I don’t know what the cause is, but it seems like Shirousa Prince was blamed by the boys and being protected by the girls.
Looking at the girl as she stood in front of him, the boy’s face turned grim.
“So your social status is so good that you can have girls protect you. Usually, you have that brawny macho sister to protect you, don’t you?”
The boy laughed loudly while imitating a bodybuilder’s determined pose.
……Shirousa-san sure is famous.
The boy’s ridiculous laughter and attitude made me really angry……
‘Macho sister’……It kinda……gradually dawned on me.
Don’t say it jokingly.
“Don’t make fun of my sister!”
Shirousa Prince yelled as he grabbed the boy’s collar.
The boys and girls were surprised as they looked at him.
I was also surprised.
“W-what, let go.”
The boy panicked, but he tried to fight back in front of the girls.
It’s a pity to leave them alone, it’s better to stop them now.
“Oi~ Nousagi-kun[1]. What’s up?”
[1] 野兎/ノウサギ = Hare
As I called out to him, the five of them looked at me simultaneously.
It seemed like Shirousa Prince remembered me and let out a quiet “ah-”.
“It’s time to stop.”
I removed Shirousa Prince’s hand that was gripping the latter’s collar.
It seemed like the boy who was freed from his hand didn’t plan on talking anymore and left while clicking his tongue.
“Sorry, Miyuki-kun.”
The girls called out to Shirousa Prince, but the boys that were leaving shouted at them.
“That’s enough! Let’s go!”
Apparently, although the boys and girls had argued, they’re in the same group.
The girls walked towards the boys with great reluctance.
“We’ll be going first.”
The Prince smiled and waved to them as they left.
So they were going to the same place.
“U-uh……”
Shirousa Prince looked at me.
“You okay? Did I do something unnecessary? Ah, do you know me?”
We introduced ourselves to each other.
The Prince knew me, but he didn’t know my name.
When I first met him, he asked Shirousa-san, but it didn’t seem like she told him my name.
Why, is she saying that my name is not worth knowing?
The Prince’s name is “Nousagi Miyuki”.
The sister and brother pair have cute names.
Miyuki smiled happily when I told him so.
I thought I’d fail to tell him that he was cute, but it was successful.
“That’s right, my sister is cute.”
Huh, it seems like it was only his sister that received the compliment.
He was angry when they talked about Shirousa-san just now too, is he a siscon?
I can smell the same scent that Natsuhi-senpai and I have.
“You saved me. Thank you very much.”
I was thanked deeply.
He’s such a polite kid.
Speaking of which, Shirousa-san has a polite image too.
They probably grew up in a good family.
After that, he explained what happened.
Miyuki-kun is a third year middle school student, and he’s preparing to take the high school entrance exam.
However, his physical strength isn’t strong enough to attend school so he tends to be absent a lot and is worried about his academic ability.
Which is why he started going to cram school.
Today was the day he had cram school for the whole day.
The group of people just now were attending the same cram school and middle school as him.
The girls were his classmates, but the boys were in different classes.
Miyuki-kun was heading to cram school alone, but he encountered the four of them on the way.
The girls invited him to walk with them, but the boys didn’t like that idea and started to get angry.
“I see, so unlucky.”
The boys were the type of average looking guys that would become a playboy once they’re in high school.
For girls, it would be more fun to have a pretty boy like Miyuki-kun around.
“I’m happy that they invited me, but……How did that happen?”
With an expression tinged with sorrow, the fair-skinned Miyuki-kun always had an impression of fragility that suited his snowlike beauty.
He looks like a prince who is held captive.
I want to be an Emperor who’s as overbearing as President and rescue him.
“Even though I want more guy friends than girls……”
What did he say……
Rather than girls, he wants to be friends with guys……!?
That’s wonderful, I’ll definitely cheer for him.
You can become an ace in the future, you’re the hope of the BL world!
……No, of course I know that Miyuki-kun didn’t mean it like that, but you know, reflex.
“Akira-san, you sure seem like you have many friends.”
“Really? I think I’m normal though.”
“Because I don’t have many friends, I’m very jealous that you can say that.”
Since he said that he’s often absent from school, is it difficult for him to make friends?
Shirousa-san isn’t the type to hang out with friends either, is that kind of character in their blood?
“Well, but if we become friends now, you’ve got one more.”
As I laughed while saying so, he lifted his head that had been hanging low with lit-up eyes.
“Will you be friends with me?”
“Yes, I will, I will.”
Such a cute friend, you’re very welcome.
“Yay! I want to enter Hana Shikien! Once I do, please play a lot with me!”
What is this creature that’s looking up at me with shining eyes?
It’s the cutest living thing on earth!
“Sure, I’ll play a lot with you.”
I roughly ruffled Miyuki-kun’s hair without thinking.
“Wah,” He giggled and narrowed his eyes happily.
This is healing……
I can feel my raging heart calming down.
“So lucky, to have such a cute little brother. You, will you be my son?”
I tried to persuade him.
I would like to welcome him as the beloved and third son of the Amachi family.
There’s no doubt that the eldest son and the second son will dote on him.
“I’ve always wanted an older brother so I’m happy. Eheheh, maybe I should. Big brother!……Just joking!”
“Big, brother……you said!?”
How good does that sound!
Who knew being called big brother could be this thrilling……!
I’m driven by the urge to buy anything as a gift for him.
I want to make a contribution and support him.
There’s a blushing, shy angelin front of me.
Ahh……This kid is the real angel!
Kaede is also an angel, but sometimes his wings turn into that of a small devil instead of those white wings.
However, this kid has pure white wings.
I want to protect this precious creature.
I wanted to take him somewhere, but remembered the situation.
“You have to go to cram school, right?”
“Ah, that’s right……Just a little longer is okay!”
To my great joy, Miyuki-kun still wanted to talk to me.
I was worried about the time, so I decided to talk to him while sending him to cram school.
“Those guys, they know Shirousa-san? Ah, I’m talking about your sister.”
“So you’re calling my sister by such a cute name.”
“The person herself hates it though.”
I remembered being glared at with the eyes of a warrior who had faced death several times.
“I’m sure she’s just shy. Since my sister is a shy person.”
It’s difficult to know that she’s a shy person with that look of hers.
It’s too difficult for me.
“Uhh……The people just now were also in the same elementary school as me. My sister stands out a lot, so……”
Well, of course she would stand out with how she turned out.
I wonder if she was the same as she is now during elementary school.
When I peeked at Miyuki-kun’s face as he walked next to me, he had a serious look on his face like he was thinking deeply.
“Hey, I don’t know if I can ask you this, but why is Shirousa-san training so hard?”
I asked him what I had been curious about before.
“That’s……I don’t know. She wouldn’t tell me when I asked her about it. But she’s probably doing it ‘for me’. My mother said this. When I was a child, there was a time I was hospitalized because of asthma. At that time, my sister told me that she was going to protect me as she watched me wearing the oxygen mask. It was after that happened that she started training……”
Does that mean she’s protecting him because he’s ill?
But if Miyuki-kun is ill, I think it’s meaningless unless he trains himself.
So that means she’s training to protect her brother in case something bad happens, right?
If he’s such a pretty boy, lots of dangerous things might happen to him.
“She’s a good older sister who cares about her brother. I’m kind of convinced now. Shirousa-san really is kind.”
Wasn’t she kind to those mean girls last time?
That makes me admire her.
“You can understand!?”
Miyuki-kun grabbed my arm and looked at me excitedly.
I understand that he’s happy to hear me saying good things about his sister, but we stopped walking.
We need to head to his cram school.
I continued the conversation while patting his arm to urge him to start walking again.
“I do. But I do feel like it’s a waste as well. If she held back from training, she would’ve been a very beautiful woman.”
The younger brother, Miyuki-kun is such a pretty boy, but I could see the dignified look of a warrior on his well proportioned face.
“Akira-san thinks so too!?”
Even though he finally started walking, he stopped again.
And he looked more excited than ever.
“My sister is actually like a girl. She’s kind and the protein shake she drinks everyday is strawberry flavoured.”
“M-mn……”
I definitely shouldn’t pursue the ‘protein shake she drinks everyday’ part.
He’s serious about this.
It’s not like I’m making fun of him.
But I really want to butt in!
“Please look at this.”
He handed a photo over to me.
Perhaps due to him carrying it around all the time, it was a little wrinkled.
In the photo was a girl who looked about five years old.
Silver hair, red eyes, and fair skin that looked like porcelain.
She’s wearing a frilly one piece dress and looks like a lovely antique doll.
She’ll definitely become a beautiful woman when she grows up.
“She’s beautiful.”
“This is my sister.”
“He-eh……Eh……Ehhhh!?”
This, Shirousa-san!?
She changed a little too much!
A cute little girl and a muscular warrior, an existence of two extremes.
The flow of time is too terrifying.
But if you look closely, they look quite the same.
So it’s true……
“I’m sure this is my real sister. She’s desperately overdoing it right now.“
“Did you tell your wish to the person herself?”
“……She’s doing it all for me, so I can’t say it.”
They’re both worried and enduring it for each other.
“Would Akira-san mind telling her about it? If an ikemen like Akira-san says it, my sister might think about it.”
If they have a chance to talk it out, things might change for the better.
If you call me a ikemen, you’ll make this big brother want to work hard.
Guess I’ll pitch in and help out this cute younger brother.
”
”
“Alright, leave it to me.”
“Thank you very much!”
I put my arm around his shoulder and ruffled his hair again.
His happy and bashful appearance is so cute.
As I thought, I want to bring him home.
The desire to protect him is growing stronger, rather I really want to touch him.
“Hm!?”
I felt the presence of someone who wasn’t an ordinary person behind me.
I could feel the hair-raising fear.
As I turned my head, a strong female warrior who almost made me want to call her “Legend” was standing there.
“Ah, sister.”
“Shirousa-san, good morning……What’s wrong?”
She was trembling all over, as if she was enduring something.
She looks strange.
“Why……Woahhhh!”
The female warrior fell to her knees.
She looked shocked and the words “when I returned from the battlefield, my family had been attacked by the enemies” were written all over her face.
“Sister!?”
“What!?”
Miyuki-kun rushed over to Shirousa-san, who had collapsed to the ground with a scream that could make the ground shake.
And I followed after him.
“Why is…….Amachi Akira here……”
Shirousa-san muttered as if she was going to vomit.
Eh, is it a problem that I’m here?
And why are you calling me by my full name?
“I met Akira-san by chance.”
“Akira-san!? Even his name……Ohhhhh!”
“Do you hate me that much?”
Speaking of which, she stubbornly didn’t give my name to him. Maybe she thinks of me as a bacteria.
Honestly, it upsets me.
“S-she’s just being shy! What’s wrong sister?”
Not only did the kind Miyuki-kun do a follow up, he even avoided the topic to prevent anything misleading from happening.
That kindness of his is even more painful.
“You forgot your bento……”
“Ah, it’s true.”
When Shirousa-san regained her composure a little, she stood up and held out a paper bag with a bento and a flask in it to Miyuki-kun.
“Ah, Miyuki-kun, the time!”
“Ah-!”
When I looked at the clock in a store along the road, time had passed faster than I had expected.
It was almost time, but fortunately the cram school was close at hand.
“Akira-san! About sister, I’ll leave it to you……Also, what I requested just now too.”
After Miyuki-kun whispered in my ear, he waved and ran towards the direction where his cram school was.
Mn, leave it to me.
I waved back at Miyuki-kun and talked to Shirousa-san with confidence.
“Shirousa-san, do you have time?”
“No.”
……I was left utterly helpless.
However, I can’t just give up right away.
It’s the request of my cute younger brother.
I acted cool and told him to ‘leave it to me’, so I can’t let him down.
Big brother will hang on.
“You ran here, didn’t you? You’re drenched in sweat, let’s take a short break.”
The hamburger shop I was planning on going to was right in front of me.
I invited her to go there with me while pointing at it.
“I didn’t bring my wallet.”
“I’ll treat you.”
“I refuse.”
“I refuse your refusal.”
Shirousa-san’s face gradually turned darker and darker.
But I won’t be back down.
It looks like I’m persistently hitting on her and it’s embarrassing, but I can bear this shame.
I have to hang on to make Miyuki-kun happy.
I grabbed Shirousa-san’s arm and forcibly dragged her in, but……she’s not moving.
“Hmph!”
I feel like I’ve been ridiculed by her snort.
This person, isn’t she stronger than President……!?
Even so, her arm is hard, and thick!
“Ugh!”
I tried my best and pulled her arm with full force, but……she’s not moving an inch.
“Haah, haah……”
I’m out of breath.
It’s impossible.
As a guy, this is depressing.
“Please, just hang out with me for a while……”
Shirousa-san’s pitiful gaze when she looked at me hurts a lot.
“……If it’s just a while.”
Somehow, I succeeded with the ‘going to cry’ strategy.