Chapter 71 – 7.1 Marriage?
Morning.
After getting out of bed, I took a shower and changed into my uniform.
It’s no different than usual so far. You can call it a morning routine that you repeat every day.
However, the kitchen scenery that followed was a little different from usual.
“Whoah~!”
Instead of greeting with a stretch and a yawn.
The first to respond was Akane wearing an apron.
“Late! How long are you going to sleep?”
“Nagging.”
There is Akane wearing an apron in my house. And that too, with a natural attitude, as if it were my own home.
It was a strange feeling.
There was no awkwardness in my heart when I saw Akane like before.
Could it be because Akane’s attitude has become more honest? While Akane knew everything, she may have decided that there was no need for pointless acting.
“Knives, good morning.”
“Yes. My sister too.”
My sister had already finished her meal and was enjoying her coffee leisurely.
My sister was always busy in the morning too. The meal seems to have been prepared by Akane, seeing as Akane is wearing her apron. Has your sister also been able to afford it thanks to Akane?
It would be fortunate if Akane’s presence was of any help.
“Akane is right. Why don’t you wake up earlier too? You always wake up on time.”
Akane’s nagging even helped her sister. Akane shouldn’t talk nonsense.
“Yes.”
I answered appropriately and sat down.
Fried eggs on toast, bacon on sausage.
Is it a form today?
Without a word, I took the bread and chewed it.
“What do you prefer, bread or rice for breakfast, Knives?”
Akane looked at me as I munched on the bread and asked.
“Anything.”
“Really! Can’t you give me a serious answer?”
Akane scolds the soulless answer.
I answered seriously in my own way.
“I like anything as long as it fills my calories. It’s even better if there are nutrients as a bonus.”
“Because life is really rough.”
Akane sighs.
Is eating well anything bad?
Akane may have gotten into the habit of getting angry when talking to me. If you’re so nervous, you’ll only get wrinkles.
I was filling my stomach with Akane’s nagging in one ear, but my sister brought up a story in a slightly serious voice.
“By the way, Akane. What will the academy do?”
“Yes? Academy?”
“Yes. Shouldn’t I keep going until graduation?”
“No…… I’m not very…”
My sister must have thought of Akane, but Akane didn’t like it very much.
I sneaked in there.
“Sister. How can I return to the academy when there’s something he did? You know how to be treated by the kids.”
“Knives.”
My older sister cautions me against my careless behavior. But it’s true.
And this is also a word that represents Akane’s feelings. This is a difficult story for Akane to tell her sister, so I’ll do it for her.
It wasn’t just Yuuki that Akane bullied. There will be Nanami among the victims, and there will be someone else I don’t know.
Obviously, the bloody atmosphere in the class has changed. But that’s only quieted down now that Akane and her assailants are dead. Akane’s crimes have not disappeared, nor has the victim forgiven all of them.
“How are you going to deal with that karma? You’d think you’d rather be dead.”
If Akane had been alive and attending her academy until now, she would have suffered worse than Akane and Yuuki.
There is no place for Akane at the academy right now. Because I made a mistake, there is a limit to how I can shield. She thinks it’s better not to let her go, even for Akane’s sake.
“It would be better if I graduated…….”
My older sister tends to view the academy ecosystem, where violence and insults are rampant, too beautiful.
Is it a habit as a teacher?
I don’t know what it was like when my sister was in school, but kids these days are no joke.
“…… Teacher. I’m OK. What Knives said is true.”
Akane said as if she resigned.
“Even Yuu hasn’t forgiven me yet…… I don’t have the confidence to stand in front of other kids.”
“Akane…….”
As a teacher, I can understand her concern for Akane.
However, none of the other children would want Akane to return. Above all, it was Akane’s self-employed gain her. It was the seed sown by Akane, not by anyone else.
“Hey, that’s funny. You pretend to be a victim.”
“Knives.”
My sister stopped me, but I have to say what I have to say.
“You don’t think anything out of the ordinary, and live as a housekeeper for the rest of your life. It would be annoying if I wandered around and was taken to a strange laboratory.”
At my words, my sister’s eyes twinkle.
“Oh. Could this be a proposal right now?”
…… Where and how should I listen to that to make it a proposal?
I want you to work as a housekeeper in this house for the rest of your life.
“That, yes. Akane will surely make a good bride. She’s so pretty, she’s good at cooking, and she’s good at housework. If only the body was fine, men would…… Ah.”
The older sister, who was about to say that the men wouldn’t have left her alone, realized that she had made a mistake on the way and shut her mouth.
However, Akane, her party her, did not seem to care much about that.
“Bride…….”
Instead, Akane laughs self-deprecatingly as she broods over the word bride.
And I burst out laughing.
“Puhaha! Bride. With that personality, a man will easily accept you as his bride.”
At my ridiculing words, Akane gave a sly reply.
“Don’t worry. I’m not going to ask Knives to accept it.”
“Kuk-kuk. Just be grateful for being a housekeeper.”
“Huh. It’s the teacher I owe, not you? Don’t get me wrong.”
Akane glared at me without fear.
My sister looks at us like that with a happy face.
『Nives is still a child, too. In that case, you have to push yourself like a man. ‘I’ll take you as my bride!’”
…… I’m crazy? I’ll hit Akane.
Please don’t get me wrong, sister.
However…….
Hmm.
Isn’t that a completely unlikely thing?
I already said that I would take responsibility. I also accepted Akane’s maiden.
Above all, Akane is a body that cannot survive unless her magic power is injected from her outside her. She must continue to be taken care of by me.
Yuuki, who was most likely to be Akane’s mate, became a woman. She has no promises of returning to being a man, and she doesn’t seem to be very eager to go back.
…… What? Then, am I really supposed to feed Akane?
Have I already entered the Akane route?
I glared at Akane’s back as she was tidying up the dishes.
The back of Akane wearing an apron was quite plausible. Looking at her rustling buttocks her, the memories of yesterday come to mind and my groin twitches. For some reason, it gave off the atmosphere of a young newlyweds.
Umm….
“…… What? Why do you look like that?”
As I look at Akane and seriously think about it, Akane asks.
“No, I don’t think I might really marry you at this rate.”
“…… What?”
“Oh my goodness.”
Marriages between academy students are surprisingly not uncommon.
There is also a social atmosphere that encourages you to get married early if you have someone you like. Nationally, the production of Rune Holder II is also linked to the enhancement of national defense, so of course, preferential treatment is given to it.
Akane, as her older sister said, has nothing to lose in terms of her looks or abilities of her. Her personality is terrible, but she’s gotten a lot better now. She’ll probably get better in the future.
Is Akane my bride…….
Although it ended up being taken from Yuuki, it might not be as bad as it might seem. To Yuuki, it was as if it had already been abandoned. If I don’t reap it, this guy won’t even get married.
“If Akane gets down on his knees and begs you to marry him, there’s nothing he can’t do.”
“Aren’t you stupid?!”
Akane left her seat angrily as usual.
However, rather than being angry, she felt embarrassed. It seems that she never imagined that she would marry someone other than Yuuki.
“Am I marrying Knives? That’s nonsense! For me, Yuu… But Yuu became a woman…… Oh, the only person I can rely on is Knives…… ?』
Akane muttered to herself and wandered around.
I hope she didn’t break the plate in her scrambling her.
“Haa~ Is Knives married? This time has already come.”
“Teacher! I’m not marrying that Knives!”
Akane exclaimed in a fit of fuss at her older sister’s vague self-talk to her.
“The girls who said they would never get married were the first to go.”
“Ugh.”
Akane shut her mouth at the smile of her older sister her.
She must have a person to point out to Akane as well. It seems to be common in all countries that people who do not marry get married first.
“Ha……Is Knives getting married before me……. Well, it was my goal to raise Knives properly and marry him, so I don’t know if it went well with this.”
Her goal her was not to marry her son her, but to marry her younger brother her.
If you’re like a noona, then that’s a noonaish goal. But from now on, I want my sister to live for her own happiness her. Whether I get married or not.
『Anyway, what should I do? If I don’t want to listen to the old maid, should I start looking for a man to marry from now on?”
“Kheop!”
“Yes?”
“…… No, the sausage got stuck in my throat. Cough Cough.”
“Ahh, so eat slowly.”
My sister gets up from her seat and pats my back her.
I just coughed and pretended to be stuck in my throat.
“Huh. He was big, but he was a child.”
Seeing me like that, Akane rolls her eyes.
Even when she heard Akane say that, she had nothing to say.
I was shocked to the point that even I was surprised by the story that my sister was getting married.
“Nives, are you okay now?”
“Uh……Yes.”
When I stop coughing, my sister looks at me with worried eyes.
Jewel-like blue eyes. It was the eye that had watched Knives for 10 years before being possessed, and for another 10 years after being possessed.
My sister’s mind was dripping with concern for me. Even though he has grown so big, in the eyes of the older sister, the younger brother is just a younger brother. The mind that puts his younger brother first before anything else has never changed.
“Then I’ll go first. See you later at the academy.”
“…… Yes.”
My sister strokes my hair and says goodbye.
But my heart was not here. I still couldn’t get out of the shock of hearing that my sister was getting married.
It is only natural for an older sister of the right age to marry. Because her brother and sister her can’t stay together forever. As we get older, someday we had to walk our separate ways.
Marriage between close relatives is forbidden, even in the deadliest game, and I don’t have the childlike thought of marrying my older sister.
However.
But something.
I didn’t like something.
I hated that my sister married another man.
This isn’t humiliation, it’s not NTR, it’s not a sale,
Why do you hate it so much? Why are you in such a bad mood?
I was troubled.
Just the thought of her sister getting married made her nervous, her chest tight, and it was difficult to breathe. It’s like watching the NTR scene of that trash game…… It was such a terrible feeling.
I tried to hide my nervousness and said.
“…… Akane. I can’t either. No matter how much I beg you, I won’t marry you.”
“What?! I’m not stupid, really!”
Akane knocked on her table and got angry, but I couldn’t help it either.
If I get married, my sister will get married too.
I didn’t like that.
I know that it’s childish foolishness. But I wasn’t ready in my heart to accept my sister’s marriage yet.
Do I have the right to stop my sister’s happiness?
…… I don’t even know what I’m thinking.
What the heck do I want to do?
