Mayo Chiki!:Volume1 Chapter2

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The Romantic Comedy Suddenly…

It doesn’t matter how much darker the night gets, the dawn will still come. It doesn’t matter how much you don’t want tomorrow to come, the morning will still come.

That’s why I was looking at the clock in my room. The time now is seven o’clock. If I don’t wake up really soon, I will be late for school.

From outside the window comes the sound of the rain. Until last night it didn't look like rain would fall, but this morning the weather seems as melancholic as my heart.

By the way, my wake up is usually worse, going close to asphyxiation. Looks like I have the unconscious habit of pressing my face onto the floor while waking up. While entering this year, I should have died and turned in 5 pieces already. Maybe one day, I will be killed in the course of my own wake up time.

Right, I can say that I have never been late to a class. It’s an almost disgusting never-been-late attendance. I don’t want to be proud, but it could win a perfect attendance award.

Why?

It’s easy.

In my house, we have one more strong alarm clock.

“Nii-saaaaaaaaaan— Morniiiiiiiing!!!”

Together with a firecracker-like voice, *Dogaaan* the door of my room was opened.

Standing there was a first year middle school girl with hair cut short. Wearing a Rouran Gakuen uniform. Her face was a little cute, but still childish. Especially her eyes. Her two pupils were shining innocently. Without knowing sadness, just a brilliant expression and attitude. Her strong points were sports and her lively energy.

Sakamachi Kureha.

Yeah, without a doubt- my little sister.

“Uryaaaa!!”

After that first speech after opening the door, Kureha jumped, yelling with a high tensioned voice. Her thin body was dancing in the air. As you know, this isn’t an open air space, this is my room.

But there’s no way that the jump would continue for long, she was falling at an acute angle. Naturally, the angle and the elevation were leading to my abdomen—.

“Guabha!”

Diving-elbow-drop. My body was hit by that one blow, and incredibly took the form of the letter V.

Normally, you would be resuscitated from the unanimated state at once. Rather, I think normal people would be sent directly to the ICU with this. And it is unavoidable. I could avoid this attack once before, but during that time, the bed I had bought at the recycle shop was broken into the shape of the letter U. That move has the destructive power of a Great Ballistic Missile.

“Good Morning, Nii-san!”

Kureha changed to the next technique while smiling, looking as if she was playing. Unfortunately, a little sister who fall at that point isn’t kind. Taking my futon in an incredible speed, that way deciding my movements with the flow.

“Hey—! Solid Ankle Lock!”

“Guhaaa!”

“Continuing further, STF!”

“Wa— Wait a— gunyaaah!”

“From now on is the choke!”

“……uh! ……h! ……h! (My voice won’t come out)!”

“For the final blow! Arm Crush Reverse Ten Symbol!”

“Guhaaaaaaaa!”

“……Aah… Sorry, Nii-san… I broke your elbow…”

“Uwaaaaaaaaaah?!”

“Tehe. That was a joke.”

“……………”

“But… Today’s target was your artery…”

“As expected from a triangle chop—uh?”

………

My mornings are always like this.

I already got used to it.

“Once again- morning, Nii-san. How did I do this morning?”

Like always, wiping the nosebleed on my face with a tissue, Kureha asked that.

“Aah, I am fucked as always. Thanks to that I almost got to sleep a second time.”

That’s not a lie. The last one was dangerous. A little more and I was going to meet my dad who died 10 years ago in a flower garden.

“Nyahaha. Yosh, the morning training is over.”

Kureha was leaving the bed with a large smile in her face.

By the way, she is in the handicrafts club. No, seriously. I also thought she was going to enter the Karate club or the Pro Wrestling research group, but she herself decided to join the handicrafts club. The school has everything to polish a woman. But, what do they do for the morning training of the handicrafts club?

“Iyaa, but the handicrafts club is full of energy. Every morning we do physical strength training.”

“Physical strength training?”

“Yeah. It’s awesome. Buchou-san can break a concrete block with a finger.”

What a problem, God. Right after the school admission, my little sister ended up entering a strange group.

“We are going to the mountains for the Golden Week training camp. They say that we are going to stay for three days and two nights for a survival camp. Looks like too much fun. Right?”

“……Something is mortally wrong with your club activities.”

I have never heard about such a handicrafts club. In no time, you could have been brainwashed and become a green beret. By the time you realized it, you could already be fighting in the Middle East.

“I wanted to fight with a bear at least once, that’s why I am thankful for it.”

“Stop with that. Even if it was you, you are going to die.”

“Eh—, I am serious here. Mom wrote in her last letter that she fought with a tiger in India.”

“Please, don’t want to be like Mom. That person stopped being a human a while ago.”

My mother is so strong that she left her enemies crying on the ring, and half year ago she left on a journey to strengthen her fighting skills.

Since we receive a letter from her once a month with allowance, I know she is alive, but where she is now is the question. But I’m pretty sure that she would be somewhere around Egypt fighting with a mummy.

“Now that I realize it, Nii-san. The regions around your eyes are black, didn’t you sleep enough?”

You can’t even say that I didn’t sleep enough. I stayed awake the whole night.

“Aah, I am only wondering a little about human relationships.”

“Nya?”

My little sister looked at me with fuzzy eyes, like she had seen a yeti on a snowy mountain.

“What’s that? I’m also in high school. I have problems.”

“Nii-san… Don’t tell me they are bullying you?”

Wrong. In fact, I don’t even know why you quickly answered with that. I felt like what happened in the infirmary yesterday already surpassed bullying by about 100 km. If I could, I want to stop going to school.

“Then, it’s about women?”

“Well, you could put like that.”

Indeed, that’s right. But I wanted that to be wrong.

“Umm… I guess Nii-san is already at the age for worrying about that.”

“Are you the neighboring Granny? Don’t say that so calmly!”

“Then, when is the wedding?”

“The conversation is going too fast. Is there a jet engine piled inside your head?”

“If it’s possible, I want a little sister.”

“That’s pitiful. I will never lay my hands on girls that are younger than you.”

“But I don’t want to become an aunt at this age.”

“…I beg you, please believe your brother. Do I look like a person that would do that?”

Kureha became silent, looking at me with a serious face which seemed to indicate she was in a bad mood.

You can see it? From the eyes of my little sister, I look like a human without principles.

“But Nii-san, you are always peeking at my baths…”

“Don’t say things that can be misunderstood. I have never peeked at my family members’ baths!”

“Eh? But I am always peeking…”

“Okay, okay, I didn’t know about that.”

“But Nii-san, you always start washing from below your armpits.”

“You really were peeking!”

Why did she know that information? This is a top secret that I didn’t even talk about with my old goldfish.

“Aah, right, why don’t you take a shower? You are incredibly sleepy.”

“Don’t say that now! It sounds like you want to peek at me taking a bath!”

“Nyahaha. Indeed, that’s right!”

“That was right!?”

“That’s why we will enter together. We always used to do it, right!”

“I won’t do that! Entering the bath with you is a distant memory!”

It was until the second grade of elementary school. It’s so old an image that I can’t see it anymore.

“Hey, don’t say such harsh things.”

“That wasn’t harsh. In this age, entering the bath with your little sister is close to a crime!”

“Uuh, it’s a big problem, our father in heaven. Nii-san is entering his rebellious phase.”

Kureha was acting exaggerated, putting her hands together like she was praying to the heavens.

Don’t worry in the heavens, old man, I don’t have such a rebellious phase. If that happens, I would be turned into pieces by your wife and your daughter. Now I am very obedient. I am at the lowest level of the family hierarchy.

“Maa, leaving that aside. I think that you should take a shower and relax. This morning, your sleepy eyes are incredible, and your head looks strange too, Nii-san.”

“What kind of strange?”

“Err… Russian?”

“Don’t say such rude things. It could turn out as an international problem, you know.”

“It’s okay. I already managed to learn Command Sambo, I think I can give a good match.”

“The incredible thing is that when you say it, I can’t take it as a joke.”

Command Sambo is the name of a martial art that the Russian soldiers adopted. In Japanese, it would be something like Judo, and lately the amount of fighters that use this martial art on the ring is growing.

Certainly, the one who taught this dangerous thing to Kureha was our mother. Lately, not only pro wrestlers but fighters from all places and kinds are using this martial art. A fearful story.

“And if it is Command Sambo, our coach is well known for that.”

“Coach? From the handicrafts club?”

“Yeah, his name is Sergey-san.”

“…………”

No matter how you look at it, he is a genuine Russian. I wonder if it’s okay, the handicrafts club of Rouran Gakuen. If in reality he is secretly a spy agent of some kind of intelligence agency. Next time I will ask Suzutsuki.

“Then, Nii-san. I am leaving for my morning training. I have already prepared breakfast, you have to eat it all, okay?”

“By the way…… this morning’s menu is?”

I asked while trembling from fear.

That can’t be helped. In this last week, I didn’t eat anything besides strange Kimchi.

Gratefully, almost all of the house work here is done by Kureha, but it looks like she doesn’t have sense for food. The number of overwhelmingly strange menus created by her is large.

“It’s okay. Today is different from usual.”

“Seriously!? Aaah, I feel relieved. There’s no way we could eat more than a week of the same thing for breakfast.”

“Yeah, I also thought that way, so I made today’s kimchi a nationalized kimchi.”

“Yay—, great, I’m so touched that I could cry—.”

Calm down. I can revolt myself with this little thing. Even if I did that I can’t win, but it was still better than the time mom was together with us. Now that I think back, that time the dinner table was full of nutritional supplements lined up, that was an awkward scene.

“Then, I’m going, Nii-san. Let’s meet at school again.”

Kureha noisily left my room while shaking her skirt uniform. High tensioned as always. Way different from me. Are we really connected by blood?

Then, shall I take a shower?

I took my towel and went straight to the shower room. It’s not like I am following the orders of my little sister, from here on I should change my attitude and tighten my feelings.

Whatever, from today onwards, it’s starting. My healing program.

“Fighting spirit… I have to wear it.”

I murmured it to myself.

Yesterday in the infirmary. I somehow managed to run away, but there’s no more place for me to rest my heart in the school. My last oasis will be my house. Then I have to enjoy myself with all I have.

I followed the way to the shower room, reaching the dressing room.

For the time being I will take a bath and relax.

I thought that and opened the door.

In the dressing room was a beauty that I didn’t know.

She was completely naked.

“Whaaaaaaaat?”

It was so sudden that I raised a strange high voice.

What is with this situation? Is this paradise? Did Kureha’s elbow finally send me to the heavens!? Shit, it’s a regret that I’m wearing my glasses! Thanks to that, my vision is blurred……!

“…………”

Iya, cool down, cool down. Calm down a little. Get back to yourself. This isn't not the time to think imprudent things.

Her wet skin and hair. Looks like she was taking a shower, she was wiping her wet hair with a bath towel. The unripe body of a young girl. It was still a little childish, but this is the verge of the emergence of the butterfly, when the beauty is still hidden. This was the feeling given.

“Ha, hey—.”

Why am I so calmly depicting her naked body in front of my eyes.

While petrified and astonished in front of my eyes, the girl used the bath towel that she was using to wipe her hair to wrap her body. And at that moment, her pupils were looking straight at me.

“Close.”

“Ha?”

“Close your eyes!”

Like she said, I closed my eyes right away. For some reason, I felt an absolutely strong power telling me that it would be bad if I didn’t do that.

And.

I felt a chill above both of my eyelids.

What is it? A finger? But what would a finger be doing—.

“Guaha—!”

A queer voice ran through my throat. The thing that was above my eyelids pressured my eyes with a tremendous strength.

“Gyaaaaaaa! My eyes! My eyes!”

While screaming in the usual tone, I rolled around the floor of the dressing room.

Iya, wait. I remember the feeling of this ruthless violence.

My body— My body remembers this feeling. What a merciless behavior. The only one who could do something so cruel so calmly is……!

“Humph. You should be grateful for the fact that you haven’t become blind.”

An alto voice resounded. I have unpleasant memories of this terrible blunt feeling.

“Konoe! What are you doing in my house!?”

I screamed while pressing both of my hurt eyes with my hands. The person who was in the dressing room of my house this time was Konoe Subaru, without a doubt.

“I came here a little while ago, and a girl who claimed to be your little sister came and told me ‘Please enter and take a shower’, that’s what happened.”

“Why, why such a thi—”

“I’m pretty sure that she was intending for me to not catch a cold. I got very wet from the rain while coming here and my body was soaked. I took advantage of her courtesy.”

“...........”

Iya, this is absolutely wrong. Shit… Damn Kureha, she planned this through.

This is probably a foolish prank done by Kureha. When I went to take a shower I would encounter my male classmate. It’s the type of useless surprise that she would come up with. Usually, I would laugh and leave it alone without a doubt. But Konoe wasn’t a woman, though.

“Why did you come to my house so early in the morning!?”

“Ojou-sama’s orders. For the sake of not letting you spread my secret, I was ordered to keep an eye on you. Then I came to your house for us to go to school together while I keep an eye on you.”

That devil Suzutsuki. I don’t think she planned that together with Kureha, but I’m certain that she thought that sending Konoe to my house would make a fun (for her) event happen. I feel like I could hear her loud laughter. Her plan was a great success.

“Leaving it alone... You saw me naked, didn’t you?”

Guh.

“Did you know? That my house has an amnesia surgery technique passed down generation by generation?”

I know that for sure. Yesterday I got hit I lot by that. Because of that, my head still hurts.

“You have the rights to be hit by that!”

“I will pass this time. You should let this right for the end of the year, for the people that ‘took care of you’.”

I think that this could be sold on a net auction. This kind of enthusiastic idea sells a lot on the internet, doesn’t it? A premier tag should fit well.

On the other side of the darkness of my eyelids. A mysterious intimidating feeling was rising up.

Killing intent.

When I felt the same cold feeling that I felt yesterday running through my skin I finally understood that.

In this world, there are no more places for me to rest calmly.

“...Even if that was my first time.”

Unexpectedly, I had the feeling that I heard an annoyed voice.

“Eh?” by the time I tried to ask the meaning of those words, my consciousness was blown into the darkness.

♀♂

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