Volume 6 epilogue

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Epilogue

It was April. A new school year wasstarting, and I had become a second-year. I say that, but nothing hadreally changed so far, and I was still walking the same route toschool.

…Or at least that’s how it shouldbe, but…

“It’s really spring now,Onii-chan.”

I looked over towards the source ofthat voice. Walking next to me was a person who wasn’t there in thelast school year. Suzuka was wearing the student uniform ofNanamisaka and looking up at the sky.

“…Hm? What’s wrong, Onii-chan?”

Maybe because she had noticed my gaze,Suzuka tilted her head in confusion. Neither her hairstyle nor herheight had changed. Only her uniform had, but even so, the atmospherearound her was completely different for some reason.

…How do I say it? She looks moregrown up, and somehow rather unfamiliar….

Because I had become entranced whilelooking at her, the conversation had gotten a bit awkward. Suzuka forher part only said “Onii-chan is so weird,” while letting out asmall giggle.

…Really, my little sister is justtoo beautiful for her own good.

Maybe it was because of that differentatmosphere, but I ended up thinking that. And, while we made our waytowards the school, the number of students in our field of view grewby the second.

…Is it just my imagination or allthey all glancing towards us (or rather Suzuka)…? Hmm…?

In that moment, a soft feeling pressedagainst my arm, and I looked over to find…

“Wha—?! Y-You, what are youdoing…?!”

Suzuka, who was still walking forwards,had suddenly grabbed my arm.

“C-Calm down, please. This is forresearch, of course,” Seemingly trying to hide her embarrassment,she looked straight at me.

“R-Research…”

“In the next installation of mynovel, the brother and sister will also start going to the sameschool. So this should be the perfect chance to gather some newdata,” Suzuka proclaimed as she averted her gaze with flushedcheeks.

…I-I mean, we can do our research atany time, so is there really any reason to do it on the first day ofthe school year…?

Of course, that single action gatheredthe attention of everyone around us. And it certainly didn’t helpthat Suzuka was a beauty to behold… Some of the gazes even startedto hurt…

“W-We’re really getting stared at,here…”

“I-I don’t mind. I-It’s forresearch, after all.”

My willpower isn’t as strong asyours, you know… And you’d probably hate it if weird rumoursstarted going around…

As I was thinking that, another similarfeeling appeared on my right arm — or rather, one that felt morevoluptuous than Suzuka’s side.

…T-This is—?!

“G-Good morning, Yuu.”

“M-Mai? Why are you here?”

“H-Himuro-san… Good morning…”

“M-Morning, Suzuka-san. I’m lookingforward to this year.”

“F-Forget about that, what kind ofposition is this…?!” I stepped in between them and asked Maiafter they had finished calmly (?) exchanging their introductions. Wewere already standing out, but now that the school’s number onebeauty is also here, we’re gathering even more attention. And thosegazes from those bastards were hurting even more…!

“T-That should be obvious, it’s formy research!”

“W-What did you say?! Himuro-san isdoing research…?”

“Yeah. My novel from the rom-comfestival got so much attention that my editor advised me to tryexpanding my horizons in that direction even more. And since I willbe writing a rom-com sometime in the future, I thought that I wouldgather some data right now while I can… Just like Towano Chikai isdoing.”

“Grrr…!” Suzuka grit her teeth atthat statement.

“A-And also the first day of schoolhasn’t even started yet, and Yuu is already doing research withSuzuka-san, after all. Since my goal is to make you excited the mostby my novel, I cannot give up here.”

“…No way…! I’m the only onewho’s allowed to do research with Onii-chan!”

“I-I’m just doing this research forpersonal reasons… Anyway, I will be continuing my research on you,Yuu, so you’d better be prepared!” Mai declared and strengthenedher grip on my arm.

And, so as to not lose against that, sodid Suzuka.

…Please take it easy on me, will you?

Suzuka is now attending the same schoolas me, while Mai is still going strong with her stalker activities…What will happen now? No, I shouldn’t think about that. What’smost important is my dream of being a light novel author. In order toachieve that, I have to find that one thing that I want to writeabout the most in the world!

—Or, that’s what I thought, but…

“H-Himuro-san? No matter how muchthat this is just for research, people will surely misunderstand, soyou should probably hold back a bit here, don’t you think?”

“S-Suzuka-san too. Shouldn’t you,as his little sister, keep a little bit more distance between you?”

Y-You guys…! Can you at least notfight like this with me in the middle of it?!