Vol 1 Chapter 2 (2/2)

“Souji-sao make some more tea”

“No, I can’t let you do that, you’re a guest - hey”

I tried to get up but she stopped me, put the cups on the tray, and left the room hastily

“Hey, wait a second, Twoearle! My mom’s in the kitche!!”

“I have made some more”

“So fast!?”

I was about to hurry out of the rooain after only seconds Did she use the teleportation pen again? For so it carefully

There was stea from it, certainly, but did she really make more

No, it’s not stea water, or a piece of wrapping paper had fallen out of the pocket she was using, or it looked like she had just finished e on or isn’t it, which one is it, it’s this ain

“Well, please go ahead, Aika”

“Uh, okay?”

You’ve been shouting all this time, your throat is probably dry

Aika accepted it obediently and was about to raise the cup to her lips

“”

Her hand trembled and she stopped short as if she had felt the presence of a ghost I couldn’t help but be drawn to the source of the gaze either When I looked tactfully out of the corner ofat Aika with her eyes wide open like an owl

“Now, drink,” her look said

“Twoearle, try a little bit of this”

Aika handed back the cup

“No, I have already had enough”

“Just a sip is fine, though”

“No, no”

“Please, drink”

“Absolutely not”

“You put so in this, didn’t you, you fucker!!”

Aika brandished the cup and threw the tea in Twoearle’s face

“Nyuonmuuuu!!”

“Aaah ―― what are you doing, Aika!! That’s terrible!!”

When I see the oearle is holding her mouth fir pill or soo away!?

“Sou-ji, you can’t put any confidence in this woman! She absolutely has some kind of plot!!”

Uh, you know, I’ Twoearle says all of a sudden either, but usually, when I try to think carefully about it, I get interrupted by screa What am I supposed to do!

“Calling it a plot is too harsh, I think”

“So - Souji Why are you putting this much trust in her! Is it because she has breasts!?”

Aika de about it that much? Maybe it would have been better to hold back the joke about her chest in that fight

I pulled a hand towel out of the storage under my bed

“Use this towel, Twoearle I’ some ice from downstairs”

“That is all right, it was not really that hot”

“It looked pretty hot!?”

I started to wipe Twoearle’s face carefully with the towel

“M~m m~ fu”

She’s bringing her face unnaturally close to roan quietly, and her body was shaking Feelings of guilt were naturally welling up within her, I guess?

“I don’t think you’ll have a burn Aika, even if she ca If you do the kind of tsukkoet hurt”

I should have said that back e met How many punches has she taken already?

“Oh, that’s right”

Twoearle, lying back inher face, san to wriggle again

“It is hot it is hot inside my clothes too Please wipe me there”

She took off her white coat The plump breasts under her thin untrustworthy underwear shook as if they were about to burst

“Eeeh!? No, that is, uh, definitely I’ll ask Aika”

“If Aika did it, shewater in, I am worried”

“I’onna!!”

“That is a lie! You were trying to see if you could twist off my breasts earlier!!”

“They stayed on in the end, so it’s fine, isn’t it?”

I think I can turn a blind eye to this conversation I feel unspeakable fear responding inway beyond any of the scenes of destruction that I saw today

“Let me have that!!”

As I broke out in a cold sweat, Aika took the chance and grabbed the towel from me

“Nuryaaa!!”

Aika threw all her strength into scrubbing Twoearle’s chest with the towel to the point that it was more like rubdown therapy

“The heat of friction is cutting down my breaaaaasts!!”

“You should get cut down to the bone, people like you!!”

It’s a little late to be saying this, but that first impression of Twoearle has certainly been smashed to atoms

“Let, let’s talk about exactly how to operate the Tailgear later I will leave the details for toht”

Twoearleher chest (By the ithout learning anything she said “Souji-sama, could you rub my chest” and took an open-palm blow from Aika on her chin)

“Yeah, okay”

To be honest, there are still ree with her since Aika has been in a really bad s, and this should be enough for today And I think this conversation is going to cut dooearle’s life if it goes on too long

“U the tea on you I went too far there”

Aika seeized

“It is all right After all, I aer than a normal human Incidentally, I think the other threats to one a bit too far”

“Sorry, all right!!”

Stronger I hadn’t expected to hear that word, and doubt rose into th? She said that her goal was revenge, but I can’t feel even a hint of tragedy in her

No, it wasn’t the kind of “invasion” that left everything a scorched earth, but even when she was talking about her old world, even when she was explaining her eneer or sadness or resentment in her

If that’s because she was putting a happy face on it, I think she really is strong

“Umm~”

“Whoa!”

Twoearle rubbed her hands together in front ofthat was , feverish breaths

“So, then, Souji-saht, so, froether asand sleeping u”

She closed her mouth there A look as sharp as a bed of nails had been fired from behind me

“Eating and sleeping wait, you mean here?”

“Yes, so would you allow h”

“Huh!?”

“If you are going to say ‘we don’t have any rooms to lend to someone like you,’ then even a toilet will be fine, so Hhh, haah”

That would be evenlouder for some reason

“No, there’s not really anyone here but me and my mom, and we have extra rooms, so it’s fine, but can’t you stay at Aika’s house? You’re both girls, and there’s so better about that”

Aika’s parents are overseas for a job right now, so she’s living together with her older sister As long as her sister is okay with it, I think that would be better, but

“It is better with a boy and a girl er, what I mean is, there are a number of considerations”

“Even Aika doesn’t normally throw tea on people Do you?”

“Of course I don’t! How savage do you think I am!!”

She wants to say I’ back at the amount of violence in not even an entire afternoon, she doesn’t make so unpersuasive an objection

“But I a to support you, Souji-sama, so it is more efficient if you letto be coain after this, you know!”

“U~mm, but”

That was so that I didn't have an instant reply to First of all, how should I explain this to mom?

“My mom is really like a kid in some ways So, you know, if this incident leaks out, I’m worried she’ll stick her nose in”

She lives her life ju - for exae to take care of a girl, she won’t worry about it or scoldseriously I’m scared to talk to her about this I can see too clearly ould happen

“Another urgent matter is the establishment of a base”

“A base―”

Aika was taken aback at the ju about that in the chart for the Tailgear

“Due to the tremendous scale of the enemy, the system that supports Souji-sa of the combat, maintenance of all kinds it will also act as a research laboratory, so the base has to have a suitable size”

“I see”

I agreed with her The value of support had been more than proven in the first battle today

“And so, I would like you to allow round under this house is also more suitable”

“space under my house!? I’m not sure it will be okay if there’s an earthquake or so”

“Wait, the ground? But I live right next door”

Aika’s also extrehbours that we’re practically connected, after all

“Please do not worry I will finish it tonight”

Twoearle said so in the construction industry are going to do an old-fashi+oned spit take and blow out their tea

“That -speed work! Our houses aren’t just all going to sink into the ground, right?”

Twoearle shook her head gently and smiled sweetly

“Aika, if you were living by yourself, I would not be unwilling even to deether with explosives, but I cannot cause trouble for your family”

“Why don’t you get buried, hey, why don’t you get buried!”

Aika is shoving Twoearle’s head into the floor with an angry look on her face, on the verge of caving in the floorboards She’s so beautiful that you feel ashaotten totally used to that She doesn’t hold back when she scolds her

“Twoearle I’ll persuade my ood reason e’re going to live together? I absolutely don’t want anything about the Tailgear and the stuff about the Ultima Guil to come out”

“Leave that to me I can think of any number of lies like that I a time whatsoever”

She hit her chest proudly with a thump Another sketchy name in the ruby

“Don’t act proud! And don’t shake your breasts!!”

Aika shot an “I still haven’t wiped it enough?” glare at that chest as if it had killed her father

“How about this? I an country”

“I see, a ho?”

“No, I was lost in an unfamiliar city, and you tricked and kidnappedto run away, so ita hole!”

“Does that make sense!!”

Twoearle took a punch to the liver

“I’ll persuade her on my own, okay?”

“Yeah That’s a better idea Go do it before she gets back up”

I’m sorry I can’t watch this

She’s the irl I’ve ever seen in ony in a way I’ve never seen outside of a fighting a It could easily overturn my whole view of life to look directly at this spectacle

I went out into the hallway and breathed a big sigh of resignation

This is the first tie It’s a kind of tension I’ve never tasted before

The homestay line is the safest one, I think

I’m not sure hoell I’ll be able to explain it all afterward, but I a doesn’t work either, as I’ve had rubbed in my face twice today

“I’ll hide the parts I need to, and I’ll explain the truth as much as I can afterward That’s all I can do”

Myon the with her arms folded when I came down the stairs

“―― I hope you didn’tin!”

“Don't listen to――!!”

“Oh my”

I pulledroom

“Do you not care about your own son’s privacy?!!”

“You brought a girl other than Aika-chan along with you I was sure there would be so developments!!”

I rubbedwas already revealed back alked in I shouldn’t have worried about eyewitnesses at the scene, I should have been on maximum alert after I came home

“How much did you hear?! What did you hear?!!”

“I heard a girl screah”

Ah, she heard al By the way, all the violence without exception was the young girl from next door

“You said you were the ones who settled the incident that was on the news?”

“Why do you believe that!? Don’t you even have a little doubt!?”

We believe it because ith our own eyes and then fought in it, but so on us

Myand took a deep breath

“So at last, this day has come”

I stepped back in shock at the serious expression on my mother’s face

This calmness, the speed of adaptation there was only one conclusion I could come to

“It can’t be,to be chosen as the wearer of the Tailgear!!”

“U about it, but”

Complete denial with the same serious face

“Why were you acting like you knew!? Or actually, you didn’t hear anything we talked about!!”

“Monsters called Elemerians in the Ultima Guil attacked this world to obtain Ele a suit called the Tailgear, Sou-chan?”

“Or you understand all of it, or which one!?”

That’s i

“This was my dream, you know”

My ed with drool and an expression of ecstasy on her face

“Souji, your rew up I passeda heroine who protected the world, and finally, without ever getting my wish, I became a h the umbilical cord and I entrusted it to you”

“What are you doing to your kid before he’s even born!!”

With a little effort this could probably have becoettable conversation between parent and child, butabout the errors of her youth

“And your late father, he was also ――― a terminal chuunibyou patient”

“What did you need that pause for?! So Dad had a bad case of chuunibyou too”

My eyes feel itchy, and not because I’m about to cry

“We fell in love in an instant, and threw our chuuni back and forth at each other to our hearts’ content, wishi+ng together Dad also wanted very, very much to be a hero He’d reat detail, and he let me hear about them! At the end, he’d even tell s like that”

“Stop― I think I’m about to run into the front hall and smash his portrait!!”

I pressed ainst my skull as if I were under assault by ultrasonic waves Just listening to thesethe blood vessels in my brain

“But youranization and fall in love And on the other hand, your father was dreaht with each other on countless occasions! Actually, several times we decided to break up”

English is not ht now I think I could fluently say “ＯＨ ＭＹ ＧＯＤ!”

Someone who tries to put on a bracelet that transforirl when they ask to share a table seems normal

My parents, on countless occasions, fought and broke up for reasons as irrational as any in the world - it’s too heavy for the heart of a boy in adolescence It’s very difficult to take

“It was the winter of our third year in university Your heartbroken irl who are always at each others’ throats are drawn to each other,” as a concession, but your father insisted that it had to be forbidden love with the fe body armor like a swimsuit) and refused to coo so far that’s about the tin myself to that Sou-chan I realized that you were in my belly around”

Ectoplas out of th

Dating each other with e This kind of parents What do I do, what as

So even heavier than the peace of the planet Earth is settling onto my shoulders

“After that we got along with each other so well that it seemed unbelievable heh heh, we often said that our child was the tie between us”

That ht have been true in ht now I feel pain like a spike being driven through my head!

“There’s one ood time, I think”

“Huh?”

“You know, Souji you’re the oldest child, so did you ever wonder why your name has the character ‘two’ in it?”

A deep sadness dwelled in my mother’s eyes

Certainly I’ve wondered, but in the end I never asked about it

Why is she talking about that now?

“Ah Did I have some older brother or sister that you expected to come before me!?”

Mom shook her head

“It cas of your father and I ‘Ah, the real grade two of middle school was the ia we felt for those happy days gone by that rade two in your name!”

[Unavoidable TL note: The literal rade-two-of-rade syndrome Miharu and her husband loved the way they felt that year so rade two into Souji's name]

“Couldn’t you have taken that secret to the grave!? I’ secrets of their birth one after another like this, any normal adolescent human would be a delinquent already the next day!”

“I wanted tomore impressive, really Like Meteo or Ultimate But this was another compromise between the two of us - we finally chose a kanji that we both liked”

“Sorry, Souji is good”

I sunk to my knees at last I nearly wore the naanization

Hey, is it possible that my, the part of me that people think is a bit of a pain, really is a hereditary thing passed down through the umbilical cord?

The sound of a floorboard creaking made me hold my breath

“Uht?”

“Wai Twoearle, you can’t come yet!”

Twoearle was peeking into the living roo behind the door She is already very lively even though she took a straight punch to the liver soo

“Hehe, you let me listen in on your conversation, Twoearle-chan!”

“Actually, I have also been taking the opportunity to listen in”

I’m out of reactions

That funny story about my birth, on a level that could win a prize if you subuess she heard that too I could die of agony from the memory

“Honored mother I have already spoken about this with Souji-sama, but I would like to live here, if you would be so kind”

“Sure, I’ve got no reason to say no!”

“Also, I would like to build a research laboratory underground if possible, and use it as a starting point for backup”

“Get it done right away A hundred kilometers deep if you like I alanted a secret base Let me see it once in a while, okay?”

“Of course”

“Heeeeeyy―!?”

The conversation is advancing bewilderingly fast She’s even been allowed to break the liulations, it’s nuts

“Also, honored e to have you say ‘Oh, that’s a probleht, you can just sleep together in Souji’s bed!’?”

“Twoearle-chan, that’s good You are really good! For someone like you to come to us from an alternate universe makes me really happy! Please think of this place as your own home! But, oh, that’s a probleht, you can just sleep together in Souji’s bed!”

The hell are you playing it back perfectly like a voice recorder! That’s a woman who devoted her whole youth to chuunibyou for you Apparently mom can also use Seek Time=Zero

I’ off the two of the pulled together by sonetic force Sympathy?

Twoearle uess She puts Vs into words, too

This is scary, nohat a you a favor, so, just once, let ht think

“And so I don’t have any proble at our house Think of this as your own ho Sou-chan’s room, and use it without reservation”

“Thank you very much, Mother (in law) It will mainly be Souji-sama’s room that I think of as my house”

What’s this? They’reon

If I make comebacks one by one it’ll be me who loses

I bowed htenment

“Hehe, instead, would youSou-chan into a proper man sometime?”

“Oh, no, Mother (in law), please don’t be so reserved Why do you not say ‘tonight?’”

“Twoearle-chan!!”

“Mother (in law)!!”

The two hugged each other for dear life

Aika ca dust “Wai Aunt Miharu, come over here, please!”

“My my, mother is very popular”

“And also, you, don’t think “in lahen you say mother!”

“How did you know!?”

Aika went right past Twoearle without even re to punch her Maybe I should cry nohile I can silently, with tears strea down my face

Aika took Souji’sroom and closed the door She really didn’t want to be heard, opening the door a crack to check Souji and then shutting it again right away

“Aunt Miharu! Think about this carefully! If you ether with a woer!”

“I couldn’t ask for irl cos turn in an erotic direction It’s just like that day, that hour, the dream I painted in my mind back then! Even if she pushes Souji down, it won’t bother me at all”

“And you still call yourself his mother!!”

It looks like she also painted a detailed love comedy in her youth of chuuni fantasy, but I wonder why a woman had a dream with a development like that?

“But, it’s norirlfriend?”

Miharu gave her a probing look

“That that ht be true, but”

A bashful Aika poking her fingers together

“Or else, you, Aika-chan?”

Aika hastily waved her hand “It’s not like I I’m just worried about Souji as his childhood friend”

“Ye~s, if that girl hadn’t appeared, I wanted to look at you a little more carefully”

“Wh, what are you saying?”

“Twoearle-chan has a good look in her eyes They’re the eyes of a woin, an aroused woman with no principles!”

“Even as a joke, is that souest!?”

It made even Aika feel pity; she tried to defend her

“A guest no! Twoearle-chan is already a fine member of our family”

The door opened with a soft sound Twoearle came in, her eyes ith tears

“Mother (in law)”

She gripped both of Miharu’s hands tightly, and so passed between their eyes

“Huh? Why is there an emotional atmosphere!?”

“I am sorry, mother, but I am not a woman without principles I have one principle: Souji-sama”

“You should deny the rest of it too!!”

“That is right It’s romance for a wole man!”

Has a day come when in just a few minutes the air is filled with such unrootten to the point where her eyes briin eater? Just like Souji, Aika seems to have been assaulted by a violent headache

Although she was holding her forehead with her head lowered, Aika’s lips were pressed hard together Miharu still thinks she’s just worried about Souji, and no, she still didn’t trust her

(The way she’s acting, so,