My Younger Stepsister with whom I have never spoken to is an online friend from a game into which I have been fooling around for years. - Chapter 8.4
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Chapter 8: An Usual Event
Translated by: White Fanatic
Edited by: SevenTails
(Part 4)
“About the earlier classroom incident. I think I’ve become a bit blind to my surroundings lately… And thanks to you, I think I can play out certain hands to tackle that problem now.”
“Is that so? Then I’m glad. But is that all you want to talk about?”
“Nope, I’m kind of curious about something you see.”
“Curious about something, heh.”
As I suspected, it is about Kenta Sakaguchi’s involvement in the matter with Shiyori. As for me, I don’t know much about that perspective at all, though. I have never even talked to him and have no more information about him other than rumours.
And as I looked closely at Nanjo Rin, I saw that she was getting tight-lipped, feeling somewhat reluctant to talk about that. Did she perhaps overhear some unfavourable rumours about him?
“Say, are you and Yoshida-san, umm, dating?
“… Haaah?”
From the mouth opening with the intention of asking me a question came an unexpected line. Unable to comprehend the meaning of the question, I stood there and fumbled. I must have looked like an idiot.
I do want to get close to Shiyori. That is true.
However, I had never thought about going out with her or anything like that until she just put those words in front of me just now.
Seeing my face, Nanjo Rin’s face turns bright red, getting all flustered and fidgeting on her spot with constant changes in her expression in various ways.
“Y—you go by the same train station, and then you seem to care a lot about us, or something like that. I just thought it was already something like that… but after seeing your expression, that doesn’t seem to be the case. I see, so you must be a guy who has never had any luck with a girlfriend or anything, or maybe someone now interested in girls, or maybe just some unsocial guy who is not popular enough among girls.”
“Huh!? Shut up, you thick makeup girl!”
“Wha—! I’m different right now, though!”
“Then ex-thick makeup girl!”
Nanjo Rin quickly tried to make excuses for her behaviour, and I retorted quickly as well.
… But for some reason, my heart aches. Is that because it was a question out of my line of thought?
—Shiyori and I are stepsiblings.
If I were to tell Nanjo Rin, I’m sure she would begin to understand why things are like this. Since I have been under her care for so long, maybe I should mention it to her. I am very much self-aware that I am being dishonest.
However, if I were to put that information before her, I feel like it would make the situation a bit too mugged up.
“Okay, taking pity upon Kurai’s lacking youthful life, lemme give you a bit of a service. Uri Uri~”
“Oy, stop it! You’re getting too close!”
“Wai—t, you’re running away at this time~? Ah, this guy is just beyond naive, just a simple loser.”
“Give me a break already. I’m not used to dealing with girls at all.”
Getting my cheeks mushed up as teasing since it startled me, I got away immediately.
Nanjo Rin is, without a doubt, a beautiful girl.
If a girl like that exerts skinship on me, as any healthy boy would be, I might be inclined to react in all sorts of inappropriate ways in retaliation. After all, it’s troublesome for us. However, the person in question, Nanjo Rin, grinned happily, saying things like ‘heeh’ and ‘hoh.’ Somehow, I felt like she found out my weakness. It felt a little frustrating.
“Mo—More than that! Have you overheard or heard any news about Sakaguchi?”
“By Sakaguchi, you mean that… that boy who is a matter of interest for some girls? That? What rumours are you—”
“!?”
“… (Shhh!)”
At the same time, I heard the sound of the heavy door rattling opening. Fortunately, it was from somewhere downstairs, different from where we were. If we control our breath well, they would probably never find out about our presence at all.
“Ahhh, f*&%k. I just can’t do this. That Yoshida girl is really pissing me off right now.”
“She just became so colourful all of a sudden. She’s probably just some guy anyway. A G—U—Y.”
“Rather, I’m sure she’s already opened her legs for Sakaguchi-kun, right? Girls like that seem to have a lot of fun with guys after all.”
“If that’s real, it would really be the worst. I don’t want to think that our Sakaguchi-kun has already been defiled by such a shadowy-dark person at that, though.”
It was a group made up of several girls. There were also girls with familiar voices. What kind of connection did they have between them? … No, more than that…
Rather than concerning myself about their true identity, the way they directed their malice openly towards Shiyori made my blood rush to my head to the point that my brain boiled red-hot. Somehow, I managed to keep my composure enough not to jump out of my way and confront them, all thanks to Nanjo Rin. It was because she had squeezed my hand with such force that her white-fish-like fingers turned pale blue at that.
“Thanks to that, I got called a b***h behind my back. Well, it’s not something uncommon at all, though.”
Aaah, now I get it. Most probably, it’s similar to the malicious feelings Nanjo Rin experienced previously.
They were now directed at Shiyori.
‘If it were directly me, I would have accepted them just fine, but.’ I can feel something like that coming from her.
It was so repulsive that I felt like vomiting. Without being aware of Shiyori’s effort and courage behind her transformation, they would just irresponsibly curse the results of her efforts enviously and viciously behind her back. Even Nanjo Rin had the same feeling of not forgiving anyone who would badmouth Shiyori in that way.
“So, did you tell Yoshida’s guy about our agreement regarding Sakaguchi-kun properly?”
“The way she’s a bit pretentious about her hair and all, yeah, a little bit.”
“Nn~ Well, we all talked to her at length that day, so I guess she already got that really good already, didn’t she?”
“Kyahaha~ I wish we had recorded her face at that moment. She must have learned her lesson that day after all.”
“And if she still doesn’t understand anything about that, we can always talk to her thoroughly later as well, right~ ♪?”
“And then we can—”
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