All the Heroines Who Showed Their Overwhelming Emotions on Me Have Mentally Broken Down and Gone Insane, so Now My Only Choice Is to Pamper Them Endlessly to Avoid Total Chaos — Sweets Work Best on Lovesick Heroines - Chapter 19.2: Deranged Heroines

Chapter 19.2: Deranged Heroines

Why were these two together?

Before he could resolve the question, Kokoa hurried through the living room with eager steps.

“I’ll give her a piece of my mind.”

Kokoa reached for the lock without hesitation.

“Wait, Kokoa! If you open it right away—”

He could not stop her in time. She unlocked it.

The door immediately pulled back.

“Kaname!”

“Aotori!”

Right from the start, Iori’s and Tendo’s voices overlapped.

It seemed Tendo had been the one pulling the door. Without even waiting for permission to enter, she slipped past Kokoa beside him and closed in on him.

“What is this!? Did you really kiss Iori!?”

Eh. How did she know about that?

Tendo had not been there at the time.

“Kaname. Tell her the truth. No matter how many times I say it, Raimu won’t believe me.”

Ah, so that was it. Iori had told her.

What unnecessary meddling… It was practically harassment.

“You wouldn’t, right!? Aotori wouldn’t do that!”

“Um…”

Tendo’s rapid-fire questions left him flustered. The words stuck in his throat, and he could not voice them properly.

In the midst of that, Kokoa stepped between him and the two of them as if to shield him.

“I’m not giving Onii-chan to anyone. He’s going to marry me.”

She clung to his arm as if to declare it.

Both Tendo and Iori knew he had a stepsister. That was why the bombshell statement left them stunned.

“Huh…!?”

“Marry…!?”

The air in the entrance froze in an instant.

He was just as shocked.

“No! We’re not!”

“It’s okay, Onii-chan. Even stepsiblings get married in lots of cases. No legal issues or anything. I looked it up properly.”

She had even verified it. She was serious.

“What does this mean, Kaname?”

With her eyes fixed darkly, Iori stepped forward.

“Why is Kokoa-chan directing feelings at you too? This is weird, right? Not normal, right?”

“You’re not normal either, Iori…”

“Explain. Explain it properly. We kissed, you know? We even shared a vow kiss? That means we’re getting married, right? I’m going to become Aotori Iori, right?”

Iori’s barrage of questions had started up again…

And Kokoa reacted to it.

“Don’t joke. I absolutely hate the idea of you becoming his sister.”

She furrowed her brows sharply and rejected Iori.

“You kissed Onii-chan without permission… You thief cat.”

“I’m Kaname’s childhood friend. I’ve been watching over him longer than anyone, from way back.”

“Watching is all you did. I live with Onii-chan. I take care of him every day. Mornings and nights, always together.”

Kokoa smiled triumphantly.

Iori’s brow twitched.

“—Aotori! Answer with your own words! Did you really kiss her…!?”

Tendo, who had been gauging the situation until then, finally lost her patience and shouted.

“Raimu, be quiet. Kokoa-chan and I are having an important talk right now.”

“How can I stay quiet!? I… with Aotori…!”

“You still don’t get that you’re on the outside? This is already a one-on-one between me and Kokoa-chan. Kaname’s marrying me.”

“No, he’s not!”

He could not help but interject.

At his denial, Iori blinked in surprise.

“But… we kissed, didn’t we…”

“That was because you forced it…!”

“I didn’t force it! Kaname, you didn’t dodge! You even let me put my tongue in…! So we—”

Iori reached out unsteadily toward him.

The moment her fingertips brushed his sleeve,

“Don’t touch Onii-chan so casually!”

Kokoa slapped Iori’s hand away.

“If you try anything like last time again, I’ll kill you…!”

A death threat toward Iori. But instead of backing down, Iori curled her lips into a defiant smile.

“…Heh. Being threatened just makes me want to try harder.”

Iori took a step forward. The distance to Kokoa closed, creating a tense atmosphere as if they might actually start killing each other.

Meanwhile, Tendo clenched her fists diagonally behind Iori. She kept her gaze locked on him without looking away, glaring.

—The situation had turned into a quagmire.

He might have been able to handle one of them, but this time there were three.

The “sweetness” that had worked on Senior Yami or Kokoa would surely backfire 100 percent with another woman present.

In that case—.

“…”

No moves left. He had no choice but to run.

He did not think about anything after that.

He just wanted to escape the scene right then, so he bolted without grabbing anything.

“Wait, Onii-chan!”

“Where are you going, Kaname?”

“Aotori!”

Voices called from behind, but he did not turn around.

He shoved his feet into his shoes without properly stepping into the heels and pushed the door open to leap outside.

“—Oh, Aotori-kun.”

And then he encountered despair.

Senior Yami stood at the entrance.

“You come out to greet me before I’ve even rung the intercom… We truly are connected, aren’t we?”

She smiled dreamily.

Why was Senior Yami here…?

It had not even been half a day since he left the Ayakura estate.

No good. This was not the time to think about that.

“—!”

He tried to ignore Senior Yami completely and slip past her. But as they brushed by, she grabbed his wrist.

“Hey. Where do you think you’re going, leaving me behind?”

“No, really, I’m in a huge rush!”

He tried to shake her off, but Senior Yami’s grip turned out to be surprisingly strong.

“Aotori!”

“Kaname!”

“Onii-chan!”

In that one moment’s opening, the three of them caught up.

Ah… It was over.

“Aotori-kun. What is this? Your little sister aside, why are these girls here?”

The grip on his wrist tightened painfully.

Displeasure seeped into her voice.

“Shall we hear all the details?”

Iori, Tendo, and Kokoa stood blocking left, right, and the front. Senior Yami was at the rear.

He was surrounded on all sides by deranged women.

There was no escape anywhere anymore.