Reincarnated as the Promiscuous Protagonist in a Netori Game, Only to Find the Heroine, My Step-Sister, Already Threatened to Be a Submissive Slave~ Liberating the Slave and Planning to Leave Home, Yet Unexpectedly Becoming Loved by My Step-Sister~ - Chapter 4 - A New Beginning
Chapter 4 – A New Beginning
“Ah, welcome back, you two~”
Mizuki-san warmly welcomed me and Tsumugi when we returned home together.
After a while, Genzo also returned.
“Ah, welcome home, Dad …I guess I’m not ready to leave home yet.”
“…I see.”
He was still very quiet, but I thought he looked a little happy.
We finished dinner without particular problem, and I, still feeling awkward, went to my room early.
“I’m back in this room in the end…”
It gives me the chills to think that this room is secondhand from a playboy.
But Genzo had this house built when he married. The rooms are spacious and clean as if the house was a new one.
And since the boxes haven’t even been unpacked, there are no signs of Takuma using this room.
I will use this room with gratitude.
I laid down on the bed.
“Phew… A lot has happened today… And I feel really tired…”
Like that, I fell asleep—
“——WHOAA!?!?!?”
At midnight, I woke up screaming.
“Hah… Hah… Huh…”
I held my chest down as if in agony.
“Damn it… What was that… You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”
While I was sleeping, I saw Takuma’s memories. Seriously, how much does he make women cry… It’s a nightmare for me.
“It has nothing to do with me…!”
I don’t feel like watching those memories ever again…
Unable to sleep again, I left the room.
“Nii-san…?”
When I went to the kitchen, I found Tsumugi in her pajamas.
“Ah…”
I was still uncomfortable and reflexively tried to run away. Somehow, I managed to stay where I was by putting strength into my legs.
“Can’t sleep?”
“…Well, something like that.”
“Please wait at the table for a moment.”
“……?”
“I’m brewing hot cocoa. Actually, I can’t sleep either…”
Tsumugi must have some feelings of confusion about the current situation. The past few weeks must have been hell for her every day and every night.
I followed her words and got to the table.
A few minutes later, Tsumugi came with a mug in each hand.
“Enjoy. Careful, it’s hot.”
“Thank you.”
“Kyaa—!!!”
When Ireceived the mug, our hands touched each other slightly. At that moment, Tsumugi shuddered and withdrew her hand.
The mug with cocoa fell to the floor and broke.
“I-I’m sorry—Ouch!!”
“Stupid, don’t touch it!”
Blood poured from Tsumugi’s fingers as she tried to pick up the mug fragments.
I took her hand involuntarily.
“——!!!”
However, Tsumugi’s body stiffened as if she was frightened of me holding her hand.
“…Ah, I… I… W-Wait, it’s not what you think…”
“…Sorry.”
I stood up and distanced myself from Tsumugi.
“I wonder where the first-aid kit is.”
“Ah, that’s…”
I’m an idiot. I was on the verge of getting carried away, feeling even slightly accepted by her.
Until just yesterday, by Tsukishiro Takuma’s hands, she was…made a slave.
No matter how many times she says it with words or believe in me with her heart, her response was natural.
I took a bandage from the first-aid kit on the shelf.
“I’ll try not to touch you, give me your hand.”
“Y-Yes…”
I treated her wounds, taking great care not to touch her directly.
Then I moved on to cleaning up the broken cups. Tsumugi offered to help, but I told her not to.
“Well then, I’m going back. I’m so sorry.”
“W-Wait a minute…!”
Tsumugi rushed towards me hurriedly. Without slowing down, she hugged me from the front.
“W-What are you…!”
“I’m not afraid…!”
“You don’t have to force yourself.”
I gently pulled Tsumugi off of me.
“I’m not forcing myself!”
But Tsumugi resisted.
Squeezee.
She wrapped her hands behind my back and embraced me.
At first, her body was visibly trembling. However, gradually, the trembling became smaller and smaller.
“Please stroke my head.”
“Eh? Your head?”
“Just stroke my head, please.”
“O-Okay…”
Fearfully, I reached for the top of her flaxen hair.
“Nnn…”
When my hand touched her, she pressed her head against me as if begging me to do more.
I started moving my hand around her head. Tsumugi closed her eyes, as if she was enjoying herself.
“As I thought, it’s different.”
Eventually, Tsumugi muttered.
“Yesterday it was cold, but now it’s very warm and gentle…”
“…Is that so…?”
“Yes. So, I’m okay now.”
Tsumugi’s trembling had already stopped completely.
Afterwards, Tsumugi made hot cocoa again.
Perhaps the warm cocoa had calmed my heart, and for the first time I felt like I was able to have a calm conversation.
And then—
“Hey, are you sure you want to stay like this…?”
“Of course, Nii-san…♪”
Tsumugi was lying on my bed.
Just when it seemed like she had slightly opened up, she unexpectedly said she wanted to sleep together.
“Good night, Nii-san.”
“…Goodnight.”
There’s no way I can sleep like this!!!
“Suu, suu…”
After just a few minutes, I could hear Tsumugi’s sleeping breaths in my ear. Listening to the regular melody, which I heard this morning too, my eyelids strangely became heavy.
“Somehow… It’s calming…”
I gave up my consciousness.
And the nightmare didn’t come back.
“Good morning, Nii-san.”
When I woke up in the morning, Tsumugi’s face filled my field of vision.
“…G-Good morning. What are you doing?”
“I was looking at Nii-san.”
“Were you having fun?”
“Yes, Nii-san is good-looking, after all.”
It’s true that Takuma’s face is handsome, but…
I felt embarrassed being seen like that, so I raised my body to escape.
After that, Tsumugi also raised herself, got off the bed and stood up.
“Nii-san, Nii-san.”
“Hmm? What is it?”
“Let’s shake hands.”
She held out a hand.
“We slept together, but you didn’t do anything to me.”
“Ah…”
It must have been something incredibly unlikely for her.
“As a girl, it’s a bit complicated for me, but you’ve proven yourself.”
“Proven?”
“Yes. That the you right now have truly been reborn.”
“…I see…”
Surely, she couldn’t be more convinced than this.
“So I was being tested.”
“Yes, that’s right. Let’s just put it that way.”
Tsumugu smiled with a hint of ambiguity.
“So, let’s shake hands.”
“Yeah.”
“Please take care of me from now on.”
“Yeah, me too.”
We shook our hands for the first time.
And so this reincarnation story makes a new start——