Volume 20 Chapter 6 (1/2)

”'Various reasons' she said Really there were tooThat roup opened the door and entered There she waited There was no ”good day” spoken to Yoshi+no She took her to the corner of the room

”Listen, Yumi-san That Arima Nana, she's Tanaka-san's real little sister”

”Tanaka-san, is it? Tanaka-san froically placed between then and now, her feelings were able to coain? It took some time to recall Moreover, which Tanaka-san was this?

”Which Group? No, no She's not from Lillian, but from Ohnaka Girls' The three Tanaka sisters of Ohnaka or is it four sisters? Anyway, she's the youngest When I thought I had seen here soraph from a newspaper article that Rei-chan had pasted into her scrapbook”

Of course, everyone understood and was ready for the conversation to advance Except, unfortunately, this was the first time Yumi heard of the three-or-as- her powers of iination to their fullest extent to help her understand In other words, Yoshi+no introduced a person named Arima Nana to Eriko-sama as her little sister But she understood that it had so to do with the Tanaka-san fro tournament match

”But, her name's Arima, isn't it?”

”That's right She said that hoping to deceiveto deceive you? She cocked her head in puzzlement

”So, her name is Tanaka Arima Nana?”

”Her surnaiven nah her nose ”Since her grandfather's nahter, she's not a Tanaka But, because all three generations live together, she is an adopted daughter only in naed in the lives of the Tanaka sisters When you say it's different, that grandfather left the hope that she would enter Lillian

”Huh” In the period of two days since Saturday, Yoshi+no had investigated this a great deal

”It isn't 'huh' What part of that did you not understand?”

”I didn't understand any of it” Yoshi+no's reasoning was as follows: ”Nana's grandfather had a dojo that is by far larger than the Hasekura one, and he forever had est, Nana, was chosen to be adopted? After so Nana succeeds hi her sisters Is any of that right?”

Is that right? She asked to confirm worriedly The intricacies of kendo, dojos, and adoptions were for the most part lost on Yumi

”Well, should I give up? She would be a little sister who's stronger than me”

”To say nothing of the fact that she's two years irl raduates she can't come to love her soeur's little sister

”She's not Rei-chan's little sister, is she?” After I said that, Yoshi+no-san had a face that read, ”damn it!”

”I was right, I don't like her”

Yuhed ”You've been hooked with the sickle, huh?” Yoshi+no-san's words seeretful

”Oh dear” While Yoshi+no-san was saying it was too problematic, in the end she wouldn't be able to eli Once she came to see it, she'd understand Noas her turn to say, ”Don't ht on such things”

”Do I like her?” Yoshi+no-san muttered After that her questions turned inward and she quietly turned to look in the direction of the th she clearly declared: ”I know If I'et a little sister by the time I become a third year, at that point, I'll make Arima Nana my little sister”

”That's what I'ko-lined street, Yumi reported to Sachiko-sama on the circumstances of Yoshi+no-san's little sister strife It was after school that day Because there was notoday at the Rose Mansion, the Rosa Chinensis sisters were able to walk hoether privately for the first time in a while