The day of the school’s founding anniversary was met with clear blue skies. Perfect for a day at the amusement park.101Please respect copyright.PENANAmT04GbvAPa
Being surrounded by three people who each sparkled in their own way, my mood was as good as it gets.
I wanted to get on as many rides as possible, so we arrived just before it opened.101Please respect copyright.PENANAiFvBbCtzPL
The first rides were naturally the famous rollercoasters. You have to get on the most popular ones before the place gets packed, right?101Please respect copyright.PENANAVTk1WdNcKl
Apparently some rich kids will hire somebody to stand in line for them, but we lined up ourselves.101Please respect copyright.PENANAXwC4NoHba3
Getting somebody to line up for you feels kind of unfair, and it would make all the other visitors unhappy, right?101Please respect copyright.PENANAN3sPeETUn3
It was tiring standing there the whole time, but if you spend the time chatting, it’s fun too, isn’t it!
Both the middle schoolers and high schoolers at Zui’ran share the same Pivoine, so although they weren’t particularly close, apparently the three of them had spoken a few times before.101Please respect copyright.PENANAh2uxUZRtbK
Aira-sama was happily listening to Imari-sama talk about high school.101Please respect copyright.PENANAtgjfgh3OQa
Thank goodness. Since she didn’t know them very well, I was worried about whether Aira-sama would be bored.101Please respect copyright.PENANAPBleyJ4agD
If she’s having fun, then I’m happy too.
The other guests lined up occasionally glance our way.101Please respect copyright.PENANAnzQjPvnNjU
Aahh, I see. They can’t help themselves because these three are so sparkly, right? I know how they feel.101Please respect copyright.PENANAoJGXspAXlI
The three being looked at didn’t seem to enjoy it very much. Please just think of it as providing entertainment for everybody else bored in the line, and allow it.101Please respect copyright.PENANAll6CPfBAmJ
Having a look around, I found that it was mostly groups of friends, but there was the occasional couple too.101Please respect copyright.PENANA3hJwQMOc3N
From an objective point of view, do we look kind of like a double date?101Please respect copyright.PENANANLB2pXSCfk
When Imari-sama and Aira-sama stand next to each other, they look like an attractive couple. Mn mn.101Please respect copyright.PENANAFpLB2WxESY
Then what about Oniisama?101Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZfP99E8hi
A pitiful person who had no girl to bring to the double date, and so brought along his little sister instead?101Please respect copyright.PENANA1TakWCCJQC
Oh no! My Oniisama looks like a hopeless case to people!?101Please respect copyright.PENANAguxYw1yW2A
My Oniisama is really popular too, okay!? On Valentines Day he got heaps of chocolates too!101Please respect copyright.PENANAa2utVHzW5w
He’s not some sad case who has nobody to invite but his sister, okay!
“Reika, are you thinking about something weird again?”
Oniisama looked my way suspiciously.101Please respect copyright.PENANA9BPXqHXydn
What on earth could you be speaking of?
I got on the ride together with Aira-sama.101Please respect copyright.PENANAOlQEjxWWmY
I mean, it’s common sense that the escort for the Rococo Queen has to be a knight, right!101Please respect copyright.PENANAU1LMTOiMKe
Imari-sama seemed to have complicated feelings about riding together with a guy, but this is natural.101Please respect copyright.PENANAA79X3QymwS
Also, I need to protect Aira-sama from Imari-sama’s charm!101Please respect copyright.PENANAK5ZcZobREb
Hm? Am I being a third wheel?
After having a try at all of the rollercoasters, it was about time to head to the less extreme rides, or so I was thinking when shockingly Imari-sama bought us churros!101Please respect copyright.PENANAidwXm797iS
Food tasting!101Please respect copyright.PENANAMSTwUHUegx
I’ve always wanted to go food tasting!101Please respect copyright.PENANAy21l2ho3IG
Happy! Yummy!101Please respect copyright.PENANAfttNcgIFuD
Tasting foods from stalls and the like would normally be absolutely forbidden as the young lady of the Kisshouin family.101Please respect copyright.PENANAoyOKB3SJvE
But it’s okay today! Amazing! I’m so glad I came!101Please respect copyright.PENANACZInA06iG0
Thanks for buying this, Imari-sama.101Please respect copyright.PENANAoDa7eMw93v
As expected of a lady killer who understands what a girl wants! An enemy of womankind! It feels like I might accidentally fall for him.
Aahh, I’m so happy. As I was walking about, nomming with a smile, a group of girls called out to Oniisama and Imari-sama.101Please respect copyright.PENANAfYs4ZvBWx7
Apparently they were high school girls from Zui’ran. Since it’s Zui’ran’s founding anniversary, they probably came to play just like us.
“To think that we would meet Momozono-sama and Kisshouin-sama here at the park!”
“Honestly, Imari-sama, you’re here even though you turned us down when we invited you.”
“You know, I saw Kisshouin-sama when I went to watch the match at the kyudo dojo. He was sooo wonderful.”
“My! I saw it too.”
Amazing. It’s like watching fans who have spotted an idol.101Please respect copyright.PENANAyL9rlDHzcX
They’re making such a big deal of it.101Please respect copyright.PENANAatNojuXFsl
Aira-sama and I were quietly eating our churros a distance away, while watching to see how things played out.101Please respect copyright.PENANAqWeqnRa4UF
Could it be that one of these girls was one of the ones who gave Oniisama a Valentines chocolate?101Please respect copyright.PENANAId1CxCQnmG
Including courtesy chocolates, each year Oniisama brings back 20~30 of them.101Please respect copyright.PENANAEBHLYOo46K
Ah, there are girls whose hearts are captured by Oniisama among them as well.
Alright. Sister-in-law Switch, ON!
“Momozono-sama, Kisshouin-sama, is it just the two of you today?”
“No way. We’re here with Takateru’s imouto-chan and her senpai.”
“His, imouto-sama?”
You notice now, after all this time?
“Gokigen’yoh. I am Kisshouin Takateru’s younger sister, Reika.”
“I’m a second year in the middle school, Minazuki Aira. Please take care of us, Senpais.”
I probably don’t look too great with a churro in one hand, but I greeted them with a smile.
“Goodness! Kisshouin-sama’s imouto-sama!? It is a pleasure to meet you!”
They each began to introduce themselves too.101Please respect copyright.PENANAWdlg27845r
But although they smiled at me just fine since I was Oniisama’s sister and a primary schooler, the looks they gave Aira-sama were a little harsh.101Please respect copyright.PENANAw0U8PD4xMA
Did they recognise her as a rival?101Please respect copyright.PENANAG4WgsOOggC
But Aira-sama’s enemies are my enemies!101Please respect copyright.PENANAYOi6CuLPre
My Sister-in-Law Radar is beeping, you know.101Please respect copyright.PENANAtj99Ikrv8r
Besides, Aira-sama was introduced as my senpai, so aren’t their judging gazes pretty rude? Well, being a beauty with a dignified bearing, it looks like they’re faltering a little though.101Please respect copyright.PENANASyVkxDCtSO
It’s wonderful how Aira-sama isn’t perturbed by anything.101Please respect copyright.PENANARDNdRnLqEG
Oh? There are also a few oneesamas who are blushing at Aira-sama. So these are my rivals!?
“Heyy, Momozono-sama, isn’t it fine if you come hang with us a little?”
“Well, I mean we did meet up here after all. Right, Momozono-sama? Kisshouin-sama?”
“Kisshouin-sama really is kind, spending a holiday on an outing with his sister.”
“Kisshouin-sama, have you eaten? Should it please you, we would very much like you to join us.”
“Imari-sama.”101Please respect copyright.PENANAJNSaxgp51f
“Sorry, but,”
Oniisama gave a gentle smile,
“I promised that I would spend the day with my sister and her friend Aira-san. I apologise, but could we perhaps do this some other time?”
“Eh-, but…”
“I don’t want my sister to hate me for neglecting her. Sorry about this.”
said Oniisama, with a troubled smile.101Please respect copyright.PENANALASku9bSgC
It seems that when they saw his face, they couldn’t say anything forceful anymore.
“I don’t want Imouto-chan to hate me either~ Sorry. Cya tomorrow at school.”
“…I understand. It is a shame, though.”
Imari-sama took advantage of Oniisama’s response. I don’t doubt Oniisama’s love for me, but didn’t Imari-sama totally use me as an excuse?101Please respect copyright.PENANAhTaCTtOjkw
Well, since he treated me to churros, I’ll forgive him I guess.101Please respect copyright.PENANADJmAEP1upI
I thought that the girls might secretly follow us anyway, but it looks like they properly observed etiquette.101Please respect copyright.PENANAj6KmocHdZO
And so we went back to enjoying the amusement park.101Please respect copyright.PENANAifkJkpXkdz
Since there was a middle schooler and primary schooler in our group, we decided to head back home before it got too dark.101Please respect copyright.PENANAGmAaFfPWrr
We each had our own cars coming to pick us up, so we said our goodbyes right there.101Please respect copyright.PENANAZVGmtipwYH
Oniisama and I both got onto our Kisshouin family’s car.
“Reika, since we’re already outside, do you want to eat out?”
“EHHH!?”
Dinner with just Oniisama!101Please respect copyright.PENANA4KM09DZ1NM
I definitely wanna go!
“I do!”
“Mn. Then is there anything you want to eat?”
Something I want to eat?101Please respect copyright.PENANA54LTwwK8WI
Hm~mm. Since we may as well, I want to eat something simple and plebby. My tongue is starving for the taste of commoner food.101Please respect copyright.PENANADXvXkMGXwF
Since it’s Oniisama, he might let me.101Please respect copyright.PENANA5acTKU8ILi
Curry rice, pork fried with ginger, grilled fish set meal, ramen…101Please respect copyright.PENANALbnaKt3j3k
“Omurice!”101Please respect copyright.PENANAAGwqvNS8Aw
The omurice of a good set-meal shop is yummy.101Please respect copyright.PENANAoHTkEEc8Rs
I’ve had the Kisshouin chef make it a few times, but a normal shop’s omurice is just different, you know?
“Omurice, huh. Got it.”
And then the place I was taken to was the Marunouchi commercial district, and a high class restaurant with a nightview far from anything you’d see in a set-meal shop.101Please respect copyright.PENANAs9ZH87Ozv2
The place was dark, with a weak spot-light for each table, so it was crazy atmospheric.101Please respect copyright.PENANAeWDKpXXhIw
Huh? This is kind of different from what I was thinking.101Please respect copyright.PENANAVmOCvQ3YIG
The price next to the omurice on the menu was something unimaginable for a former commoner like myself.101Please respect copyright.PENANADzne0zNLhQ
S-, So expensive… Even though this was supposed to be a commoner dish.101Please respect copyright.PENANAJUQ0LV0qu4
When they brought in the omurice, the golden egg and demi-glace sauce glittered in the spot lighting. I unconsciously wanted to use honorifics with it.101Please respect copyright.PENANAWZ7fwMxR5t
The flavour was absolutely not plebeian, but it tasted incredible, so I guess this is fine too.
“Speaking of which, you and Imari-sama were quite popular today, weren’t you.”
When I said that, Oniisama looked a little unhappy.
“Leaving you aside, Oniisama, would Imari-sama not have preferred playing with those girls over children like Aira-sama and I?”
“…It’s because Imari has a girlfriend.”
“EEEH!?”
That’s the first I’ve heard of it!
“This is the first time I have heard of it!”
“Well that’s because I didn’t say.”
“Then all the more reason. Would it not have been better to spend the holiday with his girlfriend instead?”
“She goes to a different school, so.”
Oh my god!101Please respect copyright.PENANAVZ1Bir2f1H
To think that Imari-sama had a girlfriend! But well, given how cool and kind he is, it’s not really that surprising I guess.101Please respect copyright.PENANA4Son1u3td0
Aira-sama seemed to be getting along with Imari-sama today, but she definitely hasn’t fallen for him, right?
On the car home, I immediately texted Aira-sama to thank her for today.101Please respect copyright.PENANAgB8fhIN1AR
And while I was at it, before she could say anything, I made sure to write, “Just now Oniisama told me that Imari-sama has a girlfriend. I was so shocked! I wonder what kind of person she is. Ah, please keep this as a secret between just the two of us, okay? Aira-sama”.101Please respect copyright.PENANANejsgsBFTk
I don’t think it would happen, but if on the off chance that Aira-sama fell for Imari-sama and she confessed to me “The truth is I love Imari-sama” or something, I’d be really troubled.101Please respect copyright.PENANAfwe83UZjxa
I love Aira-sama, so I’d hate for things to become awkward between us more than anything.
The reply that came later said, “I heard about this from Imari-sama today, you know? I heard about how their relationship began as well, but would you like to know?” so it turns out I was just totally worrying for nothing.101Please respect copyright.PENANAn4egfB2q6O
What the heck am I even doing.