The person who likes me is a yandere.

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"We're alone now. What should I do? My heart is beating so fast. It's beating at sixty beats per minute."

"This is a perfectly normal heartbeat."

I could see the flirtatious glint in Asuna's eyes, and her anxiety was palpable. Asuna is a girl who becomes very strange when she's alone with me (what's going on?).

The solution is to act like there are other people around... Hmm, how should I do that?

"Um, Qianyu."

"what happened?"

"...Could we keep this up a little longer?"

"Well, let Asuna do as she pleases."

"Seriously, if you say that, I'll attack you... Asami, remember that."

"What's the matter?"

"I'm a pretty carnivorous girl."

Asuna made a "gaa" sound and gently bit my right hand, which was stiffly resting on her shoulder.

"Whoa, what are you doing!"

"When I'm with Qianyu, what we do most often is bite each other. Come on, Qianyu, bite me too, bite me anywhere... it's fine."

Biting isn't on my list of things I want to do to girls. So I don't know where to bite.

Unable to move, I was held tightly by Asuna, who was biting my hand, and I had no power to fight back.

But now is not the time for me to be comfortably held in her arms.

A third party, aware of Asuna's strange behavior when the two of them are alone, arrives outside the tent.

A sound suddenly came in:

"Hey, Xiaoming, are you there?"

It was Sora's voice. I was so startled I almost jumped up. Asuna, who was biting my right hand, must have been startled too, right? Her shoulders trembled.

Asuna took a deep breath without saying a word and silently left me.

He replied in a calm voice, "Yes."

"...Can I talk to you for a bit?"

Is Sora going to talk to Asuna? What are they going to talk about?

"Okay, yes."

"May I... go into the tent?"

"Huh? Going into the tent?"

Letting her into the tent would be disastrous. Because I'm inside. I desperately don't want Sora to know that Asuna and I are alone in the tent. I feel guilty because of her strange behavior of biting and hugging me at the same time.

Asuna lied to restrain her actions.

"Xiao Qiong, I'm sorry. I don't know why, but there's a redback spider in the tent. It's better if you don't come in."

...Isn't that a poisonous spider? If it really appears in the tent, we have to escape as quickly as possible.

"Spider? Hmm, then I'll talk about it over here."

Asuna and I stared at each other in silence. We passed safely. We breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xiao Qiong, is something the matter?"

"Yeah. My brother, the girls at school all call him 'lecherous,' and he was even voted 'the senior that the first-year students least wanted to call him' among themselves."

So that's what the younger female students call me? I was naturally shocked.

"Sora is sometimes jokingly called a lecherous little sister by boys..."

So that's how Sora was called before? As her older brother, I really feel bad for her.

“Brother, he’s not popular with any girls at school. I thought it was a pipe dream for him to be confessed to by a girl, and his chances of even making female friends were so low that it was hopeless. But for Sora, it’s good that he’s like this. Sora is the only girl who talks to him, and that’s the best.”

Was Sora trying to tell Asuna how unpopular her brother was? I didn't understand her meaning and was flustered. Asuna listened to her intently.

"But Xiaoming showed up today. After learning that her brother treats Xiaoming like a girl... but only sees Qiong as his little sister, Qiong couldn't bear it. Xiaoming must have realized... Qiong's feelings."

Asuna nodded beside me.

"Yes, I have a vague feeling about it."

What exactly does Qiong mean by "heartfelt intentions"?

"Xiaojie noticed, didn't she? The only one who didn't notice is your brother...Xiaojie?"

"what happened?"

Outside the tent, Qiong seemed to be taking a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind.

"Just as Kosuke noticed... Kasugano Sora's favorite person is Asagiri."

——?

Even I know she didn't mean she liked my brother.

I was so scared I couldn't speak.

Asuna's face showed only a tiny hint of surprise. Compared to Hinata's confession to me, her surprise seemed rather mild.

Did Asuna already know that?

Asuna answered in an extremely gentle voice:

"Xiao Qiong, why did you tell me such an important message?"

"...No, I don't know either. Xiaoming probably likes my brother...maybe it's just that I want to declare my feelings to Xiaoming. Qiong hopes that my brother can treat her like a girl."

Sorry for saying strange things to Xiaojie. Don't tell your brother about this, okay? Xiaojie, go use the bathroom too. Goodbye.

Qiong left the tent.

Asuna said:

"In theory, Qianyu shouldn't have heard Xiaoqiong's confession. So don't worry too much about Xiaoqiong."

"Asuna, what's going on here?"

Asuna smiled, puzzled.

"It feels like I've gained a formidable rival in love. Starting tomorrow, this cohabitation might turn into a battleground for our relationship."

My expression was probably ten times more confused than Asuna's.

10 PM.

Finally, Asuna took a bath in that order, followed by me.

While Asuna was taking a bath, I went to Sora's room in order to make up with her.

- Knock knock.

"coming."

The door opened. Qiong was wearing the same pajamas I was used to seeing, but I couldn't calm down. Just over ten minutes ago, I heard Qiong's confession to me, and I couldn't act the same way as usual.

"What's wrong, brother?"

Qiong was still angry about the argument, and her voice was full of displeasure.

I tried my best to act nonchalant and said:

"Well, regarding clothes, let's wash three portions together. Sora and Asuna will be in charge of the laundry."

Treat Sora as a girl. Or rather, treat her with the same standards as Asuna.

I naively thought this would make up, and in fact, it worked remarkably well. The unpleasant look on Qiong's face disappeared.

"My brother is really something, always pushing the housework onto others."

Qiong seemed to be in a good mood when she said that. So we made up.

After Asuna and I finished showering, there was one last problem on our first day of living together.

bed.

When I asked Asuna to use my bed, intending to sleep on the living room sofa myself—

"Qianyu, no way. Let me, the guest, sleep on the sofa."

"Sora wants to sleep in her brother's bed too. Yoshimi is so cunning. It's okay for Yoshimi to use Sora's bed, Sora wants to sleep in her brother's bed."

Asuna was polite to me, while Sora revealed her desires—it turns out she understood my good intentions so well—and asserted herself.

finally--

Unable to agree on who would sleep where, we had to decide by drawing lots fairly.

result--

I sleep in the dome's room.

Qiong sleeps in my room.

Asuna sleeps on the sofa in the living room.

"Brother, do you want to sleep in Sora's bed...? That's so embarrassing."

Qiong became hesitant and awkward.

"How about we try drawing it again?"

When I said that, Qiong replied, "No, this is fine!" and nodded vigorously.

"I'm sorry, Asuna. I made you sleep on the sofa."