Parents remarried. Now my lover starts referring to me as "Onii~chan" - Chapter 3 Part 5

Chapter 3 Part 5

Translated by White Fanatic

Edited by Idlemousse

[This is the Chapter 3 Part 6 as per the previous releases. Due to some unforeseen issues, the previous translations got deleted. I apologise for the inconvenience. Thank you. I think from Chapter 4 onwards, the links would be the same as in Novelupdates. Thanks again]

“Yeah, as you said… before our parents return home, we have to enjoy some quality time together for ourselves.”

“Un… it’s now or never.”

“Umm, so, what do you want to start with?”

“Hmm… from where, I wonder?”

Up until now, whenever I was in the mood to fool around with Neneka, it wasn’t because I tried to get myself into that kind of atmosphere at all. It just happened so naturally as if I was being guided to such things. And so, it seemed like such things couldn’t happen with just a “Well then, let’s do it!” type of opening.

“I’m kind of getting… nervous,” Neneka said while smiling.

I could see that she was trying hard to soften the complex atmosphere between us.

“Truly… it might be rather tough to suddenly switch ourselves into lover-mode, right?”

“Ah, well then, how about we take a step back and start with sibling-mode, as usual! Okay? Onii-chan.”

As soon as Neneka said this, she came forward and hugged my arms tightly.

She was so cute that I had a feeling she could even win the cute little sister grand prix award at that.

“For a little sister, don’t you think you’re a little too close to your Onii-chan?”

“I’m sorry, since I love Onii-chan very dearly.”

“If you act so cute, I think Onii-chan over here will feel troubled.”

“Fu~fu~. In what way?”

Her big, patchy eyes stared straight at me. They were sparkling expectantly.

“I think it will turn on your Onii-chan’s wolf-switch… or so I think.”

“Wolf-switch? What would happen if that switch would get flipped on?”

“Onii-chan will turn into a wolf at that moment.”

“What would happen when Onii-chan turns into a wolf?”

Like a little girl in elementary school, Neneka continued to ask such innocent questions.

However, the real Neneka was actually in the same grade as me.

As a healthy high school girl, Neneka should be able to know the answer to my question.

Even though knowing it, she dared to ask such questions.

And understanding that fact, there was no way my wolf-switch would stay unswitched in front of the little sweet devil she was pretending to be.

And in that mood, I put my hands on Neneka’s cheeks.

Neneka looked down in complete embarrassment.

Her cheeks were distorted due to being caught between the clasps of my hands.

“Look at me.”

When I said that, Neneka looked up with a downcast, bewildered look on her face.

“… Are you feeling embarrassed?”

“It’s embarrassing…”

“So, do you want to stop…?”

“Eh?”

I couldn’t help but giggle when I saw Neneka’s panicked state because of that.

“Hey!! Don’t tease me so much~!”

“Sorry, sorry.”

“I don’t care anymore. I won’t play along anymore.”

“Eh?”

Neneka turned away in a huff.

Oh shit, did I just tease her… a little too much?

“I’m sorry… Neneka. It’s my fault.”

“… Fufu.”

“Eh?”

As I was apologizing in all seriousness, Neneka burst out laughing.

Apparently, I was being repaid in kind as well.

“Hey, hey, that seriously had me worried, you know!”

“Hehe~. But it was you who did it to me first~.”

“Yes, but…”

“… Say, won’t you continue?”

Neneka looked up at me.

“Won’t you continue?” When she said that the second time, I somehow felt like she was urging me to hurry up.

Getting the feeling that I shouldn’t make her wait for too long, I quickly brought my face right up next to Neneka.

Neneka looked surprised for a moment there but quickly closed her eyes.

Finally, we had our first kiss.

It had been two months since we started dating. We had been living together for one week as well, and finally, this was the day when…

“We’re back!”

–Don.

“Gofu!!”

For a moment, I didn’t know what had just happened.

I got a big jolt on my chest, choked up, and when I came to my senses, I found myself rolling in the hallway.

“Welcome back!… You’re back quite early!”

Neneka ran up to my mother and father as they came in from the front door.

That was when I finally realized what had just happened.

Right when we were about to kiss, Neneka noticed my mother was about to open the front door, and so instead decided to push me out of the way so that she, my mother, wouldn’t see into what we were trying to do.

Due to that push, I fell right to the floor.

— As expected of Neneka, I realized later that it was her quick thinking that got us out of this situation… Adapting to the impending crisis given that we were about to exchange a baiser with each other.

Perhaps she was quite desperate, I mean, she couldn’t control her strength that time. Due to that, I took a pretty good hit.

“I bought some delicious-looking cake and decided to come back home before it went bad…? Daiki? What are you doing laying down there?”

My mother found me lying on the floor and called out to me.

“It’s nothing at all…”

“Nothing at all… if it was really nothing, you wouldn’t be laying there now, would you?”

“Just leave me alone already…”

Because of the pain going through my mind and my body, my voice sounded as inorganic as a robot.

I was about to exchange a kiss with my stepsister when you, my mother, returned home. Due to that, my panicked stepsister decided to push me out of the way, and so that was why I was on the floor… I couldn’t possibly say that.

I just didn’t want her to touch on the topic of why I was getting along so well with the floor, though.

When I picked myself up slowly, I saw Neneka looking at me with an apologetic expression on her face. Without saying anything out loud, her mouth slowly moved to form the words: “I —- Am —- really —- sorry.”

I smiled wryly and nodded my head, since I also recognized that this was way better than being seen exchanging a kiss with my stepsister.

And after a while, it was time for dinner.

Today’s dinner was mainly the side dishes from the department store that my mother had brought home.

Then, after dinner, we all ate the cake that my mother had bought back for us. All four of us had the same chocolate shortcake.

While Neneka’s father was telling me about a famous pastry chef’s limited-time traveling sales at a store, my mother brought over a paper bag to give to Neneka.

“Come to think of it, while I was shopping with Ryosuke-san today, I found some loungewear that I thought would suit you really well, Neneka-chan~. Since I only had a son, I always had this dream of choosing clothes for a girl, you see. If you can, would you please accept it?”

“Waaa, thanks a lot, stepmother!”

“I was planning to give it to you before you took a bath, but I see that you already took it. I’m sorry for the bad timing.” 

“No! I’ll try it on later! I also hardly remember having my mom… choose clothes for me. So this makes me really happy.”

Receiving the paper bag, Neneka, indeed, looked really happy.

“Dad, I’m glad you got remarried to such a nice person. I’m also really happy. Thank you.”

Being thanked so innocently by Neneka, her father smiled shyly.

“Iyaa, I feel really glad to hear you, Neneka, feel that way as well. I, your dad, also feel really really lucky to have met someone like Sana-san after all.”

“Come to think of it, where did dad and stepmother meet?”