Volume 1 - CH 5

My Little Sister Doesn’t want Me to Work Too Hard

When the siblings got home after dinner—

Haruta receives another line message from his mother.

After entering the kitchen and putting down the eco-bag full of groceries, Haruta checks his phone.

‘Please go to bed first, you both don’t have to wait for us’

In short, their mother will go home on the last train.

Although their father often return home on the last train, it’s unusual for their mother to return home this late.

The other day, their mother said with an exhausted face, ‘I’ll be very busy at the end of the fiscal year’, but it seems that the beginning of the new fiscal year is very busy as well.

“Are you okay, mom…?”

Fuyu looks really worried as she peeks at her brother’s phone.

“That reminds me, the other day mom said that she wanted to change her job because her current job is to tiring. Surprisingly, it may not even be a joke.”

“Eh, she really said that? Mom said some pretty important things to Onii-chan, didn’t she? She even relies on Onii-chan more than she relies on dad.”

“That’s not true. Ah, but I remember mom told me something when she just returned to work.”

Haruta was still in second grade of middle school at that time.

Their mother told Haruta ‘If you don’t want me to work just say so, I won’t go back to work.’

Doesn’t she respect her young son’s wish too much?

‘I should work part time jobs so that you won’t need to work so hard.’

Haruta said so.

‘The Sakuraba family won’t allow their children to work part-time jobs.’

When Haruta entered high school, he immediately wants to try working work part time, but his parents won’t allow him—especially his mother.

His mother thought that Haruta can start working part time in college, and that he should play more while he can in high school.

Haruta’s parents even offered Haruta to increase his allowance, but he refused.

He thinks that his allowance is already more than enough.

“When I told mom I want to work part time, it wasn’t because I need more money, but simply because I’d like to try working part time.”

“It can’t be helped, Mom’s family seems to be very strict. She just wants us to enjoy our youth to the fullest.”

“Indeed, mom’s family seems pretty strict.”

Having said that, neither Haruta nor Fuyu have actually met any relatives from their mother’s side.

Although their mother doesn’t say much about her family, they know that they were quite strict to their children. Their mom was forced to work part time to earn money for tuition at high school.

It is not that their grandparents had no money; in fact, they were wealthy.

It seems that it’s their family rule to raise their children strictly.

Perhaps because of this reason, their mother wants her children to be free and enjoy their youth, instead of working part time jobs all the time.

“Mom even talks to us formally… what kind of discipline has she received I wonder?”

“That said, Fuyu is also heavily influenced by mom though.”

Fuyu also talks to her family formally, it seems that she inherited it from her mother, but it wasn’t forced upon her. She just talks formally naturally.

It’s probably because before their mother went back to work, Fuyu was quite the mama’s girl.

“Well, we should help mom as much as we can, right? But even so, I can’t really do anything.”

“Oh no, don’t. I’m sure you’re going to say something like ‘we should help mom with the housework’, right?”

“I maybe still in middle school, but I can do housework.”

“Well then… I’m the one who did nothing to help mom.”

In fact, Fuyu is responsible for about 80% of the Sakuraba family’s household chores.

Cooking, cleaning, laundry—she practically does everything around the house.

On weekends, their mother takes care of the household chores, but during the weekdays, Fuyu usually takes care of everything.

“Mom and I don’t think housework is something a woman should do. Mom just likes to do housework to begin with, she also loves to clean up my sloppy work.”

“No, Fuyu isn’t sloppy at all.”

As far as Haruta knows, Fuyu cleans every inch of their house every day, she regularly washes their bed sheets and curtains too, not to mention their daily clothes and towels.

She isn’t a great cook, but her cooking is good enough.

Haruta has no complaints at all about Fuyu’s housework.

Even though she isn’t great at studying and sports, his little sister is really great at housework.

“I do it just because I want to. I want to clean our room, wash out clothes and cook for my Onii-chan. I want to do it all myself, I don’t want Onii-chan to do the housework.”

“Yeah, thank you, Fuyu.”

Haruta has heard those words from his little sister countless times.

They don’t mind changing clothes in front of each other.

But Haruta can understand that she doesn’t want her brother to wash her underwear.

Even though they share their bedroom, there are some things that they want to do themselves.

Maybe Fuyu doesn’t want to eat a messy bento made by a high school boy as well.

With that in mind, Haruta accepts the current situation where his sister is in charge of the housework.

“Mom and dad want Onii-chan to focus on his studies, and of course so am I.”

“You’re spoiling me too much.”

“Then I’ll spoil you a lot more. Ah, mom is going to be late, right? Onii-chan should take a bath first.”

Fuyu starts to fill the bath with hot water.

Haruta usually takes a bath first before he goes and study what he had learned at school earlier.

After putting the groceries that they had bought in the fridge and cupboards, they are ready to take a bath.

“Well, I guess I’ll go in first.”

“Okay.”

Once Haruta returns to his room, he prepares a change of clothes and a towel then heads for the bath.

The Sakuraba family’s house isn’t very big, and the bathroom is quite small.

Haruta enters the small bathroom and carefully washes his head and body.

His sister and parents will be in the bath after him, he feels a little sorry that he left some dirt in the bath.

Finally, he washes away the soap from his body and—

“Are you done, Onii-chan?”

“Fu-Fuyu…!?”

Suddenly, Haruta heard a voice from behind, when he turned around, he saw a beautiful naked girl.

Although she barely hides her body with a towel, it doesn’t fully cover her ample b*****s. Haruta can clearly see her white belly and thighs.

Haruta turns around and stares at Fuyu’s body—