Now that I’m a middle schooler I can walk about on my own, and there’s a place that I’ve always wanted to go to.90Please respect copyright.PENANAiCMX0AmlMA
The home that I lived in, in my old life.90Please respect copyright.PENANAB12a5UHLaj
The world that I live in now is almost exactly the same as my old world. Even the landmarks and station names and addresses are the same.90Please respect copyright.PENANAaRVbRZ7Riu
But there are some parts that are different. Naturally Zui’ran Academy is the first difference, and then there are the families, societies, and people that appear in Kimidol.90Please respect copyright.PENANAuvRySFSjQ3
Only, aside from these, it really is just like the place that I knew. In that case, just maybe, the home that I lived in, and my family, might be here.
I’ve always, always thought it.90Please respect copyright.PENANAQAXW3TWIqw
That perhaps, just maybe, I could meet them.
*imouto*
*imouto*
The place I used to live with my family was a town just outside of Tokyo.90Please respect copyright.PENANAf38yqfPcxI
Together with my parents and younger sister, the four of us lived there in an apartment.90Please respect copyright.PENANA7wUliD72K0
Dad was a normal salaryman. After getting out of the bath, he would wander about in his underwear and get booed by the rest of us. A dad who was just a tad hopeless at home.90Please respect copyright.PENANAbwc2AdPTxj
Mum was a housewife, and she was good at cooking. Whenever I came back from a school trip or camp, she would always make the dishes I liked. Takikomigohan, nikujaga and oden. When it came to my sister, it was hamburg steak with ketchup, chawanmushi, and miso soup with nameko mushrooms and tofu.90Please respect copyright.PENANAUfsKEbiKOk
So I would come back home in the first time in days, and opening the door I would smell the foods that I loved. I’d feel relieved at coming home.90Please respect copyright.PENANAytoLvlTZjP
What was it that she made when Dad came back from business trips? Aahh, it was always beer and the like. He’d say that beer was really something, and happily drink it.
In my old life I would always laze about at home, and Mum would get angry because of it.90Please respect copyright.PENANAwvbvAAMetx
Why was it that when people tell you to go study before you get to it, you lose all motivation?90Please respect copyright.PENANAn0DXZllc2L
When I wasn’t around she would clean up my room without permission, and we’d even fight about it. Even if they were meaningless to Mum, they were important to me, so how could she just throw them out, I would argue.90Please respect copyright.PENANAmdXMHtTcbq
My little sister was a shrewd one.90Please respect copyright.PENANASSOc8HeARh
She was smart enough to run away when she saw me getting yelled at.90Please respect copyright.PENANAchkVIDIOtx
Whenever adults told me to bear with it because I was the older one, or give things to her because I was the older one, I would always wonder why in frustration. Sometimes I hated her a little.90Please respect copyright.PENANAZLIStYLjTr
But on nights that we saw scary things on television, we would sleep in the same futon together. And when we went to the toilet, we would hold hands, and then wait outside singing songs to calm each other down.90Please respect copyright.PENANACobYApwZym
For my coming-of-age ceremony, she gave me a bag and zori that she bought with money from her part-time job. With a laugh she told me to pay her back when it was her turn.90Please respect copyright.PENANAnxgFEFmoTp
Dad was always lazing around on the couch. He was like a beached seal, really. Mum would tell me that I was like him.90Please respect copyright.PENANAxNZfvmOSDI
But on weekends, even if it was just close-by, he would drive us places. We went to the ocean or the mountains to play. The road safety amulet charm that I bought on a trip would hang from the mirror of his car.90Please respect copyright.PENANAJWiQcuZ9vA
I arrived at the station of my old town.90Please respect copyright.PENANABe2tIkJh4k
The front of the station seemed the way I remembered it. The large supermarket, and a few other little things were changed, but it was still a nostalgic view.90Please respect copyright.PENANA19U3L8K7rm
The distance to my home was ten minutes by foot. After leaving the main street and entering the residential zone, it was on the 7th floor of an apartment complex.
Just a little further. Just a little further. After turning this corner───
It wasn’t there.
In place of the familiar brick apartment complex, was an old, beige building.90Please respect copyright.PENANAgzc4snW1tC
Neither the home that I lived in, or the family that I lived with, had been there.90Please respect copyright.PENANAxDBItJuSPl
I had the family car pick me up.90Please respect copyright.PENANAUOmeHqJS98
The first train ride in a while had been nerve-wracking. Having a car take me to and from is a lot easier.90Please respect copyright.PENANAiv7MzSPauS
Once I get used to this, I really can’t return to being a commoner.90Please respect copyright.PENANAuKYLqf6rcQ
Because this lifestyle is going to continue anyway. It can’t be helped.90Please respect copyright.PENANAvBvzIONc3s
When I came home, Oniisama was there for once.90Please respect copyright.PENANAUS7BDxMBgv
He’s been busy ever since he entered university, and lately I don’t even see him at dinner.90Please respect copyright.PENANA0bD7VABoOw
Because Oniisama was relaxing on the living room sofa, I sat down by his side and clung to him.
“Mn? What’s wrong, Reika?”
Nothing really. I just wanted to cling to you.90Please respect copyright.PENANA9IzpcanP9J
Please don’t mind me, and continue reading your book.
I rubbed my head into his arm.90Please respect copyright.PENANAFSDBX4EpYq
And he sat there, silently accepting me.90Please respect copyright.PENANAollKXTSkiq
When I was there───90Please respect copyright.PENANAsAeWpMRmtb
I knew it, I thought.90Please respect copyright.PENANA9DlpKy9H5O
I knew that this was the world of a manga, so of course they wouldn’t be there.90Please respect copyright.PENANANk9unSbs7Y
But I had hoped.90Please respect copyright.PENANAPZ7Uj3Sabb
If I could see them, once more…90Please respect copyright.PENANA45HLOeDVSz
I wanted to tell them that I loved them.
I should have had Mum teach me how to cook. I won’t be able to taste her food again. I never helped her do anything after all. This is my punishment.
I should have gone to watch baseball with Dad. Instead I wasn’t interested, so I just stayed in my room to read manga. Since I was just his seal daughter anyway, I should have at least lazed about in the living room with him.
I should have been kinder to my sister. When she used my accessories without permission, I seriously grabbed her and fought. I was the older sister, so I should have just let her.90Please respect copyright.PENANAx2RddY3DCJ
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for being useless.90Please respect copyright.PENANAreGs39Eccf
I want to see you.90Please respect copyright.PENANArqUtvNSMP7
Just once more, I want to see you.90Please respect copyright.PENANAxHLcGpcUKK
I’m so lonely.90Please respect copyright.PENANAk51vFB3qhf
I’ve always, always been lonely.90Please respect copyright.PENANAxJhLMB9G42
Dad. Mum. Yuka-chan…90Please respect copyright.PENANANfoiOyOexK
Apparently I had drifted off before I knew it.90Please respect copyright.PENANAzoFcAkYbir
I’d been laying on the couch with a blanket on me.90Please respect copyright.PENANA5lbwywT7d2
Was it Oniisama who covered it over me?
There wasn’t anybody in the living room right now.
It’s the Kisshouin house.90Please respect copyright.PENANA4fdZRUv6n2
I’m Kisshouin Reika.90Please respect copyright.PENANATVNEIB7bc4
My family right now is Otousama, Okaasama, and Oniisama.
This time I’ll treasure them.90Please respect copyright.PENANAi7dRZIPlr7
I’ll definitely protect them.90Please respect copyright.PENANAwzJfWm3ESD
That’s what I’ve decided.90Please respect copyright.PENANAJFSopwZkAi
“Oh? You’re up, Reika?”
Oniisama came back into the living room.
“Ehehe.”
So I jumped at him.
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