Chapter 46

Yuzu Senpai’s POV

“And then, and then! My heart was pounding, but when I mustered up the courage to call Kakeru-kun by his name, Kakeru-kun called my name back!”

“…………”

“And then, and then! He suddenly started petting my head and it surprised me, but w-well, I didn’t hate it so I just left it to him, and then he started saying I was cute!”

“…………”

“Even when I told him to stop because it was way too embarrassing, he wouldn’t stop at all, you know!”

“…………”

“I think we got closer thanks to the fortune-telling, but my dignity as a senpai still has a long way to go… Ugh, with such a sloppy senpai, i-it’ll be hard for us to date…”

“…Eh? Onee-san, are you saying all this as a joke?”

“I’m completely serious!?”

Night time.

Lately, Lemon would show up in my room even when I hadn’t called her.

So I had no choice, absolutely no choice, but to explain what happened today, yet my little sister wouldn’t listen to me seriously.

“I’ve just been forced to listen to a total lovey-dovey couple bragging about their romance, you know.”

“W-We’re not dating yet…”

“That’s the part that makes the least sense, onee-san.”

Lemon had a completely straight face.

“Face-to-face front-facing kneeling, quasi-hug into heartbeat ASMR, desperate heavy-breathing hug due to the heat followed by plastic bottle water-feeding play, tumbling together in a lucky pervert fall, making a kouhai do a dogeza only to slowly corner him and draw out his true feelings, holding hands and sitting on his chair before sitting right on his lap and having a name-calling battle…”

Lemon was summarizing the story with strange, matter-of-fact filtering.

I was starting to get a little worried about this kid’s future.

“Y-You’re gonna say something lewd again, aren’t you…”

“Nope, mega-perv.”

“Mega-perv!?”

That is not a word you should be saying to your onee-san!

“You’ve basically earned a master’s license in lewdness.”

“What country’s language is that from!?”

Don’t just casually spout weird things like it’s everyday speech!

“Still, though, onee-san.”

“I don’t think ‘still, though’ is how you should brush past this, in my opinion…”

“…Does Kakeru-kun have no sex drive?”

“Eeeeehhhh!?”

Why would you say something like that all of a sudden!

“Because if I were in his shoes, I’d have already crossed the line?”

“A-A line, you say…”

“If you’re going to act embarrassed, do it with your actions instead of words, onee-san.”

“…Aren’t you just saying that what I’m doing is embarrassing?”

“Yup!”

“Stop answering instantly with a big smile!”

T-True, I was embarrassed too, but still…

“But jokes aside, what you guys are doing is stuff you do after you start dating, you know?”

“…I-Is that so?”

“That is definitely not a place to be getting shy over.”

Well, I mean, when I hear that it’s stuff lovers do… Ehehe.

“…Ah, maybe that’s it.”

“Eh, why did you look at my face and have a lightbulb moment?”

“It’s the pattern where you’re already doing coupley, lovey-dovey stuff even before dating, so you’re already satisfied without needing a confession.”

“Eeeh!? I-Is Kakeru-kun really like that…?”

“No, I was talking about you, onee-san.”

“I’m not like that!?”

“Then what did you do after he petted you and called you cute the whole time?”

“Eh? Well, when the time came, I just thanked him normally and went home…”

“That’s serious!”

“That’s why you shouldn’t say that with a smile!”

My little sister has been awfully harsh on me lately.

“Well, but it’s a fact that this might apply to him too.”

“U-ugh…”

“Or maybe there’s a reason why you two can’t become lovers…”

“Eh!? W-What!?”

“I mean, I’m just speaking hypothetically… But he will be fine!”

“Wh-What’s the basis for that…?”

“Onee-san.”

“What is that supposed to mean!?”

You shouldn’t point fingers at people.

How am I supposed to be the basis for anything?

“By the way, onee-san, are you the type who cares about what other people think?”

“Eh, why all of a sudden…?”

“Well, I mean, calling each other by first names is something couples do, right? Since you allowed it, I figure there’s a chance you might end up calling each other by name at school outside the club room, too.”

“W-Well, yeah, but…”

“Since you’re consulting me about this, you haven’t told Hime-chin and the others yet, have you? Girls are super sensitive to other people’s romance gossip, you know? Are you going to be okay, onee-san?”

“…Ah.”

W-Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa… What should I do???????

I-I have way too many reasons to worry…

B-But still, I’m a second-year and Kakeru-kun is a first-year.

There’s no way we’d run into each other that conveniently, right……?