Kisshouin Takateru
My sister has been acting weird.
The other day she went out somewhere, but the moment she came home she stuck to me.68Please respect copyright.PENANALYVQRFMfgV
My sister always fawns on me, but that night was different.68Please respect copyright.PENANAltBDZwzboH
Because she’d been clinging to my arm with her face buried, I couldn’t see her expression. Still, I could tell that she was down.68Please respect copyright.PENANANuHUySKDpx
After a while, my clothes felt cold.68Please respect copyright.PENANAsmRqHSmPYk
She was crying.68Please respect copyright.PENANAboGjAfe8MV
I wanted to find out what happened exactly, but my sister can be surprisingly stubborn.68Please respect copyright.PENANAORZzYlV47C
So I pretended that I didn’t notice, and just lent her my arm.
I’d been busier lately, so I didn’t get home as early. Because of that, we had less time together.68Please respect copyright.PENANAsIqh6M5u0I
Even though it was something sad enough to cry about, my sister wouldn’t speak.68Please respect copyright.PENANA65gi1eLLbB
Maybe she’d been lonely.68Please respect copyright.PENANACC09NPyOpK
So I decided at that moment that it might be better to make the time to come home a little earlier.68Please respect copyright.PENANA0J7tSxfPCY
My arm started feeling heavier, and when I turned to look, I found that she had cried herself to sleep.68Please respect copyright.PENANAtMN9JlPR9u
I would have felt bad waking her up, so I went to get a blanket for her, but when I draped it over, her stomach grumbled. She was chewing in her sleep too.68Please respect copyright.PENANAIh4k7tQV48
…Apparently she was hungry.68Please respect copyright.PENANAOzoM08WMsP
So I went to prepare food, so that she could eat the moment she woke.68Please respect copyright.PENANAXmL5yEWyen
Since that day, for some reason my sister has been really lecturing our father.68Please respect copyright.PENANAsm52YYrAl1
She casually whispers things in his ears like, “The Heavens see through all” or “Bad news travels quickly” or “Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know and I know”.68Please respect copyright.PENANANnMe4p7y1p
Well, to be honest, my sister has always treated him like this, and she’ll say stuff like this on occasion, like she suddenly remembers to.68Please respect copyright.PENANAdAIWRZOtzd
But its frequency has been increasing.68Please respect copyright.PENANANbYCHqLy6Z
Even though she says “Otousama. I believe in you, Otousama.” with a serious expression, it seems like she doesn’t at all.68Please respect copyright.PENANAMdpF8fuuIn
And being a father who isn’t trusted at all by his daughter, naturally he feels down.68Please respect copyright.PENANA23fYWTo4xy
She even came up to me and said, “You’re the only one I can rely on, Oniisama. Please rehabilitate Otousama for me.”
Little Sister… Our father is right behind you…
Apparently in my sister’s mind, our father is an unbelievable villain.68Please respect copyright.PENANAOBjWUgDcqB
I heard him mutter “I wonder if it’s her rebellious phase…”68Please respect copyright.PENANAbdSrletwG7
…How pitiful.68Please respect copyright.PENANAJmh74z5Htb
But lately, her weird behaviour has taken another strange turn.
She sighs a whole lot, and will suddenly grasp at her chest in pain.68Please respect copyright.PENANAdntAsNwS2Q
A disease!? A spasm!? Or so I thought as I ran over in panic, but she just said something weird like “This is a maiden’s affliction.”68Please respect copyright.PENANAAltxMMoPex
I was still worried about whether it actually was some disease, but at dinner she was eating happily as usual, so I figured that she was alright.68Please respect copyright.PENANA2PfAAK6vRb
As for my father, in order to raise her opinion of him, lately he’s been diligently buying all sorts of rare pastries and cakes and fruits for her. And she’s been dilligently eating them all.68Please respect copyright.PENANAVN4FmRpL6Y
Well, I’m glad that she’s healthy.68Please respect copyright.PENANAPMm5oQgG7F
This one time, she whole-heartedly plucked petals. She would pluck at them, and sigh, then pluck at them and sigh again.68Please respect copyright.PENANAuosD7Wh2MK
Only after a number of flowers were left bald did she stop, after one final, big sigh.68Please respect copyright.PENANAwPrNSx3Psx
Then after that, she silently cleaned up the pitiful remains of the flowers.68Please respect copyright.PENANAdXXXk5Lk4D
Had she simply been really stressed?68Please respect copyright.PENANAmISGp67G18
Most recently, it happened while my sister was doing homework. One of her answers were wrong, so to rub it out, I picked up the rubber from her pencil case. And then she screamed “AAAAHHH!” like it was the end of the world.68Please respect copyright.PENANApEzvM2hLg4
After snatching it in panic from my hand, my sister dropped her shoulders in gloom.68Please respect copyright.PENANA0gbxDY5iZo
Just what was going on with that rubber?
“Oniisama, you’re too much…”
After leaving behind those mysterious words, my sister picked up all her things and left my room.68Please respect copyright.PENANAbKeYzJSy5B
What the?68Please respect copyright.PENANAxkQlLObgKe
And Little Sister, are you fine with leaving that answer wrong?68Please respect copyright.PENANArxTWuwsDia
“Wasn’t that flower fortune telling?”
I spoke to my friend Imari about her.68Please respect copyright.PENANAGr6znHdQWV
She consulted him about something quite passionately, when he came over to play the other day.68Please respect copyright.PENANAWwkGoASPbx
Even when I asked her what it was about, she just replied “Nothing at all”, and wouldn’t reply to me.68Please respect copyright.PENANAM4HgWbetKv
…No fun at all.
“Flower fortune telling?”
“What, you’ve never heard of it? It’s pretty common, isn’t it? That thing where they go, ‘He loves me. He loves me not.’ as they pick at petals and stuff. Don’t you remember the girls doing it, back when we were kids?”
“Aahh, I think I did hear something like that.”
Flower fortune telling, huh.68Please respect copyright.PENANAXWaDczK2IM
Seeing my sister rend petals with ghastly vigour, that kind of maidenly idea never came to mind.68Please respect copyright.PENANAbS89Kqidbq
Rather, I had wondered if she had some sort of grudge against them.
But flower fortune telling, huh.68Please respect copyright.PENANAUF4kpmKoVH
Wasn’t that a love fortune?68Please respect copyright.PENANAgjCaNcYliH
Love?
“…Imari. What did my sister talk to you about?”
“Eehh, well, nothing big…”
“Imari.”
“Ehh~ I mean, I already made a promise with Imouto-chan, so…”
“Imari.”
“Come on, Takateru, even you have heaps of stuff your sister doesn’t know, right? GUHOH-!”
Silence, fool.
As warning, I gave him a second punch.68Please respect copyright.PENANALFKc2CV0xP
Even though he started coughing and spluttering, he still wouldn’t talk.
I sighed.
“Professor Kumesuke’s wife. At the Academic Meeting”
“UGEH-! How did you know about that-!?”
“What did my sister talk to you about?”
“…It’s what you suspect.”
Hm.
“Who is it?”
“I don’t know. I tried asking, but she wouldn’t tell me. Ah-, but she did say something about Romeo.”
“Romeo?”
Are we still talking about a real person here?68Please respect copyright.PENANAq3xTyFC7up
Could it be that my sister has an imaginary boyfriend? Considering who we’re talking about, it’s certainly possible.68Please respect copyright.PENANAGHJYMCA9Zm
Perhaps my sister has a foreign boyfriend that only she can see.
“Also she started talking about giving handmade cookies as a present, so I told her it would better not to.”
“Cookies?”
Ah-! I remember!68Please respect copyright.PENANApJr9HQ0Zcx
Just a while ago, my sister made my father and I eat cookies.68Please respect copyright.PENANAdXYxFiLAqE
Because of my mother’s diet, she doesn’t eat sweet things at night.68Please respect copyright.PENANAmTnlTIiwbG
The cookies were burnt bitter here and there, but the rest of them were sweet, so perhaps you could say that my sister’s cooking was slowly approaching the average person’s.68Please respect copyright.PENANAJsGtymWyBb
The cookies on my father’s plate were far more burnt than mine.68Please respect copyright.PENANAS7x2T6nkf3
He asked, “Oh, were these choc chip cookies?” causing my sister to grow sullen.68Please respect copyright.PENANADuWZVjS7mX
Dad, those cookies might be pitch black, but there’s no chocolate in them at all. They’re plain cookies.68Please respect copyright.PENANABYKBNiCCHB
My father wordlessly washed them down with his tea.
“So it was that huh.”
“Oh! Do you know something?”
“I guess.”
In order to give cookies to the person you like, you used me as a lab rat, huh.68Please respect copyright.PENANAWUP9aYAZPE
Burnt foods are bad for you, you know.68Please respect copyright.PENANAs2z1dAKhle
Know our father’s grief.
“Well? What are you going to do?”
“Nothing at all, of course.”
“Oh? I thought you’d try and stop it.”
“As if.”
Well, I will check to see that he isn’t a weirdo though.68Please respect copyright.PENANAObR84HDXlB
If somebody was tricking a lady of the Kisshouin house, and planning to do bad things to her, I’d be troubled.68Please respect copyright.PENANArWucMAL3s1
As long as that isn’t the case, I’m fine with anything.
“After all…”
I can’t even imagine that absurd little sister actually succeeding in her romance.68Please respect copyright.PENANAezq8AWXbUG
To begin with, I’m not even sure he’s real.68Please respect copyright.PENANAdqjmg54ebN
Hmm, she mentioned before that she wanted to see the zoo in Hokkaido. Once it’s done, I’ll take her there.
But Little Sister, if you really have fallen in love, maybe you should hold back on our father’s tributes.68Please respect copyright.PENANA1Yy2oI215f
After all, your face is getting a little round.