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Chapter 97 Part 2

After that, the four of them then moved to a different place, namely the living room sofa.

When they peeked into the bedroom, Eimi was still lying face down, so they told her to come once she was able to move again.

「Let me introduce her to you again. This is my younger sister, Kiyoka. She is now in the third grade of middle school, so she is one year below you, Yuu-kun.」

「Nice to meet you. My name is Komatsu Kiyoka.」

Kiyoka stood up, picked up both ends of her skirt, and gracefully greeted him with a curtsey.

It was the first time Yuu had seen such a greeting in real life, and he couldn’t help but stare at her fixedly.

Based on his impression of her earlier, he thought she was 12 or 13 years old, but he was surprised to find out that she was only one year younger than him.

Now that she was sitting side by side with Sayaka like this, they certainly looked very much alike, so he was convinced that the two were sisters.

「I’m Hirose Yuu. I’m a first-year student at Sairyou, and not long after entering, I became a member of the student council along with Sayaka, Riko, and Eimi, who is currently sleeping in her bedroom.」

「Yuu…sama?」

「Err, you don’t need to add -sama to my name.」

「But given that you are close enough with Onee-sama that you would visit her apartment like this… Ah!」

Sayaka, who seemed to have arrived at some sort of conclusion, whispered in Sayaka’s ear.

From the movement of her lips, Yuu noticed that the word 『engagement』 was included, but he remained silent.

The person in question, Sayaka, broke into a smile and slowly shook her head, as if it was something he didn’t need to worry about.

「I’m sure you can tell already, no? I love you, Yuu-kun.」

As Sayaka looked at him with earnest eyes filled with determination, Yuu looked back at her and said…

「I love Sayaka too. Of course, I also love Riko. I also love Eimi.」

「Fufufu. I love you, too, Yuu-kun.」

「Yes~! Amy is back! And of course, I love you, too, Yuu-kun!」

「Ooh!」

Sayaka, Kiyoka, and Riko were sitting side by side at the three-person section of the sofa, while Yuu alone was sitting at the bottom of the L-shape.

And Eimi had hugged him from behind.

「I get it, so… Amy, go put on some clothes.」

「Oh? When did you?!」

As seductive of appearances as they might be, a tee shirt and shorts instead of pajamas for Yuu, tank tops and short pants for Sayaka and Riko, they had put on some clothes.

Only Eimi, who had come straight from the bedroom, was stark naked.

When Eimi came back after putting on a long T-shirt that reached her thighs – when she sat down on the cushion, nothing but a pair of pink panties could be seen beneath it – everyone was now there, so they did over the introduction again.

「So, why are you here at this hour, Kiyoka?」

Kiyoka, getting questioned by her elder sister, turned her head down and fell silent, clutching the hem of her skirt.

「For you to suddenly come here without even calling, something important must have come up, no?」

When Riko gently put her hand on her shoulder, she moaned in a small voice.

「Kiyoka?」

When Sayaka gently patted her head, Kiyoka’s expression seemed to soften a little.

Meanwhile, Yuu and Eimi remained silent. As far as Yuu was concerned, he had simply been fascinated by the beautiful sisters.

As if having made up her mind, Kiyoka raised her head and turned to Sayaka.

「I ran away from home! Onee-sama. I’ll do anything, be it housework or whatever, so please let me stay here for a while!」

「Huh?!」

Sayaka, and Riko, who had known her for the past five years, seemed to be aware of it, but apparently, for the past year or so Kiyoka’s relationship with their mother had been bad.

Kiyoka, who was sickly and stayed at home most of the time since childhood, indulged in novels and manga, and eventually began to create her own.

As she continued to submit her works to a number of girls’ fiction magazines, last winter, she finally won Rookie of the Year award.

Not only did she have a brilliant mind to begin with, she enjoyed a wide range of literature, from classic to contemporary and even foreign, but it seemed that she was also blessed with a talent for creative writing.

When a magazine editor offered her a serialization with the award serving as trigger, Kiyoka decided to seriously aspire to become a full-time writer, going as far as saying that she would not go to high school so that she would have more time to write.

It seemed that the sisters were similar in that they would go out of control when they set their mind on something.

Sayaka also knew that she often got into a fight with their mother, as even though she was allowed to write novels on the side of her schoolwork, not going to high school to become a writer was out of the question.

In part because just recently she had come to a dead end on ideas for her new work, Kiyoka, who was on the edge, got into a big fight with their mother at the dinner table.

「Get out!」 「I’m getting out!」

Buying the fight sold to her, she went out of the house for real.

「Haa….」

「That’s…」

Sayaka, who had known about their long-lasting discord, held her head in her hands, while Riko put her hand on her forehead, falling into thoughts.

「Even if we ask her to go home right this instant, both sides have just become so worked up emotionally, so I think it would be tough for them to see each other.」

「Esteemed auntie seems so mild-mannered normally, but I have a feeling she’d be super scary if you made her angry.」

「Which means…?」

「It can’t be helped. It might be a good idea to put some distance and let things cool down a bit.」

「Onee-sama!」

Kiyoka hugged Sayaka happily.

「Tomorrow is fine, but what about school from the day after tomorrow?」

「Ufufu. I’ve properly brought changes of clothes as well as my school gear with me.」

It seemed that she had left her luggage at the entrance.

Yuu had been warmly watching the scene of Kiyoka getting pampered by her elder sister, but he had a feeling that she had been fleeting glances at him since a while ago.

「Onee-sama, and also Riko-nee-sama. Actually, unrelated to me running away from me, there is one thing that I have always wanted to consult with you two, who are going to a co-ed school, since a long time ago.」

Kiyoka glanced at Sayaka, Riko, and finally at Yuu.

「Hmm?」

Sayaka and Riko tilted their heads.

After turning her head down and looking a little embarrassed, Kiyoka made up her mind and spoke up.

「For the sake of my new work, I really need to… get to know gentlemen, explicitly!」

According to Kiyoka, the work for which she won the Rookie of the Year award was based on 『Romeo and Juliet』, in which a pair of middle school boy and girl in a lukewarm romantic relationship were at the risk of getting torn apart due to their parents’ circumstances, but with that serving as trigger, their love blazed up instead, and the boy took the lead and pulled the girl along to overcome this adversary.

For her new work, however, she wanted to write a story based on the classic masterpiece 『The Tale of Genji』 and the documentary of Toyota Sakuya, or you could say a modern age adaptation of those stories, about a boy’s history of love affairs with women.

The boy, who was born in an incredibly rural area where there were more animals than people, lost his parents at a very young age and was raised by his old-fashioned grandparents in an environment surrounded by nature.

At the age of 14, with a female peddler that visited their village as his partner, he not only graduated from virginhood, but also got sexual techniques and the charms of women thoroughly taught into him.

Then, after the death of his grandparents, the boy moved to the Kanto region where his distant relatives lived as soon as he graduated from middle school, and there he met various women and mingled with them assertively.

「「「Hmm….」」」

Not only Sayaka and Riko, but even Eimi was falling into thoughts.

Not limited to this world, I think that the content poses too high of a hurdle for middle school girls in general; so Yuu thought.

At the very least, they need to first experience love and sex… he thought.

「I feel like, I know someone who would be perfect to serve as the model…」

「Me too.」

「Me too.」

「Huh, is that so? Who in the world would that be, I wonder?」

He could more or less guess who it was, but Yuu deliberately feigned ignorance.

And as expected, Sayaka, Riko and Eimi all looked at Yuu.