Chapter 3: Hey, Can I Kiss You? I Can't Resist My Little Sister's Best Friend's Pleading 3

Chapter 3: The Triggering Word

「「…」」

I silently follow Minami as she walks through the night streets.

Fortunately, her house seemed to be in the same direction as mine… Hey, she is heading to her own house, right? She’s not talking, so I have no idea!

「—Hey, Minami.」

The silence was getting too awkward, so I ended up speaking to her.

「Are you planning to join that club? There are rumors it’s a sex club, you know.」

「I’m not joining. I just went because a first-year from the same department invited me. It was free for new students, after all.」

「What about that first-year?」

「She got hit on by one of the seniors and disappeared to a private after-party with him. Probably on a love hotel bed by now, don’t you think?」

「Hey. Choose your friends more wisely…」

「I never said we were friends. I choose them carefully.」

I can’t tell if she’s cold or just indifferent.

She acts friendly on the surface, but in her heart, she draws a line—that part of her hasn’t changed at all, it seems.

Especially in front of me, she seems utterly uninterested, her expression and voice as flat as a doll’s. Combined with the surrounding darkness, the beauty of her profile, devoid of human warmth, is almost eerie.

「Is your house this way?」

「Yes.」

「I see. Mine’s this way too.」

「I know.」

「…Why?」

「Hazuki told me without me even asking. She said if anything happened, I should make use of you, Senpai.」

「That brat! What does she think my personal information is for!」

I decide to protest to my sister later by spamming her with angry stamps.

Doesn’t Hazuki think of me, her older brother, as just a convenient lackey? It seems I’ll have to have a good, long ‘sibling chat’ with her next time I go home.

This time, I absolutely won’t forgive her.

「Fufufu. That’s so like Hazuki, isn’t it?」

The moment Hazuki’s name came up, her cold, expressionless face vanished. Minami smiled like a cherry blossom in full bloom and giggled happily.

「Well, yeah. She’s a selfish and willful little sister.」

「…I’ve thought this for a long time, but Senpai, you’re a siscon, aren’t you?」

「In what way!?」

「You complain endlessly, but in the end, you always forgive Hazuki, don’t you? Isn’t that being a siscon?」

「Absolutely not! She always, always reports things after the fact, so I have no choice but to forgive her! No, rather than ‘forgive,’ ‘give up’ is the more accurate word.」

She’s always been like that. Things like, 「I ate your ice cream, big bro. Sowwy!」 or 「Your pudding was delicious, big bro,」 or 「I ate your share of the cake for you, big bro.」 By the time she reports it, it’s almost always too late to do anything.

So, in the end, I have no choice but to give up.

Ice cream, pudding, cake, and everything else my sister has eaten of mine so far—Ugh, I was looking forward to them. I wanted to eat them…

「But, you know, Senpai. The reason Hazuki told me your address was her own way of showing kindness and trust, telling me to rely on you if anything happened—」

「I know that. How many years do you think I’ve been her big brother? Ever since she was born, okay? I’ve known her longer.」

I thought I was just stating a casual fact, but apparently, I hit a sore spot for her that I wasn’t aware of. Minami suddenly stopped walking, her cheek twitching.

「Huh? Are you bragging? Is this your ‘I’m a siscon who understands everything about Hazuki’ appeal? I just took a bath with Hazuki the other day, you know. I know way more about Hazuki’s this and that, things you don’t know, Senpai!?」

「…What a pain in the ass, this twisted kouhai.」

If I’m called a siscon, then maybe Minami could be described as a ‘fre-con’—friend complex.

It’s rare for Minami, who doesn’t show much interest or attachment to things, but she especially dotes on my little sister.

Hazuki, for her part, is also fond of Minami, so the two of them are as close as sisters. They were so close, in fact, that there were secret rumors in middle and high school that they might be a yuri couple.

「Yeah, yeah. It seems Minami knows more about recent Hazuki. But! I know more about Hazuki when she was little!」

「…You’re so troublesome, this siscon senpai.」

Shut up! Sorry for being troublesome! And besides, I’m not a siscon!

「「…」」

After that, we walked on in silence for a while.

The early April night air was chilly, colder than I expected, and it chilled my skin.

「Hey, Minami—」

Looking up at the night sky, I once again spoke to Minami.

「Still haven’t found anything you can get passionate about?」

「…」

She continued walking without answering. Silence is a sign of affirmation.

Was it when I was in my third year of middle school and Minami was in her second? I happened to run into Minami when she was alone and discovered her cold side.

What I thought at that time was something like, ‘Is she venting horrific complaints about her best friend on a secret account?’ She was fiddling with her phone with that kind of bored, expressionless face.

After that, I could only feel a painful sense that she was forcing her charm, so when I told her, 「You don’t have to force yourself to smile in front of me,」 she became less amiable only when we were alone. Around the time I entered high school, she suddenly confessed the truth to me.

She said, 「I’m the kind of person who can’t get passionate about anything, who can’t hold more than a certain level of interest in things.」

I couldn’t understand it right away, but Minami used food as an example.

She’ll eat whatever is served. She has no likes or dislikes. But she has no particular preferences either. For fried eggs, soy sauce, sauce, salt—any of them are fine. She can eat them plain too. There’s almost no difference or superiority between them, and she wouldn’t mind at all if she were served the same thing every meal. Conversely, it wouldn’t be a problem if she didn’t eat. She just eats things because it’s necessary to live—

Apparently, she’s always like this. She has little interest in anything, nothing resonates with her heart, and only a sense of empty dissatisfaction remains.

It’s like her sensibilities are dull, or perhaps she’s too philosophical—it seems she still hasn’t found anything that can satisfy her heart.

「I see.」

「…I haven’t said anything yet, you know.」

Don’t glare, don’t glare. A beautiful woman’s sharp glare is intense and harsh.

This world is overflowing with entertainment. There must be at least one thing Minami can get absorbed in.

Minami is like that. Most things in the world don’t matter to her, but she’s the type of person who shows strong attachment and curiosity towards a few specific things or people.

Her doting on my little sister is a good example.

If she finds even one thing she can get passionate about, I believe she’ll surely dive into it deeper, longer, and more single-mindedly than anyone else. To the point where nothing else matters—that’s what I think.

For that to happen, Minami herself has to have many experiences and find what she can get absorbed in on her own.

All I can do is talk to this cold her like this, and occasionally listen to the complaints and worries she suddenly voices.

「Hey, Senpai.」

After walking in silence for a while longer, this time Minami started the conversation.

「Is sex really that good?」

「…Don’t ask me.」

I don’t know how we ended up on the topic of sex, but fundamentally, she’s asking the wrong person. At the very least, it’s not something you ask a guy, and certainly not your best friend’s older brother.

「I’m a pure virgin who’s never even dated a woman, you know? Aren’t you more knowledgeable about that stuff, Minami? You’ve fucked a few boyfriends, haven’t you? How was it then?」

「Don’t ask me. I’m a virgin, you know.」

「Eh? Huh? You’ve never had sex? Not even once? Even though you dated several guys in high school?」

As I stood there dumbfounded, Minami sighed with an expression like an older sister admonishing an unruly younger brother.

「It’s true I’ve dated guys who confessed to me, but the relationships lasted three days at the shortest, ten days at the longest, you know? My sense of chastity isn’t so loose that I’d have sex right after starting to date someone. At most, we held hands. I’ve never even kissed anyone.」

「S-Seriously…? I totally thought you were experienced…」

「Most of the guys I dated would brag to everyone around them as if they’d caught a rare monster, you know? That’s a deal-breaker right there. Any little interest I might have had completely vanishes.」

Well, I can kind of understand how they feel. Both the boyfriends and Minami.

If you could date a beauty like her, any guy would get excited and want to brag. But treating her like a rare animal is a no-go. Especially with someone as twisted as Minami.

「There were also guys who pressured me for kisses or sex right after we started dating. I dumped them immediately, though.」

「Teenage boys have their brains in their dicks, after all.」

「It was the same today. So many guys were after me. They even pretended to be drunk just to try and drag me off somewhere to fuck me… That’s why I started wondering. Is sex really that good—」

So that’s why she suddenly asked such a direct, sensitive question.

I see. I understand the flow of events now.

Though I have no idea why she asked me.

「Sex, huh… I wonder what it’s actually like. Since I’ve never had sex, I can’t judge if it’s good or bad.」

「…Is that so.」

For someone who asked, she doesn’t seem very interested in sex either.

We’ve known each other for about six years now. I can tell just from her voice. She has almost no expectations. Not even for my answer.

「All I can say is, ‘You just have to experience it for yourself.’」

How many times have I given her the same advice? And then she tries it, fails to get absorbed, and comes to complain to me with that cold, sullen face.

It’s become a set pattern.

I feel bad that it’s the same every time. But there’s no other way. She has to find it herself.

「Why don’t you try having sex once or twice? If you ask, Minami, anyone would gladly do it with you, and you don’t have those girly thoughts about wanting to give your first time to someone you love, right?」

「It doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t have anyone I like, and it seems I have absolutely no interest in losing my virginity or who I have sex with.」

「You talk like it’s someone else’s problem. Anyway, if it doesn’t matter, why haven’t you fucked until now? You’ve had plenty of chances.」

「Simply because I wasn’t that interested. After today’s welcome party, and talking with you like this after so long, Senpai, I’ve finally started to think maybe I’ll try having sex.」

Is that so. Then Minami will probably try having sex soon.

I really hope she reports and consults with my sister Hazuki about it afterwards, not me.

Like hell I want to hear a kouhai girl’s sex report! I don’t want to be crushed by the fact that she got laid before me! It’ll make me miserable, so I don’t want to hear it!

「Senpai, we’re here. This is the apartment building where I live alone.」

Ah, so this is it. It was surprisingly close. To the izakaya, and to my apartment.

You’re living in a pretty nice place, aren’t you? Security looks solid too. Nice. I’m jealous.

「It’s a women-only student apartment, so you can’t come in, Senpai. If I bring a guy in, it’s immediate eviction.」

「I see. Then this is as far as I go.」

I wasn’t planning on going inside anyway. Mission: escort little sister’s best friend home, complete!

I should hurry home, take a shower, and go to bed. No, maybe I’ll eat something before bed? I’m getting kind of hungry.

「Later, Minami. Sweet dreams. Goodnight.」

I casually turned my back, gave a light wave, and started on my way home.

No reply from Minami. But that’s fine. It’s always like this.

We’re not boyfriend and girlfriend. We’re not the type to exchange endless goodbyes, and my own appetite takes precedence over making sure she gets inside her student apartment safely.

She is, after all, just my little sister’s best friend—

Walking for about five minutes while thinking about what to eat for a late-night snack, I arrived at an ordinary two-story apartment building. I’ve been living alone in one of its rooms since last year.

I took the key from my pocket and opened the door with a click.

Since no one was inside, the room was quiet, dark, and the air was cold.

「I’m home—」

「Excuse me for intruding—」

「Yeah, yeah—」

「Heeh. So this is your room, Senpai. It’s not very tidy, is it?」

「Shut up. I’m the only one living in this room, so it’s fine… Whaaat!?」

It was so natural that I was slow to notice something was off.

For some reason, I hear a voice other than my own. And for some reason, the kouhai I was supposed to have escorted home has come into my room.

「Minami!? Why are you here!?」

「Oh? You didn’t notice I was following you from behind? I just thought you were ignoring me.」

W-well, I certainly heard footsteps and sensed someone, but I wouldn’t think it was Minami!

She, who confessed to stalking without any sign of remorse, unhesitatingly sat down on the futon that was left out, relaxing more casually than the owner of the room, and said frankly in an unsexy voice.

「Senpai, please have sex with me—」

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