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

Chapter 53: The Method to Legally Hug Your Childhood Friend

From the very first round of the King’s Game, the situation I had feared ended up happening.

By the command of Haruka, who had become the king, I ended up having to hug Haruka from behind.

Why such a command… Haruka might be teasing me, but why would she give such a command in the first place!?

(Maybe Haruka knows that I used to like her before, and now she is deliberately doing suggestive things, thinking to tempt me and make me fall for her again or something?)

No, because I am her childhood friend, I can tell that Haruka would not do something like that.

Haruka has always been purely innocent, so to speak since long ago. She was certainly popular, but she always kept a bit of distance while living around boys other than me, and she had never deceived anyone at all, so that is why even her junior Yamada looked up to her.

If she were teasing me half in jest, it would also be strange to direct such tender feelings toward me.

Hugging… normally, she should hate that.

“Come on, hurry up, number 3… no, Aoto?”

“Eh, number 3 is Big Brother?”

Not only Yuzuna, who said that, but everyone’s gazes concentrated on me all at once.

This is bad… or rather, this is trouble…

“I-it’s me… indeed, that is right, but.”

I stood up while hesitating in my words.

It is not a big deal; if I just hug her quickly and let go, that will settle it.

“Wait a minute! Haruka-san, why did you know Aoto-kun’s number before he came out with his own number?”

Momiji asked Haruka in a somewhat panicked tone.

“Hehe, something like that… how many years do you think I have been looking at Aoto’s face? Unlike you who have only lived together for a few months, I can tell everything just by looking at Aoto’s face.”

“No, Haruka-senpai, if you say you can tell Aoto-senpai’s number, then the meaning of deliberately calling it out by number just now is—”

“Yamada-chan? Did you say something?”

“Ah, no, it is nothing.”

It seems Haruka can figure out everything.

The fact that she gave a command targeting me means she must be thinking of something after all?

“Anyway, Aoto. Why don’t you hurry up and hug? Hug my body that smells nice after getting out of the bath ♡”

Haruka kept closing the distance toward me step by step.

Kuh…!

But if I refuse… it would seem like I am rejecting Haruka, and somehow…

“Oooh! Aoto-kun, do it! Hug! Hug!”

From Nanoka-san, who had completely turned into a drunkard, the “hug hug chant” started up.

At this point, do I have no choice but to obey the king’s command…?

Ah, whatever! Really, I will not take responsibility no matter what happens!

I moved behind Haruka and then gently pressed my body against hers.

“I-I’m going in.”

“…………”

It was right at that moment when I was about to hug Haruka.

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Chapter 54: Forbidden Command

“Wait, wait a minute!”

Right at the moment when I was about to hug Haruka from behind, suddenly a voice that stopped it rang out.

The owner of that voice was… what.

“Wait, you two! For high school students of the opposite sex to hug each other is impure opposite-sex association! Prohibited!”

Nanoka-san, who had stood up staggering unsteadily to the left and right, scolded us.

Yes, the one who had stopped us was Nanoka-san, the only adult among us.

No, don’t suddenly start saying something so adult-like, this person!

Weren’t you the one who had been completely drunk just now, repeatedly chanting “Hug!”?

“Y-yeah, and like Mama says! We should probably prohibit that kind of contact stuff too, right, Momiji!”

“Y-yeah! That’s right, it’s not good for Aoto-kun’s education! Right, Yamada-san!”

“Y-yeah, Haruka-senpai! Aoto-senpai looks confused too! Right, Anzu-chan?”

“Eh, ah, yeah. It’s a bit hard for Anzu to understand, though.”

The people who had been watching us until just now began to side with the opposition, starting with Nanoka-san’s warning as the first penguin.

What is this flow… or rather, Haruka.

When I checked on Haruka, her face had twisted into an indescribable grimace, as if she had bitten into a bitter bug.

“Tch… I was just a little short of implanting the ‘fact’ that Aoto hugged me into the memories of everyone here.”

“W-what is it, Haruka, you’re scary.”

“Aoto… never mind.”

With that, Haruka pulled away from me and returned to her own seat.

“Since everyone is saying to change the command, I’ll change it, okay? My new command is for number 5 to do 50 push-ups ♡”

Haruka issued a command like something from an athletic club, to the point where it was hard to believe she was the same person who had given that lovey-dovey “hug” command just now.

Push-ups… or rather, who is number 5?

“Number 5 is me, isn’t it! Please stop, Haruka-senpai!”

“Oh dear, sorry, Yamada-chan. I had no idea it was you ♡… Yamada-chan, that just now was a betrayal.”

“Eek… um, ah, I’ll do the push-ups!”

Somehow it felt like Yamada had muttered something, but Yamada quietly started doing push-ups.

“Well then, everyone. Shall we decide the next king? Of course, with wholesome commands.”

Prompted by Momiji like that, while Yamada was doing push-ups, we began preparations for the next round.

No, they stopped the hugging, but no one is stopping 50 push-ups.

It seems like a pretty tough command to me.

“Big Brother, Big Brother…”

“What is it, Yuzuna. Whispering again.”

“That just now… were you really going to hug Haruka-san?”