I Asked A Beautiful Girl, Who Was About To Jump Off The School Rooftop, 'If You're Going To Die Anyway, Could You At Least Take My Virginity Before You Go?' To My Surprise, She Agreed.

The Stepsister Wants To Make Her Brother Buy Her Something Sweet.

In the fitting room area of the clothing store, I and Mayuki ran into Hatsune-san and her friends.

“Look, Ichigaya-san! Ueno-kun is with a girl we don’t know!”

“This is Yakumo-kun’s little sister, Mayuki-chan.”

Hatsune-san explained calmly to the flustered class representative.

“A little sister…? Then this isn’t cheating…?”

“Impossible. There’s no way Yakumo-kun would do something like that.”

Hatsune-san laughed off the class representative’s doubts with a smile.

“The two of them are close, so they probably just came shopping together.”

“But, isn’t it a bit too close for them to be holding hands…?”

“Now that you mention it… maybe you’re right…?”

Hatsune-san glanced at my hand, still tightly held by Mayuki.

“Ah…!”

Mayuki quickly let go of my hand.

If she panicked now, wouldn’t that make things even more suspicious…?

Well, I guess I’ll just have to explain the situation.

“Actually…”

I told Hatsune-san and the others about the middle school boy who had left right before us.

***

“Wow, so Mayuki-chan really is popular, huh?”

Hatsune-san, after hearing the situation, looked at Mayuki with admiration.

Since having a large group around the fitting room space would be a nuisance to other customers, we quickly finished paying for my shirt and were now standing outside the store. The topic of conversation was still mainly focused on Mayuki.

“Still, I never knew Ueno-kun had such a cute little sister…”

One of Hatsune-san’s friends, Shiodome-san, who had come along, also looked at Mayuki with interest. I could feel a hint of surprise in her gaze as well.

Well, Mayuki and I don’t really look alike.

“Mayuki-chan is in her third year of middle school and is planning to apply to our high school,” Hatsune-san said, drawing even more attention toward Mayuki.

“Really? I didn’t know that.”

“Is it because you’re so close with your brother that you want to go to the same school?”

The class representative and Shiodome-san both asked.

“Th-That’s not it. And it’s not like I’m close with my brother, anyway.”

Mayuki, who had been getting attention from the older girls, spoke up, somewhat flustered.

“But, you’re still with Yakumo-kun today, right?”

Hatsune-san tilted her head as she listened to Mayuki’s words.

“My totally clueless brother said he wanted to buy clothes for when he goes on a trip with you, Hatsune-san, so I was just reluctantly helping him choose,” Mayuki explained, crossing her arms as she spoke.

“Ah, I see. Mayuki-chan, you’re so cute.”

Hatsune-san smiled warmly at Mayuki and patted her head.

“W-Why are you patting my head…?”

Mayuki seemed a bit confused but didn’t reject the gesture.

That said, the conversation between these two felt a bit off, in a way. Well, maybe it’s more accurate to say that Hatsune-san isn’t taking Mayuki’s words too seriously?

“Eh? Ichigaya-san, are you going on a trip with Ueno-kun?”

“Yeah, we’re going to a hot spring together at the end of this month.”

Asked by Shiodome-san, Hatsune-san answered happily.

“As expected of Ichigaya-san, you’re enjoying your summer vacation with your boyfriend…”

The class representative seemed to think of Hatsune-san as some kind of love expert.

***

For a while after that, we continued talking about Mayuki, but eventually, we ended up going our separate ways from Hatsune-san and her group.

It seems that Hatsune-san also had plans to look around for clothes with her friends.

“Are you sure you’re okay not being with Hatsune-san?”

Once it was just the two of us again, Mayuki asked while we walked through the shopping center, which had various stores.

“Yeah, well, since Hatsune-san was with her friends too.”

“Even so, don’t you wish you were with her? For example, what if Hatsune-san had come alone?”

“Even then, it wouldn’t change anything. I’m here with you today, so it’s different.”

Mayuki had been asking a lot of questions, and I was starting to wonder what was going on. Even if I were dating Hatsune-san, there was no way I’d leave my sister behind.

“…That’s what’s unfair.”

And to top it off, for some reason, Mayuki gave me a scolding look and words.

“Unfair? What do you mean?”

“It’s nothing!”

Mayuki turned her head away and quickly walked a few steps ahead of me.

“I thought for sure you’d ask me to buy you something for helping you pick clothes…”

When I muttered this, Mayuki stopped in her tracks.

“Then, I want something sweet. Buy it for me.”

Mayuki turned around with a pout and made that demand.

She claimed that we weren’t close, but she was being pretty cheeky about it. Well, it was just like Mayuki. Compared to when she used to ignore me, I had started to think of these moments as some of her cute sides.