My love game with them that will lead to certain death

As expected, she covered her ears and shook her head like a rattle, not wanting to try to understand if there was any other meaning to Minghai's words.

"Why don't you just admit that in your eyes I am a burden that will hold you back? Toru, you must have thought that it would be better if you were an only child, right? My existence must have been a hindrance to you, right? I disturbed your flirting with girls, right? That's why you are so eager to cut off ties with me...!"

"How does your brain connect these things together...?"

"'It would be nice if I wasn't your sister' - you must have thought about this before, right?"

If Ming Hai had been able to respond to the unreasonable behavior just now with a helpless but tolerant expression, Eriri's angry words made him gradually calm down a little.

"…Eri, what did you just say?"

Only when he asked this question did the curly-haired boy's tone become more serious than ever before.

"I say - you must have thought that it would be better if I was never your sister, right?!"

After asking this somewhat vicious question, Eriri pushed open the cubicle door angrily and slammed it - scaring the uncle outside the cubicle who was about to loosen his belt.

"Girl?! Why are you in the men's room—huh?"

When the Mediterranean uncle saw the curly-haired boy walking out of the cubicle where the girl had just run out with a headache on his face, the impact of this scene was a little hard for him to accept.

By the time I realized it, I had already peed my hand.

"I'm sorry, uncle. We are just brother and sister. We didn't play anything shameful in there." - This kind of cover-up would be even more strange if it was explained out loud, so Ming Hai could only blink his eyes and walk out of the bathroom as if nothing had happened.

Looking around, Eriri was no longer there in the music bar. Yamada and Yukinoshita, who were still sitting in their seats, gave him concerned looks.

"Is it okay? Archer."

"Hey, Xiao Hai, you're so slow. Just now your sister seemed to have walked out angrily."

"Did they have a quarrel?"

Faced with the two people's earnest concern, Ming Hai did not immediately sit down and start complaining.

"Girls in puberty always have some weird thoughts. Don't take them to heart."

He sat down very calmly, but his relaxed and composed look still made Yukinoshita and Yamada roll their eyes in confusion.

"Xiao Hai, you are still very good at making girls angry."

Yamada's teasing only elicited a wry smile from him.

Since then, a new round of Cold War broke out between the Sawamura brothers and sisters.

Unlike the minor quarrels she had before, Eriri used to be patient (although she would put on a cold face) and let her brother intrude into her private space no matter how angry she was.

But now, the door that the brother and sister had originally opened to each other was completely closed again.

Even though Sayuri would go home and prepare a sumptuous meal for them, the brother and sister would still ignore each other at the table. This awkward scene also gave Sayuri, as a mother, a headache.

But when she tried to communicate with the child, Eriri would always avoid the question with an indifferent look on her face, while Toru would raise his index finger at her and make a gesture of silence.

"It's okay, Mom."

He in turn became the one who comforted his mother.

"Eri will understand in the future. I will give her the most precious gift."

And after that, he would give Sayuri, who looked confused, a big hug before ending the topic.

Sayuri also understood that no one else could get her son to tell her secrets.

"Are these two children...really okay?"

But apart from staying by the child's side with some worry, Sayuri found herself with a slight headache that there was nothing she could do.

Maybe I can only believe my son’s promise for the time being.

Chapter 48: Prelude to Farewell

The mixed-blood twins of the Sawamura family have always been a beautiful sight in Toyonosaki Academy, and their close relationship is also one of the topics that other Toyonosaki Academy students talk about with great relish. After all, the blond siblings with dignified looks and a wealthy family will immediately become the focus of the crowd wherever they go.

But lately, the inseparable twins have been acting particularly strangely at school.

They were in the same class and would just keep walking without looking at each other when they saw each other in the corridor. They would not even say hello when they passed each other. They would not say a word even if they were assigned to the same group to exercise together in physical education class. They would not say a word even if their eyes met.

Even an outsider could see that they were arguing.

But as an older brother, Toru still spends every ordinary school day in a relaxed and comfortable manner. Although Eriri, as a younger sister, always shows a slightly dissatisfied expression when she meets him, she also suppresses the urge to find him and argue with him, and pretends to ignore her daily contact with him.

What a childish way of using cold violence - Ming Hai sighed in his heart, but he didn't take Eriri's anger towards him too seriously. But the more he ignored it, the more annoyed Eriri became, and this vicious cycle continued.

Sometimes there is no need to let the parents know about the conflicts between siblings, especially since the parents of the Sawamura family have to work hard outside all year round due to work. When they finally go home to accompany their children for a while, they should try not to cause trouble for their parents - this is the consensus that the Sawamura brothers and sisters have reached since childhood, and they will tacitly abide by it even when they are quarreling.

It is also because of this that some outrageous phenomena have occurred.

No matter how the deadlocked brother and sister ignored each other's existence at school, they would always end up sitting in the same limousine after school, go home together, smile warmly in front of Sayuri who was looking forward to their return, and then sit at the same dining table to eat together.

The brother who excels in both academics and physical fitness will help Sayuri prepare a table of delicious dishes when he comes home. Although Eriri will retreat to her room to play games when she gets home, she will still go out on time at mealtime, sit down at the dining table properly, and help her mother and brother serve the rice.

When their parents are not around, the housekeeper uncle takes care of the family's food, clothing, housing and transportation, but her brother Toru often cooks some of his sister's favorite dishes. When their mother Sayuri is at home, she will take the initiative to prepare a sumptuous meal for the siblings, perhaps to make up for the lack of their company when she is away from home for so many years.

In any case, Eriri is not so ignorant as to not understand her mother's good intentions.

But Eriri also discovered during the meal that her brother, who was always good at everything, had a cut on his finger when he walked out of the kitchen.

"Oh my, Toru-chan... you're so careless when cutting vegetables. Remember to put a Band-Aid on it after you handle it properly."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just a momentary oversight."

While listening to her mother and brother chatting while they were busy serving the food, Eriri sat in her seat with her head lowered, looking thoughtful.

Her brother Toru Sawamura is perfect in every aspect both at school and at home. Even though his nonchalant attitude of taking a break from work often makes Eriri uncomfortable, she has to admit that he is a genius who can do things to the best of his ability without being too serious and can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Imagine that there is such a person in real life, who will definitely make back his money even if he doesn’t win the jackpot in lottery, can get full combos and perfect decisions in music games just by randomly making a few bets, and can answer the last few multiple-choice questions in the exam perfectly even if he just randomly chooses them.

In fact, Eriri has passed the stage of being jealous of her brother. She is now more curious about why he can reach this level. And -

My brother is always blessed by the goddess of luck even if he guesses blindly, but why has everything been going wrong for him recently?

Although the brother and sister had little contact at school, Eriri was still impressed by her brother's rare moments of failure.

My brother, who habitually daydreams in class, used to be able to handle the question perfectly even when called upon by the teacher. But this morning, when the teacher asked about the history of the Warring States Period, he answered the completely unrelated question "obtuse angle", which caused the whole class to burst into laughter.

In physical education class, he could always easily leave all the other boys behind in the men's 1,000-meter race and win the first place. However, he got off to a bad start. He had only run 50 meters when he was tripped by his shoelaces and fell hard, scraping his elbow. The physical education teacher called him to the infirmary to rest and disinfect himself.

Plus, he seemed to have been accidentally injured while cooking just now...

"I'm starting—!"

"How come Toru is becoming as unlucky as me?"

When the family of three picked up their chopsticks at the same time and started to enjoy dinner, this thought popped into Eriri's mind.

No, on the contrary, she rarely encounters the bad luck she had before. Both her studies and work are going much better than before, and she can even occasionally win MVP in games - this is a big deal for Eriri.

"Humph, it seems that God knows who is more right."

However, she did not delve into the matter any further and her thoughts on the matter stopped here. After reaching this conclusion, she picked up the bowl and began to eat voraciously.

During the cold war between the Sawamura siblings, although Tomoya Aki still wanted to find Eriri to renegotiate the "game planning heroine" matter he had proposed to her before, he was rejected by Eriri without exception for various reasons.

The reason is very simple, even if her relationship with her brother is not harmonious recently, it is not the right time for Aki Tomoya to take advantage of it. However, Eriri still patiently explained it repeatedly because of her past friendship with Aki Tomoya, and Aki Tomoya, who noticed this, finally walked away in shame after being rejected by Eriri for the fourth time.

It was probably on the same day, after Eriri turned down Aki's invitation to "Do you want to have dinner together after school?", she was on her way to find her brother to go home together.

She witnessed with her own eyes the scene where the curly-haired boy missed a step and accidentally fell to the end of the stairs.

"Wait, is something wrong? - This is too unlucky, isn't it?"

Chapter 49 The Meaning of Travel

If one were to ask whether his experiences so far could be considered as being abandoned by the goddess of luck, Ming Hai felt that this was actually a bit of an exaggeration - after all, he had enjoyed the treatment of a superior person for a while before his situation suddenly took a turn for the worse and he became easily frustrated everywhere.

If he were an archaeologist exploring America, he would probably shout “bad luck, bad luck, bad luck” while nimbly dodging the sneak attacks of various obstacles. If he were an “ordinary” high school student with a spiky head, he might also shout “bad luck” at the top of his lungs and then welcome more welfare scenes from lucky perverts.

Unfortunately, in this simulation he is just Eriri's brother. He can only lie on the hospital bed and watch the doctor put plaster on his injured leg, and then endure the silent nagging of his sister who is waiting by his side.

"Really, Che, you're already a grown-up...how could you step on empty air and break your leg? If mom hadn't just left yesterday, I wouldn't have bothered to come and accompany you..."

However, everyone agrees that Miss Eriri is a person with a sharp tongue but a soft heart. If not, she wouldn't have just watched the doctor apply medicine to her brother with a worried look on her face and stayed here for several hours.

The final result is that the curly-haired boy who accidentally fell down the stairs received a wheelchair and a pair of crutches.

"Really? Why do I feel like all my bad luck has been sucked away by you, Toru?"

Eriri let out a sigh of relief as she pushed her brother out of the hospital and into the underground garage. She and the butler helped Toru into the back seat of the car.

"Eri, haven't you had any bad luck lately? This is so unfair—"

Even so, the curly-haired boy didn't show any dissatisfaction on his face. He seemed to have gladly accepted the pain and temporary inconvenience caused by the accident, and didn't even complain, "Why did I have to suffer this?" If Eriri had accidentally broken her leg, she would have definitely been throwing a tantrum for a long time.

But...if she encountered this kind of thing now, she probably wouldn't act so fearlessly.

After all, the cold war between her and her brother was only interrupted by this sudden accident, and neither side declared that the war was over.

That’s what Eriri originally thought.

"Speaking of which, it's time to end this farce."

But the next moment, the curly-haired boy proposed a ceasefire declaration in the back seat, and this instantly made Eriri, who was still sulking, feel much less frustrated.

"I've become like this, your brother, do you still have the heart to continue to use cold violence against me?"

Ming Hai pointed at the plaster on his right leg with a wry smile, and from time to time his mouth twitched and he showed a little grin. This act of playing the victim also successfully made Eriri, who was sitting in the front seat, look a little embarrassed.

"The world is becoming more corrupt and people's hearts are no longer the same as they used to be... The poor boy who has always been favored by the goddess of luck suddenly encounters a sudden disaster. At the same time, his dearest, most sensible and most lovely sister also ignores him. Is this a distortion of human nature or a decline of morality..."

"Alright, alright - I can't stand it anymore! I'm not ignoring you, why are you saying these crazy things!"

So, Eriri is just lame. Her emotions can be easily provoked by words.

Fortunately, he was the one who did this, and as a brother he had no intentions towards Eriri. If it was someone else (such as Tomoya Aki), the kid would probably be deceived into leaving nothing but his underwear - Ming Hai could only mutter this in his heart.

"So what are you going to do, Toru? Every time you say something like this to me, you must have other intentions...!"

"Okay, okay, you are very perceptive and understand me very well. You are worthy of being my good sister. I feel that if we met in real life, you would understand me better than my family."

"Since I'm so pitiful and have saved you from bad luck, could you please go on a trip with me to relax?"

"what?"

Ying Lili raised her eyebrows when she heard that, and couldn't help but turn her head to look at the curly-haired boy who was slumped in the back seat.

"Che, you are like this now... Can you still move around easily? Besides, didn't you go on a long trip before? Why do you still need to--"

"Please, Eriri."

A simulation that is too realistic can also have a disadvantage, for example, your five senses and emotions will have the illusion that they have never been separated from reality.

But even though the piercing pain coming from his legs was not an illusion, the curly-haired boy still greeted Eriri, who was full of doubt, with a nonchalant smile.

"I promise this is the last time, there won't be a next time."

"........."

It was clearly a soothing smile, but Eriri somehow felt a sense of relief from it.

Unlike last time when he just left without saying goodbye and just went out for a short time, this time he seemed serious.

For some unknown reason, Eriri nodded and agreed.

As far as she could remember, her brother had never asked her for a favor so seriously. Naturally, Eriri had no choice but to agree, as she was in a difficult situation - besides, it wasn't a big deal.

"What? A short trip? Okay, okay, Eriri, take Toru-chan out to relax and recuperate during the weekend! I'll call the teacher to explain the situation. If you guys have fun, remember to go home early~"

Sayuri, who had just left home for work yesterday, also expressed her approval of this matter over the phone, so the itinerary was naturally finalized.

"Traveling... relaxing... doesn't seem like something Toru would ask for."

From Eriri's perspective, although her brother was the type of slacker who would take time off from his busy schedule at school, he had never before developed to the point of asking for leave to travel - unless this was an unprecedented high school level slacking off.

There is no doubt that the uneasiness in my heart is gradually growing.

Just like the sword of Damolex that was already hanging in the balance, getting closer and closer to her forehead, she felt subtly uneasy about her brother's sudden suggestion of traveling.

"But since I've already agreed, and seeing Toru like this... I can't not take care of him."

Having made up her mind, Miss Eriri packed her luggage with such a subtle feeling, and in the blink of an eye, the departure date arrived.

And when she packed the luggage of the brother and sister and pushed her brother out with the housekeeper, the two voices who had been waiting at the door for a long time made Yingli's originally softened heart instantly colder.

The car parked in front of the Sawamura family's door was not their own car, but the black car of the Yukinoshita family. Miss Yukino had been waiting by the car for a long time - and sitting in the passenger seat was a girl with short blue hair, who was blowing bubble gum out of boredom.