Kisshouin Takateru/Momozono Imari
Apparently my sister has begun dieting.120Please respect copyright.PENANAPl2ijx0Jd2
It looks like she’s doing stretches in the living room.120Please respect copyright.PENANANE8cv3Jc3q
She doesn’t look particularly fat though, you know? Rather, isn’t she a bit too skinny?120Please respect copyright.PENANAkwHBuhhY59
When I told her not to overdo things, she smiled happily at me.120Please respect copyright.PENANAwm2mBmHov1
Simple-minded as usual.120Please respect copyright.PENANASv4HhOLQUQ
And I also know the truth about the weird yells coming from my sister’s room.120Please respect copyright.PENANAaHXS3cp7CL
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAWJteFQIFcL
Yeah, I heard you, alright. And not just your yells. I heard your weird moans too, and it’s scary.120Please respect copyright.PENANAdz1jjDyNd4
I managed to solve another one of the problems caused by my sister’s weird behaviour.120Please respect copyright.PENANAMthquEvkAU
I am technically taking my university exams this year, so I’d appreciate it if she behaved.120Please respect copyright.PENANA0m1jTnzM4w
One day, my sister brought me some zousui rice soup in the name of a late-night snack.120Please respect copyright.PENANAp2crPtdJP8
It hadn’t been too long since dinner, so I honestly wasn’t hungry at all.120Please respect copyright.PENANAPsemC8aWhw
It’s not like I had been planning on studying all night, and I had planned to sleep an hour later.120Please respect copyright.PENANAWaooFIMm7w
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAIq4PLenaqN
I’m troubled…120Please respect copyright.PENANAIKPSLSi2w0
This pot is big enough for two people’s worth, isn’t it.120Please respect copyright.PENANA97lvyVTZIv
My sister’s eyes were completely glittering.120Please respect copyright.PENANA3c47HbVksE
Can’t be helped…
Preparing myself for the worst, I opened the lid, and found a steaming egg zousui with spring onions spread about.120Please respect copyright.PENANAuZ8OqTzsDk
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!120Please respect copyright.PENANA2BoeDLLguR
My tongue is tingling from it. I want some water, now.120Please respect copyright.PENANA2IRXmRUfEd
Ah crap, there’s no water.120Please respect copyright.PENANA0h4db8Vnwm
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAL8JSzsZxCJ
Thank goodness for putting a refrigerator here.120Please respect copyright.PENANAIJnL0SFeFB
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAP2UBCelGkB
Honestly, how troubling. Rather than tasteless chocolate, the hurdle is higher for salty zousui.120Please respect copyright.PENANAc1nDQCbXAL
I don’t have the confidence to finish the stuff I ladled into the bowl.120Please respect copyright.PENANAQ2sQkwB49o
But…
My sister simply believed me, and smiled happily.120Please respect copyright.PENANAF0I5XibFDZ
Can’t be helped…120Please respect copyright.PENANA70BgbgwwZ9
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAP0IsXr6TC4
I immediately opened another bottle.120Please respect copyright.PENANAnfetqCtBOv
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAb2LYDyJUjz
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!?120Please respect copyright.PENANAc0pRg3OrhH
But this isn’t at the level where you’d call it ‘a little’, you know.120Please respect copyright.PENANAakvwYJzi63
Even so, my sister continued eating with an unconcerned expression.120Please respect copyright.PENANALNa3ozisYv
My sister’s sense of taste is wayy too rough.120Please respect copyright.PENANAYTCl4apRR1
And what about her diet? Carbohydrates before bed are scarier than monsters, you know.
In the end, my sister finished all of the leftovers.120Please respect copyright.PENANAZ17d4OPCt3
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANARlFLbXQreH
Thank goodness…120Please respect copyright.PENANArL1KUKONgb
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…120Please respect copyright.PENANARvaYHRZdXm
Maybe it might feel better if I just throw it up.120Please respect copyright.PENANAJdU9WAfuMh
But she did try her very best making that, so I’d feel sorry for her if I went and did that.120Please respect copyright.PENANAv0svk796Z5
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAWCjggCFUzF
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.”120Please respect copyright.PENANABHRhW0ZkrA
I was relieved.
Should I get Minadzuki-san to help this time as well?120Please respect copyright.PENANAHy4JGZLlxy
But my little sister really looks up to her. If she shows her mistakes in front of her adored senpai, she might get depressed.120Please respect copyright.PENANAaFq1RbPmDP
For the sake of her future as well, perhaps I should casually recommend cooking classes to her.120Please respect copyright.PENANAnftZO11wBU
In public, my sister does quite a good job in playing the ojousama.120Please respect copyright.PENANALl7lcrSz6b
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAq7PS63LJDX
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANATXwArYN7fw
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAwt4IyvxW3o
To begin with, he rarely gets angry.120Please respect copyright.PENANAd7uEj2ILzU
I’ve almost never seen him get emotional, and he basically treats everybody politely.120Please respect copyright.PENANA4cqUUMPlHi
In the archery club he’s captain too, and all the underclassmen rely on him.120Please respect copyright.PENANA0lnG8YkhwN
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAInvW3EPo4T
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANASLr9nHHr3I
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAFpcAn7yWEf
Anyhow, that Takateru has a little sister.
She’s a cute girl, who looks like a well-made western doll.120Please respect copyright.PENANAEwbcTyhDdC
When she’s quiet, she looks just like one, but when she smiles her dimples come out, and it’s cute.120Please respect copyright.PENANAfiQjiuQMSS
Whenever I bring Imouto-chan a present, she always seems to smile happily from the bottom of her heart.120Please respect copyright.PENANAJgw7mzarJB
Unlike her brother, she doesn’t have a hidden side to her.120Please respect copyright.PENANAzIdJNn6tGS
Sometimes the three of us chat together, and she happily eats the sweets I bring her. I guess she likes sweets, huh.120Please respect copyright.PENANA2L0jVegJRx
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAI3cmwBxuVr
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAFJiCNT5jYQ
It felt like feeding a bird chick.
Imouto-chan always happily listens to my stories about Takateru. She really loves him.120Please respect copyright.PENANAzUFbTdbSmR
I could totally feel her feelings towards her “beloved Oniisama”.120Please respect copyright.PENANA16Lo1gdtwp
And as for Takateru, he totally dotes on her.120Please respect copyright.PENANASLVkzzFhlP
Takateru is a guy who hates people who stick to him without a sense of distance.120Please respect copyright.PENANAiHMyxm38q9
But apparently it’s a different story when it comes to his own sister.120Please respect copyright.PENANA2gVGy5gg2V
Imouto-chan is adorable. She really thinks that Takateru is a gentle, wonderful Oniisama.120Please respect copyright.PENANAWoJeHZ7WKM
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAvvBbLKdSyx
When they’re sitting on the couch in the living room, he always has her sit next to him. Never, ever next to me.120Please respect copyright.PENANAQoocg31xSD
When he listens to her talk, it’s not some statue’s archaic smile, but an actual smile that he has.120Please respect copyright.PENANAJAleYpj4CP
When Imouto-chan gets her head patted by Takateru she smiles happily in response.120Please respect copyright.PENANAIPqOm2wQoN
These siblings really do get along.120Please respect copyright.PENANAh6HyAqst1h
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANAjoBMKQo4dq
When I asked him about that, he told me “I asked her to teach my sister how to make handmade chocolates for Valentine’s”.120Please respect copyright.PENANA5D8eeN1OJN
Valentine’s huh.120Please respect copyright.PENANA82Lq8LElxl
Apparently he gets handmade chocolates from Imouto-chan each year.120Please respect copyright.PENANAdkCWmDh3V5
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?”.120Please respect copyright.PENANAS1Z6jw7fqA
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.120Please respect copyright.PENANA4dRkB4p9NF
…Sorry, I won’t say it again.
They’re a funny pair of siblings.120Please respect copyright.PENANAdK2uCcoxbR
Rather, when Imouto-chan gets involved, Takateru immediately becomes funnier.120Please respect copyright.PENANAZmZvAKCbDi
Today as well, I’m heading to the Kisshouin house with sweets in hand.