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▼Matsumura Sakine’s point of view▼
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“Onee chan, I’m hungry~”
Onee chan told me to stay in the living room, but since my tummy were about to get packed, I came to her room.
“Y-yeah. I’m going to make you some lunch. I’ll make it, just wait a little longer.”
With that, Onee chan’s face turned bright red for some reason and she hurried out of the room.
I thought it was now or never for me to have a private conversation with onii chan left in my sister’s room.
“Onee chan food tastes so good!”
“Does she want me to help her cook?”
“Don’t worry! Onii chan is going to talk to Sakine!”
“Yeah. I don’t want to get in the way.”
I sit in his lap while talking to him.
He patted my head as if nothing was wrong. The feeling was just like that time.
“Onii chan, you know, …….”
“Hm?”
“Onii chan is Hikarun Onii chan, right?”
This is what I wanted to ask.
I wanted to confirm that sense of security I felt the day before yesterday.
“W-Who is it~? Hikaruun?”
He scratched his head and pretended not to know.
But onii chan, I don’t know why you’re trying to hide it, you can’t deceive Sakine’s eyes.
I stood up and turned toward onii chan
His head was lower than my height, and I raised his bangs.
“Look, it’s Hikarun onii chan!”
“…… found out, didn’t you? onee chan doesn’t know about it, though~”
“Why do you keep it a secret?”
I asked him that as I pulled back his bangs and he answered while adjusting his bangs.
“─ Hmmm~, this may be a little difficult for Sakine-chan, but to put it simply, I don’t want to cause trouble for your sister. It would be better if she doesn’t know that it was me who saved Sakine-chan.”
“I see.”
I remember what my kindergarten teacher once told me.
[When you grow up, you put on many faces in order to get along with everyone else. The face of a good person. The face of a bad person. Lots of them.]
Onii chan must be an adult, too.
As someone who longs to be an adult, I wanted to feel like I understood his feelings.
So I pretended to understand even though I didn’t understand.
“Sakine, you know, loves both of you”
“Thank you, Sakine-chan. I’ll do my best.”
He held my hand and looked into my eyes as if he had made up his mind to do something.
“I have a favor to ask of you, onii chan.”
“What?”
“I want you to come to Sakine’s kindergarten field day~. I heard that neither Mom nor Dad can come.”
“I understand. I’ll go to the field day.”
“Yay!”
When I promised to go to the field day with onii chan, onee chan, who had just finished cooking lunch, called me over and we all had lunch together.
“See you later, Onii chan”
“I’ll see you later, Sakine-chan. I’m sorry to have disturbed you today, Matsumura-san.”
“Yeah. Let’s do our best for the test!”
“Well, I’m sorry to bother you.”
Onii chan said so in the evening and left.
After seeing onii chan’s off, onee chan and I started eating dinner together.
“Sakine, you and Tahara-kun have become quite close. What’s wrong?”
“Onee chan, do you like Onii chan?”
“Buha! S-Sakine! W-What happened all of a sudden?!”
Onee chan blew out the tea she had been drinking.
“It was the first time for onee chan to bring a boy home, so I wondered if she liked him.”
“Y-that’s because Sakine is insistent that she wants to see him again. ……”
“Sakine likes onii chan. He’s kind and fun. Sakine always wants to play with him. The same goes for Hikarun Onii chan.”
onee chan narrowed her eyes a little at my words.
“I know that Tahara-kun and Nakahara-kun are both kind people, and I can understand why Sakine feels that way. But you know, the feeling of liking someone is more complicated than that.”
“Complicated?”
I tilted my head.
After thinking about it for a while, she continued in a gentle voice.
“Yeah. There is the feeling of liking someone as a friend, and there is also the feeling of liking someone as family. Then there is also liking as a lover. All of them are important, but they are different from each other.”
“Sakine heard this before from my teacher. To love someone is to want to see them again, even when there is nothing going on.”
When I said this, she blushed and became silent.
From then on, we spent the rest of the day as usual.
▼Sakine’s Diary▼
It’s a secret from onee chan!
Today, Hikarun’s brother came to our house.
We enjoyed eating together.
We made a promise that he would come to the sports day, so I’m looking forward to the sports day.
Onee chan said that her love is complicated.
I don’t know, but I love them all!
I love onee chan, Hikarun onii chan, my mom and dad
Even the teachers.
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