Volume 1 - CH 30

My Little Sister Can’t Believe the Sudden Help

“W-Who are you?”

“Onii-chan…Fuyuno’s older brother? You have an older brother?”

The middle schoolgirls are clearly perplexed.

This warehouse may be their private hangout spot.

There are what appear to be farm tools on the floor, but they are all rusted that they do not appear to be in current use.

It’s more like a junkyard than a warehouse.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re her older brother or not, this is none of your business. Stay out of this!”

One of the girls comes up to Haruta, but her face is somewhat frightened.

It’s only natural for these small middle schoolgirls to be intimidated by Haruta, he is a big guy after all.

“I don’t care if you’re her brother, you’re not involved in this. On top of that, we didn’t do anything wrong.”

Haruta calmly retorts—

‘You don’t talk much to girls, but don’t let the guys make you feel so good about yourself! Don’t get ahead of yourself just because you have a beautiful face!’

Haruta plays back their conversation on his phone. Haruta has recorded their entire conversation.

“Hey, wait a minute, you!”

“I recorded the whole thing.”

“T-Turn that thing off!”

“Are you an idiot?”

Haruta sharply stares one of the girls.

“If you say that, that means you’re admitting you were doing something wrong.”

“Ugh…”

The middle schoolgirls seem to be even more terrified.

“Wait a minute Fuyu. We’ll talk later.”

“O-Onii-chan…”

Haruta pushes his way through those middle schoolgirls, grabs Fuyu’s arm who has been pushed against the wall, and protects her behind him.

“Now then…if you were all boys, I’d just beat the c**p out of you all.”

Haruta had never lost a fight before after all.

Normally, Haruta is a quiet person, but when it comes to Fuyu, he won’t even hesitate to resort to violence.

“Well, I won’t resort to violence when it comes to girls. It’s just too troublesome.”

“S-So what? What are you going to do?”

“Don’t worry, I don’t hit girls. I won’t ask for anything too difficult, but yeah. Everyone, take out your smartphones.”

“S-Smartphones? W-Why?”

“I’m going to ask you all to delete all of the photos in your phones, including those not related to Fuyu. It’s too troublesome for me to check them on by one. Ah, delete all the data from the cloud as well, don’t even think to try to fool me.”

“Are you stupid? Why in the world would we do that?”

“You all took photos of my little sister without her permission, and you all said rude things to her, or rather, you guys want to go to the police station while holding those smartphones? It’s a crime to take someone’s picture without their consent, even if it’s of the same s*x.”

“T-That’s…”

Those girls are clearly frightened by the word ‘police’.

However, if the police are involved in this matter, the whole school would know about it. Fuyu will be the talk of the school.

Haruta wants to avoid that from happening if possible.

Haruta is just threatening them.

“If you don’t want the police to get involved, get your phones out.”

“Umm, onii-chan. You don’t have to go that far…”

“Fuyu, it’s okay. Just let me handle this.”

Haruta places his hand on Fuyu’s head.

“We won’t do what you say!”

“Yeah, I thought so. That’s fine, I have a plenty of time, and I have a lot of things I want to say to you all as well. Let’s talk.”

Normally, Haruta doesn’t like to show too much of his aggressive side—but when it comes to Fuyu, it’s a whole different story.

“T-This guy…!”

“H-Hey, isn’t this person dangerous…?”

“W-What are we going to do…why is this happening…?”

“Idiot, don’t be scared of him. He may be a little bigger than us, but we’re not alone—”

“Oh, there you are. I almost missed the train.”

“Eh?”

“Hmm?”

Haruta and Fuyu are surprised.

The one who walks from behind them is—

“Ma-Matsukaze?”

“Matsukaze-san…?”

He has a short reddish hair and stands nearly 190 centimeters tall.

He wears a black jersey and shorts. He appears to be wearing basketball shoes.

“I went to Sakuraba-san’s house earlier, but it seemed that Haruta’s Reizen-go isn’t there. So I wondered if he’s here. Hmm, this doesn’t look like a very pleasant situation.”

“W-Wait a minute, who is this guy?”

“What the h**l is this guy, he’s huge…”

The middle schoolgirls are frightened to see Matsukaze.

Matsukaze has an amiable face, but because he is blessed with a huge physique, he highly intimidating.

“Matsukaze…why are you here?”

Haruta is even surprised Matsukaze is here.

“I got a call from Tsukuyomi-san. She said that you were upset and he went to Sakuraba-san’s place. So I went after you.”

“So you followed me here…”

Haruta appreciates Akiho’s concern, but he didn’t think she would contact Matsukaze.

That is actually the right thing to do.

Haruta can’t even be stopped by his parents at this point, but Matsukaze can stop him by force.

“It’s quite far to come here. You really followed me here.”

“I didn’t tell Tsukuyomi-san that I came here. Even if I call you on phone, you won’t stop when it’s about your sister, won’t you? In that case, I just have to come here in person.”

Apparently, Matsukaze came here by train.

“I don’t care what’s going on here Haruta. Just tell me what to do.”

“…thank you, Matsukaze. You can just stay here. Then, shall we continue our conversation? Will you all get your smartphones out?”

“……”

All of the middle schoolgirls reluctantly take out their smartphones.

They are already intimidated my Haruta alone, but Matsukaze is with Haruta now. It seems they are terrified right now.

“Now, delete all your photos and all of your data in the cloud. If you have Line, SNS, and video-sharing accounts, have them erased as well.”

“Wait, that was not what we agreed on—!”

“I don’t know anything about this, but can you do me a favor? If Haruta tells you to do so, do it.”

“Are you this guy’s bodyguard!?”

“We’re friends. We’re just friends to the extent that I’m willing to trust him unconditionally.”

“…wait, guys.”

One of the middle schoolgirls with a ponytail looks at the other three.

She realized it’s best not to go against Haruta and Matsukaze.

It seems that the girl with the ponytail is the leader of the group.

For these girls, their photos, Line, and SNS accounts may be more important than their lives.

It seems that the combination of Haruta and Matsukaze seems to be so scary that they are even willing to erase such important things.

Haruta doesn’t feel bad about these girls at all.

Haruta wants them to erase all their data and even destroy their phones into pieces.

“You seem to understand the situation. Then, what are you waiting for? Do it.”

Haruta said so intimidatingly.

Matsukaze may be scary—but if Matsukaze didn’t show up, Haruta was about to show something even more scary.

The middle schoolgirls did as Haruta asked them to do, they held up their phones so Haruta could see their screen while deleting the data.

“Well, it is what it is. It’s not like you’re going to die from deleting your data. Just go and make new memories from now on.”

“You are the worst…!”

The girl with ponytail glares at Haruta.

“My name is Sakuraba Haruta. I am Sakuraba—Fuyuno Fuyu’s older brother. If you have any complaints, you can always come to me. That’s right, ponytail, let’s exchange contact information.”

“Eh?”

“Don’t you at least want to know the name of the person who deleted all of your data on your smartphone?”

“…I don’t need your contact information.”

“Don’t say that. You can delete it later if you don’t want it.”

“……”

The girl with ponytail glances at Matsukaze who is behind Haruta. She decides to exchange Line account and phone number with Haruta.

“Ah, that’s right…I can contact you if I have a complaint as well, right?”

“W-What are you still asking for!?”

“I don’t know yet, but I’ll surely contact you if I have a complaint.”

If they still mess with Fuyu after this, Haruta has no intention of forgiving them.

Haruta is willing to do anything to avoid Fuyu’s photos leaked online.

“Haruta, are you done?”

“Ahh, yeah, I’m done here. Thanks for waiting.”

“You’re a real pain in the a*s…ah, I’m sleepy. I didn’t get much sleep on the train, it was really cramped.”

“You’re just too big.”

“Haha, that’s true, but I’m really hungry. Okay then.”

Matsukaze grabs the girl with ponytail shoulder.

“W-What?”

“You shouldn’t talk to me like that, you know? I’m older than you, so that makes me your senpai. You should talk more formally to your senpai.”

“But I’m not your junior…”

“Hahaha, come on, don’t be so cold with your senpai. You all are from around here, right? Do you know a good place where we can get breakfast?”

“Breakfast…uh, there is a coffeeshop nearby…”

“That sounds nice. I’m starving here. Lead the way.”

“W-Why me…”

“Because I don’t want to interrupt this emotional reunion. Come on now, you three will also come, we’ll have breakfast together. See you later, Haruta.”

“Ah, hey Matsukaze, are you going home?”

“After I have my breakfast of course. I hope I can make it in time for lunch. I skipped the morning practice, if I skip the after-school practice as well, my senpais will kill me for sure.”

Matsukaze grins and leaves the warehouse with the four middle schoolgirls.

“…he’s a nice guy.”

“Onii-chan is lucky to have him as your friend…”

Haruta and Fuyu both look at each other.

“I should at least pay for his train ticket. Well, that aside.”

“Onii-chan…”

Haruta looks straight into Fuyu’s eyes.

Fuyu looks at Haruta with teary eyes—

“I’m sorry, but it’s really cold and my body is already at its limit. Fuyu, can you lend me your bath…?”

“Ehh!?”

In fact, the warehouse is as cold as a refrigerator.

After a whole night riding all the way here, Haruta’s body is at its limit.

For now, the emotional reunion will need to wait after the bath.