Kisshouin Takateru/Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting.126Please respect copyright.PENANAx8Xk5SMKAX
It looks like she’s doing stretches in the living room.126Please respect copyright.PENANAhMW66pWP9h
She doesn’t look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isn’t she a bit too skinny?126Please respect copyright.PENANABeNum7drqY
When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me.126Please respect copyright.PENANAT87F7zGOQd
Simple-minded as usual.126Please respect copyright.PENANAVhNUR8Agpj
And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sister’s room.126Please respect copyright.PENANARcGtcSRqUr
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANASSKayLVaFc
Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and it’s scary.126Please respect copyright.PENANAL2vgZoree8
I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sister’s weird behaviour.126Please respect copyright.PENANArWfJCX3a36
I am technically taking my university exams this year, so I’d appreciate it if she behaved.126Please respect copyright.PENANAHmnJ0zExpV
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack.126Please respect copyright.PENANAxYP99OZZRg
It hadn’t been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasn’t hungry at all.126Please respect copyright.PENANA8JsMgxvAOt
It’s not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later.126Please respect copyright.PENANAU1hFfLw5Vz
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAwXqZLAcQi8
I’m troubled…126Please respect copyright.PENANADGeTYXjgGE
This pot is big enough for two people’s worth, isn’t it.126Please respect copyright.PENANAOlHur5IQQv
My sister’s eyes were completely glittering.126Please respect copyright.PENANAXA0MJrCyeI
Can’t be helped…
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about.126Please respect copyright.PENANAGD1phuFzus
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!126Please respect copyright.PENANARRvM2XIWvs
My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now.126Please respect copyright.PENANADHXuTHzy9V
Ah crap, there’s no water.126Please respect copyright.PENANAbvkNGCNtlu
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAl8j5htJfYN
Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here.126Please respect copyright.PENANAxGOzjxDgiH
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANArJp4MB1A7f
Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui.126Please respect copyright.PENANAsCYte7nqhW
I don’t have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl.126Please respect copyright.PENANACK2O9rpY4q
But…
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily.126Please respect copyright.PENANAHulYuLjnV2
Can’t be helped…126Please respect copyright.PENANAgJndybTFP8
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANA628VipNZwJ
I immediately opened another bottle.126Please respect copyright.PENANArqTjd9dvTs
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAYRwIfvuXLV
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!?126Please respect copyright.PENANAs0UWkzdtTY
But this isn’t at the level where you’d call it ‘a little’, you know.126Please respect copyright.PENANAr8yuU0XAXj
Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression.126Please respect copyright.PENANARBdCsSVORq
My sister’s sense of taste is wayy too rough.126Please respect copyright.PENANAUWBVuZZLxn
And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers.126Please respect copyright.PENANAK33HpU4eOP
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAyO7fxUSiTG
Thank goodness…126Please respect copyright.PENANARPG7jXm7oG
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…126Please respect copyright.PENANAt2uWl5cztm
Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up.126Please respect copyright.PENANApoDJbjNrGb
But she did try her very best making that, so I’d feel sorry for her if I went and did that.126Please respect copyright.PENANAuO3XvMeHbR
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAIiKOdwHTiq
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.”126Please respect copyright.PENANAARDVVmXDX5
I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well?126Please respect copyright.PENANA9AfcPZRsQ2
But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed.126Please respect copyright.PENANAce4XBOX7p4
For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.126Please respect copyright.PENANAn08meVNr2o
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama.126Please respect copyright.PENANA1BNiMHszba
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAhA2QCGwYXv
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAeV792SiMdb
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAtOGLATbDaY
To begin with, he rarely gets angry.126Please respect copyright.PENANA29ReD2QxvK
I’ve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely.126Please respect copyright.PENANAGCy1lkaCYq
In the archery club he’s captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him.126Please respect copyright.PENANA42tpL94H98
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAiP5csewsuX
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAvhh9fnzavM
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAGcSoeQRhL9
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
She’s a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll.126Please respect copyright.PENANAEhykfzRG4n
When she’s quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and it’s cute.126Please respect copyright.PENANAwuyfGR0Vbh
Whenever I bring Imouto-chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart.126Please respect copyright.PENANABNegYOgSg7
Unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a hidden side to her.126Please respect copyright.PENANABa6gX8bYQI
Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh.126Please respect copyright.PENANAZENbCgC7Zd
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANARPgmMsnkiX
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAyUVi5rzgfu
It felt like feeding a bird chick.
Imouto-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him.126Please respect copyright.PENANA2TEWkkQPFc
I could totally feel her feelings towards her “beloved Oniisama”.126Please respect copyright.PENANACSIGgCfr56
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her.126Please respect copyright.PENANA4mmVbx1aAs
Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance.126Please respect copyright.PENANAzIDapew5Wm
But apparently it’s a different story when it comes to his own sister.126Please respect copyright.PENANAvAajUbjPKN
Imouto-chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama.126Please respect copyright.PENANAg4jwrpIIRS
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANANfZpkqoBSG
When they’re sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me.126Please respect copyright.PENANAKA62cbXn6j
When he listens to her talk, it’s not some statue’s archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has.126Please respect copyright.PENANACrwgZ2W7oI
When Imouto-chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response.126Please respect copyright.PENANA2KxDgio6Oy
These siblings really do get along.126Please respect copyright.PENANAwaqY2LdBDv
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANAlHVOLNaKuB
When I asked him about that, he told me “I asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentine’s”.126Please respect copyright.PENANAB03psSErLO
Valentine’s huh.126Please respect copyright.PENANA3ZjjGD4mvn
Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from Imouto-chan each year.126Please respect copyright.PENANAUAfnClJus0
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?”.126Please respect copyright.PENANAqhRGh2nfFR
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.126Please respect copyright.PENANADBHNIMnISi
…Sorry, I won’t say it again.
They’re a funny pair of siblings.126Please respect copyright.PENANApSA7AV1Xbf
Rather, when Imouto-chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier.126Please respect copyright.PENANAAAo8QSNnxm
Today as well, I’m heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.