Chapter 269: Neon Signs Even though we are on the same track and field club, to be honest, I hadn’t really talked to Sato-san. I have to admit that I was quite bewildered when she contacted me, “Let me copy your homework!”, so straightforwardly.<span> Still, I went to a family restaurant in front of the station as promised, and found that Sato-san had arrived first, and Tachioka-san came a littleter.<span> I knew Tachioka-san’s face, but we had never talked before. So, it’s like I’m in the middle of nowhere.<span> She is about the same height as me, and had twin-tails.<span> She is not shy, but she gives off an air of a strong person.Sato-san said “Kizuna is a hard-core pervert who is madly in love with her own brother, so I’m sure she and Moribe would get along”, which was rather rude to me.<span> When she talked about her favorite actors, she got excited, and when she talked about fashion, she was rather enthusiastic.
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<span><span> However, what got her most excited was when she talked about how Tachioka-san was doing all the housework.<span> The conversation turned to the supermarket’s special sales, and Sato-san was made to promise to apany each of us to buy a pack of eggs at the next special sale.<span> After we had gotten to know each other quite well, I asked Tachioka-san something that had been bothering me.<span>「Um… What do you mean, you like your Onii-san…?<span>」<span>「Yes, I like him. Isn’t that what family love is supposed to be about?<span>」<span>「Oh, I see, that’s what you mean<span>」<span> It’s good. Sato-san was just exaggerating. Seeing me breathe a sigh of relief, Sato-san asked Tachioka-san.<span>「Kizuna, what’s your happiest moment?<span>」<span>「Huh? When I’m washing Onii-chan’s pants<span>」<span> Satou-san turned to me with a frown on her face.<span>「Wasn’t it when you kissed him?<span>」<span>「Huh? Isn’t kissing normal? It’s not like that’s going to make my heart pound now<span>」<span>「Eh, aha-ahaha…<span>」I couldn’t help but let out a dryugh, and Sato-san looked at me like, “See?” .<span>「Tachioka-san, so you like your Onii-san, don’t you?<span>」<span>「Ah, that face, you’re misunderstanding me, aren’t you? It’s a family affair. Onii-chan has a girlfriend, after all. And I’m good friends with Minami-onee-chan<span>」<span>「Ah, I see<span>」<span> I’m a little relieved.<span>（They just have too much skinship… well, some families do<span>）<span> As I was saying this to myself, Tachioka-san said with a slightly enchanted look on her face.<span>「In the future, if Onii-chan and Minami-onee-chan get married, I dream of the three of us sleeping together in a big bed in the form of a river (<span>川)<span>」<span>「…Huh?<span>」Sato-san looked at me like, “See?”.<span> But then Tachioka-san’s voice suddenly dropped.<span>「It’s just, thing haven’t been going so well between Onii-chan and Minami-onee-chantely…<span>」<span>「Probably because of Kizuna, right?<span>」<span> When Sato-san said that, Tachioka-san’s lips puckered up and she let out a frustrated sound.<span>「Derau ~ea…<span>」<span> Apparently, she was trying to make it popr.<span> ◇ ◇ ◇<span> Tattakata… well, since she didn’t want me calling her that, so unwillingly, I’ll call Takaka, Onee-chan. Then now, she and I went shopping in the afternoon.<span> We visited amercial building in a neighboring city, and she bought a lot of clothes and underwear, and let me carry half of therge shopping bags she brought with her as a matter of course.<span>（Oh, so I’m a baggage handler, am I?<span>）<span> Well, I think this is the reason why she took me out for shopping.<span>（But still, it’s rather… unexpected<span>）<span> The lineup of the clothes she bought was very gal-like. Did she get inspired by being with gyaru at the camp?By the way, the physical touches are intense, she uses gyaru-speak in some ces, and she seems to say “Yabai!” .<span> After spending the whole day with her, I was getting less and less tense, but the more I talked to her, the more I couldn’t believe that she was the same person as the chairwoman of the Public Morals Committee, even though they looked the same.<span>（Maybe she’s possessed by the spirit of a gal…?<span>）<span> And now, we’vee back to the nearest station and are having dinner at a fast food restaurant in front of the station.She seemed to have spent a lot of money today, but when I asked her about it, sheughed and said, “My hobby before was saving money”.<span>（…What kind of change of heart is that?<span>）<span> As I’m thinking about that while biting at the teriyaki burger, Onee-chan suddenly pouts her lips while looking at her phone.
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<span><span>「I’ve been sending messages to my boyfriend, but he hasn’t read any of them<span>」<span>「<ruby style="ruby-align: center;">Boyfriend<rp>(</rp><rt style="font-size: 7.0pt;yout-grid-mode: line;">Kareppi</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby><span>… Ehhhh!?<span>」<span>「Why are you acting like that? It’s funny…<span>」<span> She says it’s funny, but she looks at her phone like it’s not even funny.<span> A boyfriend for that walking, right-angled, steel-headed public moral, that’s usually a big scoop. If I had any friends, I’d send a group message right now to spread the word. If I had any friends!<span> Anyway, while I was in the bathroom, I sent a smug message to Kijima-senpai.<span> He read it right away, but didn’t reply.<span> When we left the fast food restaurant, it was already dark and past seven o’clock in the evening.<span>「Well, it’s just the two of us, so curfew doesn’t matter, right?<span>」<span>「Okay…<span>」<span> I didn’t know what to do with Takaka, who was saying things that were unbing of the chairwoman of the public moralsmittee, so I just smiled fondly at her.<span>「Hey, there’s a ce I want to stop at…<span>」<span> With that said, Onee-chan took me to a street lined with small buildings behind the station. It’s a night town with twinkling neon signs.<span>「Oh, um… it’s probably not a good idea to go to a ce like this<span>」<span>「Ahaha, Fukuda-chi’s so serious~<span>」<span>（No, you can’t say that!<span>）<span> While I was making aint in my heart, she walked up to a bar.<span>（A girl’s bar…?<span>）<span> A shy neon signs.<span> The inside of the bar is seen through a ss window with colored stickers.<span> Behind the counter, I see a line of girls in bikinis.<span> She is standing in front of the door, staring at the knob.<span>（No, no! We’re not supposed to be in there!<span>）Almost as soon as I was about to run to her, the door swung open with a shout of “I don’t want toe in here again!”.<span> And then, an old man jumped out and crashed into Onee-chan.<span>「Kyaa!?<span>」<span>「Don’t just wander around here! You bitch!<span>」<span> The man shouted at Onee-chan, who had fallen on her buttocks, and walked away indignantly.<span>「What the hell is that? Are you all right?<span>」<span> I ran over to her and helped her up, and sheughed while rubbing her butt.<span>「Ahaha, Gen–… maybe he’s always like that. Then, tomorrow, he’ll just show up at the bar again<span>」<span>「I knew it, the men whoe to this kind of ce are bad people!<span>」<span> When I said so angrily, she looked sad for some reason and spoke.<span>「Yes, they’re bad people. Well, yes, it is, but sometimes it’s not<span>」