CH 25

"I love you," so I conveyed to Chisome

"................."

When Chisome stared at me in a daze, tears spilled out of her eyes.

I took out a handkerchief and wiped away one drop and then two drops of overflowing tears, but still, Chisome's tears wouldn't stop.

(......This is)

what's the best thing to do, that was when I was thinking.

The spot where my old man stabbed me, in other words, the spot where Kuro Chisome's blood was inside, became slightly hot, and at the same time, I felt that Chisome's feelings were conveyed directly to me.

The feeling I feel from her ...... is that the feeling of being happy.

"Chisome"

Gently embrace her close to my chest.

When I stroked her head, Chisome completely leaned on me, as if to let out the strength of her body, buried her face in my chest, and let out a voice.

".......Nii-san......I! I!!"

For me, it was a once-in-a-lifetime confession but, shall I wait quietly for now.

I hugged Chisome for the time being until she calmed down, but Kuro Chisome was also glued to my back and watching over the course of events.

".......It's already, fine now"

"Got it."

Saying that, Chisome separated from me.

The tears have stopped, but her eyes have become red, and I feel like she's going to end up shedding tears again soon if she lets her guard down.

Chisome laid her hands in front of her chest, stared at me intently and opened her mouth.

"I love Nii-san too.....I love you lots! Always, I want to be together with Nii-san forever!"

"I love you," Chisome conveyed to me so that she loved me.

As if she looks frantically trying with all her might to convey her feelings to me, I embraced Chisome as hard as I could.

At that moment, Chisome also wraps her arms around my back and hugs me tightly.

"......Chisomee!"

However I, here end up crying the volume. [Tl note no 1]

As I hugged Chisome, tears began to flow, but I couldn't even wipe the tears because I was holding Chisome with both hands.

Therefore, after some time, Chisome, who smiled wryly, wiped away my tears.

"Nii-san really cries a lot, don’t you?"

"Because... because Chisome, that Chisome accepted my confession you know!? Of course I'm bound to cry right, I love you lots, Chisome!"

"A, Auu...... I love you too anyway!"

"Chisome!"

"Nii-san!"

......Just what are we doing I wonder.

After all the effort we've managed to convey our feelings and yet, it becomes like a comedy sketch exchange, well but we at this moment, have certainly taken a step towards a new relationship.

The fireworks continued to go off as before; no way did we have the time to look at them; so we kept looking at each other.

"Nee Nii-san"

"What?"

"Most likely, it's going to be difficult you know? I'm, not normal after all."

"It's too late for that sort of thing now isn't it. I've already accepted everything."

"....... I'm deeply jealous of that you know?"

"That's all fine. if anything do think of me that strongly."

I've already accepted everything about Chisome.

About Chisome's own power too—knowing everything and then, on top of that, accepting it—I want to love everything about this girl you know, from here on out and forever.

"Oh yeah, that's right Chisome"

"a, un. I know Nii-san. Do please tell her."

"Ou."

Prompted by Chisome, I turned my eyes to Kuro Chisome.

Even to her, who looks at me and Chisome alternately, something exists that I mustn't not tell her about.

"I don't want to come this far only to say I don't know, but you are also the one I love, you know?"

Right, I also love Kuro Chisome.

In the first place, although they are independent beings, since essentially, they are the same person; so at the point when I convey my feelings to Chisome, they are also conveyed to Kuro Chisome... but, to me she is also a precious girl.

"You are different from ordinary people; you yourself know that, right?"

*Kokun* and Kuro Chisome nodded.

"However, to me, you are, who has always been together with Chisome, a part of the family member. Same as Chisome, an existence that I wanted to watch over, and that's why I about you too, I love you."

Anyone would normally not say things like this to Kuro Chisome anyway, and in a sense, she was lonely because she couldn't communicate, with the intention of mutual understanding, with anyone other than Chisome.

But, since I got to know these girls, I will never let them feel that kind of lonely feeling.

Monster? Monster of an unknown nature? To begin with, does it have emotions? That sort of things to me are irrelevant, I've already decided to love her too.

"Be prepared, alright? Because I'll make you happy enough to make you cry like Chisome."

"Well yeah, that's already a talk that can make one cry, Nii-san."

"That's just how much enthusiasm I have... o?"

Even though I had only taken my eyes off her for a moment, when I looked at Kuro Chisome now, she was shedding tears.

Red blood-like tears flow from her bright red eyes... wait, oi! It's too early to cry, I haven't even done anything yet I say!"

"This girl is just like me. She loves Nii-san so much it's unbearable, but she doesn't know if she can love you because she's not human. Even so, she can't stop loving you...... At such a time, it's only natural that it would turn out like this if Nii-san said things like that to her."

That is, in other words......Kuro Chisome has the same feelings as Chisome, so it's okay to think like that right?

When I stared at her with *jii*, does she thought that she couldn't stand the gaze, I wonder, and she sank into Chisome's shadow at a tremendous speed.

I end up having her figure no longer in sight, but Chisome and I smiled wryly at her cute appearance.

"Ahaha, what a handful child she is, really." (Taiga)

Chisome, keeping a smile on her face, stared at me again with *jii*.

The fireworks, which had been shooting off noisily, have quieted down shortly afterward and like thinned out, as if they had taken a break.

"That means it's fine to think we have become a pair of lovers, right?"

"Aa"

"......If so, umm......Nii-san?"

"Chisome, let's have a kiss"

"......Let's!"

No, sorry, I know it was a crisp way of saying it there, but I'm extremely shy right now.

The reason why I said "let's kiss," was because I felt that it would look better if the guy went first than the girl, and of course I also had an illicit desire to simply kiss her.

Slowly, we approached each other, and when the fireworks were launched a second time, our shadows beautifully overlapped.

".............."

“Nii-san, your face is too red.”

"Chisome too, right"

".......It can't be helped isn't it, because it's a kiss with someone you like after all."

"If so it can't be helped, righto? It's a kiss with someone you like zou know."

"Pufuu!" *Pfftt*

This is no good if I don't calm down once somehow this is......。

After that, we didn't say anything in particular and just kept watching until the fireworks ended, and when the fireworks ended, we held hands and went home.

After returning home, we took a quick shower and gathered in our new bedroom.

"Nee nee, Nii-san, it's not like you aimed for it, right?"

"It's wrong I say. It just so happened that today is a summer festival, and I just wanted to convey my feelings."

Actually, the bed I ordered arrived around noon today.

So now in this way, in front of us, there's a even-if-three-of-us-lie-down-its-okay new bed... really, it's not like I aimed for it. I'm not that crafty.

After being shied outside, and hid in Chisome's shadow was Kuro Chisome, but maybe she was tired, given that she was already asleep on the soft and fluffy bed.

"Chisome?"

When I was pleasantly looking at Kuro Chisome, Chisome was looking up at the moon from the window.

Her silver hair, like reflecting the moonlight, was so beautiful that I walked beside her as if I was drawn to her.

"Nii-san, you know I. I thought I would never be able to fall in love. Because I thought I would never come to like anyone anyway, and that I would never be able to receive anyone's like for me."

"..........."

"But it wasn't like that isn't it. There was someone who came to like me... and in addition to that was my only hero who came from another world."

"Stop it about the 'hero'. I'm not that sort of figure."

"Eeh, is that so I wonder?"

Heroes aren't that kind of thing.

I continued my words while hugging-like Chisome's shoulder.

"I'm not a hero who came from another world for the sake of saving Chisome. I'm just an ordinary person that's found anywhere who just likes Chisome."

"...... I think that's the part of what makes a hero riiight."

When I stroked Chisome's head, which was looking down, Chisome, who looked up, sticks out her lips.

"Before going to sleep, I want to kiss one more time."

"... Haha, me too you know."

And then I exchanged a kiss with her again.

I do wonder of what it tastes like when you kiss, but it doesn't taste, I can only have the good scent of Chisome when I draw near to her right, come to think of it.

"Is Nii-san going to bed already?"

"No, unfortunately I'm not sleepy yet."

"I see. If so there was one thing, I wanted to ask isn't it."

"Of what?"

"You take a liking to Shindou Misora-san, is it true?"

"...*Suu*" *inhale*

Eh, somehow the air is getting heavy you know.

Chisome is staring at me intently, but there is a tremendous amount of pressure put in her eyes, and there seems to be no escape for me.

"Just kidding. I'm already Nii-san's lover and I won't do something like jealousy. It's not that I'm conceited, but I also understand that Nii-san is so head over heels with me to the extent that it's hopeless♪"

"Obviously right. I can't see anyone other than Chisome as a love interest"

“Fu~n, even in front of those soft-looking colossal breasts?”

"......Of course!"

"Ahahaa! What's that pause for～♪"

Chisome puts her hand over her mouth and smiles as if she is really happy.

And then she jumped into my chest again, looked up and said,

"I can't stop Nii-san from liking other girls, can I? Of course, in a romantic sense, it's only natural to have you be the one who looks only at me, but even so, I will beat them all with my charm. The only people that are fine to monopolize Nii-san's heart are me and that girl...... that's why Nii-san. I won't let you get away anymore♪"

"........."

Those words were undoubtedly the condensation of Chisome's desire to monopolize.

On this day, Chisome and I took a step from being brother and stepsister (sister-in-law) to lovers.

There may be various difficulties, but we can overcome anything....... Because those kinds of feelings came to me, the weight of the words "the existence of precious ones" felt too much big.

"I love you lots――Onii-chan♪"

"Aa, me too Chisome."

The current Chisome and the former Chisome overlapped.

Both of them are still Chisome, no distinction, but I was more than happy to see that girl's smile in this way, who had been in despair at that time, that I cried again.

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・Rokudou Chisome

A girl who can no longer trust people due to past events.

By eating his brother and father who tried to assault her, the last tag came off and she became mentally ill and transformed into a monster that devoured everything.

Deep down in her heart, she hoped to be saved, but the fact that she herself thought she wasn't worth it was one of the reasons she went insane.

"There is no such people who will save me... much less such people who will give me love, there is absolutely no way such people exist!"

・The other inner Chisome

Another Chisome who lives inside Chisome.

In what way it was born, in what way it exists, I didn't know anything about it until the end.

The feeling of worrying about Chisome, who is broken under the influence of her own power, is genuine, and by the time she (Chisome) was in the third year of junior high school, her spirit (Kuro Chisome's spirit) grew with the desire to support her, and she (Kuro Chisome) came to regard herself like her (Chisome) older sister.

"I don't mind whoever it is, that girl just save her.......!"

That's all, these are explanations after clearing (the game) that Taiga already does not remember.

[Author's Afterword]

And so, one volume, or rather, something like a prologue is over.

To be honest, it was the first time for me to write the "in the first chapter, kill relatives" pattern though, if everyone liked this Chisome character even a little, I would be happy.

Evaluation, etc, if you don't mind, please!

Now then, the continuation I'll do my best!

TL: Maza Miya

Editor: Maza Miya

[Tl note no 1: MC here is trying to make a skit-comedy-like? about the part where he cries. It's a Japanese thing that's not quite understandable to some most readers, probably.]