Sunday, the day that President declared to ‘take care’ of me.
He declared that he would take care of me, but it’s not like we made an actual promise or anything. We haven’t been in touch since we had that conversation.
I thought that he must have been joking, and played games since morning.
Even though the weather is fine, I secluded myself in my room, and closed the curtain so that light doesn’t reflect off the screen.
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I had my own space.
I moved the controller silently.
After completing the first stage, I decided to go to the nearby convenience store to buy some drinks and snacks.
Leaving the front door and walking along the sidewalk, I sensed a noisy atmosphere that was slightly different than usual.
That’s strange. I wonder if something happened.
I looked around the neighborhood, but there didn’t seem to be anything.
“Hm?”
After looking around restlessly, my view returned to the front. As I turned around, I saw an object moving.
Well, I guess it was more like a human than an object.
His ikemen aura scattered around, the ‘red’ that snatches all the eyes of women passing by was approaching me.
……I see, he’s the cause of this abnormal event.
‘IT’S A RAIDDDDD!!’
The alarm from the watchtower echoed in my head.
“Akira! I admire you for coming out of your house to wait for me! Let’s go!”
“Hii!”
President had an unusually refreshing smile on his face.
I understand that he’s in a good mood.
He’s in his casual wear instead of his uniform.
A pair of khaki pants and a black t-shirt.
He wore a leather belt and some small accessories.
It’s a simple outfit, but he looks terrifyingly cool because President himself is the best material.
Even the neighborhood aunties are noisy over the ikemen who had an overwhelming presence.
I ignored his appearance, and was about to return home……but.
If I think about it carefully, big brother is inside right now.
If he knows that the Gay President came to pick me up, I’ll have to explain to him about various things. It’ll be very troublesome!
Should I take the trouble to listen to President, or take the trouble to explain to big brother……
I feel like the trouble of the latter will be worse.
“Sighh……President~hello.”
“What’s wrong, showing such a glum expression? I’ll be taking care of you so be at ease, hahaha! Such nice weather we have today. Just right for going out.”
It became like this because you came!
……I couldn’t say it out loud, so I could only cry out in my heart.
It seems like he’s in an extremely good mood today.
He has about fifty percent more energy than usual.
I’m starting to get a headache.
“……Sighh..”
“Come on, let’s go!”
“……Sure.”
After secretly letting out a sigh, I followed President, who began to move forward in high spirits.
It’s hard.
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“How did it become like this……”
My eyes follow the line of the thread which shook slightly before me.
Beyond the thread is the calm sea.
Sea, yes, the sea.
Catching your prey by throwing a thread of string into the sea, they call it ‘fishing’.
I was dragged along by the Gay President. Before I knew it, I found myself in this situation.
When he asked me “Where do you want to go?”, the me who wanted to continue playing games unconsciously muttered, “Even though I wanted to relax……”.
The President who heard it repeated, “Relax, huh? Leave it to me! Hahaha!” and laughed loudly while plunging his way through the street. And it came to this.
He rented a set of fishing equipment at a fishing shop without hesitation, and bought drinks at a convenience store.
I’m now drinking a bottle of cafe au lait while fishing.
A boat was seen crossing the horizon, and a peaceful scene was set.
It’s definitely relaxing.
It’s unexpectedly fine.
Fishing is not a serious matter. It’s just a thread hanging down from the top of the jetty that juts about fifty meters off the coast.
The fishing rod is short. There’s no buoy on it, and it’s simple to fish.
The temperature is not high. But there’s no wind or any cover from the sun, and it’s hot.
“Smelly. Hot.”
A voice came down from above.
The owner of the voice was Natsuhi-senpai.
He contacted us while I was walking with President and eventually tagged along, but he’s only been complaining since just now.
“It’s the sea, so it’s natural for it to smell salty. Why don’t you just sit down?”
“Salt is fine. I don’t like the fishy smell. Moreover, I don’t want to sit down at a place where wharf roaches[1] crawl around!”
[1] Looks disgusting, ngl.
“Yeah, yeah, sure.”
Looks like Natsuhi-senpai is a germaphobe.
He says he won’t fish because he doesn’t want to touch the bait, and he always stands up saying he doesn’t want to sit directly on the bank because it’s dirty.
Besides that, he doesn’t like to be under the sun when it’s hot……whose daughter[1] are you?
[1] Ojousama/Princess is a polite form for another’s daughter, but I just put daughter.
A parka with a navy hood and bright beige pants.
I knew that he was wearing a white t-shirt inside.
It looks simple, but of course, the person himself was the best material and had an ikemen base.
He also wore a parka on top of his uniform last time. I wonder if he likes parkas.
He’s covering his head with the hood to protect himself from the sunlight.
By the way, I didn’t plan on going anywhere far, so I’m only in my jersey.
Black jersey pants and on top of that, I’m also wearing a parka with a t-shirt inside.
I look lame.
It’s not like I cared about fashion from the start, but even so, it was still so shameful.
On top of looking lame, I’m wearing all black and it’s hot.
It’s terrible.
I thought it was better to stay further away from home and endured it, but I should’ve changed my clothes first.
The fishing rod moved as I was lamenting leaving home too soon.
“Oh?”
It was weak, but I could feel the vibration in my hand.
When I slightly raised the rod, the vibration became stronger.
“Oh, I got a bite!”
I proudly reeled in the fishing line.
My catch had been directly below me where the water wasn’t that deep, so I could see the shadow of the fish immediately.
As I reeled it in, there was a fifteen-centimeter Sebastiscus marmoratus[1].
[1] Not bad.
“Yayy! I caught one!”
“You’re not bad! Shit, you surpassed me!”
President, who was fishing next to me, laughed in faux vexation.
I’m quite happy to surpass him.
It will be a long and difficult journey, but for now, it looks like if I want to beat the superstar that is the student council president, I at least have to be good at fishing. That’s on top of being a superb student.
“I should do my best too. I can’t lose to my future younger brother.”
“Big brother ganbatte~ (Monotone)”
“……Nonsense.”
I don’t think there will ever be a day where President will be my big brother.
His real brother looks shocked, but President doesn’t seem to care at all.
“Natsuhi onii-chan, you should sit down now~ You look like a ghost standing there, why so gloomy~”
“Ghost!?……Wait, who are you calling onii-chan.”
“President is my big brother, so the President’s younger brother-senpai is also my big brother.”
When he heard me say that, Natsuhi-senpai’s face, that seemed to be dark already, darkened even more.
I see, so you hate it that much.
“Aren’t you glad?! You got a younger brother! I must work hard to wake up Makoto for your sake too!!”
“It’s not good, you don’t need to work hard!! See this? It’s your fault that this situation went in the wrong direction!”
When I glanced at Natsuhi-senpai looking lifeless in the corner of my eye, the fishing rod caught something again.
I quickly reeled it in, and caught the same fish as just now.
“Yayy~”
“Ohh, you’re doing well!”
“Older brother, do your best too.”
“I only catch big fish. Well, wait for it.”
It’s impossible to catch a big fish with such simple equipment.
Looking at him fishing, it looks like he’ll become a statue.
After that, I caught a few more fish.
All the fish I caught were the same. I didn’t catch any big fish, but the fish came steadily, so it was going smoothly.
On the other hand……
“Why……it’s not moving at all……”
“Older brother, you didn’t catch any at all. Why don’t you let Amachi teach you?”
“Big brother, don’t sweat it.”
I’m starting to pity him.
I know he wants to catch one, but I can only imagine that President’s aura is scaring all the fish away.
“It’s the location! The location is bad! I’ll go a little farther offshore to fish!”
Then he darted off, lightly jumping over the pile of wave-dissipating blocks[1].
[1] Used in Japan, also named as Tetrapods (generic name).
You don’t have to show off your agility in this kind of place……
Or rather, he’s too desperate.
Natsuhi-senpai didn’t move, he watched President run off coldly.
“Is it fine to not follow him?”
“I don’t want to go to a place that smells even worse than this place.”
“Is that so?”
Good grief, such a difficult person.
Even now, he’s still standing.
There’s no choice left, I’ll just lay out something that he can sit on.
I took off my parka, and spread it out on the floor beside me. Then I patted it with my hand
“By all means, please sit down here. It’s tiring to stand, right?”
“……”
“If you say that you don’t like it because my parka’s dirty, I’ll push you into the sea.”
“You-”
Natsuhi-senpai seemed to be thinking about what to do. He picked up my parka and threw it in my face.
“Wah, hey!”
“I’m fine. Wear it. You’ll get sunburnt.”
“I don’t care about that.”
“You should. It’s quite painful.”
As he said that, he took a seat next to me, crossing his long legs and letting them dangle over the sea.
Even though he hated it that much, I wonder if he’s fine sitting down like that.
“You’ll get dirty, is that fine? It’s too hot wearing a parka so I’ll take it off. I could just spread it out.”
“Wear it, you idiot. I hate this seawater as much as I want to use alcohol to sterilize it, but it can’t be helped.”
“No way~”
“Well, I can’t make you worry about me any further.”
“He-eh! It’s unexpected that you have normal feelings!”
“You asking for a fight? I’ll gladly oblige?”
From the conversations that we had so far, I think it can’t be helped that I worry about him though.
“Hey.”
I was reeling the thread in to replace the bait when he suddenly called me in a serious tone.
As I looked at him, he had a serious expression.
If you look at me like that, I’ll be excited.
“What is it? A confession?”
‘Thump’, I felt a dull and heavy pain from my sides.
I got hit before I could even say anything.
“It hurts! No violence!”
“I don’t like that kind of joke. Good grief, can’t you see that people are trying to talk seriously? You fool.”
“I was just joking.”
“Hmph.”
I was wrong for joking around, but I don’t think you needed to hit me!
I want to slap a note that says, ‘Be cautious, handle with care’ onto this pair of brothers.
“And, what is it?”
I protested while being sulky, and began listening to him while rubbing my sides to distract myself from the pain.
“You, your own brothers’ relationship, what do you think about it…..they’re both guys, you know?
Ahh, that kind of talk.
I unconsciously scratched my head.
In my case, it’s a special pattern in which I remember my past life.
Considering my personality, I think I would congratulate my big brothers, regardless of whether I had any memories from my past life or not. But at that time, my memory came back to me real fast……More like, I was able to accept it from the start.
“Well, yes……but it’s their own problem.”
“There are other people looking too right? You, they might think that you’re gay too. Actually, that’s what I think right now.”
――Thud!
My hand tried to push Natsuhi-senpai into the sea before I knew it.
I don’t mind if they think that I’m a gay younger brother, but if you say it right in front of me, I’ll get irritated.
These siblings are so similar when it comes to being brutal, and having no delicacy too.
“Idiot! I’ll fall!”
“Didn’t you know? It’s popular these days, it’s called ‘Umidon’(Sea-don??)……”
“I’ve never heard of that! You really……stop joking around when you’re not supposed to!”
“Be surrounded by wharf roaches.”
“Stop! Don’t even say it as a joke. Ahh, I got goosebumps.”
Natsuhi-senpai, who was making a big fuss, muttered in disgust while rubbing his arms.
“I don’t mind even if you think of me as a gay younger brother.”
I’m surrounded by gays anyways. I don’t think much of it.
Well, it’s reality!
It’s my desire.
Natsuhi-senpai’s hands stopped as he heard my words, and he looked at me with a face that screamed, ‘I can’t believe you’.
“Huhh? You’re fine with that? You don’t think of anything even with people looking at you like that?”
“Then I’ll ask you, are you saying you’ll cast President’s feelings aside just for your reputation?”
“……Yeah. Is it bad? Of course.”
He turned away from me, and looked at the sea awkwardly as if he felt bad.
I heard a small tongue click.
“Sorry. It sounded like I was blaming you, but that wasn’t my intention. And I think that it’s normal for you to be like that. But, I’m not the type to care so I’m fine with it. That’s it.”
If it’s under the same circumstances, people who think like me are rare. Most people will think the same as senpai.
The reasons may vary, but I think most people will oppose at first.
“Either you’re a big-shot or stupid. Most probably the latter.”
“Yeah, yeah, sure it is.”
He’s been treating me as an idiot for the whole time today.
Well, it’s better than him being unfriendly.
Maybe I was able to open Natsuhi-senpai’s heart just a little.
“……It doesn’t suit older brother. Unrequited love, that kind of stuff.”
Natsuhi-senpai muttered and sighed.
Somehow, he had a lonely expression.
So it’s like that. I might’ve had misunderstood Natsuhi-senpai.
It felt like I could understand various things after looking at his expression……I laughed without thinking.
“You, what are you laughing at?!”
“Nah, Just thinking that it’s a contradiction.”
“What is?”
“If you care about your appearance, you should just stay away from President and act like you’re unrelated to this. Today you even followed him to this kind of place……Senpai, you’re so similar to the President!”
“Huhh!?”
Whether or not he’s worried about becoming gay, he takes care of him at school and even during break. No matter how much I think about it, he wouldn’t come to ‘hate’ him.
It felt like Natsuhi-senpai had the same scent as me.
“I also like my big brother very much, we’re the same!”
“You might be a bro-con, but I’m different.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
He looked very desperate to deny it.
It’s quite pleasing to the eye.
I smiled without thinking.
――Thud!
“!?”
I was about to be umi-doned this time.
“……Dangerous! Hey! I could’ve died!”
“Isn’t this popular?”
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As I looked at Natsuhi-senpai, his complexion became better.
It seems like he’s shy.
So he could make faces like this.
But, a shy umi-don is too hard for me, so I’d like him to stop.
This person, he’s kind of cute.
It’s that thing called, ‘Gap moe’.
But I didn’t say anything because I’d get don-ed again.
As I expected, he’s more worried about President than his appearance.
And I also think that he wants President to stay as his ‘cool older brother’.
So maybe that’s why he doesn’t like it when someone says, “President is gay”.
Also, when we were talking about President getting ‘rejected’, his temples twitched. But he might’ve been angry because President wasn’t his ‘usual self’.
“Though I think President is cool either way.”
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‘The solitary king, the target of envy’ is also fine, but I think it’s also cool for someone to think of only one person.
Furthermore, to surpass the wall of gender, I’d like to give him kudos for that.
“Should someone who’s annoying say that? Soft-hearted? More like stupid.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
I don’t know how many times I’ve answered like this today.
“However……”
I thought he was going to say something, but he stopped halfway.
As I snuck a peek at his face, he was thinking with a serious expression again.
I hung the thread as I waited for him to spit it out.
“How do men have relationships? More like, how do they associate with each other? If it’s a man and a woman, they would end up ‘marrying and have kids’, but what about two men?”
Wonderful.
It seems like he was thinking about BL.
Is it possible that Natsuhi-senpai’s motive is to walk down the sacred BL road?
“They can’t have kids, but it’s not any different from a man-woman couple.”
“But men can’t ‘do’ it.”
“That’s not true. They can’t have kids, but if they want to, there are places where you can adopt kids. There are also agencies for that too.”
“You can? What do they do? Wait……You’re too knowledgeable about this! As I thought, you too!”
“I’m not!”
I don’t know what he perceives ‘knowledgeable’ as, so I’m scared.
At this rate, I think you can adopt one on TV too.
Or rather, BL talk between men, I’m starting to get excited……this is great.
The current question is ‘How do they ‘do’ it?”. If it was a BL game, he would say ‘Wanna try it out?’, then they would be connected with each other, and then there would be an ‘Ah!’ for the ending.
It’s that situation where it’s their first time doing it.
Crap, this is delicious!
Thus, this experience can never be forgotten, and Natsuhi-senpai will steadily go further down the sacred BL road.
The door to paradise will be opened.
Of course his partner won’t be me, it would be ‘someone else’ in the fantasy.
I’m looking forward to that too.
“You’re making an amazing expression right now……”
Oops, it seems like my rotten smell leaked out.
It was too delicious. I couldn’t endure it.
“You’re disgusting.”
“Shut up.”
I’m aware!
It’s Natsuhi-senpai’s fault for suddenly treating me to a good meal.
“Hey.”
He called out to me in a serious tone again.
I’m scared to get don-ed again so I didn’t joke around this time, only looking over at him.
Natsuhi-senpai shifted his gaze. It looked like it was hard for him to say something. After a while, he looked at me and opened his mouth.
“……I’m sorry about the other day.”
“Yes?”
“I’m talking about the time I mocked your older brother. Certainly, my older brother is the same too.”
I don’t know if it’s awkward for him or not, but Natsuhi-senpai started talking in a nearly inaudible voice.
Oh, that time where he called the child of God,my big brother, ‘disgusting’.
Honestly, I was surprised that he cared about it, and apologized too. I couldn’t hide my surprise.
I’m happy that he apologized, but that was unexpected.
“You don’t have to. We have a bro-con connection, so I’ll forgive you.”
“I said I’m not!”
“Yeah, yeah. I’ll leave it to you.”
Every time he desperately denies it, I become calmer.
However……my impression on Natsuhi-senpai changed a lot today.
I thought he was a cold person who does everything his way, but it looks like he’s just a bro-con. And when I thought he was a bad person, he seemed like a person who could apologize.
As I thought, Natsuhi-senpai is a gap moe person.
My anticipation is high as a BL recruiter, but the latter is……
If they go to the royal road……brothers, huh.
President X Natsuhi-senpai.
No, no. Natsuhi-senpai could be the dominating one too.
If that’s the case……reversed roles?
In reality, I don’t know how relationships between brothers would work. But it’s a considerably high spec combination.
I could pair Natsuhi-senpai with Kaede, the devil’s temptation uke, so it would be Natsuhi-senpai X Kaede. But Natsuhi-senpai smells like an ‘uke’, so combining him with President fits the best.
“Oi! Akira, look! A big fish!”
I was getting excited over the infinite possibilities they could have, when I heard a yell that interrupted my thoughts.
As I looked towards the direction of the voice, I saw President who had gone to the pile of wave-dissipating blocks. The tip of his fishing rod looked like it was going to snap.
This is……Is it possibly a big fish!?
The lord of the sea……wait, it’s not.
That, no matter how you look at it……
“I caught the biggest fish on earth! Hahaha!”
“Isn’t that just a reef!”
My response echoed across the sea.
“Uwah……a wharf roach! I knew it, I can’t stay here! Let’s go home!”
Natsuhi-senpai promptly stood up, and made a fuss.
“Both of you sure are noisy siblings!”
These two people…As I thought, they’re siblings.
Their personalities might be different, but it’s like they’re from the same roots, like……they resemble each other.
I ignored both of them, and indifferently prepared to go home.
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We returned the fishing rods, washed our smelly hands, and went to the train station using the same road we used to come here.
Right now, I’m in the clattering train.
Three people sitting on the long seat, with me being sandwiched in the middle.
There’s no one else other than us in this cabin.
I was casually talking to them, but the clattering of the train felt so comfortable that I became terribly drowsy.
The sun was starting to set. It’s becoming dark, and the atmosphere makes me even more sleepier.
President and Natsuhi-senpai, their nice voices when they talk also sounds like a BGM, it feels good.
I’m unexpectedly tired since I basked under the sun for the whole day today.
I couldn’t endure the sleepiness. I closed my eyes, and hung my head down.
Even I understood that the ship has started to sail.
Ahh……Really, it’s impossible.
“Please wake me up when we’ve reached……”
I managed to say a few words to inform them, and raised a white flag to sleepiness.
It may be rude for the junior to sleep and leave their seniors alone, but I thought it was fine since it was these siblings.
As I relaxed, my posture became comfortable.
I wanted to be more comfortable so I relaxed further, and I could feel my body slowly sliding down.
It’s warm for some reason.
I thought something was warm, and that Natsuhi-senpai was next to me so……
I’m probably leaning on him right now.
He might feel disgusted and get angry.
……Whatever. What happens, happens.
Truly a good cushion.
Ahh…so comfortable……
The first year student who let go of his consciousness was sound asleep. One person looked at him with cold eyes while the other looked at him like he was a child.
“Heavy. Isn’t this guy purposely putting his weight on me?”
“Isn’t it fine? He’s tired. Let him sleep.”
“He stinks too.”
“Well, that’s because we fished. You did too.”
“I didn’t touch the bait. Ahh, really. Shut up……”
He pinched the cheek of the person who was sound asleep, his mouth slightly ajar.
“……He’s not waking up. This guy, just how tired is he?”
They looked down at Akira sleeping so comfortably and carefreely. Before they knew it, they were smiling as they watched him in fascination.
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“Hey, older brother. I understood just a little today.”
“Understood what?”
“Older brother doesn’t like ‘men’, you only like that person because it’s him.”
“What are you saying after such a long time?”
He understood, but he couldn’t explain it properly.
But, he suddenly understood for some reason.
“This guy……actually, this brother over here is strange.”
“What do you mean?”
“How do I say this…It’s like he’s not aware about his gender…Or something like that.”
“Hah!”
The red-haired person snorted with an exaggerated gesture.
On the other hand, the blue-haired boy who was clearly being made fun of frowned in protest.
“Unexpectedly, you might understand my feelings more now?”
As he said that, he looked towards the sleeping first year student who was quietly snoring.
The blue-haired person understood his gesture. His frown deepened as he muttered lowly.
“No way. As if that’ll happen.”
The face that had seemed pleasing to the eye now seemed extremely irritating.
As revenge, he strongly pinched his cheek again.
“Yeshh…”
He talked.
He thought he woke up……but he was just sleep talking.
And now, it resulted in him leaning more.
The red haired person laughed carefreely.
The blue-haired person’s brows were furrowed until they reached their stop.