Kisshouin Takateru/Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting.125Please respect copyright.PENANAwiOHO6WBbb
It looks like she’s doing stretches in the living room.125Please respect copyright.PENANA07X9Ai5MV6
She doesn’t look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isn’t she a bit too skinny?125Please respect copyright.PENANAtoYwzIABof
When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me.125Please respect copyright.PENANAyA7dNN1GP7
Simple-minded as usual.125Please respect copyright.PENANAekZn2rciU6
And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sister’s room.125Please respect copyright.PENANAyyV8dA8B3k
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAS450FvldHl
Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and it’s scary.125Please respect copyright.PENANAL8BomjCDGk
I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sister’s weird behaviour.125Please respect copyright.PENANAn0H2KAfy4x
I am technically taking my university exams this year, so I’d appreciate it if she behaved.125Please respect copyright.PENANAiC9UfEIOfv
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack.125Please respect copyright.PENANA7S4t5rFHdK
It hadn’t been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasn’t hungry at all.125Please respect copyright.PENANAE7MyJYxZsf
It’s not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later.125Please respect copyright.PENANAN8tBt55qKM
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAyAXz22hV5J
I’m troubled…125Please respect copyright.PENANAPI7vzxFkOC
This pot is big enough for two people’s worth, isn’t it.125Please respect copyright.PENANAG6bjDY88es
My sister’s eyes were completely glittering.125Please respect copyright.PENANAFJE8lVbJ5R
Can’t be helped…
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about.125Please respect copyright.PENANACpblFUdCNS
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!125Please respect copyright.PENANA7vwfOkh9aB
My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now.125Please respect copyright.PENANAMcQvJsXSm6
Ah crap, there’s no water.125Please respect copyright.PENANAAyXira2F3h
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAEDRsqkEj4k
Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here.125Please respect copyright.PENANAykuziSzNaV
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANApjYnEvj2R9
Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui.125Please respect copyright.PENANALUkM1xyGE7
I don’t have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl.125Please respect copyright.PENANAIZWt2Vq0zK
But…
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily.125Please respect copyright.PENANAKfdQ3ZqXJy
Can’t be helped…125Please respect copyright.PENANA8igPDrLs3G
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAl2XEDxvKeO
I immediately opened another bottle.125Please respect copyright.PENANAgX8J1zWAAj
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAKoM4gRwSbA
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!?125Please respect copyright.PENANA2DZVXp3rpZ
But this isn’t at the level where you’d call it ‘a little’, you know.125Please respect copyright.PENANA3V8wkqNLUE
Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression.125Please respect copyright.PENANAYjrhWCqonL
My sister’s sense of taste is wayy too rough.125Please respect copyright.PENANAJK711MVbbV
And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers.125Please respect copyright.PENANAbFlPA5w5iY
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAxHHRgz4SSo
Thank goodness…125Please respect copyright.PENANAYVSxaipYwV
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…125Please respect copyright.PENANAey6toYQDRG
Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up.125Please respect copyright.PENANAKidCv6jY5u
But she did try her very best making that, so I’d feel sorry for her if I went and did that.125Please respect copyright.PENANAdfGSoy7nyf
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAgQjz1gPZm6
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.”125Please respect copyright.PENANAIOOB4hLLtc
I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well?125Please respect copyright.PENANA2BX3l6SW3D
But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed.125Please respect copyright.PENANA6nar1bi1UA
For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.125Please respect copyright.PENANA9brDBmfA82
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama.125Please respect copyright.PENANAEvUcfDo1hY
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAGiP0mKJEf7
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANA6tZLxZ7t8i
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANADmvnGvlZ4B
To begin with, he rarely gets angry.125Please respect copyright.PENANA0IQzgZUlJk
I’ve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely.125Please respect copyright.PENANA5dXGWskuC6
In the archery club he’s captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him.125Please respect copyright.PENANAjxyOOdlDv6
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAAxLFJQ0wPj
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAJvWvccgUbw
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAPJuIDYMB4Y
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
She’s a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll.125Please respect copyright.PENANAQxEMYCZOBl
When she’s quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and it’s cute.125Please respect copyright.PENANAGc2RgxH1Bi
Whenever I bring Imouto-chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart.125Please respect copyright.PENANAui154Z9E7d
Unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a hidden side to her.125Please respect copyright.PENANAbpb3kdBVZH
Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh.125Please respect copyright.PENANAiwB1ujlfig
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAPJwtIrwiTM
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAevGtvCePos
It felt like feeding a bird chick.
Imouto-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him.125Please respect copyright.PENANAORFrp5Z90e
I could totally feel her feelings towards her “beloved Oniisama”.125Please respect copyright.PENANAwA7jPype7k
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her.125Please respect copyright.PENANAhsREJsQ0Ur
Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance.125Please respect copyright.PENANA5Y7hT9q85E
But apparently it’s a different story when it comes to his own sister.125Please respect copyright.PENANArVb02wbpN4
Imouto-chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama.125Please respect copyright.PENANA3rXCgUxErS
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAyihbKYP9ic
When they’re sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me.125Please respect copyright.PENANAAAQq6CNn7W
When he listens to her talk, it’s not some statue’s archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has.125Please respect copyright.PENANAF8uEKrbAFA
When Imouto-chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response.125Please respect copyright.PENANATfzwLA8AcP
These siblings really do get along.125Please respect copyright.PENANAQWZLpLH2Ap
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANA6Zb6KbbB1Z
When I asked him about that, he told me “I asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentine’s”.125Please respect copyright.PENANAIibh6GNStR
Valentine’s huh.125Please respect copyright.PENANASeHetfschg
Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from Imouto-chan each year.125Please respect copyright.PENANAgCrN4r9kCc
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?”.125Please respect copyright.PENANACNpO3mCosy
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.125Please respect copyright.PENANAWjDJTSeS58
…Sorry, I won’t say it again.
They’re a funny pair of siblings.125Please respect copyright.PENANA7ua1GbfxZK
Rather, when Imouto-chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier.125Please respect copyright.PENANA4tB4rnZNPb
Today as well, I’m heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.