"Oh, right, Mi-mi, let me introduce you to my trainer."
"Hm? Urara-chan, you have a trainer now?"
"Yep! Just now, I got poached by Trainer-san."
"Huh?" Rice Shower looked even more confused.
Hadn't Urara just been talking to herself a moment ago to cheer herself on? Where had this trainer come from?
"Ta-da~"
Urara pointed both hands at Tang Han, who was still half-kneeling on the ground.
"With great pride, I present my trainer—... Trainer-san, are you okay?!"
Urara looked at Tang Han worriedly. She could not understand why the Tang Han who had been standing beside her just now was suddenly half-kneeling on the ground, clutching his chest as if his heart had been critically struck.
Could it be that Tang Han was having a heart attack?
To that, Tang Han only wanted to say one thing:
Please, give me more heart attacks like this.
"I'm fine." Tang Han waved his hand and said, "I'm just practicing ninjutsu."
"Ooh~ so that's what it is." Urara instantly understood.
No matter what strange thing Tang Han was doing, as long as it was labeled ninjutsu, then everything made sense.
She might not understand it, but it had to be amazing!
"Huh?" Rice Shower blinked in surprise.
Only now did she notice Tang Han on the ground. She genuinely had not seen him at all just a second ago.
And his outfit was so strange. She could not see his face at all. Compared to a trainer, he looked more like an assassin.
Still, even though Urara had come in last place, he still chose to become her trainer.
He had to be a kind person.
"Trainer Tang Han is that super amazing ninja trainer who sent Mi-mi the gift last night!" Urara explained.
"Eh?!"
The moment she heard that Tang Han was the one who had given her the lucky sachet, the way Rice Shower looked at him changed instantly.
"So you're Brother Tang Han?"
"Wuh..."
Tang Han's whole body went limp, and his breathing stopped for a second.
Rice Shower had called him Brother!
Sure, she had put his name in front of it, so it wasn't just a plain "big brother," but still—
He was so happy!
His heart was going to stop!
Medic! Somebody save him!
"Brother Tang Han, are you all right?"
"I'm fine, I'm just..."
"Trainer-san is practicing ninjutsu~" Urara answered for him.
"Practicing ninjutsu?"
"That's right! Ninja Art... um... some kind of technique! Anyway, it's definitely a super amazing ninja technique! Right, Trainer-san?"
"Exactly." Tang Han nodded.
"I see. That's incredible. So ninjas really do exist in this world."
Rice Shower did not think too deeply about it and simply chose to believe them.
"Oh, right, Brother Tang Han, thank you for the gift last night. I really liked it."
Rice Shower gently touched the lucky sachet hanging around her neck and smiled.
Ever since she had received Tang Han's lucky sachet the night before, the bad luck that had plagued her for so long had miraculously disappeared.
When Rice Shower went to the cafeteria last night, there was surprisingly still a lot of delicious food left. Apparently, Tracen's number one glutton, Oguri Cap, had eaten before dinner, so the food had not all been wiped out, allowing Rice Shower to have a wonderfully full meal.
After dinner, Rice Shower went out with Urara, and they stopped by a shop to try their luck at a drawing. For once, instead of ending up with tissues like always, she won the grand prize—
A hot springs travel ticket!
On the way back to school, they did not hit a single red light either. Every intersection turned green the moment they reached it, and they passed through without delay, never once having to worry about missing curfew.
Everything had started changing the moment she received the lucky sachet.
Though it had only been half a day, Rice Shower, who had always been surrounded by bad luck, felt as though the gloomy world around her had suddenly lit up.
It was just like the picture book she loved most—The Happy Blue Rose.
The story began in a garden full of roses.
There were roses of every color, and it was said to be a garden that brought happiness to all who visited.
But one day, a blue rosebud that no one had ever seen before sprouted there.
After that, the other roses, along with the people who came to admire the garden, all said things like, "Blue roses feel creepy," and "That must be an unlucky flower..."
Eventually, the blue rose also began to think, I'm a useless flower, and little by little, it started to wither.
Then, one day, a big brother appeared before the withering blue rose.
He was kind, and his smile was incredibly gentle.
The moment he saw the blue rosebud, he smiled and said,
"Wow, a blue rose? It's beautiful! It's definitely going to bloom into a gorgeous flower. Please, let me buy it!"
After that, Big Brother transferred the blue rose, which had nearly withered, into a new flowerpot. He talked to it every day, and in the end, helped it bloom into a beautiful flower.
Later, the blue rose was placed by the window of Big Brother's home, where everyone who passed by could receive a little happiness from it.
And Tang Han—
He had not only given her a sachet that could dispel bad luck, but had also voluntarily become Urara's trainer instead of keeping his distance like everyone else.
He helped them.
He was that same gentle big brother.
Rice Shower was deeply grateful to Tang Han.
"Brother Tang Han... um... may I make a selfish request?"
"What is it?"
"Well... can I... call you by a new name?"
"Of course you can."
There was no way Tang Han could possibly refuse Rice Shower's request.
Though, that new name...
Surely it wouldn't be something like Ninja Big Brother, right? That still had "big brother" in it, sure, but it would be unbearably embarrassing.
"O-o..."
Gathering up her courage, Rice Shower called out in a soft, sweet voice:
"Onii-sama~"
"!"
The instant Tang Han heard the new way Rice Shower addressed him, his breathing stopped completely.
It was Onii-sama!
She was really calling him Onii-sama!
He had no regrets left in life!
Then Tang Han's eyes rolled back, his heart stopped beating, his soul ascended to heaven, and he died on the spot.
(The End)
Just kidding.
Tang Han really was one of the big-brother types, yes, but he was not so far gone that a single "Onii-sama" would kill him on the spot.
At most, he would twist around on the ground like a worm and let out a string of bizarre noises.
After hastily explaining to Rice Shower that he had merely been practicing ninjutsu, Tang Han quickly took Urara and left for the Student Council president's office.
Terrifying.
Rice Shower was his absolute kryptonite as a member of the big-brother camp. He could not keep even the slightest shred of rationality around her. He absolutely could not stay near Rice Shower too long, or he would become an idiot with nothing in his eyes but Rice Shower.
Being called Onii-sama just once was already enough.
Tang Han did not need any more repayment from her.
If Rice Shower ever learned that the sachet had not only driven away her bad luck, but had even changed the future in which she would have died on the racetrack—and that Tang Han had nearly been killed himself trying to get it to her—then she would probably try to devote herself to him on the spot.
But Tang Han did not tell her the truth.
He chose to keep it hidden.
Because rather than turning Rice Shower into some possession that lived only to repay him, Tang Han would much rather watch from afar as she chased her dreams, found happiness in her newfound luck, and lived her whole life joyfully.
That alone would be enough for him.
That was what it meant to be one of the big-brother types.
System: "I'm crying."
Ding. Weekly mission unlocked: [Guide Rice Shower]
Description: Help Rice Shower with her training
Reward: Doctor's Outfit extended by one day (once per week)
Penalty: None
...
"Huh? What kind of weekly mission is this?"
System: "A mission that can be completed once every week."
"How did it appear?"
System: "Your big-brother spirit moved me, so I decided to lower the difficulty a little and make things easier for you."
"Heh. Never thought a system that spends all day trying to screw me over could actually be moved by me."
System: "Ding. Side quest unlocked: [Kiss Tokai Teio]. Failure penalty: ..."
"Bro! I was wrong!"
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