ALL NOVEL Chapter 10 - Hikaru Natsukawa Appears
“I’m home～”
“Welcome back, big brother～!!”
No sooner had Haruya entered the house than a small shadow darted toward him like a bullet.
Haruya quickly bent his waist to absorb the impact, and then smiled at the shadow — his younger sister, he caught in his arms.
“I’m home, Hikari.”
“Did you bring me a game?”
“Not yet. Wait a little longer.”
“Ah, that’s disappointing…I thought because you were a bit late you might have bought me a game…”
Upon muttering her disappointment, Hikari, who had been clinging to Haruya, detached herself and walked away in a slow, dejected manner.
“Ah…she thought I brought a game home, not that I came home…how sad…”
The big brother felt profoundly sad.
However, it’s usually best to prepare money in advance and buy the game right away when Hikari scores 100 points.
Since Hikari only started looking for a part-time job after she scored 100 points, it’s not unreasonable for Haruya to be urged to buy the game.
Reluctantly resigning himself, Haruya sat down at the entrance and took off his shoes.
Then, when he turned around, there was Hikari, who was supposed to have gone into the living room, standing there.
And she was standing there with a big smile on her face.
“Eh, what’s up?”
“It was a joke, big brother.”
“A joke…?”
“Yeah. I just wanted to pretend to be disappointed. I know you’re working part-time for me, big brother. I love you.”
As she said this, Hikari wrapped her arms around Haruya’s neck and hugged him tightly.
The big brother felt very happy.
The big brother is weak to his little sister.
“Dinner’s meat sauce.”
“Oh, both you and I love it, right?”
“Yeah! Let’s eat quickly!”
Holding hands, the siblings entered the living room together.
* * * *
After dinner and a bath, it was a time of relaxation with nothing particular to do.
As Haruya was messing around with his smartphone in his room, his sister, dressed in her pajamas, came in.
“Big brother, I’m coming in~”
“You’re already in. And, you’re wearing that pajamas again?”
A huge kitten is drawn on the stomach of the pajamas that Hikari is wearing.
This is what you might call a glowing pajama, which glows in the dark, but it’s just a big face of a cat, so it looks nothing like a ghost cat.
If you pass it in a dark corridor, you might think that the severed head of a cat has just passed by.
Haruya wants to shout out “What a sense of the development manufacturer!”, but since Hikari seems to really like it, he has not said anything.
“This one, mama bought me a new one because the old one was worn out.”
“The second generation ghost cat, huh?”
“Ghost cat?”
“No, nothing. So, what do you need?”
“I thought I’d borrow some manga.”
“Oh, go ahead. Take whatever you like.”
“Okay!”
Hikari began to rummage through Haruya’s bookshelf.
All the manga on that shelf are totally wholesome and for all ages.
Whether Haruya has any non-wholesome manga, and if he does, where he hides it, is a top secret for the sake of Haruya’s honor.
[You have a new message.]
As Haruya was casually scrolling through his Twitter timeline, he received a notification that a message had come in.
When he opened the messaging app, the sender was a user named .
Kijima Ran.
Haruya and Ran haven’t directly exchanged contact info, but they have a class group chat in college.
So, they can add each other whenever they want.
The same can be said for Haruya and Akiba, but they haven’t opened a private chat yet.
[Sorry for adding you without asking! I moved here because it seemed like you were dead on IsoSta!]
[Please take care of me (stamp)]
[Don’t worry about it~ Thanks!]
[Yeah, IsoSta is dead.]
[It seems that it was taken over by some kind of overseas scam and permanently banned without being restored.]
[Eh, wait what lol]
[That’s super funny lol, cracked me up lol]
[Did you click on some weird site or something? lol]
[No, I didn’t…]
“What game are you playing~?”
“Whoa!”
Suddenly hearing a voice in his ear, Haruya was startled and nearly dropped his smartphone.
When he noticed, Hikari, who was supposed to be in front of the bookshelf, had moved right next to him.
“It’s not a game. It’s a chat.”
“A chat, huh. Uhmm… You’re chatting with Mori-san?”
“Not Conan. It’s Kijima. Kijima Ran-san.”
“A girl?”
“That’s right.”
Hikari is a second-grade elementary school student.
Although she is a sister who adores her older brother, she has been becoming more precocious and saucy lately.
And what would such a sister do when she sees her brother chatting with an unfamiliar woman?
The answer is one.
“Mamaaa! My brother got a girlfriend!!”
“Hey Hikari!!”
“My brother is cheating……”
Haruya threw his smartphone away and quickly covered his sister’s mouth.
Then he whispered in her ear.
“She’s not my girlfriend… she’s just a classmate from college…”
“Mmf… She’s not your girlfriend?”
“No, she’s not.”
At this moment, good and bad things were happening to Haruya at the same time.
The good thing was that his sister’s misunderstanding was being resolved, and he received a message from Akiba, not only Ran, starting with [Sorry for adding you without asking!].
The bad thing was that the smartphone he had thrown away earlier had fallen right in front of his sister, and she had found out that he had received a chat message from Akiba.
“Mamaaaaaaaaaa! My brother is cheatingggggggggggg!”
“Hikariiiiiiiii!!”
The misunderstanding that had been resolved was twisted in a strange direction, and a lively voice echoed in the Natsukawa household.
* * * *
Meanwhile, at the Fuyutsuki household…
“I sent it as Ran-chan recommended… I wonder what kind of reply I’ll get…”
“My sister is grinning with a loose face again…”
In front of her sister, Akiba was grinning and gripping her smartphone.