.
On the day of the entrance ceremony, I found him talking with a boy at the school gate.
I checked my face with a hand mirror.
I carefully checked if there was anything wrong with my face and if my hair was in good shape.
“What’s wrong, Reina chan?”
a boy from the same junior high school asked me.
“I’m going to meet someone now, so I want to make sure there’s nothing strange about me.”
“What is it ! Is he your boyfriend?”
“N-no ! He’s not……”
“But ! If you’re checking so carefully, it means that….you might be in love with him !”
I tried to deny it immediately, but I couldn’t get the words out.
Then I remembered.
He saved my heart, and I want to meet him and improve myself, and I wanted him to see me.
Now, my heart is beating so loud that it echoes.
(This is…..)
It’s not that I was lying.
I just didn’t realize it.
It all started when a friend of mine pointed out something trivial.
(I see. I was–)
It was the moment when he, Mitsui Kenshiro, changed from “older brother” to “person I love” for me.
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