Vol 3 Chapter 9 (2/2)
Troubled she raised her eyebrows and made an embarrassed smile
”I didn't think I'd fall in unrequited love with Nii-chan For nors, that absolutely wouldn't happen”
Ugh so told that I'
”Unrequited love does that mean you want me to continue with my older brother's role?”
”Tt-t-th-that's right! Even without saying you're in brother's role, you're my older brother himself”
”Didn't you tell me to quit?”
”I did! If Nii-chan doesn't want to, I won't force you But to me, Nii-chan will always, always, be Nii-chan That's why it's unrequited love Unrequited love telling me I want Nii-chan to be Nii-chan! Be nii-chan! I won't say that, but I can feel that way towards Nii-chan, right?”
As she turned red up till her ears, To told it that way, is honestly troubling
”D-doing whatever you please aren't you”
”Having unrequited love is everyone's freedoirl is Nii-chan's girlfriend! As a little sister, of course!”
My face turned hot like infra-red heater
”I told you she's not irlfriend!”
”If you're not going out, it's Mariko-chan's unrequited love That ht be a pattern where Mariko-chan confesses you know?”
”What's with that fictious development”
”As if you could say that! Getting a huge inheritance, five little sisters, being confessed to by a childhood friend, and to top it all your birthday present is e?!”
damn I can't refute
”When I beca around, Mariko used the fact she was a childhood friend and aiot closer to me You can consider it that way too, can't you”
Saying it myself, I felt the worst
”So, Mariko-chan is a bad woman?”
”Just now, it was only one of possibilities As close as possible to zero heck, I said it, but it's practically impossible”
Limited to Mariko, it was impossible
”Then then, so Mariko-chan is a cute girl and likes Nii-chan?”
”Why did it turn out like that!”
”Nii-chan's face's red'
”This is b-because I' me aren't you?”
”I' your real relation So, Nii-chan, what do you think of Mariko-chan?”
”You ask ood childhood friend”
”If Mariko-chan was to say ”irlfriend”, ould Nii-chan do?”
”W-hat I do is just ht?”
”It's not If she becoirlfriend, in other words, I'll be her nee-chan in law, right?”
”Haa?”
”Nii-chan quit being nii-chan, but in s that's how it'll be!”
”Don't be unreasonable”
”Being unreasonable is fineee”
To it out!
”Woah that way of talking pisses me off”
”I intended to piss you offff C's you, saying 'happy birthday Yoichi-kun!', what happens to Nii-chan? Become riajuu? Gonna explode? You'll die?”
Ugh for an instant, I iined Mariko's immodest appearance
”Toerous information”
”Yafoo answers There's a girl who makes a lunch box for Nii-chan every day, is it love? And that topic ended up with 1000 responses”
”STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!”
”It's anony out from the storm I summarized the public opinion, without a doubt it's true love, thank you and so A net celebrity 'Undying Cicada' wrote it's '200 certain'”
Even Selene it's likely soh Tomomi's attack on me did not loosen
”So so, what about before you ain? Tell me about times as kids”'
”W-why?”
”Asking about Nii-chan's past is twice as delicious Oraround with abasket hoop with a dunk!”
”What kind of problem child is that! As if I'd do that!”
”Well, for sure you have one or two, three or four things you can't say Maybe you wet the bed until third grade of elementary school”
”I didn't!”
It was until second grad heck, it's not ti up my privates
”If you want to silence me, you have confess obediently!'
Tomomi stared at me seriously
Silence, the room was dead calm
After one beat, I coughed and answered
”Fine Itso let's sit down”
As I sat down on the sofa, Toerator in the kitchen
I received one and started talking about my memories of Mariko
That said, there was nothing special to say
At that time Mariko was taller than me, like onee-chan that kind of story
In the first place, Mariko had a little sister Chitose-chan so I think she was used to acting like onee-chan After that ere choosing groups for field trip and I failed to get in one, she invited me Also uhh, umm
Before the talk about basics was over, it was already past seven in the evening
I've had even ht
When To, she slowly exhaled
”So Mariko-chan, since long tio was someone like onee-chan”
”T-that's right She's good at caring for others Even now, she looks after me as an extension of that That's why it's not really love”
”That so? Maybe she won't tell you that directly because she's concerned about Nii-chan? Well, I don't know if it's true though”
She raised her ar
”So she's someone Nii-chan can talk so much about that Mariko-chan”
Tomomi threw the emptied PET bottle into the trash Like a basketball's free throw, the bottle entered right in
”It's not so that happened just recently How about you disappear, stuuupid”
She showed me an akanbe
After that she laughedfun of me Still, somehow, the look in her eyes felt lonely
But she kept s
As not to make me worry Brave Firm
At the saave her
Confiding otten lighter
Surely, if not for Tos clash with someone
I felt like she shared withhurt