272 Go out with Each Other! (2/2)

”That was merely our duty,” the two of them said lightly.

”What's this about?” Shouzou wondered. ”Harano-kun, mind explaining?”

”It's like this...” Seiji repeated what he had heard from Mika.

”Oh... well done, Rion, Kotomi.” Shouzou sincerely praised the twins after hearing about what they had done.

”We only did what we should have...”

The twins' faces flushed slightly redder when their grandfather also praised them.

Seiji chuckled at this. Everyone looked at him.

”I never expected... that my Senpais would say something similar to me,” Seiji explained. ”I just did what I should have.”

He'd said that exact sentence to Shouzou last night on the phone.

And now, the twins were saying the same thing to Shouzou.

He felt that this was rather ironic, which was why he'd let out a chuckle.

Shouzou understood his meaning and smiled in realization.

Yukina was still curious about it, so Shouzou explained it to her. After she understood, she also smiled gently at the twin sisters.

Rion and Kotomi blushed even deeper.

Seiji felt that they... were actually quite cute like this.

'Wonderful.' The various exclamations within him finally coalesced into this one comment.

...

After dinner, Shouzou asked Seiji return to the living room, and he also called Rion and Kotomi over.

”I have a suggestion,” he said to the boy and the two girls. ”You might feel that it's rather sudden, but I've taken it into serious consideration, and I think it's an excellent idea.”

Suggestion?

Seiji was rather curious what it could be.

Rion and Kotomi were similarly curious.

”My suggestion is... go out with each other!” Shouzou announced with a serious expression and tone.

Seiji and the twin sisters were all rendered speechless.

”What?” All three of them were stunned and simultaneously uttered the same word.

This was rather comical; it was akin to a scene out of a gag manga.

'What did this elder just say? Go out with, as in date? Me and Rion and Kotomi!?'

Seiji knew what he'd heard, but a part of him suspected that he was afflicted with hearing problems and that he'd misheard.

He could only stare dazedly at the beautiful twins. It just happened that the twins were also staring at him with blank expressions.

After they exchanged stunned looks for a full three seconds, all three of them turned in unison to look at the elderly man sitting across from them.

'You must have made a mistake with your words!?' the boy and girls' eyes and expressions seemed to say.

”I didn't make any mistakes with what I said,” Shouzou continued seriously. ”Just earlier in our discussion, I learned that Harano-kun doesn't have a girlfriend, and Rion, Kotomi, you don't have a boyfriend either, so there's no problems with you dating each other.”

'No, no, there are going to be huge problems!' Seiji inwardly moaned.

”Amami-san,” Seiji said cautiously, ”not having a girlfriend or boyfriend is just one of the conditions for dating, but it isn't the only condition... Between me and the Amami twin Senpais...”

”I know that perhaps you don't view each other favorably right now, but that doesn't mean that you're not appropriate for each other,” Shouzou said. ”Harano-kun, based on my observations and understanding of you, and now that I've added on my experience of you, my judgement is that you're the most suitable boy to date Rion and Kotomi!”

”Your physical appearance, personality, eloquence, and behavior... it's all excellent. And the most important part is this: you're the person who defeated them and caused them to change for the better! If you were the one to be with them, you'd be someone they'd respect, and you'd also be able to guide them down the right path. This is something that other boys aren't able to do.”

Seiji was rendered speechless at this.

He understood what Shouzou meant, but...

”And Rion and Kotomi… may not be the most suitable girls for you, but they're truly excellent, beautiful, and talented as well as good cooks. As long as they continue going down the proper path, they'll become incredibly charismatic women! They're definitely up to par for being your companions.”

'Before any of this, aren't you ignoring a fundamental problem!? Rion and Kotomi are two girls, and I'm just one boy!!'

'Wait a moment, I'm feeling a strong sense of déjà vu from this retort of mine… oh, I recall! Isn't this exactly what I said to Hoshi before!?'