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Kisshouin Takateru//Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting. It looks like sheās doing stretches in the living room. She doesnāt look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isnāt she a bit too skinny? When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me. Simple-minded as usual. And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sisterās room. I didnāt hear what words she was actually saying, but Iām worried now that sheās shouting strange things again.
āI can hear your shouts from outside your room, you know?ā I casually told her, and in response she replied āEh-, you heard me? Oh gosh, I need to be careful.ā in shock. Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and itās scary. I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sisterās weird behaviour. I am technically taking my university exams this year, so Iād appreciate it if she behaved.
*imouto*
*imouto*
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack. It hadnāt been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasnāt hungry at all. Itās not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later. So if I ate it, it would probably be bad for my body insteadā¦
But my sister looked my way expectantly, wanting me to hurry and eat. Iām troubledā¦ This pot is big enough for two peopleās worth, isnāt it. My sisterās eyes were completely glittering. Canāt be helpedā¦
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about. I scooped some into a bowl, and with a soup spoon, I brought some to my mouth.
ā¦Salty.
Youāve put way too much salt, my little sister! My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now. Ah crap, thereās no water. All she gave me was hot tea. Hot food, and hot drinks. ā¦Little sister.
I hurriedly pulled out some cold water from a small fridge in my room and gulped it down. Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here. I bought it in the past. Itās so that if I want a drink, I donāt have to risk heading outside and encountering some of my sisterās weird behaviours.
āHow was it, Oniisama?ā
It was salty. You put in too much salt. Did you even taste-test this?
āā¦It was delicious.ā
When she looked at me with those round eyes, I couldnāt tell the truth. Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui. I donāt have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl. Butā¦
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily. Canāt be helpedā¦ I guess Iāll try my best to at least finish the stuff in the bowl.
Without letting it show, I desperately ate. The 500ml bottle was gone in an instant. I immediately opened another bottle. As youād expect, I couldnāt finish the stuff left in the pot, so I apologised and told her that I wasnāt so hungry at night. Saying something like āMaybe I should have some tooā¦ā, she took a spoon to her mouth.
āHmm? I wonder if itās a little salty.ā
So youāve noticed, little sister!? But this isnāt at the level where youād call it āa littleā, you know. Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression. My sisterās sense of taste is wayy too rough. And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers. At this rate, I might have to continue to suffer this hell of supper attacks. What do I do.
āReika, thanks for making me a snack tonight. But eating makes me sleepy, so you donāt have to worry about it from now on. I wonāt be studying too late either.ā
āIs that so?ā
āYeah. Iām happy with just your feelings. And also, I might get fat eating before sleep, right?ā
āAh-, that is true!ā
Looks like it had quite an effect on my dieting sister. Thank goodnessā¦ After seeing out my sister with the pot, my stomach was bloated from all the water, and I was exhausted.
I feel sick from all the waterā¦ Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up. But she did try her very best making that, so Iād feel sorry for her if I went and did that. And so that night, I fought with my nausea until I somehow managed to digest it.
As for the tasteless, yearly Valentineās Chocolates, I discussed it with Minadzuki-san, who I went to an amusement park with last year.
āMy sisterās handmade chocolates are too flavourless, so I was wondering what I could do about it. I feel bad for her when she tries so hard to make them, so Iām sorry about this, but could I perhaps get you to casually teach her how to make them, Minadzuki-san?ā
When I asked her this, although she asked āflavourless chocolates?ā confusedly, she happily agreed, and some time later they made chocolates together at our home.
A few days later, the chocolates that my sister gave me were sweet like they were supposed to be.
Just what kind of magic did Minadzuki-san use, to make that girlās chocolates actually taste sweet. When I asked her this she replied, āI donāt know for sure what the reason was, but she heated the chocolate in water for too long, which dispersed it, and well, just a whole bunch of other mistakes. But itās fine now. Reika-san seems to know what to do, and what not to do in making chocolates now, so from next year the chocolates should be delicious as they should be.ā I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well? But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed. For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.
*imouto*
*imouto*
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama. Like somebody truly befitting the name of the Kisshouin familyās daughter. My parents havenāt noticed either that sheās actually rather disappointing(pitiful) on the inside. Anyhow, as time goes on, her mask comes off more and more when sheās in front of me, and the stupidity and silliness on the inside is really starting to show. Sheās probably just that trusting of me, but if she does something too weird itāll scare me, so I wish she would stop.
And little sister, donāt try and do chin-ups inside your closet. Itās scary.
ā¦ā¢ā¦ā¢ā¦
My friend, Kisshouin Takateru, is a pretty splendid guy. To begin with, he rarely gets angry. Iāve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely. In the archery club heās captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him. His results are always in the high ranks, but heās never shown off about this.
He almost seems like a human with no flaws, but heās actually pretty black-hearted, and he uses his gentle-looking smile to get people to do what he wants. At a glance he looks like a kind person whoāll accept everyone, but the number of people he actually letās down his guard around are pretty few. But at heart, heās a straight-forward guy. Somehow or other, heās just good at taking care of others. For people he considers friends, he definitely wonāt ever betray them. Itās these parts of him that I like.
*imouto*
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
Sheās a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll. When sheās quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and itās cute. Whenever I bring -chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart. Unlike her brother, she doesnāt have a hidden side to her. Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh. A while back when I went with her to an amusement park, her eyes shot between this stall and that stall, and when I bought her sweets that I thought she would like, she was so grateful to me that it was shocking. Just a few hundred Yenās worth of food is enough to get her eyes sparkling and saying āThank you very much, Imari-sama!ā so it made me want to tell her that Iād buy her any food she wanted. It felt like feeding a bird chick.
-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him. I could totally feel her feelings towards her ābeloved Oniisamaā.
*imouto*
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her. Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance. But apparently itās a different story when it comes to his own sister. -chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama. She doesnāt notice that he occasionally plays with her reactions. She just dances on his palms as much as he wants.
Apparently Takateru doesnāt think of himself as a siscon, but from my eyes, heās plenty siscon enough. When theyāre sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me. When he listens to her talk, itās not some statueās archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has. When -chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response. These siblings really do get along. All I have is a cocky little brother, so sometimes I get jealous of him when I wonder how things would be if I had a cute little sister attached to me too.
One day in the Pivoine salon, I heard Takateru discussing āhandmade chocolatesā with Aira-chan. When I asked him about that, he told me āI asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentineāsā. Valentineās huh. Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from -chan each year. When I said āI wonder if this year Iāll get some from -chan too~ā, he just stared blankly at me and asked back āWhy does my sister have to give a Valentineās chocolate to you?ā. Damn sisconā¦
Once when I thought about teasing this siscon and joked with a smile, āIf -chan and I got married, youād end up as my Oniichan as well, huh~ What should I do?ā, I ended up eating a strong hook to the solar plexus. ā¦Sorry, I wonāt say it again.
Theyāre a funny pair of siblings. Rather, when -chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier. Today as well, Iām heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.