My Ex-Elder Sister shifted into the room next to mine - v2.5 Chapter 9: Those which ended up broken apart ②

Those which ended up broken apart ②

“…Say, Mom, then why didn’t you —-tell me anything about it at all?”

“Um… That … wait a moment.”

My mother stood up, left the room, and returned after a while with a box in her hands.

When her mother opened the box, it was filled with letters.

“What… these are?”

Looking at the words written on those letters, they seemed uncannily familiar.

“These are the letters Ko-kun wrote to you, Ren.”

*Gasp.

She raised her head and looked at her mother.

“Eh… I… But I didn’t know anything about.”

“Yes, because I kept them hidden until now.”

“Why?”

“… Ren, didn’t you like Ko-kun at all?”

“That’s obviously not true!!… Ah.”

It was true that Ren had been rejecting Ko-kun for the past few years. But she did it for Ko-kun’s sake. However, from the point of view of her mother, she wouldn’t understand that at all.

“Guh… I understand.”

Ren had no other choice but to reluctantly accept it.

“I’m glad you seem to understand.”

“…But you’re still hiding something, right? You’re… seeing someone now, aren’t you?”

“!?… You know about that as well?”

“As I thought after all… you forgot about Dad, no.”

Ren was about to ask the question that ‘Did you forgot about Dad totally and now going after another man?’, but thinking that she might be going too far, she stopped herself.

But.

Her mother seemed to understand what she wanted to ask.

“…Of course, I still love that person. But just like that, I’ve also come to like Nishimiya-san.”

“But, don’t you also understand that it was grandmother who arranged for you to meet them, right?”

“I know, that’s why I was initially cautious. But Nishimiya-san is so kind, and after hearing about my current situation, he still said it’s okay, and it will be just fine.”

“But, don’t they also have a child in there end too, right?”

“Yes, if it’s Azusa-chan. She’s felt like a very nice child. She would definitely accept both me and you, and welcomes us in their home.”

Her mother looked at her earnestly.

Seeing that expression, Ren found it difficult to deny and no choice but to reluctantly accept it. But there was still one thing she had to ask.

“…I understand, it’s your decision, mom, so I’ll accept it.”

“Really!?”

“Un, but only if they can accept Ko-kun as well, ok? If they won’t, then I won’t be able to accept those people either.”

Ren had no grandparents who would harm Ko-kun, and there was no worry about money for her right now as well. Her mother had also hurt Ko-kun in the past, but she managed to apologize and ask for forgiveness, which made her able to live together with her.

“Eh… Ren?”

“? So for now, let’s first bring Ko-kun here and start living together as a family of three again. And then we can think about it… Okay Mom?”

Her mother seemed confused.

“Ren… we’re not going to take in Kosuke-kun.”

…Wha?!

Ren couldn’t understand her mother’s words at all.

“…Don’t joke around. What are you even saying! Ko-kun is a family. Family should always be together. And if it is now…”

“Ren… Kosuke-kun is no longer a part of our family.”

“Wrong! Ko-kun is part of our family and my brother at that!!”

[TL: I completely agree with Ren over here. You can’t just get rid of your responsibilities just like that. If the man in her next family would die, would she leave her new daughter as well? That’s just ridiculous and bizarre. This woman is no longer a mother, but a …… (it’s better to not say).]

“Ren, calm down at once. Ko-kun has his own life right now as well. Even if we were to take him in now, we don’t know if he’ll be happy with us thereafter as well.”

[TL: Partially correct sentence. Given the fact, she was trying to suck his inherited money dry and then throw him away in her grandmother’s influence.]

“W… What the **uck…”

“I’ll say this once again, we and Kosuke-kun are no longer family.”

*Snap.

Ren heard a sound as if something had broken inside her.

And with that, she realized.

The difference between her and her mother.

Even though she was separated from him, Ren still cared about Ko-kun. But in her mother’s mind, she had even abandoned the thought of Ko-kun in her new heart.

After realizing that, strangely, all that anger, sadness, or resentment she felt towards her mother. All were just swept away.

…If that’s how my mother, who decided to abandon Ko-kun, then I’ll abandon my mother instead.

Thank you very much for reading this far.

Well, we’re almost at the end of Volume 2.5.

Volume 3 will begin soon, so please look forward to it.

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Thank you, this was all about the back-story from Yukimi Sakura.