CH 73

I Could See How Much Alice had Grown

TN: Alice uses a lot of baby language in this chapter.

“Alice is an idiot anyway…”

She hugged me and buried her face in my chest, sobbing uncontrollably.

I put my left hand on Alice’s slender back and gently pat her head with my right hand.

After the incident in the student council room, Alice became depressed.

The reason was Yurizono-san.

Although Alice and Yurizono-san were like dogs and cats, when they fought, it was always Yurizono-san who lost.

A boisterous idiot. That was the image of Yurizono-san.

But Yurizono-san is changing.

I think she started to change around the time she came back from camp.

Before the summer vacation, when we were making various plans, she mentioned her sister, Iris-san.

At that time, I didn’t know about her relationship with Iris-san, so I was thinking that her sister would be another nuisance.

Then I met Iris-san and went camping with her and learned about their relationship.

The camp was a good opportunity for them to get to know each other, and their relationship gradually became better.

As if in proportion to this, Yurizono-san stopped causing trouble and at the same time began to show a strangely talented side.

A big change happened to Yurizono-san.

When Yurizono-san went on a date with Alice, she peed her pants. At that time, Alice did everything she could to protect Yurizono-san.

I think that was a turning point in her life, not only because of Iris-san but also because of the way she changed.

In short, it was both Iris-san and Alice who changed Yurizono-san.

Yurizono-san, who was on equal footing with the president in the student council room.

She said that she was going to pay her debt to me and that she was going to left it just like that, but I think she was just hiding her embarrassment.

Yurizono-san is cooperating with me, but perhaps her desire to help Alice is stronger.

To Yurizono-san, Alice is the one who has been bothering her for a long time.

No matter how ridiculous people around her were, Alice was always nagging about Yurizono-san.

And then there was the one on the date.

She and Iris-san were getting along well, and she was so excited that she made a little mistake.

At that time, it was Alice who protected Yurizono-san.

I can’t imagine how happy she must have been.

I think that’s why she’s trying to help Alice by cooperating with me.

It was ironic.

Alice’s presence begins to bring out Yurizono-san’s hidden talents, but Alice is depressed because she witnesses it.

Alice is just an ordinary sister of mine who was born with an adorable appearance.

She doesn’t have any particular talent and is inferior to me in her studies.

But you know what, Alice? Alice is special. She’s special. At least, she’s special to me.

She’s my twin sister, the only one in the world.

“I told you that onee-chan is no good without Alice, right?”

Alice buried her face in my chest and I rubbed my cheek against Alice’s head as she sobbed.

“… Hum.”

Alice nodded with a sob.

So, as soon as she got home from school, she became a spoiled brat, and now she’s sitting on my bed in my room, hugging me and acting spoiled.

I’ve decided to spoil her today, you know. I’m going to spoil her as much as I can.

I put my hands on Alice’s slender shoulders and pulled her away from my embrace.

“Uuu! Uuu!”

When I pulled away, Alice clung to me, uuuhing, trying to bury her face in my chest.

“Alice is special.”

I kissed Alice on the cheek.

She stopped moving and instantly her face turned red and she smiled. But then she quickly turned into a pouty face.

It seems that she’s depressed, but not as depressed as when she was worried about me.

“Alice is the best.”

I said and kissed her on the other cheek.

Alice’s face turns even redder and she grins.

“There is no substitute for Alice, you know.”

And kissed Alice on the cheek again and again.

“He, hehe, ehehehe…”

(TN: RAW “「え、えへ、えへへ、えへへへへ」.” Tell me if you have something better for this.)

With a bright red face, Alice smiles like a child.

She pretends to be upset when I kissed her, but it seems she’s forgotten how to be upset after being kissed continuously.

Ahh, she’s so cute.

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“Ahh.”

Alice opens her mouth at me.

It’s dinner time and we’re sitting at the table, but Alice doesn’t want to eat by herself, instead, she’s opening her mouth towards me like a baby begging for food from its parent.

“Yes, one bite.”

(TN: One bite (ぱっくん). Idk what to use.)

As I said this, I fed the sweet Alice.

“Hamu-hamu.”

She closed her mouth and was squirming happily.

When I stroked Alice’s head, she giggled and opened her mouth to say, “Ahh!”

“… What’s this?”

My mom, sitting across the table from us, muttered with a stunning look in her eyes.

“Yes, another bite.”

I let Alice eat her food without paying attention.

“Hamu-hamu.”

Alice closed her mouth and squirmed happily.

My mother, who was still gazing at me, let out a sigh of relief.

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The meal was over and I was going to take a bath, but――.

“Undress me.”

Alice, who was sitting on the floor of the changing room, raised her hands as if to say a Hail Mary, and looked annoyed for some reason.

You want me to take off your clothes, but why are you so miffed?

“Undress!”

I looked at Alice with a gaze, and she raised her voice as if she was angry.

I feel like she’s becoming more of an infant than a child…

“Yes, yes.”

Laughing with a sigh, I crouched down in front of Alice and started to take off the clothes she was wearing.

I’ve gotten used to it, but I’m still not comfortable seeing her naked.

But I’ve got my inner focus shifter.

It is a technique that seems to be looking at Alice but shifts the focus, forcing my vision to blur.

The downside of my blurry vision――.

“Ahh, that tickles.”

My fingertips plucked at the soft object, and Alice let out a sweet moan.

This is a drawback. Because of the blurred vision, I have to rely on hand-eye coordination and end up touching things I don’t need to touch.

“Hyahh!”

My fingertips touched something hard, and Alice let out a sweet scream.

What did I touch? Alice’s body is supposed to be soft no matter where you touch it.

In addition, Alice was leaking hot breath.

I had no choice but to focus my vision on Alice, as I felt that using the “Focus Shifting” technique would be even more dangerous.

I was careful not to look directly at Alice’s body and somehow managed to finish undressing her, and decided to take off my clothes.

Alice, who is still sitting flat on the floor in a girl’s seat even though she is completely naked, is looking up at me with her fingers in her mouth.

It’s hard to take off. It’s hard for me to take off my clothes if you look at me like that.

But I can’t tell her not to look…

I had no choice but to take off my clothes while Alice stared at me.

“Carry.”

When I finished taking off my clothes, Alice raised her hands and begged me to carry her.

It would have been fine if she was fully clothed, but if she was completely naked, her skin would have been in direct contact with mine.

But I couldn’t say no at this point, so I took Alice in a princess hug.

I was sweating like crazy from the close contact between our skin, and Alice was hugging me and resting her head on my shoulder happily.

I went into the bathroom, sat Alice down on a chair, turned on the shower, and lightly ran hot water over her body. Then I poured hot water over my own body, took Alice in my arms again, and soaked in the bathtub with her.

I’ve decided to spoil her rotten today.

She was sitting in the tub on my lap, humming happily to herself.

The infantilized Alice is kind of like Yanomiya-san.

And it seems that she has completely recovered her mood.

I’ve been trying to get out of the bathtub for a while now, but I couldn’t stand up with Alice in my arms.

She got out of the bathtub by herself and sat down on a chair.

Without saying a word, I dipped the sponge in body soap and washed Alice’s back.

I used to wash Alice’s back like this.

As I was thinking about this, she turned around and faced me.

“The front, too.”

Then she raised her hands and said something like that.

The front…

I don’t care how much I spoil you, but I don’t like to say this.

“No sponge.”

“Eh?”

Don’t use a sponge, then how am I supposed to wash it?

“Wash it with hands.”

“Eh? Hands? What do you mean, hands?”

“Wash with your hands.”

“T-That’s…”

You want me to wash it directly with my hands? I can’t do that, as expected.

“A-Alice-chan, I can’t wash with it hands…”

“Want hand.”

“A-Alice-chan…”

“I want hand!”

“A-Ali…”

“Hands or no hands!”

I tried to persuade Alice somehow, but she was red-faced and teary-eyed, and her cheeks were puffed up and she was shaking.

This is no good. If I resist any longer, she’s sure to cry.

I have no choice.

Eventually, I put body soap on my hands and washed Alice’s whole body with them.

I can see very clearly how much Alice had grown.