Kisshouin Takateru/Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting.121Please respect copyright.PENANA8G4Yc9ob8I
It looks like she’s doing stretches in the living room.121Please respect copyright.PENANAOo5EWrGHfV
She doesn’t look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isn’t she a bit too skinny?121Please respect copyright.PENANAPTs4BYI81T
When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me.121Please respect copyright.PENANA1Aat9FLXsc
Simple-minded as usual.121Please respect copyright.PENANAm2PdOpm3Mn
And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sister’s room.121Please respect copyright.PENANAh1TLbByGIa
I didn’t hear what words she was actually saying, but I’m worried now that she’s shouting strange things again.
“I can hear your shouts from outside your room, you know?” I casually told her, and in response she replied “Eh-, you heard me? Oh gosh, I need to be careful.” in shock.121Please respect copyright.PENANA4Lo4MYNyNV
Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and it’s scary.121Please respect copyright.PENANAyqKwAK212x
I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sister’s weird behaviour.121Please respect copyright.PENANAVmRqKUaSbe
I am technically taking my university exams this year, so I’d appreciate it if she behaved.121Please respect copyright.PENANANLGu7pdnl9
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack.121Please respect copyright.PENANAOoDcCgwcNP
It hadn’t been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasn’t hungry at all.121Please respect copyright.PENANAFLEM0U0v3C
It’s not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later.121Please respect copyright.PENANAYwn9XKGwwY
So if I ate it, it would probably be bad for my body instead…
But my sister looked my way expectantly, wanting me to hurry and eat.121Please respect copyright.PENANAVKapBNhi7j
I’m troubled…121Please respect copyright.PENANAhrRJ92p8zN
This pot is big enough for two people’s worth, isn’t it.121Please respect copyright.PENANAMUS4HtCP12
My sister’s eyes were completely glittering.121Please respect copyright.PENANAUcka9mXJLb
Can’t be helped…
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about.121Please respect copyright.PENANAlvYYwIvYuR
I scooped some into a bowl, and with a soup spoon, I brought some to my mouth.
…Salty.
You’ve put way too much salt, my little sister!121Please respect copyright.PENANAasl46FC0Vl
My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now.121Please respect copyright.PENANACZW82m2CBW
Ah crap, there’s no water.121Please respect copyright.PENANAApyWCnnyS8
All she gave me was hot tea. Hot food, and hot drinks. …Little sister.
I hurriedly pulled out some cold water from a small fridge in my room and gulped it down.121Please respect copyright.PENANAhqjwXrwYGx
Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here.121Please respect copyright.PENANAV5iLvdDXtM
I bought it in the past. It’s so that if I want a drink, I don’t have to risk heading outside and encountering some of my sister’s weird behaviours.
“How was it, Oniisama?”
It was salty. You put in too much salt. Did you even taste-test this?
“…It was delicious.”
When she looked at me with those round eyes, I couldn’t tell the truth.121Please respect copyright.PENANAI5zfuKvcio
Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui.121Please respect copyright.PENANA2Swq2O9wNI
I don’t have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl.121Please respect copyright.PENANAAwrg1btqtl
But…
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily.121Please respect copyright.PENANAvWrrjsb5ZX
Can’t be helped…121Please respect copyright.PENANAHwLn1wtBkc
I guess I’ll 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.121Please respect copyright.PENANAEIVVUTs9L0
I immediately opened another bottle.121Please respect copyright.PENANA3S4EmkW0Ln
As you’d expect, I couldn’t finish the stuff left in the pot, so I apologised and told her that I wasn’t so hungry at night.121Please respect copyright.PENANA1bjxY1t08c
Saying something like “Maybe I should have some too…”, she took a spoon to her mouth.
“Hmm? I wonder if it’s a little salty.”
So you’ve noticed, little sister!?121Please respect copyright.PENANAnLe0TQhrhk
But this isn’t at the level where you’d call it ‘a little’, you know.121Please respect copyright.PENANAhn23U3vZNT
Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression.121Please respect copyright.PENANATbFjBtSWJ6
My sister’s sense of taste is wayy too rough.121Please respect copyright.PENANAbGmkYJpX9z
And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers.121Please respect copyright.PENANAo8lakYfXiR
At this rate, I might have to continue to suffer this hell of supper attacks. What do I do.
“Reika, thanks for making me a snack tonight. But eating makes me sleepy, so you don’t have to worry about it from now on. I won’t be studying too late either.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. I’m happy with just your feelings. And also, I might get fat eating before sleep, right?”
“Ah-, that is true!”
Looks like it had quite an effect on my dieting sister.121Please respect copyright.PENANA228l7Gkze7
Thank goodness…121Please respect copyright.PENANAedAlOfg55Q
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 water…121Please respect copyright.PENANAYyXEJKsrR1
Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up.121Please respect copyright.PENANAoD3E8eFO9x
But she did try her very best making that, so I’d feel sorry for her if I went and did that.121Please respect copyright.PENANAVFCzaztsq5
And so that night, I fought with my nausea until I somehow managed to digest it.
As for the tasteless, yearly Valentine’s Chocolates, I discussed it with Minadzuki-san, who I went to an amusement park with last year.
“My sister’s 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 I’m sorry about this, but could I perhaps get you to casually teach her how to make them, Minadzuki-san?”
When I asked her this, although she asked “flavourless chocolates?” 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 girl’s chocolates actually taste sweet.121Please respect copyright.PENANAj5qOHDpdOj
When I asked her this she replied, “I don’t 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 it’s 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.”121Please respect copyright.PENANAfgNrM5oEDt
I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well?121Please respect copyright.PENANAcRuD9AFOot
But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed.121Please respect copyright.PENANANpldVj8iIA
For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.121Please respect copyright.PENANA82Hdxgqnxk
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama.121Please respect copyright.PENANAgSyx3EdLwH
Like somebody truly befitting the name of the Kisshouin family’s daughter. My parents haven’t noticed either that she’s actually rather disappointing(pitiful) on the inside.121Please respect copyright.PENANA9TsbMvnfIW
Anyhow, as time goes on, her mask comes off more and more when she’s in front of me, and the stupidity and silliness on the inside is really starting to show.121Please respect copyright.PENANAaubiCNljH9
She’s probably just that trusting of me, but if she does something too weird it’ll scare me, so I wish she would stop.
And little sister, don’t try and do chin-ups inside your closet. It’s scary.
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My friend, Kisshouin Takateru, is a pretty splendid guy.121Please respect copyright.PENANAILF7nkIeVM
To begin with, he rarely gets angry.121Please respect copyright.PENANAE17BKfKnRw
I’ve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely.121Please respect copyright.PENANAI5stbFutcj
In the archery club he’s captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him.121Please respect copyright.PENANAQIE7Ie8TLM
His results are always in the high ranks, but he’s never shown off about this.
He almost seems like a human with no flaws, but he’s actually pretty black-hearted, and he uses his gentle-looking smile to get people to do what he wants.121Please respect copyright.PENANAeb09XGBXyZ
At a glance he looks like a kind person who’ll accept everyone, but the number of people he actually let’s down his guard around are pretty few.121Please respect copyright.PENANAUEWkGVQePZ
But at heart, he’s a straight-forward guy. Somehow or other, he’s just good at taking care of others. For people he considers friends, he definitely won’t ever betray them. It’s these parts of him that I like.121Please respect copyright.PENANAg1PVXkIGSZ
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
She’s a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll.121Please respect copyright.PENANAPi42z4GH6v
When she’s quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and it’s cute.121Please respect copyright.PENANA8aabbQU8Wq
Whenever I bring Imouto-chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart.121Please respect copyright.PENANA0lsGCJuMr8
Unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a hidden side to her.121Please respect copyright.PENANA5JxqEmId19
Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh.121Please respect copyright.PENANAvFhsvWLirJ
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.121Please respect copyright.PENANAg4rAHnzeu8
Just a few hundred Yen’s worth of food is enough to get her eyes sparkling and saying “Thank you very much, Imari-sama!” so it made me want to tell her that I’d buy her any food she wanted.121Please respect copyright.PENANAnQcPXDjOZC
It felt like feeding a bird chick.
Imouto-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him.121Please respect copyright.PENANAYY2zJnCTNE
I could totally feel her feelings towards her “beloved Oniisama”.121Please respect copyright.PENANAQmNSh2Efsr
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her.121Please respect copyright.PENANARcOno6ZGy7
Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance.121Please respect copyright.PENANAOIMBDYzajN
But apparently it’s a different story when it comes to his own sister.121Please respect copyright.PENANAOAGG6ZUqyV
Imouto-chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama.121Please respect copyright.PENANAieQpGGubhD
She doesn’t notice that he occasionally plays with her reactions. She just dances on his palms as much as he wants.
Apparently Takateru doesn’t think of himself as a siscon, but from my eyes, he’s plenty siscon enough.121Please respect copyright.PENANA5lQ6cz56ji
When they’re sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me.121Please respect copyright.PENANAirrJ8wMM9V
When he listens to her talk, it’s not some statue’s archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has.121Please respect copyright.PENANARCCLypON9Q
When Imouto-chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response.121Please respect copyright.PENANAzPQMuZBnnq
These siblings really do get along.121Please respect copyright.PENANAgC6TvDVcrd
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 “handmade chocolates” with Aira-chan.121Please respect copyright.PENANAmiUUaU7Rrz
When I asked him about that, he told me “I asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentine’s”.121Please respect copyright.PENANAuFaQF3hRnd
Valentine’s huh.121Please respect copyright.PENANAWaLpx8uDUV
Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from Imouto-chan each year.121Please respect copyright.PENANA7FPpORAhMZ
When I said “I wonder if this year I’ll get some from Imouto-chan too~”, he just stared blankly at me and asked back “Why does my sister have to give a Valentine’s chocolate to you?”.121Please respect copyright.PENANA6VynR6BNIx
Damn siscon…
Once when I thought about teasing this siscon and joked with a smile, “If Imouto-chan and I got married, you’d end up as my Oniichan as well, huh~ What should I do?”, I ended up eating a strong hook to the solar plexus.121Please respect copyright.PENANAmckPhVjYfi
…Sorry, I won’t say it again.
They’re a funny pair of siblings.121Please respect copyright.PENANAZGdWKRAEjx
Rather, when Imouto-chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier.121Please respect copyright.PENANA9YEYADuvQa
Today as well, I’m heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.