Book 1: Chapter 4 (1/2)

“This is so disgusting, you creep! What if mom came in and saw this.”

“She’s out getting drunk with her drunk friends.” I shot back, only to be slapped upside the head by her palm.

“Whatever… is that cum… so fucking gross, I sit on that pillow, I’m going to gag!” My big sister shot me absolutely disgusted eyes.

These were exactly the eyes I had wanted her to have when she got home, but at that point, I was supposed to be dead. Instead, Neotari showed up and interrupted my death, and now I had to face my sister’s wrath.

“I’ll clean it,” I growled. “I said, I’ll clean it!”

“Yeah, you’ll clean it with a steamer, and then you’re going to stay in your room the whole night.”

“You’re only two years older than me, Maria.” I shot her an annoyed look. “You can’t ground me.”

“You want to bet? My boyfriend’s coming over tonight, and if you show your ugly head I’ll be telling mom and dad all about this stuff!” As Maria said so, she picked up a magazine I had, staring at it in disgust. “Why do you even have magazines? Haven’t you heard of the internet? Gah… It’s sticky!”

“Don’t be so rough!” I cried as she dropped it in a way that one of the pages ripped. “Maybe I don’t feel like seeing stuff on a computer screen as that enjoyable? I’d rather have something I can hold in bed.”

“Ugh… you’re such a freak.” Maria cursed. “I refuse to believe we’re related.”

“Well, I don’t care to have you as family either!” I shot back while kneeling to pick up my magazines. “And what are you talking about, Boyfriend… mom would never approve of that, that’s why you sneak him through your window every night.”

“Ronnie? No, this isn’t Ronnie, this is Jack.” Maria wrinkled her nose, “Jack’s really popular right now. If he takes me as his girlfriend I’ll be too popular for you to even talk to me, even if you are my brother, so don’t screw this up for me!”

“Hey… sure, let me use the ¥2000 to buy some pizza and I’ll stay in my room.” I bargained.

“What ¥2000?”

“The ¥2000 mom always gives you when she stays out late to buy dinner, but you always pocket.”

“Tsk… you know about that?”

“Yeah, hand it over.”

“No… I got to give it to Jack.” Maria looked away, for the first time looking a little ashamed.

“What the fuck?”

“Wa-watch your mouth. Mom said don’t swear.” Maria crossed her arms but finally sighed. “Jack says he needs ¥10000 so he can fix his car. I have ¥8000 saved up, but I need the ¥2000. If I give him the money, he says he’ll drive me wherever I want. This is my best way for getting in with the cheerleader and the sports crowd at school.”

“You’re giving a guy money? Isn’t that backwards? Maria… he’s just using you.” I started, but Maria’s darkened expression told me I was not helping.

“What do you know? Did you learn it from your magazines?” Maria reached out as I grabbed the last magazine and tore it from my hand.

“Wait, not that…” I reached out to grab it, but Maria kept it out of my reach.

“What’s this one, your most perverted fantasies?” She snorted.

She wasn’t completely wrong. Most of my porn was pretty vanilla. While a kid like me could get pictures of naked women, sex books were a little hard to obtain. The one she grabbed was only one of two I had, and it was pretty hardcore. It was a BDSM one. Every page had women being tied up and tortured. I didn’t even like most of the images except when I was in a dark mood.

Maria froze as she was looking through my dirtiest dirty magazine. A look of disgust grew on her face as she became flushed. I just wanted to run into my room and die, but absolutely couldn’t leave that magazine exposed out here.

She turned the magazine towards me, pointing at a graphic image of a woman who was blindfolded. She had nipple clamps on her breasts and she was crying out while a guy in a mask was raping her pussy. Desperate to get out of this humiliating situation where my sister lectures me about sex, I scoured my mind for any solution. Why was Maria trying to make things difficult! I wished I had something on her! At the very least, I wished I knew what she was thinking.

“Is this the kind of smut my brother finds attractive?” Maria sneered. “You want to rape some girl? Probably because you’ll never get any on your own!”

Rape is so hot.

“Huh?” I looked up in surprise when I heard those words, convinced I misheard my sister.

“I said, I should confiscate this book. Mom would cry if she saw it.”

It’s really turning me on, I think I can finger one out before Jack gets here.

My face twisted in confusion, the words coming out of her mouth were certainly the vitriol, but I was hearing other words too, words my sister definitely would never say.

“Y-you’re into rape?” the words popped out of my mouth before I could stop myself.

“What! No! You sick asshole!” Maria chucked the magazine at me so hard that it caused everything else to fall out of my hands and hit the ground. “Don’t be getting any creepy fantasies!”

Shit! Stupid Maria… your brother almost found out your darkest secret! If Hakaru knew I secretly fantasized about being raped by a mysterious stranger, I’d never live it down!

“M-maria?” I scratched my head for a second, only now making sense of what was going on.

“H-hakaru…” Maria seemed to hesitate for a moment.

He has the magazine, that means he likes that stuff too. If I told Hakaru the truth… would it be possible… would he be willing to…

“What? No!” I shouted out loud.

Maria shook her head, the rage and anger growing back on her face. “C-c-clean this up! You freak!”

She ran into her room and slammed the door. Meanwhile, I stood there with a dazed expression on my face. What just… what just happened? Dirt Scribe… the ability I just gained from Netori. Read a girl’s mind, learn her darkest secrets. That’s how it was described. I had used it without realizing it. I had used it on my sister, and it worked. I learned her darkest secret!

With that realization, my stomach grew kind of sore. My big sister was into rape. Was that even that surprising? All the men she got with were big, tough, bullies. She liked being controlled and told what to do. How else would assholes like Ron get down her pants? At the very least, I knew the ability worked now. However, my sister wasn’t even of interest to me. The people whose dirt I wanted the most were Akiko and Derek’s. I would make them both pay for cheating on me.

I finished cleaning up, including throwing the whole pillow into the wash and then went to my room. Picking up my phone, I took a deep breath and then dialed Akiko’s number.

“H-hi!” Akiko picked up the phone, but she sounded slightly out of breath.

“Hey, Akiko! What’s your deepest, darkest secret?” I asked.

Immediately, I started focusing. Was my method crude? Sure. But even if she wouldn’t tell me what her deepest, darkest secret was, I could read minds! Thus, I only had to ask, and she’d think it, and then I’d know it. It was as simple as that. Well, it was supposed to be, but a moment later, the words sounded in my head.

Fuck! Only once! I was seriously hoping it was once per person! Why did this ability have to be so fucking stingy!

“Ha-hakaru… a-are you… stop teasing me!”

“Ah, sorry…”

“Wha- ye-yeah… you called?”

I stopped for a moment. In the past, I would have laughed and talked with Akiko happily. However, I was much more conscious now, and the way she was talking didn’t seem right.

“Akiko… you seem to be out of breath.” I said, my voice coming out slow.

“Oh… th-that… I just came from a jo-jog!”