Chapter 10 - Sana (2/2)

If you already know, shouldn’t you be leaving, Sana?

“Nii-san, what are you doing for lunch?”

“L-lunch break? I don’t really have anything planned.”

“What’s with the polite language? I would say that it’s definitely impossible… but mother was wondering if you had a girlfriend since you said bentous weren’t needed anymore. It’s weird after all.”

Tontontontontontontontonton.

Underneath the bed, my girlfriend was hitting the bed rhythmically. It seems to be getting worse and worse.

“As such, I was wondering what you were doing for lunch… Y-you don’t have one, right? A girlfriend. Sei-kun could never get a girlfriend after all.”

Sana’s tone became more childish. Is she pouting…?

“Don’t call me Sei-kun. It’s just that I have a friend who cooks, and is letting me eat it to try out the taste.”

It was about 80% a lie, but the other 20% was true.

Dosu dosu, dosu dosu!

The ero books below are noisy… She was probably trying to say something along the lines of, “We aren’t frieeeeeeennnndsss!”

That’s good, Sana said, as she changed her cool look into a smile.

“Having the friend do that every day is probably hard, right? In the end, Sei-kun probably doesn’t have anyone else to get food from, so how about I give you some as well?”

Dosu!?

There was a bit of objection mixed into the hitting. Of course, I also tilted my head in confusion.

“Hah? Why? That’s what’s called an unwanted favor, you know?”

“B-be quiet! If it was your girlfriend I wouldn’t do that. I know to give the two of you some space. I’m not a girl who doesn’t know how to read the mood.”

Dodododo, dosun.

It was a chain of repeated hits. It’s probably because from Hiiragi-chan’s perspective, the current situation would be Sana not being able to read the mood properly. More importantly, can you stop it with the reactions already, Sensei?

“Sa-chan, that’s a bit sudden isn’t it?”

“Don’t call me Sa-chan.”

What’s with her? Why did she suddenly say something like this?

Ah.

Is this the pattern where Sana couldn’t make friends…? That’s possible.

“…”

“W-what is it?”

Sana is quite a shy person after all, and doesn’t really have a bright character. She seemed to be trying to play it cool, as it’s quite difficult to bring up.

“You weren’t able to make friends and became a loner, didn’t you?”

“T-t-that’s wrong! I-I have a hundred of them.”

“Liar.”

My sister, sits in the classroom, eating the bentou that our mother made all alone…

Just imagining it makes my chest hurt. It’s been about a month since she entered school, the friend groups are probably already formed by now. People in different classes but from the same middle school, there were probably new friends as well… people from the same club as well… Sana was in the go-home club like me.

“Anyways, Nii-san should just eat his lunch with me.”

“About that matter, let’s have a nice talk at home about it with our parents.”

“Stop it! It’ll be known that I’m a loner! It’ll make them worry!”

It’s like that as expected. My little sister thinks a lot about our parents.

“Times up. We’ll continue this over text.”

“Don’t say it like, “This will continue on the web”, please.”

“The bell is ringing. If you don’t go soon you’ll be late. Besides, today’s preparations have been made already, if you want to eat together we would have to start from tomorrow.”

“… Got it.”

I was able to satisfy Sana as she walked away while grabbing her skirt.

“Sensei, it should be fine now.”

Lending her a hand, I pull out Hiiragi-chan out of the ero book position.

“Sana-chan, she’s a good child.”

“She’s still a child though.”

“Seiji-kun, you’re also a child. You’re birthday hasn’t come yet, so you’re still 16, right?”

Hiiragi-chan teasingly played with my cheeks by giving it a poke.