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. Since entering this year, I should have died and broken down into five 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, an unconscious person would be resuscitated at once with this blow. 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 went so far as to take the trouble to jump on me from across the room isn’t kind. Grabbing the futon that wrapped my body at an incredible speed, she decided my body's movements for me.

“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't revolt myself with this little thing. Even if I did that, I can't win, and it is still better than the time Mom was together with us. Now that I think back, at 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 a lot by that. Because of that, my head still hurts.

“You have earned the right to be hit by that technique!”

“No, I will pass this time. You should let this right to the people who helped you through the year.”

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.

♀♂

“Hi there, Jirou. What’s that? Why are you with a such depressed face since the start of the morning?”

When I entered the classroom and got in the way to my seat, my classmate Kurose called me.

“Shut up Kurose. What kind of face I have to make for you to say that is a ‘happy face’? Didn’t you think that it maybe be ‘Out of Stock’, huh?”

“Iya~n, the Jirou-kun today is acting so cranky~.”

There was one boy standing there with a good body build laughing in a disgust and retarded way.

Kurose Yamato. Since the first year of the middle school he is on the same class with me, an undesirable but inseparable relationship. Tall and broad shoulder. Even though he gone to the National Judo Tournament, since he started in the high school, he began as the drummer of the light music club, that was a big change.

“Did something bad happened? Don’t tell me that you are being bullied by your little sister again?”

“...Something like that.”

I was feeling a throbbing pain on my head. Shit, that damn violent butler. No matter what, but he hit me too much. This is not whack-a-mole.

“Ohan. My condolences. By the way Jirou.”

Kurose got close like if he was going to whisper something to me.

“This morning, you really came to the school together with Subaru-sama?”

Fuha! I feel like I was blowing up. How did he know about that information?

“Uwa, this is serious? Why? Why a commoner like you is coming to the school together with the school prince? Are you in a special relationship?”

Correct. The instincts of this guy sometimes are so right that they make me fear it. From what I’ve heard, he also had predicted the great tsunami of Sumatra. What kind of Prophet are you?

“We only happened to meet on the way to school. It’s not like he came to catch me at my house.”

“That’s right. There’s no way that the Honoured Student would go meet you up.”

That said, Kurose turned his face to the back of the classroom.

Looking closely, that was the figure of Konoe Subaru-sama. Seating down on his place, looking at her sour looking face, I think that usually she is shining much more.

Muh—, she still mad with what happened this morning. Or then is that. Maybe the Kimchi she ate at the breakfast no fitted on her mouth. Thinking [So this is the meal of common people…] while receiving a shock.

“I don’t know why, but konoe looks so dark. He even don’t relate much with his classmates. That way doesn’t matter how his face and results are good, no one of the boys will get close to him. The girls at least try to draw close, but he’s cold even with them.”

“But there’s no other way.”

Konoe is so isolated that I can tell that on the first look.

For the Suzutsuki that is in the same class with us(Certainly in the Perfect Student mode), it look like loss of time. When he is not alone with Suzutsuki, he is always looking outside the window.

The Lonely Prince.

This is the feeling Konoe gives when he is on the school.

“By the way, how do you know that I came to the school together with Konoe?”

“Huh. Don’t say such a foolish thing. Didn’t you know that nowdays we have the cellphone, the best information tool of all the times? The information that Subaru-sama came to the school with a person that isn’t Suzutsuki Kanade is being passed through the whole school like a Influenza. The rumors say that the [S4] already started to move.”

“S4?”

“Hey hey, don’t tell me you don’t know it. [Shooting Star Subaru-Sama]. See that have 4 S. They are the most powerful hidden fan club of Konoe Subaru in this Rouran Gakuen. There is a rumor that there are at least 60% of the academy girls there.”

“...Then, what you wanted to say with the ‘they started moving’?”

“What? That thing is already decided. They will try to find out the truth behind you and Subaru-sama coming to school together. I think that in a short time assassins will start to come to kill you.”

Assassins? I wonder what kind of. Maybe ninjas coming from the ceilings?

“And even before that, the school has some strange rumors about you.”

“Strange rumors?”

“Some rumors saying that you are gay.”

This time I was really blown up. What’s up with this funny information? I was really so surprised that I thought that my heart would be striked out.

“Aah, was it wrong?”

“Of course!”

“Maybe you are… Bisexual?”

“Don’t make fun of my face! Why do you think that!? And why does such unfounded rumor about me is running on the academy?”

“Err. That’s because you never talk to girls, you never, even once tried to approach to a girl. This isn’t normal for a high schooler in the bloom of his youth. That’s why this turned into a rumor. ‘’Sakamachi Kinjirou is a homosexual guy who doesn’t have the slightest interest in girls’’.”

“.............”

My head hurts. But that was indeed because of my Gynophobia, that even if I want I can’t get close to a girl. What a pain. I can’t believe that such rumor was running…

“Don’t worry. Half was a joke. And there’s not much people who would believe in such thing so easily. Besides, I know that you like girls. Because we already exchanged erotic magazines in our friendship time.”

“Kiyahahaha.” Kurose was laughing.

A rustle guy as always. But I’m really thankfully that was someone here to tell me that. Is said that in the life school life having one person who understand you is enough. Giving a feeling like you were family.

“But you really have to be cautious. Since inside S4, there is already some fanatic fans who misinterpreted your relationship with Konoe. Be cautious while you walk at night. It also apply to Subaru-sama. If you too be too much close to each other, the things will turn bad.”

Saying that, Kurose turned in the way to the black board. That time, the teacher for the first period was entering in the classroom. Looks like today, our school life will start without problems one more time.

I laid over the table while thinking that. There were arrangements to meet with Suzutsuki after school. I will have to reserve some body strength for that. While the teacher started his Budist prayer like lesson, my consciousness started to feel sleepy.

Then, the decisive battle is after school.

♀♂

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