CH 38

Going to Make Fun of Her Reportedly Gloomy Older Brother (Special Part 7)

Translated by HamletJr

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“I’m home~.”

“Hey, welcome back. Took you a while, huh?”

A few minutes after the girls left the house, Akane opened the front door with an exhausted expression on her face and her head hung low as she sighed.

“Yeah. I told them many times that I wanted to go home as soon as possible, but the moment the photographer saw me, he got all excited and said, ‘You’re a true gem! Why don’t we make a photo book of you?’”

Apparently they wouldn’t let her leave that easily.

But, I do have to say, I can understand how the photographer felt.

“Ugh, your Onii-chan finds that absolutely unforgivable. How awful. So, how much do I have to fork out for the photo book? I’m willing to spend the entirety of my earnings from my music career.”

“Haah… Onii-chan, there’s no need for you to use pictures of me when I’m right here―”

Akane, dumbfounded by my inexplicable siscon comment, started retorting at me, before suddenly going silent.

Then, a grimace formed on her face… What’s going on?

Also, it was quite strange for Akane to say “use her pictures” instead of “looking at her pictures.”

I don’t care about that, though.

“Onii-chan, why is your hair tidy and well-groomed?”

“Oh yeah. You see, the police often question me when I go outside, right? I don’t want to cause you any more trouble, so from now on, I’ll go out looking like this―”

“Do not ever leave the house with that face. You’ll get taken away.”

“I-Is that so…?”

Akane nodded as she stared at my face without blinking a single eye.

“Yes. Just keep your face hidden as you did before. In fact, you don’t ever have to leave the house for the rest of your life. I’ll take care of you, Onii-chan; anything and everything you might need.”

“S-So you don’t want me to leave the house that badly, huh…”

Apparently, my face is bad enough to land me lifetime support from Akane in one go.

In Akane’s eyes, she doesn’t even want me to walk outside anymore…

Akane’s a bit of a hard-to-read person because she usually jokes around with a straight face.

But whenever I dig deeper into her words, I always realize that her jokes are roundabout ways of insulting and abusing me.

“O-Okay. I’ll immediately change back to my usual appearance then…”

“―J-Just stay like that a little longer! No, in fact, isn’t it fine if you stay looking like that for the entire day?! I-I mean, it’d be a hassle if you went and changed it back now!”

“You’ve certainly got a point there. I also don’t plan on heading out anymore either.”

“O-Oh, right! Let’s take a picture of you too, Onii-san! I also happen to be out of stock on your pictures!”

“Were photos always such rapidly used items…?”

“I-I-I, umm, s-spilled my tea! L-Lots of times! It’s happened too often for me to keep track!”

So she is using my pictures in place of a drink coaster, it seems like. Just as I thought.

Also, there’s no way she’d spill tea that often, so she’s probably also using it to relieve her stress…

What should I do if I find a nail stuck in my picture’s head one of these days…

I heaved a sigh as I pitied the future of my pictures.

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―Later, Akane would find herself approached by 3 girls she’d never spoken to at school. They would go on to tell her, “We want to be your friends!”

Author’s notes:

This is the end of the short series!

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(TLN: The author is referring to the native Syosetu page here.)