Chapter 101 – 9.10-2 Nanami vs. Reika, Behind the Scenes of the Confrontation

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“Heh heh heh. The preparation is perfect.”

Academy official swimsuits and cheap tanning oil. Mat there.
They were items prepared by Nanami Shiina for tanning on a certain holiday.

Her place her is the rooftop of her own house her.
Nanami, wearing an academy swimsuit, spread her mat on one side of the rooftop.

The reason Nanami burned herself at her house instead of her going to the shop like her other friends her was simple.

“You don’t have to pay expensive money, right?”

In the Shiina family, she had three children including herself, but she had no adult with a suitable job.
Living on government subsidy, she was not allowed to waste.

“Shoko. Can you put some of this on your back?”
“Yes.”

Nanami, who had oiled her own limbs, asked her younger sister her, who was watching beside her, to finish her off.
Her 7-year-old twin brother and sister Shoko carefully applied the oil with her little hands to her bare skin on her older sister’s back her.

“Thank you, Shoko.”

Nanami, dazzled with her oil her, lays down on her mat her.

Clear sky, warm sunlight, cool spring breeze,
Although the reality is a rooftop, only the heart was Hawaii.

“Do you want to do a show?”
“No. I’m done.”

At Nanami’s urging her, her sister shook her head.

For Shoko, who was still young, she couldn’t understand the meaning of deliberately burning flesh.
My twin brother, Kouta, comes in charred from playing outside all day. Even the charred skin didn’t look very pretty in Shoko’s eyes.

“Okay? Shoko is still young. She will be popular with the boys.”
“I’m done. She doesn’t even want to be popular.”
“Well, I guess your generation doesn’t matter.”

Nanami envied her brother’s aloofness of her.

At the time of the disaster, the Nanami generation, which had to be drafted only by men, was in an extreme gender imbalance.
There are only 12 female students in a class and only 1 male student. Naturally, the competition intensified. Nanami, who would have been a popular figure in her normal environment, was the reason why she had no choice but to try to increase her self-worth her even a little.

“This should work well.”

Will Knives like it?

Even Nanami was aware that she was way behind in the Knives Harem (as her friends her call it). Knives also thinks she has a crush on her, but it is because the rivals were so prominent.

A powerful person, a childhood friend who has known for more than 10 years, a teacher armed with the charm of an adult, and a female senior who is more handsome than a man.
In addition, as she recently participated in the battle with Nanami and her character, her Reika, Nanami felt with her body, her the reality that her own shadow, her within the Knives Harem was gradually fading.

Burning her skin like this now was also part of her effort her to appeal even a little more. In Knives Harem, there are strangely many people who have good manners, so she intended to approach her niche market with a healthy and active charm.

“Burned the skin of her, put on makeup, dyed her hair of her, and…… Is it not good to stand out too much? Because Knives also has a slightly naive side.”

Nanami blankly looks up at her sky her, and she counts out ways to appeal to herself one by one. At the same time, she wondered how far the narrow line that Knives could not resist was, and what the odds were that she would be the last victor.

Even if you think about it, it’s probably impossible to be the first choice among the harem members.
If so, Nanami planned to keep their relationship more than a friend and less than a lover, so that Knives could meet her casually.

Even if Knives hooks up with someone, there will definitely be trouble with her girlish habits of her. Then, she could say that whether the woman and the Knives were broken or shaken by a quarrel, that was an opportunity for Nanami.
She herself is able to embrace even Knives’ girlish mannerisms. By appealing to such leisure, Knives provides a place to escape.

‘If you marry Nanami, you don’t have to cut off relationships with other women!’ Nanami had a chance as long as he planted that thought in Knives.

She knows that her accident her is not normal.
But she couldn’t help it. Because she fell in love with it.

If there’s a way to get the guy she likes, she’ll just dash straight for it.
Nanami was a girl who lived in love.

“Sister, what are you doing?”

As Nanami nodded, satisfied with her own perfect design her, her twin brother her, Kouta, climbed onto her rooftop her.

“Don’t you see? You are sunbathing.”
“Sister, stop playing like that and help me with my homework.”
“Don’t interrupt. Because this is an important moment.”

Still don’t know her little brother her. This older sister’s desperate feelings.

Rune holders The public’s gaze toward single women is strict.
By the time she graduates from the academy, she has to get married and have children. Otherwise she would have to join the military or pay huge taxes.

If she it’s a rich family’s daughter, she can solve it with money. If she’s an independent woman, she just needs to join the military.
But she couldn’t choose either way for Nanami. Nanami’s family was too poor to pay her taxes, and she couldn’t even join the military, leaving her disabled mother and her two younger siblings.

All that remains is to get married and have children.
It’s only natural that the other person wants to be the guy they like.

“I am doing my homework alone. Because this is all for you.”

Okay. This is also for her younger siblings her.

Nanami’s father was killed during the Great Disaster. Also, her mother had her legs limped due to the injuries she sustained at the time.
When her father her, who was responsible for her livelihood her, passed away and her mother her also became disabled, her mother and daughter’s life her became bleak.
To make things worse, the government even started imposing huge taxes on rune holder households with less than one child. It was a desperate measure to restore the number of rune holders that had plummeted due to the great disaster.

Of course, that policy was a direct blow to Shiina and her mother and daughter her. Anyway, mother and daughter in a one-child household were subject to taxation, and as her mother her, who was unable to work after her husband died, she had no way to pay such a large amount of money.

It was such an outrageous policy, but since the country was in a state of emergency, no one raised a voice against it.

The only option left is to quickly remarry and have more children.
However, she had no desire to remarry at the point where the wounds of her heart that had lost her husband her had not fully healed.

So, the method chosen was the government-led policy, the ‘in vitro fertilization program’. Her mother her conceived the twins alone, and after she gave birth to Kouta and Shoko, she was able to live on government subsidies.

And Nanami, even at her young age, had to act as her girl head her, taking care of her newborn twin siblings.
However, Nanami never felt pessimistic about such a life. Because the presence of her newborn twins made her forget the pain and loneliness of losing her family.

Ever since the twins were born, there hasn’t been a day without the children’s cries and laughter in the Shiina family. Nanami, the girl’s head her, lived day by day like a weed, taking care of her younger siblings with her disabled mother.

“Mom! Nanami-nee is doing weird things again!”
“Kouta! Aren’t you quiet?”

It was only a problem that as the years went by, her younger siblings started to stop listening to her older sister.
Still, Nanami was happy with her current life.

“Nanami! What are you doing on the rooftop! Won’t you come down soon?”
“Mom! I have to do this~!”

Will Nanami be able to claim her victory at the end of that battle?
Nanami’s lonely fight continues.

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There was someone who was similar to Nanami but lived a life that was the exact opposite of her.
It was Reika, Nanami’s friend and her rival to her.

“Reika. They say Akane, the daughter of the Tsukimiya family, died in an ‘accident.'”

During meals. Reika’s father brought up her story to her as if he had suddenly remembered it.

“… Yes.”

Reika swallowed the food in her mouth with difficulty and answered.

“Are you okay?”
“…… Yes.”
“Okay. Let’s do well in the future.”

– Dalgak, moongak.

For the time being, only the sound of the plate cutting the meat echoed quietly on the family table.

Reika felt suffocated at such a meal.

Reika was a first-generation rune holder, which is rare among the younger generation these days.
An era in which marriage and childbirth between rune holders became natural. Even in such an era, it was not without the first-generation rune holders born among ordinary people.

It was the same with Reika and Akane, who is now being talked about.

If these 1st generation differs from the 2nd generation, it can be said that it is the attitude of the parents towards their children who are rune holders.
Unlike the 2nd generation, where the parents are also rune holders, the parents of the 1st generation were ordinary people, so there were many cases where they had difficulties raising children or marital relationships.

Reika’s parents did the same.

Reika’s parents could not help but panic when it was revealed that her daughter her, whom she raised thinking she was a normal person, was in fact a rune holder. Her father her suspected her wife her of infidelity, and her mother her was angry at her husband’s suspicions of her.

In the end, it was possible to confirm paternity through genetic testing, but the family relationship, once cracked, was not easily restored. Even now, her parents treated Reika like a ‘stranger’or a ‘mutant’.

“Reika, don’t you like the food?”
“…… No.”
“Eat more. I’m worried that you look thinner than before.”
“Yes.”

Who looks skinny?
At her mother’s words her, Reika swallowed her displeasure inside herself.
I’m still worried about my diet these days. When she said she looked thin, it was as much as saying that she wasn’t interested in herself.

Her parents her and I arrange a meal like this once a week, but this was a place to fulfill her duty her as a parent. We hadn’t seen each other except for one meal a week.

Both of Reika’s parents are executives at large corporations, so she can’t stay in Rune Town.
However, to her Reika her, it felt like an excuse to separate herself from herself as a ‘stranger’ who disrupted the harmony of her family and her.

But it was also a good thing for her Reika. She had not received much love from her parents since she was a child, and to Reika, she had no more than an appreciation for her parents her as ‘an adult named her parents who meet regularly’. It was just inconvenient to see her often.

I hope this boring play-like time is over soon.
Reika muttered that in her heart her.

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“Whew.”

On her way home from her weekly routine, a meal with her parents her.
Reika, who had eaten too much today as her mother encouraged her to eat more, patted her swollen belly and let out a sigh.

She must gain weight again. I’m still at a disadvantage.
Reika admits that she belongs to the lowest rank in Knives Harem.
She was, in fact, on the way, because she was forced into it.

“But, at this rate…….”

I’m still at a disadvantage.
If she gains weight, her hopes are gone.

Up until now, her nutrients had gone to her breasts her, but her breasts her were already saturated and were trying to gain weight elsewhere.

Especially on the lower body of her.

It was right after Reika heard a shocking story from her former close friend of her, ‘Are n’t your legs getting thicker these days?’.

“It can’t go on like this!”

Legs get thicker. → A woman’s attractiveness decreases. → Drop out of Knives Harem.

It was a natural flow that even a child could imagine.

Even for quick independence, marriage and pregnancy are essential.
Reika said she did n’t like joining the military or talking about money to her parents her.
In order for her to become independent from her parents her as soon as possible, she had to quickly grab the man she liked and marry her.

And the man she liked was already decided in her heart.
A man who inadvertently gave himself a trembling enough to urinate. Knives was the first such man.

Just as a chick born from her egg recognizes the first person it sees as its parent her, Reika, who has been living in her narrow relationship, fell in love with Knives at once, who gave her such a stimulus.

That Knives was, of course, setting up a ‘harem’, but it was irrelevant to Reika.

Her chest her was more confident than anyone else. There is also a shining youth. Even if the face is not the best, it will be at the top. The overall score is unbeatable by anyone.

So, as long as she trims her figure to support her breasts her, she’s worth trying, Reika thought with all her heart her.

So starting tomorrow, I’ll seriously go on a diet!
Reika’s eyes her were burning brightly.

A certain product poster caught Reika’s burning eyes.

“Compression stockings that make your legs look thinner just by wearing them! Even if you wear it, your legs will get hot and you will lose weight. Amazing effect of losing 1kg every day! ￥1,990」

Reika pushed open the door to her shop and entered.

“One compression stocking! No, three please!”