My Little Sister Can't be My Girlfriend (WN) - Chapter 36

Chapter 36

“Okay, let’s take a break now.”

“Whew…”

Fuyu plops down on the table in the living room.

It’s 3PM.

When Fuyu finished solving a page of math problems, Haruta decided to give his little sister a break.

The entrance exam that Fuyu will take has three subjects: English, Japanese and mathematics.

Fuyu is not good in any of them, but she is not particularly bad at any of them either.

Haruta tested Fuyu by telling her to solve the past exam questions of the school she is going to attend, her score appears to be not bad.

Fuyu said going back to her old house has helped her to focus on her study.

“You’re doing great Fuyu. Keep up the good work and you’ll surely pass the entrance exam.”

“Yes, onii-chan. I will do my best.”

Haruta believes that while teaching academics is important, it is not less important to prepare Fuyu’s mental state either.

Fuyu is the type of person that grows with praise—and if her older brother tells her to do her best, she will definitely do her best.

For better or worse, she would do anything Haruta says. She trusts her older brother unconditionally.

In that case, it would be best to praise and reassure her than to make her feel anxious.

On top of that, Haruta loves to praise his little sister.

“Shall we continue a little more? I can still do it, I’m not tired yet. I can still dance.”

“You don’t have to dance. This is not some kind of TV show…hmm? Your phone is ringing.”

“Ah, excuse me for a minute…hmm? It’s from Rei-chan.”

“Reizen?”

It seems that Fuyu got a message on Line.

“She asked me if I want to study with them at her house.”

“Now? Ah, they just finished school, but Fuyu has been studying hard since morning…”

“But they invited me, I’ll go.”

“Really? Well, you might go to different high schools, but it might be nice to study together.”

“Yes.”

In the end, Fuyu will not go to the same high school as Haruta…

Even if nothing had happened, Fuyu probably won’t be accepted to Yurinkan high school with her current grades.

Hikawa and Reizen, who will take the Yurinkan high school entrance exam, seem to have something on their minds, but Fuyu doesn’t seem to care.

“I’d like to ask you about ‘Reizen-go’ and your secret tutoring sessions with Rei-chan.”

“……!?”

“Just kidding. Ah, we’re planning to have dinner together tonight.”

“…ah, don’t mind about my dinner, I can grab something to eat later tonight. Just text me when you’re done, I’ll pick you up later.”

“Thank you, onii-chan.”

Fuyu smiles and leaves the living room with her notebooks and problem books.

Then not long after, Fuyu comes back to the living room after changing.

“What is that, you are dressed like Hikawa today.”

“Hi-chan told me to.”

Khaki jumper, high neck sweater, mini denim skirt, and a pair of black knee socks.

Fuyu has her brown hair braided and she wears a brown cap.

“Hi-chan told us to dress like literary girls.”

“You look really good in that too.”

“Hehehe, thanks onii-chan. Then, I’ll get going now.”

“Yeah, have a safe trip.”

“Yes.”

Fuyu leaves the living room again—or so Haruta thought.

Fuyu turns around and kisses Haruta softly.

“I almost forgot to kiss you goodbye.”

“I think I saw this same pattern this morning.”

“It’s onii-chan who held me back this morning.”

“I don’t think so.”

Haruta chuckles, grabs Fuyu by her waist and kisses her passionately.

“Nhnnn…onii-chan. ♡”

The two of them are enjoying each other’s lips. Haruta then grabs Fuyu’s butt through her mini denim skirt, and squeezes her tightly.

After some time of enjoying the sweet lips and the soft butt of Fuyu—

“…nhnnn. ♡ I’m going to be late…we’ll continue this later, onii-chan.”

“Yeah.”

Fuyu laughed while blushing and kisses Haruta one last time before she leaves.

This time, she really leaves.

It’s not good to study all the time, she should have some time hanging out with her friends as well.

After all that had happened there, Haruta wants Fuyu to have a good life here.

Haruta then sits on the sofa.

Although their rooms are now separate, they flirt with each other more than before now.

But since Fuyu returned, their father often comes home early, so they no longer can take baths together.

They often kiss and hug each other passionately, and if things get exciting, they sometimes even go further than that.

But the last line has not been crossed, although it may only be a matter of time.

Is it really okay for Haruta to have such a relationship with Fuyu who is definitely his little sister mentally?

Haruta has a hunch that…

Perhaps the next time it happens, neither ethic or morality longer matters—and they will.

But that is not the main problem.

The problem is, Haruta now has—a girlfriend.

“…I’ll do some editing for Akiho.”

Haruta was so busy preparing for the festival that he hardly had a chance to talk with Akiho, he only talked to Akiho while preparing the stage for her live.

Harura will need to have a serious discussion with Akiho soon.

Haruta is aware that he is very selfish and got carried away.

There is no way that neither Fuyu and Akiho have nothing to say about this situation.

Haruta selfishly left Akiho alone to take Fuyu back with him after all.

Perhaps—editing her live video would be Haruta’s last involvement with Akiho.

Even if it is Haruta has no right to say anything about it.

‘It doesn’t matter how much Akiho blames and resents me, I don’t want to part with Akiho.’

Haruta thought so to himself.

Akiho presence has grown to be a big part in Haruta’s life, he is not sure he is ready to part with her—

“…let’s start working on it.”

Haruta shakes all of those thoughts from his head and starts working on the video.

“I should do it on the PC.”

Haruta has a personal laptop himself, but it’s old and has low specs.

The Sakuraba family has a PC in the living room, their father bought it to compose music in his free time, but in the end, he is too busy with work that he never has time to do it.

Even though it’s not a gaming PC, but it has good enough specs for Haruta and Fuyu to play some games on it.

“I want to build a gaming PC…”

Haruta mumbles so as he starts up the PC.

The siblings are considering to build a gaming PC once Fuyu is accepted into her high school.

Fortunately, Haruta has some money from his part time job. So, he can use those money to build the PC.

Haruta starts to download the data that he has uploaded to the cloud and starts editing.

“Hmm…three songs, that’s a lot of work.”

Haruta has edited some of Akiho’s U Cube videos before.

However, as U Cubers often say ‘It takes six minutes to edit a ten-minute video’. Video editing takes a lot of time.

Haruta is a very detailed person, so he usually ends up putting too time and effort in editing videos.

Haruta recorded Akiho’s performance with a digital camera and his smartphone, but on top of that, the festival committee also recorded it with a separate camera.

The festival committee has uploaded the video into the cloud so that Haruta and Akiho can download it.

“Ugh, I shouldn’t have gotten carried away and used two cameras…”

In addition, that there is too much material for Haruta to edit, there are three songs in this video. It will take a lot of time.

Haruta plans just to edit the three videos together and see what Akiho has to say about it.

Well, that was the plan—

“Hmm…”

Haruta ended up devoting too much effort and time again in editing the video.

It’s hard to edit out any of the part Akiho wearing those three outfits in her three different songs, they are just too good to be edited out.

Akiho wore three different outfits for her performance: her usual school uniform, a lady-like one-piece dress, and the rocker outfit.

Haruta decides to use more of Akiho’s close up shots than using odd angles.

Haruta can confirm that Akiho is a cute girl who is no less beautiful than Fuyu

And—

“You really look like witch-san, Akiho.”

Haruta chuckles.

When Haruta edits the video, he can clearly see that she looks exactly like her mother which he saw the other day.

Akiho’s mother is so young that it’s difficult to see them as a mother and daughter, people would even think that they are sisters.

An idea suddenly appears in Haruta’s head.

How about having Akiho’s mother to be in her U Cube channel?

As Haruta thinks about it—

“I’m home. Hmm, it’s just you Haruta?”

“Ah dad, welcome home. It’s 6PM…?”

“Even can I come home early sometimes, you know? I went for work earlier than usual this morning after all. Where Fuyu?”

“She went to study with her friends today. Ah, she also said she will have dinner with them tonight.”

Haruta is surprised it’s already this late.

Video editing indeed takes a lot of time.

“Sorry, I haven’t done any shopping. I’ll get us some bento.”

“No, it’s fine. We will go together later. There’s a bento shop that I’m interested in for quite some time now. If it’s delicious, let’s buy it for Fuyu next time.”

“We’re not test subjects, are we?”

“You won’t get a stomach ache no matter what you eat, right? Hmm? What is this, a live concert?”

“Ah, it’s the light music club’s performance at the school festival. I’m editing the video for my friend.”

“Hmm, I like this handmade stage.”

His father stares at the PC monitor for quite some time.

“Can you show it to me? I used to go to concerts when I was young. Ahh, those were good times.”

“Yeah sure, you can see it.”

As Haruta about to play back the video from the start—

“Hmm?”

A Line message appears on Haruta’s phone which was left beside the keyboard.

Haruta picks his phone up—

Akiho: ‘Haru, can I go to your place now?’

Haruta: ‘That’s sudden. Now?’

Akiho: ‘I want to watch my yesterday’s live performance video as soon as possible. I just woke up a little while ago.’

Haruta: ‘How long have you been asleep?’

Akiho: ‘I went all out on yesterday’s performance, you know?’

Haruta: ‘That’s true. Well, you can come, but it’s already dark now. Shall I pick you up?’

Akiho: ‘No, it’s fine. I’m already near your house. I’ll be there in a minute.’

“…huh.”

Haruta sighs.

“Ah, that’s right. Dad, you said you wanted to meet the person who’s been coming here to listen to our compo for a long time. Now she—”

“Haruta.”

“Hmm?”

Haruta’s father who is looking at the monitor, has an astonishing look on his eyes.

He is not even looking at Haruta.

“Is this singing girl a friend of yours…?”

“Yeah, we’re in the same class.”

“Same class…she’s the same age as you, right…?”

“Yeah, of course.”

She is not just a friend, she is Haruta’s girlfriend, but he is too embarrassed to explain it.

Besides, under the current circumstances, it’s doubtful what will happen to their relationship.

“This girl…is her last name ‘Tsukuyomi’…?”

“Hmm? Did I tell you her name?”

“…no, you didn’t.”

“Huh?”

What in the world is his father talking about?

“Haruta, I told you before. My previous divorce before the one with Fuyu’s mother—the one with your real mother.”

“What in the world is this actually about? Yeah, you told me before…but I didn’t really listen to it. My head was too full of information that time.”

“That’s… No way that’s…”

“What are you talking about?”

“No…I just thought that this girl and I might have the same taste in music.”

“I don’t get what you’re saying.”

As Haruta tilts his head—

“Ding dong.”

The bell rings.

“Coming.”

Haruta is curious about what his father has to say, but he can’t have Akiho waiting at the door.

When Haruta opens the door, Akiho is standing there.

Akiho is dressed in a black hoodie, hot pants, and black knee socks.

“You only wear a hoodie? You must be cold.”

“I have high tolerance of cold. I don’t like to wear thick jackets. What about Fuyu-chan, is she home?”

“She’s having dinner with her friends tonight, but my dad is home instead.”

“……”

“This is my dad that you wanted to meet for so long—what is it?”

Akiho almost falls as she is about to take her shoes off. Haruta hurriedly supports her.

“Ah, thanks.”

“……?”

Haruta tilts his head while holding Akiho’s body by her shoulders and waist.

Akiho thanked him, but she remained to sit on the floor and would not look up.

“What’s wrong Akiho? Are you still tired?”

“Yeah…I might have gone a little too much yesterday.”

“Or maybe you’re still half asleep. You haven’t completely woken up, have you?”

“I’m fine, I have woken up completely…I guess.”

“…is that so.”

Obviously, there is something wrong with Akiho, but—

Anyway, Haruta takes her to the living room.

“Hmm?”

Halfway down the hallway, Akiho tugs Haruta’s sleeve.

“What’s wrong Akiho?”

“I’m sorry Haru. I really didn’t mean to—”

“Hmm? Well, I know you want to check the video as soon as possible, but please tell me if you’re coming. I’m not a middle school student.”

“It’s…”

Akiho lets go of Haruta’s sleeve and quietly follows Haruta to the living room.

“Dad, this is the girl from the video. Her name is Tsukuyomi Akiho—”

“……!?”

Haruta’s father turned around in surprise.

Haruta’s father froze as he stares at Akiho’s face—

“Nice to meet you, I’m Tsukuyomi Akiho—Sakuraba Shintaro-san.”

“……! I-I can’t believe you’re really…but that face of yours…!”

“Akiho…? How did you know my dad’s name…?”

“Of course I know that.”

For some reason, Akiho closes her eyes and lowers her head—then she suddenly looks up and smiles.

It’s a big smile that even Haruta had never seen before.

“Tsukuyomi Akiba—you know my mother’s name very well, don’t you?”

“Y-You’re really her…you’re Akiba’s…!”

Haruta doesn’t understand what Akiho and his father is talking about.

No, he can vaguely guess what they’re talking about—but his emotions are stopping him from understanding it completely.

“I should greet you too, Haru—no.”

Akiho frowns sadly for a moment.

Then she chuckles.

“Nice to meet you, onii-chan.”