Baka to Tesuto to Syokanju:Volume5 The First Question
"...Yuuji."
"What is it, Shouko?"
"...I want to see your cellphone."
"What's wrong? Why do you suddenly want to see my cellphone?"
"...Because yesterday, a TV program said it."
"TV? What did it say?"
"...A lot of evidence of an affair will remain on the cellphone."
"Hoho."
"...So, show it to me."
"Rejected."
"...Clench your teeth."
"Wait! I think you've skipped a lot of steps! You're suddenly going to punch me? Do you want to punch me?"
"...Show it to me."
"Ah-...No, I can't, I accidentally forgot it at hom-AAHHHHHHHHH! M-MY EYES!"
"...I should have done this from the beginning."
"You always end up stabbing me in the eyes! Why did you even want me to clench my teeth! Was that just a fake-out, you animal!"
"...Yuuji. Unclench your fist. I can't take your cellphone like this."
"I-I'm not giving it! I finally got it back after having it fixed, how can I let you steal it!"
"...If you resist, I'm going to take away your pants and trunks."
"Tru...!? I can give up and hand over my pants even though I'm unwilling, but what do my trunks have to do with this!? Are you saying that you want me to go to school with my bottom part naked!?"
"...Half-naked boys that are only wearing a shirt are really loved by mother, I heard her say that once."
"Wrong! This has nothing to do with 'like'! More important than that is that I don't want to, don't make that mistake!"
"...Also, I also want to see what Yuuji looks like there."
"Are you a pervert!?"
"...I'm not a pervert. I, your childhood friend, have an obligation to check on Yuuji's growth."
"Eeh, take your hands off my belt! Get away from my belt straps! I got it! Here! Take my phone!"
"...........I see."
"Shouko. Why do you have such an obviously disappointed expression."
"...Show me your cellphone."
"Really... Please don't break it, you idiot at machines."
"...I'll do my best."
"Please do so."
"........."
"And? There's nothing of note there, right? Once you understand, please give me back my cellphone--so wait! Why is your hand creeping towards my pants!? I gave you my cellphone, right!?"
"...You have more mails from Yoshii than me."
"Oh? What's wrong with that?"
"...In short, the person that Yuuji is going to have an affair with is Yoshii."
"No, that's wrong."
"...So, time for punishment."
"Why is it that around me there are so many people that think that gender difference is a small matter...? Alright Shouko, take a look at the contents of the mails. It's just a playful correspondence, right?"
"...But,"
PiPiPiPiPi
"Ah, a mail? It's my cellphone, right? Let me check my phone! No, wrong. Before the phone, give me back my belt, which you stole from me so skillfully."
"...No. I'm not returning it."
"Ha? Why----uwaah!? This time you're trying to take my pants again!? Anybody can see us from here--NO, NO, I GOT IT! I'm an adult. I'm fine with giving up and giving you my pants even though I'm extremely unwilling. So at least, my trunks--!"
"...No."
"Are you insane!? Do you know what you're doing right now!?"
"...I will definitely, not forgive, cheating...!"
"Damn it! What was inside that mail!?"
【Message From: Yoshii Akihisa】
Can I stay at your house? Tonight, I don't really...feel like going home.
First Question
Please write down the correct name of the piece of equipment in the picture on the right.
Himeji Mizuki's Answer:
Measuring Cylinder.
Teacher's comment:
Correct answer. Understanding the names and usage of lab equipment is very important basic information. Being able to remember the names of these pieces of equipment won't hurt at all. Also, remember to look at the labels denoting the graduations.
Tsuchiya Kouta's Answer:
Mesu Shiri.[1]
Teacher's comment:
You only pay attention to areas that you have interest in, I already understand that. I hope that you can remember the 3 letters [ンダー] (ndaa) though.
Yoshii Akihisa's Answer:
Graduated glass tube.
Teacher's comment:
I've lost hope in you.
It was a Sunday afternoon, and this place that’s rarely affected by a rainy climate had a rare drizzle in the morning. But now that the rain stopped, the outside was a nice clear weather. However, I didn’t go out as I was holed up at home playing games.
“Yosh! Ho~ yosh, and!”
Showing up on the television screen was the boxing experience game I just bought last week, and I was controlling the device in my hand like I was in a trance. Yuuji came over to my house and actually played better than me. How infuriating. However, that guy was always better at such games that are related to reflexes or motion.
“Even so, it infuriates me to lose to that kind of guy!”
But no matter what kind of game it was, losing to Yuuji alone made me want to puke. That’s why I agreed with him to have another match tomorrow after school, and I’m trying my best to train.
--DING DONG.
A sharp sound from the bell suddenly rang while I was training.
“Hn? Is it an express mail? Really, at such a moment…”
On the screen, the character I was controlling sent a right uppercut that slammed into the opponent’s jaw. I continued on with my attacks on the opponent as he got scared, so I should be able to win now. That’s why I really don’t want to pause at such an important moment—however, I can’t just leave the bell alone.
“Really…at such a bad timing…”
Can’t be helped. I could only sigh and press the pause button, get up and walk towards the corridor.
“Here. Who is this?”
I said as I unlocked the door and pushed the door out.
The feeling of summer that had heat and humidity immediately came in through the tiny gap between the door.
I frowned a little in an irritated manner, but I pushed the door wider a little more.
On the other side of the metal door, there was a bright clear sky after it rained, a light vestige of rainbow that was about to mix into the sky, and—a short-haired woman carrying a large luggage bag.
“…Eh? Arre…?”
I couldn’t help but doubt my own eyes and started watching that person in front of me even more closely. What’s going on? Those wide eyes, the lax-looking expression, this person…just looks like someone I know.
I have a bad feeling about this. I don’t think it’s really possible, but maybe…
“…Nee, nee…san…?”
I tried to call this family member of mine who should be overseas and shouldn’t be appearing here.
And then, the person immediately,
“Yes. It’s been a long while, Aki-kun.”
She answered me. The neat short-hair swayed gently with the wind, and a slight smile appeared on her face.
—And for some reason, she’s wearing a bathrobe.
“WHY ARE YOU WEARING A BATHROBE!?”
I was really shocked to see my sister, who I haven’t seen in a year, dressed up like this.
Why are you here? If you’re going to come back, why didn’t you call me? These obvious questions were immediately blown aside. Her surreal get-up made me feel dizzy.
No, it’s plausible if my sister who just came back from overseas actually came out from the room. It’s rare in Japan, but there’s some people who would wear bathrobes after bathing. However—
“ISN’T THAT TOO WEIRD TO DRESS UP LIKE THIS AND VISIT PEOPLE?”
As far as I know, bathrobes aren’t evolved to such an extent that they could be used outside, right? I never heard of such news before!
“Aki-kun, Japan’s really hot?”
“WHY DID YOU START TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER AS IF YOU NEVER HEARD ABOUT MY REMARK!? YOU SHOULD BE INTERACTING PROPERLY WITH THIS YOUNGER BROTHER OF YOURS THAT YOU HAVEN’T MET IN A YEAR!!”
“Aki-kun. How can you stand on the corridor and make a ruckus? Nee-san didn’t remember raising a kid who lacks common sense like you, right?”
“Kuu…I didn’t expect to be told off about common sense by someone who’s wearing a bathrobe as she walked in front of everyone…”
I’M DEFINITELY THE ONE WITH MORE COMMON SENSE HERE…!
“And I should have told you before. You have to listen to what others say until the end, you know? Nee-san has her reason for being dressed up like this.
Nee-san started telling me off.
“Eh? Ahh, I see.”
After hearing her say that, I heaved a sigh of relief.
That’s right. Who would walk around outside in a bathrobe without any reason?
“Of course.”
After seeing me understand somewhat, nee-san nodded and then slowly started to explain to me.
“It was really hot today, and I had to carry such heavy luggage. Nee-san ended up having to sweat a lot.”
“Un.”
“Even if I’m meeting my own brother, nee-san’s still a woman. It’s normal to take note of my appearance.”
“That’s right. Girls would normally be mindful about this.”
“So nee-san changed into a bathrobe to absorb the sweat away.”
“Yes, that’s the strange part.”
“Because the bathrobe’s the only clothing in my luggage that absorbs the most sweat. Nee-san’s sweat was soon dried up.”
“Why didn’t your brain think of the option to ‘take out a towel and wipe yourself dry’…”
“So it’s because I changed into the bathrobe that I was able to safely maintain my pride as an older sister, and reunite with my brother that I haven’t met in a year while being clean.”
“I say, even if you’re proud of your own achievement, you ended up failing because you were thinking too much, isn’t it, nee-san?”
In my mind, her pride as a sister was completely gone.
“What are you talking? Even though sweat contains impurities like sodium chloride, magnesium, potassium and calcium, it mostly contains water. This bathrobe’s material is cotton, so it’s absorbent and very permeable, and did suck up the sweat from nee-san’s body just like I wanted to.
“No…you did manage to absorb the sweat away…”
But it’s not like it doesn’t matter what you wear just because it can absorb the sweat away!
“If you can understand let me into the house. Nee-san has to look in what kind of life Aki-kun’s living and report it to mom.”
“Ah, is that so?”
“Yes.”
“I see~ so you’re going to check up on how I live~”
“That’s right.”
“I see I see…that’s right…nee-san…”
“What is it?”
“What’s that?”
“What do you mean?”
I pointed far away, and nee-san looked over at where I was pointing without doubt.
—BAM. GACHA GACHANK
While she looked over at the other side, I immediately closed the door calmly at the fastest speed possible, and even remembered to lock the door.
DING DONG
"Aki-kun, hurry up and open the door. Nee-san still hasn’t gone in yet."
I covered my ears and crouched down, unwilling to listen to the voice that came in from outside.
“You actually did it, mom!!”
Why must she do such a thing to me!? Sending nee-san over to check on my life without warning is too despicable
DING DONG
"Aki-kun, did you hear me? Did you not notice that your sister’s still standing outside?"
What should I do? If this keeps up, the life I lived up till now will be seen through. If she reports to mom of my situation here, I really won’t know what will happen to my happy life of living alone. I could have hidden my manga and game consoles if they had contacted me first…
DING DONG.
"Aki-kun, are you bullying nee-san here? Do you hate seeing nee-san in a bathrobe?"
And she actually came over before the end of semester exams. Mom definitely wants to know my results. She definitely waited for such a time to send an assassin over. I could only think of such a possibility. Not good, what should I do?
"Why aren’t you willing to let nee-san enter the house? Is there some reason why you don’t want nee-san to come in? The reason…what can it be?"
As I was hugging my head and thinking, nee-san outside seemed to be thinking as well. What is she thinking now?
"—Ahh, I see. So Aki-kun’s thinking about that."
I didn’t say anything, but it seemed that nee-san realized it. Is she willing to give me some time to pack my room? I see. We’re siblings, so minds do think alike.
“You mean that if I want to enter the house, I need to wear a maid outfit and not a bathrobe, right?”
I DON’T REMEMBER SAYING SUCH THINGS!
“No, don’t do it…! This is a trap nee-san set…! If I open the door and snark back at her, she’ll be like a detective searching the house and will immediately step into the house without hesitation!”
Don’t answer her, Akihisa! You definitely mustn’t…I continued to warn myself deep inside my heart. It’s a matter of life and death in this situation.
"…Really. I’ll go over to the neighbor and ask them to lend me a maid outfit."
“DON’T DO THAT! DON’T GO ABOUT ASKING OUR NEIGHBORS FOR A MAID OUTFIT IN A BATHROBE! AND WHY WOULD A JAPANESE HOUSEHOLD HAVE A MAID OUTFIT? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!?”
I couldn’t help but open the door and shout out.
I can’t stand it anymore! I really can’t leave this person alone in the corridor.
“Is that so? But I had a foreign friend who told me last month that ‘Fujiya-ma, Tempo-ra, Maid Outfits’ are all part of Japanese culture.”
“Nee-san, that guy’s definitely not normal! Why can’t he even pronounce ‘Mount Fuji’ and Tempura’ correctly, yet pronounce maid outfit that smoothly?”
What kind of strange friends did she have? Weirdos attract weirdos. Isn’t this something like flocks of a feather sticking together?
“He really loves to play. He even called himself A-Boy”
“Didn’t you notice it or something!? He should be called B-Boy here!”
Akiba-Boy and Bad-Boy don’t sound different at first, but there’s a whole lot of difference there.
“Speaking of which, even if you live overseas, your misunderstandings of Japanese culture is way too bad…don’t you normally come back home, nee-san?”
And she’s been living in Japan till a few years ago. How could her understanding of Japan become so bad? But that’s right, my sister here wouldn’t look any anything other than those things she’s interested in. However, the few years of living overseas seemed to have made things worse.
“Well, talk about that later. I better enter the house first.”
“Ahh.”
Before I could even stop, nee-san stepped onto the corridor.
“At least I still know that I have to put my shoes down neatly when I enter a Japanese house, Aki-kun.”
After saying that, she immediately took off her shoes and placed it in the corridor. And then, she seemed to finally notice something as she clapped her hands.
“I see, so that’s how it is. You’re locking nee-san outside to tidy the room, right, Aki-kun?”
“Uu…”
At least she finally thought of the reason ‘cleaning up the room’ after seeing the corridor that’s filled with shoes thrown all over the place. Normally, people would be thinking of housekeeping before a maid outfit, but…never mind. She’s my sister anyway.
“Really now, Aki-kun….”
“That’s not it, well…I’m…”
Uu…those lecturing eyes are looking at me.
“Nee-san’s an adult already. Even if Aki-kun uses more than 2,000 of H-books to fill the living room, nee-san won’t even be surprised.”
Eh…if possible, I hope you can be surprised here?
“I don’t have the money to buy 2000 H-books…”
How can I even get that sort of spare cash when I’m living in poverty and hardship without…well, anyway, it’s not like I don’t have one at all…
“I heard that the kidneys of young males can be sold for good prices.”
“DID YOU THINK THAT I WOULD SELL MY KIDNEYS JUST TO BUY H-BOOKS? NEE-SAN, HOW PERVERTED ARE YOU THINKING YOUR BROTHER WOULD BE!?”
“Well…if there’s a chance to take part in a school study camp, you would devote everything you have, without care of integrity or honor to peep into the girls’ bath, that kind of brother who’s interest in sexual relationships are to such an extent.”
“Ahaha, what are you talking about? How could I do such a thing?”
I clearly felt the cold sweat spurting out from all the pores in my body. My, my sister’s observation’s way too sharp here…!
“Anyway, I have to check on whether you’re living properly.”
The corridor was a little messy, but the living room’s somewhat neat. Yuuji came over to play games at my house yesterday. Besides, if the room’s too dirty, I can’t control the joystick properly.
“Arre…? It’s unexpectedly clean.”
After looking around the living room, nee-san put down the luggage back, turned off the power of the game console that I was playing on midway through, and slowly bent down to sit on the sofa.
“DID YOU JUST TURN OFF THE POWER TO MY GAME CONSOLE NATURALLY!? I JUST MANAGED TO GET TO THAT POINT. HOW CAN YOU DO THAT!”
I finally got a character I can use, and yet she wordlessly turned off the switch. At least let me save first before turning it off!
“Be quiet.”
I couldn’t help but protest at this inhumane treatment, but my sister sternly told me to shut up.
“Aki-kun, nee-san raised two conditions for you if you want to live alone. You haven’t forgotten about them, right?”
“I forgot about them a long time ago—will you be angry if I say that, nee-san?”
The moment I said the word ‘forget’, my sister’s eyebrows seemed to twitch, so I hurriedly added that behind.
Unexpectedly, nee-san was rather calm.
“No, I won’t.”
“Eh? Really?”
“Yes, I won’t be angry.”
“That’s great~ Actually, I forgot about that promise a long time ago—”
“But I’ll kiss you in return.”
“—Not! Of course I remember about it clearly!”
“And it’ll be so intense that it’s impossible to be someone else’s wife.”
“What are you trying to do!? What are you thinking of doing to your own brother!? And I’m a guy, so I won’t become someone’s wife here!”
“Don’t worry, the one who can’t be the wife will be nee-san here.”
“I’LL BE EVEN MORE WORRIED WHEN YOU SAY IT LIKE THAT? IN THAT CASE, DON’T MAKE UP SUCH A SCARY PUNISHMENT GAME!”
“in that case, Aki-kun’s life will forever be tainted with the guilt of making nee-san unable to get married.”
“ISN’T THAT TOO HEINOUS!!?”
You don’t have anyone you can get married to. Stop blaming such things on others!
“I understand, nee-san. Please don’t punish me…”
“Really? You do? Let me hear it then.”
“Un. Eh—ermm…”
What can I still remember…I did promise mom before, but my memories are all mixed up. I don’t know what to say at this moment.
Let’s see, I remember the promise I made with my sister is…
“Aki-kun…time to close your eyes…?”
“I remember! I really do! Don’t make such a strange atmosphere and lean over at me!”
This person isn’t the kind to make jokes. If she says that she wants to do something, she will definitely do it without hesitation. Even if I was used to the direct violence on me by Minami and the other classmates, this type of threat isn’t something I want to mess with.
“The promise I made to nee-san was one, ‘I can play video games for only 30 minutes a day’ and two ‘Illicit sexual relationships are forbidden’. Un, I do remember them clearly!”
“That’s right. That’s how it is.”
Nee-san showed an unhappy look as she returned back to her seat. Ahh, that was close…I nearly ended up kissing the lips of my sister. That was no joke.
“Though you remember, it doesn’t look like you obeyed it.”
“Uu…sorry…”
This is a game that will show the amount of time spent playing on it. it’s my bad luck that she would discover it. It’s impossible to defend myself by saying that I didn’t play for more than 30 minutes.
“Then I have to deduct points.”
Nee-san took out a notebook from her pocket and started scribbling in it. I wonder what she was writing inside?
“Deduct points, what’s that?”