Episode 3

I return from another world and check the time.

……I’ve been living on the other side of the world for three years, but only one hour has passed in the real world.

It means that I came back to that day when I got fed up with everything and ran away from home.

I look at the apartment where I live with my sister.

It’s not a house for two students, after all.

The day we were robbed of our property.

We were offered monthly living expenses including rent by our relatives.

We had no choice but to accept it even though it was our money to begin with. The frustration and helplessness of having no choice but to cry ourselves to sleep remains with me to this day.

Furthermore, Mai was in her puberty.

Even though we had no money to spare, she was very attached to the house.

I wanted to rent a cheap place that would shelter her from the wind and rain, but she would never allow me to do so.

[There’s no way I can invite my friends to this shabby house] she insisted.

I have been throwing away a lot of money for the sake of my sister’s self-esteem.

“…I could have found a one-room apartment much cheaper.”

I went home muttering to myself.

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When I got home, my sister had just come out of the bath.

She was holding her wet hair between towels,

“Hm……are you done with your part-time job already?”

“Eh…..?”

I was absolutely stunned by Mai’s comment.

It was already around twenty-two o’clock. It was already around midnight, a time when high school students are not allowed to work part-time. But my sister said that, I was so surprised.

Immediately after the fight. The very idea that her brother went to earn money to buy something my sister wanted was astonishing.

I was fed up, but I didn’t show it and asked her to talk to me.

“Can I talk to you for a minute, Mai?”

“Huh? What are you calling me by name? It’s disgusting.”

The sound of her voice and the look in her eyes were as if she was avenging her parents’ death.

Ah, this might be a dead end.

Oh, I see. I knew there was no one I could call family anymore–

“I thought my sister was my only family. What am I to Mai?”

“You already know, right?”

A gulp. The sound of swallowing sounded in the doorway.

“You’re just an ATM.”

“I see…….”

The first time I heard Mai’s confession, I hung my head.

I should have been sad and in pain, but for some reason the corners of my mouth were twitching up.

It made me feel better knowing that I didn’t have to take care of her anymore.

Thank you for living with me until now.

After muttering this inwardly, I lifted my gaze.

There were many things on my to-do list floating around in my head.

To give my classmates who had bullied me a lesson.

To tell my childhood friend, who betrayed me, how I felt in my heart.

To confront the teacher who had turned a blind eye to the reality of my situation.

To find the murderer of my parents and make them pay for their crimes.

To get back the property that was stolen from me by my relatives.

To start a new life with the money.

To start a business and earn money.

To make my sister understand how hard it is to make a living out of this house.

Well, I’m going to be busy from now on.

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