CH 48

"A bit with me, Misora? What's going on with you?"

"What is it?"

"What is it, you say...... you've been grinning this whole time though."

"I did no such thing. Mufufu♪"

It's a scene at school at the beginning of the week.

After greeting me lightly as usual, Misora returned to her seat, but as her friends pointed out now, she had been grinning the whole time.

"......Naa Naa, Shindou and Matou went to your house, right?"

"Aah, that reminds me you did were listening huh"

"What happened tell me!"

At the want-to-hear-it-so-badly-they-couldn't-help-it Shinji and Kouki's state, I let out a sigh.

"Something happened is certain, but try get a look at that face. Unfortunately, the thing about me never being jealous of you guys is definite, you know?"

"......Right"

"You're right. Somehow we knew that too."

"It was above good to let me have you guys understanding," and I smiled wryly.

As I kept my eyes on Misora with her friends, who even now were still worried about what was going on with her, I remembered the time when they came to my house.

(Somehow or rather, I'm really tired)

Misora's running wildly behavior is just like that, but she properly noted what she should refrain from, and attacked an exquisite line that Chisome and Mashiro didn't find unpleasant.

Although that way of being seemed to be something like a tightrope walker in a sense, in Misora's case, she was a tightrope walker equipped with many lifelines, so in the end, it was as natural that not a single thing she did to the last moment would be hated by the two.

(Yuika is into Chisome, and Misora is into Mashiro...... Since it was like that, it was easier for me, but wonder why I'm so tired like that.)

Chisome and even Mashiro also seemed to find it refreshing to have a same-sex existence who understood in the true sense of the word and said that they would like for them to come visit again if they had the chance.

"Those people, they are really interesting you know. I think it's precisely because it's Nii-san, that people like that gather together see."

That is, in other words, I put it in a tsukkomi "Am I a street lamp that attracts moths called eccentrics really?"

Well but, I was happy to see Chisome looking happy anyway, and if she was able to properly have an existence that she could rely on other than me as well, then I'm glad.

(......From now on, even if something happens to me, if it's that girl...... just kidding, I should stop thinking about stupid-looking things, huh. The world of anime and manga is enough for that kind of thing.)

Perhaps it was wrong to think such a thing like that, and *nururi* *slimily* Mashiro's figure appeared from the ground.

To be able to get through with just a slight jump in my shoulders was the result of my many previous experiences with this attack until now, but no matter how cute my little sister is, after all, this is something I should put a stop to riight.

“Onii-sama, me and Chisome......I don’t know well, but we are angry.”

"e?"

At being told we were angry, I rounded my eyes.

Mashiro puffed out and inflated her cheeks and reached out to me with that beautiful hands, lightly pinching both of my cheeks.

"Onii-sama thought about something he shouldn't. That's why me and Chisome, came with a scare."

"......Ah~"

I see, in other words, even when I'm gone......it seems that I've ended up being sensed thinking about things like that.

Even now, Mashiro's blood is still mixed in me, so sure enough, for them, it seems that these girls' senses end up being sensitive to the kind of thing that threatens peace.

"......so that's how it is, huh. my bad alright."

"Uun (it's fine), Chisome also said. It's not something to flare up at every little thing about; much less protecting the present is just fine; that's why it's not even something enough to point out......but still, it's about Onii-sama, so we can't help but be worried about it, she said."

All the words that Mashiro conveys are what Chisome synchronously also thinks about.

"Regarding that, I'm overprotective, aren't I," I thought, along with "yareyare *good grief*," and I didn't do anything like to elude what I did; I just apologized, "nevertheless, sorry for making you two worried."

"Go tell Chisome as well that things are okay."

"Okay. And also Onii-sama."

"What?"

"That person, after all, is amazing. She shouldn't be able to see me now, and yet, she has been looking over here since I came here you know?"

"......geh"

What lies ahead of the finger Mashiro pointed at was Misora, who was staring over here.

Even while having a conversation with her friends, skillfully directing her gaze so as not to get found out is undoubtedly the act of a fearless fighter...... That girl, she's done it.

"Naa, what have you been mumbling about since some time ago?"

“It’s nothing. Now then, the morning assembly will start soon~"

Mashiro also returned, and it's like the quiet morning has at last returned.

It just...... Regarding the exchange just now, to put it, I was a little happy at this present condition, where Chisome and Mashiro could even read and understand my thoughts.

Contrary to expectations, as much as I can't say shit on Souma, I can't deny it, even if someone were to tell me that I also have a kind of sense of insanity in relation to Chisome and Mashiro.

"......Well, so that's why. If with that it makes it happiness then it's fine right."

I just muttered and laughed.

"Even so, it's really peaceful it's above good riight."

Aside from Souma's hassling, school life for now is, in general, peaceful.

Originally, although if it was other than in relation to Chisome, there was no life-threatening danger; even if I and several foreign bodies were taken in, this world would still move as usual.

Even for me, even for Chisome, even for Yuika, even for Souma, in the end, we're already living in the present as part of this world.

“Now then, let’s do our best again today, shall we.”

Muttering so, as a student, I include a shout to begin the first day of the week.

......However, there was an unexpected reunion during lunch break that day.

"eh?"

"Kyaa!?"

On my way back from something I had to do in the staff room, at the end of the corridor, I bumped into a girl.

Again this, really; déjà vu is to this degree, huh? I felt, but I immediately reached out my hand to the girl――Shigure――I had ended up bumping into.

"My bad. Any place injured?"

"Yes......I'm okay......huh?"

Suddenly, Shigure stopped moving and looked up at me.

On that day, I couldn't feel at all the atmosphere of humming dangerous words regarding Souma; it was just Shigure, who just tilts her head strangely and cutely.

"Since that time, right? Do you remember?"

"Ah, yes! Of course! Sorry for the inconvenience at that time!"

"No, no, that goes for both of us too."

Is it really the very same person as that Shigure? I thought, to the point of ending up thinking like so, she was being too normal.

"Thank you very much for that time! Uhh......it’s not like, as if it means I didn’t know you were enrolled here. But still, it was the same as that time, I thought, and ended up being surprised."

"Was that so, huh. By the way, I bumped into my classmate like this twice even, and was told like, the same thing you know."

"That is......undoubtedly fate isn't it!"

"Fate......I guess so~ might be so."

Certainly, if I say that because of such encounters, I became close to Misora, you could call that fate, might be.

(......Normal riight)

The Shigure in front of my eyes has an unashamed loveliness worthy of the name of the heroine.

Exactly that, if the aspect of being a yandere were to be excluded, she possesses a charm that would be loved equally by her classmates and others.

The scene at that time, and the talk I heard from Yuika...... She's so pure that even if someone were to tell me that's all a lie, I would end up about to believe it――that's what I thought.

"Rikudou-senpai"

"Un?"

"Rikudou Taiga-senpai...... That name is often mentioned by that person, Souma-senpai."

"-......I see"

"Yes. It seems like you've been having a hard time with various things, isn't it?"

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

At that instant, the atmosphere of Shigure changed.

Her presence as if looked more wicked than Chisome.......if one were to speak of figures of speech, then it certainly was that, but there was something like what I felt through the screen when I played the game, a faint coldness that was drifting in the air.

"I am troubled by that person. Even though he said to me, I want you to let me rely on you so much, to think that he would leave me alone and tear his attention to other things"

"......Renjou?"

"Excuse me, shut up and please listen"

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

Whoa......I'm scared save me Chisome!

"So is leaving me alone as well, yes, but it's also not good to continuously say bad things about someone who isn't by your side. I have to get angry so that I won't be able to ever say it again isn't it. He seems to be caught in a bit of a strange delusion, but if I don't soon become as the only one all he could think of――"

"......Isn't it about time to go back?"

"Rikudou-senpai"

"-!?"

No more, this girl is extremely scary tho!?

"I have told even Matou-senpai before, but please rest assured. I will try to make him as to stop my seniors from being in his mind anymore soon so."

"Yeah......"

"And also!"

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

“Chisome-chan, she’s a very cute girl isn't she! Me, I want to get along well with that girl too!”

The switching on and off is too fierce this girl!

I was having uneasiness that those wicked feelings might point even against Chisome, but it seems that she really purely only wants to be Chisome's friend.

Is it fine if I just be relieved about that? Is it fine if I just be even more cautious about that.......I don't know anymore, I tell you.

"The thing about Souma....... You like him, didn't you?"

When I asked so, she nodded strongly.

"Yes. It didn't even come to mind to think that I would meet someone who knew me so well like that. As soon as he knew the things I hadn't even talked about, I felt a strong sense of fate with Souma-senpai. And at the same time my heart cried out――don't let him escape, it says."

Don't let him escape, I would like to think that it was my imagination that I heard something like a slight reverb to those words. [Tl note 1]

TL: Maza Miya

Editor: Maza Miya

[Tl note: I couldn't quite find an onomatopoeia for "....here is the onomatopoeia and also headshaking sideways.... It's fine," like what kids used to say in movies. Could someone more knowledgeable about onomatopoeia give me direction on this? It took too much time to research.]