CH 21

When I Returned From Another World I Was A Silver Haired Shrine Maiden: Chapter 21

Night Of The Second Day

I opened a forbidden door in the washroom, after that, I entered the same bathtub that Yuna was in.

Because our bathtub is too narrow for two people to sit side by side, I ended up sitting in between Yuna’s legs.

By the way, my hair is wrapped in a towel so as to not be soaked in the bathtub, so I didn’t look like Sadako like I did yesterday.

『… Hey, Alicia… Is there magic that erases memories?』

『Memory manipulation, I certainly think that there was a dark magic like that… However, I think it would be difficult for Ikuto, who doesn’t have the aptitude for dark magic, to use it. Perhaps if you converted your soul into magic power and poured it in…』

『My soul…』

「Why are you talking about such a dangerous thing… I understand that what happened a while ago was shameful, but don’t use your soul as compensation for such a thing… Just get over it.」

As I lay in the bathtub, Yuna says that with a disgusted tone.

As I recall what happened a while ago, I am filled with an unbearable feeling, I hugged my knees strongly between my arms.

「Generally, because we are family, we know a lot of shameful things about each other. If that number increases by one, it isn’t a big deal.」

Yuna’s hands stretched from behind me to hug my body, I instinctively tried to duck away from them.

「Hyau…!?」

My body is wrapped in softness. Especially the presence of the two bulges on the back of my head was exceptional, the feeling was transmitted directly to my skin.

「Because before this Alice was a boy, I think there will be a lot of things you won’t understand about girls and will fail at. However, only our family knows that. There are also many cases where talking to our parents about it will be hard, I want you to be able to come to me in those times.」

「… Yuna.」

「Any type of consultation is okay. Things about love is okay as well, regardless of whether they are a boy or girl, okay? But, be careful not to get involved with strange men. Because men are wolves, they will probably just go after you for your body.」

「…  I think I understand how a man looks at a girl more than Yuna, right?」

Well it may be true that a man may approach with an ulterior motive, I don’t think there are that many that would only aim for the body. However, the percentage of high school boys that want to have sex would be about nine out of ten, it’s a sad thing to feel that she isn’t wrong.

「Onii-chan has protected me from them up until now. But from now on, because I’m your onee-chan, I will protect Alice.」

Yuna tightens her embrace.

「… So, please don’t disappear again.」

Yuna said with a trembling voice.

Since my back was to her, I don’t know what kind of expression she was making.

… In retrospect, Yuna was always a child who followed her onii-chan.

I wonder how painful the past year has been for her?

It may have been the result of that pain that caused her to care for me as an onee-chan so much.

In that case, I…

I relax my body and allow my full weight to lean against Yuna.

「Alright. I promise you… Onee-chan.」

I obediently accept Yuna’s goodwill, I’ve decided to become an imouto.

From Nii (Ikuto) to Imouto (Yuna), until the time comes when I need to protect you, I will stop being your onii-chan for a while.

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Afterwards, Yuna washed her hair and we left the bath together. Yuna said that it would probably be hard to dry my hair, but thanks to Alicia teaching me the “dry” spell it was over instantaneously. When I asked 「Does Yuna also want me to dry her hair?」the answer was 「Of course.」almost immediately as I asked it.

Once we were out of the bath, it seems that dinner was already prepared. It was a hot plate with roasted meat.

It seems that they splurged a little when they decided to buy the meat as it was Japanese beef, the soft meat covered with plenty of gravy was the best. While eating the meat together with rice, it seemed that Alicia was touched by how good it was, in response to her voice of admiration, the entire family watched us with warm eyes.

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When the meal ends, I return to my room and lay down on the bed. Continuing from yesterday, various things happened today. It’s unbelievable that this is only my second day back after returning from the other world.

I stop my recollection and talk to Alicia.

『Alicia… Can we talk?』

『Of course… It seems you’ve changed your tone back to what you used when you were Ikuto-san?』

『Please forgive me for doing it when I’m talking just between the two of us. I want to be Ikutari instead of Alice when it’s just us.』

『I see. Is there any business you want to talk about?』

『It’s not really business… There were many things I decided without consulting with you. I was wondering if you were fine with those.』

『Because this body is already Ikuto-san’s, you don’t need to worry about me, I’ve told you this many times…』

『But…』

『More than that, you have to study hard starting tomorrow. There are lots of things you have to remember, right?』

『Uu, it’s depressing. I tried my best and studied for the exam in order to finally get accepted, but now I have to do it all over again.』

『I will do it together with you, so let’s do our best to pass the exam!』

『… I’ll do my best.』

Well, passing an exam should be easier than defeating the Demon Lord. I won’t lose my life even if I make a mistake. Well thinking about obtaining a peaceful school life, I entrusted myself to the comfortable drowsiness that came over me.