/
“…hmm.”
“What’s wrong, sis?”
As soon as she came into the room, Sis looked at me sternly and nodded.
I kept quiet, wondering what she wanted, but being convinced alone and not being told anything made me feel quite anxious on the contrary.
I looked back at her and she lightly slapped my cheek… it’s unreasonable. I don’t get it.
“Don’t stare at me.”
“… isn’t that unreasonable?”
“Isn’t it cuter for a older sister like me to be bossy like this?”
Big sister…?
I got worried, wondering what on earth was going on, but Sis said there was nothing serious and sat down on my bed.
I even thought about using my buddy’s power to ask her if she had anything pent up, but it seems that it was really just a joke.
“Hey Kai, come sit next to me.”
“Aye-.”
I sat down next to my sister, wondering what was really going on.
Then, Sis hugged me, hugging my arm. Unfortunately, I couldn’t feel any softness, but I still felt the warmth of being hugged.
“…Mafuyu said it too, but you’ve really grown up, haven’t you?”
“What do you mean?
“I mean that you’ve become a reliable man. Well, Mafuyu is the same, and we know that when Mari and other girls gather together with you.”
Sis let go of my arm and this time jumped into my chest.
“…Hmmm, I see, I see. I guess those girls are relieved by this.”
The sight of my sister rubbing her cheeks against my chest was adorable, but I didn’t feel any lust or evil feelings towards her because she did this to me… well, of course not.
“Sis is kind of cute today.”
“I’m always cute”
When I said yes, she hit me once for not putting my heart into it… I don’t get it.
The most important thing to remember is that you can’t just take a look at the actual person you’re talking about. You have to look at the person you’re talking about and see what they’re saying.
(This is all because I spent time with Mari and the girls and came to think of them as important… I want to become a man who is more admirable than I am now and be able to say that I’m glad the girls liked me, because I have such strong feelings.)
“Hmm, it’s nice to see your own brother becoming such a fine man.”
“Not yet.”
“What?”
“I’m still going to be respectable. I promise.”
“…yeah, keep up the good work.”
Saying that, she patted my head with a kind smile.
I thought that today was the day when I would see Sis’ cute figure as well as her dependable image all at once, and I had something to say to her because she was by my side now.
“…Hey sis.”
“What?”
“I… got a lot of people I care about.”
“Yeah. That’s right.”
I can say this because she knows my current situation.
I continued my words while feeling her gaze on me.
“Surrounded by seven important people… even now I’m happy enough, but when I think that happiness will continue for a long time to come, I’m so happy that I feel like I’m going to lose control.”
“Yes.”
“But… I also know that it’s difficult in the eyes of the public. Of course I don’t think that’s the reason we’ll ever separate.”
Sis was listening to me seriously.
No matter how much I tried not to worry about this problem, it was a problem that kept showing its face as if to say, I’m always watching you.
In Japan, where monogamy is the accepted norm, I must be a heretic to think about living with seven women… Even if we don’t get married, it’s going to be really hard to explain that part of it to my parents and theirs.
“It’s definitely a difficult thing. I wish I had some good answers, but unfortunately I don’t have any answers that would satisfy Kai.”
“…Well, that’s probably true. Because I’m sure this kind of thing is the same for people other than my sister.”
That’s why it’s one of the challenges that will follow us from now on, a barrier we have to overcome somehow.
Sis chuckles when she sees my eyes looking to the future, without fear, even if no answer is given.
“What, you don’t look like you don’t care even if you don’t get an answer.”
“Not that I don’t care, but…”
“I know… but yes, I’ll just say that no matter what other people say, I’m on your side.”
“I’ve thought that from the very beginning!”
“…Oh dear, I really am a big kind sister.”
Sis stood up, saying she was going back to her room as if she was satisfied, but just before she opened the door, she left these words.
“If the world suddenly became a polygamy or something like that, it would be so much easier.”
“That’s… that’s too unrealistic.”
“Well, then, Kai, good night.”
“Good night.”
Waving her hand, Sis left the room.
With Sis gone, I have nothing to do and lie on my bed with my phone in my hand.
“Polygamy huh… it seems like it’s a thing in foreign countries, but it sure seems like it would be easier to have something similar to that, but that said, I still can’t back out of it.”
When in the country, follow the custom… Surely, if I’m thinking about the girls, it’s better if I’m the first to give them an answer.
But I’ve already made this choice and the girls have followed me.
If I were to pull away and distance myself from them now, not only my sister but also someone else would say, what the hell am I doing?
“Who’s that someone else?”
I smiled bitterly as I made such a comment, and went back to sleep.
▼▽
“Wow, you were talking about that?”
“Miyako-san really thinks about a lot of things, doesn’t she?”
I immediately shared about the talk I had with my sister after school.
Mari and Fiana are by my side, and originally I was going to spend time with Mari, but Fiana joined me later.
When Mari said she wanted to talk to Fiana for a while and invited her to join them, she replied at the speed of light and she joined them.
“By the way, I think my parents are probably fine.”
“Really?”
“Yes. Lately, we always talk about Kai-kun at the dinner table, you know? My parents are very grateful to Kai for making me like this.”
Incidentally, at the moment, it is Saika, Fiana, and Nayu’s families who are taking me in a good light, even if they don’t know all the details like this.
Just because they don’t doesn’t mean they take it badly, but… well, there are parts I don’t know about, so I really have to do a lot of work in the future too.
“When it comes to this, I feel like I want to stay in high school all the time…”
“I don’t think I’d like it. Sure it’s easier to say that, but I don’t want to be in a different high school from Kai-kun forever…”
Fiana said that while hugging my arm, and Mari nodded strongly, saying that she certainly didn’t like that either.
“Speaking of which, it’s this week, isn’t it, when we all get together?”
“Right. I’m kind of… oddly nervous.”
“We’ve all already exchanged text messages, but I guess I’m certainly nervous too.”
The gathering with all the girls that had been planned for some time, the location will not change from Nayu’s house. but everyone will be staying overnight, so it will be the first time for both me and the girls to spend the night together.
Of course, there was a promise made when this gathering was decided, and it was agreed that no one would do anything naughty that day.
(That’s right… I’d die if I had to deal with seven girls. Three is the limit.)
We made this promise because even if we limited who we would do that with, it would still feel unfair.
“Hey, you two.”
“What?”
“What’s wrong?”
However… perhaps it’s because I talked about this with my sister yesterday. but when the girls are around me, I really can’t stop thinking about what I want to tell them, along with the happiness I feel.
I hugged them both with my hands and said.
“Mari, I’ll never let go of Fiana either. We’ll always, always be together from now on.”
When I told them this, they nodded with smiles.
It’s because of these smiles that I feel like I can do my best… No, it’s clear that their smiling faces are definitely the driving force behind my efforts.
I won’t let go of this warmth and connection… that was the moment I made up my mind again.
“Kai-kun? What’s that shiny thing in your pocket?”
“Eh?”
When Mari said that to me and I turned my eyes to my pocket, it was indeed glowing.
There was only a phone in there… but when I picked up the phone, the screen shone brighter and the light became even stronger.
“What the hell!”
“Kai-kun!”
“Wha… what is it!”
Suddenly, the two of them hugged me tightly.
In the midst of my astonishment at what on earth was happening, I continued to focus my attention, so that their touching presence never left me… and then the light ceased, and we had a strange experience.