His Childhood Friend is a Beautiful, Reclusive Girl, So He Spends His After-School Hours in Her Room (But He’s Not Her Boyfriend!) - Ch. 72: Face To Face! Souta VS Aoi

The girl named Hoshikawa Aoi was a very pretty girl.

Her chestnut-colored hair was fluffy like a French doll, the exact opposite of Yuika who had straight black hair. I think she would be a good match for Iori, who has a calm and lovely personality.

“Heeeh, so you two have been together since elementary school? Then I guess you’ve known each other for quite a while. I’ve never heard of such a partner, Iori.”
“I don’t talk to Souta Nii-chan about everything either. I have my own relationships.”

“I’m sure you do, but…I’m going to miss you a little bit.”
“Go ahead, be lonely. I’m not your little brother who’s always walking behind you, right?”
“Goodness, you’re telling me.”

Iori was jokingly beaming with pride, and I am jokingly, but secretly, rather seriously, lonely.
But the rebellious period seemed to be over, as he talked to me normally like this. After all, Iori already has a girlfriend. I’ve finally been left behind. It was really depressing.

I want a girlfriend so badly I’m gushing. It might be bad if I go back to Kisaragi’s house after this and meet Yuika.

And from what I’ve heard, the two of them still seem to have a healthy relationship. In other words, it’s all over for me and Yuika. Good grief. It’s a real bummer…

So now we’re walking down the street at night to drop Aoi-chan off.
Iori was in the middle, with me on his right and Aoi-chan on his left.
But since a while ago, it was just me and Iori talking. To be honest, I’d like to talk to Aoi-chan as well…

“…Umm, do I have something on my face?”
“…N-No, nothing.”

Aoi-chan hid behind Iori and looked at me with frightened eyes. But I didn’t take my eyes off her. There was a lot of silent pressure.

I guess…it made sense. Looking back, I said a lot of things through the wall that could have been misunderstood. I wondered how I could get her to open up from here. As I was thinking about it, Aoi-chan murmured to me.

“…Peeing.”

My spine straightened up.
Ah damn, I guess she could hear me… No, well, I knew she had heard me.
Aoi-chan murmured again in a very low tone.

“I-I thought that Souta Nii-chan was a brother with really good personalities. I had no idea that he was such a pervert. …I’m shocked.”
“No, wait, Aoi-chan! I’m not a pervert, I’m not a pervert, I’m not a pervert!”
“P-Please don’t call me Aoi-chan. It’s disgusting!”
“Disgusting!”

A junior high school girl expresses her physiological disgust!
I took 100,000 damage for that!

“Ah, well. Well, Aoi-chan is Aoi-chan.”
“…I forgive you because Iori-kun says so.”
“…Thank you for your forgiveness. I’ll be grateful to you forever and ever.”

I am grateful to her with tears flowing like a waterfall.
Wow, Iori’s mediation gave me instant forgiveness.
Was this what you call a boyfriend and girlfriend?

I think Aoi-chan was a quiet person by nature, judging from her mood.
It seemed that the more I overturned that, the more she hated me. Is this…a punishment from heaven? A divine punishment for me?

“…A-Also.”
“Is this going to continue…?”
“Souta Nii-chan is causing too much trouble for Iori-kun. Making him listen to you making out with his sister from behind a wall day in and day out is not what a decent person would do!”
“What!?”

“A-And are you really trying to get his sister to graduate from being a recluse? From what I’ve heard from Iori, all you do is make out with her every day, but it doesn’t seem like you’re making any progress! I don’t see any motivation!”
“Ugh!?”

“A-As for your relationship with his sister, you say you’re not going out with her, but you do so many things that are ethically out of bounds! You need to be more chaste!”
“Ugghh!?”

A righteous fastball from a junior high school girl!
10 million damage to me! My HP is already at zero!

“Thank you for doing this for me, Aoi-chan. But Souta Nii-chan is really working hard for my sister.”
“…Since Iori-kun says so, I apologize. I’m sorry that an outsider said something without permission.”
“…It’s fine, don’t worry about it. Thank you for your honest opinion.”

I held my mouth as if I were about to vomit blood and bowed flat.
Wow, what destructive power. This is my brother’s girlfriend…

There was no new family member of the Kisaragi family born with the family tradition, but instead — my natural enemy seemed to have been born here.