Immediately after returning to my room, I messaged Hanahime-chan.
ăWhatâs wrong? (>_<)ă
Her reply came quickly.
ăThis stepkid Iâm living with has a rotten personalityă
ăUwaa~ Iâm also a stepkid (;ă»âă») Sorry for being the same as her~ (>_<) I also have a new younger brother, I think maybe I should take the initiativeă
InitiativeâŠ
As usual, Hanahime-chan says such interesting things.
ăThatâs amazing. So, is it going well?ă
ăI wonder if it isâŠ? well as long as we donât fight whilst living together, I guess itâs okayâŠ.ă
ăHanahime-chan is so kind, Iâm sure you wonât fight. Ah, I wonder if he has the same personality has Hanahime-chanâŠ?ă
ăHe has a rotten personality (>_<) Ah sorryâŠmy mom has just called me, Iâll talk to you later!ă
AhâŠI wanted to hear more of your complaints.
Well, it canât be helped.
After all she saidătalk to you later!ăso weâll be able to talk with each other again.
Just as I reply with aărogerăand was about to click sendâ
ăKaito-kun, letâs all eat breakfast together!ă(Kanae)
Kanae-san called me like that.
ăG, got it! Iâm on my way!ă(Kaito)
I opened my door and shouted down to Kanae-san on the ground floor, I quickly erased the characters I had typed and began to type something elseâ
ăIâve also been called, Iâm just going off to have something to eată
âafter clicking send, I put my smartphone into my pocket.
ăăAhăă(Momoi & Kaito)
As I left my room, I ran into the person I wanted to see the least.
By the way, her room was next to mineâŠ
After that incidentâdad put our rooms next to each other and told us to get along.
I wish Sakura-chan was in the next room, rather than this girlâŠ
Sakura-chanâs room was on the ground floor.
Our rooms were upstairs.
On this floor, other than our rooms, there was only a room filled with several closets, a storeroom and a toilet.
In other words, the only people on this floor were me and Momoi.
HaaâŠ.I really hate you for this, dadâŠ.
For the time being, I decided to ignore this girl.
I donât think she particularly cares about me either.
ăHeyă(Momoi)
âŠ..
ăHey I said!ă(Momoi)
ăâtsu!ă(Kaito)
Momoi suddenly grabbed my shoulders.
That surprised meâŠ.
ăWhat is it so suddenly?ă(Kaito)
ăThereâs just one thing I want to check with youă(Momoi)
ăCheck?ă(Kaito)
ăThatâs right. Donât tell anyone at school that weâre a family. If anyone knows, it will make me look badă(Momoi)
This bitch!
Even if thatâs the case, isnât that something you usually donât say to the person in question?
ăYouâre really going to say that!? Dad has already taken care of it after all!ă(Kaito)
Dad decided to let Momoi keep her surname until graduation, it would stand out too much if she suddenly changed it after all.
I was thankful for that.
Momoi stands out too much to have the same surname as me.
It could cause a strange misunderstanding.
âŠno actually. My classmates treat me like air, so maybe they wonât noticeâŠ
ăRight, thatâs okay then. Oh and donât call me onee-chan in the future, if you call me that it would give me the chillsă(Momoi)
ăWho would call you that!âŠbesides, who decided you are older? Shouldnât you be calling me ani?ă(Kaito)
Momoi laughed at my words.
ăYour birthday is August the 8th right? Mine is July 7th. In other words, i was born earlier so Iâm the aneă(Momoi)
(TLN: Iâll just quickly clarify why they are arguing. Momoi doesnât want Kaito to call her âonee-chanâ or âbig sisterâ because that indicates a high level of closeness. This is why Kaito was so happy to be called âonii-chanâ or âbig brotherâ by Sakura when they met. Instead she asked to be called âaneâ which means âolder sisterâ and Kaito asks to be called âaniâ which is âolder brotherâ)
DamnâŠit canât be helped.
Nn?
ăEh, how do you know my birthday? Considering your actions at school, are you actually a stalker?ă(Kaito)
Momoiâs face goes bright red as she reacts angrily to my words.
ăWho is a stalker! Your dad told me your birthday!ă(Momoi)
ăAh, is that soă(Kaito)
I thought that was naturally the case, so I let it slide.
ăHey, you heard me right!?ă(Momoi)
ăThis is payback, bakaă(Kaito)
When I said that, I started walking towards the stairs.
Behind my back Momoi was making a lot of noise, but I ignored her.
Just a little, I felt like I had gotten revenge for what had happened earlier.
âŠhmmm?
Come to think of itâŠwas I finally able to have a normal conversation with Momoi?
Well, it was less a conversation and more of a fight, but it was strange that I could talk normally to herâ