Kisshouin Takateru/Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting.116Please respect copyright.PENANAPLs3OfZgvB
It looks like she’s doing stretches in the living room.116Please respect copyright.PENANAerTMRcmrym
She doesn’t look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isn’t she a bit too skinny?116Please respect copyright.PENANACl9A2wXppB
When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me.116Please respect copyright.PENANAp2DHFGMyvV
Simple-minded as usual.116Please respect copyright.PENANApgvG5hmhLz
And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sister’s room.116Please respect copyright.PENANAsBgDdivtwH
I didn’t hear what words she was actually saying, but I’m worried now that she’s shouting strange things again.
“I can hear your shouts from outside your room, you know?” I casually told her, and in response she replied “Eh-, you heard me? Oh gosh, I need to be careful.” in shock.116Please respect copyright.PENANAzVWEdGvFqo
Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and it’s scary.116Please respect copyright.PENANAIXN3gn0Dou
I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sister’s weird behaviour.116Please respect copyright.PENANAoWxifrjBpH
I am technically taking my university exams this year, so I’d appreciate it if she behaved.116Please respect copyright.PENANALtTHSCVee0
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack.116Please respect copyright.PENANAHf2qJJiNuR
It hadn’t been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasn’t hungry at all.116Please respect copyright.PENANAEHS1kSGVNW
It’s not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later.116Please respect copyright.PENANATI9oJat4Vu
So if I ate it, it would probably be bad for my body instead…
But my sister looked my way expectantly, wanting me to hurry and eat.116Please respect copyright.PENANAMg7GzgCnU1
I’m troubled…116Please respect copyright.PENANAFhslurBJ35
This pot is big enough for two people’s worth, isn’t it.116Please respect copyright.PENANAL9ibGKFyyi
My sister’s eyes were completely glittering.116Please respect copyright.PENANAVROLwSne31
Can’t be helped…
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about.116Please respect copyright.PENANAzoRJQ3nHSb
I scooped some into a bowl, and with a soup spoon, I brought some to my mouth.
…Salty.
You’ve put way too much salt, my little sister!116Please respect copyright.PENANAhRjymFJO68
My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now.116Please respect copyright.PENANAjPmdkQ2E05
Ah crap, there’s no water.116Please respect copyright.PENANAo6zqinWGcv
All she gave me was hot tea. Hot food, and hot drinks. …Little sister.
I hurriedly pulled out some cold water from a small fridge in my room and gulped it down.116Please respect copyright.PENANAWaUDEvS3lq
Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here.116Please respect copyright.PENANA6PQIypECwI
I bought it in the past. It’s so that if I want a drink, I don’t have to risk heading outside and encountering some of my sister’s weird behaviours.
“How was it, Oniisama?”
It was salty. You put in too much salt. Did you even taste-test this?
“…It was delicious.”
When she looked at me with those round eyes, I couldn’t tell the truth.116Please respect copyright.PENANAZKoJHDc6Il
Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui.116Please respect copyright.PENANAfVHkMRRirM
I don’t have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl.116Please respect copyright.PENANALYUxxBypxP
But…
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily.116Please respect copyright.PENANA1yTRjR752j
Can’t be helped…116Please respect copyright.PENANA2xAvk9ISpJ
I guess I’ll try my best to at least finish the stuff in the bowl.
Without letting it show, I desperately ate. The 500ml bottle was gone in an instant.116Please respect copyright.PENANA44Zln5sTTP
I immediately opened another bottle.116Please respect copyright.PENANAO9av7tkc8O
As you’d expect, I couldn’t finish the stuff left in the pot, so I apologised and told her that I wasn’t so hungry at night.116Please respect copyright.PENANAyjtdKmyUeW
Saying something like “Maybe I should have some too…”, she took a spoon to her mouth.
“Hmm? I wonder if it’s a little salty.”
So you’ve noticed, little sister!?116Please respect copyright.PENANAK0tibQT5dd
But this isn’t at the level where you’d call it ‘a little’, you know.116Please respect copyright.PENANA33UKNsPMgy
Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression.116Please respect copyright.PENANARP8dm5SDkQ
My sister’s sense of taste is wayy too rough.116Please respect copyright.PENANAdTiHe2Qwit
And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers.116Please respect copyright.PENANADeqJ21hJOl
At this rate, I might have to continue to suffer this hell of supper attacks. What do I do.
“Reika, thanks for making me a snack tonight. But eating makes me sleepy, so you don’t have to worry about it from now on. I won’t be studying too late either.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. I’m happy with just your feelings. And also, I might get fat eating before sleep, right?”
“Ah-, that is true!”
Looks like it had quite an effect on my dieting sister.116Please respect copyright.PENANA0EaKsEWXMf
Thank goodness…116Please respect copyright.PENANAOkZWLDwIHH
After seeing out my sister with the pot, my stomach was bloated from all the water, and I was exhausted.
I feel sick from all the water…116Please respect copyright.PENANAuRiZfgb2Kp
Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up.116Please respect copyright.PENANAo23fKAaKLk
But she did try her very best making that, so I’d feel sorry for her if I went and did that.116Please respect copyright.PENANADYoJv85ZKn
And so that night, I fought with my nausea until I somehow managed to digest it.
As for the tasteless, yearly Valentine’s Chocolates, I discussed it with Minadzuki-san, who I went to an amusement park with last year.
“My sister’s handmade chocolates are too flavourless, so I was wondering what I could do about it. I feel bad for her when she tries so hard to make them, so I’m sorry about this, but could I perhaps get you to casually teach her how to make them, Minadzuki-san?”
When I asked her this, although she asked “flavourless chocolates?” confusedly, she happily agreed, and some time later they made chocolates together at our home.
A few days later, the chocolates that my sister gave me were sweet like they were supposed to be.
Just what kind of magic did Minadzuki-san use, to make that girl’s chocolates actually taste sweet.116Please respect copyright.PENANA94WfYGCJe1
When I asked her this she replied, “I don’t know for sure what the reason was, but she heated the chocolate in water for too long, which dispersed it, and well, just a whole bunch of other mistakes. But it’s fine now. Reika-san seems to know what to do, and what not to do in making chocolates now, so from next year the chocolates should be delicious as they should be.”116Please respect copyright.PENANAN1V2mbDvtS
I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well?116Please respect copyright.PENANAiw2T8Xr6BQ
But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed.116Please respect copyright.PENANADxCg39lSAJ
For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.116Please respect copyright.PENANAb5PtNnVsdC
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama.116Please respect copyright.PENANAQKcKeVQ9va
Like somebody truly befitting the name of the Kisshouin family’s daughter. My parents haven’t noticed either that she’s actually rather disappointing(pitiful) on the inside.116Please respect copyright.PENANAcVIqJXDkLS
Anyhow, as time goes on, her mask comes off more and more when she’s in front of me, and the stupidity and silliness on the inside is really starting to show.116Please respect copyright.PENANAaRg4QsHRN8
She’s probably just that trusting of me, but if she does something too weird it’ll scare me, so I wish she would stop.
And little sister, don’t try and do chin-ups inside your closet. It’s scary.
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My friend, Kisshouin Takateru, is a pretty splendid guy.116Please respect copyright.PENANAiTlxhob0DG
To begin with, he rarely gets angry.116Please respect copyright.PENANAwBYvVrN5Nm
I’ve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely.116Please respect copyright.PENANAgI56HFGwpM
In the archery club he’s captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him.116Please respect copyright.PENANAgf30mLlT4K
His results are always in the high ranks, but he’s never shown off about this.
He almost seems like a human with no flaws, but he’s actually pretty black-hearted, and he uses his gentle-looking smile to get people to do what he wants.116Please respect copyright.PENANA1GgS2LsArL
At a glance he looks like a kind person who’ll accept everyone, but the number of people he actually let’s down his guard around are pretty few.116Please respect copyright.PENANAk6jttZNyfG
But at heart, he’s a straight-forward guy. Somehow or other, he’s just good at taking care of others. For people he considers friends, he definitely won’t ever betray them. It’s these parts of him that I like.116Please respect copyright.PENANA2Nrnz0MNB1
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
She’s a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll.116Please respect copyright.PENANAg32ycKwiwM
When she’s quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and it’s cute.116Please respect copyright.PENANA7JzRRXMcmc
Whenever I bring Imouto-chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart.116Please respect copyright.PENANAsYyETwZdmC
Unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a hidden side to her.116Please respect copyright.PENANAvHVORq5J3M
Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh.116Please respect copyright.PENANAxfFx2A59X9
A while back when I went with her to an amusement park, her eyes shot between this stall and that stall, and when I bought her sweets that I thought she would like, she was so grateful to me that it was shocking.116Please respect copyright.PENANAmNHovnzXWn
Just a few hundred Yen’s worth of food is enough to get her eyes sparkling and saying “Thank you very much, Imari-sama!” so it made me want to tell her that I’d buy her any food she wanted.116Please respect copyright.PENANAQ166QCx1xW
It felt like feeding a bird chick.
Imouto-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him.116Please respect copyright.PENANABI75dtMUJ5
I could totally feel her feelings towards her “beloved Oniisama”.116Please respect copyright.PENANAww9UpaZQOQ
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her.116Please respect copyright.PENANAGt2VeRBbxr
Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance.116Please respect copyright.PENANA4EFMDDSbPj
But apparently it’s a different story when it comes to his own sister.116Please respect copyright.PENANAkiMcwnodlQ
Imouto-chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama.116Please respect copyright.PENANAtnlKnkbZCd
She doesn’t notice that he occasionally plays with her reactions. She just dances on his palms as much as he wants.
Apparently Takateru doesn’t think of himself as a siscon, but from my eyes, he’s plenty siscon enough.116Please respect copyright.PENANAPjNlpm5RkU
When they’re sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me.116Please respect copyright.PENANAUZkKN1eRzO
When he listens to her talk, it’s not some statue’s archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has.116Please respect copyright.PENANALd9L22Hnnd
When Imouto-chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response.116Please respect copyright.PENANAbtXB08Hcym
These siblings really do get along.116Please respect copyright.PENANA2unjuMdF9n
All I have is a cocky little brother, so sometimes I get jealous of him when I wonder how things would be if I had a cute little sister attached to me too.
One day in the Pivoine salon, I heard Takateru discussing “handmade chocolates” with Aira-chan.116Please respect copyright.PENANA6afWU8lrps
When I asked him about that, he told me “I asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentine’s”.116Please respect copyright.PENANAClfnGQ9cWf
Valentine’s huh.116Please respect copyright.PENANALxpcjs8YaW
Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from Imouto-chan each year.116Please respect copyright.PENANAVMsTq5qFdH
When I said “I wonder if this year I’ll get some from Imouto-chan too~”, he just stared blankly at me and asked back “Why does my sister have to give a Valentine’s chocolate to you?”.116Please respect copyright.PENANAGKGcqELgVG
Damn siscon…
Once when I thought about teasing this siscon and joked with a smile, “If Imouto-chan and I got married, you’d end up as my Oniichan as well, huh~ What should I do?”, I ended up eating a strong hook to the solar plexus.116Please respect copyright.PENANAASZl3TcCBj
…Sorry, I won’t say it again.
They’re a funny pair of siblings.116Please respect copyright.PENANAzUTpLVhrwT
Rather, when Imouto-chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier.116Please respect copyright.PENANATBgFQzHIty
Today as well, I’m heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.