Vol 1 Chapter 12 – A Story About My Cute Little Sister【Vol 1 — A Happy Childhood】

It was agonizing. Dark. Hot.

I was in the depths of a deep, deep darkness.
I didn’t know where this place was, but I understood that peace had no place here.

It was simply dark. Pitch black. And suffocating.
A sticky, unbearable heat clung to my entire body.

Hard to breathe. Heart racing. Body heavy.
It was as if my whole body were wrapped in a heated lump of iron.
What had happened again?

Right, I was…

That was when I finally realized this was a dream.

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“Bwuh!“

What the hell!
It’s so hard to breathe!

And there, I identified the cause of my awakening.

Elena was clinging to my face. Her soft, squishy belly was pressing against my nose.
No wonder I couldn’t breathe.

I tried to gently move Elena, who was breathing peacefully in her sleep, away from me… but she wouldn’t detach easily. So I forcibly peeled her off and sat up.
Beside me, Aria was using me as a hugging pillow, letting out equally contented sleeping breaths.
So this was the source of the heat.
She was entwined around me with considerable strength.

This was my room. About eight tatami mats in size, with few furnishings, the interior was quite simple.
A round table sat in the center, and a single bed was placed at one end.
On that bed, Elena, Aria, and I were crammed together uncomfortably.

How did this happen again…?
Right. Alicia had said she was doing a big house cleaning and left putting Elena to sleep entirely to me… And while I was putting Aria to sleep too, I must have fallen asleep alongside them.
As for Aria… she’d said she’d wait until Elena fell asleep, but ended up dozing off herself.

Now then.

I tried to stay calm for a while, but this was impossible.

I’ve been thinking this a lot lately, but I think Aria has been becoming more girlish. Her figure, and various other things.

And here was that girl, entwined around me on the bed.
My limits were being tested, in various ways.

I’d been trying to peel her off since earlier, but Aria’s grip on me was too strong and it wasn’t working.

What do I do about this…
Girl’s bodies are so soft… I thought to myself.

Then suddenly,

…I wonder if she’d get mad if I touched her breasts.
Such a thought floated up.
Actually, I was already being pressed against them with her body, but experiencing them with my body and experiencing them with the palm of my hand are different things, I think.

It’s fine, right? She’s pressed up against me this much, with zero sense of caution.

Once I thought that, there was no stopping me.

I twisted my body skillfully, adjusting my position.
While still being hugged by Aria, my right hand reached toward her chest.

Just a little more.

Just a few centimeters…

“…Onii-san, what are you doing?”
“Uwagh!“

I hurriedly pulled my hand back.
Looking over, Elena was tilting her head with her eyes wide open.

“E-Elena, you’re awake…”
“Uh-huh! Elena woke up!”

That was close.
A Onii-san groping the chest of his sleeping childhood friend while his little sister watches.
I was about to present quite a terrifying scene if you think about it.

“Onii-san, play with me.”
“Play? Hmm, well…”

When I showed a thoughtful gesture, Elena distorted her odd-colored eyes sadly.

“Onii-san… don’t you want to play with Elena?”
“Of course not.”

Instant answer.
There’s no way I wouldn’t want to play with such a cute little sister.

“Alright, then let’s play together.”
“Yay!”

Elena’s face brightened, and she started bouncing on the bed.
Honestly, what a cute creature.

But Aria still wasn’t waking up despite all this noise.
A trail of drool glistened on her satisfied sleeping face.

Then suddenly, Aria’s mouth moved.

“…Mmph, ah, geez… you’re so helpless… fufu, I’ll stay with you forever…”

A smile floated to Aria’s lips.
Seems she’s having a pleasant dream.

I should let Aria keep sleeping like this.

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After about five minutes of silent fierce struggle, I successfully peeled Aria off without waking her.

And now, I was enjoying a walk, taking Elena who had said “let’s play outside” with me.
We were walking along the riverbank a little outside the village.
The occasional breeze was refreshing and pleasant.

Elena, holding my hand, swung her arm enthusiastically and even hummed a song.

“Love, love love love, love, love, big brooother.”
“…Elena, what song is that?”
“It’s the Onii-san song!”

…I see.
For a moment, I thought it was the Ikkyū-san song.

“Onii-san.”
“Hmm? What is it?”
“Onii-san, do you love Elena?”

Little kids really have no context to their questions.
They say whatever they’re thinking, right then and there.

I stroked Elena’s head with my free hand as she looked up at me from below,

“Of course, Onii-san loves Elena very much.”
“Really?”
“Really really.”
“Yaaay!”

I calmed Elena down as she jumped up and down, saying “you’ll fall over.”

Elena responded with a well-mannered “okay,” and hugged my waist.

“When I grow up, I’m gonna marry Onii-san.”
“I see, I see, marriage, huh?”
“Uh-huh! Marriage! Marriage with Onii-san!”

My little sister is too cute.

Will Elena, who says such adorable things now, one day tell me “you’re a shitty Onii-san! Get away from me! Die!” when she grows up…
If that day actually comes, I feel like I’d fall into the pits of despair without the composure to say “well, that’s a reward in itself.”

I might go crazy when Elena eventually gets married.
Seems I’ve developed quite a serious siscon without realizing it.

No… is this a natural reaction as a Onii-san?

“Hmm.”
“Ah! Onii-san, there’s okasana!”
“Okasana?”

Hearing an unfamiliar word, my thoughts stopped.

Where Elena was pointing, several fish were swimming in the river flowing right beside us.

“Those are fish. Elena, those aren’t okasana, they’re called fish, okay?”
“Okasana?”

Elena tilted her head in confusion.

“No, no, fi-sh.”
“O-ka-sa-na!”

Elena tried to mimic me saying each syllable separately, but nothing changed.
Elena looked up at me with a young child’s smug face.
What is this creature… How adorable.

Now I can really understand how Sophia-onee-chan felt, always wanting a younger brother and doting on me so much.
So this is what being a big sister feels like.
Thinking back, because of my previous life, I considered myself mature even when I was little, but in the end, I was a child in appearance.
From Sophia’s perspective, I must have looked like an endearing younger boy trying his hardest to act grown-up.

When I think about it that way, it’s kind of annoying…
Mentally speaking, I should be older than Sophia.

Actually, that Sophia-onee-chan still treats me like a child even now that I’m seven.
Well, seven is still a child, I guess…

“After all, in Japan, I’d still be in first or second grade—”
“Welcome home, Will-kun!”

“…”

“Ah! Onee-chan, welcome back!”

Caught off guard by Sophia-onee-chan’s blooming smile right in front of me, I fell backward into the river flowing beside me.

While Elena greeted Sophia’s return,

Splash.
With a refreshing sound, I submerged into the water.