Kisshouin Takateru/Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting.117Please respect copyright.PENANADBV76ElQ9R
It looks like she’s doing stretches in the living room.117Please respect copyright.PENANA10AzMIUVJh
She doesn’t look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isn’t she a bit too skinny?117Please respect copyright.PENANAYOAdYVhAuG
When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me.117Please respect copyright.PENANA5zK0dZdcJQ
Simple-minded as usual.117Please respect copyright.PENANAuoG92ecDhs
And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sister’s room.117Please respect copyright.PENANABDJEAyxIn0
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANA8kx3FFfYQW
Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and it’s scary.117Please respect copyright.PENANAXOPVZvndqn
I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sister’s weird behaviour.117Please respect copyright.PENANAyTc1Mv90sX
I am technically taking my university exams this year, so I’d appreciate it if she behaved.117Please respect copyright.PENANA3a4oDacw2a
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack.117Please respect copyright.PENANAMQYozgVmyS
It hadn’t been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasn’t hungry at all.117Please respect copyright.PENANA1GHRpfD3kp
It’s not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later.117Please respect copyright.PENANAUpruRWaVLD
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAPuH8ttKVy1
I’m troubled…117Please respect copyright.PENANA444GxAXHpr
This pot is big enough for two people’s worth, isn’t it.117Please respect copyright.PENANAWd2S9vL5Es
My sister’s eyes were completely glittering.117Please respect copyright.PENANA0qlcEUASM9
Can’t be helped…
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about.117Please respect copyright.PENANAGhzVenHFYu
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!117Please respect copyright.PENANA3GXYzyJNmm
My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now.117Please respect copyright.PENANAZAD2YG4ocw
Ah crap, there’s no water.117Please respect copyright.PENANAKcPimTJEWr
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAy0rl9IF4vC
Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here.117Please respect copyright.PENANAMUUgQByaqS
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAmIBen32KWc
Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui.117Please respect copyright.PENANAQ8G7CFeqON
I don’t have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl.117Please respect copyright.PENANA9jTSN5UUpx
But…
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily.117Please respect copyright.PENANA3WtoDGjVvF
Can’t be helped…117Please respect copyright.PENANAX0klBAhwtL
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANA35gyqDFpmm
I immediately opened another bottle.117Please respect copyright.PENANAeQ5XL3TvFP
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAPkHzbUXcPW
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!?117Please respect copyright.PENANAB3NApV2OaC
But this isn’t at the level where you’d call it ‘a little’, you know.117Please respect copyright.PENANAPWF5yoz2v4
Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression.117Please respect copyright.PENANAp5rPalJcje
My sister’s sense of taste is wayy too rough.117Please respect copyright.PENANAXHnSUZoCWH
And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers.117Please respect copyright.PENANA0kcza3n5SK
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANApKuDiejTb5
Thank goodness…117Please respect copyright.PENANA1f8M0jU70m
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…117Please respect copyright.PENANA7Cdu28rD7e
Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up.117Please respect copyright.PENANALYfv1uv8Da
But she did try her very best making that, so I’d feel sorry for her if I went and did that.117Please respect copyright.PENANAllOAAjMyiw
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAP0kjP65xRn
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.”117Please respect copyright.PENANAzyj6IkUBVI
I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well?117Please respect copyright.PENANAVu7cB6YzOP
But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed.117Please respect copyright.PENANAXZ7AcNSVxx
For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.117Please respect copyright.PENANAXTJUVgwuwt
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama.117Please respect copyright.PENANA95ofo1aMs7
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAHSgVwaaSrd
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAOhASMkY22r
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAXDi5H2tbKB
To begin with, he rarely gets angry.117Please respect copyright.PENANA8YMp9qmudv
I’ve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely.117Please respect copyright.PENANAWZRjL42exB
In the archery club he’s captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him.117Please respect copyright.PENANAAA6JEUp7Kw
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAhSKMdTNQR9
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAl6YyF7wHyR
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANATfeYBRKNVV
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
She’s a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll.117Please respect copyright.PENANAa4ZAtxC7dp
When she’s quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and it’s cute.117Please respect copyright.PENANA0yEiVqQ4IL
Whenever I bring Imouto-chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart.117Please respect copyright.PENANAhGL7iqXEZM
Unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a hidden side to her.117Please respect copyright.PENANAB62J2Hpbm2
Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh.117Please respect copyright.PENANALqG5cf0D44
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAaVQL2tsC8v
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAroTEWukbcI
It felt like feeding a bird chick.
Imouto-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him.117Please respect copyright.PENANAdC1EM5rIAL
I could totally feel her feelings towards her “beloved Oniisama”.117Please respect copyright.PENANAwVPnwKWhwp
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her.117Please respect copyright.PENANANI1w4aYIHj
Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance.117Please respect copyright.PENANA9ikOVb18fK
But apparently it’s a different story when it comes to his own sister.117Please respect copyright.PENANAa0ohZXo4t4
Imouto-chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama.117Please respect copyright.PENANATP3XRkCSx2
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAzonGK9Cv7G
When they’re sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me.117Please respect copyright.PENANATE2j65QHsC
When he listens to her talk, it’s not some statue’s archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has.117Please respect copyright.PENANASgbyw2AVAj
When Imouto-chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response.117Please respect copyright.PENANA7VgjLc9ReE
These siblings really do get along.117Please respect copyright.PENANArbOtSvo67w
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANAblItX1WygO
When I asked him about that, he told me “I asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentine’s”.117Please respect copyright.PENANAQFCV9LlEMm
Valentine’s huh.117Please respect copyright.PENANAGZa8W8ffVU
Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from Imouto-chan each year.117Please respect copyright.PENANA5x9AxrWjW0
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?”.117Please respect copyright.PENANAEZgBWeMlbY
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.117Please respect copyright.PENANARYjwMZ6kv7
…Sorry, I won’t say it again.
They’re a funny pair of siblings.117Please respect copyright.PENANAEGFmffS8Zs
Rather, when Imouto-chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier.117Please respect copyright.PENANARdAluces6m
Today as well, I’m heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.