Parents remarried. Now my lover starts referring to me as "Onii~chan" - Chapter 2 Part 4

“Grandmother, can I come along with you as well?”

Perhaps unable to have any more patience, Neneka stood up while asking her grandmother.

However, stepgrandmother didn’t give her permission that easily.

“Neneka, wait here with your father because it’s dangerous”

“I don’t like it! I’m going too! If you say Onii-chan is such a dangerous person then, show me the proof!”

“Neneka…”

“I trust Onii-chan, so I want my grandmother to also know that Onii-chan is a kind and upright person!”

Seeing Neneka’s serious eyes, her grandmother also seemed to get a bit flustered.

She nodded reluctantly and allowed Neneka to accompany her.

“Okay, I understand… then come along with me.”

This way, Neneka, her grandmother and I went to my room.

And after a while, along with Neneka and her grandmother, we arrived in front of my room on the second floor.

“This is my room.”

Hearing my words, stepgrandmother entered my room and she began to gaze at every corner of my room ever so carefully.

“There doesn’t seem to be anything suspicious from what I can see upfront…”

–No, that was a given.

Hearing stepgrandmother muttering these things, I retorted in my heart.

Till now I had been living alone with my mother, and she had absolutely zero delicacy when it came to being mindful about me. While cleaning the room, if she by chance found any of my treasures, exciting manga or magazines, she would have the most inhuman response by just arranging them on my study desk.

I thought it would have been nice to pretend not to notice even if she did notice it. But, why bother to specifically arrange them neatly in numerical order?

I could actually imagine my mother looking inside and think, “So this is my son’s hobby and preferences huh… Humu-Humu,” thinking that, I got so embarrassed that my heart breathed its last.

In order to not let this form of torture happen again, I made sure to thoroughly camouflage the storage location so as not to repeat any of the mistakes I made in the past.

“Taking that aside, how are you going to test my iron-like reasoning?”

When I said that, stepgrandmother took something out of her bag and slammed it in front of me.

“I’m going to test your reason with this.”

“Yes…?”

stepgrandmother came up with a magazine in which a gravure idol on the cover was wearing a bathing suit while posing suggestively.

“If you really have an iron-like reasoning, you shouldn’t be able to think anything perverted even if you see this… shouldn’t you?”

stepgrandmother held a poker face while she waited for me to react to the magazine. Still, I remained calm and collected.

–Moreover, under these circumstances, I didn’t think any reasonable man would be aroused even if they were shown a gravure idol magazine in such an impromptu interrogation.

It seems that I would be questioned if my line of sight was shifted a little. I strolled around the pages of the magazine and thought…

–I wondered if she really thought she could test my iron-like reasoning with this…?

First of all, did she take the trouble to buy this for me…?

That gravure idol posing on the cover… Was it a coincidence that she looked similar to Neneka? Or did this grandmother purposefully choose this idol since it resembled Neneka the most?

I almost laughed when I imagined this grandmother choosing an adult magazine desperately at the corner of a convenience store.

Dangerous, dangerous… If I showed her a grin now, she would definitely misinterpret the situation.

I kept a poker face and tried to kill any hint of laughter that I might had.

–“Hmm. It seems you have enough mental willpower to remain unfazed by this level of a trick.”

“Naturally.”

And as I said that, stepgrandmother wrinkled her nose unfavorably.

Was it my win then?

“With this, does it prove that I am a safe existence for Neneka?”

With a severe look on my face, I asked this question to Neneka’s grandmother.

I was doubtful that these tests would actually prove that anyone would be a rational person to begin with. Anyways, since this person had put me through this test, it should be fine as long as I could convince her.

However, stepgrandmother was far from being convinced.

“Not yet… This is just the beginning. The real test will start from here on out.”

stepgrandmother approached Neneka and stood behind her.

What was she planning to do?

The stress in both Neneka and I rose.

And while Neneka and I watched. stepgrandmother…

–“Well, how about this?”

Suddenly, stepgrandmother rolled up Neneka’s uniform skirt…

Because of her bold action, now Neneka’s underwear was exposed in front of my eyes.

Now even if her skirt came down and hid her panties’ existence, the image of Neneka’s underwear was firmly burnt into my mind.

–Pink…

This was bad, really bad. I shouldn’t get flustered now…

No matter what I saw, I mustn’t get flustered now. One by one, I needed to erase these emotions that were appearing.

However, my poker face was already gone.

It wasn’t because I saw Neneka’s underwear. It was instead because, my mixed stirred-up emotions caused by the actions taken by this grandmother’s unexpected and bold behavior.

Who, in their right state of mind, would ever think that their own grandmother would roll their precious granddaughter’s skirt in such a place? No one, right? Or so I thought.

Even Neneka wouldn’t have thought about that. Naturally, Neneka was even more stirred-up than me.

“G-G-G-Gran-n-n-nd-mother! Wha-wha-what-what are you even thinking doing this!”

Neneka’s face was bright red.

Perhaps she was too embarrassed, but it looked as if she was about to cry, her eyes were holding back her tears.

However, this old lady didn’t even bother to check on Neneka at all. She was more concerned about whether my face cracked and whether I was a pervert or not.

“Oya-Oya? It seems that you got a little flustered there. Don’t tell me that you got lustful seeing my granddaughter’s panties now, did you?”

While looking at me, stepgrandmother smiled triumphantly showing her own victory.

Next to her, Neneka was still trying to hold back her tears.

When I saw such a state of Neneka in front of me, I heard something snap inside me.

“Now you understand, don’t you? Your own shallowness. Then, I will be taking Neneka home with me…”

“Just wait there for a second.”

My voice was colder and lower than usual.

“Huh?”

“I tolerated being one-sidedly attacked until now, being hopeful… that we could understand each other if I showed and proved my sincerity, you know? But apparently, even after all and everything of that, it was still beyond your comprehension, wasn’t it…!?”

“Wha-What is it now? After looking inside Neneka’s skirt, somehow your appearance changed drastically… So, you were a beast after all!?”

“Beast, beast… You sound like a broken toy… LEARN TO NOTICE THE CONSEQUENCS OF YOUR OWN ACTIONS!”

My anger exploded.

These emotions I was able to suppress and control till now had finally reached their boiling point.

My feelings erupted out.

“I only reacted the way I did because of YOU, you old lady! Out of nowhere, you suddenly decide to embarrass Neneka to the point of tears! I understand that you want to see if I’m trustworthy, but to use your own granddaughter to pull such a cheap trick. You should be ashamed of yourself. You purposefully skirted YOUR OWN GRANDDAUGHTER, someone you said was important to you, and in front of a guy whom you were yet to trust as if it wasn’t a big deal! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU DID!?”