Volume 3 Chapter 6 (1/2)
Ever since we rew closer
We were in different grades, but we found as ether, so that we'd see each other at least once a day Someti, and soether at noon Both of us weren't in any clubs, so soether after school
I wanted our tiether to be precious So I'd never to take her to the Rose Mansion, and I didn't even think about introducing her to onee-sama, much less the rest of the Yamayurikai
I beca absorbed by shi+ori
”Shouldn't you distance yourself a bit more?”
On the first day of summer
Youko came to my class after school and warned me
”What are you talking about?”
I was supposed to meet shi+ori after class today, so it irritated me
”You knohat I' about Kubo shi+ori What is she to you?”
”What?”
She came to see me just to ask that stupid question? There's a lilish-japanese dictionary in hed, bitterly
”It's not a laughing matter”
”Oh, sorry But you don't have time to be bothered by other people, either, do you? You've got your hands full with your own sister, anyways … The ru Sachiko quit all of her lessons, are they true?”
”This is not the ti about my sœur The problem is you and Kubo shi+ori”
”Problem?”
I understood what Youko wanted to say
I knew shi+ori and I had a special relationshi+p It wasn't like Youko and Sachiko, and it was different from onee-sama and I
It was hard to explain it, but it was like, we'd been born with two hands, but we're busy grasping each other's hands As a result, we eli else
It was decisively different fro hands with one person, always leave one hand open to take ahold of other things Youko's ”distance yourself” probably o of one of shi+ori's hands
It nore everything else But I couldn't help it I didn't want to cut any bond with shi+ori, and if we changed anything, it wouldn't be us anymore
”If you want to make her your sister, that's fine I don't want to force you two apart, or anything But the way things are, isn't it bad? You should present her your rosary and formally introduce her”
”I'll think about it”
Grabbing , I shoved my seat under the desk I didn't want to continue this conversation any longer
”I'll think about … May I?”
”… Sure Hopefully”
Surprisingly, Youko let me off easily She was smart, so she must have known if she pressed further it would backfire
I ran down the hallways, now devoid of students, to get to shi+ori
I said I'd think about it, but I had no intention ofshi+ori my sister Because ere always even I didn't want to present her e us, that would be ridiculous I laughed at the people who needed the sisterly symbol to ease their hearts
”What happened?”
shi+ori knew, the momenteach other
”Nothing”
I grabbed shi+ori's shoulders and began walking, to a place where there was no one else I didn't care how dirty a place it was As long as no one else could see us, there was no place more pure
I didn't want to dirty shi+ori I didn't want dirty eyes looking at our relationshi+p
No one would be bothered by our beco intiun paying attention in class, and I stopped being late orclass That orthy of praise, not criticism
We just wanted to be together That was all
I hugged shi+ori behind the school buildings
”Were you told so?”
shi+ori rested her chin on my shoulder and whispered
”Maybe there's no one ill support us”
”You shouldn't say that”
Shemore flak than I, but shi+ori never said ill of anyone Even if I'd stopped being with theantea en bouton, and the shadow of the Yamayurikai loomed over me If people didn't like shi+ori and I's relationshi+p, and wanted to take it up with so shi+ori She wouldn't ever say it, but she h harder times than I
”You shouldn't just cast everything aside like that”