123 Calm Down, Listen to Me Explain (1/2)

”Mmm... brother...” Shika muttered as she stirred and gradually opened her eyes.

Feeling that someone was next to her, she turned around to look.

She saw a handsome boy sitting by her bedside, gazing at her gently.

Seiji smiled. ”Good morning, Shika-chan.”

Shika Kagura widened her eyes.

Then, she squinted as her lips arced upwards in blissful satisfaction.

”Good morning, Brother~”

...

In school.

Mika was unable to concentrate.

The first class had just ended, but Seiji still hadn’t appeared.

Some classmates... fine, just the girls, were worried about how he was and asked Chiaki and her about him.

Chiaki gave him a call, and the response she received was: ”I have something to do, so I’ve asked for a break.”

What could be going on? Did he have a cold? Many pairs of curious eyes blinked in unison, and all the girls were gossiping about it.

Diplomat Chiaki responded by saying, ”Sorry, classified.”

While the girls still wanted to know what was going on, they finally scattered and stopped prying. They were unable to withstand the pressure of the tomboy, who acted as if she were Seiji’s ambassador.

”He said that he’ll come to school in a bit and contact us,” Chiaki whispered to Mika in a low voice after their classmates left them alone.

This finally helped the pigtailed girl to recover some of her spirit. Despite this, she was still rather unsatisfied.

‘Just what exactly is Seiji up to!?’ she complained inwardly.

Without him there, the awkwardness between her and Kaede as they went to school together was...

Mika was unwilling to dwell on what had happened...

Mika made up her mind. ‘After seeing him, I definitely will ask him what’s going on!’

After the second class was over.

Mika was shocked at the scene in front of her to the extent that her mind went completely blank.

”This girl... isn’t she...”

”Yep, that’s right, she’s Shika Kagura. We met her before at the drama club.”

The tall and handsome boy had a gentle smile on his face.

A petite girl whose beauty seemed almost ethereal tailed behind him. She was tugging on his clothes and hiding behind him while blinking her eyes cutely.

They seemed almost like brother and sister...

Mika and Chiaki were both speechless at this situation.

They had received a message from Seiji to meet him in this corner of the school garden, but they never expected to witness such a scene.

The person behind him... Was this really the same person that had been forcibly ”captured” by the drama club president before!?

This was a totally different feeling!

Back then, they had met a literature-loving girl. Previously, she exuded a natural iciness which seemed to reject everybody who thought of approaching her.

But now, she seemed like a girl who always stuck close to her own brother, acting all shy and cute like an ordinary girl next door!

The contrast between the two impressions she gave off... this wasn’t even a contrast! It was like multiple personalities!!

Why were the two of them together!?

Why did they behave like a real brother and sister!?

Although Mika and Chiaki knew that Seiji and Shika weren’t real siblings, they were beginning to suspect it could be possible!

Mika and Chiaki’s inner thoughts were like unstoppable tornadoes.

But Shika’s next sentence increased the tornadoes’ strength even further.

”Brother, there’s another two beautiful girls here! You have so many girlfriends~” Shika Kagura stated in her soft voice.

Seiji’s expression froze over.