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. - 28_ Accepting my present reality

28_ Accepting my present reality

Please don’t send me this kind of message all the way here.

You sound as if you are trying to make me cry on purpose.

However, I won’t cry any more. It is true that I used to play with her in kindergarten as if we were best friends every day.

But now that I’m in high school, I can’t cry every time I say goodbye to a friend.

After all I’m an introvert, a person with a strong mentality strength.

From now on as well, I have to quickly change my mindset appropriately as well. After all, I have a long life ahead of me.

All right then, I wonder what should I make for tonight’s dinner?

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“I’m home.”

“Welcome home, Hiroto.”

Nn? Dad’s voice?

Don’t tell me he’s back. I thought he said that he went to Niigata in Saitama for his job.

According to Mom, Dad would take approximately one year to come back….

I fearfully entered the living room.

There I found Dad was really there, after all. It has been almost a year and a half since I had actually seen him again.

Even for family members, not seeing each other for such a long period of time makes you quite nervous again at first I guess.

“Dad, are you done and came back from work?”

“Nope, it’s more like, I got permission from your mom to come home just for today to share this very important information with Hiroto and Akane today.

‘Something important,’ I wonder what it is.

And even though this is also Dad’s home, why are you bothering to ask Mom’s permission to come here?

… Please don’t say something like you both will be geting a divorce now, will you?

Please do not make me suffer any more than this.

I love this family, we family of four is just the right thing for me. Please don’t make me go through something worse than I already have.

“Is that something ‘Happy’? or is it something ‘Unhappy’?”

“Hmm, well if I have to spell it out, then. It would be up to how you and Akane to decide how to take it as.”

On how me and Akane would take it as? If it is a divorce talk, both me and Akane would definitely be sad, so it wouldn’t be a talk about that?

However, there is a possibility of ‘unhappy’.

The perhaps adultery?

Nope, when it comes to Dad and Mom, it can never be something like that.

Before Dad went off far from home for work, he would always stick around and flirt with mom like every day.

To the degree that it made me feel weird to watch him do it.

Okay then, let’s believe that discussion to be a happy one and wait for him to speak that to us.

“Hiroto, can you call Akane for me? When I said this to Akane earlier, she dashed upstairs for some reason.”

Did Akane as well sense something and thought of something? If she came to the same conclusion as I did, I can understand why she would act that way.

For the time being, let’s just call her. After all, it wouldn’t change the fact that we would have no other choice but to listen to him anyway.

I went upstairs slowly and knocked on the door of Akane’s room while saying the following,

“Akane, Dad says that, since we both are here now, he wants to have a talk with both of us together.”

“Nmm, I u~wa~nderstood.”

Nn? Is something wrong with her voice?

“Your Onii-chan will be going ahead of you, so come down quickly as well, okay.”

There was no reply, however, I did as I said and re-entered the living room and sat down directly in front of the dining room desk where my father was sitting.

“Is Akane all right?”

“She’ll be here soon, she said.”

“I see.”

For some reason, my father’s expression darkened.

I absolutely have no idea what’s going on in his mind.

“Sorry to keep you both waiting.”

When Akane came into the room, my father stopped with his darkened weak expression he had just now shown to me and straightened up his countenance.

I guess even Dad wants to be cool in front of his own daughter after all.

That kind feeling, I can also sympathize with it in someway.

Akane sat down next to me.

“Well then, I’ll just start and get going with talking about the facts first, is that all right with both of you.”

“Yes that’s fine, Dad.”

In contrast to my verbal response, Akane just nodded her head.

“Hiroto, you are not my, this father’s child. You are your mother’s child.”

!?

“And Akane, you are my, this father’s child. You don’t have the blood of your mother in you.”

Akane became completely shocked and blank hearing that.

Akane looked at me with a blank expression when she heard that.

“Well, to make a long story short, you are stepbrother and stepsister.”