Chapter 85 – Distancing (5)

Surprisingly, he was a friend who could say strange or funny things without making me feel bad at all.
Sometimes there are kids like this, but… Seeing his brother’s friend like this, I can’t help but wonder that he’ll play well with his friends…
Thinking that far, I was suddenly worried about how my younger brother would be with his friends at the academy, so I went to the restaurant corner next to the food store with Haagen-Dazs and sat down at a table and said to my younger brother’s friend who was standing still next to me.

“What are you doing? Sit down.”
“Uh? Uh… There, sitting together… If I get caught, I think I will die.”
“… Caught?”
“Oh, no. It’s an honor, it’s an honor. Wow I don’t know Should I even ask them to take a picture together? Can we really take a picture together later? Like a wish of youth…”
“I am not a celebrity… Okay.”
“Oh? Really… ? Ah, I’ll decorate it well…”

For some reason, my brother’s friend seemed like he would fit in if he became a YouTuber later.
As I sat at the table and ate Haagen-Dazs, I became a friend of my sister… I asked what I was curious about, thinking that it must be a girl who looks around a lot here and there.

“Excuse me… How is your brother doing at the academy?”
“Brother… ? Ah… At the academy… ?”
“Yeah, since I ate Häagen-Dazs, can you be honest with me? Do you have many friends? What about your girlfriend?”
“And… It was a bribe. Going on a date with my older sister while taking bribes… I want to take bribes for the rest of my life.”
“Even if I don’t say anything strange.”

As if to give a little warning, let’s cut the words a little bit. He immediately stiffened, looked at me, and told me about his brother in a playful voice.

“Hmm… Well, how are you? It was very noisy when I first came…”
“Noisy?”
“It looks like it, and the girls really liked it. It squeals whenever I’m not there, and it gets quiet when I enter the classroom.”

As I listened to the story, I thought of my brother entering the classroom in my head.
But… Every morning, if my hair was stretched out, he sorted it out and sent it off, touched it well so that there were no lint on it, and smoothed out wrinkles… It was a natural reaction if there were her with that height and those looks.

“You don’t have a girlfriend? Have a fling or something.”
“Hmm… Well, the kids try to confess, but they all fail.”
“Huh?”
“Ah… What should I say about this… That… Who wants to confess first? You? Dare? It has the same atmosphere.”
“Ah…”

It’s hard to empathize, but I felt like I knew it oddly.
In my head, I pictured girls my age sitting around my younger brother and looking at each other, and for some reason I felt strangely uncomfortable, so I put another spoonful of something sweet in my mouth and listened to the conversation over and over again.

“Uh… But my sister is also very famous.”
“Me?”
“You always put a note in your lunch box saying, ‘Do your best in your studies. Every time I see it, I smile, so the girls who used to go out and buy lunch from the convenience store come and eat it in class.”
“Oh, you’re eating well.”
“Because of that, I was living with her girlfriend at first, and I joked with the newlyweds, but when I asked, my older sister was bragging about her… Ah, after that, the boys said they wanted to go see my sister, so I went.”

I remembered the day her sister brought her friends for the first time, and I was a little embarrassed but also very happy when I found out that the lunch box was good.

“In the first place, there is no moment to confess. You go right after you’re done. Everyone asks to go play billiards, or there is a kid who wants to go to a club, but he says he has to study and doesn’t go… I only study quietly, but girls can’t take their eyes off me because I look, grow taller, and build a body. Even the girls who used to study hard saying that dating is not necessary to enter college are different! While doing it, I act like a prince. And even if he just quietly studies, he’s naturally a bit charismatic, right? It’s very intense and a bit scary, but I have to say I’m attracted to it.”
“Charisma… ?”

I listened quietly and tilted my head a little.
I wondered if this was true about my younger brother, and the fact that he didn’t say anything and stayed quiet… At home, I talk a lot and my younger brother keeps talking to me, so I thought he likes to talk, but I thought it was different at the academy.
After I completely emptied the Häagen-Dazs, thinking that asking a friend is different, I lowered the spoon I was holding in my mouth.
But my brother’s friend… The glasses-wearing friend, who is increasingly confused about what to call it, ate Haagen-Dazs quickly and stayed still… I asked while looking around in a much quieter voice than before.

“Hey, but… What Happened On Labor Day… ?”
“Uh? Why… ?”
“No… That’s, uh… Can I say something like this?”

As if worried about something, he held the empty spoon in his mouth and chewed on it. Suddenly, his friend, who glanced behind him, came a little closer to me and told me something really unexpected.

“Since you are my sister… I’m saying this because we’re a family, but I’m very sensitive these days… It should be said that it is sharp, but the academy atmosphere is so bad.”
“It’s sensitive… ? Why? It’s sharp… Which one?”
“My grades suddenly drop, I don’t do well on tests, and I keep blankly… Dark circles are also getting worse. A few girls kept talking to me saying they were worried, but they told me to turn it off.”
“Did I tell you to turn it off?!”
“At that time, regardless of that, the girls cursed at me a lot.”
“Uh? Why do girls… ?”
“Ah… That’s because we talked all day. Are you okay? Do you want to eat this? Would you like to drink this? What to do with dark circles, I have some good cosmetics, should I apply them… ? While doing this he became are you okay. I’m going to let it go, but keep going…”
“Yes…”

I was very shocked as I did not know that I would hear about my younger brother swearing.
As I was talking, I thought that I was talking cleanly… I was shocked to think that her sister was also swearing at her, but when I thought of the ages of her younger siblings, I also thought that I was looking at her younger sister too much on my own.
Actually, it’s natural to be impulsive, swearing, and rougher… Suddenly, my sister wanted to do it, but she said she was holding back because she was afraid that I would hate it, and her friend told me not to seduce her… Even if he was my sister, he would have seen me as a woman, the words that would have attacked me if I were a man came to mind… I felt very sorry when my younger brother was not in front of me, and my mind was complicated.

“I’m not kidding… Baby, that… All the girls are watching him and the boys are watching too… The kids are really nervous since the last time we went to a bar. Take a look… However… The camel made a strange noise again this time.”
“Camel?”
“Oh, there is a kid with really long eyelashes, right? His nickname is Camel. The kid who secretly called my sister before.”

I was talking about the day when I called her brother and someone else answered and I went to the bar.
Suddenly, I remembered going to a club with my younger brother and what happened that night, and my face became hot.

“Huh… Why is he?”
“Because he doesn’t like it when someone secretly talks about him. Before that… Is there a kid who secretly answered the phone from his sister? He said something strange again… The atmosphere got a little weird.”
“Does that sound strange?”
“The older brother he knows showed me some pictures and asked if he was dating his sister, and then suddenly he grabbed his clothes with one hand and held it up against the wall and stared at it… Wow, really bloody.”
“Uh?!”
“Ah… I didn’t hit you, why did you hit me? But the kids are all dry. But there are three things that make her strong… I pushed him against the wall and made him lean against it, but that was the first time I’d ever seen him lift a person with one hand, and some girls later said that the veins in their arms were sexy… The funny thing is that all the boys don’t like camels too much, so I ask them what they’re doing, but they’re really sensitive these days, so they tell them to be quiet, so they all become quiet…”
“Uh? Uh… ?”

I couldn’t imagine that there would even be talk of violence, so I was embarrassed.

“However… Well, even before Labor Day, I was in a really good mood. When I asked what I was doing on Labor Day, I just boasted that I was going on a trip with my sister…”
“Huh… I see… Huh…”
“But as soon as I came back, I looked really bad, sighed all the time, and my grades didn’t go well… I’m really more sensitive than anything else, so I’m worried…”
“Oh, okay… Ah. Hmm… Hey, thanks for talking.”

Greatly… It was a shock.
More than anything else, I think that although my younger brother looks a bit difficult, he is gradually adapting, and since he quietly listens to me, he is listening to me. .
If you think about it for a moment, the test that originally exceeded 95 points and kept coming out around 98 points, but if you think about it recently, there were times when it went down below 80 points at all.
At that time, I thought it was because I was a little tired after just going to Hong Kong… Even at the academy, they say that his grades are getting lower, he is sensitive, he curses, and he fights with his friends…
After hearing the story, I didn’t think he was a kid who could be called a friend, but it was still a shocking story to me.

“Ah, I will listen.”

Feeling like there was nothing more to talk about, I got up, and my brother’s friend took the shopping bag from me and took the lead.
Strangely looking around, I received an envelope from my brother’s friend who walked me to the entrance past a clothing store on the first floor and a place full of various brands.

“… But, what’s going on here? Aren’t you going to school?”
“Uh? Today is the day off from school.”
“What?”
“My sister didn’t know that I was taking a break due to academy reasons…”

Then, suddenly, her sister’s friend, her face white, covered her mouth and said as she stepped back.

“I-over there… Did I not say anything? He seemed to hate talking behind his back… Could you please keep it a secret?”
“Ah, yes… I’ll do something I’ve never seen before.”
“Oh no wait… Right. Picture…”

My brother’s friend took a picture with me as if he remembered it belatedly, and went back to the shopping center with a mysterious expression of happiness and anxiety.

“Then my friend inside waits for me… Go carefully!”