Now that I’m a middle schooler I can walk about on my own, and there’s a place that I’ve always wanted to go to.94Please respect copyright.PENANAfyeHewL6MB
The home that I lived in, in my old life.94Please respect copyright.PENANA6GjC4Xmu6n
The world that I live in now is almost exactly the same as my old world. Even the landmarks and station names and addresses are the same.94Please respect copyright.PENANAGCyA1RCIyq
But there are some parts that are different. Naturally Zui’ran Academy is the first difference, and then there are the families, societies, and people that appear in Kimidol.94Please respect copyright.PENANA8JJrhORikI
Only, aside from these, it really is just like the place that I knew. In that case, just maybe, the home that I lived in, and my family, might be here.
I’ve always, always thought it.94Please respect copyright.PENANAVJqwebUKqV
That perhaps, just maybe, I could meet them.
*imouto*
*imouto*
The place I used to live with my family was a town just outside of Tokyo.94Please respect copyright.PENANAZjHwRzje5N
Together with my parents and younger sister, the four of us lived there in an apartment.94Please respect copyright.PENANAOx3HeBWKSL
Dad was a normal salaryman. After getting out of the bath, he would wander about in his underwear and get booed by the rest of us. A dad who was just a tad hopeless at home.94Please respect copyright.PENANAfNA3thmmDm
Mum was a housewife, and she was good at cooking. Whenever I came back from a school trip or camp, she would always make the dishes I liked. Takikomigohan, nikujaga and oden. When it came to my sister, it was hamburg steak with ketchup, chawanmushi, and miso soup with nameko mushrooms and tofu.94Please respect copyright.PENANA1kdlqIvTxH
So I would come back home in the first time in days, and opening the door I would smell the foods that I loved. I’d feel relieved at coming home.94Please respect copyright.PENANAl5fMbFwjA0
What was it that she made when Dad came back from business trips? Aahh, it was always beer and the like. He’d say that beer was really something, and happily drink it.
In my old life I would always laze about at home, and Mum would get angry because of it.94Please respect copyright.PENANAClqqf1fnG4
Why was it that when people tell you to go study before you get to it, you lose all motivation?94Please respect copyright.PENANAPaR3qJWT1a
When I wasn’t around she would clean up my room without permission, and we’d even fight about it. Even if they were meaningless to Mum, they were important to me, so how could she just throw them out, I would argue.94Please respect copyright.PENANA8gO6WSu0XW
My little sister was a shrewd one.94Please respect copyright.PENANAxEnkgrdPDl
She was smart enough to run away when she saw me getting yelled at.94Please respect copyright.PENANAAgvlHyfo9P
Whenever adults told me to bear with it because I was the older one, or give things to her because I was the older one, I would always wonder why in frustration. Sometimes I hated her a little.94Please respect copyright.PENANARrFzzT4tnx
But on nights that we saw scary things on television, we would sleep in the same futon together. And when we went to the toilet, we would hold hands, and then wait outside singing songs to calm each other down.94Please respect copyright.PENANAf7i2syCQbU
For my coming-of-age ceremony, she gave me a bag and zori that she bought with money from her part-time job. With a laugh she told me to pay her back when it was her turn.94Please respect copyright.PENANArfJGJA4dw6
Dad was always lazing around on the couch. He was like a beached seal, really. Mum would tell me that I was like him.94Please respect copyright.PENANA5qBLNe4Rcj
But on weekends, even if it was just close-by, he would drive us places. We went to the ocean or the mountains to play. The road safety amulet charm that I bought on a trip would hang from the mirror of his car.94Please respect copyright.PENANAeJOVkC5A4T
I arrived at the station of my old town.94Please respect copyright.PENANAtHMCEeJjlT
The front of the station seemed the way I remembered it. The large supermarket, and a few other little things were changed, but it was still a nostalgic view.94Please respect copyright.PENANA86hruIoPm4
The distance to my home was ten minutes by foot. After leaving the main street and entering the residential zone, it was on the 7th floor of an apartment complex.
Just a little further. Just a little further. After turning this corner───
It wasn’t there.
In place of the familiar brick apartment complex, was an old, beige building.94Please respect copyright.PENANAwTbfpGKomS
Neither the home that I lived in, or the family that I lived with, had been there.94Please respect copyright.PENANAD62ZT2DeJM
I had the family car pick me up.94Please respect copyright.PENANAv0CU9jz71y
The first train ride in a while had been nerve-wracking. Having a car take me to and from is a lot easier.94Please respect copyright.PENANA8fdDZJ4ENC
Once I get used to this, I really can’t return to being a commoner.94Please respect copyright.PENANAVKS05J4FId
Because this lifestyle is going to continue anyway. It can’t be helped.94Please respect copyright.PENANANZvhyt0Bux
When I came home, Oniisama was there for once.94Please respect copyright.PENANA7OX05IlTeP
He’s been busy ever since he entered university, and lately I don’t even see him at dinner.94Please respect copyright.PENANAMQJh3psQiW
Because Oniisama was relaxing on the living room sofa, I sat down by his side and clung to him.
“Mn? What’s wrong, Reika?”
Nothing really. I just wanted to cling to you.94Please respect copyright.PENANAXL5QQVuNrc
Please don’t mind me, and continue reading your book.
I rubbed my head into his arm.94Please respect copyright.PENANA9A9zx4Cbwk
And he sat there, silently accepting me.94Please respect copyright.PENANAwNqLefuG8u
When I was there───94Please respect copyright.PENANAOI7S6ErGob
I knew it, I thought.94Please respect copyright.PENANA80xM3D8q4D
I knew that this was the world of a manga, so of course they wouldn’t be there.94Please respect copyright.PENANAQKh88lgKTY
But I had hoped.94Please respect copyright.PENANAK4CE3Qz71J
If I could see them, once more…94Please respect copyright.PENANAITLScU8cJu
I wanted to tell them that I loved them.
I should have had Mum teach me how to cook. I won’t be able to taste her food again. I never helped her do anything after all. This is my punishment.
I should have gone to watch baseball with Dad. Instead I wasn’t interested, so I just stayed in my room to read manga. Since I was just his seal daughter anyway, I should have at least lazed about in the living room with him.
I should have been kinder to my sister. When she used my accessories without permission, I seriously grabbed her and fought. I was the older sister, so I should have just let her.94Please respect copyright.PENANARG0NrwOyGj
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for being useless.94Please respect copyright.PENANAvVZyaDIzgt
I want to see you.94Please respect copyright.PENANAYfEfGfgyEu
Just once more, I want to see you.94Please respect copyright.PENANAuxYxiVhE0r
I’m so lonely.94Please respect copyright.PENANAPDpNnFhHCJ
I’ve always, always been lonely.94Please respect copyright.PENANA4JI8Qc4yKk
Dad. Mum. Yuka-chan…94Please respect copyright.PENANAs7c4Pz09XI
Apparently I had drifted off before I knew it.94Please respect copyright.PENANAKc8li5W8zb
I’d been laying on the couch with a blanket on me.94Please respect copyright.PENANAiMqja5R6vZ
Was it Oniisama who covered it over me?
There wasn’t anybody in the living room right now.
It’s the Kisshouin house.94Please respect copyright.PENANAg4WTnfyGuU
I’m Kisshouin Reika.94Please respect copyright.PENANATCnAg3dn2p
My family right now is Otousama, Okaasama, and Oniisama.
This time I’ll treasure them.94Please respect copyright.PENANAr7botN8YmL
I’ll definitely protect them.94Please respect copyright.PENANAmffCaFW0Wm
That’s what I’ve decided.94Please respect copyright.PENANACx5Vtcx6p5
“Oh? You’re up, Reika?”
Oniisama came back into the living room.
“Ehehe.”
So I jumped at him.
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