CH 36

Going to Make Fun of Her Reportedly Gloomy Older Brother (Special Part 5)

Translated by HamletJr

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“Uhh… I actually play a bit of the guitar. Ahaha…”

When she pointed out something related to music, I broke out in a cold sweat.

I was completely caught off guard because I rarely ever had the chance to invite people from school over to my house…!

“The three of us are actually in the light music club! We don’t have our instruments with us because we didn’t have any practice today!”

“Onii-san, could you please play us a piece?”

“I wanna hear you play~!”

The three of them looked at me expectantly.

Honestly, nothing would make me happier if this allowed me to move past the girlfriend question.

I didn’t want to tarnish Akane’s reputation.

So, as her brother, I wanted to avoid saying, “I’ve never had a girlfriend before.”

Well, they might already be disillusioned by my appearance though…

There’s no way they’d find out I’m Shion just by me playing the guitar.

So, I decided to just roll with it.

“Fine. As long as you don’t laugh when I play it because I’m terrible at it.”

“We won’t laugh! Ah, and please sing too!”

“I’d love that! I would literally melt if you sang a ballad with your smooth voice!”

“Oh, please sing Personia’s song, Angel!”

Unsurprisingly, they asked me to play a Personia song.

I had heard from Akane that Personia (mainly Shion) was all the first-years were talking about too.

“A-Alright… I’m not too familiar with the song though.”

“There you go again~. How can you possibly be a musician and not know Personia’s songs~?”

Yamamoto cackled loudly.

Angel was a song well-known for being easy to play.

I’d once heard news that the number of applicants to the light music clubs of junior high schools and universities across the country increased five to six times due to Personia, and at that time, every beginner guitarist was practicing this song.

I have to play this sloppily so they don’t find out who I am… Lazily…

I picked up my guitar and looked at the girls as I thought that.

All three of them were looking at me with eyes full of excitement and joy.

Seeing them like that, I started having second thoughts―

Is this really okay?

Playing lazily just because I don’t want them to find out my true identity?

Even though they’re eager to hear me play?

―Absolutely not.

I lightly strummed the body of my guitar to get into the rhythm, then I put my fingers on the strings to play Angel.

This song, as it turns out, was written out of my love for my sister, Akane.

“It’s a song about the joy, curiosity, a bit of jealousy, and mischief that comes up when you’re in front of someone who’s incredibly beautiful,” someone theorized on a music show.

I guess they weren’t too far off the mark.

Akane is truly a pure and untainted angel, after all…

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…In the end, I sang the song from start to finish with all my soul.

After all, this was a song for Akane, so obviously there was no way I was going to skimp on it.

However, I didn’t tell Akane how this song came to be, because it would have creeped her out…

I used a voice completely different from Shion’s, and I used the arrangement in my favor to try and cover it up.

This way, they shouldn’t be able to connect me to Shion.

―When I finished playing, the three girls’ eyes started tearing up.