Sorry for the late update, I had a high fever a few days ago and thank God I'm better now.
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It was night, a blanket of calm descended upon Grand Blue, and the two naked men in the club room were sleeping particularly soundly without a care in the world.
But in Miyazawa Yuu's room on the second floor, the girl's thoughts seemed especially heavy, Kitahara Shiori lay on the large bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep while staring at the ceiling.
She wasn't just worrying about how to get her older brother to go back and inherit the family business, but also concerned about the collapse of Rin's worldview.
After the visual shock of the naked apron, she vaguely realized that beneath Rin's surface-level brother complex, what was hidden was more reverence and dependence on a perfect older brother, which was fundamentally different from a brother complex!
"Rin, are you asleep?"
"Not yet…"
A muffled sound came from under the single bed, Kitahara Shiori got up, hugged her blanket, and climbed down, lying down again next to Rin: "Can you tell me what kind of person Yuu-onii-chan is?"
"Onii-chan, huh…"
Her eyes were extremely vacant, she had imagined that Onii-chan might be a bit loose in university, but she never expected him to be this loose!
The strong discrepancy between her mental image and reality made Miyazawa Rin extremely uncomfortable; in her heart, even if her older brother was a bit of an otaku, his schoolwork and body were top-notch, he should be a perfect older brother!
"Onii-chan has been very smart since he was little, he finished all high school courses in the first grade of elementary school…"
"Elementary school?!"
A look of astonishment froze on her face, Kitahara Shiori suspected that the stimulation today might have been too much, hitting Rin so hard that her memory was messed up?
Even the most top-tier school in Tokyo probably couldn't produce such an unbelievable student, why is this academic grinder attending Izu University, he should quickly go and contribute to humanity's exploration of Mars!
"Mhm! Elementary school, and not only that, he was first in his grade in sports, and even got all A's in home economics class!"
"Is that so…"
"But Onii-chan is very lazy and doesn't have much ambition, he doesn't even want to inherit the family business!"
"Ugh…"
Instantly making the connection to her own older brother, Kitahara Shiori's forehead instantly bulged with veins—
What is wrong with the young people in Nippon these days, why are they all playing this game of not wanting to inherit the family business!
Do they not know how difficult the employment situation is right now! Quickly give a dogeza apology to all university graduates right now! Immediately!
"Then, what does Rin-chan personally think of Yuu-onii-chan? Completely subjective feeling?"
"Me personally?"
Flipping over to face Shiori, Miyazawa Rin looked at the other person's brilliant eyes shining in the moonlight, and couldn't help but reveal a genuine smile.
"I like him, I especially like him! Onii-chan is smart but never ignores me, he's an all-powerful great hero! But later he seemed to become a bit cold… I was very lonely…"
"An all-powerful… great hero, huh?"
The emotion was so pure that Kitahara Shiori could feel the "Good Sister!" radiance emanating from the other person even with her eyes closed.
But between siblings, one side being overly recognized is actually not a good thing.
Acutely catching the keyword "became cold" in the follow-up, she immediately recalled the news she had searched for when she first arrived, and a guess secretly formed in her heart.
"Um… Rin, I want to show you something…"
"Hoo—! Don't move, Iori, just sleep…"
On the floor futon in the Pab club room, Miyazawa Yuu suddenly felt something shaking him in his sleep.
However, having long been accustomed to sleeping next to naked men, he casually threatened and moved over a little without even opening his eyes.
It was either Iori or Kouhei whose sleeping posture was getting restless again, if he couldn't afford to provoke them, couldn't he afford to hide?
However…
"Thud!"
"What the heck… Wuwuwu!"
His kidney suddenly received a kick, and Miyazawa Yuu was truly angered this time, instantly opening his eyes to see which blind idiot was being so restless while sleeping!
But before he could finish his harsh words, a slender hand, its strength inversely proportional to its size, immediately completely sealed his noisy mouth.
Confused, Miyazawa Yuu looked down and saw his imouto standing in front of him, her entire face so black that he could only see two red dots, the solid veins on her body clearly indicating liberation.
"Gulp!"
Goosebumps instantly erupted all over his body, it was true that the Kure clan hid demons inside their bodies, at least he was seeing one now!
Reaching out and making a gesture indicating that he definitely wouldn't say anything, Miyazawa Yuu immediately asked with suspicion after the other person withdrew her hand: "What is it, Rin, did something happen back home?"
"…Life consultation!"
"Huh?"
A string of question marks rose in Miyazawa Yuu's mind, whether or not an imouto seeking life consultation from her older brother was common aside, the key point was whether this timing was a bit off!
"Um, how about tomorrow…"
"Now!"
Her black and white inverted eyes were filled with killing intent, but this time Miyazawa Yuu could tell it wasn't directed at him, so he reluctantly followed her upstairs.
Returning to his familiar room, a lump of blanket on the bed was breathing evenly, seemingly trying to distance itself from the current situation.
However, judging from the small head deliberately moved to the edge of the bed, and the occasional holding of breath to hear more clearly, Shiori was undoubtedly eavesdropping.
"Sigh… So, what exactly happened? Did you two have a falling out?"
"No!"
Tightly clutching the hem of her pajamas, almost kneading the fabric to shreds, Miyazawa Rin suddenly raised her head, her needle-point eyes and protruding canine teeth were a bloodline urge to physically destroy something.
"In Tokyo! During Onii-chan's middle school years, were there bad rumors circulating! Why didn't you tell me?"
"Ah~ The secret is out now~"
He knew this matter would explode, Miyazawa Yuu painfully tapped his head, not harboring any resentment towards Shiori's action of turning around and selling out her teammate, he was even quite grateful.
Just as he had said at the time, the family did its best to suppress this matter, but absolutely wouldn't deliberately conceal the truth.
It would be fine if Rin didn't know, but if she heard it from somewhere else, it would be another story~
"Please answer seriously, Onii-chan, was it spread by those people you broke up with?"
Her fists tightly clenched, Miyazawa Rin's blood vessels were throbbing, this was the first time in her life she wanted to physically make someone disappear from Nippon!
In fact, the Miyazawa family had the power to do this, sending one or two people to Siberia for agricultural surveying, or to Africa for geological exploration, was incredibly easy!
"When we get back to Tokyo! I'm going to make them all…"
"No!"
Decisively interrupting Miyazawa Rin's idea of brutally solving the problem, Miyazawa Yuu sighed, knowing this girl would go to extremes, which was also the reason why the family didn't tell her directly back then.
"Rin, I'm not omnipotent, I can't make everyone like me, and the Miyazawa family can't plug everyone's mouth."
"But…"
"Taking direct action will only make the situation worse, making more people believe the rumors."
Scrolling through his phone for a contact, Miyazawa Yuu expressionlessly dialed a string of numbers that should have been forgotten long ago, and after three seconds of ringing, a fearful female voice came from the other end of the line.
"H-Hello, I know people are spreading rumors again, but it's absolutely not me…"
"Is your father's job still stable, does he need any help?"
"Thank goodness… No, everything is normal, eight in the morning and five in the evening, every day."
After confirming that the caller had no mean intent, the voice on the other end of the phone gradually calmed down, and the tone became sincere: "I didn't know it would spread so widely back then, I'm really sorry…"
"It's okay, everyone got the punishment they deserved anyway."
Hanging up the phone impolitely, Miyazawa Yuu patted his sister's bewildered little head, his eyes extremely cold.
"The father of the first person to spread the rumor was demoted from company president to a mere employee, compared to his previous life, that is indeed a sufficient punishment."
"So the subsequent distance?"
"I never distanced myself from you, my lovely sister, I just maintained an appropriate distance in front of outsiders, that's all…"
Pinching Rin's cheek, Miyazawa Yuu shook his head in denial, never realizing that she interpreted his maintaining distance in public as alienation.
In fact, the situation at the time was very bad, the rumors were on the verge of affecting Rin's daily life!
Although no one dared to say it openly due to the families behind the two, the voices from the undercurrent clearly divided into two factions—brother complex and sister complex.
He wasn't an omnipotent Superman, unable to use mind control to twist everyone's thoughts, but at least he could choose who would be gossiped about in the shadows.
"That's the whole picture of the matter, I'm sorry for causing the misunderstanding, but older brother is not omnipotent, there are many things I can't do~"
"Not omnipotent…?"
It felt like something instantly cleared up in her heart, the reason Miyazawa Rin evolved into a celebrity-chaser-like brother complex could be best described by the word "chasing."
She felt that although her older brother was very affectionate, the perfect complete person was too dazzling, it was a gap between a god and a human that she could never bridge, no matter how hard she reached out.
And what she could do was try everything to shorten this distance! Including saving tons of photos, and also attempting to coax him into a pre-sleep ASMR.
But now that everything was laid out in front of her, Miyazawa Rin suddenly realized that it wasn't that complicated after all!
Her older brother is handsome, that's right! He is her hero, that's also right! But he had included her in his embrace from the very beginning and never thrown her out!
"Onii-chan!"
"What is it, Rin?"
"Kouhei-big-brother was right, I don't think I'm a brother complex…"
Her eyes returned to normal, Miyazawa Rin smiled happily and hugged her older brother's arm, "But I still like you! I like you very much!"