While I Was Shutting in My Room for One Year, My Parent Remarried and Now I’m Living Together With Super Beautiful Stepsisters - Chapter 44-45

Chapter 44: Everyone Gathers at the Buffet, Where Nothing Was Supposed to Happen, But…

After the beautiful girls had shown off their swimsuits, I explained to the three sisters and Nanoka-san that Haruka and the others had come too, and we had planned to all enjoy a super luxurious lunch buffet together amicably.

We were shown to a large table, and each of us went freely to get food and return.

“Wow! Anzu-chan eats a ton!”

“Y-yeah. I’m starving.”

Yamada was surprised by Anzu’s eating volume.

It was their usual friendly duo conversation.

“Hey, now, Yuzuna, you have to eat vegetables properly too.”

“I want to eat meat! Besides, it’s a buffet, so let me eat whatever I want.”

Nanoka-san admonished Yuzuna, who was only eating roast beef.

It was their usual affectionate parent-child conversation.

As for these four, things were as usual.

But the seats on both sides of me were dominated by such a sultry atmosphere that I thought they were still at the pool.

“Hey, Aoto-kun. Why is this person here with us too? Did you invite her by any chance?”

“Hey, Aoto? Why are you still siblings with this little sister? Does Aoto really need such a heavy little sister?”

Momiji, sitting to my right, and Haruka, sitting to my left, ignored their food and began interrogating me.

Why was I the only one sandwiched in such heavy air!!

The fancy high-end buffet had not been going down my throat since earlier.

These two really… Sigh. At this point, I had to explain properly.

“Listen, Momiji. As Haruka said earlier, I did tell her we were coming here, but I didn’t invite her or anything. And Haruka, Momiji is already my proper little sister. It’s not about need or anything like that!”

“Aoto-kun… Oh! To think you needed me that much!”

“Don’t interpret it conveniently! I just said it’s not that kind of issue!”

“Huh? Then what? Aoto-kun doesn’t need me? I do the cooking, the laundry, and even the morning calls.”

Momiji said this with a straight face and closed the distance even more.

H-heavier… Well, now that Ms. Mitayama, the housekeeper, was gone, life had become impossible without Momiji.

“By the way, Haruka-san, you’ve cooked for Aoto-kun before, but you haven’t done his laundry or morning calls, right?”

“So what? Just so you know, I’m Aoto’s childhood friend. Of course we’ve bathed together, and I’ve seen Aoto’s… you know, that part and this part.”

“Wh-what! I… I haven’t, but Haruka-san, you haven’t lived in the same house, have you?”

“Th-that… that was just circumstantial! It wasn’t your doing!”

An incomprehensible mounting battle began between the two, so afraid of getting more involved, I seized the chance to stand up and head to the buffet.

I really shouldn’t let those two meet.

“Ah, Big Brother.”

As I headed to the buffet corner, there was Anzu, holding a new plate and hesitating over which to take.

“Oh, Anzu. Already going for seconds?”

“Ah, yes. Everything’s so delicious that I end up eating it right away.”

Anzu said this with an embarrassed, bashful smile.

The nutrition she gained from that huge appetite… this…

I ended up thinking about the large fruits at her chest that had been visible in her swimsuit just a moment ago.

“Big Brother?”

“Ah, no, since it’s a buffet, I think it’s fine to eat as much as you want! Besides, the afternoon is free, so you can nap in the hotel or go sightseeing nearby.”

“You’re right! But in the afternoon, I plan to play Lunares on my tablet! So I have to hold back a little or I’ll get sleepy!”

As she said this, Anzu piled a huge amount of fried chicken onto the large plate in front of her.

Hold back, huh…

Anyway, triplets from the same two eggs, huh.

Watching Anzu, I suddenly recalled what Momiji had said poolside.

Anzu certainly had different traits from those two, but since they were triplets, it was impossible for them all to be the same, and I thought that was fine.

“Eat plenty, Anzu.”

“Huh? Ah, yes…”

Even without me saying it, Anzu was piling fried chicken mountain-high on her plate and topping it with white rice and beef curry.

No, how much are you going to eat…

Well, Anzu was normal in her own way, so I would get some food too.

Now, what to start with.

“Ah, Aoto-senpai!”

As I pondered, Yamada’s voice called from behind.

“Y-you’re eating vegetables properly, right? If you’d like, I can get some for you.”

“It’s fine. Are you eating vegetables, Yamada?”

“I-I don’t! I hate vegetables!”

She couldn’t eat them herself but recommended them to others.

Yamada was being her usual Yamada self.

“More than that… remember about tonight, okay, Aoto-senpai.”

“Huh? Ah, yeah. Right.”

Yes, tonight—I was going to Yamada’s room.

As Yamada’s pretend boyfriend.

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Chapter 45: Alone with Yuzuna…

While I had made that nighttime promise with Yamada (suggestive), first came the afternoon.

We had all spent the morning together at the pool, but the afternoon was basically free time for everyone.

Anzu was playing a game on her tablet in the hotel room, and Momiji and Nanoka-san had said they would enjoy massages and saunas in the hotel’s relaxation area.

Also, Yamada and Haruka, whom we had run into midway (?), seemed to be taking it easy at the hotel facilities.

While everyone had solid plans, I had come without thinking of anything in particular…

“Having Big Brother around makes shopping so much easier~”

For some reason, I ended up accompanying Yuzuna on her shopping trip… No, this was weird.

I walked through the commercial facility near the hotel with Yuzuna, burdened with multiple shopping bags.

“Why am I even on a trip and ending up as your baggage handler?”

“You’re the one who said you’d come along when I mentioned going shopping.”

She was right about that. Playing games with Anzu seemed like it would backfire, going to the relaxation area with Momiji or Nanoka-san felt like it might drag me into something erotic, and hanging out with Yamada or Haruka gave me a bad feeling, so I had decided to head outside the hotel with Yuzuna.

“If you didn’t want to, you didn’t have to come along. Didn’t you have anything else you wanted to do?”

“I didn’t, and I was bored too, but… somehow, I got worried about leaving you alone in a tourist spot like this. You might get hit on or something.”

“No way, that’s totally fine… But thanks, Big Brother. I’ll take one of those.”

Yuzuna said this and took just one from the mountain of shopping bags in my hands to carry herself.

This girl… she only took one in that flow!

“Why are you buying brand clothes that aren’t even local souvenirs or anything?”

“Because Dad gave me spending money for this trip, so I have to use it properly during the trip.”

Dad had sent pocket money to all four of us siblings, including me, for use on this trip.

It was a pretty generous amount for high schoolers, so Yuzuna seemed hyped up and was spending it freely on this shopping spree.

This would just mean more luggage on the way back… Well, I could sort of understand the feeling.

“Besides, I’m not buying stuff without any purpose! Th-the truth is… I forgot one day’s worth of underwear, so I needed some right away.”

“Wh-what? Underwear? What kind of thing do you forget!”

“I was playing guitar right up until the trip, so my packing got sloppy. Well, I figured I could just buy some here.”

Yuzuna laughed it off in her usual gal-like lighthearted way.

Yuzuna really was… Normally she leaned toward being sensible, but when guitars got involved, she turned into a total airhead, or rather, careless.

“So, my underwear is in one of the shopping bags you’re holding, but you absolutely can’t peek.”

“Don’t worry, they’re so heavy I can’t even think about it.”

“…You actually want to look, though.”

“Why do you always try to paint me as some repressed pervert?”

Well, but every time I glimpsed the contents of these shopping bags, underwear did cross my mind—I would admit that honestly.

“By the way, Big Brother, are you seriously doing the boyfriend act for Yamada tonight?”

“Well, it can’t be helped, right? She got pressured by Haruka into all sorts of things and ended up lying to her dad just to make it here somehow. I have to do it as thanks for listening to Haruka’s selfishness too.”

“No way, normally you wouldn’t… Well, but that kindness is so like you, Big Brother.”

With that, Yuzuna took another shopping bag from my hands and carried it herself.

What was this? Did my bags decrease one by one every time I did or said something nice?

“But in the end, you’re just cleaning up after Haruka-san, so does that mean you still like her?”

This blonde gal tossed out the ultimate question so casually…

“Well, up until a year ago, my feelings were definitely all about Haruka. But after failing the entrance exam and then the breakup, once those feelings cooled off completely, now it’s like the sensation of an old childhood friend I used to like…”

“So you don’t like her?”

“Well… To be honest, that’s how it turns out. I was such a lovesick mess that I shut myself in for a whole year, but now I’m not directing romantic feelings at anyone. Plus, you know, living with you all has ended up being fun in its own way, so I don’t really have those kinds of emotions anymore.”

“Hmph.”

Yuzuna pursed her lips and took another shopping bag from my hands to carry herself.

I had no idea why that answer made a bag decrease… Well, less was lucky anyway.