CH 31

Spring break passed so quickly, and my brother finally entered the high school where he will hold the death game. There may have been some characters in the manga in his high school, but I couldn’t go to my brother’s high school because I’ve just advanced to the third grade of junior high school.

It’s already late April, the situation hasn’t changed, and all I can do is poke Yukari-chan’s cheeks in the classroom with frustration.

“Nuhh, sthoph ittt, Mai-chan.”

“Uh, but I can’t calm down…”

“Well, I understand your feeling, but don’t relieve your frustration on people’s cheeks.”

“Alright…”

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Because of Yukari-chan’s complaint, I stopped. Even in the third grade, I’ve never been in a separate class from Yukari-chan, so we have been in the same class together for 9 years. Then…

“What are you doing so early in the morning?”

This year, I got into the same class as Iwai. Well, even when he’s in a different class, he always visited, so nothing really changed.

“By the way, have you decided your high school choice? It seems they will hasten the submission of the future choice survey.” (Iwai)

“How so?” (Mai)

“Because from this year onward, the exam procedures will change? It seems the test preparation will be separated by class. That’s why Hara-sensei said that we should decide early while we can.”

Hara-sensei is the adviser of Iwai’s baseball club, and he is also the head teacher of all classes and in charge of students’ future choices, so there is no mistake.

“Have you decided where will you go, Yukari-chan?”

“Yukari hasn’t decided where yet… but maybe she wants to go to a high school that specialises in clothing and design~?” (Yukari)

As a reminder Yukari always use 3rd person to refer to herself, it’s cute so I always try to match it in English.

“Cool… So cool… What about you, Iwai? Are you just gonna apply to any top-ranking schools that have baseball’s powerhouse?”

“I haven’t decided that much yet. And I can’t decide on high school only by their baseball team.”

Iwai made a grumpy face at my question. Iwai is the baseball club captain, so I thought he would choose to go to a high school with that in mind.

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“What about you? Which high school will you go to?” (Iwai)

Iwai’s questions choked me. High school… what to do? Before that, I have to stop my brother from trying to kill all his classmates. If I don’t stop my brother, even if I’m accepted at any high school, I probably won’t be alive to enjoy that… In the first place, if I die this summer, I can’t even take the entrance exam to go to high school.

“I have something important in the summer, so I won’t be able to think thoroughly about high school until then…” (Mai)

“What? Isn’t it too late? And when in summer?” (Iwai)

“July… around the 29th”

“What’s going on with that exact date?”

Iwai looked at me suspiciously, and Yukari looked confused. I can’t tell them, but my brother will kill all of his classmates at this rate. I want to stop it. It sounds simple, but deciding where I should go in the future is difficult.

“Decide it quickly.” (Iwai)

“Alright, alright.” (Mai)

“Don’t just ‘alright’ me, don’t you have to decide things like this seriously? …Geez, understand my situation too.” (Iwai)

“Huh?” (Mai)

“A-anyway! As Mai-chan’s older brother goes to high school, he will have a school trip overseas, right?” (Yukari)

“Yeah. That’s right… It’s at the end of the month. For boarding experience.”

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My brother’s high school has an event to do a homestay for two nights and three days overseas as soon as he enters the school. As expected, it’s a high school where all security management is fully automatic, it’s highly developed. I thought that the cost would be expensive, but my brother had the highest score on the entrance exam, so it seems the school will cover all of my brother’s travel expenses.

Thus, I don’t think he’ll hold a death game during that period, but now that it’s been less than two months before the game starts, having three days without doing any surprises will give significant damage.

“If you sneak inside his suitcase and follow him, you’ll get caught immediately.”

“When the suitcase passes the x-ray scan, they will find out. They will arrest Mai-chan.”

“This is hard… The future choice and all…”

Yukari likes clothes, so she decides to enter a high school for design and sewing. Iwai will probably go somewhere with baseball in mind. He’s a baseball freak after all. But I don’t have any particular high school that I can think of. If I don’t remember my past memories, I would definitely choose my brother’s high school though…

I gazed at the blue sky outside the window, contemplating my future choice.

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While I was lost in my own thought, school is already over. I packed all of my books into my bag in rush. Even though I was able to take notes while in a daze, I have a feeling that it will have some errors here and there. ‘Oh well…’, I ran towards the shoe locker while thinking so and saw my brother at the school gate. He stands out even from a distance thanks to the people who surround him.

Even though my brother has graduated, he still came all the way to junior high school to pick me up. Junior high school and home are within walking distance, but my brother’s high school is five stations away. Even though it takes time, he still insisted to pick me up every day. I don’t understand why.

Aside from being ‘a good brother’, I feel like he starts to become ​​an overprotective sister complex. But the people around me see him as ‘the gentle brother who cares for his sister’. Back then, I once said to my homeroom teacher, “I’m going to be teased, they will say he has a sister complex…”, and she told me “Who would say such a terrible thing!”, and emphasised, “He’s a good brother, you know!” to me.

“Onii-cha…”

As I try to call my brother, I stopped my legs.

Next to him stood a slender beauty with long, silky black hair. Without a doubt, she must be the heroine of the Sayo Jigoku/Good Hell manga, Himegasaki-san. But, why is she here…?

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“Mai, welcome back.”

“Ah…”

After my brother noticed me, Himegasaki-san followed his eyes and look at me. “Is this girl, Kurobe-kun’s younger sister?”

“Nice to meet you, I’m Kurobe Mai.”

“Likewise, nice to meet you. My name is Himegasaki Yuria. I’m in the same class as your brother, we are both the class representatives.”

I know. Her profile appeared in the monologue section of the manga. But why is Himegasaki-san here? There is no background story saying she was close to my brother, not even the fact that they were the class representative. If I had to say, I only know that she is a flower on the high peak. She has little association with the boys. She is supposed to be the lone wolf cool beauty type of person.

“I’m going to do a study group session at home today.”

My brother glanced toward his back, and the students in the same uniform as my brother peeked from his back. I can also see the other characters that I have seen in manga. Perhaps there was a study session in my brother’s room but was omitted in the manga. But I think picking up his sister in junior high school is not part of the original manga.

“Uh, then isn’t it better for you just go ahead without picking me up?”

“No way. Isn’t it dangerous if you fall down on the roadside?”

My brother shakes his head, but the reaction of the other classmates behind him is different. “Oh, it seems your sister has poor health,” “She was hospitalized the other day.” Somehow, they had an impression that I have a history of being sickly.

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“Mai is already here, let’s go.”

The group moves as prompted by my brother. When I looked at my brother’s unreadable face, he asked “How are you feeling?”, acting as if he was worried about my condition. My brother’s classmate from behind immediately talks to me.

“Anyway, Kurobe’s sister is so cute, isn’t she? Are you in third grade now?”

“Yes…”

“Woah, you are going to take the exam this year right, it must be hard. If you were hospitalized, you couldn’t attend half of it, right?”

No, even though I got into an accident and was hospitalized when I was in second grade, I got a certificate award at home for perfect attendance for one year… Just as I expected, I think that my brother’s classmates’ impressions about me are being manipulated. 

When I looked at my brother, he replied, “it was hard, right?”, asking me to agree with him. I nervously nodded under his pressure, and his classmate said enthusiastically, “But since she’s this cute if she’s also sickly, it’s understandable for you to be so overprotective.”

“Right.” (Makoto)

Himegasaki-san, who walks along beside my brother, looks at me and nodded.

“Your sister is surely cute, isn’t she.”

But that voice feels a bit cold, I remember feeling uncomfortable.

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