Chapter 15

Yuzu Senpai’s POV

I was in a rush.

I kicked off my shoes at the entryway and slipped into my slippers.

Using the embarrassment that felt like it was about to explode as fuel, I dashed up the stairs, hurried down the second-floor hallway, and threw open the door to my room—no, the room right next to mine.

“Wuaaaaaaaaaaaah! He saw my sleeping face!!”

“Eh!? What, what, is this a lewd story, onee-san!?”

Laying on her bed in a matching pink button-down shirt and shorts, my blonde younger sister looked at me the moment I walked in with an excited expression full of pink, scandalous daydreams.

Minato Lemon. She was my younger sister by one year, a fifteen-year-old freshman the same age as Kakeru-kun.

Even though she’s my younger sister, she’s bigger than me, her older sister.

I-In various ways…

Consulting my younger sister, Lemon, felt terribly embarrassing.

She already had a bit of a knack for it before, but ever since her high school debut, she’d been getting obsessed with all sorts of weird knowledge, so I tried to avoid talking to her about this stuff if possible… plus, I couldn’t exactly talk to my friends about it, either…

“Leave it to your onee-san! I’ve mastered shoujo manga, so I’ll consult you on anything!”

“…You mean let you consult, right?”

I was nervous.

Both Lemon and I shared a hobby of reading.

For me, it was novels; for Lemon, it was shoujo manga. And not just any shoujo manga, but the slightly spicy kind.

I was already anxious.

“S-S-So! Whose eyes saw your sleeping face!? Was it Kakeru-kun, the kouhai you’ve been talking about forever!?”

“Eeeh!? H-How did you know!?”

W-Why did she know!?

This was the first time I’d ever come to her for advice!

“Because you’ve been yelling at the top of your lungs in your room every single night lately, onee-san!”

“Ugh… Uu…”

S-She could hear me…!?

“You’re so smart, onee-san, but you’re totally clueless about things like this!”

“S-Shut up!”

My face felt like it was about to catch fire.

I wanted to run straight to my room right now and bury my face in Mi-kun, my green sea turtle plushie.

“So, so! How did he end up seeing your sleeping face!?”

“Eh, h-how, you ask…?”

“Jeez! If I don’t know the cause, how am I supposed to give you advice?”

“…………”

She had a very good point.

Still, I wanted her to look at me.

Lemon’s eyes were sparkling. Sparkling like a child who had just found a treasure.

Everyone loves hearing other people’s romance stories, huh…

“D-Do I really have to say it?”

“Then why did you even come here?”

Stop using cold logic on me.

“…P-Promise you won’t tell anyone?”

“Of course!”

“N-Not even Mom!?”

“I know, I know!”

“You promise!?”

“Leave it to me!”

Ugh, I’m so nervous.

Still, I guess I have no choice but to tell her…

“W-Well… Today, I was running on too little sleep…”

“Yeah, yeah, you were making a ruckus until late last night, after all.”

“Eh… S-So I was dozing off!”

“Yeah, yeah!”

“And like usual, I sat on Kakeru-kun’s lap, but…”

“…Eh?”

“It felt so nice I must’ve fallen asleep before I knew it…”

“…………”

“A-And he saw my sleeping face and it was so embarrassing…”

Just remembering it now was embarrassing…

“…Onee-san.”

Lemon’s gaze was painful…

“…Is this a lewd story?”

“It is not!?”

“Yes it is!?”

“Where!?”

“Onee-san…”

Eh, what’s with that look of pity?

Am I really getting looked at like that by my own flesh and blood?

“What do you mean you sat on his lap like usual?”

“Eh, well lately I’ve always been sitting on Kakeru-kun’s, um…”

Ah.

Ahhh.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhht!?