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.91Please respect copyright.PENANASPrS3S6zoc
The home that I lived in, in my old life.91Please respect copyright.PENANAb1GtgVKqsR
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAfWcFxxB8cw
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAwPAboCzktP
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAWQyTq0X5sN
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAHtreiE5xgJ
Together with my parents and younger sister, the four of us lived there in an apartment.91Please respect copyright.PENANA0gnMg7DPJB
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAE8Tj0ftFzC
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAD13l2XKhME
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAXy9v6hbFmP
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANANoxUXKtOOJ
Why was it that when people tell you to go study before you get to it, you lose all motivation?91Please respect copyright.PENANAFEtCqLM6Hx
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANA6PMhx6ALge
My little sister was a shrewd one.91Please respect copyright.PENANAw3tzfwEGQ5
She was smart enough to run away when she saw me getting yelled at.91Please respect copyright.PENANAXHC4FiVU9m
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAJUSqOwsDQv
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAewH27sVWaX
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANA9itr2BrrF4
Dad was always lazing around on the couch. He was like a beached seal, really. Mum would tell me that I was like him.91Please respect copyright.PENANArId3AGtEG6
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAprvymulaEc
I arrived at the station of my old town.91Please respect copyright.PENANA4P6ouHJKmH
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANA2ST08e98gz
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAvhBqEubANc
Neither the home that I lived in, or the family that I lived with, had been there.91Please respect copyright.PENANAGjOkBNDFHD
I had the family car pick me up.91Please respect copyright.PENANAzy0r36ifvI
The first train ride in a while had been nerve-wracking. Having a car take me to and from is a lot easier.91Please respect copyright.PENANAyRTezxXaRf
Once I get used to this, I really can’t return to being a commoner.91Please respect copyright.PENANAjSC3vv8o5j
Because this lifestyle is going to continue anyway. It can’t be helped.91Please respect copyright.PENANAi14yvzgKRv
When I came home, Oniisama was there for once.91Please respect copyright.PENANA9ZyCjLWogs
He’s been busy ever since he entered university, and lately I don’t even see him at dinner.91Please respect copyright.PENANADWerE3nrEY
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAFor4HmBp0y
Please don’t mind me, and continue reading your book.
I rubbed my head into his arm.91Please respect copyright.PENANAZT0BGpr6mr
And he sat there, silently accepting me.91Please respect copyright.PENANAwK94KheBN7
When I was there───91Please respect copyright.PENANAnJH8trKT1D
I knew it, I thought.91Please respect copyright.PENANAlpWpAvsMch
I knew that this was the world of a manga, so of course they wouldn’t be there.91Please respect copyright.PENANAc6cyBzpySv
But I had hoped.91Please respect copyright.PENANAKnORWBnTvt
If I could see them, once more…91Please respect copyright.PENANAotn4pfkAiJ
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.91Please respect copyright.PENANAVHBhOcyAXR
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for being useless.91Please respect copyright.PENANAOikjRzu7C3
I want to see you.91Please respect copyright.PENANAKxBkOKswsn
Just once more, I want to see you.91Please respect copyright.PENANAHUBnzrL1nq
I’m so lonely.91Please respect copyright.PENANA9SbJl7ek34
I’ve always, always been lonely.91Please respect copyright.PENANAngvpLhyN0h
Dad. Mum. Yuka-chan…91Please respect copyright.PENANALPdMjwKCNh
Apparently I had drifted off before I knew it.91Please respect copyright.PENANAg7MW0gXj3A
I’d been laying on the couch with a blanket on me.91Please respect copyright.PENANAJCxCVy93fL
Was it Oniisama who covered it over me?
There wasn’t anybody in the living room right now.
It’s the Kisshouin house.91Please respect copyright.PENANArVduwCVwm2
I’m Kisshouin Reika.91Please respect copyright.PENANAHlXO4BlKFX
My family right now is Otousama, Okaasama, and Oniisama.
This time I’ll treasure them.91Please respect copyright.PENANAg4tvMn72ky
I’ll definitely protect them.91Please respect copyright.PENANAAW1Za93Uzo
That’s what I’ve decided.91Please respect copyright.PENANAJywUceuKGy
“Oh? You’re up, Reika?”
Oniisama came back into the living room.
“Ehehe.”
So I jumped at him.
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