Chapter 10: Chapter 10: If Life Were Only as Good as the First Meeting
Then, Kiryu was killed...
With no special abilities, only some martial arts skills, he was barely stronger than an ordinary person... how could he possibly fight the Kihara Clan?
He died silently, like a small wave in the ocean, quickly returning to calm.
Apart from Kihara Enshuu, no one would mourn him, feel sad for him, or be angry for him!
The only person in the world who was good to her was dead!
Killed by those with whom she shared her surname, 'Kihara'!
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And so, Enshuu went mad.
She used everything she had learned to take revenge on the Kihara Clan. However, human strength has its limits, and she alone could not shake the overwhelming darkness that was the Kihara Clan. In the end, she was imprisoned and became an exclusive test subject for the Kihara Clan.
Originally, Enshuu thought her life would end this way, but to her surprise, when she opened her eyes, she had somehow returned to the past...
Back to when she was still an infant, just after being kidnapped.
At first, Enshuu was confused, thinking it was an illusion created by some esper.
As a member of the Kihara Clan, skilled in science, she was a staunch materialist and would not believe in such absurd things!
But soon, Enshuu used her innate Kihara intelligence to understand everything... This was no mirage, but the real world... she had returned to the past, to a time when nothing had happened yet, to a time when her Onii-san, no, her Onii-sama was still alive!
If she could start everything over, she would rather give up science and believe in the existence of the non-scientific!
Enshuu began to feign madness, making those people think she was a ruined 'Kihara'.
She made everyone lower their guard against her.
When she grew up, she took the opportunity to escape when someone brought her food!
Outside, it was raining heavily.
Her clothes were soaked, but Enshuu did not care in the slightest, she was just eager to find her Onii-sama! To find the Onii-sama who died protecting her, the Onii-sama who taught her to read and how to communicate, the Onii-sama who gave her the only warmth she had ever felt!
But at the same time, she worried about what would happen if she found her Onii-sama again.
Would she cause his death once more?
However, in her moment of intense inner struggle and hesitation, her Onii-sama, Kiryu, appeared.
No matter what she thought, when her Onii-sama's figure truly appeared before her, Enshuu was stunned.
She couldn't believe it.
She couldn't believe it was real, that 'happiness' had come so quickly!
Then Enshuu saw her Onii-sama, Nanaya Kiryu, smiling at her just like in her past life.
The word 'handsome' was something Enshuu learned from Kiryu in her past life. She also learned the phrase, "Onii-san is the most handsome man in the world," which Kiryu had taught her. Since then, her standard for handsome became 'Kiryu'.
"Excuse me, little sister, can you..."
Kihara Enshuu was dazed, as if she had traveled through time, which she did. Her Onii-sama said the familiar words.
—"Excuse me, little sister... can you give big brother some directions?"
But unexpectedly, those people caught up too quickly, and she was grabbed and thrown into a car while she was still in a daze. This terrified Enshuu, not because she feared what would happen to her after failing to escape, but because she feared her Onii-sama would be killed again because of her. However, to her surprise, her Onii-sama was much stronger than he was in her past life.
So strong, that he seemed like a completely different person.
He easily defeated everyone, even catching bullets shot at close range with his bare fingers, without injury.
If her Onii-sama in the 'future' had been this strong, he might not have been killed by the Kihara Clan...
But Enshuu was certain that her Onii-sama was still her Onii-sama!
Whether it was the current Onii-sama or the one in her memory from the 'future', they were definitely the same person.
The only difference was that her current Onii-sama had gained strength!
This made Enshuu extremely happy.
So, with memories of the 'future', she said this from the bottom of her heart, "Onii-san, you're a good person."
But why did her Onii-sama's expression look so strange? Was there something wrong with what she said?
Enshuu did not want to think about the reason.
She just wanted to hold onto this hard-won happiness with her own hands!
Anyone who tried to destroy her happiness had to die!
—'Kihara!'
—'Kihara!!!'
Enshuu's eyes suddenly became crazed.
'You killed my Onii-sama, and this sin is unforgivable!'
'Even though my Onii-sama is still alive now, it doesn't mean nothing happened!'
—'I will destroy everything you care about and are proud of~!!!'
"What's wrong, Enshuu-chan?" Kiryu felt the intense emotional fluctuation from Enshuu on his shoulders and could not help but ask curiously.
"Nothing." Enshuu smiled slightly, then hugged Kiryu's head with her hands.
"Wait, wait Enshuu-chan, let go of me... I can't see like this." Kiryu said.
"Onii-sama, I love you the most—!!" Past, present, future, no matter how much time passes, the girl's affection remains unchanged.
For him, she was willing to go against the world!
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{T/N: Some of you may have noticed that I keep interchanging Onii-san with Onii-sama, and rarely big brother... Well, I do this because of the setting and context. I could ignore this and simply use 'big brother' throughout the entire translation, but I'm not an uncultured heathen, so none of that.
Anyway, What did I just read!!? Did Enshuu-chan just become Yandere!?}
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