I Was Hired As A Tutor By A Cute Little Devilish Junior - Chapter 24 Study Session

“Senpai, can you teach me how to solve this problem?”
“Riku~, I don’t know what this word means.”
“Nii-san, how do I expand this equation?”
“Are you guys mistaking me for Prince Shotoku or something?”

It was late afternoon on a day off. In the living room of my house, I said this back to the three girls sitting at the same table.

“I’m not mistaking you, Murakami-senpai. It’s Imai-senpai and Kanade who are intruding.”
“What do you mean? I’m his childhood friend so shouldn’t I have priority here?”
“No, I’m his sister, therefore I’m his priority.”
“Doesn’t my will take priority…?”

Sitting around the table, the three of them started to spark, and a beautiful triangle was drawn.
I was the only one out of the mosquito net at point P.

With the test approaching, Shiina invited us to a study session.
However, although it was somewhat predictable, the combination of the three of them was not good.

At the slightest hint of a problem, they would immediately start a verbal fistfight.
Now the four of us are sitting around a desk, but it was really bad at first.

Shiina sat down next to me in the usual manner, and Satsuki objected.
And then Satsuki sat next to me on the opposite side of Shiina.
When Kanade showed her disapproval of the situation, she climbed onto my lap…

As you could possibly imagine, it was hard to study in such a state, so I managed to talk the three of them into the current situation.

“I’m going to ask you one by one, and we’ll go clockwise.”
“Yes! As expected of Murakami-senpai♡”
“”Nununu…””

Shiina, who sat in front of me to my left, raised her hands in joy, but the other two clearly looked unhappy.
What are they? Children?

“Well, Senpai, here’s the problem…”
“Hmm? Yeah, this problem is…”

Shiina asked me while leaning in close to me as usual, and I pulled out my memories from a year ago and explained it to her.
However, I didn’t remember everything from a year ago, so recently I’ve been digging out my first-year textbooks at home and reviewing it.
As a private tutor, I didn’t want to compromise with my students.

After explaining the problem to her, she seemed to be able to solve it somehow, though her brow furrowed.
As I took a breath and looked up, I saw Satsuki looking at me with an intense look in her eyes.

“What is it?”
“Nothing~. I’m next, right?”
“Ah, yeah. What do you not understand?”
“It’s a word here…”

Satsuki, sitting in front of me, leaned forward and showed me her notebook.

“!”

I was about to turn my attention to the offered notebook, but my gaze was glued to one point.
It was a day off, and Satsuki was in her casual clothes. And today, the outfit was casual with a loose neckline. In addition to that, Satsuki’s good growth and her bent-over position combined into…

Basically what I was trying to get at was her chest.
The unmistakable presence filled my vision as much as it could.

I was thinking of pointing it out to Satsuki right away, but in this state of affairs, I would be teased in front of Shiina and Kanade.
However, averting my gaze would also be suspicious given the situation where I was teaching.
The best solution by a process of elimination seemed to be to just let it go and pretend that nothing had happened.

“The ‘who’ here is a relative pronoun. Didn’t we go over that in class?”
“Did we?”
“And by the way, we did this in middle school.”
“No way…”
“It’s your head that’s stupid.”
“Hey! Why did you say that to me, Riku? I’m hurt. I’m hurt by that!”
“Think about what you say. I’m teaching you well. I’m being nice.”
“Riku’s being nice? Oh no, Riku’s indecent…”

Satsuki hugged herself as if to protect herself from me. Because of this movement, her chest was further emphasized.
I was about to say something back, but as expected, I averted my gaze at this.

“Hmm? What’s wrong, Riku?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
“Then why are you looking away?”
“Ah…Because I don’t want to see Satsuki’s face right now?”
“What’s that normally hurtful reason! It’s my turn now, look at me.”

Satsuki grabbed my face and jerked my head back.
And then the twin mountains come into my view again. I’m having trouble keeping my eyes away from it.

“Come on, look me in the eye!”
“Ah, ahh.”

I tried to be as unconscious as possible with Satsuki, but the more I tried not to worry about it, the more it bothered me, and that was the nature of men….

“What’s going on? You’ve been glancing down…”

As expected, Satsuki looked down at her own chest, as if she was suspicious.

“!!!!”

She hid her chest in a blindingly fast motion.
Her face became redder and redder, and her eyes became moist.
Eventually, she said in a muffled voice while her body pulled away.

“P-perv…”

Her voice was so small.
Satsuki was usually not this kind of person. What was with this frightened girl who looked like a small animal?
You usually made fun of me with underhanded jokes, but this made me feel like it was my fault. No, it was not in the first place…

“Um, I’m sorry. But even Satsuki was a little too defenseless.”
“Hmph. It’s Riku’s fault for being dirty.”
“Every man is aware of it. You should be more careful in front of men.”
“I only do this in front of Riku…”

When I warned her about this, she whispered something back to me in a low voice. No, your voice is so small.
What was with today’s Satsuki?

“Senpai! I’ve solved the problem…What’s wrong?”
“N-No. It’s nothing.”
“R-Right. It’s nothing, nothing at all.”
“?”

Shiina tilted her head at me and Satsuki, who swept her gaze to deceive her.
If Shiina found out about what I just did, I would be in big trouble. To be more specific, I’m going to be in a lot of trouble with that thing.
Anyway, let’s divert the conversation and escape.

“O-Oh, Shiina. You’ve solved it well.”
“Fufum. Who do you think I am?”
“Haha, Shiina has come to say that. But you’re definitely growing up.”
“You’re a little sweeter than usual today, aren’t you, Senpai?”

Oh no.

“I-Is that so?”
“Yes. Well, I don’t feel bad, so please praise me more.”
“You sure follow your desire…”
“Come on, I’m doing great, aren’t I?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“I’m growing. Is that great?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“Do you love me?”
“Yeah, I love you, I love you…hey!”
“Iyaah! Mou, Senpai, you’re so bold!”

She started waving her hands and cackling.
I am a senpai, right? Shouldn’t be expecting…respect or something like that.

When I returned to my vision with a sigh, I saw Satsuki, still in the same posture of guarding her chest, looking at me with furtive eyes.
So what’s with the eyes? What did I do to deserve this?

“Nii-san?”

As I was sighing over my caring kouhai and my childhood friend who can’t read my thoughts, I heard the voice of an angel.

“Hmm, what’s wrong? Kanade.”
“It’s my turn now, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, I’m sorry I’m late. What was the problem?”
“Here.”

Kanade quietly pointed to the problem. It was a math problem from middle school. I’ve seen this problem about three years ago, and I’m good at math. This shouldn’t be an issue.

“In the case of this problem, first of all, you have to forcibly put this part in parentheses. You have to organize it from there and then expand it.”
“I see…I hadn’t thought of that. As expected of Nii-san.”
“This is something you can get used to, and you’ll get better at it as you encounter more problems.”
“I understand. Kanade will do her best.”
“Okay. Good luck.”

I said and patted Kanade’s head.
Kanade’s eyes narrowed as she felt good, and she let me keep patting her.
I’ve always loved this time of stroking Kanade’s head. It was like I’m taking care of a cat.

As I continued stroking Kanade’s head in my usual habit, I felt two disturbing glances.
I didn’t need to turn around. They were definitely the evil gazes of that boisterous duo.

At first, I didn’t pay any attention to them, but gradually the pressure from behind became so strong that I felt a chill run down my back, and I had no choice but to end my blissful moment.
Then the disturbing gaze eased a little, but instead, Kanade looked at me with very lonely eyes.

Normally, I don’t stop petting her unless someone called out to me or something else came up.
I suppose it was because of the exceptionally sudden stop that she gave me that look, but it was just too aggressive.
It was not unusual for me to be very protective. Her look hurt my heart.

The white eyes that stab my back.
My sister’s upturned eyes stung my heart.

After maintaining such a stomach-churning state for a few seconds.

“O-Okay. Let’s take a break.”

I couldn’t take it anymore, and I found myself suggesting a break.