But──.
“Does my foolish brother favor that woman?”
“……Huh?”
It was a question he hadn’t quite anticipated.
The seriousness that had dominated Izumi felt like it loosened with a squish. However, the anger-like thing floating in Kasumi’s eyes had not disappeared. He judged it was likely a continuation of the serious talk.
(How should I answer? If I give a vague answer here, Kasumi won’t be convinced…)
Izumi intended to understand his sister’s temperament.
Kasumi is smart. Her ability to read the atmosphere is also high. Honestly, it is safe to assume she has seen through Izumi’s feelings toward Nanao. In other words, the intent of this question from Kasumi is not [to extract an answer] but to observe [whether he is obedient to her or not].
“If asked whether I like or dislike her… I guess I like her. It hasn’t been long since we met, and it’s not like I have the feeling of dating her yet, though…”
……In the end, it was a somewhat non-committal reply, but well, this was his honest feeling.
In response to obtaining that answer, Kasumi knit her brows with a twitch for a moment. Then, she slowly lowered her right leg that had been lifting Izumi’s chin.
And she glared at Izumi jiro.
──Zokuri, a cold sensation akin to killing intent pierced Izumi!
Kasumi slowly stood up from the chair.
“I see. I understood my foolish brother’s feelings well.”
Without pausing, she headed toward the bedroom she had stolen from Izumi and shut the door with a bang.
Left behind, Izumi──.
“~~~~!!”
Cold sweat burst out all at once.
Faced with an intimidation like a giant elephant about to crush an ant, he had no choice but to watch her leave in silence.
A killing intent directed at him too abruptly. It strongly disturbed Izumi’s inner mind, who was the type usually not easily shaken.
(Did I do something to be hated this much…?)
Long ago, they were close siblings.
He used to smile upon seeing his sister who would follow him around saying “Nii-sama, Nii-sama♪” no matter what he did. As for Izumi, there is a part of him that still has that sensation, but…
(As I thought, we siblings have changed…)
Is that only natural?
Due to the scrutiny of expectations from their parents, the paths they live have already diverged. Rather, the fact that he can live peacefully like this even after leaving home is solely due to Kasumi’s mercy. Without that, he would have been shivering lonely in a much older, more run-down apartment… no, since Hakua is here, maybe that wouldn’t happen. However, there is no mistake that Izumi’s life is completely held in the palm of her hand. Freedom is dead.
Putting that aside, he felt depressed about his real life from here on.
(Since she goes as far as coming here herself just to monitor my life, huh.)
In those eyes that view everything equally, does he appear that unreliable?
He ceded the future of the company. Yet, he is the older brother.
Normally aside, he wants to be an existence that can be relied upon in times of need… perhaps that is a wish beyond his station. In the first place, isn’t that an attitude to direct toward a sister who is superior to himself?
(Anyway, guess I’ll take a bath… Whoa!)
Just then, a violent sound [Thud!] was heard from the bedroom where Kasumi had disappeared. Simultaneously, a negative aura so ominous it was terrifying leaked out as if blowing the bedroom door away.
And further, accompanied by sounds of [Thud!] [Thud!], the negative aura was erupting intermittently. Seeing her attitude of slamming her hostility whole into something, Izumi trembled from the core of his body.
Most likely, Kasumi, whose irritation had reached its peak, was venting her anger on something, unable to control it even with her inherent calm thinking, but…
(…My personal belongings, are they okay?)
Imagining the disastrous scene of tomorrow morning, Izumi soaked in the bath and cried. The hot water kept at his preferred temperature felt somewhat salty for some reason.
💣💣💣
In contrast to such an Izumi.
In the bedroom she had seized as her own room, Kasumi was writhing.
(What is with that womaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!)
On top of Izumi’s bed, she was furiously angry.
She was slamming Izumi’s pillow bittan bittan with both hands. That gesture was a state of disorder one could not imagine from her usual mature attitude.
Every time she slammed the pillow, ominous negative aura erupted and shook the room. As expected of a feat achievable by the direct bloodline of the Sumie family. She could likely easily blow away a mob enemy in a battle manga. Who was it that said she was like a pitiful flower again…
Kasumi, scattering anger like a fierce god.
The cause of her bad mood was extremely simple.
(Even though he’s my! Big brotheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!)
Explanation time!
Sumie Kasumi.
As the successor to the [SUMIE Group], a trading company that expands even globally, she is a prodigy who shows her prominence vigorously despite her status as a student.
At St. Seirin Girls’ Academy, famously attended by talented women of the upper class, she has gained the trust of those around her since middle school, continued to expand her faction, and practically built a power base to reign as a queen.
She is truly an existence that forms a pair with Shiragiku Hakua, but compatibility-wise, they are oil and water. Both families had a period of strategic business alliance, but these two have oddly not gotten along since long ago, having a relationship where they exchange stinging sarcasms whenever they meet.
Regarding such a Kasumi, if one were to state her most characteristic profile──…
──She is a Bro-con!
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Kasumi is someone who usually displays arrogant words and actions toward her biological brother, Izumi.
In reality, she was just an adolescent tsundere girl whose degree was too extreme. As you already understand, the reason she detests Hakua in the first place is not because of friction between large corporations, but simply because there is no misunderstanding in thinking it is disgust toward a thieving cat trying to steal her beloved big brother.
The pillow, made the target of such a Kasumi’s age-appropriate venting, was being turned into a mushy shapeless mess pitifully. Forgetting that she is the one who will sleep on this, Kasumi recalled the rare events of the day.
(I thought I was finally able to eliminate the Shiragiku boob-monster, but now he’s being played by a woman whose background I don’t even know~~! Big Brother, you idiot~~~~~~!)
A woman whose background she doesn’t even know… naturally, this refers to Nanao.
If this were Hakua, she would still understand. She was originally Izumi’s fiancée, and (aside from not liking it) her lineage is impeccable.
However, Nanase Nanao.
She ordered a thorough background check, but the results were blank.
Father is a company employee at a mid-sized firm. Mother is a part-timer working the register at a nearby supermarket. No siblings, and nothing noteworthy about the surrounding relatives either. Suspicious of the super-speed approach since she transferred in April, she had it investigated by every means, but nothing was caught in Kasumi’s information network.
Truly, an ordinary girl.
Kasumi was about to have her brother snatched away by an ordinary person who just fell in love with Izumi at first sight.
A further problem was the point that strange influences were appearing around him due to that lovey-dovey approach.
(I mean, Shiragiku is persistent too! If the engagement was annulled, she should just quietly exit, but to think she had set up camp in the room next to Big Brother!)
To begin with, the reason Kasumi had to roll into her brother’s room like this was that the adjacent room had already been secured by Hakua. Well, since it resulted in them living together, one could argue it turned out all right, but the sight of yesterday’s sports festival was something abominable just to remember.
(Those women, doing whatever they please just because I attend a different school~~! I want to go to the same school as Big Brother too~!)
She is at that age.
Ideally, she wants to attend the same school as her beloved brother. And she wants to do the kya-kya ufufu little sister attribute talk with female classmates like “Eeeh~! That cool senior is Kasumi’s older brother~?” “So lucky~. I want you to trade with my bro~”.
However, these are the fetters of the Sumie family.
Due to the mission of having to protect the place her brother will return to or whatever, it hurts that she cannot disobey her parents’ orders.
(Damn! Damn! Damn! I hate it! Big Brother is an idiot! Why is he gentle to those women even though he won’t even send a single contact to meeeee~~~~!)
The talented girl, revealing her true colors too quickly, breathed heavily with her shoulders heaving zee-zee on the bed after rampaging for a while. Picture frames and such in the room had fallen due to the waves of her venting, but a maiden in love cannot worry about such things.
And once she had rampaged to her heart’s content, a calm thought suddenly worked its way in.
(……That’s it!)
Kasumi had a flash of inspiration.
It was a truly brilliant idea. Not the fake inspiration that Amasaki Amane usually does, but a genuine “Nice Idea”.
“Fu, fufu…… fufufufufu……”
She devises a treacherous scheme.
It was a bold and precise move as if using her strategy and status to the fullest.
Kasumi emitted a chaotic miasma so ominous that even the deepening darkness of the night could not hide it. ……However, she would never know that on the other side of that door, her beloved big brother was totally creeped out.
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