When I, a streamer with some more than 10 registered subscribers, announced my retirement with a face-reveal; as all my viewers were the Madonnas of the school, I ended up losing my current place at school all in all. - 23_ Bumping into my little sister

23_ Bumping into my little sister

I — I came in.

I just can’t get used to it. This is the first time I’ve been in such a fashionable place. There are a student-couples around, and even those who look like married-couple or simple couples who seem to be getting along well.

Kuu, I feel so envious.

In front of me, Shizuhara-san was prying into the order list and choosing her menu.

I had already made up my selection and ordered a cup of hot cocoa.

It was still early in April, and there was still some winter chill left in the air, so I was craving something warm and refreshing.

Oh, it seems that Shizuhara-san had also decided on what she would want to order.

“o, what are you going to order?”

“Nn well I think, something luike hot coffee and pancakes.”

Uwaa, it’s that pancakes which are the all time favorites for every fashionable girl.

So even Shizuhara-san eats stuff like that. Pancakes are basically carbohydrates, aren’t they?

Although it seems very much unlikely that she would eat pancakes on a daily basis in the breakfast, but if she loves that kind of food, she can’t overlook the possibility of gaining weight eventually as well.

So then why …… why is she so slim?

Let’s stop staring at her that intently.

Instead, let’s address what’s bothering me right now shall we.

I’ve been passing it off as some kind of joke until now, but it’s about time I reached my limit.

“Oh, really? That sounds great.”

“I know right! I love pancakes.”

“Maybe I’ll try a pancake for myself as well too.”

“O~h, so will Hiroto-kun also want to have some? That’ll be great, go on and order as well.”

“Un. I’ll be pleased to. …… So then, Shizuhara-san?”

After pushing the button to call the waiter, I took some courage and bravely spoke to Shizuhara-san to get an answer to the question I had been wondering about since earlier.”

“Nn, What is it?”

Shizuhara-san looked at me with pure and innocent eyes.

Ugh, it’s hard to ask that questions when she looks at me like this.

No, for if I don’t ask, things will remain as they are forever. It’s the last thing I want to happen, that we don’t make any progress.

“Umm, so well the thing is, even though this table is a four-seater, why are you sitting right next to me?”

Yes, for some reason, even though we were sitting at a table which closely resembles that of a family restaurant, with two side-by side seats, she, Shizuhara-san was sitting right next to me.

Ha~ah, just why?

Won’t they usually sit on the other side of the table?

Am I perhaps mistaken about my perception?

Do people in general sit next to each other when they come to a four-seater with two people?

If that is the case, then maybe it’s my lack of knowledge or perhaps, a lack of common sense as well.

I would like to believe that I am not in the wrong though.

“Aa~ah, …… Is it, a, no?”

*Ba~kyu~nn！！！！！！

The sheer coyness of Shizuhara-san’s words felt as if my heart had been shot by a shotgun.

Shizuhara-san not only unleashed those very powerful word, 『 Is it, a, no? 』 but also, but at the same time, as if it were not enough, she went ahead and tilted her head cutely to the side.

This small gesture penetrated the walls of the steel heart that had been nurtured by my life living as an introvert for so long.

Shizuhara-san, so terrifying.

You are definitely going into the blacklist of dangerous people.

Well, that all were just jokes, but to sum up briefly what I wanted to say then, ‘Cute!’ is what I wanted to tell.

I don’t even know how to reply to that. Instead of showing that expression to a shadowy introvert like me, please show it to your future potential boyfriend.

Right, to someone like me, for someone like me ……

I don’t know why I feel a tad uncomfortable about it.

“So long, Hiroto-kun!”

“Un, Sayonara.”

After saying that, Shizuhara-san went into her house straight in front of me.

After that time, we sat next to each other and exchanged information about ourselves over pancakes and drinks.

Or so even that I say, we didn’t talk about anything that important, but rather about our favorite subjects and where we graduated from junior high school.

We didn’t talk anything much about as fellow boy and girl and love.

To be honest, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for it.

But deep down inside, I knew what was how things were going to be, so I didn’t feel anything about that particularly.

All right then, I should go back to my house as well.

Shizuhara-san’s house is pretty close to mine.

Since I’ve often seen this scenery around.

If I am not wrong, if I walk 5 minutes from here, I will be able to see my house.

It might be even so that I might bump into Akane on my way back from here.

“Ah, Onii-chan!”

Eh, no way, is this real?

“What are you doing here? In front of someone else’s house. Do–Don’t tell that you were able to make friends?”

[TL: Why do I feel that his younger sister is to blame for him not having any friends…]

Ah, it’s Akane.

I’ve never seen such a quick flag recovery before.

Nn, even so, it seems like she just blurted out something really incredible right now …….

Nope, there’s no way that, Akane, whom I trust so much, would say such a thing, right? Un-un.

For doubting you for even a moment, I’m feel like I’m disqualified as a Anii.

“Ah, Onii-chan. So you wore your glasses properly as I asked you to! As expected of Onii-chan, Daisuki~!”

[TL: Daisuki = I love you so so so much.]

O—, –oh. I love you too, my little sister.

“Ah, but what is Akane doing over here? This is not the route that falls between our normal road to school, right?”

“I was returning home with Kano just until now. Fufu~ Are you feeling jealous now?”

O, —oh?

It’s not that I’m jealous of …… Ah, is she talking about returning home with a friend?

“Yes, I am. Kind of.”

“What’s with that reaction? So boring. Ah, about those glasses, just in case please do keep them on until we get in home got it.”

Oh, c**p, even though I was going to tell her that I would be taking them off, she beat me to it first.

There is nothing more I can do about this. As expected of the member of the high-spec family members (except me).

“Ah, that’s right. Onii-chan, are you going to go straight home after this?”

“Un, that’s the plan.”

“Well, then how about…”

Don’t tell me, she will ask me to hold her backpack for her, right?

“When we get home, how about we play a Ren’ai game together?”

[TL notes: Ren = Relationship/Romance, ai = love — Basically Galge/Otomege and such story games with options.]

Ren’ai Game?