A guide to survival in a heavy girl's world

"Ah... well, probably."

"Why is your answer so ambiguous?"

"Even if you ask me..."

Chihaya Tetsuya, who had the towel wrapped tightly around his waist, muttered with a troubled look on his face:

"I'm just not used to it. After all, we haven't been in the bathroom together since you started junior high."

"Hmm... Come to think of it, it was you who took the initiative to ask me to shower alone from now on."

Chihaya Aine said as she sat down on the stool behind Chihaya Tetsuya.

"Ahh~ In the end, it was my brother who was the one distancing himself from me."

"Don't talk like I did anything wrong."

Chihaya Tetsuya couldn't help but complain:

"For a sister about to enter puberty, this is just a perfectly normal way to avoid suspicion!"

"..."

After hearing the word "avoid suspicion", Chihaya Aine's eyes widened slightly, and then she said in a meaningful tone:

"But usually, it's the younger sister who initiates this, right? Why is it different when it comes to us? And... why are you trying to avoid suspicion, brother? What exactly are you worried about the impact on our relationship?"

“Aine…?”

Chihaya Aine's series of questions made Chihaya Tetsuya look extremely surprised.

Because before this, Chihaya Aine would usually be very well-behaved in front of him, and the situation of asking questions continuously like today was unprecedented.

Is she in a bad mood? But she was smiling the whole time when she was making a knee pillow for me...

Or are there other key points in this topic that I haven't noticed?

"Did I just say something wrong?"

"It's nothing, brother, don't think too much."

Chihaya Aine said as she took the back scrubbing brush in her hand.

"Well, I'm going to rub your back next~"

"……kindness."

Although his question remained unanswered, Chihaya Tetsuya straightened his back. The next second, when he felt the touch of the back scrubbing brush on his back, his slightly confused expression immediately relaxed.

"The strength has become completely different from before."

The feeling was stronger and more comfortable than four years ago, and he couldn't help but sigh:

“So many years have passed…”

"Seven years..."

On the other side, looking at the back that was still a little thin but no longer frail, a hint of tenderness appeared in Chihaya Aine's eyes.

"If you don't count the time when I was still a child, my brother has already occupied more than half of my life."

"Haha, that's true."

Chihaya Tetsuya smiled and said:

"Until you, Aine, grow up and have your own family, this percentage will continue to grow."

"Your own family?"

When Chihaya Aine heard this word, she was slightly stunned at first, then she chuckled and shook her head.

"Unfortunately, I probably won't ever have that day."

"Eh?"

Chihaya Tetsuya was stunned after hearing this.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because before I met other boys...I had already met someone so outstanding that I couldn't look away from him anymore."

Having said that, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but sigh softly.

"You know, brother... I really understand Hoshino Ai more and more now. Meeting the important person you can entrust your life to at such a young age... For a girl, it is really both easy and difficult."

The relief was that she no longer needed to look at others from now on, because the happiness she was pursuing was already within reach.

But the hard part is... she is obviously not the only one who yearns for happiness, and more and more girls will gather around him.

"However, luckily, I am your sister. No matter how many other girls fascinated by you appear around you, this position will always be mine..."

“Aine!?”

Feeling the hug coming from his back, blocked only by a bath towel, Chihaya Tetsu couldn't help but exclaim.

"What are you doing?! Let go!"

"Huh? What are you talking about? I'm just helping you scrub your body."

Chihaya Aine hugged Chihaya Tetsuya's body and extended the back scrubbing brush to his chest.

"Don't get the wrong idea, brother. This is just normal, intimate family time."

"Do you think I will believe it!?"

Chihaya Tetsuya quickly reached out and held Chihaya Aine's wrist.

"What you just said is obvious, it is..."

Having said this, Chihaya Tetsuya's voice suddenly stopped.

Although he did lack common sense about the opposite sex, after experiencing the baptism of Hoshino Ai's offensive, he was no longer as dull as before.

He knew exactly what Chihaya Aine meant by what she had just said. However, if he really revealed the truth here, the relationship between him and Chihaya Aine would be irreversibly changed...

No, it's more of an addition than a change. After all, there's no blood relationship between the two, so this relationship is more like an extension of the bond of giri.

But even so, once all this was made clear, he had to keep his distance from her in order to protect Aine's reputation.

and so--

"I didn't say anything, brother."

Chihaya Aine leaned close to Chihaya Tetsuya and whispered in his ear:

"Everything is just your own reading comprehension, and... I won't really want to be with you until the end like Hoshino Ai does."

Having said that, she suddenly loosened her arms.

"After all, you still have a lot of important things to do, brother. So I won't be so willful as to deprive you of your time, nor do I want you to be caught in a dilemma because of me. I will still be your obedient sister, a safe haven for you to come and act spoiled whenever you feel tired. But above that... I might charge a small fee that is acceptable to both of us."

After saying that, Chihaya Aine picked up the back scrub brush again and continued to scrub Chihaya Tetsuya's back as if nothing had happened.

"I'm not like Toyokawa Shoko, who can make clothes for you and compose music for you. I'm not like Hoshino Ai, who can stand on such a grand stage and grab everyone's attention. I'm not like Suyo, who can support and help you in your career. As your sister, all I can do is give you a place to relax at any time, just like now, when it's just the two of us..."

"So, there's no need to think too much. Just be at peace with yourself and continue to enjoy the current situation."

As Chihaya Tetsuya's expression became increasingly dull, Chihaya Aine said:

"After all, we just did something that other siblings might do, right?"

Stop just before crossing the line, but don't worry or feel any burden about it.

This is the privilege that belongs only to the adopted sister, and it is also the advantage that only she can enjoy.

A thin layer of hot steam rose up, covering the glass door of the bathroom with a layer of blurry mist.

During the skin-to-skin contact with only a bath towel between them, Chihaya Aine made her feelings clear.

47

Chapter 47 Perhaps I chose the wrong person to ask.

Although Chihaya Aine did not continue to make things difficult for Chihaya Tetsuya after that, but instead went back to her room obediently immediately after wiping his back, Chihaya Tetsuya's mood still took a long time to calm down.

Lying on the bed, Chihaya Tetsuya felt that he was no less shaken at this moment than the day he was attacked by love.

“It’s not just Ai, now even Aine is looking at me that way…”

Just thinking back to the conversation in the bathroom just now, Chihaya Tetsuya would toss and turn in bed because of restlessness.

If Ai's situation was due to her special childhood experience, then Aine's disguised confession could be said to have completely exceeded Chihaya Tetsuya's expectations.

He never imagined that the child whom he had always cherished and cared for like his own sister would also embark on the same path as love.

"Is there something wrong with the way I take care of them?"

It was only natural for him to begin to reflect.

After all, the only thing these two girls with completely different personalities and preferences have in common is that they have both been taken care of by me.

But no matter how much he reflected, he didn't understand what he had done specifically—

"Although it may seem strange for me to remind you of this... I think you should try your best to... well... be more aware of your own dangers from now on."

At this moment, the reminder that he had once ignored suddenly flashed through his mind.

Combining these two experiences of being forcefully confessed to, although he did not understand the specific reasons, Chihaya Tetsuya now finally understood what Sankaku Hatsuka meant by "danger".

"So...what image do women have of me?"

Because Chihaya Tetsuya has always been frank and gentle, he has basically never caused dislike from others, but this also means that he never needs to think about the impression he makes on others.

Now it seems that this problem, which he has neglected for a long time, may very well be the key to this series of "events".

So, who should he go to to ask this question now?

First of all, it must be someone who has had more contact with him!

"Luckily I went home early today. She should still be awake at this time..."

Out of an urgent desire for knowledge, Chihaya Tetsu quickly clicked on the chat box above.

……

[I'm sorry to bother you at this time, but I have an important question for Fengchuan. Do you have time now?]

Seeing this news, Toyokawa Shoko was slightly stunned at first, then she immediately took off her headphones and quickly typed:

[Of course I have time! Chihaya-san, if you have any questions, just ask me!]

After recovering at the speed of light, Shoko Toyokawa stood up from her seat and quietly walked out of the studio where she and Sankaku Hatsuka were recording.

"What on earth could possibly be causing Chihaya-nii to message me at this hour?"

Just as she was still curious about this, the next second, Chihaya Tetsuya's reply made her completely stunned -

[From the perspective of the opposite sex, what kind of person am I in Toyokawa's eyes?]

"……Eh?"

Seeing this question, Toyokawa Shoko first stretched out her hand and rubbed her eyes vigorously. Only after she was sure that she was not hallucinating did she finally exclaim -

“Eh?!?!?!”

Why did she suddenly ask herself this question? Did he sense something? Impossible... In order to become someone like Chihaya Tetsuya, she had been suppressing her feelings, waiting until she had achieved success in her career before considering the major events of life. Given Chihaya Tetsuya's lack of common sense about the opposite sex, there was no reason for him to know her feelings...

Something must have happened after all... Was it because of Hoshino Ai? Well, it's very likely. After all, she just finished writing the lyrics with Chihaya and Deng. During this process, she must have done something to Chihaya again!

Damn Hoshino Ai!

With a lot of complaints, Toyokawa Shoko picked up the phone again. After thinking it over, she replied:

[I think Chihaya-san is a very handsome, reliable, and trustworthy man! ]

This is a response that is both honest and somewhat concealed.

In fact, in her eyes, Chihaya Tetsuya's advantages are far more than that, but in order to avoid Chihaya Tetsuya discovering her feelings, she can only use this more restrained answer to get away with it.

However, Chihaya Tetsuya had no intention of simply ending this question that Toyokawa Shoko found quite difficult.

[So, for Toyokawa, would you want to date a man like this? ]

"What are you asking?!"

This overly direct question made Toyokawa Shoko exclaim in surprise.