V1 Ch-4 part 1【Key】 - ◆Part１【My Step-Sister Has a Wild Imagination】

Translator: AJ1703

Editor: Matsu

■Chapter 4【Key】

◆１【My Step-sister Has a Wild Imagination】

It was Monday morning, after a Saturday and Sunday of horror camp.

“I see. Yua-san’s not here today….”

Tsumugi murmured sadly as she came down to the living room.

Yesterday morning, Yua was still here.

Tsumugi came to the table with a bored look on her face, buttering the toast that was put in front of her.

“Shin-nii misses Yua-san too, don’t you?”

She smiled like someone who was trying to imply something.

“It’s true that I’m going to miss the noisy one, but I’m more concerned about that grin of yours.”

I didn’t expect Yua’s expression to be so contagious after just one night.

“Shin-nii, you got so close to Yua-san that you did something naughty with her while I was sleeping, didn’t you?”

I almost spewed out the milk I was drinking through my nose as she chewed on a piece of bread as if she was more interested in eating it than being sly, and made such a shocking comment with a completely natural expression.

Don’t tell me Tsumugi saw us…?

The act with Yua was supposed to be purely for the sake of relieving Yua’s loneliness, and not for erotic purposes, but I guess to an outsider it could be seen as erotic.

I was worried that it might have a negative influence on Tsumugi’s emotional education.

“What makes you think so!?”

I asked Tsumugi, suppressing my agitation with a steel will.

“You suddenly started calling her by name in the morning. I thought something must have happened.”

In Tsumugi’s mind, the change to name-calling meant that we had done something erotic.

So in other words, it’s not like she actually saw the whole scene.

“Tsumugi is too much under the influence of Yua. I thought it was distant to not call her by her first name after all the help she’s given me, so I just changed it. That’s all.”

“You don’t have to hide it.”

Tsumugi sipped her glass of milk with a happy expression on her face.

“I’m sorry Tsumugi, you have a vivid imagination, but there really was nothing to it.”

Well, the chances of Yua coming to our house in the future have just gone up a notch.

“You guys were sleeping on the same futon. Shin-nii is such a coward.”

“I don’t agree with that kind of thinking, as it makes women the prey of men’s warped values. It’s not that I’m a coward, it’s just that I want to respect and take care of my partner because she’s important to me.”

I tried to deny the fact that Tsumugi treated me like a coward, but I couldn’t help but twist the logic around in my mind.

“Shin-nii, did you just call Yua-san an ‘important person’?”

“It’s only a figure of speech.”

Don’t pick on me. It’s making me embarrassed…

Well, she is an important person. After all, she’s nice to Tsumugi, she’s nice to me, and now that I know that she’s under the care of parents who don’t get along, I feel the need to take care of her very strongly.

“But come on, you don’t have to hide the fact that the two of you are close.”

“Maybe we do…”

It’s bad for Yua to keep saying and doing things that I deny for reasons that cover up my embarrassment. Besides, Tsumugi still thinks we’re lovers, and I don’t want to arouse her suspicion.

“I also like Shin-nii when he’s with Yua-san.”

When I responded to her sudden confession with a faltering “O-Oh…,” Tsumugi smirked at me again, and just like Yua, I felt that even Tsumugi might be in control of me now.