The person who likes me is a yandere.

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."

"Don't worry about it, Qianyu. I'll be careful not to raid you at night."

"Yes, please be careful about that."

And so, before 11 p.m., we each headed towards our beds for the night.

I lay on Sora's bed and realized I'd forgotten to bring my usual sleeping pillow, but Sora was probably already asleep.

I fell asleep under an unfamiliar ceiling without a pillow.

Chapter Thirty-Three: An Unlucky Day

The sound of debris from the plane crashing into my yard woke me. In that instant, jolted awake by the noise, I couldn't even begin to imagine what had happened to me…

A bomb?

Meteorite?

I tried to jump out of bed in a state of near terror, but I couldn't get up.

"……what?"

My mind went completely blank.

For some reason, Qiongren was lying next to me in bed.

And we even hugged each other?

"...Hmm—that's a scary sound...Strange? My brother's face is so close?"

I pulled away the drowsy body of the sleeping Qiong and jumped out of bed.

This is so cute I've never seen before—completely girly—is this a rug?

The bookshelves are filled with shoujo manga, popular magazines, and even books on divination and feng shui.

I tried to calm myself down and sort out the current situation.

Why am I not sleeping in my own room?

...Oh, I see. I moved my sleeping place to Sora's room yesterday.

"Brother, what are you doing in Qiong's room?"

"No, that's... a bed for sleeping—"

Do you sleep with Sora? Do you... use Sora as... a body pillow?

Qiong, who usually scolds me for being a pervert after a hug, was now inexplicably blushing, looking down at me with her eyes wide open. I couldn't bear her gaze and glanced at the bed. The disheveled blankets clearly showed that Qiong and I had just slept together.

"Wait a minute, how did Qiong end up in this room?"

"...This is Sora's room."

"But didn't we switch beds last night?"

"Ah... I got up to go to the bathroom... and went back to my room."

So that's why she crawled into bed and slept with me?

If you wake up in the middle of the night, anyone would be groggy. Also, if it's past midnight, Hinata, who hasn't yet absorbed the day's energy, should be in a confused state. Besides, I also have a habit of sleeping with a body pillow.

Even so, I never imagined I'd use my little sister as a body pillow...

Qiong looked towards the bedside, her expression suddenly becoming anxious.

"Huh? 9:30? Bro, this is terrible! We're terribly late! Liar, why didn't the alarm go off?"

Qiong looked out the window.

It was as if only my family's yard was covered in snow, with a tattered brown bag in the center of the yard.

Has cargo fallen from the plane into my yard again?

And unlike last time, it's not salt.

The bag says "sugar".

It's worse than last time.

Ants might build a kingdom in a garden sprinkled with sugar.

Footsteps rushed up the stairs, and the door to Sora's room was opened. There stood Asuna, dressed as a nurse. Her sleeping clothes were truly astonishing.

“Great. You’re both here. I was woken up by a huge noise, and when I looked at the clock, it was already past 9:30. The alarm didn’t go off either… Sorry, I was planning to make breakfast, but I didn’t do anything.”

"In conclusion, breakfast is fine. It would be bad if we were all late. We need to hurry to school."

At that moment, I knew that something terrible was really going to happen. Why hadn't the alarm clock gone off? And why had the large bag of sugar fallen into the yard? These were undoubtedly bad omens.

I spoke to her from behind, as she hurriedly prepared to leave:

"I'm asking you, Qiong. Do you go to the toilet in the morning?"

"I don't quite remember, but it must have been the middle of the night. It was pitch black everywhere."

Every morning, I hug Qiong for five seconds.

This is so that she can absorb good luck.

But today it's not just five seconds.

For several tens of minutes, no, I held Qiong for several hours.

This fact makes me tremble.

Will I survive today?

As I was changing into my uniform in the room, Asuna walked in without knocking.

"Whoa, what's wrong?"

As I was pulling up my trousers, I lost my balance and bumped into the leg of the table next to the bed.

Things on the table fell to the ground.

"Sorry. I just wanted to confirm this morning... that you held Xiaoqiong, right?"

I've hugged you. I've hugged you until I can't hug you anymore.

"Oh, yes."

A relieved smile appeared on Qiong's face.

"So, everything's alright for today, right? Qianyu, if anything unlucky happens, tell me. I'll protect you... Ah, it would be terrible if Xiaoqiong heard us talking about this... Goodbye."

Asuna walked down the stairs.

I thought to myself as I put the things that had fallen on the floor back on the table.

What if something unlucky happens...?

After changing into my uniform, I took all the natural stones I had collected from my desk drawer and stuffed them all into my jacket pocket. Hopefully, this would bring me some good luck.

Regardless of whether their luck has recovered much, misfortune strikes one after another before they even step out of their homes.

I was just urinating when I went to the toilet, but for some reason the Western-style flush toilet got clogged.

The filling fell out while I was brushing my teeth.

I was washing my face when a pimple suddenly appeared right in the center of my nose.

The moment I put on my cloth shoes while thinking about contacting a plumber and a dentist, the shoelaces on both feet broke at the same time.

My mood plummeted.

Chapter Thirty-Four: Extraordinary Bad Luck

"Let's go, brother."

"Qianyu, hurry up!"

I rushed out of the entrance hall after being called by Sora and Asuna.