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“Hey.”
“What is it?”
“Don’t play dumb with me. Explain what’s going on.”
Fuyusaki was the only one who came to me as I was waiting in the shoe box.
There was no one else to invite, so we just went with the flow and ended up going to a family restaurant near the school and studying together.
“I told you from the beginning, right? Let’s study together.”
“You did say that, but…then why did you bother to let me go first?”
“A maiden takes time to prepare.”
I don’t know what preparation is necessary, but to be honest, I don’t know much about girls, so maybe she really was preparing for something.
“I wondered if Mitsui kun might’ve misunderstood that someone other than me was coming too.”
“That’s your real intention !”
Fuyusaki giggles.
Fuyusaki is strange lately.
When she was my younger sister (temporarily), we never had conversations, but now she talks to me as if we were normal friends.
For me, the feeling is closer to when I’m talking to Makoto or Rikuto than when I’m talking to Hananoi or Ayaka.
(Well, we were siblings when we were in elementary school.)
I guess that means we have both grown up.
I was very curious about the way she was looking at me from the moment I entered the store.
“Hey, are they staring at you?”
“Don’t worry about it. It happens all the time.”
“Always !?”
Is this the kind of gaze she’s always getting?
It’s very gallant of her not to be bothered by it.
“It seems that they’re all just so taken by how pretty I am.”
“You say that yourself.”
“It’s just a fact.”
Indeed, Fuyusaki’s appearance is well-defined.
The breasts, which were smooth when she was in elementary school, are now…
“Is something wrong?”
“N-no, nothing…”
When I think about it, it’s been a long time since we’ve been apart.
Considering that we haven’t seen each other even once during that time, wouldn’t it be unreasonable to call Fuyusaki my younger sister?
When I think about it, I feel strangely embarrassed about our current situation of studying together.
When I think that she is not my ex-sister, but one of my classmates, it feels like an after-school date.
“Are you sure you’re alright? Your face is a little red though?”
“…I might be a little feverish.”
“That’s tough. If that’s the case, my house is close by. Let’s take a break.”
“Huh !? No, that’s—“
“Don’t worry. My mother won’t be home today.”
“No, that’s even worse !? What if something happens !?
“What? What do you mean….ah !”
Immediately, Fuyuzaki’s face turns red.
It seems like she finally understands what I’m saying.
“…….You’re the one who’s acting strange?”
“R-right. That was a little weird.”
“No, not just now, but lately.”
In the past, she used to be quieter, not the kind of person who would talk to me.
But lately, she’s been talking to me a lot, and we’ve even been studying together like this, which is far different from the Fuyusaki Reina I know.
“That’s, uh…I’d like to go back to those days…”
“Go back? What for?”
Fuyusaki says with a fidgety, upturned look.
“W-with Onii chan–“
“What are you doing here?”
As Fuyusaki was about to say something, I heard a somewhat angry voice.
Ayaka was standing there with her arms crossed.
“A-Ayaka san !? I thought you were in a club activity–“
“I’ve already finished with that. I mean, Kenshiro is my older brother.”
Ayaka called me her brother for the first time.
“I-it was nothing. What do you want? We’re studying.”
“I didn’t see it that way.”
The two of them were looking at each other strangely.
It would be a nuisance to the restaurant if we stayed for a long time, so I guess I’ll end this today.
“Fuyusaki, let’s call it a day.”
Yes, that’s right. That’s better. Then, Mitsui, send me home.
“Good for you, Fuyusaki san. The handsome guys from the track and field club are giving you a ride home.”
The boys from the track team waiting outside the store were a little squeamish.
I see, did she say they were going to take Fuyusaki home?
The first-year boys in the track and field club at my school seem to do Ayaka’s bidding.
“I appreciate the offer, but I think it would be better if Ayaka san had them send her home.”
“I’m going home with Kenshito. We’re going in the same direction, or rather the same house.”
“Guh !”
Fuyusaki couldn’t say anything back and ended up going home with the boys from the track and field club.
“Can you trust them?”
“What do you mean?”
“No, I mean, will they do something weird to Fuyusaki?”
“It’s fine. Are you worried about Fuyusaki? It’s not like you.”
If you ask me, yes.
Why was I worried about Fuyusaki?
My behavior has changed, so maybe I’m out of my mind.
“I used to be a cold person.”
“You’re still an annoying guy. You pretend to be an honor student.”
Ayaka is still angry at me.
“I don’t care anymore.”
Why do I have to think so much about them in the first place?
I stopped thinking about it and left the store before Ayaka.
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