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Episode 3: Tanaka

“Nii-san, please wake up. It’s already morning.”

“… Just another thirty minutes more.”

“… Let’s make it till ‘five minutes,’ shall we? Look, if you don’t get up early, the breakfast will be gone. I’ll eat it all up.”

“… you’ll inflate.”

“Ugh! A~A AAH, I don’t care about Nii-san anymore! Just fall down from somewhere and die already.

“…Sorry, sorry. I’ll wake up. I’ll wake up already.”

Somehow getting my body off the bed, I stand.

“Mou! I wish you’d have done that from the very beginning.”

“Sorry, I’m in a rebellious phase.”

“Isn’t it too late? Even though it should also be over with me.”

“In modern times, the rebellious period is getting late each year.”

Well… I’ve never had a rebellious period ever in my life, though.

“So, what’s for breakfast today?”

“It’s as always.”

She said that curtly and returned to the living room.

Let me wash my face first.

I left my room, stood at the washbasin, and checked my face in the mirror.

Un, it’s a standard face, as usual.

Since my sister is gorgeous, my normality stands out ever more distinct.

I quickly washed my face and returned to the living room to find Karen sitting await.

“I always say this, but it is okay to eat first, okay?”

“I always say this, but I don’t want to.”

It seems that my sister wants to eat along with me.

Things like this make Karen look even cuter.

“Hurry up and sit down. We can’t start eating else.”

“Yes”

“Now put your hands together. Itadakimasu.”

“Itadakimasu”

We both start eating out breakfast together.

All was the same as usual, but there’s one thing that was not.

“Say, did you use different butter today?”

“Yes, I tried something different than usual. Is it not delicious?”

“No, it’s not that it’s not delicious, but…”

Yes, the taste isn’t that different, but the smell is … somehow stands out like poison.

“Well, it’s good, I guess.”

“Is that so.”

I don’t know… but somehow Karen seems to be feeling … somewhat strangely happier than before.

Did something good happen, perhaps?

“Rather, why don’t you start eating the rest sooner? We don’t have much time before school.”

“That is also true.”

When I looked at the time from the clock, it wasn’t a time to hurry about, but it was also not more than enough that I could take it easy.

I put the fried egg in between the two slices of bread and ate it as a sandwich, shortening the time it took to eat.

Lastly, after drinking up the milk.

“Thank you for the meal.”

“Thank you for having the meal.”

After returning to my room, getting the last things done, and lightly fixing my bed hair, it was just about the right time to go our way to school.

Karen came up from behind as I put on my shoes, sitting at the entrance.

“Did you forget anything?”

“Nope.”

“And after saying that, when we arrive at school, you start remembering, ‘Ah, I forgot that, or ‘Oh no, I forgot this,’ don’t you?”

“It’s fine, today at least.”

“Really?”

She gives me a suspicious look, but I’m okay today.

I just checked everything earlier.

“Then, shall we go ahead?”

“Yes, let’s go.”

We both leave together.

But well, we will be going different ways from halfway.

It seems that Karen doesn’t want to arrive at school alongside me.

It’s not that she hates me, but rather due to something that happened in junior high school. She is quite conscious of this. She said, ‘Since I might cause Nii-san trouble again, so,’ or such was her reason.

Even though I don’t care.

Some people with good intuition suggested that we might be siblings, but when she said, “He doesn’t look like me at all,” all agreed with her and left.

It was sad happening.

“Then I’ll go first from here on.”

“Yeah, then we’ll meet at home again.”

We break our ways a little before the place where it gets crowded.

After walking for a few more minutes.

Finally, my school came into view.

“UMM! Ta–Tanaka-san!”

…I have a bad feeling about this.

I’m not Tanaka.

My real name is Yuugao Sakura.

It’s definitely, definitely not Tanaka Taro.

“Wait! Hey! Tanaka-san!”